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• Study: Internet Tops Friends, Family As Sources Of Information

  30-12-2014 21:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In a report we issued this afternoon, we found that for a cluster of problems with government connections more people turn to the internet than to experts or family members. This preference for the internet isn’t the case for every person’s every problem. But it was interesting to see how much the internet has moved […]
  
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• Broadway Box Office Surges Over Holidays

  30-12-2014 19:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Broadway League said Monday that shows on the Great White Way pulled in $40,993,950 for the week ending Sunday, better than the same week last year when 30 shows attracted $38,783,854. Attendance also went from 290,386 in 2013 to 318,721 this year, with crowds taking advantage of mild New York weather and Christmas falling […]
  
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• The Two-Time Oscar-Winning Best Actress You Probably Never Heard Of (She Just Died At 104)

  30-12-2014 19:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Luise Rainer’s meteoric rise and rapid descent has mystified movie fans for decades. It was almost impossible to believe that — after winning an Academy Award for her wrenching performance in “The Great Ziegfeld” in 1936, and then following it up with a triumphal turn as O-Lan in “The Good Earth” a year later — […]
  
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• How Much Can You Trust Published Scientific Research?

  30-12-2014 19:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Has published research become less reproducible than it was in the past? We’ll likely never know, but the history of science is filled with examples of researchers arguing over the reproducibility of a published result—and then stumbling onto a completely new discovery.”
  
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• TV News – A Growth Industry?

  30-12-2014 19:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Although the landscape has become more challenging, TV news can still be a lucrative endeavor. The morning shows each generate hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising revenue for their networks. The evening newscasts remain vital to each network’s image, and after years of fighting off irrelevancy, are now seeing a ratings renaissance.”
  
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• Struggles Of The Middle-Aged Musicians

  30-12-2014 18:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “According to the Recording Industry Association of America, only three recording artists achieved platinum sales certification on an album released in 2014. Music lovers are slowly turning away from the ownership of music, as the shift to streaming services continues. But the streaming model isn’t yet a lucrative one for musicians. So they fight, especially […]
  
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• Everyone’s Trying To Figure Out How Our Brains Work (It’s Really Really Difficult)

  30-12-2014 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  One “danger that the big brain projects will have to navigate is the temptation to consider the brain in isolation. This has been a prevalent tendency ever since the brain became established as the “seat of the mind:” as the popular view has it, all that we are and all that we experience takes place […]
  
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• The “Culture” Problem (What Is It?)

  30-12-2014 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  It goes without saying that “culture” is a confusing word, this year or any year. Merriam-Webster offers six definitions for it (including the biological one, as in “bacterial culture”). The problem is that “culture” is more than the sum of its definitions. If anything, its value as a word depends on the tension between them.
  
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• Here’s Why It’s So Difficult To Run A Media Company Today

  30-12-2014 18:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Clutter is up — more ads, more channels, more content — advertising rates continue to drop, and audiences are programming their own universe in text, video and audio. Consumers don’t want to watch commercials, are fleeing networks, hate reruns, are increasingly bored by reality programming, shun print products and, oh, by the way, don’t want […]
  
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• Does Hollywood Have A Race Problem?

  30-12-2014 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Despite America’s changing demographics, Hollywood’s most powerful industry leaders have been slow to respond to a demand for movies that reflect cultural and racial shifts that have long been underway.”
  
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• Should Museums Be Forced To Disclose Everything About Where Their Money Comes From?

  30-12-2014 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “No clear distinction can really be made between money that comes from ‘good’ sources and money which comes from areas that some people consider ‘bad’. Public funding itself is far from pure. It often comes with strings attached.”
  
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• Adeline Ooi Tapped as Director Asia for Art Basel

  30-12-2014 17:34 via artnews.com
  Just three and a half months ahead of Art Basel Hong Kong’s third edition, Adeline Ooi has been selected as its new Director Asia, Art Basel announced this morning. Ooi will now oversee the development of the Hong Kong fair, which … Read More
  
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• Eyegays, Ecstatic Painting, and a Glorious Mess: Andrew Russeth on the Year in, and Beyond, the Galleries

  30-12-2014 15:51 via artnews.com
  It is not an easy time to be making and showing art in New York. Rents—for apartments, for studios, and for galleries, in seemingly every neighborhood—are climbing fast, too many jobs are tenuous, and ultra-blue-chip dealers are expanding their often-deadening … Read More
  
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• Turner’s Perfect Storm

  30-12-2014 15:30 via artnews.com
  Lashed to the mast for four hours as the ship heaved and plunged, Turner experienced a violent storm at sea Read More
  
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• OOIOOOIOOI

  30-12-2014 14:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Big long sound poems that looks cool
  
  
  
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• Morning Links: Video Game Edition

  30-12-2014 14:19 via artnews.com
  “As collectors, art connoisseurs and institutions eagerly gear up to travel to Cuba after President Obama’s decision to loosen the economic embargo, the art scene that awaits them is sui generis: a world whose artists are cut off from supplies … Read More
  
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• Poverty lines: where are the poor in art today?

  30-12-2014 11:00
  
  Caravaggio, Bruegel and Van Gogh all made studies of the poor in spite of rich patronage. Why aren’t more artists doing that now?Art has a long history of entertaining the rich. From ancient artisans who made gold drinking cups for kings, to the artists of today who sell installations to plutocrats, art has been a luxury product, the servant of money. And yet it also has a social conscience. At this consumerist time of year, it is worth looking at some of the ways artists portray poverty.Carav
  
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• The Death of the Artist – And the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur

  30-12-2014 10:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Hard-working artisan, solitary genius, credentialed professional – the image of the artist has changed radically over the centuries. What if the latest model to emerge means the end of art as we have known it?” William Deresiewicz, who caused a stir this past summer with an essay arguing that Ivy League colleges were overrated and […]
  
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• What The Met Opera’s Downgraded Bond Rating Really Means (And Doesn’t Mean)

  30-12-2014 10:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “How bad is this rating? Bloomberg noted it was ‘three steps above junk’. … [But] this does not mean, as some have interpreted, that the Met is three steps away from being placed in the worst possible category of borrower.”
  
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• Pianist Claude Frank Dead At 89

  30-12-2014 10:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A pianist much admired for interpretations elegantly perched between penetrating expressivity and rigorous intellectual inquest, … Frank was an influential performer and pedagogue, teaching at Yale University for nearly four decades, and a member of the Curtis Institute of Music faculty since 1988.”
  
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• Seoul Philharmonic CEO Finally Ends Her No-Good-Very-Bad Month (And Tenure) By Resigning

  30-12-2014 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Park Hyun-jung, president of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, announced on Monday afternoon that she will step down after being accused of sexual harassment and verbal abuse by her employees in early December. The announcement came a day before the orchestra’s board of directors was to officially dismiss her from her post during a board meeting.”
  
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• How “The Nutcracker” Conquered American Ballet

  30-12-2014 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When the San Francisco Ballet company performed the first complete version of The Nutcracker in the U.S. on Christmas Eve, 1944, they had no way of knowing that in time it would become as American as leaving the milk and cookies out for Santa.” (includes video)
  
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• Free The Calder In The Senate Office Building!

  30-12-2014 09:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The four, black aluminum clouds comprising the once-mobile component of Mountains and Clouds – one of the final works of sculptor Alexander Calder, which dominates the Hart Senate office building’s 90-foot-high atrium – haven’t drifted for more than a decade. They once rotated at a gentle speed, but have been frozen in place for years […]
  
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• Cuba’s Art Scene Awaits The Coming Rush Of Travelers

  30-12-2014 09:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As collectors, art connoisseurs and institutions eagerly gear up to travel to Cuba after President Obama’s decision to loosen the economic embargo, the art scene that awaits them is sui generis: a world whose artists are cut off from supplies and the Internet and, at the same time, celebrated by a coterie of international buyers […]
  
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• Why Andrea Martin Keeps Getting Parts (And Winning Awards) In Her 60s

  30-12-2014 09:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I’m not the girl who gets to make out with Ryan Gosling in a scene. I’m the housekeeper who comes in on Ryan Gosling and then I do a spit take and then trip over his underwear and knock my head as I walk out on all fours. That’s my part. So I think there’s […]
  
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• America Has “Nutcracker”, England Has Pantomimes, Chicago Has “Burning Bluebeard” (What?)

  30-12-2014 09:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As holiday traditions go, the play Burning Bluebeard doesn’t exactly seem like a natural: no Cratchits, no elves, no Grinches, no sugarplum fairies. Its place in the season is all about timing. It’s based on the real-life story of a fatal fire that happened in the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day – and […]
  
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• Art adviser takes the reins at Art Basel in Hong Kong

  30-12-2014 09:00
  
  Malaysia-born Adeline Ooi, a VIP relations manager at the fair, fills the post of "director Asia"
  
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• “Serial” Update: Jay Speaks Publicly For The First Time

  30-12-2014 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The star witness at [Adnan] Syed’s trial was Jay Wilds, a former classmate who testified that he helped Syed dispose of Lee’s body.” Jay declined to speak to the producers of Serial while the podcast seires was being prepared; now he feels he was unfairly portrayed and has spoken to a different outlet – with […]
  
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• Why Uber – The Idea, Not The Actual Car Service – Crossed A Cultural Barrier In 2014

  30-12-2014 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  ‘”Like an Uber for’ is shorthand for describing an item or service delivered wherever you are and whenever you want it, but the phrase also hints at a much larger shift in people’s expectations about their interactions with the world. It turns out one of the most hackneyed phrases in tech this year may also […]
  
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• How To Hack Your Holiday Memories

  30-12-2014 08:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What if we could choose which memories of the holiday season – or any season – will stand out most vividly and which we’re content to let fade with the passage of time? While it isn’t possible to do this with an exacting, sci-fi level of precision, it is possible to use some basic findings […]
  
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• Cracking The Sitcom Formula

  30-12-2014 08:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Noah Charney (a U.S. expat in Slovenia) was asked to write a sitcom for Croatian TV, he said yes, despite knowing little about either Croatia or sitcoms. As he learned from lots of Googling and watching old shows online, he learned that “there is a highly-specific, minute-by-minute recipe used to write the vast majority […]
  
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• Benedict Cumberbatch On Why Sherlock Never Gets Laid

  30-12-2014 08:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I think he also realizes he can’t beat female intuition; he can’t. So to embroil himself where he might be enslaved through adoration or sexual desire or any kind of power or chemistry to do with love is too big a risk for him. That doesn’t make him gay, and it doesn’t make him asexual. […]
  
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• Market predictions for 2015: economic chaos, dealers under threat, leaderless sale rooms…

  30-12-2014 08:00
  
  The five things you need to know
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.29.14

  30-12-2014 07:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Court Orders Tate To Provide Funding Details, Pronto AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-12-29 Explainer: How do costs affect ticket prices? AJBlog: For What it’s Worth Published 2014-12-29 The Year in CultureGrrl, 2014 Edition AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2014-12-29 Monday Recommendation: Edward Simon AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2014-12-29
  
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• The stories behind seven Australian paintings

  30-12-2014 04:49
  
  As custodian of the Australian collection of the Art Gallery of NSW, Barry Pearce had a ‘professional love affair with paintings I never tired of looking at, day after day, year in year out’. Here, he picks seven works from his book 100 Moments in Australian Painting that offer more than a broad-brushstrokes view of his country
  This arresting, compact image of a waterfall just north of the city of Melbourne is a reminder of the potent European obsession with nature among artists of the mid-1
  
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• The Master List of Pro Wrestling Finishing Moves

  30-12-2014 01:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Once upon a time, professional wrestling in the United States was a “real” combat sport. The problem with this is that from the perspective of an audience, watching two men in a clinch can get pretty boring, especially in an arena where most members of the audience are far from the action. In a competitive ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Pavilion: An Excerpt

  30-12-2014 00:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Rat Hole lay behind the old Physics block between the disused boys and girls changing rooms next to the hockey and football pitches.  It had accommodated smokers for seven years and it smelt of mushrooms inside.  It was partially hidden by a wrought iron staircase that was bent by people kicking it and on ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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