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• Uzbek Museum Sold Off All Its Major Art And Replaced It With Copies

  14-12-2014 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The chief curator of the Uzbek State Arts Museum, Mirfayz Usmonov, received a nine-year sentence and two other museum staff received eight years each, the Huquq newspaper reported.”
  
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• The UK Is Protecting Rural Views From Windfarms, But Who’s Protecting London’s Skyline?

  14-12-2014 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Unesco, which had been awaiting this decision, is now likely to put Westminster on the danger list.”
  
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• The Internet Meets Duchamp

  14-12-2014 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The most effective conceptual writing, as with all conceptual art, alters a thing’s accepted context. Critics would have you think that all this is merely silly, but in the best cases there’s a method to the madness: these artists are doing the very basic, very necessary work of helping us see with new eyes.”
  
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• Are Print Books Back? And Was It Just A Rumor That They Were Going To Die?

  14-12-2014 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This is not the end of civilisation, but a sign of the times. Reading habits are changing worldwide. The consumer’s use of leisure time is no longer dominated by book-reading. That, says Daunt, means ‘we have to rethink what a good bookshop should be.'”
  
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• A Year In The Life Of Ireland’s ‘National City Of Culture’

  14-12-2014 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What I would hate to see happen now is that City Hall would breathe a big sigh of relief and think, Thank God that’s over: we made it to the finish line and nobody got hurt – now let’s not talk about arts and culture for a long time.”
  
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• Prepping For The Bolshoi’s ‘Swan Lake’ [VIDEO]

  14-12-2014 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When the tragic situation happened with Sergei Filin, I froze. … I understood that if we wanted to do something good for Sergei, we have to try to dance as well as we can.”
  
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• How To Become A Poet

  14-12-2014 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I’ve been thinking about 1998. I was twelve years old that year; Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. were both killed that year. To learn about that kind of violence existing in the world — both racist and homophobic — it changed me. I don’t know if I fully understood it at the time, but […]
  
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• ‘Ida’ Is Piling Up The Awards As The Season Chugs Into Gear

  14-12-2014 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Eric Abraham, one of the producers of the film, dedicated the award to the people whose relatives were victims of the Holocaust, which included members of his own family. He remarked on the fact that anti-semitism was again on the rise.”
  
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• Who’s Saving – And Curating – Protest Art?

  14-12-2014 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Since it wouldn’t be in the true spirit of protest if there weren’t at least a few voices of dissent, not everyone’s on board with preserving these ephemeral but powerful works. In Hong Kong, many museums that were asked to keep some of the artworks rejected them because they were ‘political.'”
  
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• Book Publishers Need To Understand Fan Culture

  14-12-2014 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The online book world is about gathering around a book, or a love of books generally. As I’ve argued here before, for millions of us, the solitary act of reading becomes incredibly social in the digital spaces where we spend our time.”
  
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• Stage Manager Paralyzed In Theatre Accident Is Awarded Millions In Compensation

  14-12-2014 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “She went through a standard, unmarked door, which had no warning signs or notices. When she opened the door she was met with a black curtain, which she assumed was a light blocker. She went in what she thought was a room but stepped into open air above the stage.”
  
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• All mini cons: a peek inside the history of the dolls’ house

  14-12-2014 19:00
  
  From stately homes with plumbed-in baths to council houses and high-rises, the story of Britain can be told through 300 years of dolls’ houses. Oliver Wainwright gets a giant’s eye view of Small StoriesFor the Victorian tycoon, what better way to show off your wealth than to acquire a magnificent country pile and stuff it full of four-poster beds and mahogany dressers, with an army of cooks, butlers, maids and footmen? The answer is to do all of that – and then do it all again in miniature
  
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• The New York Philharmonic Needs (A Lot Of) Money. What Will The New Chairman Of The Board Do?

  14-12-2014 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The orchestra, which hopes to begin renovating its home as soon as 2019, wants to effectively double the size of its endowment. But there will be stiff competition: Its next-door neighbor, the Met, is planning its own campaign to double its endowment.”
  
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• A Supreme Court Case About A 50-Year-Old Spiderman Toy May Change Everything About Patents

  14-12-2014 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The court noted concern that a patent holder might require someone licensing a patent to also license expired patents in order to seal the deal — a bargaining power that would have undermined the intent of making patents eventually open up to the public. Effectively, it would give some added leverage where they already have […]
  
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• How Can Music Matter At A Time With Thousands Marching Through The Streets?

  14-12-2014 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “People turn to music in times of crisis — I do — but even as it brings happiness and helps process deep feeling, it can feel like something extra. There’s an urge to repurpose it, to figure out how it can serve a higher cause.”
  
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• Museums Are Set To Become Downright Creepers (In An Attempt To Collect Data)

  14-12-2014 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A team of experts at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum searched for hidden spots in the rotunda to conceal tiny electronic transmitters. The devices will enable the museum to send messages about artworks to visitors via their smartphones while at the same time collect details about the comings and goings of those guests.”
  
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• The BBC Is Facing Massive Cuts That May Destroy It (Or So Its Advocates Say)

  14-12-2014 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s an unsatisfactory system in all sorts of ways but, like ­democracy, it’s the best we have. The making of good programmes is an expensive business: if you do it on the cheap you just get poor-­quality, home-made programmes and a lot of bought-in stuff, much of which is rubbish.”
  
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• How Did Shakespeare, The Playwright, Become Shakespeare, The Myth?

  14-12-2014 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is useful, in answering this question, to think of Shakespeare less as a legendary artist and more as a product: In order for a product to sell, it of course needs to meet certain demands of quality. But the ability to make the sale is also dependent on more banal considerations.”
  
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• With Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars At Stake, Apple Would Like Ruling In E-book Pricefixing Overturned

  14-12-2014 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In Apple’s version of events, the company did ‘nothing more’ than ‘[hear] out’ the publishers’ complaints about Amazon and convey its ‘openness to pricing above $9.99.’ Nothing in the evidence, they stress, definitively shows otherwise.”
  
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• Living In Fantasy Worlds

  14-12-2014 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The infrastructure of organised religion now seems to have passed to the fantasy writers and film-makers, Builders of Worlds, and we the followers obligingly immerse ourselves in their imaginings, arguing amongst ourselves about our various interpretations of their gospel with all the fervour of true believers.”
  
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• What Should Arts Journalists Do With The Hacked Sony Information?

  14-12-2014 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The entire business world is fueled by secrecy, but the sort of secrecy kept behind Hollywood’s closed doors, notorious for its power plays, publicist machinations, and bloated egos — that’s sexy.”
  
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• How Los Angeles Became A Gallery Force In The Art World

  14-12-2014 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘Regen Projects was the point of rendezvous,’ [MoCA director Philip Vergne] says. ‘You would go, you would have a drink, you would talk. It’s a gallery made by the artists. There is a whole network of relationships around it, a real communality.'”
  
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• Freud and Eros: Love, Lust and Longing at the Freud Museum: Objects of Desire

  14-12-2014 14:35
  
  Last week, I read for the first time from my next novel, which is about a romance writer who gets locked in a mental asylum for pushing against the bounds of the genre. The event took place at Waterstones Hampstead; it celebrated the end of the year-long #ReadWomen2014 campaign, which has aimed to promote female writers, alive and dead. What was striking about it was how all of us – Deborah Levy, Juliet Jacques, Rachel Genn, and Joanna Walsh, who ran the campaign – read work that referred
  
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• Freud and Eros: Love, Lust and Longing at the Freud Museum

  14-12-2014 14:35
  
  Last week, I read for the first time from my next novel, which is about a romance writer who gets locked in a mental asylum for pushing against the bounds of the genre. The event took place at Waterstones Hampstead; it celebrated the end of the year-long #ReadWomen2014 campaign, which has aimed to promote female writers, alive and dead. What was striking about it was how all of us – Deborah Levy, Juliet Jacques, Rachel Genn, and Joanna Walsh, who ran the campaign – read work that referred
  
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• Paul Cummins: ‘I won’t make any more poppies, because of what they signify’

  14-12-2014 10:00
  
  The artist’s display of 888,246 ceramic poppies at the Tower of London – Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red – caught the national mood on the centenary of the first world warSee the Observer’s faces of 2014 in full hereHelen Macdonald: ‘I was feral, I identified with the hawk, took on her character’Of all the different ways in which the centenary of the start of the first world war was commemorated this year, none struck a chord with the public quite so powerfully as the tide of scarl
  
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• Reiner Ruthenbeck; Julio Le Parc review – elegant, charming, fetchingly simple

  14-12-2014 01:06
  
  Serpentine Gallery; Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London W2
  The first big UK shows for German artist Reiner Ruthenbeck, 77, and Argentina’s Julio Le Parc, 86, are long overdueAt dusk in Hyde Park, the sun hangs so low among the winter trees it is little more than a fingernail of light against the darkness. Night is gradually setting in. Soon it will cancel the day completely, but the exact moment when this happens is beautifully mysterious – and the subject of a work inside the Serpentine Gall
  
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• Photojournalist Guillermo Cervera's first solo exhibition reveals the more offbeat side of life

  14-12-2014 01:00
  
  Guillermo Cervera made his name photographing conflict zones. For the past two decades, the Spanish photojournalist has covered subjects from the war in Bosnia to the Arab Spring to Darfur's refugees.
  
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