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• Interview with Liz Worth on Twin Peaks Poetry Project

  12-03-2015 21:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Consider this image as a sign of you falling into a dream and going backwards through the debris of these words. Conceptual writing is for the die-hards. Some says it’s writing as it used to be in the beginning – other say it’s the end of literature as we know it. Nevertheless it always brings something joyful and ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby! Curator Marina T. Schindler On Her Salacious Show at NeueHouse

  12-03-2015 20:53 via artnews.com
  Friday night at NeueHouse, after slinking past a seemly-looking Powerpoint presentation on the first floor, I headed towards the basement where far more titillating images were on view for the opening of the explicit B-side of “In Your Dreams,” organized … Read More
  
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• Simon Fujiwara and Samara Golden Win Inaugural Mistake Room Artist Prizes

  12-03-2015 20:03 via artnews.com
  The winners of the first annual prize doled out by Los Angeles independent exhibition space The Mistake Room (this space itself has only been active for just over a year) were announced today. The two prizes, TMR International Artist Prize … Read More
  
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• Presidential and Durational: Rob Pruitt On His 2,000-Plus Obama Paintings

  12-03-2015 19:54 via artnews.com
  For the past six and a half years, Rob Pruitt has opened his laptop each morning and used Google to find an image involving President Obama to make a new painting. He’s looking for a “fresh, compelling” photo he told … Read More
  
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• Preview Art Basel Hong Kong 2015

  12-03-2015 19:00 via artnews.com
  This year’s Art Basel Hong Kong opens to invited guests on the evening of Friday, March 13, with the public coming in two days later, on March 15. It runs through March 17, and features about 230 galleries from 37 countries, with about … Read More
  
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• Author Terry Pratchett, 66

  12-03-2015 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  He was the UK’s bestselling author of the 1990s and sold more than 85m books worldwide.
  
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• Record Global Movie Box Office In 2014 Fueled By Huge Surge In China

  12-03-2015 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Global box-office revenue climbed to $36.4 billion, according to an annual report Wednesday from the Motion Picture Assn. of America. And much of the growth came from one country: China. The world’s most populous nation saw its box-office revenue jump 34% to a staggering $4.8 billion last year, making it the first foreign market to […]
  
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• Here’s How Big Los Angeles’ Creative Economy Is

  12-03-2015 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The report compiled figures on jobs and pay from 2013 for a dozen creative industries that include not just arts and entertainment but also advertising, publishing and three manufacturing and product sales fields: fashion, furniture and toys. Thus defined, the report said, creative sector payrolls accounted for 406,900 jobs in L.A. and Orange counties in […]
  
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• This Week’s Copyright Ruling Against Pharrell Was Based On Sheet Music? In 2015?

  12-03-2015 17:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Owing to the specifics of copyright law, the jury was instructed to base its decision on the sheet music, a fact that reflects how inadequate copyright law is when it comes to contemporary songwriting and production practices. In 2015, the arrangement of notes on a sheet of paper is among the least integral parts of […]
  
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• Blood on the canvas: the greatest feuds in art history

  12-03-2015 17:14
  
  In his exhibition You Were Shit in the 80s, artist Mackie imagines fictional feuds between great artists. He didn’t need to. Real art history is riddled with rivalries – from Leonardo’s attempted castration of Michelangelo’s David, to Picasso and Matisse’s love warsWhat are the greatest artistic feuds in history? An exhibition by painter Mackie at James Freeman Gallery looks back at some recent rows between famous artists. It is called You Were Shit in the 80s, which Mackie imagines wa
  
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• Barbara Hannigan: Gender Is Not A Trait Of Conducting An Orchestra

  12-03-2015 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Conducting is one of those few final frontiers in which there is a dearth of women. For me, though, the issue is much more complicated than a call of “We need more women conductors!” It is musicianship, psychology and technical skill all bound together in a rare type of leadership that is elusive. It is […]
  
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• What Are We Really Losing As The Sheet Music Business Dies?

  12-03-2015 17:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There are a few publishers that understand the problem and are adjusting in the way that recording companies adjusted to the MP3 revolution. The problem is that many of them are trying to cling to their old models as they see their income dwindling. This is a tragedy because no one will produce this high-quality […]
  
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• Are Our Smartphones Making Us Stupid?

  12-03-2015 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What does it say about our thinking skills when we habitually outsource problem-solving to our phones?”
  
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• Met Museum Chooses An Architect For Its Expansion

  12-03-2015 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In a project likely to involve demolishing the existing Lila Acheson Wallace Wing in the museum’s southwest corner — though there are no firm design plans yet — the renovation will increase gallery space, double the size of the Roof Garden and possibly create an entrance from Central Park.”
  
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• Are Americans Getting Dumber? Here’s The Evidence

  12-03-2015 16:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The digital revolution, which has brought boundless access to information and entertainment choices, has somehow only enhanced the lowest common denominators—LOL cat videos and the Kardashians. Instead of educating themselves via the Internet, most people simply use it to validate what they already suspect, wish or believe to be true.”
  
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• Broadway Theatres Sell Air Rights, Buy Banks

  12-03-2015 16:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When the Shubert Organization sold the oxygen above its landmarked house for $17.1 million in May, Broadway’s biggest and richest landlord sheltered the proceeds from taxes in part by purchasing a Chase Bank branch on Mundelein’s Townline Road.”
  
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• Thenmozhi Soundararajan: fighting the Dalit women's fight with art and activism

  12-03-2015 16:23
  
  The Dalit-American transmedia artist turns a critical lens on the intersection of caste discrimination and sexual violence in IndiaWith fists in the air and placards in hand, women who have been raped, burned, stripped naked and set on fire have gathered around India to demand that their government acknowledge the crimes committed against them and work to stop other women from facing the same fate.They are also fighting for their ancestors, who were deemed untouchable before the government aboli
  
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• Afghan artist dons armour to counter men's street harassment

  12-03-2015 16:05
  
  Kubra Khademi’s eight-minute walk in Kabul wearing steel armour that emphasised her body shape inspires anger and death threatsIt took a month for Kubra Khademi to get the armour made exactly to her design; hours spent with a quiet, patient metalworker who usually made stoves.
  The performance artist was an unusual customer on a street of dusty workshops in Kabul, where she chose her craftsman for his lack of curiosity about the outrageous steel plates she sketched out.In a deeply conservativ
  
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• Hermitage to open satellite branch in former Moscow factory

  12-03-2015 14:35
  
  Russia’s largest museum signs agreement with the redeveloper of the Soviet-era ZIL automobile plant
  
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• Banksy mural 'Spy Booth' has been a curse not a blessing for one Cheltenham homeowner

  12-03-2015 12:17
  
  You might assume that finding a Banksy mural on your wall is a dream come true, but one home-owner would tell you to think again.
  
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• Sheikh it, spray it: Ben Eine creates Abu Dhabi's first piece of street art

  12-03-2015 12:00
  
  Banksy’s street artist pal Ben Eine has added another salubrious (and rather surprising) name to the list of world figures he’s rubbed shoulders with: Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan.
  
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• Ben Eine and Sheikh Al Nahyan create Abu Dhabi's first piece of street art

  12-03-2015 12:00
  
  Banksy’s street artist pal Ben Eine has added another salubrious (and rather surprising) name to the list of world figures he’s rubbed shoulders with: Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan.
  
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• World's smallest sculpture no bigger than ant's head accidentally crushed by photographer

  12-03-2015 11:03
  
  One of the world’s smallest sculptures has been accidentally crushed by a photographer’s finger, leaving the artist who created it shocked.
  
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• Election countdown: UK parties set out their cultural stalls

  12-03-2015 09:37
  
  Labour’s leader promises committee of movers and shakers, Conservatives are tight-lipped and London might be the biggest loser
  
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• In exile or amid the horror, Syrian artists carry on working

  12-03-2015 09:32
  
  While civil war tears their country apart, most artists have fled Syria and are achieving success in the Gulf and the West. But some remain in their native country, where art provides a brief escape from the conflict
  
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• Lost “City Of The Monkey God” Discovered In Honduran Rain Forest

  12-03-2015 09:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “An expedition to Honduras has emerged from the jungle with dramatic news of the discovery of a mysterious culture’s lost city, never before explored. The team was led to the remote, uninhabited region by long-standing rumors that it was the site of a storied ‘White City,’ also referred to in legend as the ‘City of […]
  
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• Now Even The State Of Alabama Is Worried About Harper Lee

  12-03-2015 09:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Responding to at least one complaint of potential elder abuse related to the publication of Go Set a Watchman, investigators interviewed Ms. Lee last month at the assisted living facility where she resides. They have also interviewed employees at the facility, called the Meadows, as well as several friends and acquaintances.”
  
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• One Year After Being Bombed, Cairo’s Museum Of Islamic Art Is Still A Hollowed-Out Shell

  12-03-2015 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Nowhere has this glacial pace of government administration been more keenly exhibited than in the authorities’ clumsy efforts to reboot the museum. From frequent delays in kick-starting construction, to the events immediately following the attack, the restoration has become mired in confusion, red tape, and allegations of corruption.”
  
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• McQueen show refashioned in London

  12-03-2015 08:59
  
  Four years after going on show in New York, an expanded Alexander McQueen exhibition comes to the V&A
  
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• How Lesbian Was Sappho, Really?

  12-03-2015 08:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s an awful lot of hearsay (many centuries’ worth), much of it conflicting, and just about no direct evidence. Even the surviving poems themselves aren’t clear: were they personal outpourings of passion or lyrics meant for public performance by a chorus? Daniel Mendelsohn looks at the facts we have.
  
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• Juilliard’s Drama Director Steps Down From Theater He Founded And Ran For 25 Years

  12-03-2015 08:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “James Houghton, the founding artistic director of Off Broadway’s Signature Theater, will step down from the organization after a 25-year tenure that has seen the organization’s expansion into a busy theater producer with a $66 million, multi-venue outpost in midtown Manhattan. Houghton, recently diagnosed with stomach cancer, will continue to teach at Juilliard, where he’s […]
  
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• Shakespeare’s Globe Gets Seven-Day Strike Warning

  12-03-2015 08:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Shakespeare’s Globe has been given seven days to avert strike action following a dispute over tour guides’ pay at the venue. Backstage union BECTU has been calling for a pay increase” for guides from £11.24 to £15.16 by November and £18.50 over the following two years.
  
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• Mario Vargas Llosa And His Peru

  12-03-2015 08:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “His books ignore none of Peru’s clashing, kaleidoscopic elements, but his vision, sometimes explicit and more often artistically indirect, is at bottom a gentlemanly, non-millenarian one … Humans, to him, are just another type of ‘fauna,’ a word that Vargas Llosa went on to use in novel after novel, not with detachment or revulsion but, […]
  
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• Artist Gets Her First Gallery Show At Age 100

  12-03-2015 08:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Ever thought you were too old to take on a fresh challenge, learn something new, or add a few more chapters to your memoir? Please allow me to introduce Frieda Lefeber.”
  
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• Nietzsche And Climate-Change Denial

  12-03-2015 08:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Andrew O’Hehir: “The philosopher gave himself credit for being the first modern thinker to tackle ‘the problem of science itself,’ for presenting ‘science for the first time as problematic and questionable.’ Dude! If the perverse German genius could only have known how far ‘the problem of science’ would extend in our age, or to what […]
  
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• 17 Things We Know About Forgiveness

  12-03-2015 08:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  First of all, “The scientific literature on forgiveness only dates back to 1989, amazingly.”
  
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• “Abandon Literary Dignity” And Write Two Versions Of Your Novel, Says Fay Weldon – Artsy For Printed Books And Quick-N-Dirty For E-Readers

  12-03-2015 07:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Writers have to write now for a world where readers are busy, on the move and have little time for contemplation and reflection. The writer has to focus on writing better, cutting to the chase and doing more of the readers’ contemplative work for them.”
  
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• Applying Fay Weldon’s Advice: E-Reader Versions Of Famously Difficult Literary Classics

  12-03-2015 07:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With Weldon’s words in mind, we decided to bowdlerize some famously difficult blocks of text” – from Joyce, Faulkner, Proust, James, and Woolf – “to get them ready for the busy Kindle reader, in order to examine exactly how new system this might work.”
  
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• Vatican Receives Ransom Demand For Stolen Michelangelo Letters

  12-03-2015 06:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Vatican said on Sunday it had received a ransom demand for the return of two rare documents written by Renaissance master Michelangelo that were stolen from its archives nearly 20 years ago.”
  
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• CBC Names Replacement For Jian Ghomeshi As Host Of “Q”

  12-03-2015 06:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The award-winning rapper Shad – né Shadrach Kabango – was the broadcaster’s choice to anchor the flagship culture show on CBC Radio One, prevailing over roughly a dozen guest hosts who did stints on the program following Ghomeshi’s firing over accusations of sexual harassment and battery.
  
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• Shad, The New Host Of “Q”, Is The Perfect Anti-Ghomeshi – Does That Make Him A Good Choice?

  12-03-2015 06:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When it went looking for the next host for Q, the CBC was a lot like someone badly burned by their last boyfriend … [it] contorted itself to appear to avoid the pitfalls that made the last relationship tank. … So there’s little surprise that the result is what happens in hastily engineered rebound relationships.”
  
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• Actually, Shad Is “A Perfect Choice” To Host CBC’s “Q”

  12-03-2015 06:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In Shad, CBC has found an outsider, badly needed, given the multiple reports of a toxic work environment within the Mother Corp. … He’s also an artist who is essentially Canadian, a Kenyan-born immigrant who has rapped nimbly and sagely about Aboriginal issues, love and feminism, among other things.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.11.15

  12-03-2015 06:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yep, We Do That – Sequel (Part I) AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-03-11 Quarry Days: Little Richard Meets John Lennon, via Michael Hill … AJBlog: blog riley Published 2015-03-11 Snapshot: Evgeny Kissin plays Barber AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-03-11
  
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• Book ahead, Australia: tickets for Giorgio Moroder, Grayson Perry, Timeshare

  12-03-2015 04:59
  
  In our weekly tout of the hottest tickets just released, book now to see Lally Katz’s latest play, Freo’s kooky street art festival and the Adelaide Youth Orchestra In a major coup, Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art will host artist Grayson Perry’s first significant Australian exhibition in December. The 2003 Turner prize-winning artist’s colourful ceramics, tapestries, paintings and drawings are sure to cause a stir with their no-holds-barred imagery. Fingers crossed for a Perry vis
  
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• Excavating histories: Trent Parke's Black Rose – in pictures

  12-03-2015 03:16
  
  Photographer Trent Parke – the only Australian to become a full member of Magnum Photos – is exhibiting works at Art Gallery of South Australia from March 14. He describes his series, The Black Rose, as ‘an attempt to excavate my own histories’ following the death of his mother from an asthma attack when he was 12. The photographs and texts in the exhibition derive from Parke’s daily experiences and reflections – with small, seemingly inconsequential moments of life taking on symboli
  
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• Dance Chair

  12-03-2015 01:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Straz Center’s Performing Arts School, Patel Conservatory is seeking a dynamic leader to take the reins of its thriving dance programs as Chair of the Dance Department and Artistic Director of Next Generation Ballet (NGB).
  
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