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• Watch Jon Rafman And Daniel Lopatin’s New Video for Oneothrix Point Never

  04-11-2015 22:38 via artnews.com
  The artists Jon Rafman and Daniel Lopatin have co-directed a music video for the song “Sticky Drama” by Loptain’s electronic music project Oneothrix Point Never, released today by Warp Records.Instead of actually describing the action–packed video–which is chock-full of very … Read More
  
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• Christopher Lew and Mia Locks Will Organize the 2017 Whitney Biennial

  04-11-2015 22:25 via artnews.com
  Here’s some rather big news on an otherwise sleepy Wednesday afternoon: the Whitney Museum of American Art has tapped Christopher Y. Lew and Mia Locks to organize the 2017 Whitney Biennial, which will be the first edition of the closely watched … Read More
  
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• Sydney Opera House: Liverpool council says it wants its very own version on banks of the River Mersey

  04-11-2015 21:17
  
  The city aims to use its bid for devolved powers from Whitehall to create its own 'iconic building' on the waterfront
  
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• The Cardigan That Kurt Cobain Wore On ‘MTV Unplugged’ Is Going Up For Auction

  04-11-2015 20:53 via artnews.com
  Super rich grunge enthusiasts, start your engines: Rolling Stone reported that Kurt Cobain’s iconic green cardigan from Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged session is going up for auction on November 7. It comes with a $20,000 opening bid, and is expected to go … Read More
  
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• TV Networks Turn To Neuroscience To Make Ads More Effective

  04-11-2015 20:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Viacom Inc.’s New York-based laboratory is concentrating primarily on brainwave activity from test subjects who are given media to watch or interact with, and the project’s core objective is to determine the timing of ads. The general notion behind the research which makes use of electroencephalogram (EEG) brain readings, is that scenes which gain emotional response from expectant mothers might be an apposite queue for baby-related items, or that a scene which makes the viewer feel h
  
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• Plans For ArtPrize Dallas Called Off After Funding Fails

  04-11-2015 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This was to be the first franchise of an event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and its failure to make it here is a reminder that the art patrons in Dallas will show up dressed to the nines for galas like TWOxTWO last week, raising millions of dollars for the Dallas Museum of Art and amfAR, but aren’t interested in seeing an event like ArtPrize come to life, which allows artists of any caliber to participate.”
  
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• Alfred Taubman's $500m art trove goes under the hammer

  04-11-2015 19:50
  
  More than 500 pieces of art owned by late Sotheby’s chairman heading to auction block in New York
  A secretive art collection including works by Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Degas, Rothko, Bacon, Dürer, and the last Raphael known in private hands, is being scattered in a series of sales in New York – at the Sotheby’s auction house once owned by the collector of the works, Alfred Taubman.The 500 works, spanning millennia of art history, is being auctioned in a series of sal
  
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• Made in Japan: the true birthplace of modern art

  04-11-2015 19:03
  
  The V&A’s new gallery of art by Japanese masters shows how their free, sensual and subversive works revolutionised the west’s way of seeing the worldJapan invented modern art. That is the highly convincing message I took from the spruced-up and rethought Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art that has just opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.The first clue is in front of you as you walk into the atmospherically lit gallery (it’s as shadowy as a fashionable Japanese
  
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• Data Dump: UK Theatre Revenues And Attendance Are Up

  04-11-2015 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over 6,600 productions were staged across the venues in 2014 – an increase of 2% on 2013 – earning £438.6m in ticket sales. Venues that seat over 500 and principally present, rather than produce, took three quarters of this total – a proportion that appears to be rising. Producing theatres also enjoyed growth though, with larger venues taking 9.6% more at the box office in 2014 and smaller ones 3.5%.”
  
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• Next In Audience Development: Scans That See Inside Your Head

  04-11-2015 18:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Brainsights is a Toronto company that specializes in scanning people’s brainwaves in order to see if they’re responding to companies’ messages and content, whether they’re emotionally engaged, and whether they’ll remember any of it.
  
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• Presidential Campaigns and Old Camp Counselors: At the Opening of the Jewish Museum’s ‘Unorthodox’ Show

  04-11-2015 18:55 via artnews.com
  Tuesday evening, walking to the private opening of “Unorthodox,” the new 200-plus artist exhibition on display to the public starting this Friday at The Jewish Museum, I encountered a good old fashioned presidential blockade. Obama was present on The Upper … Read More
  
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• Theory Of A New Theatre Review Paradigm

  04-11-2015 17:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Grand Unification Theory of Theatre Reviewing begins, as all theories must, by rejecting the historical paradigm. The historical paradigm, in this case is “A good review = A positive review.” But what to replace this with?
  
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• Barcelona’s Fantastical Sagrada Família Enters Its Final Construction Stage

  04-11-2015 17:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  132 years after construction began in 1883, the magnificent Sagrada Família has reached its final stage of construction. According to the current chief architect, Jordi Fauli, six more towers will be added to the basilica by 2026, bringing the grand total to 18.
  
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• ‘Bob Law: Field Works 1959-1999’ at Thomas Dane Gallery

  04-11-2015 17:02 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Bob Law: Field Works 1959-1999” is on view at Thomas Dane Gallery in London. The show, a concise overview of paintings and drawings during his four-decade career, is … Read More
  
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• 13 of Joan Cornellà’s darkest comic strips

  04-11-2015 16:20
  
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• Amazon’s New Bookstore – Community Center For The 21st Century?

  04-11-2015 16:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Amazon Books, like a Barnes & Noble of yore, comes complete with plush leatherette chairs for relaxed reading. There are open areas for browsing and chatting. There’s a kids’ area. (“Relax, read, and discover great books with your children,” the release invites.) Which is also to say that Amazon Books is trying to be a place of community—a place where people will meet and hang out.”
  
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• The last picture show: how Chantal Akerman's suicide alters her final artwork

  04-11-2015 15:56
  
  The Belgian film-maker took her own life a month ago, and her final installation is full of painfully private moments and hauntingly empty scenes. But it’s full of life too – in all its extraordinary ordinariness
  “I’m pale … I have long arms and long legs but a small face … I hardly have breasts … and on top of that, my bum is fat with a little cellulite.” A young woman turns away from a full-length wardrobe mirror and then turns back. Dressed o
  
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• Love Of Creative Work Versus Making Money

  04-11-2015 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Can we who labor for the common good find common cause? Can we activate our collective will to be part of finding solutions that would allow us to dedicate ourselves to work with meaning while also making a decent living—with health care, time off, and savings for when we can’t work?”
  
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• What Happens To The Arts As Technology Evolves To The Next Level?

  04-11-2015 15:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “How do you modulate the effects of technology so that organizations, artists, and audiences remain on equal footing with technology itself, as well as with the companies that provide it? And who will — and who should — have the final say about whether a particular product or protocol is suitable to a particular art form: the presenters, the artists, or the audience?”
  
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• Canada’s CBC Holds A Music Competition. But Competing For What?

  04-11-2015 14:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Personally, I have the greatest sympathy for whoever wins CBC Music’s “Canada’s Greatest Music Class” because it will not ring true. The winners could have been called “Canada’s Newest Pop Cover Stars” or something similar. That would have been wonderful, authentic and worth celebrating.
  
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• Morning Links: Adrien Brody Edition

  04-11-2015 14:51 via artnews.com
  Adrien Brody will show his a painting series, titled Hot Dogs, Hamburgers and Handguns, at Art Basel Miami Beach next month. [Page Six]Miami-Dade County Sheriff’s deputies infiltrated Lil Wayne’s Miami Beach house on Tuesday with an order to seize enough property to compensate a $2 … Read More
  
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• Magic in motion: the Victorian toys spinning back to life as GIFs

  04-11-2015 12:49
  
  These charming updates of 180-year-old toys are a delight – and they’re proof of an ancient human obsession that frees our mindsThe moving image is everywhere now, no longer just on cinema screens or TVs but advertising hoardings, laptops, phones. When did it all begin? When did people first try to make pictures move? Continue reading...
  
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• Max Hastings on Brian Sewell: extravagant, brilliant and bankable

  04-11-2015 12:27
  
  ‘He possessed the gifts of all successful polemicists: conceit, passion, wit, literary elegance and an instinctive suspicion of, and disdain for, power and wealth’ Brian Sewell, who died in September, would surely have enjoyed Tuesday’s memorial service in his honour at St James’s Piccadilly. It was standing room only with 600 people in attendance.Then again, it was often difficult to predict how Sewell, described in the Guardian’s obituary of him as Britain’s
  
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• Colin Welland, 81, Screenwriter Of ‘Chariots Of Fire’

  04-11-2015 11:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The success of Chariots of Fire was perhaps as improbable as that of Mr. Welland, who had once abandoned his dreams of acting to teach art. … Among his other credits was the screenplay for the 1989 film A Dry White Season, … [and] with Walter Bernstein, … the 1979 John Schlesinger film Yanks.”
  
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• ‘It’s Relentless. I Did 50 Days In A Row Without A Break’: A Dancer’s Diary

  04-11-2015 11:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the first of a new series exploring dancers’ lives, Xander Parish of the Mariinsky Ballet gets into the role of Romeo, explains how to be the perfect partner and considers his hectic schedule.”
  
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• How A Composer Keeps Working Through Hearing Loss

  04-11-2015 11:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Jay Alan Zimmerman discovered he was losing his hearing when he was in his early 20s, trying to make it as a musician on Broadway in New York. As his hearing worsened, Jay considered other professions, but ultimately he couldn’t imagine a life without music. … Jay has to decide if he wants to be a part of the experimental phase of [a] new treatment, or if the potential risks are too great. Meanwhile, he’s found ways to keep composing with the little bit of hearing he ha
  
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• Shakespeare’s Globe Performs ‘Hamlet’ In Syrian Refugee Camp

  04-11-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Aiming to visit every country in the world to commemorate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, and the 400th anniversary of his death, it has visited 136 countries out of 196. The only country the company could not get permission and insurance to visit was Syria, so they performed in the Zaatari refugee camp on the Jordanian border to an entirely Syrian audience.” (photo journal)
  
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• Why ‘Measure For Measure’ Is *The* Shakespeare Play For 2015

  04-11-2015 09:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Isabella’s] willingness to be a martyr for chastity – and Angelo’s moral crackdown, backed by capital punishment – would seem less quaint to the Tea Party wing of the Republicans, at the Vatican, or in countries and cultures subject to Islamic sharia law. And so the conflict in the Vienna of the play between sexual licentiousness and censoriousness has an obvious contemporary topicality, while the play’s broader exploration of the nature of justice is perenn
  
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• After Years Of Cutbacks, Arts Education In L.A. Schools Is In Tatters: District Study

  04-11-2015 09:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the first time, L.A. Unified in September completed a detailed accounting of arts programs at its campuses … Arts programs at a vast majority of schools are inadequate, according to district data. Classrooms lack basic supplies. Some orchestra classes don’t have enough instruments. And thousands of elementary and middle school children are not getting any arts instruction.” (complete results of study here)
  
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• Major Gallery In Moscow Forced To Close After Hosting Benefit For Political Prisoners

  04-11-2015 09:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The prominent Russian art gallery owner Marat Guelman is being evicted from an exhibition space in Moscow after hosting a charity auction for political prisoners … Two days [after the event], Guelman was served with an eviction notice from the company that rents out the building housing his gallery at Moscow’s acclaimed Winzavod art center.”
  
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• China’s Cartoonists Are Disappearing As Regime Cracks Down On Dissent

  04-11-2015 09:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rebel Pepper (néWang Liming), who went into exile in Japan following the confiscation of his social media accounts and searches of his house, was one of an ever-rarer breed in the People’s Republic …
  
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• 100 Women Directors Hollywood Should Be Hiring

  04-11-2015 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Studio executives often protest that there simply aren’t enough talented female filmmakers to choose from. They are wrong. … Contrary to what Hollywood would have you believe, it wasn’t hard to assemble such an enormous list of smart, eminently hireable female directors. The only difficult part was culling it down to just 100.”
  
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• Does Fiction Based On Fact Have A Responsibility To The Truth?

  04-11-2015 08:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Thomas Mallon: “If I had been unwilling to deviate from what Gore Vidal used to call the ‘agreed-upon facts,’ there wouldn’t have been much point to writing a novel instead of a history.” Ayana Mathis: “At the risk of stating the obvious, truth and fact are not the same things. Our belief in the truthfulness of facts is mutable.”
  
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• Stop Hating On Puns: They’re Useful, They’re Ubiquitous, They’re More Complex Than You Think, And They Deserve Respect (As Long As They’re Clever)

  04-11-2015 08:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The fact is, quite a lot of ordinary people enjoy puns. So why is the pun looked down upon? Is its reputation as an inferior form of wordplay really deserved? … It turns out puns are pretty weird, linguistically speaking, given what we think we know about words and what they signify.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.03.15

  04-11-2015 07:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  What is Audience Engagement? (Part 1)
  It’s commonplace to talk about the need for “audience engagement” – but what does the term actually mean? And how does an arts/cultural organization know if its succeeding? Perhaps it’s an intentionally amorphous concept … read more
  AJBlog: Audience Wanted Published 2015-11-03American Music — An Alternative NarrativeThe Standard Narrative for American concert music starts with Aaron Copland after World War
  
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• Balls and Bulldust: the raw 1980s photos of cattle stations that time almost forgot

  04-11-2015 03:15
  
  Håkan Ludwigson’s images showcase the brutal beauty of Australia’s cattlemen and women. Shot in the 1980s and initially unappreciated for being too graphic, they form an uncompromising study of outback life and the individuals who pursue it“Thirty years have passed but I still have such vivid memories of all of you. What turns did your life take? How do you look back on those dusty years?” asks the photographer Håkan Ludwigson of the men and women who appear i
  
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• Untitled(it was only later that i was able to locate his gaze that fell short. )

  04-11-2015 02:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i eavesdrop. i only get so much. it has been awhile since i haveoverheard two women talking. i have to train my ear. what i record is all at face value. i want to be a machine. the thoughts and feelings that confuse me i don’t want to analyze or interpret not at this time or not forever.the woman who gave me a coffee also works at voodoo donuts.she can’t converse with me unless she has someone to defer to. she looks to her peer before she answers my question. it’s colder now th
  
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