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• Study: Music Can Change Listeners’ Behavior

  22-07-2016 23:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Songs that deal with social topics seem to have an impact on our cognition and behavior,” the University of Wuerzburg’s Nicolas Ruth writes in the journal Psychology of Music. “Musicians espousing such messages would be pleased to know that their music has a real — if small — effect on people’s behavior.”
  
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• VP, ÆRENA Brand

  22-07-2016 22:05
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• Looking For “Great” Composers Of Our Age? The Idea Of Greatness Might Not Work

  22-07-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Fixed and hierarchical ideas of ‘greatness’ feel off-kilter with the times, even socially divisive in their narrow view of what greatness is and how it manifests itself not only musically, but also culturally and demographically.”
  
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• A Neuroscientist Wonders: Could We Upload Our Brains Into The Computer?

  22-07-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As a neuroscientist, my interest lies mainly in a more practical question: is it even technically possible to duplicate yourself in a computer program? The short answer is: probably, but not for a while.
  
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• Dance As A Fitness Routine? The Benefits Are Many

  22-07-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With “Just Dance,” I am elevating my heart rate, but I am also sidestepping the self. Depending on the song and background images, I am a partying hipster in a floor-length fur (Macklemore, “Can’t Hold Us”), or a futuristic funk dancer (Nicki Minaj, “Pound the Alarm”), or a girl with swinging blond hair at a club. Critics complain that the offerings on “Just Dance” skew painfully toward bubble-gum pop, but it also means that on “Just Da
  
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• Seriously Cute: The Spread Of Kawaii Was, In Fact, A Japanese Government Plan

  22-07-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The aggressive development of this aesthetic was not fully organic, but in fact developed with a ‘global wink,’ as part of Japan’s plan to build cultural cachet overseas. … The government has embraced the designation, eager to rebrand the world’s perception of a staid culture characterized by honor and samurai to a more playful, feminized Japan.”
  
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• Will Live-Streaming News Break The Cable News Networks?

  22-07-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What we saw last week was live streaming’s Gulf War, a moment that will catapult the technology into the center of the news — and will begin to inexorably alter much of television news as we know it. And that’s not a bad thing. Though it will shake up the economics of TV, live streaming is opening up a much more compelling way to watch the news.”
  
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• Why Do People Think Using A Period In A Text Message Comes Across As Insincere Or Angry?

  22-07-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Because text messaging is a conversation that involves a lot of back-and-forth, people add fillers as a way to mimic spoken language. We see this with the increased use of ellipses, which can invite the recipient to continue the conversation. The period is the opposite of that.”
  
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• Battles Rage Over Authenticating Modigliani Work

  22-07-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As well as a number of suspected fakes on the market (more in drawings than in paintings, says Wayne), complicating the field has been an epic battle between two specialists, Christian Parisot and Marc Restellini, which aired publicly for more than a decade through the 2000s.”
  
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• Judy Blame at ICA, London

  22-07-2016 18:30 via artnews.com
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• Jeff Arnal Named Executive Director of Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center

  22-07-2016 18:12 via artnews.com
  The Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center in Asheville, North Carolina has appointed Jeff Arnal its executive director. BMCM + AC has just completed a three-year expansion. Arnal is a founder of the performance platform Free Range Asheville, and … Read More
  
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• Getting To Understand John Cage Through His Letters

  22-07-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Question: “Is politics to society what music is to sound?”Cage: “Yes, if music is thought of as a body of laws to protect musical sounds from noises, as government protects rich from poor.”
  
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• Radical Statements: Four Reviews by Laurie Anderson

  22-07-2016 17:59 via artnews.com
  During the early ’70s, Laurie Anderson was a mainstay in this magazine’s reviews section, often writing several reviews every issue. With her criticism receiving a shoutout from Alanna Heiss in MoMA PS1’s exhibition “Forty,” below are four reviews by Laurie … Read More
  
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• ‘The Love of the Image Is the Opposite of the Iconoclastic Gesture’: Massimiliano Gioni on ‘The Keeper’ at the New Museum

  22-07-2016 17:33 via artnews.com
  “The Keeper,” an exhibition that showcases collecting and preservation in various forms, opened this week at the New Museum. The show ranges from quirky hobbies (Harry Smith’s string sculptures, Vladimir Nabokov’s butterfly drawings) to compulsive habits (Hilma af Klint’s abstract … Read More
  
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• One LA Neighborhood Fighting Gentrification Resists Artists’ Complicity In Upscaling

  22-07-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Since PSSST, Boyle Heights’ newest gallery, announced its grand opening (originally scheduled for May 13) the conflict between the art space and local grassroots organizations has escalated to dimensions greater than each of the actual entities by bringing to question the direct and indirect complicity of artists and cultural spaces in the displacement of long-seated, working-class communities.”
  
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• The Father Of Impressionism (Most Of Us Have Forgotten Him)

  22-07-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Charles-François] Daubigny … established an entirely novel approach to landscape painting that was to influence Monet, Pissarro and Cézanne and also, quite explicitly, Van Gogh. … He belongs at the fulcrum of modern painting.”
  
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• Revealed: The Young Lady To Whom Van Gogh Gave His Ear

  22-07-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And that incident wasn’t even the first trauma the poor woman suffered that year.
  
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• Israeli Defense Minister Compares Great Palestinian Poet’s Work To ‘Mein Kampf’ (As Godwin Shakes His Head)

  22-07-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The controversy erupted after Army Radio, which has been under pressure from right-wing politicians to broadcast more patriotic programming, aired a show about the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, a revered figure among Palestinians whose work is a staple of school curriculums.” (Wait, who’s Godwin again?)
  
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• Pokémon in museums, Kahlo selfies and medieval beasts – the week in art

  22-07-2016 15:40
  
  Witness the sensual wonders of the middle ages in Cambridge while the Baltic explores playground utopianism. All that and more in your weekly art dispatchAlice Neel
  Touching, intimate portraits of Americans by this powerful modern realist promise to be a highlight of this year’s Edinburgh art festival. • Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 29 Julyto 8 October. Continue reading...
  
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• This New York Times Critic Listened To Every Recording Jaap Van Zweden Has Made, And Here Are His Verdicts

  22-07-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Allen: “Mr. van Zweden has been a prolific recording artist, churning out an average of three albums a year for more than a decade. … Over the past month, I listened to all of them, more than three dozen, a total of 52 hours. What did I learn?”
  
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• Ohio Museum Launches Lending Library For Art

  22-07-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This fall, the museum will launch the Akron Art Library, which will let any resident with a library card check out artwork as they would books … Many of the pieces will be commissioned from local and regional artists.”
  
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• Meet The Orchestra Of Disabled Musicians That Grew Out Of The 2012 Paralympics

  22-07-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The resistance that they come up against in being fearless, brilliant and bold doesn’t usually come from within, but from others. I’m talking about the British Paraorchestra, … performing challenging works, playing all manner of instruments you’d never hear in traditional orchestras, adding spikes of technology and pushing themselves to the limits of their hard-practised skills. Did I mention that they are disabled? Does it matter? Unfortunately it does, but that&
  
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• Lightning Strikes Ballet Company’s Headquarters

  22-07-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Lightning and strong winds struck the Board of Trade building in downtown Duluth early Thursday, knocking the chimney through part of the roof – and leaving many of the Minnesota Ballet’s costumes under a thick pile of rubble. …The rest of the ballet’s rooms were unharmed, except for a few branches that came through the dance floor studio windows.”
  
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• Morning Links: Jho Low Edition

  22-07-2016 14:42 via artnews.com
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• How London’s New Mayor Plans To ‘Democratise The Arts’

  22-07-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sadiq Khan: “I don’t want Zone 1 to hog the best arts and culture in our city. There are 33 boroughs, I want to democratise the arts so that every Londoner can benefit from the world’s best art. Love London will give you a discount to enjoy that.” (Love London is a planned card for London residents offering discounts on performance tickets.)
  
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• The UK Gov’t Inquiry Into The Iraq War Is Now An Edinburgh Fringe Event

  22-07-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “From 8 August, a host of comedians, authors and politicians, including Stewart Lee, Omid Djalili and Ian Rankin, are to stage a [non-stop] complete reading of Sir John Chilcot’s 6,000-page report on the Iraq war, invasion and occupation.”
  
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• Jousting isn't sport, it's a crazy art. Think Game of Thrones, then double it

  22-07-2016 14:00
  
  More than medieval mock combat, jousting was about sex, spectacle and excess – and Holbein, Da Vinci and Botticelli are among the great artists who participatedIf jousting becomes an Olympic sport, as apparently it may, it will be very good news for art. Perhaps we are about to see a new aesthetic era of sport, when rich heraldry and Arthurian imagery will replace relentless commercialism.Related: English Heritage 'deadly serious' about bid to get jousting into OlympicsRelated: Jousting is
  
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• How Great Visual Artists Have Staged Mozart’s ‘Magic Flute’

  22-07-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From Marc Chagall through David Hockney, Maurice Sendak, and William Kentridge to Jun Kaneko.
  
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• Dalí, Duchamp and Dr Caligari: the surrealism that inspired David Bowie

  22-07-2016 14:00
  
  Growing up, Bowie was as influenced by surrealist art and film as he was by Little Richard and John Coltrane, says Paul MorleyOne Sunday in spring 2013, when the David Bowie is exhibition was showing at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a series of films was screened in lecture rooms around the building to help represent his curious spirit and history. The main attraction was Bowie himself, cavorting in Labyrinth – a myth-mad mid-80s collaboration between George Lucas of Star Wars, Jim
  
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• Alice Neel’s Alice And José, 1938

  22-07-2016 14:00
  
  Unpicking the elements of the American portraitist’s famous pastel-on-paperContinue reading...
  
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• Al Jazeera Is Coming Back To America

  22-07-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Al Jazeera English is in talks with cable carriers that carried the now defunct Al Jazeera America to make its live video stream available [digitally] in the U.S. starting in September … The move comes almost three months after it shut down its U.S. cable television network, Al Jazeera America.”
  
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• An Artist’s Nightmare: Thieves Steal An Entire Show On Its Way To The Gallery

  22-07-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Herr Nilsson lived the (bad) dream.
  
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• Basil Sellers Art prize-winning work captures the pain of sporting defeat

  22-07-2016 10:31
  
  Melbourne artist Richard Lewer has been awarded a $100,000 prize for his compendium of paintings that highlight the stresses and strains of sports starsCathy Freeman at the 2000 Olympics. Steven Bradbury’s unlikely 2002 triumph. Australia’s audacious victory at the 1983 America’s Cup. The historic wins of Australian sporting stars have been etched into the national identity, with many becoming the stuff of legends – but what about the losses? Related: Buddy Franklin impre
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.21.16

  22-07-2016 10:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  You need a community, not a network
  What’s the difference between a community and a network? Networks focus on getting, communities focus on giving. … read more
  AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2016-07-21Rural communities and the artists strengthening them
  “Once a rural area hosts a population of artists, they can help the region attract non-artist residents who value the arts as an amenity, and they can engage all residents in relationship-building through cultura
  
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• Digital Comics Thrive As Art Form Flourishes

  22-07-2016 01:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Digital comics creators may fit their art to screen proportions or vertical strips. Artists and writers design for panel-viewing apps by making sure each chunk of the page works on its own, so you’re not left trying to remember who got Hulk so mad or what everyone’s looking at up in the sky — and they can use limited views to control pacing and create suspenseful reveals. Going further, formats such as Madefire’s Motion Books combine writing, animation and even sou
  
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• Why Are Classical Music’s Biggest Stars Lining Up To Perform In “Mozart In The Jungle”?

  22-07-2016 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The show’s ability to draw so many A-listers is both a testament to its growing success, and a reflection of the fact that there are now far fewer opportunities for classical artists to appear on television, which is still an important medium for reaching, and appealing to, new audiences.”
  
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