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• Stolen Salvador Dalí and Tamara de Lempicka works recovered

  27-07-2016 23:44
  
  The Dutch art detective Arthur Brand announced on Twitter Wednesday, 27 July, the recovery of two works stolen from a private museum in the Netherlands in 2009: Salvador Dals gouache Adolescence (1941) and Tamara de Lempickas oil painting La Musicienne (1929), which was shown in Madonnas music video for Vogue (1990). Both works are said to be in good condition.The pieces were brazenly stolen during opening hours on 1 May 2009 from the Scheringa Museum of Realist Art, which was located in the vi
  
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• Robert Miller Gallery Closes Chelsea Space, Opens Showroom in Late Dealer’s East Side Maisonette

  27-07-2016 23:43 via artnews.com
  After 15 years on West 26th Street, Robert Miller Gallery has closed its Chelsea space, a representative for the gallery confirmed to ARTnews over the phone Wednesday. The gallery, which was founded by the dealer Robert Miller and his wife, Betsy … Read More
  
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• Robert Miller Gallery Closes Chelsea Space, and Betsy Wittenborn Miller’s Upper East Side Maisonette Is on the Market

  27-07-2016 23:43 via artnews.com
  After 15 years on West 26th Street, Robert Miller Gallery has closed its Chelsea space, a representative for the gallery confirmed to ARTnews over the phone Wednesday. The gallery was evicted as a tenant and the space was vacated June … Read More
  
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• Pawel Althamer at Neugerriemschneider, Berlin

  27-07-2016 23:18 via artnews.com
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• Designs For New Cultural Quarter For London

  27-07-2016 23:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “New images have been released of the planned cultural quarter in London’s Olympic Park that will house a 550-seat dance theatre for Sadler’s Wells. The Stratford Waterfront area, previously known as Olympicopolis, will also contain new dance studios run by Wayne McGregor Random Dance, a new campus for University of the Arts London and a second, east London venue for the Victoria and Albert museum.”
  
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• Politicians fixate on growth, but humans need beauty too

  27-07-2016 23:00
  
  Fiona Reynolds 
  Master of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, 
  and former director-general of the National Trust
  Beauty. Its a word we all use to describe our delight in the world around us: a landscape we love, a butterflys wings translucent in the sunshine or a wondrous piece of architecture. Yet youd be hard pressed to find the word in any official document, or to hear any politician utter it today. In fact, we seem almost embarrassed to talk about beauty, other than in priv
  
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• Loris Gréaud’s movie for one at Lacma

  27-07-2016 23:00
  
  Dont plan a date to the artist Loris Grauds feature-length film Sculpt, due to premiere at Lacma on 16 Augustand not because of the content, which might not be for the faint of heart if its frenetic red-hued trailer of bondage, screams and creepy masks is an accurate sneak peek. The movie, which stars leading actors such as Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Rampling, caters for the individualthe museums Bing Theater will be reconfigured for only one audience member at a time. Its a tte--tte, the idea
  
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• Looking in the dark: on artificial darkness in art and theatre

  27-07-2016 23:00
  
  Although there are no prescriptions in the art historian Noam Elcott's new book, Artificial Darkness, which traces the role of darkness in the development of film, modern theatre, photography and other media, there is in it the faint whisper of an enduring question, which he poses in his introduction: "How does one best live in a world of images?" "The historical avant-gardes are simply unthinkable without a world, a life, already suffused with images of greater and lesser artistry," he writes.
  
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• China back on top of global auction sales, Artprice reports

  27-07-2016 23:00
  
  A news study by Artprice.com calls China the world's largest art marketplace, following an analysis of auction data for the first half of this year. The report estimated $6.53bn (including fees) in global sales turnover for the first six months of 2016, with China accounting for $2.32bn, or 35.5%, of that business. This marks an 18% turnover growth for China, made more impressive by the fact that the market seems to have contracted in the West, with London down 30% and New York down 49%.
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• Barbara Kasten on plastic art

  27-07-2016 23:00
  ART21s television series Art in the Twenty-First Century returns to PBS for its eight season on 16 September with a new host, the actress Claire Danes, and an impressive lineup that includes Nick Cave, Diana Thater, Stan Douglas, and Damin Ortega, among others. In this exclusive preview clip, Barbara Kasten's describes her processes and material affinities. The physicality of a transparent sheet of plexiglass has no representational value, the artist explains.
  
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• Barbara Kasten on her plastic art

  27-07-2016 23:00
  ART21s television series Art in the Twenty-First Century returns to PBS for its eight season on 16 September with a new host, the actress Claire Danes, and an impressive lineup that includes Nick Cave, Diana Thater, Stan Douglas, and Damin Ortega, among others. In this exclusive preview clip, Barbara Kasten's describes her processes and material affinities. The physicality of a transparent sheet of plexiglass has no representational value, the artist explains.
  
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• A walking tour of New York’s High Line with Cecilia Alemani

  27-07-2016 23:00
  
  Summer is the time for so many outdoor art activities in New York, and perhaps one of the most popular destinations in the city is the High Line, the former train tracks that were turned into a public part in the Meatpacking District. The Art Newspaper had the opportunity to walk the line with Cecilia Alemani the organisations curator and director of High Line Art, to see how the summer was treating this years sculptures, part of which comprise the current group show Wanderlust. Join us for a d
  
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• Gregory Battcock: ‘The Art World Is Corrupt in the Following Ways…’

  27-07-2016 22:42 via artnews.com
  Before we call it a day here at ARTnews.com, I wanted to quickly share that for the past few days I have been very much enjoying Oceans of Love: The Uncontainable Gregory Battcock, a new anthology of writings by the … Read More
  
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• Power Of Positive Thinking? Researchers Say Maybe Not So Much

  27-07-2016 21:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Indulging in undirected positive flights of fancy isn’t always in our interest. Positive thinking can make us feel better in the short term, but over the long term it saps our motivation, preventing us from achieving our wishes and goals, and leaving us feeling frustrated, stymied and stuck.”
  
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• Greener Pastures: The Storied Dealer Richard Bellamy Steps Out of the Shadows

  27-07-2016 21:09 via artnews.com
  Over the course of five years in business, in a modest showroom on the top floor of a brownstone on West 57th Street in Manhattan, the Green Gallery had one of the most impressive runs in the history of contemporary … Read More
  
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• Baker’s Dozen: Man Booker Prize Announces 2016 Longlist

  27-07-2016 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the third year that the prestigious British literary award has been open to any author writing in English, the U.S. nabbed five entries on the long list.”
  
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• What Silence Does For Us

  27-07-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We like silence for what it doesn’t do—it doesn’t wake, annoy, or kill us—but what does it do? When Florence Nightingale attacked noise as a “cruel absence of care,” she also insisted on the converse: Quiet is a part of care, as essential for patients as medication or sanitation. It’s a strange notion, but one that researchers have begun to bear out as true.”
  
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• How To Procrastinate Better (A Productivity Expert’s Tips)

  27-07-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Q: If you’re going to procrastinate, are there better and worse ways to do it?”Charles Duhigg: “There is no magic formula that applies to all people. What we do know is that often people are fairly bad at picking up on what is refreshing and rejuvenating, and so they tend to misevaluate what they should do as a break.”
  
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• Musicians Complain Politicians Don’t Have Permission To Use Their Music (But Here’s Why They Won’t Sue)

  27-07-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A campaign may obtain “public performance” licenses from performing rights organizations like ASCAP or BMI, which typically allows for the use of whatever songs are in their catalogs. Trump’s campaign very well may have secured such licenses to play songs on the trail.
  
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• After Decades Of Chaos, Somalia Is (Re-)Developing A Book Industry And Culture

  27-07-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As the war-weary nation slowly gains more stability, there has been an uptick in the number of festivals promoting books and the culture of reading. The fairs have become an important place to expose Somalis to different writers and cultures across Somalia, Africa, and the world.”
  
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• Exhibition of Malick Sidibé photography to open in London

  27-07-2016 18:53
  
  Special project showcasing the work of the award-winning ‘eye of Bamako’, who died in January, will run at Somerset House from 6-9 OctoberThe late Malian photographer Malick Sidibé, who became known as “the eye of Bamako”, will be the subject of a major solo exhibition in the UK.The Sidibe show, at Somerset House in London, will be a special project at the fourth edition of the contemporary African art fair 1:54 London from 6-9 October. Continue reading...
  
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• So You Want To Build A Performing Arts Center. Here’s The Cost-Benefit Proposition

  27-07-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Do you believe that arts centers create jobs? That they improve business? That they enrich the lives of the community? As a community in Colorado considers building another new center, Ray Rinaldi looks at the experience of some of the state’s other arts centers and their impact on their communities.
  
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• Face to Face: Martin Puryear at Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

  27-07-2016 18:31 via artnews.com
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• ‘R&D In The Arts’ – What Does That Really Mean, And What Should It Mean?

  27-07-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘R&D in the arts’ seems to be quite a new thing, inspired by the [tech industry], but not motivated by financial revenue. I worry about the arts taking on the mantle, because R&D and innovation are terms with such an overwhelming direction built in to them – a direction in favour of commercial digital products. No one ever asks what the problems are in digital which the arts might be able to solve. The arts are on the back foot. As I often say, why don’t th
  
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• This is what the planned V&A East building in Olympicopolis will look like

  27-07-2016 17:47
  
  The first detailed images have been released of plans for V&A East, to be built by the Victoria and Albert Museum at Olympicopolis, the former Olympic site in east London. Described by the London Legacy Development Corporation, which is overseeing Olympicopolis, as a museum for the digital era, the brick and glass faade of the planned museum building has a Cubist design, partly overhanging a public walkway.
  The seven-storey V&A East building, designed by the London-based Allies and Morr
  
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• Why Women Are Starting To Have More Leadership Roles In Orchestras

  27-07-2016 17:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Doors are beginning to open for female conductors not due to any delayed sense of fair play, however, but for the simple reason that there are more women in symphony orchestras these days and they are much less resistant to being led by a woman than the male-dominated orchestras of the past.”
  
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• Disney Subsidiary Pleads Guilty To ‘Star Wars’ Safety Violations That Smashed Harrison Ford’s Leg

  27-07-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Two years after the actor Harrison Ford was badly injured on the set of Star Wars: The Force Awakens by a hydraulic door on the Millennium Falcon starship, a Disney subsidiary” – Foodles Productions – “pleaded guilty to two criminal charges in a British court.”
  
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• City Commissions Public Mural, Fusses And Interferes Over Detail After Detail, Then Finally Paints Over The Whole Thing

  27-07-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Yesterday afternoon, artist Gary Wynans, who goes by Mr. AbiLLity, learned that [Jersey City] workers had painted over his giant painting of a Monopoly game board at the heavily trafficked Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza. … The surprise paint job was not the first time City Hall has made its mark on Mr. AbiLLity’s board. The entire process was riddled by authorities’ demands that the artist edit his work, foreseeing possible controversy around the original image.”
  
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• Magazine For LGBTQ Arabs Publishes Its First Arabic Issue, And Things Get Dangerous

  27-07-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Lawsuits and death threats have been volleyed at Jordan-based LGBTQ webzine My.Kali, which has just released its first Arabic-language issue in the May/June 2016 edition. My.Kali went live in 2007 and has traditionally published its ‘dialogue surrounding LGBTQ issues’ exclusively in English.”
  
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• As Controversy Over Deaccessioning Raged, Troubled Fisk University Sold Off Two Pieces Of Art

  27-07-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When Fisk University, the historically black school in Nashville, tried to sell two paintings several years ago from its storied Alfred Stieglitz art collection, a firestorm erupted. … [But] with the debate over the future of Fisk itself swirling around her, Hazel O’Leary, then the university’s president, on behalf of the school quietly sold off two other paintings owned by Fisk.”
  
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• Warning: This Mozart Opera Is So Extreme And Shocking That We’ll Let You Turn Your Tickets In For A Refund In Advance

  27-07-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Graphic depictions of violence, racist abuse and sexual assault are all expected to feature in a hard-hitting new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte. But the [Edinburgh International Festival] failed to fully warn buyers when the tickets went on sale on April because it had not seen the three-and-a-half-hour opera, which will be performed at the Festival Theatre at the end of August.”
  
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• New York’s Big Apple Circus To Fold Its Tent After Fundraising Falls Short

  27-07-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Despite its reputation and position in the city’s cultural firmament, many New Yorkers never realized that … the Big Apple is a nonprofit institution. Begun … in the 1970s, the circus was founded with a Robin Hood spirit that some families would pay full price; those lacking the means would pay nothing.”
  
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• 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London Will Feature Malick Sidibé Show, Among Other Projects

  27-07-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
  Today the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair announced the exhibitions and special projects that will accompany its fourth London edition, which will be held at Somerset House from October 6 to 9.A particular highlight this year will be a solo exhibition of … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Florine Stettheimer Edition

  27-07-2016 14:53 via artnews.com
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• William Eggleston: Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, review: 'Portraits stay with you long after you leave'

  27-07-2016 14:45
  
  William Eggleston is now considered to be one of the great living photographers and this exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, the first that focuses on his portraits, confirms his importance
  
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• There’s A Fabulous Old Victorian Theatre Sitting Derelict In North London, And Now There’s A Plan To Reopen It

  27-07-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The existence of the ‘frozen in time’ theatre is not widely known but it is considered one of the most architecturally significant and historic parts of the [Alexandra Palace] entertainment complex in north London, built in the 1870s as ‘the People’s Palace’.”
  
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• Guillaume Bottazzi – Free creations 2016

  27-07-2016 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Guillaume Bottazzi– Free creations 2016 is a solo exhibition of the work of the visual artist Guillaume Bottazzi and is organised by the Artiscope gallery in Brussels. The gallery invites the public to discover these fine works of art. The exhibition will show recent works by the artist. The post Guillaume Bottazzi – Free creations 2016 appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• James M. Nederlander, Sr., 94, Theater Mogul On Broadway And Nationwide

  27-07-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. Nederlander transformed what was a regional theatre business based in Detroit into a New York powerhouse when, in the 1960s, he set his sights on New York City and began buying Broadway theatres. The Nederlander Organization now has holdings [in New York] second only to the Shubert Organization … [as well as venues in] Chicago, Tucson, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Diego and London.”
  
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• Misty Copeland On Ballerinas As Athletes, Self-Care, And Her Body-Image Issues As A Black Woman In Ballet

  27-07-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’ve had so many issues throughout my career finding the right support – even in something like finding leotards to fit a larger butt. … With the conversations that I’ve opened up, people are more open to expecting the different body types that exist. Also, if you go back to the 1930s and ’40s you’ll see these ballerinas that had really soft physiques – they didn’t have muscles, they weren’t six-feet-ten, and had big breasts.”
  
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• Despite The Scandals, And Despite Misty, Ballet Can’t Quit Its Cult Of Thinness

  27-07-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Dancers interviewed on the condition of anonymity confide that weight gain can get them fired while thinness can help them advance. Even though the field has made progress, and has become more aware of the health risks of dieting, directors having ‘fat chats’ to tell dancers to slim down remains routine.” Says one corps member, “In shape for us is being hungry. Eat nothing and see how far you can go.”
  
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• Jazz Pianist Claude Williamson Dead At 89

  27-07-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A versatile pianist who skillfully merged the bebop style of the East with the laid-back sound of the West, securing himself a seat in the cool L.A. jazz scene of the ’50s, … [Williamson was a] club musician, vocal accompanist, studio player, band leader, trio player.”
  
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• Silicon nightmare: it's lonely work in Yuri Pattison's ghost office

  27-07-2016 13:30
  
  Lights flicker, shelves gather dust and cables twist like snakes – all that’s missing from this tech workspace are workers, leaving you feeling like a lab rat in a mazeChisenhale Gallery in east London recently closed its doors and sent its staff on a five-week break. It has now reopened. But as what? Is Yuri Pattison’s User, Space an office, a warehouse, temporary quarters or an art installation? Come to that, am I spectator or viewer; critic or user? Don’t answer that.
  
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• New CEO At Chamber Orchestra Of Philadelphia

  27-07-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia has hired a rock/jazz guitarist and administrator from New York’s Orchestra of St. Luke’s to be its next executive director. William Rhoads, 49, vice president of marketing and communications for the Orchestra of St. Luke’s since 2006, starts the new post just after Labor Day.”
  
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• Our frightened society of hoarders has forgotten the art of collecting

  27-07-2016 12:19
  
  New York art show The Keeper celebrates our poetic obsession with objects, but how many of us simply surround ourselves with familiar, reassuring rubbish?The US is a nation of compulsive collectors – at least if responses to an exhibition at New York City’s New Museum are anything to go by. The Keeper is a collection of collections, a survey of the collecting passion in art and beyond that finds room for everything from a menagerie of tiny whittled animals made by Levi Fisher Ames of
  
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• Hoarders or collectors? Our frightened society has forgotten the difference

  27-07-2016 12:19
  
  New York art show The Keeper celebrates our poetic obsession with objects, but how many of us simply surround ourselves with familiar, reassuring rubbish?The US is a nation of compulsive collectors – at least if responses to an exhibition at New York City’s New Museum are anything to go by. The Keeper is a collection of collections, a survey of the collecting passion in art and beyond that finds room for everything from a menagerie of tiny whittled animals made by Levi Fisher Ames of
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.26.16

  27-07-2016 11:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  The size of the arts sector is not a rationale for public funding of the arts sector
  All sectors in the economy, if they are a sector at all, employ people. Not all sectors warrant public subsidy, which is only called for in the case where there are benefits to society beyond the activity as measured in the market. … read more
  AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2016-07-26Diane Arbus, The Met and “The Envelope”
  Maybe it was the heat, or the humidity. Maybe it was the a
  
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• Artist Sophia Al-Maria: 'People hate Islam, but they're titillated by it too'

  27-07-2016 09:00
  
  As her first solo show opens in New York, the Qatari-American artist talks about Gulf pop culture, gross veil fetishes – and why she’s not playing the ‘native informant’ Towards the end of Black Friday, the film that forms the centrepiece of her show at the Whitney in New York, Sophia Al-Maria tells the story of the time she and her sister were riding the escalators in a mall in Doha. She notices a guy she took algebra with in high school a few steps ahead of her, hanging
  
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• Rainbow coalition: African subcultures bursting with colour – in pictures

  27-07-2016 08:00
  
  UK illustrator Camilla Perkins shows off the bold colours and irrepressible confidence of subcultures from Congo’s sapeurs to the street style of Soweto Continue reading...
  
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• Guillermo Del Toro's house of horrors: 'My wife likes it. My children are ambivalent, at best'

  27-07-2016 02:18
  
  The public will soon get their first glimpse of the Mexican fantasy maestro's vast hoard of art, books and movie memorabilia at a new exhibition in LA. But, the director tells Tim Walker, sending his monstrous collection out into the world – if only temporarily – has been 'absolutely horrible'
  
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• Music Fans Are Excited About Virtual Reality. But The Music Industry Is Slow To Catch Up

  27-07-2016 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Interest in the technology is outpacing actual VR music products, however, and few virtual reality performances have been released.”
  
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