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Why Don’t More American Dance Companies Tour Internationally?

DANCE Posted: August 7, 2014 7:28 am

Why Don’t More American Dance Companies Tour Internationally?

“The U.S. government’s lack of a proper infrastructure to adequately support the arts is matched by many philanthropic institutions that are often reluctant to support projects and activities beyond their own communities or outside U.S. borders.”

Read the story at DanceUSA Published: 07.24.14

The Top 10 Artists Lost To The World Because Of World War I

VISUAL Posted: July 27, 2014 3:00 pm

The Top 10 Artists Lost To The World Because Of World War I

“The first world war occured at one of the most creative moments in the history of art.”

Read the story at The Guardian (UK) Published: 07.24.14

London Needs More ‘Pop-Up’ Theatre – But It’s Hard To Come By In The West End

THEATRE Posted: July 27, 2014 1:30 pm

London Needs More ‘Pop-Up’ Theatre – But It’s Hard To Come By In The West End

“Producers constantly say that West End ticket prices are so high because of the high rents charged by theatre owners, and this would be a way to circumvent those demands – although of course the costs of kitting out a pop-up venue are likely to be very substantial indeed.”

Read the story at The Guardian (UK) Published: 07.24.14

Ballet: Suddenly, It’s The Workout Of The Fashion World

DANCE Posted: July 27, 2014 8:30 am

Ballet: Suddenly, It’s The Workout Of The Fashion World

“If yoga and pilates are now standard, with classes from gyms to chilly church halls, ballet – which has a level of technique so punishing that only a tiny chosen few will actually succeed – is perfect for fashion. It’s inherently elitist in its quest for physical perfection.”

Read the story at The Guardian (UK) Published: 07.24.14

Algorithm “Mutates” Art

IDEAS Posted: July 25, 2014 1:27 pm

Algorithm “Mutates” Art

“The algorithm mutates the image in different ways: chopping it in half, overlaying it on another image or randomly altering it. The resulting images are either culled or kept depending on how closely they adhere to the user’s initial stylistic choices, and the process repeats. The person can stop the process at any time and select an image they like, or let it keep running.”

Read the story at New Scientist Published: 07.24.14

A History Of Literary Censorship

WORDS Posted: July 25, 2014 1:13 pm

A History Of Literary Censorship

“A more legitimate literary objection to censorship is its implicit portrayal of a reader as the sort of person who jumps off a cliff when asked. Notions such as “obscenity” or “abasement before the west” make literary language a tool of subversion and ascribe to the novelist the hypnotist’s capacity for making a previously obedient or prudish member of the public throw stones or unzip.”

Read the story at New Statesman Published: 07.24.14

Prado Museum: Just To Clarify – We’ve Know For A Long Time About Our Missing Art Works

VISUAL Posted: July 25, 2014 6:24 am

Prado Museum: Just To Clarify – We’ve Know For A Long Time About Our Missing Art Works

“The only new element presented in the audit undertaken by the Tribunal de Cuentas in 2012 is the that fact 41 works have been located, the whereabouts of which had been unknown since 1978 when the first report by the Fiscalía General de Reino was published on the situation of works from the collection of the Museo del Prado on deposit with other institutions.”

Read the story at Prado Mueum Published: 07.24.14

Protesting Performers Have Been Interrupting French Festival This Summer

THEATRE Posted: July 25, 2014 6:21 am

Protesting Performers Have Been Interrupting French Festival This Summer

“Throughout the three weeks of the festival there have been almost daily demonstrations. Several shows have been stopped or disrupted, though the worst nightmare of the organisers – total cancellation of the entire event, as happened in 2003 – has happily been avoided.”

Read the story at BBC Published: 07.24.14

NYC Mayor Fires Eight Board Members Of Queens Library System

WORDS Posted: July 25, 2014 1:00 am

NYC Mayor Fires Eight Board Members Of Queens Library System

“The board members were removed after they voted in April against firing Thomas W. Galante, director of the Queens library system, who has been under investigation for using money earmarked for library improvements for renovations to his personal office and for steering contracts for the work to a friend.”

Read the story at The New York Times Published: 07.24.14

Head Of Big New Arts Center In Beverly Hills Out After First Season

ISSUES Posted: July 25, 2014 12:57 am

Head Of Big New Arts Center In Beverly Hills Out After First Season

“The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, which only recently completed its inaugural season, confirmed Thursday that Executive Director Lou Moore has left the fledgling arts organization. Moore, who spent more than a decade raising money to construct the new center and then led its 2013 opening and first season, left the organization on Tuesday.”

Read the story at Los Angeles Times Published: 07.24.14

Andy Serkis, Star Of A Movie Medium That’s Anti-Star By Its Very Nature

MEDIA Posted: July 25, 2014 12:56 am

Andy Serkis, Star Of A Movie Medium That’s Anti-Star By Its Very Nature

“Serkis, whose resume includes playing some of the least likely critical favorites of all time – Gollum, King Kong, and Godzilla – seems like an ideal spokesman for motion-capture if it wants high-brow cred. … [Yet] the singular focus on him in some ways clashes with the collaborative, chameleonic spirit of motion-capture, a field that has a long and glorious tradition of eschewing thespian concerns entirely.”

Read the story at The Atlantic Published: 07.24.14

Angel Corella: “I Have A Lot Of Plans” For Pennsylvania Ballet

DANCE Posted: July 25, 2014 12:55 am

Angel Corella: “I Have A Lot Of Plans” For Pennsylvania Ballet

They include “closely coaching the dancers, touring more, giving outdoor public performances, organizing outreach programs with schools, and bringing in new choreographers. He listed Christopher Wheeldon, Wayne McGregor, Justin Peck, and Liam Scarlett as possibilities. He also wants to reassure his dancers and artistic staff.”

Read the story at The Philadelphia Inquirer Published: 07.24.14

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AJBlogs Posted: July 24, 2014 7:29 pm

Big Questions Re: Museum of African Art’s New Dream
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AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-07-24

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AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-07-24

Managing expectations
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Read the story at AJBlogs Published: 07.24.14

When Manhattan Became The Capital Of The World (In The 1920s)

ISSUES Posted: July 24, 2014 5:32 pm

When Manhattan Became The Capital Of The World (In The 1920s)

“Beginning with the reconstruction of Park Avenue in the early 1920s, Midtown became a destination neighborhood for the city’s ultrarich, eager to abandon their stand-alone Fifth Avenue palaces in favor of contemporary “mansions in the sky.” Alongside the real estate boom came a decadent new night life and a host of more serious cultural diversions, all of them fueled, in Miller’s telling, by a steady supply of ambition, energy and illicit booze.”

Read the story at The New York Times Published: 07.24.14

TV Edges Out Movies At This Year’s Comic-Con

MEDIA Posted: July 24, 2014 5:26 pm

TV Edges Out Movies At This Year’s Comic-Con

“Television has been growing here like kudzu in recent years, but this time around it seems to have finally blocked out the light for much of anything else to be noticed.”

Read the story at The New York Times Published: 07.24.14

New York City Is Introducing A New ID Card (And It Wants Cultural Groups To Help)

ISSUES Posted: July 24, 2014 6:57 am

New York City Is Introducing A New ID Card (And It Wants Cultural Groups To Help)

“To broaden the appeal of a card that will be available to all New Yorkers early next year but is designed to help those who do not have a driver’s license or other official identification, the administration has asked some of the city’s most prominent cultural institutions to offer benefits, like memberships or discounted tickets, to cardholders.”

Read the story at The New York Times Published: 07.24.14

British Government Backs Down On Cuts To Music Education

MUSIC Posted: July 24, 2014 6:55 am

British Government Backs Down On Cuts To Music Education

“This is undoubtedly good news. That extra £17 million (the government says £18 million, but no-one quite understands their arithmetic), means the total amount spread around the music hubs will rise to £75 million. This will reverse the decline of recent years, which has been steep.”

Read the story at The Telegraph (UK) Published: 07.24.14

80s Band Duran Duran Sues Its Own Fan Club

PEOPLE Posted: July 24, 2014 6:52 am

80s Band Duran Duran Sues Its Own Fan Club

“The band, known for hits such as Notorious and Hungry Like the Wolf, are claiming that Chicago-based company Worldwide Fan Clubs have breached contract by not paying the band promised revenue.”

Read the story at The Telegraph (UK) Published: 07.24.14

How Popular Culture Of The 1920s Became Obsessed With King Tut

VISUAL Posted: July 24, 2014 6:22 am

How Popular Culture Of The 1920s Became Obsessed With King Tut

“The tomb’s discovery, at the start of the Roaring Twenties, followed the global upheavals of World War One. Mass media was able to bring news of objects being carried out of the tomb to a wider audience, faster than ever before. America, in particular, became obsessed by “King Tut” – as he became known. Even US President Herbert Hoover used the name for his pet dog.”

Read the story at BBC Published: 07.24.14

Met Opera’s Peter Gelb Gives Unions Ultimatum: Contract In One Week Or Lockout

MUSIC Posted: July 24, 2014 12:59 am

Met Opera’s Peter Gelb Gives Unions Ultimatum: Contract In One Week Or Lockout

“The labor strife at the Metropolitan Opera took on a new urgency Wednesday when its general manager, Peter Gelb, sent the company’s orchestra, chorus, stagehands and other workers letters warning them to prepare for a lockout if no contract deal is reached by next week.”

Read the story at The New York Times Published: 07.24.14

When Richard Strauss Faced Down American GIs

PEOPLE Posted: July 24, 2014 12:28 am

When Richard Strauss Faced Down American GIs

Alex Ross investigates the truth behind the famous old World War II story of how Strauss convinced U.S. soldiers not to commandeer his house by telling them, “I am the composer of Der Rosenkavalier and Salome.”

Read the story at The New Yorker Published: 07.24.14

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