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• Top Execs Quit Bronx Museum Over International Plans

  26-08-2016 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They are especially worried about the museum’s involvement with two Cuban projects: a plan to create a replica of the José Martí sculpture near Central Park and an exchange of artworks with Havana.”
  
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• A Relationship Between Your Politics And Your Personality?

  26-08-2016 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For many political psychologists, it seems abundantly clear that traits and politics go together. There’s evidence that many aspects of personality develop quite early in life and have a genetic component, but we don’t become actively political until we are older. So it’s sensible to assume that the one might have some bearing on the other. But most of the work on the subject in the past decades has consisted merely of scientists conducting surveys and observing correlat
  
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• Why We’re Stuck In A Morass Of Racial Euphemisms

  26-08-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some would say that black people have a right to decide what they want to be called, and that that’s all there is to it. However, that answer is incomplete, and risks people merely classifying the matter as one more example of what Steven Pinker has artfully called the “euphemism treadmill.” We can do better than that.”
  
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• After A Decade Of Fluff: How The UK Fell In Love With Brainy Quiz Shows

  26-08-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The appeal of tough TV quizzes is that sometimes, we want to be taxed. The lowest common denominator doesn’t always have to win. Difficult things can be fun. That competitive element, a touch of showing off on the sofa, doesn’t hurt either.”
  
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• German People’s Theatre Community Protests Appointment Of Tate Modern’s Director Chris Dercon

  26-08-2016 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In June, 90 staff members and 80 freelancers of the Volksbühne sent one to the Berlin House of Representatives expressing deep concern that Dercon will trade long-established artistic standards for “a globally extended consensus culture with uniform presentation and sales patterns.” Volksbühne means “People’s Stage” and was established in 1914 as a working-class theater committed to the experimental.
  
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• Kung Fu Is Fading Away In Hong Kong

  26-08-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The kung fu culture that [Bruce] Lee helped popularize – and that gave the city a gritty, exotic image in the eyes of foreigners – is in decline. Hong Kong’s streets are safer, with fewer murders by the fierce crime organizations known as triads that figured in so many kung fu films. And its real estate is among the world’s most expensive, making it difficult for training studios to afford soaring rents.”
  
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• Critical Disconnect – The “Best Movies Of The 2000’s” List Shows Gulf Between Critics And Audiences

  26-08-2016 19:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Critics can champion as many ferociously innovative films as they like, but if the audiences who actually feed the coffers of studios continue to ignore their recommendations, then the industry will simply keep delivering substandard, heavily franchised fare.”
  
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• The 450-Year History Of The True Crime Genre

  26-08-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Between 1550 and 1700, British authors and printers produced an unprecedented number of publications that reported on capital crimes. As literacy rates expanded and new print technologies emerged, topical leaflets began to circulate among newly literate and semiliterate consumers.” It was a respectable genre, “consumed primarily by literate members of the artisan class and above.”
  
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• We Thought The Internet Would Liberate Us. Instead It Distracted Us From What Really Mattered

  26-08-2016 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “By spreading a utopian view of technology, a view that defines progress as essentially technological, they’ve encouraged people to switch off their critical faculties and give Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and financiers free rein in remaking culture to fit their commercial interests.”
  
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• Rupi Kaur: 'There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse and healing’

  26-08-2016 18:26
  
  The young Punjabi-Sikh poet made a career by forcing herself into places where she’s least expected – like Instagram and the New York Times bestseller listRupi Kaur is planning what she calls a dinner of Queens. Come this fall, she says, “we’re going to go to the bougiest place where there’s no people of colour. We’re just going to sit down looking so fly and have a really expensive dinner”.Her eyes light up as she continues: “We’re going to
  
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• Mavericks, guano and the London that could have been – the week in art

  26-08-2016 18:16
  
  A treasury of small wonders at the British Museum, multi-screen interactives to do your head in and a Michelangelo cartoon – all in your weekly art dispatchLines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now
  Powerful designs and suggestive sketches by artists including Cézanne and Bridget Riley as well as the Renaissance masters make this touring exhibition from the British Museum a treasury of small wonders.• Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now, Poole Museum and
  
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• Simon Denny: the artist explaining blockchain with Pokémon

  26-08-2016 18:11
  
  His ‘fan art’ exhibition tells the story of blockchain visionaries, bitcoin and the future of cryptocurrency through the mediums of cartoons and board gamesNew Zealand artist Simon Denny doesn’t look like a stereotypical bohemian artist. Donning a navy blue T-shirt with matching track pants and jacket with clean sneakers, he could easily be mistaken for a corporate banker on his day off.Even in the way he talks about money – he throws around business jargon like “gl
  
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• Raqib Shaw at White Cube Bermondsey, London

  26-08-2016 18:09 via artnews.com
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• Meet The Jerry Seinfeld Of France (Who’s Just Moved To The States)

  26-08-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Back in Europe, [Gad] Elmaleh, who has big blue eyes framed by well-worn laugh lines, is famous. Like, famous famous. His films rake in millions at the box office, he sells out arenas for one-man shows, and walking down the rues of Paris with him, which I’ve done, is a laborious task due to all the selfie-seekers.” What’s best about living in New York? “I love being anonymous, being in a place where no one cares.”
  
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• Paisley Park, Prince’s Minneapolis Estate, to Become Museum

  26-08-2016 17:55 via artnews.com
  Dearly beloved reader, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life, and here’s some news that will help with that: Paisley Park, the sprawling estate 20 miles outside of Minneapolis where Prince lived, worked, recorded, jammed, … Read More
  
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• Why Bollywood Is The Heart Of A Nation

  26-08-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There is something about a big, popular art form that dramatizes a society’s deepest tensions that I find desperately moving. In the West, this is the kind of heavy lifting that was once the preserve of the novel — think of Dickens and Balzac. But in India, Bollywood alone deals with our society’s inner tension, its fault lines and frictions.”
  
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• A Catalogue of Horrors: Suzi Gablik on Edward Kienholz, in 1965

  26-08-2016 17:29 via artnews.com
  With Edward Kienholz’s notorious 1969–72 installation Five Car Stud having recently gone on view at the Fondazione Prada in Milan, we turn back to the October 1965 issue of ARTnews, in which Suzi Gablik reviewed another Kienholz installation. Kienholz’s reputation had not … Read More
  
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• Casa Havana pop up in London features work by street artist Ben Eine

  26-08-2016 17:28
  
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• Religion Makes Its Way, Carefully, Into TV Drama

  26-08-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As important as religion is in the lives of many viewers, television has had a tentative relationship with it. … But are things changing, and how? Here, the New York Times critics Margaret Lyons and James Poniewozik survey how television’s congregation has expanded and where there’s still room for improvement.”
  
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• Apocalypse Now: MoMA’s Bruce Conner Show Is Mind-Blowingly Good

  26-08-2016 16:52 via artnews.com
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• Artist gets into the Snapchat groove

  26-08-2016 16:40
  
  Over 40s need not apply but if youre in London and stuck for something to do this weekend, then why not use Snapchat to be part of an exhibition at Somerset House? The UK artist Matthew Stone, 34, whose show Healing With Woundspart of the Utopia2016 initiativecloses on 29 August, has created a custom Snapchat filter that will be available at and around the exhibition on its last day. Visitors will be able to capture Stones digital work as an overlay to a 10-second photo or video. Its
  
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• Steppenwolf: 40 Years Of ‘Balls-Out’ Theater In Chicago

  26-08-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Company co-founder Jeff Perry: “Our group had an interesting mix of individual ambition, and even hubris, and love of group work. If we had started Steppenwolf in Los Angeles or New York, I don’t think we would have been left alone long enough to put down these roots.”
  
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• What Do Plain Old Museumgoers Think Of The Art They See? The Times Asked Them, And Here’s What They Said

  26-08-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We tried to find out what goes on in the mind of the modern museumgoer, unscientifically, by staking out the Met Breuer and interviewing nearly 50 art gazers over the course of two months … they included students who said museums were like ‘eating your vegetables’ and romantics who cherish their lunch breaks, when they can hop in a cab to go steal a few quiet minutes in front of a beloved painting.”
  
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• Director Of ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Sues Weinstein Brothers For Fraud

  26-08-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[David Frankel is] alleging fraud and negligent representation as well as breach of contract over the size and scope of the October 2014 release in North America” of his film One Chance, “which stars James Corden as Paul Potts, a real-life shop assistant and amateur opera singer who won Britain’s Got Talent in 2007.”
  
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• Why Tennis Is Acing It On The Theater Stage

  26-08-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘It’s always hard to put a finger on why something is suddenly in the zeitgeist,’ said [Sarah] Ruhl, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and a Tony Award nominee. ‘I don’t know why it is happening with tennis in theater right now. But for me, while researching the Bush dynasty, I realized tennis is such a big part of their lives and a wonderful metaphor for family competition and sibling rivalry.'”
  
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• Remember The ‘1812 Overture’? What Happened To The Whole ‘Light Classical’ Repertoire?

  26-08-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What is disappearing, some say, are the light classics that once were staples of mainstream classical concerts that, around the middle of the last century, migrated to pops” and which pops orchestras have now abandoned in favor of classic rock and the like. Says conductor John Mauceri, “If you’re going to do a Mahler symphony as the centerpiece of a concert, you don’t have any room for von Suppé or Offenbach.”
  
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• Julian Fellowes On Writing ‘Downton Abbey’ Singlehandedly And What Happens To The Crawleys After The Finale

  26-08-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Far more of those houses survived than people realize, and often with the families that were in them. It’s often down to luck, and the cleverness of the people in charge. … My own belief is that Mary, whether you like her or dislike her, is a hard worker, and she’s practical.”
  
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• Morning Links: Richard Prince’s ‘New Portraits’ Edition

  26-08-2016 14:41 via artnews.com
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• Rudy Van Gelder, Dean Of Jazz Recording Engineers, Dead At 91

  26-08-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[He was] perhaps the most influential recording engineer in the jazz genre, who brought to vivid life the sounds of such legendary artists as Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock and Freddie Hubbard,” and was responsible for many of the Blue Note label’s most important discs.
  
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• Are Pay-What-You-Will Nights Good For Theater Companies?

  26-08-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Charleston’s theater community is one of many where the debate continues. Says one artistic director, “People are driven by ticket costs. The reason we do it is to eliminate a barrier to participation.” Another argues that pay-what-you-will “devalues the art.”
  
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• Three to See: Chart art fair, Copenhagen

  26-08-2016 14:01
  
  Brian Eno might be one of the best-known singer-songwriters in rock music, but he has never used his voice in a work of artuntil now. The Ship (2014-16), a 50-minute sound and visual installation on show at Chart art fair (until 28 August), inspired the former Roxy Music band members 25th solo album, which he released in April and also called The Ship.
  During the making of the work of art, Eno found he could now sing a low Cthe root note of the lead track on his album. Getting older does have a
  
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• Starting A Ballet School In The Most Conservative Part Of Egypt

  26-08-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Says co-founder Marco Adel, “We continue to be assailed and threatened on social networking media for opening this school. Those who criticise us say this school is against traditions. They claim it also spreads debauchery and encourages nudity. This is not true at all because art develops humans and refines their morals.”
  
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• Alasdair Gray's portrait of a Northern Venus is gothic and otherworldly

  26-08-2016 14:00
  
  The Scottish artist and novelist blurs the lines between realism and fantasy with his 1977 painting Marion Oag and the Birth of the Northern Venus Related: Alasdair Gray: 'There isn't much time. Better get on with it'Continue reading...
  
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• The Best New Public Library Of 2016?

  26-08-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That’s what the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions decided, and Slate design writer Kristin Hohenadel agrees. It’s in a seemingly unlikely spot: the working port area of Denmark’s second city.
  
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• Artist Vs. Artist: Four Of The Biggest Rivalries In Art History – Depicted In Comix!

  26-08-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Degas vs. Manet. Matisse vs. Picasso. Freud vs. Bacon. Pollock vs. De Kooning.
  
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• Ai Weiwei dropped from Yinchuan Biennale in China

  26-08-2016 11:28
  
  Ai Weiwei has been dropped from the Yinchuan Biennale, two weeks ahead of its opening, due to his "political status, the Chinese artist posted Wednesday (24 August) on Twitter. The inaugural biennial at the Yinchuan MoCA, a private institution opened last year in the capital of western Chinas heavily Muslim Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, is curated by Bose Krishnamachari and includes 73 artists including Anish Kapoor, Song Dong, and Yoko Ono.Ai tweeted that he received a vague letter from Yinch
  
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• Ai Weiwei dropped from biennial in China

  26-08-2016 11:28
  
  Ai Weiwei has been dropped from the Yinchuan Biennale, two weeks ahead of its opening, due to his "political status, the Chinese artist posted Wednesday (24 August) on Twitter. The inaugural biennial at the Yinchuan MoCA, a private institution opened last year in the capital of western Chinas heavily Muslim Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, is curated by Bose Krishnamachari and includes 73 artists including Anish Kapoor, Song Dong, and Yoko Ono.Ai tweeted that he received a vague letter from Yinch
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.25.16

  26-08-2016 10:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Collaborators
  Artistic collaboration is finally getting the respect it deserves.  No longer looked down on as Art by Committee Meeting, interdisciplinary work is being celebrated for its ability to bring multiple voices into a single event, to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts. … read more
  AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2016-08-25Rudy Van Gelder, 1924-2016
  Rudy Van Gelder, who recorded thousands of albums by musicians including some of the most important in jaz
  
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• The revolution-inspired graffiti changing the face of Kiev – in pictures

  26-08-2016 08:00
  
  Two years since the protests that overthrew the government, large murals have been appearing across Ukraine’s capital – some by renowned street artists, others by politically charged locals. RFE/RL takes a tourContinue reading...
  
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• Instagram model and makeup artist sues Richard Prince over copyright infringement

  26-08-2016 03:30
  
  Richard Prince is in legal hot water yet again. The artist and his former dealer Gagosian Gallery have been sued by a California-based makeup artist and model over a work from his latest series. Ashley Salazar filed her lawsuit in June after she discovered that Prince had appropriated a mirror selfie decorated with cat memes from her Instagram account. The case is potentially made more complicated by the fact that Prince is no longer represented by Gagosian, his dealer of more than a decade.
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• What’s The Solution To LA’s 99-Seat Theatre Stalemate?

  26-08-2016 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Whenever I have waded into this debate, making the argument that the best solution to the stalemate would be some sort of compromise that would provide a feasible economic path for those institutions that have benefited from the old plan while paving the way for a new era in the city’s theater ecology (one more conducive to institutions being able to pay their artists, compete for new plays and widen their audiences), a few passionate theater folks write to remind me of the state of L.A. t
  
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