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• Here Are The Copyrighted Works That Would Have Gone Into Public Domain In 2015

  31-12-2014 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Under current copyright law, we’ll have to wait until 2054.1 And no published works will enter our public domain until 2019. The laws in other countries are different—thousands of works are entering the public domain in Canada and the EU on January 1.”
  
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• 2014: The Year in Review

  31-12-2014 19:55 via artnews.com
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• Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, OAE and Layton, St John’s Smith Square, review: Bach has bite under Layton's masterly direction

  31-12-2014 18:29
  
  Bach’s Mass in B Minor is a mystery and a miracle, and had to wait a century for its premiere; as the summation of all Bach’s vocal ideas it demands exceptional performers. And that’s what it got in  this lovely Baroque auditorium, with  four fine soloists, the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Stephen Layton’s direction.
  
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• Jazz In 2014: A Culture Of Complaint

  31-12-2014 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Jazz in 2014 — or more accurately, the discourse around jazz in 2014 — often resembled a crescendo of gibes and gripes, with each new affront calling forth a fresh wave of umbrage. In the end it wasn’t any single skirmish that led to my air of weary resignation, but rather a brisk accumulation of […]
  
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• The Art Of Great Theatre Posters

  31-12-2014 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Whether it’s the sexed-up photograph of Neil Patrick Harris on Broadway or the pared-down treatment of a domestic drama in a regional theater, the best posters convey the conceptual complexities of the plays they serve.”
  
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• Simone Forti at Museum der Moderne

  31-12-2014 18:00 via artnews.com
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• Really? This Was The Top-Grossing Movie In The UK In 2014?

  31-12-2014 17:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The film made £34.27 million in ticket sales this year to claim the top spot at the British box office, beating runner-up The Inbetweeners 2 by over £1 million in takings.”
  
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• “Wolf Of Wall Street” Was The Most-Pirated Movie Of 2014

  31-12-2014 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Wolf was illegally downloaded 30.035 million times between Jan. 1 and Dec. 23, 2014. The film, which was released in theaters Dec. 25, 2013, grossed $116 million domestically and $392 million worldwide.”
  
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• Morocco Is The Latest Country To Ban “Exodus” Movie

  31-12-2014 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Morocco’s film commission issued a letter to all cinemas on Saturday, notifying them that the film, which portrays the story of Moses, has been banned for possibly portraying God in the scene of Moses’ revelation. Islam and Morocco law both forbid the public display of images of God.”
  
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• How To Disabuse Your Child That (S)he’s An Artist

  31-12-2014 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Sex is one of the most animal things a human can do (biological), and language is one of the most human things a human can do (cultural). Language is also for everybody. Art is another matter altogether. It is not as universal as sex or as democratic as language. Which brings me to the first […]
  
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• Another Theatre Agrees To Pay Living Wage To Its Workers

  31-12-2014 17:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We think it’s a good thing to aspire to, and we’re able to pay that. Our staff work long hours, often unsociable hours, and they work very hard. They’ve been key to the success of the Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall in recent years, and we think it’s only right that is recognised.”
  
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• The Medical Costs Of Loneliness

  31-12-2014 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The range of harmful neural and behavioural effects of perceived isolation documented in adults include increased anxiety, hostility and social withdrawal; fragmented sleep and daytime fatigue; increased vascular resistance and altered gene expression and immunity; decreased impulse control; increased negativity and depressive symptoms; and increased age-related cognitive decline and risk of dementia.”
  
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• Security Experts: Sony Hacking Probably Done By Insider

  31-12-2014 17:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “They argue that the connections between the Sony hack and the North Korean government amount to circumstantial evidence. Further, they say the level of the breach indicates an intimate knowledge of Sony’s computer systems that could have come from someone on the inside.”
  
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• A Case For The Importance Of ’70s Culture

  31-12-2014 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The recent burst of fictional resurrections of the Seventies — the most acclaimed novels of recent years among them — doesn’t just represent the establishment of a new consumer market. The novelists who have lately returned to the Seventies seem to be making a stronger claim: that there is something uniquely vital to the decade, and in fact uniquely […]
  
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• Penny Arcade: Here’s What It Takes To Have An Art Career These Days

  31-12-2014 16:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Art was done the same way for a long time — you were young, you came, you watched a lot of other people and you started to struggle to make your own work, and eventually people came to see you and you made a little bit of money. Now that economic structure is totally broken. […]
  
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• Is Art Dead In New York? (Naw, Just Reinvented)

  31-12-2014 16:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Embedded in the premise that art in New York is dead is often a fetishized nostalgia for the 1970s and early ’80s, a cheaper, more chaotic time when high crime, civic neglect and the threat of bankruptcy opened whole neighborhoods to artists.”
  
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• In Praise Of Know-Nothing Criticism

  31-12-2014 16:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The problem with demanding a certain kind of knowledge or a certain kind of expertise in criticism, then, is that it can end up presupposing, or insisting upon, a certain kind of conversation. And often that seems like the point: expertise is used as an excuse to silence critics — and especially negative critics.”
  
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• Topless Cellist: The Improbable Life of Charlotte Moorman by Joan Rothfuss – review

  31-12-2014 16:07
  
  Electrified bikinis, cellos made of ice … Moorman created a template for avant-garde and performance art. So why is she still unknown?On a freezing night in February 1967, connoisseurs of advanced music thronged to a small concert hall beneath the Wurlitzer Building in New York to hear – also, assuredly, to get an eyeful of – the cellist Charlotte Moorman. Among them were half-a-dozen conspicuous squares whom everybody pegged immediately as plainclothes policemen. The audience, and the cop
  
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• January 2015 Exhibition Reviews

  31-12-2014 16:01 via artnews.com
  Art criticism from around the world, published in this month's print edition Read More
  
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• Sarah Charlesworth at Art Institute of Chicago

  31-12-2014 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Lee Materazzi at Quint Gallery

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• Nicole Eisenman at Institute of Contemporary Art

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• Dina Kelberman at CUE Art Foundation

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• Genieve Figgis at Half Gallery

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• Rob Pruitt at Gavin Brown’s enterprise

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• Marisol at El Museo del Barrio

  31-12-2014 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis at Jewish Museum

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• Chris Ofili at New Museum

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• ‘Sigmund Freud & the Play on the Burden of Representation’ at 21er Haus

  31-12-2014 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Annie Proulx Wishes She’d Never Written “Brokeback Mountain”

  31-12-2014 10:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I wish I’d never written the story. It’s just been the cause of hassle and problems and irritation since the film came out. … One of the reasons we keep the gates locked here is that a lot of men have decided that the story should have had a happy ending. They can’t bear the […]
  
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• “Creative Entrepreneur” Or No, The Artist Is Definitely Not Dead Yet

  31-12-2014 10:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Robinson Meyer hits back at William Deresiewicz’s jeremiad: “His reading suffers a tremendous flaw: Deresiewicz cannot discriminate the substantial from the faddish. What’s more, his historical work is incomplete – he mistakes a very new idea for a very old one. Deresiewicz’s artistic philosophy aspires to timelessness, but it’s younger than most of his Millennial […]
  
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• Is Social Media Killing The Professional Critic?

  31-12-2014 10:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mmmm-maybe …
  
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• How Sony Botched Its Response To The Hacking

  31-12-2014 10:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Interviews with over two dozen people involved in the episode suggest that Sony – slow to realize the depths of its peril – let its troubles deepen by mounting a public defense only after enormous damage had been done.”
  
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• Milan’s Symphony Orchestra Saved For Another Year As Italian Government Finally Guarantees 2015 Funding

  31-12-2014 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since the fall, the management and supporters of the Orchestra “Giuseppe Verdi” have been warning that, because €3 million in promised government funding since 2013 had still not arrived and no subsidy for 2015 had been allocated, the ensemble could be forced to shut down. With less than 48 hours remaining until the new year, […]
  
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• Eileen Atkins Remembers “The Killing Of Sister George”

  31-12-2014 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  She and Beryl Reid played the leads in the first British play about lesbians, touring the country to stone-silent audiences (when they weren’t walking out). Then they got to London.
  
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• Jeff Koons Faces Another Plagiarism Accusation In Paris

  31-12-2014 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A second sculpture by Jeff Koons is conspicuously absent from his retrospective at the Centre Pompidou after a photographer’s widow complained to the art star and the museum’s administration that Naked (1988) constituted copyright infringement.”
  
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• Hilary Mantel Writes About Grief

  31-12-2014 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Grief is like fear in the way it gnaws the gut. Your mind is on a short tether, turning round and round. You fear to focus on your grief but cannot concentrate on anything else. You look with incredulity at those going about their ordinary lives. … Your former life still seems to exist, but […]
  
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• How Shostakovich’s “The Bolt” Changed Ballet History

  31-12-2014 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Despite its seemingly impeccable narrative of industrial espionage being routed by heroic factory workers, its creators were too tempted to have fun with their cast of baddies (the Lazy Idler, the Petty Bourgeois Woman, and the decadent, western types satirised by the local amateur theatre troupe). They were too obviously bored by the decent workers, […]
  
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• The French Are Simply Mad For Christopher Wheeldon’s “American In Paris”

  31-12-2014 09:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  The choreographer’s stage adaptation of the fabled Gene Kelly-Leslie Caron Hollywood musical – the first ever – at the Théâtre du Châtelet (and headed to Broadway) has won ecstatic reviews and completely sold out its run. (includes audio)
  
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• The Strange Connections Between What We’re Hearing And How Things Taste

  31-12-2014 09:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Turns out there is actually a science to the music or background noise in restaurants, cafes and grocery stores – and why airline food tastes bland.
  
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• Hong Kong’s Oldest TV Station Near Collapse

  31-12-2014 09:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Asia Television Ltd. (universally called ATV) hasn’t been able to pay its employees for December, and only this week gave them half of their November salaries; its broadcast license could be cancelled in the new year. “Yet there are no sympathetic calls among the city’s public to help save the local institution, which in recent […]
  
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• The Original “It Girl”

  31-12-2014 09:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What is an It Girl? According to the dictionary installed on a MacBook Pro, she is ‘a young woman who achieves celebrity because of her socialite lifestyle’. … But the original It Girl, as the dictionary acknowledges, was one of the most successful and revolutionary film stars of the silent era, Clara Bow. When she […]
  
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• The Apartment Building That’s Been Home To Broadway Types Since The Days Nobody Else Would Rent To Them

  31-12-2014 09:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For all the changes that have come to Broadway, where the only thing more drastic than the astronomical ticket prices are the astronomical rents for apartments in the area, the Whitby has largely remained a bastion for performers and their patrons. But rather than being a haven for struggling artists, the building is now much […]
  
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• As Shaker Design Gets Ever More Famous, The Largest Shaker Museum Struggles

  31-12-2014 09:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Attendance at Hancock Shaker Village in the Massachusetts Berkshires “is down by nearly a third compared with a decade ago, to about 50,000 visitors a year. Donations and government support have also dwindled. The annual budget, never particularly robust, has been cut by a quarter, to $1.6 million.”
  
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• “Literally” And “Awesome” Aren’t Destroying English, Steven Pinker Reassures Us

  31-12-2014 09:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a Q&A, the cognitive scientist and linguist talks about rules of usage (and lack of them), the usefulness of emojis and italics, and his grammar feud with The New Yorker‘s Nathan Heller. He even explains the psychology that keeps grad students churning out academic jargon instead of decent writing. (And then there’s the hair […]
  
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• Royal Armouries lowers the flag at Kentucky outpost

  31-12-2014 08:19
  
  Loan deal ends that failed to raise a dollar in funds
  
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• 150 unmissable arts for 2015: the best film, TV, theatre, art, music

  31-12-2014 08:00
  
  Throw yourself into the new year with our bumper guide to the best of culture this spring Continue reading...
  
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• Untitled(One of Proust’s characters said protestants are joyless)

  31-12-2014 02:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lorn looks awful. Her lower belly is distended. She doesn’t want to talk. I want to know what she is thinking. I want to help her. I want to help everyone. I can’t even help myself. I have been thinking that functional men are intelligent, but they are merely good at following instructions, I said. ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Alan Cumming portrait unveiled at Scottish gallery

  31-12-2014 01:05
  
  Painting of actor by Christian Hook is the winning commission for the Sky Arts portrait artist of the year competitionA portrait of actor Alan Cumming is to be unveiled at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.The 49-year-old, who was awarded an OBE in 2009 for his services to entertainment and his role as an LGBT campaigner, is one of Scotland’s leading actors with roles ranging from Taggart and The Good Wife on television, to the X-Men films and Cabaret and Macbeth on stage. Continue readin
  
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• Tower of London poppy creators receive MBEs in New Year honours list

  31-12-2014 00:44
  
  Artist Paul Cummins and designer Tom Piper recognised for installation marking 100 years since outbreak of first world warThe creators of the spectacular ceramic poppy installation in the moat of the Tower of London, commemorating the outbreak of the first world war, both receive MBEs in the New Year honours.Ceramic artist Paul Cummins and designer Tom Piper saw their installation, Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, achieve worldwide popularity, with more than 5 million visitors. Continue readin
  
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