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• How He Does It: Watch An MRI Of This Opera Singer Singing Wagner

  06-05-2016 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  While performing with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, German baritone Michael Volle impressively sang the Wagner aria “Song to the Evening Star” from Tannhäuser while undergoing a MRI scan.
  
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• A parody of data mining: Kenneth Baker on Christian Marclay at Fraenkel Gallery

  06-05-2016 23:00
  
  In American parlance, "street photography" refers to the snapshot glosses on urban sociology by camera-workers such as William Klein, Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander. But Christian Marclay, an American-born artist educated in Europe and now resident in London, narrows and deepens the term's meaning in a series of video animations on view for the first time anywhere at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. (In July, they will travel to Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, France.)Loo
  
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• Boaty McBoatface Is No More. UK Science Minister Goes In A Different Direction For A Name

  06-05-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Science Minister Jo Johnson said there were “more suitable” names. On Friday, days before Sir David turns 90, it was announced that the £200m vessel will be named after the world-renowned naturalist and broadcaster.
  
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• New Study And Interactive Model Of The Brain Attracts Huge Interest

  06-05-2016 21:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The study has generated widespread interest, receiving coverage from newspapers and websites around the world. The paper was also accompanied by an online interactive model that allowed users to explore exactly how words are mapped in our brains. The combination yielded a popular frenzy, one prompting the question: Why are millions of people suddenly so interested in the neuroanatomical distribution of linguistic representations? Have they run out of cat videos?”
  
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• L.A. Habitat: Enrique Martínez Celaya

  06-05-2016 20:54 via artnews.com
  L.A. Habitat is a weekly series that visits with 16 artists in their workspaces around the city.This week’s studio: Enrique Martínez Celaya; Culver City, Los Angeles. Enrique Martínez Celaya was born in Cuba in 1964 and raised in Spain and Puerto Rico. “Being an … Read More
  
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• Spring NY Art Auctions Suggest The Art Market Is Returning To Normal

  06-05-2016 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This year, Christie’s has guaranteed just 18 of the 100 lots at its two headline contemporary auctions. Three of these guarantees, with a total low estimate of $13 million, have been provided by Christie’s itself. No work is valued at more than $40 million at Christie’s or at any of the other houses. “The guarantees aren’t there anymore at the highest level. Christie’s has stepped back, and the market is no longer on steroids and is returning to its normal sta
  
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• “The Humans,” And “Shuffle Along” Win New York Drama Critics Circle Awards

  06-05-2016 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Voted on by a group of New York-based theater critics, the awards serve as quantifiable validation from the critical community as both productions head into the Tony Awards. (The winners’ list this year doesn’t represent a dis on the Broadway juggernaut “Hamilton”; that show won the NYDCC trophy last year, in its Off Broadway incarnation.)
  
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• Beyond Uncle Sam: the US poster art inspired by the first world war

  06-05-2016 19:55
  
  Library of Congress’s exhibit showcases how the war poster became a medium of recruitment, propaganda and criticism for first time in American historyJust as Lord Kitchener’s probing stare and pointing index finger famously announced “Your country needs you”, so Uncle Sam transfixes the viewer with his eyes and finger beside the legend: “First call – I need you in the Navy this minute! Our country will always be proudest of those who answered the first call.&r
  
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• A Tour of NADA New York 2016

  06-05-2016 19:35 via artnews.com
  NADA New York, the art fair put on by the New Art Dealers Alliance to coincide with Frieze New York, opened yesterday to invited guests and runs through Sunday, May 8. More than 100 exhibitors have works on offer. Here’s … Read More
  
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• Google’s Artificial Intelligence Computer Has Read Enough Romance Novels To Write One Itself

  06-05-2016 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After going through the massive trove of novels, the engine was tasked with writing sentences of its own based on what it had learned. It then compared its own work with text from books it had read, so as to continually improve its ability to generate better sentences.”
  
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• ‘It Aims Toward the Universal’: At the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in Red Hook, Brooklyn

  06-05-2016 19:31 via artnews.com
  The 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair has returned for a second go-round at Dustin Yellin’s Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn, which is nicely situated at a literal and metaphorical distance from the rest of the Frieze Week action. Many have no doubt been … Read More
  
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• YouTube Says It’s Now Bigger Than All Of The Broadcast TV Networks

  06-05-2016 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Google-owned video powerhouse said it now reaches more viewers on mobile alone in the target demo of 18-49 than any single television network — and in primetime, YouTube delivers more of that audience than the top 10 TV shows combined.”
  
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• SFMoMA’s Revolutionary New App Changes The Way You’ll Experience The Museum

  06-05-2016 18:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Codeveloped with a company called Detour, it uses your phone’s location-sensing tech to precisely triangulate your position in the museum based on a hi-res virtual map created for the museum by Apple. That way it knows exactly where you are and where you’re going—and adjusts its audio accordingly.”
  
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• Santa Monica Museum of Art Changes Name to Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Will Move Downtown

  06-05-2016 18:16 via artnews.com
  The Santa Monica Museum of Art announced today that it will change its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The museum also said it has launched capital campaign with a goal of $5 million, to which donors have so … Read More
  
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• Marina Abramović's former partner Ulay returns to the stage

  06-05-2016 18:13
  
  With Abramović, Ulay participated in some of the most extreme performance art of all time – and now at age 72 he’s back with his first performance in 30 years“I’ve got a pipe in my mouth,” said the German artist Ulay (pronounced “Ooh-lie”), speaking on the phone from New York City. “Usually, I’m smoking all the time, but I’m smoke-free during an interview.”That’s typical for this well-known performance artist – he
  
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• Marseille Will Host Manifesta in 2020

  06-05-2016 17:56 via artnews.com
  The southern French city of Marseille will host the 13th edition of Manifesta, the traveling European contemporary art biennial, in 2020, the Art Newspaper reported today. The mayor of Marseille has approved funds totaling €627,000 (about $717,000) to pay for the … Read More
  
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• Private Universities Are Becoming More Like Public Universities. And Vice Versa

  06-05-2016 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While public universities can be said to be “privatizing,” another equally powerful, but typically overlooked, trend has been moving in the opposite direction — the “publicization” of private research universities, or the accelerated incorporation of public values and mission into the traditional role of these institutions.”
  
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• Why Intellectuals Are Skeptical Of “Wellness”

  06-05-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Now that luxury mind-body spas and juice bars are familiar totems of gentrification, and Fortune 500 corporations roll out “McMindfulness” seminars and on-site wellness centers, engaging in such practices can feel like an endorsement of a superficial, bourgeois mainstream — a mainstream against which many intellectuals define themselves.”
  
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• Why Are we So Fascinated By Uncompleted Works Of Art?

  06-05-2016 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Uncompleted works are not just pieces of biographical information. Since classical times, their appeal has been understood, and artists have had to accept that what they leave unfinished may be exposed to the public, and may even be more admired than their finished productions.”
  
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• ‘Dinosaurs Among Us’ at American Museum of Natural History, Selected by Mark Dion

  06-05-2016 17:00 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. This week's shows are selected by Mark Dion Read More
  
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• Boys do cry, Hatoum electrifies and dada sells out – the week in art

  06-05-2016 16:49
  
  George Shaw unveils the fruits of his National Gallery residency, Ai Weiwei gets into the film business and we salute Marisol – all in your weekly art dispatchGeorge Shaw
  Humbrol model aircraft paints take on the masters of oil painting as Turner nominee Shaw shows off the results of his National Gallery residency.
  • National Gallery, London, 11 May–30 October. Continue reading...
  
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• The $200,000 Piano That Pianists Think Is Worth It

  06-05-2016 16:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr Fazioli’s factory — more accurately, a hall filled with craftsmen and their tools—runs at full capacity, turning out 140 grand pianos a year. Because they are made to order, customers have to wait between four and eight months for delivery of the instruments, for which they are prepared to pay as much as $200,000. So large is the demand that Mr Fazioli is increasing the size of the factory to make 160-170 pianos a year.”
  
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• My Dinner With Rasputin (A True Account)

  06-05-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “And again a spasm went through his shoulder and he let out a low moan. Each time he sensed that his power, the current of his will, was not penetrating me and was meeting resistance, he experienced physical pain. … And in this there was no pretence, as he was evidently trying to conceal both the spasms in his shoulder and his strange, low groan.”
  
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• ARTnews’ Complete 2016 Frieze New York Coverage

  06-05-2016 15:37 via artnews.com
  Below, a continuously updated list of ARTnews’ reports from Frieze New YorkFrieze New York – A Tour of the Fair – Collectors Are Still Buying, But the Market Has Cooled – Maurizio Cattelan Brings a Donkey and Some Are Not … Read More
  
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• Pakistan’s Cross Between Kurt Vonnegut And Anderson Cooper

  06-05-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As a novelist and a journalist, [Mohammed Hanif] has become perhaps the foremost observer of Pakistan’s contradictions and absurdities.”
  
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• ‘My Work Can Make People Say Stupid Things’: A Talk With Richard Tuttle

  06-05-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  Bill Powers: You were telling me about your townhouse on Vandam Street. Richard Tuttle: Aaron Burr used to live on the corner. He actually left his house here and rowed across the Hudson River for his famous duel with Alexander … Read More
  
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• Germany rebuilds historic Cuban ties with flurry of art exhibitions

  06-05-2016 15:16
  
  Now that it has restored diplomatic ties with Cuba, the US has been busy staging exhibitions of the country’s artists. Germany might have been trailing behind, but it is now quickly catching up. The Kunsthalle Rostock is hosting Kuba Libre at (until 19 June) an exhibition of 30 contemporary Cuban artists who have been working on the Caribbean island for the past two decades.The former-GDR city of Rostock on the Baltic Sea is a fitting location for the show as it has close ties to Cuba. Fi
  
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• Julio Bocca Returns To His Ballet Company, A Month After His Mysterious Departure

  06-05-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At the beginning of April, Bocca suddenly announced that, for “personal reasons,” he was temporarily stepping down as artistic director of Uruguay’s National Ballet. This week, equally unexpectedly, he appeared at a gala to announce that he was back – with two new lieutenants: Sofía Sajac (interim director while he was away) as co-director and María Noel Bonino as ballet mistress. And it turns out, naturally, that there was some backstage discord involved. (
  
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• How ‘Valley Of The Dolls’ Turned Popping Pills Into A Feminist Act

  06-05-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Re-reading the book today … elicits a more feminist interpretation: The ‘dolls’ seem less like destructive forces and more like symbols of the female protagonists’ search for self-determination, in whatever limited forms it could take in the late 60s.”
  
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• LS Lowry paintings owned by Cilla Black to be auctioned

  06-05-2016 14:50
  
  Three paintings of northern working-class life were Liverpudlian singer’s pride and joy Three paintings of hard, northern working-class life by LS Lowry which were the pride and joy of Cilla Black are to appear at auction.Sotheby’s announced that Black’s Lowry works would be a highlight of its big modern and postwar British art sale in June. Continue reading...
  
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• How Rupert Everett Used A Fat Suit And A Corset To Become Oscar Wilde

  06-05-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In an essay for the Times, Everett recounts how he came to be playing Wilde in David Hare’s The Judas Kiss – and what it was like to do the show the evening that the UK parliament passed marriage equality.
  
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• Footwear at Frieze New York

  06-05-2016 14:40 via artnews.com
  Yes, yes, one goes to art fairs to look at art. But other excitements await there: seeing old friends, spotting the odd celebrity (if that’s your thing), and surveying everyone’s sartorial choices. Below, a look at what people are wearing on their … Read More
  
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• English National Opera To Perform Outside London For First Time In 30 Years

  06-05-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A ten-performance run of the popular Jonathan Miller staging of The Mikado in Blackpool this summer is part of a program that will also take the company to three other venues in London while its home, the Coliseum, is rented out for musicals.
  
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• Short article; Arusha poetry club

  06-05-2016 14:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Arusha poetry club is poetry platform based in Tanzania, it is a non government organization which aspires to boost local poets and provide exposure to poets. Arusha poetry club also known as APC was found on 1st September, 2012 by George Kyomushula with the assistance of his mentor Charlotte Hill O’neal also known as Mama C. George started as a volunteer at Mama C’s organization called United African Alliance Community Centre (UAACC).
  The ideal of APC was also supported by Seppo Hal
  
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• The Bernie Sanders Of American Classical Music

  06-05-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At 78, flinty and opinionated yet warm, … he has, for decades, been making thought-provoking, heart-wrenching music about issues that dominate the headlines today: the perils of incarceration, the tension between the government and the governed, the struggle for gay rights, the decimation of the industrial working class.”
  
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• Morning Links: Housing Lottery Edition

  06-05-2016 14:08 via artnews.com
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• Anatomy of an artwork: Francisco Franco portrait

  06-05-2016 14:00
  
  Dissecting the 1976 work by American artist Leon GolubHere we see Franco as an old man, a year prior to his death at the age of 82. American artist Leon Golub – who painted several portraits of the Spanish dictator, among other political figures – almost makes the viewer feel sorry for him. Continue reading...
  
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• Sorry, bell hooks And k.d. lang, This Copy Editor Will Capitalize Your Name Whether You Like It or Not

  06-05-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Abby McIntyre: “In standard print, capitalizing these proper names is not an act of violence nor of authoritarianism nor of betrayal. It is simply an attempt at clarity.”
  
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• Marseilles to host Manifesta in 2020

  06-05-2016 13:40
  
  The municipal council of Marseilles has confirmed that the southern French city will host the 13th edition of Manifesta, Europe’s roving contemporary art biennial, in 2020. The mayor’s office has formally unblocked subsidies worth €627,000 to pay for the rights to hold the event. From now to 2020, Marseilles will dedicate a total of €2.4m to Manifesta, between a quarter and a third of the biennial’s projected budget.
  “This is the culmination of two years of wor
  
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• Atlanta Ballet’s New Artistic Director Tells What He’ll Be Looking For In Auditions

  06-05-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Gennadi Nedvigin: “I will be looking for a strong base in classical dance and, at the same time, the ability to free themselves into performing different styles. Not every dancer has that. It needs to be developed.”
  
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• Corps célestes: Artist dresses naked bodies using only light

  06-05-2016 13:25
  
  'A woman's body is eternal.'
  
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• Does an AI need to make love to Rembrandt’s girlfriend to make art?

  06-05-2016 12:52
  
  Is a picture made by an artificial intelligence ‘art’ if there’s no emotion involved? And what happens if you train a neural net to make music using only the Friends theme tune?Jonathan Jones is unhappy about artificial intelligence. It might be hard to tell from a casual glance at the art critic’s recent column, “The digital Rembrandt: a new way to mock art, made by fools,” but if you look carefully the subtle clues are there. His use of the adjectives &ldquo
  
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• Creating positive action to support unrecognised female artists

  06-05-2016 12:50
  
  Tate Modern will show more women’s art and Freelands Foundation’s £100,000 award for female artists marks progress, but there is more work to be doneNowadays there are more than twice as many female students than males on fine art courses, according to data obtained from the HE Statistics Agency. However, many contemporary galleries and exhibitions still need to realise the value of women’s art. New research from Freelands Foundation revealed that the contemporary visual
  
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• In defence of public art - when it's done right

  06-05-2016 11:12
  
  Our writer's two favourite pieces are brilliant, bonkers and worth every penny, but that's not always the case
  
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• What your pants say about you

  06-05-2016 10:36
  
  The history of underwear is a relatively short one. It begins with the Industrial Revolution which introduced cheap, colourful fabrics that provided a more plentiful choice of clothes to a greater number of people. Men, women and children in antiquity and the Middle Ages wore, aside from stockings or socks, no clothes under their clothes; with the elaboration of bourgeois fashions in the Early Modern Period, concerns for modesty, cleanliness and comfort expanded and the need was felt for an und
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.05.16

  06-05-2016 10:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Propwatch: the mop in The Flick
  No one selects a mop for its glamour. The mop that appears in the second half of The Flick is dowdier than most – a disconsolate tangle that once a day swabs the stickier … read more
  AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2016-05-05When plays became movies
  Fifty years ago, A Man for All Seasons and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? hit big at the box office and tore up the Oscars. Yet both films were screen versions of dead-serious Broadway plays th
  
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• The rent is too damn high: artists tackle New York’s gentrification problem

  06-05-2016 05:30
  
  Throughout May, the public art project MONTH2MONTH is sending eight lottery-selected participants (and some of their partners) to spend four nights in either “affordable” or “luxury” housing in New York for a project that deals with gentrification in the city. The homes on the “affordable” end of the spectrum are located in the East Village and Bushwick neighbourhoods, while the “luxury” residences are located in Gramercy, Chelsea, lower Manhattan
  
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• The Brit pack rolls into New York during Frieze week

  06-05-2016 05:00
  The Big Apple has a British flavour this spring, beyond the Frieze New York banners that have sprouted on Manhattan lampposts and the launch of London-based Lisson Gallery’s new space beneath the High Line. The British artists Cornelia Parker and Martin Creed have taken on the city's skyline with major public art commissions on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Rachel Whiteread's concrete cast of a New England shed is due to be unveiled on Governor's
  
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• The Brit pack rolls into New York

  06-05-2016 05:00
  
  The Big Apple has a British flavour this spring, beyond the Frieze New York banners that have sprouted on Manhattan lampposts and the launch of London-based Lisson Gallery’s new space beneath the High Line. The British artists Cornelia Parker and Martin Creed have taken on the city's skyline with major public art commissions on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Rachel Whiteread's concrete cast of a New England shed is due to be unveiled on Governor's
  
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• Sales points: notable purchases at three Frieze galleries

  06-05-2016 05:00
  
  Sprüth Magers sees carpet fly off stand
  The work of Thea Djordjadze, from the republic of Georgia, often refers to the culture of the Caucasus region, such as the carpet in Tickle the sketch (2012), which sold at Sprüth Magers (C8) for $65,000 to a European collector. The artist, now based in Berlin, has her first solo show in New York at MoMA PS1 (until 29 August).Pope.L’s Pop-Tarts: serious shelf-life
  Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (C25) sold three drawings on Pop-Tar
  
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