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• Dieter Meier at Galerie Judin, Berlin

  14-10-2016 23:33 via artnews.com
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• Audience Research Program Manager

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  The Audience Research Program Manager supports a diverse and growing portfolio of cultural organizations in surveying their audiences and visitors.
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  Deadline: Tuesday, November 8, 2016SummaryWolfBrown seeks a uniquely qualified individual to manage a diverse and growing portfolio of audience research clients. This is a full-time position, located in our San Francisco office.Firm BackgroundWolfBrown is a leading provider of market
  
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• Tania Bruguera Is Running for President of Cuba, and Other News From the Creative Time Summit in Washington, D.C.

  14-10-2016 23:14 via artnews.com
  Big weekend in Washington, D.C.! The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s Ragnar Kjartansson show opened this morning to the public, after a rollicking opening reception and dinner last night. That’s just steps away from the East Building of the National … Read More
  
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• With the war in mind, Aga Khan Museum looks to the history of Syria

  14-10-2016 23:00
  As the death toll in Syria continues to rise and with no end to the civil war in sight, a Canadian institution is due to present an exhibition documenting 5,000 years of Syrian heritage.
  Syria: a Living History, which opens this month, includes around 50 objects ranging from Mesopotamian artefacts to paintings by contemporary artists, which together reflect the continuity of artistic traditions.
  Syria was one of those topics that we just had to do, says the museums director, Henry Kim, stressing
  
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• Gifts from Fiji make their way to Norwich

  14-10-2016 23:00
  Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific, at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich (15 October-12 February 2017), is essentially about relationships. Gift-giving is central to Fijian culture, so UK museums house a treasure trove of Fijian objects. The lions share of these were assembled in the 19th century by British nationals living in the South Pacific archipelago, which became a British colony in 1874. Expats went mad for Fijian art and artefacts, says Karen Jacobs, who co-organised the
  
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• Artists In LA Rise Up Against Influx Of New Galleries In Their Neighborhood

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  “Activists from a loose coalition called the Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing and Displacement are demanding that the galleries leave… Artists who didn’t grow up in Boyle Heights, they look at Boyle Heights as a blank canvas. They don’t realize they are painting over another work of art.”
  
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• Stephen Fry: I Hate Dance! (A Meditation – A Rant, Really – Against Moving)

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  Directed, choreographed and performed by the US dancer and filmmaker Jo Roy, the result is a delightfully charged piece of performance art that’s utterly engaging, whichever side of the dance divide you tap your feet.
  
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• Mr. Kjartansson Goes to Washington: Ragnar on His New Survey at the Hirshhorn Museum

  14-10-2016 22:02 via artnews.com
  Melissa Chiu first encountered the work of Ragnar Kjartansson at the Venice Biennale in 2009. Kjartansson was representing his homeland, Iceland, by staging a performance for the entirety of the exhibition, six months, in which he inhabited a crumbling palazzo … Read More
  
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• Making ‘Pictures’: A Short History of Douglas Crimp’s Famous Show at Artists Space in 1977

  14-10-2016 21:34 via artnews.com
  With Douglas Crimp’s memoir, Before Pictures, having recently been released, below is a short history of his legendary show “Pictures,” held first at Artists Space in New York in 1977. The show included work by Troy Brauntuch, Jack Goldstein, Sherrie … Read More
  
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• The Public Acclaim And Private Grief Of The Public Theatre’s Oskar Eustis

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  “His 16-year-old son, Jack, took his own life nearly two years ago. Now, Mr. Eustis, with his family, faces the kind of soul-searching for which there can be no preparation. How to hold on and move forward at the same time. What it means to be a public figure with a private grief. How he thinks about the work he does and the shows he sees. The tragedy coincided with a time of extraordinary success in Mr. Eustis’s professional life.”
  
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• Here Are The Dominos In The $250 Million Old Master Fakes Scandal

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  “This calls into question the long-held belief that art history experts can identify the hand of a master simply by looking at a work, and could have major implications for the Old Master market moving forward.”
  
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• Sales Of Bob Dylan’s Books Soar And Sell Out

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  “Dylan’s memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, jumped from No. 15,690 on Amazon’s best-seller list on Wednesday night to No. 278 in the wake of the Nobel news, and it is now out of stock. Meanwhile, a bound compilation of Dylan’s lyrics, The Lyrics: 1961-2012, hopped from No. 73,543 to No. 209 in the same time frame. (Dylan’s music also saw the effect, with Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits and Blonde on Blonde making it to Amazon’s top 25 for CDs and vinyl by Thursda
  
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• Oiseries work both ways: on exchanges between China and the West

  14-10-2016 19:39
  
  Qing Encounters examines interactions in visual culture between China and the West in the long 18th century (1680-1830). Many books look at the impact of Qing (1644-1912) culture on Europe, but here the encounters are considered from both an Eastern and Western perspective. Ways of ordering information are as individual as fingerprints and here 16 essays are arranged in four parts: collection and display; knowledge and information exchange between China and the West; modes and meanings of (adopt
  
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• An Artwork Is Damaged In Transit, Setting Off A Fascinating Insurance And Authentication Battle

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  If the piece can be repaired does the artist have to do it? If not, does the piece then lose its value because it’s no longer authentic? And who pays what to whom?
  
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• New York Armory’s New Director Defines The Immersive Arts Experience

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  In an age when it has become common to consume entertainment on hand-held devices, Pierre Audi said, the appeal of multisensory immersion in a cultural event is growing: “Nowadays we are attracted to it because we are naturally — and it’s healthy — becoming uncomfortable with the ritual of going to a concert, business as usual.”
  
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• Prosecutor recommends four-year prison sentence and €250m fine for Guy Wildenstein in Paris trial

  14-10-2016 18:56
  
  On Thursday, 13 October, French prosecutors recommended sentencing in their closing arguments in the tax fraud and money laundering trial involving members of the Wildenstein art-dealing dynasty. The high-profile case has mined how the Franco-American family handled its assets, including an art collection of more than 2,500 works, following the death of Daniel Wildenstein in 2001 and his son, Alec Wildenstein, in 2008.
  The prosecutor requested four years in prison, two behind bars and two suspe
  
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• The War at Home

  14-10-2016 18:54 via artnews.com
  On shows in New York: Jeffrey Joyal at David Lewis, Marianne Vitale at Invisible-Exports, Calvin Marcus at Clearing, and Watteau at the Frick Read More
  
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• How Do You Measure Aesthetic Value? This Researcher Has Some Ideas

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  “For arts professionals, curators and artists, my research shows that evaluative measures (qualitative or quantitative) are most useful when selected and combined in ways that take into account how people encounter an exhibit in practice, and how they observe each other’s actions and share aesthetic experiences in the course of social interaction.”
  
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• For First Time Since Civil War, Beirut’s National Museum Has All Its Galleries Open

  14-10-2016 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The National Museum of Beirut, which stood on the deadly Green Line during the Lebanese civil war, has reopened fully to the public after more than 40 years. On 7 October, [dignitaries] inaugurated the restored basement galleries dedicated to Lebanon’s ancient funerary art.”
  
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• This painting is a masterpiece of love and war – Britain must break the bank to keep it

  14-10-2016 18:02
  
  Jacopo Pontormo’s Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap could soon belong to the National Gallery after a £19m government grant – but only if another £11m can be found. It’s a painting full of romance and political anger, and worth every pennyThe National Gallery has only got until 22 October to buy Jacopo Pontormo’s Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap (1530), a masterpiece of Florentine mannerism that is currently subject to a government export ban. It has already been s
  
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• Klein turns blue, Rodin dances and Turner goes home – the week in art

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  Yves Klein heads to Liverpool, while Manchester hosts the masterful printmaker Marcantonio Raimondi – plus the rest of the week’s art happeningsYves KleinThe man who patented his own colour comes to Merseyside in what should be a fascinating encounter with one of modern art’s most charismatic shamans.• Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, 21 October-5 March. Continue reading...
  
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• How The Corruption Of The Bolshoi Mirrors The Decay (And Resilience) Of Russia

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  Simon Morrison describes “the thuggish Bolshoi as having survived revolution after revolution because the “narrative respects its own laws of storytelling,” the struggle time and again the perfection of ballet’s eternal laws. “To dance, after all, is to condition the body, and with it the mind, to let go,” he writes. Yet it is this very inability to let go—to let anything go—that has divided what used to unite the love of millions.”
  
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• Staffers At Versailles Indicted For Selling Counterfeit Tickets

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  “First it was suspected counterfeit chairs, and now, counterfeit tickets – the Palace of Versailles is having a rough year. Five employees of the opulent tourist attraction were indicted for fraud on Monday, after French police confirmed a fake ticket conspiracy suspected by innocent colleagues.”
  
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• Caravaggio: the light that never goes out

  14-10-2016 16:55
  In a show about the artist’s revolutionary influence, his own enduring mystery stands out
  
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• Snapshot: ‘Lynn Saville: Dark City’

  14-10-2016 16:54
  The photographer documents nocturnal New York, from spectral images of darkening skies to deserted buildings
  
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• The Economy Isn’t Like A Machine – It’s More Like An Ant Colony

  14-10-2016 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mainstream economics is built on the premise that the economy is a machine-like system operating at equilibrium. … The system might experience shocks, but the result of all these minute decisions is that the economy eventually works its way back to a stable state. … But why not look at the economy in terms of the messy complexity of natural systems?”
  
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• The Art Market: Cautiously optimistic?

  14-10-2016 16:26
  Low pound boosts sales; Iranian works re-emerge; faking scandal
  
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• This Should Be A Perfect Time For Nancy Grace, But Her Show Just Got Cancelled. What Happened?

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  “The past few years have been dominated by headlines about criminal justice and sexual assault – the latter has lately consumed even the coverage of the 2016 campaign. The cultural appetite for grim true crime storytelling, meanwhile, has never been so keen. We are seemingly more susceptible than ever to both Grace’s material and her method, to narratives about sexual violence and to blunt outrage. What happened to Nancy Grace?” Laura Bennett figures it all out.
  
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• General Manager – Gibney Dance

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  Over the past five years, Gibney Dance has experienced phenomenal expansion and growth through the establishment of an integrated complex of sixteen spacious studios. Today, Gibney Dance Centers are the creative hub for the NYC dance and performing arts community, operating a comprehensive roster of programs and services, as well as cultivating and maintaining partnerships with some of the country’s most renowned and respected artists, presenters, and social service organizations.
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• What Would Shakespeare Make Of All These Novelists Reimagining His Plays?

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  Adam Gopnik, reviewing several titles in the Hogarth Shakespeare Project: “We are supposed to say that he would be pleased, but in truth he would be puzzled. … The low-key, chastened, anti-dramatic movement of Anne Tyler’s imagination – no marvels or events, really, just inner action rebounding off half-spoken idea – would have baffled him. This sells? He was used to getting half of London on their asses for a play, and he knew you needed bloody scenes and children
  
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• Broadway’s Only African-American Lead Producers Talk Shop

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  “Stephen C. Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey are out to change the game on Broadway. The only black lead producers in that space, the pair runs a company, Front Row Productions, which has as its explicit goal to diversify the Great White Way. Among their credits: They brought Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed to Broadway last season and are currently working to bring both The Wiz and Black Orpheus to Broadway.”
  
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• Creativity Is Not What A Lot Of People Think It Is

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  “There’s a critical misunderstanding of the over-used C word. The first thing most of us think of when we hear that someone is creative is: artist, poet, musician, or entrepreneur. That’s not to say that creative people don’t fall into those categories, but what I’m suggesting is that creativity is a state of mind rather than a set of skills in a particular area.”
  
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• Why Are Classical Audiences Fascinated By Child Prodigies?

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  “Is it a sense of magic, or the feeling that perhaps a higher power does exist and bestows talent upon the chosen? Is … Is it the victory of nurture over nature, like a tamed tiger at Siegfried and Roy’s? To be able to juggle, all you need is excellent physical coordination. The spectacle of a child playing a Scarlatti sonata is more than that – it can be seen as a kind of acculturation to a specific, Western tradition. A kid playing adult music is performing adult emoti
  
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• Morning Links: A-Level Art History Courses Edition

  14-10-2016 14:46 via artnews.com
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• So Who Nominates Writers For The Nobel Prize, Anyway?

  14-10-2016 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Nobel Prizes are always shrouded in secrecy, the prize for literature, which will be announced tomorrow morning, no less than the rest. But we do know something about the process.”
  
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• He’s A Ballet Star, A Drag Queen, And A Pop Singer

  14-10-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Pushing boundaries is something of a habit for [James] Whiteside, 32, who joined American Ballet [Theater] as a soloist in 2012 and became a principal a year later. Yes, he professionally plays Prince Charmings, but he also leads alternative artistic lives: as a pop singer, JbDubs, and drag queen, Uhu Betch.”
  
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• America’s Oldest Music Group

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  “Music has been a part of America’s history since the very beginning. In fact, America’s oldest continuously active professional music organization predates Washington, D.C.”
  
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• It Took 30 Years To Get ‘Dreamgirls’ To The West End, Says Producer

  14-10-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sonia Friedman: “And so for years and years, many great producers have tried and been thwarted. I just kept persisting, and anyone who knows me knows I don’t give up. I just kept trying to get the rights. I tried so many times and failed.”
  
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• National Museum of Beirut opens basement for first time since civil war

  14-10-2016 13:43
  The National Museum of Beirut, which stood on the deadly Green Line during the Lebanese civil war, has reopened fully to the public after more than 40 years. On 7 October, the Lebanese prime minister Tammam Salam and the Italian foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni inaugurated the restored basement galleries dedicated to Lebanons ancient funerary art. The project was funded more than 1m by the Italian government and supported by Italian conservators.With this initiative the museum finally has the t
  
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• American History, Captured In GIFs

  14-10-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ernest Hemingway having a drink,astronaut John Glenn in his Mercury spacesuit, even theUS Constitution are among the GIF glimpses of American history released by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on GIPHY. The collection launched last month as a shareable portal into the National Archives Catalog.”
  
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• Mike Kelley’s Framed And Frame: a psychosexual ode to LA

  14-10-2016 13:00
  
  The American arist’s vibrant and scuzzy work is an amalgamation of Chinatown, punk and lubeThe late, great LA art maverick’s work is likely to make you think: “What the hell am I looking at?” In one room is a sprawling mass of concrete, sprayed with dingy polka-dots and studded with buckets and grinning Buddhas. In another is a brick and chainlink enclosure. It’s a replica of a famed wishing well in LA’s Chinatown that has seen better days. Continue reading...
  
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• From English woodlands to war: the pioneering paintings of Paul Nash

  14-10-2016 13:00
  
  Nash lost his heart to the English countryside – and his illusions in two world wars. A major retrospective coming to Tate Britain gives a more complete picture of a modern masterPaul Nash is arguably the greatest war artist Britain has produced. The works that first earned him real renown, We Are Making a New World and The Menin Road, are iconic images of the trenches: with their splintered tree stumps and lumpy mud seas, they shockingly captured the annihilation of nature at bomb-blasted
  
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• UK professors condemn axing of art history A-level

  14-10-2016 11:25
  
  UK university academics have reacted angrily to the announcement that the last exam board in England to offer A-level art history will drop the subject from 2018. The move by London-based AQA means that art history, which is taught mainly at private schools, will vanish from the curriculum.Kevin Phillips, the chief executive of AQA, says in a statement that the existing specification is challenging to mark and award because of the specialist nature of the topics, the range of options, difficult
  
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• Simon Fujiwara: Joanne review – a weird journey out of sex scandal, via avocado

  14-10-2016 10:34
  
  Photographers’ Gallery, London
  In another of his compellingly odd investigations into the slippery nature of identity, Fujiwara creates a disturbingly sterile portrait of his old teacher Joanne Salley as she attempts to move on from a topless photo scandalBland, banal and weirdly repulsive, Simon Fujiwara’s latest video installation is all surface, plumbing the shallows of a life gone slightly wrong. Fujiwara’s Joanne is a rescue attempt, overhauling the public image of a woman
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.13.16

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  Well, I think it’s thrilling that Bob Dylan won his Nobel prize. One of the most profound artists alive today. Someone who goes very deep in me. … read more
  AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-10-13Colliding Ideas
  Tere O’Connor Dance appears at the Joyce Theater in the second week of NY Quadrille. … read more
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• Sjón is Future Library's next recruit to become a 22nd-century author

  14-10-2016 08:30
  
  The Icelandic writer joins Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell in creating a work to be locked away in Norway until 2114, as part of Katie Paterson’s art installationThe acclaimed Icelandic author Sjón has been named as the third of 100 writers who will contribute to artist Katie Paterson’s Future Library, an artwork spanning 100 years which will see each manuscript locked away unseen until 2114, when the collection of 100 texts is finally revealed.Margaret Atwood was Future Li
  
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• The Rise, Fall, And Resurrection Of India’s Oldest Surviving LGBT Magazine

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  “For over a decade [from 1990], Bombay Dost challenged social taboo by helping readers come out and come into their own. Fulfilling that mission wasn’t easy, and the magazine briefly shut down in 2002 due to logistical difficulties. When it returned in 2009, Indian law had briefly become more hospitable to gay people. Today, however, Bombay Dost faces a new challenge: As it competes with online publications, the magazine must make the case for the print product, and its persevering p
  
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• The Getty Leadership Institute – Apply Now for 2017 Programs

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  Executive Education for Museum Leaders. The Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate University is accepting applications for GLI 2017 and NextGen 2017. Join a dynamic network of 1,600 alumni worldwide. GLI blended-learning programs are academically rigorous and address current topics in the museum field. Applications are due in January 2017.
  GLI 2017Online: May 15-27, 2017
  Residency in Claremont, California: June 9-24, 2017
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• When I Started My Own Theater Company At Age Eight

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  Actor Finn Whitrock writes about the summers he spent with his parents at Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts, and his he and his friends “would arrange five or six scenes from Shakespeare, rehearse them on our own time in the sun-drenched Berkshire afternoons and perform them for the adult company after one of their Mainstage shows.”
  
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• UK Decides To Phase Out Art History Exams Over Protests Of Art History Teachers

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  “Earlier this year, the board sent out a new history of art syllabus for consultation, which received widespread approval – but now it says that it has decided not to develop it for teaching in 2017. Students taking the current course will be unaffected and will be able to take their AS-level exams in 2017 and A-level exams in 2018, says the board. But this news means that once that course is phased out under government rules, they will be the last to take history of art fo
  
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