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• Royal Academy of Arts' Tim Marlow: Bronze statue of lovers embracing at St Pancras station is a lesson in 'not how to do' public art

  28-05-2015 21:15
  
  A 30ft bronze statue of lovers embracing at St Pancras International railway station is a lesson in “how not to do” public art, a senior Royal Academy of Arts figure has claimed.
  
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• Royal Academy of Arts' Tim Marlow: Bronze statue of lovers embracing at St Pancras station is a lesson in 'how not to do' public art

  28-05-2015 21:15
  
  A 30ft bronze statue of lovers embracing at St Pancras International railway station is a lesson in “how not to do” public art, a senior Royal Academy of Arts figure has claimed.
  
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• Royal Academy of Arts' Tim Marlow: Bronze statue of lovers embracing at St Pancras station a lesson in 'not how to do' public art

  28-05-2015 21:15
  
  A 30ft bronze statue of lovers embracing at St Pancras International railway station is a lesson in “how not to do” public art, a senior Royal Academy of Arts figure has claimed.
  
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• Walker Art Center Renames Film/Video Department, Announces New Initiatives

  28-05-2015 21:10 via artnews.com
  Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center has rechristened its Film/Video department as the Moving Image department. The change goes into effect next month, and is accompanies by two related initiatives—the Walker Moving Image Commissions, a series of six artist commissions that will debut online, and the … Read More
  
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• Minneapolis Institute of Arts Curator David E. Little Will Head Amherst’s Mead Art Museum

  28-05-2015 20:30 via artnews.com
  Amherst College’s Mead Art Museum has a new director and chief curator, David E. Little, who is currently the curator and head of the department of photography and new media at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The museum, which is … Read More
  
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• ‘Juliet Jacobson: There Is Nothing Perfectly Beautiful Except the Invisible’ at Two Rams

  28-05-2015 19:28 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Juliet Jacobson: There Is Nothing Perfectly Beautiful Except the Invisible” is currently on view at Two Rams in New York until June 8. The show features a selection of the artist’s works created with … Read More
  
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• Hugely Successful Theatre With An Unusual Business Model Is Making A Mark On Broadway

  28-05-2015 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Playful’s ability to commission and develop new plays is subsidized by an unusual business model: the producers take on the workmanlike roles of general manager on unrelated productions in the West End. The principals deal with contracts, arrange auditions and troubleshoot on shows without producing them, specializing in overseeing London musical imports from the U.S. […]
  
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• UK Arts Funder Warns Government Funding Cuts Are Damaging Culture

  28-05-2015 18:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In his first speech since becoming Arts Council chief executive, Darren Henley said cuts could halt recent progress in cultivating culture around the country. Arts Council England has had its government grant cut by 36% since 2010. Chancellor George Osborne is expected to outline £30bn of spending cuts to government departments in his next budget […]
  
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• NYT’s Decision To Not Review Every Movie In Theatrical Release Is A Liberating Moment For Criticism

  28-05-2015 18:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Reviewing a popular movie in this way involves a double-edged discernment—a virtual look behind the curtain at the kinds of decisions that brought the movie into being, and a look into the virtual soul of the abstract viewer whose enthusiasm the movie sparks. At its best, the result is a Nietzschean artistic psychology that acknowledges […]
  
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• British Museum To Stream A Live Tour Of Its New Show (And You Can Ask Questions, Too)

  28-05-2015 18:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The museum has British historian and broadcaster Dan Snow on hand to lead a 30 minute journey through the exhibition’s white marble statues, terracotta works, bronzes and ornate vases. There’ll also be the chance to post questions using the iOS and Android app.”
  
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• Netflix Now Accounts For a Third Of All Internet Bandwidth In The US At Peak Hours

  28-05-2015 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The No. 1 subscription-video service accounted for 36.5% of all downstream Internet bandwidth during peak periods in North America for March, according to a new report.
  
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• ‘Don’t Blame Me for Courtney Love': Lydia Lunch On No Wave, Brian Eno, Rent Strikes, and Legacy

  28-05-2015 17:30 via artnews.com
  Lydia Lunch is, according to Lydia Lunch, in turns, a “positive nihilist,” a “conceptualist,” a “journalist,” and a “55-year-old terror infant,” among other things. She’s also the de facto spokesperson for No Wave—the aggressive music and cinema that briefly sprung … Read More
  
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• Do We Still Need Libraries In The Internet Age? Yes, But…

  28-05-2015 16:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A government report showed that while the nation’s public libraries served 298 million people in 2010 (that’s 96 percent of the U.S. population), states had cut funding by 38 percent and the federal government by 19 percent between 2000 and 2010. “It seems extraordinary that a public service with such reach should be, in effect, […]
  
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• Connecticut Teacher Fired For Teaching Ginsburg Poem

  28-05-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The unceremonious dismissal of a beloved teacher has thrown the town of South Windsor, population 25,000, halfway between Hartford, Conn., and Springfield, Mass., into tumult. The local newspaper denounced him in editorials. Alumni, town residents, and Olio’s current students crammed into Board of Education hearings to testify on his behalf.”
  
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• Maureen Hodge, weaver: 'I never plan colour, it just happens at the weaving stage'

  28-05-2015 15:30
  
  Weaver Maureen Hodge lives and works in a terraced house at the end of a narrow, flower-lined cul de sac in Stockbridge, Edinburgh. Born in Perth in 1941, she moved there in 1964 and she lives now with her son Arkady. In the 1960s she was working at the Dovecot Studio, the commercial weaving studio set up by the Earl of Bute to weave tapestries for his castle, later becoming known for working with many contemporary international artists.
  
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• Morning Links: The Other Room Edition

  28-05-2015 15:29 via artnews.com
  Shia LeBeouf made video art with Central Saint Martins fine arts students. [The Guardian]Jutta Koether’s “Fortune” at Bortolami. [Contemporary Art Daily]In the largest police raid in China’s history, police arrested 175 people for looting ancient artifacts in the Liaoning province … Read More
  
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• Did Bluesman Robert Johnson Really Sell His Soul To The Devil?

  28-05-2015 15:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Blues musician Robert Johnson is that grand rarity in the music world—a recording artist from the 1930s who can sell millions of records in the modern day. He left his stamp on the work of almost every later blues musician… But the rumors of Johnson’s dealings with the Devil are even more famous than his […]
  
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• Turmoil At Actors Equity Union (So Now What?)

  28-05-2015 14:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Its heavy-handed approach to the Los Angeles theater community reveals serious flaws both in Equity’s vision of the future and its ability to implement any vision at all. From the beginning, Equity misread the sentiment of its LA membership — perhaps out of a myopic view of LA theater — or simply out of ignorance.”
  
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• How Machine “Deep Learning” Will Change The Things Around Us

  28-05-2015 14:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Deep learning is particularly interesting because it has transformed so many different areas of research. In the past researchers used very separate techniques for speech recognition, image recognition, translation, and robotics. But now one this one set of techniques—though a rather broad set—can serve all these fields.”
  
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• Do We Truly Believe In Freedom Of Expression? Trying To Make Sense Of The PEN Protests Of Charlie Hebdo

  28-05-2015 14:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It was no small thing to observe a couple of survivors of the Charlie massacre make their way to New York, a mere four months after the slaughter, and be greeted with jeers and a boycott. A supremely chilly heart is needed to mount such a protest. And yet, a couple of hundred warm-hearted American […]
  
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• National Portrait Gallery unveils sculpture of Tim Berners-Lee

  28-05-2015 13:30
  
  First commissioned portrait of the inventor of the world wide web is a bronze made by Sean Henry in honour of his 60th birthdayA painted bronze sculpture of Sir Tim Berners-Lee carrying the leather rucksack in which he keeps his laptop has been unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery.Apart from photographs, it is the first commissioned portrait of the inventor of the world wide web. Continue reading...
  
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• Ed Dwight shows 'the angst, all the emotions' of black heroes in sculpture

  28-05-2015 13:00
  
  Picked by JFK to be America’s first black astronaut, Dwight found a second career as a sculptor, memorialising in grand public artworks the struggle for civil rightsIn nearly 40 years of imagining clay into models and casting models to bronze, sculptor Ed Dwight has amassed not only a significant body of work, but also a sizeable library to inform his concepts.It contains neither volumes of masters Bernini or Brunelleschi, Rodin nor Remington. Rather, it holds narratives of American black hist
  
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• Ed Dwight: honouring America's black heroes in sculpture

  28-05-2015 13:00
  
  Picked by JFK to be America’s first black astronaut, Dwight found a second career as a sculptor, memorialising in grand and sometimes subversive public artworks the struggle for civil rightsIn nearly 40 years of imagining clay into models and casting models to bronze, sculptor Ed Dwight has amassed not only a significant body of work, but also a sizeable library to inform his concepts.It contains neither volumes of masters Bernini or Brunelleschi, Rodin nor Remington. Rather, it holds narrativ
  
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• Who Knew? Musicians Union Sues Hollywood Studios For Reusing Music In Movies

  28-05-2015 04:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For instance, 1 minute and 10 seconds of music from Titanic was allegedly used in This Means War; 47 seconds of music from Die Hard and 30 seconds of music from The Bourne Identity was allegedly used in episodes of The Office; 18 seconds of music from Jaws was allegedly used in Little Fockers; 33 […]
  
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• Is This 25-Year-Old Composer The Great Hope Of American Opera?

  28-05-2015 03:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are more established young composers who write operas, but if contemporary opera has a rising wunderkind, then Aucoin has to be it — although his promise as a composer, conductor, pianist, poet and critic extends well beyond opera or any other single form. The conductor Johannes Debus says that the range of Aucoin’s talents […]
  
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• Was The Minnesota Orchestra’s Trip To Cuba Really Good Diplomacy?

  28-05-2015 03:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The best answer seems to be that, yes, such events can be important. But there is a major caveat: They matter when both governments involved want them to matter. In this case, the evidence suggests that both Washington and Havana are interested in better relations. So this visit is likely to have a small place […]
  
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• Justice? Instagram Artist Appropriates Artist Who Appropriated Her Work And Undercuts His Price By 99.9%

  28-05-2015 02:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Selena Mooney, who founded the website SuicideGirls, which has sold online access to erotic images for more than a decade, wrote on Tuesday that she would sell nearly identical copies of one of the pictures chosen by Mr. Prince. She offered a steep discount, though. Her versions, five different inkjet prints on canvas at the […]
  
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• Music Festivals Are Big Business These Days. Can A Festival Boost Spain’s Economy?

  28-05-2015 02:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the midst of a country with a 23.7% unemployment rate, the growing festival is a notable bright spot in contemporary Spain. Even as the country’s young indignados demand major reforms, Primavera is proof that a well-run music festival can be an anchor for a recovering economy and a central element of its tourism.”
  
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• How Nostalgia Can Fuel Creativity

  28-05-2015 02:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Weirdly, nostalgia used to have a bad reputation—psychologists interpreted it as people avoiding the present, and it was even classified as a psychiatric disorder at one point. But recent research has shown that nostalgia can have positive effects, like making people more optimistic about the future and more willing to set new goals.”
  
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• Artadia Awards Grants to All 10 New York Finalists

  28-05-2015 02:00 via artnews.com
  For its first round of artist grants in New York, the nonprofit organization Artadia announced that it is giving prizes to all 10 of its finalists. This is also the first time they’ve given all of their finalists grants.Park McArthur … Read More
  
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• New Book: Rex Harrison Was Not A Nice Man

  28-05-2015 01:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There he was, with all these endearments at the top of his voice. He treated us like dirt, we were nothing. We didn’t have anything to do with his film career.”
  
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• UK Court Orders ISPs To Block Access To Book Piracy Websites

  28-05-2015 01:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Our members need to be able to protect their authors’ works from such illegal activity. Writers need to be paid and publishers need to be able to continue to innovate and invest in new talent and material.”
  
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• Hitting + Things = Percussion

  28-05-2015 01:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  The world runs on rhythm. From the smallest heartbeat to the movement of the planets, rhythm powers and defines our lives. Modern percussion takes the rhythms of the world and makes them music. Learn how with master percussionist Steven Schick. This free four-class course will make you listen to music in a different way. Click […]
  
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• How Doing Theatre For An Audience Of One Changes The Experience

  28-05-2015 00:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Acting is often spoken of as a narcissistic pursuit, but it seemed much more humble at Theatre for One. Why crave the attention of multitudes when the most we can ask for is to be seen—fully, if momentarily—by just one person? Being an audience of one started to feel less indulgent, too. When I stepped […]
  
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• Why An Artist Taking Other People’s Instagram Photos, Hanging Them In A Gallery And Selling Them For Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars Is Art

  28-05-2015 00:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Here he is delving as deep as he ever has into privacy, copyright, and appropriation, twisting images so that they actually seem to undergo some sort of sick psychic-artistic transubstantiation where they no longer belong to the original makers.”
  
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