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UK Actors Equity Gets 9% Pay Raises, Possible Job-Sharing For West End Workers

THEATRE Posted: June 12, 2019 5:01 am

“Performers and stage managers working in the largest West End theatres will earn more than £700 a week as a minimum for the first time, as part of a new agreement that also includes measures for job shares and flexible working.” – The Stage

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London’s Tate Gallery Will Lend Lots Of Art To New Museum In Shanghai

VISUAL Posted: June 12, 2019 4:45 am

“Under the new deal, three exhibitions of works drawn from Tate will be held at the Pudong Museum of Art. Tate will also assist with visitor services, operations, art handling, exhibition management, audience development and learning.” – The Art Newspaper

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The Forces That Create Celebrity Culture

PEOPLE Posted: June 11, 2019 3:03 pm

Social media amplifies and speeds up interactions between audiences, media and stars, but YouTube and Twitter did not invent modern celebrity culture. That happened more than 150 years ago, thanks to the popular press, commercial photography, railways and steamships, and national postal systems. – Aeon

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Designing For A More Circular World

Uncategorized Posted: June 11, 2019 2:29 pm

“Today’s linear economy is a straight line, no matter how efficient you make it. If you make a car with less material, if you make a car using less energy, you’re still using stuff. You’re still consuming materials. Whereas within a circular model, from the outset you design in a way whereby that product comes back into the system: the components are recovered, the materials are recovered.” – dezeen

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David Lang holds no prisoners in his new, gloves-off opera

AJBlogs Posted: June 11, 2019 11:56 am

David Lang’s music is too pleasurable to be called experimental – it’s the message, not the music, that may make some listeners uncomfortable. – David Patrick Stearns

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Propwatch: the seeds in ‘King Hedley II’

AJBlogs Posted: June 11, 2019 11:55 am

Some props haul their own metaphors on stage with them. – David Jays

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A Disaster For Music: How A 2008 Fire Destroyed One Of The World’s Most Important Troves Of Music

MUSIC Posted: June 11, 2019 11:32 am

UMG’s accounting of its losses, detailed in a March 2009 document marked “CONFIDENTIAL,” put the number of “assets destroyed” at 118,230. Randy Aronson considers that estimate low: The real number, he surmises, was “in the 175,000 range.” If you extrapolate from either figure, tallying songs on album and singles masters, the number of destroyed recordings stretches into the hundreds of thousands. In another confidential report, issued later in 2009, UMG asserted that “an estimated 500K song titles” were lost. – The New York Times

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Concerns That Arts Council England Is Stepping Away From Funding Excellence

ISSUES Posted: June 11, 2019 10:31 am

“Some members felt that the proposals were signalling a profound shift from ‘Great Art and Culture for Everyone’ to ‘Everyone has the right to access some art and culture’.” They “felt very strongly that the outcomes suggested the only justification for publicly funded arts and culture was public demand”. – Arts Professional

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Hackers Stole And Demanded Ransom From Radiohead. So The Band Is Releasing The Music Tracks With Proceeds To Charity

MUSIC Posted: June 11, 2019 9:31 am

The group announced on its social media platforms today that the archive—consisting mostly of unfinished music and clips from the mid-90s—had been stolen last week. The hacker, or hackers, demanded $150,000 to keep it from being released to the public, Radiohead said. In response, the band decided not only to ignore the ransom demand but release the entire trove of music to Bandcamp in aid of Extinction Rebellion, the new climate change movement. – Newsweek

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  • Lookback: on joining the National Counncil on the Arts
    From 2005: I went to my framer yesterday afternoon and picked up the presidential commission for my appointment to the National Council on the Arts. It’s a splendidly old-fashioned document, about twice the size of a college diploma, printed in copperplate script on thick cream paper by the Bureau of Engraving... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-26
  • Almanac: Thornton Wilder on hope
    “Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.” Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day Continue reading Almanac: Thornton Wilder on hope at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-26
  • Almanac: Gore Vidal on the will to power
    “To want power is corruption already.” Gore Vidal, The Best Man Continue reading Almanac: Gore Vidal on the will to power at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-25
  • Just because: Gore Vidal talks about The Best Man
    In an undated TV interview, Gore Vidal talks about Franklin J. Schaffner’s 1964 screen version of The Best Man, his 1960 play, and the ideas about politics on which it was based: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-24
  • Joseph Conyers on Being an Artist Entrepreneur
    Check out this week’s episode of my show Arts Engines with Joseph Conyers, The Philadelphia Orchestra bassist and entrepreneur, as he shares the passions that have fueled his success!... Read more
    Source: Aaron Dworkin Published on: 2021-01-23
  • Looking for a Fugitive Rainbow—a Very Transient “Gift” to the Bidens
    Laura Baptiste, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s (SAAM’s) always helpful chief of communications and public affairs, found herself fielding misinformation disseminated in a number of news reports after Wednesday’s Presidential Inauguration festivities. She scrambled to set the record straight about Robert Duncanson‘s suddenly famous “Landscape with Rainbow,” after several published... Read more
    Source: CultureGrrl Published on: 2021-01-22
  • Verbal virtuosity
    In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, I review Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey’s Shaw! Shaw! Shaw!. Here’s an excerpt. *  *  * Webcasts of the plays of George Bernard Shaw have been scarce during the pandemic. It’s a shame, for Shaw’s plays are for the most part comedies of ideas, political and... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-22
  • Jump-starting an arts revival
    In today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column, I talk about how to jump-start a post-pandemic revival of the arts in America. Here’s an excerpt. *  *  * As everybody with even the slightest interest in the arts knows, the coming of Covid-19 has had a catastrophic effect on creative institutions in every... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-22
  • Replay: Alfred Hitchcock talks to Dick Cavett
    Alfred Hitchcock is interviewed by Dick Cavett on TV in 1972: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) Continue reading Replay: Alfred Hitchcock talks to Dick Cavett at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-22
  • Almanac: Tolstoy on happiness
    “Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude) Continue reading Almanac: Tolstoy on happiness at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-22
  • Almanac: Ambrose Bierce on the President of the United States
    “PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom—and of whom only—it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary Continue reading Almanac: Ambrose Bierce on the President of the United States at... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-21
  • Ominous Juxtaposition? Biden Flanked by Duncanson’s “Rainbow” & Statue of a Murdered President
    In a jolting inauguration installation, marred by unintentionally dark symbolism that, hopefully, wasn’t discerned by the Bidens, this afternoon’s celebration after the joyful swearing-in of the new President and Vice President included a brief walk through the Capitol rotunda led by Missouri Senator Roy Blunt, chairman of the Senate Republican... Read more
    Source: CultureGrrl Published on: 2021-01-20
  • Snapshot: FDR’s 1933 inauguration
    Sound footage of the presidential inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) Continue reading Snapshot: FDR’s 1933 inauguration at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-20
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