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• William Shatner: What If I Hadn’t Been Captain Kirk?

  29-07-2016 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Captain Kirk and “Star Trek” has been the springboard for everything subsequent to that. Of course, one has no idea what would have happened. That’s one of the most formless of questions, “What would have happened?” because you don’t know.
  
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• How Ticket Scalpers (And Their Bots) Have Been Making Millions Off “Hamilton”

  29-07-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What we found was that scalpers took in more than $15.5 million from the 100 performances before Mr. Miranda’s final show. The 32 performances between the June 12 Tony awards — where “Hamilton” won 11 statues — and July 9 may have brought in more than $10.5 million for scalpers alone.”
  
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• Researcher: Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt Were More Creative When They Were Unhappy

  29-07-2016 21:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Polish economist Karol Jan Borowiecki, who previously examined the link between art and war, charted the emotional life of the three composers via their correspondence. He found “creativity, measured by the number of important compositions (they produced), is causally attributable to negative moods — in particular, sadness.”
  
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• National Museum of Oman opens in Muscat

  29-07-2016 21:21
  
  The National Museum of the Sultanate of Oman, located in the capital of Muscat, a Persian Gulf port city, is set to open to the public on 30 July. The museum, formally established by a royal decree in 2013, aims to ensure that Omans heritage is understood and appreciated within the sultanate and valued and recognised internationally, its acting director general, Jamal al Moosawi, said at a press conference on 26 July. Its purpose is to increase knowledge and appreciation for the cultural herita
  
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• How Kickstarter Has Impacted The Creative Economy

  29-07-2016 21:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Filmmakers, photographers, artists, authors, designers, musicians, and others reported that their project led to professional growth, greater earnings, and career advancement.”
  
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• Anicka Yi at Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

  29-07-2016 20:47 via artnews.com
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• Pavarotti Family To Trump: Stop Using Singer’s Recording

  29-07-2016 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We learned today that the aria ‘Nessum dorma’ performed by Luciano Pavarotti is being used (on) the Donald Trump campaign soundtrack,” wrote Nicoletta Mantovani, his widow, in a letter cosigned by Pavarotti’s three daughters. “We remind you that the values of brotherhood and solidarity that Luciano Pavarotti upheld throughout his artistic career are incompatible with the world vision of the candidate Donald Trump.”
  
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• Merkel inspires, and Joni Mitchell gets the blues | Brief letters

  29-07-2016 19:46
  
  Angela Merkel | Stephen Hawking on wealth | BHS | Naked murals | Joni Mitchell and the bluesI congratulate the German chancellor Angela Merkel for her refusal to be intimidated by the disgusting actions of Isis and, more importantly, not to play into its quest for publicity by going to each tragedy when under huge pressure from the press to do so (Merkel defends Germany’s refugee policy after attacks, 29 July). If ever there was someone who richly deserves the Nobel peace prize it is Ms Me
  
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• “Arts-Washing” – Neighborhood Revitalization Or Community Destroyer?

  29-07-2016 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Naysayers resent what they see as the patronizing cultural overlay, arguing that the community will be radically transformed, housing prices will go up, the poorest in the neighborhood will be displaced, etc. They brush aside the hope that the community will be revitalized, becoming more diverse, safer and, if done right, experience an improvement in its quality of life. In an urban design and planning sense, a cultural blanket is a very warm way to generate progress of all kinds.”
  
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• Turkish painter and journalist Zehra Doğan arrested

  29-07-2016 19:20
  The Turkish artist and journalist Zehra Doan is among those arrested this week as part of President Tayyip Erdogans crackdown after a failed military coup. On Wednesday, 27 July, in addition to closing three news agencies, 16 television channels, 45 newspapers, 15 magazines and 29 publishers, according to the governments official gazette, 47 journalists were ordered to be detained by police.
  For the past five months, Doan, who is the editor of the feminist news agency Jinha, has been reporting
  
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• Bass museum to fill expanded space with shows by Ugo Rondinone, Mika Rottenberg and Pascale Marthine Tayou

  29-07-2016 19:15
  
  The Bass museum in Miami will unveil its $12m expansion project on 1 December after 18 months of construction. As The Art Newspaper reported earlier this year, the Japanese design consultant Arata Isozaki, in consultation with the architect David Gauld, was asked to expand the museums exhibitions and programming space without adding square footage to the building, according to a statement from the museum.
  The redesigned interior totals 41,000 sq fta 47% expansionwith a reconfigured courtyard th
  
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• Yup: Comic-Con = Hollywood. Hollywood = Comic-Con

  29-07-2016 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Most studios may have played it cool this year, but Hollywood and Comic-Con are now one and the same. The only thing left to do is start preparing for next year. I’ve already got my Joker T-shirt packed.
  
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• Canadian Workplace Study Of Workers Most At Risk: Arts And Entertainment

  29-07-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The study looked at wage theft and precariousness of employment. Arts and entertainment workers topped the list of workers in all industries who are least protected.
  
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• The ‘Zines Of Renaissance England

  29-07-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “From the 15th century onward, everyday English people passed broadsides around, sang their songs, and gossiped about the news contained within. Unlike books or early newspapers, broadsides and pamphlets were not curated nor intended for a specific, upper-class audience. This early form of journalism and storytelling was sold on the cheap, and many took no time at all to read.”
  
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• Kai Althoff: ‘There Is No Reason Really Why My Things Are Exhibited in a Museum and Others’ Are Not’

  29-07-2016 18:00 via artnews.com
  The German artist Kai Althoff has been known to engage with museums and curators in some rather unusual ways. Visitors to Documenta 13, in Kassel, Germany, in 2012, may recall that a handwritten letter from Althoff to the show’s curator, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, was … Read More
  
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• ‘Paradise Interrupted’: A Chamber Installation by Jennifer Wen Ma at Lincoln Center

  29-07-2016 17:56 via artnews.com
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• Boris blunders, Renaissance cover-ups and paper peepshows – the week in art

  29-07-2016 17:53
  
  Elizabeth I stays puts, Marina Abramović and Sophia Al-Maria speak out, and Robert Burns isn’t the only to be exposed – all in your weekly art dispatchJoseph Beuys
  This visionary artist brought his charismatic presence to the Edinburgh festival in his lifetime and now returns in spirit with a show based around his expressive, mythological drawings.
  • Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 30 July–30 October. Continue reading...
  
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• Adrian Hall Once Ran The Dallas Theatre Center. Now He’s Fighting To Remember

  29-07-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hall sees one positive aspect to his Alzheimer’s. It’s caused him to assemble the archive that now surrounds him at home. The word ‘legend’ comes from the Latin for ‘to read,’ but it also means ‘to select, to gather together.’ Hall has been gathering this rich chronology, piecing together the meanings and connections in his life and career. “So that’s what I have been doing,” he says. “I live in a world where I am constantly
  
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• Iconic Armada portrait of Elizabeth I acquired for Britain

  29-07-2016 17:23
  
  The iconic portrait of the Queen was purchased from the descendants of Sir Francis Drake after a Heritage Lottery Fund grant
  
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• Jeff Wall Goes to Gagosian

  29-07-2016 17:01 via artnews.com
  Marian Goodman is renowned for, among other things, inspiring loyalty in her artists, and many have shown with her for decades, so it’s a bit of a surprise to see that the photographer Jeff Wall, who had his first solo … Read More
  
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• Stunning Chronophotographs Capture the Patterns of Birds in Flight

  29-07-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the past five years, the Barcelona-based photographer [Xavi Bou] has captured different bird species soaring around the Catalonia region to form his ongoing Ornitographies series, using a particular method he has honed to compress multiple seconds into a single frame.”
  
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• America™: Alfredo Jaar’s controversial 1987 billboard work lights up London’s Piccadilly Circus

  29-07-2016 16:59
  
  When the Chilean conceptual artist Alfredo Jaar first unveiled A Logo for America in New Yorks Times Square in 1987, it provoked outrage. Passersby saw the lit-up billboard as an affront to so-called America, but Jaar says describing the work as anti-American misses the point. Theres nothing more American than claiming America represents a whole continent, he explains.Fast-forward almost 30 years to the UK premiere of the work in London on 28 July and the work is more urgent than ever, Jaar say
  
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• Whoa – When Did Howard Stern Turn Into Terry Gross?

  29-07-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Since settling in to his new home on satellite radio, which he did in 2006, Mr. Stern and his show have gradually taken on an improbable new dimension. Scattered among the gleefully vulgar mainstays are now long, starkly intimate live exchanges – character excavations that have made Mr. Stern one of the most deft and engrossing celebrity interviewers in the business.”
  
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• How Mexico’s Great Architect Got Turned Into A Diamond

  29-07-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An American conceptual artist got the family of Luis Barragán to give her his ashes, which she had carbonized into a 2.2-carat diamond – all as part of a gambit to free up access to Barragán’s all-too-closely-held archives in Switzerland.
  
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• A Play About Critics Moves A Critic To Ponder Her Younger, Less-Compassionate Self

  29-07-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Laura Collins-Hughes, reflecting on Brenda Withers’s new play The Kritik: “I did what so many young critics do. In love with the sound of my own voice, unaware of how lastingly harmful meanness could be, I was sometimes far harsher than I should have been.”
  
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• Famous Armada Portrait Of Elizabeth I Will Stay In Britain Following Fundraising Appeal

  29-07-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A grant of £7.4m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), using money from national lottery players, was the final piece in a campaign to raise £10.3m to buy the work … showing an elegant and triumphant Elizabeth I after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, … from descendants of [original owner] Sir Francis Drake.”
  
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• Why Is Whether Or Not Athletes Dope So Important To People?

  29-07-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Consider the anger at Lance Armstrong once the truth came out. Consider all the time and money spent on catching and eliminating athletes who dope. “If technology can help sports officials perform their jobs more efficiently and fairly, why can it not be used to help athletes do their jobs more effectively? The answer is quite simple: Athletes have to be human.”
  
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• The Latest Trend In LGBT Fiction: Gay Shame

  29-07-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Shame informs much of the work of our latter-day gay novelists, offered as an antidote to our overriding gay culture that recognizes ‘pride’ as the core (and perhaps only) important expression of gayness today. The literary projects offered by [Hanya] Yanagihara and [Garth] Greenwell are cultural counterpoints to gay pride, attempts to show how shame  –  just as much as pride, if not more – still meaningfully forms part of the terrain of gay life, and m
  
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• Morning Links: J. Tomilson Hill Edition

  29-07-2016 14:45 via artnews.com
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• After #CastSoWhite Controversy, Concert Reading Of New ‘Prince Of Egypt’ Musical Cancelled

  29-07-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A day after news media picked up on social media criticism that only five of 15 cast members for a first concert reading of the work-in-progress, a stage adaptation of the hit 1998 animated film about Moses, were nonwhite, Dreamworks and the producing theater called off the event with no explanation.
  
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• Despite All The Criticism, Royal Shakespeare Company, British Museum, And Royal Opera House Renew BP Sponsorship Deals

  29-07-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The ROH and RSC, with the British Museum and National Portrait Gallery, have renewed their partnerships with the oil and gas giant for a further five years as part of a £7.5 million deal. The move has drawn fervent criticism from campaigners, who earlier this year set their sights on major cultural institutions that continue to receive sponsorship from fossil fuel companies, following the termination of deals with Tate and the Edinburgh International Festival.”
  
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• TKTS Half-Price Booth Sets Up At Lincoln Center (Where There Are Real New Yorkers)

  29-07-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Beginning on Tuesday and continuing for three months, TKTS will sell tickets to Broadway and Off-Broadway productions from a box office inside [Lincoln Center’s] David Rubenstein Atrium … The Lincoln Center venture is an effort by TKTS, which sells predominantly to tourists, to see if it can increase the number of tickets sold to New Yorkers” (who tend to avoid the flagship TKTS location in Times Square).
  
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• Paul Nash’s The Eclipse Of The Sunflower, 1945

  29-07-2016 14:00
  
  This war artist became one of British modernism’s great romanticsA black sun free-wheels through a violet, inky haze, propelled by licks of flame. It’s a sunflower but not as we know it, transformed into a cosmic, almost abstract dream symbol by one of British modernism’s great romantics, Paul Nash. Continue reading...
  
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• James Alan McPherson, 72, First Black Writer To Win Pulitzer For Fiction

  29-07-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[His] life took him from segregated Georgia, where he grew up in poverty as the son of an alcoholic father, to Harvard Law School during the social upheaval of the 1960s. Uninspired by the legal professional, he became a writer … He published no book for 20 years after the announcement of his Pulitzer for his 1977 collection, Elbow Room.”
  
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• Filmmaker Mohamed Khan, 73, Leader Of Egypt’s Neorealist Cinema Movement

  29-07-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Khan’s films included The Street Player (1984), The Wife of an Important Man (1987) and Dreams of Hind and Camilia (1988) – all of which were named among the ‘100 Greatest Arab Films of All Time’ by the Dubai International Film Festival.”
  
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• ‘We’d take pot shots at Ramsay with a medieval trebuchet firing out-of-date offal’ | My last supper

  29-07-2016 13:00
  
  An odyssey of 70s Welsh seaside nostalgia awaits artist Bedwyr Williams’ last moments on earth...I grew up in Colwyn Bay, a small seaside town on the north Wales coast, with a beach, a pier and a big rock. On top of this large promontory stood a hotel, Hotel 70 Degrees, built on a parallelogram footprint, with 70 and 110-degree angles to give all guests staying there a sea view. It was a stupid idea – be it fitting carpets, toilet stalls or kitchen units, it left a lot of wasted spac
  
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• Tate Britain ordered to reveal how much BP paid for sponsorship

  29-07-2016 12:20
  
  London gallery must publish figures showing controversial income from oil giant from 2007 to 2011Tate Britain has been ordered to reveal how much sponsorship money it received over five years from the oil company BP after an information tribunal ruled in favour of campaigners.The London gallery has consistently fought against attempts to force it to publish its sponsorship income, arguing that the details are commercially sensitive; campaigners say the gallery does not want people to see how &ld
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.28.16

  29-07-2016 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Community is natural. But we’re losing it.
  We talk about community a lot. The word gets thrown around so much that it begins to lose its meaning. It begins to sound like just another empty word … like sustainability … read more
  AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2016-07-28Family
  To me community means family. It means we’re in this together no matter the outcome. Community is unity, love, compassion. Community is dancing with your tribe just because your happy. … read
  
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• Holiday homes: improvised beach shacks of Tunisia – in pictures

  29-07-2016 08:00
  
  Yoann Cimier photographs temporary structures built on Tunisian beaches – small-scale, proud dwellings that turn holidaymakers into architects Continue reading...
  
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• Armada portrait of triumphant Elizabeth I now belongs to Britain

  29-07-2016 01:01
  
  Artwork bought from Sir Francis Drake’s descendants after fundraising campaign receives £7.4m Heritage Lottery Fund grantOne of the most famous portraits of British history, showing an elegant and triumphant Elizabeth I after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, has been bought for Britain after a nationwide fundraising campaign.A grant of £7.4m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), using money from national lottery players, was the final piece in a campaign to raise £10.3m
  
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• Royal Museums Greenwich secures Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I

  29-07-2016 01:00
  The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I has been bought by Royal Museums Greenwich, thanks to a 7.4m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, announced on Friday, 29 July. This is one the largest grants ever given by the lottery for a museum acquisition.The portrait (around 1590) is being sold by the Tyrwhitt-Drake family, the descendants of Sir Francis Drake, who may well have commissioned it. The price for a public collection is about 9.7m with tax concessions, although the open-market value of the p
  
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• Sotheby’s to Auction the Steven and Ann Ames Collection—Guaranteed Above $100 M.—During the November Sales

  29-07-2016 00:30 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s has announced that it has secured one of the major estates to be auctioned in November during the New York evening sales: the Steven and Ann Ames Collection, which contains works by Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, Willem de Kooning, … Read More
  
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• Art exhibit speaks Truth to Power in the shadow of the Democratic convention

  29-07-2016 00:05
  
  Pop-up show highlights gun violence and police shootings and includes works by Banksy and Shepard Fairey as artists say: ‘It’s about issues not about candidates’Away from the Democratic national convention, an art exhibition called Truth to Power has been one of the must-see events in Philadelphia this week.
  The pop-up show, located about five miles north of the Wells Fargo arena, features pieces highlighting gun violence and police shootings in the US. New Jersey senator Cory
  
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• How To Fund The Arts? The City Of Birmingham Comes Up with 50 Ways

  29-07-2016 00:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Through discussions and consultation, the Enquiry has generated almost 50 suggestions for ways to boost investment in the city’s arts and culture, which it presents in a new report. These are broken down into four sections: public sector investment, alternative finance, collaborative working and philanthropic giving.”
  
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• Yanyan Huang at Tomorrow, New York

  29-07-2016 00:01 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Yanyan Huang: Giardino del Tempo” is on view at Tomorrow in New York through Friday, August 5. The solo exhibition, organized with Hester’s Alex Ross, presents new … Read More
  
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