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• Mary Doyle Keefe, model for Norman Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter, dies at 92

  22-04-2015 22:58
  
  Keefe, who posed for the iconic painting that represents American working women in the second world war, passed on Tuesday in ConnecticutMary Doyle Keefe, the model for Norman Rockwell’s iconic 1943 Rosie the Riveter painting that symbolized the millions of American women who went to work on the home front during the second world war, has died. She was 92.Keefe died Tuesday in Simsbury, Connecticut, after a brief illness, said her daughter, Mary Ellen Keefe. Related: Rosie the Riveter and othe
  
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• Dark Clouds: Rabih Mroué Channels Injury, War in MoMA Performance

  22-04-2015 22:37 via artnews.com
  Last night in one of MoMA’s basement theaters, the Lebanese theater director, artist, and actor Rabih Mroué presented his show Riding on a Cloud, a performance that, typical of Mroué, puts video, audio, archival material, and live bodies together on … Read More
  
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• English National Opera head vows to protect full-time musicians

  22-04-2015 22:37
  
  The head of the beleaguered English National Opera (ENO) has vowed to protect the company’s full-time musicians after Arts Council England suggested they could be dropped to save money.
  
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• How Glenn Gould Helped Apple Design Its Products

  22-04-2015 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The conversations we have are conversations about the human qualities that Gould has that are important for doing something that’s really extraordinary — in the way that his musical performance was extraordinary.”
  
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• Taking the Plunge: Nina Beier at Metro Pictures

  22-04-2015 20:54 via artnews.com
  When the history of today’s art is written, eBay will need to occupy a prominent position. It has become, for many artists, what the flea markets were to the 1930s Surrealists and the Canal Street plastic shops were for New … Read More
  
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• Did This Man Kill The CD Recording Business?

  22-04-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With his access to music – during this period Universal was cornering the market in hip-hop, which was becoming the most popular music in the world – Glover was able to get albums to RNS weeks ahead of their release. Over its 11-year span, RNS was responsible for leaking more than 20,000 albums.”
  
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• Big New Major Awards For Humanities Scholars

  22-04-2015 20:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Carnegie Corporation of New York, which announces its first class of 32 fellows on Wednesday, will provide grants of up to $200,000 to each recipient. The award, to be given annually, supports a year or two of full-time research and writing leading to the publication of a book or study.”
  
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• Enormous Challenges Face New York Philharmonic

  22-04-2015 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Each item on its agenda would pose significant challenges on its own. But the orchestra must do them all nearly simultaneously, adding layers of counterpoint-like complexity to the tasks at hand.”
  
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• How Artificial Intelligence Is Going To “Read” Your Emotions To Give You What You Want

  22-04-2015 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The software will read your emotional reactions to the show in real time. Should your mouth turn down a second too long or your eyes squeeze shut in fright, the plot will speed along. But if they grow large and hold your interest, the program will draw out the suspense.”
  
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• The Propeller Group Goes To James Cohan Gallery

  22-04-2015 19:31 via artnews.com
  James Cohan Gallery announced today that they will be representing The Propeller Group (TPG), a Ho Chi Minh City-based art collective consisting of Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Phunam, and Matt Lucero, in New York. TPG adopts the faux-persona of an advertising … Read More
  
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• Tony Solis at Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City

  22-04-2015 19:30 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Tony Solis: La Marcha de los Gatitos Apachurrados,” is currently on view at Galería Enrique Guerrero in Mexico City until Saturday, May 2. Inspired by the … Read More
  
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• ‘Tony Solis’ at Galería Enrique Guerrero

  22-04-2015 19:30 via artnews.com
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• MIT’s Center for Art, Science, & Technology Receives $1.5 M Gift From Mellon Foundation

  22-04-2015 19:22 via artnews.com
  MIT’s Center for Art, Science, & Technology (CAST) has been gifted $1.5 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the purpose of supporting the Center’s “multidisciplinary creative experimentation and integration of the arts across all areas of MIT,” according … Read More
  
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• How The New Whitney Could Be The Next Great Contemporary Art Museum

  22-04-2015 18:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  The museum used to be a storehouse for the art of the past, the display of supposed masterpieces, the insightful exploration of the present in the context of the long or compressed histories that preceded it. Now — especially as embodied by the Tate Modern, Guggenheim Bilbao, and our beloved MoMA — the museum is […]
  
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• 2015 Rome Prize Recipients Announced

  22-04-2015 18:15 via artnews.com
  The winners of the 2015 Rome Prize were announced today. Within the list, the artists receiving the award are as follows: Mark Boulos, Emily Jacir, David Schutter, and Senam Okudzeto. Recipients are selected by independent juries through a national competition … Read More
  
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• What Will Happen If Comcast/Time Warner Merger Isn’t Approved?

  22-04-2015 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The proposed marriage of America’s biggest and second biggest cable companies has always been contentious, but the potential intervention by the Justice Department has surprised many.
  
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• Just What Do Those Millennials Want?

  22-04-2015 17:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  A greater demand for transparency and responsiveness has supplanted millennials’ trust in government (see Snowden, Edward) and it’s as close to a unifying political philosophy as millennials have offered.
  
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• When Hip Hop Went Corporate

  22-04-2015 17:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Back then, part of the excitement within the hip-hop subculture, as it still was at that time, was the dawning realization of the potential for hip-hop marketization,” says Eithne Quinn, a senior lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester, in the United Kingdom. “Many artists, from poor backgrounds as they often were, didn’t […]
  
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• This artist draws on the sky between buildings

  22-04-2015 16:11
  
  Most see the gaps of sky between tall buildings as escape, but for French artist Thomas Lamadieu (aka Roots) they are canvases for mind-melting illustrations.
  
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• Cara Starke Appointed New Director of Pulitzer Arts Foundation

  22-04-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  Cara Starke has been named the director of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, the institution announced today. Founded in St. Louis in 2001, the non-collecting institution is in the midst of an expansion project that will add 3,700 square feet for … Read More
  
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• Cara Starke Appointed Director of Pulitzer Arts Foundation

  22-04-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  Cara Starke has been named the director of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, the institution announced today. Founded in St. Louis in 2001, the non-collecting institution is in the midst of an expansion project that will add 3,700 square feet for … Read More
  
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• Phantom framers of Teddington beautify street names and dog fouling signs

  22-04-2015 15:38
  
  Meet the phantom framers of Teddington.
  
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• Morning Links: The Art Hotel Edition

  22-04-2015 15:32 via artnews.com
  Saved from demolition by Jackie O. in the 1960s, the Renwick Gallery, the Smithsonian Institution’s decorative arts and crafts museum in Washington, D.C., will reopen  to the public on November 13th after a two-year, $30 million restoration. [The Art Newspaper] A group … Read More
  
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• The death of culture: apocalyptic visions of our future underwater

  22-04-2015 12:32
  
  The sea surging through the Louvre, opera houses and libraries destroyed for ever by floods … Pablo Genoves’ images offer a haunting vision of catastrophe that could almost be ripped from headlinesThe future has a long history in art. Romantic painters loved to picture what the great buildings of their time would look like as ruins. The architect Sir John Soane commissioned the artist Joseph Gandy to paint Soane’s masterpiece the Bank of England not as it looked when spanking new, but as t
  
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• Daniel Barenboim and Staatskapelle Berlin, Royal Festival Hall, review: Martha Argerich and Lisa Batiashvili light up the Southbank

  22-04-2015 12:26
  
  Daniel Barenboim may have been on the podium, but it was the figure at the piano – with whom as a boy he had briefly shared the same ferocious teacher – who guaranteed that the Festival Hall was filled to bursting, at the start of this year’s Barenboim Project.
  
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• Confessional Writing: It’s Ubiquitous, It’s Annoying, It’s Uncool – But It’s Powerful, And We Seem To Need It

  22-04-2015 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “No writer wants to own the label ‘confessional’ anymore. It’s an epithet, with the same tenor as ‘hipster’ or ‘artisanal': something for privileged narcissists who can’t see any of their own silliness. … And yet, the practice has deeply ancient, religious roots. Bruenig notes that it was designed not just to let the person who […]
  
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• China’s Great, ‘Obscene,’ Frequently Banned 16th-Century Epic

  22-04-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  For centuries, Chin P’ing Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase) – a sprawling tale of the rise and fall of a corrupt merchant and his six wives, and only now available in a complete English version – “has been known in China as an ‘obscene book.’ Governments have banned it and parents have hidden […]
  
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• Earth Day: what does a world responding to climate change look like?

  22-04-2015 09:57
  
  To celebrate Earth Day, we would like you to get creative and share your posters, paintings and photos that show a world addressing climate change
  People from across the world will come together for Earth Day on 22 April to support environmental campaigns and call for urgent action to tackle climate change. The Guardian has been running its own campaign, Keep it in the ground which is asking the world’s two biggest charitable organisations, the Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust, to move thei
  
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• The “Patient Zero” Of Online Music Piracy

  22-04-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “One Saturday in 1994, Bennie Lydell Glover, a temporary employee at the PolyGram compact-disk manufacturing plant in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, went to a party at the house of a co-worker. He was angling for a permanent position, and the party was a chance to network with his managers. Late in the evening, the host […]
  
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• Oliver Sacks On The Tragedy Of Spalding Gray

  22-04-2015 09:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  The great neuroscientist and writer recounts his treatment of the late actor and monologuist for the head injury that ultimately led to his suicide.
  
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• Scholar Who Rescued 30,000 Volumes Of Chinese Literature From Japan’s WWII Invasion Of Shanghai Has Died At 105

  22-04-2015 09:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  T.H. Tsien, “who was born in China in the twilight of the reign of its last emperor, was a young librarian there during the Japanese occupation, which lasted from 1931 until the end of World War II. Working in secret, he was charged with keeping a trove of precious volumes, some dating to the first […]
  
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• One Of ABT’s Stars Has Become Its Unofficial Backstage Photographer

  22-04-2015 09:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Who is to stop Daniil Simkin, a principal dancer at American Ballet Theater, from photographing his friends inside the ‘bubble’ of one of the world’s leading classical ballet companies?”
  
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• The First Black Ballerina At The Metropolitan Opera House

  22-04-2015 09:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘It is opening night at the Metropolitan Opera – the gala performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aïda. It is the first time in the history of the venerable opera house that it has a black artist on its roster. Let me tell you, my friend, I am just as surprised as anyone else.’ It was 1951, […]
  
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• Eight Possible Alternatives To The Turing Test

  22-04-2015 09:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Turing Test, which is intended to detect human-like intelligence in a machine, is fundamentally flawed. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be improved or modified. Here are eight proposed alternatives that could help us distinguish bot from human.”
  
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• Play Time: It’s Not Just Good For The Brain, It’s Good For America

  22-04-2015 09:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This one thing that we’ve lost in our society is the understanding that exploration, understanding, and creating thinking is what got us to where we are, that made America the ‘idea nation,’ the country that founded Apple and IBM, that invented the car and the airplane.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.21.15

  22-04-2015 07:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Give or Get AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-04-21 First came The Bradys. Now come The Imaginists. AJBlog: Lies Like Truth Published 2015-04-21 Recommendation: Charles Lloyd AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-04-21 The Long Journey AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2015-04-21 Circuitry AJBlog: PianoMorphosis Published 2015-04-21
  
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