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• There Are Fewer Than A Dozen Full-Time Staff Classical Music Critics In America. Is This A Problem?

  12-08-2015 22:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If a newspaper critic as an influential arbiter of taste has declined, this hasn’t led to less music criticism. Rather, a void is being filled by bloggers and other Internet pundits, who for the most part are unpaid.”
  
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• Anish Kapoor Accuses Chinese City of Plagiarizing His Chicago ‘Cloud Gate’

  12-08-2015 22:06 via artnews.com
  Anish Kapoor’s 2006 sculpture Cloud Gate, a stainless steel, bean-shaped public work located in Chicago, looks suspiciously similar to a sculpture going up in Karamay, a city in northwestern China, a fact that has not escaped the artist. In a … Read More
  
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• ‘Michael Smith: Excuse Me!?!…I’m Looking for the “Fountain of Youth” ‘ at Greene Natfali

  12-08-2015 20:33 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: ‘Michael Smith: Excuse Me!?!…I’m looking for the “Fountain of Youth” ‘ is currently on view at Greene Natfali in New york. The exhibition, Smith’s first solo show,  features an eponymous … Read More
  
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• Where Do Writers Get Their Inspiration? It’s More Deliberate Than You Think

  12-08-2015 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Most serious and productive artists are “haunted” by their material—this is the galvanizing force of their creativity, their motivation. It is not and cannot be a fully conscious or volitional “haunting”—it is something that seems to happen to us, as if from without, no matter what craft is brought to bear upon it, what myriad […]
  
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• Thomas Krens Is Planning Another Contemporary Art Museum for North Adams, Massachusetts

  12-08-2015 17:59 via artnews.com
  Yesterday, Thomas Krens, who previously directed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and planned MASS MoCA, proposed a 160,000-square-foot contemporary-art museum in North Adams, Massachusetts, the Berkshire Eagle reports.If Krens’s plan becomes a reality, the museum, which would be called the Global … Read More
  
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• Report: Suspect Identified in New Gardner Museum Heist Video Footage

  12-08-2015 17:44 via artnews.com
  Last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released video footage shot at the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990, the night before thieves made off with $500 million in paintings. Now, CBS News is reporting that a man has contacted the authorities with information … Read More
  
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• Theaster Gates Has An Idea For A New Kind Of Arts Center (And He’s Building It In Chicago)

  12-08-2015 17:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is a new kind of cultural amenity, a new kind of institution—a hybrid gallery, media archive and library, and community center. It is an institution of and for the South Side—a repository for African American culture and history, a laboratory for the next generation of black artists and culture-interested people; a platform to showcase […]
  
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• Throwing Off The Shackles Of Being A “Professional” In Theatre

  12-08-2015 17:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Weirdly, I am now making much of my income as a theatre and cultural critic in my chosen town of Louisville, Kentucky. I’m getting some small paid theatre gigs, too. I’m making more money off theatre than I ever did as “a professional.” But I’m not a professional.
  
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• “Micro-Aggressions” – Are Our College Campuses Shutting Down Intellectual Debate?

  12-08-2015 16:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This new climate is slowly being institutionalized, and is affecting what can be said in the classroom, even as a basis for discussion. During the 2014–15 school year, for instance, the deans and department chairs at the 10 University of California system schools were presented by administrators at faculty leader-training sessions with examples of microaggressions. […]
  
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• Tyler Cann Named Curator of Contemporary Art at Columbus Museum of Art

  12-08-2015 16:36 via artnews.com
  The Columbus Museum of Art announced today that Tyler Cann has been promoted from his position as an associate curator—he will now be the Ohio museum’s curator of contemporary art.Cann first began working at the Columbus Museum of Art in … Read More
  
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• This artist makes leather clothes and furniture that look like flesh

  12-08-2015 15:45
  
  Chinese artist Cao Hui grew bored of describing his sculptures by their appearances, so decided to  gut them and imagine what their insides might look like.
  
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• These Architects Are Changing The Business (And Thus The Design) Of Architecture

  12-08-2015 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To make a building or a landscape is a hugely complex and collaborative business. Many famous architects obscure that fact, and present themselves like fashion designers, delivering a tight brand and a singular sensibility. Snohetta carry themselves like a collective of filmmakers: Their work has no set style and no manifesto. It is visually bold, […]
  
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• Waiting for Bob: In Which Robert Wilson Has a Busy Day

  12-08-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  The plan was that, on a Wednesday morning in July, I would take the bus to Southampton, New York, where a publicist would pick me up and drive me to the Watermill Center about five minutes down the road. There … Read More
  
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• The Case For Food As An Art (Like Music Or Painting)

  12-08-2015 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There is a growing global movement to establish a culinary canon and to restore the actual local ingredients that composed it. Why shouldn’t there be a canon of taste, like other canons of our civilisation, those of literature, art, music, architecture, religion and science? We have a global palate now, and with that, a new […]
  
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• Morning Links: Queen Nefertiti’s Tomb Edition

  12-08-2015 14:46 via artnews.com
  Works from Maya Angelou’s private art collection will go on view at Swann Auction Galleries in Manhattan on September 15. [Hyperallergic]The Guggenheim has hired two new curators to to build on its Chinese contemporary art program. Hou Hanru, who currently serves as the artistic … Read More
  
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• Ten Years After Katrina, New Orleans Museums Struggle To Remember

  12-08-2015 14:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Art museums across New Orleans felt compelled to remember Hurricane Katrina as the 10th anniversary of its landfall approaches. But the anniversary shows at some of the city’s most high-profile museums seem surprisingly understated, at least to outsiders’ eyes. In fact, they barely seem to be about Katrina at all.”
  
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• Why Kim Kardashian’s pregnancy selfie would turn Titian on

  12-08-2015 14:10
  Kardashian’s selfie is a hymn to the female body that harks back to the liberating portrayals of ample women in Renaissance and baroque art – and proves that ours is the most misogynist age in historyKim Kardashian reclaims the beauty of being pregnant in her latest impressive selfie. In soft light, she sports an even more curvaceous form than usual: even more contours to revel in. It’s a hymn to the female body that would have been far more familiar in the Renaissance than today. Stomach
  
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• Manhattan School of Music Distance Learning Administrative Associate

  12-08-2015 13:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Manhattan School of Music seeks a full-time Distance Learning Program Associate to support the Conservatory's groundbreaking distance learning program in the areas of educational program coordination, administration and new content development.
  
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• Tokyo without ads: Japan's capital stripped bare – in pictures

  12-08-2015 11:14
  Eye-popping neon and billboards are so central to the buzzing visual identity of Japan’s capital that it can be jarring to see it without them. French graphic designer Nicolas Damiens does just that, denuding Tokyo’s sign-saturated streetscape of logos, banners and hoardings. Do you like it better or worse – and would your city benefit from the same treatment? Let us knowCan cities kick ads? Inside the global movement to ban urban billboards Continue reading...
  
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• Tokyo without ads: Japan's capital stripped bare – in pictures

  12-08-2015 11:14
  Eye-popping neon and billboards are so central to the buzzing visual identity of Japan’s capital that it can be jarring to see it without them. French graphic designer Nicolas Damiens does just that, denuding Tokyo’s sign-saturated streetscape of logos, banners and hoardings. Do you like it better or worse – and would your city benefit from the same treatment? Let us knowCan cities kick ads? Inside the global movement to ban urban billboardsContinue reading...
  
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• Can cities kick ads? Inside the global movement to ban urban billboards

  12-08-2015 08:30
  First it was São Paulo, then Chennai. Then Grenoble, Tehran, Paris and now even New York have spawned movements to replace or ban outdoor advertising. Are we entering the age of ad-free cities – or is this just an eye-catching distraction?Something seemed strange. Staring out of a hotel window in São Paulo, my eye was caught by an oversized digital display crowning the top of an undersized skyscraper. Steadily flashing the time, then the temperature, the display was incongruous in a wa
  
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