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• Leigh Morse, Convicted in Salander Ponzi Scheme, Denied Restitution Reprieve

  17-07-2015 23:37 via artnews.com
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• One Opera Company’s Transition To Digital Engagement

  17-07-2015 22:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We’re in a culture right now of sharing your experience. It all harkens back to the first point, in 2007, when two things happened simultaneously: Apple announced its first iPhone, which literally put a computer into every person’s hands, and Facebook came out of its university setting to become public, so that you could find […]
  
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• Rethinking The BBC – What Should It Become?

  17-07-2015 22:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is a consultation that is very much about the BBC’s place in the broadcasting and media market. To what extent should the BBC, which has expanded enormously over the last 20 years, stay as it is?”
  
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• An Expressionist in Paris: John Ashbery on Joan Mitchell, in 1965

  17-07-2015 22:02 via artnews.com
  In honor of the Kunsthaus Bregenz’s Joan Mitchell retrospective, which opens tomorrow in that Austrian city, we turn back to April 1965, when John Ashbery wrote about the work the American painter was making in Paris. At that time, Ashbery, … Read More
  
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• UK Education Secretary Walks Back Comments About Arts Education

  17-07-2015 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  During an event hosted by the Creative Industries Federation, Morgan said that the speech she made in November – which drew fierce criticism from the cultural sector – was intended to encourage pupils to study science, technology, engineering and maths, rather than discourage them from the arts.
  
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• How Do You Get More Dance In Rural Areas? Here’s One Plan

  17-07-2015 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Rural Touring Dance Initiative, a three-year project, has been launched by the National Rural Touring Forum and seeks to address an under-representation of dance in rural areas. A report by Arts Council England in March found just 2% of national portfolio dance companies toured to rural regions in 2012 and 2013.”
  
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• How A Great Editor Can Have A Profound Impact On A Great Author’s Work

  17-07-2015 21:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Contrary to the myth that authors work best in lonely isolation, the truth is that editors or close advisers have often quietly shaped great books. The 20th century brought the rise of the professional, interventionist editor.
  
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• Dia Art Foundation Announces New York’s First Major Robert Ryman Show in Over 20 Years

  17-07-2015 21:16 via artnews.com
  The Dia Art Foundation announced today that it will hold a major Robert Ryman show this year at its Chelsea building. Opening December 9 and titled “Robert Ryman: Real Light, 1958–2007,” the show will survey six decades of painting by Ryman. … Read More
  
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• Dia Art Foundation Announces New York’s First Major Robert Ryman Show in More Than 20 Years

  17-07-2015 21:16 via artnews.com
  The Dia Art Foundation announced today that it will hold a major Robert Ryman show this year at its Chelsea building. Opening December 9 and titled “Robert Ryman: Real Light, 1958–2007,” the show will survey six decades of painting by Ryman. … Read More
  
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• New Initiative To Bring Diversity To Orchestras

  17-07-2015 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A new initiative will establish a groundbreaking fellowship program aimed at providing opportunities for under-served musicians at the graduate level. The intent is to help prepare them for the exceedingly competitive world of professional orchestras. The pilot program will start in the fall of 2016. It is the first program of its kind and could […]
  
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• Salzburg Festival Makes Big Cuts In Budget, Performances

  17-07-2015 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After an eight-percent budget cut down to 60 million euros ($65.2 million, £41.8 million), the 95th edition will feature only 188 performances compared with 270 last year.
  
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• Wow – Did The Emmys Suddenly Become Relevant Again?

  17-07-2015 20:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The full list of Emmy nominations is very long. As always, the snubs are bizarre – what about HBO’s The Leftovers? But what’s truly bizarre is that the list looks almost up-to-date with the vast amount of great TV, and legitimate.”
  
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• Aroused and Inspired: Collier Schorr, Carlos Motta, and Nayland Blake Talk Tom of Finland

  17-07-2015 20:14 via artnews.com
  “I didn’t know that Artists Space had a private sex room that also functions as an auditorium,” the writer and curator Bob Nickas observed last night, speaking in the basement of the alternative space’s Walker Street bookstore.“If this was a … Read More
  
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• Aroused and Inspired: Collier Schorr, Carlos Motta, and Nayland Blake Discuss Tom of Finland’s Legacy

  17-07-2015 20:14 via artnews.com
  “I didn’t know that Artists Space had a private sex room that also functions as an auditorium,” the writer and curator Bob Nickas observed last night, speaking in the basement of the alternative space’s Walker Street bookstore.“If this was a … Read More
  
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• Future, the Rapper, Had a Wild Painting Performance at His Record Release Party

  17-07-2015 18:56 via artnews.com
  There are many way to celebrate the release of your new album. You could, say, host a blowout party in a TriBeCa warehouse space with Hennessy–sponsored cocktails. Or you could debut the new record from behind a club’s DJ booth, … Read More
  
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• ‘Like Feeling Lust for the First Time’: Colby College Presents the Young Alex Katz

  17-07-2015 17:59 via artnews.com
  “Brand-New and Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s,” a splendid survey show comprised of paintings, collages, and cutouts that opened this past weekend at the Colby College Museum of Art, in Waterville, Maine, could not be more aptly titled. Sixty-some … Read More
  
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• Think You Can Train Your Brain Into A Better Memory? (Then Read This)

  17-07-2015 17:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One writer tries all of the new tricks and tips and advice on how to improve her memory. Did she get better? Of course. But not necessarily at remembering things.
  
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• ‘The Boys the Girls and the Political’ at Lisson Gallery

  17-07-2015 16:58 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “The Boys the girls and the political” is currently on view at Lisson Gallery in London until September 5. The group exhibition features work from ten international artists … Read More
  
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• How This Year’s Emmy Nominations Reflect (Or Don’t) The New TV Landscape

  17-07-2015 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s a curious situation—though the Emmys should be commended for acknowledging the wide landscape of quality TV available online, the awards seem to have lost interest in the kind of primetime network dramas that would have been mainstays in the 1980s and ’90s.”
  
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• Alice Anderson at the Wellcome Collection review – a weird, wired world

  17-07-2015 16:09
  
  Wellcome Collection, London
  From old TVs to obsolete telephones and even a staircase, Alice Anderson mummifies things in copper wire. It may sound banal – but it’s an art that gets some very curious and uncanny results
  Their funeral wrappings glisten fierily in the spotlights that pick them out in a theatrically darkened space. All our yesterdays are here, the things we use and throw away, lost and found in spidery cocoons. Alice Anderson wraps things in copper wire. It is a banal descriptio
  
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• Minion madness and bank robberies – the week in art

  17-07-2015 15:39
  
  The daft yellow henchmen get their own Pantone colour, as Joe Gibbons gets a year in prison for robbing banks as performance art. Plus a Kickstarter for Ai Weiwei and the man who photographed only his wife – in your weekly dispatchOut of Chaos
  This exhibition, which celebrates 100 years of the Ben Uri art collection, surveys the story of Jewish émigré art in Britain since 1915.
  • Somerset House, London, until 13 December. Continue reading...
  
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• Musicians Are Asking The Wrong Questions About Streaming

  17-07-2015 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Like unmetered water, an all-you-can-eat buffet, or an unlimited cellphone contract, the new streaming music services create a different set of incentives for both customers and suppliers. To apply these changes to a mature ownership-based market, we have to forget a lot of things we didn’t even realize we had learned. The question we have […]
  
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• Morning Links: Germoney Edition

  17-07-2015 14:39 via artnews.com
  The German Pavilion artists have hung a Greek flag over their Venice Biennale pavilion’s entrance. Written across the flag, in large red letters, is the word “Germoney.” [Artforum]Rachel Howard, one of Damien Hirst’s assistants, steps into the limelight for a … Read More
  
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• Ishbel Myerscough, painter: 'Mum said why don't you use the upstairs. It is about the work, not where you are'

  17-07-2015 14:30
  
  Ishbel Myerscough has moved her studio back into her family house in Holloway, north London, where she grew up as the youngest of three daughters. Her father studied around the corner at the local school where her three children now go.
  
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• The Freedom Principle review – an astounding fusion of jazz and art

  17-07-2015 14:00
  
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
  Music can wither in galleries, but this astonishing show demonstrates the cultural and political importance of jazz in dazzling and inspiring styleContemporary art has grown omnivorous. These days, in your local white cube, you are as likely to see a dance or an experimental film as a painting. But music, somehow, remains a challenge for arts institutions: too abstract, too personal, too hard to present in three-dimensional space. The calamitous Björk ret
  
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• Michael Brown death installation: Victim's father brands artwork 'disgusting'

  17-07-2015 13:48
  
  An exhibition featuring a life-size installation of Michael Brown’s corpse as it was found after he was shot dead by a police officer in Ferguson has been criticised by activists.
  
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• Rachel Howard: Damien Hirst's first and best assistant steps out of the shadows

  17-07-2015 13:33
  
  She was Hirst’s first spot painter, and today she’s one of the best British artists you haven’t heard of. As her first solo show opens, Howard talks about becoming a sheep farmer, being unashamedly emotional – and how a car crash made her break her silenceIn the 1990s, she was Damien Hirst’s first assistant and his best spot painter. Today she juggles a life as a sheep farmer, mother of four and, because she declines interviews, as arguably one of the best British artists most people h
  
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• Archibald prize 2015 review –

  17-07-2015 11:16
  
  Nigel Milsom’s portrait of Charles Waterstreet is easily the most commanding picture in the Archibald, while Natasha Bieniek’s Biophilia is a Wynne gem and Jason Phu’s Sulman-winning ink and paper work is both gentle and funny• Archibald finalists: from popstars to politicians – in pictures
  There are always upsets and curveballs in the Archibald prize. Most of the time, the art world debate concerns itself with the perennial questions of deserving winners or overlooked finalists or cru
  
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• Archibald prize 2015 review – three worthy winners from an eclectic mix

  17-07-2015 11:16
  
  Nigel Milsom’s portrait of Charles Waterstreet is easily the most commanding picture in the Archibald, while Natasha Bieniek’s Biophilia is a Wynne gem and Jason Phu’s Sulman-winning ink and paper work is both gentle and funny• Archibald finalists: from popstars to politicians – in pictures
  There are always upsets and curveballs in the Archibald prize. Most of the time, the art world debate concerns itself with the perennial questions of deserving winners or overlooked finalists or cru
  
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• Former armed robber Nigel Milsom wins Archibald prize with portrait of his lawyer

  17-07-2015 11:15
  
  The Newcastle-based artist wins $100,000 art prize for his painting of Charles Waterstreet, the inspiration behind hit ABC legal series, Rake • Read the review of this year’s finalists and winners• Archibald finalists 2015: from popstars to politicians – in picturesWhat goes around comes around – in the art world as in the law.In 2012, Australian criminal barrister Charles Waterstreet, the co-creator and inspiration behind the the hit ABC legal series Rake, represented Nigel Milsom dur
  
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• Venice Mayor Bans Children’s Books With Same-Sex Families; Italian Authors Say ‘Then Ban Us, Too’

  17-07-2015 10:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Luigi Brugnano said, “At home parents can be called Dad One and Dad Two, but I have to think about the majority of families where there is a mother and a father.” 263 writers responded, “Kindly ban our books as well. We don’t want to stay in a city where the books of others are […]
  
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• David Hockney, Back In L.A.

  17-07-2015 10:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It used to be you couldn’t be gay. Now you can be gay but you can’t smoke. There’s always something.”
  
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• What Marcelo Gomes Fears About Choreographing

  17-07-2015 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When you’re choreographing you have to be able to try things out, and to fail, and the fear is always that I’m putting my reputation as a dancer at risk. But now that I’ve started, I can’t hold myself back.”
  
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• Emmy Nominations Open Up – And Neglect The Networks

  17-07-2015 10:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With a handful of rule changes and a general sense of acceptance that Internet-based TV isn’t going anywhere, Thursday’s announced nominees included acclaimed niche shows like Amazon’s Transparent and Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, while creaky ratings-winners like The Big Bang Theory fell off the map. This year’s Emmy nominees embraced progress by recognizing TV’s ever-growing […]
  
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• British Museum May Loan £1 Billion Worth Of Antiquities To Abu Dhabi

  17-07-2015 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Around 500 objects have been sel ected for loan (a small number will be on short-term loan) to the Zayed National Museum, which is expected to open in 2016 or 2017. … The most valuable item earmarked is an Assyrian relief from Nimrud, the Banquet Scene (645–635BC), which was revalued last year at £100m.”
  
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• Added By Popular Demand! Santa Fe Schedules Extra Performance Of Jennifer Higdon’s New Opera

  17-07-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cold Mountain doesn’t open for another two weeks, and four of the originally planned five performances are already sold out.
  
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• Hermitage Museum to Open a Contemporary Outpost in Moscow

  17-07-2015 09:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 140,000-square-foot, 15-story Hermitage satellite, with a shrink-wrapped digital skin enclosing a porous, terraced interior, will be part of a mixed-use district developed on the grounds of the former ZiL auto plant, which manufactured limousines for Soviet leaders.”
  
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• The Most Parodied Poem In America Becomes A Twitter Meme

  17-07-2015 09:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “William Carlos Williams: brilliant modernist, producer of snackable content, Twitter visionary before his time. Gah. Forgive me.”
  
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• The Classical Audience Isn’t Dying Off, It’s Just Changing, Says Richard Wagner’s (Other) Great-Granddaughter

  17-07-2015 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nike Wagner, director of Bonn’s Beethovenfest: “The connoisseurs of bygone times are giving way to the consumers of today. And these people tend to gravitate toward the mainstream, toward popular big events with pop, rock and entertainment. Yet classical music, in the widest sense, has always been written and intended for a minority audience. So […]
  
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• When Certain Sounds Really Do Drive You Crazy

  17-07-2015 08:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Named in the early 2000s by the neurologists Pawel and Margaret Jastreboff, misophonia – also called selective sound sensitivity syndrome – is one of many symptom clusters that don’t have a clear etiology. Those who suffer from misophonia recoil from human-made noises like chewing and whistling. The risks of being tormented by everyday experiences, like […]
  
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• The Pixar Theory Of Life And Labor (It’s Really A Silicon Valley Company At Heart)

  17-07-2015 08:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In film after film, Pixar presents narratives chiefly concerned with characters trying to be the best at what they do, or otherwise prove their usefulness … resulting in a filmography that consistently conflates individual flourishing with the embrace of unremitting work. … This excess, epitomized as the complete entanglement of an individual’s private life with […]
  
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• ‘Alice Is My Ideal Reader’ – ‘Reading Lolita In Tehran’ Author On (Re-)Reading Lewis Carroll

  17-07-2015 08:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Azar Nafisi: “More than almost any other fictional character, Alice is in constant conversation with herself and others: probing, asking, reminding me of my infant daughter who would call out for me and, when I entered the room in the dim light of early morning, point to the objects around her and ask, ‘wassdis? wassdis?'”
  
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• “I Don’t Think She Looked Up At The Stage, Except To Register A Laugh” – Patti LuPone In Her Own Words On The Cell-Phone Incident

  17-07-2015 08:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The actress/folk hero explains what exactly the audience member whose phone she took away was doing, where in the theater the offender was sitting, and why her nonstop texting was distracting everyone else in the house. (Patti also reminds us that she’s never stopped a show because of a cell phone or texting.) (audio)
  
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• Are Ethics Professors Particularly Good People? No More Than Most Of Us, And They Don’t Really Try Any Harder (That’s A Good Thing)

  17-07-2015 08:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In an essay titled “Cheeseburger ethics,” Eric Schwitzgebel argues, “We – most of us – actually aim at mediocrity. The cheeseburger ethicist is perhaps only unusually honest with herself about this. We aspire to be about as morally good as our peers … B+ on the great moral curve of white middle-class college-educated North Americans. […]
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.16.15

  17-07-2015 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We Are at War AJBlog: PostClassic Published 2015-07-16 Cal Tjader’s 90th AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-07-16 Mike Lesser, R.I.P.: ‘In Conversation With a Dying Friend’ AJBlog: Straight|Up Published 2015-07-16 [ssba_hide]
  
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• Spain's Prado museum invites the blind to touch painting masterpieces

  17-07-2015 07:02
  
  The blind, or those with limited vision, use a relief painting technique that adds volume and texture to help create a mental image of a painting by feeling itStaff at the Prado, Spain’s top art museum, usually prevent visitors from touching its priceless treasures.Related: The real Mona Lisa? Prado museum finds Leonardo da Vinci pupil's take Water bowls are ready for accompanying guide dogs. Related: Audio description: let's hear it for arts, heritage and culture for allRelated: Why New York'
  
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• Spain's Prado museum invites blind people to touch painting masterpieces

  17-07-2015 07:02
  
  Blind people, or those with limited vision, use a relief painting technique that adds volume and texture to help create a mental image of a painting by feeling itStaff at the Prado, Spain’s top art museum, usually prevent visitors from touching its priceless treasures.Related: The real Mona Lisa? Prado museum finds Leonardo da Vinci pupil's take Water bowls are ready for accompanying guide dogs. Related: Audio description: let's hear it for arts, heritage and culture for allRelated: Why New Yo
  
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