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• A Dating App For Intellectual Property

  24-06-2016 23:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Want a peek at the buzzy new sci-fi novel? Swipe right. Curious if its movie rights have sold? Swipe again. Publishing upstart Inkshares is launching an app, dubbed Properties, to promote its content to Hollywood. It curates selections for each user, offers sample chapters and provides updates on theatrical, TV, audiobook and foreign rights.”
  
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• Faceless portraits come to the Bowdoin Museum

  24-06-2016 23:00
  Dont look for any faces in the exhibition This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine. The show is named after Robert Rauschenbergs work This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so (1961), which is simply a telegram that declares its title. Although each of the around 60 works in the Bowdoin exhibition represents a specific individual, it does not include traditional portraiture, says Anne Collins Goodyear, the
  
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• Practical Explanation: Why There Are So Few Women Ballet Choreographers

  24-06-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Male dancers simply aren’t as busy as their female counterparts, who, on top of everything else, are trained from a young age to be obedient and to not step out of line. In modern dance, composition is part of the training, but in ballet there is a lack of structured choreographic training. Most ballet choreographers emerge from companies, and most — including today’s pre-eminent ballet-makers Alexei Ratmansky, Christopher Wheeldon and Justin Peck — begin crea
  
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• In Female-Dominated Ballet, Where Are The Women Choreographers?

  24-06-2016 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A question for the future is whether there are enough opportunities for women to become ballet choreographers — a position for which there is no one career path.”
  
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• The Literary Subversives Who Boosted America’s National Parks

  24-06-2016 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sadly, the parks rarely get much attention on the national stage unless some knucklehead displaces a cute little baby bison or tries to feed a grizzly bear. But in this year when the Park Service is celebrating its centennial with all sorts of hand-wringing about the future, it’s instructive to remember how language can save landscape. Powerful prose has been put to good use in the cause of America’s Best Idea.”
  
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• So Barnes & Noble Might Close… And That’s A Very Bad Thing

  24-06-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s more than a little irony to the impending collapse of Barnes & Noble. The mega-retailer that drove many small, independent booksellers out of business is now being done in by the rise of Amazon. But while many book lovers may be tempted to gloat, the death of Barnes & Noble would be catastrophic—not just for publishing houses and the writers they publish, but for American culture as a whole.”
  
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• What Paved The Way For Modern Secularism? 16th-Century How-To Books

  24-06-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There was a good reason why technical manuals were so often titled ‘books of secrets’. Not only did they reveal closely guarded trade practices, they assumed a world in which there no longer are ‘secrets’ in the sense of mysterious hidden forces in nature.”
  
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• Timothy Hull at Ashes/Ashes, Los Angeles

  24-06-2016 20:00 via artnews.com
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• Poetry As Failure (And That’s A Good Thing)

  24-06-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In Ben Lerner’s account, poetry is the perfect medium for failure. Even great poems, he claims, perform this failure by suggesting the transcendent in their absence. “You can only compose poems that, when read with perfect contempt, clear a place for the genuine Poem that never appears.”
  
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• Arts hit back at Brexit: 'I feel nothing but rage'

  24-06-2016 19:26
  
  Leading figures from the arts – including Lucy Prebble, Anish Kapoor, Ivo van Hove and Barrie Rutter – reveal their shock, anger and revulsion at the vote to leave the EUEU referendum outcome - live
  I feel nothing but rage. A horrible feeling – and one that helps me understand how these things start, when something important to you ends. I blame you, Cameron, a middle-manager of a prime minister whose ham-fisted leadership was based on one implicit stipulation not to fuck every
  
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• How Did Voltaire Get Rich? By Rigging The Lottery, Repeatedly

  24-06-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It was once said of Voltaire, by his friend the Marquis d’Argenson, that ‘our great poet forever has one foot on Mount Parnassus and the other in the rue Quincampoix. The rue Quincampoix was the Wall Street of eighteenth-century Paris … By the time d’Argenson made his remark, in 1751, Voltaire had amassed a fortune. He owed it all to a lottery win. Or, to be more precise, to several wins.”
  
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• Cubist Misunderstanding: An Argument Against Fernand Léger, in 1967

  24-06-2016 18:40 via artnews.com
  In honor of the Museum Ludwig’s show “Fernand Léger: Painting in Space,” we turn back to the February 1967 issue of ARTnews, in which Marcelin Pleynet made an argument against the French modernist painter, who, he said, failed to comprehend … Read More
  
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• Social Media Can Power Art – But There Are Landmines Everywhere

  24-06-2016 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The relationship between art and social media is a tricky one. The former is about pushing boundaries; the latter, enforcing them — in the case of Instagram, in a literal square.”
  
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• Think Gender Is (Even Partly) Performance? Here’s The Woman Who Launched The Idea

  24-06-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Here’s Teen Vogue on another photo of Jaden Smith in a skirt suit: ‘The midi skirt set sends up a poignant rejection of heteronormativity.’ What sage could have predicted that heteronormativity would eventually make its way into the vocabulary of teen magazines and shareable web content? Only, perhaps, the queer theorist Judith Butler.”
  
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• Public Radio’s Big New Opportunities

  24-06-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One person’s existential crisis is another’s opportunity; a period of expanding audiences, creative disruption, and greeting the future. From where I sit, at the helm of New York Public Radio, the news is overwhelmingly positive and the terrain is open for anyone bold enough to embrace what is undoubtedly radio’s next incarnation.”
  
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• Strange bedfellows: how Edvard Munch and Jasper Johns painted sex and death

  24-06-2016 17:26
  
  In works 40 years apart, both titled Between the Clock and the Bed, the two great artists handled humanity’s twin concerns. A new show teases out the similaritiesAn exhibition opening at the Munch Museum in Oslo this month, and at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in the US in November, finally answers the question John B Ravenal was asked many times over in the years he worked as a curator.What was the connection between two artists as apparently different as Edvard Munch and Jasper Johns
  
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• Flowers, fabric bridges and Ukip's refugee poster – the week in art

  24-06-2016 17:09
  
  …plus George Stubbs’s radical vision, Tate Modern’s macaws, the Orbit slide and Newcastle’s buzziest nightspot – for dung flies – all in your weekly art dispatchGeorgia O’Keeffe
  One of America’s most iconic artists brings her desert blooms to the British summer.
  • Tate Modern, London, 6 July-30 October Continue reading...
  
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• L.A. Habitat: Elad Lassry

  24-06-2016 17:00 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: Elad Lassry; Hollywood, Los Angeles.  Elad Lassry arrived at CalArts in 1998, sandwiched between two exchange students in the back of a Nissan. The school, located … Read More
  
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• Julie Taymor Gives Three Young Directors $30K Fellowships To Study Non-Western Theater

  24-06-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Julie Taymor has announced the three recipients of the inaugural World Theater Fellowship, a prize for young theatre directors to travel for one year to Central/South America, Africa, Asia, or the Middle East. The winners are Zachary Dorn, Hector Flores Komatsu, and Jesca Prudencio.”
  
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• Will Brexit Isolate UK Artists?

  24-06-2016 16:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The ability for the UK to access the €1.3 billion Creative Europe programme could now be in jeopardy, while arts figures have warned of the effects Brexit will have on access to and movement of talent.”
  
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• Brexit Fears About The Arts

  24-06-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There is obviously now great financial uncertainty — the effect on European funding streams for the arts, for example — but quite as important is the potential effect on the spirit that drives a myriad of international partnerships in the arts.”
  
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• Led Zeppelin Did Not Steal Chords In ‘Stairway To Heaven,’ Rules Jury – What Will This Mean?

  24-06-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Scott Timberg: “At times, it looked like it was going to bend the other way. But a Los Angeles federal jury has decided unanimously that Led Zeppelin did not break copyright law in the composition of its song ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ … So what’s likely to be the effect of the judgment? This is probably a case where a process that seems to be accelerating will halt for a little while.”
  
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• I went on the world's tallest slide in London and screamed like a small child

  24-06-2016 16:20
  
  When news came that Carsten Höller's ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture was going to be turned into a tube slide, I imagined it to be a leisurely one centred around taking in aerial views of London similar to the London Eye. As it turns out, it is anything but.
  
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• Words, Sex, Landscape: Marcia Hafif at Fergus McCaffrey, New York

  24-06-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
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• Alessandra Ferri, Still Dancing (A Lot) At 53, Maintains She’s Retired

  24-06-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When I retired, it was the end of my career, and that’s still true. My career is over. I have gone back to the pure joy of what I feel when I dance.”
  
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• More Art Museums Are Using Focus Groups In Planning Marketing And Programming – Is This A Good Idea?

  24-06-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Museums are increasingly using the popular market research tool to gather input from the public and refine exhibitions and programmes. … [Yet] some feel that the use of focus groups to develop exhibitions – a practice pioneered by science and history museums – encourages institutions to act more like for-profit businesses than mission-driven entities.”
  
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• Dancer Convicted Of Acid Attack, Now Out Of Jail, Wants To Return To Bolshoi

  24-06-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Pavel V. Dmitrichenko, the dancer released from prison after being convicted of engineering an acid attack that exposed the hidden intrigues of the Bolshoi Ballet, asked to meet outside the theater where he had so spectacularly fallen from grace, and where he already envisions his return. With the famous facade glowing pink in the soft light of a summer evening, Mr. Dmitrichenko looked around and pronounced himself entirely at home.”
  
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• If You Want To Come To My Show, You’re Gonna Lock Your Phone In This Pouch, Say Artists

  24-06-2016 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The pouch might not look like the latest techno-bling out of Silicon Valley, but it’s become the go-to tool for a slew of artists - including Dave Chappelle, the Lumineers and Louis C.K. - trying to reclaim their live performances without going all Adele on their fans. … ‘Because people still feel they still have their baby in their arm, it’s a little bit clunky but it’s better than telling them to leave their phones in their cars or forbid
  
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• Can Locking Our Phones In Pouches At Shows Really Save Us From Ourselves?

  24-06-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tom Moon: “This is about artists setting the terms of engagement for a performance. Which is their right. We probably don’t think of it that way, in part because the Internet and smartphone technology has fundamentally altered the dynamic between artist and audience. Not just in terms of copyright abuses, which remain a huge problem, but also in terms of attention abuses. Which are more insidious, more accepted as part of the new digital lifestyle, and thus harder to control.”
  
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• Morning Links: Brexit Results Edition

  24-06-2016 15:04 via artnews.com
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• How The Dallas Symphony Came To Pay Jaap Van Zweden $5.1 Million In One Year

  24-06-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. van Zweden, a Dutch-born maestro with a growing reputation, received more that year than any other orchestra conductor in America, including Gustavo Dudamel at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and his total pay was more than twice that of the nearest runner-up, Riccardo Muti at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.” Michael Cooper explains how this came to pass.
  
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• Without Audra, ‘Shuffle Along’ Won’t Be Shuffling At All

  24-06-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Shuffle Along, one of the most ambitious and anticipated musicals of the theater season just ended, will close next month, abruptly and unexpectedly … [The show] was apparently facing a sharp drop-off in ticket sales this summer, after its leading actress, Audra McDonald, is scheduled to begin a maternity leave.”
  
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• Ralph Stanley, Bluegrass Master Known For ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’, Dead At 89

  24-06-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead once called him ‘the most perfect singer alive.’ It was a plaintive, nimble and haunting voice that blended elements of Primitive Baptist church choirs and the Grand Ole Opry, music on which Mr. Stanley was weaned in far southwestern Virginia.”
  
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• ‘For The Long Haul’: Dallas Opera Extends Institute For Women Conductors For 15 More Years

  24-06-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As female conductors aim their batons at cracking classical music’s glass ceiling, the Dallas Opera has invested in fueling their battle. The organization has committed to running the Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors for 20 years, 15 more than initially promised, general director and CEO Keith Cerny said Tuesday.”
  
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• Five of the best... art exhibitions

  24-06-2016 14:00
  
  Painters’ Paintings: From Freud To Van Dyck | Inspiring Impressionism | Lucian Freud Unseen | Storms, War & Shipwrecks | Jim Hodges
  When the pungently realist painter Lucian Freud died in 2011 he left the National Gallery a work of art. Was it a British painting, a tough expressionist daub, or perhaps a work by Manet or Courbet? No, it was an enigmatic dark-eyed portrait by the romantic painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, who is usually thought of as a wan landscapist. Freud’s e
  
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• Baryshnikov Plays Nijinsky, With Robert Wilson Directing

  24-06-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Joan Acocella: “What a trick! To get the foremost male ballet dancer of the late twentieth century to portray the foremost male ballet dancer of the early twentieth century. In fact, a drama about Nijinsky’s madness would not require a great classical virtuoso. What it would need is an actor-dancer of extreme subtlety, which is what Baryshnikov, in his late-sixties, had become.”
  
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• Anatomy of an artwork: Bas Jan Ader’s Fall 1, Los Angeles (1970)

  24-06-2016 14:00
  
  The Dutch conceptual artist creates mystery and melancholy on film Continue reading...
  
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• Mariinsky Theater’s Ballet School, World’s Second Oldest, To Open Campus 4,000 Miles Away

  24-06-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, a school whose history goes back to 1738, has announced that it will open a branch in Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East – in part to train dancers for the Mariinsky’s Vladivostok outpost, which was established at the beginning of this year.
  
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• Douglas Coupland seeks Van Gogh lookalikes for art project

  24-06-2016 13:45
  
  Generation X author offers €5,000 prize to person who most closely resembles red-haired painterDo you have a serious, grimly determined face, red hair and a beard? Do people swear you’ve got the look of Vincent van Gogh? If so, you can help the novelist and artist Douglas Coupland as he explores genetics and globalisation.Coupland, best known as the author of the 1991 novel Generation X, is searching for the world’s closest lookalike to Van Gogh and is offering a €5,000 pri
  
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• Stolen medieval panels restored and reinstalled in Devon church

  24-06-2016 13:36
  
  Screens bearing paintings of St Victor of Marseilles and St Margaret of Antioch back on display at Holy Trinity churchWorshippers in a remote Devon parish have been celebrating the reinstallation of two priceless medieval rood screen panels.The decorative screens were ripped out and stolen from Holy Trinity church in Torbryan, near Totnes, in August 2013. Now, after months of restoration, they are back where they belong.Notice at church in Torbryan, Devon. pic.twitter.com/g3sUgVgCmp Continue rea
  
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• Punky in pink: the riot grrl overturning rebel woman stereotypes with glitter

  24-06-2016 13:34
  
  Margaret Meehan’s collages and sculptures turn ostracised, forgotten women into defiant modern feminists – giving voice to the fringe with prosthetics and paintI’ve been talking to Margaret Meehan for less than five minutes when a faded 1970s photograph of a dining table flashes up on her laptop. At the table are seated seven poodles in party hats. Eating cake. It is hilarious and unsettling. I start to laugh.Meehan has just got off an 11-hour flight from Texas, with the conten
  
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• Kennedy Center Honors For 2016 To Argerich, Eagles, Pacino, Staples, Taylor

  24-06-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Actor Al Pacino, musician James Taylor, gospel and blues singer Mavis Staples, Argentine pianist Martha Argerich and rockers the Eagles will receive the 2016 Kennedy Center Honors, the arts center announced Thursday.”
  
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• Three to see: New York

  24-06-2016 12:37
  
  A survey examining the work of Bas Jan Ader, who died in 1975 attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat as part of a performance work, opened Wednesday (until 5 August) at Metro Pictures. Among the works in the show is a slide projection by Ader that reflects on his father's execution by the Nazis in 1944. At the Whitney, a show with lighter themes looks at the paintings of Stuart Davis. Stuart Davis: In Full Swing (until 25 September) includes around 100 pictures from the early 19
  
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• Three to see: London

  24-06-2016 12:27
  
  Want to know which artists Van Dyck, Matisse and Lucien Freud collected? Painters Paintings (until 4 September) at the National Gallery sheds a light on the collections of eight painters, some of whom collected each other. The show, which opened yesterday (23 June), includes Picassos Portrait of Dora Maar (1942), which he sent to his rival Matisse as a get-well present. If the British summer fails to materialise, there is always the South London Gallerys Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin Ameri
  
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• Brexit: dismay and concern after historic decision to leave EU

  24-06-2016 10:58
  
  British arts organisations and artists are dismayed by the results of the European referendum, in which 52% of voters opted to leave. The decision by David Cameron to resign as prime minister in the early autumn has only added to the political and economic uncertainty, which will increase difficulties in the art world.Stephen Deuchar, director of the Art Fund, voiced the concerns of many when he told us this morning that the fund is deeply concerned at the impact leaving the EU will have on cul
  
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• My run on The Kitchen Poet

  24-06-2016 10:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As none of you know – i’ve been an editor of Underground Books’ outlet called The Kitchen Poet for about 6 months. During this relatively short period of time lots of things changed in my life and none of them were caused by Underground Books or my editorial activity. Even more so – The Kitchen Poet became a ghost of a unpleasant past. It represented to me the oblivion i was living in for quite a while. Soon it became disgusting. Its presence and the surrounding activity
  
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