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Archives for December 13, 2013

Top AJ Blog Posts for 12/13/13

AJBlogs Posted: December 13, 2013 7:57 pm

Breakthrough On Artists’ Resale Rights: Copyright Office Reverses Itself
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2013-12-13

Bye-Buy “Big-Box”: Amy Cappellazzo to Leave Christie’s
Source: Culturegrrl | Published on 2013-12-13

Grover Washington, Jr.
Source: RiffTides | Published on 2013-12-13

US orchestras: The good news
Source: Slipped Disc | Published on 2013-12-12

Beth Prevor on Diversity, Disability, and Feeling Alone in a Room of Peers
Source: New Beans | Published on 2013-12-12

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Australia’s Classical Music Magazine Won’t Die After All

MUSIC Posted: December 13, 2013 11:56 am

Limelight, affiliated with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and published by Haymarket Media, was going to close by the end of this week, following Haymarket’s decision to end its Australian operations. But a new publisher has been found.

MUSIC Published: 12.11.13, Classicalite

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What’s The Value Of Sacred Music In A Secular Age?

MUSIC Posted: December 13, 2013 11:30 am

Here are answers from half a dozen contributors: conductors Peter Phillips (The Tallis Scholars) and Harry Christophers (The Sixteen, Boston Handel & Haydn Society), a documentarian, an atheist, an archbishop, and a prominent rabbi. (And no, they did not walk into a bar.)

MUSIC Published: 12.10.13, Limelight (Australia)

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The ‘Love, Actually’ Wars, Round Three

MEDIA Posted: December 13, 2013 11:00 am

Christopher Orr fires back at the writers who took on his take-down of the movie last week (their critiques are “generous, thoughtful, and even wise … [but], inevitably, wrong”) – and he unpacks what he sees as the film’s worst storyline.

MEDIA Published: 12.12.13

Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 12.12.13

Google’s Got A Make-Your-Own-Art-Show App (And It’s Free)

VISUAL Posted: December 13, 2013 10:40 am

“Google has launched a new online tool to allow museums, galleries and individuals to create online art exhibitions. Google Open Gallery became available for public use this week, though potential users must request an invitation from Google to use the free service.”

VISUAL Published: 12.12.13, Los Angeles Times

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Look What Turned Up In The Trash! Lost Peter Sellers Movies!

MEDIA Posted: December 13, 2013 10:20 am

Two early short films starring Sellers, and co-written by Mordecail Richler – “are to be shown in public for the first time in more than 50 years.” Yes, they were literally salvaged from a dumpster outside a film company’s offices.

MEDIA Published: 12.11.13

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John Cage, Filmmaker (They’ve Found The Evidence)

PEOPLE Posted: December 13, 2013 10:00 am

“Ask John Cage in 1956, as the sculptor Richard Lippold did, to make a film and you take your chances.” (Pun intended.)

PEOPLE Published: 12.11.13, Los Angeles Times

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ENO Joins The Cinemacast Parade

MUSIC Posted: December 13, 2013 9:30 am

“English National Opera is to begin broadcasting productions live to cinemas – only 18 months after its artistic director, John Berry, suggested that he was far from enthusiastic about the idea.”

MUSIC Published: 12.12.13, The Guardian (UK)

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A Behind-The-Scenes Look At The Rijksmuseum’s Renovation From Hell

VISUAL Posted: December 13, 2013 9:00 am

Was it that bad? Well, it certainly wasn’t smooth.

VISUAL Published: 12.12.13, Slate

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“Down With Long-Form Journalism!” Says The Atlantic’s Editor-In-Chief

WORDS Posted: December 13, 2013 5:00 am

James Bennet: “I have had it with long-form journalism. By which I mean – don’t get me wrong – I’m fed up with the term long-form itself, a label that the people who create and sell magazines now invariably, and rather solemnly, apply to their most ambitious work.”

WORDS Published: 12.12.13

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Locked-Out Minnesota Orchestra Musicians Announce Season Of Their Own

MUSIC Posted: December 13, 2013 4:30 am

“The Musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra revealed details of 10 concerts they will produce and play between January and May.” Erstwhile music director Osmo Vänskä will conduct four of them, and a couple of very well-known soloists will perform for greatly reduced fees.

MUSIC Published: 12.13.13, The Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul)

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Patrice Chéreau, Directing In The Shadow Of Death

PEOPLE Posted: December 13, 2013 4:00 am

“The great French director, who died recently, took some persuading to do a play in London – and was seriously ill when he did. But the experience was life-changing, recalls the Young Vic’s artistic director.”

PEOPLE Published: 12.12.13, The Guardian (UK)

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What’s Worse Than Snark? Smarm (Says Tom Scocca)

WORDS Posted: December 13, 2013 3:46 am

One of the Web’s more accomplished snarkmeisters argues that the push by some goody-goodies for more niceness on the Internet – for instance, the decision by BuzzFeed’s new books editor to avoid negative reviews, or, in Scocca’s opinion, almost anything Dave Eggers says – is worse than the problem it’s trying to address.

WORDS Published: 12.05.13

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Smarm? What’s Wrong With Some Niceness? (Says Malcolm Gladwell)

WORDS Posted: December 13, 2013 3:45 am

And, regarding Scocca’s attack on Eggers in particular, Gladwell looks at everything Eggers has done and says, “You have to be running pretty low on ammunition to look at someone like that and call him full of shit.”

WORDS Published: 12.11.12

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 12.11.12

Joy Womack Tells More About The Bolshoi Ballet (And Why She Quit)

DANCE Posted: December 13, 2013 3:30 am

Back in Texas for a family visit, the first American to graduate from the Bolshoi’s ballet school fills in some details on the explosive allegations she made (e.g., that she was asked to pay a $10,000 bribe to get cast) and the responses she has received in Moscow since she went public.

DANCE Published: 12.12.13

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Natalia Osipova On The Bolshoi’s Troubles

DANCE Posted: December 13, 2013 3:20 am

“My first five years [there] were amazing. … Then, slowly, difficulties started and I decided to leave. I didn’t want scandals: our profession is dancing, not politics. But the Bolshoi is still my home: I am from Moscow. For us, the Bolshoi was something holy. I just hope the theatre will find a way out of this.”

DANCE Published: 12.10.13

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 12.10.13

That Letter From Vaganova Ballet Academy To Putin – Was It A Fake?

DANCE Posted: December 13, 2013 3:10 am

Last month, after the Russian Ministry of Culture installed the fired Bolshoi star Nikolai Tsiskaridze as director of the historic St. Petersburg school, a sizable group of faculty wrote an open appeal to President Vladimir Putin to overrule Tsiskaridze’s appointment. Now the Ministry has claimed that the letter is a forgery.

DANCE Published: 12.12.13

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Colin Wilson, 82, Author Of ‘The Outsider’

PEOPLE Posted: December 13, 2013 3:00 am

“The author of well over 100 volumes of fiction and nonfiction, Mr. Wilson became a sensation at 24, when The Outsider was published and instantly touched a deep nerve in postwar Britain.”

PEOPLE Published: 12.13.13, The New York Times

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Could Coca-Cola Be A Religion Of Americana?

IDEAS Posted: December 13, 2013 2:50 am

“Coke, if I may extend my musings further, is the closest thing that exists to a religion of Americana. Not an American religion, but a religion devoted to the idea of America – which is to say, to those Norman Rockwell scenes of homecoming, fly fishing, and presents under the tree.” Paula Marantz Cohen visits the high temple: The World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta.

IDEAS Published: 12.09.13

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Uh-Oh, This Is A Bad Sign For British Arts Philanthropy

ISSUES Posted: December 13, 2013 2:40 am

“A £600,000 Cultural Investment Fund created by Newcastle City Council to attract match funding for the arts from private donors has failed to attract any money since its launch in July.”

ISSUES Published: 12.12.13, The Stage (UK)

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How Poor Are British Actors Equity Members?

Uncategorized Posted: December 13, 2013 2:30 am

“About half of Equity members undertook unpaid work in the past 12 months, with a similar proportion earning less than £5,000 over the year.”

Uncategorized Published: 12.12.13, The Stage (UK)

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Court Allows California To Resume Suit For Nazi-Looted Pissarro Painting

VISUAL Posted: December 13, 2013 2:25 am

“A Jewish family from San Diego that has been seeking to recover a painting by Camille Pissarro that a relative sold during the Holocaust has received a legal victory from a panel of judges who ruled this week that the family can pursue the case, reversing an earlier court decision that had favored the painting’s present owner.”

VISUAL Published: 12.11.13, Los Angeles Times

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L.A. County Museum Of Art Is Reviving Its Art-Meets-Tech Companies Program

VISUAL Posted: December 13, 2013 2:20 am

But they’re doing it differently this time around – and the companies involved include Google and SpaceX.

VISUAL Published: 12.10.13, Los Angeles Times

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The Last Great Vaudevillian (He’s Only Just Now Retiring)

THEATRE Posted: December 13, 2013 2:10 am

John Lahr: “[Barry] Humphries’s retirement marks the end of the vaudeville tradition, whose singing, dancing, and low-comic folderol he almost single-handedly carried into the twenty-first century.”

THEATRE Published: 12.11.13

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Estelle Parsons, 86, Will Be Doing Eight Shows A Week This Spring

THEATRE Posted: December 13, 2013 2:00 am

“[She] will return to Broadway in April in Eric Coble’s comedic play The Velocity of Autumn, which she recently performed at the Arena Stage in Washington in October.”

THEATRE Published: 12.12.13

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