Friday, May 4, 2018
"The fictional children of the past frolicked on the heather-clad slopes of Kirrin Island or battled the armies of evil at Hogwarts, free from the restrictions of their parents. Today, accor…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:06PM"Every so often, ... Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott, fire off a number of thoughtful memos to the movie industry and the industry-adjacent. These messages are largely ignored, which does not …
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:04AM"By the mid-1950s, the civil rights movement in the US had become a major international news story. People were horrified by the brutality of Emmett Till's lynching in 1955, and by the mob v…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:04AMThe final court decision in the famous "monkey selfie" case reaffirmed that animals have no IP rights under U.S. law, which requires human authorship. For now, the same is true for any works…
Linked From slate.com at 09:54AMWith her husband Eugene, co-founder of Texas Instruments, and for decades after his death, she gave millions to educational, civic, and cultural groups, including virtually every major visua…
Linked From The Dallas Morning News at 09:54AMIt was know as the Laff Box, and it was mocked up - jerry-rigged, almost - by mechancial engineer Charlie Douglass. You've heard it on everything from The Munsters and Gilligan's Island to C…
Linked From slate.com at 09:54AM"France's city centers are about to get one of the biggest makeovers in their history. Following an announcement last month, the country is launching a vast €5 billion ($6.1 billion) plan …
Linked From www.citylab.com at 09:54AM"The Swedish Academy ... announc[ed] Friday that the prize will not be handed out this year, on the grounds that the academy is in no shape to pick a winner after a string of sex abuse alleg…
Linked From Canadian Broadcasting Corporation at 08:48AM"Mrs. Provensen, who also wrote several picture books, worked for 40 years alongside her husband, Martin Provensen, illustrating such works as The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown, The F…
Linked From Washington Post at 08:48AM"With outposts and partnerships either launched or pending in Metz, Málaga, Brussels, the Gulf, Shanghai and possibly Latin America, ... the Pompidou’s president, Serge Lasvignes, is bold…
Linked From www.theartnewspaper.com at 08:48AM"The art masterpiece in question - Flesh and Spirit, a 12-by-12-foot painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat - is just days away from the auction block. It is a prized asset of the estate of [Huber…
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 08:48AM"Like Bollywood, Polish cinema has flourished" - with some titles even making the weekly top 10 at the box office - "in UK multiplexes rather than arthouses, without any help from the Britis…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:42AMThursday, May 3, 2018
"Some of the best known lurid 'facts' about Jayne Mansfield, the American film star of the '50s and '60s, are based on rumour. So the directors of a new documentary about her short and scand…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:12PM"The truth is that it took a long time for e-books to 'arrive'; Amazon was far from first. There, admittedly, was a comfort level that had to be worked out with the electronic book, which ga…
Linked From tedium.co at 01:06PM"Major event" exhibitions like the Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrors show and the traveling David Bowie Is show "achieve two important goals for any museum: They increase attendance, and they in…
Linked From slate.com at 12:04PM"A growing body of research shows that innovative businesses are common in rural areas, and rural innovation gets a boost from the arts." Richard Florida digests the data.
Linked From www.citylab.com at 11:04AM"A little more than a year ago, New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova announced that she was diving into the world of professional poker as a new player, all for the purpose of writing a book ab…
Linked From deadspin.com at 11:04AMAlmost exactly one year ago, an unknown man jogged into the Opera Gallery in Aspen, walked up to Christopher Wool's painting Untitled 2004, cut it twice with a knife, and jogged right out. P…
Linked From Aspen Times at 09:54AM"[The retired ABT star's] Sleeping Beauty Dreams, an avant-garde dance production about the internal world of the cursed princess during the one hundred years she was asleep, [is] premiering…
Linked From New York Magazine at 09:54AMYes, the fallout from the sexual harassment scandal has gotten that bad: "The Swedish Academy yesterday discussed the Nobel prize and came to no decision," said the head of the panel last we…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:54AM"The list of regional art organizations receiving support from KeyBank includes Playhouse Square, the Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Museum of Art, and now, the Cleveland-based Rock and Roll…
Linked From www.insidephilanthropy.com at 09:54AM"As Poland celebrates the centenary of its independence this year, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in collaboration with Polish Television and Polish Radio has organised [the International Cho…
Linked From bachtrack.com at 08:48AM"Anna Coliva, the well-respected director of Rome's Galleria Borghese, one of Italy's top museums, is to stand trial on charges of absenteeism and defrauding the public purse ... In total, s…
Linked From www.theartnewspaper.com at 08:48AM"Wages have stagnated as funding cuts take hold. Young musicians are particularly affected, with two-fifths of newcomers taking unpaid work in the last year. Forty-four per cent of players t…
Linked From www.bbc.com at 08:48AM"Not only am I a black choreographer I'm a modern choreographer. I have a fear that if this piece is seen as a failure, they will never hire another black choreographer again. ... I just wan…
Linked From www.dancemagazine.com at 08:48AMJust last September, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) opened in a repurposed grain silo on the Cape Town waterfront. And just last week, the Norval Foundation, funded by r…
Linked From www.theartnewspaper.com at 07:42AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Amos Barshad: "It's been years since the site had the kind of cultural cachet on which it built its empire. But music fans of a certain age can still rattle off the acts that landed notoriou…
Linked From slate.com at 03:18PMMartin Rowson: "After I graduated I sold a cartoon series to New Statesman titled 'Scenes from the Lives of the Great Socialists', based on hideously contrived puns on the defining dicta of …
Linked From The Guardian at 02:12PM"As a system, art fairs are like America: They're broken and no one knows how to fix them. Like America, they also benefit those at very top more than anyone else, and this gap is only growi…
Linked From New York Magazine at 01:06PMDancer Benedict Nguyen: "We make contributions to creative processes all the time. Some of these are obvious: We often improvise material or generate entire phrases to be incorporated into a…
Linked From www.dancemagazine.com at 12:04PMUnder a new law submitted in the UK Parliament last week, "anyone caught using automated software to instantly buy tickets in such a way will face an unlimited fine. The move is part of a wi…
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