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• There’s A Search Site For Unsecured Web Cams, Including Ones On Sleeping Kids

  24-01-2016 23:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Shodan crawls the Internet at random looking for IP addresses with open ports. If an open port lacks authentication and streams a video feed, the new script takes a snap and moves on. While the privacy implications here are obvious, Shodan’s new image feed also highlights the pathetic state of [Internet of Things] security.”
  
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• ArtsJournal Research Poll

  24-01-2016 22:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Welcome! This week ArtsJournal is polling readers to get a better sense of your opinions on issues as we gather stories. Please help us by taking the short quiz in the popup on the right side of this page. Thanks in advance for your help.
  Once you’ve finished, consider going here to see our Editor’s Choice of last week’s Top Five Stories.
  
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• New York Gets An Open Studio

  24-01-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A sense that at any moment Bourgeois might walk through the door is heightened by the atmosphere of bohemian dilapidation: Surely this place is in no shape to be seen by anyone other than its owner. Crude patchwork testifies to the cave-in of a plaster ceiling. A two-burner gas hot plate that fills in for a stove and an ancient television that stands next to a small metal folding chair further the impression of a home not ready to receive company.”
  
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• You are being watched: update of ‘self-documenting’ work puts San Francisco visitors under surveillance

  24-01-2016 22:00
  
  A time-based “self-documenting” surveillance work by the US artist Julia Scher that “gobbles up” previous iterations of itself is due to go on show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art when the institution’s newly expanded building reopens in May. The artist is working, with the support of curators and conservators, on a third iteration of the media work Predictive Engineering, which uses surveillance cameras and microphones to monitor visitors’ movement
  
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• Knoedler fakes trial could be a game-changer for the art market

  24-01-2016 22:00
  
  When the Knoedler gallery in New York closed in 2011 amid accusations that it had sold forged Abstract Expressionist paintings, the art world was shocked. But what are the implications of the unfolding scandal for other galleries and collectors? We may get some answers in the first trial arising from the case, which is scheduled to begin in New York on 25 January.The collectors Domenico and Eleanore De Sole will try to convince the jury that Knoedler, its former director Ann Freedman and the ga
  
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• How university museums bridge the gap between art and science

  24-01-2016 22:00
  
  It is hard to resist looking at images of your own brain. When the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) reopens on 31 January in a new $112m building, visitors will see intricate drawings of radiolaria by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel and sketches of the human brain’s branching neural networks by the Spanish-born Santiago Ramón y Cajal, known as the father of neuroscience.
  The museum’s inaugural show, The Architecture of Life (31 January-29 May), at
  
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• Art and maths: New book says they are closer than you think

  24-01-2016 22:00
  Art and mathematics have been linked since the Stone Age, when ancient humans etched symbols into rocks, searching for patterns in the world around them. Lynn Gamwell, a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York, took on the formidable task of tracing the history of these intersections in the book Mathematics and Art: a Cultural History, published last month by Princeton University Press. She identifies the link between the Dutch theosophist MHJ Schoenmaekers and the painter Piet Mondri
  
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• Who Knew What, When Is Key To Art Forgery Trial

  24-01-2016 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You’re looking at a vast pool of money chasing a finite pool of art,” said Pepe Karmel, associate professor in the art-history department at New York University. “The temptations are huge.”
  
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• Why It’s Important To Read While Pregnant

  24-01-2016 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’m still me: a person for whom reading has always been a defining feature. I deal with change by reading my way through it.”
  
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• The Philly Art Museum Steps During #Blizzard2016

  24-01-2016 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It wasn’t just sledding: “Early Sunday morning, the Action Cam caught a pair of ATVs riding down the steps.”
  
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• Being A Parent Should Not Kill Your Cultural Life

  24-01-2016 18:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Theatre-going is a habit, and if it’s lost it may not be rekindled for many years. Start parent-and-child theatre outings early, and they are likely to continue throughout childhood and into teenage years.”
  
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• The Turner Contemporary owes it to visitors to display a few Turners

  24-01-2016 18:07
  
  While the space is an exciting addition to Kent's arts scene, it's missing the ingredient that would raise it to greatness
  
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• Rose Wylie: The octogenarian painter whose overdue success shames ageist attitudes

  24-01-2016 17:48
  
  Until quite recently the Kent-based artist was only known to a small group of art world cognoscenti
  
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• A House Of Respite And Inspiration For Young Artists

  24-01-2016 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Stephanie Littlejohn, whose grandchildren are dancing in an impromptu talent show, says the block still has plenty of crime, prostitution and drug dealing — but German’s presence has changed its tone.”
  
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• Broadway Ticket Holders Kept From The Room Where It Happens By Blizzard

  24-01-2016 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This weekend’s closings were striking for their last-minute nature — at the Metropolitan Opera, audiences were already in their seats for Puccini’s ‘La Bohème,’ while on Broadway, actors were backstage and audiences were on their way.”
  
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• The Utopian Workplace Of Tomorrow Is Here Today

  24-01-2016 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You can charge for delivering happiness only if you can measure it.”
  
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• How To Tank Your Oscar Chances

  24-01-2016 16:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Despite her effort to backtrack, the damage has clearly been done. (Also: worst apology ever. Does Rampling even have a publicist? Perhaps that person is in a dark corner somewhere, curled up in the fetal position with a bottle of gin.)”
  
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• You Know A Lot Of Diane Warren Songs, Even If You’ve Never Heard Her Name Before

  24-01-2016 15:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If Warren’s career were one of her songs, she’d be in the bridge right now, the section that emphasizes the contrast between the verses and choruses, and which brings us back to the huge chorus at the end. ‘I’m so into the next,’ she said.”
  
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• Transforming the Body in Ancient Egypt looks beyond the Pharaohs and shines a light on ordinary citizens

  24-01-2016 14:59
  
  Claudia Pritchard reports on this new show of artefacts sourced from our local museums' rich collections
  
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• A Masterpiece Of Social Media Art

  24-01-2016 14:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The photos were of Ulman, and at the same time not of her at all. Ulman is a concept artist. The 186 photos were part of a series, Excellences and Perfections, that examines femininity and the authenticity of the lives we document on social media.”
  
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• A Computer Is Now Generating New ‘Friends’ Episodes

  24-01-2016 12:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Is the future of comedy writing by actual humans sort of doomed, or what? (Hint: Probably not.)
  
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• Another Nude Artist, But This Time On The Toilet For Two Days To Prove How Shitty Contemporary Art Is

  24-01-2016 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Spectators are invited to sit on a toilet opposite from Ms. Levy and engage with her (though touching the artist is strictly forbidden).”
  
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• Light, Time, Legacy: Francis Towne’s Watercolours of Rome review – fantastically overdue

  24-01-2016 09:00
  
  British Museum, London
  When Francis Towne went to Italy in 1780 everything amazed him. The watercolours he made on the trip are in turn a revelationFrancis Towne is a revelation, and his watercolours capture revelations – his first sight of Rome across the hills, of glowing Italian skies, of the day’s heat held in the branches of evening trees as the dome of St Peter’s turns fiery in the sunset. Everything he painted has this quality of receptive amazement. If it were not for I
  
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• How We Mourn Baby Boomers, Especially The Famous Ones

  24-01-2016 08:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the famous, immortality may actually be achieved during a lifetime, but the rest of us have to wait until death, when the ice releases our youths, and we become all of our selves again.”
  
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• Should Playwrights Post Their Scripts Online For Free?

  24-01-2016 07:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In essence, I am saying the artistic satisfaction of having one’s work read and produced is much greater than having it lay hidden. And, just as importantly, the intellectual property of an unread script has much less economic potential than that of possible future productions.”
  
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• Restlicht: Swiss photographer Bernd Nicolaisen's stunning images capture Iceland's frozen caves

  24-01-2016 01:41
  
  For the past 10 winters, the 56-year-old has stood for hours each day in the heart of these frozen caves, waiting for the light to shine through
  
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• The $80m fraud: Discovery of new works by Rothko, Pollock and De Kooning became one of art's biggest scams

  24-01-2016 01:38
  
  When a series of unknown masterpieces arrived at her Manhattan gallery, each verified by experts, Ann Freedman was thrilled. But slowly, and painfully, their provenance– and Freedman's world – unravelled
  
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• False memories: What would it mean if our most precious recollections had never happened?

  24-01-2016 01:37
  
  Some of your most cherished memories may not be as reliable as you think they are. So an artist who has spent the past three years collating 2,000 examples of false memories tells Kate Hilpern
  
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• Public art is powerful, glorious and uplifting – it deserves to be saved | Rachel Cooke

  24-01-2016 01:04
  
  The sculptures that grace our cities have long been neglected; listing 41 of them should be just the startI will never understand why the Today programme bothers to go to the trouble of finding interesting, distinguished guests, only to sacrifice them to the clock. Does it really matter if Thought for the Day is late or some two-bit minister has to hang on for a few moments? Surely, it doesn’t.But then again, I do see that when the sculptor William Pye was bustled off the programme on Frid
  
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