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• A Successful BroadwayCon Gets A Bigger Sequel

  08-04-2016 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The gathering drew 5,000 people this year; organizers hope it will draw up to 15,000 next year. The convention, inspired by ComicCon and a multitude of other pop culture fan gatherings, consisted of panels, workshops, performances and presentations by theater artists and theater industry officials.”
  
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• Festivals Are Getting More And More Popular. Here’s Why

  08-04-2016 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The AIF’s research in 2014 found that 58% of people cite overall experience and atmosphere as the main reasons for their purchase of a festival ticket, and that just 7% said it was the headlining acts. This adds credence to the theory that participation is going to be the prevalent theme in modern festival-going.”
  
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• Nigeria’s Booming Literary Genre: Romance Novels

  08-04-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The books shift between morality tales and classic pulp romance. Often written by hand in small composition books, the books are sold in crowded marketplaces, where you can buy thousands of different titles for a dollar or two.” (text and audio)
  
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• An Arts Foundation Closes Abruptly In Seattle, Leaving Questions

  08-04-2016 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Funding artists is great but when the support happens only through the whim of a single funder, the ground might not be stable…
  
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• ‘Fainting And Nervous Breakdowns’ – Argentina’s National Library Lays Off A Quarter Of Its Staff

  08-04-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The cuts at the Biblioteca Nacional, once run by Jorge Luis Borges, were announced last Tuesday to ‘tears and cries of outrage’ … Staff had been phoned by authorities throughout the day to be given the news, which caused ‘fainting and nervous breakdowns’.”
  
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• Heartbreaking: Before And After-ISIS Images Of Palmyra

  08-04-2016 20:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A single stone arch is all that remains of Palmyra’s most important site and the Middle East’s most significant ancient temple, alongside Baalbek in Lebanon. Isis blew up the temple building in August 2015, destroying two inner sanctums dedicated to the Palmyrians’ supreme deity, Bel, the sun god Yarhibol and the moon god Aglibol.”
  
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• Inge Hardison, 102, Sculptor Of African-Americans Heroic And Ordinary

  08-04-2016 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A former actress, artist and photographer, Inge Hardison sculpted a cast-iron collection in the 1960s that she called Negro Giants in History, which included George Washington Carver, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson and Harriet Tubman. She titled another series, featuring relatively obscure black inventors, ‘Ingenious Americans’.”
  
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• Is It Really Intelligent To Pooh-Pooh IQ Tests?

  08-04-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘IQ tests just measure how good you are at doing IQ tests.’ This is the argument that is almost always made when intelligence-testing is mentioned. It’s often promoted by people who are, otherwise, highly scientifically literate. … In fact, decades of well-replicated research point to IQ tests as some of the most reliable and valid instruments in all of psychological science.”
  
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• ‘Fade In’ at Swiss Institute, New York

  08-04-2016 19:40 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• How To Judge A Movie Based On Its Director (Can You?)

  08-04-2016 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “No one sees the director but everyone sees the actors, so the notion of directorial authorship flies in the face of common sense as well as of the theatrical tradition on which movies appear to be based. Yet the very notion of authorship (whether with movies or books or elsewhere) isn’t a theory, a policy, or a wish—it’s either the viewer’s experience or it’s nothing at all.”
  
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• Tangled Web: Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin at Andrea Rosen, New York

  08-04-2016 19:15 via artnews.com
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• Podcasts Have Been Around For 15 Years, And They’re Finally Coming Of Age

  08-04-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, it’s been that long: the iPod was launched back in 2001. But – except for a few popular radio shows like This American Life – the first generation of podcasts weren’t always professional quality, and most faded away. But over the past couple of years, the form – led by Serial – had leapt upward in quality, variety, and popularity.
  
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• ‘It’s About Bringing People Together’: Fabiola Alondra and Jane Harmon on Their ‘Non-Gallery Gallery,’ Fortnight Institute

  08-04-2016 18:48 via artnews.com
  On Saturday, April 16, Fortnight Institute, which bills itself as a public salon, will open at 60 East 4th Street, on a quaint, boutique-lined street in the East Village. The Institute “was the beginning of wanting to do something that was … Read More
  
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• Are Library Cards Going The Way Of The VCR Tape?

  08-04-2016 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Library cards have always had the same purpose—to keep track of borrowers’ loans—but originally they were invented for a different type of library.”
  
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• ‘He Nudges the Sacred Liberal Cows of Assimilation’: A Brief History of David Hammons

  08-04-2016 18:27 via artnews.com
  With David Hammons’s 50-year career being surveyed at New York’s Mnuchin Gallery, many critics have taken the opportunity to reflect on the artist’s work, which has often dealt with racial and economic inequities, both in the art world and in … Read More
  
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• Where They Keep The Ghosts: Behind The Scenes At The Met Museum

  08-04-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Christine Coulson, chief adviser to the director: “It is a Met that exists just beyond the walls of the galleries, where the staff move through tunnels and hallways like the below-stairs cast of Downton Abbey. It is also where we keep the ghosts.”
  
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• It’s Fashionable To Poo-Poo IQ Tests. But Think Again

  08-04-2016 17:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “So what does an IQ test – which might consist of, for example, shape-based puzzles, timings of how quickly you can check through lists of meaningless symbols, memory tests, and vocabulary measures – actually tell you?”
  
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• L.A. Habitat: Thomas Houseago

  08-04-2016 17:32 via artnews.com
  A visit with the Los Angeles transplant in his Frogtown studio. 'To be an artist here is really thrilling, and really frightening.' Read More
  
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• The GIFs Take Famous Paintings To Their Illogical Conclusions

  08-04-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Goya’s Saturn devours his son on a park bench, flinging chunks of arm to a flock of pigeons; the lady in pink of Edward Hopper’s Morning Sun snaps out of her reverie when a bird crashes into her bedroom window; the raining men of René Magritte’s Golconda jump out of a plane and splatter bloodily on the ground, alarming local newscasters.”
  
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• A Stone Angel Plunges To The Ground And The Met Museum Has To Pick Up The Pieces

  08-04-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The “painstaking job began the morning just after the della Robbia’s fall, when conservators gathered in its closed-off gallery to begin making sense of the pieces, some of them as tiny as fingernails. “It was a lot like an archaeological dig — all the pieces were collected and bagged and numbered.”
  
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• The Loneliest Cities In The World

  08-04-2016 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One thing is certain: the percentage of those who live alone has increased dramatically. In the US, 27% of people live alone, up from 5% in 1920, and in New York City it’s roughly one third. The same trend is evident in Canada, and even more pronounced in Europe – 58% of people in Stockholm live alone, a figure that is considered the highest in Europe.”
  
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• Even Vanity Fair Says Justin Peck Is Making Ballet Cool

  08-04-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Last year, for example, he commissioned Shepard Fairey – of Obama-Hope poster fame – to design the set for his Miami City ballet, Heatscape, and collaborated with Opening Ceremony for their New York Fashion Week show.”
  
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• The 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair Names Participants in ‘Forum’ Educational Programming

  08-04-2016 16:33 via artnews.com
  Today the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair announced the lineup for Forum, its educational programming initiative during its New York fair, which will run at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn from May 6 through 8.Forum will be organized by Koyo Kouoh, the founder and artistic director of RAW Material, an … Read More
  
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• Meet The Dancers Who Live And Breathe Martha Graham

  08-04-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The company features dancers from all over the world who have had varying entry points into the Graham organization. Yet each was pulled in by the force of Graham, who died in 1991 at 96, and by her technique, which is rooted in the breath; movement is initiated in the pelvis and concentrates on the oppositional force of contraction and release.”
  
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• The adult colouring book that is drawn from actual human body parts

  08-04-2016 16:21
  
  Co-creator Lozzy Bones hopes that it will raise awareness of one of London's 'hidden gems'
  
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• ‘Sweeney Todd’ Production Called Off After Necks Actually Get Cut Onstage

  08-04-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It had to happen eventually, we guess. A student production at an elite Auckland secondary school used a prop that was, in fact, a real straight razor covered in duct tape and silver paper.
  
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• Rolling Stones, stolen Munch and the €1bn flop of Les Halles – the week in art

  08-04-2016 16:00
  
  Art is not immune from the biggest document leak in history and Glasgow International kicks off for another year – all in your weekly art dispatch Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979
  This delve into the wacky world of Britain’s first conceptual artists promises to reveal that the lights have been going on and off for a lot longer than you may have thought, not to mention that the Monty Python clan may have got some of their ideas from the likes of Keith Arnatt and Bruce McLean.
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• Musée d'Orsay sends Manet’s Olympia to Russia

  08-04-2016 15:31
  
  In the latest sign of heightened cultural diplomacy between France and Russia, Manet’s Olympia (1863) will travel from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris for an exhibition at the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow that opens to the public on 19 April.According to a statement on the Pushkin museum’s web site, the Impressionist master’s painting of a nude woman and her servant, which shocked audiences when it was first shown in 1865 because of suggestions that the
  
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• This Dance Piece Reminds Us All That Adult Men Interacting With Young Girls Doesn’t *Have* To Be Creepy

  08-04-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The project Men & Girls Dance “is exactly what its title suggests: adult male performers dancing with young girls. That relationship, though, has been tainted in recent years. Put the words ‘men’ and ‘girls’ in the same sentence and it’s likely to call to mind suspicions of abuse. This is what Fevered Sleep is hoping to challenge.”
  
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• Philadelphia Museum Of Art Launches Pop-Up Art Shows

  08-04-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Pop-up art exhibitions will begin to appear throughout the region Wednesday, when high-quality reproductions of artworks from the Philadelphia Museum of Art will be installed in public places from Coatesville to Doylestown.”
  
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• Seven Ways For Actors To Get Better At Handling Rejection

  08-04-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some of the most successful actors cite their setbacks and failures as their most formative experiences; experiences that have moved them forward and propelled them to success. … So how can you, as a working actor, become more resilient?”
  
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• When You Get A Bad Review, Should You Hit Back At The Reviewer?

  08-04-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  These days, “when amateur enthusiasts are as likely to review your work as Fleet Street experts (albeit self-proclaimed) and when most readers, if we’re honest, skim newspaper reviews and skip to the pithier comments, are you entitled to tell the blogger to fuck off as publicly as they rubbish your work when you think they’ve been unfair?” Maybe, suggests Phil Wilmott.
  
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• Morning Links: Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Lawsuit Edition

  08-04-2016 14:57 via artnews.com
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• This Poor Arts Center: First The Censors Cracked Down On It, Then The Walls Fell In

  08-04-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Egypt’s leading contemporary arts space, “Townhouse gallery in central Cairo has been shut to staff after a section of the recently renovated five-storey building collapsed on Wednesday. The neighbouring Cairo Hackerspace, a community workspace for engineers, designers and artists, was completely destroyed.” The attached Rawabet Theatre has reportedly come through without damage.
  
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• Prestigious Vincent Award suspended after legal row between artist Danh Vo and collector Bert Kreuk

  08-04-2016 14:39
  
  The Vincent Award, one of the most prestigious prizes for contemporary art in Europe, has been cancelled this year after two artists pulled out—one citing a legal row between the Danish-Vietnamese artist Danh Vo and the Dutch art collector Bert Kreuk.The Berlin-based Iranian artist Nairy Baghramian and the German artist Jutta Koether withdrew fr om the award in January, less than two months after the five shortlisted artists were announced. While Koether said her decision was “a per
  
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• Arena Di Verona Opera Festival Goes Into Liquidation

  08-04-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One day after unionized staff narrowly voted to reject cost-cutting measures to reduce debt of €25 million, the board of the Fondazione Arena di Verona, which operates the popular summer festival, voted unanimously to ask the national culture minister to shut the organization down. Verona’s mayor claims that this action won’t affect the actual performances this summer, though a new, privatized entity will have to run the festival. (in Italian; Google Translate version here)
  
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• Proposal to privatise Tehran’s Modern art museum causes alarm

  08-04-2016 14:20
  
  A reported proposal from Iran’s Ministry of Guidance and Islamic Culture that Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) and its extraordinary art collection of Western and Iranian art be transferred to a private foundation has caused deep alarm in the arts community.The museum’s collection includes Modern masterworks acquired before the Islamic Revolution. As last summer’s nuclear deal with Iran has led to an easing of sanctions, museums in Europe and the US have been
  
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• Philadelphia Orchestra Launches New Social-Impact Programs

  08-04-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The group is instituting [one new] program, increasing others, and packaging them under an umbrella acronym: HEAR, which stands for health, education, access, and research. … The initiatives are part of a changing institutional direction, [orchestra president Allison Vulgamore] said, taking the orchestra more heavily into social-mission work. ‘I want to be off stage as much as we are on stage.'”
  
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• This Year’s Pritzker Prize Winner Makes His Low-Cost Housing Plans Available For Free

  08-04-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena … is releasing a number of his residential designs as an open-source resource to help tackle the global affordable housing crisis. … The aim is to provide the material to government agencies and developers who might think it’s ‘too expensive’ to invest in well-designed social housing.”
  
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• 'They wanted to be as big as the Beatles': revisiting the Ramones' legacy

  08-04-2016 14:00
  
  A new exhibition in Queens celebrates the history of a band that left an indelible mark on modern rock and New York CityThe New York borough of Queens is reclaiming the legacy of four native sons of Forest Hills – Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Tommy – with a Ramones exhibition that comes after the 40th anniversary of the band’s self-titled first album. It was a key document in the development of punk as well as an album that neatly bookends the two decades of rock’n’rol
  
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• U. Texas Student Found Murdered Was Promising Ballet Dancer

  08-04-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The body of 18-year-old Haruka J. Weiser was found Tuesday in a creek in the heart the University of Texas campus, one day after her roommate reported her missing … She was in Austin on a full dance scholarship.”
  
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• Ailyn Pérez Wins Beverly Sills Artist Award

  08-04-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A rising lyric soprano who won the 2012 Richard Tucker Award, Ms. Pérez, 36, … [has won the annual] $50,000 prize to help foster the careers of young singers who have appeared in solo roles at the Metropolitan Opera.”
  
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• Feel the spirit at Serpentine’s Hilma af Klint show

  08-04-2016 12:08
  
  Strange things were stirring in Sweden in the years around 1905 when the artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) received a message from a divine entity to begin creating an epic series of semi-abstract works called The Paintings for the Temple, parts of which are now on show in London’s Serpentine Gallery (until 15 May).
  Af Klint had spent the previous decades immersed in spiritualism, attending séances along with four female artists who called themselves De Fem (the five). Together the
  
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• Glasgow International festival tackles demise of UK's once-great, heavy industries

  08-04-2016 11:49
  
  Glasgow International, the biennial contemporary art festival which opens its seventh edition today (until 25 April), focuses on a particularly potent theme in today’s economic climate: the demise of heavy industry, and how cultural spaces have sprung up in spaces in the Scottish city once occupied by major shipbuilding, textiles and metalwork companies.
  The move seems timely in light of the ongoing campaign to save Port Talbot steelworks in South Wales fr om closure and the risk of thous
  
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• Panama Papers expose art world's offshore secrets

  08-04-2016 11:05
  The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has turned its attention to the art world in its ongoing examination of documents leaked from Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm specialising in wealth management.The ICIJ has revealed that a painting by Modigliani that is being claimed by the grandson of Oscar Stettiner, a Jewish gallery owner whose art was seized by the Nazis, is owned by a company controlled by the Nahmad family of art dealers, who have previously denied
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.07.16

  08-04-2016 09:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  George Goldner: Nothing If Not Opinionated–And Entertaining
  It’s not quite The Car Guys, but an exchange at a recent symposium at the Frick’s Center for the History of Collecting* has tickled a couple of people I know … read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2016-04-07The Butterfly Art Project | Frygrond
  This is the third essay in a series of four “We the Audience” posts designed to introduce my readers to the citizen artists working in some of South Afr
  
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• Delicate daffodils shimmy in the breeze

  08-04-2016 06:30
  
  West Dean Woods nature reserve, West Sussex They are half the size of commercial daffodils and more subtly coloured, but en masse they are resplendentWe dawdle at a crossways, puzzling over our map. The guide instructs us to take the path through the larch trees, but the entire stand of conifers has been felled, the logs stacked to dry in neat pyramids by the side of the track. Honey coloured globs of resin ooze from the cut stumps, infusing the air with a sweet menthol aroma. We continue on, an
  
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• Bill Henson on photographing the 'monumental' artefacts of ancient Greece

  08-04-2016 05:13
  
  Artist given rare chance to take artefacts from 8,000 years of Greek civilisation and photograph them with live model • Bill Henson brings to life Greek gods, myths and mortals – in picturesThe Australian artist Bill Henson is best known for his moody, cryptic photos of figures with purplish, corpse-like skin, shrouded in darkness.He is also known for controversy: his 2008 exhibition at the Roslyn Oxley9 gallery in Sydney included nude images of a 13-year-old girl, leading to media up
  
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• Untitled(amanda reminds me of other women. i remind her of no one.)

  08-04-2016 00:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  amanda has been reading my writing. i have been writing about her.i love that you write, amanda said.i had four tall glasses of beer.amanda wanted to give me pleasure. she slid her vagina on my thigh. she choked me lightly and moaned. i fed on her breast.is love finite, she said.i need to love and you need to love me, i said.what does that mean, amanda said.it means i need to love someone, i said.i like people who think, amanda said.don’t people think, i said.they plot, amanda said.isn&rsq
  
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• Why Comedians Don’t Care About Reviews

  08-04-2016 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I also heard more than once that a lot of stand-ups think that nobody in the mainstream media gave a darn about their art form before it broke out, so why should they now be accommodating when they get no financial benefit? Good point.”
  
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