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• How The Arts Makes Better Healthcare

  10-07-2015 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Why does a hospital need a writer-in-residence? According to professors at HMS, studies show that engaging in artistic expression can help healthcare providers reduce burnout and foster empathy, and enhance their ability to communicate and connect with patients.”
  
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• Shepard Fairey: force of urban regeneration or malicious vandal?

  10-07-2015 23:08
  
  Accused of causing $9,000 of damage in Detroit, Obama’s favourite street artist highlights the deeply ambivalent attitude authorities still have toward urban artWorld-renowned street artist Shepard Fairey was arrested at Los Angeles airport on Monday for crimes in Detroit as he returned to the US from a European spraycation.He is accused of causing approximately $9,000 in damages during a visit to Detroit in May, where it is alleged he vandalized up to 14 different buildings and walls, includi
  
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• As Radio Shuts Down In Many Countries, BBC World Service Powers Up

  10-07-2015 22:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The most striking thing in the report, which tracked listening habits and how they had changed over the past year, was how short-wave radio – in rural and poorer areas where there is no FM, no cable and no electricity, it’s still the only way of tuning in – is under increasing threat from something […]
  
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• Cincinnati Piano Competition Fires AD Awadagin Pratt

  10-07-2015 22:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Awadagin Pratt has been relieved of his position of artistic director of the Cincinnati World Piano Competition. The leadership shakeup also includes three board members – including the chairman – who have resigned.”
  
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• Stressed UK Libraries Are Increasingly Being Run By Volunteers

  10-07-2015 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Between March 2010 and March 2014: 337 libraries have closed in the UK – a fall from 4,482 to 4,145. The number of volunteers has increased 100% – from 17,550 to 35,818.The number of full-time staff has decreased by 22% – from 24,746 to 19,308. The number of books lent has fallen by 20% – […]
  
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• UK Libraries Exist Now Because Of Volunteers

  10-07-2015 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There are twice as many voluntary staff manning the UK’s 4,000 libraries than professional workers. However it has been said that this community-led model is not sustainable.”
  
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• Online Art Criticism Isn’t Working. So What Should Replace It?

  10-07-2015 21:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In an economy where content is king, where digital marketplaces like Amazon promote writing (especially user-generated criticism, that holy grail of free content that instils value in a product without the company needing to pay or take responsibility for it), the role of criticism—to respond to the work—also includes responding to its marketplace and the […]
  
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• ‘What You See Is What You See’: Donald Judd and Frank Stella on the End of Painting, in 1966

  10-07-2015 21:03 via artnews.com
  Frank Stella and Donald Judd are both having moments right now. There’s an exhibition of Stella’s paintings and drawings at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, in Basel, and next year, Stella will have a retrospective that will travel from the Museum of … Read More
  
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• ‘What You See Is What You See': Donald Judd and Frank Stella on the End of Painting, in 1966

  10-07-2015 21:03 via artnews.com
  Frank Stella and Donald Judd are both having moments right now. There’s an exhibition of Stella’s paintings and drawings at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, in Basel, and next year, Stella will have a retrospective that will travel from the Museum of … Read More
  
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• ‘Eugene Savage: The Matson Murals’ at Honolulu Museum of Art

  10-07-2015 20:56 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Eugene Savage: The Matson Murals” is currently on view at The Honolulu Museum of Art and features a selection of the murals that Eugene Savage was commissioned in 1938 … Read More
  
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• Mark Rylance: Subsidized UK Theatres (The National and Royal Shakespeare) Are Charging Too Much For Tickets

  10-07-2015 20:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  You can’t have the RSC and the National receiving millions of pounds of money without a lower price, in my feeling. A lower price should be part of it.” Adding that tickets for the two subsidised theatre companies cost “way too much”, he continued: “I think it absolutely has to be accessible, this stuff. And […]
  
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• Are Our Ticket Prices Too High? National Theatre And Royal Shakespeare Companies Respond

  10-07-2015 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In its response to Mark Rylance’s comments, the National said it was “committed to sharing our work with as many people as possible. We agree with Mark that affordable ticket pricing plays an important role in that, and use our public funding to help achieve that accessibility.” Tickets to its main house shows, its spokesperson […]
  
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• Harper Lee’s “Watchman” Is… Disappointing. Should It Have Been Published?

  10-07-2015 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What immediately strikes you reading this first chapter is its utterly conventional voice, its lack of spark and intimacy. There are glimpses of the sharp, knowing phrases that characterise Mockingbird, but much of the prose of Watchman, not to put too fine a point on it, is pedestrian to the point of clunking.”
  
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• Harper Lee’s “Watchman”: Biggest Pre-Order Interest Since Harry Potter

  10-07-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The novel, which is currently the number one best-seller on Amazon.com, is due to be published on 14 July. Amazon did not give any figures for pre-orders, but publisher HarperCollins said it had ordered an initial US print run of two million.”
  
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• Editor’s Letter: ARTnews Summer 2015, Original Cover by Will Cotton

  10-07-2015 19:30 via artnews.com
  On visiting Will Cotton’s studio in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood, you can never predict what you’ll find. This is, after all, the artist who painted Katy Perry floating on a cotton-candy cloud. When I stopped by earlier this spring, he was … Read More
  
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• Editor’s Letter: ARTnews Summer 2015

  10-07-2015 19:30 via artnews.com
  On visiting Will Cotton’s studio in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood, you can never predict what you’ll find. This is, after all, the artist who painted Katy Perry floating on a cotton-candy cloud. When I stopped by earlier this spring, he was … Read More
  
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• Amazon’s New Algorithm Appears To Be Blocking Reviews By The Most Dedicated Fans

  10-07-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The online retailer appears to have tightened up its review policy to weed out people boosting their mates’ books with glowing notices, but whatever algorithms they’re using to work this out seem also to be catching anyone who engages with their favourite writers on social media.”
  
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• Actor Omar Sharif, 83

  10-07-2015 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sharif died of a heart attack in a Cairo hospital, his longtime agent, London-based Steve Kenis, and the head of Egypt’s Theatrical Arts Guild, Ashraf Zaki, told The Associated Press. The actor had been suffering from Alzheimer’s.”
  
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• Noticed You’re Not Getting As Much Spam Lately? Google’s New Neural Networks “Teach” Themselves To Filter

  10-07-2015 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Roughly speaking, these neural networks are vast collections of machines that mimic the networks of neurons in the brain. At Google, Jeff Dean and a core group of other AI engineers oversee these networks and provide software libraries that allow other Google teams, including the Gmail team, to use them.”
  
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• English National Opera Artistic Director John Berry Steps Down After Tumultuous Year

  10-07-2015 17:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “His departure comes after a difficult year for the increasingly beleaguered ENO. A 29% cut to its public funding was announced in July 2014. In January this year, the company’s chairman, Martyn Rose, stood down after writing, in a subsequently leaked letter, that the artistic director was part of the problem not the solution. Weeks […]
  
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• John Berry’s Turbulent Time At English National Opera: Combative But Imaginative

  10-07-2015 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Those who squarely blame him for the company’s current organisational meltdown will be heartily glad to see him go when he quits his post at the end of next week, but there is no doubt that he has shown bravado and imagination in his programming and pulled off some tremendous coups.”
  
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• Introducing Adjunct Commuter Weekly, the Magazine for Adjuncts On The Go

  10-07-2015 17:05 via artnews.com
  Dushko Petrovich, a founding editor of n+1’s erratically released art journal Paper Monument, has a new publishing venture called Adjunct Commuter Weekly. He announced the publication’s existence in a video on a Kickstarter page to help raise funds to cover … Read More
  
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• Is Our Publishing System Narrowing Our Literary Culture?

  10-07-2015 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We are losing stories in the UK. We are narrowing our literary culture. We have a publishing industry which continues to perpetuate its failure to reflect the extraordinary spectrum of communities in this country and so we are losing that potential vitality, social exploration and innovation in the books we publish. Unless we tackle this […]
  
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• Beyoncé the building and Bieber in the buff – the week in art

  10-07-2015 16:56
  
  Queen Bey’s body inspires a skyscraper, while Justin Bieber’s nude Instagram shots would make Michelangelo proud. Plus the best of Arles photography festival and the ‘Frankenstein’ Nefertiti – in your weekly dispatchMarc Quinn
  New works from the blood-head man. Outrageous sculptor of modern life or kitsch commissioner of bad carvings? Let’s see.White Cube Bermondsey, London from 15 July until 13 September. Continue reading...
  
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• Creating happy: the arts organisation coming to your high street

  10-07-2015 16:54
  
  From sculpture to painting and performance poetry, John Hegley is working with touring art specialists Mental Spaghetti to see if art can help our mental health“Think of someone special,” says John Hegley. “Think of other people, what they mean to you, what you mean to them, how you interrelate with them.” He pauses. “That sounds serious; it will probably be more stupid than that.”Hegley is sitting in a garden in north London, explaining the nature of a mental health arts workshop �
  
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• MoMA and the Schaulager Announce Bruce Nauman Retrospective for 2018

  10-07-2015 16:34 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Modern Art and the Schaulager announced today that they are planning a Bruce Nauman retrospective for 2018. The show will be Nauman’s first retrospective since 1993, when the Reina Sofia held one that traveled to America and … Read More
  
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• Paris hosts first ever retrospective of art from Democratic Republic of the Congo

  10-07-2015 16:24
  
  With more eyes than ever on African art world, expansive Beauté Congo show at Fondation Cartier showcases vibrant, political works from Popular movementThere is a tradition in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, that artists hang their paintings on the outsides of their studios, for the whole world walking by to look at. Some paintings reflect the very streets where they hang – bars filled with music and dancing, streets overcrowded with rusting cars and elegant sap
  
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• Morning Links: Sherlock Holmes of the Art World Edition

  10-07-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  Shepard Fairey was finally arrested in L.A. [The Detroit News]A third of the collectors on our 2015 Top 200 list have opened museums, The Art Newspaper finds. [The Art Newspaper]The Bowes Museum in northeast England will host the UK’s first-ever … Read More
  
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• David Blandy, Robert Therrien, Jenny Holzer: this week’s new exhibitions

  10-07-2015 14:00
  
  David Blandy | Robert Therrien | Jenny Holzer | Hannah Collins | Henri-Gaudier Brzeska | Reality | Jennet ThomasDavid Blandy appears to be casting off his mantle as the art world’s premiere disciple of geek pastimes. In the last decade, his love of manga, kung-fu movies, computer games and hip-hop has lead to pop-savvy work exploring global fandom and cultural colonialism, in which the skinny, bespectacled boy often cut a deliberately incongruous figure. His new video installation exploring Lo
  
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• Lakmé, Opera Holland Park, review: About as authentically Indian as a tikka masala but perfectly cooked nevertheless

  10-07-2015 13:31
  
  Billy Connolly famously defined an intellectual as “someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger”. It’s a joke reincarnated for a new generation with the Flower Duet from Delibes’s Lakmé, now so insistently and indelibly associated with British Airways.
  
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• How we made the Paper iPad app | App story

  10-07-2015 13:05
  
  This app enables users to sketch, write, draw and visualise ideas on their iPad and has been downloaded more than 14m timesMore app storiesHere at FiftyThree we share a core belief that human beings are essentially creative. The trouble is, by the time people graduate, get a job and take on other responsibilities, they often believe they’re not creative. To me the phrase “I’m not creative” needs to be eradicated. As a species we’ve evolved with intelligent brains and dexterous hands, p
  
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• Doris Salcedo review – an artist in mourning for the disappeared

  10-07-2015 13:00
  
  The Colombian artist redeploys domestic objects into abstract and harrowing memorials for the victims of violence – but her work is becoming less subtleMore than one historical civilization had a class of official mourners: community members, often women, who wept at funerals, grieved for the dead, even delivered eulogies. Is Doris Salcedo our civilization’s official mourner? The Colombian artist, best known for her cement-choked furniture, has spent decades researching some of the worst cri
  
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• Greek Museums Forced To Close As Funding Runs Out

  10-07-2015 10:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Major public cultural institutions in Greece are on the point of collapse, say leading Greek art professionals, as concerns mount that the country faces insolvency after 61% of the population rejected bailout proposals earlier this week made by international creditors.”
  
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• Read The First Chapter Of Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set A Watchman’

  10-07-2015 10:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Or listen to Reese Witherspoon reading it.
  
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• The Science Fiction Novel That Changed The World: ‘Dune’ At 50

  10-07-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Though [it] won the Nebula and Hugo awards, the two most prestigious science fiction prizes, it was not an overnight commercial success. … Fifty years later it is considered by many to be the greatest novel in the SF canon, and has sold in millions around the world.”
  
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• Figure Skating On Wheels – At Championship Level

  10-07-2015 09:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a land where winter sports rule, Kailah Macri’s double axels – on roller skates – haven’t exactly made her a household name.” (includes video)
  
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• Patti LuPone Confiscates Audience Member’s Cell Phone Mid-Performance

  10-07-2015 09:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  See? It’s not just music critics doing it. “It’s a lesson that audiences have yet to learn. … Patti LuPone will not tolerate your foolery in a Broadway theatre. Or off-Broadway. Or in a Las Vegas concert hall.”
  
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• ‘I Don’t Know What To Do Anymore. I Was Hired As An Actor, Not A Policeman Of The Audience': Patti LuPone Talks About Snatching That Phone

  10-07-2015 09:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We could see her text. She was so uninterested. She showed her husband what she was texting. … When we went out for the second act I was very close to her, and she was still texting. I watched her and thought, ‘What am I going to do?'”
  
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• Meet The Guy Who Tried To Charge His Phone On A Broadway Stage Set

  10-07-2015 09:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He said the incident was not a dare. It was not intended as a joke. His iPhone 6 was just low on juice. Why did he do it? What was the emergency? ‘Girls were calling all day. What would you do?'”
  
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• Man Booker International And Independent Foreign Fiction Prizes Merge To Create Super-Award

  10-07-2015 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Instead of being biennial, it will be annual. And instead of rewarding a body of work, it will be awarded on the basis of a single book translated into English and published in the UK. Novels and short story collections will be eligible. The prize money will also be increased with a top prize of […]
  
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• How the British Council are helping artists in the Middle East

  10-07-2015 09:00
  
  The British council has been operating in the Middle East for more than 70 years. Indeed one of my favourite anecdotes is how, during the Suez Crisis, despite the Brits naturally being personae non gratae, we were able to continue language classes under the aegis of the Egyptian authorities – as well as a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
  
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• Why Do We Need To Spend So Much Time Valuable Sleeping, Anyway?

  10-07-2015 08:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Not so long ago, even a leading sleep scientist could joke that the only known function of sleep was to cure sleepiness. Over the past decade, researchers have been pinpointing the important purposes sleep serves – and the bad things that happen when you don’t get enough of it.
  
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• We’re The Walking Dead: Most Of Us Are Sleep-Deprived Much Of The Time

  10-07-2015 08:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Think you’re okay on five or six hours a night? Don’t be so sure. Not only does lack of sufficient sleep impair us cognitively, but we’re also bad at telling when we’re impaired.
  
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• The Michelangelo next door: David statue in front yard divides suburb

  10-07-2015 08:00
  
  ‘Vulgar’ four-metre concrete copy of 16th century sculpture in front yard of private home in Melbourne draws complaints – and some encouragementIt’s one of the most famous artworks in the world: Michelangelo’s sublime 16th century sculpture, David. And now the western suburbs of Melbourne has its own, slightly less accomplished, tribute.A four-metre, concrete copy of the famous artwork has been erected in the front yard of a private home in Caroline Springs, Melbourne, and over the pas
  
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• Creative Freedom And State Control At Moscow’s Film Festival

  10-07-2015 07:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Says Russia’s culture minister, “Let all flowers bloom, but we will only water those we like, or those we consider necessary. … State support for culture won’t be going to projects which portray Russia in a negative light.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.09.15

  10-07-2015 05:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Fun And Games In Art Museums AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-07-09 Organization Spotlight: Springboard for the Arts AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-07-09 Values: A Part of the Everyday AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-07-09 Core Values & Cupcakes AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-07-09 Marginal Thinking & Our Personal Boundaries AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-07-09 Eddie […]
  
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