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• Is AirBnB A Threat To Urban Artist Spaces?

  03-07-2015 22:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The end result of an AirBnB’d neighborhood is not a profitable artist collective. Rather, it’s an international bedroom community of “post-tourist” upwardly mobile workers, an intermittently empty complex of condos for creatives who can parachute in, patronize local cafes, and then escape as quickly as they arrived.”
  
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• Five Things Classical Musicians Need To Do To Survive

  03-07-2015 21:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “People can always tell when they are being patronised, and the only way classical music will manage to survive is to reach wider audiences by believing in what it has to offer, and not by trying to change what it is.”
  
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• klipschutz: This Drawn & Quartered Moon – Review and Interview

  03-07-2015 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Readers of Zouch may be aware of klipschutz (aka Kurt Lipschutz) through poetry magazine Four by Two and his role as a co-writer with musician Chuck Prophet. This Drawn & Quartered Moon is klipschutz’s most recent collection, and it has a surprising amount of guzzle for a 21st century poet. According to the notoriously unreliable Wikipedia, ... Continue ReadingThe post klipschutz: This Drawn & Quartered Moon – Review and Interview appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• China’s Great Wall Endangered

  03-07-2015 17:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Citing a recent report from the Great Wall of China Society, the newspaper claims that more than 30% of the original structure has disappeared. Approximately 74.1% is poorly preserved, and only 8.2% is in good condition. While concerns about the wall’s condition have deepened in recent years, the study appears to be the first to […]
  
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• Artist sculpts every single thing he eats for a year, ends up with 8,000 objects

  03-07-2015 17:11
  
  An Israeli-Dutch artist has created a sculpture of every single item that he ate for an entire year.
  
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• Why Do We Use Four-Letter Words?

  03-07-2015 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The use of offensive, obscene or taboo language is a linguistic feature in most human cultures, from the English “f**k off” to the French merde (sh**), and from the Indian sala (brother-in-law) to the Arabic yil’an abu ommak (curse your grandfather). While people tend to think of the “four-letter words” as modern phenomena, the reality […]
  
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• Audrey Hepburn, Damien Hirst, and the return of Athena – the week in art

  03-07-2015 15:59
  The screen beauty’s blockbuster show is strangely unrevealing, as Hirst turns his hand to curating, and the poster powerhouse of kitsch is back online – in your weekly dispatchSoundscapes
  Artists and musicians including Susan Philipsz, Jamie xx and Janet Cardiff create aural responses to paintings in the National Gallery in this pioneering encounter of sound and vision.
  National Gallery, London WC2, from 8 July until 6 September. Continue reading...
  
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• What Is Lincoln Center’s Place In The Arts World?

  03-07-2015 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If a new generation of middle-class Americans chooses to move back into the inner cities, large-scale performing-arts centers might start to make fiscal and artistic sense. But even if that should happen, Lincoln Center will never again be culturally influential in the way that it was in the ’70s and ’80s.”
  
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• Raw Metal, Vulnerable Humans: Charles Ray on His Poetic Sculptures, in 1987

  03-07-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  Charles Ray is known for his eerily naturalistic sculptures of cars, plants, and humans, 19 of which are currently on view in “Charles Ray: Sculpture, 1997–2014,” at the Art Institute of Chicago. In honor of that show, we turn back … Read More
  
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• Flip: Turns Out Casting A Strong Female Movie Lead Is Good For Box Office

  03-07-2015 14:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “New mid-year figures suggest that not only do movies with women in lead roles sell well, but there might even be a link between female leads and overall attendance boosts.”
  
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• This week’s new exhibitions

  03-07-2015 14:00
  
  Pablo Bronstein And The Treasures Of Chatsworth | Thomas Hirschhorn | For Ever Amber | Patrick Staff | Joseph Cornell | Jean-Etienne Liotard | Chinese Art From The 1970s To NowDuring the 17th and 18th centuries, well-heeled young things roamed sun-drenched southern climes as a grandiose precursor to today’s Ryanair-fuelled escapades. As two of the Midlands’ cultural establishments use the Grand Tour theme to play off each other to mutual benefit, who better to stage-manage the project than t
  
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• Royal Opera House urged to axe BP sponsorship by classical music luminaries

  03-07-2015 13:41
  
  Royal Opera House has been urged to sever its ties with oil and gas giant BP after 75 composers and music academics publicly condemned the association.
  
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• How female artists are fighting back

  03-07-2015 11:30
  
  Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s portraits show black women and men set in vague surroundings or against a dark backdrop. The muted tones and settings feel historical but the figures seem to belong nowhere. They might have striking features: a pair of immaculate white sneakers, faded blue jeans, a black women with bleached bright blonde hair, yet it’s not possible to locate a specific time or place.
  
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• Top AJBlogs Posts for July 2, 2015

  03-07-2015 06:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Recent Listening: Dave Bass, Tiempo Libre Dave Bass, NYC Sessions (Whaling City Sound) In the 1970s when pianist Dave Bass thought that a broken wrist had ended his career, he dropped… … [read more] AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-07-02 Queers & Comics: Alison Bechdel Click in at 14’30”. That gets you right to the funny, smart, invariably entertaining cartoonist […]
  
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• Front of House Manager

  03-07-2015 05:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The A.R.T. at Harvard University is a leading force in the American theater, producing groundbreaking work in Cambridge and beyond.
  
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• Measuring Hispanic Audience Clout In America

  03-07-2015 05:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Hispanic market has grown from $1 trillion in buying power in 2010 to $1.5 trillion this year, according to Nielsen data. And Nielsen and Google surveys find members of that audience to be among both the heaviest viewers of TV and the earliest and most active users of new media technology.”
  
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• BBC Slashes 1000 Jobs As Britons Migrate Away From TV To The Internet

  03-07-2015 05:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some Britons have discarded their televisions — the main source of home viewing for half a century — in favour of tablets which many younger people use to watch programmes over a wireless Internet connection. The BBC’s Head of News, James Harding, last month predicted that by 2025, most people in the United Kingdom would […]
  
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• Are Too Many Movies Being Made?

  03-07-2015 04:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Let’s talk about this supposed crisis of overchoice in the film business. In the past couple of years, there have been a lot more movies released. Depending on where you live, there may be twice as many movies being released in theatres each week as there were in 2000.”
  
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• Amazon’s New Pay-Per-Page Scheme Offers Shockingly Tiny Share To Authors

  03-07-2015 04:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In other words, for an author to make $1.30 on an ebook rental, he or she would have to write at least 220 pages, and the reader would have to flip through every page. As a literary editor told The Guardian, this could hit nonfiction writers and children’s book authors particularly hard, since their books […]
  
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• Music Consumption Up 14 Percent In 2015

  03-07-2015 03:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Nielsen Music’s 2015 U.S. mid-year report, released Thursday, shows a 14% increase in music consumption over the first six months of last year. What’s driving the increase? For one thing, on-demand streaming, which nearly doubled year over year, rising 92%.”
  
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• Curtis Student Wins Top Tchaikovsky Violin Prize

  03-07-2015 02:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Yu-Chien “Benny” Tseng won the silver medal, second prize, in the Moscow competition, whose results were announced Wednesday. No gold award was given this year, which is not unusual. The Taipei-born violinist came to Curtis in 2008, and the following summer, at age 14, played Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the […]
  
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• A Contradictory Story About When (And How) Harper Lee’s Novel Was Found

  03-07-2015 01:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The discrepancy between the two accounts raises questions about whether the book was lost and accidentally recovered, and about why Ms. Lee would not have sought to publish it earlier.”
  
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• In Its Most Challenging Year, Whitworth Museum Wins £100,00 Art Fund Prize As UK Museum Of The Year

  03-07-2015 00:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Whitworth underwent the largest physical transformation in its 125-year history in 2014. The project doubled its size and connected the building with its surrounding park. During its redevelopment the Whitworth continued to offer pop-up projects all over the city, maintaining established audiences and building new ones ahead of its February reopening.”
  
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