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• Legendary Long-Serving Librarian Of Congress To Retire

  12-06-2015 23:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “James Billington, 86, is a Russia scholar who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 as the 13th Librarian of Congress and leader of the oldest federal cultural institution. In a video message to his staff, he said he will leave Jan. 1.”
  
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• Legendary Long-Serving Librarian Of Congress To Reitre

  12-06-2015 23:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “James Billington, 86, is a Russia scholar who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 as the 13th Librarian of Congress and leader of the oldest federal cultural institution. In a video message to his staff, he said he will leave Jan. 1.”
  
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• How Technology Is Ushering In A Golden Age For… Juggling

  12-06-2015 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Juggling has probably been around since a bunch of primates let go of their branches and wondered what to do with their hands. And yet this venerable entertainment is being transformed out of all recognition by recent technology.”
  
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• Bringing It Home: For ‘Project Lives,’ Public-Housing Residents Pick Up Cameras

  12-06-2015 22:17 via artnews.com
  Ever wonder whether kids see the same things we do when looking around their environment? From their diminutive physical vantage point and their experiential one as well, things must look different.Well, George Carrano, Chelsea Davis, and Jonathan Fisher wanted to … Read More
  
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• How The Music Business Squandered The Business Part – And Now Music Is Free

  12-06-2015 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Record company ignorance squandered billions in the early years of this century ­because the music people lost out to the tech people. The music people’s job had been to make hit records; technology was a tool to help this happen but nothing more.”
  
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• Synonyms And Metaphors – Should Dance Be About Something?

  12-06-2015 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “George Balanchine, the greatest choreographer in the art, believed that ballet needed no external subject to give it meaning: We can’t dance synonyms, he liked to say. But one major part of the history of ballet, of course, is a history of attempts at various synonyms.”
  
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• That Moment In An Opera Performance When You Realize Your Star Is Going Down And You Scramble For The Understudy…

  12-06-2015 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While he was literally going voiceless on the stage, I was looking into the wings to see if they were telling me to bring the curtain down, because of course I had no communication with anybody,” says conductor Jonathan Darlington, who had the orchestra with him on stage rather than in the pit.
  
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• Marginalized LA Dodgers Organist Retires In Frustration (Then Unretires After A Quick Phone Call)

  12-06-2015 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The longest-tenured stadium musician in Los Angeles sports history confirmed that at the end of her 27th year as Dodgers organist, she would be unhappily walking away
  
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• Why Ornette Coleman Mattered

  12-06-2015 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To working musicians whose sense of form and craft were deeply ingrained—and whose personal artistry and place in the profession were built on improvising on the harmonies of songs—Coleman, for all his lyrical inventiveness and rhythmic drive, was a threat. Jazz could suddenly dispense with their techniques—and when Coleman became an instant succès de scandale, […]
  
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• Painting of Johann Sebastian Bach returns home to Leipzig

  12-06-2015 21:03
  
  Best known portrait of the German composer unveiled with grand ceremony at emotional homecomingAs the white shroud was whipped away, it was as if the great composer himself had made an entrance on stage. Gasps and applause greeted the unveiling of the portrait of a man in a white wig, with a stern expression on his plump face, and a half-smile of approval on his fleshy lips as he proffered a music score to his audience.The boys of the St Thomas choir strained to see the picture of the man who ha
  
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• Remember Christopher Lee, Horror Icon

  12-06-2015 20:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Lee had a reputation for being proud and humorless, and he certainly wasn’t easy. But everyone I’ve met who knew him well adored him, insisting that once you got past the prickliness, he was kind, loyal, and immensely endearing —one of the true good guys.”
  
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• MoMA Acquires Richard Serra’s New Sculpture at David Zwirner

  12-06-2015 20:41 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Modern Art in New York has acquired Richard Serra’s Equal (2015), a sculpture made of eight blocks of steel that is currently on view at David Zwirner’s West 20th Street location in Chelsea. Displayed in four pairs, with one block … Read More
  
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• Kinda Sorta REALLY Creepy – Festival Using Facial Recognition Software To Scan Audience Faces

  12-06-2015 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Strategically placed cameras will scan faces at the Download Festival site in Donnington before comparing [them] with a database of custody images from across Europe. It is one of the first times it has been trialled outside, normally it is done in a controlled environment. There has been a lot of interest from other festivals […]
  
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• Gwilym Prichard obituary

  12-06-2015 19:57
  
  Artist best known for his oil paintings of the Welsh landscape
  The artist Gwilym Prichard, who has died aged 84, spent a lifetime capturing the coastlines and countryside of Wales, shunning the celebrated view and instead seeking out the secluded spot, the timeworn rock or weather-beaten cliff. Together with the figurative artist Claudia Williams, he embarked on a creative journey that spanned seven decades. The couple married in 1954 and worked alongside each other, their enduring partnership b
  
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• Does Theatre Matter Any More? Should It?

  12-06-2015 19:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Broadway attendance in 2014 was the highest it’s ever been, even if that is no great indicator of regional theater attendance. But it is the case that relatively few people are seeing any theater at all, and, apparently, theater is having such little lasting impact on audiences that its creators are all but unknown, even […]
  
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• Meet the family: Jim Broadbent unveils his quirky wooden statues

  12-06-2015 19:40
  
  When he’s not busy being an Oscar-winning actor, Jim Broadbent can be found in his shed, chiselling strange figures out of lumps of woodFor a while Jim Broadbent imagined them as a troupe of European hippie circus performers who don’t get much work. Other times, the actor said, “I’ve thought they’re like all the directors I’ve ever worked with.”Broadbent is talking about the dressed and painted wooden figures he has been quietly carving in his shed for the last six years. Seen publ
  
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• NAACP Branch Head Rachel Dolezal, Under Fire for Misrepresentation, Is Also an Artist

  12-06-2015 19:35 via artnews.com
  By now, you may have heard that the leader of Spokane, Washington’s branch of the NAACP, Rachel Dolezal, has allegedly misrepresented herself as black or biracial. Newsweek reports that Dolezal’s ancestry is in fact Czech, Swedish, German, and very slightly Native American. … Read More
  
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• How To Get People to Read Your Movie Review: NYPost Critic Disses Women (Yep, That’ll Do It)

  12-06-2015 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It hard to think that even with all of that, even with all those faux slights against women, that your column is going to cause much genuine interest or outcry, even if you were to complete it with an obviously attention-seeking headline such as “Women are not capable of understanding GoodFellas”.
  
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• ‘There Needs to Be a Revolution Every Day': Brown, Keyser, Semmel, Gingeras Talk Feminism and Painting at Maccarone

  12-06-2015 18:35 via artnews.com
  Maccarone Gallery was filled to capacity last Wednesday evening for a panel titled “Painting and the Legacy of Feminism,” which featured painters Rosy Keyser, Cecily Brown, and Joan Semmel, who looked queenly. The panel was held in honor of the … Read More
  
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• Ohio Republicans Kill Historic Preservation Tax Credit, And Cincinnati Arts Leaders Fret About Music Hall Restoration

  12-06-2015 17:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Developers who fought in an intense competition for the money were mystified that senators had slipped a couple of lines into the two-year state budget to eliminate the tax credit.
  
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• How Chile Is Changing How Movies Are Being Made Around The World

  12-06-2015 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The term “Chilewood” refers to an emerging camp in its eponymous country where genre films are being made by a myriad of talents and attracting high-profile names like Eli Roth and Keanu Reeves. And the etymology of the catchy name originates with its creator Nicolás López, who dropped out of high school at 15 to […]
  
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• ‘Josef Astor: Displaced Persons’ at Participant Inc

  12-06-2015 17:04 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Josef Astor: Displaced Persons” is currently on view at Participant Inc in New York. The show, which was curated by Antony, is on view until July 12 and … Read More
  
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• Last Month David Letterman’s Show Ended. Now All His Shows Are Off The Internet Too

  12-06-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A source at CBS says that the videos have been removed from the site as the digital rights have returned to Letterman’s production company, Worldwide Pants, which owns the rights to the show, and that CBS no longer owns the rights.”
  
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• Dramatists Guild Protests Treatment Of Writers At Tony Awards

  12-06-2015 16:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ironically it’s the theater that most esteems writers; we are generally recognized as the principal artistic force behind new work, and we even retain ownership and control over the material we create. Yet on the very awards show intended to celebrate our craft, we are effectively negated.”
  
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• Brutalist playgrounds, straw bears and Bridget Riley's intoxicating curves

  12-06-2015 16:36
  
  It’s fun and games as a brutalist playground opens in London and Dreamland reopens in Margate. Bridget Riley took the edge off the awful Fighting History exhibition – plus we creep you out with photos of old English folk costumes, all in your weekly art dispatchBridget Riley
  The British answer to Jackson Pollock shows how seductive and intoxicating abstract art can be.De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, from 13 June until 6 September. Continue reading...
  
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• Has Britain’s National Trust Lost Its Way In The “Visitor Experience”?

  12-06-2015 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This idol now reigns supreme in the NT’s culture: the “visitor experience” of shop, café, loos, car parks and fun for all the family, banishing the dark spectre of “elitism” and making everything ever more “accessible”, has become its religion, superseding a basic respect for the integrity and dignity of what it is charged with […]
  
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• What It’s Like To Perform Clandestine Theatre Under A Harsh Dictatorship

  12-06-2015 16:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The cloak and dagger nature of trying to see a play in one of Europe’s most authoritarian nations is to be mirrored in the UK as part of Belarus Free Theatre’s 10th anniversary celebrations. Audiences will have no idea where they are going to see performances and post-show discussions being staged in a festival scheduled […]
  
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• Paris street art: Gare du Nord goes graffiti with Quai 36 project

  12-06-2015 16:15
  
  One of the Paris station’s main platforms becomes a huge gallery – part of the Quai 36 project – for street art until 8 July. These images give a glimpse of what to expect from the artists showcasing their work in front of 700,000 daily commuters Continue reading...
  
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• Preview Art Basel 2015

  12-06-2015 16:02 via artnews.com
  The 2015 edition of Art Basel opens Tuesday, June 16, to invited guests. This year’s fair includes a reorganization of the gallery booth layout, with many of those presenting work that dates from 1900 to 1970 grouped together on the lower … Read More
  
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• Simon De Pury on His New Digital Auction Platform

  12-06-2015 15:26 via artnews.com
  Ever since the end of 2012, when Simon de Pury left Phillips, the auction house where he had been a name partner, market watchers wondered what he would do next. Meanwhile, De Pury kept a relatively low profile, serving as … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Ann Hirsch Edition

  12-06-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids has opened a $22 million  eight-acre Japanese garden. [The Minneapolis Star-Tribune]The Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow has removed a video art work by Artur Źmijewski, called Game of Tag (1999), which … Read More
  
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• John Keane, artist of war – from the Gulf war to Islamic State

  12-06-2015 15:00
  
  ‘I actually don’t know if I’m a pacifist,’ says the painter who has spent quarter of a century responding to conflict. Mark Lawson gained a unique insight into his creationsTwenty-five summers ago, in that lost age when most people could only be phoned at home, an artist found an unnerving message on his answering machine: “How do you fancy being a chemical warfare victim?” The caller was the head of the Imperial War Museum (IWM), inviting John Keane to become the official British ar
  
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• Michaël Borremans, Donald Urquhart, Etel Adnan: this week’s new exhibitions

  12-06-2015 13:45
  
  Michaël Borremans | Donald Urquhart | Art From Elsewhere | Gabriel Orozco | Real Painting | Etel Adnan | Art Car Boot FairMichaël Borremans’s paintings prompt comparisons with David Lynch (they’re weird, dark and cinematic), Samuel Beckett (for their stripped-back sets and absurd humour) and Francisco Goya (Borremans has an old master’s way with paint). Yet the top Belgian artist’s mysterious painterly universe is not easy to classify, as his first London show in years amply demons
  
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• Laura de Santillana, glassmaker: 'We love the material. It is like Jacob and the angel'

  12-06-2015 11:00
  
  Glassmaker Laura de Santillana lives and works on the Giudecca Island in Venice. Down a narrow alley past neat doors we arrive at her building, climbing up a few flights of stairs to enter a bright loft-style space.
  
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• Unknown Poems By Katherine Mansfield Found In Chicago Library

  12-06-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the collections of the Newberry Library, a researcher discovered nearly 30 poems from the years 1909 to 1911, “the writer’s most painful and difficult period, the evidence for which she had later destroyed.”
  
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• No, Ursula K. LeGuin, Amazon Is Not Turning Literature Into Junk Food

  12-06-2015 09:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stephen L. Carter: “But now, according to Le Guin, Amazon’s quest for short-term sales is destroying serious literature. … I think Le Guin is half right – or, more to the point, she has identified the correct problem but chosen the wrong villain.”
  
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• This 93-Year-Old Ballet Legend Created A New Form Of Dance Therapy

  12-06-2015 09:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After she retired from the stage, María Fux, Argentina’s prima ballerina assoluta during the 1940s and ’50s, began teaching classes of blind and disabled students to dance, getting their bodies to do far more than had been thought possible.”
  
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• The Genius Of ClickHole: How The Onion Spinoff Designed To Mock The Internet Became The Best Thing On It

  12-06-2015 09:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dan Kois: “How does the site, with its small staff of young writers and editors tucked around a few tables at the Onion‘s Chicago offices, generate so many stories that make me laugh really hard? And why do so many of these stories also make me feel bad? And what does it mean to make […]
  
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• This New York Post Headline Writer Was Surely The Patron Saint Of Clickbait

  12-06-2015 09:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR” was only the most famous of the front page come-ons that Vinnie Musetto produced for the love-to-hate-it tabloid. He also wrote, among many others, the deathless gems “500LB SEX MANIAC GOES FREE” and “GRANNY EXECUTED IN HER PINK PAJAMAS.”
  
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• Is There Any Subject That Is Never Acceptable To Joke About?

  12-06-2015 09:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Curtis Brown: “No. There isn’t. It might be a bit more complicated than that but not much. I was about to write ‘child molestation’ when I remembered the comic novel generally regarded as America’s greatest after Huck Finn (which, for its part, joked about slavery).”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.11.15

  12-06-2015 07:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Being the Sea AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-06-11 Trashing Tranquility: Pierre Huyghe Invades Oases at Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Modern Art AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-06-11 Ornette Coleman returned music to freedom and basics AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz Published 2015-06-11 Getting Happy With Lester Young AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-06-11 [ssba_hide]
  
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