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• What Happens When A Critic Tries To Teach Her Son About Music

  08-01-2016 23:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anne Midgette: “I write about music; I have a lot of music in my life. But when it comes to introducing my child to music, I have done a terrible job.”
  
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• Remix: NY Public Library Releases 180,000 Images For Public To Remix

  08-01-2016 23:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I think of libraries as being full of many pieces of culture that are reassembled to create new forms of culture. I think that’s absolutely a trajectory of the library, we should be a set of resources that people can use for new forms of creation that are contemporary, and ones we haven’t even thought about yet.”
  
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• For First Time Since 1945 “Mein Kampf” Goes On Sale In Germany

  08-01-2016 22:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A team of scholars and historians spent three years preparing a nearly 2,000-page edition with about 3,500 annotations in anticipation of the expiration on Dec. 31 of a 70-year copyright held by the state of Bavaria.
  
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• Elizabeth Swados, 64, Obie-Winning Creator Of Avant-Garde Musicals

  08-01-2016 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Her] experimental and socially searching pieces of musical theatre were a mainstay of 1970s and ’80s theatre in New York,” often at Joe Papp’s Public Theater. One of her works, Runaways, transferred to Broadway in 1979 and won her five Tony nominations.
  
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• Monuments to absence: Gregory Gilbert on a new book about Charles Ray

  08-01-2016 22:00
  
  In the late 1990s, the work of the American sculptor Charles Ray undertook a shift. His uncanny mannequins, best exemplified by pieces like Fall ’91 (1992), an oversized synthetic figure, gave way to a more traditional style rooted in classical prototypes. Many of these later works evince an increased interest in social and literary narratives, as well as experimentation with diverse materials and complex methods of fabrication: 3-D scanning, cast aluminum, fiberglass and machine-milled s
  
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• Why Music Seems So Much Louder Today

  08-01-2016 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Compression leaves distinctive signs on recordings that audio engineers can use to analyse forensically how the loudness war has progressed through the decades. Scientific studies show that the loudness of hit records kept increasing from about 1989 to around 2004. After that, the increase in loudness seems to have slowed.”
  
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• Paul Bley, Experimenting Jazz Pianist, Dead At 83

  08-01-2016 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[He] released more than 100 albums, each of them vastly different from the one before … stretch[ing] the limits of the avant-garde with his innovative and continually changing musical styles.”
  
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• ‘Nanda Vigo’ at Sperone Westwater, New York

  08-01-2016 21:16 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Nanda Vigo” is on view at Sperone Westwater, New York. The exhibition features a selection of early vintage works from the Italian sculptor and is on view until … Read More
  
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• Protected: Consumer Reports: Item Idem

  08-01-2016 20:48 via artnews.com
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• Cynthia Harvey Named Artistic Director Of American Ballet Theater School

  08-01-2016 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Her appointment comes with the retirement in April of the current artistic director, Franco De Vita, who became the school’s principal in 2005 before taking on the directorship in 2013.” Harvey danced with ABT for 20 years before retiring in 1996.
  
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• Why The British Tell Better Children’s Stories

  08-01-2016 19:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If Harry Potter and Huckleberry Finn were each to represent British versus American children’s literature, a curious dynamic would emerge: One defeats evil with a wand, the other takes to a raft to right a social wrong.”
  
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• The Best Films Being Made In Canada Are Quebecois. Pity No One’s Watching Them

  08-01-2016 19:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It can be a difficult enough sell to get moviegoers to take in homegrown English cinema, let alone films with subtitles. Yet at the same time, Quebec is inarguably producing the best films this country has to offer.”
  
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• The Folks At Miami City Ballet Explain ‘Why We Dance’

  08-01-2016 19:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For its 30th Anniversary Season, Miami City Ballet asked members from every rank of its international, 51-member company to tell their stories; what inspired them to dance, and what motivated them to devote their lives to this incredible physical and artistic discipline.” (video)
  
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• Orlan Reopens $31.7 M Lawsuit Against Lady Gaga In New York

  08-01-2016 19:15 via artnews.com
  The New York Post reports that Orlan, the French artist known primarily for her work in plastic surgery, has reinstated her 2013 intellectual-property lawsuit for $31.7 million against Lady Gaga, which alleged that the inspiration behind Gaga’s 2011 “Born This … Read More
  
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• Immersive Interactive Theatre Is Taking Over. What’s A Passive Person To Do?

  08-01-2016 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “So I am not the natural ticket buyer for the immersive and participatory theater that is taking hold in the city as art forms bleed together, companies experiment with different storytelling approaches, and people clamor for more active artistic experiences. Is the passive audience dead (in more ways than one), you begin to wonder?”
  
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• The Mystic, The Monk And The Play Brought To You By Powerball

  08-01-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It sounds like the setup for some kind of droll joke: A lottery winner and a rhinoceros arrive at the birthday party for a dead mystic. Art, and a blowout brawl, ensues. An unusual stew of ingredients, some onstage and some off, has resulted in this strange spectacle’s move from Kentucky to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.”
  
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• ‘I Realize I am a Genius’: Berlin’s Juwelia Makes Her New York Debut

  08-01-2016 18:22 via artnews.com
  “Probably my whole life is art in a way,” the Berlin-based artist and performer Juwelia said Thursday over email. “It could be that I am an alien, or perhaps a crate of beer—who knows. Everybody can see in me what … Read More
  
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• ‘I Am Convinced Art Has Much to Do with Madness’: Jean Dubuffet Paints a Picture, in 1952

  08-01-2016 18:22 via artnews.com
  Much to the horror of the art-world elite in 1950s France, Jean Dubuffet’s work had a tendency to look like it was made by an amateur. His paintings, which have chunky surfaces that look either like vomit or shit, feature … Read More
  
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• Why Do We Watch/Read/Listen To Some Things Over And Over Again?

  08-01-2016 18:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The most obvious reason is something called the “mere-exposure effect.” Quite simply, people prefer things they’ve previously been exposed to. The effect makes sense from an evolutionary point of view: If we’ve been through a door 100 times and know what’s behind it, we no longer have to worry that a predator is waiting beyond the threshold. But how does this relate to re-consumption of media?
  
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• Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Gifts New York Arts Organizations With Inaugural Grants

  08-01-2016 18:05 via artnews.com
  Shelley and Donald Rubin have long been supporters of arts organizations and institutions in all five boroughs of New York City. The beneficiaries of the couple’s largess have included the Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, the Queens Museum … Read More
  
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• Artworks by Syrian refugee children

  08-01-2016 18:04
  
  The paintings and drawings have been created by refugee children living in a camp in Lebanon
  
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• Turkey’s crackdown on freedom of expression intensifies

  08-01-2016 17:59
  
  Turkish authorities have stepped up their crackdown on freedom of expression in 2016. The arrest and detention of two leading Turkish artists over the New Year is the latest in a long line of clampdowns and censorship in the country.
  Atalay Yeni and Pınar Ogrenci were among 24 people arrested during a peace march in the predominantly Kurdish district of Diyarbakır in southeastern Turkey on 31 December. The group was accused of throwing handmade explosives at police. But after examinin
  
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• Scotland’s Arts Funder Under Fire For Supporting Artist’s ‘Poverty Safari’

  08-01-2016 17:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Creative Scotland launched a strident defence of their decision to put £15,000 into a project that sees artist Ellie Harrison not allowed to leave Glasgow for a year. The news of the Glasgow Effect ‘durational performance’ caused a social media storm with hundreds of people taking to Harrison’s Facebook page to attack both the artist and the funding body.”
  
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• The Most Popular Course Online? How To Learn

  08-01-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The course is “aimed at a broad audience of learners who wanted to improve their learning performance based on what we know about how brains learn.”
  
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• Sotheby’s Will Do Stand-Alone Sale of Picasso Ceramics From the Collection of the Artist’s Granddaughter

  08-01-2016 17:17 via artnews.com
  Pablo Picasso’s granddaughter Marina will sell 70 of the artist’s ceramics and sculptures, as well as about 110 drawings, in a sale at Sotheby’s in London on February 5. The sale carries an estimate of $10.5 million to 14.8 million, … Read More
  
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• The Sistine Chapel in a council house – the week in art

  08-01-2016 17:11
  
  Meet the outsider artists who have transformed their homes into masterpieces, and see the super slides that are about to take over the art world. Plus the Manchester street scene that went viral, and much more – all in your weekly art dispatchI Am Van Dyck
  So who was Anthony van Dyck? This 17th-century Flemish painter who died in Britain as the civil war started is a strangely elusive figure. The most brilliant pupil of Rubens and one of the great technical masters of all time, he seems to
  
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• Andes air crash survivor Nando Parrado at Este Arte fair

  08-01-2016 17:06
  
  Among the big-ticket collectors seen gracing this year’s Este Arte fair in Uruguay was Nando Parrado, best known for being one of the survivors of the UruguayanAir Force Flight 571 that crashed in the Andes in 1972. His
  extraordinary tale was later made into the movie, Alive, in which Ethan
  Hawke played a young Parrado. Today he is the
  founder of two media production companies (he was a technical adviser onAlive) and a keen sportsman, but the collector says his main passion iscontemporary
  
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• China Is Moving Into Hollywood In A Big Way

  08-01-2016 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “China’s film industry is healthy and prolific in its own right, and Chinese businesses are opening their pocketbooks with the aim of establishing a presence internationally. … The script has been flipped. Chinese money can now dictate details of American blockbusters explicitly, not just on the consumer end.”
  
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• We Used To Regard Books As Dangerous…

  08-01-2016 16:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Throughout the 19th century, novels were regarded with the same suspicion with which we treat, say, Eli Roth’s ‘torture-porn’ Saw movies today. They were dangerous not simply because of the stories they might contain – the romantic expressions of wish-fulfillment, for example, that led Emma Bovary down the garden path of adultery – but also because reading itself was seen as a kind of possession: an encroachment of the ‘other’ upon the self.
  
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• ‘We Can Get Up In Each Other’s Faces So Easily’ – Language In America In 2015

  08-01-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Linguist John McWhorter talks to Scott Timberg about ‘black bodies and the ‘blaccent’, gender and the pronoun ‘they’, and heated rhetoric and social media.
  
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• Pasadena Playhouse Artistic Director To Step Down

  08-01-2016 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sheldon Epps, who departs at the end of next season, “helped Pasadena Playhouse to become one of the most prominent regional theaters while making strides toward diversifying the shows it mounted and the people who came to see them.”
  
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• Morning Links: Instagram Fame Edition

  08-01-2016 15:01 via artnews.com
  MODERN ARTWashington D.C.’s Renwick Gallery is now Instagram-famous, thanks to “a few well-placed signs announcing ‘Photography Encouraged.'” [The Washington Post]ART VS. REAL ESTATEA Detroit artist is suing the owner of a building upon which a mural of hers is painted, … Read More
  
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• Dublin pressures London to return priceless impressionist paintings

  08-01-2016 14:50
  
  Forthcoming Easter Rising celebrations in Ireland revives 100-year tussle over ownership of celebrated works by Renoir, Monet and ManetPressure is mounting on Britain to return a priceless hoard of impressionist paintings to Dublin as Ireland prepares for centenary celebrations of its Easter Rising.Related: How Ireland was robbed of Hugh Lane's great art collectionContinue reading...
  
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• Off-Broadway Powerhouse Signature Theatre Hires New Artistic Director From Lincoln Center

  08-01-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Signature Theatre has settled on a successor to founding artistic director James Houghton, who will step down in June after 25 years. Effective July 1, Paige Evans will take on the new role … after guiding Lincoln Center Theater’s emerging artists program, LCT3, since its inception in 2008.”
  
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• Who’s Brave Enough To Redo Jerome Robbins’s Choreography For ‘Fiddler On The Roof’? Hofesh Schechter

  08-01-2016 14:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Jewish folk dance is] the DNA of my dance education. I have been to Orthodox weddings. I know how it looks like, how it has to feel. I didn’t have to research. My life is the research.” As for most of Robbins’s original, “for my taste, it was not energetic enough.”
  
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• Arts, culture, creativity and tech: key trends for 2016

  08-01-2016 14:00
  
  A panel of artists, designers, composers and coders share the digital and technological developments that will affect arts and culture this yearArtful Spark is a quarterly event series all about the gap between creative ideas and technical execution. In the words of its founders – Sam Howey Nunn, director of Stellar Network, and Ben Templeton, founder of Thought Den and associate creative director at Preloaded – the project aims to support more informed, creative, cross-discipline co
  
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• Together in electric dreams: how the art world embraced modern technology first

  08-01-2016 13:00
  
  A wall of TV monitors, a face pixelated in Mondrian colours, a playful selfie … we may all be artists in the social media age, but, as a new exhibition reveals, visual artists were the original tech headsMetaphors about the future date more quickly than any others. Seldom do people speak seriously any more about “surfing” the internet. And “information superhighway” has an inevitable historical tang of earnest boosterism for the first dotcom boom. But other outdate
  
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• Modern muse David Beckham inspires Hirst, Emin and Leibovitz

  08-01-2016 09:52
  
  Since the Ancient Greeks, artists have sculpted and painted perfect physiques. Now, around 25 contemporary photographers and artists including Annie Leibovitz, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst and Marc Hom are turning their attention to a modern day Adonis: David Beckham. More than 50 photographs of the former Manchester United and England footballer are due to go on show at Phillips in London on 27 February as part of a charity auction on 10 March in support of 7: The David Beckham UNICEF Fund and Po
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.07.16

  08-01-2016 09:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  The descent into order
  Anyone who took physics or wore a black turtleneck and smoked clove cigarettes will know about ‘entropy’ – the tendency of a system to descend into disorder, to lose working energy over time. … read more
  AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2016-01-07Making the World Safe for Julius
  Julius [Eastman] is not someone you spring on an unsuspecting public unprepared: how do you warn a wide audience that you’re performing pieces with titles like Cr
  
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• Rock star Brian May reveals the hidden world of the crinoline — in magnificent Victorian 3D

  08-01-2016 08:54
  
  When a press release with the words “Brian May”, “crinoline” and “underwear” pops into our inbox, we sit up and take notice. This mix of rather unusual elements all come together with the imminent publication of Crinoline: Fashion’s Most Magnificent Disaster (£50), which has been co-authored by the famous Queen guitarist (available 16 April to coincide with the launch of the Victoria and Albert exhibition, Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear).
  
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• “Star Wars” Passes “Avatar” To Beat All-Time North American Box Office Record

  08-01-2016 02:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The studio claims the JJ Abrams film has passed the $760.5m (£520m) taken by Avatar over its lifetime, but has yet to give official figures.
  
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• In An Age Of Creeping Machines, How Do We Retain Humanity?

  08-01-2016 01:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Increasingly the world around us is being modulated by machine. We’re addicted to our devices even when we don’t want to be. So how do we express and fulfill our humanity even as machines become more important?
  
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• Is The LA Review Of Books A New Model For Literary Criticism?

  08-01-2016 00:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Now publishing 1,500 pieces a year, with several new reviews, essays, and interviews on its main page each day, it has made its mark on criticism, spawning an “LARB style,” as Brian T. Edwards, a professor of English at Northwestern University, put it at a standing-room-only forum on the state of criticism at last year’s Modern Language Association convention.
  
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• Anish Kapoor Donates Million-Dollar Sculpture To Help Fund New Dance Program

  08-01-2016 00:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The choreographer Stephen Petronio, who is beginning a $3 million fund-raising campaign to establish a choreographic residency program in Pawling, N.Y., announced Thursday that he had received a lead gift from the artist Anish Kapoor, who donated a sculpture that is expected to fetch $1 million in a private sale.
  
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