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• The Internet Is Bad. The Internet Is Good. The Internet Is … A Trip.

  08-03-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Being able to see hundreds, or thousands, or tens of thousands of people unwittingly having the same thoughts at the same time in plain view is, ironically, something that makes the internet really intimate.”
  
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• The Mysterious World Of Art Attribution, And The Painting That Exploded In Value After It Became A Constable

  08-03-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The anonymous buyer, an art dealer, had a hunch. Real Constables were often painted over during the 19th century, when their rough, seemingly unfinished quality put off prospective purchasers. So the dealer had it cleaned and took it to a leading Constable expert, Anne Lyles, a former curator at Tate Britain.”
  
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• Brecht And Weill’s Opera Has Regained Its Bite In The Huge Economic Imbalances Of The 21st Century

  08-03-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Its story is so contemporary, though, that it could almost have been written yesterday. It charts the creation, supposedly in America, of a city of pleasure with no history and no moral compass – and its destruction in a morass of consumerist malaise and addiction, with inhabitants put to death for the crime of having […]
  
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• Dead Drops: what to do if you see a USB stick sticking out of a wall

  08-03-2015 19:15
  
  If you spot a USB flash drive cemented into a wall or kerb, you may have stumbled across a Dead Drop, part of a global art project borrowing tricks from the world of espionage
  
  I’ve always wanted to be a spy, but have never got over my inability to keep a secret, my wanton desire for attention and my half-hearted pacifism. But thanks to Dead Drops, an international community building “an anonymous, offline, peer-to-peer file-sharing network in public space”, I can at least live out my
  
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• The High Drama Of Curating London’s Serpentine Gallery

  08-03-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Obrist (HUO to his colleagues) regularly tops lists of art’s most powerful. His network of proteges and followers extends around the world, and back again. There cannot be an artist alive of any note who has not had dealings with him of one kind or another. (Though it must be said that not everyone is […]
  
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• The Talent Pipeline Of Arts Education Fuels The Creative Economy

  08-03-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Before the 19th century, U.S. economy was an agricultural economy. In the 19th century and 20th century, we turned to an industrial economy. In the 21st century, we are turning to a creative economy. In a creative economy, innovative people with new ideas, artistic view and mindset will be needed more than ever.”
  
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• In The UK, Local Councils Sacrifice To Help Performing Arts Work

  08-03-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Despite average cuts of 19%, local authorities in England are still spending around £1.6bn on arts, culture and libraries. They remain one of our biggest investors. Moreover, they often pioneer innovative, affordable ways to support and protect arts and culture.”
  
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• Who’s Counting The Real TV Audience?

  08-03-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not advertisers – and TV executives are fed up with that. They’re “pushing advertisers to pay for all viewers as measured by Nielsen up to a full week after the original airdate. That might sound like inside baseball. But tens of millions of dollars are at stake.”
  
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• Netflix Wants Simultaneous Release Of Movies Online And In The Theatre, But Movie Chains Are Freaked Out

  08-03-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This week, Netflix announced that it paid nearly $12 million for the worldwide distribution rights for [Beasts of No Nation]. The movie already has a lot of Oscar buzz, but to qualify for an Academy Award nomination, it has to be shown in theaters before or on the same day it plays on TV, online […]
  
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• Los Angeles Has A Newish Mural Ordinance, And Its Effects Are Slowly Starting To Show

  08-03-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With the restoration of the Olympic artworks nearly completed — and enjoying newfound freedoms brought on by the city’s passing of a mural ordinance in 2013 that lifted a decade-long ban on public murals —- the mural conservancy is now preparing to embark on new projects.”
  
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• Lynda Benglis: going with the flow

  08-03-2015 16:54
  
  Though best known for the 1970s Artforum ad in which she posed naked brandishing an enormous dildo, the American artist, now 73 and the subject of two spring shows, is still experimenting with a novel range of materials
  
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• The Hottest New Theatre Ticket Is A Hip Hop History Musical That Breaks And Remakes The Rules

  08-03-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What further distinguishes Hamilton is that it uses rap to tell a story that has no direct connection to any usual rap subjects or characters. This reaches its most remarkable expression when the show presents the debates Hamilton had with his ideological foes as rap battles presided over by George Washington as MC.”
  
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• The Last Full-Time Labor Union Cartoonist In The U.S. Is Lonely But Also Busy

  08-03-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Employers don’t care if you hate them, and they don’t care if you think they’re being mean. But if you can find a way to make fun of them, and do it incisively — well, that really bothers them.”
  
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• Canada’s Royal Conservatory Of Music Recruits Students Where They Are – Online And On Mobile

  08-03-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A new app, in development, will allow students to, say, spend five minutes a day on ear training using their smartphone. Or do their sight reading. There’s an app being designed for parents of very young infants to aid in their development; the first in a series of digital products for parents of children up […]
  
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• Can Smuggled Copies Of ‘Friends’ Help North Koreans Free Themselves?

  08-03-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Kang likens the USB sticks to the red pill from The Matrix: a mind-altering treatment that has the power to shatter a world of illusions.”
  
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• So This Weekend Sees Danish LARPers Turning Elsinore Into A Live, Unscripted Hamlet

  08-03-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We call it LARP tourism — the chance to travel to worlds that don’t exist.”
  
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• Yay? A Third Comic Book Universe Joins The Cinematic Fray

  08-03-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In case you’re feeling like there aren’t enough superhero movies out there, Valiant “has a library of 2,000 characters, including X-O Manowar and Harbinger, and films based on the titles Bloodshot, Shadowman, and Archer & Armstrong were already in the works.”
  
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• Hans Ulrich Obrist: ‘Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity’

  08-03-2015 09:59
  
  Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist talks and travels incessantly, barely sleeps and never cooks. He’s far too busy keeping London’s Serpentine gallery at the pinnacle of conceptual art with his eccentric brand of intellectualismHans Ulrich Obrist, curator extraordinaire, likes to say that he models himself on the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev, the general idea being that he is someone who brings great artists together so that wondrous things might happen. But while this may well be true
  
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• Inventing Impressionism review – a superb exhibition in every respect

  08-03-2015 08:00
  
  National Gallery, London
  In this enthralling selection of the radical impressionist masterpieces he bought in bulk, Paul Durand-Ruel emerges as the inventor of the modern art industryThe man who invented impressionism was not a painter but a dealer – a silk-hatted monarchist with a taste for ormolu clocks who created a market for paintings that nobody liked. Paul Durand-Ruel was the saviour of Manet, Monet and Pissarro. For years he was the only dealer brave enough to promote the impressioni
  
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• Australian women in uniform: then and now – in pictures

  08-03-2015 03:39
  
  To celebrate international women’s day, Chrissie Cotter gallery in Marrickville in Sydney’s inner west has curated photographs of women in uniform, from civilian nurses in the first world war to women today working for the community – showing off the town’s long and proud tradition of women at work Continue reading...
  
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• Photographer Iris Della Roca makes the dreams of Rio's most deprived children come true

  08-03-2015 01:00
  
  Photojournalism and well-meaning art projects about children in poverty tend, for obvious reasons, to be grim and gritty; hard-hitting and guilt-tripping. Iris Della Roca's series and accompanying exhibition – As the King is Not Humble, May the Humble be King! – is, therefore, a breath of fresh air.
  
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• Leonora Carrington: The most dramatic moments of the Surrealist's remarkable story

  08-03-2015 01:00
  
  The traffic is solid at 3pm on a July day in 2011 in Tacuba, Mexico: the exhaust fumes are relentless, the air is grey. It's the same old story, the story known only too well to Chilangos – residents of Mexico City – and regular visitors. I'm in a taxi edging along a three-lane highway, I've been in the car for an hour, and it's just beginning to dawn on me that the driver is even more clueless than I am about where we're going. "Panteon Britanico?" British cemetery? I ask again, wearily.
  
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• Bruce Davidson's images of 'devastatingly awful' Cwmcarn show the domestic side of life in Wales

  08-03-2015 01:00
  
  When Bruce Davidson was stationed with the United States military in Paris during the 1960s, he asked his Welsh sergeant where he would send his worst enemy. "Cwmcarn, Wales," was the reply.
  
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