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• Report: Public’s View Of The Future Of Public Libraries Is Sharply Divided

  15-09-2015 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The data paint a complex portrait of disruption and aspiration. There are relatively active constituents who hope libraries will maintain valuable legacy functions such as lending printed books. At the same time, there are those who support the idea that libraries should adapt to a world where more and more information lives in digital form, accessible anytime and anywhere.”
  
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• Problem With LA’s New Broad Museum – Too Much Art?

  15-09-2015 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The volume of work chosen for the inaugural exhibition, on both the third floor and a smaller first-floor gallery that will eventually be used for temporary shows, is overwhelming. Partition walls clutter the third floor, and obliterate its spatial drama. And too many of the works are so large, and importune the visitor so aggressively, that one feels hectored by hectares of art.”
  
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• ‘People Are Always Once Removed’: Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe Bring Their Dystopia to Red Bull Studios

  15-09-2015 20:53 via artnews.com
  For the next three months at Red Bull Studios in Chelsea, the artists Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe have teamed up with underground rock legend Jennifer Herrema (of Royal Trux and Black Bananas) for “Scenario in the Shade,” an impressively … Read More
  
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• How Late Night TV Got Reinvigorated

  15-09-2015 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Far from signaling the fading cultural import of the late-night talk show, which is what everyone feared the market-share-cannibalizing Leno-Letterman wars augured in the 1990s, this fragmented landscape has invigorated the format—nearly every weeknight brings some rich moment that goes viral.”
  
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• So What’s Missing From That Vanity Fair Picture Of Late Night TV?

  15-09-2015 20:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Vanity Fair article, written by David Kamp, talks about the changes within the last few years in late-night comedy. The article also points out that women are still missing from late-night TV.”
  
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• ‘Andra Ursuta: Whites’ at Kunsthalle Basel

  15-09-2015 20:00 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Andra Ursuta: WHITES” is on view at Kunsthalle Basel. For the artist’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland, her slightly anthropomorphic figures are drawn from her 2013 piece titled Broken Obelisk. The 14 … Read More
  
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• ADAA Art Show Announces 2016 Exhibitors List

  15-09-2015 19:00 via artnews.com
  If the idea of thinking ahead to March 2016 fills you with an unbearable fear that gradually crushes any semblance of hopefulness you might have under the weight of mortality’s inevitable grip, due to your inability to see even a … Read More
  
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• Max Richter's 'Sleep': The longest continuous piece of music broadcast by the BBC

  15-09-2015 18:52
  
  When composers unveil new works, they do not generally want the audience to nod off. Not so Max Richter. The intention behind his latest piece, Sleep – which is eight hours long – is that his listeners should slumber peacefully throughout. He has termed it "my personal lullaby for a frenetic world" and "a manifesto for a slower pace of existence". The world premiere, on 26 September, will apparently offer beds instead of chairs – and as it is broadcast live on BB
  
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• Nicola Russell obituary

  15-09-2015 18:49
  
  My partner, Nicola Russell, who has died aged 51 of breast cancer, was an accomplished artist recognised globally for her equestrian work – one of her paintings hangs in Windsor Castle. She also charted the Northern Ireland peace process with a series of commissioned portraits of some of the key figures involved in it.Nicola was born in Portadown, Co Armagh, to George Russell, a vet, and his wife, Jill, an office manager at the Irish Times. She attended Bloomfield Collegiate and Methody Co
  
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• V&A Names Antonia Boström Keeper of European Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics, and Glass

  15-09-2015 18:27 via artnews.com
  London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has named Dr. Antonia Boström keeper of the more than 110,000 works, dating from the 4th to the 19th century, of European sculpture, metalwork, ceramics, and glass in the museum’s collection, beginning January 2016. Boström, … Read More
  
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• Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor to walk through London to raise awareness of refugee crisis

  15-09-2015 18:16
  
  Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor will join forces for a 7 mile walk through London to mark the refugee crisis.
  
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• RM Sotheby’s Will Sell Janis Joplin’s Porsche in December

  15-09-2015 17:37 via artnews.com
  RM Sotheby’s, the branch of the major auction house devoted to cars, announced today that it will be selling Janis Joplin’s Porsche as part of its “Driven to Disruption” sale on December 10. As the press release gleefully notes, the … Read More
  
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• The secret life of paintings: how my art collection went walkies

  15-09-2015 17:22
  
  Paintings are living things, and cohabiting with one – especially one of Cain and Abel – is complex. Now my art collection is joining an exhibition. Am I ready to let it leave home?Ever looked at the labels on artworks in an exhibition where it says “on loan from a private collection” or simply “private collection”, and wondered who the owner is, how they came to have it, what happens in the world of art ownership? Well, visitors to Sacrifice, an exhibition of
  
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• The Man Who Made The Toronto Film Festival Great Talks About How To Succeed

  15-09-2015 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Piers Handling: “When I was younger, what got me engaged were filmmakers who taught me to think analytically, and it began to reveal truths about relationships in the world – between people and society and everything around us – in a very different way. To decipher the world visually, try to uncover what’s beneath the surface and in the subtext, still fascinates me. And that’s what really began to open my eyes to the potential of the medium.”
  
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• Unhappy Thoughts: Gary Indiana Gets Personal In New Memoir

  15-09-2015 17:00 via artnews.com
  “Reality is, for the most part, a great disappointment,” Gary Indiana writes in his new memoir I Can Give You Anything But Love (Rizzoli Ex Libris). This epiphany comes when Indiana is flipping through a book of Annie Leibovitz’s photography … Read More
  
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• The Problem With “Modern” Philosophy

  15-09-2015 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The move to understand things theoretically only comes about when there is some interruption or “deficiency” in our ordinary dealings. A common error in philosophy, however, has been a kind of “intellectualism,” treating all our contact with the world in terms of concepts and representations, assuming that “knowledge is the only mode of experience that grasps things.”
  
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• Posters from Banksy's Dismaland protesting major arms fair appear across London

  15-09-2015 16:08
  
  Commuters in London have been greeted with a number of alternative posters across the capital on their journeys to work.
  
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• Why National Geographic Decided To Sell Its Iconic Magazine

  15-09-2015 15:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The money it gets from the asset sale to Fox will give National Geographic a potentially more stable foundation. It will swell the society’s endowment to more than $1 billion and provide the cash flow for it to double its annual spending on philanthropic activities in research and exploration.”
  
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• Company Plans To Tour Show With Hologram Concert Of The Late Whitney Houston

  15-09-2015 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Pat Houston, Whitney’s sister and president of the her estate, said: “It’s a great opportunity for her fans to see a reinvention of one the most celebrated female artists in history and to continue a legacy of performances that will not be forgotten in years to come.
  
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• Judith Flanders: what Vermeer really saw, and other home truths

  15-09-2015 15:16
  
  Understanding how people lived in the past is more complicated than it seems, as I discovered while researching The Making of Home The problem with history is that we ask the wrong questions. Or perhaps it’s that we don’t know that there are questions we should be asking. In Britain we often live in 19th-century housing, so we assume we know how 19th-century people lived – just like us, only with funny clothes, and worse dentistry. But understanding what the notion of home mean
  
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• Morning Links: Red Bull Art of Can Edition

  15-09-2015 14:48 via artnews.com
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• Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards $30 M. in Grants to 262 Arts Organizations

  15-09-2015 14:00 via artnews.com
  Bloomberg Philanthropies announced today that 262 arts organizations will receive grants from its Arts Innovation and Management (AIM) program, which is devoted to awarding money to small and midsize nonprofits in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. … Read More
  
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• Orphee et Eurydice, Royal Opera House, review: One of the most brilliantly original shows on this stage in years

  15-09-2015 13:52
  
  The ingredients for Covent Garden’s new Orphee et Eurydice make the mind boggle. Direction is shared between a choreographer (the Israeli Hofesh Shechter) and a house director (John Fulljames), with 115 people almost constantly on stage: Shechter’s dance company, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists under John Eliot Gardiner’s direction, plus Amour (Amanda Forsythe), Orphee (Juan Diego Florez), and Eurydice (Lucy Crowe).
  
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• This artist makes intricate steampunk sculptures out of vintage watches

  15-09-2015 12:26
  
  You don't need to be a big steampunk fan to admire the skill in Susan Beatrice's miniature sculptures and jewellery.
  
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• How St Petersburg is creating a permanent home for street art

  15-09-2015 12:18
  
  The Street Art Museum in St Petersburg is the first of its kind – a fixed home for a transitory art form. Can this space help the city reinvent itself for a new era?The world of street art abounds with irony. Supporters of this art form (which is largely predicated on defacing other people’s property) have protested plans to demolish the graffiti-covered 5 Pointz building in Brooklyn. The “outlaw” Banksy is a savvy self-promoter whose new Dismaland project has been descri
  
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• Will The New Broad Museum Damage LA’s MoCA? Eli Broad Says –

  15-09-2015 10:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We are one of the best things that’s ever happened to MOCA. Why? We have a marketing budget. We are going to bring people to both museums. Admission is free at the Broad, and there will be exciting things happening. MOCA is going to benefit from all this.”
  
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• The Broad Museum’s Big Plans For Lending Works May Not Work Out

  15-09-2015 10:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Broad is a hybrid. It is one part art museum, with an as-yet undefined program of changing exhibitions and a sizable permanent collection … It’s also one part lending library, with a mandate to circulate its holdings far and wide in the U.S. and abroad” – the first museum to have lending explicitly written into its mandate. But Christopher Knight has doubts about how this will work out in practice.
  
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• How Naked People Took Over Reality Television

  15-09-2015 10:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VH1’s Dating Naked. The Discovery Channel’s Naked and Afraid. TLC’s Buying Naked. “Awkwardness, things jiggling or flapping, the possibility of sex, privacy undone, the prying lens – reality TV has always thrived on these elements. So ask not Why is everybody suddenly naked? Ask instead What took them so long?“
  
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• The Nine Lives Of Cat Videos

  15-09-2015 10:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Prompted by a visit to the Walker Art Center’s CatVidFest,Jillian Steinhauer offers a nine-part meditation on the Internet’s favorite time waster motion-picture medium and its status as art, or entertainment, or spectacle.
  
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• Nanny

  15-09-2015 09:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I filled out an application on a computer. I didn’t answer the question: Would a person steal murder and rape if they could get away with it? At the orientation I was informed people will steal and murder and rape if they can get away with it and that it happened more often than not.The nannies and I had to buy our own white pants and white shirt uniforms. The executives didn’t want to supply uniforms when chances are the employee will be let go. They did however pay for the lab fee
  
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• Brighton Digital Festival opens strange doors to tomorrow’s world

  15-09-2015 08:00
  
  A month of events includes dystopian visions of immortality and a futuristic clinic promising to make you happierPlayful visions of the future of technology are springing up across Brighton this month, from dystopian immortality machines to global choirs, open to the public and mostly free.The Brighton Digital Festival includes conferences, performances and installations based on artistic approaches to the digital world and vice versa. Arts co-ordinator Laurence Hill says it is the most expansiv
  
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• The Stove-Junker

  15-09-2015 07:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From a former Zouch contributor, comes the debut novel of S.K. Kalsi, Hailed by critics as a tour-de-force of style, it is a novel that just might take your breath away.The post The Stove-Junker appeared first on Zouch.
  
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