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Thursday, September 14




Ideas

A Quarter-Century Of Geniuses Next week, the MacArthur "Genius" Grants for 2006 will be revealed, and those of us not lucky enough to have been handed $500,000 out of the blue will wonder at the good fortune of those who have. But beyond the shock of the award and the immediate cash benefit, "how might the credential be cashed long after the checks from Chicago stop arriving? What [is] it like to deal with high expectations? Is it true what they say about 'genius' envy?" An in-depth review of the winners over the last twenty-odd years reveals much... Chicago Tribune 09/14/06
Posted: 09/14/2006 6:23 am

Designing Around A Population Crunch What is the architectural future of the 21st century city? A new show in Venice attempts to get a grip on a diverse and wide-ranging collection of design ideas, "painting a picture of emerging megacities in which poverty is as stunning a feature as density or scale." The New York Times 09/14/06
Posted: 09/14/2006 6:12 am

So, People Who Like Musicals Aren't High? What does your taste in music say about your taste in illegal drugs? Quite a lot, if you believe the researchers behind a new study at the UK's University of Leicester. "Researchers were trying to find out what people's taste in music revealed about their lifestyles. They discovered that fans of every style of music had taken drugs, with those who preferred DJ-based club music topping the list." Other findings include that more than 25% of classical buffs smoke pot, that blues fans are the most likely to have a driving violation, and that fans of Broadway musicals are the least likely to have tried drugs. BBC 09/14/06
Posted: 09/14/2006 5:59 am

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Visual Arts

Cleveland Acquires Famous Marsh Painting "The Cleveland Museum of Art recently acquired a widely reproduced masterpiece by Reginald Marsh, a superlative chronicler of Depression-era life in America. The painting, 'A Paramount Picture,' from 1934, depicts a rumpled, working-class woman standing near a well-to-do couple outside a movie theater showing Cecil B. DeMille's 'Cleopatra.'" The museum has not revealed what it paid for the painting. The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) 09/14/06
Posted: 09/14/2006 6:39 am

Munch Masterpieces To Go Back Before Public "Two recovered Edvard Munch paintings will go on display in Oslo before they are repaired, say museum officials. Masterpieces The Scream and Madonna were stolen by two armed men in a daring daylight raid in 2004. Police recovered the paintings in August, and Norway's Munch Museum said both works had suffered slight damage. They will be put on display briefly over the next few weeks." BBC 09/14/06
Posted: 09/14/2006 6:04 am

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Music

Robertson Gets Extension In St. Louis The St. Louis Symphony has extended the contract of popular music director David Robertson through 2010. The orchestra has enjoyed a resurgence since Robertson took over in 2005, and the new contract continues the trend of American orchestras locking up their maestros long-term, once it becomes clear that the fit is a good one. St. Louis Post-Dispatch 09/14/06
Posted: 09/14/2006 5:41 am

UK To Allow Instruments Back On Board In response to public outcry (and what it says is a diminished threat level,) the UK's Department of Transport says it expects to relax restrictions on airline carry-on bags by next week. "The changes are likely to mean bulky items, including musical instruments, will be allowed as carry-on baggage." Some restrictions, including bans on liquids and gels, are likely to remain in place for the time being. The Guardian (UK) 09/14/06
Posted: 09/14/2006 5:35 am

Conducting Comp Has Its First Female Winner The Sir Georg Solti International Conductors' Competition is only four years old, but it has already become one of the top conducting awards in the world. This year, it's also making a bit of history, handing out its top prize to a woman for the first time: 31-year-old Shi-Yeon Sung of South Korea "receives a €15,000 prize and a concert date with the Frankfurt Museum Orchestra and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony." PlaybillArts 09/14/06
Posted: 09/14/2006 4:53 am

Lebrecht: Why Shouldn't Musicians Have To Fly Like The Rest Of Us? Norman Lebrecht is unconvinced by British musicians' protests over new airline carry-on restrictions. "If an exception were made for concert soloists, executives would demand to carry their laptops, nursing mothers their baby kits and would-be jihadis their special-mix drinks. It is not even in the musicians’ own interest to set them apart as a special case for that would separate them from the rest of the human race at a time when their greatest need, in classics and jazz, is to be seen as integral and essential to the emotions and rhythms of the modern world." La Scena Musicale 09/13/06
Posted: 09/13/2006 4:58 pm

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Arts Issues

Richmond Mayor Wants Stake In Performing Arts Center Richmond(Virginia) mayor Douglas Wilder says he isn't prepared to give $25 million towards renovation of the city's performing arts center unless the city gets some ownership stake in the project. Richmond Times-Dispatch 09/13/06
Posted: 09/13/2006 2:57 pm

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People

Boston Ballet Dancer Shot "One of Boston Ballet's newest talents, who had moved to the city only a month ago, was shot in the stomach over the weekend, struck by an apparently stray bullet in a spray of gunfire in the city's Theater District." Boston Globe 09/12/06
Posted: 09/13/2006 5:48 pm

Brit Artist Arrested For "Insulting" Turkish Prime Minister "A British artist is facing up to three years in prison after he was arrested yesterday and charged with insulting the Turkish prime minister's dignity outside an Istanbul courthouse where he was protesting against another freedom of speech trial." The Guardian (UK) 09/13/06
Posted: 09/13/2006 5:23 pm

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Theatre

Scottish National Refuses Invitation To London National "The National Theatre of Scotland, which took Edinburgh by storm this summer, has refused an invitation to tour its phenomenally successful play Black Watch to the National Theatre in London." The Guardian (UK) 09/13/06
Posted: 09/13/2006 5:25 pm

It's Art And It's Live Live art is big in London. "From one-off, large-scale outdoor events, to intimate one-to-one performances in someone's living-room, live art is popping up everywhere, and tapping into audiences' hunger for unique experiences." The Guardian (UK) 09/13/06
Posted: 09/13/2006 5:18 pm

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Publishing

Write On - Readers In The Margins "To many people, of course, the idea of marking up a book seems distasteful – a violation of the text, a sign of disrespect for the author’s authority." But the markings of readers can also give the overlay of understanding by readers who have gone before. InsideHigherEd 09/13/06
Posted: 09/13/2006 6:07 pm

The Book Behind The Nazi Revelation Gunther Grass caused a storm last month when he revealed he'd been a Nazi. "Somewhat lost in the scandal is the fact that Grass has written a memoir of rare literary beauty. Beginning with his childhood in Danzig and ending with the publication, in 1959, of his first and most famous novel, 'The Tin Drum,' the book is not just an autobiography but also a meditation on memory—on the tricks it plays and the way it feeds the imagination of a born storyteller." The New Yorker 09/11/06
Posted: 09/13/2006 4:40 pm

Quality Sells - The New Yorker's A Hit Under editor David Remnick, The New Yorker has become a financial success as well as a critical one. The magazine "has the highest subscription renewal rate of any magazine in the country. It has a circulation of over 1 million, and although it is privately owned and such figures are not publicly available, it is thought to be turning a profit of around $10 million." The Guardian (UK) 09/11/06
Posted: 09/13/2006 4:35 pm

Librarians As Defenders Of Free Speech "With the federal government ever more intent on spying on its own citizens, and on classifying, concealing and manipulating larger swaths of information and intelligence, librarians and library custodians are on the front lines protecting freedom of inquiry and our right to privacy." The Nation 09/13/06
Posted: 09/13/2006 4:21 pm

$100,000 For Unpublished Authors "The Sobol Award offers the enormous prize for the best unreleased novel by an unrepresented author, with prizes of $25,000 and $10,000 for the runners-up and $1,000 each to seven others. The award — available only to authors in the United States — is the creation of Sobol Literary Enterprises, a for-profit venture started by technology entrepreneur Gur Shomron as a venue to discover talented, unknown fiction writers and help them get the recognition they deserve." CBC 09/13/06
Posted: 09/13/2006 3:03 pm

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Media

Hype Does Not Equal Quality This year's Toronto International Film Festival stirred controversy even before it began over the overtly political (some would say savage) nature of some of its featured entries. But Manohla Dargis says that to focus on the loudmouths is to miss the more important (and more subtle) politics of TIFF's best films. The New York Times 09/14/06
Posted: 09/14/2006 6:15 am

NBC To Stream PrimeTime Shows Free The network becomes the latest to offer its shows online. "The episodes will run on the network's video player, called NBC 24/7, the network said Wednesday. The episodes will be accompanied by blogs from the shows producers, writers or stars." Yahoo! (AP) 09/13/06
Posted: 09/13/2006 5:38 pm

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Dance

Cuban Dance Master Conquers A New Island "If you asked a New York ballet dancer to name the teacher of the moment, Azari Plisetski would probably not spring to mind. But Mikhail Baryshnikov would like to change that. A major admirer of Mr. Plisetski, 69, who is widely credited with rejuvenating Cuban ballet in the 1960’s and bringing Cuban male dancers to the fore internationally, Mr. Baryshnikov invited Mr. Plisetski to teach professional classes this week at his [Manhattan] studios." The New York Times 09/14/06
Posted: 09/14/2006 6:13 am

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