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50,000 Candy-Colored Lights At Australia’s Uluru

VISUAL Posted: September 19, 2017 4:45 am

“Located on the grounds of the Ayers Rock Resort in the Northern Territory, this remarkable exhibition” – titled Field of Light Uluru in English and Tili Wiru Tjuta Nyakutjaku (“looking at lots of beautiful lights”) in the language of the indigenous Pitjantjatjara people, to whom Uluru is sacred – “from artist Bruce Munro has already drawn some 120,000 visitors since it opened in 2016.”

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Read the story in National Geographic Published: 09.12.17

Margaret Atwood: Science Fiction Isn’t Really About The Future At All

WORDS Posted: September 15, 2017 1:32 pm

“All stories about the future are actually about the now. However, it’s also true that you generally look ahead of you to see where you’re going and that’s what those kinds of books are like. They’re like blueprints of the possible futures that help us to decide whether that is where we want to go. 1984 was actually about 1948 and looking down the road what might happen should England become like the Soviet Union of the now. So the Handmaid’s Tale was about trends that were already there in the now event, and what might happen if those trends continued on in that way. Would we like that? Is that where we want to live?”

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Read the story in Slate Published: 09.12.17

The ‘Monkey-Selfie’ Copyright Case Is, At Long Last, Over

ISSUES Posted: September 15, 2017 11:03 am

Six years after a macaque in Indonesia picked up photographer David Slater’s camera and took photos of herself, three years after the U.S. Copyright Office supposedly settled the matter, and two years after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals claimed standing and filed a lawsuit, PETA and Slater have settled the case. Reporter Sudhin Thanawala explains the terms.

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Read the story in Yahoo! (AP) Published: 09.12.17

How We Staged ‘Merchant Of Venice’ In The Old Venice Ghetto

THEATRE Posted: September 15, 2017 9:02 am

Director Karin Coonrod writes about the process, from getting set materials to the site by boat and hand-truck to the dilemma of casting Shylock (and her unconventional solution) to reworking the unsatisfying-to-us-in-2017 ending, all in the places where the story would have happened.

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Read the story in American Theatre Published: 09.12.17

Where The Idea Of “White People” Came From

IDEAS Posted: September 14, 2017 12:31 pm

“Bolstered by a positivist language, the idea of race became so normalised that eventually the claim that anyone would have coined such an obvious phrase as ‘white people’ would begin to sound strange. But invented it was. With the reemergence today of openly racist political rhetoric, often using disingenuously sophisticated terminology, it’s crucial to remember what exactly it means to say that race isn’t real, and why the claims of racists aren’t just immoral, but also inaccurate.”

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Read the story in Aeon Published: 09.12.17

John Cleese Talks About Political Correctness And The Nature Of Comedy

PEOPLE Posted: September 14, 2017 8:04 am

“The thing about political correctness is that it starts as a good idea and then gets taken ad absurdum. And one of the reasons it gets taken ad absurdum is that a lot of the politically correct people have no sense of humor. … Because they have no sense of proportion, and a sense of humor is actually a sense of proportion. It’s the sense of knowing what’s important.” (He then edges into some rather iffy jokes.)

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Read the story in Vulture Published: 09.12.17

How Pina Bausch’s Company Keeps Thriving, Eight Years After Her Sudden Death

DANCE Posted: September 14, 2017 7:05 am

“Over the course of those years since 2009, the company’s future has become more clear. Crucially, there appears to be an undiminished appetite for Bausch’s emotionally driven style of tanztheater (or dance theater) … (Performances tend to sell out weeks in advance.) Part of that future is a product of continuity. There aren’t many dance troupes whose performers range in age from their 20s to 60s, but that is the situation in the company today. Many veterans are still there to pass on the knowledge embedded in their bodies and memories.” Marina Harss talks with three dancers from various stages Tanztheater Wuppertal’s history.

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Read the story in New York Times Published: 09.12.17

How Today’s Choreographers Are Inspired By Pina Bausch

DANCE Posted: September 14, 2017 6:34 am

Jen Peters talks to Annie-B Parsons, Aszure Barton, Susan Marshall, and others about the influence the late German choreographer had on their work on their outlook.

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Read the story in Dance Magazine Published: 09.12.17

Documenta Runs €7 Million Deficit, Seeks City/State Bailout

VISUAL Posted: September 14, 2017 5:16 am

“The local Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine newspaper said [the state of] Hesse and [the city of] Kassel had each agreed to take over loan guarantees of €3.5m. … The local newspaper said the cost overruns for the current edition of Documenta were partly owing to miscalculations by the management team” – particularly concerning the costs of running part of the event in Athens.

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Read the story in The Art Newspaper Published: 09.12.17

Edgar Allan Poe, The Prototypical Broke Freelancer

WORDS Posted: September 13, 2017 3:01 pm

What most people don’t know is that, for his entire oeuvre—all his fiction, poetry, criticism, lectures—Poe earned only about $6,200 in his lifetime, or approximately $191,087 adjusted for inflation. Maybe $191,087 seems like a lot of money. And sure, as book advances go, that’d be a generous one, the kind that fellow writers would whisper about. But what if $191,087 was all you got for 20 years of work and the stuff you wrote happened to be among the most enduring literature ever produced by anyone anywhere?

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Read the story in The Millions Published: 09.12.17

Can A City Engineer A Great Music Scene Through Public Policy?

MUSIC Posted: September 13, 2017 1:27 pm

The arts often lose when budgets tighten, but even a little coordination by—and representation in—city government can help. “Offices of arts and culture are really about curating relationships and opportunities, and seeing all of the ways a municipality can partner. In order for that to happen, you have to have folks in the room who are specifically thinking about that as an issue area.”

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Read the story in CityLab Published: 09.12.17

Americorps For The Arts – A Philly Program Goes National

ISSUES Posted: September 13, 2017 12:31 pm

The grant is a first for AmeriCorps. “This is the first time there’s been a program that allows artists to dedicate a year of service to their country,” said AmeriCorps spokeswoman Samantha Jo Warfield, citing the innovative model as one criterion for the award.

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Read the story in Philadelphia Inquirer Published: 09.12.17

Florida Museums Assess Damages – Perez Museum Unscathed

VISUAL Posted: September 13, 2017 10:31 am

One historic site, the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Coconut Grove, did sustain some serious flooding to its basement, café and stores, although the main building and its collections remained safe. A truck arrived on Tuesday to begin pumping out the water from the lower levels. “The good news is there are no art collections stored [there].”

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Read the story in The Art Newspaper Published: 09.12.17

German Researchers: We Can Now Compose Music Using Only The Brain

MUSIC Posted: September 13, 2017 9:32 am

“Twenty years ago, the idea of composing a piece of music using the power of the mind was unimaginable,” said Gernot Müller-Putz of the Graz University of Technology, a co-author of the study. “Now, we can do it.”

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Read the story in Pacific Standard Published: 09.12.17

Peter Hall, A Director Who Animated Language

PEOPLE Posted: September 13, 2017 8:50 am

“Directors can’t simply let a play speak on its own, but they must put their ear to the ground. Meaning for Hall always returned to an intimate confrontation with the line. He didn’t believe that Shakespeare could be properly done without respecting the forms in which he wrote his plays. Verse, diction, rhetorical patterns — attention to these matters is what allowed a play to live again.”

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Read the story in Los Angeles Times Published: 09.12.17

Did Someone Really Just Figure Out How To Read The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript?

WORDS Posted: September 13, 2017 6:33 am

Last week, researcher Nicholas Gibbs announced in the Times Literary Supplement that he had cracked the medieval text’s long-uindecipherable code. (He says it’s a women’s health manual.) But other experts in the field aren’t convinced. Here Brigit Katz gives us some of the other (weird) theories about the Voynich and the six basic things to know about it.

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Read the story in Smithsonian Magazine Published: 09.12.17

How Florida Arts Institutions Girded Themselves For Hurricane Irma And Came Through Relatively Well

ISSUES Posted: September 13, 2017 5:31 am

Michael Cooper and Robin Pogrebin report on the measures the organizations took – both when building their buildings and preparing for the storm in the preceding days – to keep their people and objects safe.

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Read the story in New York Times Published: 09.12.17

Meet The 2017 Dance Magazine Award Winners

DANCE Posted: September 13, 2017 5:00 am

In fact, you may already know two or three of them. They’re ballet star Diana Vishneva, hip-hop maestro Rennie Harris, Linda Celeste Sims of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and physical therapist/dance medicine pioneer Marika Molnar.

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Read the story in Dance Magazine Published: 09.12.17

New Director Of Berlin’s Volksbühne Theater Has Been Getting An Ugly Introduction To His New Job

THEATRE Posted: September 13, 2017 4:44 am

“The decision to appoint [Chris] Dercon, the former director of Tate Modern in London, to run the institution has spurred an angry debate, one that has
often conflated the issues surrounding his appointment with the larger challenges confronting Berlin, like gentrification, globalization and immigration. It has not always been a dignified debate. Along with the usual petition-signing, there have been ugly protests – some might call them a hazing – that even an avant-garde theater may find over the top.”

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Read the story in New York Times Published: 09.12.17

Houston Grand Opera Will Begin Its Season On Time – But Not At Its Home Theatre

MUSIC Posted: September 12, 2017 6:18 am

“The Wortham [Theater Center] was more damaged than originally thought and although Managing Director Perryn Leech and Artistic and Music Director Patrick Summers say they don’t know where they will land, they know they have to go.”

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Read the story in Houston Press Published: 09.12.17

Peter Hall, 86, Founder Of Royal Shakespeare Company And Leading Stage Director

PEOPLE Posted: September 12, 2017 6:03 am

“Mr. Hall was long acknowledged as the leader and prime defender of a profession whose artistic health was often imperiled by financial cutbacks and political hostility in the second half of the 20th century. That the period was regarded as one of the theater’s greatest made his achievement all the more considerable. As a director, Mr. Hall introduced Samuel Beckett to English-speaking audiences, staged the premieres of eight of Harold Pinter’s plays, helped revolutionize the acting of Shakespeare and, as artistic director of the Glyndebourne Festival in England from 1984 to 1990, brought a new realism to the performing of classic opera.”

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Read the story in New York Times Published: 09.12.17

The Aesthetic Advantage: How beauty and business can intersect

sponsored post Posted: September 12, 2017 5:37 am

Beauty is disruptive; it widens our focus beyond return on investment, allowing us to distinguish the ‘good’ from the ‘profitable’. That’s the basis for a new course at Banff Centre called The Aesthetic Advantage. Lead faculty Diane Ragsdale talks about about how beauty and business can intersect to create something new. Watch the video and register for the program today at banffcentre.ca/programs.

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Read the story in The Banff Centre Published: 09.12.17

Baryshnikov, N’Dour, Nishat, Anatsui, Moneo Win 2017 Praemium Imperiale

PEOPLE Posted: September 12, 2017 5:16 am

Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, Senegalese musician Youssou N’Dour, sculptor El Anatsui, artist Shirin Neshat, and architect Raphael Moneo are this year’s recipients of this year’s ¥15 million ($137,000) award, given by the Japan Art Association to honor achievement in fields not covered by the Nobel Prizes.

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Read the story in New York Times Published: 09.12.17

Tamara Tchinarova, 98, Dancer With The Ballets Russes

PEOPLE Posted: September 12, 2017 4:45 am

“While she was still in her teens Tchinarova danced with companies that formed in Europe after the death of Diaghilev. She travelled with Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, Les Ballets 1933, Colonel. W. de Basil’s Ballets Russes and finally to Australia in de Basil’s Monte Carlo Russian Ballet in 1936.” She settled there – and was married to actor Peter Finch when he was discovered by Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (whose affair with Finch broke up his marriage to Tchinarova).

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Read the story in Sydney Morning Herald Published: 09.12.17

  • 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
  • Almanac: Ralph Ellison on power
    “Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.” Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man Continue reading Almanac: Ralph Ellison on power at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-20
  • Lookback: “Call me Bartleby”
    From 2006: I woke up this morning at nine-thirty, an hour later than my normal get-up-and-go time. As I descended from the loft in which I spend my nights, it struck me that I had nothing whatsoever to do today: no deadlines, no shows to see, no meals with friends,... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-19
  • Almanac: Thomas Fuller on memory
    “We have all forgot more than we remember.” Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia Continue reading Almanac: Thomas Fuller on memory at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-19
  • Just because: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays Ravel
    Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays the slow movement of Ravel’s G Major Piano Concerto, accompanied by Sergiu Celidibache and the London Symphony:  (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 Just because: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-18
  • Almanac: Jean Anouilh on beauty
    “Things are beautiful if you love them.” Jean Anouilh, Mademoiselle Colombe (trans. Louis Kronenberger) Continue reading Almanac: Jean Anouilh on beauty at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-18
  • Trey Devey share his passion for Arts Education
    “If we are empowered with creativity, with collaboration, with all of the skills that come from practicing the arts… that will lead to the breakthrough ideas.” Trey Devey, President of the Interlochen Center for the Arts, speaks to the power of arts education.... Read more
    Source: Aaron Dworkin Published on: 2021-01-16
  • The pandemic process
    A new episode of Three on the Aisle, the podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listening or downloading. Here’s American Theatre’s “official” summary of the proceedings:  This month, as the scale of the economic devastation facing arts professionals continues to... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-15
  • Classics for free
    In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, I review two theatrical webcasts drawn from important New York productions of the past by the Hunter Theater Project and Shakespeare in the Park. Here’s an excerpt. *  *  * Sometimes you have to dig to find the best theatrical webcasts, while others are hiding... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-15
  • Replay: Laurence Olivier in Uncle Vanya
    A scene from the 1963 film of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” directed by Laurence Olivier and starring Olivier, Rosemary Harris, and Michael Redgrave: (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: Laurence Olivier in... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-15
  • Matthew Loden discusses the mission of orchestras
    “There’s a fundamental mission drive and, in many instances, I think a moral imperative to actually do what we’re doing for as many people as possible and to do it intelligently and in a way that is actually going to bring some kind of either musical relief or solace.” Matthew... Read more
    Source: Aaron Dworkin Published on: 2021-01-14
  • Let’s Talk About Literary Exposure
    Some would call it visibility. If you’re talking books, how about millions upon millions of Youtube views for a reading from Supervert’s "Necrophilia Variations.' A dozen years ago when that video had two million views, I called it “viral reading.” Three years later, on Dec. 30, 2015, the video had... Read more
    Source: Straight|Up Published on: 2021-01-14
  • Connect
    The viability of our industry depends upon developing relationships–making connections–with many new communities. The bases for success are respect and humility.... Read more
    Source: Engaging Matters Published on: 2021-01-12
  • Jim Haynes, RIP
    Brad Spurgeon memorializes him: "End of an Era, but not of a Philosophy of Life." I never met Jim. But he was extraordinarily welcoming when we corresponded by email about the strange case of Orwell's typewriter.... Read more
    Source: Straight|Up Published on: 2021-01-12
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