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• Book ahead, Australia: tickets for Germaine Greer, Stephen Hawking, Australian festival of chamber music

  26-03-2015 23:45
  
  In our weekly tout of the hottest shows just announced, book now to see Stephen Hawking lecture in Sydney, Germaine Greer talk art and gender, a controversial play about racial profiling, and classical music in paradiseBeamed in via technology from the University of Cambridge, professor Stephen Hawking – the real deal, not Eddie Redmayne – will give his first Australian lecture at the Sydney Opera House. The physicist and cosmologist who unravelled the mysteries behind black holes and the bi
  
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• Now hiring: Artistic Director, Children’s Chorus of Washington

  26-03-2015 22:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Children’s Chorus of Washington is seeking an exceptional Artistic Director to enter into service in June/July 2016 to lead our nationally-recognized music program.
  
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• Vice President of Marketing & Communications, Harris Theater, Chicago

  26-03-2015 22:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Harris Theater, advancing its vision into its second decade, is currently conducting a search for a new Vice President of Marketing and Communications.
  
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• Occidental College senior graduating in May

  26-03-2015 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Seeking full time position with LA area museum or art organization. Passionate about art education and youth outreach.
  
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• Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Gives $5 M. to Bennington College

  26-03-2015 22:00 via artnews.com
  Vermont’s Bennington College announced today that the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation has donated $5 million to its arts programs, and that it will rename the section of its arts center that is devoted to visual arts after the abstract painter, who … Read More
  
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• Theaster Gates Did A TED Talk

  26-03-2015 21:40 via artnews.com
  The Chicago potter, activist, and American Social Practice Installation artist Theaster Gates filmed a TED talk this March called “How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art” that is now available to stream online. In a description of … Read More
  
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• Kristina Wong: pushing the envelope on race, rights and America

  26-03-2015 21:26
  
  The Chinese American performance artist’s counter-intuitive style has always turned heads. Now she’s using it to change American attitudes to AfricaKristina Wong believes Asian vaginas will cure racism. She’s introduced the world’s bachelors to the perfect mail order brides and has spread the word about the dangers of yellow fever (the fetishization of Asian women by white men).A third generation Chinese American originally from San Francisco, Wong, 35, doesn’t just defy Asian stereoty
  
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• Ingrid Schaffner Will Curate the 57th Carnegie International

  26-03-2015 19:47 via artnews.com
  Ingrid Schaffner will curate the next Carnegie International, a survey of contemporary art held every three to five years at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum. Schaffner will start the job in May, and relocate to Pittsburgh in September. The show will open … Read More
  
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• A More Complicated View Of What Makes Us Intelligent

  26-03-2015 19:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Increasingly, it makes less sense to think of genes and environments as independent causes,” writes a research team led by Penn State sociologist David Baker. Its examination of likely reasons for the gradual rise in IQ scores over the 20th century suggest more challenging curriculums, to a significant degree, create smarter students.
  
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• Cirque du Soleil To Be Sold?

  26-03-2015 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Renée-Claude Ménard, senior director of public relations for the circus, told CBC News the company is searching for a “strategic partner. This is a very long process and [founder and majority shareholder] Guy Laliberté will take the time necessary to evaluate all available options,” Ménard said.
  
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• Princeton Review Gives Taylor Swift An “F” For Bad Grammar (But…)

  26-03-2015 18:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a Princeton test paper, a section headed “Grammar in Real Life” told students: “Pop lyrics are a great source of bad grammar. See if you can find the error in each of the following.” Taylor Swift’s song Fifteen was then cited as containing the line “Somebody tells you they love you, you got to […]
  
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• S**t Pierre Boulez Said

  26-03-2015 18:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I don’t want my statements to be frozen in time. A date should always be attached to them. Certainly if you take a picture of yourself 30 years ago, that same picture cannot be used as a picture of yourself today.” His incendiary comments, whether directed at his contemporaries (he has described Duchamp as ‘a […]
  
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• LACMA And Hyundai Strike Lucrative Deal

  26-03-2015 18:08 via artnews.com
  The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is expected to announce later in the day an unprecedented ten-year partnership with Korean automaker Hyunadi, The Los Angeles Times reports today. The paper reports that the deal – which LACMA director Michael … Read More
  
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• People Are Fighting Over Sand (And There’s A Shortage)

  26-03-2015 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Though the supply might seem endless, sand is a finite resource like any other. The worldwide construction boom of recent years—all those mushrooming megacities, from Lagos to Beijing—is devouring unprecedented quantities; extracting it is a $70 billion industry. In Dubai enormous land-reclamation projects and breakneck skyscraper-building have exhausted all the nearby sources. Exporters in Australia […]
  
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• The Hot New Dance In New York? A Dance From Jane Austen’s Time

  26-03-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Derived from English country dancing—think of the long paired lines of couples crisscrossing and partner-swapping in all those Jane Austen country-manor balls, now press fast forward—contra offers young urbanites an inclusive atmosphere where they can work up a little sweat away from the gym and touch human beings instead of screens.”
  
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• ‘Let’s Make It Happen': Deitch on Almost Joining MoMA, Bribing Michael Jordan’s Doorman, and More

  26-03-2015 17:51 via artnews.com
  “I don’t really care about money,” Jeffrey Deitch told New Museum curator Massimiliano Gioni last night at the New York Public Library. “Money is something to do more crazy projects with.” There you have it. Deitch and Gioni were both … Read More
  
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• ‘Let’s Make It Happen': Deitch on Almost Joining MoMA, Bribing Michael Jackson’s Doorman, and More

  26-03-2015 17:51 via artnews.com
  “I don’t really care about money,” Jeffrey Deitch told New Museum curator Massimiliano Gioni last night at the New York Public Library. “Money is something to do more crazy projects with.” There you have it. Deitch and Gioni were both … Read More
  
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• Now The Season Of Minority Casting On TV. Too Much?

  26-03-2015 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As is the case with any sea change, the pendulum might have swung a bit too far in the opposite direction. Instead of opening the field for actors of any race to compete for any role in a color-blind manner, there has been a significant number of parts designated as ethnic this year, making them […]
  
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• Seriously? Too Much “Ethnic” Casting On TV This Year?

  26-03-2015 17:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  The story prompted lots of reaction, foremost among the tweets was one from Shonda Rhimes: “1st Reaction: HELL NO. Lemme take off my earrings, somebody hold my purse! 2nd Reaction: Article is so ignorant I can’t even be bothered.”
  
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• JK Rowling’s Great Answer To A Question About Dumbledore’s Sexuality

  26-03-2015 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When Rowling first told fans about Dumbledore’s sexuality, she shed light on the wizard’s confirmed single status by indicating that he was once in love with his childhood friend Gellert Grindelwald – who later went on to become an extremely dangerous dark wizard, and was defeated by Dumbledore prior to the events of the first […]
  
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• Was Early Civilization Driven By Agriculture Or By Religion?

  26-03-2015 16:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Some secularists dislike the idea that spiritual needs drove the rise of civilisation. They fret that it will reinforce or restore religion’s central place in society. But just because spirituality may have led to civilisation, it doesn’t follow that it should lead it now. If religion did have an early founding role, we must acknowledge […]
  
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• LA County Museum Of Art Makes An Unprecedented Sponsorship Deal With Car-Maker

  26-03-2015 16:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In a deal that will be the longest corporate sponsorship in its history, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is expected to announce Thursday a partnership with Korean automaker Hyundai, a ten-year agreement that will put a spotlight on Korean art through exhibitions and provide support for the museum’s art and technology program.”
  
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• Damien Hirst on His Love for Snooker

  26-03-2015 16:26 via artnews.com
  In this week’s issue of The New Yorker, Sam Knight profiles the great, and fairly unstable, British snooker player Ronnie O’Sullivan. It’s a great read, not least because Damien Hirst, who is a snooker aficionado, makes a guest appearance to talk … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Cactus Omelette Edition

  26-03-2015 14:38 via artnews.com
  Matthew Darbyshire’s “Suite” at Lisa Cooley in New York. [Contemporary Art Daily] Here’s a review of “Alec Soth: Songbook”  on view at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. The exhibition shows photographs taken on the artist’s multi-year road trip, during which he took on the role … Read More
  
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• Málaga’s mayor wins race to open Russian museum and pop-up Pompidou

  26-03-2015 14:15
  
  Politician was determined to launch satellite of Paris and St Petersburg museums by end of month
  
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• Bodies like ours, but with completely different minds

  26-03-2015 13:50
  
  The British Museum surveys ancient Greek sculptures of the human form
  
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• Now That The Met Has Sold This Painting, Turns Out It’s Really A Rubens

  26-03-2015 09:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A portrait of Rubens’ young daughter Clara Serena, recently deaccessioned by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is going on display at the Rubenshuis in Antwerp. In 2013, it was auctioned as by a ‘follower of Rubens’, with an estimate of $20,000-$30,000. … Ben van Beneden, the director of the Rubenshuis, has accepted the former […]
  
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• What Shakespeare Knew About Robert Durst’s Confession-Or-Non-Confession

  26-03-2015 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Adam Gopnik: “Many people have pointed out the eerie resemblance of Durst’s words to a Shakespearean soliloquy. Actually, only one kind of soliloquy – the villain’s kind – takes this form. Durst’s words are not at all Hamlet-like, as some have said. They recall, instead, the soliloquies of Iago, in Othello, and of Edmund, in […]
  
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• Last Week One Of Paris’s Top Orchestras Played To An Empty Hall

  26-03-2015 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Radio France – in the middle of strikes, layoffs, financial troubles and general chaos – abruptly cancelled the Friday evening concert of the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio-France, they didn’t consult the musicians or conductor Myung-Whun Chung first. In protest, the furious orchestra went right over to the new Philharmonie de Paris (conveniently available that […]
  
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• Arthur Tress’s best photograph: a boy from the Boston ghetto hides with a gun

  26-03-2015 09:00
  
  ‘When you take pictures of children with guns, they’re often aggressive, but this boy posed in a defensive, frightened way’In the late 1960s, an old schoolmate of mine started doing art projects with young kids. In one, they examined their dreams and used them as the inspiration for paintings and poetry. I was invited to photograph the kids and brought along costumes and masks so they could act out their dreams.I decided to pursue the project further and came up with a title: Dream Collect
  
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• Living Life Without The Brain’s Memory Center

  26-03-2015 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Her life is an endless series of jump cuts. In our age of pinging distractions, people often express a desire to ‘be present,’ but Johnson belies such sentimentality. She is marooned in the present.” A profile of an artist whose hippocampus was completely destroyed in 2007 by a viral infection – and what neuroscientists are […]
  
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