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Lawyer Convicted Of Possessing Stolen Paintings
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:18:51 -0800
A retired Massachusetts lawyer has been found guilty of possessing six valuable paintings that had been stolen from a home in 1978....
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Does A Wal-Mart Belong In Miami's Biggest Cultural District?
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:14:19 -0800
There is a proposal to build a giant Wal-Mart next to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, on parking lots owned by The Miami Herald. "Of all the bad ideas ever proffered for downtown Miami, this is the worst. And shockingly so in a time and a place where we have already invested more than $500 million in public funds to create a downtown cultural precinct."...
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Can Evolution Explain Music?
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:11:56 -0800
Every human culture has a tradition of music. So is there something in our genetic development that explains the attraction?...
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It's The Law - Welsh Authorities Required To Promote Welsh Culture
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:06:26 -0800
"During the next three years, we wish to place a statutory duty upon our local authorities to promote culture and the arts. This is not for control's sake. Rather, it reflects our desire to provide high quality cultural experiences to each and every one of our communities in the spirit of the One Wales programme [the country's coalition agreement]....
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Wanted: Workers To Sign Fake Book Autographs
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:03:52 -0800
"One smart publisher seems to have devised a way of easing the pain for the millionaire bestseller writer: they have posted an advert on the listing site, Craigslist, inviting a team of part-time workers to fake the signatures and get paid in cash for the privilege."...
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Artist's Project On Smoking Killed By Smoking Ban
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:02:18 -0800
Members of the public were to be invited to smoke inside the booths, which would stand within the Frieze tents. But Westminster council has rejected an application for the "smoking booth" art installation on the grounds that it has insufficient "artistic merit"....
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Kill Me Now - Celine Dion Is "Classical" Music?
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:00:03 -0800
"Are Katie Melua, Celine Dion and Elton John the Mozart, Handel and Tchaikovsky of our generation? Quite possibly, according to Classic FM and record label UCJ Music. The two companies claim that - with classical crossover artists such as Rhydian and Andrea Bocelli breaking down traditional pop and classical boundaries, and Sting recording music by 16th-century composer John Dowland - a whole new musical genre is being formed."...
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The Star Wars Effect - How We Look At War And Peace
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:44:31 -0800
"What's been the biggest single influence on attitudes to war and peace during the last few decades? Sure ain't schools civic lessons or Tony Blair's speeches. However, the cavalcade of Star Wars films, together with their associated TV and radio series, novels, videogames, comic-books and other miscellaneous spin-offs, could perhaps lay claim to the title."...
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What Makes An Abbado Moment
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:39:18 -0800
I've been here to watch rehearsals and to talk to the players, trying to find out what makes the relationship between Claudio Abbado and his musicians tick. And I think I've got some answers....
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When Plays Get Revived
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:37:11 -0800
"Theatre in this country is currently preoccupied with a cult of virginity, with new plays premiered and discarded in rapid succession; far more than it is in nurturing a contemporary repertoire that will sustain modern playwriting long-term. This is a shame: our theatre is the envy of the world, and has a back catalogue of contemporary plays more valued overseas than they are here."...
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Broadway Godspell Revival Put Back On The Shelf
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:33:08 -0800
"A Broadway revival of Godspell, the 1971 Stephen Schwartz pop musical, has been canceled because the producers came up short on the show's $4.5 million capitalization. An uncertain economic outlook has made many Broadway investors skittish."...
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Random Entry - We're Taking More Chances
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:08:50 -0800
"Lotteries and gambling have been around for centuries, but randomness does now seem to be seeping out into more areas of life. Perhaps it's an indicator of our wealth. We have large music collections, can afford to buy almost any food the planet produces and travel all over the world. The entertainment options on offer to us are almost unlimited. Trying to make an informed choice between all possible alternatives would take too long: they're all good, so why not pick one at random? But is this a warning sign of terminal decadence?"...
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Enid Blyton Voted UK's Best-loved Writer
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:06:12 -0800
"The creator of the Famous Five series and the Noddy books topped the poll, followed by Roald Dahl and Harry Potter author JK Rowling. Jane Austen, the author of Sense and Sensibility was fourth and William Shakespeare came fifth. Charles Dickens came sixth in the survey of 2,000 adults."...
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More Signs Of Stress For Texas Ballet
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:03:21 -0800
"In yet another sign of the persistent financial woes facing the Texas Ballet Theater, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra reports that the dance company is months behind in signing a $350,000 contract with the orchestra for the upcoming season."...
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Study: We're Innate Counters
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:01:43 -0800
"Our findings are consistent with the idea that we have an innate system for representing quantity ideas and that the lack of number words in a language should not prevent us from completing simple number and computation tasks."...
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UK Network Doubles Its Arts Channels
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:00:06 -0800
"The channels, reflecting contemporary and classical programming, will run alongside its existing HD Channel. From October, Sky Arts 1 will feature contemporary shows, such as live rock concerts, while Sky Arts 2 will show opera and other classical art content."...
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Study: Americans Still Get Most Of Their News From TV
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:56:45 -0800
"Pew said the results show an increasing shift toward online news consumption, but that there is now a sizable group of a more engaged, sophisticated and well-off people that use both traditional and online sources to get their news."...
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Reinventing London's Donmar Warehouse (At Great Risk)
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:50:26 -0800
It's an ambitious project - the company will present A-list actors. "Astonishingly, they will be presented at Donmar, not West End, prices - with 130 seats a night at £10 and a top price of £32.50. This is possible only because every actor involved has agreed to take £750 a week, which is up on the Donmar's normal salary of £415 but well below commercial rates. It means that far from being a moneyraiser, the theatre will have to sell 80 per cent of the 750-seat auditorium every night to break even. The economics are, frankly, barmy."...
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Daniel Barenboim's "Noble Folly"
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:46:57 -0800
"Barenboim's reflections on the enterprise reveal that it was never more than a noble folly. Is there a connection between art and fractious life? Does music actually have the power to sponsor brotherhood, as Beethoven claimed in the boisterous finale of his ninth symphony? Only metaphorically..."...
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Florida Theatre Critic Jack Zink, 61
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:45:44 -0800
"It would be hard to grow up in South Florida and have an interest in theater and not know who Jack Zink is. As the theater community has changed and become fuller, more diverse and robust, Jack has always been right at the center of it all."...
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Study: Doctors Who Study Arts Are Better Doctors
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:19:07 -0800
"Doctors-in-training who took art classes while in medical school appear to have better skills of observation than their colleagues who have never studied art, according to a research from Harvard Medical School. They released research last week that shows studying art can help students make up to 38 per cent more accurate observations."...
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The Cones Of Philadelphia - Why Collectors Collect
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:16:22 -0800
"The Cone Sisters of Baltimore: Collecting at Full Tilt is a fascinating narrative that brings the sisters to life as individuals. Yet their motivation, beyond an obvious love of art (and where did that come from, one wonders), remains elusive. Perhaps this is the natural order with many collectors. Perhaps they don't intellectualize their passion in a way that translates readily to speech or writing."...
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Opera's Shakespeare Problem
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:14:48 -0800
"When composers have tried to set Shakespeare, they have run up against the problem that his verse creates music in the mind, next to which even the most inspired efforts may be found wanting. Nonetheless, the number of Shakespeare operas runs well into the hundreds."...
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Broadway To Be Hit Hard By Economy Slowdown?
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:13:05 -0800
"Producers report some investors would now rather hold onto their money rather than pony up for a risky Rialto show, and many worry that the usual September downturn in ticket sales will be particularly brutal this year. But others in the industry respond that the economy is only one factor among several to consider -- and even a downturn can have a silver lining."...
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The End Of Internet Radio? (Pandora Endangered)
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:11:20 -0800
Pandora -- practically the poster child for online radio -- says it will shut down if royalty rates enacted in March of 2007 are not altered soon....
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