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Archives for December 2013

The Best Of 2013 Dance In Chicago

DANCE Posted: December 30, 2013 11:20 am

For Chicago dance aficionados it was among the best of times.

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Read the story in Chicago Sun-Times Published: 12.29.13

More Words Yes, But We’re Not Really Having Conversations

IDEAS Posted: December 30, 2013 10:40 am

“We’re talking all the time, in person as well as in texts, in e-mails, over the phone, on Facebook and Twitter. The world is more talkative now, in many ways, than it’s ever been. The problem, Turkle argues, is that all of this talk can come at the expense of conversation. We’re talking at each other rather than with each other.”

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The Myth Of The Great American Novel

WORDS Posted: December 30, 2013 10:36 am

“Hardly anyone talks about the Great American Novel without a tincture of irony these days. But as Lawrence Buell shows in The Dream of the Great American Novel, his comprehensive and illuminating new study, that is nothing new: American writers have always held the phrase at arm’s length, recognizing in it a kind of hubris, if not mere boosterism.”

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Read the story in Harvard Magazine Published: 01.14

Reviving Books From The Dead (It’s Called “Continuation” Literature

WORDS Posted: December 30, 2013 10:33 am

“These days, continuation literature – as it has been hailed – falls into two camps: works that are licensed by writers’ estates and those that, like Austen, are in the public domain.”

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Read the story in BBC Published: 12.30.13

Culture Quiz – The FT’s 2013 Culture Question Contest (AJ Readers Should Have No Problem With These)

ISSUES Posted: December 30, 2013 9:13 am

“In a study published in the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport in September, researchers discovered that practitioners of a certain art form performed better after taking vitamin D supplements in winter than those who didn’t. Name the art form.”

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Read the story in Financial Times Published: 12.28.13

Mayor Bloomberg’s Amazing NYC Arts Legacy

ISSUES Posted: December 30, 2013 9:02 am

“The most prominent aspect of Mr. Bloomberg’s arts legacy is the $2 billion the city spent to transform the buildings of institutions across the city. But it also includes organizations that have come into being largely through the efforts of the mayor and his staff.”

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Is This Nine-Year-Old The Next Opera Sensation?

MUSIC Posted: December 30, 2013 8:58 am

Nine-year-old singer Amira Willighagen won Holland’s Got Talent on Saturday evening with a moving performance of Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma.”

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Read the story in Classicalite Published: 12.29.13

Global Fight To Attract Movie Business As California Loses Out

MEDIA Posted: December 30, 2013 8:55 am

“Fueled by politicians doling out generous tax breaks, filmmaking talent is migrating to where the money is. The result is an incentives arms race that pits California against governments around the world and allows powerful studios –with hundreds of millions of dollars at their disposal– to cherry-pick the best deals.”

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Read the story in Vancouver Sun (AP) Published: 12.28.13

Director Of The Barnes Moves On After Turbulent Tenure

VISUAL Posted: December 30, 2013 8:42 am

“There was a fair amount of turbulence in the beginning, with one lawsuit after another. He weathered all of that in a spirit of, I would say, extreme graciousness and never lost his cool.”

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 12.28.13

Will New York’s New Mayor Lead A Return To Populist Art?

VISUAL Posted: December 30, 2013 8:27 am

“The abrupt rise of Mr. de Blasio caught much of the city’s cultural establishment off guard and set off anxious speculation about what kind of artistic patron he might be as mayor — a question that took on particular urgency because the city budget is tight.”

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 12.29.13

Sequels Ruled At The Movies This Year (Sigh)

MEDIA Posted: December 30, 2013 8:24 am

This was a fantastic year at the box office, but “Hollywood did it largely by serving more of the same. The five leading films at the global box office were all sequels.”

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 12.29.13

The Next Harry Potter Was Written By (Self-Published) Two French Women

WORDS Posted: December 30, 2013 8:22 am

“To fans, this was a story of literary injustice. Fourteen-year-old Achille, a diehard Pollock fan, wrote an open letter to the magazine Le Nouvel Observateur, demanding a response from the hidebound dinosaurs of the Parisian book world.”

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Read the story in The Observer (UK) Published: 12.29.13

Curator Of Controversial ‘Hide/Seek’ Gets A Promotion At The National Portrait Gallery

VISUAL Posted: December 29, 2013 10:26 pm

“Ward maintained the curator’s presence in ‘Hide/Seek,’ defending the exhibition amid political controversy, while also, like the historian he is, seeking to understand why the controversy erupted as it did.”

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Read the story in Washington Post Published: 12.27.13

Herb Geller, 85, Saxophonist And Composer

PEOPLE Posted: December 29, 2013 10:12 pm

“Initially, he was prominent among the musicians who created the west coast jazz style, picking up combo gigs and recording dates with the best players in California. Later, after the death of his first wife, he relocated to Europe and established himself as a salaried artist in a subsidised orchestra.”

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Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 12.29.13

Where Pulp Fiction Bridges The Ideal And The Real

IDEAS Posted: December 29, 2013 10:06 pm

“Battered between competing allegiances to the idealized homeland and the reality of home, culture was often the life vest. Books, movies, clothing, and ritual — they bridged the chasm between the old world and the new by taking you to the place you could no longer go.”

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Read the story in Los Angeles Review of Books Published: 12.29.13

Freed Pussy Riot Members Renew Call For Sochi Olympics Boycott

PEOPLE Posted: December 29, 2013 9:19 pm

“They also stressed that they have no plans of capitalizing on the Pussy Riot brand or even using it in the future.”

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Read the story in The Hollywood Reporter Published: 12.27.13

Lawsuit Against Calder’s Art Dealer Dismissed

VISUAL Posted: December 29, 2013 9:16 pm

“The suit claimed that Perls and his family held on to hundreds of Calder’s works, cheated the artist’s estate out of tens of millions of dollars over the course of three decades and sold fake Calder works.”

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 12.29.13

The Year Music Escaped The Concert Hall

MUSIC Posted: December 29, 2013 9:12 pm

“This has been the year of sound art, a year when museums and galleries, alternative spaces and train stations, parks and Beverly Hills formal gardens, even the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva went after a decent-sized piece of the acoustical action. Why now?”

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Read the story in Los Angeles Times Published: 12.28.13

Wojciech Kilar, 81, Composer For ‘The Pianist’ And More

PEOPLE Posted: December 29, 2013 9:09 pm

When Francis Ford Coppola asked the Polish composer what it took to write music like that in the movie Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Kilar cryptically replied: ‘You need to live in Katowice.'”

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Read the story in BBC Published: 12.29.13

What Exactly Do Playwrights Do When They Reside?

THEATRE Posted: December 29, 2013 9:04 pm

“Already I’ve been using the title to open some doors. … Yet, the role itself feels delightfully and frustratingly vague.”

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Read the story in HowlRound Published: 12.29.13

Actually, The Movies This Year Were Pretty Great

MEDIA Posted: December 29, 2013 8:57 pm

“Back in the movie wasteland of last January, no one could have guessed what a bounty of good films the year would bring. Not just good films, but several that measure up to our idealized notions of what the medium once was.”

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Read the story in The Wall Street Journal Published: 12.26.13

Does Hollywood Actually Make A Political Difference?

ISSUES Posted: December 29, 2013 8:54 pm

Yes, sometimes, and not so much.

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Read the story in Variety Published: 12.27.13

Finding A Magritte That’s Been Cut Up And Painted Over

VISUAL Posted: December 29, 2013 8:50 pm

That is, by the artist himself.

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Read the story in The Wall Street Journal Published: 12.27.13

An Especially Excited Statue Gets A Little Cover

VISUAL Posted: December 29, 2013 11:00 am

“Critics did not interpret the animal’s grip on the man — its paws gently resting on the man’s hips — as a bear hug. Moreover, the man appears to be experiencing sensations other than fear: He has an erection.”

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 12.27.13

Lost Van Dyck Turns Up On Antiques Roadshow (Yes, Really)

VISUAL Posted: December 29, 2013 10:50 am

The painting “was bought for £400 by a priest in Nottingham, but experts say the restored 17th century portrait could be worth around £400,000.”

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Read the story in The Independent (UK) Published: 12.29.13

Making The Oscars Into The World’s Best, Not Just Hollywood’s Best

MEDIA Posted: December 29, 2013 10:40 am

“There’s the Oscar lesson, proven year after year: You might win with a dark vision, but in general, keep it light and keep it in English.”

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Read the story in Variety Published: 12.27.13

Can Changing Our Reading Habits Even The Balance?

WORDS Posted: December 29, 2013 10:40 am

“Establishing quotas is not inherently progressive, but it can help us examine our choices, to consider books or writers we might otherwise ignore or resist, and sometimes – as was the case for me with the wonderful Croatian author Dubravka Ugresic – recognize that we were missing out not having read them sooner.”

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Read the story in The Globe and Mail (Canada) Published: 12.27.13

As Illustrations Grow More Popular, Museums Get Priced Out

VISUAL Posted: December 29, 2013 10:30 am

“The rising prices are proving prohibitive for some; Davis says that high prices for works by Rockwell and Parrish have made purchases by museums such as his more difficult.”

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Read the story in The Art Newspaper Published: 12.27.13

Today’s top AJBlog posts 12/29/13

AJBlogs Posted: December 29, 2013 10:30 am

Very angry tweet: French birds demand share of Messiaen’s royalties
Source: Slipped Disc | Published on 2013-12-29

China’s violin method: ‘Study and train hard, according to a scientific method’
Source: Slipped Disc | Published on 2013-12-29

My “Porgy and Bess” Playlist
Source: Unanswered Question | Published on 2013-12-28

In NYC: Catching Up With Peter Schumannand the Bread and Puppet Theater
Source: Straight|Up | Published on 2013-12-27

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Read the story in AJBlogs Published: 12.29.13

In New York, Some Stagehands Make A Lot (A LOT) Of Money

THEATRE Posted: December 29, 2013 10:20 am

“Even as organized labor in the United States has weakened significantly, the nearly 2,600 active members of Local 1 have retained their clout, allowing them to push for good wages and work rules.”

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 12.27.13

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