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• Keep Your Job and Earn Your Master’s Degree in Arts Administration

  23-10-2015 23:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Discover Goucher’s MA in Arts Administration. Our limited-residency program and nationally prominent faculty give students the extra edge for success.
  Goucher’s MA in Arts Administration (MAAA) is designed for working professionals. It combines limited-residency sessions on campus with distance-learning online courses. Established in 1998, it is similar in format to Executive MBA programs. The goal of the MAAA is to ensure future success in a global and ever-changing field. Faculty,
  
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• Cannonball Miami seeking Executive Director

  23-10-2015 23:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cannonball is a non-profit, 501 (c) (3), arts organization dedicated to supporting artists, innovative forms of cultural production, and education to advance critical discourse and understanding of contemporary art practice. Based in downtown Miami, Florida, Cannonball’s artist-centric values are mirrored in its experimental programs, resources, and opportunities that respond to the needs of today’s artists and reflect our efforts to better understand the nuances and textures of Sout
  
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• Habitat: Rachel Feinstein

  23-10-2015 22:44 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Rachel Feinstein; Tribeca, New York. “What’s interesting about life is you finally reach a point where you just figure it out,” Rachel Feinstein said recently in her SoHo studio, … Read More
  
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• Iwan Wirth: The more public half of the art world’s most powerful couple is a creative pirate who shares his treasures

  23-10-2015 21:16
  
  The Swiss dealer and his wife have set up what has quickly become a world-class art centre in their adopted home of Bruton, in Somerset
  
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• How Tony-Winning ‘Fun Home’ Changed As It Moved Up And Up In The Theatre World

  23-10-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When a musical upgrades, everything – from furniture to lighting and even to tossing away some musical numbers and adding more – has to change.
  
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• Novelist Anthony Marra Interviews The Comedian Behind @GuyInYourMFA

  23-10-2015 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Marra: Can you describe that moment you realized your own extraordinary talent?
  “Guy: I can actually remember quite clearly. I was in fourth grade, and we were asked to write about our summer vacations. I wrote mine entirely in the second person and without punctuation.”
  
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• Pioneering Film Director Julie Dash On A New Movement

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  “I’m still optimistic. I’m very, very happy that TCM boldly stepped forward by curating this Trailblazing Women program, when other stations and networks have shied away from it. It’s pretty bold. I appreciate that.”
  
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• ‘What If People Could Eat Themselves?’: Dana Schutz on Her Macabre Paintings, in 2007

  23-10-2015 20:00 via artnews.com
  In Dana Schutz’s new show at Petzel, titled “Fight in an Elevator,” Solange Knowles and Jay Z have an altercation, a toothy monster eats a person, and a sleepwalker wearing an Adidas shirt stumbles out of bed. As Schutz explained … Read More
  
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• JMW Turner: gallery to retrace artist's London-Margate steamboat journey

  23-10-2015 19:53
  
  Turner Contemporary will bring to life trip painter often made to visit mistress – and to paint – to mark gallery’s fifth anniversaryThe steamboat trip from London to Margate regularly made by JMW Turner is to be reconstructed by the Turner Contemporary to mark its fifth anniversary.The gallery in Kent, which opened to much local cynicism in 2011, will bring to life the journey that the Romantic painter regularly undertook when he visited Margate. Related: Punk with a paintbrus
  
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• ‘Liz Magor: Six Ways to Sunday #06’ at Peep-Hole, Milan

  23-10-2015 19:48 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Liz Magor: Six Ways to Sunday #06” is currently on view at Peep-Hole in Milan, presented in partnership with CAG Vancouver, as the sixth and last installment in … Read More
  
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• The German Choreographer Who Created One Lasting, And Antiwar, Masterpiece

  23-10-2015 19:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kurt Jooss “made scores of ballets, founded schools and companies, and was instrumental in developing a whole German style, Ausdruckstanz, which is still with us, above all in the work of the late Pina Bausch.”
  
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• Shots in the dark: Richard Learoyd and his supersized camera obscura

  23-10-2015 19:30
  
  Using a camera obscura that’s as big as a room, the photographer creates gothic portraits with a shocking otherworldly beauty
  “I was lucky enough to be in the generation before computers became the norm,” Richard Learoyd has said of his time at Glasgow School of Art. “I look back at the time I had there and realise that’s when my life really began.” It was there that Learoyd started experimenting with the antiquarian camera obscura. The literal translation of
  
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• Beautiful bacteria: winners of the 2015 Agar Art Competition – in pictures

  23-10-2015 19:14
  
  Microbes and germs were used to paint masterpieces on a canvas of agar jelly in a competition run by the American Society for Microbiology. Scientists from around the world submitted entries, recreating famous paintings as well as original works. Continue reading...
  
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• Space art, Spain's last miners and a Hieronymus Bosch miracle – the week in art

  23-10-2015 19:01
  
  Haunting portraits from space and the coal face, plus a Bosch exhibition 500 years in the making – all in your weekly dispatchEgypt: Faith after the Pharaohs
  The rich and varied religions of Egypt are explored in a timely reminder of a complex cultural history.
  • British Museum, London, from 29 October until 7 February 2016 Continue reading...
  
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• Yelp Reviews Of The Broad Museum Are Comedy Gold

  23-10-2015 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is housed next to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in a funky white structure that people either love or hate (me, I’m sipping on the haterade). There’s artwork by Murakami, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michael Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein — basically, all of the T-shirt graphics at UNIQLO.”
  
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• Broadway Diversified Itself This Fall, But Will That Attract New Audiences?

  23-10-2015 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Diversity on stage will give people of different backgrounds a reason to explore forms of entertainment new to them. Audiences want to relate to characters that look and sound like them.”
  
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• Swizz Beatz Is Now On The Board At The Brooklyn Museum

  23-10-2015 17:45 via artnews.com
  The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the rap producer and art collector Kasseem Dean–known famously as Swizz Beatz–has been added to the board of trustees at The Brooklyn Museum, joining the philanthropist and former private equity firms partner Barbara … Read More
  
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• ‘The Shining’ Hotel Will Become A Horror Film Museum And Center

  23-10-2015 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The hotel, which currently offers ‘Ghost Adventure’ packages (including ‘a glow-in-the-dark Stanley Hotel squishy ghost and a REDRUM mug per person’) as well as hosting an annual horror film festival, hopes to become a ‘year-round horror destination,’ according to Variety. Hollywood stars Simon Pegg and Elijah Wood are said to be founding board members of the planned film centre.”
  
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• Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose – review

  23-10-2015 17:00
  
  Forget the sleazy prattle about her sex life, Guggenheim was one of the great heroines of 20th-century artWhen the art collector Peggy Guggenheim moved into her Venetian palazzo in 1949 she installed Marino Marini’s The Angel of the City on the landing stage. You can still see the bronze statue today. It depicts an ecstatic equestrian, body arched, erect phallus pointing urgently at the tourists as they putter up and down the Grand Canal. Guggenheim claimed in her memoir that she had instr
  
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• Stella’s Fanboys: Justin Adian Talks Painting with Alex Kitnick at Skarstedt

  23-10-2015 16:49 via artnews.com
  “Justin let me squeeze one the other day,” the art historian Alex Kitnick said at Skarstedt’s Chelsea gallery one recent evening. The Justin in question was the painter Justin Adian; the groped object was one of Adian’s canvas-on-foam works that … Read More
  
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• The holy-book bomb: is this the most offensive artwork ever?

  23-10-2015 16:25
  
  From the Pope felled by a meteor to Jesus’s edible genitals, who says religious art has lost its power to shock?It’s getting harder to offend people. In an age when congressmen tweet photos of their erections, gunmen take selfies before going on rampages and columnists call migrants cockroaches, the bar for moral outrage has never been higher. Poor artists! They used to be able to nab headlines by dunking a figurine of Jesus in urine, or pasting porn magazine clippings over a paintin
  
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• Yes, ‘Back To The Future’ Villain Biff *Was* Based On Donald Trump

  23-10-2015 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Screenwriter: “‘We thought about it when we made the movie! Are you kidding?’ he says. ‘You watch Part II again and there’s a scene where Marty confronts Biff in his office and there’s a huge portrait of Biff on the wall behind Biff, and there’s one moment where Biff kind of stands up and he takes exactly the same pose as the portrait? Yeah.'”
  
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• Magnificent mobiles: the art of Alexander Calder

  23-10-2015 16:00
  
  Calder pioneered kinetic sculpture with his wafer thin mobiles that can be moved by a child’s breath. Ahead of a Tate exhibition, James Hall hails his art of origami delicacy“He makes a mockery of the old fashioned frozen-stone school of sculpture,” wrote the New Yorker critic in 1929, referring to the 31-year-old American sculptor Alexander Calder, maker of quicksilver wire figures that could be packed away in a suitcase, and soon to be the maker of wafer-thin mobiles tha
  
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• Russian Love Isn’t Love Like It Is In Capitalist Countries

  23-10-2015 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The individualistic appeal of the Regime of Choice tends to cast the desire for commitment as ‘loving too much’ – that is, loving against one’s own self-interest.”
  
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• Morning Links: Raf Leaves Dior Edition

  23-10-2015 15:10 via artnews.com
  Raf Simons says goodbye to Dior. [Paper Magazine]A pre-Revolution modern art collection from Iran is being lent to Berlin by the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, along with works by Iranian artists, for a show in Berlin next year. [The Art … Read More
  
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• If You’re Feeling Isolated, Join A Choir (It’s What Our Ancestors Did)

  23-10-2015 14:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Newly published research confirms that raising voices together is an effective way to forge feelings of connection and inclusion. Moreover, it finds this effect is particularly robust for singers who are part of a sizable ensemble featuring many unfamiliar faces.”
  
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• Art Basel Miami Beach 2015 Announces Film Program

  23-10-2015 14:45 via artnews.com
  Art Basel Miami Beach has announced the schedule of the fair’s film program. It will feature 50 films by and about artists under the rubric “Our Hidden Futures,” selected by David Gryn, the director of Daata Editions. In addition, the feature-length … Read More
  
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• Selfies taken by Philip Larkin

  23-10-2015 13:05
  
  Previously unpublished photographs by the poet taken of himself, his mother and lovers reveal a glimpse into his life
  
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• The Problem Isn’t Blackface In Opera, It’s Opera’s Scarcity Of Black Faces

  23-10-2015 11:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anne Midgette moderates a conversation between five rising African-American opera singers – Alyson Cambridge, Soloman Howard, Kenneth Kellogg, Deborah Nansteel, and Russell Thomas – about the issues they face in their careers in 2015. (The makeup in Otello is not one of them.)
  
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• The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records

  23-10-2015 11:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A new documentary film called All Things Must Pass charts the rise and fall of Tower, from its origins in a Sacramento drugstore in 1960, to its glory days of cocaine-fueled rock-and-roll excess (topping $1 billion in sales), to its stunning downfall. It features interviews and reminiscences with the store’s employees – some of whom rose from scruffy clerks to become top brass.”
  
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• Eyewitness: 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

  23-10-2015 11:42
  
  Photographs from the Eyewitness series Continue reading...
  
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• Britain’s Oldest Science Institution Has To Sell Parts Of Collection To Save Itself

  23-10-2015 11:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ninety works spanning three centuries of scientific inquiry are to go under the hammer at Christie’s in December, in an attempt to plug a £2m hole in the finances of the UK’s most venerable science charity, the Royal Institution. The groundbreaking works in the history of medicine, science and the natural world include first editions from scientific luminaries such as Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, Leonhard Euler, Johannes Kepler and Alexander von Humboldt.”
  
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• The Shape Of Things To Come: Is History A J-Curve, An S-Curve, Or A Spike?

  23-10-2015 11:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For some ancient Greeks and Romans, history was a downhill slide. … Nowadays some optimists think that history slants in the opposite direction. Some techno-utopians argue that technological progress is following an exponential curve, a J that is bending upward toward the vertical. … At the other extreme are today’s gloomy Malthusians. They view history as a spike, in which industrial and population growth overshoot the limits to sustainability, followed by a sharp cra
  
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• Portuguese artist makes wire animal sculptures that look just like sketches

  23-10-2015 11:29
  
  Viewers must study David Oliveira's sculptures from the right angle to see them come alive 
  
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• Flood Of Antiquities Returned To India As Investigation Into Dealer Continues

  23-10-2015 11:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What began as a trickle has now become a flood as more institutions around the world return works of art that were bought from Manhattan antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor, who ran the now defunct gallery Art of the Past for over three decades. Kapoor is awaiting trial in India on charges of smuggling looted artefacts worth more than $100m.”
  
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• A Lost Merce Cunningham Dance Solo, Found – On Film And In The Flesh

  23-10-2015 11:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Merce] was by all accounts at his most personal and driven in a series of three extraordinary 1950s solos he made to music by Christian Wolff.” One of those solo’s Changeling, was rediscovered in a 1958 German TV film. Now visitors to Boston can see both the film itself and a live performance of the reconstructed dance by Silas Riener.
  
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• ‘Choreographic Objects’ – William Forsythe’s Art Installations

  23-10-2015 11:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 1997, “he made his first foray into installation work at the Roundhouse in London with White Bouncy Castle, which had spectators bounding and falling in a giant rubber courtyard. He described it at the time as ‘a choreography that is incapable of being false.’ It’s a description that fits a subsequent substantial body of work that generates movement in spectators – by navigating between the swinging pendulums …, clambering through 200 gymnastic rings witho
  
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• Kenneth Branagh Brings His Star-Studded Rep Company To The West End

  23-10-2015 11:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For slightly more than a year, Mr. Branagh, 54, will wear the multiple hats of leading actor, director and company manager alongside the stars Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Richard Madden, Lily James and Zoë Wanamaker, as well as actors straight out of drama school.”
  
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• Pandora And Big Labels Settle Suit For $90 Million

  23-10-2015 11:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The settlement, which follows a similar deal in June for $210 million between the labels and Sirius XM, resolves one aspect of a dispute over an obscure legal point: Federal copyright protection applies only to recordings made after 1972, with a patchwork of state laws applying to earlier recordings.”
  
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• Why Are Music Scholars Ignoring The Growing Evidence For Musical Universals?

  23-10-2015 11:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ted Gioia: “The evidence that different cultures share fundamental approaches to music-making is mounting, yet the scholars who specialize in world music prefer to pretend it doesn’t exist. What’s going on?”
  
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• Film Directors Aren’t So Different From Scientists

  23-10-2015 11:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In his latest film, director Michael Almereyda draws comparisons between Stanley Milgram and cinematic auteurs. There’s some research to back this analogy.”
  
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• Disney To Launch Subscription Streaming In Great Britain

  23-10-2015 11:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The service, DisneyLife, will make available a wide range of titles, including the complete Pixar catalog, which includes the Toy Story franchise, and classics such as Snow White, Lady and the Tramp and The Jungle Book … DisneyLife will cost £9.99 ($15.43) a month.”
  
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• The Business Of Broadway: An Infographic

  23-10-2015 11:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Using data provided by the Broadway League, the industry’s trade association, The Wall Street Journal examines the business side of show business, from hits and flops to cyclical realities.”
  
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• Margot Winspear, 83, Philanthropist Whose Name Is On Dallas’s Opera House

  23-10-2015 11:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With her husband, Bill, who died in 2007, she was a leading supporter of the performing arts in their hometown of Edmonton, Alberta and in Dallas, to which the Winspears moved in 1975.
  
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• Marty Ingels, Actor/Comedian/Voice-Over Artist, Dead At 79

  23-10-2015 11:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A raspy-voiced Brooklynite who co-starred with John Astin in the early-1960s sitcom I’m Dickens, He’s Fenster,” Ingels appeared on sitcoms like The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Addams Family and in such films as The Horizontal Lieutenant and Wild and Wonderful; among his many voice roles was Pac-Man. “But he was best known as half of what many thought to be one of Hollywood’s oddest couples.”
  
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• Sculpture by the Sea: Sydney's coastline transformed – in pictures

  23-10-2015 08:45
  
  More than 100 artworks from Australian and international artists are featured in the annual exhibition which stretches along the coastline from Bondi to Tamarama. Highlights this year include a wave of Barbie dolls by Annette Thas and what looks like an inflatable rocket perched on a cliff ledge by David McCracken. The artwork is on display until 8 November. Here are the best pictures from our photographer Jonny Weeks Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.22.15

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  Sit Back & Enjoy the Ride: The Roller Coaster Career Plan
  When I was younger, I thought I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up: Theatre Director. But after a few years in that world, I didn’t … read more
  AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-10-22The Career Path of a Nonprofit Generalist
  About a year ago, I was accepted into the Chief Executive Program at National Arts Strategies. This particular cohort is focused on leaders using cultural organizations to change/alter/i
  
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• All The Meanings Of Bartleby

  23-10-2015 04:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Melville, despite his struggles, was a hopeful person. ‘Bartleby’ is the freewheeling dream of a bibliophile, the mock epic of a dusty office, the shards of a lifetime of thought. One hundred sixty-two years of scholarship have failed to solve its mysteries—or diminish its pleasures.”
  
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• Susan Cheever Talks About (Writing About) Family Secrets

  23-10-2015 04:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At our house, even as an adult, I was always daddy’s little girl—his reading and conversation partner. But in other ways, I think I fell short of his fantasy. I think he had hoped my sexuality as a woman would be crisp and refined, but I wasn’t the delicate girl under the big hat. I ate butter with a fork.”
  
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