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• Slowdown In The Art Markets?

  31-12-2015 22:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is worth noting that the art market is really a set of loosely related mini-markets, all of which behave very differently. But for the first time in years we are seeing a similar trend across each of these distinct markets: a slowdown.”
  
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• The Smithsonian’s Cosby Show Problems Magnified

  31-12-2015 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As the Smithsonian contemplates the dilemma yet again, it can’t be stressed strongly enough: This was a bad show from the start. It was bad on ethical grounds (because it could potentially elevate the value of an art collection owned by a close friend of the museum’s director), and it was bad on curatorial grounds.”
  
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• Untitled(no one can remember what he looks like is because he has many authors)

  31-12-2015 21:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
   
  f complains about not having privacy because she doesn’t have the income that would allow her to live alone.
  f has a thin long penis. she looks at video porn on her iphone. she likes to see men masturbate and ejaculate.f takes the two pills the assistants take. the assistants are on adderall. she takes one that is square. there isn’t a white one left. she makes a mental note to get new white pills and to take one. when she forgets she gets drowsy and unsteady.f has an ocular m
  
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• Why Science Fiction Isn’t Really About Science At All

  31-12-2015 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Science is an epistemology. It is a way of knowing the world and certain things in the world. Science fiction is genre fiction, and genre, too, is an epistemology. The things that science fiction and genre know in the world are different, as are the modes, methods, and determinations of each.”
  
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• More People Are Streaming. But Piracy Is Way Up Too

  31-12-2015 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Piracy is still just a great alternative, unfortunately, for those who want free content. The best way to fight piracy is to just make your own services better, cheaper, easier to use.”
  
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• Criticize Fox New All You want, But Its Audience Increased Again In 2015

  31-12-2015 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the 14th consecutive year, Fox News led in total viewers and in the 25-to-54-year-old demographic crucial to advertisers. The network’s average of 1.8 million viewers in prime time placed it second among all cable channels, the highest finish for a cable news channel ever. (ESPN came in first.)”
  
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• Royal Shakespeare Co. Set For First-Ever Tour To China

  31-12-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Shakespeare’s works were banned in China from 1964 to 1977 and the playwright was denounced as ‘revisionist, feudalist and capitalist’ and now productions of his plays were allowed. But next year, to mark 400 years since the Bard’s death, the RSC will take productions of Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II and Henry V to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong in February and March.”
  
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• This Was The Year The FCC Showed Why It’s Still Relevant

  31-12-2015 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Feb. 26, the commission adopted the strongest net neutrality protections in American history: the Open Internet Order of 2015. This historic order established basic “rules of the road” for online traffic to prevent broadband providers from splitting the Internet into two tiers.”
  
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• Movies The Oscar Nominations Will Overlook, But Shouldn’t

  31-12-2015 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It happens every year. Some actor stands next to another performer or the president of the Academy … and they take turns telling you what’s up for an Oscar. Which means they’re also telling you what’s not. And ‘what’s not’ tends to be as important as what is. And every year, I’m left wondering whether months of punditry and daily forecasts of awards-season weather pollutes what was scarcely a pure process to begin with.”
  
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• Rudyard Kipling, Misfit Poet

  31-12-2015 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Kipling is not at all like his image, which is a good thing, since he is widely regarded as jingoistic, narrow and racist. It is a pity if, for this reason, some never read him. Kipling was always an outsider, and never a member of the Establishment. He received the Nobel Prize, but refused any honour, including the Order of Merit, that would identify him with a single country.”
  
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• Oldest Theatre In English-Speaking World Set To Celebrate 250 Years

  31-12-2015 16:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Says Bristol Old Vic artistic director Tom Morris, “The average lifespan of a theatre across the 18th and 19th centuries was 17 years. It is a complete fluke that it has survived.”
  
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• The Future No Longer Works The Way We Thought It Did

  31-12-2015 16:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 130-year timeline of telephone innovation describes a relatively steady rise as the technology under the surface was continuously improved … But the timeline of innovation for the defining technology of our new age is barely a line at all: The Internet happens, and all hell breaks loose. … You couldn’t have foreseen Twitter, and if you had, you probably would have dismissed it as a dumb idea. I would have.”
  
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• A Wiki-Discography Becomes Indispensable To Collectors And The Entire Music Industry

  31-12-2015 15:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Borrowing from Wikipedia’s model of user-generated content, Discogs has built one of the most exhaustive collections of discographical information in the world, with historical data cataloged by thousands of volunteer editors in extreme detail. … And with an online marketplace through which nearly $100 million in records will be sold this year, Discogs has carved out a valuable niche in a market dominated by companies like Amazon and eBay.”
  
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• Canada’s Longest-Running Music Critic Retires At Age 84

  31-12-2015 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Claude Gingras spent six decades as the classical critic for Montreal daily La Presse. Many observers objected to his often-harsh language – one Toronto colleague called him “Canada’s potshot king” and Marc-André Hamelin once refused to play if he was in the hall – but he was an early champion of conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin and composer Claude Vivier.
  
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• Sophisticated Art-Theft Ring At Rome Airport Busted, Say Police

  31-12-2015 14:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Police said the gang … made up of cleaning staff and ground crew at Rome’s Fiumicino airport … devised a plan to steal the works of art by pretending to bring them to oversized baggage collection points.”
  
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• Spotify Hit With $150 Million Class Action Over Unpaid Royalties

  31-12-2015 14:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker frontman David Lowery … has filed a class action lawsuit seeking at least $150 million in damages against Spotify, alleging it knowingly, willingly, and unlawfully reproduces and distributes copyrighted compositions without obtaining mechanical licenses.”
  
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• From Georgia O'Keeffe to War and Peace: unmissable arts events in 2016

  31-12-2015 13:00
  
  Cultural highlights for the coming year include the first solo show by the ‘mother of American modernism’ and TV classics old and newGeorgia O’Keeffe’s first solo show in the UK for a generation arrives at the Tate Modern in London in the summer. The “mother of American modernism” is famous for her lush, sensual paintings of flowers such as Black Iris and Oriental Poppies, but she also excelled as a landscape artist. After making annual pilgrimages to New Mexi
  
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• What are your feminist resolutions for 2016?

  31-12-2015 09:00
  
  Forget ambitious diets, plans to learn a language or unreachable exercise goals – start the new year with resolutions that actively challenge sexism, from buying books by female authors to volunteering at a women’s refugeIn January 2015, feminists memorably kicked off the new year with excellent responses to a magazine tweet asking: “What diet will you be on in 2015?” Replies included “I’m on the ‘resisting ongoing pressure from the media to be skinny&rs
  
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• Art in a time of terror: Mali's photo festival makes defiant return

  31-12-2015 08:00
  
  Despite an Islamist attack on the capital just weeks after the opening gala, both artists and organisers say culture remains key in the fight against extremismForced into a four year hiatus in the wake of political violence, Mali’s prestigious Biennial of African Photography staged a triumphant return to the capital Bamako in 2015.The previous edition of Recontres de Bamako, due to take place in 2013, had been cancelled after armed conflict escalated between Tuareg nationalist rebels and g
  
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• The Currents Propelling The Chaos At The Bolshoi Ballet

  31-12-2015 07:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “How these dancers are cast is not always based on merit. It’s about who you are loyal to and who you butter up, and who patronises you. That’s the legacy of a communist past. … I asked [Bolshoi Theater chief Vladimir Urin] once if he believed in democracy and he just laughed at me, which is a sort of communist disposition. People of his generation are quite, shall we say ambivalent about democratic principles.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.30.15

  31-12-2015 07:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Year-End Poll Results
  Again this year, I swore off voting in what has become an epidemic of jazz popularity contests, also known as critics polls, with one exception. I don’t seem to be able to say no to … read more
  AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-12-30Cruising the Moskwa
  Occasional Rifftides Moscow correspondent Svetlana Ilicheva (pictured) sent a report that may bring summer memories to those of us in the grip of the northern hemisphere winter. … read more
  AJBlog: RiffTide
  
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• Sun, surf and skin: Australian depictions of the beach – in pictures

  31-12-2015 01:03
  
  Tim Winton once described Australian beaches as ‘the landscape equivalent of the veranda, a veranda at the edge of the continent’. An exhibition at the Mornington Peninsula Regional gallery brings together 76 works reflecting the diversity of Australian stories on sandy, sea-washed shores – a place where national identity is often hotly contested: from Daniel Boyd and Michael Cook’s wry parodies of colonial conquest to Max Dupain’s instantly recognisable Sunbaker
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• An Ambitious Curator’s Plans To Make Toronto A Global Showcase For Contemporary Art

  31-12-2015 00:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We’re starting from zero. There is room now for a real contemporary art museum, a 21st-century museum. And this is going to be it.”
  
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