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• The World Heritage Fund ‘Watch List’ Hits Home With Listings In The U.S.

  20-10-2015 23:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The U.S. sites tell an interesting story about the period of Spanish colonialism in the American Southwest. Both churches were built by indigenous labor for Spanish colonizers and together capture two distinct periods of the Spanish colonial era’s architecture.”
  
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• Misty Copeland Hits The Late-Night Talk Circuit

  20-10-2015 22:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ballet becomes melded with pop culture as Jimmy Kimmel wears a pink tutu to dance with Copeland.
  
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• ‘Splendour and Misery: Images of Prostitution 1850–1910’ at Musée d’Orsay

  20-10-2015 22:11 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Splendour and Misery: Images of Prostitution 1850-1910” is currently on view at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The exhibition focuses on Paris during the second half of the 19th century, when … Read More
  
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• Marianne Boesky Announces Representation of Thornton Dial

  20-10-2015 22:06 via artnews.com
  Thornton Dial is now represented by Marianne Boesky, the gallery announced today. His first show will run at the 64th Street location from November 5 through December 19, and will feature Dial’s works on paper.Born in rural Alabama in 1928, … Read More
  
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• Google Books Is A 21st Century Library For Everyone

  20-10-2015 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Friday’s ruling is a big deal not just for search engine giants, copyright lawyers, authors, and publishers, but also for ordinary people. Only a generation ago, doing scholarly research in the way that Google Books now makes possible was a game only academics could play.”
  
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• Here’s Klaus Biesenbach’s Tribute to Lady Gaga From the National Art Awards Last Night

  20-10-2015 20:56 via artnews.com
  Last night, at the National Art Awards gala dinner in New York, MoMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach presented the Young Artist Award to Lady Gaga, following a performance of her songs performed by a group of musicians from the YoungArts. Biesenbach’s remarks are presented … Read More
  
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• Discovering A Treasure Trove Of Paintings In The Farmhouse Attic

  20-10-2015 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What had been languishing in Ro’s attic for the best part of 50 years was a stash of more than 500 paintings and drawings. Overnight, it doubled the number of Dunbar’s known works.”
  
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• Preview FIAC 2015

  20-10-2015 20:33 via artnews.com
  The 42nd edition of FIAC opens in Paris’s Grand Palais on Thursday, October 22, with previews for invited guests on Wednesday, October 21. While FIAC will also host affiliated events and installations throughout the French capital, the main fair will … Read More
  
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• The Prize That Caused Upheaval At Carnegie Hall Now Has A Winner

  20-10-2015 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Augustin Hadelich, “a sensitive player with a wide repertoire that includes Bach, Beethoven, Ligeti and Thomas Adès, was selected to receive the prize by a panel of judges who considered all the young singers and musicians presented by Carnegie Hall last season.”
  
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• Cuban artist El Sexto released from jail for planned art piece criticizing Castros

  20-10-2015 19:57
  
  Danilo Maldonado was held for 10 months without charges for attempting to display two pigs with the names of Raúl and Fidel Castro painted on themThe Cuban artist known as El Sexto says he has been freed after spending 10 months behind bars for attempting to release two pigs painted with the names of Raúl and Fidel Castro, the country’s current president and former leader.Danilo Maldonado told the Associated Press by phone on Tuesday that he had just arrived home from prison.
  
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• Apple Music Says It Has 6.5 Million Paying Users (Less Than Spotify, But Still A Lot)

  20-10-2015 19:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While Apple’s total user base of 15 million users is impressive, it pales in comparison to Spotify’s 75 million, the vast majority of which are using the free ad-supported service.”
  
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• The Artist Who Just Won Canada’s Top Theatre Design Prize

  20-10-2015 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Instead of using her $75,000 to ‘pay the rent,’ La Bissonnière wants to use it for a dream project – most likely, to publish a book on her philosophy of “poetic space” that would also be an illustrated retrospective of her career.”
  
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• Death becomes it: how the Morbid Anatomy Museum slayed Brooklyn

  20-10-2015 18:29
  
  Founded by a graphic designer with a dark passion, this collection of macabre curiosities attracts an eclectic audience in the industrial Gowanus districtSurveying the subterranean event space at Brooklyn’s Morbid Anatomy Museum on a recent October evening, Elisabeth Brander approved it as fittingly “dungeon-like”. Brander, a rare medical books librarian at Washington University in St Louis, was going to give a talk called Hannibal Lecter, Book Collector. And the black floor, b
  
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• Thinking That Online Life Isn’t ‘Real’ Life Is Both Wrong And Harmful

  20-10-2015 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Beyond assuming that physical proximity is inherently more meaningful than whatever’s happening online (it’s not), much of this growing unease betrays a lack of digital fluency.”
  
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• Accusations Of Financial Skulduggery At The DeYoung

  20-10-2015 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The complaint by the Fine Arts Museums’ longtime chief financial officer, Michele Gutierrez, has landed both at City Hall and state Attorney General Kamala Harris’ office. It centers on $450,000 Wilsey ordered paid to an ailing staffer, and both the city and museum Board of Trustees have been looking into it, the sources say.”
  
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• Theatre: A Biological Imperative (For Some Of Us)?

  20-10-2015 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In fact, over the Foundation’s 90-plus-year history, the theatre artist study is the first in which a specific career group tended to have Foresight over any other aptitude. For theatre professionals, the aptitude for seeing possibilities is a defining characteristic.”
  
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• Philadelphia Musicians Sign A One-Year Contract

  20-10-2015 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The contract, which runs through Sept. 11, 2016, will keep the music going as the organization, which emerged from bankruptcy protection three years ago, charts its future.”
  
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• Detours: Jackie Saccoccio on Graham Collins’s Slashed-Pool Paintings at the Journal Gallery

  20-10-2015 16:34 via artnews.com
  In honor of her shows at Eleven Rivington and Van Doren Waxter Gallery (both are titled "Degree of Tilt"), the New York–based artist discusses a show of new work by Graham Collins Read More
  
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• Time To Add Some Public Art To Harlem’s Parks?

  20-10-2015 16:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Lee sees this moment in Harlem’s development, as it becomes gentrified and the residential profile evolves, as a crucial time. She says, ‘When neighborhoods are changing, that’s the opportunity to make sure they change in a way that’s inclusive.'”
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Make Fruit Punch Great Again’ Edition

  20-10-2015 14:50 via artnews.com
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• What’s Wrong With The Classical Concert Experience In The 21st Century? Maybe The Way We’re Mucking About With It

  20-10-2015 11:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Philip Clark: “For decades, all the talk has been about how musicians dress; about the timing and duration of concerts; about the historical distance that audiences feel from classical music … Orchestras and ensembles have been experimenting with these strategies for years. … All this stuff – plunging string quartets into the dark, worrying about what shirts to wear or applauding between movements – speaks of a poverty of ideas. If you have nothing to say about co
  
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• Classical Music Isn’t Exclusive Or ‘Elitist’ Unless We Make It That Way

  20-10-2015 11:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Brigid Delaney: “Classical music is incredible. It doesn’t matter if you weren’t brought up with it, or don’t know how to pronounce the composers’ names … I wasn’t, I can’t, and it still lets me in …Experiencing this magic doesn’t ask much of you – just that you pay attention and surrender to it.”
  
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• The God-Hates-Renoir Movement Comes To The Met – And Meets Counter-Protesters

  20-10-2015 11:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One man who took severe offense at RSAP’s cause approached demonstrators, shouting at them, ‘You know who else tries to ban things they don’t like? Nazis! That’s what you are! Nazis!'” Renoir defenders’ signs read “You can take our Renoir when you pry them from our cold dead hands” and “Je suis Pierre-Auguste.”
  
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• California Launches A Cultural Districts Program

  20-10-2015 11:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Last week, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 189 , a measure empowering the California Arts Council to designate areas as Cultural Districts in a competitive application process. … AB 189 charges the Council to formulate a plan to foster Art Districts throughout the state, thereby enhancing creativity, and in the process, reinventing the landscape of cities throughout the state.”
  
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• Is This Former Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist “The Arab Of The Future”?

  20-10-2015 11:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With the first volume of his memoir – titled The Arab of the Future – Riad Sattouf “[has] emerged as France’s best-known graphic novelist … Not since Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of her childhood in Khomeini’s Iran, has a comic book achieved such crossover appeal in France. … [Yet] he claims to have forgotten the Arabic he learned in Syria, has no Arab friends, doesn’t follow the news from the Middle East, and knows no one in the Pa
  
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• He’s All Around Us, Yet He’s Invisible: The Very Great Alexander Von Humboldt

  20-10-2015 11:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Humboldt penguin, the Humboldt squid, and more than a hundred other animal species; Humboldt’s Lily, Humboldt’s Schomburgkia, and three hundred other plant species; … Humboldt Limestone, Humboldt Oolite, the Humboldt Formation, the Humboldt Current; … Humboldt Peak, and Humboldt ranges in China, South Africa, and Antarctica; … four Humboldt counties and thirteen Humboldt towns in North America alone, the Humboldt crater and Mare Humboldtianum on the mo
  
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• How We Read Joseph Conrad Changes With The Times

  20-10-2015 11:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s a long and noble tradition of literary critics misunderstanding Joseph Conrad. … Far more words have been written about him than he ever wrote himself – and not everyone can get it right all the time. Especially when you throw combustible postcolonial issues into the mix. Time has a cruel habit of amplifying those mistakes. A century after he was writing, any negative predictions about Conrad’s long-term durability, for instance, seem hilariously misguided
  
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• It Is Impossible To Stop Comparing Yourself To Your Peers

  20-10-2015 11:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They say comparison is the thief of joy, and this, as it turns out, is one cliché that has a raft of empirical evidence backing it up. But there is another truth about social comparison: It’s pretty much inevitable, so you may as well learn to use it to your advantage.”
  
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• Kaija Saariaho On Composing And Teaching Composition

  20-10-2015 11:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When I’m still imagining the music in my mind before making notes is the most problematic. I try to imagine the music first: that’s very precious. The first idea includes the tempi, the orchestration, which are not difficult to imagine. But to reduce the possibilities for harmonic use and pitches, that is the most time consuming before starting the actual composition.”
  
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• How Did U. Cal.-Irvine’s Art School Get So Radical? It Was Born Radical

  20-10-2015 11:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At this recently opened university – which was still young and free from historical traditions – artist/teachers including SoCal Light and Space art movement pioneers Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman and Ed Moses counseled students, employed curious teaching methods such as having classmates put crayons between their toes, collaborated with them on performance pieces, and even partied with them.”
  
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• Robert Moses Vs. Jane Jacobs: The Opera (Yes, It’s Real)

  20-10-2015 11:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s called A Marvelous Order – the phrase is drawn from Jacobs’s masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities – … [with] music by composer Judd Greenstein, choreography by Will Rawls, and words from Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist Tracy K. Smith.” Says director Joshua Frankel, “The biggest challenge is we don’t want to make this, Moses is Darth Vader and Jacobs is a perfect angel from heaven.”
  
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• The Show That Makes People Literally Dance In The Streets

  20-10-2015 10:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Choreographer Dan Canham says that his Of Riders and Running Horses is “about reclaiming the city space in a gentle way. In the four UK cities the show has been performed in so far, he said they always ended with a spontaneous dance party erupting as the audience joined in.”
  
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• Director of Marketing/Public Relations

  20-10-2015 10:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is seeking the best qualified candidate to fill the position of Director of Marketing/Public Relations
  Job Title: Director of Marketing and Public RelationsDepartment: Marketing and Public RelationsReports to: Museum DirectorEmployment Status: Regular/Full-time
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  The Director of Marketing and Public Relations is responsible for planning, developing, and implementing an integrated marketing and public relations plan for the Brooks Museum of Art, including i
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.19.15

  20-10-2015 08:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s Not A Career. It’s A Lifestyle.
  It’s hard to plan for how to follow your dreams. And those of us who work in the arts have landed here because of a personal calling, following an often … read more
  AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-10-19Your Career Plan: It’s not always a straight line!
  Even though I am not an arts administrator, I have had to wear small versions of that hat in my career as a professional musician. In my past life as … read more
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• 60 years of chic: the incredible portraits of Irving Penn – in pictures

  20-10-2015 08:00
  
  The acclaimed photographer had a serious eye for style, turning Salvador Dalí, roosters, bumblebees and even blocks of frozen beans into high fashion icons. Beyond Beauty at the Smithsonian is Penn’s first retrospective in two decades Continue reading...
  
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• Nigeria’s Literature Of Love

  20-10-2015 01:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some of the authors, devout Muslims, speak out against child marriage and human trafficking, while others advise how to please husbands or offer escapist tales where the impoverished heroine finds love, wealth and a husband.”
  
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