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Tuesday, November 2




Visual Arts

China's New Accessibility The Metropolitan Museum's big fall Chinese show would not have been possible a few years ago. "Behind this prodigious exhibition is a story of curatorial obsession and adventure, as well as a glimpse at how China's internal bureaucracy has subtly opened up recently, at least vis-à-vis the art world. American specialists found their Chinese museum counterparts accessible in a way that would have been unheard of just a few years earlier." The New York Times 11/02/04
Posted: 11/02/2004 8:01 am

The Fall Sales (A Billion Dollars Of It) "More than half a billion dollars worth of paintings and sculptures, led by a Gauguin worth $40m (£22m), will go up for auction at Sotheby's and Christie's annual autumn sales tomorrow as owners seek to exploit the bullish art market." The Guardian (UK) 11/02/04
Posted: 11/01/2004 9:32 pm

Duveen - America's Art Connection In the early years of the 20th Century, art dealer Lord Duveen helped America's wealthiest become important art collectors. Their collections form the basis of the country's great museums. But "the most important legacy of their collaboration has been its toxic effect on the intellectual culture of art: it accelerated a divorce of connoisseurship from criticism. Duveen subsumed fine discrimination to the legitimatization of wealth, a function that, augmented by modern forensic technologies, it continues to perform." The New Yorker 11/01/04
Posted: 11/01/2004 6:30 pm

A New Virtual Tourism? "A European Union-funded project is looking at providing tourists with computer-augmented versions of archaeological attractions. It would allow visitors a glimpse of life as it was originally lived in places such as Pompeii. It could pave the way for a new form of cultural tourism." BBC 11/01/04
Posted: 11/01/2004 5:04 pm

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Music

Chart: Ringers Top CDs Musical ringtones are outselling CDs, according to the new Billboard charts. "The inaugural top ringy-dingy choice goes to ... drumroll ... "My Boo" by Usher and Alicia Keys. It inspired 97,000 purchases last week. By contrast, the No. 1 legal song download of the week - U2's "Vertigo" - drew 25,000 buyers." New York Daily News 11/02/04
Posted: 11/02/2004 7:54 am

How Do You make New From Old? There are no new sounds in music - just musicians using familiar notes in new ways. But. "It is rare that governments and the industry at large are ahead of the curve when it comes to cultural trends, and recent legal rulings have made the creation of new music from appropriated sources problematic. It is a sensitive issue because while intellectual property needs to be protected, new intellectual properties can only be born in a nurturing environment and appropriation has become such an important element in a substantial body of new work." NewMusicBox 11/04
Posted: 11/01/2004 5:26 pm

Cleveland Orchestra Continues Contract Talks The Cleveland Orchestra and its musicians agree to continue negotiating on a new contract after the old one expired Sunday. Musicians say this is a contract about maintaining the orchestra's elite status. "If you fall below a certain level, you are going to fall out of the top tier of orchestras. I am concerned that Cleveland will no longer be a destination orchestra, but an orchestra musicians want to get to and then go to another orchestra." The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) 11/01/04
Posted: 11/01/2004 4:52 pm

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Arts Issues

Pop Goes The Ballet Recently, some of the UK's most prestigious arts organizations have taken a walk on the pop side. The Royal Ballet is working on a piece set to music by Jimi Hendrix. But is such pop-lust a good thing for traditional art forms? A debate. The Guardian (UK) 11/02/04
Posted: 11/01/2004 9:41 pm

A Decade Of Culture How have the arts changed in the past ten years? The Telegraph celebrates ten years on the web by looking at the past decade in the arts... The Telegraph (UK) 11/02/04
Posted: 11/01/2004 9:25 pm

Overnight At The NYT For the first time in years, overnight reviews are back at the New York Times. "Not all NY Times reviews will be overnights, according to classical music editor James R. Oestreich, only those deemed practical and/or appropriate because of an event's importance. He told a conference of music critics at Columbia University several weeks ago that the move is part of the paper's effort to give its arts coverage more zing." Straight Up (AJBlogs) 11/01/04
Posted: 11/01/2004 9:04 pm

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People

Dutch Filmmaker Killed "Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh, who made a controversial film about Islamic culture, has been stabbed and shot dead in Amsterdam. Van Gogh, 47, had received death threats after his film Submission, on violence against women in Islamic societies, was shown on Dutch TV. Eyewitnesses quoted by Radio Netherlands said Van Gogh was attacked while cycling by a man dressed in a traditional Moroccan jallaba." BBC 11/02/404
Posted: 11/02/2004 6:31 am

The Greatest Career In Opera History Now that Luciano Pavarotti often shares a stage with the likes of Celine Dion, it’s easy to forget that he and Herbert Breslin truly did create perhaps the greatest career in opera history. When Breslin first met the Modena baker’s son in the late sixties, Pavarotti was singing in minor European theaters, a young (and even then overweight) tenor with a beautiful voice, a broad smile, and an innate charisma. What he lacked was an agent to marshal those gifts into a marketable package. Breslin was an interloper in the classical-music world, a product of corporate America." New York Magazine 11/01/04
Posted: 11/01/2004 6:15 pm

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Theatre

Canada's Anti-Bush Theatre "The ingredient fuelling all of these works is a burning hatred for George W. Bush and his government, particularly as manifested by the war in Iraq. While this kind of agit-prop has been around since the ancient Greeks, it usually doesn't hit the stage this quickly after the events that inspired it." Toronto Star 11/01/04
Posted: 11/01/2004 4:03 pm

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Publishing

Book-Buying For Idealogues There have been lots of political books in this election season. Do their sales foretell any political direction? "Informal polls taken by our store managers indicate that some 70 percent of our customers say they have no intention of reading these books; 15 percent say they will; and 15 percent are undecided. One Kansas City customer said, 'I'm buying this book to show people where I stand.' Another in New York said, 'I'm buying this book because the author agrees with me'." The New York Times 11/02/04
Posted: 11/02/2004 6:59 am

Renewing Toronto Bookfest Toronto's 25th International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront ends the weekend with increased attendance under a new director... Toronto Star 11/01/04
Posted: 11/01/2004 4:23 pm

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Media

How Much Radio Raunch When Limits Are Off? As shock jocks get squeezed off the broadcast airwaves, satellite radio is becoming a home to some high-profile raunch-meisters such as Howard Stern and Oppie and Anthony. But how raunchy do you get when the limits are off? Make it too gross and listeners might stay away... Chicago Sun-Times 11/02/04
Posted: 11/02/2004 7:25 am

UK To BBC: Concentrate On Basic Services As the BBC's charter comes up for review, the government tells the broadcaster that it should refocus on its core activities. "Some of the diversity of the functions the BBC has developed over the last 10 years should now come under very close scrutiny." BBC 11/02/04
Posted: 11/02/2004 6:37 am

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Dance

ABT's Short Sensation Short male dancers don't have an easy time in ballet. Indeed, they're generally shut out of leading roles. But Joan Acocella is comfortable declaring that 5'6" ABT dancer Herman Cornejo is "the most technically accomplished male ballet dancer in the United States." The New Yorker 11/01/04
Posted: 11/01/2004 6:42 pm

Has Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Figured Out A Working Model? The 10-year-old Aspen Santa Fe Ballet is on a roll. "As co-directors of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Jean-Phillipe Malaty and former Joffrey star Tom Mossbrucker have guided the 10-member company into a sound financial situation that permits touring, commissioning new works, affording the royalties of modern-dance classics and supporting a summer dance festival." Rocky Mountain News 11/01/04
Posted: 11/01/2004 4:41 pm


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