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• Say Goodbye To “The Digital Divide” (It’s Gotten More Complex)

  09-08-2016 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Traditionally, the way the digital divide has been portrayed has definitely been a binary,” says Crystle Martin, a postdoctoral researcher at University of California–Irvine who specializes in studying digital literacy. “It’s been viewed, if you give people access to technology, they will be able to be online and able to access all the things available. But it actually doesn’t turn out to be true.”
  
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• Franz Erhard Walther at the Power Plant, Toronto

  09-08-2016 23:40 via artnews.com
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• How Choosing A Hobby Can Change Your Work

  09-08-2016 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Research conducted by Kevin Eschleman, an assistant psychology professor at San Francisco State University, suggests hobbies that are less relevant to one’s career are paradoxically more beneficial for it.”
  
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• The Parrish goes Grey Gardens

  09-08-2016 23:00
  
  The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York will get in touch with its Hamptons heritage this Thursday, 11 August when it hosts a lively screening and discussion of the cult classic documentary Grey Gardens (1975), which looks at the insular world of the mother-daughter duo Big Edie and Little Edie Beale in their rambling, dilapidated East Hampton house. Attendees of all ages have been invited to dress up as Big or Little Edie for free admission and the chance to win Grey Gardens memorabilia
  
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• Parrish parade of "Big" and "Little" Edie

  09-08-2016 23:00
  
  The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York will get in touch with its Hamptons heritage this Thursday, 11 August when it hosts a lively screening and discussion of the cult classic documentary Grey Gardens (1975), which looks at the insular world of the mother-daughter duo Big Edie and Little Edie Beale in their rambling, dilapidated East Hampton house. Attendees of all ages have been invited to dress up as Big or Little Edie for free admission and the chance to win Grey Gardens memorabilia
  
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• Kelly Shindler, Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Appointed Senior Specialist at the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in Philadelphia

  09-08-2016 22:53 via artnews.com
  It was announced today that Kelly Shindler, Associate Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, will be joining the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in Philadelphia as senior specialist for exhibitions and public interpretation come September.The Pew Center … Read More
  
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• Rise Of The “Hybrid” Writers

  09-08-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The rise of the self-published author as a commercial force, the growth of the ebook market and the willingness of traditional publishers to loosen contractual reins have given rise to the phenomenon of the “hybrid author,” who can either publish traditionally or self-publish. These writers’ relationships to their publishers can resemble open marriages.”
  
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• FX TV Network CEO: How We Changed Our Diversity Equation

  09-08-2016 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Regarding directors, “we just happened to all be working in a system that was racially biased, and weren’t taking responsibility for stepping up and acknowledging that and saying, ‘OK, we will be the change,’” he added.
  
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• Why Big Brand Toy Companies Are Getting Into Broadway

  09-08-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Having already struck gold by developing its Transformers brand into a series of four films, which collectively have grossed $3.8 billion (all figures U.S.) worldwide, Hasbro hasn’t ruled out bringing any of its brands, which include Play-Doh, Stretch Armstrong and My Little Pony, to Broadway.”
  
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• Modern Olympics Founder Wanted An Olympics Of The Arts Too

  09-08-2016 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 1906, he unveiled this idea to the IOC: the Olympic Games should include gold, silver and bronze medals in five categories of the arts: architecture, literature, music, painting and sculpture. Like sports competitors, the artists participating in the new “Pentathlon of the Muses” were supposed to be amateurs.”
  
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• Court to decide authenticity of Peter Doig painting as artist denies he made it

  09-08-2016 20:30
  
  Works by Peter Doig can sell for millions – but the Scottish artist rejects claims by the owner of a 1976 painting signed ‘Pete Doige’ in an ‘extremely rare’ legal caseTestimony in an unusual federal court case will continue on Tuesday as artist Peter Doig attempts to prove that he did not create a 40-year-old painting signed “Pete Doige”. The Scottish artist denies having painted the landscape scene, apparently completed in 1976, which the painting&rsqu
  
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• Our Changing Culture Of Death

  09-08-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For better or worse, the West has escaped the tyranny that the dead once held over the living, and still do in many lands and cultures. We no longer make room for the dead in our worlds: the household flame lit for the ancestors, death masks, Sunday picnics in the cemetery, Funeral Savings Banks, even coffins themselves – all of these seem increasingly distant from our death-wary present.”
  
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• Increasingly We’re Using Technology To Do Art History. But It Has Limitations

  09-08-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One of the beautiful but frustrating things about art history is that it can never be an exact science. Whatever forensic examination becomes available must be interpreted by human beings. Just as the introduction of DNA evidence has permitted huge strides forward in criminal investigations, but has not proven definitive in courtrooms, so too, digital art-historical discoveries have offered ‘eureka moments’ that have led to duelling opinions rather than resolutions.”
  
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• Nabokov’s ‘Pale Fire’ Is ‘The Great Gay Comic Novel’, Argues Edmund White

  09-08-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[The character] Kinbote’s mad ‘notes’, far from commenting on Shade’’ poem, trace out a mini-biog¬raphy of Kinbote. And that biography, real or delusional, is the picture of an unrepentant homosexual, sensual, guilt-free, tirelessly on the make. In the 1950s, gay men were portrayed in fiction and films as lonely phantoms – sad and colourless – or sometimes as instant villains (see Norman Mailer’s essay, ‘The Gay Villain’, 195
  
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• Why Do So Many Arts Organizations Fail At The Audience Experience?

  09-08-2016 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even as we demand more flavor from our coffees and breads – they’ve got to be artisanal, you know – we seem willing to accept patron experiences that are increasingly diminished. Character is an important consideration when you’re buying a $1 doughnut. But it doesn’t seem to be as crucial when purchasing a $100 pass to a music festival.”
  
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• Why The Beatles’ ‘Revolver’ Still Matters After 50 Years

  09-08-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Scott Timberg: “Even if you scorn Boomer myth-making, the 50th anniversary of Revolver – perhaps the Beatles’ best album – is a big deal. It not only sent the band in a new direction, it showed new possibilities in rock music.”
  
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• The No-Return Policy: Rembrandt’s First Masterpiece Simply Intrigues at the Morgan Library in New York

  09-08-2016 17:52 via artnews.com
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• Jewish Museum Turns to Crowdfunding Campaign for Latest Exhibit, with Artworks as Reward

  09-08-2016 17:51 via artnews.com
  Earlier today New York’s Jewish Museum launched its first ever crowdfunding campaign via Kickstarter in support of mounting an equally unconventional upcoming exhibition at the museum titled “Take Me (I’m Yours)”. Donors who contribute toward the $30,000 fundraising goal will help … Read More
  
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• Hormazd Narielwalla: becoming a UK citizen before Brexit feels bittersweet

  09-08-2016 17:32
  
  The artist on how discarded tailoring patterns, a lost garden of his boyhood in India and his new British citizenship inspired a very personal new exhibitionWhen I was a boy, I used to visit a beautiful community garden in my hometown of Pune, India. I thought of this garden during the EU referendum. I was starting a new art project – a series of 12 works destined to span the top floor of the Royal Festival Hall, in London.The garden, which was a couple of acres, was one of the few traces
  
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• Hey – Real Diversity Isn’t About “Reflecting” Your Community

  09-08-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Instead of focusing on how to make our organizations reflect our community, what if we found ways for our organizations to be more accountable — or accountable, period — to the communities we serve?”
  
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• When Zora Neale Hurston And Langston Hughes Took A Road Trip

  09-08-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Here on St. Joseph Street [in Mobile, Alabama], on July 23, 1927, one of the most fortuitous meetings in American literary history occurred. … When Hurston invited [Hughes] to join her expedition – in her little car, nicknamed ‘Sassy Susie’ – Hughes happily accepted.”
  
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• The Sun Shines on the Bay: Around San Francisco During the Reopening of SFMOMA

  09-08-2016 16:53 via artnews.com
  On Laura Owens at CCA Wattis, Samara Golden at Yerba Buena Center, Pierre Bonnard at Legion of Honor, Bridget Riley at Berggruen, Red Horse and Richard Diebenkorn at Cantor Arts Center, Isaac Julien at Jessica Silverman, James Turrell at Pace, Lali Foster at VI Dancer, and shows at Gagosian, BAMPFA, Pace, and Minnesota Street Project Read More
  
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• Chutzpah: 90-Year-Old Woman Sees Art Depicting Crossword Puzzle, Fills In Answers, Claims Copyright On Vandalized Work

  09-08-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 1977 creation by the 20th-century artist Arthur Köpcke was lent to Nuremberg’s Neues Museum by a private collector, and is said to be worth around £68,000. The retired German dentist … said that she started filling in the artwork’s crossword puzzle because it bore the phrases ‘Insert words’ and ‘so it suits.’ … [Her attorney] says that far from harming the work in question, his client has increased its value.”
  
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• ‘Game Shows’: In Chicago, They’re Turning Actual Games Into Theater

  09-08-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Blame it on Midwestern bingo culture. Or maybe it’s a long tradition of immersive, unpretentious theatergoing involving cold beer and ornery nuns. Whatever. Whether card, video or board, Chicago is a thriving hub for theater based on or inspired by games. In many cases, shows are games.”
  
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• Court Battle Over Interview Tapes At Center Of ‘Serial’, Season Two

  09-08-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Justice Department is urging a federal judge to shut down a bid by filmmaker Mark Boal to block military prosecutors from subpoenaing unaired outtakes of 25 hours of interviews Boal conducted with Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who is facing a court-martial on charges he deserted a U.S. base in Afghanistan. Boal’s talks with Bergdahl became the staple of the second season of the celebrated podcast Serial.”
  
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• ‘Library Anxiety’ – It’s A Real Thing For College Students, And (As Always) Librarians Are There To Help

  09-08-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The phenomenon, which involves feeling intimidated, embarrassed, and overwhelmed by libraries and librarians, was first identified by Constance A. Mellon in 1986.” The problem is worse in 2016, with a generation who grew up with the web: “As soon as you need to use scholarly resources, Wikipedia isn’t going to cut it.”
  
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• Uncovering The Secrets Of A Hidden Degas Portrait – With A Particle Accelerator

  09-08-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For decades, a mysterious black stain has been spreading across the face of an anonymous woman in Australia. She is the subject of a painting by Edgar Degas, the French Impressionist painter, and since the 1920s, the oil paints in her portrait have gradually faded, revealing the hints of another, hidden portrait underneath.”
  
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• Morning Links: Possibly Disowned Peter Doig Painting Edition

  09-08-2016 14:47 via artnews.com
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• The Olympics As Religious Ritual, Then And Now

  09-08-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At the end of the fourth Christian century, an east-Roman emperor who followed the new faith abolished the pan-Hellenic contest as part of his general drive to stamp out paganism. … Pierre de Coubertin, the blue-blooded Frenchman who revived the classical games, did not hide the fact that he was competing with monotheism, and trying to reverse what he saw as a great historical wrong.” What’s more, “both the modern contests and their ancient Greek predecessors shar
  
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• Brazil’s Leading Choreographer On Creating The Movement For The Olympics’ Opening Ceremony

  09-08-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Deborah Colker: “I wanted everything to bleed together. Like here in Brazil, where everyone is surviving and sharing together. Samba, funk – a style specific to Rio, born in Rio – and passinho, which combines breakdance and hip-hop, and maracatu, from northern Brazil. I mixed all of this.”
  
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• Finally, We’re Getting A Better Idea Of What Peter Zumthor’s New LACMA Building Will Look Like

  09-08-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Swiss architect has been working with LACMA Director and Chief Executive Michael Govan for years on an ambitious and controversial new building to hold the museum’s permanent collection. But details – architectural and financial alike – have been hard to come by” – until now. Christopher Hawthorne has a look.
  
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• ‘I Just Wanted Restraint’ – Yes, Pedro Almodóvar Actually Said That About His Latest Movie

  09-08-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What’s more, it makes sense as a way to treat his source material – which is by one of the last writers you’d expect Pedro Almodóvar to adapt.
  
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• The Jewish Naval Officer Who Saved Monticello – And Whose Descendants Caught Hell For It

  09-08-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The trouble really started around 1880, when the wife of a congressman wrote, “By what right must the people of the world ask Mr. Levy for permission to visit the grave and home of Thomas Jefferson? Surely he does not want a whole nation forever crawling at his feet for permission to worship at this shrine of our independence.”
  
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• Pianist André Watts Has Prostate Cancer

  09-08-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘It’s André’s wish that we be straight about that,” said his manager Linda Marder … “Men of a certain age have this problem.’ Survival rates are very high. The diagnosis was made only weeks ago, … [and Watts] has been to the Mayo Clinic to determine treatment.”
  
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• Qatar to stage largest-ever solo exhibition of works by Arab artist

  09-08-2016 12:51
  
  Qatar Museums (QM) is due to stage a major retrospective of the Iraqi Modernist artist Dia Al-Azzawi in October. The exhibition is believed to be the largest-ever solo exhibition of works by an Arab artist. Spanning two venues in Doha, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art and QM Gallery Al Riwaq, the exhibition will cover 9,000 sq. m and include 400 works.Curated by Catherine David, the deputy director of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the show includes works in a variety of media, including painti
  
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• Qatar to stage largest-ever solo exhibition of works by an Arab artist

  09-08-2016 12:51
  
  Qatar Museums (QM) is due to stage a major retrospective of the Iraqi Modernist artist Dia Al-Azzawi in October. The exhibition is believed to be the largest-ever solo exhibition of works by an Arab artist. Spanning two venues in Doha, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art and QM Gallery Al Riwaq, the exhibition will cover 9,000 sq. m and include 400 works.Curated by Catherine David, the deputy director of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the show includes works in a variety of media, including painti
  
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• UK Brexit vote gives the Ruhrtriennale arts festival extra edge

  09-08-2016 12:48
  
  The Ruhrtriennale arts festival in west Germany, which opens this week (12 August-24 September), is more relevant than ever in light of the UK voting to leave the European Union and the debate about the future direction of Europe, says its current director Johan Simons.
  In a statement on the triennials website, Simons says: Looking around Europe, one sometimes has the impression we are living on a knife-edge: there are so many tensions, so many ideological and religious conflicts. He adds that
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.08.16

  09-08-2016 10:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  This Week In Audience – Pondering How To Connect Art To A Larger World
  Why should anyone care what we wear to the theatre? … Big Data is helping indie bookstores thrive … Are our concert halls too big for the experiences we want? … Some thinking on how to connect artists to the larger world … The politics of demographics and aging. … read more
  AJBlog: AJ Arts Audience Published 2016-08-07Solitude
  A few months ago, a friend informed me that he was includin
  
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• Art magazine covers nipples of nude by celebrated artist with huge yellow stickers

  09-08-2016 09:53
  
  Editor Neha Kale says distributor feared stockists would refuse to display cover image by Lisa YuskavageControversy over the cover of an Australian art magazine has resurrected a debate of the digital age: when, if ever, are nipples acceptable?The latest issue of Vault, a quarterly art periodical, was distributed last week with round yellow stickers covering the nipples of a female nude in a painting on its cover. Related: Artist of the week 85: Lisa YuskavageRelated: How to beat Instagram and F
  
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• Will the V&A go to the Dark Side of the Moon?

  09-08-2016 09:43
  
  The Victoria & Albert Museum in London is known for its homages to music icons, from David Bowie to Kylie Minogue (the V&As 2013 exhibition dedicated to the Thin White Duke turned out to be one of the hottest tickets in town). But now the august museum is, according to The Observer newspaper, turning to another legendary rock act: Pink Floyd. The museum will apparently celebrate the group that brought us epoch-defining albums such as The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall (the
  
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• The V&A will go to the Dark Side of the Moon

  09-08-2016 09:43
  
  The Victoria & Albert Museum in London is known for its homages to music icons, from David Bowie to Kylie Minogue (the V&As 2013 exhibition dedicated to the Thin White Duke turned out to be one of the hottest tickets in town). The august museum has confirmed, following press speculation, that it is turning to another legendary rock act: Pink Floyd. Next year, the museum will celebrate the group that brought us epoch-defining albums such as The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wal
  
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• Homage to George Orwell: BBC statue wins planning permission

  09-08-2016 08:00
  
  Broadcaster’s former employee who left on bad terms will return as a lifesize bronze sculpture outside London headquartersGeorge Orwell has won planning permission to return – as a lifesize bronze statue – to the BBC, which he left on bad terms in 1943 snarling that his work there as a talks producer “was wasting my own time and the public money on doing work that produces no result”.This time he won’t cost the public a penny: all the money for the first publi
  
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• Director of Marketing and Public Relations, Spoleto Festival USA

  09-08-2016 00:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoleto Festival USA seeks a Director of Marketing and Public Relations to oversee all marketing, press, public relations initiatives, and branding.
  Duties and Responsibilities
  Strategic planning; sales data analysis in order to identify trends and opportunities; overseeing the development of collateral materials including brochures, postcards, banners, and the Festival program book; managing all web-based marketing efforts including website design and functionality, email, and social media; gen
  
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• Leaders Of Alberta’s Two Largest Theatres Depart Signals Major Shift

  09-08-2016 00:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The departures come as Alberta’s oil-reliant economy is suffering – and all that that implies for arts organizations: corporate funding, individual donations and subscription and ticket sales. The loss of the two veterans at a time of financial unrest may add to a feeling of instability, but what’s waiting in the wings could instead be exciting.”
  
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