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• The Pros And Cons Of Producing Repertory Theatre

  30-09-2016 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  No question about it – being a repertory theatre is a challenge on every level. But there are enormous benefits to be had too…
  
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• From Hotline Bling to Nuit Blanche: how music video directors turned to art

  30-09-2016 23:16
  
  Director X and Floria Sigismundi’s videos for Drake and Rihanna have generated millions of YouTube views, but now the pair have moved into a different arena for an ambitious new projectYou may know Director X’s music videos: they tend to win awards, attract hundreds of millions of viewers, and celebrate dancing, whether in a restaurant (Rihanna and Drake’s Work), in a high school (Iggy Azalea’s Fancy), on the marquee of the Compton Fashion Center (Kendrick Lamar’s K
  
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• Philippe Parreno: a public ritual

  30-09-2016 23:00
   One of the most influential artists of his generation, French artist Philippe Parreno has made his name over three decades by using a mind-boggling range of media to explore how art can and should be experienced. He is known for working collaboratively with fellow artists as well as set builders, digital technicians, film-makers, musicians, ventriloquists and a cinematographer to make animations, films, sound works, light pieceseven an all-black gardenall of which focus on the importance
  
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• New museums: the rise of cryptic cathedrals of the cosmos

  30-09-2016 23:00
  Today, the museum continues to evolve in different directions as vigorously as the art market fluctuates. The growth is not unpredictable but is certainly divergent, as if curators and museum directors were competing as much as artists in trying to pre-empt the zeitgeist. Since the millennium, stylistic trends have remained oppositionalneutral white cube versus context-specific design, or monist versus pluralist expression. New contrasts have emerged, and social forces still drive this increasi
  
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• Martin Roth says Brexit is a reason for his sudden resignation from the V&A

  30-09-2016 23:00
  
  Martin Roth, the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) since 2011, announced his resignation on 5 September. This came as a surprise, since it had been expected that he would carry on, possibly for another four years until he turns 65. When the news broke, Roth had no idea that just three days later Nicholas Serota would be announcing his departure from the Tate. Their resignations will have a fundamental change on Londons museum scene. In the week of Roths departure, he spoke to
  
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• Luxurious embroidery of the Middle Ages returns to England

  30-09-2016 23:00
  Between the 12th and 15th centuries, across Medieval Europe, English embroidery was widely revered. Opus Anglicanumthe Latin phrase for English work, which denotes this specific era of luxurious needleworkwas commissioned and collected by Popes, foreign cardinals and peers at home and abroad.One set of garments, known as the Hlar Vestments (around 1200), belongs to the National Museum of Iceland, but is coming to Londons Victoria and Albert Museum for the exhibition Opus Anglicanum, which opens
  
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• Hélio Oiticica: the artist who made relaxing into a work of art

  30-09-2016 23:00
  When the late Brazilian artist Hlio Oiticica unveiled Eden, a sprawling installation, at Londons Whitechapel Gallery in 1969, the public did not know quite what to make of it.  It is certainly a long way from those art exhibitions consisting only of pictures and labelled Dont touch, one perplexed critic wrote at the time.
  This month, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh plans to restage Edencomplete with a pool of water, sandy floors and a calvacade of closet-size roomsas part of
  
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• Cultural taskforce comes to the aid of quake-stricken Amatrice

  30-09-2016 23:00
  
  The fatal earthquake that struck central Italy in the early hours of 24 August, killing at least 295 people, has also dealt a severe blow to cultural heritage. A preliminary survey conducted by the specialist art squad of Italys military policethe Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturalein the immediate aftermath of the 6.2-magnitude earthquake identified 293 historic sites as having collapsed or been seriously damaged within a 20km radius of the epicentre, according to the Italian cultu
  
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• ‘New Geometries’ at Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia

  30-09-2016 22:55 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Will Our Phones Be Essential Tools When We Visit The Museum?

  30-09-2016 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Museum directors are grappling with how technology has changed the ways people engage with exhibits. But instead of fighting it, some institutions are using technology to convince the public that, far from becoming obsolete, museums are more vital than ever before. Here’s what those efforts look like.”
  
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• Designers Rank The Best Album Covers Of All Time

  30-09-2016 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  So what makes a good album cover design? It should make a statement and convey something of the character of the band and the music inside…
  
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• The Artist Who Appears Nude In Front Of Famous Nude Paintings Explains Why She Does It

  30-09-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Deborah de Robertis: “Traditionally the body of the model is objectified to serve the message of the artist. My work suggests the opposite – the viewer is subjugated by the gaze of the model. … When I inhabit the role of the models – whether it’s Olympia or Barbie – it’s not about reproducing them but reconceiving them. WhenI invite myself into an exhibition, this exhibition becomes mine.”
  
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• Arms or Legs or Butts or Guts

  30-09-2016 21:00 via artnews.com
  Reviews of shows on view in New York, by Lynda Benglis, Heather Guertin, Jessica Stockholder, Kenji Fujita, and more Read More
  
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• It's about time: Shelley Rice on Diane Arbus at the Met Breuer

  30-09-2016 20:40
  
  The exhibition Diane Arbus: In the Beginning, now on view at the Met Breuer in New York, begins with a single and surprising photograph. A newspaper seems to float near the center of a dark horizontal field, its pages blurred, its headlines barely perceptible. Left on the pavement to blow in the wind, the small, battered white object is engulfed, almost consumed, by the blackness surrounding it. There is no person in this picture, no one to return the photographers gaze. The sharp, immobile soc
  
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• How Christopher Rouse Encoded Love-Letters Into His Music

  30-09-2016 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At several points during the symphony, the code spells out her name over and over again; the variations are intended to make up “a kind of physical portrait of her,” Rouse says. “It’s a way of setting myself kind of an artificial challenge and then seeing if I can fulfill it successfully, if I can make music out of it,” he says.
  
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• Is It Possible To Read A Book ‘The Wrong Way’?

  30-09-2016 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Adam Kirsch: “The more you think about it, the less obvious it is that any use of a book can be ruled out in advance.”Anna Holmes: “If we’re interested in figuring out what’s wrong about reading, we might be better off determining what’s right and working backward from there.”
  
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• The Guardian view on positivity in art: wishful thinking only gets you so far | Editorial

  30-09-2016 19:45
  
  Too much should not be read into David Shrigley’s huge thumb on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar SquareAt the same time on Thursday as Liam Fox was giving his “Brexit means free trade” speech in Manchester town hall, being unveiled in Trafalgar Square was artist David Shrigley’s huge thumb – the symbol, according to the capital’s mayor, that London was open for business. What a happy coincidence. A giant thumbs-up neatly encapsulates the position of the Brexitee
  
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• What Kind Of Courage Does It Take To Exercise Free Speech?

  30-09-2016 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Numerous studies in behavioural psychology show how our individual conviction of what is true or right quails before the massed pressure of our peers.”
  
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• The Trouble With Travel Snapshots

  30-09-2016 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On the one hand, we have been encouraged to believe that we are no longer the sum of our products (as we were when we were still an industrial economy) but the sum of our experiences. On the other, we lack the ritual structures that once served to organize, integrate and preserve the stream of these experiences, so they inevitably feel both scattershot and evanescent. We worry that photographs or journal entries keep us at a remove from life, but we also worry that without an inventory of
  
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• Habitat: Obsessions—A Look at Aaron Curry’s Guitars

  30-09-2016 18:40 via artnews.com
  Habitat: Obsessions is a ten-part series of visits to the surprising nonart collections of art-world professionals.“I grew up obsessed with guitars,” L.A.-based artist Aaron Curry told me. “When I was young,  I used to cut up boxes and make cardboard guitars … Read More
  
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• Are We Close To Understanding The Science Of How The Brain Makes Thoughts?

  30-09-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If consciousness is, as it should be, an organized state of matter, we seem to be lacking an essential component to describe it. For comparison, a building has bricks and pumps and electrical currents controlled by on-off switches flowing through countless wires. It is a mechanical contraption, working firmly within a set of physical laws. We understand buildings, and can build and fix them because we know the underlying physical principles under which they operate. Likewise, it is plausi
  
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• ‘A Recrudescent Interest in Sublime Visions’: On Jack Whitten’s Early Paintings, in 1969

  30-09-2016 18:10 via artnews.com
  With a show of Jack Whitten’s ’60s paintings at Allan Stone Projects in New York, we turn back to two reviews from the ARTnews archives, from 1969 and 1970, of early shows by the New York–based artist. The reviews follow … Read More
  
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• Why Akram Khan Made ‘Giselle’ Into A Ballet About Migrant Workers

  30-09-2016 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As [dramaturg Ruth Little] and Khan explored their own ideas about Giselle, they realised that the ballet’s apparently formulaic simplicity was actually its strength … Most fruitful to them was exploring the underlying issue of power – the gulf of money and class that separates the aristocrats from the peasants in the ballet, and that dooms Albrecht and Giselle’s love to tragedy.”
  
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• Carlos Acosta On Finding Artists Who Will Surprise Us

  30-09-2016 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Hire anybody that shows skill and talent and give people the chance to surprise us. They would never have thought I would end up one day playing Romeo in the Royal Ballet, so the same thing has to be done for others – give them the chance to see what Romeo lies inside of them.”
  
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• How To Get Boys Into Ballet?

  30-09-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “So, how do some academies in Texas – and across the U.S. – get more boys to sign up for ballet? One way is free tuition. While girls can pay thousands of dollars a year for lessons and gear, boys can get lessons for as little as nothing.”
  
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• Lecturer in Arts Administration, University of Kentucky

  30-09-2016 17:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  The University of Kentucky seeks a dynamic and passionate faculty member to join the Department of Arts Administration team as a Lecturer in Arts Administration. The department offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees to over 150 students annually. The department values innovation in pedagogical models and the advancement of research in the field of Arts Administration.
  The faculty member will teach courses within the core curriculum of the Department of Arts Administration, serve as Direc
  
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• Gangsters' use of paintings as currency shows a profound belief in art

  30-09-2016 17:20
  
  How many bags of cocaine for a Van Gogh? This is the sense in which the mafia reveres priceless worksThe discovery of two stolen Van Gogh paintings in a house near Pompeii during an investigation into the Neapolitan crime syndicate the Camorra casts a fascinating light on gangs, art theft and Italy. Added to other occasional glimpses into the murky underworld of art, it suggests something surprising: that Italian gangsters, in their own way, revere art. The Camorra does not have the soft-toned i
  
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• Barbican Centre finally catches up with Jean-Michel Basquiat

  30-09-2016 17:18
  
  Prodigy who emerged from New York art scene to become one of 1980s’ most celebrated artists gets UK exhibitionHe was an art world sensation: young, handsome, charismatic, prolific, influential and pioneering. Yet not a single work by Jean-Michel Basquiat is in a public UK collection and nor has there been a major exhibition in the country that gave him one of his first breaks.The latter will change next year when London’s Barbican Centre stages the first large-scale exhibition in the
  
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• ARTnews Celebrates ‘Top 200 Collectors’ Release

  30-09-2016 17:10 via artnews.com
  September 29, 2016 at Neue GalerieARTnews was joined by advisors, dealers, collectors, and patrons to celebrate the publication of its Fall 2016 issue and the release of its annual “World’s Top 200 Collectors” list with a cocktail party and panel discussion at the … Read More
  
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• Seeing Cultural Appropriation And Clueless Privilege In Action, And Calling It Out

  30-09-2016 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  African-American artist Damon Davis on the work of Kelley Walker: “I sat in the audience listening to this man meander on and on to the crowd, interjecting the occasional art term like ‘form’ or ‘color,’ but never once giving the slightest explanation for why he used over-sexualized images of Black women and traumatic images of Black men being brutalized by police and dogs. … Now, what if I took pictures from the Holocaust and smeared cream cheese on them and
  
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• Photojournalism show in Moscow attacked by right-wing protesters

  30-09-2016 17:02
  
  Another a photography exhibition in Moscow was raided by protesters dressed as Cossacks, others in camouflage and a municipal legislatorthe third such attack in the Russian capital this week. The back-to-back attacks centred on images of Ukrainian soldiers who fought against pro-Russian rebels that are part of a photojournalism show at the Sakharov Center.
  On Wednesday, an artist named Anton Belikov splashed paint on pictures of Ukrainian soldiers by the photojournalists Sergei Loiko and Alexan
  
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• Ed Ruscha: the veteran artist on the pleasure of the text

  30-09-2016 16:58
  
  One of the most important living American artist is still refining his relationship to colour and text – and still chasing the desire to make great paintingsFor a time, Ed Ruscha thought of turning the sun 90 degrees. “I’ve looked at it for quite a while on its side and I’m beginning to feel like maybe it should be exhibited on its side,” he says of one of his latest works, Sun, Atom, leaning against the wall in his cluttered and sprawling Culver City studio. In the
  
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• Pittsburgh Symphony Musicians Go On Strike

  30-09-2016 16:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra musicians are on strike after unanimously rejecting calls for a 15-percent pay cuts, pension changes and staffing cuts they say are proposed by management.Musicians are actively protesting in front of Heinz Hall in downtown Pittsburgh. As a result of this strike, all performances scheduled to occur this weekend, including the John Williams event have been cancelled.”
  
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• Pittsburgh Symphony Musicians Strike: What They’re Saying

  30-09-2016 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Players: If Pittsburgh Symphony Management’s proposed cuts were realized, “many of the PSO’s finest Musicians will leave. The Orchestra will be unable to attract replacements of the same caliber. The reputation and stature of the Pittsburgh Symphony would forever be diminished.”
  
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• Petra, The Ancient City Carved From Desert Rock, Had Gardens, Fountains, And A Swimming Pool, Archaeologists Find

  30-09-2016 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Recent excavations at Petra have revealed a startlingly advanced irrigation system and water storage system that enabled the desert city’s people to survive – and to maintain a magnificent garden featuring fountains, ponds and a huge swimming pool. The engineering feats and other luxuries attest to the ancient Nabatean capital’s former splendor and wealth some 2,000 years ago.”
  
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• ‘Sex’, The Play That Landed Mae West In Jail For Obscenity, Returns To The Stage

  30-09-2016 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After a 10-month run on Broadway in 1927, the play was deemed by a grand jury to be such ‘obscene, indecent, immoral, and impure drama’ that it might corrupt ‘the morals of youth’. West was sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity, and travelled there in style – garlanded in roses, wearing silk underwear and riding in a limousine.” Who’s reviving it? A troupe called the Dirty Blondes.
  
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• US museums’ Cuban dreams deferred

  30-09-2016 16:00
  
  US museums have been dreaming of ambitious exchanges with Cuban institutions since the two countries renewed diplomatic ties last year. But they may have set their sights too high. Snarls in securing loans from Cuban state institutions caused an exodus of benefactors from the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York. Other US institutions are now bypassing government collections in favour of more reliable sources.In August, the chairman and five other trustees left the board of the Bronx Museum, ci
  
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• Gorilla masks, steel masterpieces and night terrors – the week in art

  30-09-2016 15:49
  
  Richard Serra’s latest epic metalwork hits London, while Louise Bourgeois heads to the Somerset countryside – plus the rest of the week’s art happeningsGuerrilla Girls
  The veteran cultural activists present disturbing data on the continuing male dominance of art, in a pair of London shows.
  • Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1 October–5 March; Tate Modern, London, 4–9 October. Continue reading...
  
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• Portugal Will Keep, Not Sell, 85 Mirós Repossessed From Failed Bank

  30-09-2016 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The paintings, estimated to be worth around 35 million euros ($39 million), came under state ownership in 2008 when the government nationalised the failed bank BNP … They were originally set for the auction block at Christie’s but withdrawn after public protest.”
  
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• Dancing Ostriches is an unsettling examination of female body image

  30-09-2016 15:24
  
  Paula Rego’s series’ distorted, distracted ballerinas raise difficult questions about art and empowerment Continue reading...
  
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• Now We Can Hear The First-Ever Computer Music – And The Computer Was Made By Alan Turing

  30-09-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Researchers in New Zealand say they have restored the first recording of computer-generated music, created in 1951 on a gigantic contraption built by the British computer scientist Alan Turing.”
  
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• Two Stolen Van Goghs, Missing For 14 Years, Recovered In Italy

  30-09-2016 14:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The paintings, Seascape at Scheveningen (1882) and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen (1884/85), early works van Gogh painted in Holland, were stolen from the Amsterdam [Van Gogh] museum very early one December morning” in 2002.
  
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• New York Dealers Busted With $4.5 Million Worth Of Illegal Ivory

  30-09-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On 22 September, three dealers who operate the Metropolitan Fine Arts and Antiques store in New York were arrested for selling ivory works of art without a license – a felony in a state under a law passed in 2014 to limit the ivory trade. Officials with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation raided the shop and found 126 objects totaling $4.5m – including two pairs of elephant tusks, one of which was seven feet long.”
  
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• Morning Links: Posthumous Zaha Hadid Projects Edition

  30-09-2016 14:44 via artnews.com
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• Milwaukee Symphony Set New Box Office And Attendance Records Last Season

  30-09-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The MSO recorded an 8 percent overall increase in single ticket sales and 20 sold-out performances. More than 200,000 people attended its shows over the season. … The organization said it also had a 32 percent increase in new attendees over the previous year.”
  
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• Busting Five Arts-Related Myths – Some Believed *By* The Audience, Others *About* It

  30-09-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Myth 1: Everyone wants to take part in arts activities. …”
  
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• New York City Starts $5 Million Fund For Women In Film And Theater

  30-09-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “New York is set to become the first city in the country with a major municipal program geared toward helping female filmmakers and theater-makers. The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment is to announce on Thursday a new five-part initiative to promote equality behind and in front of the camera, in film and television, as well as onstage.”
  
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• ‘It’s a Corrupt System and It’s Becoming More Corrupt’: The Guerrilla Girls Arrive at the Whitechapel Gallery in London

  30-09-2016 14:00 via artnews.com
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• Remembering The Old Metropolitan Opera House (It Wasn’t All Wonderful)

  30-09-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The relatively confined space in that crowded part of the city [just south of Times Square] meant that the old Met had a glorious auditorium with excellent acoustics and sightlines that often made it easier to see other audience members than the stage. It had very little space surrounding the stage, meaning that scenery sometimes had to be put out on the street. … Things were so tight that the chorus often rehearsed in Sherry’s, the restaurant in the old opera house.”
  
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• New Orleans’s Music Box Village Finds A Permanent Home

  30-09-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The initiative of the nonprofit New Orleans Airlift started back in 2011, and its assemblage of musical architecture, in which every structure is a playable instrument, has evolved into a large-scale experiment in reuse and collaboration. A cacophonous water tower, sonic telephone box, and shack of chimes are a few of the structures [musicians can play].”
  
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