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Tuesday, November 16




Ideas

Something Borrowed (Now I'm Blue) "Words belong to the person who wrote them. There are few simpler ethical notions than this one, particularly as society directs more and more energy and resources toward the creation of intellectual property. In the past thirty years, copyright laws have been strengthened. Courts have become more willing to grant intellectual-propert protections. Fighting piracy has becom an obsession with Hollywood and the recording industry, and, in the worlds of academia and publishing, plagiarism has gone from being bad literary manners to something much closer to a crime." The New Yorker 11/15/04
Posted: 11/16/2004 6:24 am

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Visual Arts

MoMA Party: A Great Collection Of Artists "Those attending the first of the society soirées, on Tuesday, will be rubbing shoulders with probably the largest assortment of famous and almost-famous living artists ever to sip cocktails under one roof." The Independent (UK) 11/15/04
Posted: 11/16/2004 6:59 am

Atlantis Discovered? An American archaeologist says he's found the long lost city of Atlantis. "Robert Sarmast said sonar scanning of the seabed between east Cyprus and Syria revealed man-made walls, one as long as 3 kilometers (2 miles), and trenches at a depth of 1,500 meters (1,640 yards). 'It is a miracle we found these walls as their location, and lengths match exactly the description of the acropolis of Atlantis provided by Plato in his writings'." CNN.com 11/15/04
Posted: 11/16/2004 6:02 am

Smithsonian Museums Get $25 Million Boost Washington DC's historic Old Patent Office building gets a $25 million gift to help transform it into a new museum complex. "The Kogod money will enable the museum to proceed with a dramatic glass enclosure over the courtyard of the building, which will reopen in 2006 as the restored home of both the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery." Washington Post 11/16/04
Posted: 11/16/2004 4:20 am

MoMA's Hard-To-Please Architect Likes What He Sees MoMA's sparkling new Manhattan home is getting mainly rave reviews from press and public. But what does Yoshio Taniguchi, the architect who designed the $855 million building, think about how his vision has taken shape? "I think I'm quite satisfied," he said. The New York Times 11/16/04
Posted: 11/15/2004 9:01 pm

Putting Art On Layaway England's Arts Council is proposing a new program of interest-free loans to encourage aspiring art collectors to invest in works which they might otherwise consider beyond their price range. "The scheme, called Own Art, works through a network of 250 participating galleries, all of which have been vetted for quality, so punters cannot spend the loan on doing up the kitchen or going on a cruise. All that buyers have to do is possess a bank account which can handle direct debit, have proof of identity and address, and be over 18. The loan - between £100 and £2,000 - is paid back in 10 monthly instalments." The Guardian (UK) 11/16/04
Posted: 11/15/2004 8:19 pm

British, V&A Museums Robbed Within A Single Month "Within less than a month thieves have stolen Chinese antiquities from two London museums. The Victoria & Albert Museum and the British Museum both suffered apparently professional thefts of small portable decorative objects from cabinets on public display. It is likely that both thefts took place during museum opening hours." The Art Newspaper 11/15/04
Posted: 11/15/2004 8:10 pm

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Music

Music To The Max Composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is 70 this year and being feted in a style befitting a man who has transformed the Scottish music world. "When he announced a few years ago that he had written his final symphony, and that his focus would now be centred on the intimate world of chamber music and a cycle of ten string quartets, many wondered if this was a euphemism for early retirement. In fact, as the quartets roll off the Maxwell Davies production line with remarkable ease and efficiency, a phenomenal rejuvenation process is taking place." The Scotsman 11/15/04
Posted: 11/16/2004 4:10 am

Election Notwithstanding, Runnicles Will Stay Scottish conductor Donald Runnicles, who had speculated that he might choose to leave the U.S. if President Bush were reelected, has apparently decided to remain stateside after all, agreeing to a 3-year extension of his contract as music director of the San Francisco Opera. The new contract will keep Runnicles in San Francisco through the 2008-09 season, which will end several months after President Bush leaves office. San Francisco Chronicle 11/15/04
Posted: 11/15/2004 7:37 pm

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Arts Issues

The End Of Copyright As We Know It? This week the US Congress could vote on a major copyright bill that would radically redefine the legal use of creative work. "The Senate might vote on HR2391, the Intellectual Property Protection Act, a comprehensive bill that opponents charge could make many users of peer-to-peer networks, digital-music players and other products criminally liable for copyright infringement. The bill would also undo centuries of "fair use" -- the principle that gives Americans the right to use small samples of the works of others without having to ask permission or pay." Wired 11/16/04
Posted: 11/16/2004 4:29 am

43 Cuban Actors Defect In Las Vegas "Members of a theatrical production staged the largest mass defection of Cuban performers to date yesterday as 43 cast members of Havana Night Club applied for political asylum at a US federal court in Las Vegas... The performers said they had decided to stay in the US after the authorities told them they could be jailed or barred from performing in Cuba." The Guardian (UK) 11/16/04
Posted: 11/15/2004 8:23 pm

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People

Kang on the Rebound Emil Kang, the young arts executive who abruptly resigned from the top leadership post of the Detroit Symphony last December, has surfaced at the University of North Carolina, as the school's new executive director for arts. Kang's duties will include managing UNC's largest arts venues and "promoting the arts through the development of the Arts Common, UNC's decades-long project to create a central space for the arts on North Campus. The Daily Tar Heel 11/15/04
Posted: 11/15/2004 7:43 pm

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Theatre

The Non-Profit On Broadway A bevy of Broadway bigwigs of the non-profit persuasion gathers to discuss the role of non-profits in a city dominated by commercial Broadway. For one thing, "since Broadway rarely produces new writers these days, the task falls to the nonprofits to provide an outlet for new voices." Back Stage 11/15/04
Posted: 11/16/2004 6:06 am

UK Children's Theater On The Ropes London's Unicorn Theatre, which is constructing a £12.6 million new home on the banks of the Thames, is running out of available cash for the project, and needs to raise £1.6 million immediately if the building is to be completed in time for next year's planned opening. The Independent (UK) 11/15/04
Posted: 11/15/2004 8:44 pm

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Publishing

Is Gutenberg Not The Father Of Printing? Is Gutenberg wrongly attributed with having produced the first book in moveable type? A printing expert says that "the 15th-century German printer used stamps rather than the movable type he is said to have invented between 1452 and 1455." Discovery 11/15/04
Posted: 11/16/2004 6:12 am

Dublin Longlist Packed With Big Names The long list of nominees for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award has been released, and some big names are on it. Former Booker prizewinners DBC Pierre, Margaret Atwood, Anita Brookner, J M Coetzee, Graham Swift and Peter Carey are nominated, as are Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown and Whitbread winner Mark Haddon. The Dublin prize comes with €100,000, making it the second largest literary award in the world. The Independent (UK) 11/16/04
Posted: 11/15/2004 8:29 pm

Alice Munro Wins Second Giller Prize "Created in 1994 by Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch in memory of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller, the 11-year-old prize honours novels or short story collections. Previous winners have included Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, Rohinton Mistry and M.G. Vassanji, who was a jury member this year." CBC 11/12/04
Posted: 11/15/2004 6:43 am

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Media

Rejecting "Reality"? There are signs that "reality" TV is losing its appeal with American audiences. "Inspired by the success of such blue-chip franchises as Survivor and American Idol, the networks have increasingly loaded up on unscripted knockoffs as cheap prime-time alternatives. With quantity comes failure. It becomes a combination of mediocre shows or shows that are so similar to other shows, they don't stick." Toronto Star (Reuters) 11/16/04
Posted: 11/16/2004 4:25 am

Threepeat - Coming To A Theatre, DVD and TV Near You "Noel," a Christmas movie starring Susan Sarandon, Penelope Cruz and Robin Williamshasn't attracts interest from mainstream distribution companies. So the film's distributor is staging a "trimultaneous" rollout, releasing the movie in a few dozen theatres around the US, making it available in the disposable EZ-D format for $4.99 on Amazon.com. On cable, it will air once, on TNT, during Thanksgiving weekend. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (AP) 11/16/04
Posted: 11/16/2004 3:59 am

Hollywood's Tyranny Of The Box Office Gross Movies used to spend weeks and months in theatres building audiences. No more. That all important opening weekend box office pretty much defines whether or not a movie is a hit. "Over the years, America's dream factory has sent thousands of different stories out into the world, but every weekend Hollywood itself endures exactly the same tale: One movie is crowned the box-office champ, another is tagged a big loser, and some of the city's biggest actors and producers, watching years of work end in crashing commercial disappointment, reach for the Maalox." The Globe & Mail (Canada) 11/16/04
Posted: 11/16/2004 3:45 am

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Dance

Ailey: Home In Kansas City For 20 years, the Alvin Ailey Company's second home has been Kansas City. “Mr. Ailey saw Kansas City as a great environment for his ideas of bringing dance back to the people. He loved the whole communal part of it, he loved those lecture-demonstrations all over the city and the master classes, and he went to them.” Kansas City Star 11/14/04
Posted: 11/16/2004 5:56 am

Balanchine In The Desert Former New York City Ballet dancer Ib Andersen now leads the nine-member Arizona Ballet. On recreating Balanchine's work: "I teach the steps and I teach what I think his intent was.  It’s what I think he intended, which is of course not [necessarily] what he intended.  And, like everyone else who stages Balanchine’s ballets, I put something of myself into it—because what else can you do?" Seeing Things (AJBlogs) 11/16/04
Posted: 11/16/2004 4:37 am

No, Virginia, There Is No Oakland Ballet The impact of a ballet company's closure can be difficult to measure, but when the holiday season rolls around, it isn't hard to quantify the loss. "Thousands of children who live in the East Bay from Livermore, Pleasanton, Concord, Fremont, Richmond and most of all, Oakland, have come to the Paramount Theater on Broadway for at least 30 years to get their first taste of a live ballet performance. [But] until there is an Oakland Ballet Company there can't be an Oakland Nutcracker... Sorry, Virginia, but the world is full of disappointments." Oakland Tribune 11/15/04
Posted: 11/15/2004 7:57 pm

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