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Does Britain Need Any More Theatres?

From Arts Journal

Will new playhouses create new activity and help regenerate their neighborhoods and towns? Will they just be yet more parties in the never-ending scramble for public and private funding? Lyn Gardner starts the discussion. The Guardian (UK) 05/16/13 ... Quick Read

US E-Book Sales Nearly Doubled In 2012

From Arts Journal

"The total revenue generated by e-book sales in the U.S. in 2012 was $3.04 billion, a 44.2% increase over the year before. ... And the increase in e-book sales did not take a bite out of print books - at least, not in the aggregate. Print sales were $12 billion in 2012; they were $12 billion in 2011, too." Los Angeles Times 05/15/13 ... Quick Read

Michigan School Declines To Ban Anne Frank's Diary For Being 'Pornographic'

From Arts Journal

Northville, Michigan's "assistant superintendent for instructional services Robert Behnke wrote a letter to the community regarding the school's decision, stating that the committee worried that removing the book would constitute as censorship." New York Daily News 05/13/13 ... Quick Read

Fired Rochester Phil Music Director Takes Another Rochester Post

From Arts Journal

"Arild Remmereit has been named artistic director of the Rochester Chamber Orchestra for next season. The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra board, in a controversial move, fired Remmereit in January from his position as music director." The Democrat & Chronicle (Rochester, NY) 05/16/13 ... Quick Read

Jacqueline Brooks, 82, Classical Stage Actress And Teacher

From Arts Journal

"[She] appeared in films and on television but ... won her widest acclaim on the stage in New York and around the country, performing the work of Shakespeare, Molière, Pirandello, Edward Albee and other dramatists over a 60-year career." The New York Times 05/13/13 ... Quick Read

Kennedy Center Changes Selection Process For Honorees

From Arts Journal

"The Kennedy Center hopes to bring greater transparency to a selection process that has been largely opaque in past years. Last year, some national Hispanic advocacy groups criticized the Honors' selection process after noting that only two of the 186 honorees since 1978 were Hispanic." The Washington Post 05/16/13 ... Quick Read

Unknown Dalí Watercolors Come To Light

From Arts Journal

"At a glance they seem like familiar 19th-century botanical lithographs, the type you see on endless hotel room walls. But look closer and the plum appears to be running away, the raspberries look embarrassed and the grapefruit ... well, it's enough to make the viewer blush." The Guardian (UK) 05/15/13 ... Quick Read

Cambodia Presses More US Museums To Return Antiquities

From Arts Journal

"Buoyed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's decision this month to return two stolen statues, Cambodia is asking other museums to examine any Khmer antiquities they acquired after 1970, when a 20-year period of civil war and genocide gave thieves free range to loot the country's ancient temples." The New York Times 05/16/13 ... Quick Read

Amazon Pushing Boundaries To Evade UK Taxes: Investigation

From Arts Journal

"MPs are ready to haul Amazon back to parliament to answer new questions about its tax status in Britain after a Guardian investigation ... found Amazon pushing definitions close to breaking point; and tax authorities unable, or unwilling, to prevent the imposition of aggressive tax avoidance structures." The Guardian (UK) 05/15/13 ... Quick Read

Nearly Half A Billion Dollars: Christie's Holds Richest Art Auction In History

From Arts Journal

"Record prices for 12 contemporary artists including Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat made history on Wednesday night. The sale of postwar and contemporary art at Christie's in Rockefeller Center totaled $495 million, the highest sales figure at any art auction." The New York Times 05/16/13 ... Quick Read

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Does Britain Need Any More Theatres?

US E-Book Sales Nearly Doubled In 2012

Michigan School Declines To Ban Anne Frank's Diary For Being 'Pornographic'

Fired Rochester Phil Music Director Takes Another Rochester Post

Jacqueline Brooks, 82, Classical Stage Actress And Teacher

Kennedy Center Changes Selection Process For Honorees

Unknown Dalí Watercolors Come To Light

Cambodia Presses More US Museums To Return Antiquities

Amazon Pushing Boundaries To Evade UK Taxes: Investigation

Nearly Half A Billion Dollars: Christie's Holds Richest Art Auction In History

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