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Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Russia And Syria Make Deal To Restore Ancient Palmyra, Damaged By ISIS by Artsjournal

Among the long-term goals of the agreement are the Hermitage and the National Museum of Oman working together to restore 20 Syrian antiquities, primarily from Palmyra; an international campa…

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Smaller Galleries Weigh The Cost/Benefits Of Participating In Art Fairs by Artsjournal

While it may be the right time for a newer or smaller gallery to try to get into the bigger fairs like FIAC, Frieze and Art Basel, the costs can be almost prohibitive. " The New York Times

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Letter From The Future: Stories In A Post-Print World by Artsjournal

It strikes me as strange to mourn a format, particularly when the new format has made storytelling more accessible and widespread than ever before. Virtual reality transcends literacy, langu…

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The New Ticket Scalpers Are Scary Complex " And They're Making Money by Artsjournal

The number of casual ticket resellers appears to be on the rise, Fashion said, and it's his business to know. "It's pretty chill if you think about it: You get to get a ticket for 20 bucks a…

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Monday, December 2, 2019

How Sesame Street Thrives After 50 Years by Artsjournal

"Sesame Street" was inclusive before anyone really knew what that meant, the first safe space. It is a friend to everyone, which has a lot to do with why it's the first TV show to receive Ke…

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The Outsized Role Instagram Is Playing In Dance by Artsjournal

Dancers who are already stars in their field, like American Ballet Theatre principal dancers Isabella Boylston and James Whiteside, have had their photos liked, commented on, and reposted by…

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What A Movie About Jordan Peterson Says About Today's Arts World by Artsjournal

The Rise of Jordan Peterson is not a propaganda film. It's a film about propaganda. It's about the way facts have become helpless in the face of distortive framing. Whereas we once entrusted…

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Finally " A Makeover Of The NY Philharmonic's Lincoln Center Home " Opening In 2024 by Artsjournal

The reconstruction of David Geffen Hall is finally about to happen " for real, this time. A new plan to transform the acoustically and aesthetically challenged auditorium into a more intimat…

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Some Schools Used Science To Change The Way They Taught Reading. So Why Hasn't It Caught On? by Artsjournal

Danville's method relies on new reading science. It has roots in an old way of teaching but is based on new cognitive neuroscience research that has revealed how brains process sounds and sy…

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Apostrophe Society Shuts Down, Blames "Ignorance And Laziness" by Artsjournal

Retired journalist John Richards, 96, started the Apostrophe Protection Society in 2001 to make sure the "much-abused" punctuation mark was being used correctly. "We, and our many supporters…

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The Online Image Business Is Being Gutted (Or Saved, Depending On Your Perspective) by Artsjournal

The stock photo business is highly competitive, with Getty and its rivals, such as Adobe and Shutterstock, steadily cutting prices to keep market share. Last month, for example, Getty announ…

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How Pink Martini Became A New Vision For An Orchestra Collective by Artsjournal

"After college, I actually wanted to be the mayor of Portland," Thomas Lauderdale recalls, "but working in the campaigns and political fundraising can be so dreary. And the music at those ra…

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How Art Basel Transformed Miami by Artsjournal

The Art Basel Miami Beach fair features 269 exhibiting galleries. Nearly two dozen satellite fairs have also sprouted around Miami. Add in pop-up shows, celebrity-studded product rollouts, a…

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What The NY Phil's New Home At Lincoln Center Will Look Like by Artsjournal

Justin Davidson: The current scheme, a joint Philharmonic"Lincoln Center project, is relatively modest. The auditorium stays where it is but gets gutted and rebuilt (again). In 2022, the orc…

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Boston Children's Theatre Abruptly Closes After Accusations About Artistic Director by Artsjournal

The collapse of the organization came quickly, just a few weeks after a group of former students accused longtime artistic director Burgess Clark of inappropriate behavior. The explosive all…

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Classical Music's Streaming Problem by Artsjournal

According to a new survey commissioned by Primephonic, 34% of the 1,000 Americans surveyed are interested in listening to classical music, but only 16% actually do so. Put another way, on…

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Composer Lei Liang Wins $100,000 2020 Grawemeyer Award For Piece Inspired By Climate Change by Artsjournal

Boston Modern Orchestra Project commissioned the winning piece, A Thousand Mountains, a Million Streams, which premiered in 2018 in Boston's Jordan Hall with Gil Rose conducting. The annual,…

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Wednesday, November 27, 2019

The Creative Class In The Bay Area: Meaningfully Employed And Living In A Shack by Artsjournal

Housing is such a problem, that it's difficult to think about actually being creative. How long can this last? A first-person account of trying to make it in Oakland. " Harper's

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Clive James, 80 " Invented a Genre Of Modern TV Criticism by Artsjournal

From the 1980s, beginning with the classic Unreliable Memoirs, he published a series of uproarious biographies that charted his journey from dusty Australia to windy Cambridge to grubby Flee…

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Can Music Be A-Cultural? by Artsjournal

"A lucid example of the Western music aesthetic versus an indigenous one would be to consider the concert hall experience and that of a powwow. In the concert hall, the quality of the sound …

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Study Refutes Longstanding Claim That Molière Didn't Write The Plays Attributed To Him by Artsjournal

"The late blooming of Molière's talent, his purported lack of education and culture, his busy agenda, and the lack of manuscripts are among the arguments that triggered a century-long debat…

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London's Dulwich Gallery Reopens After Brazen Attempt To Steal Rembrandts by Artsjournal

An intruder forced their way into an exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London on 13 November and removed two valuable Rembrandt artworks. Police intervened before the intruder w…

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Social Media Has Made Our Democracy More Toxic. But We Can Fix It by Artsjournal

"The problem may not be connectivity itself but rather the way social media turns so much communication into a public performance. We often think of communication as a two-way street. Intima…

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Alex Ross: An Iconic Recording Label Turns 50 by Artsjournal

ECM is one of the greatest labels in the history of recording. Manfred Eicher, who founded ECM and remains its sole proprietor, has forged a syncretic vision in which jazz and classical trad…

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Director Jonathan Miller, 85 by Artsjournal

"He first achieved fame as an actor in the anti-establishment revue "Beyond the Fringe," a hit in both London and New York. He went on to win acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic for his pr…

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How A Stolen Native American Artifact Ended Up For Sale In Paris by Artsjournal

There is a loophole, in which it's illegal to traffic certain cultural items within the United States, but exporting them is not prohibited. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatri…

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Study: Art Therapy Helps Fight Symptoms Of Dementia by Artsjournal

"After the six-week intervention, we found the rhythm of salivary cortisol across the day to be improved. We also found the intervention improved some aspects of well-being. We think if both…

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Why Museum Workers Across America Are Unionizing by Artsjournal

The New Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, and the Frye Art Museum in Seattle have all formed unions this year. And the tide doesn't seem to…

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Tuesday, November 26, 2019

This Year's Evening Standard Theatre Award Winners by Artsjournal

Andrew Scott was awarded for his role in Noel Coward's Present Laughter at the Old Vic, while Maggie Smith took the trophy for one-woman play A German Life at the Bridge. Lynn Nottage'…

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The One-Man Publisher Who's Found An Audience For Forgotten Classics by Artsjournal

Rick Schober has published roughly four books per year, relying on "a loyal following" that shares his passion for rediscovered literary fiction and nonfiction of an offbeat and experimental…

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How The Art World Morphed Into The Art Industry by Artsjournal

Consider that, in 1988, the Artnet Price Database tracked only 18 auction houses and about 8,300 artists. Over the next 24 years, those figures skyrocketed: By 2012, there were 632 auction h…

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