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Monday, March 19, 2018

A Longtime Cirque Du Soleil Performer Fell And Died During A Performance In Florida by Artsjournal2

"While he was performing an aerial straps number, long-time aerialist Yann Arnaud fell onto the stage, a Cirque du Soleil representative said in a statement. He was taken to Tampa General Ho…

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Bomb Threat Cancels A Concert In Austin, At SXSW by Artsjournal2

Austin, which has been struck by a series of handmade bombs in the last few weeks, is on edge, so when the promotion company Live Nation said it had gotten an emailed bomb threat, the police…

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The Historical Information About Racism, Anti-Catholicism, And Much More Encoded In Old Folk Songs by Artsjournal2

Oh: "'Southern folk music's overwhelming dominance " for all its championing by non-Southern liberals " also subtly reinforces the 'heritage not hate' defenses of the Confederate flag and ot…

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Can Writers Who Wrote Beautifully While Drunk And Who Stop Drinking Still Write Well? by Artsjournal2

Ask David Foster Wallace - or Leslie Jamison: "I'd been afraid that meetings were basically lobotomies served alongside coffee-flavored water and Chips Ahoy!; afraid that even if sobriety co…

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Community Theatre Putting On Play 'With Holocaust Themes' Gets Hate Calls by Artsjournal2

Since the new play opened last weekend, the Footlights Theatre in Falmouth, Maine, has been getting hate calls. "I had one woman tell me, 'I don't want to see a play about those (expletive) …

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A New Opera Confronts The My Lai Massacre, And Its Long Shadow by Artsjournal2

It's been 50 years since the massacre, and since Hugh Thompson and his helicopter crew stopped it from being far worse. Now, as the opera plays around the country, traditional Vietnamese ins…

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Emily Nasrallah, 'Icon Of Literature And Lebanese Creativity,' Has Died At 86 by Artsjournal2

Nasrallah was a journalist, teacher, lecturer and novelist who advocated for women's rights and wrote about refugees and war in Lebanon. Her books "recount the emptiness left by immigration,…

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People Don't Agree On What Morality Is Or Whether It Exists, But We Still Teach It by Artsjournal2

Why? And how? "We might deny that morality needs to be taught, putting our faith in the natural goodness of children or their propensity to discover and sign up to moral standards of their o…

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In Pennsylvania, A High School Decides Its Stagehands Don't Need To Have 'Blackened Faces' During Shows by Artsjournal2

You call it 'blackened faces,' the parent who pointed it out was concerned that it looks more like 'blackface' - perhaps it's time, Bethel Park High School, near Pittsburgh, to call the whol…

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Are We In A Time Of Anomaly - Or A Breakthrough Time For Women Directing Big-Budget Science Fiction Films? by Artsjournal2

One problem is simply the numbers in the U.S. - single digits for women directors, compared to women being 1/4 of directors in France, for instance. And then, of course, "sci-fi is still fie…

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What's It Like To Live In Grant Wood's 'American Gothic' House? by Artsjournal2

This is part of what it's like: "By day, a steady stream of tourists came, posing for pictures (and peeking in the windows) dressed in the free costumes provided by the visitor center " cali…

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Black Velvet Paintings Are (Finally) Getting Their Due In A Michigan Exhibit by Artsjournal2

Rasquache is the art of making do with very little - something that might lead to, well, black velvet paintings. "For generations, these pieces have been placed on the mantles of Chicano hou…

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The Quest To Preserve Stephen Hawking's Voice by Artsjournal2

A man who worked on the technology of Hawking's voice synthesizer in 1986 got a call in 2014 about saving the tech. "In nearly 30 years, he had never switched to newer technology. Hawking li…

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After 33 Years, Chicago's American Theatre Company Abruptly Shuts Its Doors by Artsjournal2

The theatre took down its website and all of its social media at the same time the announcement went out on a Friday morning. "The unsigned statement from ATC's board (which declined intervi…

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Publishing: Adapt Or Die by Artsjournal2

Sharmaine Lovegrove, the woman who opened the first English-language bookstore in Berlin when she couldn't get any hold in London, returned to Britain 20 years later - only to be met with a …

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Sunday, March 18, 2018

Where Is Pop Music's MeToo Movement? by Artsjournal2

They tried to have a panel about it during SXSW. But even the panel showed the problem: "Issues surrounding sexual harassment and misconduct are one of the greatest challenges facing not onl…

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Reconstructing Van Gogh, Monet, And Other 'Lost' (Or Destroyed) Masterpieces by Artsjournal2

A group called Factum Arte is using high-quality 3D scanners to bring works of art that have been damaged or partially lost back to life. And it has some intense results: "It's absolutely br…

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Top AJBlog Posts For The Weekend Of 03.18.18 by Artsjournal2

Propwatch: the axe in Buggy Baby It was Chekhov who defined the essential rule of theatre props. 'If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall,' he told a friend in 1889, 'then in …

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Technology Is Ruining Music by Artsjournal2

Not in the way you might expect, though. "Everyone seems so excited by the fact that music is more accessible, people can find new artists more easily and it's cheaper, without focusing on t…

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Austria Gets A Quiet, And Disquieting, Reminder Of Its Nazi Past by Artsjournal2

Amid the emergence of a far-right, anti-refugee coalition government in the country, "the Scottish artist Susan Philipsz is using the eerie sound of fingers rubbed on water-filled glasses to…

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In Britain, Only Thirty Percent Of Students Think Arts Degrees Are A Good Value For The Money by Artsjournal2

And this is from the students themselves, who ranked arts degrees above language, history, and philosophy. This may be more a reflection of the schools than the subject, however. One student…

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Opera Singers Need Gowns, But Opera Students Don't Have Money. Here's One Solution by Artsjournal2

Basically, women with money donate gowns, and the students at Juilliard get to go "shopping" when the racks of designer wear come in. The students "are expected to be outfitted in fancy atti…

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Television Returns To New York by Artsjournal2

After some years in the doldrums, TV has caught back on to New York as one large studio - a boon for New York actors, of course, and perhaps largely the result of an expansion of tax breaks …

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Irish Dance Dresses Used To Be Hand-Embroidered, And Then Came The Great Bedazzling by Artsjournal2

This isn't new; once digital designs became possible, and embroidery machines could run all day and night, the costumes had to step it up to match. The early days of change were harsh: "Iris…

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Pittsburgh Is Ready To Replace A Statue Many Have Called Racist With A Statue Of A Black Woman by Artsjournal2

The status to be moved is of songwriter Stephen Foster - and, in words written at the time the status was created in 1900, "an old darkey reclining at his feet strumming negro airs upon an o…

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Untangling The Levine Lawsuit Against The Met by Artsjournal2

Is it all a feint to ensure that the focus is off Levine as a sexual predator and instead focused on Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Met? Or do Levine's legal complaints have a basis …

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Can Anyone Heal The University Of British Columbia's Creative Writing Program (And Canadian Literature In General)? by Artsjournal2

Alix Ohlin is taking on at least the first task for a program that has been in disarray since the suspension and firing of its former chair, Stephen Galloway, under accusations of sexual har…

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The Bay Area Kid Who Became A Superstar In China, And Returned To Hollywood For A Blockbuster Action Movie by Artsjournal2

Daniel Wu's life is not well-known in the U.S., even though he's a Cali native. Why? He randomly took a trip to Hong Kong after he got an architecture degree, and in Hong Kong, he was discov…

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The Great Irish Writer Who Died Homeless In New York by Artsjournal2

Maeve Brennan "would not have left Ireland at the age of 17 if she'd been given the choice, and yet in her adult years she didn't choose to return. A displaced person, always on provisional …

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When A Fashion Designer Works With A Ballet Company, Things Can Get Interesting by Artsjournal2

Erdem Moralioglu's company is famous for its evening gowns and "decadent craftsmanship." How will he work with dancers at the Royal Ballet in London?

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Bill Bulick, The Arts Administrator Who Changed Portland's Arts Funding And Culture, Has Died At 65 by Artsjournal2

Bulick, a folk musician and potter and human of many talents,"supervised the nation's first comprehensive regional cultural planning process, Arts Plan 2000. That document led to the creatio…

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