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• What Exactly Does A Book Editor Do? A Lot More Than Before

  05-01-2016 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “These days there is more pressure on editors to acquire best-sellers, and they are much more involved in marketing a book. And that, he says, leaves precious little time for actual editing.” (audio and text)
  
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• Healthcare Worker Charged With Assaulting 98-Year-Old Architect I.M. Pei

  05-01-2016 22:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Police investigated for two weeks before arresting the aide on Tuesday. The aide was arraigned in Manhattan criminal court on a charge of felony assault. She was released without bail.”
  
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• Frank Lloyd Wright School Of Architecture Raises The $2 Million It Needs To Remain Accredited

  05-01-2016 22:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The school, which consists of Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Taliesin in Spring Green, Wis., is seeking to become an independent subsidiary of the [Frank Lloyd Wright] Foundation, which currently runs it. Bylaw changes established by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) in 2012 required the school to file for independent incorporation as an institution with the primary purpose of offering higher education.”
  
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• Will Phyllida's new works pop up at Tate Modern?

  05-01-2016 22:00
  
  The UK sculptor Phyllida Barlow, who was recently made a CBE in the New Year Honours, appears to be making a series of new works for an exhibition at Tate Modern later this year, although when they will go on show remains a mystery. Barlow says on the Royal Academy of Arts’ website that she is “working on 100 small sculptures for Tate Modern… they’re assemblages on a very small scale and they’re made from the debris and offcuts that I collect in my studio&rdq
  
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• Moscow museum transformed into commercial operation

  05-01-2016 22:00
  
  Art4.ru, which was billed as Russia’s first private contemporary art museum when it opened in Moscow in 2007, has been repurposed into a selling museum, according to its founder, the businessman and art collector Igor Markin.“Many private museums dabble in selling on the sly. State museums sell to balance their budget. I want to sell brazenly,” he said when the project launched on 3 December.
  Art4.ru will now operate like a commercial gallery, with a new programme each month,
  
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• Hong Kong’s art market falls even further away from its peak

  05-01-2016 22:00
  
  Prevailing economic uncertainties in China continue to cast a pall over the art market in Hong Kong. Many in the art business are conservative about prospects for 2016, given the continuing fall in local auction sales and overheads that are among the most expensive in the world.The sales at Christie’s Hong Kong (27 November-2 December) marked the finale of the autumn auction season, and their results confirmed the market’s lacklustre condition, especially compared with two years pre
  
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• Feminist show closed in China before it opens

  05-01-2016 22:00
  
  An exhibition about gender inequality in China has been shut down by the authorities. The show, entitled Jian, Rape: Gender Violence Cultural Codes, was scheduled to open at Ginkgo Space, a commercial gallery in Beijing’s Sanlitun-Gongti district on 25 November. Artist Cui Guangxia had organised the exhibition as a response to the United Nations call for men to engage with the issue of women’s rights.The closure by local officials could be a result of sensitivity to any open discuss
  
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• Three Tunisian artists freed on appeal, but two others remain in prison

  05-01-2016 21:59
  
  Three Tunisian artists—the film-maker Ala Eddine Slim, the photographer Fakhri El-Ghezal, and the artist Atef Maatallah—have been released from prison. They were acquitted by the Tunisian court of appeal late last month after being charged with drug use under a 23-year-old law.
  But the international campaign group, Human Rights Watch, says it is concerned about the welfare of two other artists. Adnen Meddeb and Amine Mabrouk were detained under the same law and are still serving a o
  
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• Fears Of Another All-White Academy Awards

  05-01-2016 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s a strong chance this year’s acting awards will once again be heavily, perhaps exclusively, white, despite the efforts of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to diversify the organization.”
  
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• ‘The Beggar’s Opera Of Broadway’ And Its Backwards Birth

  05-01-2016 21:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That’s what British critic Kenneth Tynan called Guys and Dolls. Matt Trueman write that the musical “taps into that particularly American sensibility of optimism in spite of everything, and furthermore, it’s exquisitely put together. It has no right to be, given its bumpy road to Broadway.”
  
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• Why The Internet Is Like A Rowdy Raucous Grateful Dead Tour

  05-01-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The digital counter-tradition of what it means to be a Deadhead has long been in the ascendant through technology-based exegesis and curation of recorded materials. And the more time passes since Jerry Garcia’s death, the more being a Deadhead means streaming shows from the Internet.”
  
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• Contradictions: Why So Many Artists Are Such Sensitive People

  05-01-2016 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi identified openness and sensitivity as oppositional personality elements that not only coexist in creative performers, but form the core of their personalities. This paradox helps explain how performers can be bold and charismatic on the one hand and emotionally fragile on the other.”
  
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• A Daniel Libeskind–Designed Contemporary Art Museum Will Open in Lithuania in 2019

  05-01-2016 20:53 via artnews.com
  A 4,000-piece collection of contemporary Lithuanian art will find a permanent home in a Daniel Libeskind–designed museum, due to open in the country’s capital, Vilnius, in early 2019, The Art Newspaper reports. The museum—a first of its kind for Lithuania—will … Read More
  
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• The Prison Inmate Who Became Buddies With Samuel Beckett And Started Theater Companies In And Outside Of Prison

  05-01-2016 20:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In prison, Cluchey received an education on what it was to be on Beckett’s stage. It allowed him to love Beckett’s work. That, in turn, made him into a man Beckett himself could love.”
  
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• ‘Jane Freilicher and Jane Wilson: Seen and Unseen’ at Parrish Art Museum

  05-01-2016 20:37 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Jane Freilicher and Jane Wilson: Seen and Unseen” is currently on view at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY. The exhibition features works by Freilicher and Wilson, … Read More
  
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• Pierogi’s Founding Director On the Williamsburg Gallery’s Move to Manhattan

  05-01-2016 20:30 via artnews.com
  Pierogi, the Brooklyn gallery that has been in Williamsburg for 21 years, will relocate to the Lower East Side in February. As reported in The New York Times last week, the gallery’s new address will be 155 Suffolk Street, putting … Read More
  
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• John Williams’s ‘Star Wars’ Scores Are Far More Sophisticated Than They Get Credit For, Says Alex Ross

  05-01-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With a sharp ear and a sharp pen, er, keyboard, Ross makes his case – and points out Williams’s biggest problem: “After Star Wars, he became a sound, a brand. … He’s been boxed in by the billions that his music has helped to earn. He has become integral to a populist economy on which thousands of careers depend.”
  
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• Five Booksellers Go Missing In Hong Kong

  05-01-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s not uncommon in mainland China for company executives and dissidents to be detained for lengthy periods by the authorities or vanish without anyone claiming responsibility, but the disappearances are unprecedented in Hong Kong and have shocked the city’s publishing industry.”
  
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• Artist Ellie Harrison is being paid £15k just to stay in Glasgow for a year

  05-01-2016 19:57
  
  ​But it's made her no friends, says Chris Green
  
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• Should Burning Man Be Taxed? Nevada Wants It

  05-01-2016 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Burning Man appealed, estimating the tax change could cost $2.9 million. That could force the Project to raise ticket prices by as much as $35 above last year’s main sale price of roughly $390. That’s a steep entry fee for a week in a no-commerce zone where participants give away everything for free.”
  
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• Tonya Pinkins: Why I Had To Leave A Production Of “Mother Courage”

  05-01-2016 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When Black bodies are on the stage, Black perspectives must be reflected. This is not simply a matter of “artistic interpretation”; race and sex play a pivotal role in determining who holds the power to shape representation. A Black female should have a say in the presentation of a Black female on stage.”
  
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• ‘If The Bolshoi Is Sick, It’s Because Russia Is Sick Too’

  05-01-2016 19:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Bolshoi is not just a theatre: it’s a cultural brand that is key to Russia’s image of itself … and the Kremlin have been reluctant to leave its running to mere specialists. One of the theatre’s harassed-looking board members claims that 40% of its artistic and managerial decisions have historically been controlled by politicians.”
  
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• I spent years turning my council house into the Sistine Chapel

  05-01-2016 19:16
  
  Robert Burns painted The Birth of Venus on his bathroom wall, Sue Kreitzman filled her house with so much art she had to knock through to her neighbour’s … meet the artists who have turned their homes into masterpieces
  Robert Burns, 68, BrightonAs a decorator, I’d be employed by people who wanted all these ghastly Farrow and Ball colours like dead pigeon blueBeige makes me feel sick and old and scaredThere are times when I feel trapped Continue reading...
  
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• Quantifying The Unquantifiable: Arts In The Time Of Big Data

  05-01-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To be sure, the current mania over data-driven thinking and its seemingly limitless applications to journalism, education and all aspects of government has huge upsides that are themselves incalculable. But in focusing too heavily on economic multiplier effects and other such pieces of data, we risk standardizing cultural experiences to meet those fantasy numbers in the same way education has been standardized to achieve acceptable test scores.”
  
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• Alexander and Bonin To Move To Tribeca

  05-01-2016 18:51 via artnews.com
  Alexander and Bonin has announced that they will be moving to a new space at 47 Walker Street in TriBeCa this summer, thereby becoming the latest gallery to join the mass exodus from Chelsea. The new location, which will be … Read More
  
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• Ann Patchett: The Momentum Is Shifting For Bookstores

  05-01-2016 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Booksellers are, generally speaking, a cautious group when it comes to voicing optimism, but I sense a cultural shift coming on: Books and bookstores and reading are the wave of the future.”
  
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• Does Speaking A Second Language Really Improve Cognition?

  05-01-2016 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The idea that learning to speak two languages is good for your brain has come to be widely accept as fact, particularly in popular media. … But a handful of attempts to replicate some of these seminal findings have failed to confirm this ‘bilingual advantage’ … [and] a heated debate over this issue now rages in the research community.”
  
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• Is An Artwork Still The Artwork When Its Pieces Have Been Replaced?

  05-01-2016 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If it isn’t the same ship—if restoration has crossed into replication—which piece of timber was decisive? And where does the identity of an art work reside if it will be fully realized only in the future, plank by printed plank?”
  
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• TV Is Changing. Getting Better. Here’s Why

  05-01-2016 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Contrary to what the headlines often suggest, the internet—or rather, broadband distribution—hasn’t come to kill television. Instead, it’s radically improving it.”
  
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• Chuck Norris Karate-Chops Through The Iron Curtain

  05-01-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Director Ilinca Calugareanu talks about her new film, Chuck Norris vs. Communism which looks at how Hollywood action movies offered Romanians living behind the Iron Curtain a glimpse into Western culture, and helped spark a revolution.” (audio)
  
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• Scientists Are Unraveling How Our Brains Process Music

  05-01-2016 17:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the first time, MIT neuroscientists have identified a neural population in the human auditory cortex that responds selectively to sounds that people typically categorize as music, but not to speech or other environmental sounds.”
  
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• How Much Conductors Get Paid In France

  05-01-2016 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, the “Are conductors overpaid?” conversations happen there as well – and orchestras are secretive. Here are some figures for both music director salaries and per-concert fees. (text and audio in Franch; Google-Translated version of French text here.)
  
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• Carmen Herrera, Rosalind Krauss, Arlene Shechet Among Winners of 2016 CAA Awards

  05-01-2016 17:10 via artnews.com
  Yesterday, the College Art Association (CAA) announced the 2016 winners of its CAA Awards, which are given annually to artists, art historians, critics, and conservators for their contributions to their field. Among this year’s winners are Arlene Shechet, who had … Read More
  
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• The Music Teacher The Taliban Tried To Kill – And Who Won’t Give Up

  05-01-2016 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ahmad Naser Sarmast, director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, was the target of a 2014 suicide bombing; he’s still partially deaf, and he has shrapnel in his brain. In response, he’s made the school more secure, kept all of his teaching staff, and began giving free concerts to refugees from camps.
  
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• Ellie Harrison: Glasgow residents accuse artist of 'poverty safari' for spending year in city on state-funded project

  05-01-2016 16:38
  
  Creative Scotland gave Ms Harrison £15,000 The Glasgow Effect, which sees her staying within the city's confines for 2016
  
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• What's is like to work as a painting authenticator?

  05-01-2016 16:08
  
  It takes forensic detective work to discover whether a painting is genuine or not
  
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• What is it like to work as a painting authenticator?

  05-01-2016 16:08
  
  It takes forensic detective work to discover whether a painting is genuine or not
  
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• The 20 Most Powerless People In The Art World In 2015

  05-01-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The list ranges from perpetually oppressed art handlers and fact-checkers to poor, dissed Renoir and King Tut to, at the head of the list, the brave and beleaguered archaeologists caught in ISIS’s crossfire.
  
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• Art Basel Miami Stabber Pleads Not Guilty To Attempted Murder

  05-01-2016 15:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Siyuan Zhao, a 24-year-old graduate student and a Chinese national who lives in New York, allegedly “had been following the victim, 33-year-old Shin Seo Young, and repeatedly bumped into her. When Young finally confronted her, Zhao stabbed her suddenly and repeatedly in the neck and shoulder with an X-ACTO knife.” Onlookers at first assumed it was performance art.
  
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• Morning Links: American Galleries in London Edition

  05-01-2016 14:44 via artnews.com
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• Marin Alsop Explains Her Comment That It Took Violence To Spark Social Change In Baltimore

  05-01-2016 14:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a BBC interview last month, she said, “It’s heartbreaking that we haven’t dealt with these issues, that it requires violence, which I think it does require, to be honest, to change this equation. Inequality and injustice is unacceptable. Sadly, this has been the most violent year in Baltimore.” This caused a bit of a kerfuffle, and she expands on it here – and the Baltimore Symphony CEO backs her up.
  
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• The Tech It Takes To Figure Out The Secrets Of The Mummies

  05-01-2016 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “CT imaging creates cross sections of the body, in addition to highlighting soft tissues. ‘We cannot say something about liver or heart diseases,’ says Saleem, a professor of radiology at Cairo University who specializes in paleopathology. ‘But we can do a lot of anthropological work.'”
  
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• Tetzlaff/Tetzlaff, Wigmore Hall, London, review: Extraordinary sibling double act deliver a heroic performance

  05-01-2016 14:03
  
  What the violinist and cellist achieved together at the Wigmore was both riveting and ravishing
  
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• Kate Atkinson Wins Costa Novel Prize For Second Time In Three Years

  05-01-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Just two years after winning the Costa novel award for Life After Life, … the novelist has landed the prize again for her follow-up, A God in Ruins. … Along with Atkinson, four other writers were named as winners in different categories” – biography, poetry, children’s lit, and first novel – “each of whom will receive £5,000.” The Costa Book of the Year will be announced on January 26.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.04.16

  05-01-2016 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is Earning Making Money The New Audience-Building Strategy?
  Maybe it’s obvious, but in the for-profit world, making money is the point; profit defines success. In the non-profit world, the relationship between profit and success is more complicated. “Profit” (or balancing the books) is… … read more
  AJBlog: diacritical Published 2016-01-04New Year’s “Resolutions,” Cosby Edition: What Artworld Uncertainties Should Be Resolved in 2016?
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• As Accordion Store Departs, Music Row Is Gone

  05-01-2016 03:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Musically, it’s kind of depressing,’ Mario Tacca, an accordion player and longtime patron of Music Row, said. ‘I guess it’s part of the new world that we’re living in. The old world is kind of disappearing slowly. It’s kind of sad to see.'”
  
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• Arts Professionals Who Had Been Arrested At Peace March In Turkey Are Released From Prison

  05-01-2016 02:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The police claimed that handmade explosives were thrown at their forces by the group, but upon reviewing the evidence a Turkish judge released all of the detainees on Sunday, January 3.”
  
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• Rhizome Receives $600,000 Grant From Mellon Foundation for Online Archiving Tool

  05-01-2016 02:00 via artnews.com
  The New York–based arts organization Rhizome, which focuses on the preservation and promotion of digital-born and digital-based art, announced today that it has received a $600,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fully fund its Webrecorder archiving tool.Webcorder, … Read More
  
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• Tetzlaff/Tetzlaff, classical concert review: A heroic sibling performance on violin and cello

  05-01-2016 01:36
  
  Wigmore Hall, London
  
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