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ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News - Issues
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Variety Film Critic Todd McCarthy On Being Cut Loose
"I've been fiercely and proudly reviewing at full speed since all the [previous] cutbacks. I made sure we had no slippage in our festival coverage and film reviewing, I've worked hard in recent times to make sure nothing slipped. The reviews have been the most unchanged part of Variety, period. Forever."...
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A Painter-Critic Wishes For A Broader Education
Peter Plagens: "If I had it to do over again, I don't think I'd want to be an actual subatomic-particle physicist or a bona fide neurosurgeon. But I sure would like to be an abstract painter and art critic who's fluently bilingual, can comprehend the pages with the funny little symbols on them in the popular science books, is able to rattle off soliloquies by Shakespeare...."...
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Before Long, Another Respected Critic Will Get The Axe
"As an art form, criticism should be placed on the endangered species list. Dozens upon dozens of critics have been laid off or taken buyouts at newspapers and magazines in the last several years. And the ones who have survived have less influence than ever before. "...
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Trimming Budget, Variety Cuts Chief Film, Theatre Critics
"[T]he trade let go chief film critic Todd McCarthy and chief theater critic David Rooney. Longtime film critic Derek Elley also was cut, as was features editor/indie film reporter Sharon Swart, along with several copy and design desk employees." All three critics were asked to work as freelancers. The paper's editor said the "changes won't be noticed by readers."...
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Two NJ Arts Companies Succumb To Economic Crisis
"The American Repertory Ballet in New Brunswick announced today it has canceled the remainder of its season, opting to not perform in order not to make an already six-figure shortfall even worse. At the same time, the smaller 12 Miles West Theatre Company of Madison, has suspended operations, and it's unlikely it will re-open."...
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Why Critics Seem To Miss The Boat On Vegas Shows
"When it comes to Vegas and Elvis, the prejudice toward stereotype and mockery and the expectations of banal schlock are so intense that anything even remotely elevated seemed to the out-of-towners like brilliance incarnate."...
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Is Making Adelaide Festival Annual A Good Idea?
"As the dust settles on the Premier's announcement, which will come with increased funding of $11 million every two years, the state's resident artists have begun questioning whether staging a festival that seeks to attract interstate visitors with big flashy international acts would make SA a better place for artists to live."...
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Claim: Board Games Are Back
"Those who play insist that board games never really went away, but they acknowledge the comeback in popularity and categorize play as "classically social" in a world consumed with faceless social networking."...
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Are Disabled Being Shut Out Of Aussie Arts?
"Australians are increasingly embracing the arts, with fewer people regarding them as elitist compared with a decade ago, and about 17 million people engaging with forms from music and theatre to literature. But... people with disabilities and migrants from non-English-speaking countries are being left behind."...
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Report: How US College Grades Have Been Inflated
"Since the 1960s, the national mean G.P.A. at the institutions from which he's collected grades has risen by about 0.1 each decade - other than in the 1970s, when G.P.A.s stagnated or fell slightly. In the 1950s, according to Rojstaczer's data, the mean G.P.A. at U.S. colleges and universities was 2.52. By 2006-07, it was 3.11."...
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