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• Catrin Finch: Harpist and composer visits Welsh-speaking area of Argentina

  29-10-2015 23:51
  
  The musician, who lives in Cardiff, was marking 150 years since Welsh settlers arrived in the region
  
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• Artadia Names 10 Finalists for Houston Awards

  29-10-2015 23:24 via artnews.com
  Today the national arts fund nonprofit Artadia announced the ten finalists for their seventh annual Houston Artadia Awards. Following a panel review of 225 applicants earlier this month, the finalist are: Deborah Bay JooYoung Choi Lily Cox-Richard Bill Daniel Autumn … Read More
  
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• Frank Stella at the Whitney – from impassive abstraction to riotous baroque

  29-10-2015 21:46
  
  Whitney Museum, New York
  One of the longest careers in American art has produced everything from tasteful nonagons to bombastically lurid steel sculptures – but collected into this epochal show, it all starts to make sense
  You can wait your whole life for your paintings to win attention, and another life again before anyone calls them masterworks. Or, if you’re Frank Stella, it can happen to you at 23. In 1959, a year out of Princeton, he was included in the New York Museum of Modern
  
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• Chekhov and Dostoevsky portraits to be displayed in UK in 'unprecedented cultural exchange with Moscow'

  29-10-2015 21:34
  
  Paintings of British icons including Isaac Newton and William Shakespeare will also be exhibited in the Russian capital
  
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• Moscow and London to exchange greatest portraits

  29-10-2015 19:25
  
  The National Portrait Gallery and the State Tretyakov Gallery are marking their 160th anniversaries by loaning treasuresMoscow is to send figures such as Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky and London will reciprocate with Shakespeare, Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Carlyle in an unprecedented exchange of some of Russia and the UK’s greatest portraits.The National Portrait Gallery in London and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow are to mark the coincidence of their 160th anniversaries b
  
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• A Look Around Beirut’s Brand New Aïshti Foundation

  29-10-2015 19:18 via artnews.com
  In the Summer issue of ARTnews, our annual “Top 200 Collectors” issue, we profiled prodigious contemporary art collector and fashion retail magnate Tony Salamé, whose hotly-anticipated 40,000-square-foot exhibition space for his Aïshti Foundation opened in Beirut last weekend. This slide show provides a … Read More
  
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• Is Poetry A Better Password?

  29-10-2015 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Turning random strings of characters into rhymed, metered verse was the brainchild of Kevin Knight, a senior research scientist at USC’s Information Sciences Institute and a professor in their Computer Science Department, and Marjan Ghazvininejad, a Ph.D. student at the institute.
  
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• A sparkling set of ivories: the dentist with a royal art collection

  29-10-2015 18:36
  
  A tea set from an empress, a golden tusk from a king – Thomas W Evans, a pioneer of pain-free dentistry, was showered with gifts for keeping the royal teeth intact. As his treasures go on display, we uncover his curious lifeBy the end of his career, Thomas W Evans had built up a treasury of paintings, sculpture, gold, silver, crystal and porcelain, including a hoard of costly gifts from the British royal family. But he was neither an aristocrat nor a millionaire merchant: he was a dentist.
  
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• Can You Have Astonishing Creativity Without Competition?

  29-10-2015 18:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Think of rivalry as a type of über competition driven by mutual obsession, with the rivals propelling each other to spiralling achievement, and investing more mental and emotional resources in each other than circumstances would ever dictate on their own.”
  
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• Obama: I Learned About Complexity From Reading Novels

  29-10-2015 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When I think about how I understand my role as citizen, setting aside being president, and the most important set of understandings that I bring to that position of citizen, the most important stuff I’ve learned I think I’ve learned from novels”.
  
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• Romance Writer Accused Of Plagiarizing

  29-10-2015 17:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Her book was almost a word-for-word, scene-for-scene duplication of my book, except the characters’ names had been changed, and short M/M love scenes had been inserted. The only scene she didn’t include was the epilogue, which couldn’t be altered to an M/M scene. It involved the heroine in labour and the hero having sympathetic labour pains.”
  
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• Who Owns “Star Wars”? George Lucas Or The Fans?

  29-10-2015 17:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Love or hate it — or love it and hate it, as legions of its fans do — the “Star Wars” series is a force to reckon with, less because of Mr. Lucas than the fans who elevated it to cinema’s alpha and omega.
  
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• Picabia Alert #10: The Catalogue for the Guggenheim’s 1970 Retrospective

  29-10-2015 17:37 via artnews.com
  “Picabia Alert” takes note of shows and publications that include the wily French artist Francis Picabia (1879–1953), aiming to sate Picabia appetites until a retrospective of the artist arrives at the Kunsthaus Zurich and New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2016.Some … Read More
  
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• Demand-Pricing Ticketing Software Dramatically Boosts Ticket Revenue

  29-10-2015 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Inspired by airline and travel booking websites, the centre began using the Neo-Ticketing system in October 2015, testing a number of different algorithms that automatically adjust ticket prices according to time or demand.”
  
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• ‘Please Add To and Return To: Mail Art Homage to Ray Johnson’ at Printed Matter

  29-10-2015 17:22 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Please Add To and Return To: Mail Art Homage to Ray Johnson” is open through November 28 at Printed Matter‘s new location at 231 11th Avenue. The exhibition, part … Read More
  
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• Kate MccGwire, artist: 'You have to be organised to work on a boat. Or you would be in a sea of pigeon'

  29-10-2015 16:33
  
  Karen Wright meets the arist at her studio on a Dutch barge moored in the Thames near Hampton Court
  
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• ‘The Spirals of His Mind Are Tightly Wound and Mysterious’: Matthew Weinstein on Jim Shaw at the New Museum

  29-10-2015 16:17 via artnews.com
  The “First Papers Of Surrealism” exhibition, a collaboration between Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp, was held in New York City in 1942. It was a visual manifesto for the European-born movement, and Duchamp chose for its catalogue cover an image … Read More
  
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• Why Science Is Actually A Difficult Set Of Ideas

  29-10-2015 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The capacity for self-correction is the source of science’s immense strength, but the public is unnerved by the fact that scientific wisdom isn’t immutable. Scientific knowledge changes with great speed and frequency – as it should – yet public opinion drags with reluctance to be modified once established.”
  
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• ‘Never Quite Made It Past Calliope:’ An Interview With Caroliner About Their Prints At Tomato House

  29-10-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  Recently, the East New York gallery Tomato House announced that it would be distributing rare and hard-to-find posters and ephemera from the influential and mysterious West Coast band and collective Caroliner. “I saw Caroliner as not being a band but … Read More
  
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• Out Of Ideas? What Exactly Is An Ideas Festival?

  29-10-2015 15:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The idea of an “Ideas Festival” is so broad that it could mean almost anything and thus, to most people, means absolutely nothing. Will they be celebrating new ideas? Old ideas? Is the festival strictly academic? Policy-oriented? Does it strive to make “ideas” culturally relevant? Will there be award statuettes shaped like light bulbs? And so on.
  
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• Bruce Coppock Retires From St. Paul Chamber Orchestra

  29-10-2015 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Coppock, 64, led the orchestra from 1999 to 2008 and retired after being diagnosed with bile duct cancer. He survived the rare and usually fatal condition and returned to the SPCO in 2013, as the orchestra was emerging from a bitter contract dispute that led to a 191-day lockout of the musicians.
  
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• Bruce Coppock Retires From Leading St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Successors Appointed

  29-10-2015 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Coppock, 64, led the orchestra from 1999 to 2008 and retired after being diagnosed with bile duct cancer. He survived the rare and usually fatal condition and returned to the SPCO in 2013, as the orchestra was emerging from a bitter contract dispute that led to a 191-day lockout of the musicians.
  
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• DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

  29-10-2015 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts seeks applicants for a full-time Director of Marketing & Communications to join our senior management team and be a part of northern New England’s premier performing arts center.
  The Director of Marketing & Communications is responsible for overseeing and managing the marketing, public relations, and communications programs and functions for the Flynn Center and participates in overall organizational planning and management as a member of th
  
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• ‘…But We Can’t Pay You’: Performance Art and Money’s Knotty Relationship

  29-10-2015 14:30 via artnews.com
  A year ago, in a former bank in Brooklyn, RoseLee Goldberg hosted a postmodern fundraiser featuring a “special food performance” by artist Jennifer Rubell. The event was to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Performa biennial, founded in 2004 by … Read More
  
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• Ghosts of the blitz: the poetry of London's world war wastelands

  29-10-2015 14:09
  
  Inspired by their grandad who was a bomb warden, Thom and Beth Atkinson have spent six years photographing the spaces where buildings once stood. Their shots reveal London as a spectral memorial, frozen in timeIn an essay called The Architecture of Destruction, written in 1941, the war artist John Piper wrote of the London blitz: “When it is all over, a few of the wrecked buildings might well be left as permanent ruins.” More than a million buildings were destroyed or damaged in the
  
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• Morning Links: Pepe the Frog Edition

  29-10-2015 13:50 via artnews.com
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• Kopatchinskaja/Stenz/LPO, Royal Festival Hall, review: Soloist excels in Larcher's extraordinary violin concerto

  29-10-2015 13:36
  
  Larcher leaped on stage to join the ovation for Kopatchinskaja after a fiery, original performance
  
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• Yinka Shonibare interview: The migrant crisis makes me want to make more beautiful things

  29-10-2015 12:28
  
  YBA on his unbiased role as an artist and Museums At Night project
  
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• Lucerne Festival 2016 To Feature 11 Female Conductors

  29-10-2015 10:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Emmanuelle Haïm will conduct the Vienna Philharmonic, which, more than any other top orchestra, has been criticized for its slow pace of adding women to its ranks. Marin Alsop will make her debut in Lucerne conducting the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, and Barbara Hannigan will conduct the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Susanna Mälkki will conduct a new work by Olga Neuwirth, the festival’s composer in residence.”
  
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• This Week In Misguided Schools Censoring Books: ‘Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close’

  29-10-2015 10:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel … was suddenly pulled from the honors English curriculum at Illinois’s Mattoon High School because of ‘several passages that were ‘extremely’ vulgar detailing sexual acts’.”
  
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• Ai Weiwei’s True Medium Isn’t Legos, It’s Twitter And Instagram

  29-10-2015 10:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Twitter, he puckishly retweets affirmations and condemnations alike, apparently more interested in sustaining debate than in simply winning the day. At such moments he seems less like a source of controversy than its stage manager.”
  
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• At Last, We May Be Close To Deciphering The Writing Of The Ancient Indus Valley

  29-10-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That civilization’s main cities “boasted street planning and house drainage worthy of the twentieth century. They hosted the world’s first known toilets, along with complex stone weights, elaborately drilled gemstone necklaces and exquisitely carved seal stones featuring one of the world’s stubbornly undeciphered scripts. … Now – as a result of increased collaboration between archaeologists, linguists and experts in the digital humanities – it looks pos
  
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• Handwritten Draft Of King James Bible Discovered

  29-10-2015 09:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The King James Bible may well be the greatest work of literature ever written by committee – and now we know a bit more about the collaboration that produced it.”
  
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• Stop Expecting Artists To Work For Free – Or Worse, For ‘Exposure’

  29-10-2015 09:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The debate over working for free goes back a while now. But there are still people who haven’t heard the argument and think that ‘exposure’ of creative work is reason enough for people to give away their labors.”
  
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• Using Arts Education To Create Good Citizens And Thinkers: Remembering Black Mountain College

  29-10-2015 09:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Democracy is about making choices, and people need to take ownership of their choices. We don’t want to vote the way someone else tells us to. We want to vote based on beliefs we have chosen for ourselves. Making art is making choices. Art-making is practice democracy. Rice did not think of art-making as therapy or self-expression. He thought of it as mental training.”
  
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• Jiří Makovec's best photograph – a girl smoking at a beauty show for cows

  29-10-2015 09:00
  
  ‘Letting your children smoke at the Viehschau is a long-standing custom in Appenzell. Kids as young as six do it’Appenzell is a beautiful and very odd place. It’s a tiny rural town in the east of Switzerland, built in the 16th century. Here, all the cliches are true: the fondue and the yodelling, the pink cows and the magnificent ski slopes.It’s also a place with very local habits. They still celebrate the new year according to the Julian calendar. And every October, they
  
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• What If You Made A Great Movie And Nobody Came? Why ‘Steve Jobs’ Bombed

  29-10-2015 08:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin’s exhilarating biopic-but-not-a-biopic of the late Apple co-founder sank like a stone in its first week of wide release after promising numbers in major markets and mostly rapturous reviews (ours included). What happened? The Internet, being the Internet, has some theories.”
  
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• Oldest College Dance Program In US May Stop Offering An Undergrad Major

  29-10-2015 08:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While the dance minor and graduate program will remain, the school has proposed dissolving the dance major under budget constraints. … Founded in 1938, Mills’ dance department is the oldest, continuously-run program in the country today. With that comes a list of distinguished alumni, including Molissa Fenley and Trisha Brown.”
  
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• The Illusion Of Deliciousness: How Packaging Can Make Food (Seem) More Flavorful

  29-10-2015 08:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sitting in a pub one night a dozen years ago, Charles Spence realized that he was in the presence of the ideal experimental model: the Pringles potato chip.” The Oxford experimental psychologist argues “that in most cases at least half of our experience of food and drink is determined by the forgotten flavor senses of vision, sound, and touch.”
  
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• Picasso’s Last Surviving Lover/Muse And Marcelo Gomes Make A Ballet Together

  29-10-2015 08:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Françoise Gilot, an accomplished painter herself and still active at age 93, has created the backdrop for Gomes’s new AfterEffect, the first work he has choreographed for his colleagues at American Ballet Theater.
  
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• It Don’t Come Easy: David Lynch’s Relationship With Language

  29-10-2015 08:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Affable despite his elusiveness, Lynch seems [in an early interview] less to be stonewalling than striving to verbalize daunting concepts with a vocabulary that might politely be termed basic. … It’s clear from the 1979 footage – and from almost every interview he has done since – that words do not come easily to him. … Lynch has said, more than once, that he had to ‘learn to talk,’ and his very particular, somewhat limited vocabulary seems in m
  
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• Maria Callas Still Sets The Opera Diva Standard, Even After Half A Century

  29-10-2015 08:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Peter G. Davis argues that La Divina changed both the way we listen to opera and the ambitions and goals of countless later singers.
  
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• Alicia Alonso Remembers

  29-10-2015 08:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The founding mother of ballet in Cuba recalls her early training and career, convincing Fidel Castro to fund a professional national company, and convincing skeptical parents that ballet could be a career. (video)
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.28.15

  29-10-2015 07:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Whole World Is Awash in Art
  Once you have successfully freed yourself from the Sinatra Imperative, you have taken the first major step toward artistic independence. Suddenly, all the world is available for your creativity, and all the world’s people as well. … read more
  AJBlog: Creative Insubordination Published 2015-10-28Making My Peace with Sales
  Nearly four years ago, shortly after I started Engaging Matters, I published a post (What Is Arts Marketing?) in which I outlin
  
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• A Rotten Tomatoes For Theatre

  29-10-2015 01:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Inspired by Netflix and Amazon, the site lets audience-goers find exactly what they want — options include a show with puppets, a Shakespeare revival or a romance, and many more. There also are guides for folks who like their shows 90 minutes or less, family friendly or even scary, in time for Halloween.
  
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• TV Business Declining? Don’t Tell Comcast

  29-10-2015 00:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Comcast reported on Tuesday an 11 percent increase in revenue, to nearly $18.7 billion, in the third quarter, fueled by continued growth in its high-speed Internet and film businesses.
  
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