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• ‘Miriam Böhm: At On’ at Ratio 3, San Francisco

  17-04-2015 22:09 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Miriam Böhm:At On” is currently on view at Ratio 3 in San Francisco until April 25, and displays the artist’s first set of sculptural works as well as new photographic … Read More
  
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• ‘He Would Rage On’: Aperture Reissues David Wojnarowicz’s ‘Brush Fires in the Social Landscape’

  17-04-2015 21:59 via artnews.com
  In Brush Fires in the Social Landscape, the book of David Wojnarowicz’s photo-based work that was published posthumously in 1994, cameras are passed from artist to artist, artist to critic, critic to librarian. They move between people like AIDS, the disease which … Read More
  
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• Why Did Somebody Steal Einstein’s Brain?

  17-04-2015 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While Einstein’s bones (and most of the rest of his body) were cremated and his ashes scattered at a secret spot on the Delaware River, in accordance with his wishes, his gray matter took a different course. Thomas Harvey, the pathologist who performed Einstein’s autopsy at Princeton Hospital in New Jersey in 1955, took a […]
  
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• Shock Move: London National Theatre Executive Director Suddenly Quits Six Months Into The Job

  17-04-2015 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Announcing her resignation, Tessa Ross said only one person should be in charge. “It has become clear to me that the new leadership structure, with a separate role of chief executive, is not right for the NT at this time,” she said.
  
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• The Words Used On Food Packaging Are Orwellian At Worst, Misleading At Best

  17-04-2015 20:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Food-packet rhetoric, like most advertising, is mainly in the business of selling nice feelings. Especially on-trend these days is an ersatz, kitschy friendliness. On a bar of chocolate, for example, the manufacturers boast that “we use only the finest quality organic beans from our friends in the Dominican Republic”. (Isn’t it nice that they are […]
  
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• Two New Books Claim Le Corbusier Was An Active Fascist

  17-04-2015 20:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Both books—Xavier de Jarcy’s Le Corbusier, un fascisme francais (Albin Michel, 2015), and Francois Chaslin Un Corbusier (Seuil, 2015)—claim the architect was active in several fascist groups in France beginning in the 1920s, but did a good job of keeping his involvement under wraps.
  
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• Associate/Senior Associate – Slover Linett Audience Research

  17-04-2015 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Associate/Senior Associate will work in partnership with one or more of our researchers (all of whom are PhD social scientists from various disciplines) to design and implement qualitative and quantitative research projects and
  
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• Do We Have Too Many Music Festivals?

  17-04-2015 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  They are a rite of summer, a reminder of the changing season and of the changing sound of young America (and sometimes older America). But how much festival is too much festival?
  
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• Could Artificial Intelligence Help Make Us More Intentional In Our Decisions?

  17-04-2015 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Can technology—especially AI—help humans reverse eons of irrational behavior and bad habits that seem hard-coded in our DNA? Ariely believes it can, and believes that it will start with AI-oriented software and tools that can create what he calls an “intention genome” for every individual—tools to help align our unlimited aspirations and goals with our […]
  
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• Rhizome Makes Pioneering ’90s Theresa Duncan Games Available Online

  17-04-2015 19:34 via artnews.com
  Starting today, a trio of interactive games created in the mid-’90s by the late American video game designer, blogger, filmmaker, and critic Theresa Duncan are available to play online via the digital arts organization Rhizome. Spearheaded by Rhizome archivist Dragan … Read More
  
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• Morgan Library Gets A New Director

  17-04-2015 19:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Library “looked West to bring back a longtime New Yorker as its new director, choosing Colin B. Bailey, who has served since 2013 as director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco but was for many years before that the chief curator at the Frick Collection.”
  
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• The Ballerina Who Might One Day Run The Bolshoi?

  17-04-2015 19:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As purely Russian as Diana Vishneva appears, she is one of the most cosmopolitan ballerinas of her generation. For over a decade she’s been a principal with both the Mariinsky Ballet in St Petersburg and American Ballet Theatre in New York, as well as jetting between numerous other companies worldwide.”
  
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• HBO Has Risked A Lot On Its New Streaming Service

  17-04-2015 19:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The move seems risky. What if people dump their regular HBO subscriptions? What if the cable providers, who generate virtually all of HBO’s $5.4 billion in revenue, remain displeased by this run around them? What if Now, which may feature content never before seen on HBO, is less consistently excellent than the existing HBO service? […]
  
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• Movie Editing Must Have Been a Shock To The Eyes When It Was First Developed

  17-04-2015 19:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Movies are, for the most part, made up of short runs of continuous action, called shots, spliced together with cuts. With a cut, a filmmaker can instantaneously replace most of what is available in your visual field with completely different stuff. This is something that never happened in the 3.5 billion years or so that […]
  
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• ‘I Was Blinded By The Controversy’: Sally Mann Publishes An Excerpt From Her Forthcoming Memoir

  17-04-2015 18:49 via artnews.com
  The New York Times Magazine published an excerpt from photographer Sally Mann’s forthcoming memoir, “Hold Still: A Memoir With Photographs,” which will be out in May. Mann is best known—or is most infamous—for her third collection, “Immediate Family,” which first … Read More
  
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• Miami artist's installation dips into the darker side of swimming pool

  17-04-2015 18:13
  
  As summer approaches, Nicholas Lobo’s The Leisure Pit explores a space where labour and leisure meet – chemicals, flip-flops and allAs the weather turns towards swim and tan season, a new exhibition is opening up in Miami to highlight a centerpiece of the summertime experience: the swimming pool.Miami-based artist Nicolas Lobo’s The Leisure Pit opens in Miami this week and is an attempt to force the audience to think more deeply about a mundane object. Continue reading...
  
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• Cave painting, kitties and a kicking for Francis Bacon – the week in art

  17-04-2015 18:08
  
  From overlooked indigenous genius to the queen of dancing colour, artists’ obsessions with cats and a devastating takedown of Francis Bacon – it’s your favourite weekly art dispatchIndigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation
  This heartbreaking exhibition tells the story of how a 40,000-year-old civilisation was brutally and contemptuously shoved aside by British invaders and yet fought back to tell its own story in its own ancient ways.
  • British Museum, London, from 23 April until 2 Aug
  
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• Gagosian No Longer Represents Rauschenberg Foundation

  17-04-2015 17:11 via artnews.com
  The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is leaving Gagosian Gallery, which has represented the late artist’s work since a little after his death in 2008. The New York Times reports that the foundation will now be overseen by three galleries, spread out across the … Read More
  
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• David Hockney changes perspective with move indoors for London show

  17-04-2015 17:01
  
  After eight years of painting landscapes of North Yorkshire, artist’s returned to LA and a new chapter including portraiture and experimental photographyAfter almost a decade painting the changing landscapes of North Yorkshire, David Hockney’s new body of work is resolutely set indoors and includes experimental works hedescribes as “3D photographs without the glasses”.The works, seen here for the first time, have been created in his studio in Los Angeles, a city he returned to in the sum
  
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• Portraits of Playwrights: Simon Annand's new Bruntwood Prize exhibition reveals where Tom Stoppard, Johnny Vegas and David Hare write

  17-04-2015 17:00
  
  Where do British playwrights write and find inspiration? Tom Stoppard scribbled away in the National Theatre script office (with a pen) while working on his latest play, The Hard Problem, while Sarah Solemani likes to write in the bath or in bed at home in Stoke Newington.
  
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• Found Cambodia: surreal family photos from life after the atrocities

  17-04-2015 16:57
  
  A couple atop a giant turtle and a woman floating inside a flower … this digital archive of often-bizarre vintage photos from life before and after the Khmer Rouge regime comes complete with anecdotes from their anonymous ownersLife after the Khmer Rouge: the humour and heartache of Cambodian family photo albumsContinue reading...
  
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• Price Check: Nozkowski at Pace, Haring at Skarstedt, Gupta at Hauser & Wirth

  17-04-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  Price Check is a weekly column that looks into the price of works currently on view at commercial galleries. Have they sold? For how much? Are either or both of these answers shocking compared to the amount the works sold … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Random Darknet Shopper’ Edition

  17-04-2015 15:34 via artnews.com
  Curator of the yet-to-open West Kowloon museum M+, Tobias Berger, who has worked there for the past four years, will leave in May to become head of the cultural center in Hong Kong’s Central Police Station (CPS). [The Art Newspaper] Democrats introduced two … Read More
  
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• Un Turco in Italia, Royal Opera House, review: Rossini revival remains a crowd-pleaser

  17-04-2015 14:44
  
  It took Covent Garden two centuries to get round to staging Rossini’s light-hearted homage to Mozart, but when they did – with the directorial team of Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier, and Christian Fenouillat – they struck gold: now back in its fourth revival, this Turco is the biggest crowd-pleaser in their repertory.
  
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• Something new is happening in British politics. This image captures what it is | Jonathan Jones

  17-04-2015 14:30
  
  This picture from last night’s TV election debate shows how Britain is headed, in its nuanced way, leftward. No wonder Farage looks lostOil paintings are probably the only evidence not introduced by party spin doctors as they tried to claim victory for their leaders – even the ones who weren’t there – after the BBC’s only all-British televised debate of the 2015 general election. Yet looking at the debate’s closing image of Ed Miliband shaking hands with Nicola Sturgeon as Nigel Fara
  
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• Fired Bay Area Music Director Has Warm (And Strained) Farewell

  17-04-2015 10:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Nothing in the organization’s history has roiled the Vallejo Symphony like the board’s decision last summer to fire music director David Ramadanoff, 71, at the end of the current season. He had served in the post for 31 years and was credited by many observers” – and most of the musicians – “with bringing a […]
  
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• Ballet Instructor Fired For Nude Photos Of Students

  17-04-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Royal Winnipeg Ballet has fired 28-year veteran instructor Bruce Monk amid a police investigation into nude and semi-nude photographs of young women dancers in the 1980s and 1990s.” (includes video)
  
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• Choreographer Akram Khan Defends His Criticism Of British Dance Training

  17-04-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It wasn’t about dropping a bombshell – if I didn’t give a shit about young dancers, then I’d just keep quiet. I don’t need to work with British-trained dancers as we have a bunch of dancers from Asia and get half of those in our company from PARTS [in Brussels]. The only reason why I […]
  
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• Can The Earth Be Conscious? Have We Built Teilhard de Chardin’s ‘Noosphere’?

  17-04-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Evolution, he claimed, was taking us toward what he called the Noosphere (“nous” is greek for mind) – a global unity of consciousness, a ” ‘thinking’ sphere circling the Earth above the biosphere, which [would comprise all] human reflection, conscious souls, and love.” But “a funny thing happened on the way to the New Age. […]
  
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• Mexico Repeatedly Slashes Arts Funding As Economy Falters

  17-04-2015 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As the US economy has picked up steam in the last few years, falling oil prices and a stronger dollar have left the peso floundering. Last month, the Mexican currency hit its lowest value since 1993 … The tumble has the federal government here drawing blood from public funds, especially the arts and culture sector.”
  
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• CBC Management ‘Condoned’ Jian Ghomeshi’s Workplace Behaviour, Inquiry Finds; Two Execs Fired

  17-04-2015 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “CBC management is squarely to blame for allowing disgraced radio host Jian Ghomeshi to get away for years with inappropriate behaviour that included sexual harassment,” concluded an independent investigation by two employment lawyers.
  
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• Cirque Du Soleil Is About To Be Sold

  17-04-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Co-founder [and owner] Guy Laliberté sent an email to staff on Thursday saying that he had not yet wrapped up the company sale, after CBC/Radio-Canada and other media outlets reported American private equity firm TPG Capital and China’s Fosun will buy majority shares in Cirque du Soleil.”
  
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• Art robot that buys MDMA released by authorities in the name of creative freedom

  17-04-2015 09:56
  
  Should we be able to break the law in the name of art? According to Swiss authorities, if you create a robot that randomly buys MDMA over the internet as part of an art exhibition, it’s perfectly fine to.
  
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• Tennessee Williams On His Women, His Writer’s Block, And Whether It All Mattered

  17-04-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[The playwright] tasked James Grissom with seeking out each of the women (and few men) who had inspired his work – Maureen Stapleton, Lillian Gish, Marlon Brando and others – so that he could ask them a question: had Tennessee Williams, or his work, ever mattered?” Here Grissom recounts his first meetings with Williams.
  
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• Occupy The Whitney Museum! (And The New Place Hasn’t Even Opened Yet)

  17-04-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “At 11 p.m. [Tuesday], activists from groups including Occupy Museums and Occupy the Pipeline gathered on the street in front of the museum for a performance art-style demonstration about a natural gas pipeline that is adjacent to the $422 million building and its vast art collection. A corner of the Whitney’s building became a canvas […]
  
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• They Gave The Nelson-Atkins Museum Their Collection Of Impressionist Art, Now They’re Giving The Money To Display It

  17-04-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Bloch Family Foundation will finance a nearly two-year, $11.7 million renovation … The new space will bring into public view 29 works from the personal collection of Henry and Marion Bloch, a gift of paintings promised by the family in 2010 in connection with the museum’s 75th anniversary.”
  
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• Dictionary Of American Regional English, Short Of Funding, Faces Shutdown

  17-04-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “DARE, as the dictionary is known, has announced that it will shutter most of its operations this summer unless it can find new sources of funding to cover its roughly $525,000 annual budget. The print dictionary had been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, among other sources. More recently, the budget […]
  
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• Misty Copeland Makes Cover Of Time Magazine

  17-04-2015 09:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For the first time in a generation a dancer has made the cover of Time magazine: Misty Copeland, the American Ballet Theater soloist, was chosen as one of the magazine’s ‘100 most influential people,’ and is featured on one of the five different covers for its upcoming issue.”
  
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• UK’s Royal Ballet Starts New Residency For Young Choreographers

  17-04-2015 09:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Called the Royal Ballet Young Choreographer Programme, the scheme is a year-long position in which the chosen choreographer will be mentored by Royal Ballet director Kevin O’Hare and choreographer Wayne McGregor. They will also shadow the company and create new work.”
  
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• A Syrian Civil War ‘Romeo And Juliet’, Performed Via Skype

  17-04-2015 09:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Under the eaves of a hospice for Syrian refugees in Amman, Jordan, a wounded young Romeo reaches out to the blurred image of a girl on a screen. From the besieged and bombed-out city of Homs, Syria, Juliet gazes back. Her head is covered because of her religion; her face is masked to protect her […]
  
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• The Chauvet Cave Art Replica Is Bogus And Ridiculous, Says Jonathan Jones

  17-04-2015 09:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Picture this. Visitors to the Vatican arrive in St Peter’s Square … 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 photograph of the famous artwork. Perhaps one day this may come about, as the Vatican worries about preserving its […]
  
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• E-Short Stories For 99 Cents, Just Like Singles From iTunes

  17-04-2015 09:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Vintage/Anchor Books is now experimenting with selling short stories à la carte, through its Vintage Shorts digital imprint. Throughout May, to mark Short Story Month, Vintage will release a digital short story each day for 99 cents, the price of many iTunes singles.” The range is wide, form Poe, Chekhov, and Cather to Alice Munro, […]
  
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• What David Hallberg Is Doing While His Foot Is Healing (A Lot)

  17-04-2015 09:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  The ABT star, the first American to become a prncipal at the Bolshoi Ballet, star may still be recovering, but he’s not resting. He tells WNYC’s Leonard Lopate what he’s up to. (audio)
  
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• Let's get physical: mind-bending drawings of the body – in pictures

  17-04-2015 08:00
  
  These weird and wonderful sketches of the human body reveal just what is possible when, pencil in hand, the artist lets their subconscious off the leashDrawing People is published on 20 April by Thames & HudsonContinue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.16.15

  17-04-2015 07:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Are nonprofit arts organizations special? AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2015-04-16 Blossoms Are Early. Braff & Hyman Are On Time AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-04-16 So you want to see a show? AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-04-16
  
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