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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Ethel Stein, Who Made Contemporary Art From Damask Weaving, Dead At 100 by Artsjournal1

"Working largely out of the artistic limelight at her home in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., Ms. Stein resurrected historical weaving techniques and merged them with 20th-century Bauhaus design sen…

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:01AM[SHARE]

A Museum Selling Off Art In Its Vaults To Fund Operations Isn't Just Ethically Bad - It Probably Wouldn't Even Work by Artsjournal1

Martin Gammon explains why the estimates some people use of the money that could be gained from deaccessioning are likely way, way off and couldn't raise enough money to do any good.

SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 10:03AM[SHARE]

Singer Lorna Luft Diagnosed With Brain Tumor by Artsjournal1

The 65-year-old member of show-business royalty - she's the daughter of Judy Garland and the half-sister of Liza Minnelli - was performing at a London jazz club when she started forgetting h…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:15AM[SHARE]

Buffalo Company LehrerDance Abruptly Fires Founder-Director And Ceases Operations by Artsjournal1

"Rumblings of the company's demise began when their website and Facebook page were taken down. ... [Then,] an email communiqué ... stated that the board of LehrerDance had terminated compan…

SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]

Vladimir Jurowski Will Step Down From London Philharmonic by Artsjournal1

Just days after the news arrived that the Russian conductor will become music director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich in 2021, the London Philharmonic revealed that Jurowski will step…

SOURCE: theviolinchannel.com at 08:46AM[SHARE]

Ken Dodd, British Comedy Legend, Dead At 90 by Artsjournal1

"[He was] a force of nature, a whirlwind, an ambulant torrent of surreal invention, physical and verbal, whose Liverpudlian cheek masked the melancholy of an authentic clown. 'This isn't tel…

SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 08:31AM[SHARE]

Director Darko Tresnjak To Leave Hartford Stage by Artsjournal1

The Tony-winning director (A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder) will step down as artistic director when his contract expires at the end of the 2018-19 season. He has also served as artis…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:17AM[SHARE]

Russian Law Finally Recognizes Contemporary Art As Art by Artsjournal1

"Previously, valuable works of art created fewer than 50 years ago were officially treated as 'luxury goods' and subject to 30% import dues. This changed on 29 January with the passing of a …

SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 08:02AM[SHARE]

Revered Russian Actor Oleg Tabakov Dead At 82 by Artsjournal1

"[He] started building his career in the 1950s Soviet Union, gradually becoming one of the best known and beloved actors of his generation. He received multiple awards for his film and stage…

SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 07:48AM[SHARE]

Friday, March 9, 2018

If We're In A Golden Age Of Drag, Then Drag Kings Want In by Artsjournal1

"Largely due to the commercial success of RuPaul's Logo-turned-VH1 reality competition show RuPaul's Drag Race, drag has become perhaps more mainstream and visible than ever. But ... drag ki…

SOURCE: jezebel.com at 03:03PM[SHARE]

Conductor Myung-Whun Chung Injured In Auto Accident by Artsjournal1

The former chief conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France and the Opéra-Bastille in Paris has been forced to withdraw from performances next week of La Bohème at La Fenice i…

SOURCE: english.yonhapnews.co.kr at 02:04PM[SHARE]

'It Tore The Cover Off A City': An Oral History Of 'The Wire', Ten Years On by Artsjournal1

Creator and showrunner David Simon sold The Wire to HBO as "the anti-cop show, a rebellion of sorts against all the horseshit police procedurals afflicting American television." Says actor A…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:01PM[SHARE]

Marina AbramoviÄ‡ Is Going To Play Maria Callas In An Opera by Artsjournal1

"Almost 30 years after she first conceived the idea, Marina AbramoviÄ‡ is to finally realise her Seven Deaths project. The Belgrade-born artist has turned the work into an opera, which sh…

SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 12:02PM[SHARE]

If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? Dumb Luck, Says New Computer Model by Artsjournal1

"[A team of researchers in Italy] created a computer model of human talent and the way people use it to exploit opportunities in life. The model allows the team to study the role of chance i…

SOURCE: www.technologyreview.com at 11:03AM[SHARE]

Obamas In Talks With Netflix For New Series by Artsjournal1

"Under terms of a proposed deal, which is not yet final, Netflix would pay Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, for exclusive content that would be available only on the streaming service, whic…

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:35AM[SHARE]

Is The Dance World Really Ready To Change The Culture Of Abuse So Many Companies Foster? by Artsjournal1

"Ideals are fantastic, but we have to be realistic. When there are hordes of young dancers waiting to take the place of anyone who complains or cracks under the pressure, will public shaming…

SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 10:04AM[SHARE]

DC's Woolly Mammoth Theatre Names Its Second-Ever Artistic Director by Artsjournal1

Succeeding company co-founder Howard Shalwitz is Maria Manuela Goyanes, 38, who is currently director of producing and artistic planning at the Public Theater in New York City. (Public artis…

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Musical About Serbian Dictator Behind Post-Yugoslav Wars Causes Furor In Kosovo (What Did They Expect?) by Artsjournal1

"Lift: Slobodan Show premiered at a packed theatre in GraÄanica, a Serb-populated town outside Kosovo's capital of Pristina. It was performed by a local theatre group and artists from Ser…

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Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Three Ballets About 'The Nature Of Woman', All Created By Men - This 'Epitomises Everything In Ballet That Needs To Change' by Artsjournal1

Luke Jennings: "The problem with Femmes - a new triple-bill from Les Grands Ballets Canadiens - "apart from the sheer, kitsch ghastliness of the concept, is that it epitomises the lack of ag…

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Did Someone Just Discover 'Hamlet' Notes In Shakespeare's Handwriting? by Artsjournal1

"Annotations in the margins of a 16th-century text that is believed to have been one of the sources for Hamlet could have been made by Shakespeare himself, according to an independent resear…

SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 09:18AM[SHARE]