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• Dominique Lévy to take over all three floors of 909 Madison Avenue

  03-06-2016 23:00
  
  Emmanuel Perrotin’s gallery declined to name the location of its new gallery in New York, following the announcement today that dealer Dominique Lévy will take over all of 909 Madison Avenue, which she has shared with Perrotin since 2013.“After three successful years at 909 Madison Avenue, Emmanuel Perrotin has decided to move his gallery to a new location in Manhattan, to be revealed in the near future,” a gallery spokeswoman says. “We can’t give you more i
  
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• Berlin Biennale raises questions but refuses to answer them

  03-06-2016 23:00
  "We are fascinated by the rise of hyper-individualism in the face of the utter powerlessness of the individual. So say the four curators of this years Berlin BiennaleLauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso and David Toro, who together edit DIS magazinewhen asked about the main theme of their exhibition, which opens this month. Their show, they say, is borne of the many conflicting ideologies that manifest in contemporary aesthetics, where even one image, product, or work of art inhabits self-con
  
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• A Debate About Diversity In The Museum World

  03-06-2016 22:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What portion of the museum field is essentially hostile to ideas like intersectionality, as opposed to merely being intimidated by them? Does AAM have the institutional will to enact policies that support expanding diversity? If that will is absent, what does it take to move large organizations like AAM to become catalysts for profound change in the field? What would the field look like if they did, and, ultimately, how do we deal with these differing, sometimes oppositional viewpoints?
  
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• New Research: Maybe Background Music In Stores Doesn’t Make You Buy More

  03-06-2016 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Background music in shops – disparagingly referred to as “muzak” – has been shown to have an effect on our buying habits, but Marks and Spencer has decided to ditch it completely. The company is removing it from all its UK stores, following “extensive research and feedback” from staff and customers.
  
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• Youngest-Ever Winner Of $65k Griffin Poetry Prize

  03-06-2016 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Adam Sol, who served on the jury alongside Alice Oswald and Tracy K. Smith (they considered 633 books of poetry from more than 40 countries) said it was the “ambition and reach” of Liz Howard’s book that “made her work stand out. This is a debut book – holy crap. Who knows what she’ll do next.”
  
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• Can Neuroscience Help People Learn New Languages?

  03-06-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Tell me if this sounds familiar: you just turned off the light, your head is on the pillow, your eyes are closed, and yet, instead of drifting off to dreamland, you find yourself thinking about something that happened earlier in the day. Surprisingly, this process of reactivating your memories occurs even when you aren’t aware of it, and not only is it normal, it might actually improve your memory. As a second-language researcher, I am especially interested in harnessing this phenom
  
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• Houston Grand Opera’s Pretty Good Year

  03-06-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The group also reported that it added 68 new patrons this season and sold out nine performances, bringing in a total of 75,925 patrons. During its 61st season HGO presented eight main-stage productions, as it did last season, for a total of 47 performances. Next season, it’s slated to host 42 main-stage performances and two free shows.”
  
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• Remember Desktop Publishing? And The Print Shop?

  03-06-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The desktop publishing era, short as it was, did something really important: It turned the process of publishing into something anyone could do cheaply and professionally. … In its original form, [The Print Shop] was an ’80s-tastic program that redefined the parameters of print design into something that could literally be called child’s play. Today’s Tedium considers the ramifications of the software platform from which a million dot matrix paper banners were bor
  
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• Creating New Centers: Around Mexico City

  03-06-2016 18:43 via artnews.com
  The 1990s in Mexico City saw not only an economic bubble and subsequent collapse of the peso, increasing narco violence, intractable government corruption, and rising income inequality, but also the emergence of a vibrant alternative art scene. In neo-conceptualist work … Read More
  
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• Grand Rapids Symphony Gets A New Music Director

  03-06-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Brazilian-born conductor, who has led the Grand Rapids Symphony twice in the past two seasons, becomes the 14th music director in the 86-year history of the orchestra.
  
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• Berlin cements its lead as Europe’s digital art capital

  03-06-2016 18:28
  
  Berlin is embracing digital-savvy (and digital-skeptic) artists with two major exhibitions this month. The back-to-back openings of World on a Wire at the Julia Stoschek Collection and the ninth Berlin Biennale: the Present in Drag, are no coincidence in a city teeming with tech startups.   World on a Wire, the inaugural exhibition of the Berlin satellite of the Julia Stoschek Collection, takes its name from the 1973 sci-fi film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The show features 38 works&
  
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• The Grand Palais closes as the Seine continues to rise

  03-06-2016 18:26
  The Grand Palais has joined the Louvre and the Orsay on the list of major cultural sites in Paris to close due to flood risk from the rising Seine River after days of heavy rainfall. The massive exhibition space, located along the Seine between the Invalides and Alexandre III bridges, closed early to visitors today, 3 June, at 2:30 pm, according to an official statement. A spokeswoman for the institution confirmed the news to The Art Newspaper.The closure—a “preventive measure&rdquo
  
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• Grand Palais closes as the Seine continues to rise

  03-06-2016 18:26
  The Grand Palais has joined the Louvre and the Orsay on the list of major cultural sites in Paris to close due to flood risk from the rising Seine River after days of heavy rainfall. The massive exhibition space, located along the Seine between the Invalides and Alexandre III bridges, closed early to visitors today, 3 June, at 2:30 pm, according to an official statement. A spokeswoman for the institution confirmed the news to The Art Newspaper.The closure—a “preventive measure&rdquo
  
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• John Hardie obituary

  03-06-2016 18:23
  
  My friend John Hardie, who has died of cancer aged 67, was an artist, drummer and satirist who used his warmth, wit and rebellious spirit to challenge convention.He joined his first band as a drummer aged 15 and was later a member of the Barnsley-based Travis (“The best thing to have come out of Barnsley,” according to the local paper), not to be confused with the more famous Scottish band of the same name. Travis supported a number of leading groups of the 1970s, including Roxy Musi
  
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• Adverbs Are Cheap? That’s Ridiculously Wrong-Headed

  03-06-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Colin Dickey: “Who will speak on the adverb’s behalf? For once again, it would seem, it is under attack. … We desperately lack a full-throated defense of this runt of the grammatical litter. We need an outright celebration of adverbs, and it is that celebration that I offer – stridently, boisterously, unapologetically.”
  
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• Simon and Garfunkel, selfies and fibreglass KitKats – the week in art

  03-06-2016 17:43
  
  Meades on Mussolini, Antony Gormley’s verdict on Brexit, and the high society grotesque of Cindy Sherman – all in your weekly art dispatchSurrealist Encounters: Collecting the Marvellous
  The surrealist movement is usually looked at from the point of view of the poets and artists who signed up to André Breton’s idea that dreams are revolutionary. But this exhibition sees it from the perspective of the eccentrics and enthusiasts who paid the bills for all those calls on th
  
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• Trevor Paglen Wins 2016 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize

  03-06-2016 17:42 via artnews.com
  The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation announced today that the American artist Trevor Paglen has won its 2016 prize, which recognizes a photographer who has made a significant contribution to their field in Europe. Paglen has been awarded £30,000, or a … Read More
  
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• Do Movie Box Office Boycotts Work?

  03-06-2016 17:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What extent do these buzzy boycotts actually affect the spending habits of the general moviegoer? Users of Twitter, where protest hashtags are predominant, reflect only 23 percent of all Internet users, many of them young, affluent, and living in urban areas, according to the Pew Research Center. Moviegoers, meanwhile, are a very diverse bunch, spanning all ages, geographic locations, and household incomes.
  
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• Michael E. Smith at Capri, Düsseldorf, Germany

  03-06-2016 17:25 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• A Silent Majority: In Berlin, an Intergenerational Array of Female Artists Carries the Day

  03-06-2016 17:16 via artnews.com
  On shows at König, Isabella Bortolozzi, Eden Eden, Barbara Weiss, Peres Projects, Carlier Gebauer, Schinkel Pavillon, Croy Nielsen, Michael Haas, and Société Read More
  
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• The Painting That Put An End To Picasso’s Cubism

  03-06-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Picasso’s Fall of Icarus, done in 1958, is a defining and appalling statement of [Hannah] Arendt’s post-epic perspective. It aims to put the era of Guernica behind it.” T.J. Clark looks at both how Picasso created the mural and the contention surrounding its commission for the new UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
  
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• Memorial to a Many-Sided Non-Objectivist: Thomas B. Hess on László Moholy-Nagy, in 1947

  03-06-2016 16:57 via artnews.com
  "Perhaps some day the examples of his teaching, his writing, his applied and 'fine' art may 'penetrate into everyone’s daily routine,' " Hess wrote Read More
  
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• Voice-Recognition Technology Will Kill ‘All Things Considered’, Says Ex-NPR Exec

  03-06-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Steve Lickteig: “Here’s what I think the future sounds like: You will get in your car and say, ‘Play my news briefing, plus all of last night’s baseball scores, including highlights from the Yankees game. Oh, and give me last week’s Vows column from the New York Times.’ Then, like magic, your audio system will assemble this playlist. That news briefing you asked for? It will come from sources you pre-selected, places like NPR and news organizations yet to be c
  
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• Why So Many Facebook Live Videos Are So Bad – A TV Critic Explains

  03-06-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Willa Paskin: “Where Vine has fetishized brevity and Snapchat ephemerality, Facebook Live encourages video-creators to go long, more than five minutes and up to 90, and caches its videos. … The formal innovations of Facebook Live are length and durability, along with the ‘live’ aspect. And yet so far very few Facebook Live videos have figured out how to capitalize on any of this at all.”
  
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• Nine Things About Classical Concerts That Need To Change

  03-06-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Vincent: “If classical music is ever going move beyond a reputation for stiff upper lips, it’s time to start to look carefully at the conventions that have formed around the concert ritual. Here are my picks for 10 [sic] things that should change about classical music. Feel free to contribute your own to the comments below.”
  
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• Six Words Of Arts-Professional Jargon That Could Just Make You Want To Puke

  03-06-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s a small subset of words that trigger this nauseous reaction when we encounter them. We want to analyse what it is about these words that makes them so objectionable to us. They sit at the intersection of Jargon, Buzzwords, and Office Speak.”
  
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• Teenage Audience Member Jumps From Top Balcony During ‘Grease’

  03-06-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A teenager has been seriously injured after jumping from an upper circle balcony during a performance of Grease at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre. … His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.”
  
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• These giant heads installed in galleries will screw with how you perceive humans

  03-06-2016 14:49
  
  Giant heads have been installed at famous galleries including the Saatchi, The Louvre, the Tate Modern and the Gagosian, except they haven't.
  
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• Art Historian Goes Inside ISIS’s Trade In Looted Antiquities

  03-06-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Everyone seems to agree that ISIS is digging up and selling archaeological artifacts to make money. But no one seems to agree on how much money it’s actually making from its illegal antiquities trade: amounts have ranged from US$4 million to $7 billion.” The University of Chicago’s Fiona Rose-Greenland has formed a research team – called MANTIS – to find out.
  
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• Morning Links: William Eggleston Edition

  03-06-2016 14:38 via artnews.com
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• Carnegie Hall Names Its First African-American Chairman

  03-06-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[The election of] Robert F. Smith, the private equity titan who was named the richest African-American man by Forbes last year after making a fortune in software, …brings to an end a low moment at the hall. The billionaire Ronald O. Perelman served as its chairman for less than a year before stepping down last fall after he alienated the board by clashing with the hall’s executive and artistic director, Clive Gillinson.”
  
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• Why Yannick’s New Job At The Met Is Good For Philadelphia (And Not Just For The Orchestra)

  03-06-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The orchestra was able to retain Nézet-Séguin even as he was wooed by the Met – which is being seen as something of a feather in the cap of the city.” Said one local arts executive, “He could have so easily just walked away. Everyone is talking about attracting and retaining talent, and the fact that we’ve kept the talent is beyond brilliant. This is such a good story for Philadelphia.”
  
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• Newly Discovered James Ensor Painting Sells For €1 Million

  03-06-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A previously unknown painting by the Belgian artist James Ensor was the star lot in Dorotheum’s Modern art auction in Vienna on 31 May. Baptême de masques (1925-30), which is based on a contemporary photograph featuring the artist, vaulted over its high estimate of €500,000 selling for just over €1m (including buyer’s premium). “
  
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• Anatomy of an artwork: Runo Lagomarsino’s ContraTiempos

  03-06-2016 14:00
  
  The Swedish artist explores the cracks in South American life
  This work documents a walk the artist took under the architectural canopy that connects some of Oscar Niemeyer’s buildings in São Paulo’s Ibirapuera Park. Presented as a slide show, it reveals the cracks that he chanced upon in the pavement, many of which bore a striking resemblance to the South American continent. Continue reading...
  
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• Stop Workshopping New Plays To Death, Says Famous Playwright

  03-06-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Christopher Hampton (Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Sunset Boulevard,The Talking Cure): “The world is full of people telling you how to rewrite your play. Generally that has a homogenising effect because the advice people give you is based on their experience of other plays. … it all takes away those jagged edges that really cut into the audience.”
  
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• Guillaume Côté Choreographs His First-Full-Length Ballet – $2 Million’s Worth

  03-06-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Although Côté has staged short dance pieces before, Le Petit Prince‘s world premiere on Saturday marks his full-length ballet debut as a choreographer. Carrying a hefty $2-million price tag (covered by a single private donor), it’s also the first new full-length production by a Canadian choreographer that the National Ballet has staged in a decade.” (includes video clips)
  
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• Double vision: the artist duos who think as one

  03-06-2016 13:00
  
  Brother, sisters, lovers, others ... the 2016 Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy celebrates the work of artist duos. From Jake and Dinos Chapman brothers to the Wilson twins, four reveal how they work – and stay – togetherHow was this new work for the Summer Exhibition created? Imagine this humble scene – of Mummy and Daddy and Daughter seated at breakfast. A faint scratching at the kitchen door, then the family cat tiptoes indoors, swirling around Mummy’s feet. She b
  
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• Belly laughs—at an art festival

  03-06-2016 12:16
  
  This year’s Festival de l’histoire de l’art—a French art history festival for professionals and amateurs, held in Fontainebleau southeast of Paris—has a rather funny theme: laughter. A comic element underpins some of the events taking place between 3 June and 5 June, covering topics like caricatures and jest in religious art through round-table discussions, exhibitions, tours of the town's famous Renaissance château and
  
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• A member's view: 'Self-portraits​ are intriguing in the age of the selfie'

  03-06-2016 12:00
  
  At a Guardian private view of Turning to See: From Van Dyck to Lucian Freud, at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Sarah Akhtar, a retired nurse from Stoke-on-Trent, hears from co-curator Lisa BeauchampI’ve always been interested in art, though I don’t profess to know a great deal about it. You could say I know what I like, and I’m always interested to know more about it. Lisa’s talk raised very interesting questions. The star of the exhibition is the self-portrait by Van
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.02.16

  03-06-2016 10:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  So simple to fix
  In my recent posts, I’ve noted a lack of real physicality in most opera stagings, which — to cite just one problem it causes — can lead to violent moments not looking violent. Which then … read more
  AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-06-02Review: Meet Rob Clearfield
  Rob Clearfield, Islands (ears & eyes records) Pianist and composer Rob Clearfield is a member of Chicago’s under-30 jazz community, admired for work as a sideman with bassist Matt U
  
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• Paris floods: River Seine reaches highest level in decades as Louvre museum closed 'for precautionary reasons'

  03-06-2016 10:33
  
  The river, which is expected to peak of up to 6.5 metres, is rising towards the point where it might flood the city and cause widespread disruption
  
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• Paris floods: River Seine continues to rise as Louvre museum closed 'for precautionary reasons'

  03-06-2016 10:33
  
  The river, which is expected to peak of up to 6.5 metres, is rising towards the point where it might flood the city and cause widespread disruption
  
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• Paris floods: French capital faces anxious wait as River Seine continues to rise

  03-06-2016 10:33
  
  The river, which is expected to peak at 6 metres, is rising towards the point where it might flood the city and cause widespread disruption
  
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• Art and justice in Senegal offer hope for the re-enchantment of Africa

  03-06-2016 10:00
  
  The Guardian’s west Africa correspondent considers how both courts and galleries are addressing the continent’s troubled pastWhat a moment to arrive in Senegal. This week I watched as my new hometown of Dakar made history.Hissène Habré, who heaped death, torture, rape and imprisonment on his fellow Chadians, was jailed for life by a court set up by Senegal and the African Union to try the former dictator for crimes against humanity. Related: Born free: portraits of Rwan
  
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• Vice President of Marketing for Alabama Symphony Orchestra

  03-06-2016 06:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Vice President of Marketing for The Alabama Symphony Orchestra is responsible for generating ticket income, maximizing concert attendance, and building awareness of and shaping perception of the ASO Brand. The position is responsible for ensuring effective and efficient use of traditional marketing channels and exploration of new channel marketing opportunities in the ever-changing media landscape. Duties include the planning, organization, staffing, training, and managing of marketing funct
  
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• Curatorial/Programming Coordinator

  03-06-2016 06:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Otis College of Art and DesignCuratorial/Programming CoordinatorGallery and Public Programs
  Job Summary:Otis College of Art and Design is currently accepting applications for a Curatorial/Programming Coordinator. The Curatorial/Programming Coordinator supports management with administrative planning, organizing, and producing of exhibitions, events, and other related programming for the College’s gallery. The Coordinator liaises with other College departments, external agencies/artists, an
  
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• Aboriginal sacred site up to 8,000 years old destroyed by 'cultural vandals'

  03-06-2016 05:40
  
  Scratching out of ochre stencils on Derwent valley cave wall is ‘devastating’, says Clyde Mansell, chairman of Tasmanian Aboriginal Land CouncilVandals have destroyed a sacred Aboriginal site in Tasmania by scratching out hand stencils which traditional owners say were made during large clan gatherings up to 8,000 years ago.Two ochre stencils on a cave wall in the upper reaches of the Derwent valley were found destroyed by members of Tasmania’s Aboriginal community on the eve o
  
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• Untitled(her mouth is like two arms)

  03-06-2016 01:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  a is back from san francisco. she had to do a fundraiser. she gave an introduction.i have no idea what to do. i’m having a cookie. what is there to say? a arrived. she waved high and first went to get a coffee. i wonder if she noticed the attractive woman seated in front of me. i saw that she wasn’t as attractive as i thought she was when i looked at her a second time. i have ink stains from a blue pen that leaked on my brown cut off jeans.my heart beat is irregular.proust didn&rsquo
  
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• Is The Internet Making You Dumb? So Says This Study

  03-06-2016 00:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This study suggests it may not be the screen time that’s at fault for lessened abilities—it’s the low quality of most online content. The IJBA study suggests that people who read more low-quality content had lower sophistication, syntax, cadence, and rhythm in their own writing.”
  
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