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• Untitled(I thought she should order porn at a motel when she traveled without having to worry what management thought about it)

  14-01-2016 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I have a feeling V never went to New Zealand. The pics she sent mewere possibly from the first time she went. I think she was ghosting me when she arrived Sunday from New Zealand.The therapist said you can do what you want as long as you don’tharm anyone. This is okay in theory but not in practice. Reality doesn’t worklike that. It’s some kind of safe blank reality pushed by the therapist.V texted that she wanted to meet at the standard on 22 avenue and E.Burnside. I ordered a
  
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• A battle won but a war lost: Red Horse at the Cantor Arts Center

  14-01-2016 23:19
  
  The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University in California will show an insider’s perspective on a legendary battle in US history this weekend with the opening of Red Horse: Drawings of the Battle of Little Bighorn (16 January).Sometimes referred to as “Custer’s Last Stand”, the battle between Plains Native Americans against the US Army took place in what is now eastern Montana from 25 to 26 June 1876. Although it was a decisive early victory for the Native American fig
  
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• Diary Of An Indian Classical Dancer

  14-01-2016 23:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Vidya Patel, a kathak dancer from Birmingham who made the finals of last year’s BBC Young Dancer competition, talks about studying the art form in England, continuing to train with her guru, and working with contemporary dancers on a new piece by Richard Alston.
  
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• Consciousness Isn’t Mysterious, It’s Just The Brain Describing Itself To Itself

  14-01-2016 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Neuroscientist Michael Graziano: “This is why we can’t explain how the brain produces consciousness. It’s like explaining how white light gets purified of all colors. The answer is, it doesn’t. Let me be as clear as possible: Consciousness doesn’t happen. It’s a mistaken construct.”
  
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• Cuts In UK Museum Funding Threaten Regional Museums Most

  14-01-2016 22:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As cultural heritage becomes one of the softest targets for financial brutalism, Derby’s three museums – Silk Mill, Derby Museum and Art Gallery and Pickford’s House – may be forced to reduce their opening hours or close altogether if the council withdraws funding to the trust that runs them. If you think this does not matter much – if you safely assume that all Britain’s real masterpieces are in places like the British Museum and that regional gallerie
  
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• Wikipedia At 15: Here’s What It Looks Like

  14-01-2016 22:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Today, the site is available in 280 languages. A new Pew Research Center analysis of the most visited pages in each of Wikipedia’s top 10 languages provides a window on how people in different societies and cultures use the international reference tool.”
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: Laura Cumming’s tribute to double Diego

  14-01-2016 22:00
  
  At yesterday’s (14 January) launch of The Vanishing Man, her excellent book on Velázquez, the Observer’s art critic Laura Cumming spoke movingly of how thrilled she was to discover that Diego was the Spanish version of James, before proposing a toast to both Diego Velázquez and her late father, the Scottish artist James Cumming: “Fused in one name: painters Diego!”Vanishing Man deftly intertwines the tale of one of art history’s most mysterious and ma
  
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• Secrets from a lost world: David D'Arcy on Martin Wong at the Bronx Museum

  14-01-2016 22:00
  
  In the 1980s, Martin Wong painted the world around him: on the Lower East Side of New York, crumbing buildings, dingy facades, gay love in the ruins.
   
  He also archived that place and time, and the work of his peers, preserving the memories of a generation that died young, as he himself would at the age of 53. (His archive is now at New York University.) 
  That work and those artists were under threat, first from arson and addiction, and then later fr om HIV. Wong was a witness to thei
  
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• Glowing grannies light up London gallery—and the street outside

  14-01-2016 22:00
  
  Performance pieces featuring glow-in-the-dark grannies don’t come along very often. But there is such an installation at the Gazelli Art House gallery in London which is showing a luminous site-specific work, entitled Anon, by the artist duo Walter & Zoniel. Old age pensioners, or living sculptures, sit in the gallery window, staring wistfully at the stream of pedestrians passing by. The artists incessantly photograph their ageing subjects, the flashing cameras lighting up the pension
  
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• Study: Music Is Top Interest Of Millennials

  14-01-2016 21:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Repucom, which researches sports and entertainment markets, found that 86 percent of millennials said they were interested in music. By comparison, 83 percent said the same about movies, 79 percent about television and 59 percent about sports.”
  
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• Why We All Fall For Con Artists

  14-01-2016 21:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We never think we’ll fall prey to their wiles. We can spot a gimmick a mile away, while those who become victims are foolish, or greedy, or both. Well, that’s not quite the case. If the NSA can be hacked, so can the average – or even exceptional – human mind.”
  
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• What Makes Alejandro Aravena’s Buildings Cool

  14-01-2016 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aravena practices what he calls “incremental design.” With this approach, he and the designers at Elemental, his studio, build housing structures that are deliberately unfinished.
  
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• How do you clean a masterpiece? Louvre to restore Leonardo da Vinci’s St John the Baptist

  14-01-2016 21:28
  
  The restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s work is a touchy subject for the Louvre. The museum weathered a storm over the cleaning of his painting of The Virgin and Child with St Anne (1503-19) and had to proceed with caution on La belle ferronière (1490-96). So it is not leaving anything to chance with the forthcoming treatment of St John the Baptist (1513-16). “There is major media pressure,” says Sébastien Allard, the director of the department of paintings.Expert
  
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• German taskforce finds only five of 1,500 artworks were looted by Nazis

  14-01-2016 21:27
  
  Jewish groups criticise official report on collection of art dealer Cornelius Gurlitt, discovered in Munich in 2012
  A taskforce set up by the German government to determine the ownership history of more than 1,500 artworks discovered in 2012 has found that only five were wrongfully taken from Jews, drawing criticism from Jewish groups. Related: The mysterious Munich recluse who hoarded €1bn of Nazis' stolen artContinue reading...
  
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• Seven Months After Losing His Leg, Actor Takes Off On 15-City Tour

  14-01-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “From the beginning, the doctors and nurses agreed that this feat seemed a near-impossibility. There was just not enough time. Not enough time between the Center City hit and run that took [Michael] Toner’s left leg in June and the role awaiting him: a starring spot in the Walnut’s three-week, 15-city tour of Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten.”
  
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• ‘Rose Wylie: Dressed To Kill’ at VeneKlasen/Werner, Berlin

  14-01-2016 20:44 via artnews.com
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• Why Do Actors Want To Act? Anthony Hopkins Explains

  14-01-2016 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Did I ever want to quit? Yes, several times. Every day I think about quitting, but they come and offer me a job, and I say okay, because I’m an actor. We are mad. All actors want to be loved – I think that’s something in all actors. We want more, more, more.”
  
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• Was He Gay? It Depends: David Bowie’s Complicated Relationship With Queerness (And Vice Versa)

  14-01-2016 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 1972, he said he’d always been gay; by 1976, he was bi; in 1983, he said he’d only been experimenting; in 1993 he declared, “I was always a closet heterosexual.” J. Bryan Lowder considers how “we for whom queerness is not a phase seem to have two options in terms of how we deal with Bowie’s fraught relationship to our name and our stuff.”
  
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• New York anti-encryption bill would force manufacturers into adding a 'backdoor' to every smartphone

  14-01-2016 20:06
  
  Passcode-protected iPhones can currently only be unlocked by their owners - a proposed New York law wants to change that
  
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• The 2016 Academy Award Nominees

  14-01-2016 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Once again, Academy voters failed to select a diverse group of honorees, something that is bound to raise objections. Other than Alejandro G. Inarritu, none of the other acting or directing nominations were for people of color despite strong work by the likes of Idris Elba in “Beasts of No Nation” and the “Creed” team of Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan.”
  
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• Why The Young Helen Mirren Was Perfect For Playing A Rock Star (It Wasn’t Because She Could Sing)

  14-01-2016 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Hare, on his 1975 play Teeth ‘n’ Smiles: “Helen’s ways of not listening to direction were far more sophisticated than those of anyone I had previously encountered. Once she received me naked for a notes session in her dressing room. She discarded the Evening Standard, which had briefly obscured her, clearly with the aim of putting me off my stride. She succeeded.”
  
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• Why Sad Music Doesn’t Make Us Feel Worse

  14-01-2016 19:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When given the choice, why wouldn’t people listen to uplifting music instead of songs that could depress them?
  
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• Agatha Sadler obituary

  14-01-2016 18:49
  
  My friend Agatha Sadler, who has died aged 91, created one of the most influential art bookshops in London. St George’s Gallery Books was an institution, a resource for art historian, artist, art lover, auctioneer and dealer alike. The critic Brian Sewell wrote: “No art historian of my generation, European or American, can have pursued his profession without dependence on Agatha and her bookshop.” Not only did she ensure that any book or catalogue, of the most obscure works, ho
  
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• This Victorian Photographer Turned Her Rookie Mistakes Into Art 150 Years Ahead Of Its Time

  14-01-2016 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Just six months after she was given her very first camera, Julia Margaret Cameron applied to join the Photographic Society of London … From the start, Cameron’s work was lambasted in the press. And the biggest cause of criticism was the thing that, ironically, would turn out to be the hallmark of her style and her enduring fame.”
  
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• Louise Bourgeois Among the First Artists to Be Shown at the New Tate Modern

  14-01-2016 18:36 via artnews.com
  The New York Times reports today that Louise Bourgeois will be among the first artists shown at the Tate Modern’s new ten-story building designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, which will open on June 17.While the new Tate … Read More
  
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• Tribes Everywhere In The World Wear Beads From This Little Czech Town

  14-01-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Venture up the Amazon or into a Masai Mara village in Kenya, explore a jungle bazaar in southern India or even a roadside shop in Arizona selling Navajo knockoffs, and the chances are excellent that most of the beads you will see were produced in this unlikely mountain village a stone’s throw from the Polish frontier and a short drive to Germany.”
  
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• Edinburgh Fringe Appoints A New CEO

  14-01-2016 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Shona McCarthy, who spearheaded the reign of Derry-Londonderry as UK City of Culture, … will replace Kath Mainland, who is leaving the post next month after almost seven years at the helm of the event, which now sells almost 2.3 million tickets, compared to 1.5 million a decade ago.”
  
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• Spider woman Louise Bourgeois to star in new Tate Modern gallery

  14-01-2016 17:13
  
  French artist whose eight-legged sculpture welcomed visitors in 2000 will be among those displayed in £260m extensionHer giant spider welcomed the first visitors to Tate Modern nearly 16 years ago and Louise Bourgeois will again be a star of the gallery’s £260m extension when it opens in June.
  The Tate said it is to open a gallery as a hub for Artist Rooms, the name given to the vast collection of artworks acquired for the nation from the dealer Anthony d’Offay. Continue
  
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• Lego changes policy after Ai Weiwei backlash

  14-01-2016 16:53
  
  Lego has changed its policy on bulk orders after Ai Weiwei denounced the company for “censorship and discrimination” last October. The Danish toymaker declined to supply the plastic bricks for politically-minded works planned by the Chinese artist-activist for his exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne. According to its new guidelines, effective from 1 January, “the Lego group no longer asks for the thematic purpose when selling large quantities of L
  
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• Why Big Media Companies Should Be Worried About Netflix

  14-01-2016 16:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What if Netflix is the Amazon of the entertainment industry — the embodiment of a slow, expensive, high-risk effort to consume the entirety of your business?”
  
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• Al Jazeera America Is Shutting Down

  14-01-2016 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Network] brass said the channel’s business model was ‘no longer sustainable'” and that the decision “was not a reflection of the quality of their work. Employees also were told that Al Jazeera will pursue a new global online strategy online with content delivered from the U.S. later this year.”
  
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• Why Al Jazeera America Was Destined to Fail

  14-01-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “But if Al Jazeera America’s brand was a handicap, its philosophy was a death sentence. The channel was founded on the utterly ill-conceived idea that Americans were starving for sober, ‘unbiased’ hard news coverage. In other words, it made the mistake of offering viewers the programming they claimed to want, instead of the programming that all available evidence suggests they actually enjoy.”
  
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• Turns Out Tacoma Listeners Don’t Want To Sell Their Public Radio Station To Seattle

  14-01-2016 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After weeks of public outcry after the vote, the UW decided to allow an independent community group to make its own bid for KPLU, effectively giving the station a chance to buy itself out of the deal — if it can raise enough money to match UW’s offer.”
  
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• New Tate Modern to devote gallery to Artist Rooms

  14-01-2016 15:49
  
  The new Tate Modern extension will include a dedicated gallery for Artist Rooms, a collection given by the retired London dealer Anthony d’Offay. This large gallery room on the fourth level of the extension will show a changing annual display of works by one of the 40 artists represented in the collection. D’Offay’s foundation is also making a financial contribution towards the £260m Tate Modern extension, which is scheduled to open on 17 June.The inaugural display in th
  
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• The ‘Not Without My Daughter’ Problem (It Drives Iranian-Americans Nuts)

  14-01-2016 15:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘For Iranian men of my generation and American moms of my mother-in-law’s generation, this is a film that has seared itself into our consciousness,’ says Reza Aslan, an Iranian-American author and religious scholar. Upon the film’s 25th anniversary, it’s an interesting case-study of how early misrepresentations of an ethnicity in popular culture – one that the American public previously had no concept of – never really leave them.”
  
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• Here Are the Guerrilla Girls on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’

  14-01-2016 15:33 via artnews.com
  The anonymous feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Wednesday night and talked about gender inequality in the art world. The collective is known for wearing gorilla masks and using the names of deceased … Read More
  
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• How Do You Get Millennials To Come Party At Your Museum *And* Stay True To Your Mission? Here’s How

  14-01-2016 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In recent weeks, the postings on Craigslist have taken on a desperate tone: ‘Looking for two tickets for … Jan 12th. Willing to negotiate price.’ … These hot tickets were for, of all places, the Franklin Institute – more specifically, Science After Hours, the museum’s monthly, no-kids-allowed science rave.”
  
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• Opera Philadelphia Lands $2.5M Grant For Its New ‘O’ Festival

  14-01-2016 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The grant, from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, based in Miami, is one of the largest ever to the company, which plans to launch the first iteration of the festival in 2017.”
  
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• Morning Links: Tacoma Art Museum Edition

  14-01-2016 14:40 via artnews.com
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• San Diego Symphony Plans Permanent Outdoor Venue On Waterfront

  14-01-2016 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The San Diego Symphony won unanimous approval Tuesday to move forward with a $25 million, 10,000-seat waterfront concert venue on San Diego Bay. … Instead of a stage that must be set up and torn down each summer, the permanent facility would include a 4,800-square-foot stage large enough to house all the symphony musicians and covered by an acoustic bandshell.”
  
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• Brian Bedford, 80, Stage Actor Who Thrilled In The Classics

  14-01-2016 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[He] trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, alongside such classmates as Peter O’Toole, Alan Bates and Albert Finney. He never attained the cinematic stardom of those three, but he arguably exceeding their achievements by leaps and bounds in the theatre, an art to which he devoted the lion’s share of his efforts” – most notably at Canada’s Stratford Festival, where he spend four decades playing everyone from Macbeth to Tartuffe to Trigorin to
  
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• 'Naked in New York' photo project asks: 'Why the hell do we need clothes?'

  14-01-2016 12:17
  
  A photographer simple wondered 'what the world would feel like naked, without the empowering or disempowering effect of clothing.'
  
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• I’m in Love by George Kyomushula

  14-01-2016 11:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I’m in love with my thoughts, my mind ,my plans and my brain maniac growth/ I’m in love with my emptiness , sharpness, weakness , sorrow and my tenderness even my happiness cause its true I’m in love with only me not with you /I’m in love with my mistakes, risky , courage and cowardice /cause sometimes it turn to happens be the source of my safety /
  I’m in love with my energy , efforts and my soul’s immunity / cause that’s when it happened that I had ene
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.13.16

  14-01-2016 09:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Arts funding and peer review
  At The Scotsman, Euan McColm writes about the controversy surrounding Creative Scotland’s grant to artist Ellie Harrison, who will live in Glasgow for a year without leaving, in order to personally document what is known in social science as the ‘Glasgow effect’ … read more
  AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2016-01-13Reasons for moving
  One of the challenges of connecting aesthetics and “beauty” to arts organizations is t
  
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• British construction boss to open new gallery in Ghana

  14-01-2016 08:41
  
  From El Anatsui to Ibrahim Mahama, Ghana has produced some of the hottest artists in recent years. Now, a new gallery is launching in the capital city of Accra in March in a bid to bolster the nascent market there. “We have a wealth of talent in Ghana creating intense, politically driven works,” says Marwan Zakhem, a British Lebanese-born construction magnate and collector who founded the gallery. “We need to create a buzz and to bring the younger artists to international atte
  
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• Do You Aspire to be the CEO of an Arts Organization?

  14-01-2016 04:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Cultural and Ethnic Arts Executive Leadership Program (CEA) is a new certificate program consisting of a ten-day intensive, on-site program with classroom training, experiential and group learning, colloquia, and site visits, followed by a one year mentorship with a member of the program’s diverse and nationally recognized faculty. According to James Abruzzo, co-director of the Institute and noted arts management consultant, “There are few, if any, individuals from underserved po
  
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• Untitled(two old ladies talk food, one mostly listens, another old lady was coughing up her lungs)

  14-01-2016 00:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  there’s a nice looking woman. she has black hair. she is wide. she reminds me of a moderately heavy woman i liked and didn’t like when she told me that she was obese.this woman is seventy eight. she has a style that doesn’t negate hersexuality. they have sites for men who like women in their seventies.i don’t want to read the news. there is nothing happening. the same talking heads talking the same old shit.the older man was talkative and then lost energy. the younger man
  
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• Vinyl Records May Be Cool, But From A Practical Listening Experience, C’Mon…

  14-01-2016 00:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Uncool as CDs may be to a swath of music consumers these days, they retain certain advantages over vinyl. Analog purists can talk about ineffable “warmth” all they like, but CDs reproduce perfect digital sound every time across a far wider frequency range.
  
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• Untitled(Chris in the more popular teacher)

  14-01-2016 00:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i look at social media dave is here a faded mother has on grey anddirty white sneakers blue jeans and a purple winter coat f demonstrates with chris how to play the net he has on an aqua sweat shirt with blue stripes the mother opens a book and reads she doesn’t take off the heavy purple winter coat dave wants t to use the porter potty. it is smeared with feaces and urine. t vollies with a seventeen year old t complains that there is no one in the advanced class who is good. the two teenag
  
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