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Beuys "was obsessed with Steiner's occultism and his racial theories -- and with the abstruse ideas of a Germanic soul, a German spirit and a special mission for the German people."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/

"You still have the same three white males who are going to make that decision. If you keep doing the same thing, you're going to get pretty near the same outcome."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/

"Families and music lovers are missing out on a British institution just so that a few individuals can make a fortune. The government needs to use the upcoming consumer rights bill to take action on touting and put the fans first."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/

"What he has decided to do with this broad and influential platform is to turn inward, describing his thought process as he labors over wood fires and onions or as he lobbies for the approval of his bread-baking mentor with a 'crumb shot' of his homemade sourdough."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/

"Some smaller theaters are heeding the sage words of the old-time baseball player 'Wee Willie'Keeler, whose advice to batters was 'Hit 'em where they ain't.'''... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/

"If professional voice actors can flop, some amateurs can be surprisingly good."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/

"For at least the past decade, criticisms have dogged the Cliburn. One common complaint is that few widely embraced performers have emerged from it."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/

"Williams and Tsien's physically small (a mere forty feet wide and eighty-five feet high) but architecturally powerful incursion into MoMA's presumed turf has long been known to be a thorn in the side of Glenn D. Lowry, the Modern's director since 1995."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/

"Of the expensive action and animated movies, we've never had a summer where more than nine did well, and often it's fewer. This summer you've got 17 blockbusters coming out between May and July, 19 if you add August. Is this going to be by far the biggest summer box office in history? Maybe, if they're all great movies, but it's not likely."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical

"It's a city of a lot of things hidden and because of neglect and a general feeling of apathy over the last 50 years of military rule and dictatorship and oppression and a general feeling of not valuing your own self as individuals and also of society," he says. "So the city is abandoned."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical

Hallstatt, Austria, is in China. So is the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, Christ the Redeemer, and a soon-to-be-completed Manhattan. There are others, too, and it's all part of this weird (at least to us Westerners, or this one Westerner who is writing this) proliferation of what are being called "copy towns."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical

"As newspaper photographers gathered around, agents hauled away computers and boxes of documents as part of a sweeping investigation involving the gallery's owner, Hillel Nahmad, 34, who is known as Helly and is accused along with several others of playing leadership roles in a $100 million gambling and money-laundering network with connections to Russian organized-crime figures."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical

Amanda "Ghassei has developed a technique to make records using a laser cutter, in a bid to make the technology more accessible, and has cut records out of acrylic, wood and paper."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical

"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."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com

"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."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com

"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."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com

"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."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com

"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."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com

"[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."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com

"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."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com