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• Appeals Court Gives Google Book Scanning Big Win For Fair Use

  16-10-2015 23:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This was a unanimous decision by all three judges on the panel, giving yet another complete victory to Google saying that its book scanning project is fair use — and, as an appeals court ruling, is useful in creating precedent in the all important 2nd Circuit (with some pretty damn good quotes for future cases). This is a big and clear win for fair use.”
  
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• Panel to Discuss Art-World Gender Parity at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.

  16-10-2015 23:48 via artnews.com
  On Sunday, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, D.C., will host a panel titled “Righting the Balance—Can there be gender parity in the art world?” The panel is part of a series of talks and lectures … Read More
  
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• Evening Contemporary Sales End in London With $121.5 M. Haul at Christie’s

  16-10-2015 23:14 via artnews.com
  A slew of auction records for artists with serious Frieze week buzz, plus a Peter Doig that went for £9.6 million ($14.8 million), helped Christie’s climb to a total haul of £35.5 million ($54.8 million) during its Contemporary Art Evening Sale … Read More
  
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• Prediction: Pandora’s Entry to Concert Ticketing Business Won’t Reduce Service Fees

  16-10-2015 23:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s always easy to vilify Ticketmaster, and I think it’s much more complex than that. It’s really the whole system, the whole concert industry collectively — including the artists, by the way — sometimes because they’re getting some of those ticketing fees as well.”
  
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• CBS Refuses Advertising For Robert Redford Movie That Is Critical Of CBS

  16-10-2015 23:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sony Pictures Classics sought a multi-million dollar ad buy to promote the film on Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show,” the “CBS Evening News,” ”CBS This Morning” and “60 Minutes,” but was turned down, said Sherri Callan, president of Callan Advertising, the company that places ads for Sony.
  
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• Is Hollywood Ready To Get Serious About Diversity?

  16-10-2015 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The president of Hollywood’s movie academy says criticism of the lack of diversity among Oscar nominees has helped spark a vital global discussion about how to make the entertainment industry more inclusive.
  
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• Time on Their Hands: Scott Burton on Richard Serra and Bruce Nauman’s Durational Art, in 1968

  16-10-2015 22:00 via artnews.com
  Scott Burton is best known for his minimalist furniture, which usually involves granite and bronze and is currently being shown as part of MoMA’s PS1’s “Greater New York.” But Burton started out as a critic. In the late ’60s, he was an … Read More
  
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• Gilbert & George become a trio as they take to the stage alongside transgender nurse

  16-10-2015 22:00
  
  Britain’s most outrageous artists have conferred ‘living sculpture’ status upon Victoria, to illustrate 'transformation'
  
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• What Ails Theatre Criticism

  16-10-2015 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While it is sadly true that the loss of illustrious theater critics in print hasn’t been offset by the arrival of equally potent voices online, the Internet has helped make the work of critics more accessible. Yet the hue and cry and feverish haste of the Web have had a homogenizing effect. The individual voice has been drowned out in the digital din.”
  
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• An Abbreviated Moscow Biennale Unites Scrappy Performances, Bourgeois Spiders, and One Former Greek Finance Minister

  16-10-2015 21:38 via artnews.com
  Weaving between the legs of a colossal metal spider, a crowd descended on the Garage Center for Contemporary Art. A private opening for “Structures of Existence: The Cells,” a stunning Louise Bourgeois survey, was unfolding inside. The guests—from the chic … Read More
  
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• Dorotheum Previews Old Master Auction, Selling Brueghel, Titian [Sponsored]

  16-10-2015 21:18 via artnews.com
  Dorotheum is responsible for the content of this post.While the rest of the economy remains unstable, art is still one of the best investment options—and the Old Masters market in particular is seeing a renaissance. On Tuesday, October 20, Austria–based … Read More
  
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• Why Does The Dance World Treat Choreographers As Second Class?

  16-10-2015 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We have received far less public profiling, far less opportunity to show our work outside the small scale and far fewer offers to upscale our work and be commissioned.”
  
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• 'Le Bateau', by Henri Matisse: Rhodri Marsden's Interesting Objects

  16-10-2015 20:00
  
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• Was Steve Jobs An Artist?

  16-10-2015 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Art” is a capacious term. We typically imagine artists to be solitary people creating art by hand. But many artists work in more expansive, disembodied ways.
  
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• Shepard Fairey: 'My goal was to make art by any means necessary'

  16-10-2015 19:42
  
  The street artist, famous for his Obama image, could get a 10-year jail sentence for vandalism in Detroit, but meanwhile has a New York gallery exhibitionWhen the artist Diego Rivera arrived in Detroit in April 1932 – at the behest of auto magnate Edsel Ford – to create the Detroit Industry murals, he entered an industrial colossus laid low by the great depression and amplified by a chorus of conservative critics, who called his mixed-race, humanistic portrayal of the working class,
  
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• From Timbuktu to Trinidad: British Library launches dazzling West Africa show

  16-10-2015 19:20
  
  With a saddlebag Qur’an, a slave-ship manual and Fela Kuti, the new exhibition takes a thrilling journey through a thousand years of West African history – and it’s full of surprisesA giant carnival queen looms over the British Library’s new show West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song. Below her, David Rudder’s Notting Hill carnival classic Calypso Music pumps out of speakers, and footage from carnivals past can transport you back to Portobello Road in 1993.
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• Can You Teach Better Ways Of Making Predictions?

  16-10-2015 18:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The essential insight? Prediction accuracy is possible when people participate in a setup that rewards only accuracy — and not the novelty of the explanation, or loyalty to the party line, or the importance of keeping up your reputation. It is within this condition that the “supers,” the top 2 percent of each group, emerged.”
  
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• Museums are letting visitors get to grips with the exhibits

  16-10-2015 18:46
  
  Take Me (I’m Yours) at Monnaie de Paris is the latest show to encourage visitors to use all their senses to grasp art’s meaningWherever we go in a museum, the “Don’t touch” signs are there. From our childhood we are taught to keep our hands to ourselves. The etymology of the word “visitor” makes it clear that we are only there to see. So the Take Me (I’m Yours) show at Monnaie de Paris is a most unusual proposition. The curators, artist Christian B
  
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• ‘It’s Very Three-Dimensional’: Tom Wolfe, Artist, Sizes Up his Theme-Appropriate Drawing at Take Home a Nude

  16-10-2015 18:19 via artnews.com
  Tom Wolfe was not reporting on the Take Home a Nude auction, the New York Academy of Art benefit that happened last night at Sotheby’s. He was hosting it, alongside Jerry Saltz, the art critic for New York, which also happened to … Read More
  
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• Here Are 1,541 More Works That the National Gallery of Art Is Acquiring From the Corcoran

  16-10-2015 18:07 via artnews.com
  The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., announced a second acquisition of pieces—mainly works on paper—from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which decided to disband last year for financial reasons. This most recent accession adds 1,541 pieces, bringing the total … Read More
  
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• Foxy Production Is Moving to Chinatown

  16-10-2015 17:55 via artnews.com
  Foxy Production, which is currently located on West 27th Street in Chelsea, is headed to a new 3,000-square-foot space in Chinatown, at 2 East Broadway. It plans to open there in early 2016.“After many years in West Chelsea, we are eager to present exhibitions within a new … Read More
  
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• Study: Prejudice Can Be Altered By Brain Manipulation

  16-10-2015 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Our usual ideological responses to reminders of death—to cling more tightly to the comforting components of religion, and to “double down on your group values” by denigrating a critical outsider—were far less pronounced when one specific region of the brain was largely de-activated.”
  
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• Buyer sought to keep £35m Rembrandt portrait in UK

  16-10-2015 17:37
  
  Temporary export bar placed on Portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet, which has been in the UK since early 18th centuryOne of Rembrandt’s finest late portraits, which has been in the UK since the early 18th century, is at risk of being exported unless a buyer capable of paying £35m (US$54m) can be found.Portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet, dating from 1657, was described by the former director of Oxford’s Ashmolean Christopher Brown as “one of the greatest Old Master paintings in the c
  
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• Tate Modern's Turbine Hall of fame: the best and worst artworks so far

  16-10-2015 16:44
  
  As Tate Modern reveals its latest Turbine Hall blockbuster, Jonathan Jones gives his verdict on which installations have worked best so far, and which have failed to rise to the enormous challenge Continue reading...
  
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• Genital caricatures and a satsuma Sistine Chapel – the week in art

  16-10-2015 16:38
  
  Ken Kagami offers thousands of Frieze art fair punters a free caricature of their genitals. Plus the strangest of the strange in edible art, and what life looks like without smartphones – in your weekly dispatch
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  This British abstract(ish) painter’s fascination with gliding – which ultimately led to his death in 1964 – is the theme of the latest exhibition at one of the most thoughtful galleries around.
  • Courtauld Gallery, London, until 17 January. Conti
  
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• Planning To See A Movie Based On User Ratings? Think Again…

  16-10-2015 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Fandango.com’s rounding methodology, even if it was just an innocent bug, is a good example of why you should be skeptical of online movie ratings, especially from companies selling you tickets.
  
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• ‘Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence’ at Brooklyn Museum, Selected by Hank Willis Thomas

  16-10-2015 16:30 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. This week's shows are selected by Hank Willis Thomas Read More
  
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• Ken Kagami: 'A small penis is so sad'

  16-10-2015 16:22
  
  He’s the surprise hit of Frieze, with punters queuing up to have their private parts turned into art. The Japanese artist on coy men, proud women – and why he won’t draw a vaginaWhat do you wear to sit for a portrait? More specifically, what do you wear to sit for a caricature of your own genitals? It’s a classic contemporary art question. Or it soon will be, thanks to Ken Kagami’s live art project at this year’s Frieze art fair. The Japanese artist – kn
  
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• Here Are the Exhibitors for NADA Miami Beach 2015

  16-10-2015 15:45 via artnews.com
  The New Art Dealers Alliance has announced the exhibitors for its 2015 NADA Miami Beach fair. After being held for five years at the Deauville Beach Resort in North Miami Beach, NADA will open this year at its new location at … Read More
  
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• Art and religion: a modern makeover

  16-10-2015 15:42
  
  A new book features more than 200 contemporary artists engaging with religious iconography in profound ways 
  
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• Ben Jones and Warp Records Collaborate on Video for Battles

  16-10-2015 14:30 via artnews.com
  Released on Wednesday, the new video for “Dot Net” by the Warp Records band Battles was directed by the artist Ben Jones and is part of a new Warp film series centered around collaborations between visual artists and Warp artists.The … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Homeland’ Graffiti Edition

  16-10-2015 14:21 via artnews.com
  The artists hired by Showtime’s Homeland to create graffiti for a set in Berlin revealed that they used the platform to write statements censuring the show’s stereotypes of Middle Eastern people. One example: “Homeland is racist.” [BBC]Roy Lichtenstein’s fretful Nurse will … Read More
  
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• Antony Gormley on Sculpture: Inside the mind of an artist

  16-10-2015 13:29
  
  In an exclusive extract from his new book, Antony Gormley, Britain’s foremost sculptor, reveals the inspirations behind his key works – and his debt to Buddhism
  
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• Ottawa’s Opera Lyra Shuts Down Mid-Season

  16-10-2015 11:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the end, the shortfall in cash flow meant the company could not continue to operate, he said. The board made the decision Tuesday evening, after much discussion, to shut the doors. The company was also still struggling with a debt of more than $500,000, which became increasingly hard to manage.”
  
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• Cleveland Orchestra’s Retiring CEO Looks Back

  16-10-2015 11:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Indeed, on the eve of his retirement Nov. 30, longtime executive director Gary Hanson likens his departure to jumping off a moving train. For all their enormous impact, he says, his accomplishments weren’t his alone. Neither will the organization fall apart without him. … ‘I’m proud to have had a role,’ [he says]. ‘But I didn’t start it, and no one’s ever going to finish it.'”
  
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• That Pay-Us-To-Review-Your-Play Website In L.A.? It’s Not Working Out

  16-10-2015 11:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Since an initial burst of summer activity from shows in the Hollywood Fringe Festival abated (festival reviews were discounted [by half] to $75), Bitter Lemons has posted just 12 paid reviews over the past 11½ weeks. …Colin Mitchell, Bitter Lemons’ founder, said Wednesday that there were no additional reviews in the pipeline.”
  
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• The Street Artist Who Punked ‘Homeland’ Tells How She Pulled It Off (And Why)

  16-10-2015 11:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Heba Amin: “This is not necessarily a specific attack on Homeland, but on the inaccuracies in the visual depictions of the region, not just the storylines. And that has consequences on real-world situations. …Obama said this was his favorite show. So when you have a show where Iran and al-Qaida are friends all of a sudden …”
  
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• Why Did Berkeley Breathed Revive ‘Bloom County’? Because Of ‘Go Set A Watchman’

  16-10-2015 11:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I watched slack-jawed in horror as they threw one of the 20th century’s most iconic fictional heroes, Atticus Finch, under the bus.” (audio with transcript)
  
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• A Building You Want To Fondle: Burntwood School Wins Stirling Prize

  16-10-2015 11:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s not very often you want to rush up and stroke a school, but it’s hard to resist fondling the sharply chamfered concrete facade of Burntwood school in south London, winner of this year’s Riba Stirling prize for the UK’s best building. A 1950s timewarp in the best possible sense, the £41m comprehensive girls’ school recalls the values of another, more generous era.”
  
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• Allegedly Fake Joan Mirós Trigger Complicated Trials in Turkey

  16-10-2015 11:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In late 2013, an exhibition titled Miró in Istanbul was shut down halfway through its run when the artworks on view were denounced as fakes. The management company that staged the show, the university that hosted the exhibition, and the Joan Miró Foundation (which was never told about the show) all sued the gallerist who owns the works and rented then out. The trials are now beginning.
  
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• Playboy’s Abandonment of Nudity Was A Historical Necessity

  16-10-2015 11:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The disappearance of nudity from Playboy says more about the persistence of ticklish attitudes about nudity than it does about Playboy. Insofar as Hugh Hefner was somewhat correct to view himself as an agent of sexual liberation, this development resembles a kind of planned obsolescence. The Playboy nude was a stage to be passed through, like puberty or, in Marx’s theory of history, capitalism.”
  
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• ‘Come On Up, Sweetheart’: James Baldwin’s Letters To His Brother

  16-10-2015 11:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Between the late 1940s and the mid-1980s, he carried on an increasingly dense and complex correspondence with his youngest brother, David. Many of these letters survive – some 120 of them, amounting to about 70,000 words. They give an unprecedented picture of his life and work, an epistolary autobiography: they bristle and crackle with the trials, dangers, errors, mistakes, and triumphs of one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century.”
  
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• Could Korean Lit Be The Next Big Thing?

  16-10-2015 10:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ed Park takes a look at a new series of fiction in translation – “in all its strangeness and variety, from the nineteen-thirties to the present” – from Dalkey Archive Press.
  
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• Thieves In The Archives: America’s Literary History, Stolen And Sold On Ebay

  16-10-2015 10:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The tale of how Flannery O’Connor’s purloined letters – purloined by one David Breithaupt from the Kenyon College library – were pinched and fenced is an example of just how easy it can be for us to lose crucial pieces of the historical record.
  
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• ‘Why We’re Translating Shakespeare’ – Oregon Festival Director Defends Controversial Project

  16-10-2015 10:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bill Rauch: “The Play on! translations are not being commissioned because we despair that people will never understand the original language … Instead, the translation project is about creating a new body of work … By commissioning 36 playwrights and pairing them with dramaturgs to examine each of Shakespeare’s plays, we have the opportunity to delve more deeply into the language of the texts and to create companion pieces (not replacements) to the original texts.&rdquo
  
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• ‘My Soul’s Sweet Editor’: Leon Wieseltier’s Eulogy For Carol Brown Janeway

  16-10-2015 10:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I sent her everything I wrote, not so much because I wanted to be published by her, though I resolved almost immediately that I never wanted to be published by anyone else, but because I wanted her to know the contents of my mind and my heart, and I wanted her to admire them. Carol’s admiration was a very high attainment.”
  
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• Paris Opera Ballet Hires First Chinese Dancer In Its 346-Year History

  16-10-2015 10:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Lam Chun-wing, a 19-year-old from a working-class Hong Kong suburb, is an unlikely addition to the world’s oldest ballet company – a state institution steeped in French tradition.”
  
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• The Psychological Case Against Tipping

  16-10-2015 10:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The basic idea behind tipping, of course, is that service workers are getting rewarded for doing a good job, but the science simply doesn’t back this up. There’s decades’ worth of consumer-psychology research demonstrating that tipping hardly improves service at all.”
  
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• One In Four Performing Arts Careers Are Halted By Parenthood, Says Survey

  16-10-2015 10:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The claim is made in a major new report into the impact that being a parent can have on people working in the sector, which also found that around three quarters of survey respondents – 74% – had to turn down work because of having a child.”
  
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• Walkley photo of the year: ice addict image wins prestigious award – in pictures

  16-10-2015 10:19
  
  Gary Ramage’s Ice Nation has been named the Australian 2015 Nikon-Walkley photo of the year. The image captures ‘Bill’, a young man in the throes of an ice-induced medical emergency in Perth. The finalists in several other photographic categories have also been announced ahead of the 60th annual Walkley awards ceremony next month Continue reading...
  
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