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• Want The Next Generation To Be Creative? They Need To Know Code

  10-12-2014 23:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The ability to code enables young people to become creators rather than consumers. Students with this creative capacity and technical literacy will hold the power in the future. They are the next generation of entrepreneurs, and, as some teenagers and younger students have shown us, they are already the entrepreneurs of today.”
  
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• Oops! Scottish Theatre Mistakenly Sends Porn DVDs To Children

  10-12-2014 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The theatre had meant to send recordings of its summer schools for children. But the DVDs were reported to have featured explicit sexual content.”
  
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• National Endowment For The Humanities Funds Video Games

  10-12-2014 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The NEH announced $17.9 million in grants this week to support scholarship and education in the arts and letters, including the two grants of $100,000 each for online gaming projects, which are part of a new funding initiative for online cultural resources called Digital Projects for the Public.”
  
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• A Dismaying Idea Of What Theatre Is

  10-12-2014 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “To say the kind of theatre performed in the West End (which is what she believed she was talking about) is one invented by white people is one thing, to say white people invented theatre ignores a whole host of other storytelling and performance traditions from Kabuki to Indian dance.”
  
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• The miraculous healing power of a doll’s house

  10-12-2014 22:00
  
  When I was eight, I was taken to the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green. I remember an unending corridor of glass vitrines, behind which loomed exquisite dolls’ houses. It was a giddy experience in the land of adults, and I have never forgotten it. For once, I was a giant; but it was not simply the power of proportion in my favour. Past lives thrummed in these tiny rooms, easily animated by childish imagination. Creativity unlocked adventure.
  
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• Reading With A Pen In Your Hand – It Changes How You Read

  10-12-2014 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A pen is not a magic wand. The critical faculty is not conjured from nothing. But it was remarkable how many students improved their performance with this simple stratagem. There is something predatory, cruel even, about a pen suspended over a text.”
  
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• Cyprus Taps Christodoulos Panayiotou for 2015 Venice Biennale Pavilion

  10-12-2014 20:35 via artnews.com
  Artist Christodoulos Panayiotou will represent Cyprus at the 2015 Venice Biennale, Artforum reports. The nation’s pavilion is being curated by Omar Kholeif, who selected Panayiotou from more than 70 proposals. “I believe that Panayiotou possesses a singular artistic vision that … Read More
  
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• London (Ontario) Orchestra On The Ropes

  10-12-2014 20:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The publicly funded group is lurching into the third major financial crisis in recent history after its biggest-ever donation recently fell apart, leaving it with a massive deficit for the 2013-14 season.”
  
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• Guggenheim, Bilbao Sign Agreement

  10-12-2014 20:20 via artnews.com
  Artforum reports that the Guggenheim Foundation has approved an “agreement governing the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao for another twenty years.” The contract comes about when Guggenheim satellites in other locales are under scrutiny. In Finland, where one is planned for Helsinki, … Read More
  
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• Hollywood’s 100 Most Powerful Women In Hollywood (And The Battles To Get On The List)

  10-12-2014 20:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Forget the Oscars. One of the most fearsome competitions in show business involves landing in the right spot on The Hollywood Reporter’s annual ranking of the 100 most powerful women in entertainment. For certain executives, agents and producers, this has become a blood sport.”
  
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• Patrick Modiano’s Nobel Speech: Literature Is Not In Danger

  10-12-2014 20:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Today, I get the sense that memory is much less sure of itself, engaged as it is in a constant struggle against amnesia and oblivion. This layer, this mass of oblivion that obscures everything, means we can only pick up fragments of the past, disconnected traces, fleeting and almost ungraspable human destinies. Yet it has […]
  
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• Rethinking Van Gogh At The Museum That Bears His Name

  10-12-2014 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Curators at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam think that it is time for this artist’s profile to get an update: to focus more on van Gogh the serious artist, not van Gogh the myth. To that end, they have redesigned and rehung the museum’s permanent collection to present a more nuanced view.”
  
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• Gee's Bend quilts bring African American folk art to the Met

  10-12-2014 20:02
  
  The endowment of 57 works from the South include these hugely influential works from women living in a tiny hamlet in AlabamaLast month, the Souls Grown Deep Foundation made a major gift of 57 artworks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s a big score for the New York museum to garner so many gems from the African American south, including work by Nellie Mae Rowe, Thorton Dial, and – the biggest coup – 20 of the Gee’s Bend quilts.If the star works of art of the Harlem Renaissance were
  
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• Jane Freilicher, Painter and Confidant of the New York School, Has Died at 90

  10-12-2014 19:17 via artnews.com
  The painter Jane Freilicher, whose airy, radiantly colored still lifes and landscapes made her a leading light of the 1950s New York School and one the great representational artists of postwar America, died on Tuesday in New York. She was 90. … Read More
  
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• Jane Freilicher, Painter and Confidant of the New York School, Dies at 90

  10-12-2014 19:17 via artnews.com
  The painter Jane Freilicher, whose airy, radiantly colored still lifes and landscapes made her a leading light of the 1950s New York School and one the great representational artists of postwar America, died on Tuesday in New York. She was 90. … Read More
  
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• Here’s What Galleries Are Bringing to the 2015 ADAA Art Show

  10-12-2014 18:53 via artnews.com
  The ADAA Art Show has released details of what exhibitors will be showing at the fair, which runs March 4-8 at the Park Avenue Armory. There are 35 solo booths and 37 thematic exhibitions. Have a look below! Solo and … Read More
  
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• Goya’s ‘witches and old women’ drawings to be reunited at Courtauld

  10-12-2014 18:52
  
  Funny, rude and macabre works by Spanish artist will feature in new exhibition at Courtauld Gallery in LondonOne depicts a decrepit old woman carrying a bundle of tied-up babies while another, called Nightmare, shows a grimacing crone balancing two skeletal men on her back. “It is certainly the dark side of humankind,” said Stephanie Buck, perhaps with understatement. “They are challenging images.”Buck is the curator of drawings at the Courtauld Gallery, which on Wednesday announced that
  
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• Consumer Reports: Rachel Lord

  10-12-2014 18:40 via artnews.com
  “Consumer Reports” is a recurring feature that profiles an artist’s consumption of any and all media throughout one work week. Rachel Lord is an artist, actor, and poet living and working in Los Angeles. Lord is included in the New Museum’s … Read More
  
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• Pierre-Laurent Aimard, LPO, Jurowski, review: 'Commanding clarity and accompanying virtuosity'

  10-12-2014 17:53
  
  'The piece is a dialogue,' said Harrison Birtwistle in a pre-concert interview regarding the premiere of his new piano concerto Responses: sweet disorder and the carefully careless, adding that he didn’t know ‘how it will speak’.
  
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• Hollywood: L.A.’s Next Art Frontier

  10-12-2014 16:00 via artnews.com
  In October 2013, Esther Kim Varet, director of the Venice Beach–based gallery Various Small Fires, placed a bid on 812 North Highland Avenue in Hollywood, a more than 5,000-square-foot lot containing a temple-like Art Deco edifice. The listing had gone … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Audrey Irmas Award For Curatorial Excellence From Bard Edition

  10-12-2014 15:52 via artnews.com
  Christine Tohme and Martha Wilson are taking home the 2015 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from Bard. [Art in America] We all love the stories of crazy ole ear-cutting, suicidal Van Gogh but “curators at the Van Gogh Museum … Read More
  
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• THE WATCHER

  10-12-2014 15:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I, the particles of lost sleep atoms created in dreams stolen from men a red dress in a black and white flick,   the vision from a dead friend talking through smoke candlestick, arriving to whisper you that unfathomable end!   I, the watcher of the city the floating rust from queen white chandeliers fast ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Russia scraps plan for Eye of Sauron art installation

  10-12-2014 14:20
  
  Eye of Sauron will not now gaze over Moscow after opposition from the Russian Orthodox Church thwarted projectThe Eye of Sauron will not, after all, gaze out over Moscow this week, after opposition from the Russian Orthodox Church torpedoed an art installation planned by fans of JRR Tolkien’s fantasy novels.On Tuesday, the main spokesmen for the Russian Orthodox church, Vsevolod Chaplin, told a local radio station that the eye was “a demonic symbol” that could have dire consequences for Mo
  
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• “I Have Always Welcomed Children To My Concerts”: Violinist Responds To Charge She Berated Child From Stage

  10-12-2014 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kyung Wha Chung made headlines internationally when, during her big London comeback recital, she said to the parents of a coughing child, “Maybe bring her back when she’s older.” She explains herself in a guest column for The Guardian.
  
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• Ghosts of Christmases past: vintage festive drawings from the archive

  10-12-2014 12:43
  
  In 1929, the Manchester Guardian launched a Christmas drawing contest, where ‘grown-ups’ were invited to sketch ‘a domestic scene’, ‘a street scene’ or a Christmas scene. The top entries were published every day for a month. From carol singers to children awaiting Saint Nick and boys bobbing boats in the kitchen sink, here are the best
  Share your drawings and photos of Christmas scenes todayThrough thick and thin: readers’ photos and drawings of their families - in pictures Continu
  
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• Share your drawings and photos of Christmas scenes

  10-12-2014 12:41
  
  The Manchester Guardian ran a Christmas sketching competition in 1929. Now, we’d like you to share your drawings and photos of Christmas scenes today via GuardianWitnessThrough thick and thin: readers’ photos and drawings of their families - in picturesOn 1 November 1929, the Manchester Guardian launched three Christmas competitions, one of which was a drawing contest where ‘grown-ups’ were invited to draw ‘a domestic scene’, ‘a street scene’ or a Christmas scene. The competition
  
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• Through thick and thin: readers' photos and drawings of their families - in pictures

  10-12-2014 12:38
  
  From a 10-year-old’s drawing of his grandmother to a Jamaican wedding and an accidental recreation of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody cover, here are your visions of family life as inspired from drawings from the archiveYou can see the rest - and share your own - on GuardianWitnessFrom the archive: share your drawings and photos of Christmas scenes
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• Janet Suzman Defends Statement That Theatre Is “A White Invention”

  10-12-2014 10:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Janet Suzman Defends Statement That Theatre Is “A White Invention” The South African-born actress – a longtime campaigner against racism who had a famous anti-apartheid activist for an aunt – drew some outrage on Monday by saying that theatre is a “European invention and white people go to it. It’s in their DNA.” She clarified […]
  
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• Mysterious Italian Author Reveals – A Little Bit

  10-12-2014 09:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  The novelist known as Elena Ferrante: “I didn’t choose anonymity. The books are signed. Instead, I chose absence. More than 20 years ago, I felt the burden of exposing myself in public, I wanted to detach myself from the finished story; I wanted the books to assert themselves without my patronage.”
  
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• Spirits Are Up – And So Are Ticket Sales And Buzz – At Indianapolis Symphony

  10-12-2014 09:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Just two years ago, the future of the eight-decades-old orchestra seemed iffy. Cash-strapped and with its musicians and management at odds over a new contract, the ISO board canceled the first two weeks of the 2012-13 season. … Now, fortunes are rebounding. After three consecutive years of shrinking, ticket sales for 2013-14 rose to $7.5 […]
  
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• They’ve Already Been Workshopping This Opera, But They’ve Only Now Announced The Composer

  10-12-2014 09:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The composer usually is first to come aboard, even in the most unconventional operas. However, the appointment of Opera Philadelphia’s now-in-process ANDY: A Popera composer Dan Visconti was only announced this week – for a piece that has already had public workshop performances by the Philadelphia cabaret group the Bearded Ladies.”
  
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• Danish National Chamber Orchestra Will Shut Down After All (The Chili Peppers Didn’t Work)

  10-12-2014 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Culture Minister Marianne Jelved said on Tuesday that she has signed a new public-service agreement with broadcaster DR that will see the 42-person orchestra shut down as planned. Jelved said that although a majority of parliament was against the closing of the orchestra, politicians were unable to come up with a realistic alternative for funding […]
  
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• What They Protested At La Scala’s Season Opening This Year

  10-12-2014 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are always protests on opening night: demonstrators see it as an ideal occasion to get their causes in front of TV cameras. This year, Milan was worried enough about violence to bring in 1,000 riot police. And, as it happened, current events had some bearing on what was happening inside the opera house, on […]
  
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• Orchestra CEO In Calif. Convicted Of Embezzlement, Faces 16 Years

  10-12-2014 09:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Stephen Jay Carlson, former executive director of the Peninsula Symphony Orchestra in Silicon Valley, faces such a long sentence for a nonviolent offense because of a prior conviction – on a rather lurid charge.
  
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• Winnie the Pooh illustration by EH Shepard sells for over £300,000 at auction

  10-12-2014 09:03
  
  An illustration of Winnie the Pooh has been sold at auction for over £300,000.
  
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• Adrian Searle's top 10 art shows of 2014

  10-12-2014 09:00
  
  Richard Serra defied gravity and Camille Henrot set loose a mechanical snake, but Matisse proved a cut above – our critic picks the best art shows of 2014For almost three months, the ex-KLF frontman and art world irritant ferried daffodils beneath Spaghetti Junction, held knitting circles, shone shoes, swept roads, made soup, rang bells and talked his way round the city as part a mammoth world tour, due to continue until 2025. No, it wasn’t great art, but it was heartfelt, engaging, stupid a
  
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• Hackers Send New Message To Sony: Withdraw The Movie!

  10-12-2014 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘Stop immediately showing the movie of terrorism which can break the regional peace and cause the War!’ the hacking group said, … apparently referring to The Interview, a Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy about a plot to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. The cyberattack on Sony Pictures has been linked to North Korea by investigators […]
  
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• Hackers Demanded Money From Sony Before Launching Cyber Attack

  10-12-2014 08:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘We’ve got great damage by Sony Pictures,’ writes ‘God’sApstls’ in the message that was sent Nov. 21 … ‘The compensation for it, monetary compensation we want. Pay the damage, or Sony Pictures will be bombarded as a whole. You know us very well. We never wait long. You’d better behave wisely.'”
  
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• Here comes the mirror man: an interview with Douglas Gordon

  10-12-2014 08:51
  
  The Scottish artist is flooding New York’s Park Avenue Armory to create a giant looking-glass surrounding the pianist Hélène Grimaud
  
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• Hachette Tries Selling Books Straight From Twitter (Take That, Amazon!)

  10-12-2014 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Hachette Book Group will start selling books straight from tweets, though it can’t be labeled more than an experiment for now: The publisher has partnered with digital distributor Gumroad to sell three gifty print books ‘for a limited time and in limited quantities’ via the books’ authors’ tweets.”
  
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• There Was A Real-Life Lolita

  10-12-2014 08:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The story of 11-year-old Sally Horner’s abduction changed the course of 20th-century literature. She just never got to tell it herself.”
  
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• New Sacred Music Is Now Cool (And “Squeaky-Gate Music” Is Over)

  10-12-2014 08:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Peter Phillips, director of the Tallis Scholars: “The standard of singing in our liturgical and concert choirs has steadily gone up, to the point where many non-Christian composers now feel able to express themselves fully writing for them. … Sacred choral music has aligned itself with orchestral and operatic composition as an accepted medium for […]
  
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• Misty Copeland Dances For The Wall Street Journal

  10-12-2014 08:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  She performs an excerpt from Alexei Ratmansky’s version of The Nutcracker, then talks about her career, body image, Under Armour, and her upcoming “docu-series”. (video)
  
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• If Positive Thinking Doesn’t Work, What Does? WOOP Does

  10-12-2014 08:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  For decades, from Norman Vincent Peale to Oprah Winfrey, we’ve been told that the power of positive thinking is real. Now some researchers are arguing that, at best, it’s no sure thing and could even hold us back. So what’s a goal-oriented person to do? WOOP. (Yes, it’s an acronym.)
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.09.14

  10-12-2014 07:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  The weirdest day of my recent life AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2014-12-09 Boston’s Arts Czar – Real Or Window Dressing? AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-12-09 Will Nashville’s Gentrification Destroy Its Music Scene? AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2014-12-09 Preparing for Lawsuit? Why Might Neil MacGregor Be Doubling Down on His Elgin Marbles Bet? AJBlog: CultureGrrl […]
  
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• Putin’s £9m birthday gift to the Hermitage

  10-12-2014 07:30
  
  The Russian President presented the 250-year-old museum with a Fabergé egg and discussed plans for regional outposts
  
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• Performing Arts Manager at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts!

  10-12-2014 05:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts seeks an energetic self-starter to provide creative vision, development and management of performing arts programming and events.
  
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