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• The Complete MoMA Art Collection – All Of It – Available To See Right Now

  28-08-2015 23:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For each piece, the database tells us the work’s title, some brief biographical information about the artist, the year of creation, the medium and dimensions, and how and when MoMA acquired it. These aren’t exactly trade secrets: It’s basically the data printed on the placards posted next to each painting. But, in MoMA’s case, it’s assembled in one place, comprehensive, easy to use, and recent. The museum made the database freely available online last month.&
  
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• Can The Internet Crowdsource The “Perfect” Song?

  28-08-2015 21:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ‘This is an experiment in crowd-sourced songwriting. A melody is currently being generated, note by note, in real-time, using the popular vote of the crowd,’ says crowdsound.net.
  
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• The Science Behind Why Some People Are Selfish

  28-08-2015 21:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What is interesting, then, is that when you show calculating people what they expect — that you are ready to exploit their vulnerabilities for self-gain — there is no sign of surprise. When you respond to their selfish behavior with kindness, their brains immediately start planning how to best take advantage of you. They are, in fact, selfish jerks.”
  
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• PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

  28-08-2015 21:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ordway Center for the Performing Arts invites applications for the position of President & Chief Executive Officer.
  The Position:With an annual budget between $15 and $16 million, Ordway Center for the Arts is known for its wide programming mix including a large musical theater series and the development of new theatrical product, the Target World Music and Dance Season, the Flint Hills International Children’s Festival, and an impressive array of educational and community engagem
  
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• Gallery Diet Is Moving Out Of Miami’s Wynwood District

  28-08-2015 20:42 via artnews.com
  For the past six years, Gallery Diet has been located in Miami’s art-centric Wynwood District, at 174 Northwest 23rd Street. This November, the gallery will open the doors to its new permanent home at 6315 Northwest 2nd Avenue, a four-building … Read More
  
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• Glenn Ligon Names His Ten Favorite Books, Includes ‘Citizen’ Among Them

  28-08-2015 20:26 via artnews.com
  Aaron Hicklin has been asking people to name their favorite books in an ongoing T magazine feature, and the series’s most recent installment has the American conceptual artist Glenn Ligon revealing what’s on his bookshelf.Considering Ligon’s interest in race and politics, it’s not … Read More
  
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• Frustrated: Editor Blasts Critics Complaining About Lack of Diversity And Transparency at Writers Conference

  28-08-2015 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Editor Kate Gale took aim at the charges in a blog post at Huffington Post in a plea for members to stop questioning (attacking) the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).
  
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• Editor’s Rant About Diversity Complaints Brings Down Wrath Of The Internet

  28-08-2015 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The language in Kate Gale’s piece has set off a firestorm. Discussing a complaint that AWP is not inclusive of various ethnic groups–and responding directly to a charge that the organization has been dismissive of Native Americans–Gale writes of trying to find the potential “Indian hater” in the organization. Then, speaking about issues of diversity around gender and sexuality, Gale asks, rhetorically, ” How gay is AWP?,” before stating that she feels sh
  
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• Director Accuses Theatre Of “Setting A Dangerous Precedent” By Cancelling ISIS Play

  28-08-2015 19:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If a single company gets scared and it is willing to pull work that it has invested time and money and love into… that is a very dangerous precedent.”
  
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• Director Of Russian Museum Fired Amid Charges Of Theft And Forgery

  28-08-2015 19:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Patrons and employees of the museum — also known as the Karakalpak State Museum of Art — vociferously protested her dismissal. They defended Marinika Babanazarova, the granddaughter of a former ruler of the region, as the collection’s stalwart protector.”
  
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• Time To Abolish The Idea That Social Interaction Is A “Science”?

  28-08-2015 19:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Social science was — it is best to speak in the past tense — a mistake. The dream of a comprehensive science of society, which would elucidate “laws of history” or “social laws” comparable to the physical determinants or “laws” of nature, was one of the great delusions of the 19th century.”
  
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• ‘Richard Estes: Painting New York’ at MAD NYC

  28-08-2015 19:00 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Richard Estes: Painting New York”  is currently on view at MAD New York. The show features a range of paintings, photographs, silkscreens and woodcuts from the mid-1960s to the … Read More
  
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• The New Razzle-Dazzle: El Anatsui on His ‘Gem’-Encrusted Tapestries, in 2008

  28-08-2015 18:25 via artnews.com
  With five decades of El Anatsui’s work on view at Jack Shainman Gallery’s The School, in upstate New York, we turn back to June 2008, when Barbara Pollack profiled the Ghanaian-born artist for ARTnews. Anatsui, who won the Golden Lion … Read More
  
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• Measuring The Creative Economy: Can We Measure How The Artists Are Doing?

  28-08-2015 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Interestingly, in all the responses to the article, no one so far has been able to suggest a data source that suggests that mean or median incomes for musicians have declined since 1999, adjusted for inflation. Everything that I have uncovered in many months of researching this article suggests that the story of music since 1999 is one of steady but small growth for musicians. Not some glorious renaissance, but certainly not a crisis.”
  
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• Photography As A Weapon

  28-08-2015 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The weaponization of photography is a partial reflection of a modern culture that is willing to consume and interpret imagery without analysis or concern for who might be victimized by the image. And the rate at which photos and video can spread online feeds this insatiable consumption. It wasn’t always like this.”
  
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• A Revolution In Photography? Maybe, But Not The Way You Think

  28-08-2015 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The number of people armed with cameras today has never been greater – in the past 10 years the act has become utterly ubiquitous. But it isn’t the first time this kind of thing has happened. It’s the second.”
  
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• Nadine Johnson & Associates seeks Account Executive

  28-08-2015 17:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nadine Johnson & Associates, Inc. is seeking an account executive for its Culture department.
  Desired experience includes:
  Strong writing, pitching and organizational skills
  Existing relationships with high level editors
  Understanding of the international contemporary arts landscape
  Minimum 4 years prior experience as media strategist, in-house or agency
  Ability to multi-task and engage in lateral thinking
  Strong teamwork and people skills
  About the Company:
  Nadine Johnson & Associates,
  
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• Rembrandt and the Buttocks-Baring Dress: The Rijksmuseum’s Risk-Taking Director

  28-08-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  “To pull people into the museum, you need tricks,” said Rijksmuseum director Wim Pijbes. “If you feel the need for contemplation, you buy a Rembrandt.” Read More
  
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• Morning Links: @dirty_corner Edition

  28-08-2015 15:11 via artnews.com
  After discovering that three Israeli artists were also showing work at Dismaland (including one who had served in the IDF), Palestinian artist Shadi Alzaqzouq covered up his work, causing security guards to remove him from the theme park. [Dazed Digital]Hauser … Read More
  
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• 100 homeless people were given disposable cameras, this is what they shot

  28-08-2015 13:35
  
  Café Art connects people affected by homelessness with the wider community through art, and for its latest project, handed out 100 FujiFilm single-use cameras to people affected by homelessness, asking them to capture simply ‘My London’.
  
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• Kraftwerk to release '3D album' in autumn 2015

  28-08-2015 13:18
  
  The electronic band are translating their striking live 3D and surround sound performances to Blu-Ray formatKraftwerk have confirmed details of a “3D album” – translating their current visual show into a release scheduled for autumn 2015.
  Speaking to Rolling Stone, the group’s only original member, Ralf Hütter, explained that their 3D performances at venues such as New York’s MoMA, the Düsseldorf Kunstsammlung, London’s Tate Modern, the Sydney Opera
  
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• Sometimes You End Up Having To Paint Your Castle Yellow: The Perils Of Historical Restoration

  28-08-2015 10:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The story of how the restoration of the Great Hall of Stirling Castle led to it being painted bright yellow illustrates the unexpected complexity … It comes down to this question: When you choose to restore something, at which moment in time are you restoring it to?” (podcast with transcription)
  
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• Fire Destroys Second City’s Chicago Offices

  28-08-2015 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Second City CEO Andrew Alexander: “It has gutted our two levels of offices. But we’ll fix it. … The theaters are fine. The most important thing is that no one is hurt. Thank the Lord.”
  
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• ‘Happily Manipulated’: Peter Schjeldahl On Whistler’s Mother, And His Own

  28-08-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The iconic status of Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1 isn’t just because it marks “the peak of Whistler’s radical method of modulating tones of single colors.” It’s because, like Mona Lisa, The Scream, and American Gothic, “Whistler’s Mother” is “the distillation of a meaning instantly recognized and forever inexhaustible. In this case, it’s the mysteries of motherhood. Everybody has a mother, and something close to half of everybod
  
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• Dangerous Satire? Americans Know Nothing Of Dangerous Satire

  28-08-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “America simply never had a Werner Finck, and we certainly don’t have a Bassem Youssef, even though we’d like to think we do. It is far safer and easier to canonize Chaplin’s ballet performance [in The Great Dictator] while forgetting the unsafe, uneasy provocations of Finck [and Youssef]. Americans tolerate bullshit even when we know – we know – it’s bullshit. At the best of times, there is something luxurious about this.”
  
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• Cancelled Play About Radicalisation Of British Muslim Girls Gets Lots Of Offers For Stagings

  28-08-2015 09:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The playwright behind Homegrown, the controversial play exploring radicalisation and jihadi brides that was shut down less than a fortnight before its opening, … has been approached by numerous figures and organisations offering to put the play back on and discussions are currently underway.”
  
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• The Red-Baiting Of Lena Horne – And How She Overcame It

  28-08-2015 09:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over the course of her long life, Lena Horne became a star of film, music, television, and stage, as well as a formidable force for civil rights. … Yet there was a brief period in the early 1950s when Horne’s career seemed to be over. … She continued to perform at nightclubs, but nobody in the TV or film industries would hire her.”
  
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• Can You Picture Josephine Baker As A Senior Citizen?

  28-08-2015 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From the Guardian archives, a visit with the toast of 1920s Paris – and decorated veteran of the French Resistance – in France they year before she died.
  
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• Stop Calling It ‘The Bechdel Test,’ Says Alison Bechdel

  28-08-2015 09:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After all, as she’s been saying for years, she wasn’t the one who came up with the idea. She simply put it in a comic strip, where it was eventually noticed.
  
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• Ten London Museums Do A Virtual Collection Swap Via Instagram

  28-08-2015 09:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Using the hashtag #museuminstaswap, each participating institution will share photos of its partner museum throughout the week, highlighting works that resonate with their own collections.”
  
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• All The Stephen Colbert Stuff That Didn’t Make It Into The Time Cover Story

  28-08-2015 09:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On why he had to leave The Colbert Report: “I still enjoyed it, but to model behavior, you have to consume that behavior on a regular basis. It became very hard to watch punditry of any kind, of whatever political stripe. … To change that expectation from an audience, or to change that need for me to be steeped in cable news and punditry, I had to actually leave. I had to change.” (includes plenty of video clips)
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.27.15

  28-08-2015 07:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
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  AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-08-27Raphael’s no Angel, but it’s not because he’s Jewish
  AJBlog: Plain English Published 2015-08-27So you want to see a show?
  AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-08-27
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• Stephen King: Does Being A Prolific Writer Make You A Bad Writer?

  28-08-2015 03:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  No one in his or her right mind would argue that quantity guarantees quality, but to suggest that quantity never produces quality strikes me as snobbish, inane and demonstrably untrue.
  
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• A Major New Dance School Rises In Los Angeles

  28-08-2015 03:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Kaufman school, which started classes this week, is unusual in embedding a conservatory-style bachelor of fine arts program within a private research university of some academic rigor. It’s also distinctive in curricular focus; its motto — “the New Movement” — connotes revolution, and Jody Gates speaks of “reimagining dance education for the 21st century.”
  
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• Israel Protests Plans By Daniel Barenboim To Perform In Iran

  28-08-2015 01:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “News of the proposed concert drew an angry reaction from Israel’s minister of culture and sport, Miri Regev, who denounced it this week on her Facebook page and said that she would that she would write German officials and urge them to cancel the concert.”
  
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• Do Neuroticism And Creativity Go Hand In Hand?

  28-08-2015 00:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Think of it this way: Reacting to an ambiguous remark from your boss by coming up with crazy, unrealistic scenarios in which you are likely to get fired is, in a very real sense, creative.
  
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