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• Poll: Americans Think Art Is “Important” But Unsure About…

  19-05-2015 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Beyond the study’s muddled findings about the ways US citizens value visual art (or don’t), YouGov’s more tangential poll questions turned up some amusing results. For instance, when asked “Do you own any paintings, sculptures, or other art works?” a full 4% of respondents — or about 40 people among the 1,000 polled — said […]
  
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• Surprise: Whitney Museum Announces A New Chief Curator

  19-05-2015 23:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “At a meeting with the board of trustees on May 19, director Adam Weinberg announced that Scott Rothkopf, 38, is getting a promotion to chief curator. Currently the Nancy and Steve Crown family curator and associate director of programs, his new title will be deputy director for programs and Nancy and Steve Crown family chief […]
  
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• Why Hong Kong Is Down On Creative Writing Programs

  19-05-2015 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In its abrupt closure of a small programme, City University has chosen to make the act of writing a political battle. For five years, we occupied a small and unique place: a learning environment in which there were no hard and fast dicta, but in which we cultivated the awareness that language is thinking. Language […]
  
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• If You Were A Festival Which One Would You Be? (A Quiz)

  19-05-2015 21:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Anyone who’s been to a festival can recognise an archetypal attendee. But what if the festival itself were a person?”
  
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• Data’s In: Are Song Lyrics Getting Dumber?

  19-05-2015 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Conducted by data analyst Andrew Powell-Morse, the study looked into 225 songs that have topped pop, country, rock and R&B/hip-hop Billboard charts for three weeks or more. “I turned to the Readability Score,” said Powell-Morse, who used writing-analysis tools such as the Flesch-Kincaid index, a readability test to measure reading difficulty, to determine the average […]
  
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• Tired Of Having Your Favorite TV Show, Movie Or Book Ruined By Spoilers? Now There’s An App For That

  19-05-2015 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Spoiler Shield comes as a Chrome extension and an app for iOS and Android. It creates a special version of your Facebook and Twitter feeds with all of the annoying spoilers removed.”
  
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• Finally – A Picture Of Shakespeare? (Experts Are “Deeply Unconvinced”)

  19-05-2015 21:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I can’t imagine any reason why Shakespeare would be in a botany textbook,’ he said, adding: “I don’t think very many people are going to take this seriously.”
  
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• Cannes Film Festival Stops Women Not Wearing High Heels From Walking The Red Carpet

  19-05-2015 21:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  A number of women in their 50s, some reportedly with medical conditions, were denied access to the showing of Todd Haynes’ entry Carol on Sunday night, according to Screen magazine.
  
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• Report: Cartoonists Worldwide Under Threat

  19-05-2015 21:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I don’t think very many Americans understand that a cartoonist in our midst has had to enter what is effectively a version of the F.B.I.’s witness protection program,” Robert Russell, the executive director of Cartoonists Rights Network International, said in the report.
  
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• What Is ‘Simco’s Club,’ Stefan Simchowitz’s New Web Site?

  19-05-2015 21:33 via artnews.com
  Stefan Simchowitz, the art collector otherwise known by such epithets as “the art world’s patron satan,” “Sith Lord,” and “one of twelve producers on Requiem for a Dream,” has launched his own website that is fashionably vague but overflowing with … Read More
  
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• A First: Artist To Be Depicted On English Currency (And Public Will Vote On Who)

  19-05-2015 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Speaking at the Victoria and Albert museum here on Tuesday, Mark Carney, the governor of the bank, said that artists, sculptors, ceramicists, craftsmen, designers, architects and filmmakers are eligible as long as they are not alive or fictional.”
  
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• What is ‘Simco’s Club,’ Stefan Simchowitz’s New Website?

  19-05-2015 20:54 via artnews.com
  Stefan Simchowitz, the art collector otherwise known by such epithets as “the art world’s patron satan,” “Sith Lord,” and “one of twelve producers on Requiem for a Dream,” has launched his own website that is fashionably vague but overflowing with photos—of … Read More
  
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• Analyzing Culture, A Cautionary Tale

  19-05-2015 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Raymond Williams is one of those thinkers who helped change his field so profoundly that today it can be difficult to appreciate how original he was. Members of Williams’s generation believed that analyzing culture would bring about revolution. Much of their prose now sounds turgid, and many of their political hopes were either beaten into […]
  
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• Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center Is Now A Financial Success (But Has It Lost The Point For Why It Exists?)

  19-05-2015 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In short, by becoming more commercial, the Kimmel has adopted a business model that underwrites the rents of its resident companies by presenting less art and more popular entertainment. Thus, it leans more lightly on philanthropy, which pleases the overtaxed donor community. The benefits are real.” But…
  
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• Detroit Rebound Being Led By Art?

  19-05-2015 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For many observers the new wave of public murals represents another example of the way art and culture are playing a key role in reviving the city, attracting visitors and injecting bursts of optimism, energy and creativity into the city that run parallel to commercial development.”
  
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• ‘Eduardo Paolozzi: Moonstrips’ at The Fitzwilliam Museum

  19-05-2015 19:39 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Eduardo Paolozzi: Moonstrips” is on view at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England until June 7 and features a range of pop art from the 1960s and 70s, including … Read More
  
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• British Public To Help Choose ‘Creative Figure’ For New 20-Pound Note

  19-05-2015 19:27 via artnews.com
  The next face of Britain’s 20-pound note–which for the first time ever will be anointed with the help of the UK public–is set to be some sort of a creative figure, The New York Times reports today.The Times writes that “Mark Carney, the … Read More
  
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• At home with Gilbert & George: ‘It has to be immaculate’

  19-05-2015 19:00
  
  No 8 Fournier Street in London’s East End has been home and studio to the artist duo since 1968, meticulously restored to its 18th-century origins. What’s it like inside?I am flanked on both sides from the first step inside. With George leading and Gilbert behind, I’m channelled into the large workspace at the back of the house that is the career-long workspace of the artistic duo. Attached to rails running down the centre of the studio is the projector they once used to enlarge images on
  
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• Artist on Bank of England £20 note unlikely to be a woman, warn critics

  19-05-2015 18:40
  
  Campaigners demand greater diversity after central bank’s call for historical figure on banknote rules out likes of Vivienne Westwood and Tracey EminThe Bank of England may find itself “in a bind” with its pledge to put a British visual artist on the £20 note due to the relatively low number of women that could qualify, history scholars have warned.
  The public were invited to put forward ideas for historical characters after criticism of the selection process in 2013, when Winston Ch
  
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• Georg Baselitz: why art's great shock merchant has set his sights on opera

  19-05-2015 18:32
  
  Georg Baselitz has spent his life shocking the public, and the opera-lovers of Glyndebourne are his next target. The artist explains how big-money auctions have made things ‘heavenly’ for him today – and why women still can’t paintGeorg Baselitz has been warned about Glyndebourne: “They tell me it’s rather conservative and more than just a bit elitist,” he says, wondering how at home he will feel there when he visits later this month. “I don’t even like classical music that muc
  
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• Live, Laugh, Love: On Odwalla88

  19-05-2015 18:30 via artnews.com
  There’s a long tradition of artist-led bands—including Destroy All Monsters, Talking Heads, Theoretical Girls, and Sonic Youth—that blur the line between popular music and contemporary art. The only thing these bands have in common, besides art school and perhaps a … Read More
  
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• Live, Laugh, Love: Odwalla88

  19-05-2015 18:30 via artnews.com
  There’s a long tradition of artist-led bands—including Destroy All Monsters, Talking Heads, Theoretical Girls, and Sonic Youth—that blur the line between popular music and contemporary art. The only thing these bands have in common, besides art school and perhaps a … Read More
  
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• Breaking: Gagosian Wears Sneakers To Cannes Premiere

  19-05-2015 16:59 via artnews.com
  Big news today from France: Page Six reports that the art dealer Larry Gagosian was momentarily turned away from the Cannes premiere of Rooney Mara’s film “Carol.” The reason? He was wearing a pair of sneakers, a breach in the festival’s strict … Read More
  
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• Should the public vote for the artist on the new £20 note? No way – they've got terrible taste

  19-05-2015 16:44
  
  The Bank of England wants the public to pick an artist to appear on the new £20. Here’s why it’s a gamble that will never pay offWhat’s the matter with the Bank of England? Has it no opinions of its own? After getting bitten by online democracy over removing Elizabeth Fry from the £5 note – it had to put Jane Austen on the tenner to allay feminist criticism – the bank is now taking no chances with plans for an artist on the new £20. It is inviting us to suggest our favouri
  
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• Should the public vote for the artist on the new £20 note? No way – they've got execrable taste

  19-05-2015 16:44
  
  The Bank of England wants the public to pick an artist to appear on the new £20. Here’s why it’s a gamble that will never pay offWhat’s the matter with the Bank of England? Has it no opinions of its own? After getting bitten by online democracy over removing Elizabeth Fry from the £5 note – it had to put Jane Austen on the tenner to allay feminist criticism – the bank is now taking no chances with plans for an artist on the new £20. It is inviting us to suggest our favouri
  
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• Jewish Museum’s ‘Unorthodox’ Group Show Will Include, Among Others, Writer William T. Vollmann

  19-05-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  This fall, the Jewish Museum will play host to a massive group show that “will highlight the importance of iconoclasm and art’s key role in breaking rules and traditions,” in the words of the institution. It is, quite logically, called … Read More
  
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• Writers’ Organization Boots Controversial Poet Off Planning Committee

  19-05-2015 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The association, which represents more than 500 campus-based writing programs, as well as thousands of writers, acted after many members pushed for Place’s removal. They object to her Twitter account (below right), on which she is posting, line by line, the text of the novel Gone With the Wind. The Twitter feed also features a […]
  
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• Morning Links: Cyber-Archeology Edition

  19-05-2015 14:59 via artnews.com
  The Whitney’s old Marcel Breuer building will become a satellite building for the Met. [SEEN]Cyber-archeologists are working to restore artwork lost to violence in Iraq and the earthquake in Nepal. [BBC]New fair Photo London, to be held this year at … Read More
  
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• Huge mural of embracing female lovers put on Irish castle to support gay marriage referendum

  19-05-2015 14:50
  
  A remote Irish castle has been covered with a huge mural showing two women embracing in support of Friday’s same-sex marriage referendum.
  
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• Palmyra: is saving priceless antiquity as important as saving people?

  19-05-2015 14:05
  
  As Islamic State threatens more of Syria’s architectural splendours, it’s so clear that these stones are worth crying over – and guarding by air strikes if it comes down to itDo ancient ruins matter compared with human lives? That is the painful question whenever an archaeological site comes under threat from the hammers and bulldozers of the terrorist army Islamic State. It is becoming a depressingly familiar scenario. IS gets its hands on one of the world cultural treasures in which Syri
  
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• Visual artist to grace new £20 note - experts suggest Blake or Turner

  19-05-2015 13:53
  
  Bank of England governor Mark Carney urges public to think beyond the most famous and the most obviousA painter, sculptor or designer will be the face of the next £20 note and the Bank of England is calling on the public to have their say.The Bank is asking the public to nominate “people of historic significance” from the world of the visual arts to feature on the next £20, although the final decision will be made by the governor, Mark Carney. Continue reading...
  
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• Bank of England calls on public to think of visual artist to grace new £20 note

  19-05-2015 13:53
  
  Experts suggest William Blake or JMW Turner, as Bank’s governor Mark Carney urges people to think beyond most famous as he launches public consultationA painter, sculptor or designer will be the face of the next £20 note and the Bank of England is calling on the public to have their say.The Bank is asking the public to nominate “people of historic significance” from the world of the visual arts, although the final decision will be made by the governor, Mark Carney.Continue reading...
  
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• William Shakespeare: Historian claims to have discovered first portrait of Bard from his lifetime

  19-05-2015 13:47
  
  The first portrait of playwright William Shakespeare created in his lifetime may have just been discovered in a 16th century botany book.
  
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• Bestselling French Author’s Play Pulled From Festival Because Staging Anything By Him Is Too Dangerous

  19-05-2015 10:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Elementary Particles, a new stage work adapted from [Michel] Houellebecq’s own 1998 novel, was set to play at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in July. … A spokeswoman for the festival confirmed by email that the play was canceled following a ‘risk analysis’ carried out by the Croatian Security and Intelligence Agency.”
  
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• ‘My Life As A Man’ – What One Mezzo Has Learned About Gender From A Career’s Worth Of Pants Roles

  19-05-2015 10:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alice Coote: “Having been stepping into male eyes for two decades now for around 70% of my working life I, by necessity, have had to dwell in a place where my mind feels increasingly separate from my sexual body. It has made it complex for me to return to daily life as a woman: I […]
  
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• What Exactly Makes The Shower Scene In ‘Psycho’ So Effective?

  19-05-2015 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For what’s often considered the most memorable death in film history, Psycho‘s shower scene is strangely devoid of gore. … This ‘Art of the Scene’ video explores how the director and his collaborators crafted a moment of pure horror without showing too much of the murder itself.”
  
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• Gov. Jerry Brown Increases California’s Arts Budget By 500% (And It’s Still Skimpy)

  19-05-2015 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “State tax coffers have filled faster than expected this year, and the governor’s annual ‘May revise’ of the original spending plan he proposed in January would share a modest morsel of the wealth – $5 million – with the California Arts Council, the state’s arts grant-making agency.”
  
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• Storing Information In Other People’s Heads

  19-05-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When we can’t fit everything in our own heads, we have to outsource information to others. But how do we keep track of who knows what? Commentator Tania Lombrozo shares some recent findings.”
  
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• Benjamin Millepied Talks About Running The Paris Opera Ballet

  19-05-2015 09:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The idea behind [L.A. Dance Propject] was to create a home for the American modern dance repertory, but Paris is bringing me back to my career as a dancer. It’s a ballet company, first and foremost. Of course there are all the issues that go with the size – the bureaucracy, the French laws, the […]
  
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• Why I’m Building A Pop-Up Globe Theatre

  19-05-2015 09:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s the energy of the building that has the potential to bring Shakespeare to life. It’s the shared space, the triple-galleried cockpit, the restless crowd, the direct address. It’s these conditions of performance that create a transformative experience.” Miles Gregory explains why he and colleagues are constructing “a full-scale, temporary, working theatre space that precisely […]
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.18.15

  19-05-2015 07:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whither the Whitney? Outtakes from My Tour of the New Whitney with Donna De Salvo and Carter Foster AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-05-18 Styles and People Meet and Merge AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2015-05-18 Something Good To Say About MoMA AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-05-17 What do cactuses sound like? AJBlog: Lies Like Truth Published 2015-05-17
  
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• Market Manager- Talmi Entertainment / Moscow Ballet

  19-05-2015 05:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Talmi Entertainment/Moscow Ballet seeks an individual ready to contribute to sales and box office management in 80+ major cities across North America. As a national entertainment group, Talmi Entertainment is responsible for promoting and executing over 110 Moscow Ballet performances in North America every Holiday season.
  
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