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• A New Mission For Canadian Libraries: Lending Musical Instruments

  30-12-2015 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Joe Chithalen Memorial Musical Instrument Lending Library in Kingston has about 800 instruments that it lent out more than 5,000 times last year.”
  
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• Higher Education In America Has Huge Problems. How Can They Be Fixed?

  30-12-2015 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For too long at too many American colleges and universities, it has been assumed that students alone control their educational destiny. So, static lectures, irregular student assignments and feedback, and disjointed course offerings remain in place even though better alternatives exist.”
  
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• Abandoned Old Spanish Church Transformed Into Glorious Chagall-Meets-Diego-Rivera Skate Park

  30-12-2015 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Church of Santa Barbara in the town of Llanera “fell into disrepair after the Spanish civil war. Now, after decades of neglect, the Romanesque revival structure has been transformed into a street art skatepark. Called the Kaos Temple, its walls and vaulted ceilings are painted in kaleidoscoping rainbow patterns by Madrid street artist Okuda San Miguel.”
  
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• Untitled(We are the future i say. Just give up)

  30-12-2015 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i have my finger in my ear. i hope she doesn’t see it. she is steadfast. shemoves forward and backward. i have seen her for the past three months.i’m starting to get used to k. i wasn’t sure about her when i saw her the first time. she was mute. she still doesn’t talk as much as i would like. i have to tell her to come to me and to leave me be. it hurt me to see her smoke. she texts generously when i don’t need her.k pulled down her pants to show me where she had be
  
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• Teresita Fernández at Lehmann Maupin, New York

  30-12-2015 21:31 via artnews.com
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• With Scathing Letter, Myung Whun Chung Resigns As Seoul Philharmonic Music Director

  30-12-2015 21:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is sad that [the musicians’] achievements have been overshadowed by one person‘s fabricated statements. Lies and corruption may cause scandals, but human dignity and truth will prevail in the end. …Perhaps it is a reflection of Korean society that this has been allowed to happen.”
  
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• What The Mainstream Can Learn From 2015’s Queer Indie Cinema

  30-12-2015 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The problem is that, even though mainstream viewers have learned to appreciate queer stories, creators still think that a story or its characters’ queerness is enough to create a successful work of art, commercially or otherwise. Or worse, that depicting a character queer in a nuanced way will scare away audiences. But that’s not the case, and it’s becoming obvious.”
  
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• Mask observation: how artists are reinventing African masquerade

  30-12-2015 20:19
  
  An exhibition touring the US brings together contemporary artists using the ancient form of masquerade to explore issues from politics to self-realisation“This debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile,” wrote African-American poet Paul Dunbar in his 1896 poem, We Wear the Mask. About 100 years later the Fugees rapped, “Put the mask upon the face just to make the next day/ Feds be hawkin me, jokers be stalking me/ I walk the streets and camouflage my id
  
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• Scrooge Odyssey: Checking Out ‘A Christmas Carol’ Stagings Across The Nation

  30-12-2015 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Narrators kept assuring me that Marley is ‘dead as a doornail,’ and Scrooge’s line about wanting to meet all three ghosts ‘at once and get it over with’ failed to get a laugh every time. The Ghost of Christmas Past could be a Tim Burton-esque figure in a billowy white dress and top hat on a swing, or a flying, shirtless Roman soldier in a metallic silver kilt, or a Run-DMC-style ’80s rapper in a red Adidas track jacket and gold chain.”
  
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• Scientists Suggest Why Some Of Us Aren’t Good At Planning The Future

  30-12-2015 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Lately, scientists have come up with an intriguing hypothesis for why some people keep failing at long-term planning — they view their future selves as strangers. In fact, the more you view your future self as a distinct entity from your current self, the more likely you are to put off tasks (like saving for retirement) that will benefit you in the long term.”
  
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• Legacy Preserved: Owners Of Canada’s Largest Independent Bookstore Pass It On

  30-12-2015 19:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Winnipeg’s McNally Robinson Booksellers became Canada’s largest independent bookstore by offering a fun, stimulating place for booklovers.
  
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• Record US Box Office In 2015

  30-12-2015 19:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This year’s total will be about $200 million ahead of the previous record of $10,919,694,802 set in 2013. And it’s 7.2% ahead of the 2014 mark of $10,356,099,042, which declined 5.2% from 2013.
  
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• 2015: The Year in Review

  30-12-2015 16:40 via artnews.com
  The Most-Read Articles of 2015 A compendium of the most popular pieces published by ARTnews this year10 Art World Things From 2015 That I Don’t Want to Hear About Anymore Including Marina Abramovic The Year in the Galleries of New York … Read More
  
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• Inequality Endures: The Price of Being a Female Artist in 2015

  30-12-2015 16:25 via artnews.com
  An annual overview of how female artists and their work fared over the past year in the marketplace and the broader art world. Here is the 2014 edition.“Is the Pope Catholic?” Marilyn Minter said in response to a 2014 survey querying the existence of gender … Read More
  
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• The Most-Read Articles of 2015

  30-12-2015 15:47 via artnews.com
  The end of the year has arrived. It is a time for looking back, and for catching up on the books, movies, stories, and albums one missed over the past 12 months. Below are a few suggestions for articles to consider … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Damien Hirst Edition

  30-12-2015 15:01 via artnews.com
  ‘OCCASIONALLY EXHILARATING, FREQUENTLY DEPRESSING’Ben Eastham, the co-founder of The White Review, writes in the London Review of Books that Newport Street Gallery, the space established by Damien Hirst, is slightly less than stellar. He calls Hirst “a virtuoso of bad … Read More
  
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• The final countdown: beloved Liverpool venue the Kazimier bids an intergalactic farewell

  30-12-2015 13:47
  
  There’ll be an ice crypt, a marionette as huge as a house and a spaceship that flies … the club where pandemonium rules is throwing one last New Year’s Eve spectacular before developers move in. Is this the end for the city’s underground art scene?There’s a giant flying spaceship in the middle of Liverpool. A spaceship, a huge marionette hero, an evil robot and an intergalactic disco. This New Year’s Eve is set to be the biggest, most ambitious but sadly the
  
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• Nikolai Astrup: the lost artist of Norway

  30-12-2015 11:24
  
  He should be as famous as Edvard Munch, but the world seems to have forgotten him – until now. Astrup is getting his first major show outside Norway ... and his visions of the Scandinavian landscape are eerie and sublime Norway’s legendary modern artist who captured his country’s fantastically eerie landscapes is about to be celebrated. And no, it isn’t Edvard Munch.It’s Nikolai Astrup – a legend in his own land, but barely known outside of it. In fact, the Du
  
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