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• Why Is So Much Sound Art So Bad?

  05-08-2016 23:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Duchamp was a genius. He could put a noise in a ball of string and hey presto, it was art. He made it look easy – well, he made everything look easy – and yet many daft and self-indulgent sound works are only “art” at the most glib level as sadly exposed by the National Gallery’s exhibition Soundscapes last summer, in which only Philipsz rose above the banal.”
  
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• Kishio Suga’s 70s throwback at Dia:Chelsea

  05-08-2016 23:00
  
  The Japanese artist Kishio Suga will get his first solo show at a US museum this autumn with a new commission from the Dia Art Foundation that resurrects one of his site-responsive works from the 1970s in the Dia:Chelsea space in New York (5 November 2016-30 July 2017). Suga will recreate Placement of Condition, made of a group of rectilinearly-cut stones leaning in different directions but linked by wire, which was first installed at the Hiroshima Museum of Art in 1973. Alex Lowry, who organis
  
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• Is Multitasking Good Or Bad For You? The Answer Is (Predictably) Complicated

  05-08-2016 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Multitasking has a purpose—but it’s not as effective as we think and makes us more prone to mistakes. Doing rote sorting or organizing work while having a conversation with a coworker? Fine. But try answering an email while trying to explain an important meeting outcome to your boss, and both tasks will take you longer, have a greater likelihood of errors, and be more taxing than if you focused and did one thing.”
  
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• Rewriting The Rules Of Ballet Class

  05-08-2016 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In Ashley Tuttle’s increasingly popular ballet classes, actual dancing is encouraged — something that’s less common than you might expect. Ballet class is usually a place to hone an impossible technique, and dancing is for the stage. But Ms. Tuttle doesn’t subscribe to that notion; what’s startling about her classes is the freedom she pulls out of her students. She cares deeply about technique, but for her, ballet is about more than positions; by the end, eve
  
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• Three artists to look out for at Art Stage Jakarta

  05-08-2016 22:00
  
  Indonesia's high society donned their best batiks on Friday, 5 August for the opening of the inaugural Art Stage Jakarta, a new sister fair to Art Stage Singapore. Of its 49 galleries, 16 hail from Indonesia, with Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries strongly represented. Most of the 3,000 sq. m of exhibition space at the fair's venue, the Sheraton Grand Jakarta Gandaria City Hotel, is dedicated to gallery booths, with the rest used for special exhibitions profiling he Indonesian Impre
  
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• “Augmented Eternity” – The Machines That Will Learn Enough About Us To Be Us

  05-08-2016 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Augmented Eternity doesn’t just ingest the data someone leaves; to create a convincing facsimile, it analyzes how they think and act. The “presentation layer,” could take many forms: a chatbot, a voice interface, or even a 3D avatar in virtual reality.
  
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• Tattoo artist Scott Campbell: 'People talk about tattoos being permanent, but skin is the most ephemeral medium I work on'

  05-08-2016 21:23
  
  For one of the most famous tattoo artists in the world (his ink adorns the skin of Robert Downey Jr., Courtney Love, Orlando Bloom, Marc Jacobs and more), Scott Campbell's studio - just a couple of blocks from L.A.'s Skid Row - is pretty humble. It's not all polished surfaces and expensive fittings, just simple concrete, scattered artworks and Jenga-like stacks of art books on Dada and Picabia. An artwork based on a crumpled dollar bill hangs on the wall and a dope plant sits by the window overl
  
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• So You’re Going To Add To Versailles’ Architecture. Can This End Well?

  05-08-2016 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Through five Republics, the French have assiduously cared for this apogee of French culture, a national symbol baked into the country’s psyche. Touching any part of Versailles is like performing brain surgery on France: a very delicate matter.”
  
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• Why Do I Get Carsick? Turns Out It’s Because My Brain Thinks I’m Being Poisoned

  05-08-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s all about the way the thalamus (mis-)interprets the signals from the tiny, liquid-filled motion sensors in the inner ear.
  
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• Cities Want To Be The Next Silicon Valley. That Might Not Be A Good Idea

  05-08-2016 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Washington Consensus of the 1980s claimed that free trade and deregulation were the most promising growth policies for developing countries. The Silicon Valley Consensus suggests that innovative cities grow faster, that startups are the only real hope for job creation, and that high-tech growth helps rich and poor alike. But, like the Washington Consensus, the Silicon Valley Consensus offers a false promise.”
  
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• Moholy-Nagy: Future Present review – a multimedia modernist master

  05-08-2016 20:25
  
  Guggenheim museum, New York
  Taking in kinetic sculpture, experimental film and even adverts, this superb retrospective of an often overlooked Bauhaus figure brings a new sense of purpose to the Guggenheim“Make it new,” Ezra Pound enjoined his fellow writers and artists at the start of the last century: invent, experiment, work fast, push forward, break eggs. It’s the primary creed of modernism – yet one of the most misunderstood. To “make it new” didn’t
  
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• Secrets Of Success For Producers At The Edinburgh Fringe

  05-08-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Edinburgh is often described as the world’s biggest arts trade show. It is, but one of the things that today’s fringe producing landscape reflects is changes in the wider theatre ecology. … Edinburgh isn’t just a chance to make money, it’s also about finding future talent to produce.”
  
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• 500-year-old Albrecht Dürer engraving found in French flea market

  05-08-2016 19:37
  Art collector donates work by German Renaissance artist to Stuttgart museum after spotting it on bric-a-brac stallAn art collector has donated a lost work by the German artist Albrecht Dürer to a Stuttgart museum after discovering it in a French flea market being sold for just a few euros.Related: Dürer's polyhedron: 5 theories that explain Melencolia's crazy cubeContinue reading...
  
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• American TV Seems More Diverse. Is It?

  05-08-2016 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s a prevailing notion that—in a pop culture climate ruled by Scandal and Empire and an industry flipping a middle finger to any #OscarsSoWhite malfeasance—television is in the midst of a Golden Age of diversity. But is that really the case?”
  
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• Alex Hubbard at House of Gaga, Mexico City

  05-08-2016 19:02 via artnews.com
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• Architectural Acupuncture: How A Modernist Made Room For 7.5 Million Visitors At The Palace Of Versailles

  05-08-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “By creating a 3,000-square-foot basement for a gift shop, coat check and bathrooms beneath the Pavillon and the adjacent Princes’ Courtyard, he created a new loop through the chateau. Visitors could enter the palace through the Pavillon, proceed on the circuit and finish in the basement, where a grand staircase would take them back up to the Courtyard.”
  
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• It’s facile to equate appearance with evil | Letters

  05-08-2016 18:54
  
  In his review of the Edinburgh arts festival (The macabre masterpieces that Scottish artists do best, 3 August), Jonathan Jones refers to Douglas Gordon’s self-portrait, Monster, which shows the artist’s face alongside the same face distorted by pieces of Sellotape. Jones evidently assumes that it is the “distorted” face that indicates monstrous evil. I see a face possibly affected by disease or injury. This facile and prejudicial correlation between inner and outer beaut
  
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• America Is Quickly Getting Older. Are Our Arts Going To Be Increasingly Age-Specific?

  05-08-2016 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some industries will forsake the senior audience, other industries will court it.And those decisions are likely the result of research and judgments. Which end of the spectrum will we end up on, and is it likely some arts organizations will embrace the senior growth market, while others of us, flee from it?”
  
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• Freud's study, Rio's favelas and Hillary's niqab – the week in art

  05-08-2016 18:15
  
  Tracey Emin to David Shrigley reveal their visions for Team GB, Edinburgh explores the macabre and x-rays reveal Degas’s hidden face – all in your weekly art dispatchMark Wallinger
  A mirrored ceiling eerily doubles the space of Sigmund Freud’s study and offers a view into the mysteries of the mind. Wallinger’s installation celebrates this likable museum’s 30th anniversary.
  • Freud Museum, London, until 25 September. Continue reading...
  
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• Domingo Zapata Has Sold a Novel

  05-08-2016 18:11 via artnews.com
  Domingo Zapata—a painter who once lent his Porsche to Lindsay Lohan, who then hit a guy while driving it—has sold a novel to Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books imprint about an artist that seems to resemble Domingo Zapata. According to “Page … Read More
  
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• Man or beast: why is a pack of bronze wolves terrorising Berlin?

  05-08-2016 18:08
  
  Giving Nazi salutes and pointing pistols at commuters, Rainer Opolka’s wolf statues offer divided Germany a timely reminder of nationalism’s dangersA pack of 60 wolves is set to descend on Washingtonplatz, the concrete square opposite Berlin’s central station. The bronze and iron statues, some more than two metres tall, loom over passengers spilling out of the city’s Hauptbahnhof station, their snouts warped into vicious snarls, their paws moulded into Nazi salutes.People
  
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• Love In Translation: The Fascinations, Frustrations, And Landmines Of Mastering Your Partner’s Mother Tongue

  05-08-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  New Yorker staff writer Lauren Collins recounts some of the countless surprises she experienced with French after she relocated to Geneva with her husband, Olivier.
  
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• ‘He Told Me About My Success’: A Brief History of the Women of Abstract Expressionism

  05-08-2016 17:30 via artnews.com
  Lee Krasner on the misogyny of the New York School, Irving Sandler on Grace Hartigan, and more Read More
  
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• Augmented Reality: Pokémon Go Could Be The Start Of A Transformation In Children’s Games And Learning

  05-08-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While electronic games have traditionally caused kids to retreat to couches, here is one that did precisely the opposite. … If done right, some say the technology Go introduced to the world could bring back the kind of outdoor, creative, and social forms of play that used to be the mainstay of childhood. Augmented reality, it stands to reason, could revitalize the role of imagination in kids’ learning and development.”
  
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• The French Nobleman Who Was Officially Declared A Woman – And Wanted To Lead A Female Army In The French Revolution

  05-08-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When the Chevalier d’Eon left France in 1762, it was as a diplomat, a spy in the French king’s service, a Dragoon captain, and a man. When he returned in July 1777, at the age of 49, it was as a celebrity, a writer, an intellectual, and a woman – according to a declaration by the government of France. What happened? And why?”
  
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• Simply the Best: Martin Creed Is Triumphant at the Park Avenue Armory in New York

  05-08-2016 16:30 via artnews.com
  If Martin Creed had been alive in Medieval Europe, it is easy to imagine him as an admired court jester, entertaining the royals with dashes of absurdity while at the same time speaking truth to power, gingerly prodding the monarch. … Read More
  
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• The Dogs Of ‘The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time’

  05-08-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “During the 24-month Broadway run of [the play], 21 puppies – golden retrievers and others that look goldenish – have cycled through the show’s cast, appearing in a brief but reliably crowd-pleasing scene toward the end of the show. And as each one ages out of the role – as soon as the dogs grow too big to fit in a gift box, they are replaced – each has been adopted by a performer, a crew member or someone else connected to the theater industry.” (includ
  
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• ‘The Last Taboo Is the Penis’: John Cheim on ‘The Female Gaze, Part II: Women Looking at Men’ at Cheim & Read

  05-08-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  “The Female Gaze, Part II: Women Looking at Men,” a group show that runs at Cheim & Read through September 2, is as ambitious in scope as it is in ideology, showcasing work by a wide range of artists–including Tracey Emin, Alice Neel, … Read More
  
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• Queens Without Borders: A Berlin Drag Show Offers Welcome And Aid To Queer Refugees

  05-08-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The project’s organizer, an Australian expat whose drag name is Olympia Bukkakis, “describes the show, with a bit of a cringe, as ‘conceptual drag,’ where specific themes are explored through various acts. It features a mixture of ‘punk, alternative queens’ along with refugees new to the city, incorporating belly dancing, burkas, and gender-bender performance art.”
  
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• Tales Of John Waters’s First Feature-Length Talkie, ‘Multiple Maniacs’

  05-08-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When the film went before a board of censors 50 years ago, says Waters, “the woman cried when she saw it, and she sent it to the judge. He said, ‘My eyes were insulted for 90 minutes, but it’s not illegal,’ which was the whole point of the movie! To make something that wasn’t illegal yet.”
  
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• How Werner Herzog Got The North Korean Censors To Just Trust Him

  05-08-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At one point I filmed something which I was not allowed to do, so I wanted to have it edited or deleted. But … we were unable to delete it, and they wanted to take the entire memory hard drive. And I said, ‘But it contains two days’ worth of shooting, that would be terrible.’ So I said, ‘You know what, I can guarantee to you that I’m not going to use this material.’ And they said, ‘Guarantee, what do you mean by that?'” (podcast)
  
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• Met Museum Sets Attendance Record: 6.7 Million Visitors

  05-08-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This year’s attendance – the fifth in a row exceeding six million – was 400,000 higher than that of the previous year. The Met attributed this to an increase of about 200,000 visitors at its Fifth Avenue flagship and the Met Cloisters combined and to 185,000 people taking in the Met Breuer during its first four months.”
  
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• Morning Links: Record-Breaking Metropolitan Museum Attendance Edition

  05-08-2016 14:47 via artnews.com
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• Disney Fires Director Of ‘Frozen’ Musical

  05-08-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Disney Theatrical Productions and director Alex Timbers have parted ways on the brewing Broadway production of Frozen. ‘Making the tough calls when creating a new Broadway musical is never easy, but this was especially painful,’ said Thomas Schumacher, the president and producer of Disney Theatrical Productions, in a statement. ‘Alex Timbers is one of the most exciting and innovative theater directors I know.'”
  
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• Haruki Murakami Is Not, In Fact, Dead

  05-08-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami was the subject of a hoax on social media today, as a Twitter account seemingly belonging to his Japanese publisher Shinchosa tweeted a message claiming he had died.”
  
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• Luxury-Goods Billionaire Sets Plans For Private Museum In Paris

  05-08-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Last month, the Paris City Council approved the project, which calls for transforming the building into ‘The Pinault Collection, Bourse de Commerce’ and filling it with art from Mr. Pinault’s collection of more than 3,000 works by contemporary artists like Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Gerhard Richter, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Agnes Martin and Cy Twombly. The interior is to get a makeover by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando.”
  
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• 29 Publishers Shut Down By Turkish Government After Failed Coup

  05-08-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “According to the Turkish Publishers Association, the decree means that all goods, assets, rights, documents and papers belonging to the publishers will be transferred free of charge to the Turkish treasury, with no appeal to be made, and the prospect of further publishers being shut down in the future.”
  
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• Ella Kruglyanskaya’s Fruit Picnic, 2011

  05-08-2016 13:59
  
  The New York based artist uses bold colours and patterns to explore female relationships and dialogueIn this riot of fabric and fruit by the New York-based painter, figures dissolve into pattern. The curvy pears, apples and watermelon of the picnic blanket echo thighs, boobs and bums. There’s a confusion of three dimensions and two, reminding us that this is all a flat painted fantasy. Continue reading...
  
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• Looking Before You Leap: Hints For Avoiding Nightmare Dance Gigs

  05-08-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Many young dancers find themselves in compromising situations as they begin their careers. While some involve misunderstandings that become funny over the years, other bad situations – including public weigh-ins, sexual misconduct and unpaid overtime – can be so damaging to the spirit or the body as to end a career. There may not be a completely foolproof way to avoid a nightmare job, but there are steps you can take to protect yourself and learn what will be expected of you b
  
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• Dance Degree Programs Are Adding Training In Entrepreneurship And Business Skills

  05-08-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The most recent report from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project found that three-quarters of the more than 92,000 alumni surveyed who are currently working as artists say they depend on entrepreneurial skills in their professional lives, but only about a quarter of them acquired these skills in school.” And schools are finally beginning to change that.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.04.16

  05-08-2016 10:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Trump, The Tenor, And Fascism
  While I applaud the urge to dump on Trump (for so many reasons), trying to associate him with fascist sympathies because his campaign plays one of the most famous arias on the planet is a yuge overreach.  … read more
  AJBlog: diacritical/Douglas McLennan Published 2016-08-04On proper attire for attending the theatre
  We have links to two stories today, Elisabeth Vincentelli asking that people try a little harder to look decent when they attend the the
  
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• German culture minister promises to reform Limbach Commission after mounting criticism

  05-08-2016 10:00
  The German culture minister Monika Grtters has announced plans to reform the Limbach Commission, a panel set up in 2003 to mediate in Nazi-looted art ownership disputes and to help ensure Germany fulfils its commitments under the 1998 Washington Principles.The panel has come under fire for a lack of transparency, the length of time it takes, failure to appoint a Jewish member and the low number of cases it has mediated. Ronald Lauder, the founder of the Commission for Art Recovery and president
  
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• How we used a particle accelerator to find the hidden face in Degas’ Portrait of a Woman

  05-08-2016 03:46
  
  Months of planning culminated in an x-ray scan over 33 hours that produced high-resolution images to identify the portrait beneath the paintingEdgar Degas’s painting Portrait of a woman is an enigmatic piece. When it was first acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria in 1937, it was unveiled to mixed reviews.
  Some commented that it showed the hallmarks of the French painter’s style around the 1870s. Others criticised its brown hues and the apparent discolouration across the woman
  
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• ‘Puff Pieces’ at Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York

  05-08-2016 00:31 via artnews.com
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• Barnes Foundation plans Matisse colloquium in Philadelphia

  05-08-2016 00:00
  
  A conference on Henri Matisse at the Barnes Foundation scheduled for 13 to 15 October will bring scholars to Philadelphia to discuss the artists continuing legacy. A series of lectures and panels will look at topics like the artists interest in non-Western art and will include speakers such as the historians Claudine Grammont and Helene Ivanoff.Our goal is to assess the state of our knowledge on Matisse today and to outline what could be done next in terms of future study, research, exhibitions,
  
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