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• Eduardo Terrazas at Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City

  14-09-2016 23:57 via artnews.com
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• Helsinki Guggenheim Project In Doubt After Government Blocks Public Funding

  14-09-2016 23:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The decision is the latest blow to the Guggenheim Helsinki project, whose initial plans met with widespread public opposition when they were unveiled in 2011 and were formally turned down by the city board the following year. After an international competition last year drew more than 1,700 entrants, the scheme seemed to be back on track.”
  
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• Meet America’s New Chief Librarian

  14-09-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Carla Hayden is about to take over as the Librarian of Congress. She’s “aware of but undaunted by the library’s challenges, including outdated technology, a storage crisis for its rapidly growing collections and a demoralized staff. A 2015 government report found widespread mismanagement of its IT systems, which wasted millions of dollars and hampered operations at the Copyright Office and elsewhere.”
  
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• Wim Pijbes on why he left the Rijksmuseum for a ‘start-up’

  14-09-2016 23:00
  
  Some might call Wim Pijbes a glutton for punishment, but he seems to enjoy the challenge of bringing a museum to life. After overseeing the ten-year, 375m renovation of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, he surprised many when he left the national museum in July for what he calls a start-up. The Museum Voorlinden, which opened on 11 September, presents highlights from the 10,000-strong collection of the chemicals millionaire Joop Van Caldenborgh within a country estate in Wassenaar, north of the Hag
  
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• Smooth operators

  14-09-2016 23:00
  
  Whenever theres a private view or an art fair launch, you can be sure that a pair of shaven-headed individuals will be in attendance. Two of the art worlds most colourful characters, the Berlin-based duo Eva & Adele, are the stars of a major show (You Are My Biggest Inspiration, 30 September-26 February 2017) that opens at the Muse dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris later this month. It includes two video installations, two sculptures and a publication that the pair donated to the museum in
  
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• Decolonising the art world

  14-09-2016 23:00
  
  Artists Space Book & Talks in New York will be transformed into a self-regulated commons for Decolonize This Place, an active three-month series of community events, workshops and campaigns due to launch this weekend (17 September-17 December) that aims to challenge the white supremacy that continues to characterise the economies and institutions of art, according to a press release. The project has been organised by the politically-engaged arts collective MTL+ and is based on five central
  
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• Bedlam erupts at the Wellcome Collection

  14-09-2016 23:00
  More than 150 works of art dealing with mental illness and the history of Bethlem Royal Hospitalpopularly known as Bedlamgo on view at the Wellcome Collection in London this month. Bedlam: the Asylum and Beyond (15 September-15 January 2017) traces the history of the hospital and our changed understanding of mental illness through work by patients such as James Tilly Matthews (who was confined there for life as an incurable lunatic) and contemporary installation by artists such as Eva Kottkov. O
  
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• Harmony Hammond’s Archive Is Headed to the Getty Research Institute

  14-09-2016 22:43 via artnews.com
  Some days I just sit around and think about how much fun it must be to work at the Getty Research Institute, delving into the rich archives that it regularly acquires, catalogues, and preserves. In just the last few years … Read More
  
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• Robert Gottlieb: My Life As A Reader

  14-09-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Not since Max Perkins worked with Hemingway and Fitzgerald has there been a more admired editor than Robert Gottlieb. His has been, he would admit, a privileged and enviable life, which is really just another way of saying that it has been a life filled with books.”
  
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• Doug Aitken: turning perversity into an art form

  14-09-2016 21:58
  
  His video works have a beginning, middle and end ... but not necessarily in that order. And now, with a mid-career retrospective at MOCA in Los Angeles, Aitken is going to places he’s never been – for instance, under the seaIt’s not that mixed-media artist Doug Aitken disdains museums, but he often attempts to subvert them by transcending their walls. In 2007 his video Sleepwalkers played in a loop on the facade of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, while a later piece, Son
  
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• Why Virtual Reality Has Huge Potential For Music

  14-09-2016 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Outside of games, music is almost certainly the most popular content type in VR right now, which makes sense both technically—right now, VR’s best for quick viewing periods, about the length of your average song—and creatively. Both formats trade in experiences, connection, and immersion. You don’t go to a concert for the sound quality; you go to be part of something.”
  
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• South America’s Favorite New Telenovelas Are Coming From — Turkey

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  “Dubbed into Spanish and Portuguese, [What is Fatmagul’s Fault?] has been a big hit across South America over the past year. In Argentina alone, episodes are viewed by more than 12 million people. And the show is far from a one-off, with a growing number of Turkish TV dramas among the most watched programmes across the continent.”
  
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• ‘I Just Attack Everything, I Just Love It All’: Harmony Korine on His New Films, Gagosian, and Gucci Mane

  14-09-2016 20:35 via artnews.com
  Harmony Korine wrote the script for Larry Clark’s Kids at the age of 19, and then went on to write and direct films such as Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, and Mister Lonely. His 2013 film Spring Breakers was recently named, in a comprehensive BBC … Read More
  
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• Study: Music And Theatre Students Face More Bullying Than Others

  14-09-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Music and theater students face a significantly greater risk than their non-arts peers of reporting being the victims of bullying behavior,” write Kenneth Elpus of the University of Maryland and Bruce Allen Carter of Florida International University.
  
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• Thomas Heatherwick steps up to the challenge of creating a centrepiece for Hudson Yards redevelopment

  14-09-2016 20:25
  
  This is ultimately a Keep Fit project, says the British designer Thomas Heatherwick of his new $150m commission for New York, unveiled today in Hudson Yards, the major redevelopment project on Manhattans West Side. Made of 154 interlinked staircases and 80 platforms, that add up to nearly 2,500 steps, Heatherwicks Vessel will serve as the centrepiece of a five-acre public square and gardens built over a city rail yard.
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• Hancock, New York’s Local Newspaper Celebrates ‘The Gavin Brown Experience’

  14-09-2016 20:09 via artnews.com
  Even though just about everyone has come back to the city from their upstate country homes, some extremely awesome stuff is continuing to go down in Hancock, New York (population 3,224), where dealer Gavin Brown and his gallery’s artist Rirkrit Tiravanija … Read More
  
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• How Do You Explain Color To Someone Who’s Always Been Blind?

  14-09-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s a challenge that renders all the normal visual frames of reference completely useless – you can’t say that green is the color of grass, or blue is the color of water, because they haven’t seen those things. But they have felt them.”
  
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• Some Art Dealers Who Are Experimenting With Models Other Than The Gallery Norm

  14-09-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Metaphors aside, it is clear how the current art fair-driven system has created a fixed pattern, with little room for negotiation: Small galleries from the periphery can participate at small fairs, and hopefully sell to collectors they would never meet otherwise. Meanwhile, big galleries, such as Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Marian Goodman, and David Zwirner but also Thaddaeus Ropac, Almine Rech, Perrotin, and Massimo De Carlo, become bigger and bigger—from ship to galleon, from ga
  
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• Is Writing Just A Technology, Or Is It A Different Language From Speech?

  14-09-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Arrival, the forthcoming sci-fi drama, is that rare bird: a Hollywood film featuring a linguist as the main character.” With that as a (quite relevant, as it turns out) jumping-off point, linguist Chi Luu argues that writing is far more separate from speech than most of us realize – and that the linguistic problem at the heart of this new movie (yes, there are spoilers) is just a logical extension of that difference.
  
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• Beautiful Mourning: Taryn Simon Stages a Moving and Discomfiting Performance at the Park Avenue Armory

  14-09-2016 18:51 via artnews.com
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• Want More Diversity In The Film Industry? First You Need Numbers…

  14-09-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To women in an international industry with a depressing record on job equity in the key creative roles, the sunny but no-nonsense Serner is a guru delivering a message of cheerful determination. To hear her tell the story, at a recent TIFF industry panel about how to get more women working as film directors, all it takes is willpower to overcome systemic discrimination and unconscious bias. The Swedish numbers now vary from year to year, but in the best years, half of publicly funded film projec
  
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• The Long Short March: Bruce Nauman’s Tour de Force Video at Sperone Westwater Explores the Rhythm in Its Opposite Number

  14-09-2016 18:20 via artnews.com
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• Scientists reveal most accurate depiction of a dinosaur ever created | Elsa Panciroli

  14-09-2016 18:15
  
  Reconstruction is based on studies of a spectacular fossil from China, preserved with skin and pigments intactForty researchers elbow their way to the front of the room. They whip out their cameras and mobile phones like palaeontological-paparazzi, and start snapping. Others hang back, hands on chins, to take in the animal standing on the table-top from different angles. They dispense approving nods, and converge to discuss their conclusions in hushed tones. It’s not like anything seen ali
  
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• Political Protest, Philip Glass Operas, And ‘The Battle Hymn Of The Republic’

  14-09-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alison Kinney: “I heard my first Glass opera, Satyagraha, days after a protest where I witnessed the use of unnecessary force by police against protesters … Since then, I’ve never heard the structures of Glass’s music simply as formal sound projections, onto a backdrop of historical source material. Now, I hear in the musical forms the forms of nonviolent resistance itself: holding steady, taking small steps forward, being beaten back, and getting up again.”
  
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• Pedro Reyes Named Inaugural Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist at MIT

  14-09-2016 17:44 via artnews.com
  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced today that Mexico City–based artist Pedro Reyes will be the center’s first Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist. Reyes will be in residence at the Cambridge school for at least one year.The residency is funded by … Read More
  
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• The Binge-Watching Tv Critic’s Guilty Pleasures

  14-09-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anyone who watches only “good” television reveals himself as a television skeptic. Anyone who likes only “good” television reveals himself as an automaton.
  
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• Hamza Walker named the new executive director of LAXART

  14-09-2016 17:21
  
  The future of the non-profit Los Angeles-based art space LAXART has been uncertain since the beginning of this year, when the founding director Lauri Firstenberg stepped down from her job after a decade, leaving behind a high-profile but chronically underfunded space that survived project-to-project.
  Now, though challenges persist on the fundraising front amid growing competition, the future looks brighter. The LAXART board has confirmed its hire of Hamza Walker as its new executive director. H
  
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• How To Fix The Creative Writing MFA

  14-09-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The current MFA studio model grafts an MFA program onto an existing English department without a studied consideration of what the degree could be. This is not surprising, since the MFA did not emerge naturally out of an English department curriculum.”
  
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• Black Female Playwrights In Tune With The Times (Pun Intended)

  14-09-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Charles Isherwood: “It’s not unusual for theater, like many of the arts, to address a pressing social or political issue. But what strikes me as unusual this fall is that most of such work comes from notable black female playwrights:” Sarah Jones, Anna Deavere Smith, Lynn Nottage, and Suzan-Lori Parks.
  
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• Alexis Arquette, The Lady Chablis, And The Barriers They Broke

  14-09-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the 1990s, if you wanted to see a trans actor on the big screen, you had remarkably few options. Despite a plethora of films with large transgender roles, … trans actors were almost entirely sidelined from major productions. … But that wasn’t even a conversation in the 90s, when Arquette and Chablis became two of the first trans actors to play trans roles in major mainstream films.”
  
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• ‘Disruptive And Insulting’: Berlin State Ballet’s Dancers Are Furious That Sasha Waltz Was Made Their New Director

  14-09-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Berlin’s mayor Michael Müller had last week appointed Waltz and Swedish ballet chief Johannes Öhman as co-directors of Germany’s largest ballet company from the 2019/2020 season on. But in a scathing petition posted on the company’s homepage on Sunday, the dancers said: ‘Unfortunately, the appointment has to be compared to an appointment of a tennis trainer as a football coach or an art museum director as an orchestral director.'”
  
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• The Artist Arrested For Being A Nude Woman In Front Of A Painting Of A Nude Woman Is At It Again

  14-09-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This time, the Luxembourg artist [Deborah De Robertis] sat in front of an exhibition by Araki, a Japanese photographer known for his images of bound naked women, in a transparent kimono.… Between her thighs was a watermelon, which she ate while moaning loudly. Visitors, far from being shocked, applauded her before security officers put an end to her show.” (In case you don’t recall the previous incident, here’s a refresher.)
  
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• Hamza Walker Hired as Director of LAXART

  14-09-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  Los Angeles nonprofit art space LAXART has announced that Hamza Walker will be its next Executive Director starting October 1, following founder Lauri Firstenberg’s departure from the position earlier this year. He leaves his current position as director of education … Read More
  
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• Alec Baldwin Sues Art Dealer For Fraud For Selling Him The Wrong Ross Bleckner Painting

  14-09-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The suit asserts that [Mary] Boone deceived [Baldwin] by promising a painting, Sea and Mirror, by the artist Ross Bleckner, that had been sold at Sotheby’s to a Los Angeles collector in 2007, but in fact supplied another similar Bleckner painting, also called Sea and Mirror.”
  
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• Plan For Lucerne Festival Opera Theater Killed By Local Officials

  14-09-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “An unusual episode in classical music philanthropy – the effort to build a theater for the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland to produce operatic and experimental works – came to an apparent end on Monday when Swiss officials voted it down.”
  
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• Morning Links: Stuck at Sea Edition

  14-09-2016 14:59 via artnews.com
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• The Cultural Appropriation Wars Ambush A Literary Festival

  14-09-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Officials in charge of an Australian writers festival were so upset with the address by their keynote speaker, the American novelist Lionel Shriver, that they censored her on the festival website and publicly disavowed her remarks. The event, the Brisbane Writers Festival, which ended Sunday, also hurriedly organized counterprogramming, billed as a ‘right of reply’.”
  
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• Here’s The Full Text Of Lionel Shriver’s Speech About Cultural Appropriation

  14-09-2016 14:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’m afraid the bramble of thorny issues that cluster around ‘identity politics’ has got all too interesting, particularly for people pursuing the occupation I share with many gathered in this hall: fiction writing. Taken to their logical conclusion, ideologies recently come into vogue challenge our right to write fiction at all. Meanwhile, the kind of fiction we are ‘allowed’ to write is in danger of becoming so hedged, so circumscribed, so tippy-toe, that we
  
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• Contemporary art returns to new-look Musée Maillol

  14-09-2016 14:37
  
  The Paris museum dedicated to the memory of the French sculptor Aristide Maillol (1861-1944), reopens to the public today (14 September), 18 months after a serious financial crisis.
  The Muse Maillol, which was founded by the artists model Dina Vierny in 1995, struggled with falling visitor numbers before abruptly closing its doors last February. Tecniarte, the company that managed the museum and its exhibitions programme on behalf of the Dina Vierny foundation from 2009 to 2015, filed for bankr
  
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• An Incendiary Title, A University President, A Cancellation, A Resignation

  14-09-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Howard Sherman: “To start at the end, or at least where we are today: Michele Roberge, executive director of the Carpenter Performing Arts Center on the campus of California State University, has resigned, effective yesterday. Why? Because the school’s president, Jane Close Conoley, insisted upon the cancelation of Roberge’s booking of the comedy :N*gger Wetb*ck Ch*nk, a show that has toured extensively for more than a decade to performing arts centers on and off college campus
  
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• Turkish Government Shuts Down Archaeological Work At Ephesus

  14-09-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Turkey’s crackdown on dissent has spread to the field of archaeology, with a dig at the ancient site of Ephesus in western Turkey suspended because of a political dispute with Austria. The project, run by the Austrian Archaeological Institute, was forced by the Turkish government to stop work at the end of August, despite two more months of planned conservation at the site.”
  
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• Detroit Symphony To Form Associated Amateur Orchestra

  14-09-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Officials say the Detroit Symphony Community Orchestra is the first of its kind for the professional orchestral organization founded in the late 19th century.”
  
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• BBC Chair To Quit After Four Months On The Job, Following Strong Hint From Prime Minister

  14-09-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The chair of the BBC, Rona Fairhead, is to step down after Theresa May indicated she would have to apply again for the job she was reappointed to by David Cameron just four months ago. In a statement, Fairhead said that after ‘much thought’ she had concluded it was appropriate not to re-enter the appointment process.”
  
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• ‘Marjorie Prime’ And ‘The Profane’ Win 2016 Horton Foote Prize

  14-09-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 2016 Prize for Outstanding New American Play will go to Jordan Harrison for Marjorie Prime. The 2016 Prize for Promising New American Play will go to Zayd Dohrn for The Profane. Each award comes with $20,000.”
  
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• Las Pozas, Mexico, the folly and fantasy of a British eccentric

  14-09-2016 12:10
  
  In the mid-20th century, poet Edward James created a ‘Surrealist Xanadu’ of concrete sculptures, waterfalls and ponds in the rainforest north of Mexico CityHigh in the Sierra Madre mountains, 280 miles north of Mexico City and well off the usual tourist trail, is one of the biggest and least-known artistic monuments of the 20th century. Las Pozas (the pools) was the eccentric vision of the wealthy British poet Edward James. An early sponsor of Dali and Magritte, between 1949 and 1984
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.13.16

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  The New York Philharmonic’s New Hall Is An Opportunity To Rethink The Orchestra Experience (And Amplify It)
  Last week Michael Cooper made a plea to the New York Philharmonic for some upgrades to the concert amenity experience when the orchestra overhauls Geffen Hall in 2019. … I’d like to second his suggestions and add a few. … read more
  AJBlog: diacritical/Douglas McLennan Published 2016-09-13Reflections on a Symposium
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• Someone please give Alec Baldwin a history of art lesson

  14-09-2016 08:53
  
  The actor’s ‘original’ artwork lawsuit exposes a basic misunderstanding – art glories in repetition, not least the luscious, lyrical paintings of Ross BlecknerRoss Bleckner’s paintings are ethereal and gorgeous. They are like post-modern Monets. Whether he is painting flowers or a cerebral cortex he captures the fragility of life in bright flashes of effervescent colour hovering over nothingness. Bleckner paints tender elegies for a world that is always passing from
  
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• Beyond Colour Field: Helen Frankenthaler makes her mark in later works

  14-09-2016 05:43
  
  History has a way of tethering artists to dates. In this way, the late Helen Frankenthaler is tied to 1952, when she invented the soak-stain method. Pouring paint thinned by turpentine directly onto raw canvas, she created pools of luminous colour in works such as Mountains and Sea (1952), which inspired the Color Field movement. Less is known of her later work. But, a new exhibition aims to show that she continued to be an inventive artist through the six-decade career that followed, says the c
  
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• Scotland’s Performing Arts Companies Pledge Gender Balanced Boards By 2020

  14-09-2016 01:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The National Theatre of Scotland, Scottish Ballet, Scottish Opera, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra have all signed up to the Scottish government’s “50/50 by 2020” campaign. They join 180 other companies from across the public, private and third sectors, who have signed up to the Scottish Government’s Partnership for Change campaign launched last year.
  
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• R4 “art city” on Paris’s Île Seguin finds new financial backer

  14-09-2016 00:32
  
  Ownership of the R4 art city on the le Seguin, a former industrial island in the Western suburbs of Paris that once housed the Renault car factory, is changing hands. In an administrative situation that was already delicate, made even more complicated by the legal troubles of its chief investor Yves Bouvier, the massive real estate development has found a new backer in the Emerige groupIn a joint press release, Nelly Wenger, who was the head of the R4 project, and Laurent Dumas, president and f
  
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