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• David Byrne: Technology Isn’t The Only Reason Musicians Are Having A Hard Time Earning A Living

  31-07-2015 23:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s easy to blame new technologies like streaming services for the drastic reduction in musicians’ income. But on closer inspection we see that it is a bit more complicated. Even as the musical audience has grown, ways have been found to siphon off a greater percentage than ever of the money that customers and music […]
  
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• ‘Shana Lutker: Paul, Paul, Paul, and Paul’ at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

  31-07-2015 21:36 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Shana Lutker: Paul, Paul, Paul, and Paul” is currently on view at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects in Culver City, California until Saturday, August 22. The exhibition … Read More
  
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• The Difference Between Movies And Video Games

  31-07-2015 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It surely must be tempting to think that this compulsion for games and movies to feed into and off each other is a sign that they are artistically tied together, that they are both destined to lift one another to higher and better things and that they have something important in common that means they […]
  
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• UK Apologizes To Ai Weiwei, Grants Him Six-Month Visa

  31-07-2015 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Thursday Ai disclosed that the British embassy in Beijing had turned down his request for a business visa, saying he had failed to disclose a criminal conviction. Instead it gave him a visa covering 20 days in September, when a major exhibition of Ai’s work is opening at London’s Royal Academy.”
  
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• How Netflix Is Disrupting TV

  31-07-2015 20:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s less than three years since Netflix debuted its first original series — Lilyhammer, recently cancelled after three seasons — and Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said the service expects to roll out 16 scripted dramas, nine original documentaries, three documentary series, 12 comedy specials and 17 children’s series in 2015 for a total […]
  
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• The Problem With Cutting Theatre In Schools Is That It Cuts Audiences In Theatres

  31-07-2015 19:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “My own fear about drama getting smaller in regular public schools like Lakeshore is that it limits the ability of kids to stumble upon it – and that affects not just future theatre professionals, but future theatre audiences.”
  
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• Will Star Rolling Stone Movie Critic Leave The Magazine?

  31-07-2015 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Two people who work at Rolling Stone parent company Wenner Media said that Peter Travers had been asked to move from a staff position to a contractor by company founder and chief Jann Wenner. Travers, a 26-year-veteran of the magazine, bristled at the suggestion and threatened to leave the publication entirely.”
  
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• Palestinian artist's work to go on display in London after Channel 4's Jon Snow smuggles it out of Gaza

  31-07-2015 19:30
  
  Work by a Palestinian artist is to go on display in London after her paintings were smuggled out of Gaza by Channel 4 news presenter Jon Snow.
  
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• Ellsworth Kelly changed the face of art. At 92, he's still not done

  31-07-2015 19:10
  
  American painter’s intense, humming hues were groundbreaking and he’s building on his experiments in Paris in the 1950sThe colours are always brilliant in Ellsworth Kelly’s world – even in the garden. Two hours north of New York, outside a studio built to his own design, is a lawn of such intense and blazing green it could be one of the American painter’s own monochromes. For more than 50 years, Kelly has been creating even, saturated paintings and reliefs whose forceful hues – deep
  
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• 25 Years Ago Francis Fukuyama Declared The End Of History. A Lot Has Happened Since

  31-07-2015 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After the initial celebration, he quickly lost favor, his argument often treated as little more than a rhetorical punching bag. Commentators of varying leanings could all agree that the end of history thesis was willfully naive, a relic of post-1989 triumphalism that had been rapidly overtaken by harsher political realities. Fukuyama, for his part, turned […]
  
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• Public Projects To Transform Neighborhoods (But Who Asked The Neighborhoods?)

  31-07-2015 18:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As Thomas Heatherwick’s projects have grown larger, and entangle private wealth with government financing, they present the public with a quandary: Should communities accept the unasked-for gift of a design perhaps more ambitious than what might result from limited public funds, developed in a public process?”
  
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• England Overturns, Apologizes for Rejection of Ai Weiwei’s Six-Month Visa

  31-07-2015 18:36 via artnews.com
  Following yesterday’s news that Ai Weiwei would only get a 20-day British visa instead of the six-month business visa he asked for, England revoked that decision—the Chinese artist now has a six-month British visa, the Associated Press reported earlier today.The … Read More
  
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• BAM Announces $25M Plan To Connect Its Three Spaces

  31-07-2015 18:32 via artnews.com
  Brooklyn Academy of Music has announced a $25 million construction project that will connect its three discrete spaces—the Beaux-Arts Peter Jay Sharp Building in Fort Greene (which replaced the original theater in 1908), the BAM Harvey Theater (1987), and the … Read More
  
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• If You Were Going To Do Something New With The Barnes Art What Could You Do?

  31-07-2015 18:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The question naturally arises, then, of what to do in terms of contemporary programming — because the irony, at least in terms of the permanent collection, is that the institution can’t actually do anything. Unlike other large museums, the Barnes cannot rotate objects in and out of active display or organize special shows using these […]
  
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• How The Ways We Watch TV Are Changing

  31-07-2015 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We’re at a media moment where media consumers expect media to find them. They are not going to go to media. They’re not going to go out and find shows in general. Now, it’s to the point where appointment viewing for most people can be narrowed down to a select two or three or four […]
  
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• Thelma Golden Joins Board of Directors at Barack Obama Foundation

  31-07-2015 17:52 via artnews.com
  The Barack Obama Foundation announced yesterday that Thelma Golden, the director and chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, will join its board of directors alongside political fundraiser Julianna Smoot and venture capitalist John Doerr.Golden has been affiliated with … Read More
  
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• ‘What We Make, Is What We Feel': Agnes Martin on Her Meditative Practice, in 1976

  31-07-2015 17:07 via artnews.com
  Between a Tate Modern retrospective and a Nancy Princenthal biography, Agnes Martin has become one of the year’s most talked-about artists. In honor of the Tate show and Princenthal’s book, we turn back to our September 1976 issue, for which … Read More
  
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• Prom 16, Royal Albert Hall - review: Vaughan Williams's Sancta civitas gets a brilliant revival

  31-07-2015 16:21
  
  Vaughan Williams was fonder of his Sancta civitas than of any of his other choral works, perhaps – as Malcolm Hayes suggests in a felicitous programme-note – because of its problematic unveiling, and the rarity of its performances.
  
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• MoMA Is Doing a Robert Zemeckis Retrospective

  31-07-2015 15:57 via artnews.com
  The film department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York will screen the entire career of director Robert Zemeckis, including his new film The Walk, about Philippe Petit’s high-wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade … Read More
  
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• The 16-year-old gif star who’s melting the art world

  31-07-2015 15:45
  
  Forget naff YouTube pratfalls, Harry Potter or Ru Paul’s Drag Race loops, artists are being drawn to the dynamism and fun of the animated digital mediumPhilip Intile is entering his last year of secondary school. He already has his eye on a potential career path: one that loops on and on and on.He’s only 16, but Intile is an artist (known as Pi-Slices in the world of gif art). He’s a gif-maker and the founder of GIF Artists Collective, a group of digital artists whose “gif art” was rec
  
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• Morning Links: The Shroud of Tom Cruise Edition

  31-07-2015 15:03 via artnews.com
  An Yves Saint Laurent exhibit is coming to Seattle. [The New York Times]How are performance artists paid exactly? [The New York Times]Aldo Mondino’s “Rules for Illusion, Part 1″ at Eden Eden in Berlin. [Contemporary Art Daily]Having raised $82 million for … Read More
  
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• Bristol Proms, Bristol Old Vic, review: Acoustic tradition meets digital technology

  31-07-2015 13:31
  
  While some continue to wring their hands over the challenge of attracting a younger, more diverse audience to classical music, others are exploring ways of doing so - and creating exciting concerts for all in the process.
  
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• Bolshoi Ballet Won’t Renew Contract Of Director Who Suffered Acid Attack

  31-07-2015 10:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sergei Filin, the Bolshoi Ballet artistic director whose sight was maimed two years ago by an acid attack organized by a disgruntled dancer, will lose his job when his contract expires next spring. Bolshoi Theatre chief Vladimir Urin announced yesterday in Moscow that he is abolishing Filin’s position and replacing it with a more management-focused […]
  
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• What Drives Trophy Hunters Like The Man Who Killed Cecil The Lion?

  31-07-2015 10:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The question, then, is why? What motivates Palmer and other trophy hunters, as they’re called, to fly thousands of miles and spend tens of thousands of dollars, all for the sake of killing an animal like Cecil? The answer is complex, but, largely, it can be thought of as a demonstration of power and prestige, […]
  
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• Hollywood Blockbusters Need To Lose The Plot

  31-07-2015 10:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What was once a series content to celebrate simple boy-racer pleasures, the seventh Fast & Furious fell prey to a recent tentpole-film affliction: ridiculously over-complicated plotting.”
  
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• UK Denies Ai Weiwei Business Visa, Citing His ‘Criminal’ Past

  31-07-2015 10:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has accused British authorities of turning their backs on human rights defenders after UK immigration officials rejected his application for a six-month business visa, claiming he had not declared a criminal conviction in his home country.”
  
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• Happy Days: Northern Ireland Town Loves Its Beckett Festival

  31-07-2015 10:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The barber offers Beckett haircuts; a local coffee shop sells Krapp (banana and nutella) and Endgame (I didn’t investigate) sandwiches named after his plays. Events take place in theaters, churches, halls, at the Portora School, on the small islands that surround the town and in other improbable places, often kept a secret until a bus […]
  
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• Inside The Floating 3-D Head Of Marlon Brando

  31-07-2015 10:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One unusual sequence in the documentary Listen to Me Marlon shows a seemingly low-tech digital version of the actor Marlon Brando quoting Macbeth. His head floats in black space and the image looks three-dimensional yet still raw. These visuals were constructed by the filmmakers from a series of scans of Brando’s head that were made […]
  
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• Bringing Ballet To Farms In (Where Else?) Vermont

  31-07-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Charles] Pregger, a ballet teacher, said Farm to Ballet was born after he led outdoor classes at Oakledge Park in Burlington. He saw that alfresco ballet was possible and joked that he’d like to do something like a flash-mob-styled performance halfway up Mount Philo. That lighthearted thought became a more meaningful and concrete plan to […]
  
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• New Musical Loses Half Its Cast Amid Delays And Dissension

  31-07-2015 09:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Five actors and four dancers will be leaving the 19-person cast of Dusty, a new show about the singer Dusty Springfield, by the end of August. The producers of the show, which began performances in an Off-West End theatre in late May, keep postponing the press night.
  
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• Is The Next Bolaño A Middle-Class Brazilian Housewife Who Died Almost 40 Years Ago?

  31-07-2015 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “No one converts the uninitiated into devout believers as suddenly and as vertiginously as Clarice Lispector, the Latin American visionary, Ukrainian-Jewish mystic, and middle-class housewife and mother so revered by her Brazilian fans … She writes like a medieval saint who time-traveled to a high-rise apartment building in Rio and took up chain-smoking and visiting […]
  
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• Ernest Hemingway, Godfather Of Long-Form Journalism

  31-07-2015 08:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Unlike Joyce’s innovations, Hemingway’s experimental fusion of fiction and nonfiction [in Green Hills of Africa] remained largely at the level of theory – but it has proven to be even more enduringly influential. Hemingway’s stream has become hard to recognize and to distinguish, because it has become the mainstream.”
  
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• Archaeology Frauds – They’re A Lot Of Trouble, So Why Would Scientists, Even Crooked Ones, Go To The Bother Of Perpetrating Them?

  31-07-2015 08:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There is a reason that we keep buying into hoaxes such as the ‘Shroud of Turin’ or the ‘Wife of Jesus’ fragment.” (Note: This article begins with an actual three-archaeologists-walk-into-a-bar joke – it’s a recently excavated prehistoric bar, of course.)
  
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• Republics Of Letters: How Medieval Scribes Fashioned Modern Writing

  31-07-2015 08:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A millennium after the Greeks created European civilization’s first written culture, the scholar Alcuin and his monks at Charlemagne’s court fused Roman and Celtic scripts to create the alphabet we use today – and established standards and rules such as leaving a space between words and beginning sentences with a capital letter.
  
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• Motels, Marrakech, And Mouths: From The Travel Journals Of Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  31-07-2015 07:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I find a variety store-bar called the Sans-Souci. Inside is a drunk loudmouth of about 50 and a platinum blonde who looks like she’s been thru all the mills and talks tough. The drunk is saying: Well, if you waz ever in a war, you’d see something. She says: I ain’t gettin near no war! […]
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.30.15

  31-07-2015 06:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Peter Brant’s Brands: Whither ARTnews and Art in America? AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-07-30 The Whole-Tone Hypothesis AJBlog: PostClassic Published 2015-07-30 So you want to see a show? AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-07-30 [ssba_hide]
  
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