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• Some Forms Of Dementia Can Elicit – And Explain – A Creative Flowering

  21-02-2016 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What if the failure of language itself were the cause of the enhanced creativity, one form of expression compensating for the loss of another?”
  
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• Turns Out LACMA Isn’t The Only Museum To Be Given A House

  21-02-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Still, it’s pretty rare to see “an encyclopedic museum of art acquiring a piece of architecture as an object for its permanent collection.”
  
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• Tech Is Great! And Also, We Have No Idea How To Just Sit With Ourselves Anymore

  21-02-2016 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To say I welcomed most of these diversions while I was laid up is an understatement. I stayed tuned in to developments at work by hanging out in Slack. I kept up with news on Twitter. I responded to get well wishes on Facebook Messenger. I sent emojis to friends in group texts.”
  
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• We Might Have Just Witnessed The End Of The ‘Album’

  21-02-2016 20:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Life of Pablo is starting to feel like a full-scale attack on the very ontology of the album itself: its primacy in the music industry’s sales model, its status as the foremost object of music criticism, its presumed value as the supreme container for artistic expression, its existential legitimacy as anything other than a nostalgia-driven anachronism. “
  
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• Who painted the enigmatic Giustiniani Portrait? You decide

  21-02-2016 20:00
  
  Exclusive: The Royal Academy will ask public to vote whether Giorgione or Titian created masterpiece at exhibitionIt has divided leading experts in the art world, split for decades on which Renaissance master painted this young man’s portrait. But now the Royal Academy is relying on amateur enthusiasts to decide whether Giorgione or Titian created the central canvas in their upcoming Venetian collection. Curators of the exhibition have asked the public to vote on the attribution of the pai
  
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• Top Stories On ArtsJournal Last Week (New Feature)

  21-02-2016 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An (albeit personal) selection of five top stories on ArtsJournal from the past week. A debate about arts funding. Some novel uses of crowdfunding. Discussions of the artist’s role in society. And opera as a revitalized art form. PLUS: the five stories our readers clicked on most.
  
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• The (Deeply) Serious Injuries Elite Performers Just Dance Through

  21-02-2016 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The screw that kept her foot together caused Ciapponi to limp, so she had it removed. The pain and uncertainty that came with that surgery made Ciapponi wonder if she had to start rethinking her career. She had no idea if her body could recover and become strong enough to do what she had spent 16 years training to do. Since she is Canadian, even her ability to stay and dance in the United States was in question.”
  
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• Which Black Roles Do The Oscars Reward?

  21-02-2016 18:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Black artists have been nominated for best actress or actor on 30 occasions, for work spanning 28 films. Over the last few weeks, I watched all of them. These movies have a lot in common, not least that most were directed by white men.”
  
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• Ghost Variations: How the extraordinary tale of a lost Robert Schumann masterpiece inspired a new novel

  21-02-2016 17:54
  
  After the piece languished in obscurity for nearly eight decades, a violinist claimed a Ouja board begged her to find it
  
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• Rediscovering Hilma Af Klint: The original abstract painter

  21-02-2016 17:37
  
  Was Hilma Af Klint the first abstract artist? Hettie Judah explores her mysterious ways
  
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• Rediscovering Hilma Af Klin: The original abstract painter

  21-02-2016 17:37
  
  Was Hilma Af Klint the first abstract artist? Hettie Judah explores her mysterious ways
  
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• After He Died, This Writer Was Kept In The Closet By His Controlling Family

  21-02-2016 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even though they worked hard at sanitising the letters, the family still worried that too much had been revealed. A year after the edition appeared Alice wrote to her son Harry: ‘People are putting a vile interpretation on his silly letters to young men. Poor dear Uncle Henry.'” Henry James, that is.
  
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• The Day In 1987 When A Hollywood Movie Screened For The President And Changed U.S. Security Forever

  21-02-2016 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s fitting that the scenario of ‘WarGames’ — which aroused Reagan’s curiosity and led to the first national policy on reducing the vulnerability of computers — owed a crucial debt to the man who’d first warned that they were vulnerable.”
  
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• When You Want ‘Diversity’ But Exclude People With Disabilities, You’re The Problem

  21-02-2016 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There is a generation of disabled artists who have been in the forefront of arts activism who feel that time is running out for them. Real change comes when there is a critical mass of diverse work, not just individual projects, and when arts organisations all across the country understand the benefits for everybody, themselves included.”
  
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• The crazy golf course tackling capitalism, migration and police brutality

  21-02-2016 15:00
  
  Artist Doug Fishbone has reimagined the classic mini golf experience, combining hardhitting sculpture with putting skillsHow crazy do you like your crazy golf to be? If you fancy hitting your ball into the open mouth of a squatting man and watching it drop out of his grass-covered behind, it might be time to book a trip to Nottingham. From April, Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf, which was first shown at the Venice Biennale 2015, is opening in the city, combining a playable round of mini-
  
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• Reclaim Your Musical Life From The Algorithms!

  21-02-2016 14:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Listening is creative and personal, and with Discover Weekly I am aware of being profiled by forces I do not know and cannot see. I am being given an ongoing accessory for someone of my type. Often I hate the results, even if I like half the songs: I feel intensely frustrated by what it has reduced me to.”
  
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• Has Steven Spielberg ‘Saved’ This British Actor From A Life In Theatre?

  21-02-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mark Rylance: “Whenever I mention the other films I’ve made to Steven Spielberg, his eyes go a bit glazed. Because in his mind he’s rescued me — rescued me from the slums of the theater! You know, discovered me, bless him.”
  
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• On my radar: Gordon Gano’s cultural highlights

  21-02-2016 11:00
  
  The Violent Femmes frontman on a classic silent film, Lou Reed & John Cale’s Songs for Drella – and the best cheese enchilada in DenverIn 1983, Violent Femmes reached chart-topping heights with their single Blister in the Sun from their self-titled debut. The album went platinum and the Milwaukee trio went on to release seven further LPs, making them one of the most successful alternative rock outfits of the 1980s. Irreconcilable differences arose between the band members and the
  
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• Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art review – some astonishing works

  21-02-2016 10:00
  
  National Gallery, London
  The tempestuous paintings of Delacroix are at odds with a man who was in complete control. You’ll have to search hard to find them, though, in this long overdue showWild but self-disciplined, fiery but cool: Eugène Delacroix is the hardest of artists to bring into focus. His character and art seem fundamentally opposed. Classical in temperament – stoic and principled, he was formidably diligent and self-contained – his paintings strain in quite o
  
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• Hilma af Klint: a painter possessed

  21-02-2016 09:30
  
  Was Hilma af Klint Europe’s first abstract artist – before even Kandinsky and Mondrian? As an exhibition of her extraordinary, occult-inspired works opens at the Serpentine Gallery, London, we travel to Sweden to find outIt is a cold afternoon in February and I am about to catch a plane to Stockholm in pursuit of a Swedish artist whom most people have never heard of: Hilma af Klint (1862-1944). I am hoping to find out more about an extraordinary story – a secret life that was n
  
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