{"id":1017,"date":"2016-08-28T11:25:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T18:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2016-08-30T11:29:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T18:29:26","slug":"this-weeks-aj-highlights-that-time-ballet-superstars-nureyev-and-fonteyn-got-arrested-in-a-hippie-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/2016\/08\/this-weeks-aj-highlights-that-time-ballet-superstars-nureyev-and-fonteyn-got-arrested-in-a-hippie-raid.html","title":{"rendered":"This Week’s AJ Highlights: That Time Ballet Superstars Nureyev And Fonteyn Got Arrested In A “Hippie Raid”"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n<\/a>This Week:<\/strong> Earthquake Devastates Historic Italian Towns… Has the audience deserted blockbuster movies?… The best new beautiful library of 2016… Is it a good idea to pay young people to try culture?… When superstar dancers were arrested in a 1960s police raid.<\/p>\n

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  1. Earthquake Devastates Historic Italian Towns:<\/strong> Historians fear that valuable Italian art and heritage have been destroyed<\/a> by the 6.2-magnitude quake. The Dutch classicist David Rijser, an expert on the culture of Abruzzo, said there had been damage to the central region\u2019s many churches, funeral monuments and museums. \u201cIt has been a true drama, there is a lot that has been lost,\u201d he told Dutch radio.<\/li>\n
  2. In A Summer Of Failed Movie Blockbusters, Have Movies Stopped Mattering?<\/a><\/strong> \u201cNowadays there\u2019s likely something way more exciting than the latest alleged blockbuster waiting for you on your phone, whether it\u2019s a Frank Ocean record, a cornered Charmeleon, or some dank memes. And with social media providing us real-time updates of our passions and consumption, it\u2019s become clear that, in 2016, people are less passionate about films than ever before.\u201d Meanwhile, a BBC poll of movie critics worldwide show a widening gulf <\/a>between what the critics like and what the audience pays to see.<\/li>\n
  3. Is This The Best New Public Library In 2016?<\/strong>  It’s in Denmark’s second-biggest city. It’s beautiful and airy<\/a> and is a gathering place for the community – all parts of it. \u201cOn one hand, our cultural ambitions to open up all branches of knowledge to every generation and social class and, on the other hand, our sense of functional and beautiful design.\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. How Do You Get Young People To Consume Culture? Pay Them!<\/strong> Italy announced a plan to give every 18-year-old \u20ac500 to spend on culture<\/a>. \u201cIn a scheme that gets underway on September 15th, every Italian resident [born in] 1998 will be given a \u2018culture bonus\u2019, which they can use to buy books, concerts tickets, theatre tickets, cinema tickets, museum visits and even trips to the country\u2019s national parks.\u201d Yes it’s a subsidy to the country’s arts sector. But the hope is also that it will motivate young people to try culture they otherwise might not.<\/li>\n
  5. For Fun: That Time Rudolf Nureyev And Margot Fonteyn Got Arrested In A “Hippie” Raid:<\/strong> It was the 1967. Haight Ashbury. The dance superstars had gone in search of where the action was<\/a> in the drugged out “Summer of Love”. \u201cMarijuana cigarettes were found at the scene,\u201d noted the paper, although the two ballet dancers had to be released as there was no evidence that they had been smoking them. A high-spirited Nureyev had, however, performed a jet\u00e9 into the back of a police van.
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