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• Dear Leon Wieseltier, Technology Is *Not* Ruining Culture

  18-01-2015 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When Wieseltier references his paranoia of numerics and metrics, he ignores the fact that numbers and humanity are not incompatible — in fact, they’re inseparable.”
  
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• The World Is Addicted To Skyscrapers Right Now

  18-01-2015 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A new report shows 2014 was the ‘tallest year ever,’ with more skyscrapers constructed than in any previous year,” and 2015 is on track to outpace it.
  
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• French Movie Theatres Screening Documentary About Charlie Hebdo And Freedom Of Speech

  18-01-2015 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “At the time of its release, Mr. Leconte’s documentary did not make much noise. But after terrorist attacks that resulted in the deaths of 17 people in Paris last week, directors at several movie theaters decided to pay tribute to Charlie Hebdo by reprogramming Mr. Leconte’s documentary.”
  
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• The Subtle Gradations Of Talent Among City Ballet’s Top Ballerinas

  18-01-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While major ballet companies usually have plenty of dancers who fully deserve the title of ballerina, most don’t boast more than one or two who will define their generation and redefine its accomplishments. “
  
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• Artes Mundi: Why can't the Turner Prize be more like this?

  18-01-2015 20:20
  
  Does the UK need another prize?
  
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• The Internet Brings All Subcultures To Your Living Room, Where You Can Definitely Be Offended

  18-01-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There are those who expect that whatever alternative cultures they encounter through social media must comply with their own aesthetic or moral framework. They feel entitled, not just to enter spaces and places where they do not necessarily belong, but also to demand censure and closure if they don’t like what they find there.”
  
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• Gould Trio, Wigmore Hall, review: Gould premieres are right on the money

  18-01-2015 19:56
  
  Crowdfunding is a new word for a very old practice in the classical music business, as two piano trios getting their Wigmore premieres on the same day have demonstrated. The money for Kaija Saariaho’s trio Light and Matter came from many sources, of which the Britten Sinfonia, whose players performed it, was only one. Others contributions came from the Wigmore Hall, Aeolian Chamber Players, the Library of Congress, a Swedish ensemble, a Swiss foundation, and 10 private donors.
  
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• Sotheby’s Wins Court Case About (Not) Identifying Caravaggio

  18-01-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The filing claimed that Sotheby’s did not undertake the necessary research and analysis prior to the work’s sale.”
  
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• Yes, Yes, Read The Book Before You See The (Oscar-Nominated) Movie

  18-01-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Long before Hollywood became obsessed with superheroes, the studios looked to the publishing world for content and inspiration.”
  
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• Anarchy in the bus lane: how protesters quietly took over London’s streets

  18-01-2015 19:00
  
  Your job is a stupid waste of time – and the police caused the 2011 riots. That’s what a spate of posters recently told London commuters. Who masterminded it? We pick up the trail at an anarchist magazine“Phalanstery,” reads the buzzer outside the HQ of the anarchist magazine Strike! How I’m meant to work out that this is their office eludes me. I have to phone my contact to check – but that’s anarchism for you. At least I learn a new word. Phalanstery (or Phalanstère) was t
  
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• Want To Quote A Novel? You’ll Probably Chose From Among These Books

  18-01-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Certain works of fiction have so many memorable lines that they’ve entered everyday language.” Think Austen, Dickens – and many more.
  
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• City Opera Bidders Are Getting Ready To Lay It All On The Line

  18-01-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In one corner is Roy Niederhoffer, a former City Opera board member backing a plan to reboot the company under the direction of Michael Capasso, the head of a small Manhattan opera company in the process of being wound down. In the other is Gene Kaufman, an architect who has also expressed interest in restarting […]
  
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• Not-So-Sunny London Loses Its Spinoff Sundance Festival

  18-01-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The three-day event may have struggled to attract audiences to the O2, a huge corporate space far from central London’s traditional arts hubs.”
  
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• Is The Oscar-Nominated Film ‘Whiplash’ Good Or Bad For Musician Mentorship?

  18-01-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The reactions to the movie seem to occupy the extremes, and it sparks healthy debate among my peers. Where is the fine line between motivating someone and abusing them? Will this movie make young jazz musicians think that all you need to do to become the next Bird is work really hard, get yelled at, […]
  
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• The World Of (No) Money Kills Off A Socially Responsible Architecture Firm

  18-01-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit design group that sought to repair the world with socially conscious construction in places like Kosovo, Haiti and hurricane-ravaged Mississippi, has abruptly closed its San Francisco headquarters and plans to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection.”
  
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• The Forty-Year-Old Toronto Dance Company That’s Ready For An Entirely New Model

  18-01-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Forster and Kamino’s vision speaks to a larger debate on dance creation that pits the Canadian model against its European counterpart”
  
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• The (Extremely Specific) Time When We All Kill Our Inner Children

  18-01-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This shift begins even earlier than previously believed, and it may be driven by a crucial cognitive development that’s arguably the basis of all human social interaction.”
  
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• Without A Big Budget Picture Among The Nominees, The Oscars Are Sunk For Viewership

  18-01-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘When the audience has skin in the game, and they have a movie to root for that they’ve actually seen, certainly it makes for a more compelling viewing experiencing,’ said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for entertainment data firm Rentrak.”
  
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• Does Gentrification Actually Even Exist?

  18-01-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not really. “As for displacement — the most objectionable feature of gentrification — there’s actually very little evidence it happens. In fact, so-called gentrifying neighborhoods appear to experience less displacement than nongentrifying neighborhoods. It’s time to retire the term gentrification altogether.”
  
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• Tokyo Still Deeply Split Over Zaha Hadid’s ‘White Elephant’ Olympic Stadium

  18-01-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The most withering criticism has come from the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, who designed the Palau Sant Jordi used in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. In a long open letter sent to the Japan Sports Council (JSC) in November, the 83-year-old said Hadid’s design looked like ‘a turtle waiting for Japan to sink so that it […]
  
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• The Theatre World Gets A Massive New Database Of New Plays

  18-01-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Debates had been raged over submission policies—closed, open, credentialed, non-existent, misleading—in private and in public, by playwrights, by academics, and by artistic staffs of organizations large and small. Everyone agreed on only one thing: there had to be a better way.”
  
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• The Top VIII Performances (On Film And TV) Of Henry VIII

  18-01-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is it the actor from A Man for All Seasons? That hot guy from The Tudors? Or maybe the new Henry in Wolf Hall? So many, many Henrys.
  
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• Elena Obraztsova Survived The Siege Of Leningrad To Become A Star At The Bolshoi Opera

  18-01-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Ms. Obraztsova became such an admired favorite of the Soviet cultural establishment that the authorities in Moscow allowed her frequent opportunities to perform abroad as a shining representative of Soviet artistic greatness.”
  
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• Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015 review – art that aimed to change the world

  18-01-2015 09:00
  
  Whitechapel Gallery, London
  This huge survey of abstract art from Malevich onwards is big on revolutionary ways of thinking rather than ways of seeingMalevich’s Black Quadrilateral hangs on the wall, surprisingly fragile and small. It is starting to look its age. The black shape has faded to grey, but still tilts sharp and subversive against the correct white rectangle on which it floats, fine cracks spreading like laughter lines across the surface. It feels like the most gleeful send-up of fi
  
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• Museums in Los Angeles find expert partners across South America

  18-01-2015 08:00
  
  Pacific Standard Time's second edition is a catalyst for ambitious international collaboration
  
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• Photographer Norma I Quintana celebrates the eccentricities of circus performers in America

  18-01-2015 01:00
  
  Circus performers have long been a favoured subject of photographers. But for Norma I Quintana, they had never been celebrated in an appropriate way, having their otherness highlighted rather than their eccentricities honoured.
  
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