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Today’s Top AJBlog Posts 03.14.14

How You View the Pie
AJBlog: Audience Wanted | Published 2014-03-14

Can arts organizations be both art-focused and community-focused?
AJBlog: Jumper | Published 2014-03-14

Picasso Museum: Reopening With What?
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-03-14

Will Gentrification Kill Music Scenes?
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-03-13

Respecting the craft
AJBlog: The Artful Manager | Published 2014-03-13

Pavarotti estate takes action to stop illicit child duet
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-03-13

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Can El Sistema Navigate Venezuela’s Roiling Politics?

El Sistema was founded in 1975 by Jose Antonio Abreu, a musician and economist, and it has flourished under eight different governments while aiming to keep many impoverished kids on the straight and narrow. “Ultimately, we have no idea how Dudamel, maestro Abreu and others are functioning in El Sistema. Abreu’s way of working has always been to try and influence the politics subtly from the inside. The second he takes a public stand, he can’t do that anymore.”

The Value Of Original Cast Recordings

“What it does do is give the listener—as well as actors and directors—a snapshot of what the play sounded like when it was new. Such snapshots can serve as invaluable points of departure for the present-day performer, a benchmark against which to measure subsequent interpretative developments.”

Voice Over (Literally) Hal Douglas Dies At 89

His dramatic range, from Olympian-thunderous to comic-goofy, suited him for trailers for movies as diverse as “Philadelphia,” “Forrest Gump,” “Coneheads,” “Meet the Parents” and “Lethal Weapon.” (“Under 17 not admitted without a parent.”)

Report: $66 Billion Of Art Sold Last Year

“International art and antique market sales totaled €47.4 billion ($66 billion) last year, their highest sum since the pre-recession days of 2007, according to the European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF)’s annual art market report, released yesterday.”

How The Royal Ontario Museum Has Evolved In 100 Years

“Over the years, the ROM, beloved, popular and populist, has become less a pinhole to faraway worlds than a primer for the present and increasingly diverse future outside its doorstep. That fact is not lost on them.”

“Noah” Movie Banned In Three Countries

“Director of media content at the National Media Center in the UAE, Juma Al-Leem, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the movie will not be allowed in cinemas because it contradicts a generally agreed upon taboo in Islam of depicting a prophet.”

Arts Council England: The Arts Lack The Right Data

Gaps in research include the sector’s impact on people’s health, how participation in cultural activities may reduce rates of re-offending among criminals, and how these may save the government money, the study reveals.

Checking In On the Art Scene in Bangladesh

A visit to the buzzing Dhaka Art Center and the Bengal Foundation gives a glimpse into a vibrant enterprise “rising above clichéd portraiture of a country steeped in flood and famine.”

Ceci N’est Pas ‘Swan Lake’

“It’s not a rereading of Swan Lake, it’s another thing, which is why I’ve called it Lac,” says choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot of his rereading of Swan Lake more primal take on the Tchaikovsky score, which he created for his company, the reborn Ballets de Monte Carlo.