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• The Tricky Feat Of Making Opera Out Of Current Events

  09-04-2015 22:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Creating operas out of real events, whether in the recent or more distant past, is almost as old as the art form itself. It began in 1643 when Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, set in Rome in AD 64, was staged in Venice, though in the baroque and early classical operas that followed over the next […]
  
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• Boston’s Museum Of Fine Arts Chooses Its Next Director

  09-04-2015 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Matthew Teitelbaum, now “director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario, brings not only a track record of successful museum expansion and fund-raising, but a broad approach to audience engagement and an expertise in contemporary art that could add new dimensions to the MFA.”
  
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• The Art Of Being Philip Glass (Not So Easy, As It Turns Out)

  09-04-2015 22:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  For Glass, the point is always process, the doing of the thing, more so than the result. And keeping that in mind, I’m inclined to let him define success here in his own terms: “If you don’t know what to do, there’s actually a chance of doing something new. As long as you know what […]
  
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• Lost In Translation (The Art Of Translating Is All Around Us)

  09-04-2015 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There is clearly a tension between the varieties of “translation” happening all around us—every moment of every day, truly one of the fundamental activities that hold our world together—and the persistent recycling of platitudes about how this activity, so basic and ubiquitous, is impossible. If the platitudes are recalled more often than translation’s pervasiveness, it […]
  
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• How Artificial Intelligence Is Changes The Ways We See The World

  09-04-2015 22:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Over the last five years, processing power and huge corpuses of teaching data have given computers the ability to detect emotions and moods. Soon, perhaps, they will be able to recognize a sideline scuffle or a player’s shift in attitude. Combine that with sensors gathering crowd reactions, the movement and changes in velocity for players […]
  
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• Consumer Reports: Melissa Brown

  09-04-2015 21:50 via artnews.com
  New York artist Melissa Brown works in a variety of media. To name some: currency-inspired woodcuts, stop motion animation, predictive card decks, screenprints, and stencil paintings. She has mounted solo exhibitions at New York City galleries Essex Flowers, Kansas, Bellwether, … Read More
  
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• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Taps Matthew Teitelbaum as New Director

  09-04-2015 20:34 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston announced today that Matthew Teitelbaum will succeed Malcolm Rogers as their next director. Rogers will end his 19-year term in August. Teitelbaum, who currently serves as director and chief executive of the Art Gallery of … Read More
  
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• Attack of the Monster Black Suit: Enormous Clothing Trend Continues at SP-Arte Fair

  09-04-2015 20:15 via artnews.com
  Some readers may recall that at last year’s edition of NADA’s Miami Beach art fair, no less than three exhibitors showed up with artworks that took the form of oversized articles of clothing—a fleece jacket by James Viscardi at The … Read More
  
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• Attack of the Monster Black Suit: Enormous Clothing Sculpture Trend Continues at SP-Arte Fair

  09-04-2015 20:15 via artnews.com
  Some readers may recall that at last year’s edition of NADA’s Miami Beach art fair, no less than three exhibitors showed up with artworks that took the form of oversized articles of clothing—a fleece jacket by James Viscardi at The … Read More
  
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• Auckland Castle’s £17m revamp approved

  09-04-2015 19:05
  
  Planning permission includes museum and visitor centre
  
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• Smirk of art: Dallas museum prankster's satirical display makes us laugh – at him

  09-04-2015 18:36
  
  Teen philistine Jack Durham clearly doesn’t get modern art if he thinks everyday objects can’t be used to create conceptual masterpiecesWere art gallery visitors who mistook sunglasses and a watch placed on the floor by a witty teenager victims of a joke on modern art? Or was the culprit the real joke?It is not the first time conceptual art has caused the kind of confusion that in some eyes mocks its pretensions. The misunderstandings tend to take the inverse form of cleaners mistaking artwo
  
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• Frida Kahlo's love letters to José Bartoli to be auctioned in New York

  09-04-2015 18:21
  
  Letters written to Catalan artist described as ‘steamy with unbridled sensuality and ... like Kahlo’s paintings, extraordinarily direct and physical’The Mexican painter Frida Kahlo wrote on 29 August 1946: “Last night I felt as if many wings caressed me all over, as if your finger tips had mouths that kissed my skin.” The love letter was addressed not to her most famous partner, husband Diego Rivera, but to her lover José Bartoli. Her biographer Hayden Herrera described the prev
  
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• Frieze New York’s 2015 Talks Program Inspired By Jerry Saltz’s Facebook

  09-04-2015 17:56 via artnews.com
  The Frieze New York art fair has announced the line-up for its 2015 talks. The program was inspired, according to Frieze, by the critic Jerry Saltz being kicked off of Facebook for posting art historical images that didn’t quite mesh … Read More
  
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• An Artist Selects: Matthew Weinstein in New York

  09-04-2015 17:53 via artnews.com
  If I had a spirit animal, it would probably be a toaster. So the cloud of spiritual incense that floats around in Stephen Mueller’s paintings has always prevented me from enjoying them. My mind wanders when religious imagery demands to … Read More
  
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• ‘Carolyn Case: Heat and Dust’ at Asya Geisberg Gallery

  09-04-2015 17:30 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: ‘Carolyn Case: Heat and Dust’ is currently on view at Asya Geisberg Gallery in New York until April 18. Case’s travels to Tehran became the catalyst for her … Read More
  
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• Full Time Faculty Position: Business and Finance, MA in Art Business

  09-04-2015 17:13
  New York, Sotheby's Institute of Art
  
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• Full Time Faculty Position

  09-04-2015 17:13
  New York, Sotheby's Institute of Art
  
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• Charles I's portrait painter gets first exhibition

  09-04-2015 16:59
  
  National Portrait Gallery display of Cornelius Johnson’s 17th-century work will include rarely seen portraits of royal childrenA largely forgotten portrait painter who was commissioned by the elite of early 17th-century England, including Charles I, is finally to get his moment in the sun.The National Portrait Gallery has announced it is to stage the first display of works by the court painter Cornelius Johnson. Continue reading...
  
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• Morning Links: Björk Show Edition

  09-04-2015 15:21 via artnews.com
  Reykjavík’s mayor Dagur Bergþóruson Eggertsson saw MoMA’s Björk show and would now like to host the exhibition at Reykjavík Art Museum after it closes in New York on June 7. A MoMA spokesperson says that the museum has been “exploring opportunities to tour the Björk … Read More
  
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• Thomas Rentmeister, artist: "I make music here but often go out to have my work made elsewhere"

  09-04-2015 15:00
  
  Thomas Rentmeister's studio is in Weissensee, an area of east Berlin that is rapidly becoming home to a generation of artists who have been priced out of the centre of town. He shares the space, part of a former film studio, with his artist girlfriend, Birte Bosse. They are living in the studio until they can find somewhere else to buy, admitting that it is becoming increasingly difficult. "Gentrification is like the waves with the tide coming in. You are standing on a beach with increasingly w
  
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• Fondation Custodia aims to be the place to see drawings in Paris

  09-04-2015 13:15
  
  New exhibition programme is helping to put the institution on the cultural map
  
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• Kavakos, Noseda, LSO - Barbican, classical review: An outstanding concert

  09-04-2015 13:14
  
  Dmitri Shostakovich was finishing the finale of his Violin Concerto No 1 when the Stalinists declared war on him and his music, whose ‘formalist perversions’ and ‘anti-democratic tendencies’ represented everything they wanted to eradicate; he lost his teaching job, and for the following five years presented only the blandest musical fare.
  
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• Foundation Custodia aims to be the place to see drawings in Paris

  09-04-2015 12:41
  
  New exhibition programme is helping to put the institution on the cultural map
  
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• Next stop Reykjavík for MoMA’s Björk show?

  09-04-2015 11:59
  
  The city’s mayor has seen the exhibition and wants to bring it to the Icelandic capital
  
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• Toronto Symphony CEO Breaks Silence Over Buying Out Valentina Lisitsa’s Contract

  09-04-2015 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jeff Melanson: “We did not go public with this story because we were trying to protect Valentina and her reputation. We are now going public because she basically forced the issue on us and now we are speaking to you.”
  
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• Pianist Says Toronto Symphony Donor Threatened To Cut Funds If She Performed

  09-04-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Valentina Lisitsa, whose appearances were cancelled this week by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra because of tweets she posted about the Ukrainian crisis, says the TSO told her agent a donor threatened to withhold funds if she performed as scheduled.”
  
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• The Hell With It: Toronto Symphony Pulls Concerto From Program Altogether

  09-04-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  When the TSO bought out Valentina Lisitsa’s contract because of controversial statements she tweeted about the situation in Ukraine, they engaged Stewart Goodyear as her replacement – whereupon he became the target of abuse and threats on social media from Lisitsa fans and/or Putin partisans. So the TSO threw up its hands. (includes astonished, heartfelt […]
  
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• This Female Comedian Does An Hour Of Rape Jokes Every Night (With No Pants On)

  09-04-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Adrienne (“I do wear a jacket and heels – I’m not ridiculous”) Truscott: “And what is my right to do it – because I’m a woman? A comedian? Journalists ask me if I’ve been raped. A fair question in a way, or does it reveal an assumption based on my material: that I couldn’t simply […]
  
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• ‘A Ridiculous, If Ingenious, Invention’ – Frank Rich Asks Why TV News Anchormen Still Exist

  09-04-2015 09:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The network anchor’s roots are not in journalism but in the native cultural tradition apotheosized by L. Frank Baum. … NBC’s [Brian Williams] train wreck played out as corporate and celebrity farce … because it doesn’t actually matter who puts on the bespoke suit and reads the news from behind a desk.”
  
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• California’s Next Bohemian Hot Spot – In A City You’d Never Expect

  09-04-2015 09:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  James Fallows reports: “‘The Tower District is the bohemia of Fresno, and Fresno is the bohemia of California,’ a Fresnan named Heather Parish told us recently. If she were editing in real time, she probably would have said: Fresno should be the bohemia of our most populous and creative state. Here is what she is […]
  
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• What Does ‘New Age’ Really Mean? And How Did It Spring Up In The Age Of High Tech?

  09-04-2015 09:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s worth noting at the outset: New Age is not so much a discrete collection of beliefs as it is a Venn diagram (or a mandala, if you like) of intersecting interests, objectives and motifs. The New Age ‘movement’ is not a single movement at all. The term contains multitudes. … The aesthetic is one […]
  
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• The ‘Netflix For Books’ Opens A (Big) eBookstore – And It’s Not (Just) About Competing With Amazon

  09-04-2015 09:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Tell me, what do you think is the most common reason given for cancelling a subscription ebook service like Oyster? If you answered ‘I can’t find the ebooks I want’ then you won the prize. … But now Oyster can promise to sell the ebooks which it was unable to lend, and that is going […]
  
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• Recreating Pina Bausch Dances After 30 Years

  09-04-2015 09:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s not just a matter of the movement. There are the thick layer of earth covering the stage, 20 Christmas trees, the stage fog, the brass band; the huge wading pool; the giant cactuses, the glass coffin on wheels, and the toilet chain hanging from a dancer’s mouth …
  
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• No Elder Abuse: Officials Find Harper Lee Competent To Decide About Publishing Second Novel

  09-04-2015 09:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Alabama state Department of Human Resources has officially closed its investigation into whether Lee was manipulated or coerced into agreeing to publish Go Set a Watchman.
  
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• What Harvey Weinstein Learned On “Finding Neverland”‘s Long, Long Trip To Broadway

  09-04-2015 09:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In making the leap from movie mogul to lead theater producer … [he] has fired or lost more actors, artists and executives than most impresarios do on their shows. … Yet Mr. Weinstein has been more than a hands-on producer. At 63, he has also become a student again, learning the art and craft of […]
  
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• A Serbian/Kosovar “Romeo And Juliet”

  09-04-2015 09:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Capulets are Serbs, the Montagues are Kosovo Albanians, and each family will be speaking its own language. There are no subtitles. “There are people in Belgrade who don’t speak Albanian,” says the director, “but they will understand.” (Do most people in Pristina, where the production opens next month, speak Serbian?)
  
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• How I Found Georges Perec’s Lost Novel

  09-04-2015 09:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Bellos: “Preparing for [a] move in spring 1966, [Perec] stuffed redundant paperwork into a cardboard suitcase intended for the dump, and put his literary papers in a different case of similar appearance. In the move, the wrong case got junked. All of Perec’s manuscripts and typescripts prior to the writing of Things disappeared. The […]
  
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• Frederick Douglass, Defender Of The Liberal Arts

  09-04-2015 09:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[His] example offers a helpful corrective to the tendency of contemporary education debates to fixate on economic questions. … Douglass’s own life testified to the ability of the liberal arts – fields such as literature, philosophy, the physical sciences, and social sciences – to inspire internal emancipation as well.”
  
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• Brooklyn Academy Of Music Chooses New President

  09-04-2015 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[BAM] hasn’t had to search for a new president in a very long time. Since the impresario Harvey Lichtenstein stepped down in 1999, Karen Brooks Hopkins has held the position, becoming a fund-raising powerhouse and building the institution into an anchor for a cultural renaissance in Downtown Brooklyn.”
  
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• Washington Ballet Launches Program To Develop Dancers And Choreographers Of Color

  09-04-2015 09:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Artistic director Septime Webre says that the new project, called “Let’s Dance Together,” isn’t “just about community outreach and scholarships … [It’s] to try to build an integrated faculty, and an integrated company so dancers can see themselves in the grownups onstage.”
  
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• Watch The 1000-Year-Old Dance Tradition Nearly Killed By The Khmer Rouge

  09-04-2015 09:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Charya Burt trained in and taught classical Cambodian dance in Phnom Penh, where her family suffered oppression by the Khmer Rouge. Now in the Bay Area, she’s passing on her art – and pushing it in new directions.” (video)
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.08.15

  09-04-2015 09:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Historically White Theatre AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-04-07 Billie Holiday At 100 AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-04-08 Another Opening, Another … AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-04-08 More on “Cash Cow” Collections: Scotland’s Dazzling Rent-a-Show at the De Young AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-04-08 Poetry and Plutocracy AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-04-08 Other Places: Sloane On McRae AJBlog: […]
  
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• Preservation or plunder? The battle over the British Museum’s Indigenous Australian show

  09-04-2015 09:00
  
  Indigenous Australians are calling for the objects on show at the British Museum’s new exhibition to be returned. Can colonial artefacts ever escape their violent past?It’s been less than a century since the world’s leading collectors began acknowledging Indigenous Australian art as more than mere ethnographic artefact. Since then, the most enlightened, from Hong Kong to London, New York to Paris, have understood that when you purchase a piece of Indigenous art you become its custodian –
  
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• Notebook owned by the father of computer science to be auctioned

  09-04-2015 08:13
  
  The journal that Alan Turing used to jot down his thoughts on a universal language was later turned into a dream diary by one of his student
  
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