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• The Family That Watches TV Together …

  14-06-2015 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A longitudinal study “found positive outcomes for families that used media such as TV, movies and the Internet ‘as a tool — to laugh together, to become informed, to connect, to spark discussion.’ Such shared activities led to greater levels of personal disclosure for adolescent boys, more positive family functioning for adolescent girls and greater […]
  
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• Iceland’s Biennale Artist Wants Her Work To Speak For Itself

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  “I’d rather see this piece as a thought. It’s an encounter in space. A cave is not usually a place of the moment, yet this cave is. A cave calls to mind minerality and minerals mean time – a stone is time. But this is made of ephemeral material, high-quality cotton paper pulp.”
  
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• We’re Addicted To Creating Content, But It Doesn’t Make Us Happy

  14-06-2015 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Once we buy into a specific apparatus, it’s awfully hard to leave it. Your cultural artifact is locked within that system, constrained by its programming. Notice how another user’s Instagram photo can’t be resized, emailed, or downloaded to your hard drive. It can’t exist within any other ecosystem than Instagram’s.”
  
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• Iconic Victorian Gas Structures Are Going Down All Over The UK

  14-06-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Gasometers were crucially important to the growth of London as a modern city and to Britain as an industrial and post-industrial nation. The use of gas in street lighting, for instance, is a central element in the creation of the modern city and these amazing floating structures are where the gas was eventually stored. They […]
  
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• How Drawn & Quarterly Transformed Comics From An All-Male Bastion To Something Slightly Different

  14-06-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While D&Q has championed female artists, those creators have also helped the company succeed. Its three best-selling cartoonists are Tove Jansson (the ‘Moomin’ series), Lynda Barry (‘What It Is’) and Kate Beaton (‘Hark! A Vagrant’).”
  
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• Crowd-Sourced Piracy Gets Crowd-Sourced Chinese Novels Translated

  14-06-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Vietnamese writer and translator Trang Ha condemned the conservatism of Vietnamese literature, and the paucity of good-quality fiction available to her compatriots. She was speaking in response to the increasing availability of Chinese novels in Vietnam – works which have often taken a convoluted and heavily mediated route to market.”
  
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• Remember Esperanto?

  14-06-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He used Esperanto while traveling when he was younger, bicycling between Esperanto-speaking homes in Korea. He used a free hospitality network, called Pasporta Servo, which lists Esperanto speakers willing to open their homes to fellow Esperantists. Pasporta Servo still exists today.”
  
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• Much Maligned And Under Pressure, Library Of Congress Chief Retires

  14-06-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a 2013 audit, the library’s inspector general warned that millions of items, some from as far back as the 1980s, remained piled in overflowing buildings and warehouses, virtually lost to the world. In addition, just a small fraction of its 24 million books are available to read online, 200 years after Thomas Jefferson laid […]
  
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• Can You Make ‘Othello’ Fresh With Your Casting Choices?

  14-06-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Might [race] be erased, no longer an issue between the two men – or for the audience, who just get to watch two top-drawer actors? Or might it be highlighted, even encouraging us to see both as victims of prejudice, an Iago consumed with self-loathing?”
  
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• How Did A Tiny French Town Become The Site Of An International Film Fest?

  14-06-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One of the ways the fest accomplished this was by building loyalty among animation royalty, including screenings of the early works of Tim Burton and Pixar’s John Lasseter. That personal connection with the festival keeps filmmakers coming back even after they hit it big.”
  
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• The Real Problem With Men, Women, And ‘Goodfellas’

  14-06-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There was a smarter column to write about gender divides over different movies. Those divides surely do exist, and just as surely have something to do with cultural assumptions and education and respective experiences, and do not require reducing a movie to unpersuasive tabloidisms like ‘GoodFellas [is] Entourage with guns instead of swimming pools.'”
  
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• Stop Defending Music Education

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  “Music programs are watching administrators race by, frantically chasing test scores and ignoring music in schools. So it may seem like a natural step to go running after the testing crowd hollering, ‘Hey, I can help with that, too.’ Don’t. Just don’t.”
  
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• Why Do So Few Comedians Receive Knighthoods?

  14-06-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The idea of a mirth-maker being granted a title was preposterous. No entertainer ever received a knighthood before the actor Henry Irving in 1895.”
  
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• The Corridor / The Cure, Aldeburgh, review: Birtwistle's opera makes chilly debut

  14-06-2015 18:07
  
  The new-music community turned out in force to watch the sixty-eighth Aldeburgh Festival kick off with the premiere of Harrison Birtwistle’s scena for soprano, tenor and six instruments The Cure, in a double-bill under Martin Duncan’s direction with his earlier scena, The Corridor.
  
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• 'I'll never forget the sound of the door shutting behind me': inside South America's toughest prisons

  14-06-2015 18:00
  
  He’s had a knife held to his throat, been pelted with bags of urine – even kissed behind the bookshelves in the prison library. Photographer Valerio Bispuri on his dangerous 10-year journey through South America’s most notorious jailsUntil recently, the 90 men judged the most dangerous convicts in Argentina were held in Pavilion 5 of Mendoza prison. It was a place even the guards did not venture into, instead leaving the inmates’ meals at an agreed spot some distance from the interior. W
  
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• 'A glimpse into the depths of hell': South America's deadly jails – in pictures

  14-06-2015 18:00
  
  The Italian photographer Valerio Bispuri spent 10 years in South America photographing 74 different prisons. These vast buildings are notoriously overcrowded, violent and filthy. Bispuri expected that – what he didn’t expect were the surprising moments of tenderness and even joy that he witnessed among the prisonersEncerrados: 10 years, 74 prisons, by Valerio Bispuri, is available from Contrasto BooksContinue reading...
  
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• Art of diplomacy: how French schools abroad cope with censorship

  14-06-2015 17:57
  
  France says educational establishments in other nations must abide by their’s host’s rules – even if that means covering up paintings and biological illustrationsIt is one of the great allegorical paintings celebrating the French revolution: Liberty Leading the People, by Eugène Delacroix, shows a barefoot, bare-breasted woman – representing Marianne, the female symbol of the republic – brandishing a tricolour in one hand and a bayonetted musket in the other, leading the people
  
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• What’s New In Sculpture? Live Bees

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  “The bees that inhabit Untilled‘s hive are free to roam as they please, and visitors will find them buzzing about within a pretty wide radius of the work. (If you’re allergic, we wouldn’t recommend you get too close.)”
  
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• Is Technology Killing Collaboration In Theatre Sound Design?

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  “Any good sound designer understands that technology is making our jobs more fulfilling and manageable. But it is also making it easy for noncollaborative design to emerge. Anyone can, at this moment, find a specific piece of music, from a specific place anywhere in the world, by clicking a few buttons on multiple devices. However, […]
  
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• Nah, TV Doesn’t Have A ‘Rape Glut’ – It’s Just Keeping Things Real

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  “Numerically, the depiction of rape on television is much closer to reflecting reality than, say, death by terrorist, serial killer, rogue CIA agent or the many clever murderers that fuel our detective series.”
  
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• Bill Viola video installation heralds new national exhibition space for faith art

  14-06-2015 17:00
  
  Bespoke version of work shown at St Paul’s Cathedral in 2014 depicting martyrdom and the elements is first at St Peter’s Chapel, Auckland Castle
  Watched by saints in the largest private chapel in Europe in front of a fabulously carved 19th-century oak reredos of martyrs, four modern human figures go through their own tortures.A woman is bound by her hands and feet and buffeted in a swirling wind. A man sits serenely on a chair as he’s engulfed in flames. One is drenched in water, the other
  
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• Let’s Talk Velvet Painting (There’s More To It Than Elvis And Sad Clowns)

  14-06-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This past week, Velveteria added a new portrait of Caitlyn Jenner following her highly publicized gender transition. Baldwin likes to stay on top of the news and pop culture, frequently commissioning works from established velvet painters he has come to know in Tijuana and Juarez, Mexico.”
  
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• What It’s Like To Lead A Ballet Company In New Zealand

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  “I was still amazed at the high standard of dancers. Every company has its own strengths and atmosphere but the RNZB is very strong. The dancers are hungry to learn, they are looking for coaching, they want to be the best they can. I always tell dancers that to be good you have to put […]
  
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• Climate activists leave Tate Modern after all-night protest against BP

  14-06-2015 15:59
  
  Demonstrators spent 25 hours scrawling messages on floor of Turbine Hall in charcoal after stand-off at London art galleryClimate activists have left the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall after an unauthorised all-night performance lambasting the gallery’s sponsorship by oil firm BP.On Saturday night, arts activists from Liberate Tate faced down officials who had threatened to call the police if they did not leave when the museum closed at 10pm. Continue reading...
  
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• Carsten Höller, Decision: At his best he channels Willy Wonka, but the spectacle becomes boring

  14-06-2015 15:39
  
  I recently watched Orson Welles’ The Trial for the first time, his 1962 film adaptation of the Kafka novel. The terror on the face of Anthony Perkins as Josef K as he runs through the long corridors of the modern bureaucratic nightmare was fresh in my mind as I trudged in total darkness through Decision Corridors (2015), an installation by Carsten Höller, comprised of a series of steel corridors. It is the first work in his new exhibition, Decision, at the Hayward Gallery, London.
  
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• Putin my ride: Moscow's 'aerography' car art – in pictures

  14-06-2015 11:28
  
  Say what you will about the Russian capital, no other city has made such advanced strides in airbrushing elaborate and frequently copy-infringing imagery on to its car bonnets Continue reading...
  
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• Baby Olga

  14-06-2015 10:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Baby Olga took a gulp of air before letting out another scream. It was a wintry morning and the window was wide open. Cool, crispy air rushed into her lung like that fizzy drink she was fed one afternoon, which was exciting at first but later kept her up all night gagging, insofar as she ... Continue ReadingThe post Baby Olga appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Carsten Höller: Decision; Duane Hanson – review

  14-06-2015 09:00
  
  Hayward Gallery; Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London
  Despite his famous spiralling slides, Carsten Höller offers little to jolt the heart or mind. And Duane Hanson’s large-as-life American figures don’t quite blend in…The art slides are up and running, delivering human beings down Perspex tubes like products in some vast industrial process. You can see them miles away, corkscrewing down the exterior of the Hayward Gallery. Whatever else they may be – harmless fun or heavy theory – the
  
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• Katrín Sigurdardóttir: ‘Human life is a transformation of scale. We go from being small to big’

  14-06-2015 09:00
  
  The Icelandic sculptor on her installation Supra Terram, a graceful shelter that occupies two levels at London’s Parasol Unit galleryKatrín Sigurdardóttir is an Icelandic sculptor who was born in Reykjavik in 1967 but has spent much of her adult life in New York. She represented Iceland in 2013 at the 55th Venice Biennale. Sigurdardóttir intends her work to speak for itself and resists any idea that it might be speaking about or for her. In London’s beautiful Parasol Uni
  
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• Garage Museum Opens in Moscow

  14-06-2015 01:49 via artnews.com
  The moment has finally arrived. The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, the brainchild of Dasha Zhukova, has opened its new building in Moscow, just three years after it was commissioned from architect Rem Koolhaas. It is the first contemporary art museum to … Read More
  
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• Encyclopaedia of Flower II: Makoto Azuma delights the art world with his floral installations

  14-06-2015 01:00
  
  At 17, Makoto Azuma moved to Tokyo from his home city of Fukuoka to fulfil his ambition of becoming a musician. In order to support himself, Azuma took a part-time job as a trader at a flower market – and his enthusiasm for blooms soon overtook his original passion.
  
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