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Archives for March 6, 2014

Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.06.14

AJBlogs Posted: March 6, 2014 9:45 pm

MASS MoCA Expands, With State Funds
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-03-07

The Case for Cultural Fluency
AJBlog: Field Notes | Published 2014-03-06

Photography on the Web: Getty Images Goes Free
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-03-06

Serge Dorny sues Dresden for unfair dismissal
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-03-06

 

 

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AJBlogs Published: 03.06.14

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Today’s Universities Are Broken. So How Do We Fix Them?

IDEAS Posted: March 6, 2014 5:33 pm

“It’s clear that universities will have to figure out the balance between commercial relevance and basic research, as well as how to prove their value beyond being vehicles for delivering content. But lost in the shuffle of commentary here is something arguably more important than and yet containing all of these factors: culture.”

IDEAS Published: 03.05.14

Read the story in Wired Published: 03.05.14

Broadway Joke: Adele Dazeem Now Substituting For Idina Menzel

THEATRE Posted: March 6, 2014 10:41 am

“In a social media joke circulating on Twitter, a fake playbill notice for the Broadway musical “If/Then” states that its star, Idina Menzel, will be replaced by her alter-ego, Adele Dazeem.”

THEATRE Published: 03.06.14

Read the story in Los Angeles Times Published: 03.06.14

Venezuela’s Artists Increasingly Speaking Out Against Government

PEOPLE Posted: March 6, 2014 10:30 am

“From pop culture to high culture, Venezuela’s conflict is leading actors, artists, athletes and fashion designers to voice their support for the antigovernment protesters, with a minority backing President Nicolás Maduro.”

PEOPLE Published: 03.06.14

Read the story in The Wall Street Journal Published: 03.06.14

The Power Of Music: For Good AND For Bad

MUSIC Posted: March 6, 2014 10:19 am

Music is power. In his 2010 book on noise and silence, George Prochnik asked a series of provocative questions that began with this one: “Is it really true that all our reactions to sound are dictated by simple equations: loud, low sounds equal something powerful, so be scared or be prepared to mate; soft, little sounds equals something small, so be calm, be prepared to mate, or both?”

MUSIC Published: 03.06.14

Read the story in Pacific Standard Published: 03.06.14

How Our “What Is Art?” Debate Got Going In The Wrong Direction

ISSUES Posted: March 6, 2014 10:11 am

“To a large extent, the art world today represents the institutionalization of Duchamp’s early-twentieth-century pranks. The great irony is that Duchamp intended not to extend the boundaries of art but to short-circuit the entire project of aesthetic delectation.”

ISSUES Published: 03.14

Read the story in New Criterion Published: 03.14

11th Century Indian Sculpture In Toledo Museum May Have Been Stolen

VISUAL Posted: March 6, 2014 10:06 am

“The Toledo Museum of Art said it saw no signs of trouble when it bought the small bronze statue of a Hindu deity in 2006 from a New York dealer now charged in India. The statue resembles an idol now listed as stolen in India.”

VISUAL Published: 03.06.14

Read the story in Yahoo! (AP) Published: 03.06.14

Russian Court Reduces Sentence Of Man Convicted In Bolshoi Acid Attack

PEOPLE Posted: March 6, 2014 10:04 am

“Pavel Dmitrichenko, a Bolshoi soloist, was convicted in December of organizing the attack and sentenced to six years in prison. The Moscow City Court on Thursday reduced his sentence by six months to 5½ years.”

PEOPLE Published: 03.06.14

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Big Concerns About The Scale Of Massive Picasso Restorations In Paris

VISUAL Posted: March 6, 2014 10:01 am

“What comes as a truly horrible surprise is that all of Picasso’s 5,000 works have been “cleaned, restored and reframed” for the opening. It beggars belief that some urgent “conservation” necessity should have struck all of these modern works at the same time.”

VISUAL Published: 03.06.14

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 03.06.14

Stunning Move: Getty Images Makes 35 Million Images Free On The Web

VISUAL Posted: March 6, 2014 6:46 am

“Getty’s not doing this out of the good of its heart. It recognizes that images on the Internet are treated as de facto public domain by many people on social networks, blogs, and the scummier parts of the content web. It knows it’s highly unlikely to ever get significant money out of any of those people.”

VISUAL Published: 03.05.14

Read the story in NiemanLab Published: 03.05.14

Canadian Theatres Have Their Own Pipelines (Or Do They?)

THEATRE Posted: March 6, 2014 6:43 am

“Has the theatre pipeline that supplies Canada’s regionals really sprung a leak? One piece of good news is that, this season, for the first time in recent memory, the most-seen new play in the country hasn’t been a recent Broadway or West End hit, but one born in Toronto.”

THEATRE Published: 03.06.14

Read the story in The Globe and Mail (Canada) Published: 03.06.14

Denver’s New Cultural Plan: Lots More Art In The City

ISSUES Posted: March 6, 2014 6:36 am

“The plan calls for more art in just about every venue within city reach, from its buildings and theaters to its parks and even the streets themselves. In addition, it lays the groundwork for more funding of art projects, as well as incentives for planners and developers who make art a priority.”

ISSUES Published: 03.05.14

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This Year’s PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize Finalists

WORDS Posted: March 6, 2014 6:32 am

This year’s judges were Madison Smartt Bell, Manuel Muñoz and Achy Obejas. They considered more than 400 titles published by American authors in 2013.

WORDS Published: 03.06.14

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The People Who Bought Charles Ives’ House (And What They’re Doing To It)

PEOPLE Posted: March 6, 2014 6:24 am

“They have not just [hired] renovation architects, they’ve got restoration architects – historical, sensitive architectural work going on, so things are improved without changing.”

PEOPLE Published: 03.05.14

Read the story in WQXR (New York) Published: 03.05.14

Here We Go Again: This Year’s Whitney Biennial – A Lot Of Dead Art

VISUAL Posted: March 6, 2014 6:20 am

Jerry Saltz: “I kept hearing myself think, I see dead art: Work that looks and behaves like it is supposed to look and behave but that doesn’t make us see differently, that doesn’t rethink form, reimage structure, or explore material, color, or new orders.”

VISUAL Published: 03.05.14

Read the story in New York Magazine Published: 03.05.14

Are Big Tech Companies Gentrifying Buddhism?

IDEAS Posted: March 6, 2014 6:16 am

“Ire at Google buses, tech-driven gentrification in San Francisco and Silicon Valley’s close collaboration with the NSA has been all over the news, but the demonstration at Wisdom 2.0 was different. It wasn’t just aimed at the tech industry; it was also aimed at what some see as an elitist streak in American convert Buddhism.”

IDEAS Published: 03.05.14

Read the story in Salon Published: 03.05.14

Longform Writing – Turns Out There’s An Audience For It On The Web

WORDS Posted: March 6, 2014 5:29 am

Self-identifying as “longform” has become hot. The start-ups posed an alternative to magazines, which still publish featurettes and front-of-the-book copy, not simply lengthy, in-depth features. The new publications were, by contrast, specialized, and not bound by tradition.

WORDS Published: 03.01.14

Read the story in LongForm Published: 03.01.14

BBC to Shut Down TV Channel BBC3, Save BBC4

MEDIA Posted: March 6, 2014 1:13 am

The youth-oriented channel BBC3 will be pulled from the airwaves, with programming available only online, as part of BBC Director General Tony Hall’s planned £100 million in budget cuts. “His decision also signals a reprieve for its sister channel, the arts and culture specialist BBC4, which has faced calls for it to be axed and merged into BBC2.”

MEDIA Published: 03.05.14

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 03.05.14

West End Will Close Without Lower Ticket Prices, Says Michael Grandage

THEATRE Posted: March 6, 2014 1:12 am

The much-awarded director warns that we “make sure that young people have access to West End theatre, and the only way you can do that is through pricing. It stands to reason that if we don’t do it, the West End will close when this generation becomes senior citizens. Because who will replace the people who are now old?”

THEATRE Published: 03.05.14

Read the story in The Stage (UK) Published: 03.05.14

Even More Trafficked Art Seized In Queens

VISUAL Posted: March 6, 2014 1:11 am

“The hunt for Indian antiquities allegedly smuggled into New York by Subhash Kapoor, a former Manhattan gallery owner accused of overseeing a $100 million art trafficking ring, led to a Queens warehouse Tuesday where federal officials seized hundreds of Southeast Asian and Indian items that they valued at $8 million.”

VISUAL Published: 03.05.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 03.05.14

Creative Writing Courses Are a Waste of Time, Says Hanif Kureishi

WORDS Posted: March 6, 2014 1:10 am

“A lot of my students just can’t tell a story. They can write sentences but they don’t know how to make a story go from there all the way through to the end without people dying of boredom in between. It’s a difficult thing to do and it’s a great skill to have. Can you teach that? I don’t think you can.”

WORDS Published: 03.03.14

Read the story in The Independent (UK) Published: 03.03.14

Creative Writing Courses, On the Contrary, Can Serve Very Useful Purposes

WORDS Posted: March 6, 2014 1:09 am

Anna Davis: “I knew this course would give me dedicated time to write, feedback from tutors and fellow students, and that most useful of all things – a deadline.” (Davis does think that a graduate degree in creative writing may not be worth the money.)

WORDS Published: 03.05.14

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 03.05.14

What’s Up With the Feud Between 12 Years a Slave‘s Director and Screenwriter?

MEDIA Posted: March 6, 2014 1:08 am

No, you weren’t imagining the tension you saw during the Oscars telecast. “Long before each came away with an Academy Award, … director Steve McQueen and screenwriter John Ridley were embroiled in a bitter feud regarding credit for the film’s screenplay, a fight they kept quiet for the good of the campaign before it came to a head Sunday night at the Dolby Theatre.”

MEDIA Published: 03.04.12

Read the story in The Wrap Published: 03.04.12

Meet the Doctor Using Sports Medicine to Heal Dancers’ Battered Bodies

DANCE Posted: March 6, 2014 1:07 am

Patrick Rump, “a broad-chested, broadly smiling German” and former karate champion, is working “to start a revolution in dance health.”

DANCE Published: 03.05.14

Read the story in CNN Published: 03.05.14

Immortality, Philosophy, and ‘Her’

IDEAS Posted: March 6, 2014 1:06 am

The Spike Jonze film “raises two questions that have long preoccupied philosophers. Are nonbiological creatures like Samantha capable of consciousness – at least in theory, if not yet in practice? And if so, does that mean that we humans might one day be able to upload our own minds to computers, perhaps to join Samantha in being untethered from ‘a body that’s inevitably going to die’?”

IDEAS Published: 03.02.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 03.02.14

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