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• Forget The Animals – Save The Bassoons!

  02-08-2015 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Using the “endangered species” model employed by the World Wide Fund for Nature, campaigners are highlighting the scarcity of bassoonists and paving the way for the promotion of some other orchestral instruments that are under threat, such as the oboe, French horn, viola, trombone and double bass.
  
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• Comcast Is Spending Billions On Theme Parks

  02-08-2015 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “That’s just a huge, huge number for a business this size. We see this as a major growth driver for the company for five, 10, 15, 20 years.” But now Comcast faces a new question: Is it moving too fast and disregarding the perennial problems that have long challenged this corner of entertainment?
  
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• Animation Is Thriving In The Digital Age

  02-08-2015 22:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s become so natural to be in a movie, say, flying over an impossible landscape at a speed that no human has ever gone and see realistic-looking creatures that have never existed and will never exist but do exist in these alternative worlds.”
  
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• More And More Musicians Demanding Changes In How The Music Industry Works

  02-08-2015 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The debate has been enabled by social media and reflects changes in many artists’ attitudes toward the online economy over the last 15 years or so — a period that stretches from the rise of Napster and iTunes to online streaming outlets like YouTube, Pandora and Spotify, and has been accompanied by enormous changes in […]
  
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• LA’s Plans To Redo Its Convention Center Demonstrate The Lack Of Imagination In Convention Centers

  02-08-2015 21:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The architecture of the new plan, as if to compensate for the sober event-management calculations around which it is organized, tends toward the frenetic, like the second half of a Pixar movie. Its gestures are oversized and occasionally overwrought, its colors perma-bright.”
  
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• Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst dealers investigated as buyers left with nothing

  02-08-2015 21:31
  
  Police are investigating claims of fraud and theft involving a business run by a pair of prominent British art dealers who are believed to have sold up and moved to France.
  
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• NY’s 48th Street Has Long Been Music Row (But Not For Much Longer)

  02-08-2015 20:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The last Music Row store, Alex Musical Instruments, is closing in a few months, owner Alex Carozza tells The Post. Carozza’s landlord would have let him stay if he agreed to a rent increase from $4,000 to $12,000 a month. No thanks, says the shopkeep. By the end of the year, Music Row will officially […]
  
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• Why NYC’s Riverside Park Is A Design Masterpiece

  02-08-2015 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A masterpiece is usually thought the work of a single artistic or design intelligence. But Riverside Park (including Riverside Drive, for they are inseparable as experienced) is the work not only of Moses, but of Frederick Law Olmsted, the great landscape genius behind Central Park, and the almost unknown Clifton Lloyd, the architectural engineer whom […]
  
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• Needed: A Coordinated Scientific Exploration Of Human Creativity

  02-08-2015 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Getting more specific, the report lays out two “research objectives” worthy of cross-disciplinary study. The first: to “discover and describe the neurobiological correlates and conditions under which different kinds of creative experiences occur, using a carefully orchestrated, mixed-methods study design.”
  
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• How Do New Words Catch On And Spread (Now We Can Map Them)

  02-08-2015 18:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The uncertain and gradual growth of words makes it nearly impossible to pinpoint where they started or how they caught on. But that is starting to change, as linguists draw on a wealth of data about word usage from social media services like Twitter.”
  
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• The Anonymous Calatrava (Make It Stop!)

  02-08-2015 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Instead of coming up with something relevant to the place, telling a story about what came before or revealing previously overlooked visual details within a city, these structures don’t connect with any local authenticity or individuality in these cities. They’re not architecture at all, in a sense; they’re more like huge pieces of urban jewelry […]
  
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• Are We About To See a Flood Of Cuban Music?

  02-08-2015 18:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I think it will be a while before we see any massive surge, not necessarily because of politics but more because of mentality. Most Cuban artists and producers do not fully understand the American market per se. Their lyrics are extremely local and the level of production is poor in most cases, due to the […]
  
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• Artist Jamie McCartney: How The Great Wall of Vagina is a stand against 'body fascism'

  02-08-2015 17:56
  
  British artist Jamie McCartney makes it his business to put women’s minds at rest about the shape and size of their vaginas.
  
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• Lady Gaga Proves People Will Pay Top Dollar For Jazz

  02-08-2015 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Cheek to Cheek tour has received positive reviews. The two-hour show perfectly represents Gaga’s talent, while also enabling her to earn the respect of an older fan base. It also exposes Lady Gaga’s younger fans to jazz classics that typically haven’t been part of her previous shows.
  
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• Broadway’s Hottest Show Is Pissing Off Tony Voters

  02-08-2015 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I can understand the impulse — they’ll be among the top three moneymakers, and that always looks good — but a rule of thumb in this business is, don’t alienate Tony voters,” a veteran press agent says. “You don’t want to look high and mighty.”
  
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• Getting To Auditions Can Be Expensive. So These Aspen Students Decided To Help

  02-08-2015 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I talked to my viola section, they loved it. I went to the cellos and the violins, they loved it,” Sonnak recalled. “I said, ‘OK, there’s interest. Let’s see how we can do it.’”
  
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• Builders battle California city ordinance making them pay for public art

  02-08-2015 13:00
  
  Artists fear a victory for the firms challenging a new law to include art funding in construction projects will deal a blow to culture in the cityA legal battle has broken out in Oakland, California, over whether construction companies should be forced to pay for public art in building projects.An alliance of firms in Oakland is suing the city over laws that came into effect in February forcing them to spend between 0.5% and 1% of any project’s budget on public art.Continue reading...
  
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• Edinburgh art festival 2015 review – a great year for sculpture

  02-08-2015 09:00
  
  Edinburgh art festival, various venues
  Bits of old car, plywood and a roomful of scrunched-up plastic dazzle in the work of John Chamberlain, Phyllida Barlow and Tara DonovanThe most beautiful gallery in Britain launches this year’s Edinburgh art festival with a coup. Inverleith House has the first show by the US pioneer John Chamberlain ever held in this country. Chamberlain (1927-2011) made his name by transforming trashed car parts into strange new sculptures that may invoke the mangled wre
  
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• Written in the West, Revisited: Wim Wenders has added 15 unseen Paris, Texas images

  02-08-2015 01:00
  
  Scouting locations for his 1984 film Paris, Texas, Wim Wenders had spent two months the previous year driving across the American West armed with a Makina Plaubel 67 camera.
  
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