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• Will E-Readers Ever Replace Books? (And If So, How Will It Change The Reading Experience?)

  07-10-2015 22:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Containers matter. They shape stories and the experience of stories. Choose the right binding, cloth, trim size, texture of paper, margins and ink, and you will strengthen the bond between reader and text. Choose badly and the object becomes a wedge between reader and text.”
  
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• Legendary Lebanese Museum Reopens After Makeover

  07-10-2015 22:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  During the Sursock Museum’s $15m (£9.8m) renovation, workers dug a cavernous exhibition hall four stories under the mansion, and built a 166-seat auditorium, workshops for painting restoration and a library housing books, archival photographs, and news clippings. Sursock’s original rooms have been restored with the help of an international group of artisans.
  
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• Bizarre: Playwright Apologizes After Accusing Theatre Of Stealing His Work

  07-10-2015 22:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I thank Echo for allowing me the time to fully understand my situation and consider this difficult admission,” the playwright said. “I am sorry that the public had to be involved at all.”
  
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• Pandora Buys Ticket Service To Compete With Ticketmaster

  07-10-2015 22:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The acquisition marks a big change for Pandora, which has previously generated revenue almost entirely from advertising and subscriptions to its online radio stations, which count roughly 80 million listeners a month. Ticketfly last year sold 16 million passes to more than 90,000 live events, generating more than $500 million in sales, the companies said.”
  
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• ‘Todd Hido-Selections From a Survey: Khrystyna’s World’ at Reflex Amsterdam

  07-10-2015 22:15 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Translate Shakespeare? What A Waste Of Time!

  07-10-2015 22:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “However well intended, this experiment is likely to be a waste of money and talent, for it misdiagnoses the reason that Shakespeare’s plays can be hard for playgoers to follow. The problem is not the often knotty language; it’s that even the best directors and actors — British as well as American — too frequently offer up Shakespeare’s plays without themselves having a firm enough grasp of what his words mean.”
  
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• Andrew Edlin Gallery Now Reps Eugene Von Bruenchenhein’s Estate

  07-10-2015 21:55 via artnews.com
  New York’s Andrew Edlin Gallery announced today that it now represents the estate of the late artist Eugene Von Bruenchenhein. Though the self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin had attempted to exhibit his work throughout his life, none of Von Bruenchenhein’s sculptures, … Read More
  
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• Uri Geller bends the rules for spoon statue in Berkshire village

  07-10-2015 21:27
  
  Israeli-born illusionist finds parting gift to Sonning of a statue of his trademark spoon has run foul of planning laws Days after leaving Britain to return to his native Israel, the illusionist Uri Geller sent out a defiant message for planning authorities in his former home town: “You can take my spoon, but you’ll never bend my creative freedom.” Continue reading...
  
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• James Patterson Wants To Give An Indie Bookstore Worker A Big Bonus

  07-10-2015 20:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The bestselling author and benefactor of booksellers and libraries announced Wednesday that he will give away a total of $250,000 US, with payments ranging from $1,000 to $5,000. Everyone from store owners and managers to authors and patrons are eligible to nominate a current employee by answering the question “Why does this bookseller deserve a holiday bonus?”
  
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• How Kickstarter Is Changing How (What) Movies Get Made

  07-10-2015 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While there’s a pretty diverse range of voices, the unifying factor we’re finding is that all these filmmakers have an independent spirit – these are directors who are making work in their own way, and always have. There’s also a real desire to engage with the audience.”
  
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• ‘The Thrilling Feeling of Creating Light’: Jacqueline Humphries on Her Recent Work

  07-10-2015 19:25 via artnews.com
  In 2005 a fire broke out in Jacqueline Humphries’s studio in Manhattan’s Financial District. “You know how they say, about a painter, that the best thing that could happen is a fire in their studio?” Humphries asked me one morning last … Read More
  
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• 'The place to see and be seen': Beirut's legendary museum rises from the ashes

  07-10-2015 19:11
  
  In the 1960s, the Sursock Museum was the centre of Beirut’s cultural life, its salons awash with poets, playwrights and petrodollars. Then came a 15-year civil war. After a £9.7m makeover, can it become a vital destination for modern art again?The Lebanese civil war, which began in 1975 and ended in 1990, claimed an estimated 150,000 lives, left 200,000 wounded and displaced almost a million civilians. It also ravaged visual arts in the country, cutting the capital, Beirut, in two, d
  
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• Where are the laughs? British Art Show 8 is a super-serious riff on our toxic material world

  07-10-2015 19:00
  
  It’s got a kiddy TV talent show, a Tom of Finland dungeon and a talking bog man. So why does this five-yearly art survey feel like an elegy to our failures? It needs to lighten upMmm, rubber. The cloying smell of the industrial rubber curtain at the door to a dark room is the kind of invitation I can hardly resist. Inside is Patrick Staff’s strangely fractured film about the Tom of Finland archive, and the leather-clad denizens of the house in Los Angeles where the late artist’
  
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• MoMA PS1 Admission Will Be Free for New Yorkers for One Year

  07-10-2015 17:38 via artnews.com
  Klaus Biesenbach announced in an email today that the museum he directs, MoMA PS1 in Queens, will be free for all New York City residents thanks to a gift from the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation. Tickets currently cost $10 … Read More
  
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• Frieze Art Fair 2015: There's a better chance of bagging a bargain this year

  07-10-2015 17:23
  
  Britain’s biggest and blingiest art fair begins next week, with original unique works by younger artists starting under £1,000. These are the artists to look out for and the events to be seen at.
  
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• Vadim Repin and Andrei Korobeinikov, Wigmore Hall, review: Recital tests us as much as them

  07-10-2015 17:21
  
  Its first half was a bracing lesson in Soviet musical history
  
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• Linder Sterling: ‘I have a library of every perversion on the planet’

  07-10-2015 16:04
  
  She wore a meat dress 30 years before Lady Gaga, is Morrissey’s best pal – and her latest project is a ballet-dancing carpet. Meet the inimitable art-punk pioneerGlamour has become inescapable. From glossy magazines to giant billboards and the celebrity culture we obsessively consume, all kneel at the altar of the airbrushed. Yet it was not always the way. The first use of the word, in Scotland during the 17th century, referred to a magical technique of enchantment witches placed ove
  
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• The Error of Margins: Vernacular Artists and the Mainstream Art World

  07-10-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Earlier this year Jasmin Tsou, proprietor of the downtown Manhattan gallery JTT, bought an Artforum magazine subscription for Marlon Mullen, an artist who had recently joined her stable. The magazine would be used as source material: Mullen’s acrylic paintings on … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Ride City Edition

  07-10-2015 15:17 via artnews.com
  Jerry Saltz answers a round of “Would You Rather” with Paddle8. In response to “Would you rather… be under house arrest for a week inside Prada Marfa with Donald Trump as your “cell mate” OR not be allowed to leave … Read More
  
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• Powerful photographs of Lithuanians staging mass lie-down to demonstrate country’s disproportionate suicide rate

  07-10-2015 12:49
  
  A Lithuanian laid down for every compatriot that committed suicide in the last year
  
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• A Soft Murmur: This website of ambient sounds will wash away distractions

  07-10-2015 11:46
  
  Mmmmmmmm, crackling fire.
  
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• Can we live more sustainably? The Whole Earth exhibition in pictures

  07-10-2015 11:17
  
  How can we live better with less? That’s what the Whole Earth exhibition, a partnership between the Hard Rain project and the National Union of Students (NUS), is asking those studying around the world. The aim is to encourage young people to think about the future of the planet. Here are some of the best imagesContinue reading...
  
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• Frank Auerbach's 60-year love letter to London

  07-10-2015 11:00
  
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  Every day, the artist arrives at his studio to paint a new vision of the turbulent city that has been his muse for six decades and counting. A brave new show reveals the delights and difficulties of being AuerbachTrees that are black forks holding reservoirs of redness are scattered in a gloom punctuated by bright, white globes. This is Primrose Hill, in north London, as it looked to the painter Frank Auerbach in the winter of 1974-75. Yet it cannot actually have looked like
  
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• Madame Roxy’s Erotic Emporium, Lucy Sparrow: Meet the ex-stripper challenging porn censorship with a felt sex shop

  07-10-2015 10:15
  
  EXCLUSIVE:  - 'I'm selling myself far more as an artist than as a dancer' says the Cornershop artist speaking for the first time about her pole-dancing past
  
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