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• India’s Traditional Brass Bands Facing A Difficult Future

  26-12-2014 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As the tastes of young, wealthier Indians shift to more modern music, young couples increasingly choose DJs playing electronic music instead of live bands. The shift is leaving band owners and musicians struggling to find gigs, exacerbating an already difficult existence.”
  
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• “The Interview” Makes A Million Dollars On Its First Day

  26-12-2014 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The film made just over $1 million in ticket sales from 331 locations for an impressive $3,142 per theater average, according to distributor Sony Pictures. Many theaters reported selling out showings.”
  
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• Jazz Great Buddy DeFranco,

  26-12-2014 22:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Buddy DeFranco almost single-handedly was the clarinetist who moved the harmonic and rhythmic language forward from where Benny Goodman left off into the much more adventurous territory of bebop and beyond, while never forgetting his roots in swing music. He was also unfailingly kind and supportive to every other clarinetist who came after him,” said […]
  
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• Report: UK Libraries Need To Be Rebranded For The 21st Century

  26-12-2014 21:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The 21st century librarian will need to be more of a community impresario with digital and commercial expertise who can champion their communities’ needs and generate new business and audiences for the library.”
  
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• The Art Market Is In Record Territory. Here’s Why We Should Worry

  26-12-2014 21:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The market has been eating the art,” says Robert Storr, the dean of the Yale University School of Art. “There are still good dealers who understand the danger, and artists who can say no. But we’re in a perilous position and we need to talk about it.”
  
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• How Sony’s “Interview” Problem Has Turned Into An Opportunity

  26-12-2014 21:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This is the first time a major studio film has embarked on what the industry calls a day-and-date release — that is, available for home viewing at the same time as it opens in theaters. Sony, which often seemed to be reacting as much as plotting a strategy while the hacking crisis blew up, has […]
  
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• Now Trending: Artists Exploring The Environment

  26-12-2014 21:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Artists and scholars are quick to pay lip service to the environmental catastrophe underway, but what’s needed is a response to E.O. Wilson’s clarion call in their work — a greening if you will of arts and letters. This is the goal of the burgeoning eco-arts and eco-criticism movement, which has slowly been gaining respectability […]
  
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• Here’s Why Classic Directing Endures

  26-12-2014 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In critical circles it’s fashionable to mock the discipline and caution of these less-obtrusive directors, but I would like to cheer the artisans and chameleons who quietly pursue their craft in the shadow of more sacred monsters.”
  
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• What Does Dance Have To Do With Video Games?

  26-12-2014 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “How do games and dances both incorporate four characteristics that demonstrate the realm of possibility, the realm of predictability, and hard work? These themes — simplicity, surprise, transformation, and repetition — became clear to me when, as a choreographer, I began working in the field of computer game design.”
  
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• How A Popular Fringe Theatre Show Got Around Tricky Copyright Issues

  26-12-2014 21:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Seen by multitudes, Potted Potter is testament to the resilience of Fringe comedy, to the power of the Potter brand – and to some unusually sensible attitudes toward copyright.”
  
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• One Man’s Guide To Reading Better

  26-12-2014 21:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We all read from different places, different backgrounds, and my meeting with Proust or Woolf, or Lydia Davis or J. M. Coetzee, will not be yours, nor should it be. On the other hand I do believe reading is an active skill, an art even, certainly not a question of passive absorption.”
  
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• Our Growing Forces Against Innovation

  26-12-2014 21:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Bad procurement policy is just one reason the United States has begun to lose its technological edge. Indeed, the multibillion-dollar valuations in Silicon Valley have obscured underlying problems in the way the United States develops and adopts technology.”
  
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• Rubens the master decorator rides into Royal Academy

  26-12-2014 18:45
  
  He used to be called ‘The Prince of Painters’ – this old term of praise is today more like a warning lightThe first art blockbuster of 2015 will see Peter Paul Rubens riding into the Royal Academy, probably in a golden chariot pulled by four leopards with the muse of Painting at his side, a bevy of plump nymphs hailing his triumph and the gods declaring his apotheosis from fire-fringed clouds.The art of this Flemish painter who decorated palaces and banqueting halls, went on diplomatic and
  
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• Morning Links: Kimono Edition

  26-12-2014 16:34 via artnews.com
  There are really great year-end lists from Kalup Linzy, Devrim Bayer, Korakrit Arunanondchai, and many more on the Walker Art Center’s blog. [Untitled (Blog)] A 1931 home designed by Amyas Connell for the art historian Bernard Ashmole, now owned by … Read More
  
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• Yung Lenox: hip-hop's unlikely eight-year-old Caravaggio

  26-12-2014 15:21
  
  Meet Yung Lenox, the 8-year-old artist with a penchant for drawing hip-hop stars who is about to have a documentary made about him and his artYung Lenox is a Seattle pre-teen who specializes in drawing psychedelic portraits of rappers and their album art work. Younger than most “Yung”s or “Lil”s in hop-hop – he’s only eight – Lenox has already had three gallery shows, and sold more than 1,000 prints. He started at age five, with his father Skip championing him. Skip, Lenox’s dad
  
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• fig-2: a new art exhibition every week for 2015

  26-12-2014 09:00
  
  Fifteen years ago a Soho warehouse hosted 50 art events in 50 weeks. Writers, architects and even milliners exhibited alongside both famous, and unknown, artists. As the project is revived for 2015, Nicholas Wroe talks to its curators about capturing the spirit of the timesCast your mind back to the London art scene in early 2000. There was no Tate Modern and no Frieze art fair. But, difficult as it might be to imagine, despite these absences there was plenty of art. Mark Francis, now of Gagosia
  
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