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• New TV Channel Devoted To Dance To Launch This Fall

  28-07-2015 23:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The network will be a direct-to-consumers. subscription-based operation available on web browsers, iOS and Android devices and on Roku, with plans to expand later to set-top boxes, video game consoles and other platforms.
  
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• Who Do Writers Say Influence Them? (Hint: There’s A Common Thread)

  28-07-2015 23:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If a writer lists two influences and they both happen to be male – well, fair enough. They never both happen to be female, though, and receiving list after list of five, seven, 10 or more male influences is disturbing. It points again to the larger issue in the industry: our habitual, unchecked dismissal of […]
  
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• Report: Canadians Are Abandoning Traditional Cable TV

  28-07-2015 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The IDC report projects that the number of Canadians opting for traditional television services like cable and satellite will drop by about half a million to 11.3 million subscribers by 2019. The marketing research company also estimates revenue from those same services will decline by 7.8 per cent over the next five years to $8.3 […]
  
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• True Crime Writer Ann Rule, 83

  28-07-2015 23:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The woman credited by her publisher with reinventing the previously male-dominated true crime genre by focusing on the victims has died at age 83. Rule wrote more than 30 books, including “The Stranger Beside Me,” which profiled Bundy. Rule and Bundy met in 1971 and their relationship was mostly a grim coincidence, except that he […]
  
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• What Robin Phillips Did For Canadian Theatre

  28-07-2015 23:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Many of this country’s finest directors (like Antoni Cimolino and Albert Schultz) learned their craft as young actors in Phillips’ finest days. Hundreds of performers credit him as a watershed in their creative existences. Offstage, he was a complex man who inspired intense emotions from friends and enemies alike, but no one who truly cared […]
  
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• Dallas Morning News Classical Music Critic Takes A Buyout

  28-07-2015 22:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Scott Cantrell’s departure will be the most significant one for the future of North Texas culture organizations — because of whether the DMN will pursue another shared-academic appointment or keep classical music reviewing a full-time staff position.
  
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• Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

  28-07-2015 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music (also known as New School Jazz) seeks an Associate Dean of Academic Affairs.
  
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• How Do You Balance The Rights Of An Artist With The Progress Of A Culture (Who Owns What?)

  28-07-2015 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The achievements of a people, be they in politics, in science or even in war, must belong on some level to the people for them to bring forth further achievements. And what is true of a society’s great experiment is true of the culture that society produces.”
  
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• Rare painting secured for UK in unique deal with cosmetics heir

  28-07-2015 20:01
  Ronald Lauder funds purchase of da Rimini medieval panel for £5m and shares with National Gallery until his death when it returns to UK permanentlyA rare medieval panel has been effectively gifted to the National Gallery in an unusual deal that will see it shared, until his death, with the man stumping up nearly £5m ($7.8m) to buy it, the US cosmetics heir and philanthropist Ronald S Lauder.Giovanni da Rimini’s Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and Other Saints had been in the collect
  
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• Shigeko Kubota, a Fluxus Artist and a Pioneer of Video Art, Dies at 77

  28-07-2015 20:00 via artnews.com
  Shigeko Kubota, a pioneer of video art and a well-connected Fluxus artist known for using her body to ponder time and space, died from cancer in Manhattan on Thursday at age 77.Today, Kubota, born in 1937 in Niigata, Japan, is … Read More
  
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• New Museum Names Dennis Szakacs Associate Director, Alludes to Future Expansion

  28-07-2015 19:47 via artnews.com
  The New Museum announced today the creation of a new position at the institution–Associate Director–aimed at helping its “next phase of growth.” Dennis Szakacs will join the museum’s staff in this new role. Szakacs, most recently the director and CEO … Read More
  
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• Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen Taps Minneapolis-Based Curator To Head New Arts Center in Seattle

  28-07-2015 19:32 via artnews.com
  Last Friday, Paul Allen—art collector, Microsoft co-founder, venture capitalist, philanthropist, owner of several sports teams (and a Frank Gehry-designed Jimi Hendrix museum), and self-proclaimed “Idea Man“—announced that he would be opening an arts nonprofit in Seattle called Pivot Art + … Read More
  
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• Changing Media, Changing Criticism (For Better And Worse)

  28-07-2015 19:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Internet has had an explosive and largely positive impact on film culture. The average film lover can read good critics from around the world for free, draw on more academic resources than ever and simply see more films than ever before. They can argue, engage, question and inform each other in film forums and […]
  
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• What Ever Happened To The Great Public Intellectuals (Understanding The Vidal/Buckley Debates)

  28-07-2015 18:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Why should we rue the disappearance of the “celebrity intellectual” when those who achieved that status so easily pass into cultural oblivion, as Buckley and Vidal are well on their way to doing? If the species were truly important, would its members not leave some sort of enduring legacy?”
  
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• How the National Youth Orchestra is inspiring a new generation of musical teenagers

  28-07-2015 18:13
  
  The benefits of a musical education on the development of all young people, the warning cries about cuts in music education in the state sector and the need for government to reverse their refusal to make arts education part of the national curriculum have been shouted from the rooftops. While we need to keep up the pressure on the Government, the National Youth Orchestra accepts that arts organisations have a role to play and we've decided to act.
  
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• ‘The Negative Hand’ at Anonymous Gallery

  28-07-2015 18:10 via artnews.com
  “The Negative Hand” is currently on view at Anonymous Gallery in Mexico City. The group exhibition features work from 15 artists and evaluates how individual gestures and marks connect to larger systems of communication and relate to space and time … Read More
  
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• The Met Drew 6.3 Million Visitors Over the Last Year, a Record

  28-07-2015 17:37 via artnews.com
  Thomas P. Campbell, the director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, reported today that a record-breaking 6.3 million people from around the world had visited the museum during the fiscal year that ended on June 30. This marks … Read More
  
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• Satire Used To Be Fun. So What Happened?

  28-07-2015 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Face it, audiences today are easily offended by satire—and the younger members of the audience (coveted by the entertainment industry) have the thinnest skins of all. What a surprising turnaround. Just a few years ago, parents wanted to censor comedians, but young people had open minds. Nowadays the parents are tolerant but their children demand […]
  
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• You Can’t Force Creativity. Here’s What Creative People Do

  28-07-2015 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Most creative geniuses don’t start with a specific goal and follow it through with deliberate practice. Instead, they maintain an openness to discovering whatever arises. Although this openness to new ideas might sound like just waiting around for serendipity to strike, it’s a more deliberate process.”
  
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• From Brushstroke to Keystroke and Back Again: Six Artists Talk Contemporary Painting at the New Museum

  28-07-2015 16:16 via artnews.com
  “None of the terms of painting really make sense to me,” the artist Molly Zuckerman-Hartung said on Saturday at the New Museum’s contemporary painting symposium, held in honor of its current Albert Oehlen survey. “Painting has a lot of baggage. Terms like … Read More
  
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• Great Summer Start For New Shows On Broadway

  28-07-2015 15:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s been a strapping summer for three of the four new shows of the 2015-2016 Broadway season, according to data released on Monday by the Broadway League, a trade group for theater owners and producers.”
  
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• ‘This Is The Kind of Territory Where We Can Take Risks': Chicago-based Curators Julia Fischbach and Emanuel Aguilar On Opening Their Own Gallery This Fall

  28-07-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  This past March, a couple of high-level curatorial positions opened up at Kavi Gupta Gallery’s Chicago location (the gallery is also based in Berlin), following a resignation announcement from longtime co-directors Julia Fischbach and Emanuel Aguilar. Initially, their departure was … Read More
  
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• University Of Akron Suddenly Shuts Its Performing Arts Center

  28-07-2015 15:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The University of Akron’s EJ Thomas Hall, which recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, shut down Monday as staff was laid off as part of the university’s budget cutting measures.”
  
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• Morning Links: Icelandic Pavilion Lawsuit Edition

  28-07-2015 14:52 via artnews.com
  Following the closure of Christoph Büchel’s Venice Biennale installation, the Icelandic Art Center is asking the city of Venice for €360,000, unspecified damages, and the reopening of the Swiss artist’s controversial mosque. [The Art Newspaper]Gagosian, David Zwirner, and Pace all … Read More
  
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• Celebrating the final moments of doomed buildings – in pictures

  28-07-2015 12:48
  
  Many urban buildings disappear almost unnoticed every year behind hoardings. Photographer Thomas Dekeyser contributed to the Last Breath project, a series of unofficial pre-demolition exhibitions celebrating the final moments of everyday structures around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Bow Arts chief: we must ensure affordable places for artists to work

  28-07-2015 12:30
  
  Marcel Baettig on affordable rent, the future of London’s cultural workspaces and the issues facing the next generation of working arists1. Hi Marcel, wWhat can you tell me about Bow Arts?Bow Arts’ mission is to provide affordable studios for practising artists and creatives. We currently house about 400 artists in seven studio buildings around London. Our latest project is the Rum Warehouse in Wapping, formerly the News International offices where Rebekah Brooks was based. There’s a massi
  
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• How Russia's 'most controversial artist' persuaded his state interrogator to change sides

  28-07-2015 09:50
  
  Arrested for vandalism, Petr Pavlensky’s arguments against the state were so convincing his chief investigator quit and joined him. The Moscow Times reports
  When investigator Pavel Yasman was tasked with interrogating performance artist Petr Pavlensky, known for his shocking political protests, he never imagined that their conversations would change his life. Related: 'There are easier ways to make a living than nailing your scrotum to Red Square' – Petr Pavlensky Q&A Many people write m
  
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• How Russia's 'most controversial artist' persuaded his interrogator to change sides

  28-07-2015 09:50
  
  Arrested for vandalism, Petr Pavlensky’s arguments against the state were so convincing his chief investigator quit and joined him. The Moscow Times reports
  When investigator Pavel Yasman was tasked with interrogating performance artist Petr Pavlensky, known for his shocking political protests, he never imagined that their conversations would change his life. Related: 'There are easier ways to make a living than nailing your scrotum to Red Square' – Petr Pavlensky Q&A Many people write m
  
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• Venice Biennale ‘Mosque’ Sues City For Right To Reopen

  28-07-2015 09:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Icelandic Art Center (IAC) in Reykjavik – the commissioner of artist Christoph Büchel’s mosque in a disused church at this year’s Venice Biennale which was shut down by city authorities – has filed a claim seeking the immediate reopening of the project … [which] was closed late May after being open for only two […]
  
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• Life in Squares review: ‘absurd, beautiful characters in a ridiculously golden world’

  28-07-2015 08:10
  
  Art, literature, exquisite interiors and copious copulation – do try to keep up with Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury setIf only their passions had been as muted as their palettes – how different life could have been for the Bloomsbury set. By the end of the opening episode of Life in Squares (BBC2), the three-part dramatisation of the Stephen-Bell-Strachey-Keynes-Sackville-Woolf lot’s attempts to fit their life into their art, their art into their life and their genitals into anyone who
  
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