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• Painters do not produce their best work when suffering emotional turmoil, research says

  22-12-2015 22:52
  
  Academic's findings suggest the enduring image of tortured artists like Vincent van Gogh could be a myth
  
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• MoMA Receives Gift of $40 M. From Hedge Fund Manager and Collector Kenneth C. Griffin

  22-12-2015 20:43 via artnews.com
  MoMA has announced an unrestricted gift of $40 million from Kenneth C. Griffin, the Chicago-based founder and chief executive of Citadel. The donation is one of the single largest in the museum’s history, and to reflect this, one of the … Read More
  
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• Dallas Symphony Orchestra cancels European tour over 'security concerns' following Paris terror attacks

  22-12-2015 20:38
  
  Concerts in England and Scotland among those missed due to 'evelated risk to safety of musicians and their families'
  
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• Dallas Symphony Orchestra cancels European tour over 'security concerns' after Paris terror attacks

  22-12-2015 20:38
  
  Concerts in England and Scotland among those missed due to 'evelated risk to safety of musicians and their families'
  
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• ‘A.R. Penck: Early Works’ at Michael Werner Gallery

  22-12-2015 20:00 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “A.R. Penck: Early Works” is currently on view at Michael Werner Gallery in London. The exhibition showcases early paintings and sculptures from the German artist created in Dresden in the … Read More
  
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• Talking Dogs, Kim Kardashian, and Jackson Pollock: How Art Went Mainstream in Pop Culture in 2015

  22-12-2015 19:00 via artnews.com
  The animated Netflix comedy BoJack Horseman is about an anthropomorphic horse who was once the star of a ’90s family sitcom. He is in love with Diane, a human woman and the ghost writer of his memoir. His rival for her affections is … Read More
  
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• From Planes to Brains to Outer Space and Ruscha: Paul Allen’s All-Embracing Aesthetic Fills His Newest Exhibition Space

  22-12-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  More than a quarter of the world’s top 200 art collectors maintain their own museums or exhibition spaces, according to ARTnews. Microsoft’s co-founder, Seattle billionaire Paul Allen, is now a member of this elite coterie. After his propitious launch of … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Wildenstein Family Edition

  22-12-2015 15:15 via artnews.com
  BARELY LEGALSeveral members of the Wildenstein family will go on trial for tax fraud and money laundering charges, for shipping nearly $250 million worth of art from the U.S. to tax-free Switzerland after the death of their father, Daniel, in … Read More
  
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• Why are there no great British nativity scenes?

  22-12-2015 13:36
  
  You’ll find plenty of bleak midwinter paintings, but don’t go looking for British artworks of the stable, the manger and the wise men bringing gifts. They don’t exist. Here’s why not Whatever happened to the great British nativity scene? It’s the time of year when paintings depicting a birth in a stable 2,000 years ago proliferate on greetings cards and attract attention in art galleries. We love these Christmas pictures. Think of Botticelli’s The Adoration of
  
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• Aix Festival Director To Step Down

  22-12-2015 13:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bernard Foccroulle, the Belgian organist, composer and administrator who has run the Aix-en-Provence Festival since 2007 “and has led it through a number of artistic successes, said in a statement that he felt ‘the need to start a new chapter’ after spending nearly a decade in his position, and 15 years at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels before that.”
  
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• 'Realism isn't important': the man who photographed India – without any Indians

  22-12-2015 12:44
  
  Sweater vests, 70s hair, lightning bolts … Olivier Culmann has plotted trends in Indian portraiture – without snapping a single local. Instead, he poses himself and darkens his skin with filters. Is it social commentary, or an off-colour joke?“Photography takes itself too seriously,” says Olivier Culmann. “Too many photographers have a tragic view of the world. I’m convinced we can speak seriously about something with humour and irony.” That, says the F
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.21.15

  22-12-2015 10:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not Who We Were
  You know, continuing the thought from last post, my generation of composers (Downtowners at least) was the “no guilty pleasures” generation. … read more
  AJBlog: PostClassic Published 2015-12-21Motley & Oller (Part I): Whitney & Brooklyn Museums Embrace Black & Latino Cultural Forebears
  Notwithstanding the latest spike of interest in diversifying museums’ displays and personnel, the problem of stimulating greater inclusiveness is noth
  
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• Streaming TV Isn’t Just A New Way To Watch, It’s A New Genre

  22-12-2015 10:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  James Poniewozik: “At some point during Netflix’s Sense8 … I had to ask myself: What am I watching? I didn’t mean that the way I usually do when reviewing a baffling show. I meant what, in a definitional sense, was this maximalist, supersized, latticework story? A mini-series? A megamovie? To put it another way: Is Netflix TV?”
  
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• Mansplaining ‘Lolita’: What Happened When Rebecca Solnit Had At Esquire’s Books-Every-Man-Should-Read List

  22-12-2015 10:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I was arguing not that everyone should read books by ladies … but that maybe the whole point of reading is to be able to explore … and experience being others. Saying this upset some men. Many among that curious gender are easy to upset, and when they are upset they don’t know it (see: privelobliviousness). They just think you’re wrong and sometimes also evil.”
  
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• ”What Would It Be Like To Have Sex With Raffi?’ Flashed Through My Mind’

  22-12-2015 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A tremendous volt of electricity went through my body, and my body said yes. In effect, it said, Yes, Sheila, you are a pervert.” Sheila Heti talks with the world’s most famous children’s singer about his life, his approach to music, and his relationship to his fans, children and grown-up.
  
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• Actually, Suicides Don’t Spike Around the Holidays

  22-12-2015 08:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “According to the most recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the suicide rate is at its lowest in December. And studies dating back to the 1980s and conducted across the globe have … [found] again and again that Christmas is associated with a decrease in suicide.”
  
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• Tank buster: artist creating a brighter future from machines of war

  22-12-2015 08:00
  
  Armed with just paint and ideas, Iranian Neda Taiyebi turns abandoned military vehicles in Afghanistan into artNeda Taiyebi does not want to be typecast. Female artists in Muslim countries, she says, are all too often pigeonholed as role models for the kind of change westerners would like to see in those countries. But Taiyebi insists she is no activist, no voice of the oppressed, no torchbearer for female emancipation.Continue reading...
  
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• DIRECTOR OF MARKETING, THE JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION

  22-12-2015 03:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reporting to the Executive Director, this position oversees the planning, execution and analysis of marketing for The Joyce Theater. Specific responsibilities include:
  Create, conceptualize and implement marketing plans and strategies across digital, social media, print, and collateral platforms.
  Develop revenue projections and oversee departmental budget.
  Manage ticket inventory through demand-based pricing strategies.
  Oversee outreach initiatives for developing new audiences.
  Oversee activitie
  
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• Theater Arts/Acting Instructor

  22-12-2015 03:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Teach courses in Theatre including, but not limited to, stage directing, acting (multiple levels), Introduction to the Theatre, Voice for Actors, Movement and Stage Combat.
  North Orange County Community College District
  Position Number: FCF858
  Location: Fullerton College
  Department: FC Fine Arts
  Percentage of Employment: 100%
  Months of Employment: 10 Months/Year
  Work Schedule: Full Time, Tenure Track
  Job Description:
  Teach courses in Theatre including, but not limited to, stage directing, acting
  
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• Mandy Patinkin Explains The True Meaning Of ‘The Princess Bride’ To Ted Cruz

  22-12-2015 02:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Inigo Montoya spent his life trying to avenge the murder of his father. He found the six-fingered man, and he killed him. But he realized that that did not bring his father back. It didn’t do any good. Inigo realized that he might have made a different choice to do something else with his life. If they ever did a sequel, you would see all the good he has done for the world.”
  
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• An Opera (In HD) Buff, At The Met For The First Time

  22-12-2015 01:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “She longed to see the Met’s home for herself, to hear the singing without the intermediaries of broadcasting — the voices that introduced the voices, the cameras that focused on what the director decided to focus on. It was a longing that had begun when she was a girl.”
  
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• We Can All Learn To Be Better At Christmas … From Pre-Conversion Scrooge

  22-12-2015 00:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The point of the tale is this: Most people are irritating and selfish, especially around Christmastime. They march around in gaudy cheerfulness, braying good wishes to everyone within earshot, repeating the tiresome pieties of the season—Happy Holidays!—and pestering friends and relations and employers for all sorts of favors and boons and cash gifts.”
  
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• The Supreme Court Takes On A First Amendment Case, But About Hip Hop, So We’ll See How That Goes

  22-12-2015 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Killer Mike took a dim view of the Supreme Court, saying it had gutted the Voting Rights Act. But he held out hope that the justices would treat the violent images in Mr. Bell’s song no differently than they would similar ones in folk, country, reggae — or opera.”
  
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