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• Assistant Professor, Arts and Cultural Management, MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB

  27-03-2015 23:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Full-time teaching opportunity at MacEwan University, Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications.
  
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• Carey Perloff: The Big Challenges For American Theatre

  27-03-2015 22:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  She’s disturbed by the way “many large-scale institutional theaters today have become roadhouses to incubate commercial productions headed for Broadway,” alarmed at the “relative paucity of female voices rising to the top of our profession” and frustrated that funding sources are so heavily focused on new-play development that there is “virtually no support for the […]
  
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• ‘Let’s Break the Internet!’: The Artist Project at the Met

  27-03-2015 22:01 via artnews.com
  “This!” Deborah Kass said to me last Wednesday evening, as if it were obvious. We were standing on the steps of the Temple of Dendur, trading favorite museums. She gestured at the sprawl of the Metropolitan Museum of Art around … Read More
  
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• ‘Let’s Break the Internet!': The Artist Project at the Met

  27-03-2015 22:01 via artnews.com
  “This!” Deborah Kass said to me last Wednesday evening, as if it were obvious. We were standing on the steps of the Temple of Dendur, trading favorite museums. She gestured at the sprawl of the Metropolitan Museum of Art around … Read More
  
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• Tomas Tranströmer, 83, Winner Of 2011 Nobel Prize For Literature

  27-03-2015 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “He wrote in exceptionally pure, cold Swedish without frills. His descriptions of nature were as sparse and alive as a Japanese painting. … His sparse output was highly praised from the moment his first collection, 17 Poems, appeared in 1954 and he was acknowledged as Sweden’s greatest living poet long before he won the Nobel […]
  
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• ‘Martin Wong: Painting Is Forbidden’ at CCA Wattis, San Francisco

  27-03-2015 21:11 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Martin Wong: Painting Is Forbidden,” which is on view at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco through April 18, 2015. It was curated by CCA’s Graduate Program … Read More
  
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• Munich Court Upholds Kunstmuseum Bern’s Claim to 1,000-Plus Gurlitt Collection Works

  27-03-2015 20:30 via artnews.com
  A Munich court has rejected inheritance claims made by a cousin of Cornelius Gurlitt, a reclusive art collector who died at the age of 81 this past May, to Gurlitt collection of over 1,000 artworks, The New York Times reports. Before he … Read More
  
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• What every man needs now: a six-pack from ancient Greece | Natalie Haynes

  27-03-2015 20:05
  
  Women have always faced impossible physical expectations. Now there is pressure on men to muscle up like HerculesVisitors to the Defining Beauty exhibition at the British Museum – of sculpture from and inspired by ancient Greece – will be greeted by an ostensibly alluring sight: the naked, crouching figure of Aphrodite beckons us into the room.Only when we walk around her do we see that her hand may not be beckoning, so much as pulled back to give us a smack in the kisser for looking at her
  
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• Albert Irvin obituary

  27-03-2015 19:46
  
  Painter who through bold use of colour defied every model of art-world successThe artist Albert Irvin, who has died aged 92, created an extraordinary body of abstract paintings, watercolours and prints. His work became prominent in the reinvigoration of British painting in the 1980s and 90s, and latterly became familiar through wide exhibition and reproduction. He made colour sweep and spray over pictorial areas that give the illusion of depth, created by complex and dynamic marks and gestures o
  
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• People Won’t Listen To Scientists ABout Climate Change? Fine, Then Let’s Dance Them To Undertsanding

  27-03-2015 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Scientists today believe that such critical information must be disseminated and quickly acted upon to avoid catastrophe. But that is not happening, as indicated by the ‘much talk, little action’ status of climate change. The central need is clearly not for more natural science research (although in many areas it would be very helpful). Rather, […]
  
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• A Dancer in the Dark, Illuminated: Inside MoMA’s Unusual Björk Catalogue

  27-03-2015 19:38 via artnews.com
  “So I have been doing a little reading and trying to find folks who could help me define what ‘ism’ I am,” Icelandic pop star Björk wrote to writer Timothy Morton in an email in October. In a lengthier email, … Read More
  
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• On YouTube: A Battle Over Fair Use And Superfans

  27-03-2015 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If you’re video maker who’s had a video flagged and you want to dispute it, the process is Kafkaesque. The copyright holder alone decides the outcome: It can uphold its claim. It can agree that your video does not infringe its copyright. Or it can do nothing at all for 30 days, during which time […]
  
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• UK Funders Will Blacklist Museums That Sell Art For Profit

  27-03-2015 19:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a joint statement, the organisations said they were “concerned that a growing number of organisations are considering selling items from their collections for financial gain. Museum collections… represent an extraordinary act of generosity from one generation to another. It is clear that even when legally owned by museum governing bodies, they are primarily held […]
  
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• LA Philharmonic Extends Dudamel’s Contract For Three Years

  27-03-2015 19:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The extension means that Dudamel, who’s also music director of the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in his home country of Venezuela, will lead the Phil for at least 13 seasons. The orchestra did not disclose financial terms; Dudamel earned $1.44 million in 2012, according to the Phil’s most recent public tax filing.”
  
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• CBC: Death By A Million Cuts

  27-03-2015 19:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced Thursday that it is cutting another 244 jobs over the next six months to save $15-million annually, as part of its five-year plan to eliminate up to 1,500 positions by 2020.”
  
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• Used Records Are Fueling A Vinyl Resurgence

  27-03-2015 19:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s what fuelled the beginning of the comeback, as not many classic albums were available on new pressings even five years ago. Even now that they are becoming available again, many new reissues of classic albums are quite costly or simply still haven’t even been reissued yet, so used vinyl fills the need.”
  
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• Why Would Anyone Start A New Literary Magazine? (But Then…)

  27-03-2015 18:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Demand isn’t fixed or finite; it has the opportunity to surprise us. In strict consumer terms, people can’t demand what they don’t know about. The introduction of a service​, a product or an idea is what ultimately drives demand. One of the things the LA Review of Books proved was that the demand for smart […]
  
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• How Tech Criticism Is Failing Us

  27-03-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “That radical critique of technology in America has come to a halt is in no way surprising: it could only be as strong as the emancipatory political vision to which it is attached. No vision, no critique. Lacking any idea of how sensors, algorithms, and databanks could be deployed to serve a non-neoliberal agenda, radical […]
  
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• Report On UK Creative Industries: Here’s What Needs Doing

  27-03-2015 18:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The welcome emergence of London as possibly the leading creative industry hub in the world has disguised the lack of equivalent growth outside London, and this situation should be addressed by government as a priority,” it concludes.
  
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• Booker Prize Mastermind Martyn Goff, 91

  27-03-2015 18:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Goff, who died on Wednesday after a long illness, masterminded the Booker for more than three decades. “The current health of English fiction can be explained in two words: Martyn Goff,” wrote John Sutherland, when the former bookseller announced he was stepping down from the prize in 2002.
  
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• The Revolution Is… Where Do Movies Go From Here?

  27-03-2015 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Cinema is gone—everyone agrees. And yet cinema also abides, if only so that Jean-Luc Godard can go on delivering valedictions to what it used to be. Like the history of which it’s a part, the moving image has not finished its work, nor is it likely to anytime soon. I think it’s just gotten a […]
  
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• Political unrest forces museums and cultural centres to close in Yemen

  27-03-2015 18:04
  Many artists have left the country, but those who have stayed are becoming increasingly resourceful
  
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• Google Street Art Project: 'We are not the mural police, we are the mural conservancy'

  27-03-2015 16:36
  
  How the internet giant is helping to catalog thousands of pieces of street art before they disappear foreverWhat some call vandalism others call street art. Where some see criminals others see outlaw poets, heroes of free speech taking their work directly to the people, bypassing galleries and auction houses, and democratizing the relationship between art and the public. That outlaw freedom jumped time and space last week when the Google Street Art Project announced it was doubling its worldwide
  
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• Beyond the Infinite: Robert Rosenblum on the Sublime in Contemporary Art, in 1961

  27-03-2015 16:01 via artnews.com
  In the February 1961 issue of ARTnews Robert Rosenblum tackled the tradition of the sublime, looking at art that instills feelings of fear and awe in viewers, overwhelming the senses. First theorized by Longinus and then revived during the 18th-century Enlightenment in Europe by Edmund … Read More
  
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• Sonia Delaunay: the avant-garde queen of loud, wearable art

  27-03-2015 15:00
  
  She arrived in Paris in 1910 and spent decades at the glamorous heart of the avant garde as an artist and fashion designer – but has been overshadowed by her more famous husband. Now, the first UK retrospective of her work brings Delaunay’s vibrant visions flooding into the light
  When Sonia Terk married Robert Delaunay in 1910, she was 25. She had already changed her country twice, her name twice, and been married once, a brief marriage of convenience to Wilhelm Uhde, art critic and collecto
  
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• A stone is taken from a mountain and installed in a gallery. Art or vandalism? | Philip Hoare

  27-03-2015 14:47
  
  Artists have always appropriated the land, but Cumbria Tourism wants the one-inch ‘stolen’ piece of Scafell Pike returned, and I can understand whyBritain just got shorter – in the name of art. Scafell Pike in Cumbria is the highest peak in England, at 3,209 feet. Or at least, it was, until Oscar Santillan came along.In a new exhibition at a south London gallery, the artist has installed a modest bit of rock. Unfortunately, the rock also happens to have been taken off the top of Scafell Pi
  
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• Morning Links: King Tut Edition

  27-03-2015 14:34 via artnews.com
  The Williams College Museum of Art will receive 68 artworks from Peter Norton of antivirus software fame. The gift includes works from Tracey Emin, Adrian Piper, Allan Ruppersberg, Nayland Blake, and Christopher Wool. [Artforum] Shannon Stratton, current executive director of contemporary arts nonprofit Threewalls in … Read More
  
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• Nude art tours, elves and the biggest building in Europe – the week in art

  27-03-2015 13:24
  
  The man hosting nudist gallery viewings, the power of Iceland’s ‘hidden people’ and the mega mirrored middle finger to nature planned for a tiny Alpine town – all in your weekly art dispatchIn her new paintings called Geldbilder, the provocative German artist explores money as an artistic theme and medium. As the Euro struggles, Genzken pastes it into paintings and continues her dadaist commentary on modern life.
  • Hauser and Wirth, London W1S, from 26 March until 16 May. Continue read
  
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• President of Condé Nast International appointed chairman of V&A

  27-03-2015 12:50
  
  Nicholas Coleridge will take up his position in November
  
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• Police thwart bid to smuggle £11m Picasso work out of Italy

  27-03-2015 12:36
  
  Reports say officers seized 1912 painting from artist’s Cubist period and rare Roman statue worth £6m
  Italian police have seized a €15m (£11m) Picasso painting and a precious Roman statue they feared were about to be smuggled out of the country, reports say.The Picasso was described as a 1912 work from the Spanish artist’s Cubist period. The statue dates back to the second or third century and has an estimated value of €8m (£6m). Continue reading...
  
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• Italian police seize £11m Picasso from pensioner who claims it was a gift

  27-03-2015 12:36
  
  Specialist artefacts unit try to establish true owner of 1912 painting from artist’s Cubist period, which former frame-maker says he was given by a widower in his shopItalian police are trying to establish the true owner of a Picasso painting worth €15 m (£11m) after confiscating it from a pensioner who says he was given it for free.The Rome resident, a former frame-maker, told detectives he received the work in 1978 as a thank-you gift for an act of kindness towards a recently bereave
  
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• Tate reconsiders returning Constable seascape

  27-03-2015 11:57
  
  Advisory panel’s recommendation to restitute the painting is likely to be reviewed
  
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• Tate does u-turn over Constable seascape

  27-03-2015 11:57
  
  Advisory panel’s recommendation to restitute the painting will be reviewed
  
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• The Curator Of MoMA’s Björk Disaster Should Be Fired

  27-03-2015 09:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Christian Viveros-Fauné: “[Klaus] Biesenbach – the institution’s Übersocial, fame-obsessed, Chief Curator at Large – has seemingly finally come in for some in-house scrutiny. A growing consensus outside the institution says it’s about time.”
  
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• Who’s Really To Blame For MoMA’s Björkgate?

  27-03-2015 09:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This is obviously about the board members going to dinner parties and such, and being told by friends and associates that they should be embarrassed by the show. And they should be, I guess; the problem is that they refuse to accept any responsibility for fostering the conditions that allowed it to happen.”
  
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• In Contract Battle, Orchestra Moves To Replace Up To Two-Thirds Of Its Players

  27-03-2015 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The KBS Symphony Orchestra moved to potentially replace 67 positions in its 100-strong orchestra on Monday, upping the ante against players in an intensifying labor dispute.” KBS, the state broadcaster of South Korea, spun off its orchestra in September 2012; many musicians, fearing for their job security, want to remain KBS employees and have been […]
  
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• The Best Night To See A Play Is The First Night Of Previews, Says NY Times Critic

  27-03-2015 08:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Laura Collins-Hughes: “The energy in the room is high, and whatever surprises the performance holds won’t yet have been spoiled by reviews written by people like me. … [And] whatever ails a show, there is still – theoretically, anyway – time to fix it. To me, that feels hopeful. And dynamic.”
  
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• Richard III Finally Gets His State Funeral

  27-03-2015 08:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For an English monarchy that has lasted more than 1,000 years, there can have been few more improbable occasions than the ceremony of remembrance here on Thursday for the reburial of one of the most bloodstained medieval sovereigns.”
  
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• The Royal Poet Laureate’s Eulogy For Richard III

  27-03-2015 08:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Here’s the text of Carol Ann Duffy’s encomium, which was recited at the funeral by Benedict Cumberbatch.
  
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• ‘Man-Seders’ – Matzoh With Steak And Scotch

  27-03-2015 08:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Unlike staid practice sessions of old, these promise flowing alcohol, macho food and male bonding along with some religious instruction, although that last one can get a bit lost at some of the events. … The goal is simple: to teach men about the Passover Seder, including how to run one, and engage them more […]
  
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• How Irish Step Dancing Left Irish Ethnicity Behind

  27-03-2015 08:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When it was whites who made up the majority of U.S. immigrants, it really mattered if you were Irish, Italian, or some other white ethnicity. … Once the distinctions no longer mattered and the stigma of being Irish had faded, then Irish dance could be something anyone did and others would want to do. And, […]
  
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• Why New TV Comedies Are Choosing Plot Over Jokes

  27-03-2015 08:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Basically, because they can. Jason Zinoman explains how the huge changes over the past decade in the way television series are distributed and consumed have allowed the creators of comedies to break with what was always a fairly strict template.
  
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• Apple Moves To Compete Directly With Spotify

  27-03-2015 07:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Almost a year after agreeing to pay $3 billion for Beats, the maker of hip headphones and a streaming music service, Apple is working with Beats engineers and executives to introduce its own subscription streaming service. The company is also planning an enhanced iTunes Radio that may be tailored to listeners in regional markets.”
  
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• When Memory Stops Functioning, Where Does A Person’s Identity Reside?

  27-03-2015 07:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Dementia undermines all of our philosophical assumptions about the coherence of the self. … Everyone touched by the disease goes through a crash-course in the philosophy of mind. … If someone cannot remember not just where the milk bottle goes, but what a milk bottle is for, then the shared pre-suppositions on which communication, meaning […]
  
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• Smithsonian.com's 12th annual photo contest finalists - in pictures

  27-03-2015 07:00
  
  These compelling images from finalists in Smithsonian.com’s annual photography contest – with categories of Natural World, Travel, People, Americana, Altered Images and Mobile – represent a fraction of the 26,500 entries received by the magazine and which came from photographers in 93 countries around the world. The winners will be announced later in the year Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.26.15

  27-03-2015 06:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Awakening to truths about ourselves and the world (in the Beauty Class) AJBlog: Jumper Published 2015-03-26 Guest Columnist: Has Our Inner Child Won? AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-03-26
  
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