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• Sound of Harris: Photographers Olivia Arthur and Philipp Ebeling capture the bleak beauty of the Scottish island

  04-12-2015 23:39
  
  The duo visited the Scottish island to catch the essence of its shaggy hills, its hardy locals, and its harsh climate
  
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• Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci, Royal Opera House, review: Superb casting and choruses create triumphant evening

  04-12-2015 23:28
  
  The orchestral playing under Antonio Pappano faithfully reflects the brilliant colouring of these verismo classics
  
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• ‘Where the Earth Spilled Out Infernal Fire’: Alina Szapocznikow at Andrea Rosen

  04-12-2015 22:16 via artnews.com
  With all of the attention being paid to women artists—both at Art Basel Miami Beach and at the all-woman show at the Rubell Collection in Miami—and to figuration (the Deitch/Gagosian exhibition in the Wynwood District), it’s worth throwing the spotlight on … Read More
  
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• Easy Rider: Will Ryman on the Motorcycle Sculpture He Made Out of Paper Towels

  04-12-2015 22:04 via artnews.com
  “Power,” not unlike a sheet of Bounty paper towels, “is disposable,” the artist Will Ryman told me over the phone earlier this week. Known for addressing politics through material metaphors, the artist has used this analysis as the basis for Freedom (2014), … Read More
  
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• A Secret Apartment, a Labyrinth, and a Glass House: On London Shows Intertwining Art and Architecture

  04-12-2015 21:38 via artnews.com
  Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys at Raven Row, Stuart Middleton at Carlos Ishikawa, and Rachel Rose at the SerpentineRead More
  
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• ‘Marepe: Armazém de Mim’ at Galeria Luisa Strina

  04-12-2015 20:50 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Marepe: Armazém de Mim” is on view at Galeria Luisa Strina. The exhibition, which is the artist’s fourth solo show at the gallery, is on view through January 30, 2016.
  
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• Seiji Ozawa At 80

  04-12-2015 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Now 80 years old, recovered from serious illness (esophageal cancer, back surgery, several bouts of pneumonia), with nothing to lose and without the heavy workload he carried for so long, Ozawa is downright delightful.”
  
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• Art Basel Jumps the Shark As DJ Lenny Kravitz Blasts Hit 1998 Single ‘Fly Away’ at Aby Rosen Party

  04-12-2015 20:27 via artnews.com
  At 9:00 p.m. on Thursday in Miami Beach, when a torrential thunderstorm caused flooding on much of Collins Avenue, the surge charge on an UberX had reached a rate of 9.9. A ride that would normally cost $10 now cost … Read More
  
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• Hardcore Activities: Reeder Brothers Stage Painting Club In the Rain

  04-12-2015 20:06 via artnews.com
  When I arrived at The Nautilus Hotel Friday afternoon for Tyson and Scott Reeder’s poolside Beach Painting Club—which in the past has happened in locations like Far Rockaway and Easthampton—it was already raining. But that didn’t stop Tyson and the … Read More
  
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• The 15 Seconds That Will Decide Your Orchestra Career

  04-12-2015 19:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If you want to absolutely precise, it boils down to about 15 seconds. We can tell with a pretty high degree of accuracy what kind of a player you are within the first 15 to 30 seconds. The rest of the time, we’re there to make sure that our initial assessment was correct.”
  
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• Cincinnati Symphony Guest Conductor Turned Back By US Immigration

  04-12-2015 19:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rafael Payare, a rising star who is making acclaimed debuts around the world and is married to American cellist Alisa Weilerstein, was unable to get through customs even though his visa is current, said Cincinnati Symphony spokesperson Christopher Pinelo.
  
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• LA Times Architecture Critic’s Epic Takedown Of A Newly-Remade Museum

  04-12-2015 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Petersen has not merely joined this arms race. It has chosen the nuclear option. It has obliterated even the possibility of any thoughtful debate about what its building is trying to accomplish or how it might relate to those future neighbors.”
  
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• Habitat: Wallace Whitney

  04-12-2015 19:23 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Wallace Whitney; Bronx, New York. “Whether it’s good or not, you have to be completely open to what you’re doing in the moment,” Wallace Whitney said while peering at an unfinished … Read More
  
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• Translate: An Unusually High Number Of Translated Books Have Made This Year’s Top Critics Lists

  04-12-2015 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 13 translated works on this year’s NYT list mark a 62.5 percent increase over last year’s numbers.
  
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• By The Numbers: Here’s Why So Few Women Run American Theatres

  04-12-2015 18:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To conclude that the main problem is a pipeline issue and over time more women and people of color will become viable candidates is an incomplete diagnosis of the problem, and an excuse.”
  
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• The Arduous (Fascinating) Task Of Packing Up The World’s Largest Orchestra Music Library

  04-12-2015 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is the largest orchestra library in the world, and it is a treasure that has been hidden in plain sight. It tells stories of Cincinnati, of its musical organizations, its artists and its audience tastes.”
  
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• Why Do We Need Libraries Anymore?

  04-12-2015 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Today, when electronic technology announces (perhaps prematurely) the death of paper and promises us unfading memory of many millions of texts and images, as well as apparently limitless storage in cyberspace, the question “What is a library?” pops up with satisfying frequency on our bookshelves, both virtual and concrete.
  
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• Outside Voices: A Look Around Paris in 11 Shows

  04-12-2015 18:17 via artnews.com
  Darja Bajagić at New Galerie, Pepo Salazar at Galerie Joseph Tang, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster at Centre Pompidou, and more Read More
  
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• Graduate program in NYC provides launchpad for arts leaders

  04-12-2015 18:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Do you want to become an innovative arts management leader? Explore the M.A. in Leadership in the Arts and Entertainment Industries, a fast-paced, industry-focused graduate program based in New York City, offered by NYIT (New York Institute of Technology) in association with Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment, one of New York’s premier theatrical production organizations.
  LOCATION: NEW YORK CITY
  NYIT’s Manhattan campus is located in Columbus Circle, just blocks from the heart of Bro
  
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• Our Ephemeral World: How The Record Of Today’s History Is In Danger

  04-12-2015 17:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There is no guarantee that we will be able to read today’s news on tomorrow’s computers. I’ve been studying news preservation for the past two years, and I can confidently say that most media companies use a preservation strategy that resembles Swiss cheese.”
  
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• The Science Of Bullshit (Or, Why Some People Are More Gullible)

  04-12-2015 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What makes a person a good bullshit detector? Why are some people more susceptible to bullshit than others?
  
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• Trend: More College Presidents With Corporate Backgrounds

  04-12-2015 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Twenty percent of U.S. college presidents in 2012 came from fields outside academia, up from from 13 percent six years earlier, according to the American Council on Education. Many of the non-academic college presidents come from the law and business worlds.”
  
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• Study: Watching Lots Of TV Is Harmful To Your Brain

  04-12-2015 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A new, large-scale study finds a link between heavy TV viewing as a young adult and below-average thinking skills in middle-age.”
  
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• Morning Links: Make Love To Art Edition

  04-12-2015 15:17 via artnews.com
  You can now make love to works of art, thanks to a condom company called Made in Love. [Hyperallergic]Advisers to the U.N.’s Human Rights Council have asked the Saudi Arabian government to prevent the “unlawful” execution of Ashraf Fayadh, a Palestinian poet and … Read More
  
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• Lords of the mic: aristocratic portraits of grime MCs – in pictures

  04-12-2015 11:34
  
  From Dizzee Rascal to Stormzy and Skepta, Reuben Dangoor paints grime artists in the style of 19th-century romantic portraiture, in stately homes or bestriding steeds in the English countrysideSee them at Late at Tate Britain tonight, 4 DecemberContinue reading...
  
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• New technology will keep people off their phones at shows

  04-12-2015 11:18
  
  It's already catching on in the US
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.03.15

  04-12-2015 10:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  They just don’t do it
  “They”means conductors. “Don’t do it” means that when they conduct Lulu, they don’t follow the markings in Berg’s score. I’ve posted about that, after seeing the movie-theater stream of the Met’s new Lulu. But now I’ve gotten the Lulu full score from the Juilliard library,  … read more
  AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-12-03So you want to see a show?
  Here’s my list of re
  
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• Philadelphia Orchestra Offers New Information About Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s Pay

  04-12-2015 10:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After a Nov. 22 Inquirer article about the orchestra’s finances, the Philadelphia Orchestra Association reported that in addition to paying $519,319 in 2013 to Yannick Nézet-Séguin, it paid the IRS $227,950 on his behalf for taxes, plus $12,564 for primarily travel-related expenses.”
  
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• AIA’s Top Prize To Denise Scott Brown And Robert Venturi

  04-12-2015 10:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Pritzker Prize still eludes her. But on Wednesday evening, Denise Scott Brown, 84, won the American Institute of Architects 2016 Gold Medal, its highest honor, along with Robert Venturi, 90, her husband and design partner.”
  
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• The World’s First Computer-Generated Musical

  04-12-2015 10:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They have become brilliant at chess, had music performed by one of the world’s leading orchestras and seen their art enter major collections. But could a computer also generate a hit West End musical? The answer may be provided next year with the announcement of the world’s first computer musical, getting a run at the Arts Theatre accompanied by a TV series on Sky Arts.” (The music composition software used is called Android Lloyd Webber.)
  
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• Now *This* Is How To Do A Theatre Conference

  04-12-2015 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “During the day, audience members could choose to attend one of three deeply audience-centric experiences, which took place variously in a pool, a bed and a cupboard. They came together for a group experience in the evening, set up to look like a panel discussion – and then a show that is usually staged by surprise in classrooms happened. By surprise.”
  
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• Ballet San Antonio Names Artistic Director

  04-12-2015 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ballet San Antonio has named ballet master Willy Shives, who has spent the past 16 years with the famed Joffrey Ballet in Chicago, as its new artistic director. Shives succeeds Gabriel Zertuche, who left the company in August alongside Executive Director Courtney Mauro Barker.”
  
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• Here’s The Oldest Known Biography Of An African Woman – Written By Other African Women, No Less

  04-12-2015 08:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Walatta Petros was an Ethiopian religious leader who lived from 1592 to 1642. A noblewoman, she left her husband to lead the struggle against the Jesuits’ mission to convert Ethiopian Christians to Roman Catholicism. It was for this that the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥədo Church elevated her to sainthood. [Her] story was written by her disciples in the Gəˁəz language in 1672, after her death.”
  
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• One Of Hollywood’s Very First Power Duos Was Female

  04-12-2015 08:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mary Pickford was America’s original sweetheart, the ‘girl with the golden curls,’ who became an international superstar playing plucky children filled with innocent wonder. Frances Marion was a patrician sophisticate, ‘just as beautiful as the stars she wrote for,’ who was continually told that she was wasting her looks on writing. Together, they would become one of the powerhouse teams of silent Hollywood.”
  
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• How Jane Vonnegut Made Kurt A Writer

  04-12-2015 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Jane knew what her husband should do with his life: he should write. And she seems to have made it her first mission as his spouse to convince him of that. … Many of the ideas and themes that characterize Vonnegut were born in the conversation between Kurt and Jane, and throughout his career she remained a voice in the text. She was there: that was her.”
  
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• Bodies of work: Deborah Kelly's political pop art – in pictures

  04-12-2015 06:51
  
  Deborah Kelly, one of Australia’s most political artists, has played with popular culture for more than three decades to make funny, challenging points. A new survey show ranges from her spin on Melbourne’s guerilla gay rights movement to immigration and that central figure in Western art – the female nudeBodies of Works is at Penrith Regional Gallery until 21 February 2016Continue reading...
  
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• Police Are Crowdsourcing The Search For Imelda Marcos’s Art Collection

  04-12-2015 04:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Philippines is to launch a crowd-sourcing website to seek public help in a fresh attempt to track down up to 200 missing artworks, including several masterpieces, that were last believed to be in the possession of Imelda Marcos … [who] has indignantly insisted that the works were gifts rather than acquired with stolen state funds.”
  
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• Twyla On Twyla: The 50th Anniversary Tour Wrap-Up

  04-12-2015 03:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After the final show on Sunday night I slept 12 hours and took Monday off. But Tuesday was time to think again about being in the studio. There is absolutely nothing glamorous about starting over again. One foot down, next foot up. Find two ideas to rub together. No judgment, just get it down. But this small daily practice is, for me, sanity, and to begin constructing a new phrase of movement is my connection to the world.”
  
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• Why Real Sex In Fiction Films Just Doesn’t Work

  04-12-2015 02:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The question we should ideally always be asking in a drama – I wonder what would it feel like to be that character in that situation? – is suddenly replaced by a less helpful (and essentially pornographic) one: what might it feel like to be the actor doing that or having that done to them? “
  
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• Radu Lupu At 70 – ‘Fresh, Newly Original, Daring, But Never Eccentric’

  04-12-2015 01:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kirill Gerstein: “Lupu’s playing, especially when experienced live, resists my professional habit of analyzing the elements of interpretation and performance – exactly how he achieves the results that he does. … The instrument, the craftsmanship, even the compositions themselves recede into the background, and there remains a lone figure communicating not just music, but something deeply humane. “
  
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• Communications Editor

  04-12-2015 01:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cal Performances is currently recruiting a Communications Editor (Job ID # 20830). Cal Performances is the performing arts presenting, commissioning and producing organization based at the University of California, Berkeley. To learn more about Cal Performances, visithttp://calperformances.org/.
  The Communications Editor reports to the Director of Marketing and Communications and is a member of the communications department of Cal Performances. Under the general direction of the Director of Mark
  
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• That’s Totally Not Gollum, It’s Smeagol, Peter Jackson Says About Turkish Court Case

  04-12-2015 00:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Asked to weigh in on the current lèse-majesté trial – the defendant juxtaposed photos of the Tolkien character and President Erdoğan – the director and screenwriters of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings films said in a statement, “We can state categorically: None of [the images] feature the character known as Gollum.”
  
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• Archaeologists Unearth 2,300-Year-Old Board Game In China

  04-12-2015 00:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The game, called bo or liubo, “includes a 14-face die carved from an animal tooth, 21 rectangular game pieces featuring painted numbers, and a broken tile – ‘decorated with two eyes, which are surrounded by cloud-and-thunder patterns’ – that once made up part of the game board.”
  
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• Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills Will Give Bret Easton Ellis and Alex Israel a Show in February

  04-12-2015 00:17 via artnews.com
  We now know the reason for Bret Easton Ellis’s high-profile presence with Alex Israel at Art Basel Miami Beach this year. It’s been revealed that the Gagosian Gallery’s Beverly Hills outpost will present a series of collaborations between the American … Read More
  
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