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• Alex Bag Is Holding Open Auditions for an ‘Infinite Jest’-Inspired ‘Sitcom’

  16-04-2015 21:30 via artnews.com
  Artist Alex Bag is looking for performers for her new project, according to an e-mail from Team Gallery, which represents the artist in New York. The gallery describes the new work as “a scripted sitcom-style show centering around four archetypal … Read More
  
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• Alan Gilbert’s Manifesto On The Future Of Orchestras

  16-04-2015 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The problem has been that as orchestras are involved in more and more areas, it is often not clear why they are doing what they are doing, When it does not connect to the core of the organization, you start to wonder what the point is. This has led to an industry-wide existential soul-searching in […]
  
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• Unconventional: How A String Of Bad Publicity Helped Create An Audience For This Broadway Show

  16-04-2015 19:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  As “Finding Neverland” has developed, so have conflicts that on any other show would likely have remained backstage. The spats, which ranged from battles with journalists to staff conflicts, have kept Mr. Weinstein and the show in theater headlines over the past three years.
  
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• Chris Ofili, Björk Included on Time’s 2015 Most Influential list

  16-04-2015 19:34 via artnews.com
  Earlier today, Time released their annual 100 Most Influential People list, including both the painter Chris Ofili and Björk as art-world representatives within the hundred. Ofili (in the “artists” category) is called a “visionary painter” by the Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye, … Read More
  
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• Tribeca Film Festival Exlores New Forms Of Interactivity

  16-04-2015 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Each turns its audience into a protagonist, and suggests new directions for storytelling that go beyond traditional cinema—while perhaps invigorating that medium. “It makes you realize that there’s a bigger toolbox out there.”
  
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• Consumer Reports: Edward Shenk

  16-04-2015 19:09 via artnews.com
  Edward Shenk is a New York-based artist from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, working in a variety of media including digital print, sculpture, video, poetry, and publishing. He recently staged an exhibition of “King Of The Hill fan gaze removals” (also a book) … Read More
  
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• Los Carpinteros at Parasol Unit, London

  16-04-2015 18:42 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Los Carpinteros” is currently on view at Parasol Unit in London until May 24. This is the titular Cuban collective’s first major show in a public London institution and … Read More
  
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• Three Major Cultural Leaders Have Stepped Down In London. They Leave A Legacy Of Achievements

  16-04-2015 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Neil MacGregor at the British Museum, Nicholas Hytner at the National Theatre and Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic Theatre. “As the three men all took up their posts between 2002-4, their incumbencies have overlapped for a decade and all faced a very similar challenge: how to attract larger and broader audiences at a time […]
  
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• Wallace Foundation Makes Major Investment In Building New Audiences For Arts

  16-04-2015 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The grants announced Wednesday total $10.2 million. They cover a 12- to 22-month “cycle” in which each recipient will conduct research needed to solidify a plan that might involve different kinds of performances, taking shows to different kinds of venues, using different marketing approaches and providing educational add-ons to help audiences connect more deeply with […]
  
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• Toronto Film Festival To Start Including TV Shows

  16-04-2015 18:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s a sign of the surging quality of television. “Given how many filmmakers work in television, it’s certainly a natural fit from a creator standpoint.”
  
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• Netflix Signs Up Record Number Of New Subscribers In First Quarter

  16-04-2015 18:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The on-demand video company said Wednesday that it added a record 4.9 million customers from January to March, with more than half of that number coming from overseas. Netflix said its 62.3 million subscribers watched some 10 billion hours of programming during the first quarter.”
  
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• A Better Case For Supporting Movie Production With Tax Credits

  16-04-2015 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “So, are tax credits a great way of supporting culture? Are they helping create Canadian films and Canadian video games? They may be, but that’s not really their purpose; their intention is simply to create jobs and thus generate a lot more tax revenue for government than was initially paid out.”
  
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• Data Analysis Of Literature Is Catching On (But It Reinforces The Need For Close Reading)

  16-04-2015 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Drawing on the techniques of intrinsic analysis of literary texts becomes all the more necessary if we are to keep from drowning in the sea of undifferentiated and undifferentiable data.”
  
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• Do Smart People Worry More?

  16-04-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The idea that worriers are cannier than average may just seem to make sense—a worried mind is a searching mind, and smarter people may have the cognitive agility to examine multiple angles of any situation, for better or worse.”
  
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• Sargy Mann obituary

  16-04-2015 17:10
  
  Painter whose art found its fullest expression after he became blindIn May 2005, the artist Sargy Mann went to Cadaqués in Spain to look for new subjects to paint. He was stunned by what he found there. “This is the most amazing town,” he enthuses in a film of the trip made by his son Peter. “I can’t imagine why I’d ever want to work anywhere else.” Then Mann shakes his head, chuckles and says: “What on earth is going on in my mind?” It is a fair enough question, given tha
  
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• Stroke of genius: why do artists love cats?

  16-04-2015 16:33
  
  A new book would have us believe artists have a kinship with paws and whiskers. But on closer inspection, they’re not all cuddlesDo artists have a pet of choice? A new book full of cute old photographs of artists and their cats makes it look that way.Henri Matisse and his feline friend, Georgia O’Keeffe with her moggy, Salvador Dalí and his – it looks, from this collection of double portraits, as if the artistic temperament has always been drawn to paws and whiskers. Continue readin
  
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• Why the digging has never stopped in England's gold-rush town

  16-04-2015 15:55
  
  Folkestone Digs ‘participatory artwork’ turned into a documentary of despair as local people grasped at the chance of escaping povertyFolkestone’s gold rush began last August, when 30 bars of bullion worth a total of £10,000 were buried in a strip of sand just inside the Kent town’s tiny harbour. The new prospectors who descended on the beach were unwitting contributors to what was billed as a “participatory artwork” –although most were perhaps more interested in a slender ch
  
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• Rising from the Bunker: The World Catches Up With John Giorno

  16-04-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  On the morning of the last day of winter, the artist and poet John Giorno buzzed open the gate on the ground floor of the hulking Bowery building that he has called home for 49 of his 78 years and … Read More
  
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• Confused about football and art? You're not the only one mistaking Van Gogh for van Gaal

  16-04-2015 15:03
  
  Can you tell a Monet from a Munch? How about a Vincent Van Gogh from a Louis van Gaal? Well, if you thought that last name belonged to a famous artist and not the Manchester United manager you're not alone.
  
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• Sokari Douglas Camp, sculptor: 'I was not good at painting so I tried sculpture, as I liked putting my hand in my work'

  16-04-2015 15:00
  
  Sokari Douglas Camp CBE lives and works on a small street in Elephant and Castle in south London. Her husband, Alan Camp, an architect, designed their gracious house/studio 26 years ago. Entering through the front door I am immediately immersed in a magical Douglas Camp forest composed of monumental metallic trees.
  
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• Morning Links: ‘The Art of More’ Edition

  16-04-2015 14:50 via artnews.com
  Archaeologists in Florida filed a legal case against the US Department of Transportation regarding a high-speed rail project they say will threaten prehistoric sites of cultural importance: the Old Vero Man site, where human remains dating more than 13,000 years ago … Read More
  
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• Death Row artist Myuran Sukumaran has London exhibition before facing firing squad

  16-04-2015 12:30
  
  Artwork by an Australian drug convict facing execution in Bali has is to go on show after a last ditch plea to have his death sentence revoked was rejected.
  
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• Bali 9 artist Myuran Sukumaran stages Death Row exhibition before facing firing squad

  16-04-2015 12:30
  
  Artwork by an Australian drug convict facing execution in Bali will go on show after a last ditch plea to have his death sentence revoked was rejected.
  
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• Vagina artist on trial for obscenity criticises Japan's 'backwards' attitude to women's sexual expression

  16-04-2015 10:44
  
  A Japanese artist currently on trial for obscenity over vagina sculptures says her arrest shows how far behind her country is in terms of sexual equality.
  
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• Let’s Just Drop The Term ‘Fringe Theatre’

  16-04-2015 10:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lyn Gardner: “Ditching the label ‘fringe’ would put all theatre-makers on an equal footing, wherever they work and in whatever form. It would stop the segmentation of audiences into those who do fringe and those who don’t. It would prevent grant-makers and funders from taking refuge in the labels, and saying ‘Well we don’t fund […]
  
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• What’s Wrong With Classical Music Marketing (Lots) And Musicians (Too Many And Too Narrow), Per Eastman School’s Former Director

  16-04-2015 10:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Robert Freeman: “We’ve always imagined the elitist part of society were the people who’d patronize that, so we’ve marketed ourselves into a dumb corner of our own making.” (includes video)
  
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• Browsing In Bookstores And Then Buying Online Is A ‘Genteel Form Of Shoplifting’, Says David Nicholls

  16-04-2015 10:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The author of One Day and Us also says, “the debate between digital and physical has had a kind of gladiatorial flavour … Cavaliers versus Roundheads, or perhaps more accurately, for someone of my age at least, Betamax versus VHS, with only one survivor allowed. All too often in this debate I’ve felt like the […]
  
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• Barnes Foundation To Merge With Erstwhile Rival

  16-04-2015 10:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Ending an often testy and sometimes distant 25-year coexistence, the Barnes Foundation will merge with the foundation established by the estate of Violette de Mazia, Albert C. Barnes’ longtime colleague.”
  
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• Günter Grass’s Final Interview: Humanity May Be ‘Sleepwalking’ Into World War

  16-04-2015 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We have on the one side Ukraine, whose situation is not improving; in Israel and Palestine things are getting worse; the disaster the Americans left in Iraq, the atrocities of Islamic state and the problem of Syria. There is war everywhere; we run the risk of committing the same mistakes as before; so without realising […]
  
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• The Fair Play Fair Pay Act of 2015: U.S. Legislators Propose Overhaul Of Musicians’ Online Royalty Payments

  16-04-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A group of congressional lawmakers introduced legislation on Monday to overhaul the way that licensing payment rates are set for digital streaming and satellite play, as well as to pay performers when their songs are broadcast over the airwaves.”
  
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• Lincoln Center’s Ex-Chairman Has A Memoir Coming – And He Names Names

  16-04-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reynold Levy’s They Told Me Not to Take That Job: Tumult, Betrayal, Heroics, and the Transformation of Lincoln Center “may not quite reach you’ll-never-eat-lunch-in-this-town-again levels but could make for some awkward encounters.”
  
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• Defending British Dance Training: If It’s So Bad, Why Do So Many People Come To Work Here?

  16-04-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In response to serious criticism from three major choreographers of the quality of UK-trained contemporary dancers, Judith Mackrell considers the nature and purpose of the dance education on offer – and allows as how British dance is healthy enough that lots of artists from elsewhere want to be part of it.
  
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• Defending British Dance Training: Well, Everybody Seems To Like Our Choreographers

  16-04-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kevin O’Hare, artistic director of the Royal Ballet: “Look at Benjamin Millepied’s first season for the Paris Opera. He’s got Wayne McGregor, Chris Wheeldon and Liam Scarlett involved, and Arthur Pita. In Britain, we’ve got choreographers that people around the world want.”
  
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• Food Has Now Become A Category Of Media Celebrity, Like Actresses

  16-04-2015 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Celebrity profiles are infamous, at this point, for their distinctive combination of erudition and ennui. Their adjective-happy explorations of hot-lady celebrities … treat their subjects like ‘irreducible mysteries, floating so high above the mortal (male) writers that they can only be described in terms of their effects.’ … Celebritized food profiles – celebrations of, among […]
  
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• Dudamel And Rattle Have Some Competition In The Brilliant-Maestro-With-Wild-Hair Category

  16-04-2015 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Patrick Stearns meets Stéphane Denève: “I used to have my hair short, but then I neglected my hair, and that’s how it came to be longer. Later, I wanted to cut my hair, but my agent said, ‘No, no, no. It’s now a recognizable package, and I’m selling the whole package.’ … There’s a […]
  
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• John Cameron Mitchell – He And Hedwig Have Both Changed A Lot Over 20 Years

  16-04-2015 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Sitting on his upholstered couch in his rent-controlled apartment in Manhattan’s West Village, we talk about being an openly gay actor in the ’80s, the healing that comes with watching parents age and why he says [his late ex-boyfriend] Jack was the best man he ever knew.” (podcast)
  
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• It Had To Happen: Author Of ‘So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed’ Gets Twitter-Shamed

  16-04-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  And it was over a passage that didn’t even make it into the published version of the book. Laura Miller explains the what and how.
  
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• ‘I Do Bad Sex Very Well. In Life And In The Novel Form': Gary Shteyngart Interviews Adam Thirlwell

  16-04-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thirlwell: “In [my novels] Politics and The Escape, these grand themes of history and politics were mischievously seen as equivalent to more apparently minor problems like sleeping arrangements in a threesome, or premature ejaculation. Shteyngart: “But premature ejaculation and politics intersect quite a bit.” Thirlwell: “Well that’s certainly true.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.15.15

  16-04-2015 07:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Overserved AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-04-15 ‘One-Way Ticket’s’ Missed Connection: Lawrence’s ‘Migration’ Show at MoMA Bypasses a Crucial Stop AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-04-15 Not Since Robbins AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-04-15 Just Because: Dave Frishberg And Friends AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-04-15
  
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