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Wednesday, September 18, 2019

First Arrest Made In Major Old Masters Forgery Ring Case by Artsjournal1

"There has at last been an arrest in a high-profile string of suspected Old Master forgeries uncovered in 2016. An Italian painter, Lino Frongia, 61, was taken into custody in northern Italy…

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Merriam-Webster Dictionary Admits 'They' As Nonbinary Singular Pronoun by Artsjournal1

"We will note that 'they' has been in consistent use as a singular pronoun since the late 1300s; that the development of singular 'they' mirrors the development of the singular 'you' from th…

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Propwatch: the bell in 'Amsterdam' by Artsjournal1

It's kind of calling-for-immediate-attention bell that invites a sharp smack with palm or finger, and drives Basil Fawlty to the very verge of derangement. Ping! It's a comedy device " an in…

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The Chasm of Disbelief by Artsjournal1

Think you (or your organization) don't understand the people you are trying to reach? If you are talking about people other than your current attendees/donors and their peers, you are 100% c…

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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Despite Death Threats And Rocket Attacks, She Runs A Feminist Radio Station In Afghanistan by Artsjournal1

Sediqa Sherzai founded Radio Roshani in Kunduz in 2008. The Taliban fired rockets at the station the next year. In 2015 they stole the station's equipment and planted mines in the building. …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]

The Entire 'Creative Industries' Construct Is Hurting Artists, Not Helping Them by Artsjournal1

"The accompanying political narrative was that the creative industries would champion the social utility of arts and culture as progressive realms to engage fractured communities, realise pr…

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Diversity, Gender Equity, Innovation " Here's A Ballet Company That's Living Up To The Ideals by Artsjournal1

"With just 10 dancers, [Ballet X is] a model of what is possible for small contemporary ballet troupes " and it embodies many of the ideals that larger companies are striving for today. It c…

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Street Theatre With Giant Moles by Artsjournal1

"These tufty mammals are the stars of Philippe Quesne's The Moles, which ran at N.Y.U. Skirball over the weekend and kicked off with a Friday afternoon parade through the West Village. A roc…

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Architects Explain How Those Super-Tall, Super-Skinny New York Apartment Towers Stand Up In The Wind by Artsjournal1

"As the wind goes around the building, it accelerates, and it creates vortices that alternate, causing the building to move from side to side. Sometimes we can use that phenomenon, cutting o…

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MIT Invents A Black Even Blacker Than Vantablack by Artsjournal1

Three years ago, the invention of Vantablack, a carbon nanotube coating that absorbs up to 99.965% of all light, made headlines, especially when artist Anish Kapoor acquired exclusive rights…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]

Harlem Nonprofit Providing Art Education In Public Schools Expands To Two More Cities by Artsjournal1

"As the 2019 school year gets underway, ProjectArt, an initiative founded by Ardash Alphons in Harlem in 2011, is expanding to New Orleans and San Francisco, bringing arts access to two citi…

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin Signs Lifetime Contract With His Montreal Orchestra by Artsjournal1

The Orchestre Métropolitain, where native Montrealer YNS held his first music director position (beginning in 2000) and which he brought to international attention, has appointed him Artist…

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L.A. Philharmonic CEO Simon Woods Resigns, Effective Immediately by Artsjournal1

"After a great deal of reflection," said Woods in a statement, "I have concluded that my hopes and aspirations lie elsewhere, and as a result, I have tendered my resignation." He served in t…

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Kentridge, Hatoum, Mutter, Bando, And Williams & Tsien Win Praemium Imperiale by Artsjournal1

The 2019 laureates for the Â¥15 million ($141,000) award, created by the Japan Art Association as a sort of Nobel Prize for the arts, are William Kentridge (painting) Mona Hatoum (sculptur…

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Is Gary Larson About To Revive 'The Far Side'? by Artsjournal1

"Fans of the surreal, the bizarre and sardonic anthropomorphic cows are in a fervour after The Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson's website was updated this weekend with promises of 'a new onli…

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Nature Calls: Blenheim Palace Gives Thieves a Golden Opportunity to Steal Cattelan's Toilet by Artsjournal1

Q: How do you invite thieves to steal a famous, expensive, publicly exhibited artwork? A: Publicly announce that no guards are protecting it. " Lee Rosenbaum

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Recent Listening: Dave Douglas & Friends + Mary Lou Williams by Artsjournal1

Dave Douglas is a trumpeter whose adherence to basic jazz values fully justifies the title of the new album he shares with pianist Uri Caine and drummer Andrew Cyrille in their unusual trio.…

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Sunday, September 15, 2019

Engaging Partners on Art Education for Students with Visual Impairment by Artsjournal1

Kate McLeod, Head of School and Teacher Services at Atlanta's High Museum of Art: "One of the High's overarching goals in the past few years is to grow and expand inclusive programming for a…

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Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met by Artsjournal1

"Nourished by Kenyan culture, the transnational artist is filling the niches on the Fifth Avenue facade, for the first time in the Met's history. It's a step on the museum's rocky road towar…

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Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins: 'The secret to writing? Read everything " even if you hate it' by Artsjournal1

"Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins speaks to Tom Wicker about mourning Toni Morrison, his love for London and how his play Appropriate " being staged at the Donmar " has become …

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A brief but spectacular take on giving incarcerated youth a voice by Artsjournal1

"Photographer Richard Ross has documented the U.S. juvenile justice system for the better part of a decade. In tonight's 'Brief But Spectacular', Ross shares what it feels like to honor the …

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With newly expanded campus, Kennedy Center aims to make art an experience for all by Artsjournal1

"[The Kennedy Center has] long struggled with a sense of isolation, a geographic and elite island apart from the surrounding city. To counter that, the center began its popular and free Mill…

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Who's Fighting For Gender Equity In Classical Music? by Artsjournal1

"Making classical music a more equitable place demands a cultural change " and cultural changes don't happen without conversation and action. Just in the past five or so years, there has bee…

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Friday, September 13, 2019

Behind The Feud Between DC's Mayor And Its Arts Commission by Artsjournal1

"The latest episode is tied to the fight for control of the commission, which will shift from the mayor's office to an independent agency Oct. 1," pursuant to legislation by the city council…

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Facing "Severe Cash Flow Issues", Nevada Public Radio Lays Off All Staffers In Reno by Artsjournal1

The Las Vegas-based network, which operates a classical station in the city and a news station which is re-transmitted throughout the state, expanded into Reno (a market that already had two…

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Mardik Martin, Screenwriter For Martin Scorsese, Dead At 82 by Artsjournal1

An Armenian born in Iran and raised in Iraq, Martin came to New York to study and met Scorsese in the early 1960s. He worked on the director's first feature (Who's That Knocking at My Door?)…

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Dvořák Was Sure 'Negro Melodies' Would Be The Foundation Of American Classical Music. Why Did It Remain So White? by Artsjournal1

There was a point at which a number of African-American composers were writing serious, important work, writes Joseph Horowitz. "Racial prejudice, personal and institutional, obviously inhib…

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Why Are Books Rectangular? This Is Why by Artsjournal1

"It turns out that there are a lot of forces converging to make this shape ideal, and to get the whole picture, we'll have to look from three angles: the anatomy of a reader, the history of …

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After 40 Years, 'For Colored Girls' Returns, As A Celebration And As A Weapon, To The Theatre Where It Was Born by Artsjournal1

Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf "has been part of the canon since it became a Broadway hit in 1976. Still, [the play] doesn't get a lo…

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'Unmanly Grief' " Performing A Trans Hamlet by Artsjournal1

"Jenet Le Lacheur " a transfeminine Brit who earned recognition, before coming out, in the West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child " has … [recently starred] as Hamlet in …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]

Lyric Opera Of Chicago Names Music Director To Succeed Retiring Andrew Davis by Artsjournal1

Davis, now 77, will have been music director and principal conductor at Lyric for 21 years when he retires at the end of next season (2020-21) Succeeding him will be Italian conductor Enriqu…

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