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Sunday, January 13, 2013

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New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's CEO Resigns After Nine Days
Dare, whose history as a sex offender was under investigation, wrote that he thought "media attention to my family's personal life will harm the organization and musicians I cherish, as well as needlessly embarrass my wife." The New York Times 01/12/13
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issues
Video Game Makers Try To Fend Off Post-Newtown Legislation "The $60 billion industry is facing intense political pressure from an unlikely alliance of critics who say that violent imagery in video games has contributed to a culture of violence." The New York Times 01/12/13
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issues
Artists Facing Financial Facts In The Twin Cities The Twin Cities are great for artists in many ways. Except for the money thing. "You have little chance of making the orchestras; acting jobs rarely last for an entire year; the average dancer earns about $7,000 annually; visual artists live by what they can sell; full-time choral work is extremely rare." Minneapolis Star-Tribune 01/13/13
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dance
Bringing Passion To Dance In Los Angeles Philanthropist Gloria Kaufman: "I could've given money to a lot of different things, which I do, but I thought, this is something that brings joy, and I don't think we have enough of it. I wanted to make a change. I wanted to make kids and people happy, because I was happy." The New York Times 01/13/13
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issues
How Can Visual And Theatre People Get (It) Together in DC? "Artisphere is a beautiful building filled with all sorts of exciting rooms: galleries, ballrooms, black box theatre, classrooms, and space for artists and audiences to intertwine. On their website they describe the space as 'designed for people and art to collide.'" 2AMTheatre 01/07/13
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visual
Cleveland Museum Goes 21st Century With A Vengeance "The techniques developed in Cleveland -- if successful -- might be adopted later by bigger museums on the coasts, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, they said." The Plain Dealer 01/13/13
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publishing
Can Dead Authors Survive The Age Of Twitter And E-Books? "Facebook fan pages and Twitter accounts for dead authors may become our virtual altars. In the small act of pushing a button to 'like' or to 'follow,' we are saying these are voices we still need. We are saying 'keep.'" The New York Times 01/13/13
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people
Evan Connell, Author of Mrs. Bridge and Son of the Morning Star, 88 "For most of his career, Connell had two reading publics: those folks who admired his fiction and those who admired his nonfiction. The first group scarcely kept him in supplies." NPR 01/12/13
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music
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's CEO Resigns After Nine Days Dare, whose history as a sex offender was under investigation, wrote that he thought "media attention to my family's personal life will harm the organization and musicians I cherish, as well as needlessly embarrass my wife." The New York Times 01/12/13
email this story | Posted 01/13/13@09:24AM
theatre
Can We Finally Change Theatre Start Times? "One of the original reasons for starting a show at 8pm was to give audiences time to go home after work to change for the theatre. Who has time to do that nowadays?" The Guardian (UK) 01/11/13
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publishing
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ideas
The NEA Loves Its Black Female Alien Superheroes "HERadventure is one of nine recipients of the NEA's maximum grant. It was created by filmmaker and digital artist Ayoka Chenzira, Ph.D., inspired by her attitude towards social issues at large." Jezebel 01/12/13
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media
Will Netflix's Original Series Change Our Relationship To TV - Or Tank? "It's rather like the library getting into the book-publishing business because it can tell what people like to read. Great idea, but fraught because the public's taste is fickle and the public is so easily distracted." The Globe & Mail (Canada) 01/12/13
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ideas
Sometimes, The White House Can Be Quite Amusing The official response to a petition for a Star Wars-style Death Star: "We don't have a Death Star, but we do have floating robot assistants on the Space Station, a President who knows his way around a light saber and advanced (marshmallow) cannon, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is supporting research on building Luke's arm, floating droids, and quadruped walkers." The Atlantic 01/12/13
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visual
As WWII Museum Expands, Is It Losing Its Way? "There is something American about this view of history as cumulative individual experience. But it would be a mistake if the museum's focus on the United States completely eclipsed other national experiences." The New York Times 01/12/13
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visual
Architect Renzo Piano Loves His Shard "It is a kind of lighthouse in London. It is quite a surprising element, and providing surprise and wonder is not essential, but it is not a bad thing to do." The Observer (UK) 01/12/13
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media
Despite West Coast Social Media Anger, Grammys Won't Change Delayed Telecast CBS "specials and music VP Jack Sussman said the current model of airing the show live at 5 p.m. on the East Coast and delayed at 8 p.m. on the West Coast is working perfectly." Variety 01/12/13
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people
Kenojuak Ashevak, Who Brought Inuit Art To World Renown, 85 "Her renown grew after the release in the 1960s of 'Kenojuak,' a film produced by the National Film Board of Canada and nominated for an Academy Award for best short documentary. Commissions followed, and Kenojuak, who spoke only Inuktitut, was invited to travel widely for exhibitions of Inuit art in Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea, Seattle and Ottawa." The New York Times 01/13/13
email this story | Posted 01/13/13@08:15AM
publishing
John London's 'Call of the Wild'? "We venture to suggest the use of the more frequent form of the Christian name ... -- John seeming to us better suited than Jack to literary purposes." The Atlantic 01/12/13
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media
Ben Affleck, Snubbed By The Oscars, Wins Critics' Choice Affleck joked as he took the best director trophy that he'd "like to thank the Academy." Time Magazine 01/11/13
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theatre
Will The National Theatre Finally Recover From The Kennedy Center? "The National is a low-budget, skeletal operation that maintains a handful of outreach operations to help justify its not-for-profit status. Rent doesn't seem to be an issue." Washington Post 01/11/13
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visual
Getty To Return Sculpture To Sicily "The museum obtained the piece, which dates back to between 400 and 300 BC, in 1985. But new evidence suggests it was removed from Sicily's Morgantina Archaeological Park a decade earlier." BBC 01/11/13
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music
Music After Modernism - What Gives? "Nothing is essentially wrong with the 'tonal enterprise,' but most of us acknowledge that in the aftermath of the tumultuous 20th-century, we live in a dramatically expanded field of possibilities." NewMusicBox 01/11/13
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issues
Who Gets Paid What From That $150 Ticket "The queue to share some of your cash is lengthy and varied, spreading through crew, media, caterers, managers and the venue itself. And this doesn't include the fee you pay on top for the privilege of buying the ticket and, gallingly, printing it out yourself at home." The Age (Melbourne) 01/11/13
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publishing
UK Printed Book Sales Decline (Though Decline Rate Slows) "Total sales of printed books fell to £1.51bn in 2012, down from £1.59bn in 2011, according to analysis of the year by book sales monitor Nielsen BookScan, with total value sales reaching their lowest since 2003." The Guardian (UK) 01/10/13
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music
London's Royal Opera House Plans New Direction "Despite the fact that its chief executive is about to depart to head up the BBC , the Royal Opera House has announced a bold new direction." The Guardian (UK) 01/10/13
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media
Video Game Producers Want More Control Of Movies "While the low success rate has scared off a few video game execs, some are trying to change the game, so to speak, by wresting some creative control of their lucrative properties back from the studios." The Hollywood Reporter 01/11/13
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media
Pinball Culture Hangs On "Pinball is a genuine subculture. Lawn tennis or duckpin bowling might be more obscure, but not much. Once a popular attraction at arcades and bars across the United States, pinball went into a death spiral in the early 1980s, done in by video games, and it has struggled ever since." The New York Times 01/10/13
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publishing
Could Performance Poetry Be The New Comedy? "You can see the performance poetry scene doing something like stand up. It's the most obvious comparison. It's not inconceivable that poetry will become the big entertainment business." The Telegraph (UK) 01/11/13
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theatre
Cameron Mackintosh To Revive Two Of His Biggest Flops "Is Cameron Mackintosh getting nostalgic in his old age? Having hinted that Miss Saigon might follow Les Miserables onto celluloid, the theatre producer has revealed that two of his biggest flops are in line for major revivals" - Moby Dick and Martin Guerre. The Guardian (UK) 01/09/13
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visual
Oakland Museum Suffers Second Burglary In Three Months "Police believe that the man who stole a Gold Rush-era artifact from the Oakland Museum of California this week is the same burglar who made off with gold nuggets and other items from the institution in November, investigators said Wednesday." San Francisco Chronicle 10/09/13
email this story | Posted 01/11/13@12:58AM
music
Simon Rattle To Leave Berlin Philharmonic - After Another Five Years "Sir Simon Rattle has announced he is to leave the Berlin Philharmonic when his contract as chief conductor expires in five years' time. ... It is the beginning of the end of a relationship that has earned Rattle almost pop-star status in the German capital." The Guardian (UK) 01/10/13
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theatre
Time Out Sells Whatsonstage.com To Theatermania "Theatre news and ticketing website Whatsonstage.com has been bought by the New York-based Theatremania.com, ending its ownership by Time Out Group after less than a year. Whatsonstage and Theatremania operate in a similar manner, with both running news, reviews and ticketing websites as well as organising exclusive theatre trips for their members." The Guardian (UK) 01/10/13
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Today's Headlines (by topic)

ideas
The NEA Loves Its Black Female Alien Superheroes - Jezebel 01/12/13
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Sometimes, The White House Can Be Quite Amusing - The Atlantic 01/12/13
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dance
Bringing Passion To Dance In Los Angeles - The New York Times 01/13/13
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issues
Video Game Makers Try To Fend Off Post-Newtown Legislation - The New York Times 01/12/13
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Artists Facing Financial Facts In The Twin Cities - Minneapolis Star-Tribune 01/13/13
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How Can Visual And Theatre People Get (It) Together in DC? - 2AMTheatre 01/07/13
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media

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music
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's CEO Resigns After Nine Days - The New York Times 01/12/13
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people

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publishing
Can Dead Authors Survive The Age Of Twitter And E-Books? - The New York Times 01/13/13
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What's The Biggest Distributor of Children's Books in the U.K.? - The Atlantic 01/11/13
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John London's 'Call of the Wild'? - The Atlantic 01/12/13
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theatre
Can We Finally Change Theatre Start Times? - The Guardian (UK) 01/11/13
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Will The National Theatre Finally Recover From The Kennedy Center? - Washington Post 01/11/13
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visual
Cleveland Museum Goes 21st Century With A Vengeance - The Plain Dealer 01/13/13
email this story | Posted 01/13/13@09:54AM

As WWII Museum Expands, Is It Losing Its Way? - The New York Times 01/12/13
email this story | Posted 01/13/13@08:43AM

Architect Renzo Piano Loves His Shard - The Observer (UK) 01/12/13
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more Visual...