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Thursday, May 23, 2013

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Lydia Davis Wins Man Booker International Prize For Her (Very) Short Stories
"Davis - who has only written one novel - beat out a shortlist of 10 contenders for the 60,000-pound ($90,800) prize that included two authors banned in their home countries, the youngest ever nominee and one shortlisted for the second time." The American author won "for a body of work that includes some of the briefest tales ever published." Reuters 05/22/13
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Legendary Picasso Catalogue Returns To Print "Comprising 33 volumes and more than 16,000 images," Pablo Picasso - known in the art world as "the Zervos" - "was the result of an intense four-decade collaboration between the artist and [scholar/dealer Christian] Zervos." The New York Times 05/23/13
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Composer Henri Dutilleux, 97 "Known for his symphonies, concertos and other orchestral pieces, he was prized for his subtle blends of ear-catching colors and formal rigor. Though steeped in the French modernist tradition that spans Debussy through Messiaen and Boulez, Dutilleux was also notably independent minded, unwilling to chase the latest fashions." WQXR (New York) 05/22/13
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Lydia Davis Wins Man Booker International Prize For Her (Very) Short Stories "Davis - who has only written one novel - beat out a shortlist of 10 contenders for the 60,000-pound ($90,800) prize that included two authors banned in their home countries, the youngest ever nominee and one shortlisted for the second time." The American author won "for a body of work that includes some of the briefest tales ever published." Reuters 05/22/13
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Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013 To Bakker's The Detour "Dutch writer Gerbrand Bakker has won this year's £10,000 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize with his novel The Detour ... It is the author's second major literary prize win; his previous novel, The Twin, won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2010." The Bookseller (UK) 05/21/13
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Scotland's Oldest Theatre is Saved "The Theatre Royal in Dumfries, which has been in operation for more than 200 years, has been given £455,000 by Dumfries and Galloway Council. The grant ... will allow the theatre to be refurbished and additional facilities installed." The Guardian (UK) 05/22/13
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Casting Directors: The Unknown, The Powerful "They are rarely interviewed. Few people outside theatre, film and TV know who they are. Yet casting directors rank among the most influential operators in show business. ... So who are they, and what do they do?" The Guardian (UK) 05/21/13
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dance
Torvill And Dean's Ice-Dancing TV Competition To End "Dancing on Ice mentors Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have revealed that the ITV series would end in early 2014" as the Olympic champions prepare to retire. The Telegraph (UK) 05/21/13
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Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories "'The best predictor of belief in a conspiracy theory is belief in other conspiracy theories,' says [researcher] Viren Swami ... Psychologists say that's because a conspiracy theory isn't so much a response to a single event as it is an expression of an overarching worldview." The New York Times Magazine 05/26/13
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music
How John Adams Knows When An Audience Is 'Engaged And Intelligent' "I talked to them after the show, at the CD signing. But you can also tell by the ambient noise in the room during the performance, the coughing. I'm highly attuned to that sort of thing." Washington City Paper 05/22/13
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The World's Largest Youth Arts Festival Is Beginning - But Did Anyone Tell The Target Audience? The Come Out Festival, which opens this week, has been taking place in Adelaide, Australia for four decades. But when Shona Benson asked around the city, she got fond-but-vague memories from adults and blank stares from teenagers (who showed interest once she filled them in, and obvious tie-ins in the national media have been going unmade. What gives? Limelight (Australia) 05/22/13
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What College Is Really For: Pleasure "Overall, college education seems a matter of mastering a complex body of knowledge for a very short time only to rather soon forget everything except a few disjointed elements." So what's the point of higher education? Pleasure, says Gary Gutting. (Yes, that's the word he uses.) The New York Times 05/22/13
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Here Comes Honey Boo Boo Is 'Exactly The Kind Of Cultural Product America Should Be Exporting' "The Thompson/Shannons are the anti-Kardashians - an unprivileged and guileless family that gets along. ... They're not in denial of their problems, but they're not defined by them, either. ... Their antics offer a counterweight to the jealousy, striving, and backstabbing of the Housewives. And they defy the tropes assigned to their many female reality-show peers: the slut, the fame-seeker, the betrayer." The Atlantic 05/22/13 (includes video)
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When Wagner's Music Was Hazardous To Your Health "His music was seen not just as a symptom of the physical and sexual pathologies associated with a nervous modernity - everything from neurasthenia [nervous exhaustion] and degeneration to perversion and fatigue - but also as the direct cause of these." The Guardian (UK) 05/22/13
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On Richard Wagner's 200th Birthday, His Great-Grandson Slams Him Again "The 66-year-old musicologist, writer and lecturer [Gottfried Wagner] sets himself apart from the other members of the sprawling Wagner clan by refusing, as he sees it, to sweep under the carpet the darker side of one of history's most controversial composers. Expatica (AFP) 05/19/13
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Wagner's Hitler Correspondence Will Not Be Published, Says Great-Granddaughter Katharina Wagner: "It's very difficult to make all the widely dispersed documents available to the public, because they are owned in part by all four branches [of the family] ... If even just one says 'No', then I can't do anything about it, no matter how outrageous I might find it." Agence France-Presse 05/19/13
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people
Researchers: Have Humans Become Dumber Since Victorian Era? "Our technology may be getting smarter, but a provocative new study suggests human intelligence is on the decline. In fact, it indicates that Westerners have lost 14 I.Q. points on average since the Victorian Era." Huffington Post 05/22/13
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China's Museum Boom Doesn't Necessarily Include Museum Visitors "In recent years, about 100 museums have opened annually here, peaking at nearly 400 in 2011, according to the Chinese Society of Museums. The frenzied construction of cultural infrastructure follows earlier building binges involving roads and bridges. But it's harder to manage a museum than a highway. For one thing, you need to fill museums with worthwhile exhibits and visitors." NPR 05/22/13
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media
Hollywood Studios Anxious As Blockbuster-Heavy Summer Approaches "With U.S. ticket sales already down 11 percent this year and the number of big-budget movies sharply up, summer 2013 is turning into a nail-biter for Hollywood." The Hollywood Reporter 05/21/13
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publishing
A Booker Prize Judge's Burden: A Book A Day (Or More) "We had 50 books to read in the first three months, and a book every other day is fine. Then publishers submitted more. A lot more. My reading speed had to double overnight: between March and July, I will have read the final 100 books in 100 days. You get ahead sometimes (a couple of short books in a row), and then a 900-page monster lurks behind them on the shelf, gobbling up the spare day and spitting out its bones. It's like running on sand, but less healthy." The Independent (UK) 05/22/13
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media
Video On Demand Is Finally Catching On Some shows, like Fox's "The Following" and ABC's "Scandal," now gain hundreds of thousands of viewers every week because of VOD, part of a decades-long shift from television on a linear schedule to television on viewers' own terms. The New York Times 05/20/13
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theatre
London's West End Is Awash In Blockbusters. But Does That Signal That Theatres Are Healthy? "When there are blockbuster shows in town, other productions can benefit from a trickle-down effect of interest and excitement; it's not a case of one hit precluding the chance of another. But in the harder, leaner economy that has emerged over the last few years is a Darwinian mode of ruthlessness emerging among the punters?" The Telegraph (UK) 05/21/13
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issues
Teens And The Privacy Paradox (It's Complicated) "So what explains the privacy paradox? Teens care about privacy in a social context, not a big data context. That teens are fleeing Facebook is illustrative of the phenomenon." Pacific Standard 05/21/13
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ideas
A Healthy, Thriving City? It's Not All About Population Growth These Days "After the Great Recession, the economic winds shifted. Before the financial crisis, the landscape favored Phoenix and hindered Pittsburgh. Since, the trends of urban change flipped. Quality trumps quantity." Pacific Standard 05/21/13
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visual
The Whitney's New Logo (Having It All Ways?) From the museum's description of the logo: "It shows the Whitney as an institute that is breathing (in and out), an institute that is open and closed at the same time. An institute that goes back and forth between the past and the future, moving from one opposite to the other (history and present, the 'Old World' and the 'New World', between the industrial and the sublime, etc.), while still moving forward." Hyperallergic 05/21/13
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media
CBS Wins US TV Season Ratings "CBS had a hefty 4 million-viewer lead over its closest competitor this season -- the largest margin of any network in 24 years. The network also claimed its first win in 21 years among the 18- to 49-year-old viewers who are the currency of broadcast-TV ad sales." Washington Post 05/22/13
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music
Cleveland Orchestra Goes To The (Happy) Dogs The orchestra plays in a local bar. And the customers like it. BBC 05/22/13
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publishing
Is A Library Without Paper Books Still A Library? "It will be a truly bookless library - although that is not a phrase much to the liking of BiblioTech's project co-ordinator, Laura Cole. She prefers the description "digital library" - after all, there will be books there, but in digital form." BBC 05/22/13
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Dealer At Center Of Knoedler Gallery Scandal Arrested For Tax Fraud "As alleged, Glafira Rosales gave new meaning to the phrase 'artful dodger' by avoiding taxes on millions of dollars in income from dealing in fake artworks for fake clients," said federal prosecutor Preet Bharara in a statement. The New York Times 05/22/13
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The Architecture Of Antarctica "It is no coincidence that many of the buildings in the first exhibition on architecture in Antarctica, shaped like caterpillars or icebergs, on stilts or stubby legs, will look like science-fiction illustrations - the storms, blizzards, extremes of temperature, darkness and howling winds they have been designed to withstand are so extreme that conditions have been likened to those on Mars." The Guardian (UK) 05/21/13
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Unpublished Pearl S. Buck Novel To Be Released After 40 Years "Buck, the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, is believed to have completed the manuscript for the book, The Eternal Wonder, shortly before she died of cancer in 1973 ... The manuscript was stumbled upon in a storage unit in Texas and returned to the Buck family in December in exchange for a small fee." The New York Times 05/22/13
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people
Ai Weiwei Launches His Rock Star Career With 'Dumbass' "The Chinese artist ... has always had something of the rock star about him. Now his hotly anticipated musical debut has finally emerged blinking into the glare of international attention: the self-proclaimed heavy metal single 'Dumbass'" - complete with video by superstar cinematographer Christopher Doyle. The Guardian (UK) 05/22/13 (includes video)
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Lincoln Center Sued Over Public Access To Park "A lawsuit has been filed against New York City and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts accusing them of limiting public access to Damrosch Park by using it for commercial purposes, including Fashion Week, for as many as 10 months of the year." The New York Times 05/21/13
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ideas
Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories - The New York Times Magazine 05/26/13
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What College Is Really For: Pleasure - The New York Times 05/22/13
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A Healthy, Thriving City? It's Not All About Population Growth These Days - Pacific Standard 05/21/13
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Torvill And Dean's Ice-Dancing TV Competition To End - The Telegraph (UK) 05/21/13
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Here Comes Honey Boo Boo Is 'Exactly The Kind Of Cultural Product America Should Be Exporting' - The Atlantic 05/22/13 (includes video)
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Hollywood Studios Anxious As Blockbuster-Heavy Summer Approaches - The Hollywood Reporter 05/21/13
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Video On Demand Is Finally Catching On - The New York Times 05/20/13
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CBS Wins US TV Season Ratings - Washington Post 05/22/13
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How John Adams Knows When An Audience Is 'Engaged And Intelligent' - Washington City Paper 05/22/13
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When Wagner's Music Was Hazardous To Your Health - The Guardian (UK) 05/22/13
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Cleveland Orchestra Goes To The (Happy) Dogs - BBC 05/22/13
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Composer Henri Dutilleux, 97 - WQXR (New York) 05/22/13
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On Richard Wagner's 200th Birthday, His Great-Grandson Slams Him Again - Expatica (AFP) 05/19/13
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Wagner's Hitler Correspondence Will Not Be Published, Says Great-Granddaughter - Agence France-Presse 05/19/13
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Researchers: Have Humans Become Dumber Since Victorian Era? - Huffington Post 05/22/13
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Lydia Davis Wins Man Booker International Prize For Her (Very) Short Stories - Reuters 05/22/13
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Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013 To Bakker's The Detour - The Bookseller (UK) 05/21/13
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A Booker Prize Judge's Burden: A Book A Day (Or More) - The Independent (UK) 05/22/13
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Is A Library Without Paper Books Still A Library? - BBC 05/22/13
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Scotland's Oldest Theatre is Saved - The Guardian (UK) 05/22/13
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Casting Directors: The Unknown, The Powerful - The Guardian (UK) 05/21/13
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London's West End Is Awash In Blockbusters. But Does That Signal That Theatres Are Healthy? - The Telegraph (UK) 05/21/13
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Legendary Picasso Catalogue Returns To Print - The New York Times 05/23/13
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China's Museum Boom Doesn't Necessarily Include Museum Visitors - NPR 05/22/13
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The Whitney's New Logo (Having It All Ways?) - Hyperallergic 05/21/13
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