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• Leonard Nimoy, Actor, Artist, Collector, and Patron, Dies at 83

  01-03-2015 22:36 via artnews.com
  Leonard Nimoy, the actor who portrayed the beloved Spock character on the original Star Trek series, died on Friday at the age of 83 in his home in Los Angeles. Though his 4-year tenure on Star Trek (1966-69) became his … Read More
  
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• Performing Artists Need Emotional, Not Just Financial, Investment In Their Arts

  01-03-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Artists are constantly being asked to be financially resilient. But what about emotional resilience? When artists face rejection from a funder or a programmer, who is there to provide that sense of community and solidarity and empathy? So often the work that artists subsidise with time, money, love and belief is treated as a commodity, […]
  
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• The Essay About Teaching In MFA Programs That Has Writers Freaking Out Across The Internet

  01-03-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Anyone who claims to have useful information about the publishing industry is lying to you, because nobody knows what the hell is happening. My advice is for writers to reject the old models and take over the production of their own and each other’s work as much as possible.” (Now, search Twitter for “MFA” or […]
  
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• Children’s Brains Are More Elastic – But Could Neuroscience Help Adults’ Brains Stay Flexible Too?

  01-03-2015 20:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The day might be coming when I could actually learn to play as I would had I learned during childhood. I might be able to swallow a pill that restores my brain to a more flexible, receptive state.”
  
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• The Golden Age Of Indie Game Art Is Upon Us

  01-03-2015 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Even without the argument for higher beauty in a new medium, there’s plenty of other incentive for game developers to bring high-design into their games. The best incentive of all, really: sales.”
  
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• Afro modernism: Africa's avant-garde architecture boom – in pictures

  01-03-2015 19:39
  
  The 1960s and 70s were an explosive period for experimental architecture in Africa – from vast Toblerone-shaped exhibition centres to giant lily-bud auditoriums. Swiss architect Manuel Herz has tracked down 80 of these lost monuments of African independence for a new book, African ModernismThe forgotten masterpieces of African modernism
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• Andrew Jackson – The President – Was Far, Far Bloodier Than You Think (And The Musical Should Acknowledge That)

  01-03-2015 19:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The lessons of Bloody Bloody are seen in American society today. Today, Native women are murdered at a rate higher than any other race in America. The majority of the perpetrators of violent crimes against Native women are non-Native men. The ‘jokes’ in Bloody Bloody about killing Indians are not ‘jokes.’ They are a reality.”
  
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• Diversity Sells Better, But Hollywood Remains Overwhelmingly White And Male

  01-03-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Although Hollywood is a business, constantly in search of new ways to make a profit, Hunt says the high-risk nature of the entertainment industry, combined with existing demographics, presents a barrier to diversity.”
  
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• A Run Of 1009 Weeks Wasn’t Enough For This Movie, Say Mumbai Film Fans

  01-03-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “No sooner had it been revealed that DDLJ, as it is known, was being taken off the silver screen than the protests began. According to Yash Raj Films, the production house behind the film, the sudden announcement ‘resulted in a spontaneous and an overwhelming outcry from the cinema-going audience, as well as dedicated fans of […]
  
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• How Alice Munro Learned About Stories – And Books

  01-03-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If I wanted a story, the thing to do was to get my grandmother to read it to me. Then listening to her voice, her story-reading voice which always sounded a little incredulous, marvelling, yet full of faith, bravely insistent, and watching her face, its meaningful and utterly familiar expressions — lifted eyebrows, ominously sinking […]
  
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• In The Age Of Digital Photography, Why Are Printed Art Books Of Photos Booming?

  01-03-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The audience has grown, she says, and ‘it’s definitely more obsessive. They come straight to the section and know what they’re purchasing. It’s a herd thing as well: you see certain bloggers who are followed, you go on to YouTube and project by word of mouth.'”
  
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• Children Are Reading ‘Diary Of A Wimpy Kid’ Instead Of Tolkien – Is That Supposed To Be A Bad Thing?

  01-03-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Every generation thinks that standards are slipping – in my childhood it was Enid Blyton in the line of fire, for my sister it was the Sweet Valley High series, and today it’s The Hunger Games. All have been roundly condemned for stopping children reading good books. And yet children keep reading. “
  
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• The ’80s Mexican Sci-Fi TV Show That Brought Incredible Talent To Hollywood

  01-03-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The origins of these goddamn gifted Mexican filmmakers can be traced back to 1988, with the premiere of La Hora Marcada (The Marked Hour), a Mexican television anthology series devoted to tackling experimental horror, science fiction, and urban legends from Latin America. Think of it as the Mexican answer to The Twilight Zone.”
  
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• American Sniper And Fifty Shades Of Grey Are Fueling A Recordbreaking Year For Movies (So Far)

  01-03-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  OK, yes, now we’re all depressed about culture, but “it is welcome news for the three biggest chains — Regal Entertainment Group , AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. and Cinemark Holdings Inc. — which endured a string of postponed or disappointing films in 2014.”
  
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• Tony Oursler on exploring our uneasy relationship with technology with his new show

  01-03-2015 17:41
  
  When artist Tony Oursler’s first used technology back in the late 1970s, he used video tape to make experimental films such as The Weak Bullet, in which two hands painted with eyebrows and lips acted out the characters of a man and a woman. The man died in the end from lead poisoning when a bullet fell in his drink. Forty years later, Oursler’s still at it but the work is significantly more hi-tech. His latest work explores the most advanced technology – facial recognition.
  
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• Vienna Plans To Build The World’s Tallest Wooden Skyscraper

  01-03-2015 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Vienna fire service has concerns about the wooden structure, however, and is working with the architects to test their plans.”
  
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• How We See, Or, The Science Of Why No One Agreed On That Damned Viral Dress

  01-03-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The point is, your brain tries to interpolate a kind of color context for the image, and then spits out an answer for the color of the dress.”
  
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• Inventing Impressionism review –seeing the familiar through new eyes

  01-03-2015 16:34
  
  National Gallery, London
  Monet, Degas, Renoir et al used nature and upper-class whimsy as a muse but this show reveals their eye for fleeting moments of drama among the everyday
  Impressionism was a revolution that changed art forever. When Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and their fellow experimenters painted the ephemeral light on dappled woods and rainy Paris streets, they destroyed the traditional idea that art must reveal nature’s deeper truth.Only the light in the painter’s eye �
  
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• Advances For Canadian Nonfiction Books Have Tumbled So Far, Writers Say There’s No Point In Writing

  01-03-2015 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “He knows writers who are rushing to finish ‘important, research-heavy, non-fiction’ books in a matter of months – books that would normally require years of work – because ‘that’s all they can afford to do.'”
  
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• Claim: Singing Makes People Smarter, Helps Them Stay In Shape, And Also Makes For A Better Civilzation

  01-03-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It offers the chance to ‘use your lungs in a way that you probably don’t for the rest of your day, breathing deeply and openly,’ to experience ‘a sense of levity and contentedness,’ and to ‘learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness.'”
  
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• How Should The Owner Of A Former Plantation Build The U.S.’s First Slavery Museum?

  01-03-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If opinions on the restoration varied, visitors were in agreement that they had never seen anything quite like it. Built largely in secret and under decidedly unorthodox circumstances, the Whitney had been turned into a museum dedicated to telling the story of slavery — the first of its kind in the United States.”
  
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• The Design Of Google’s New Complex

  01-03-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The greenhouse-style transparent buildings are surrounded by running tracks, peaceful meadows, and a flowing creek.” (No, that sentence was not a parody.)
  
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• Leonard Nimoy, 83, Who Was Star Trek’s Spock And So, So Much More

  01-03-2015 08:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “His artistic pursuits — poetry, photography and music in addition to acting — ranged far beyond the United Federation of Planets, but it was as Mr. Spock that Mr. Nimoy became a folk hero, bringing to life one of the most indelible characters of the last half century: a cerebral, unflappable, pointy-eared Vulcan with a […]
  
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• Sculpture Victorious review – everythng here was made to make us marvel

  01-03-2015 08:00
  
  Tate Britain, London
  In room after room of busts and bling, Tate Britain’s Victorian sculpture show brings out the best and worst of a patriotic eraOf all the outlandish objects in Sculpture Victorious – the majolica peacock, the emu-egg casket, the lifesize electroplated figure of Elizabeth I – the most needlessly elaborate is a salt cellar in the form of St George treading triumphantly on his dragon by the English sculptor Edward Onslow Ford.To make this dapper little fighter with his
  
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• Sculpture Victorious review – everything here was made to make us marvel

  01-03-2015 08:00
  
  Tate Britain, London
  In room after room of busts and bling, Tate Britain’s Victorian sculpture show brings out the best and worst of a patriotic eraOf all the outlandish objects in Sculpture Victorious – the majolica peacock, the emu-egg casket, the lifesize electroplated figure of Elizabeth I – the most needlessly elaborate is a salt cellar in the form of St George treading triumphantly on his dragon by the English sculptor Edward Onslow Ford.To make this dapper little fighter with his sh
  
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• Photographer Sean Hawkey uses 19th-century techniques to capture images of miners in Peru

  01-03-2015 01:00
  
  When photographer Sean Hawkey travelled to Peru to photograph its miners as part of a Fairtrade Foundation campaign called I Do, which encourages couples to buy Fairtrade silver and gold wedding rings, he had a thought.
  
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