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• ‘Lais Myrrha: O Instante Interminável’ at Galeria Jaqueline Martins

  29-09-2015 22:52 via artnews.com
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• Rhizome Names Zachary Kaplan Executive Director

  29-09-2015 21:17 via artnews.com
  Rhizome’s board announced today that its assistant director, Zachary Kaplan, has been named executive director. In a statement, Kaplan said, “In my two years here, I’ve seen the impact of Rhizome’s work on the artists we support, on the fields … Read More
  
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• Pints, Bandiera Rossa and my dear old dad | Letters

  29-09-2015 21:05
  
  Your report (Last British resident in Guantánamo to be freed after 13 years held without charge, 26 September) is welcome news. However, Shaker Aamer’s nightmare years of abuse and torture will be over only when he is safely home. This is the first time the Pentagon has announced a detainee transfer prior to a 30-day period for approval by US Congress. The UK government should demand his immediate return. He has suffered enough.
  Joy Hurcombe
  Worthing, West Sussex• I have no ide
  
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• Artpace Appoints Veronique Le Melle as Executive Director

  29-09-2015 20:59 via artnews.com
  Artpace, in San Antonio, Texas, announced today that Veronique Le Melle will be the the nonprofit contemporary art space’s new executive director. Le Melle is slated to start on January 18 of next year.Much of Le Melle’s career has been … Read More
  
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• Emily Jacir's Europa: restrained and harrowing artwork indebted to detail

  29-09-2015 19:18
  
  Whitechapel Gallery, LondonJacir’s ongoing multimedia work Material for a Film explores the life of a man killed by Mossad in the 70s – elsewhere she peels back layers of identity and belongingThe cocktail party is in full swing. David Niven is out on the balcony and Peter Sellers is at the bar. A waiter crosses and recrosses the room. Who notices a waiter? Henry Mancini’s soundtrack repeats in this short clip from Blake Edwards’ 1963 comedy The Pink Panther. Everyone is
  
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• Rose Art Museum Opens Satellite Gallery, Rosebud, to ‘Activate Public Engagement’

  29-09-2015 18:11 via artnews.com
  Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum has opened an offsite gallery in an empty commercial space in downtown Waltham, Massachusetts, the Boston suburb that the Rose calls home.Named Rosebud, the gallery will showcase video work from the museum’s collection and, according to a news release, aims to … Read More
  
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• ‘You’ve Got to Get Rid of Your Crutch’: Sam Falls on ‘September Spring’ at The Kitchen

  29-09-2015 17:33 via artnews.com
  At 28, Sam Falls is something of a luddite. This idea, not quite an ideology, makes its appropriately subtle presence in his work. “I’ve gone through a lot of art by painting and using technology, and still, somehow, come back to more traditional practices,” … Read More
  
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• Trans-Everything: Njideka Akunyili Crosby Mounts Two Shows in Los Angeles

  29-09-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  One morning in mid-August, during a break from work in her Los Angeles studio, the artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby got to talking about Nigeria, where she grew up and lived until college. “I’m fascinated by those points where we have … Read More
  
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• John Hoyland: why is Damien Hirst opening his new gallery with this second-rate artist?

  29-09-2015 15:09
  
  Newport Street gallery, LondonHirst’s choice of a mediocre and justly forgotten artist for the first show at his new exhibition space reveals his deficiencies as collector and curator
  Great artists are often great art collectors. It is fascinating, for instance, to see what Picasso owned: paintings by Cézanne, lithographs by Degas, masks from the Pacific, all choices that reflect his revolutionary vision. Few artists, however, have gone so far as to create a gallery just to exhibit
  
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• Nicole Eisenman, LaToya Ruby Frazier Among MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Winners

  29-09-2015 14:58 via artnews.com
  The MacArthur Foundation announced their 24 fellows for 2015, a title that comes with a $625,000 stipend. Among the winners of the “Genius Grant” are New York–based artist Nicole Eisenman, whose citation from the foundation states that she is “expanding … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Ancient Rome Edition

  29-09-2015 14:54 via artnews.com
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• David Hockney portraits to go on show at Royal Academy

  29-09-2015 14:10
  
  Paintings began in 2013 with scores of people asked to sit, but none of them will know if they are immortalised on canvas until exhibition opens next yearSeventy-seven equal-sized portraits of friends and family by David Hockney are to be exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts next year.The sitters include a woman who will be familiar to anyone with a knowledge of one of Hockney’s most famous paintings: Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy painted in 1970 owned by Tate. Continue reading...
  
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• MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Winners For 2015 Include Ta-Nehisi Coates, Michelle Dorrance, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nicole Eisenman, Basil Twist

  29-09-2015 13:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When puppeteer Basil Twist got the call in the middle of rehearsal for his new show, he bristled. ‘I was like, ‘Who is this, a bill collector?””
  
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• Glasgow on display: The Turner Prize highlights the city’s artistic credentials

  29-09-2015 11:57
  
  Christopher Beanland enjoys the creativity in Scotland's second city
  
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• What Music Critics Want (Allan Kozinn Explains)

  29-09-2015 11:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Have I mentioned that one thing a critic learns, over time, is that there is not a single Right Way to hear music? … And that brings us to the slippery notion of taste. No matter what critics may assert, taste is both individual and fluid. Yes, there are rules and standards separating the tasteful from the crude, and in theory, there are absolutes and boundaries that shouldn’t be crossed. But if you listen long enough, you’ll hear a good many of them crossed after all.&
  
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• Dallas Museum Of Art Director Resigns For New Job In New York

  29-09-2015 11:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Maxwell Anderson, director of the Dallas Museum of Art since 2012, made public Monday what he told the board of directors last week: He is resigning, effective immediately, to take an executive position with the New Cities Foundation in New York City.”
  
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• They Made The Wrong Jokes: What Happened To Three Comic-Book Artists In The Arab World’s Freest Country

  29-09-2015 10:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sitting outside, Khouri and Baki tried to make sense of the racket. ‘Every time the door opened, we could hear the General Security guys yelling at Hatem while he tried to explain to them what a comic book was,’ Baki said.”
  
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• Eighty Years of Penguin Books – By The Numbers

  29-09-2015 10:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Before Allen Lane began his publishing house in 1935, good books were the purview of the privileged, costing more than many Londoners spent on a week’s rent. But that all changed when Lane, then managing director of the now-defunct Bodley Head, bought the rights to 10 already popular hardcovers … redesigning each with a uniform set of specs so simple that even small, inexperienced print shops could mass-produce them on the cheap.” (infographic)
  
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• Christopher Jackson, 67, Montreal’s Godfather Of Early Music

  29-09-2015 10:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For generations of Montrealers, the pure tone and clear expression he cultivated with the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, an ensemble he co-founded in 1974, defined the way Palestrina, Victoria, Lasso, Tallis and other Renaissance masters should sound.”
  
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• LA Philharmonic Takes Its Virtual Reality Machine To The Streets Of LA County

  29-09-2015 10:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Los Angeles Philharmonic has launched a virtual reality project in which people don VR goggles and Samsung headsets that give them a 3-D, 360-degree experience of four minutes of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, performed by the orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The VR goggles and other equipment were put aboard a bus, dubbed Van Beethoven, and sent out to tour the county through October.”
  
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• Is The Internet Doing To TV What It Did To Newspapers And The Music Business? Maybe Not

  29-09-2015 10:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Despite sharing the vulnerabilities of other long-standing media – shrinking audiences, changing consumption patterns, new competition for ad dollars – the television dinosaur has only grown fatter.”
  
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• What American TV Tells Us About Our Jobs

  29-09-2015 10:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One might expect TV to say about work what The Office says: that what you are obliged to do all day is pointless. … Although associated with the freedom to mute, surf, and binge-watch, TV pays attention not only to what we do when we’re on the clock, it also asks philosophical questions about work and the meaning of life, urging us to demand more meaning (whatever that might be) from what we do for a living.”
  
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• Dallas Symphony Musicians Ratify New Two-Year Contract

  29-09-2015 10:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Musicians will receive a base salary increase of 1 percent in 2013 and a 2 percent increase in 2014. If goals for donor pledges and major lead gifts are realized, musicians will receive an additional 2 percent increase in 2015 retroactive to the beginning of the 2014-2015 season.”
  
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• Notes Toward A Theory Of Hair: Siri Hustvedt Reflects On The Cultural Meaning Of Coiffure

  29-09-2015 10:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “All mammals have hair. … We are the only mammals who braid, knot, powder, pile up, oil, spray, tease, perm, color, curl, straighten, augment, shave off, and clip our hair.” Not to mention using it as a signifier of gender, religion, and/or cultural politics.
  
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• Walter Benjamin’s Legacy, 75 Years On

  29-09-2015 10:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For devotees of Critical Theory, he is now seen as one of the founding fathers … having helpfully transcended mere wittering about paintings, books and Mickey Mouse by also sketching a philosophy of history. … And, almost as a hobby, he is the inspirational linkman between the 19th-century flâneur and today’s psychogeographers.”
  
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• Sara Mearns Of New York City Ballet On Being ‘In The Prime Of Her Career’ (She’s 29)

  29-09-2015 10:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A ballerina’s career is so short and it’s kind of hard for me to think that these are going to be the best years of my career and after that it’s just going to suck. You know? I don’t want to think about it like that.”
  
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• How Origami Is Informing Structural Engineering

  29-09-2015 10:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A sheet of paper can bend, twist, and tear easily. But folded several times, it becomes stiff and can support objects many times its weight. That’s the basic idea behind ‘origami engineering,’ an emerging technique in structural engineering that’s based on a centuries-old Japanese art form.”
  
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• Did Shakespeare Intend Hamlet To Be Fat?

  29-09-2015 10:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One does look for a Hamlet that is lean and pensive or, failing that, an action hero like Mel Gibson or Keanu Reeves, who both played the role in the 1990s. … But what if our mental image of Hamlet is wrong? What if the grieving, vengeful prince is actually fat? Just because you’ve never considered the possibility doesn’t mean that Shakespeare scholars haven’t argued about it.”
  
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• Music Director? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Music Director, Says Vienna State Opera

  29-09-2015 10:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Says the company’s director, Dominique Meyer: “No, during my second term there will be no music director” to succeed Franz Welser-Möst. (in German; Google-translated version here)
  
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• THEATRE ARTS- TECHNICAL THEATRE INSTRUCTOR

  29-09-2015 07:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Santa Monica College
  THEATRE ARTS- TECHNICAL THEATRE INSTRUCTOR
  POSITIONFull-Time/Tenure Track
  DUTIESThe faculty member will teach several Technical Theatre courses and contribute to curriculum development in Technical Theatre. The faculty member will take a leadership role in the further development of our Career Technical Education (CTE) program in Technical Theatre that leads to an AS Degree and Certificate of Achievement.
  The successful candidate will demonstrate evidence of sensitivity to a
  
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• Fellowship for Arts Managers

  29-09-2015 07:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  The DeVos Institute’s Fellowship program is offered free of charge to arts managers from across the United States and around the world who are selected through a competitive application process. These fellows attend a four-week program in residence in Washington, D.C. each summer for three consecutive years.
  The Fellowship includes:
  Intensive academic training in nonprofit management, finance, planning, fundraising, evaluation, and marketing
  Access to leaders of cultural institutions from
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.28.15

  29-09-2015 07:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sudden Departure: Max Anderson Precipitously Leaves Dallas Museum Directorship
  This is not how amicable resignations usually happen: The Dallas Museum of Art today announced that its director of less than four years, Maxwell Anderson, “has stepped down as director of the DMA … read more
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-09-28A Good Show Spoiled
  With the weather in New York still fine – and warmish – on Saturday, I ventured up to the New York Botanical Garden for FRIDA:
  
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• Development Director

  29-09-2015 07:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra is currently seeking a director of development to help build the orchestra’s capacity for the future through the planning and implementation of all fund-raising activities, including annual fund drives, corporate sponsorships, planned giving, capital campaigns, grant applications and new initiatives.
  The JSO has a rich and innovative 68 year history, a budget of nearly $1,000,000, a classical program including 8 full orchestra concerts, 10 alternative mu
  
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• An Art Garden In The Heavily Polluted Gowanus Canal

  29-09-2015 01:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The floating island was to be filled with multiple tubes. In a poetic twist, the tubes were to be made of the same culvert pipe used to dump pollution and sewage into the canal.”
  
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• Kara Walker Takes Her Art About The U.S. To London

  29-09-2015 00:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There is this mountain that I grew up in the shadow of, kind of literally. The mountain was claimed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1915 as their spiritual birthplace and the carving was proposed in 1916. It was finally completed in 1972. So we came down to photograph it, and this show arose out of that.”
  
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