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• Cyber-Archaeologists Working To Digitally Recreate Endangered Artifacts

  05-06-2015 23:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Project Mosul has been launched by researchers from the Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage, an EU-funded initiative aimed at preserving cultural heritage using digital technology. The project consists of a team of volunteers working to digitally reconstruct ancient artifacts from the museum by using photographs and even video taken by tourists.”
  
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• A Japanese Library Is Attempting To Break The World Record For “Book Dominos” (Yes, It’s A Thing)

  05-06-2015 22:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  But the Asian news site Rocket News 24 reports that disgruntled readers have criticised the library’s decision, with one critic of the plan explaining that “Japanese people hold books in high regard, almost as sacred.”
  
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• The Met Names Kelly Baum Curator of Postwar and Contemporary Art

  05-06-2015 22:16 via artnews.com
  Director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas P. Campbell announced today that Kelly Baum has been named curator of postwar and contemporary art in the museum’s contemporary art department. Baum, who has served as curator of modern … Read More
  
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• ‘Don’t Be Intimidated About Anything': Carmen Herrera at 100

  05-06-2015 21:59 via artnews.com
  One afternoon in late April, the artist Carmen Herrera was sitting in her apartment and studio a few blocks north of Union Square recalling the frequent visits she would make to the Whitney Museum of Art some 70 years ago, … Read More
  
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• Development Writer

  05-06-2015 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Development Writer is responsible for composing correspondence and communication in support of NJPAC’s individual giving programs, with emphasis on The Vanguard Society (gifts of $5,000 and above).
  
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• Special Assistant to the Artistic Director, American Repertory Theater

  05-06-2015 21:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Special Assistant provides high-level administrative support to the Artistic Director and Artistic Office.
  
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• UK Musicians Account For 13 Percent Of Global Album Sales

  05-06-2015 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With 13.7% of worldwide sales, it’s the highest British share since the BPI began recording those figures in 2000. Sales of albums by British artists rose in Canada, Australia, Italy and Sweden, as well as the US.”
  
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• Michael Kaiser: Our Endangered Arts

  05-06-2015 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “His argument goes like this: In economic terms, the arts are playing a losing hand; in almost every other industry, the costs of production are reduced over time, allowing for more goods to be sold at a lower price point. Innovation and commodification contribute to this process, enabling goods to be produced ever-more cheaply and […]
  
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• The Confusingly Simple New Canada Council

  05-06-2015 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There used to be 147 arts grant programs to apply for, divided by discipline – one for poetry, one for choreography, one for operating a gallery, etc. Now there are six general ones, and the Council has boasted of streamlining and simplifying the system. But what do the six categories represent?”
  
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• Boston Public Library Finds Two Valuable Artworks (And They Had Never Left The Library)

  05-06-2015 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The two works were found together in the Print Collection, according to the statement, “approximately 80 feet from where the items should have been filed. I saw Rembrandt’s face and I was like, ‘Is this the Rembrandt? There are lots of prints of Rembrandt. This might be it. So I had someone come and confirm.”
  
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• Lo-Fi Pop Glamor: Kim Gordon on Her New Show at 303 Gallery

  05-06-2015 20:14 via artnews.com
  For someone who, in her recent memoir, asked why Lana Del Rey doesn’t “just off herself,” Kim Gordon is surprisingly soft-spoken, though some of the bad-girl persona that you might expect from the front woman of Sonic Youth remains intact. … Read More
  
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• Which Musical Will Win This Year’s Tony? Chris Jones Thinks…

  05-06-2015 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is tempting to see this contest as a battle between an arty, alternative show and a mainstream attraction with great touring potential. But what’s alt anymore? It is also worth noting that both of these musicals are innovators, formatively and in terms of their subjects.”
  
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• ‘Roberto Gómez: What Happens When Nothing Happens’ at Locust Projects

  05-06-2015 20:03 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Roberto Gómez: What Happens When Nothing Happens” is currently on view at Locust Projects in Miami. The site-specific exhibition presents cloth-like objects hanging from clothesline, constructed with layers of latex paint found at local … Read More
  
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• Anish Kapoor responds to Versailles 'vagina' row - 'Did I say that? I don't think so...'

  05-06-2015 19:59
  
  Sculptor Anish Kapoor has dismissed as “hysterical” a controversy which has erupted in France about an exhibition of his works in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles.
  
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• Back When Critics Were Critics

  05-06-2015 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Back then, the best reviewers – and the best magazines – were all Scotch; you couldn’t throw a stone in Edinburgh without hitting one of these slippery, multi-authored, self-reflexive, pugnacious, parodic, super-opinionated periodicals.”
  
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• People Are Smuggling Artifacts Out Of Syria And Western Museums Are Holding Them To Protect Them

  05-06-2015 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Syrian officials said they had moved hundreds of Palmyra’s statues to safety prior to the IS takeover but could not transfer large monuments. But across Syria, volunteers have risked their lives to preserve and protect irreplaceable monuments and mosaics, many of which date back to the 1st and 2nd Century; while civilians have turned over […]
  
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• Theatre People Love To Hate On Broadway. But…

  05-06-2015 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The truth is, there is plenty that is worthwhile on Broadway, maybe more this season that has just concluded than most. And, equally important, there are some promising developments.”
  
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• Guggenheim Director Richard Armstrong: Our Plans In Abu Dhabi

  05-06-2015 18:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Construction on the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi has not begun. Since 2007, we have worked together with the Tourism Development & Investment Company to improve conditions for the workers who will build the future museum. Documented progress has been made on worker accommodation, access to medical coverage, grievance procedures and passport retention, and additional work is […]
  
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• Two Museums Enter Public Bet Over NBA Final

  05-06-2015 18:58 via artnews.com
  Sports wagers seem to be en vogue with museums across the country. In February, the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts won a three-month loan of Albert Bierstadt’s 1870 painting Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast from Seattle Art Museum after betting on … Read More
  
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• Ursula LeGuinn: My Beef With Amazon

  05-06-2015 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If you think Amazon is a great place to self-publish your book, I may have a question or two in mind, but still, it’s fine with me, and none of my business anyhow. My only quarrel with Amazon is when it comes to how they market books and how they use their success in marketing […]
  
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• The Man Who’s Reinventing The American Musical

  05-06-2015 18:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While fans of Kristin Chenoweth and Kelli O’Hara duke it out, let’s raise a glass to Oskar Eustis, the Public Theater’s game-changing artistic director who, since he began his tenure 10 years ago, has been retooling the American musical at the historic off-Broadway venue founded by Joseph Papp.”
  
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• The Rock Critic, R.I.P. (All But The Burial)

  05-06-2015 18:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What Robert Christgau once called the ‘rock-critic establishment’ has been eclipsed by a more assertive culture of fandom. And although music criticism as an art form—a window onto literature or painting or new forms of journalism or politics in the broadest sense of that term—still exists in pockets, the idea that the critic could serve […]
  
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• Vaginas in Versailles, Julian Opie's genius and flying rocks – the week in art

  05-06-2015 17:50
  
  Anish Kapoor ruffled the feathers of French conservatives, an Oxford museum fights to keep a JMW Turner painting forever, and photographers pick their favourite shots of summer – all in your weekly art dispatchFighting History
  The genre of “history painting”, telling grand stories of great events, was Britain’s most honoured art form in the late 18th century. What relevance does it have today? This exhibition aims to answer that, comparing scenes from the Napoleonic Wars with such contem
  
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• Geta Bratescu: ‘Creation takes place through proficiency, passion and the joy of play'

  05-06-2015 17:38
  
  Visiting Geta Bratescu in Bucharest is an unforgettable experience. Walking into the small room she uses as a studio in her flat, where she still works every day, my first impression is the heat. As she has got older she feels the cold more. My affable translator Marian Ivan, also Bratescu’s gallerist, tells me she gave up her old larger studio on the other side of the city partly because it was too hard to heat.
  
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• Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition goes on a candy cavalcade

  05-06-2015 16:14
  
  Shocking shades transform Academy in nod to annual show’s quirky heritage and guest curator Michael Craig-Martin’s quest to relieve art overloadVivid magenta, sky blue and a deep aquamarine are hardly colours that bring to mind the classical galleries of the Royal Academy in London, but for this year’s Summer Exhibition – now in its 247th year – the bland white walls have been scrapped for an altogether jazzier colour scheme.
  Dublin-born artist Michael Craig-Martin, who is curator of t
  
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• Morning Links: World’s Most Hated Buildings Edition

  05-06-2015 15:43 via artnews.com
  The first show at the Pinacothèque de Paris’s new outpost in Singapore is called “The Myth of Cleopatra.” [The Art Newspaper]Dasha Zhukova’s Garage Museum opens in Gorky Park to invited guests on June 10, in a Soviet-era pavilion. [The Art … Read More
  
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• James Turrell at Houghton Hall: a psychedelic legal high in the English countryside

  05-06-2015 14:57
  
  The artist installation at the grand Norfolk country house is a mind-bending array of colour and light – like a beautifully silent music festivalPeople are walking out of the setting sun, between the trees and the ha-ha, like purple shadows. I am standing on the stone threshold of a Palladian country house, watching them intently. What am I on? It is perfectly legal. It’s not even a legal high that’s going to be banned by Theresa May. All I have taken, honest officer, is a dose of James Tu
  
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• Philip Guston, Cornelia Baltes, Stan Douglas: this week’s new exhibitions

  05-06-2015 14:27
  
  Philip Guston | Cornelia Baltes | James Turrell | Pia Camil, Pablo Helguera, Pedro Reyes | Stan Douglas | Luke Fowler & Mark Fell | Carsten HöllerPhilip Guston was well into his 50s when he became the artist we know today. Prior to his career as the premier painter of life as a twisted comic-book horrorshow, he was a leading light of New York’s deeply serious abstract expressionists. In the late 1960s, however, something snapped, and he turned his masterly brushwork to something new. Insp
  
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• Blast from the past: the vorticist moment

  05-06-2015 12:00
  
  Against Elgar – for Joyce! Against cod liver oil – for industry! … 100 years ago the vorticists burst on to the art scene with the most avante-garde shows London has ever experiencedIn the years before the first world war, London saw several explosive exhibitions that shattered the generally conservative – indeed, backward – tenor of much British art. They culminated in June 1915, after the war was well under way, with the only exhibition held by the vorticist artists who gathered
  
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• Adrian Searle encounters: Roni Horn's mysterious drawings that just won't leave you alone

  05-06-2015 11:40
  
  Words and names erupt from nowhere like a William Burroughs cut-up, clouds collide and paper seems to mutate into abstract sculpture before your very eyes in this major exhibition of the American artist’s drawingsCakewalk. Quonset hut. Written on the Wind. Eyefuck. Words and more words fill Roni Horn’s drawings in Butterfly Doubt, the largest exhibition of the American sculptor’s drawings I have seen. Drawing precedes writing. For Horn the two are inextricable. There is no end to the words
  
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• Supertitles Are Distancing Audiences From Opera, Says Critic

  05-06-2015 10:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Fred Plotkin: “They may bring some people to the opera house but they do not necessarily bring people closer and more intimately to opera … They distance people (who are not paying attention) from the overwhelming glory that is the combination of forces – conductor, orchestra, chorus, soloists – who do the astonishing feat of […]
  
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• Supertitles Have Saved Opera, Says Dramaturg

  05-06-2015 10:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cori Ellison: “In a perfect world, everybody would understand every language and every singer’s diction would be perfect, and we wouldn’t need supertitles. That is never going to happen and it never has been the case. … Also, you can read the libretto of Barber of Seville until the cows come home but it’s not […]
  
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• Numaish Karachi: can art installations change this violent megacity's image?

  05-06-2015 10:37
  
  Pakistan’s largest city has suffered 13,500 killings in the past five years – a level of violence that has seriously degraded the use of its public spaces. A group of local residents decided it was time to reclaim them for the people of Karachi
  Karachi, a city known for intractable political conflict and as a shelter for militants from the Afghan wars, has difficulty escaping its reputation as the world’s most violent megacity. It has suffered some 13,500 killings in the past five years �
  
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• After Protests, Death Threats, And Knife Attack, Morocco Bans Film About Sex Workers

  05-06-2015 10:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The film, Much Loved, by the Moroccan filmmaker Nabil Ayouch, includes scenes of prostitutes in Marrakesh partying, speaking raunchy Arabic and servicing wealthy Saudi clients. Within few days after the May 19 premiere [at Cannes], the clips had received more than two million views on YouTube. The movie became the subject of protests outside Parliament […]
  
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• Medici-Style Patronage Can Save The Arts? Don’t Be So Sure

  05-06-2015 10:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For one thing, how interested are today’s Medici – tech moguls – in funding arts? For another, “if you go back historically, you see that arts patronage was hardly a great deal for the artist the first time around.”
  
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• Black Actor Slams American Ballet Theater’s “Jim Crow Production Of ‘Othello'”

  05-06-2015 10:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Robert Manning Jr. wrote, in a protest letter to the company, “I hope you will sit down with me and attempt to explain to me, in person, why you believed it was a remotely good idea to not only cast Othello with a light-skinned Brazilian ballet dancer, BUT to also paint his face BROWN.”
  
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• Günther Schneider-Siemssen, 88, Met Opera’s Favorite Set Designer

  05-06-2015 10:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “And while he embraced a variety of visual styles over the course of his career, he became best known in the United States for the unapologetically traditional sets he designed for a memorable run of operas at the Met directed by Otto Schenk, particularly from the Wagner canon. The productions, which flew in the face […]
  
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• Festival Un-Cancels Play By Controversial French Author

  05-06-2015 10:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michel Houellebecq’s “Elementary Particles “has nothing to do with Islam. But that didn’t stop [Dubrovnik] Festival organizers from removing it from the lineup when an analysis carried out by the Croatian Security and Intelligence Agency said it represented a serious security risk.” Well, they’ve changed their minds.
  
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• Dudley Williams, 76, Alvin Ailey Dancer For Four Decades

  05-06-2015 10:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. Williams was dancing with the Martha Graham Dance Company when he was recruited by the choreographer Alvin Ailey as a last-minute replacement for an Ailey troupe member in 1963. He performed with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater until 2005, continued to dance with Paradigm, a trio of older dancers he formed with Carmen […]
  
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• NY’s Park Avenue Armory Has Chosen Its Next Artistic Director

  05-06-2015 10:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He has led the Dutch National Opera since 1988 while also serving as artistic director of the Holland Festival in Amsterdam from 2004 until 2014. Somehow he found time to work as a critically acclaimed director, after founding London’s avant-garde Almeida Theater.”
  
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• Dust On Our Furniture, Dust On Our Minds

  05-06-2015 10:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Dust is everywhere. We contribute to its multiplication through our polluting industries, by wearing clothes and using things around us, and in the course of merely living – shedding skin cells, hair, and other byproducts of our life. But we also are it. Both the Bible and William Shakespeare would have us believe as much.”
  
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• Are Ballet Dancers Secretly Wild Hedonists?

  05-06-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It seems the Telegraph wants to dig up, or stir up, some dirt …
  
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• Wreckage in the snow: Russia's forgotten future – in pictures

  05-06-2015 08:00
  
  The photographer Danila Tkachenko is drawn to places that were once at the forefront of technological progress, but now lie in ruin. Imposing hulks of metal and granite built under the Soviet Union appear otherwordly against blank snowscapes. The relics are alien – more like something out of Star Wars, than modern-day Russia• Danila Tkachenko’s Restricted Access is at the 2015 Athens photo festival, 6-9 June Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.04.15

  05-06-2015 06:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Sleeping Beauty Wakes Up AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2015-06-04 The Frick’s Little Noticed “Prized Garden” Saved; Vital Expansion Still Planned AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-06-04 Multiplicity AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-06-04 What Silicon Valley means For Culture AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-06-04 [ssba_hide]
  
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• Bill Drummond: What do I want to go to Australia for anyway?

  05-06-2015 05:56
  
  Guardian Australia asked the former KLF man four questions ahead of his visit to Sydney. But they didn’t reach him in time – so he wrote this instead“Where’s your homework Drummond?”; “Don’t you love me anymore, Bill?”; “Why do you keep avoiding the issue?”; “When will you be home, Daddy?’” are four of the questions that you will find more than once on the pile of questions that I have been repeatedly asked in my life. I guess variants of those apply to you as well. I d
  
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• Untitled(The Four Nannies)

  05-06-2015 01:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When they call pliant Nanny 1 she has to leave her seven year old daughter with Y to remove eyeballs from cadavers. Usually the cadaver is five hours dead. Y is jealous of Nanny 1’s second job. She used to have ten jobs. Now she copes with Y and the cadavers. Nanny 1 used to ... Continue ReadingThe post Untitled(The Four Nannies) appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• How Streaming Is Changing The Content Of TV and Movies

  05-06-2015 00:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The very fact that we’re streaming, that they make so much money in syndication with streaming on Amazon, I think extends the life of the show. Also creatively it’s given us more freedom. We don’t get the talk that, “You’ve got to reach out to the younger audience. You’ve got to do this, you’ve got […]
  
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