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• New Opera’s Acceptance Problem

  13-08-2015 23:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Why do we have to work so hard to love new American opera? Part of the problem is that even those who love opera tend to think of it these days as a problem child: an acquired taste, a genre that has to work hard to win people over, an art form for which one […]
  
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• Why Old-Media Companies Are Buying New-Media Sites

  13-08-2015 22:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What these new-media entities need most is money (and perhaps a bit of old-media prestige). Comcast has plenty of that, thanks to its cable TV, ISP, and movie businesses. Getting that cash also gives Vox and Buzzfeed a broader reach—and it allows them to brag about being “unicorns” for passing the $1 billion mark. So […]
  
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• Has The Glut Of TV Saturated The Market?

  13-08-2015 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Have we reached Peak TV? Is the much-applauded (second) Golden Age of TV coming to an end? And will it possibly be replaced with, as the critic Emily Nussbaum half-jokingly called it, “The Caramel Epoch”—an age of shows that are “perfect for a binge” and “suggestively diverse,” and that allow for “equal celebration of comedy, […]
  
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• Marc Jacobs on Jean-Michel Basquiat: ‘Cool’

  13-08-2015 21:02 via artnews.com
  This being mid-August, otherwise known as the devastating drought for all things interesting and newsworthy, and me with an art blog to populate with fodder for the consumption of the three of you that are in town and looking for … Read More
  
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• Alejandro Jodorowsky Is Crowdfunding His Latest Feature Film

  13-08-2015 20:14 via artnews.com
  Don’t let Alejandro Jodorowsky’s latest feature film, Endless Poetry (Poesía Sin Fin), go the way of the famously unfinished Dune! Accompanying an Indiegogo campaign, which has raised $42,368 of the goal of $150,000 in six days, Jodorowsky appears in a six-minute … Read More
  
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• La Coiffeuse: £9.6m Pablo Picasso painting that vanished 14 years ago finally returned to France

  13-08-2015 20:13
  
  It vanished from storage in the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris 14 years ago only to show up late last year in New York customs in a FedEx box innocently marked “handicrafts” and “toy”. But La Coiffeuse (The Hairdresser ) by Pablo Picasso has finally been returned to its rightful owners, the French government.
  
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• Detours: Cy Gavin on the Inaugural Show at His Secret West Harlem Gallery, The Can

  13-08-2015 19:43 via artnews.com
  Detours is an ongoing series in which a New York–based artist gives us a tour of a show of his or her choosing. In honor of his show of paintings at Sargent’s Daughters, Cy Gavin discusses the inaugural show at his … Read More
  
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• Performa 15 Announces Premieres and Commissions by Oscar Murillo, Wyatt Kahn, More

  13-08-2015 19:05 via artnews.com
  Today Performa announced another batch of premieres and commissions today for its upcoming, three-week performance festival, Performa 15, which will take place in various locations around New York City in November. This year’s Performa asks its commissioned artists to respond … Read More
  
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• Buenos Aries’ Storied Teatro Colon Ballet Company Banks On A New Direction

  13-08-2015 18:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Argentina’s political and financial troubles over the last four decades have inevitably left their mark on cultural institutions. The ballet season has shrunk from about 15 ballets per season in the 1960s to just five now. At times directors have come and gone at a disquieting pace.”
  
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• Habitat: Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze

  13-08-2015 18:38 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze; SoHo, New York. I caught Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze in her studio the day before she moved out. “I’m off to Miami soon,” she said, leading me through a lace … Read More
  
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• Why Does So Much New Dance Have So Little To Do With Dance?

  13-08-2015 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s an interesting reflection on something – either an overwhelming trend in Toronto’s contemporary dance scene or dance-curator Amelia Ehrhardt’s taste – that the choreography (so far) has been so sparse on actual “dance.” I use the term a bit loosely; I don’t mean to imply that text and pedestrian movement can’t fall under dance’s […]
  
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• Shaw Festival (North America’s Second Largest Rep Theatre) Gets A New Artistic Director

  13-08-2015 17:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A British theatre and opera director with 25 years of experience, Tim Carroll is best known for his Shakespeare productions, which have shown in theatres internationally.”
  
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• Why Reading To Children Is Better Than Just Talking To Them (In Building Language Skills)

  13-08-2015 17:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Across the entire sample, there were 1.72 times as many unique words in picture books than in conversations. Part of picture books’ greater diversity, the authors note, stems from the fact that each one tells a different story about a different topic.”
  
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• ‘June: A Painting Show’ at Sadie Coles HQ

  13-08-2015 17:45 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Charles Ray: Sculpture review – Chicago's figurative king crashes through art taboo

  13-08-2015 17:29
  Art Institute of Chicago
  Ray’s sculpture has been deemed too gauche for some galleries but this career retrospective shows how profound his often mock-heroic sculpture can beThe car’s a wreck – the left door has crumpled, the bumper’s on the floor, and the bonnet has roared up and smashed the windscreen. But it doesn’t feel like a wreck when you circumambulate it, gazing at every little crinkle on its shattered surface. It feels, instead, as if the car were born wrecked. It feels flawl
  
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• Charles Ray: Sculpture review – Chicago's figurative king crashes through art taboo

  13-08-2015 17:29
  Art Institute of Chicago
  Ray’s sculpture has been deemed too gauche for some galleries but this career retrospective shows how profound his often mock-heroic sculpture can beThe car’s a wreck – the left door has crumpled, the bumper’s on the floor, and the bonnet has roared up and smashed the windscreen. But it doesn’t feel like a wreck when you circumambulate it, gazing at every little crinkle on its shattered surface. It feels, instead, as if the car were born wre
  
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• Orchestra-On-Demand: Detroit Symphony Launches Video Archive Of All Its Concerts

  13-08-2015 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Detroit Symphony “is launching what it says is the country’s only on-demand archive of orchestral video performances. Intended as a perk for donors contributing at least $50 to the DSO’s annual fund, the Replay archive will allow listeners to watch performances drawn from the orchestra’s free, weekly high-definition webcasts dating back three years.”
  
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• The Key To Real Creativity? Study Says Persistence

  13-08-2015 16:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Researchers report that people consistently underestimate how many creative ideas they can come up with if they continue to work on a problem, rather than giving up in the wake of mediocre initial results. What’s more, the study finds the most creative ideas tend to arise after many others have been considered and discarded. If […]
  
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• Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, artist: 'I am not trying to hide anything. It's crumbs and all'

  13-08-2015 15:30
  
  Performance artist Marvin Gaye Chetwynd's studio is a room in her flat in Glasgow's Southside, an area becoming increasingly inhabited by artists. Up two flights of inhospitable steep stairs, it is not the most prepossessing entrance, but I am greeted warmly by the artist carrying her three-year-old son Dragan. We sit amid the debris of breakfast, surrounded by her husband Jedrzeg Cichosz's exuberant naïve paintings. "I am not trying to hide anything. It's crumbs and all."
  
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• This is the real Cuba: a timeline of gripping photography since the 50s

  13-08-2015 15:11
  Revolutionaries storming a casino, Che Guevara playing golf badly, and Marlon Brando on drums ... a new exhibition shows how Fidel Castro used photography to make the peasants love him. But it’s also full of astonishing moments that shatter the romanticised image of Cuba Burt Glinn was at a New Year’s Eve party in New York in 1958 when he heard that Fidel Castro’s rebel army had ousted president Batista from power in Cuba. Using money he borrowed from fellow photographer Cornell Capa, he h
  
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• Morning Links: Napkin Art Edition

  13-08-2015 14:47 via artnews.com
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• Anish Kapoor is right to be livid about China stealing his big Bean sculpture

  13-08-2015 13:41
  A city in Zinjiang has a new public artwork that’s suspiciously similar to Kapoor’s Bean in Chicago – and the sculptor is incensed, though this is just the latest act of copycat culture in China. Are people in the west too precious about intellectual property rights?There isn’t much room for ambiguity. It is clearly Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate, the bulbous monument in Chicago known as the Bean, whose shiny metal surface reflects the sky in ever-changing ways. Except this one is not in Ch
  
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• Riccardo Chailly Is Lucerne Festival Orchestra’s Next Music Director

  13-08-2015 11:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The renowned conductor … got an early break when, as a very young man, he was hired as Claudio Abbado’s assistant at La Scala in Milan. Now Mr. Chailly, 62, is following in the footsteps of Mr. Abbado, who died in 2014, in more ways than one: he became principal conductor at La Scala this […]
  
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• ABT’s Newest Principal Is 37 – And Came Back From An Injury That Nearly Ended Her Career

  13-08-2015 10:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just as she was turning 30, Stella Abrera damaged her back and sciatic nerve; recovery took 18 months and a relearning of her technique. Six years later, she’s been made a principal dancer. “It’s got to be unprecedented by someone at my age, at this point in the game to be promoted.”
  
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• BBC Radio’s Global Business News Program Goes To The Opera

  13-08-2015 10:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Opera is an expensive art form. It receives millions of pounds of public money. Can that be justified? Peter Day gets a range of operatic experiences – from top opera companies, to pub performers and a country house summer festival. The first opera was performed 400 years ago in Italy; how does the future look?” […]
  
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• When People Have The ‘Porcupine Problem’ (As Schopenhauer Called It)

  13-08-2015 10:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Imagine a group of porcupines trying to survive a cold winter. They huddle together for warmth, only to then poke one another with their quills and withdraw. Schopenhauer wrote that human relationships are like this: Much as cold drives the animal porcupines together, ‘the need of society drives the human porcupines together, only to be […]
  
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• Tenor Sings During His Own Brain Surgery

  13-08-2015 10:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Joined by a pianist in the operating room, Slovenian tenor Ambroz Bajec-Lapajne delivers the first and last couplets of Schubert’s ‘Gute Nacht’ (in major and minor) so doctors could monitor his ability to sing and recognize key changes” – making sure that they didn’t inadvertently damage his brain further during the operation. (video)
  
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• The Rise Of Phone Reading: How Publishers Are Rethinking Books For The Small Screen

  13-08-2015 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The rise of phone reading is pushing publishers to rethink the way books are designed, marketed and sold with smaller screens in mind. It’s also prompting concern about whether deep, concentrated thinking is possible amid the ringing, buzzing and alerts that come with phones.”
  
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• David Simon Talks About His New Miniseries – About Housing Desegregation – With Sen. Cory Booker

  13-08-2015 10:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the edited conversation that follows, Mr. Booker” – former mayor of Newark, now U.S. Senator from New Jersey – “and Mr. Simon traded ideas about cities as America’s future, where not just the economy and creative capital but also equality and justice need to be worked out.”
  
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• Are Horror Movies Inherently Sexist? If They Are, Can They Be Changed?

  13-08-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Horror films, particularly those about masked men wielding blades and taking out unsuspecting innocents one by one, often have a roster of stereotypical female victims. … Reporting for Talking Movies, Nada Tawfik talks to several women film-makers who believe that a different approach to horror is possible.” (video)
  
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• Ukraine Bans Russian Books For Spreading ‘Hate Ideology’

  13-08-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The blacklist of 38 titles, including works by Russian nationalists Alexander Dugin, Eduard Limonov and Sergei Glazyev, was released by the Ukrainian State Television and Radio Committee, which accused Russia of “information warfare.”
  
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• Chinese City Unveils Copy Of Anish Kapoor’s ‘Cloud Gate’ (Chicago’s ‘Bean’) – And Kapoor Is Not Happy

  13-08-2015 09:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It seems that in China today it is permissible to steal the creativity of others,” said the sculptor, who plans to sue and wants Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to join the case. Authorities in the Xinjiang oil town of Karamay insist that their sculpture, intended to represent a giant oil bubble, is completely different.
  
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• Oligarch Must Pay Sculptor For Illegal Knockoffs He Had Made, Says Court, But He Gets To Keep The Copies

  13-08-2015 09:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Last week a federal judge ordered Russian-born, Florida-based billionaire Igor Olenicoff to pay sculptor John Raimondi $640,000 for having unauthorized copies of his work made in China and installed at his development sites. However, US District Judge Andrew Guilford denied the artist’s request that the fakes be scrapped.” (They get labels instead.)
  
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• ‘King Lear’ With A Cast Of One Man And Nine Sheep (Yes, Seriously)

  13-08-2015 09:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Says director Heather Williams, “I wanted to use the idea of non-cooperative actors to explore the themes of King Lear itself. Because Cordelia’s an actor who refuses to act.”
  
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• Uggie, Co-Star Of Oscar-Winner ‘The Artist’, Dead At 13

  13-08-2015 09:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There was Toto and there was Rin Tin Tin – there was Lassie and there was Benji – but perhaps no dog in recent memory had as much impact on the history of motion pictures as Uggie.”
  
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• Philosophers Jürgen Habermas And Charles Taylor To Share $1.5 Million Prize

  13-08-2015 08:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity, “inaugurated in 2003 and awarded by the Library of Congress, is intended to recognize work in disciplines not covered by the Nobel prizes. Mr. Habermas, 86, is widely recognized as one of the most important German thinkers of the past half century, a […]
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.12.15

  13-08-2015 08:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AftA Thoughts 2015: The Arts and . . . AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-08-11 Tolstoy And Svensson AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-08-12 A Little-Known Master Artist’s ‘Uncollected’ Works AJBlog: Straight|Up Published 2015-08-12 Weekend Listening Tip: Jazz Port Townsend All-Stars AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-08-12 [ssba_hide]
  
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• NJPAC Operations Support and Services Coordinator

  13-08-2015 06:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Operations Support and Services Coordinator is responsible for the administrative coordination of the Operations Support division, including implementing and maintaining all administrative processes and procedures, efficient operation of the mailroom, shipping and receiving, and inventory control.
  
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• Anish Kapoor: Chinese authorities plagiarised my Cloud Gate sculpture

  13-08-2015 04:15
  
  British artist Anish Kapoor has accused Chinese authorities of “blatant plagiarism”, claiming a public sculpture due to be unveiled in Karamay is “identical” to one he created for Chicago nearly 10 years ago.
  
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