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• Lost Generation: Middle-Aged Classical Musicians

  27-08-2015 23:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is the art-form that reveres the aged master, but it’s no less enamoured of youth. The problem is that between charmed youth and revered old age comes the ‘awkward age’. To be musically talented and middle-aged is nowadays deemed worthy of no more than polite attention. Whereas to be musically talented and young is to be treated as a veritable god.”
  
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• Met To Remain Open Until Midnight for Final Weekend of ‘China: Through the Looking Glass’

  27-08-2015 23:20 via artnews.com
  As “China: Through the Looking Glass” comes to the end of its run, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will stay open until midnight, the New York Times reports.The museum will be open three hours later than usual on September 4 and … Read More
  
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• ‘Fresh Paint/New Construction 2015’ at Art Mûr

  27-08-2015 22:26 via artnews.com
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• Here Are The Renderings For Frank Gehry’s Proposed $300 M L.A. Project

  27-08-2015 22:15 via artnews.com
  Yesterday, Architectural Record reported that Gehry Partners has released the renderings for Los Angeles–based architect Frank Gehry’s proposed $300 million mixed-used development in the heart of L.A.’s Sunset Strip.The renderings show five unique structures spread across a 2.6-acre site, anchored by a plaza, … Read More
  
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• Nicole K. Allen White Named Director of Government and External Affairs at Philadelphia Museum of Art

  27-08-2015 21:53 via artnews.com
  The Philadelphia Museum of Art has announced the appointment of Nicole K. Allen White as director of government and external affairs, effective immediately. In her new position, Allen White will further the museum’s strong relationship with the city of Philadelphia and … Read More
  
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• Readers recommend: melancholy songs | Peter Kimpton

  27-08-2015 21:00
  
  Bittersweet, articulate, beautiful or bold? Suggest selections for a special form of sadness in songs in this week’s sorrowful but strangely uplifting topic
  “Misery is the river of the world,” grunts out an energetically downbeat Tom Waits. “Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness,” replies the eccentric, upbeat author Italo Calvino. And, now also entering the Readers Recommend bar (you never know who might turn up), here’s Rob Spragg, aka Larry Love
  
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• Habitat: Cy Gavin

  27-08-2015 18:04 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Cy Gavin; Morningside Heights, New York. Cy Gavin is staying put on 115th Street. “Because of the rising second years, I’m the only one who’s staying here because it’s a … Read More
  
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• Dismaland: Banksy accused of being a 'sellout' after Brad Pitt reportedly getting private tour

  27-08-2015 17:58
  
  Banksy’s latest work, his Dismaland ‘bemusement park’, has become somewhat laden with irony.
  
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• Red herring: Botticelli's redhead not touched up by Rossetti, V&A says

  27-08-2015 17:40
  
  Curators at museum hosting major Botticelli exhibition next spring busts myth that pre-Raphaelite gave portrait of Smerelda Bandinelli a red rinse
  It has been one of the more intriguing art historical mysteries for more than a century: did the great pre-Raphaelite Dante Gabriel Rossetti touch up a Botticelli painting he owned by giving the sitter a vibrant red rinse?On Thursday, curators at the Victoria and Albert Museum gave the definitive answer – the red hair of the 15th-century woman k
  
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• Keith Arnatt is proof that the art world doesn't consider photography 'real' art

  27-08-2015 17:12
  
  The insatiably curious British photographer waged war on the art world after it rejected him. Could a fresh exhibition of his early explorations – playfully called Absence of the Artist – bring him the recognition he deserves?Keith Arnatt liked to photograph things “everyone else thinks aren’t worth photographing”. These included discarded toys, dog poo, detritus from rubbish tips and the various notes his wife, Jo, left around the house for him. Seven years after h
  
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• Camille Blatrix, artist: 'At the Pompidou everyone was talking about me, and then three hours I was alone and crying'

  27-08-2015 17:00
  
  Camille Blatrix lives in southern Paris, in the 14th arrondissement, an area that once housed many artists but is quiet now, and slumbering in the heat of summer. An unwelcoming hall leads to a glorious greenhouse filled with light. This was previously the studio of Blatrix's painter father; when he split from his wife – when Blatrix was eight years old – he came to live here.
  
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• The Power of the Margins: How the Green Gallery Made Milwaukee Famous

  27-08-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  In 2004, John Riepenhoff, an artist recently graduated from college in Wisconsin, started the Green Gallery with some help from his brother Joe, in an attic in Milwaukee. The Riepenhoffs were outsiders in a city that is best known for … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Takashi Murakami’s Private Collection Edition

  27-08-2015 15:01 via artnews.com
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• Dismaland: watch the trailer for Banksy's 'bemusement park' – video

  27-08-2015 14:51
  
  Model motorised boats crammed with migrants, paparazzi photographing a dead Cinderella, and a pocket money loans kiosk offering cash to kids at an interest rate of 5,000% – these are just some of the installations in Banksy’s new art show, Dismaland bemusement park, which opens on Weston-super-Mare seafront on Thursday. The two-minute trailer reveals some of the works by 58 artists, including Damien Hirst and Jenny Holzer, installed across the 2.5-acre siteRead: In Dismaland, Banksy
  
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• Botticelli Reimagined exhibition coming to V&A after opening in Berlin

  27-08-2015 14:24
  
  London show will feature modern artwork, fashion, film and music inspired by the Renaissance artist, as well as large collection of original Botticelli paintingsMaybe Helen of Troy’s beauty launched a thousand ships but Sandro Botticelli’s paintings of Venus, Pallas Athena, Simonetta Vespucci and other women, both real and mythical, have inspired countless imitations that will form a constellation of ideal and profane love in Botticelli Reimagined, a blockbuster show that opens at th
  
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• Artist takes LSD, draws herself over different stages of the 9-hour trip to show its effects

  27-08-2015 12:37
  
  How LSD affects one’s creativity has long since fascinated humans, be it in literature, music or art.
  
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• Sotheby’s Will Sell ABBA’s Piano in September

  27-08-2015 11:30 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s will sell the piano ABBA used to make many of its hits in the 1970s, the auction house announced today. The Swedish pop group’s piano is one of the world’s finest, the announcement proudly (and not necessarily empirically) states, … Read More
  
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• Dismaland: Banksy releases delightfully grim Disney World parody trailer

  27-08-2015 11:13
  
  Banksy has released a trailer advertising his latest UK show Dismaland, a pop-up “bemusement park” in Weston-super-Mare’s Tropicana building.
  
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• ‘Born To Run’ At 40: Bruce Springsteen And The Fading Of The American Dream

  27-08-2015 10:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Lost amid popular memories of kitsch – of waterbeds and pet rocks, mood rings and self-help books – is the story of a more complicated decade. The enduring sway of Born to Run isn’t just thanks to the music, which stands up strongly, four decades later. It stems also from the unique time and place in which Americans first came to know Bruce Springsteen.”
  
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• When A Snuff Film Becomes Unavoidable: Social Media And The Virginia TV Shootings

  27-08-2015 10:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is why Twitter and Facebook shouldn’t make video play automatically.
  
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• Thieves Dressed As Tourists Steal Rodin From Museum In Broad Daylight

  27-08-2015 10:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Two men walked into the Rodin Room at the Ny Carlsberg Glypoteket museum in Copenhagen, walked right up to The Man with the Broken Nose, put it in a bag, and left – apparently unnoticed by guards and other museum-goers.
  
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• Duke Freshmen Refuse To Read ‘Fun Home’ Because It’s ‘Pornographic’

  27-08-2015 10:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Said one of the scandalized young fellas, “the nature of Fun Home means that content that I might have consented to read in print now violates my conscience due to its pornographic nature.” Explained another, “I would [also] not have read the book if the pictures were of heterosexual intercourse.”
  
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• ‘Fun Home’ Is Not Porn, And The Duke Refuseniks Know It

  27-08-2015 10:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He wants us to believe, in other words, that he was turned off by a handful of panels in a comic with thousands of them. Grasso’s vague word choice [in his larger argument] suggests that he knows how ridiculous this objection really is.”
  
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• How Jonathan Franzen Became America’s Leading Public Moralist

  27-08-2015 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Do you love Jonathan Franzen? Does America? Does the world? These questions sound ridiculous, but they’re the ones Franzen has been posing over the past two decades, as he has, against long odds, made himself the kind of public figure about whom they aren’t entirely ridiculous or even unusual.”
  
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• A 17th-Century Female Artist You’ve Never Heard Of (No, We Don’t Mean Artemisia)

  27-08-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Like Artemisia Gentileschi, Josefa de Óbidos (1630–1684) was the daughter of a respected painter. But she developed a successful career in her own right, painting both sacred and secular subjects, in Counter-Reformation-era Portugal.
  
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• Poignant Short Stories Composed Entirely Of Example Sentences From The Dictionary

  27-08-2015 09:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, there’s a Tumblr for them – the brainchild of Jez Burrows. “The best part, though, is how existentially moving these stories become. Burrows creates recipes (where he features the aforementioned gallons of blood) and poignantly moving confessionals that turn on their head with the last sentence.”
  
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• How (And Why) I Chose My 101 Greatest Plays (And Why I Left Out ‘King Lear’)

  27-08-2015 09:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Billington: “Why do it? Why put my head on the chopping-block by writing a book hubristically entitled The 101 Greatest Plays? The answers are many and complex.”
  
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• Fire Destroys Portion Of One Of Europe’s Largest Science Museums

  27-08-2015 09:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Firefighters battled the blaze at the Cité des Sciences in Paris for more than five hours. “Smoke and flames damaged an area of 10,000 square metres (107,000 square feet), ravaging a 110-million-euro ($122 million) scheme to turn the [auxiliary] building into an area for shops.” None of the museum’s exhibits were damaged.
  
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• Radical Sandcastles – Now HERE’s Some Pathbreaking Architecture For You

  27-08-2015 09:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “His creations look nothing like classical interpretations. Instead of mounds and turrets and moats, [Matt] Kaliner’s structures are drippy archways that twist, jut, climb, and at times appear suspended in midair. They are otherwordly, like something you’d find on a beach in Neverland, or what it might look like if Antoni Gaudi had designed the fictional island of Laputa in a dream.”
  
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• Sylvie Guillem On Nureyev And Being ‘Mademoiselle Non’

  27-08-2015 09:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I trusted my instincts. It is a very short career [and] I didn’t have time to cope with the management of the company.”
  
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• Men’s And Women’s Brains Are Indeed Different – But Only A Little

  27-08-2015 09:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Two years ago, a study of the differences between male and female brains caused a storm. The researchers, based at the University of Pennsylvania, claimed to have found that, from adolescence onwards, men’s brains have more connections within each hemisphere, whereas women’s brains have more cross-connections between the hemispheres.” Well, they’ve updated their findings.
  
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• Twyla Tharp Rehearses Her 50th Anniversary Tour: Day Eight

  27-08-2015 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “But today the ones in this room are tired. This is no surprise as last week was a hard one finishing the entire show, which is nearly 90 minutes of dancing. I always push the first week of a rehearsal period so that we can all see what we actually have.”
  
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• How The Biggest Explosion In Recorded History Changed Culture All Over The World

  27-08-2015 09:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 did more than just cause the “Year Without Summer” and lead to months on end of storms, crop failures and epidemics. The aftermath of that catastrophe changed the course of painting and literature (though the participants didn’t know it at the time), and arguably led to the birth of an entire branch of popular culture.
  
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• How To Structure A Radio Narrative, Explained In Comic-Book Form (Starring Ira Glass)

  27-08-2015 09:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A portion of the “Keep or Kill” chapter from Jessica Abel’s graphic non-fiction book Out on the Wire.
  
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• The Cat Video And The Essence Of Art

  27-08-2015 08:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Cats have purposiveness without a knowable purpose (Immanuel Kant’s much-cited criterion for true art). Cats are mysteries; their agendas, beyond food and sleep and sunlight, may constitute a kind of knowledge endlessly deferred. (They are born aesthetes, but also born deconstructionists.)”
  
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• Fire-Eating, Projectile Weapons, A Mandy Patinkin Impression – Offbeat Skills That Have Gotten Actors Work

  27-08-2015 08:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stage fighting? Lots of people can do that. Accents? Standard. Foreign languages? No longer uncommon. Here are seven actors talking about the really unusual gifts they have.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.26.15

  27-08-2015 07:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Adjaye in Play? What’s Behind Worldwide Search for Obama Center’s Architect?
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-08-26Jaki Byard And Musique du bois
  AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-08-26Snapshot: Bette Davis and Bert Lahr on The Hollywood Palace
  AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-08-26
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• Turin Shroud leak starts unholy row: from the archive, 27 August 1988

  27-08-2015 06:30
  Scholars at Oxford University believe the linen, said to have wrapped the body of Jesus, may be a fakeRepresentatives of the Archbishop of Turin condemned Oxford University last night for allowing news to leak out that the Turin Shroud - revered by Roman Catholics as a bloodstained relic of the crucified Christ - is a medieval forgery. They announced that the university could not possibly know.The furore began after Dr Richard Luckett, a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, wrote in the Eveni
  
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• What Ails Orchestra Thinking

  27-08-2015 02:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Something that became very clear to me soon after becoming Managing Director was that the apparent sense of harmony and collective excellence on-stage was not always evident in the interactions of the musicians with each other off-stage or with management.”
  
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• Detroit Institute Of Arts Narrows Its Search For A New Director

  27-08-2015 02:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Board Chairman Gene Gargaro, who is leading the 14-member search committee, said Tuesday that the museum has completed two rounds of interviews and identified “a short list” of four possible replacements for former Director Graham Beal, whose 16-year tenure ended June 30.
  
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• Finally – An App That Might Make Learning Easier

  27-08-2015 02:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As the system learns more about a student, it can automatically recommend the pieces of content that are most likely to help that student improve. In other words, it lifts the burden of those decisions off of the teacher.”
  
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• Why The BBC Needs To Be Saved

  27-08-2015 02:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When the media, communications and information industries make up nearly 8% our GDP, larger than the car and oil and gas industries put together, we need to be heard, as those industries are heard. But when I see the panel of experts who’ve been asked by the culture secretary to take a root and branch look at the BBC, I don’t see anyone who is a part of that cast and crew list. I see executives, media owners, industry gurus, all talented people – but not a single person
  
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• Is Your Foundation Perpetuating Inequality By The Way You Give Away Money?

  27-08-2015 02:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A basic tenet of equity in our line of work is that the communities that are most affected by societal problems are leading the efforts to address these challenges. And yet, many foundations’ application process is deeply inequitable, leaving behind the people and communities who are most affected by the injustices we as a sector are trying to address.”
  
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• What People REALLY Read On The Privacy Of Their Own E-Book Readers

  27-08-2015 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A newly published list of Amazon.co.uk’s biggest selling e-books of the year features psychological thrillers, misery memoirs, Mills and Boon and a book by the Tory MP Nadine Dorries, whose first work was memorably described by a Telegraph reviewer as “the worst novel I’ve read in 10 years”.
  
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• Ten Agatha Christie Plays Discovered

  27-08-2015 01:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The ten plays – five full-length and five one-act works – were discovered by producer Julius Green while researching a book about the author’s work in theatre. He heralded the find as a “forgotten piece of theatre history”.
  
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• Reflecting On The Harry Potter Generation (Long After Harry Was Done)

  27-08-2015 01:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For an entire generation, Harry Potter is a core text; for many, it’s the core text, formative not only because of its content, but because of the collective experience of reading it. The long waits between books, the midnight release parties, the broad cross-cultural anticipation that was near-unprecedented in the book world at the time: for the massive number of people who read them as they were first published, these things are tied up in our memories of reading the books, and ou
  
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• What Do You Need To Do To Innovate In The Concert Hall? (Some Suggestions)

  27-08-2015 01:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Why don’t you create performing arts organizations like sports teams? For example, why not have fan clubs for various artists? Why don’t you have them sign autographs? At one point I got them to make baseball cards for all the musicians. There’s a lot to learn in the way sports are marketed, how they’re delivered, and how broadly they’re accepted. Sports is the most successful of the performing arts; and in any industry don’t you try to learn from the m
  
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