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• Polish Intellectuals Are None Too Pleased With The Threat Of Russia

  07-12-2014 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is the fear that Europe is not reacting forcefully enough to the crisis in Ukraine, the fear that Putin will advance not only to the Donets River, but soon also to the banks of the Vistula. And it is the fear of Putin himself, who just a few days ago made reference to the […]
  
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• Renee Fleming (Unlike Your Typical New Yorker) Falls For Chicago

  07-12-2014 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Chicago is a great cultural capital. I don’t think that’s widely known. I don’t even think Chicagoans as a whole understand how rich this city is. Besides the major institutions, which are already world-class, the amount of theater alone is just mind-boggling.”
  
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• Who Owns Public Art, And How Do We Feel About That (A Sea Change)

  07-12-2014 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “These are different times. We don’t see artists as sole, heroic, mysterious creators any more. We are used to appropriation of all kinds, from sampling to mashups to critical homages. We are used to referencing and remixing. We are in constant debate over the possibility of originality. And we are used to the idea of […]
  
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• Can You Get Too Old To Write Poetry?

  07-12-2014 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Donald Hall, former U.S. poet laureate: “It was gradual, and I had the sense of poetry fading on me, or me fading on poetry, for several years. And then I would think ‘No, this is good.’ And then six months later it wasn’t so good.”
  
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• Reshaping Los Angeles With Latino Urbanism

  07-12-2014 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What the shift means for immigrants themselves — particularly in quickly gentrifying neighborhoods like downtown or Boyle Heights — is a separate and deeply fraught question.”
  
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• You Think Hamlet Is Long? This Play Will Last 24 Years

  07-12-2014 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘I have a weird thing about theater feeling like lies all the time,’ he said. So, a few years ago, he and his collaborators set out to make a ‘sincere’ work – one that doesn’t just imitate life, but chronicles and interprets it.”
  
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• Art Museums Have Contentious Histories. Where Is That Preserved?

  07-12-2014 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I don’t want to see any art museum start to divert its precious gallery space toward display of such ‘ephemera’ as correspondence, records of provenance, histories of patrons, posters of old shows, etc. But if there were a separate museum devoted to that, with changing exhibitions, I’d certainly buy a membership.”
  
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• Veteran Arts Reporter Carol Vogel Resigns During The Big New York Times Buyout

  07-12-2014 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As recently as late July, this past summer, there were reports that Ms. Vogel, who joined the staff of the Times in 1983, had plagiarized the writing of other arts writers in crafting her stories.”
  
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• The Beloved Mexican Comedian Who Inspired Millions Of Kids – And The Simpsons’ Bumblebee Man

  07-12-2014 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “News of the death of Gómez — more commonly known by his nickname, ‘Chespirito’ — generated an outpouring of mourning. Murals began materializing in Latin American cities. A South American news anchor teared up as she delivered the news. The Peruvian congress observed a moment of silence. And the Mexican president tweeted condolences — as […]
  
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• When Ballet Dancers Move Into A New Home

  07-12-2014 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Ballet West’s new home in Salt Lake City, dancers say dancing there is “like breathing again. It is a massive sigh of relief to have space to move in.” And no kicks in the head!
  
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• The End Of The Avant Garde (Thanks A Lot, Damien Hirst)

  07-12-2014 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Originality requires learning, hard work, the mastery of a medium and – most of all – the refined sensibility and openness to experience that have suffering and solitude as their normal cost.”
  
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• Is ‘El Sistema’ Actually Just One More Way To Provide Sexually Abusive ‘Mentors’ With Child Victims?

  07-12-2014 17:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Geoff Baker’s book specifically compares El Sistema to Chetham’s. He argues that both institutions have hidden classical music’s ‘dirty little secret’ — that the intimate, overwrought relationships between mentor and pupil encourage sexual abuse.”
  
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• The Bombshell Book About ‘El Sistema’ Is A Vicious Overreach

  07-12-2014 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Baker, who produces little actual hard evidence, is not up to penetrating Sistema’s secrecy. His feet-on-the-ground reporting comes from his own visits to nucleos and talking with disgruntled musicians who have various axes to grind.”
  
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• Not Even Businesses Want Comcast And Time Warner To Merge

  07-12-2014 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Stop Mega Comcast Coalition announced its formation on Wednesday and said it opposed the deal because of the enormous power the combined company would have over the country’s video and Internet infrastructure.”
  
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• Britain Did WHAT With One Of The Elgin Marbles?!

  07-12-2014 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Why, transported it in complete secrecy to loan to Russia, of course. What, you thought the British Museum might give the Parthenon sculptures back to Greece?
  
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• No, England And Wales, You Damn Well Cannot Deny Books To Prisoners

  07-12-2014 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is very hard to be both a reader and a villain. Reading helps you understand the world around you and relate to how your behaviour effects others. It should be encouraged as much as possible.”
  
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• Inside Frank Gehry’s Design For The Massive, Expensive New Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

  07-12-2014 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Even when construction was frozen in Abu Dhabi, curators in New York were forging ahead. Instead of calling the museum global, which they say connotes money rather than art, they describe it as transnational.”
  
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• Post Pop: East Meets West, Saatchi Gallery: A rare chance to compare the work of Chinese and Russian artists with their Western peers

  07-12-2014 15:14
  
  The thesis behind the Saatchi Gallery’s latest ambitious show – more than 250 works from 112 artists – is the lasting and varying influence of Pop art. Rather then looking at the original proponents in the US and Europe, the curators chose to look at the movement post 1960s. In order to shed some order on this plethora of work the three curators have displayed the show thematically rather than by country or even continent. The result is like a Christmas cracker: the look is great but yo
  
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• A Few Problems With The Way The Internet Savages Creative People

  07-12-2014 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Repressing artists by making it impossible for them to survive as valued members of the working class represses our whole society.”
  
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• The best art books of 2014

  07-12-2014 11:30
  
  The year saw contemporary art stars prove thoughtful in print while Whistler and Rembrandt drew perceptive analysisWriters pick the best books of 2014More best books of 2014Artists used to be makers but now they’re more often performers, parading a carefully cultivated persona: Dalí with his moustache and Warhol with his silver wig, Tracey Emin with her maudlin confessions and Damien Hirst with his hellraising rampages.Among contemporary “art stars”, Jeff Koons – a former sto
  
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• Laura Cumming: the 10 best artworks of 2014

  07-12-2014 10:15
  
  From Matisse at Tate Modern to Ai Weiwei in Yorkshire, 2014 has seen thrilling, revelatory art. Laura Cumming picks her 10 favourite works from this year’s showsFiona Maddocks: the 10 most significant classical firsts in 2014The Observer’s critics look back at the cultural highlights of the year Continue reading...
  
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• William Blake: Apprentice and Master review – the most erratic exhibition in recent history

  07-12-2014 01:06
  
  Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
  This frustrating show places more emphasis on William Blake’s technique than his revolutionary visionThe 10 best works by William BlakePhilip Pullman: William Blake and meThere is a brilliant juxtaposition at the start of William Blake: Apprentice and Master that shows the distance between early and late Blake in the space of a single image, a small print not much bigger than a paperback, worked and then reworked 40 years later.
  The scene shows Joseph of Arimathea la
  
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• Father Frank Browne's treasure trove of photographs captures the spirit of his times

  07-12-2014 01:00
  
  During his lifetime, Father Francis Browne was known for the photographs he took aboard the Titanic, from which he – fortunately – disembarked at County Cork shortly before its sinking in 1912.
  
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