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• Sara VanDerBeek at Metro Pictures, New York

  20-10-2016 23:55 via artnews.com
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• Reading Books Has Always Been A Status Symbol Even Among Those Who Don’t Read Them

  20-10-2016 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The symbol of reading was, perhaps, bigger than the act of reading itself. Individuals sought to capture their devotion to books through painted portraits that depicted them deeply absorbed in reading a text. Paintings of people reading and portraits of individuals embracing a book became widespread in Renaissance art.”
  
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• On Moral Issues, Liberals Ponder And Conservatives Pounce

  20-10-2016 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Newly published research suggests … that conservatives decide ethical issues in an intuitive, automatic way [while] liberals are more likely to give such questions serious thought before arriving at an opinion. This difference between snap judgments and reason-based conclusions ‘may be a fundamental aspect of left-right political orientation’.”
  
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• What immortal hand or eye? Gallery dedicated to William Blake opens in San Francisco

  20-10-2016 23:00
  
  A gallery dedicated to the British Romantic poet and artist William Blake opened in San Francisco on 14 October. It is the first space to focus on his art since 1793, when Blake himself privately organised a show of his paintings in Lambeth, Londonbut failed to sell a single work.
  John Windle, a California-based bookseller who has dealt in Blakes work since the late 1960sand who recites Blakes poetry on a whim, and has sold more Blake than Blake ever didsays that creating The William Blake Gall
  
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• Wellcome Collection goes back to Bedlam, Roman Ondak’s 100 days of wood, time travel with William Kentridge and Tacita Dean’s LA stories

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  Bedlam: the Asylum and Beyond, Wellcome Collection (until 15 January 2017)The show opens with Eva Kottkovs extraordinary Asylum (2014), an installation of distorted photographs, architectural fragments andat timeslive body parts. The work was first shown at the 2013 Venice Biennale and forms a brilliant starting point to this important and disturbing exploration of the way in which we have viewed and (mis)treated mental illness over the centuries.
  From the early brutalities of the Bedlam madhou
  
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• The man who spent 40 years preserving Palmyra’s past

  20-10-2016 23:00
  
  The ancient city of Palmyra was captured by Isil in May 2015. The Islamic extremists not only blew up Roman buildings and destroyed monuments at the Unesco World Heritage Site, but also murdered the 83-year-old archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad, Palmyras long-time head of antiquities. The Russian-backed Syrian army retook the city in March.Among the first archaeologists to return to the 4,000-year-old city and assess the damage were two scientists from the University of Warsaw. They are part of a P
  
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• Tefaf makes New York debut

  20-10-2016 23:00
  
  You might have guessed that the first edition of The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf), which opens to VIPs in New York today, would be no ordinary affair. Tefaf New York is more than just a fair; its a cultural event, a cultural happening, says Michael Plummer, who is organising the two US editionsin autumn (22-26 October) and spring (4-9 May 2017)with his Artvest partner Jeff Rabin. They are working with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection and the Morgan Library to align th
  
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• Poop and pray: on domestic devotion in ancient Greece and Rome

  20-10-2016 23:00
  
  Alexandra Sofroniews Household Gods is a splendid publication on several counts. It is elegantly presented and the illustrations (of objects for the most part in the J. Paul Getty Museum) have been chosen with wit and sensitivity. The real strengths, however, lie in the sparkling text, which reflects the latest research in Greek and Roman religion, a topic that has witnessed substantial change over the past few decades. It used to be thought, for example, that religious activity in ancient Gree
  
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• Paris satellite fairs shine in the city of light

  20-10-2016 23:00
  
  As collectors descend on Paris this week for the Fiac fair (Foire Internationale dArt Contemporain), a number of satellite fairs are offering alternative buying experiences to the blue-chip contemporary art on show in the mothership at the Grand Palais.
  Asia Now (until 23 October) caters for a growing appetite for contemporary Asian art in Paris. The number of galleries participating in the second edition of the boutique fair dedicated to art from the region has leapt from 18 in 2015 to 34 this
  
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• Fiac keeps calm and carries on despite low US turnout

  20-10-2016 23:00
  
  The 43rd edition of the Fiac fair (Foire Internationale dArt Contemporain) opened its doors earlier this week against a backdrop of political and economic uncertainty in the US and Europe. US collectors were, dealers said, conspicuously absent from the fair, which was buoyed by European buyers who were out in force at Pariss Grand Palais.
   
  Since I started doing Fiac, I have never seen so few Americans. There are five good US collectors here, said the Paris-based dealer Thaddaeus Ropac, st
  
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• 'Art too is just a way of living': on Rachel Corbett's You Must Change Your Life

  20-10-2016 23:00
  
  In an admiring essay on his mentor, Roland Barthes, the art historian Yve-Alain Bois writes of how his teacher taught not through prescription, but through quietude. "Barthes insisted upon the silence of the master before his apprentices" for fear that his words would be taken as restrictive commandments. When he did speak, "the suggestions that Barthes made were nonviolent, since they so often lacked a precise formulation, but there was always a moral to what he said, an intimated morality." T
  
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• Art and emotion under the microscope

  20-10-2016 23:00
  
  The New York-based artist Nene Humphrey discovered a remarkable link between a cultural practice and neurology while working as an artist-in-residence in the lab of the neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux at New York University: the images she had been researching of the Victorian mourning ritual of braiding dead loved ones hair looked exactly like the neurons of the amygdala, the area of the brain that processes emotions, when viewed under a microscope, she tells The Art Newspaper. This inspired her
  
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• Anicka Yi awarded 2016 Hugo Boss Prize

  20-10-2016 23:00
  
  The New York-based artist Anicka Yi was named the 2016 recipient of the biennial Hugo Boss Prize, which is awarded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and sponsored by the German fashion house Hugo Boss. This is the 20th anniversary of the prize, launched in 1996, which gives contemporary artists an award of $100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The prizes boldfaced 2016 shortlist also included Tania Bruguera, Mark Leckeywho has a major New York sol
  
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• An American designer who made waves

  20-10-2016 23:00
  
  You probably did not know that the designer behind strapless dresses, beaded sweaters and other fashion staples was once a plainclothes spy for the United States government. Neither did the curator Petra Slinkard before her research for Making Mainbocher: the First American Couturier, the first comprehensive exhibition on the career of Main Rousseau Bocher, which opens at the Chicago History Museum in Chicago, Illinois on 22 October. The greatest discovery [while organising the show] is how com
  
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• 2016 Hugo Boss Prize winner Anicka Yi on her multi-sensory work

  20-10-2016 23:00
  The New York-based artist Anicka Yi was given the 2016 Hugo Boss Prize on 20 October. In this video, made when she was on the shortlist for the award, Yi discusses why she doesnt believe in good and bad smells, painting with bacteria and why she uses perishable materials in her work.
  
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• The Chinese Billionaire Who Wants To Take Over The Global Movie Business

  20-10-2016 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Since acquiring AMC Entertainment, the second-largest cinema chain in the US, for $2.6bn in 2012, Wang Jianlin, who is worth an estimated $32.5bn and has ties to the communist Chinese government, has been aggressively staking his claim on the industry. So far, he’s snapped up Europe’s biggest cinema group, Odeon and UCI, purchased the US production house Legendary Entertainment (the company behind the Dark Knight trilogy and Jurassic World), and boasted that he intends to soon buy on
  
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• Room East Gallery Drops Artists From Roster, Will Mount Historical Shows at Space

  20-10-2016 22:25 via artnews.com
  Lower East Side gallery Room East will no longer represent artists on its gallery roster and will instead stage historical shows, sources tell ARTnews. The new programming will begin next week, with a show of work by the filmmaker and photographer Hollis … Read More
  
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• The plastic arts

  20-10-2016 22:05
  
  Wish you had the sculpted beauty of Michelangelos David, or perhaps to look like you stepped out of a Raphael portrait? You could be in luckif you live in Russia. In what has been hailed as a world first, Moscows State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts has launched an art appreciation course for budding plastic surgeons from the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University. Natalya Manturova, who heads the universitys department of plastic and reconstructive surgery, proposed the course, sayi
  
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• Bad Ideas For How To Feel Good: Positive Psychology

  20-10-2016 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 1998, the American Psychological Association appointed a new president, Dr. Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania. Up until this point, Seligman was best known for his work in the 1960s administering electric shocks to captive dogs, but in his new role as president, he was now changing tack. Seligman used his inaugural speech to the association to declare the grand opening of a whole new branch of psychology, to be known as ‘positive psychology.'”
  
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• Has Satire Died? (And Is That Okay?)

  20-10-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The thing I’ve learned over the 30 years of doing it is that satire doesn’t work. It has the opposite effect. Our outrage turns into elation and a joke. It’s a release valve.”
  
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• Why Do People In Old Movies Talk Funny?

  20-10-2016 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As you probably noticed for the first time while watching TV late at night, actors in the Hollywood films of the ’30s and ’40s did not speak the way actors do now. That wasn’t because you were stoned; the elocution style really was different – for public figures in real life as well as in fiction films. (Think of FDR’s speeches.) Linguist John McWhorter explains why. (podcast)
  
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• Octobass – The Biggest Bass Fiddle You’ve Ever Seen

  20-10-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We can go pretty low,down to the lowest note on a piano, so, quite a bit lower than a double bass and actually lower than the tuba and the contrabassoon.” The instrument was invented in 1849 by luthier Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume in France.
  
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• White Flag Projects, St. Louis Nonprofit Space, Will Close

  20-10-2016 20:23 via artnews.com
  White Flag Projects, an alternative space that opened in St. Louis in 2006, announced today that it is shutting its doors, following a vote by its board. Its programming will conclude on October 29, it said in an email, when … Read More
  
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• Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin Have Collaborated With Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner in a Project for W Magazine

  20-10-2016 19:55 via artnews.com
  During Art Basel Miami Beach in 2011, Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin hosted a Kim Kardashian lookalike contest—sorry, “kontest”—at the Mondrian Hotel. Alongside Klaus Biesenbach and Dana Farouki, they endured 28 Kim impressions before bestowing the honor upon a performance artist … Read More
  
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• Dallas Museum of Art Appoints Anna Katherine Brodbeck Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art

  20-10-2016 19:55 via artnews.com
  Today, the Dallas Museum of Art announced that Anna Katherine Brodbeck has been appointed assistant curator of contemporary art. Brodbeck is set to leave her current position as associate curator at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and will … Read More
  
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• The All-Out Battle Over A Broadway Show That Just Started Previews

  20-10-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Threats of lawsuits are flying, people have been banned from the theater, and the creative team is fomenting revolt. And it’s all over . . . billing. Don’t laugh. Billing on Broadway is as important as holding territory on the Russian front.”
  
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• Ancient Adidas: Hoard Of Roman Shoes Found In England

  20-10-2016 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Volunteers on the annual excavations at Vindolanda Roman fort in Northumberland have unearthed an astonishing 421 shoes from a ditch. And one of the shoes is strikingly similar to the Adidas Predator football boot.”
  
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• Still the one: Phillips to offer fresh-to-market Clyfford Still canvas

  20-10-2016 19:00
  
  Phillips has revealed a highlight of its forthcoming 20th-century and contemporary art sale in New York on 16 November: a seldom seen, never before auctioned canvas by Clyfford Still. Estimated to make between $12m-$18m, the untitled painting from 1948-49 was acquired from the artist by the painter Edward Dugmore, his student at the California School of Fine Arts, and also passed through the hands of the Texas collector Edward Kitchen, before entering an East Coast collection about 20 years ago
  
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• Hepworth sculpture prize review – a brilliant beginning

  20-10-2016 18:56
  
  The Hepworth, Wakefield
  The four finalists for the UK’s newest sculpture prize open up a rich, contrary world of bubble spumes, fly-catchers and petrified forest
  White foam heaves itself up through transparent tubes, forming tottering columns that collapse in slow, serpentine cascades, subsiding into soapy clouds that melt into nothing in the circular pool below. First made in the 1960s, David Medalla’s Cloud Canyons remain ephemeral and beautiful things, in constant flux between for
  
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• Fermented Puns: Slavs and Tatars at Tanya Bonakdar Generate Some Culturally Complex Blends

  20-10-2016 18:37 via artnews.com
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• Fermented Puns: Slavs and Tatar at Tanya Bonakdar Generate Some Culturally Complex Blends

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• The Macarthur Genius Poet Who’s Giving Her $625,000 Prize To The “Racial Imaginary Institute”

  20-10-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Claudine Rankine is part of a group of thinkers who are dreaming up a “presenting space and a think tank all at once” where artists and writers can really wrestle with race. She wants it to be a “space which allows us to show art, to curate dialogues, have readings, and talk about the ways in which the structure of white supremacy in American society influences our culture.”
  
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• England’s Oldest Cookbook, Commissioned By Richard II In 1387

  20-10-2016 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Forme of Cury features nearly 200 recipes from a feast Richard and his uncle, John of Gaunt, held in September of that year. (includes 629-year-old dessert recipe)
  
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• Have You Heard Of The “Museumization” Of Migration?

  20-10-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The “museumization of migration,” as one academic has put it, is a significant shift in the history of museums. But the resulting exhibitions deserve as much attention for how they obscure the West’s new relationship to migrants as for how they clarify it.
  
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• ‘I Feel Pretty Good’ – Beach Boy Brian Wilson Talks To Scott Simon

  20-10-2016 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While there’s much to process from his past, Wilson is living in the present, touring with a band for the 50th anniversary of The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds. … We reached him in Portland, Ore., as he prepared for a sound check. He seemed courteous, but wary: a man who prefers to express himself in song.” (audio)
  
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• Yves Klein review – a superheated plunge into the wild blue yonders

  20-10-2016 16:44
  
  Tate LiverpoolFrom the Fire Paintings to the works made with women’s bodies, this is a sublime homage to the visionary artistI’ve got the blues and it’s beautiful. Sinking into the art of Yves Klein is like diving into a clear blue sea – and finding it’s far deeper and stranger than you’d expected. Below the luminous shallows are opaque depths and a terrible immensity. Fluorescent fish seem to dart out of underwater caves.The sea seems important to Klein. Some
  
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• Netflix Says It Will Spend $6 Billion On Content

  20-10-2016 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Netflix is promising two big highlights for 2016 [sic]. For viewers, there’ll be 1,000 hours of original new shows, part of a planned $6 billion in spending on content. And for investors there’ll be serious profits for the first time in the company’s history.”
  
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• Dance’s Bessie Awards Finally Include (A Little) Money

  20-10-2016 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The hard work of dancing is too often undernoticed and underpaid. Enter the New York Dance and Performance Awards, better known as the Bessies, which bestow some much needed recognition and a touch of glamour on the profession once a year, if not a whole lot of money – though this year’s ceremony, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday, began with an announcement that all nominees would receive a $500 honorarium. (It’s a start?)”
  
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• An Exotic Dancer Tells How Work Has Changed In The Internet Era

  20-10-2016 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A lot of people don’t come out for the companionship anymore. They can get it in other ways for much cheaper. Why go to a strip club just to live out the fantasy, when you can pay $100 dollars for somebody to sleep with you for the evening and actually get the fantasy come to you? … We don’t really get a lot of people who are paying customers anymore. We get a lot of people who are looking for girlfriends.”
  
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• Christie’s Will Sell Gun That Verlaine Used to Shoot Rimbaud

  20-10-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  It’s not often that a press release from an auction house has you racing through a dog-eared copy of the complete works of Arthur Rimbaud before 9 a.m., but here I am, flipping to the poet’s immortal words about his tortured relationship … Read More
  
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• Lincoln Center President Who Suddenly Resigned Last Spring Turns Up In Hippest Brooklyn

  20-10-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Jed Bernstein, whose tenure as the president of Lincoln Center was cut short … after he failed to disclose a relationship with an employee, is crossing the river for his next post: He is now an adviser at National Sawdust, the new-music space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.”
  
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• Nasty War Over Three Little Words At Broadway Musical Based On ‘War And Peace’

  20-10-2016 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Five years ago, the small nonprofit theater company Ars Nova commissioned an up-and-coming composer to write his wacky dream project” – Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812. “In a stunning and abrupt severing of an unusually close partnership, the nonprofit and the show’s commercial producers … are suddenly in a bitter battle” over three words in the show’s Playbill.
  
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• NADA New York Moves From May to March, and From the Lower East Side to Hudson Square

  20-10-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
  After holding the first five editions of its annual New York fair during Frieze Week in May, the New Art Dealers Alliance announced today that its 2017 iteration will take place in March, coinciding with the Armory Show. It will also leave Basketball City, … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Seized Monet Edition

  20-10-2016 14:55 via artnews.com
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• ‘I Was Having Conversations With Myself’ – Soprano Sings Two Roles In Same Performance Of ‘Traviata’

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  “Less than six hours before the curtain was to rise for the final performance of Pittsburgh Opera’s production of La traviata, the lead singer, Danielle Pastin, was sick, and it was unclear whether she would be able to perform. Was [Claudia] Rosenthal – the understudy who had been playing the small role of Annina – prepared to play Violetta instead? … Oh, and by the way, she would still have to sing Annina’s part, too.”
  
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• Nude Hillary Clinton Statue (It Had To Happen Eventually) Appears Briefly In New York

  20-10-2016 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Two months after guerrilla artists put up nude statues of Donald Trump in five US cities, “the grotesque caricature of the Democratic candidate appeared outside the Bowling Green station during morning rush hour on Tuesday [showing] Clinton with hoofed feet and a Wall Street banker resting his head on her bare breasts. The statue was up for less than three hours before an enraged woman toppled it over and started yelling at the statue’s creator.” (includes video)
  
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• Yoko Ono’s First Public Artwork In The U.S. Unveiled In Chicago

  20-10-2016 14:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The installation, titled Sky Landing, is in Jackson Park, which will also be the site of the Obama Presidential Library. “[It] consists of 12 steel lotus petals and mounds that form the yin yang symbol to symbolize peace.”
  
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• Foam machines, scented curtains and cherry pips feature in first Hepworth Sculpture Prize show

  20-10-2016 14:06
  
  The inaugural Hepworth Sculpture Prize exhibition, which opens tomorrow (21 October) at The Hepworth Wakefield in the north of England, highlights the malleable nature of contemporary sculpture. Works by the young London-based artist Helen Marten, who has also been nominated for the Turner Prize this year, could equally be described as paintings, prints or installations. Among her seven works on show The Hepworth Wakefield are screen-printed leather canvases decorated with a number of appendage
  
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• Arts And Culture Make Cities Safer And Stronger, Says UNESCO Report

  20-10-2016 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “According to the report’s findings, the best measure to prevent such negative effects” of rapid urbanization as social inequality, lack of parks and public spaces, the growth of slums, and even violence “is to fully integrate cultural components into urban strategies from the start.”
  
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• Neville Wakefield and Olympia Scarry to Return to Gstaad With Show Featuring Sarah Morris, Ragnar Kjartanssen, More

  20-10-2016 14:00 via artnews.com
  Gstaad! What a town, that glistening ski hamlet of billionaires in the Swiss Alps, home to $145 million chalets, $30,000 lunches, and $100,000-a-year boarding schools. If you can’t pronounce it, you have no business going there.And like other places of extreme wealth, … Read More
  
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