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• The Academy Of Motion Pictures Promised To Diversify This Year. In One Fell Swoop…

  13-07-2016 23:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “According to a new Times analysis, with the 2016 class of invitees the academy has, in a single stroke, gone 52% of the way toward its goal of doubling the number of nonwhites in its ranks. When it comes to boosting the numbers of women, though, the academy is lagging slightly behind pace; the new class brings the academy roughly a fifth of the way toward its 2020 benchmark.”
  
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• ‘It Seems Very Random’: Author Dennis Cooper on Google’s Sudden Deletion of His Website

  13-07-2016 23:05 via artnews.com
  Since 2002, the American writer Dennis Cooper has been keeping a blog that deals with the kind of subject matter that one would expect from the author of such controversial and influential books as Frisk and Closer. So it was … Read More
  
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• Singing and spitting with Ragnar and his mother at the Barbican

  13-07-2016 23:00
  
  We all know that Ragnar Kjartansson likes to provoke. And when called upon to say a few words at the opening of his terrific Barbican show (until 4 September) the Icelandic artist certainly caused a few sharp intakes of breath when he jokily added the newly appointed Prime Minister Theresa May to his list of thank-yous. Quickly realising that most of the audience still found this too painful a subject to be a laughing matter, the perpetually genial artist then announced that he was going to per
  
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• Mike Nelson turns Monaco bank into an ultramarine blue underworld

  13-07-2016 23:00
  
  The artist Mike Nelson, who represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2011, has created an off-site installation for the Nouveau Muse National de Monaco (NMNM), in the UBS bank building on the Avenue de Grande-Bretagne, in Monaco.  The installation, called Cloak 2016 (until 15 September; viewings by appointment), is curated by Suad Garayeva-Maleki, the chief curator and collection director of the Baku-based Yarat Contemporary Art Centre, and Cristiano Raimondi, the head of de
  
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• How far can developers gentrify the artist hub of Red Hook?

  13-07-2016 23:00
  In early June, the major real-estate developer Thor Equities announced that it plans to build a four-story complex in Red Hook, Brooklyn, complete with 600,000 sq. ft of office space and 23,000 sq. ft of retail and restaurant space, designed by Foster + Partners. The design is aimed, the statement says, at suitability for a TAMI (technology, advertising, media and information) tenant or other appropriate user of the space.
  The news came as a surprise for some. Though Red Hook has grown in popul
  
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• From Georgia O’Keeffe and Soviet superwomen to fabulous findings at the Foundling Museum in this week’s exhibition round-up

  13-07-2016 23:00
  
  Found, The Foundling Museum, London (until 4 September)One of my favourite museums, the Foundling builds on its early pioneering of artist collaborations with a dynamic and imaginative programme of exhibitions and events. All of which, one way or another, tie into the Foundling Hospitals history of caring for generations of abandoned babies. It was Hogarth and Handels 18th-century fundraising that helped the Foundling to become the first childrens charity. Now, integrated amongst the museums of
  
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• ‘A Change of Heart’ at Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles

  13-07-2016 22:38 via artnews.com
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• That Time That Donald Trump Wrote Dakis Joannou a Really Nice Note

  13-07-2016 22:03 via artnews.com
  Today, Interview magazine’s website published a chat between collector Dakis Joannou and writer Linda Yablonsky that took place at the DESTE foundation founder’s longtime New York residence inside Trump Tower. He’s been living in the GOP presidential candidate’s building for some time now. Jeffrey … Read More
  
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• Artists Reimagine A Better Version Of LA’s Iconic (But worn-Out) Freeways

  13-07-2016 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The first step is to start seeing our infrastructural networks not merely as single-use conduits of one kind or another— to carry cars, storm water or consumer goods — but as platforms for a new kind of urbanism, holding housing or making room for innovative ideas about energy or water.”
  
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• Most Of The Traditional Measures Of TV Success Have Melted. Buy The Emmy Endures

  13-07-2016 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over the last decade, television has both taken flight and blown itself up. In the new landscape, where the armies of cable networks, streaming platforms and video-on-demand services have trampled all the old mileposts, an Emmy is the last traditional, tangible mark of success.”
  
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• What In The World Has Happened To Chuck Close?

  13-07-2016 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After 30 years of splitting his time between the tony enclaves of Manhattan and Bridgehampton, he has recently set about leaving much of his old life behind: filing for divorce from his wife, Leslie, after 43 years of marriage, disappearing for the winter to live virtually alone in a new apartment on Miami Beach and retreating from his summer friends to the crowded isolation of Long Beach. Even when Close ventures into the city for a gallery opening these days, he will often turn up in so
  
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• The Critic As Crime Detective (Suspicion Abounds)

  13-07-2016 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What suspicion as an interpretive approach implies is that literary texts are always hiding something. The meaning of a work is buried, a brilliant jewel whose rays can only be glimpsed once the layers of obfuscating sediment have been flensed from the text. So, like a patient in analysis, whatever it seems on the surface to say, it must really mean something else. Under this cool, post-Freudian gaze the motives of authors, narrators and readers themselves are revealed as equally obscure
  
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• No, It’s Not Your Imagination – Pop Music Is Getting More Narcissistic (We’ve Got The Data)

  13-07-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Compared with earlier years, songs in 2010 were more likely to include the singer referring to the self by name, general self-promotion, and bragging about wealth, partner’s appearance, or sexual prowess,” the researchers report. “A similar, albeit nonsignificant increase, was also seen for bragging about musical prowess and demands for respect. Overall, the most popular music from 2010 contained more self-promotion than music from 1990 or 2000.”
  
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• ‘Being John Malkovich,’ ‘Adaptation,’ ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ – And Charlie Kaufman Thinks He Blew His Career

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  “I don’t feel like I’ve got that cachet that I had at a certain point [after those three films]. I see people seizing the moment when they have the same kind of explosion that I had, and I just didn’t do it. I didn’t know how to do it – I didn’t want to do it. I just thought ‘Oh, this is good! I’ll be able to just keep working.'”
  
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• A History Of Being Exhausted

  13-07-2016 19:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Those who imagine that life in the past was simpler, slower and better are wrong. The experience of exhaustion, and anxieties about exhaustion epidemics in the wider population, are not bound to a particular time and place. On the contrary: exhaustion and its effects have preoccupied thinkers since classical antiquity.”
  
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• Here Is the Video for Martin Creed’s ‘Princess Taxi Girl Part 1’

  13-07-2016 19:25 via artnews.com
  Today, the video for Martin Creed’s “Princess Taxi Girl Part 1” was released, off of the artist and musician’s newest album, Thoughts Lined Up, which came out last week on Telephone Records. Creed’s balloon-heavy exhibition “The Back Door” is currently on … Read More
  
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• How Much Ear Did Van Gogh Really Cut Off? There’s Some New Evidence

  13-07-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A [recently discovered] note written by Félix Rey, a doctor who treated van Gogh at the Arles hospital, contains a drawing of the mangled ear.” Problem is, the note contradicts some key eyewitness testimony.
  
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• When An Artist Burns His Work, It’s A Violent Act, Meaning What, Exactly?

  13-07-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There are numerous examples of governments and institutions putting books into bonfires, but they are still actions of external protest and censure. When writers burn their own manuscripts, they are destroying their own words. Cathartic, but also a bit sadistic. Burning is a slow, ritualistic death. Why not simply throw away a manuscript?”
  
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• Colour and Vision review – a mind-expanding peepshow of nature

  13-07-2016 18:11
  
  Natural History Museum, LondonFrom Madagascan moths to clever clams, this show brings the complex story of how – and why – animals see the world through different eyes vividly to lifeDarwin’s octopus gazes back at me from its jar, eyes deep and intelligent and sentient – at least they would be if this mollusc were not a long-dead specimen preserved in chemicals. This is no distinct species, but the actual pet octopus Charles Darwin kept on board HMS Beagle. The eyes into
  
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• Corning Museum of Glass Appoints Christopher Maxwell Curator of European Glass

  13-07-2016 18:07 via artnews.com
  The Corning Museum of Glass, located in Corning, New York, announced today that it has appointed Christopher Maxwell as curator of European glass. Starting in October of this year, Maxwell will oversee glassware stemming from the Middle Ages all the … Read More
  
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• Lunch With Audra McDonald And Zachary Quinto

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  “Over fruit salad and cool drinks, the pair discussed the childhood difficulties that drew them to acting; their shared commitment to young people at risk and L.G.B.T. issues; and the emotional dividends of that work, as well as becoming role models to younger women of color and gay men.”
  
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• Siglio Press Will Move From Los Angeles to Hudson Valley, Throw Marathon John Cage Reading

  13-07-2016 17:38 via artnews.com
  The Los Angeles-based independent press Siglio revealed today that it will move its operations to the Hudson River Valley in New York later this summer. To celebrate, on July 30 it will be throwing a marathon reading of John Cage’s Diary: How to … Read More
  
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• Pokemon Go! ChangesThe Way We Want To Interact With The World

  13-07-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This weekend I went to the recently opened San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and wanted to know everything about the art and various installations, beyond what was posted on the walls. I felt as if I should be able to lift my phone and get more details on the process of the creation of the art work, rather than having to type a search term into my browser. Pokémon Go had changed my expectations on how to access information. That shift in expectation, perhaps, is the game’s t
  
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• It’s The Worst Audience Behavior I’ve Ever Seen, Says Producer

  13-07-2016 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Richard Jordan: “Attending the final Friday evening performance of Doctor Faustus starring Kit Harington at the Duke of York’s Theatre, my heart sank.” There was talking, eating, taking pictures – and complaining after being asked to stop. There was popcorn, chips crisps, and even Chicken McNuggets.
  
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• We’ve Got To Stop This Audience-Shaming, Says Indie Theatre Exec

  13-07-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Amber Massie-Blomfield, executive director of Camden People’s Theatre: “Not only does this line of discourse do little to change behaviour, it might well serve to alienate the new audiences that are so crucial to the continuing vitality of the art form. … The fear of not knowing how to behave at the theatre is a genuine barrier to entry.”
  
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• Theatre Etiquette Is All Over The Place These Days, And Audiences Are Confused, Says Editor

  13-07-2016 16:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alastair Smith, print editor of The Stage: “[Once,] the rules may not have been written down, but they were clear and strict … Then along came jukebox musicals that asked you to dance along to a megamix. At Shakespeare’s Globe, actors started engaging with the groundlings. … Next, immersive theatre asked audiences to touch the set, to react to the actors. … Rules of audience engagement vary wildly from one show to the next. And the expectations of what one audien
  
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• Tennessee Williams’s Final Novel As (Sad, Scary) Auto-Fiction

  13-07-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Moise and the World of Reason, “seemingly sees Williams splitting himself in two and making the younger self horrified and repulsed by the older, whom that character sees as premonitory.”
  
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• Question Everything: Vito Acconci on His Remarkable Survey at MoMA PS1

  13-07-2016 16:01 via artnews.com
  The superb survey show of Vito Acconci’s poems, films, and archives currently at MoMA PS1 in New York makes you feel as if you’ve been given a Christmas present in July. The exhibition is exhilarating, challenging, groundbreaking, and profound. It … Read More
  
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• After Orlando: Nine LGBTQ Writers Reflect On Finding ‘Home’

  13-07-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In an effort to create more space for healing and solidarity, to help articulate a more peaceful and just world, CF has invited a number of LGBTQ-identified writers to respond to this question: Can you tell us about a time that you felt at home in your identity? Home is a complicated notion, as several of our contributors note, and it’s ultimately inadequate to the task of realizing justice – but it is a powerful idea.”
  
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• ‘This Is James Carville–Approved’: A Few Minutes With Deborah Kass on Her Pro-Hillary Print

  13-07-2016 15:36 via artnews.com
  Artist Deborah Kass has made her name by adopting the style of iconic male artists and making works that carry her own witty, punchy, often political content. Kass has made portraits of Barbara Streisand in the style of Andy Warhol, and transformed Ed Ruscha’s OOF painting into … Read More
  
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• Let’s Stop Dissing Amateur Orchestras, Okay?, Says Maestro

  13-07-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Eric] Kujawsky is the director, founder, and inspiration behind the Redwood Symphony, which he has recently nicknamed ‘the Bernie Sanders of Symphonies’ because of their steadfast commitment to a progressive approach that embraces ambitious and contemporary music. If you wonder whether that includes a chip on the shoulder; yes, it does.”
  
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• Morning Links: Four Seasons Edition

  13-07-2016 15:25 via artnews.com
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• Headphones, Headphones Everywhere – Are They Changing Everything?

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  “Certainly, headphones are an obvious method of exercising autonomy, control – choosing what you’ll hear and when, rather than gamely enduring whatever the environment might inflict upon you. In that way, they are defensive; users insist upon privacy (you can’t hear what I hear, and I can’t hear you) in otherwise lawless and unpredictable spaces. Should we think of headphones, then, as just another emblem of catastrophic social decline, a tool that edges us even dee
  
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• Louvre Releases An App So You Can Find Your Way Through The Place

  13-07-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This month the Louvre introduced a geo-locator application for multimedia devices that can instantly calculate a path through the museum from da Vinci’s Mona Lisa to Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa. The app is a key part of a 53.5 million euro, or $59 million, project to make the museum more user-friendly and accessible to its more than eight million annual visitors.”
  
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• There’s Another App That Has People Thronging To Museums: Pokémon Go

  13-07-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It turns out that a huge number of Pokéstops, as described in the game’s release, are museums, historic buildings and markers, and even public artworks. … Pikachu seems to be drawn to the electricity of a Dan Flavin at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and Charmander’s been spotted hanging around the British Museum’s Parthenon Marbles galleries as well as Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.” (Unfortunately, somebody put Pokéstops at the 9
  
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• JACK Quartet Loses Two Of Its Founders

  13-07-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Founded in 2007, JACK has become an important ensemble with a reputation for adventurousness and for championing new work. … The personnel change adds a new wrinkle to the quartet’s name. JACK is an acronym made up of the first letters of the first names of its original musicians.”
  
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• A Classical Response To #BlackLivesMatter

  13-07-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After a series of Google searches along the lines of ‘classical music black lives matter,’ it became clear to [Eun Lee] that no such project existed. ‘It just hit me,’ Ms. Lee said, ‘that, as much as we were seeing a response from rap musicians and folk musicians and now more and more pop musicians, there was no such response from the classical music community.'”
  
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• Donor Sues Museum To Get Her Money Back

  13-07-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dr. Helga Wall-Apelt, who donated millions for a gallery for Asian art at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, is suing the museum for breach of contract. She claims the Ringling failed to build the gallery within a reasonable time, failed to display the Asian art she donated for the wing, and failed to hire a curator for the collection.
  
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• Writing on the wall: inside London's graffiti scene – in pictures

  13-07-2016 13:52
  
  Photographer Marc Vallée spent a year documenting a graffiti crew, exploring the tension between public and private space in London. Vandals and the City is at Urban Spree Berlin from 22 July
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• Gallerist Sues Ex-Colleagues For Selling Him Forged Monets And Picassos

  13-07-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In lawsuits obtained by Page Six,” Alex Komolov, owner of the Alskom Gallery “claims David Segal and Mohamed Serry tricked him into buying $30 million worth of fraudulent Monet, Vlaminck, Picasso and Manet paintings, among other antiques, between 2007 and 2009.”
  
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• The secret 'midnight paintings' of Dr Seuss – in pictures

  13-07-2016 13:30
  
  Over a lifetime of sleepless nights, Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka children’s author Dr Seuss, created hundreds of artworks he called his ‘Midnight Paintings’. Although famous for his rhyming picture books, Geisel created topical and surrealist art, much of which was kept private until his death Continue reading...
  
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• Freud Was Right About A Few Things, Says Neuroscience

  13-07-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While Freud’s concept of the superego played a more ethical role, encouraging the id and ego to follow moral rules, [the] Id-Ego-Superego structure roughly matches onto the Unconscious-Conscious-Metacognition structure of the mind studied in neuroscience today.”
  
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• New show reveals grisly details behind Van Gogh’s mutilated ear

  13-07-2016 12:35
  
  An Amsterdam exhibition on Vincent van Goghs medical problems will include the revolver which he used to kill himself in 1890. Teio Meedendorp, a researcher at the Van Gogh Museum, believes it is highly probable that the corroded Lefaucheux revolver found in a field was the suicide weapon.Although the pocket revolver was unearthed by a farmer in around 1960, the facts were only revealed four years ago, in a little-publicised booklet by the researcher Alain Rohan. The unidentified owner of the g
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.12.16

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  Responding to Pain
  Communities are hurting. What is your arts organization doing in response? The answer to this question is a powerful indicator (forgive me: “metric”) of the depth and quality of institutional commitment to and capacity for engagement. … read more
  AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2016-07-12Shiner Whiner: Warhol Museum’s Director Joins the Flight from Museum to Market
  Should museum directors and curators parlay their nonprofit contacts into for-profit
  
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• Its Funding Ending, The World Monuments Fund Scales Back

  13-07-2016 01:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Since its founding, the fund has helped with many projects, including the repair of buildings damaged by flooding in Venice; the restoration of the Ochavo Chapel inside the 13th-century Toledo Cathedral in Spain; and a 10-year effort to restore the 18th-century Qianlong Garden within Beijing’s Forbidden City.”
  
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• Vincent Van Gogh cut off his whole ear not just a lobe, according to new research

  13-07-2016 00:58
  
  'We now know for sure that it was indeed his whole ear. It's an important document with a lot of emotional value,' says Professor Louis van Tilborgh at the University of Amsterdam
  
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• How Pokemon Go Took Over The World In A Week (And What It Means)

  13-07-2016 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If Pokémon Go does represent a sea change in augmented reality, then it’s one that’s going to force us to rethink our approach to designed spaces, public and private. So many of the places people gather center on communal tragedy or reverence: funerals, war memorials, religion. What do you do when someone whips out their phone to catch a Geodude at the Holocaust Memorial? Or, as is apparently already happening, Auschwitz? Games, with the weight they bear—of play,
  
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