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Wednesday, July 12




Ideas

How Technology Is Changing The Arts How will technology change the arts? How isn't it? The ways we make, distribute and consume art are changing quickly, and we can hardly imagine what the next 15 years will bring... The Guardian (UK) 07/12/06
Posted: 07/11/2006 10:42 pm

Two Kinds Of Genius Researchers have found that "genius – whether in art or architecture or even business – is not the sole province of 17-year-old Picassos and 22-year-old Andreessens. Instead, it comes in two very different forms, embodied by two very different types of people. 'Conceptual innovators' make bold, dramatic leaps in their disciplines. They do their breakthrough work when they are young. They make the rest of us feel like also-rans. Then there’s a second character type, someone who’s just as significant but trudging by comparison - 'experimental innovators'.” Wired 07/06
Posted: 07/11/2006 6:30 pm

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Visual Arts

Abu Dhabi Guggenheim Motive? So Abu Dhabi is to get a Guggenheim Museum. "If there's one place that doesn't need an economically regenerating 'Guggenheim effect' it's surely oil-rich Abu Dhabi. Is this a genuine cultural initiative, or just a ploy to lure Middle East shoppers away from Dubai's designer boutiques? But what will they actually put in the new museum?" The Guardian (UK) 07/11/06
Posted: 07/11/2006 10:15 pm

Canada Chooses Venice Biennale Representative David Altmejd, 32, a Montrealer who works in New York and London, was chosen by a Canada Council jury in a nationwide competition. CBC 07/11/06
Posted: 07/11/2006 5:57 pm

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Music

COC Bumps Two Ringers The Canadian Opera Company is shuffling the cast for its upcoming production of Wagner's Ring Cycle. "Bass-baritone Peteris Eglitis, who held the key role of Wotan/the Wanderer with the COC during recent Ring-opera performances, has been taken off the bill, and soprano Frances Ginzer has been moved into second-cast position as Brunnhilde, the god's favourite daughter... Eglitis was seen by many as a question mark in the COC's Ring plans. His appearances in Siegfried and Die Walkure, which the company produced in 2004, showed an artist of great persuasive presence, but also 'a voice in serious decline,' as The New York Times' Bernard Holland put it." The Globe & Mail (Canada) 07/12/06
Posted: 07/12/2006 6:51 am

Oh, And They Need To Know How The Music Goes, Too What makes a great conductor? Musicianship plays a role, certainly, as does effective stick technique. But most musicians will tell you that they form their first (and often their last) impressions of a new conductor inside of a minute, so there's clearly something else in the mix. "The greatest conductors have an energy that extends beyond the podium to engage the farthest chorister and the last viola player," and the very best manage to be firmly in charge without ever betraying a shred of personal ego. Sydney Morning Herald 07/12/06
Posted: 07/12/2006 6:08 am

Finally, A Social Activity For Music Geeks! "It is called a listening party. It is a loosely directed but passionately devised gathering held purely for the love and discovery of music. New music. Old music. Loud music. Music played at volumes you can't even enjoy in your car without blowing out the sunroof and messing up your hair and drowning out all the urban sirens. But it is not solely about volume. It is about quality. It is about range. It is, perhaps more than anything else, about surprise." San Francisco Chronicle 07/12/06
Posted: 07/12/2006 6:03 am

The Secret Competition Imagine winning a piano competition you had no idea you'd entered. Now imagine that your victory comes with $300,000. The Gilmore Artist Award, presented every four years and won this year by Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter, might be the most labor-intensive competition in existence, but more for its organizers than the contestants. "Six jury members travel the world, listening to pianists identified by an international panel as exceptionally gifted and deserving of a higher profile. To get an idea of the pianists' range, the jury members attend orchestra concerts, recitals and chamber music performances, without ever telling the pianists they are being considered for the award." Ottawa Citizen 07/12/06
Posted: 07/12/2006 5:51 am

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Arts Issues

NAC Gets New Board Chair Canada's National Arts Centre has named prominent Ontario arts supporter Julia Foster as its new chair. Foster is credited with being a key presence in the turnaround of the Stratford Festival a decade ago, and has served on the boards of the Toronto International Film Festival and the Art Gallery of Ontario. CBC 07/12/06
Posted: 07/12/2006 6:02 am

Arts Slashed In Wake Of NJ Budget Impasse "In the late-night frenzy to craft a budget deal this week, lawmakers cut the budget of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts an additional 5 percent, to $19.1 million, while adding money to pet projects in Montclair, Camden and Newark... Organizations currently receiving state aid should expect cuts of more than 15 percent as less money will be shared by more groups." Newark Star-Ledger 07/12/06
Posted: 07/12/2006 5:34 am

Liverpool Rethinks Culture Year Robyn Archer's resignation as director of Liverpool's Capital of Culture programs has made organizers rethink. "We have to beware of the kneejerk reaction that [Archer's ideas] were too intelligent for this city. We need a variety that includes all sorts of weird and wonderful cultural adventures. There also has to be a lot that local people can engage with but it mustn't be a parochial, inward-looking event celebrating scouse culture. Why would the rest of Europe take notice of us if we are too insular?" The Guardian (UK) 07/12/06
Posted: 07/11/2006 6:44 pm

UNESCO Delists Four Four sites have been taken off UNESCO's endangered list. "UNESCO's World Heritage List, created in 1972, includes some 812 sites around the world, from the Giza pyramids in Egypt to the Great Wall of China to Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Alberta." CBC 07/11/06
Posted: 07/11/2006 5:55 pm

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People

Kimmel CEO Headed North of the Border The top executive at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is resigning to lead an arts festival in her native Toronto. Janice Price has led the Kimmel since 2002, the year the center opened. Philadelphia Business Journal 07/12/06
Posted: 07/12/2006 5:55 am

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Theatre

Behold Rembrandt, The Musical "The $1.25m (£679,000) show places the story of his life and times in 17th-century Holland against a backdrop of digital images of his masterpieces, projected on to 30ft (9 metre) screens. The resolution is so high that from the back of a 900-seat theatre the audience can see the veins in the hands of an old woman." The Guardian (UK) 07/12/06
Posted: 07/11/2006 6:41 pm

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Publishing

Surely Ann Coulter Wrote Something Worse Than That? The list of winners is out, and profesional writers the world over are crossing their fingers and hoping they're not on it. This is the Bulwer-Lyttoon Fiction Contest, where prizes are awarded for fantastically bad writing. This year's prize for worst sentence went to the following: "Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you've had your last burrito for a while, whose face said angels did exist, and whose eyes said she could make you dig your own grave and lick the shovel clean." The Globe & Mail (Canada) 07/12/06
Posted: 07/12/2006 6:47 am

Writing Worse Than Before? It's an oft-repeated charge that students' writing is worse than it used to be. But is that provably true? InsideHigherEd 07/11/06
Posted: 07/11/2006 6:21 pm

The Book Storage Problem Storing data for the future is getting more difficult, not less. To start, what form do you store books in? "We're talking of moving past gigabytes of information into terrabytes [a thousand gigabytes], into petabytes [a thousand terrabytes], and into exobytes [a thousand petabytes]. We need to install now an architecture into which you will be able to plug in whatever is the storage system of the day, in the future." The Guardian (UK) 07/11/06
Posted: 07/11/2006 6:12 pm

Bad Writing, Truly Jim Guigli has won this year's San Jose State University bad writing competition with this passage: "Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you've had your last burrito for a while, whose face said angels did exist, and whose eyes said she could make you dig your own grave and lick the shovel clean." Yahoo! (AP) 07/11/06
Posted: 07/11/2006 6:07 pm

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Media

Music vs. Profit, Round 872 (UK Edition) Independent UK record labels are seeking a change in Britain's copyright law that would hold internet service providers (ISPs) liable for illegal downloads by users. The industry also hopes to encourage the development of more legal downloading services. BBC 07/12/06
Posted: 07/12/2006 6:13 am

Hollywood's Better Summer A year ago Hollywood was anxious about a string of bad weeks at the box office. But "as of early July the picture has brightened for Hollywood with a slight surge in profits. The news comes as a big relief - just weeks ago the figures were not encouraging, according to film industry analysts." BBC 07/11/06
Posted: 07/11/2006 4:53 pm

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Dance

D.C.'s Grand Dame of Ballet Dies One of America's foremost dance educators and the founder of the Washington School of Ballet has died aged 96. "Mary Day identified and developed so much world-class talent at the ballet school that her former students dance in virtually every sizable company in the nation." Washington Post 07/12/06
Posted: 07/12/2006 5:38 am

Ballet Florida Moves To Compete Ballet Florida is stepping up its game, making new hires and expanding its activities in Palm Beach. "The changes come two years after the Miami City Ballet expanded its presence in Palm Beach County by adding more shows at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts and establishing a development arm there. That company's efforts have paid off with fundraising dollars increasing 45 percent in two years and attendance to Kravis Center performances growing to 25,529 at 25 performances during the season." South Florida Sun-Sentinel 07/10/06
Posted: 07/11/2006 9:22 am

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