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• Are These Cervantes’ Bones?

  17-03-2015 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Cervantes, often lauded as having written the first modern novel, died in 1616 after requesting burial in a convent in Madrid where, for almost a year, investigators have been searching the subsoil for bones that they now believe to include some of the author’s.”
  
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• When The Bots Take Over

  17-03-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s understood now that, beside what we call the “real world,” we inhabit a variety of virtual worlds. Take Twitter. Or the Twitterverse. Twittersphere. You may think it’s a stretch to call this a “world,” but in many ways it has become a toy universe, populated by millions, most of whom resemble humans and may […]
  
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• Report: China Is Now The Largest Market For Art

  17-03-2015 18:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The value of art traded reached an all-time high, worth an estimated €51bn last year. Art fairs accounted for around 40% of total revenue made by dealers last year (around €9.8bn), though the costs of taking part in them is steep.”
  
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• Could Canada FINALLY Be Making A Move To Produce Better Quality TV?

  17-03-2015 18:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There is a vast hunger for challenging, layered, complex, innovative drama that grips, tests and provokes an audience. In Canada in the past 15 years we have made almost diddly-squat in that arena.”
  
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• Tired Of The Grammar Police? Here’s Ammunition

  17-03-2015 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Instead of having some rule book of what is “correct” usage, they examine the evidence of how native and fluent nonnative speakers do in fact use the language. Whatever is in general use in a language (not any use, but general use) is for that reason grammatically correct.”
  
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• The Man Who Will Design The Metropolitan Museum’s New Galleries

  17-03-2015 17:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In David Chipperfield, the Met has found an architect of personal reticence and sober intellect whose work can be bold and simultaneously deferential.”
  
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• Study: At What Age Are We Mentally At Our Peak?

  17-03-2015 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “At what age do we really peak? Is there ever a point where, intellectually, we’re as good as we’re going to get?”
  
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• How The iPhone’s Slo-Mo Video Is Changing Dance

  17-03-2015 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For dancers, it’s become an incredibly useful tool for honing their craft. The newfound affordability of slow motion has enabled them to improve their technique, spruce up their audition reel, and isolate aspects of their performance that were once intangible.”
  
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• Inside Our Museums – Is Digital Clutter Drowning Out The Art?

  17-03-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A question is what, exactly, in an age of expanded digital access, are museum audiences seeing? Through electronic media — cellphone screens, laptops, Pinterest and Skype — we can survey an extraordinary amount of art, see how it is displayed in museum galleries, zoom in on close-up details. But what are we missing by not […]
  
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• TED As Evangelical Performance

  17-03-2015 17:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A great TED talk is reminiscent of a tent revival sermon. There’s the gathering of the curious and the hungry. Then a persistent human problem is introduced, one that, as the speaker gently explains, has deeper roots and wider implications than most listeners are prepared to admit. Once everyone has been confronted with this evidence […]
  
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• Conceptual Art? How About A Conceptual Store?

  17-03-2015 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A lot of people won’t be purchasing actual products, so we want the online representation to be just as compelling as the objects themselves.”
  
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• ‘Everybody Gets a Porcelain Vase!’ Oprah To Auction Private Collection

  17-03-2015 16:50 via artnews.com
  It was announced yesterday that the Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago will conduct a single-owner auction of over 500 lots belonging to the media legend Oprah Winfrey. The lots will include English, French and Continental furniture and decorative arts as … Read More
  
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• Art Dubai funds the world's most radical art

  17-03-2015 16:38
  
  It’s not all super-yachts and spending binges: Art Dubai, which begins this week, is opening doors for some of the most marginalised voices in artArt fairs. They are all about money, super-yachts and spotting Jeff Koons, right? Art Dubai, which starts on 18 March, certainly does have a lot to do with cash. The oil states of the Middle East have recently made some of the most expensive art deals in history. In February, Qatar bought Gauguin’s Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?) (1892) for
  
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• Greg Goldberg on His Sky Lobby Paintings at One World Trade Center

  17-03-2015 16:02 via artnews.com
  In January, One World Trade Center debuted seven paintings by Greg Goldberg on its 64th-floor sky lobby, a reception and events area in the building that, as we spoke about them last week, was being filled with chairs for some kind … Read More
  
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• ‘People Have Anxiety About Ambiguity’: A Talk With Math Bass

  17-03-2015 14:30 via artnews.com
  Math Bass was included in the recent “With & Width” show at Chapter NY on the Lower East Side. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Hammer Museum and Overduin & Co., where she had her first solo … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: How To Sell A Banksy Edition

  17-03-2015 14:11 via artnews.com
  An exceptionally thorough profile of Jerry Saltz. [Capital New York] The Kravises have purchased Jasper Johns’s Painted Bronze (1960) from the artist, and promised to donate it to the Museum of Modern Art. (In other news, MoMA just acquired its … Read More
  
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• Shia LaBeouf's heartbeat is now available for livestreaming

  17-03-2015 13:53
  
  Walking Hollywood masterpiece Shia LaBeouf is offering the internet the chance to get closer to him than ever before.
  
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• Grayson Perry 'Who Are You?' portraits set National Portrait Gallery record

  17-03-2015 13:10
  
  Record numbers of visitors came to admire new artworks by Grayson Perry at the National Portrait Gallery last year, it has been revealed.
  
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• French police widen net in manuscripts investigation

  17-03-2015 11:47
  
  In case against dealer charged with fraud, authorities are now looking at suppliers and other booksellers
  
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• Sotheby’s launches live auctions on eBay

  17-03-2015 11:42
  
  Collectors can take part in sales streamed online from April
  
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• Sotheby’s Finds Its New CEO At Madison Square Garden

  17-03-2015 09:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The art auction behemoth announced Monday that it has tapped Tad Smith, who has served as president and CEO of the Madison Square Garden Co. since 2014. Smith will officially assume his post at Sotheby’s on March 31.”
  
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• U.S. To Return Assyrian Artifacts To Iraq

  17-03-2015 08:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “American officials on Monday are expected to repatriate about 65 objects to the Iraqi government, among them the head of a massive statue that was stolen in 2007 or 2008 from the same ancient Assyrian archaeological site where Islamic State militants have been rampaging in recent weeks.”
  
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• How “Newsies” Was Transformed From A Flop Movie Into A Hit Stage Musical

  17-03-2015 08:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Composer Alan Menken: “We never thought of the movie as something meant for the stage. But there was such a hunger for that to happen for a generation of kids because they loved it so much. We felt the need to turn it into a worthwhile meal.”
  
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• How Cate Blanchett Actually Redeems Cinderella’s Stepmother

  17-03-2015 08:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Lady Tremaine’s abuse of Cinderella is not the result, her performance makes clear, of some sui generis malevolence; it is instead the direct result of the cruelties her own life has heaped upon her. And those, in turn, are the direct result of her being a woman.”
  
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• Louise Erdrich Wins Library of Congress Prize For American Fiction

  17-03-2015 08:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The prize, which will be awarded during the National Book Festival on Sept. 5, is given to writers with ‘unique, enduring voices’ whose work addresses the American experience. Past winners include John Grisham, Toni Morrison and E.L. Doctorow.”
  
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• Bill Watterson Speaks! “Calvin And Hobbes” Creator Gives Rare Interview

  17-03-2015 08:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.”
  
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• Bassem Youssef, “Egypt’s Jon Stewart,” In Exile

  17-03-2015 08:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “His life in Egypt became ‘an unpredictable roller coaster,’ he says. ‘And I’m getting old for amusement parks.'” And yet: “I refuse to put myself in a position where I’m some sort of fugitive. If you’re dissing the country from outside, the brand will lose credibility.”
  
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• Older Americans Are Flocking To The Stage

  17-03-2015 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The 50-plus crowd is stage-struck. Across the country, growing numbers of older adults are joining theater companies and signing up for classes in acting, directing and playwriting. Many – empty-nesters or newly retired – have never set foot on a stage and are seeking new outlets. But many others … caught the acting bug in […]
  
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• The African War Orphan Who’s Not Just A Skilled Ballerina: In Holland, She’s A Genuine Celebrity

  17-03-2015 08:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michaela DePrince, adopted from a Sierra Leone orphanage at age 4, is now, at 20, a member of the Dutch National Ballet. Since the publication last year of her memoir and a subsequent TEDx talk in Amsterdam, she has become a box office draw for the company and has been fending off requests for everything […]
  
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• A Rabbi And An Atheist Talk Good And Evil

  17-03-2015 08:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  And they didn’t walk into a bar, they walked into the 92nd St. Y. They’re Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, and Rabbi Geoffrey Mitelman, founder of Sinai and Synapses, “an organization that aims to bridge the gap between scientifically grounded views and spiritual belief.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.16.15

  17-03-2015 06:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Approaching Beauty in Art (Beauty Class Continues) AJBlog: Jumper Published 2015-03-16 The opposite of random AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-03-16 Why Otis Kaye? AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-03-16 Bouvier Shenanigans, Chapter Two: Steve Cohen AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-03-15 Paul’s Worlds AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2015-03-15 A Listening Tip, And A Request Fulfilled […]
  
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• David Lynch: Between Two Worlds review – clues to a bigger mystery

  17-03-2015 06:28
  
  Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
  Step through Lynch’s gallery portal, surrender to his stage-sets and cinematic sense of uncanny, and you might discover the answers you knew all alongThe entry to David Lynch: Between Two Worlds at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art is through a portal. On the gallery wall is a small drawing of a violently carpeted lounge room, with an armchair and a couch, flock wallpaper and rooms that disappear beyond in forced perspective. Right next to the drawing is a ful
  
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• Executive Director, Modell-Lyric Performing Arts Center

  17-03-2015 06:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Patricia & Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric invites applications and referrals for the position of Executive Director.
  
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• Executive Director, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts

  17-03-2015 06:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  RiverCenter for the Performing Arts invites applications for the position of Executive Director. This person will become the “face” of RiverCenter in the community and will have the managerial skills and facility experience to take RiverCenter to its next level of achievement.
  
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• Deadline May 1 – Fellow Applications for National Critics Institute

  17-03-2015 06:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Critic? Reporter? Cultural journalist in theater, film, music, books, or food? Join us this summer for our annual intensive workshop!
  
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• After 9/11: Sculpture made from wreckage taken from Ground Zero finds permanent home in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

  17-03-2015 02:15
  
  It was a piece of mangled metal from the wreckage of Ground Zero presented to Britain as a lasting symbol of peace. But it lasted just 28 days on public display before it was lifted and unceremoniously dumped on a Cambridge farm to collect rust.
  
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• At Tefaf Maastricht, art dealers mix old and new more than ever

  17-03-2015 00:15
  
  Contemporary works fresh from the studio hang alongside Renaissance masterpieces
  
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