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• Want To Better Understand How Cities work? Here’s 6000 Years Of Data That Just Came Online

  08-07-2016 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Their data lists not only the size of past cities, but how, when, and where they emerged. That’s a big deal—and not just for historians.
  
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• A-List Art And The Value Of Architecture

  08-07-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While developers do not feel an absolute competitive imperative to have A-list art, many believe that great art can help make an already distinctive building an enduring one (and, one assumes, a profitable one).
  
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• How A Young Entrepreneur Uses Dance To Make Videos Go Viral

  08-07-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “DanceOn tapped 50 influencers in its network to create dance-based music videos for Silentó’s song, “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae).” In just three months, those videos gained 250 million views. It eventually propelled the official music video, which was also created with the help of DanceOn, to become the most viewed YouTube video of 2015.”
  
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• Is Push To Change Musical Theatre Form Hurting Creativity?

  08-07-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Personally, I wouldn’t want to write something thinking about form, it would scare me. I want to tell something in the best way I possibly can. I would feel hamstrung if I was sat there thinking I have got to completely reinvent the form. The best things work because sometimes you do exactly what the audience wants.”
  
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• Alignment Of Values – What Does Your Funder Believe In?

  08-07-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Increasingly, artists and arts organisations are being asked to reflect upon who funds their work and examine whether that funder shares their values. The motivations of a corporate sponsor are not something that should be taken for granted. But in order to do that, we first need to understand our own ethical values.”
  
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• Los Angeles Opera Posts Big Jump In Ticket Sales, Attendance For 2015/16

  08-07-2016 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “L.A. Opera sold 118,565 tickets for the 2015-16 season, compared with 98,861 for 2014-15, the company said. Ticket revenue was about $14.2 million for the 2015-16 period, compared with about $11.1 million during the previous period.”
  
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• South Africa’s Public Broadcaster Lurches From Crisis To Crisis

  08-07-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Battles over the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) go back decades before the end of apartheid, but the network’s biggest problems these days seem to sten from its COO, Hlaudi Motsoeneng. He has been accused of censorship and interference in media content, sudden and capricious decrees, lying about his educational credentials, and a bullying management style that South Africa’s Public Protector called “pathological.”
  
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• Our Thinking – Our ‘Mind’ – Doesn’t Just Live In The Brain

  08-07-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The brainbound view pictures the brain as a powerful executive, planning every aspect of behaviour and sending detailed instructions to the muscles. But, as work in robotics has illustrated, there are more efficient ways of doing things, which nature almost certainly employs.”
  
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• Vik Muniz at Mauritshuis, The Hague

  08-07-2016 18:28 via artnews.com
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• Samuel Beckett, Master Of The Short Story

  08-07-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chris Power: “It is an irony of Beckett’s posthumous reputation that his plays are now far better known than his prose, although he considered the latter his primary focus. … I suspect the real problem with Beckett’s short fiction is its difficulty, and that his greatest achievements in the form do not comply with what some gatekeepers suppose to be the genre’s defining traits.”
  
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• Douglas Gordon Film About Jonas Mekas to Premiere at Locarno Festival

  08-07-2016 17:53 via artnews.com
  Last time we caught up with Jonas Mekas, he was in Basel for a screening of his 1971 film Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania as part of the film sector, and the 93-year-old legend of avant-garde cinema betrayed no sign … Read More
  
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• Tehran Is About To Get The World’s Largest Bookstore

  08-07-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this title was held by the Barnes & Noble bookstore in New York City, which covered 154,250ft². Unfortunately, the 5th Avenue flagship store closed down in 2014.
  
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• Fancy a jar? Celebrities cork their dreams for The BFG – in pictures

  08-07-2016 17:28
  
  A new public art installation, The BFG Dream Jar Trail, opens across the UK on Saturday. Celebrities were tasked with coming up with a dream to inspire and improve children’s lives, which was then made into a sculpture and popped into a jar. These will be displayed round the country through the summer before being auctioned for Save the Children. We let the light in on some of the best …Continue reading...
  
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• For Eid Ul-Fitr, Check Out These Panoramic Photos Of Gorgeous Persian Mosques

  08-07-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji, a physics student turned photographer, is becoming famous for his images of the intricate, geometric, colorful religious architecture of his native Iran. Here are rotating 360-degree views of five spectacular sites.
  
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• London’s Timothy Taylor Will Open a Space in New York

  08-07-2016 16:59 via artnews.com
  The London-based dealer Timothy Taylor will open a gallery in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood in September, called Timothy Taylor 16×34. The name is in reference to the dimensions of the space, which will take up the ground floor of a townhouse at 515 … Read More
  
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• There’s A Reason So Many Artists Have Synesthesia

  08-07-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s actually the other way around: “If music makes you see colors and shapes, you might be more likely to pick up a guitar or sit at a piano in the first place … Ssynesthetes see the similar in the dissimilar (music and color; pain and color; syllables and shapes), and people who excel at making metaphors are generally more creative.
  
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• L.A. Habitat: Lili Bernard

  08-07-2016 16:30 via artnews.com
  L.A. Habitat is a weekly series of visits with 16 artists in their workspaces around the city.This week’s studio: Lili Bernard; Miracle Mile, Los Angeles. “It was a large space, two floors plus a loft, about 2200 square feet,” Lili Bernard told me, recalling … Read More
  
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• Chairman Mao, neo naturists and the occult – the week in art

  08-07-2016 16:15
  
  Merseyside comes alive with art and Antony Gormley laments the ‘termites’ nests’ of today’s cityscapes. All that and more in your weekly art dispatchColour and Vision
  This exploration of visual experience across the natural world has everything from fossils of the first creatures to develop eyes in the ancient seas to an installation about the Newtonian spectrum. Science and art come together in what should be a mind-expanding show.
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• Eight Nearly Forgotten Female Composers Who Were Hits In Their Own Day

  08-07-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Not many of us remember Barbara Strozzi and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre; more of us know of Clara Schumann and Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn). Here’s an opportunity to get to know all four of them, as well as four more, a bit better.
  
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• Why Mike Daisey Implicates Democrats In His New Monologue About Trump

  08-07-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “People in the theater are the left. I’m always interested in skewering, examining and implicating the people in the room because they are the ones that showed up for the performance. Once you implicate them, then they actually start thinking about what their position is. I’m doing the monologue and if I’m telling you, ‘You agree with me, don’t you?’ and you say ‘I do,’ and I say ‘I do too, I feel so good about that,’ that’s
  
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• To Prepare For This Play About Gun Violence, The Cast Went To A Gun Range And Learned To Shoot

  08-07-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It was important we expose them to other points of view, but also the experience of shooting. So we took everyone to a gun range in South Philly,” said Ginger Dayle, author of the play Roseburg. “We had reserved the range in advance, but the day we showed up happened to be the day after the Orlando shootings. It made us realize just how important it is to talk about this issue.”
  
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• For The First Time, Two Major American Museums To Stage A Joint, Simultaneous Retrospective

  08-07-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 60-year career of Jasper Johns … will be the subject of an unprecedented simultaneous exhibition in the fall of 2020, when the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City jointly present a full retrospective covering every aspect of the 86-year-old artist’s career.”
  
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• Morning Links: Jasper Johns Edition

  08-07-2016 14:47 via artnews.com
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• Steinway’s Super-Skilled Craftspeople, At Work At The Mothership In Queens

  08-07-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With Steinway’s blessing, [photographer Christopher] Payne spent time in virtually every corner of the large factory, from the foundry where the iron is poured to the mill where the lumber is cut. And though he came to possess a strong technical understanding of how these elements come together to form precision musical instruments, he said, the transformation never ceased to strike him as an act of magic.”
  
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• Bolshoi Ballet’s New Bosses Want More Dance, Less Drama – And Fewer Tours Abroad

  08-07-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Says the ballet’s new artistic director, Makhar Vaziev, “We think we are not just any dance company but a state institution that represents Russia.” Adds Bolshoi general director Vladimir Urin, “We often refuse offers to go and dance abroad. We want to dance in Russia, that is our objective, that is what the Russian state pays us to do.”
  
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• How To Keep Your Immersive Theater Piece From Feeling Like A Glorified Theme Party

  08-07-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Director/designer Michael Counts] prefers to throw his audience into the action cold, toying with their minds, blurring the line between the actual and the merely apparent. ‘Reality doesn’t give you a lot of information,’ he said. ‘Often you sit in a place of wonder and mystery, and you’re trying to figure it out. And that actually enhances your agency.’ In an escape room, it also enhances your fear factor, which is fine by him. He wants people to feel
  
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• Veteran Broadway Actor John McMartin Dead At 86

  08-07-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He was a favorite of some of the most famous creators in modern theatre history, including Stephen Sondheim, Harold Prince and Bob Fosse. Mr. McMartin’s most famous stage role was that of Benjamin Stone, the jaded, regretful titan of business in Stephen Sondheim’s multi-layered masterpiece of show-business melancholy, Follies. … A close second was the original Sweet Charity, in which he plays the meek Oscar Lindquist, with whom Gwen Verdon’s title character almost
  
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• Fouad Elkoury’s Avenue Brazzaville, Djibouti, 1987

  08-07-2016 14:00
  
  Exploring the Lebanese photographer’s portrait of a deserted restaurantWe’re looking at a restaurant in the port city of Djibouti. The image is typical of Elkoury’s work: the Lebanese photographer trained as an architect and urban space has been a constant feature in his work since he picked up a camera in 1979. Continue reading...
  
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• Artists are feeling fruity in the Pineapple Show

  08-07-2016 13:56
  
  Botanical historyand, all right, Wikipediaposits that Christopher Columbus brought back the first pineapples to Spain from their native South America, thus making the pineapple the first bromeliad to be introduced by humans outside of the New World. The global cultivation, and symbolic importance, of the ananas comosus is the subject of a summer exhibition opening today at Londons Tiwani Contemporary gallery (8 July-13 August). The Pineapple Show promises to mine, expose and
  
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• Don Friedman, 81, Jazz Pianist Equally At Home In Modern Mainstream And Avant-Garde

  08-07-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. Friedman had a crisp, fluid technique and an adventurous approach to harmony, which made him a desirable sideman over a career that lasted more than 60 years. He worked for decades with the trumpeter Clark Terry, a popular emblem of swinging ebullience, and also commingled with pioneers of free jazz like the alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman.”
  
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• Brooklyn Museum Closes As Air Conditioning Blows Out

  08-07-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Our team is working around the clock to replace the damaged systems during this time. All museum collections are being constantly monitored and sensitive materials are being moved to climate controlled spaces,’ the museum wrote in a press statement.”
  
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• Sleep & Insomnia (Varying Forms of Existence and Poetry)

  08-07-2016 13:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sleep & Insomnia
  “The product of sleepless nights … Science fiction meets fantasy, but neither dance for me while I’m awake. I’ve always had a fantasy of sleeping on a room where walls of books made up the space – with a sense of immersion into a world of written fantasy.” –Zach Wong
  D.S.M.-V (Dielectric Spectroscopy; Star-Crossed Science)
  This is a chocolate worth the Chocolate!When evenings grow out of dusk andthe chocolate covers the skies&hellip
  
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• Made in Memphis: William Eggleston's surreal visions of the American south

  08-07-2016 13:00
  
  Critics called his photographs a con when they were first shown 40 years ago, but Eggleston’s colour-saturated work has found lasting fame, defying interpretationOn 25 May 1976, an exhibition opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York that blew apart American photography. Curated by long-term director John Szarkowski, it contained around 75 prints by an artist in his mid-30s based in Memphis, Tennessee, self-taught and barely known outside the in-crowd. His name was William Eggleston.
  
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• German Parliament passes controversial law to protect culture

  08-07-2016 12:16
  
  The German upper house of parliament today (8 July) passed a law aimed at tackling illegal trafficking in looted antiquities and protecting German national heritage, introducing what dealers call the most stringent import and export restrictions on cultural objects in the world. The Cultural Property Protection Law faced opposition from art dealers and collectors as it wound its way through the legislature. By 4 July, more than 48,000 citizens had signed an internet petition calling for th
  
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• German Parliament passes controversial law to protect cultural heritage

  08-07-2016 12:16
  
  The German upper house of parliament today (8 July) passed a law aimed at tackling illegal trafficking in looted antiquities and protecting German national heritage, introducing what dealers call the most stringent import and export restrictions on cultural objects in the world. The Cultural Property Protection Law faced opposition from art dealers and collectors as it wound its way through the legislature. By 4 July, more than 48,000 citizens had signed an internet petition calling for th
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.07.16

  08-07-2016 10:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Climate-Control Crisis Closes Brooklyn Museum
  The Brooklyn Museum dropped this bombshell in my inbox at 5:23 p.m.: … read more
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-07-07His Kingdom for a Horse: Another Bad Brexit Deal?
  Please don’t mention hypocrisy or the apparent need of all current politicians to tease the truth just a little in pursuit of power. It was both uplifting and depressing to see Ralph Fiennes play Richard III in Islington while we were still reeling from the Brexit lunac
  
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• Hustle and bustle: the African pop art of Boris Nzebo – in pictures

  08-07-2016 08:00
  
  Cameroon-based artist Boris Nzebo sucks up the people, fashion and noise of his home city Douala, and spits it out in vibrant and emotionally complex canvasesContinue reading...
  
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• Brooklyn Is Booming, So How Do You Keep It Artistic? A Plan, Of Course…

  08-07-2016 01:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We don’t want it to feel like Anywhere U.S.A.. We want it to be chaotic. “Culture Forward” seeks to build on the area’s history as an arts hub by making it more hospitable to its creative population.”
  
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• Shine On! Warhol Museum Director Eric Shiner Heads to Sotheby’s

  08-07-2016 01:11 via artnews.com
  Well this is certainly an unexpected bit of summer news: Eric Shiner, the director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, is joining Sotheby’s as a senior vice president in its fine art division, the New York Times reports. That … Read More
  
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• Theatre Historical Society of America Plans Move From Chicago To Pittsburgh (But Members Are Protesting)

  08-07-2016 01:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At the society’s annual meeting at the Palmer House last week, that decision topped a list of complaints by members who say the organization has been hijacked by its staff, while dedicated volunteers, historically integral to its operation, have been “thrown under the bus,” as one member put it.
  
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• Rome’ Alternative Arts Spaces Are Closing As City Politics Roil

  08-07-2016 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  These closures have left a gap in Rome’s artistic life, demonstrating that occupied and alternative spaces are vital to the city’s cultural wellbeing.
  
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