Arts news in the last 2 years
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A Muppet A to Z
The Age (Australia) 27 Aug 2008
The Jim Henson retrospective at ACMI next month is part of a renewed fascination with all things Muppet.
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- Film/ TV/ Radio
Glory days of gory tales
The Age (Australia) 27 Aug 2008
Our schlock-horror Ozploitation movies are rediscovered.
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- Film/ TV/ Radio
Fringe ticket sales fall by 10%
BBC News (United Kingdom) 27 Aug 2008
Ticket sales at this year's Edinburgh Fringe were down by almost 10% - the first fall in eight years.
Casting Asia as a player in the A-list art game
International Herald Tribune (Singapore) 27 Aug 2008
Asian contemporary art has seen its star rise markedly in recent years. Yet the region has yet to produce art fairs to rival those in the West like Art Basel in Switzerland, Frieze Art Fair in London, the Armory Show in New York and Art Basel Miami Beach.
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- Visual Arts & Crafts
Mortier hopes to run both NYC Opera and Bayreuth
Yahoo! News (USA) 27 Aug 2008
Gerard Mortier says his application to run the Bayreuth Festival in Germany will not change his plans to run the New York City Opera starting with the 2009-10 season.
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- Performing Arts
- Music
BMI tops in performance revenues
Variety (USA) 27 Aug 2008
BMI has become the first copyright organization to top $900 million in annual music performance revenues, besting last year's mark by 7.2%.
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- Music
The day English classical music died
The Times (United Kingdom) 27 Aug 2008
Composers have struggled to find a popular audience since the death of Vaughan Williams.
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- Music
Major studio film shoots in Los Angeles grind almost to a halt
The Los Angeles Times (USA) 27 Aug 2008
Production was ramped up in anticipation of a possible actors strike, with most big-budget movies for next year wrapping by June 30.
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- Film/ TV/ Radio
Shakespeare’s Globe to release music through own label
The Stage (United Kingdom) 27 Aug 2008
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre is set to launch its own record label in order to reach new audiences across the world.
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- Performing Arts
- Music
Music groups assess cutbacks' damage
The Star (Canada) 27 Aug 2008
The Canadian music community, bewildered by the federal government's recent decisions to cut some $20 million in arts funding, is starting to assess the potentially devastating damage to their business.
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- Music
Crying Censorship
The New York Times Blogs (USA) 27 Aug 2008
Salman Rushdie, self-appointed poster boy for the First Amendment, is at it again.
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- Writing & Publishing
Lawsuit Over Disputed Warhol Will Go Forward
The New York Sun (USA) 27 Aug 2008
A suit involving the artist John Chamberlain and a work that may or may not be by Andy Warhol will go forward, after a judge denied Mr. Chamberlain's attorney's request for summary judgment.
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- Visual Arts & Crafts
The Angel of the North: welcome to the age of the 'enginartist'
The Telegraph (United Kingdom) 27 Aug 2008
A stunning giant sculpture three times the size of 'The Angel of the North' will for the first time see an engineer given equal billing with an artist.
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- Visual Arts & Crafts
Chicago art collector dies
The Chicago Tribune (USA) 27 Aug 2008
Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman, the doyenne of Chicago's collectors of modern art and one of the most cosmopolitan figures on the scene, died Friday at age 94.
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- Visual Arts & Crafts
The man who saw the future
The Guardian (USA) 27 Aug 2008
In the 1970s, visionary architect Paolo Soleri built an extraordinary eco-city in the Arizona desert. Did it work? Steve Rose tracks down a guru who now finds himself back in demand.
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- Design
Salman Rushdie to appear in High Court as libel case is settled
The Times Online (United Kingdom) 27 Aug 2008
Sir Salman Rushdie will be at the High Court today for the settlement of a libel action he brought over allegations in a book written by a former policeman.
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- Writing & Publishing
Venerable Chicago Jazz Fest at crossroads
The Chicago Tribune (USA) 25 Aug 2008
The question is whether the pace of change has been brisk enough to keep the Chicago Jazz Festival competitive in a rapidly changing music world.
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- Music
Bargain basement 'art' from eBay goes on show at Hayward Gallery
The Independent (United Kingdom) 25 Aug 2008
Sellers on eBay may be surprised to learn that their cast-offs are to feature as "works of art" at one of London's most prominent galleries.
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- Visual Arts & Crafts
Graffiti art takes presidential race to the streets
The Los Angeles Times (USA) 25 Aug 2008
Artists including Shepard Fairey and Ray Noland head to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, home of MoveOn.org's Manifest Hope Gallery Contest.
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- Visual Arts & Crafts
A Portrait by Leonardo? Scholars and Skeptics Differ
The New York Times (Italy) 25 Aug 2008
19th-century German School portrait that sold for $21,850 at a Christie’s auction in 1998 has now been attributed to Leonardo da Vinci by some art and scientific experts.
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- Visual Arts & Crafts