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• Gary Carrion-Murayari, Alex Gartenfeld Will Organize 2018 New Museum Triennial

  09-07-2015 23:45 via artnews.com
  The 2018 New Museum triennial will be organized by Gary Carrion-Murayari, who is a curator at the museum, and Alex Gartenfeld, the deputy director and chief curator of the Institute for Contemporary Art in Miami, the New York Times reported … Read More
  
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• Study Says Music Relieves Stress. But Let’s Hear It For Stressful Music!

  09-07-2015 21:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The RCM’s research is important in backing up the hunch that many of us will have always had about how music can make you feel better in some circumstances. But that’s not the main reason it matters, and it shouldn’t become a central plank of the ongoing arguments around its cultural importance and value.”
  
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• So What Does It Cost To Stage A Music Festival?

  09-07-2015 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The economics of festivals are finely poised. These events wobble on a knife-edge between glorious success and ignominious bankruptcy, and looking at where the money goes is a sobering undertaking.”
  
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• Habitat: Kadar Brock

  09-07-2015 20:11 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Kadar Brock, East Williamsburg, New York. “My daily schedule is Monday-Friday, 10-6,” Kadar Brock said while scraping dried paint off of a work. “But Monday and Fridays my BFFs are … Read More
  
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• When it comes to nudity, Facebook is little different than Victorian England

  09-07-2015 19:54
  
  Facebook is making a distinct choice: rather than enable freedom of expression as the company often claims to do, it imposes cultural conservatism, eroding our freedom in the very spaces we perceive to be and treat as our commonsWhen Frédéric Durand-Baïssas shared Gustave Courbet’s The Origin of the World on Facebook, he probably didn’t expect that the painting – a close-up view of a nude woman’s genitals and abdomen – would trigger the platform’s censors. The Fren
  
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• Testino’s portrait of William and Kate is a sickly sweet lie | Jonathan Jones

  09-07-2015 19:39
  
  This is fake PR nonsense – impossibly perfect people with impossibly perfect children. We – and the royals – deserve better Related: Princess Charlotte by Mario Testino – christening photographs released No one can photograph a fake smile like Mario Testino can. I am not saying the huge cheesy grins on the faces of Kate and William in his christening portrait of the royal nuclear family are fake. After all, they have plenty to smile about – the free houses, the free money, the free adu
  
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• Book Subscription Services Have A Problem: People Who Read Too Much

  09-07-2015 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Many hands have been wrung over the decline of the American book lover. According to a Gallup poll, the number of non-book-readers has nearly tripled since 1978. And according to the Pew Research Center, nearly a quarter of American adults have not read a single book in the past year. But the challenge for e-book […]
  
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• 1,000 Miles From Normal: The Hairy Who Artists on Their Comic Books and Their Countercultural Energy

  09-07-2015 18:20 via artnews.com
  Five of the six members talk art, history at Matthew Marks Read More
  
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• ‘Road to Ruin’ at Cooper Cole, Toronto

  09-07-2015 17:31 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Road to Ruin” is now on view at Cooper Cole in Toronto. The group exhibition, named after a Ramones album, features work from 12 artists in the gallery’s new … Read More
  
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• Jacob’s Pillow Director Leaves For New-Created Position At Mellon Foundation

  09-07-2015 17:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ella Baff has been at Jacob’s Pillow, which is home to America’s longest-running dance festival, for 17 years. In a statement, Mark Leavitt, the board chairman at Jacob’s Pillow, wished Baff well. “The Mellon Foundation is an important institution that has been a longtime supporter of the arts and some of the Pillow’s most successful […]
  
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• The Essential Ingredient For A Successful Lit Magazine

  09-07-2015 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You can use several different measuring sticks to say whether a litmag “succeeds”: longevity, financial stability, influence on new writers, number of readers, number of imitators launching journals very much like your own. But all these kinds of success come down to whether your journal brings something new to its scene.”
  
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• Detours: Josef Astor on the Fetishism, Bodies, and Androgyny of Stux + Haller Gallery’s ‘Viewer Discretion…’

  09-07-2015 16:30 via artnews.com
  Detours is an ongoing series in which a New York–based artist gives us a tour of a show of their choosing. In honor of his show of non-commercial photography at PARTICIPANT INC, Josef Astor visits Stux + Haller Gallery’s group … Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s Will Auction ‘Krebs Cycle’ Nobel Medal

  09-07-2015 16:27 via artnews.com
  On July 14, Sotheby’s in London will auction a Nobel Prize medal awarded to Hans Krebs in 1953 for the discovery of the Citric Acid Cycle, otherwise known as the Krebs Cycle, or the Bane of AP Chemistry Students everywhere. … Read More
  
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• Why Do Movies About Musicians Focus So Little Attention On The Music?

  09-07-2015 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Music-focused cinema could provide something radical: a close view of the processes of composing and performing that reveals the work behind what seems, to listeners, like magic. Instead, like almost any other kind of cinema, it tends to focus on human relationships: on the interpersonal, not the inner personal.”
  
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• We Were Concerned For The Wellbeing Of Kids Who Listened To Heavy Metal. Should We Have Been?

  09-07-2015 15:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “So now that three decades have passed since this alleged attempt by Satan to infiltrate young brains via eardrum-shattering sounds, how are those headbangers doing? Did their punishingly loud and intense music send them spiraling into lives of despair?”
  
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• How Much Does Your Family’s Wealth Influence What You Study In College?

  09-07-2015 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With average earnings for different types of degrees as well-publicized as they are—the difference in lifetime earnings among majors can be more than $3 million, one widely covered study found—it’s not hard to imagine a student deciding his or her academic path based on its expected payout. And it’s especially not hard to imagine poorer […]
  
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• Hothouse Architecture – A Group Of Canada’s Top Architects Got Together In A Room And…

  09-07-2015 15:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Take a crowd of Canada’s top architects, put them in a room and ask them to design a dense city neighbourhood – working with a 1,000-page book of rules and requirements. This was how the Canary District in Toronto, which will be the athletes’ village for the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games this summer, was created.”
  
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• Morning Links: Destroyed Jimmie Durham Tree Edition

  09-07-2015 14:56 via artnews.com
  In Kassel, Germany, works by Jimmie Durham and Heini Gut were destroyed by vandals. [artnet News]Kansas moves from Tribeca to the Lower East Side. Commence the “Dorothy, we’re no longer in Tribeca” jokes. [The Observer]Beverly Buchanan, the artist known for … Read More
  
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• Want Better Doctors? Cultivate Their Artistic Side

  09-07-2015 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The literary and visual arts,” they write, “have long-standing and venerable roles in fortifying the lessons of clinical empathy, communication skills, critical thinking, and attention”—crucial qualities that can easily get overlooked in an era of assembly line office visits, where a doctor’s attention is often more focused on lab-test data than actual communion with the […]
  
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• Ai Weiwei allowed to exhibit in China again after de facto ban apparently relaxed

  09-07-2015 14:28
  
  China appears to have revoked its de facto ban on exhibiting work by dissident artist Ai Weiwei for the first time since his arrest in 2011.
  
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• Henry Moore's 'Old Flo' could return to London as High Court rules Tower Hamlets owns it - but new mayor won't sell

  09-07-2015 14:26
  
  Victory at last? East London will hang onto Henry Moore’s Draped Seated Woman sculpture, better known as “Old Flo”, after an arguably filibustering battle over its ownership resulted in the shelving of plans for it to be sold to plug a council’s funding gap.
  
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• Why One Of New York’s Great Stage Actresses Is Giving Up On Theater

  09-07-2015 10:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Five-time Tony nominee Jan Maxwell: “The kinds of roles I was being offered were just – I’d been there and done that, and I just didn’t want to do that anymore. … I’m 58 years old, and it’s a lot of work and a lot of responsibility. It’s eight shows a week, and I’ve been […]
  
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• Flexing: The ‘Bone-Breaking’ Dance Craze That Bubbled Up From Brooklyn

  09-07-2015 09:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The reflection in the mirror shows a wiry body tightly tensed, with a tattooed chest and hair tied up in two afro bunches. He lifts his shoulder and starts to twist it almost out of its socket, muscles knobbling and bulging, until it looks like something extraterrestrial.”
  
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• Fighting Islamophobia With Subway Ads, Hugs, A Movie, And A Comedy Festival

  09-07-2015 09:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Comedy has long been used by outsiders to ease the worries of a distrustful society, and Muslim stand-up comedians in New York are no different. A coming three-day comedy festival will spotlight their perspective, but their recent efforts to counter Islamophobia through humor have had mixed results.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.08.15

  09-07-2015 09:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Return to The Competing Values Framework AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-07-08 Constructive Conflict AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-07-08 Get to Know Your Team AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-07-08 Do Your Values Actually Mean Something? AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-07-08 Three Stages AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-07-08 The “Junk Dada” of Noah Purifoy AJBlog: CultureCrash […]
  
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• Archibald prize finalists 2015: from popstars to politicians – in pictures

  09-07-2015 08:53
  Australian’s highest-profile portrait prize has announced its 47 finalists for 2015. Since 1921, the Archibald judges have rewarded the year’s best portrait of ‘some man or woman distinguished in art, letters, science or politics’. The latest subjects range from singer Daniel Johns to politician Cory Bernardi, as well as Peter Churcher’s moving last painting of his mother Betty Churcher. Here is a selection of finalists – the winner will be named at a ceremony on 17 JulyThe Archibald
  
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• Star-Is-Born Moment: Soprano Triumphs As Violetta At Covent Garden After Only Five Hours’ Notice

  09-07-2015 08:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ekaterina Bakanova was already in the house rehearsing her upcoming debut (as Musetta) and she’d been planning to attend Traviata that night anyway. Then her colleague Sonya Yoncheva became ill.
  
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• Here’s What Happened When We Asked Audiences To Set Their Own Ticket Prices

  09-07-2015 08:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Customers were asked to book tickets in advance – so we still captured their data – but they did not pay until after the show. There was no obligation to pay anything, entirely removing their financial risk. … Six months on, I’m pleased to say it has been a huge success, with some startling results.”
  
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• Italy’s Art Museums Get A Badly-Needed Shake-Up

  09-07-2015 07:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In January this year, the ministry of culture announced an international competition to find energetic new manager-directors for 20 of the country’s most important state museums … For the first time ever, foreign candidates have been invited to apply, and fluency in business management, rather than Italian, is the main requirement.”
  
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• Top 10 outdoor cinema and theatre events in the UK

  09-07-2015 07:30
  
  Fancy a fix of open-air film or theatre this summer? Across the country there are great arts events and festivals ready to serve up culture in superb, characterful settings. Here we pick 10 that will be perfect with a Pimm’s (or a brolly)Rooftop Film Club, London
  High above the streets of the capital, where the air is, admittedly, probably not any clearer, you can enjoy a summer a programme of indie cinema, ranging from cult classics to new releases. The club runs screenings at venues in Peckh
  
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• Nostalgic For The Age Of Movies Like ‘The Graduate’? Don’t Be

  09-07-2015 07:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sorry, Dustin Hoffman. “The glossy hermeticism and theatrical realism of many older, ostensibly classic movies have dated terribly and reflect the very exclusions and compromises of the system that produced them.”
  
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• Young American Actors Are ‘Relatively Asexual’ And ‘Social Media Image Conscious’, Says Michael Douglas

  09-07-2015 07:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Another aging American movie star disses his younger compatriots: “In Britain they take their training seriously while in the States we’re going through a sort of social media image conscious thing rather than formal training. … With the Aussies, particularly with the males it’s the masculinity. In the US we have this relatively asexual or […]
  
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• Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist: How A Dispossessed Tsarist Aristocrat Became The Guy Who Got The Dead-On Americana Of “Lolita”

  09-07-2015 06:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Nabokov arrived on these shores, penniless and without prospects, in 1941, at the age of forty, having only begun writing in English shortly before his flight from Europe. How could a book so thoroughly – so definingly – American have arisen … from so seemingly unlikely a source?”
  
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• Good News From Timbuktu: Islamic Landmarks Destroyed By Invading Islamists Repaired

  09-07-2015 06:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A project to restore 14 historic mausoleums destroyed in Timbuktu three years ago by hardline Islamists is due to finish at the end of July. … Extremist groups targeted the tombs of Muslim saints as well as the city’s vast libraries when rebels occupied northern Mali following a military coup in March 2012.”
  
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• Why The World Loves Southern Gothic Lit

  09-07-2015 05:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Novelist M.O. Walsh (from Louisiana): “Here’s my idea: the southern gothic is like a trusty bicycle. (Note: this is not simply because southerners talk too slowly for a car metaphor to work. It is instead a kinship in the way the two things are assembled and ornamented. Stay with me.)”
  
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• We Have Discovered The Owner Of William Carlos Williams’s Red Wheelbarrow

  09-07-2015 05:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For decades, much has depended on his red wheelbarrow, streaked with rain, next to some white chickens, even if no one has known – or perhaps even wondered – exactly who he was.” Now, at last, poetic justice can be done.
  
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• Technology Conference in Minneapolis

  09-07-2015 01:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Transform the way your museum reaches, engages, and educates using digital technologies at the 2015 MCN Conference in Minneapolis, MN from Nov. 4–7.
  
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• An American Music Week That Shows The Strengths (And Weaknesses)

  09-07-2015 01:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On one hand, times are relatively good for American composers. Gifted, young contemporary ensembles are hungry for the music of gifted, young—and not so young—American composers, and they’re playing it in concert halls, churches, and cafés all over the world. But there’s a lost generation or two or three at the heart of 20th-century American […]
  
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• Rodin sculpture stolen during $1 million Beverly Hills heist recovered in London

  09-07-2015 01:00
  
  A rare Auguste Rodin sculpture stolen nearly 25 years ago as part of a $1 million Beverly Hills art heist has been recovered after it turned up in London.
  
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• Rare Rodin sculpture stolen during $1 million Beverly Hills heist recovered in London

  09-07-2015 01:00
  
  A rare Auguste Rodin sculpture stolen nearly 25 years ago as part of a $1 million Beverly Hills art heist has been recovered after it turned up in London.
  
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