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• Aleatory Accumulation Anti/Ghazals II-V, II-VI, II-VII

  12-10-2015 23:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  destruction w / o consequences: yay!
   
  Nobody thinks I’m funny.
  Wiretapping myselves for our mutual entertainment
   
  you know who dat was? Dat was Jean-Marc LaDouche of da Montreal Canadiens
  witnessed his cheesy suicide, head in hands
   
  drinking whiskey in the parking lot of the Wells-Barkerville school
  & you know he only smokes tailor-mades
   
  your skin needs to be elasticized
  federally funded government jazz
   
  wait, I changed my mind
  a small brown hand, open, o
  
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• Hidden treasure: the modernist mural buried in a Scottish mountain

  12-10-2015 19:59
  
  Fifty years ago, a vast mural decorated in gold leaf was assembled 1km beneath Ben Cruachan. We go underground to uncover the story behind the country’s most remote art workIf you want to get up close to the most remote work of art in Britain, you’ll need to make a 2 ½-hour train journey from Glasgow to the Highlands, drive 1km into the heart of a mountain and climb a flight of slippery steps on to a viewing platform before you can catch a glimpse: a 48ft x 12ft mural made of
  
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• When I’m life modelling my body is no longer a sexual object | Alexandra Leigh

  12-10-2015 16:17
  
  Taking my clothes off for a living is close to perfect, even if female students’ pictures of me are depressingly similarPeople often ask how I became a life model, but it doesn’t seem at all odd to me. It was a job I always knew was there, like being a doctor or a fireman. Starting up two years ago was like most first jobs; I found a few local artists and offered to work for them, fibbed about having experience, and muddled along until I learned the ropes. Related: My evening as a nu
  
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• White cube galleries are beautiful. They bore me rigid

  12-10-2015 15:59
  
  Two new white-walled galleries emphasise the cliche of such spaces now. They try to confer authority and purity – but it’s all to convince collectors to shell out a million quid for a pile of plasticine shaped like a turdPerfect white spaces are sepulchres for art. They have all the joy of a cenotaph, all the creativity of a chic shop.This autumn has seen the opening of two spanking new white-walled art galleries in London – both created by the same architects, Caruso St John,
  
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• Preview Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2015

  12-10-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  The 13th edition of Frieze London and the fourth edition of Frieze Masters open in the city’s Regent Park on Wednesday, October 14, with previews for invited guests on Tuesday, October 13. Frieze London, the more contemporary-minded of the two … Read More
  
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• Tate Modern cultivates interest in latest Turbine Hall show

  12-10-2015 13:57
  
  Artist Abraham Cruzvillegas has filled 240 planters with soil for his Empty Lot work – and now it’s a case of watching and waiting to see what happensCurators at Tate Modern admit they have no idea what might already be growing in 240 soil-filled planters that form its new turbine hall installation by the artist Abraham Cruzvillegas – or what people might throw into them. Related: Abraham Cruzvillegas's Turbine Hall review – a frustrating floating allotmentContinue readin
  
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• Abraham Cruzvillegas's Turbine Hall review – a frustrating floating allotment

  12-10-2015 13:39
  
  Tate Modern Turbine Hall
  The artist’s Empty Lot is like an allotment in winter – with the slight air of a displacement camp. Guerrilla gardeners and seed-bombers will have a field day
  The stepped platforms of Abraham Cruzvillegas’s Empty Lot stand on a forest of scaffolding. Rising towards the bridge from the downward slope of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, they continue to rise again beyond. Looking back from the rear of theroom, the structure resembles a ship in a dry dock
  
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• When Arts Battles Erupt On Wikipedia, MoMA Is There To Calm (And Correct) The Waters

  12-10-2015 07:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The seven-hour event, devoted to updating Wikipedia entries on topics of Latin American art and culture, included lunch and free child care. Attracting contributors ranging from educators and scholars to an engineer, a banker and a marketer, the gathering would have been unthinkable at a gatekeeper of authority, such as MoMA’s library, just a few years ago, several staff members agreed. But this is becoming the new normal at the museum.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 10.11.15

  12-10-2015 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s the Experience, Stupid
  AJBlog: Audience WantedPublished 2015-10-11Bouchercon 2015 Raleigh (writing not jazz)
  AJBlog: Jazz Beyond JazzPublished 2015-10-11
  Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis Biopic
  AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-10-1
  More From Mustill’s Arizona Desert Lair
  AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2015-10-11Memories of an Early Frost
  AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-10-09
  Career Paths: Giving You the Last Word
  AJBlog: Field NotesPublished 2015-10-0
  
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• The Boston Lyric Opera Is Looking For A Good New Home

  12-10-2015 06:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Punctuating a week of high drama on the city’s performing-arts scene, Boston Lyric Opera has decided that it will not renew its lease at the Citi Shubert Theatre, its home for nearly two decades. Next fall it will move its productions to a temporary venue, one yet to be announced. This is a seismic development for New England’s largest opera company.”
  
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• The State Of Avant Garde Theatre Today Includes The Playwright In A Bunny Suit

  12-10-2015 06:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What’s gained is a new subtlety of dramatic writing and performance—think Ibsen or Chekhov. What’s lost, to some degree, is the combustibility of a performance in which actors are actively present, alive to the external world that is in that very moment shaping their performance—a world to which they must listen.”
  
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• The Woman Who Runs Part Of The Largest Music Company In The World

  12-10-2015 06:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Gerson says she’s been cutting deals with television production companies and film studios in Hollywood to develop TV projects and movies based on their music. For example, when studios make artist biopics and shows about the industry, UMPG wants to be at the table from the onset. ‘We should have developed Empire,’ Gerson said.”
  
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• The Church Of Scientology May Not Be Reacting Super Well To ‘Going Clear’

  12-10-2015 03:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As the film has won accolades and taken on a trajectory toward Oscar consideration, the animosity has ramped up, and there has been increased aggression at public events where Gibney and the subjects of Going Clear have spoken.”
  
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• Ravindra Jain, Who Scored Music For More Than 200 Bollywood Films, Dies At 71

  12-10-2015 02:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Much of his music was in the classical Indian mode. ‘Pure, classical music is the closest thing to God,’ he said.”
  
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• When Pen Names Take On A Life Of Their Own

  12-10-2015 01:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The literary appeal of the pseudonym and of the reclusive genius tend to go hand in hand.”
  
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• The Steinway From Queens That Had A Great Night In Havana

  12-10-2015 00:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On the left side of the makeshift wobbly stage, Lang Lang, China’s fresh-faced piano prodigy, stroked the keys meticulously as Chucho Valdés, one of Cuba’s music superstars, struck heavier tones on a second piano positioned to the right. At center stage, standing before the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra with her baton raised high, Marin Alsop, the American conductor, unified the ensemble.”
  
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