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• On the Top Floor of Sp-Arte, Sandback, Buren, Baloufa Fill Open Space

  15-04-2015 23:58 via artnews.com
  Oscar Niemeyer’s Bienal Pavilion, which hosts the SP-Arte art fair, has more than a quarter million square feet of space, which meant that the booths of most of the 141 exhibitors at the fair, which ended Sunday, felt remarkably spacious. … Read More
  
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• Here’s a Photo of an Alma Thomas Painting in the White House

  15-04-2015 22:56 via artnews.com
  It’s a beautiful Wednesday afternoon here in New York City—about 70 degrees and partly cloudy—and it just feels like the right time to share this photo, which has Alma Thomas’s Resurrection (1966), a stunner of a painting, presiding over a Passover … Read More
  
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• Take Them to Church: Sundblad, Sweeney Celebrate New Record, Shirley Collins With Greenwich Village Performance

  15-04-2015 21:09 via artnews.com
  “I came here once for church service and I wore this outfit, so I thought I’d wear it again,” artist Emily Sundblad said on Monday night before launching into a song with the musician Matt Sweeney. The two were performing … Read More
  
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• Study: Creativity Can Be Boosted By Artificial Stimulation

  15-04-2015 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Artificially activating “cortical oscillations in the alpha frequency band”—a type of brain wave that has previously been linked with creativity—leads to higher scores on a standard test measuring innovative thinking, according to researchers from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
  
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• ISIS Destruction Of Artifacts Has Museum World Rethinking Repatriation Of Artifacts

  15-04-2015 19:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The minute that these events in Iraq started, voices came about again saying that we should open up acquisition policies of museums, making it easier to purchase artifacts, just to get them out of the area of conflict. But what these people do not discuss is that these artifacts that you can buy on the […]
  
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• Artists To NYC: We Want Our Bust Of Edward Snowden Back

  15-04-2015 19:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 4-foot-high, 100-pound, fiberglass-reinforced cement bust of Snowden, who is living in exile in Russia after divulging secret U.S. government collection of phone records, turned up on a monument that honors American captives who died on British prison ships during the Revolutionary War. The three artists say they considered the bust “a gift to the […]
  
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• LA Film Production Falls 15 Percent, Continuing Slide

  15-04-2015 18:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The drop follows a 28% decline in feature film activity in the fourth quarter of last year and reflects the dwindling availability of state incentives intended to keep movies in Southern California.”
  
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• Luminato Festival Cancels Plans To Bring “Exhibit B” To Toronto After Community Objections. But Have Those Objecting Seen The Show?

  15-04-2015 18:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  So, Luminato approached a wide range of African-Canadian artists, scholars and community leaders to attend a meeting to simply discuss the idea of bringing the show to Toronto. The reaction, especially on social media, was so immediately condemning, with one activist reaching out to the organizer of the British boycott for advice, that Luminato quickly […]
  
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• The Myths Involved In Studying The Brain

  15-04-2015 18:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A growing body of evidence suggests that biological explanations are stigmatizing, possibly because people tend to see such problems as less treatable.”
  
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• That Newly-Attributed Shakespeare Play? Kinda Bad, But Interesting

  15-04-2015 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In short, a mediocre play, at least by Shakespeare’s standards, and in this instance, mediocre is perfect: It’s hard to understand how good Shakespeare could be until you’ve seen him at his worst (and Shakespeare at his worst is still better than most). So imagine how much more some 11th-grader might appreciate Much Ado About […]
  
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• Man buys Building In Town Of Lecce. Man Digs To Fix Toilet. Man Discovers 2000-Year-Old City

  15-04-2015 18:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “His search for a sewage pipe, which began in 2000, became one family’s tale of obsession and discovery. He found a subterranean world tracing back before the birth of Jesus: a Messapian tomb, a Roman granary, a Franciscan chapel and even etchings from the Knights Templar. His trattoria instead became a museum, where relics still […]
  
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• “Game Of Thrones” Episodes Weren’t “Leaked” Online. They Were Stolen

  15-04-2015 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s a small thing, perhaps — a silly bit of semantics — but words matter. When we say that something was “leaked,” we disclaim responsibility. Not only the responsibility of the person who stole the images, mind you, but also the responsibility of those of us who chose to enjoy the ill-gotten fruit.”
  
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• Michael Kaiser: What’s Dragging Down American Arts

  15-04-2015 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When you say I can watch something online for free or for a modest amount, or pay $100 to go to a live performance, that’s become a very difficult choice for a lot of people,” Kaiser says. For most in the post-great recession era of income stagnation and a shrinking middle class, it’s no choice […]
  
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• Alex Ross: The Barriers To The Future Of Orchestral Music

  15-04-2015 18:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Can tradition-minded classical listeners ever be made to grasp the crippling contradictions inherent in their hostility toward contemporary music? The question hangs in the air, because the future of the art depends on it.”
  
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• ‘Florence Henri: Mirrors of the Avante-Garde’ at Jeu De Paume

  15-04-2015 18:08 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Florence Henri: Mirror of the Avant-Garde, 1927-1940” is currently on view at Jeu De Paume in Paris until May 17. The show features over 130 vintage prints by … Read More
  
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• Venus Over Manhattan Goes to California

  15-04-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Whatever else he is—collector, dealer, rich guy—Adam Lindemann is also a man who respects stationary. Just a few days after he announced his gallery, Venus Over Manhattan, would open a 15,000-square-foot space in Los Angeles this spring, the heading on … Read More
  
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• Giacometti’s ‘L’homme Au Doigt,’ Coming to Auction for the First Time, Could Become Most Expensive Sculpture Ever

  15-04-2015 15:14 via artnews.com
  At Christie’s evening sale in New York on May 11, Alberto Giacometti’s life-size sculpture L’homme au doigt (Pointing Man) will be for sale for the first time at auction. The work has been owned by a “distinguished private collector” for … Read More
  
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• Don’t fall for a fake: the Chauvet cave art replica is nonsense

  15-04-2015 14:49
  
  The French government has spent millions replicating a cave of 35,000-year-old art masterpieces. But you wouldn’t pay to see a Rembrandt copy – why is ancient art treated so callously?Picture this. Visitors to the Vatican arrive in St Peter’s Square and are shepherded into a modern reception centre cleverly hidden under Bernini’s colonnades. After looking at a display on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes, they are filtered into a full-scale replica, with a ceiling that is a giant
  
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• Adriano in Siria, Britten Theatre, review: The ‘London’ Bach opera was last performed 250 years ago

  15-04-2015 12:07
  
  The vaults of Baroque opera continue to yield up their treasures: this time a work by Johann Christian Bach which was last staged 250 years ago.
  
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• Rare Earthenware: a journey to the toxic source of luxury goods

  15-04-2015 11:26
  
  Artists Unknown Fields Division, in collaboration with Kevin Callaghan, traced the global supply chain of rare earth elements – the 17 most sought after minerals in the world, used in high-end electronics and green technologies – to their source at a toxic lake in Inner Mongolia. Three vases made from the radioactive lake mud, along with a film by photographer Toby Smith, will be on display at London V&A’s What is Luxury? exhibition from the 25 of April.Watch an exclusive preview of th
  
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• Japanese artist goes on trial over 'vagina selfies'

  15-04-2015 10:27
  
  Megumi Igarashi, aka Rokudenashiko, who made kayak modelled on her genitalia, argues in court that her artwork is not obsceneA Japanese artist who made a kayak modelled on her vagina has denied obscenity charges at the start of her trial in a case that has drawn accusations of censorship and double standards. Megumi Igarashi, who calls herself Rokudenashiko – which roughly translates as good-for-northing girl – was first arrested last July after distributing 3D scans of her genitalia to peop
  
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• What Went Wrong At NBC News (What Didn’t?)

  15-04-2015 10:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Brian Williams’s fabrication was just the latest, and worst, of the debacles that have plagued NBC News since NBCUniversal was bought by Comcast in 2011. Who is to blame?”
  
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• Rochester (MN) Symphony President Steps Down Amid Criminal Charges

  15-04-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Jeffrey Amundson, who served as the group’s president for four years, was placed on paid administrative leave in February after prosecutors charged him with stealing money from a vulnerable adult. On April 1, the board changed his leave to unpaid.”
  
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• Philip Glass Wins $100K Glenn Gould Prize

  15-04-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Sometimes referred to as the ‘Nobel prize of the arts,’ the award is presented biennially to ‘an individual for a unique lifetime contribution that has enriched the human condition through the arts,’ according to the Glenn Gould Foundation.”
  
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• A Holocaust Survivor, One Of The World’s Great Harpsichordists, Remembers The Liberation Of The Camps

  15-04-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Zuzana Ruzickova “was a survivor of Terezin and Auschwitz and Nazi slave labor in Hamburg. [She] was a prisoner in Bergen-Belsen and at the time of its liberation, she was 18 and weighed 60 pounds.”
  
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• It Never Ends: Diane Paulus On Preparing A New Musical For Broadway

  15-04-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As hard as a revival is, a new musical is just on steroids harder. You’re constantly looking at your book, your music, your structure, and at the same time you’re trying to get at execution. So it’s not just ‘Can we make the number better?’ It’s ‘Is the number in the right place?'”
  
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• Amazon And HarperCollins Finally Sign Truce, Er, Ebook Sales Agreement

  15-04-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The agreement calls for HarperCollins to set the retail prices of its digital books, with incentives for HarperCollins to provide lower prices to consumers, according to a person familiar with the situation.” In other words, Amazon caved.
  
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• What Can Book Marketers Learn From Satanists?

  15-04-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Anton Szandor LaVey’s founding text of the Church of Satan, The Satanic Bible, survives in the broad popular consciousness, in part thanks to regular challenges by groups seeking to ban it … Very little effort needs to be expended by the Church to market itself, because it can piggyback on the defensiveness of the Christian […]
  
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• Santa Monica Museum Of Art Is Suspending Operations

  15-04-2015 09:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not that it’s shutting down, mind you: it’s simply leaving its longtime venue at the seaside city’s Bergamot Station. “The museum, which typically spends about $2 million a year, has the flexibility to consider a variety of new locations because it has no art collection tethering it to a permanent spot that is specially equipped […]
  
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• Is This How To Spot Suicide Bombers Before They Bomb?

  15-04-2015 09:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  A team of Montreal researchers “identified the personality traits of those with a ‘psychological readiness to suffer and sacrifice’ his or her life for a cause. The result, a Self-Sacrifice scale, could be a boon to anti-terror operatives across the globe.”
  
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• Are Scientific And Religious Explanations Incompatible?

  15-04-2015 09:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Commentator Tania Lombrozo says the answer to whether scientific and religious explanations are fundamentally at odds isn’t a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ when it comes to explaining the world around us.”
  
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• Do Some Of These Musicologists Even Like Music?

  15-04-2015 09:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ian Pace (yes, he’s a musicologist): “Unfortunately I have encountered too many academics – not a majority, but still too many – who have very little interest in listening to music, at least in a manner which requires any sustained attention. Some even have a sneering and superior attitude to anyone who really cares about […]
  
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• Abraham Lincoln, Man Of The Theatre

  15-04-2015 09:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “He deeply loved the theater, his teacher from the rugged prairie to raging, war-torn Washington. … Lincoln’s meteoric rise from the frontier was fueled by his skills as a performer. Drama, jokes, stories, courtroom arguments, outdoor debates – he could go on for hours and exhaust rivals such as Senator Stephen Douglas.”
  
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• The World’s First Transatlantic Performance With No Transmission Delay

  15-04-2015 09:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Drama students from Weston College in England and UNLV “will perform the same piece simultaneously, with the overseas actors being broadcast on a screen behind the live action in both locations. The synchronised performance has been made possible by the development of two supercomputers, named ultra grids, which have removed the transatlantic time delay in […]
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.14.15

  15-04-2015 07:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  ‘One-Way Ticket’? Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’ Should Remain Whole after MoMA’s Showing AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-04-14 Ann Meier Baker, NEA director of Music and Opera, on her new job and NEA Jazz Masters AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz Published 2015-04-14 Louis C.K. and the War Against Smugness AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-04-14 Room at the Table: Black female […]
  
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• Outrage over Chinese artists representing Kenya at Venice Biennale

  15-04-2015 06:00
  
  Using foreigners in the east African country’s delegation to world’s biggest art event is a ‘monumental embarrassment’, say critics. Contemporary& reportsKenyan artists have expressed their frustration after it was announced that six of the eight people selected to represent the country at this year’s Venice Biennale will be Chinese.The selection includes artists Li Gang, Shi Jinsong, and Qin Feng, who critics say have never been to Kenya and do not reference the country in their w
  
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• Untitled(She looks at like a hunted animal)

  15-04-2015 04:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There are days I’m trying to make it through the hour. There are days when night is day and day is night. There are days when the day has ended before I begin my day. There are days I think everything is happening at the same time and there is no beginning middle and end; ... Continue ReadingThe post Untitled(She looks at like a hunted animal) appeared first on Zouch.
  
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