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• William Pope.L Discusses His Artforum Cover at CAA: ‘Leave Me Out of It’

  17-02-2015 23:04 via artnews.com
  At the start of her talk with William Pope.L at the College Art Association conference on Friday, part of the “Annual Distinguished Artists'” interview series, MoMA PS1 curator Jenny Schlenzka told Pope.L that she was happy to be speaking to … Read More
  
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• Kehinde Wiley's new republic

  17-02-2015 21:01
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• John Holden Argues The Arts As An Ecology

  17-02-2015 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is more helpful to understand culture in terms of how it is organized, rather than simply stating what it does. The use of ecological metaphors creates a rich way of discussing culture, and different perspectives then emerge. New taxonomies, new visualisations, and fresh ways of thinking about how culture operates will help promote a […]
  
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• Clinical Assistant/Clinical Associate, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University

  17-02-2015 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  The School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University seeks applicants for a full-time non-tenure track clinical faculty position on the Bloomington campus in the area of arts administration.
  
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• Here’s How Your Brain Lights Up On Celebrity Gossip

  17-02-2015 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While the students claimed there was nothing especially entertaining about the negative celebrity gossip, a part of their brain known to be involved in the experience of pleasure (the caudate nucleus) was extra active when they heard stories of movie stars doing naughty things.”
  
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• Sure Our Alphabet Is Our Alphabet (But All That Could Be Changing)

  17-02-2015 19:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  The power to spread and transform the alphabet — once concentrated among medieval scribes, British and French printers, or Christian missionaries spreading words to spread the Word — has been democratized. Now with tablets and smartphones, “the smallest building blocks of the shared written language (i.e. print) are more in your hands . . . […]
  
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• UK Report Warns: Our Lack Of Audience Diversity Is Unsustainable In The Arts

  17-02-2015 19:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We are particularly concerned that publicly funded arts… are predominantly accessed by an unnecessarily narrow social, economic, ethnic and educated demographic that is not fully representative of the UK’s population”.
  
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• Does “Branding” An Artist Kill Her Soul?

  17-02-2015 19:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If artists want to put their signature squiggles on a shoe or a bottle of booze, are they compromising their work in exchange for a bit of cash?”
  
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• London’s Cabinet Gallery Shows Work From Richard Kern’s ‘Medicated’ Series

  17-02-2015 19:08 via artnews.com
  London gallery Cabinet is presenting portraits from photographer Richard Kern’s “Medicated” series through March 21. Kern is known for his experimental films featuring art stars such as Henry Rollins, Lydia Lunch, and David Wojnarowicz, as well as sex- and drug-themed zines … Read More
  
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• A Compelling Case For Translating Opera Into English

  17-02-2015 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s curious that the Royal Opera’s new venture into smaller spaces has coincided with an unprecedented new approach to translation. No attention has been drawn to this shift in policy, which has slipped through as part of a wider attempt at accessibility, at reinventing opera for the youthful audience of the Camden Roundhouse (with the […]
  
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• Hort Foundation Announces 2015 Grants for Los Angeles Artists

  17-02-2015 18:25 via artnews.com
  The Rema Hort Mann Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2015 RHMF Los Angeles Emerging Artist Grants. On this list this year: Lindsay August-Salazar, Neal Bashor, Rafael Esparza, Mariah Garnett, Lauren Halsey, Nancy Lupo, Lauren Mackler, and Christopher Richmond. Winners … Read More
  
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  17-02-2015 18:04
  
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• ‘I Coulda Been a Contender’: Kenny Schachter on L.A. Wildcatters, a Davos Doomsayer, the London Auctions, and the Future of the Art Market

  17-02-2015 16:27 via artnews.com
  Kenny Schachter is a London-based art dealer, curator, and writer. The opinions expressed here are his own. I am convinced that the art market is in an extended bull run the likes of which have never been seen before. Sure, … Read More
  
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• What Happened To Our Public Intellectuals? (And Where Did We Go Wrong?)

  17-02-2015 15:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If you ask the conditions that allowed Partisan Review to reach greatness—broaching an inquiry into what is necessary for the creation of “public intellect” in general, in the mid-20th century past—you face some unruly historical particulars.”
  
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• Charles Dutoit On His Career, Leaving Montreal, And Music Today

  17-02-2015 15:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Of course, I miss a lot of the musicians in Montreal. What happened there, you know, I made one mistake: I never answered the attacks from the union. One has to understand the context. When they signed the contract, I was completely on the side of these people. I even was wearing a shirt to […]
  
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• How The Paul Taylor Company Is Reinventing For The 21st Century

  17-02-2015 15:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Essentially, Taylor will become a presenter of dance as well as a dance company.
  
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• How Post-Modernism Changed Pop Music

  17-02-2015 15:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Whatever you think of the radical relativism of postmodern cultural theory—and I detest it—the fact is that the coming of postmodernism has proved to be both liberating and stimulating to musicians of all kinds.”
  
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• Austin Radio Station Doubles Down On Classical And Becomes More Local

  17-02-2015 15:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Now the station features 22 hours of locally hosted or produced programs on weekdays. And while it kept popular national shows such as “From the Top,” “Concierto” and the live Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, KMFA has dropped Classical 24 entirely, even from the convenient overnight slot.
  
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• Princeton Gets $300 Million Donation Of Rare Books

  17-02-2015 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Highlights of the collection include a Gutenberg Bible, a first printing of the Declaration of Independence, a run of Shakespeare folio editions, and important autograph manuscripts by Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart.”
  
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• Looking at Seeing: David Hammons and the Politics of Visibility

  17-02-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Last spring, Mike Spano, the mayor of Yonkers, New York, a city of about 200,000 that shares a border with the Bronx, delivered his State of the City Address at City Hall. After describing Yonkers as a destination for “new-economy” … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Larry Clark Edition

  17-02-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  “New Work,” director and photographer Larry Clark’s new art series and limited edition skate shoe made in collaboration with luxury shoe designer Eugène Riconneaus, debuted this week in Paris.  [Complex] A State Hermitage Museum employee has been arrested in connection to … Read More
  
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• “American Sniper” As American Rorschach Test

  17-02-2015 10:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  J. Hoberman: “While American Sniper has drawn a large and diverse audience there is no consensus as to what the movie means. Rush Limbaugh hailed it as’an extension of the November elections’ … Jane Fonda saw it as a movie about the psychic cost of war … The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee has reported a spike […]
  
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• What Made Philip Levine’s Poetry Extraordinary

  17-02-2015 10:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Della and Tatum, Sweet Pea and Packy, Ida and Cal. You met a lot of unpretentious people in Philip Levine’s spare, ironic poems of the industrial heartland. … Mr. Levine’s death is a serious blow for American poetry, in part because he so vividly evoked the drudgery and hardships of working-class life in America, and […]
  
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• “A 553-Year-Old Overnight Sensation”: How A Little-Known Florentine Painter Became An Art Star

  17-02-2015 10:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When American millionaires bought paintings by Piero di Cosimo in the late 19th century, almost all the works were attributed to other Italian Renaissance artists. Piero, a painter of Florence during its golden age, was simply regarded as too obscure to produce such masterful works.”
  
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• Alex Ross Meets The Wizards Of Acoustics

  17-02-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  John and Helen Meyer can fix just about any acoustical problem in a space – from a dead auditorium to a restaurant full of deafening chatter. Their Constellation system “undertakes a process akin to the Photoshopping of an image, with undesirable elements removed.”
  
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• The Creative Class, “Culture Crash”, And Cinema

  17-02-2015 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Richard Brody praises Scott Timberg’s recent book – and then argues that its points don’t quite apply to movies or narrative video and the people who make them.
  
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• Exploring The Metaphysics Of Love

  17-02-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Is love an emotion? An experience? Is it a kind of desire? Is it possible to love a fictional person? To love more than one person? Is romantic love fundamentally different from other kinds of love?” A Vancouver philosopher is investigating these questions.
  
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• Where There’s A Backlash Against Valentine’s Day

  17-02-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Valentine’s Day has taken off across Asia over the past few decades, embraced by the continent’s booming youth population as well as chocolate and gift-card companies. But the holiday, a relatively recent import from the West, often clashes with conservative cultural forces and, increasingly, anti-capitalist sentiments. Below, a look at how some in India, Japan, […]
  
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• Milwaukee Symphony MD Edo de Waart To Step Down

  17-02-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  When his current contract expires in 2017, the Dutch maestro will be 76. He will continue to take guest-conducting work.
  
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• Lyric Opera of Chicago Board President Dies Suddenly

  17-02-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Kenneth G. Pigott was that rarity among leaders of cultural institutions: a visionary board president who could speak knowledgeably about the art form he served and who took an active, influential role in moving the institution forward.”
  
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• Snow White Rishing: Third Guide

  17-02-2015 09:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The post Snow White Rishing: Third Guide appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Classical Ballet Joins New York’s Downtown Dance Scene

  17-02-2015 09:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thanks to a series of proverbially unfortunate events that haven’t, in the end, worked out so badly, New York Theater Ballet – homeless just a year ago – has found itself ensconced in one of the East Village’s iconic avant-garde performance venues.
  
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• President and Executive Director, Public Art Saint Paul

  17-02-2015 09:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Public Art Saint Paul - a 501(c)(3) organization - seeks a new leader to succeed its founder. This is a rare opportunity to lead one of the country's most respected and adventurous public art organizations and to work in a vibrant arts capital.
  
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• Empire and elephants: Tristram Hunt on how the Victorians sculpted for Britain

  17-02-2015 09:00
  
  How did the Victorians celebrate the might of the empire and the march of modernity? By bringing sculpture to the masses. Tristram Hunt MP revels in the Tate’s compelling new exhibition‘And the great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed this,” wrote John Ruskin in The Stones of Venice, “that we manufacture there everything except men; we blanch cotton, and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape pottery; but to brigh
  
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• Pole Dancing At An Art Museum – Politicized Pole Dancing, No Less

  17-02-2015 08:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  The installation at Manhattan’s New Museum, called (in exemplary political art fashion) P.O.L.E. (People, Objects, Language, Exchange), incorporates the original neon “Silence = Death” sign and has included pay-what-you-wish “open pole” sessions.
  
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• Now The Arts Are Getting Their Own Version Of The Coachella Festival

  17-02-2015 08:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  In March, about a month before the big rock music shindig kicks off in the California desert, a new one-day event called the Festival of the Desert will debut in the towns around Palm Springs. Headliners include soprano Renée Fleming, ballet dancer David Hallberg, and music biz giant Quincy Jones; the artistic leader is conductor […]
  
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• Advice For Brian Williams From Someone Who’s Been There – Mike Daisey

  17-02-2015 08:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Right now Brian Williams is receiving the scorn and contempt of the world at large, which, I can tell you, feels like thousands of bloodthirsty strangers cutting you with tiny invisible knives. I know it has to hurt. I remember clearly how tempting it was to hide. I didn’t, and from the other side of […]
  
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• Why Do People Keep Taking Naked Selfies At Angkor?

  17-02-2015 08:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In less than a month, the Kingdom has kicked out seven foreigners for public nudity, including two American sisters and three French tourists who, in separate cases, disrobed at different ancient temples in the Siem Reap complex and posed for pictures.”
  
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• Documentary on black photography is more of a scrapbook than a comprehensive catalogue

  17-02-2015 08:24
  
  “Through a Lens Darkly” aims to show the hidden history of African American artists using the medium
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.16.15

  17-02-2015 07:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Arts Entrepreneurship vs. the Sum of Its Parts AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2015-02-16 The Window AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-02-16 David Carr Wanted to Get Stuff Right, Large or Small AJBlog: Straight|Up Published 2015-02-16 “Love Songs: A Hidden History” AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-02-16 Monday Recommendation: Pullman On Powell AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-02-16 Nothing To […]
  
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