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• Warning: Oversupply Of TV Shows Could Deflate TV’s Second “Golden Age”

  11-08-2016 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With a greater supply of U.S. television than can be profitably produced, the industry is “ballooning into a condition of oversupply” that will likely peak in the next two years and then slowly deflate.
  
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• The private pleasures of kings: on nudes from the Prado at the Clark Art Institute

  11-08-2016 23:00
  
  Titian rarely painted a figure as magnificent as the goddess of love in Venus with an Organist and Cupid (around 1555). Visitors to the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, will come to understand why Spanish kings loved Venetian art, and will have the chance to see more than the subjects of Spain saw of their rulers art collections in the 17th and 18th centuries.
  Theyll see paintings, hardly scandalous now, that Philip II (reign 1556-98) and Philip IV (reign 1621-40) stored away
  
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• Robert Wilson, Ja Rule and Florence the dog celebrate performance at the Watermill Center

  11-08-2016 23:00
  
  A squadron of angels and sword-bearing seraphs flanked visitors to the recent Watermill Center gala as they wended through trees to the entrance of the party. In hidden speakers you could hear the signature moaning of the artist now known as Anohni and omnipresent intonements like: IT IS DONE AND NOW AND FOREVER IT WILL BE A POINT OF FACT. All this was a piece by Jacques Reynaud titled Angels of Apocalypse.Once inside, things were less apocalyptic. The July event raised $2m for Watermill, direc
  
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• Is The Seattle Art Fair Ready For The Major Leagues?

  11-08-2016 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The brainchild of billionaire Microsoft tech giant, Seahawks owner and avid art collector Paul Allen, the 70,000-square foot, 84-gallery event brought 18,000 visitors to the Emerald City last weekend. A cursory rundown of SAF’s stats, which included an exhibitor list of heavy hitters like Pace and David Zwirner, presents like a fully formed Art Basel air-dropped on the West Coast via Jeff Bezos-commissioned drone, but it was the wave of companion fairs and satellite exhibits that elevated
  
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• An Artist Residency In Creative Placemaking That Went Terribly Wrong

  11-08-2016 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The day after their termination, the artists sent out a joint statement claiming that they had been “run out of town” by MAA and that the Mill Hill Social Practice Residency was an “art-washing” scheme. This scathing essay set off a stink bomb that caused a flurry of national attention and made both MAA and the artists look unprofessional.”
  
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• When Women Were Barred From The Ancient Olympic Games, They Created Their Own

  11-08-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Heraean Games, a separate festival honoring the Greek goddess Hera, demonstrated the athleticism of young, unmarried women. The athletes, with their hair hanging freely and dressed in special tunics that cut just above the knee and bared their right shoulder and breast, competed in footraces.”
  
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• National African American Museum Breaks The Mold On DC’s National Mall (First Look)

  11-08-2016 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The building is a stark — and welcome — departure from the neoclassicism for which D.C.’s architecture is known. And while it is not yet complete (scaffolding still covers the building’s broad entrance), the museum nonetheless cuts a daring profile on the Mall, where its stacked trapezoidal forms appear to erupt from a grassy plain between the obelisk of the Washington Monument and the columnar façades of the Herbert Hoover Commerce Department Building.&rdqu
  
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• Andreas Slominski at Hall for Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany

  11-08-2016 20:21 via artnews.com
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• George Orwell was a snazzy dresser and certainly not a snarler | Letters

  11-08-2016 20:15
  
  We’re delighted that the George Orwell statue at the BBC in London has received planning permission (Homage to George Orwell: BBC statue wins planning permission, 9 August). However, we can’t imagine Orwell “snarling”, certainly not in relation to his reasons for resigning from the BBC in 1943, and he did not leave on bad terms. His resignation letter (available on the BBC archive) is his usual model of clarity and politeness – “I feel that throughout my assoc
  
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• Margaret Atwood Goes To Comic-Con

  11-08-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One line member tells Atwood she doesn’t know who she is, hasn’t read any of her books, and wants to know which she should start with. The author shoots her that stare. ‘So you want me to say who I am. Well, I’m secretly Glinda the Good Witch in disguise, and the best novel that I wrote is called the Iliad,’ Atwood says, deadpan. ‘What?’ the woman asks.”
  
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• New From The Wallace Foundation: How the Contemporary Jewish Museum Expanded its Reach

  11-08-2016 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco moves to a larger space and secures a nine-fold increase in family visitors of all backgrounds.
  Find out how they did it!
  
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• Seattle Public Library Now Allows Patrons To Download Local Musicians’ Music

  11-08-2016 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “PlayBack is open to all Seattle-area musicians who record or perform in the city of Seattle and have had an album produced within the last five years. PlayBack is intended to be an ever-expanding collection of Seattle’s musical culture, and a total of 100 new albums will be available each year through the Library’s catalog.”
  
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• The Wars Over The Singular ‘They’ Have Been Raging For Centuries

  11-08-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For some word purists, the singular they is the linguistic equivalent of an ingrown hair, but for others, the solutions for getting around the problem are way messier. … It may be the most controversial word use in the English language – because it highlights a hole in the language where a better-fitting word should go. … And there has been a lot written about it. Here’s another piece of tinder to throw on the fire.”
  
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• Kansas City Symphony Sets Attendance Records, Virtually “Selling Out” Its Season

  11-08-2016 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The symphony reported a record of nearly $5 million in total ticket revenue for its 2015-16 season, with $2.9 million of that in subscriptions. Perhaps more impressive, the symphony series performances sold 95 percent of available tickets, on average.”
  
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• Are Humans Fundamentally Selfish Or Cooperative? Wrong Question, It Turns Out

  11-08-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Those options are derived in large part from philosophy and classical economic theory, rather than data. In a new paper, researchers have flipped the script, using observations of simple social situations to show that optimism, pessimism, envy, and trust, rather than selfishness and sacrifice, are the basic ingredients of our behavior.”
  
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• In Multiple Dimensions: On Photography From Africa and the African Diaspora, in New York

  11-08-2016 17:45 via artnews.com
  On Aida Muluneh at David Krut Projects, Malick Sidibé at Jack Shainman Gallery, Oumar Ly at Sitor Senghor, and ‘Disguise’ at the Brooklyn Museum Read More
  
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• A Philadelphia Theatre Goes Pay-What-You-Wish (There Are Risks, Of Course)

  11-08-2016 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While their programming is exciting and admirable, these plays and their popularity are untested. There is always the chance new audiences will walk out unsatisfied and withhold their contributions. And how will this strategy reach Philadelphians who don’t already have Azuka on their radar? It’s one thing to offer up more accessible theatre, but if the same theatregoers are the only ones taking advantage, where’s the progress?”
  
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• David Hockney wants to paint 1,000 portraits

  11-08-2016 17:27
  
  David Hockney doesnt do things by half. The industrious artist tells the Serpentine gallery supremo Hans Ulrich Obrist that he wants to paint 1,000 portraits of his friends and family. With 82 portraits (and one still-life) by Hockney now on show at Londons Royal Academy of Arts (until 2 October), there's plenty of scope for a bigger show in the future. The interview in Obrists new book, Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects, which is published by Penguin, included a note of s
  
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• You Pay A Real Emotional Price To Be A Stage Actor

  11-08-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s a highwire act, live performance, the psychological stresses of which one medical study has likened to ‘a small car crash’. That might explain the adrenaline rush actors feel immediately after coming off stage, and the strange hangover that can come the next day.”Kate Fleetwood, Michelle Terry, and Ben Miles tell what it’s like.
  
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• Gazebo where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot coming to Chicago

  11-08-2016 16:55
  
  Local media in Cleveland, Ohio reported yesterday evening that Theaster Gatess Stony Island Arts Bank will take the city gazebo where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot by police in 2014.
  The news came from a Cleveland City Council meeting, at which Councilman Matt Zone said the gazebos ownership will soon be transferred to the Tamir Rice Foundation, and will within six months move to Chicago, Illinois, to be displayed at Gatess Stony Island Arts Bank.
  It is unclear whether Stony Island wi
  
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• Every Literary Plot, Ever, In Alphabetical Order

  11-08-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Okay, maybe not every single one. Boris Kachka: “There’s William Wallace Cook’s chart-crazy Plotto, first published in 1928; there’s crisp guides like Christopher Booker’s The Basic Seven Plots and Ronald B. Tobias’s 20 Master Plots; there’s even a couple of computer programs – many, over centuries, have tried to count the ways to tell a story. With a little help from those, here is a far-from-comprehensive encyclopedia of every archetypal plot we
  
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• Sales of Syrian culture anthology soar after woman held for reading it on plane

  11-08-2016 16:09
  
  Syria Speaks, which made headlines after it led to a honeymooning airline passenger being questioned under the Terrorism Act, sees surge of interestThe publisher of a book about Syrian culture that hit the headlines last week, when a British Muslim woman was detained after being seen reading it on a plane, has rushed through a reprint after sales soared.Syria Speaks, subtitled Art and Culture from the Frontline, was first published by Saqi Books in 2014. But it received renewed attention last we
  
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• America’s (One) Great Cubist

  11-08-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Robert Storr: “[Stuart] Davis was also the only first-class Cubist to emerge from North America. In my estimation he was the equal of the great Fernand Léger … I would even argue that, painting-by-painting, Davis was in some respects Léger’s superior.”
  
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• Hulu Didn’t Fail To Make Free Online TV Work, It Succeeded In Killing It

  11-08-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Will Oremus: “After eight years, Hulu is turning off its free TV service. Viewers will now be required to sign up or log in to its subscription service, Hulu Plus … The reason, I suspect, is not that the service failed to achieve Hulu’s goals, but that it succeeded. And by Hulu’s goals, I mean the goals of its corporate owners: Disney-ABC, NBC Universal, Fox, and now Time Warner.”
  
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• The Choreographer Who Made Herself A YouTube Superstar

  11-08-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In an era when dance has exploded thanks to social media, [Tricia] Miranda wanted to share her dance moves, unfiltered, with the rest of the world. So in 2014, she hired a videographer to tape her dance studio in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, with students performing her signature moves.” Her first video racked up 27 million views, a later one 41 million, and her YouTube channel now has a million subscribers.
  
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• Morning Links: Normal Rockwell Family Petition Edition

  11-08-2016 14:53 via artnews.com
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• Sydney Opera House To Get $156 Million Upgrade (Is That Enough To Fix The Acoustics?)

  11-08-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The bulk of the spending in the four-year, A$202 million project, funded by the New South Wales state government, will be for a renovation to fix the notoriously bad sound in the opera house’s concert hall.
  
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• Robert Page, Revered Symphonic Choral Conductor, Dead At 89

  11-08-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For all of conductor Robert Page’s accolades, there may be no better example of his prowess in choral music than this: He improved a Robert Shaw choir.”
  
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• Joining Slow Food And Slow TV, We Now Have Slow Games For Our Phones

  11-08-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Slow games are less ubiquitous and straightforwardly tantalizing than traditional mobile games. They often seem to lack any point at all. Instead, they invite players to engage in simpler virtual pleasures – taking a stroll, watering plants, feeding stray cats.”
  
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• Ernst Neizvestny, 91, Sculptor Who Stood Up To Khrushchev – And Then Designed His Tombstone

  11-08-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 1962, Neizvestny met Khrushchev at an art show held by the Moscow Manege. Khrushchev derided the sculptor’s work for being ‘degenerate'” – to which Neizvestny, a burly war hero, replied, “I’m not afraid of your threats.” The sculptor emigrated to the U.S. in 1976, and went on to have public works on three continents.
  
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• The Chinese City With A Hundred-Year History Of Western Classical Music, Brought By Russian Jews

  11-08-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The arts – and especially classical music – flourished here throughout the early 20th century. Nicknamed the St. Petersburg of the East, Harbin was home to a thriving Jewish community that helped build a rich cultural scene, including China’s first symphony orchestra, [founded in 1908 and] made up of mostly Russian musicians.”
  
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• Dances With Cows: High (Agri-)Culture In Vermont

  11-08-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A Vermont ballet group brings whimsical performances outside to farms around the state. The Farm to Ballet Project raises money for agriculture while widening the audience for classical ballet.” (video)
  
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• Women dandies feature for first time in European premiere of acclaimed photography show

  11-08-2016 12:20
  
  For its European premier this autumn, the Dandy Lion project will for the first time include photographs of women dandies in black communities throughout the world. Previous iterations of the acclaimed exhibition in Chicago and San Francisco have focused on black men who spurn stereotypical and monolithic understandings of black male identity through fashion and social attitudeshigh-styled rebels, as the curator Shantrelle P. Lewis describes them.New to the project are a series of portraits of
  
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• Berlin plans Jewish museum for children inspired by Noah’s Ark

  11-08-2016 12:05
  
  A jury appointed by the Jewish Museum Berlin awarded the first prize in an architectural competition for a new childrens museum to a concept inspired by Noahs Ark proposed by the firm Olson Kundig of Seattle.The planned childrens museum is designed for 5 to 12 year-olds and should be completed in 2018 and opened in 2019. It will be located across the road from Daniel Libeskinds main building, in a 1960s concrete and glass structure that was once a wholesale flower market, and is now known as th
  
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• British artist, once said to be worth nearly £100m, to auction works after going bankrupt

  11-08-2016 10:00
  
  A British artist once said to be worth nearly 100m has been declared bankruptand his remaining paintings are now being sold off. Forty nine portraits by Andrew Vicari are on offer at London-based SIA auctions, with opening bids of 30 to 200 being sought. The SIA catalogue states that Vicari was once the official painter to the King and Government of Saudi Arabia, although he is largely unknown in Britain.The Sunday Times Rich List, which in 2006 valued Vicari at 92m, described him as the Port T
  
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• Artist Pension Trust makes first financial distribution

  11-08-2016 09:00
  
  The Artist Pension Trust (APT), a business that pools artists works to provide some financial security later in life, has handed back its first returns since it was founded in 2004.More than 400 artists who are part of its New York and Los Angeles trusts received between $200 and $1,700 in July when more than 20 works, worth a total $452,085, were sold. APT is not disclosing details of the sold works.Its great to see the programme working, says the conceptual artist John Baldessari, who is on A
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.10.16

  11-08-2016 08:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Who wants performance metrics in the arts?
  Today we have a story from The Atlantic on schools and tests  – or, “assessments” – measuring creativity. With all the problems that come with standard testing, who would want such a thing? Well … read more
  AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2016-08-10Ystad: Joe Lovano, The Bohuslän Big Band & Others
  As the Rifftides staff flies home, digital magic allows us to continue reporting on highlights o
  
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• Love and loneliness: how Hanya Yanagihara learned to see – in pictures

  11-08-2016 08:00
  
  The Booker-nominated author of A Little Life has curated an exhibition of 12 photographers whose work expresses ‘the perennial mystery of being alive’ Continue reading...
  
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• Love and loneliness: how Hanya Yanaghira learned to see – in pictures

  11-08-2016 08:00
  
  The Booker-nominated author of A Little Life has curated an exhibition of 12 photographers whose work expresses ‘the perennial mystery of being alive’ Continue reading...
  
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• More And More Orchestras Are Exploring Virtual Reality

  11-08-2016 00:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At least a half-dozen professional orchestras have created 360-degree films for use with VR headsets, among them, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Most aim to replicate a concert hall experience, whether on stage – so the viewer can hover over a violin section or an oboe soloist – or in the audience, where the 360-degree view also includes rows of empty seats.”
  
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