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• untitled(they walk one way. then, they walk back the way they came.)

  23-10-2016 23:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  in portland oregon, as elsewhere, non profits compete to fund big idea projects. it isn’t dissimilar to artists competing for commissions from corporations. the egos involved are prickly.two men want to fund a 60 million dollar shelter in the pearl district.ecotrust has a 15 million warehouse in the pearl district that has a large freezer in it to store farmer’s meat so that it can be transported to other businesses.many in portland oregon, are not able to afford the rent and have le
  
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• Unknown Kirchner painting discovered beneath later canvas

  23-10-2016 23:00
  
  Technical tests on a work by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner at the Stdel Museum in Frankfurt revealed a second canvas underneatha painting called Szene im Caf (Cafe Scene). It dates from 1926, eight years after poor mental and physical health prompted the artist to leave Berlin for rural Switzerland.The painting on top, Sleigh Trip in the Snow (1927-29), was donated to the Stdel in 1987 by a Frankfurt businessman, Kurt Mllgaard. It was in Kirchners possession until his death in 1938 and was sold from hi
  
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• A Bronx tale of immigration and identity

  23-10-2016 23:00
  
  The second instalment of The Neighbours, an on-going exhibition series at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York that examines cultural uprooting, belonging and social mobility, opened this month with a dialogue between two concurrent solo shows on immigration, Andrea Bowers: Sanctuary and Andrea Aragn: Home (until 12 February 2017). Sanctuary features installations and drawings by the Los Angeles-based artist Bowers that were inspired by interviews she conducted with an undocumented Mexican
  
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• untitled(she thinks men need to do something to have sex with her. she thinks they are lazy.)

  23-10-2016 22:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  when did i see amanda? i saw her on monday. today is wednesday. it feels like she is still with me. when are we going to make sense? i can’t say i know what she does. she does what she does. what do you do?i want to be more sensitive about my hearing. what is hearing?i want to give this writer/nanny on twitter money. she asks for it on line. she has an app square cash i can use to pay her. there’s something about her i don’t like she complains like a writer does. she thinks men
  
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• So AT&T Just Bought HBO, CNN, And Possibly Your Cable Company

  23-10-2016 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Oh: “AT&T has reached a deal to buy Time Warner Inc. for $85.4 billion — a blockbuster marriage that would transform the telephone company into the nation’s largest entertainment company and a major force in Hollywood.”
  
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• ‘Moonlight’ In America

  23-10-2016 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This movie has a lot to say about that because it takes those people who have been marginalized — poor people, black people, gay people — and it puts them front and center. And I think we need more of that, frankly. We need more understanding of each other. We don’t need to build any more walls. We need to invite some more people to the table.”
  
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• How ‘The Internet Of Things’ (That Is, Refrigerators And DVRs) Got Hacked And Took Down Spotify, Twitter, And The New York Times

  23-10-2016 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Security researchers have been warning about these internet-of-things botnets since at least the summer. In September, a botnet composed of DVRs and CCTVs took down the blog of Brian Krebs, a prominent cybersecurity journalist. And on October 1, an anonymous developer posted source code online that allowed anyone to string a similar kind of botnet together.”
  
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• How To Write A Man Booker Novel

  23-10-2016 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I immersed myself in the expressive worlds of music, the filial act of copying, survival in an age of destruction, in the effort to understand how a person tries to be free. Bach’s Goldberg Variations played in my head and on the page, showing me how structural constraint – limitations on freedom – might provoke artistic creativity, individuality, resonance. To write a novel is to find many other ways of being alive.”
  
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• The Notorious RBG Finally Makes Her Operatic Debut

  23-10-2016 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some of her dialogue, which Justice Ginsburg will deliver in English in an opera that is being sung in French, has been rewritten with her in mind. So a line that may be unfamiliar to the devoted opera lovers who read websites such as Parterre Box will be readily recognizable to court watchers who spend their time on SCOTUSblog.”
  
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• The High That You Can Only Get While Performing

  23-10-2016 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It can be inspiring, or it can be the thing that eats you. I love living with that kind of intensity. I’m not an adrenaline junkie in any other way, but playing a great work, in real time, for an audience is exhilarating in a way that I need.”
  
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• The Return (To TV) Of Carol Burnett, With An Assist From Amy Poehler

  23-10-2016 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The ABC project, which does not yet have a title, will be a multicamera comedy about a family that is on the brink of buying a dream house though it comes with a catch: They have to live with the current tenant, an older actress played by Ms. Burnett.”
  
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• Portrait of Emma Hamilton bought by Lord Nelson to go on display

  23-10-2016 16:22
  
  Vigée Le Brun painting joins exhibition centred on extraordinary life of the woman famed for being Nelson’s mistressA voluptuous portrait of Emma Hamilton, commissioned by her husband and later bought by her lover Lord Nelson to save it from the shame of a public sale, is to be displayed in a major exhibition on her extraordinary life.“She was a really remarkable person, who has usually been seen only in the shadows of the men in her life. It is time to bring her back into the
  
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• Emma Hamilton portrait bought by her lover Lord Nelson to go on display

  23-10-2016 16:22
  
  Vigée Le Brun painting joins exhibition centred on extraordinary life of the woman famed for being Nelson’s mistressA voluptuous portrait of Emma Hamilton, commissioned by her husband and later bought by her lover Lord Nelson to save it from the shame of a public sale, is to be displayed in a major exhibition on her extraordinary life.“She was a really remarkable person, who has usually been seen only in the shadows of the men in her life. It is time to bring her back into the
  
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• Making Streaming More Accessible – And Interesting

  23-10-2016 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Something of a radical step forward for film accessibility is the ‘enhanced soundtrack version,’ which all but disregards the film’s visuals and instead constructs an entirely new version of the film through purely sonic means. Expressionistic sound design is used to create aural reconstructions of key episodes from Hull’s life, while additional excerpts from his diaries fill in any narrative gaps.”
  
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• Pippilotta Rist Is Trying To Reach More Than Just The Art-World Converted

  23-10-2016 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A video environment called ‘4th Floor To Mildness’ will invite visitors to take off their shoes and stretch out on secondhand beds that the New Museum has collected (and cleaned). The viewers will gaze toward the ceiling at two amoeba-shaped screens, on which will be projected watery footage that Ms. Rist, who lives and works in Zurich, filmed over the summer in a part of the Rhine that she knows by heart.”
  
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• How Do You Get The Attention Of A Nation Binge-Watching The Presidential Election?

  23-10-2016 15:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At BookPeople in Austin, Texas, summertime sales of general fiction titles fell 12% from last year, while science fiction took a 26% hit. ‘I guess they don’t need science fiction because they’re getting so much in politics,’ says Steve Bercu, who is co-owner of the 46-year-old store. Sales of books about politics and current events, he said, surged 45% during the same period.”
  
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• Perhaps Novels Should Appeal To The Brain, Not The Heart

  23-10-2016 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Aside from its astute selection of moving detail, art is constantly in the business of manipulating our emotions, as if this were an end in itself. This, after all, was Plato’s objection to the arts and every kind of artistic effect — that it was manipulative and potentially mendacious.”
  
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• Changing, And Perhaps Increasing, The Stories We Tell

  23-10-2016 15:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the literary world, the same has been true: people make decisions about which stories to tell; they make decisions about who gets to tell those stories, and to what kind of audience, which sends a subconscious message to readers. If I don’t see your story, then you must not exist; if I don’t see your story, that means it doesn’t deserve to be seen.”
  
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• Netflix Is Following Where Ava DuVernay And Oprah Led

  23-10-2016 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “All 13 episodes of the second season of ‘Marvel’s Jessica Jones’ will be directed by women, according to executive producer and showrunner Melissa Rosenberg.”
  
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• This Director Brought Millions Of Dollars – And Fans – To A Studio, So Why Isn’t She Honored, And Employed?

  23-10-2016 14:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘I went into the studio the Monday after Twilight opened to $69 million. I’d heard they give directors a car,’ she paused with a rueful laugh as the audience called out ‘what did you get?’ She said: ‘I got a mini cupcake.'”
  
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• In Kansas City, The Ailey Group’s Second Home Has A Mission Beyond Dance

  23-10-2016 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the third year in a row, the organization will convene a day-long symposium and town-hall meeting on Race, Place and Diversity. Over the last two years, a few hundred people have gathered for lunch, followed by break-out sessions and panels and an evening town hall to try to tackle these tension-filled topics.”
  
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• What’s English Theatre-making Like After The Brexit Vote?

  23-10-2016 14:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even when the report appears to say the obvious, it’s useful to be reminded of the state of play. Particularly that there is a direct connection between supply and demand. Lots of people go to the theatre in London because there are lots of theatres and shows on offer, which are easily accessible in terms of transport links. Underserved parts of the country have seen a drop in attendances, sometimes dramatically, in recent years.”
  
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• The Dreaded ‘Screen Time Wars’ May Be Coming To An End (As We All Give In)

  23-10-2016 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over the past decade, an increasing number of researchers, many educators, and not surprisingly, children’s media developers have pointed to a growing pile of studies that show how children, even at very young ages, can benefit from using media when it catalyzes conversation and is designed for learning.”
  
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• Latest Talks Yield Exactly Nothing In Fort Worth Symphony Strike

  23-10-2016 13:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ““The union and management agree that Fort Worth wants its orchestra back, and we want nothing more than the musicians to end their strike and return to work. … However, our ideas of how to accomplish this are in direct opposition.”
  
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• Surprise: The Pope Turned His Summer Palace Into A Museum

  23-10-2016 13:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Without ever having spent a night there, the pope ordered the apostolic palace and gardens at Castel Gandolfo, about 15 miles from Rome, be turned into a museum.”
  
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• What If They Gave A Diversity Panel And All Of The Writers On It Were White?

  23-10-2016 13:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You would think our sole purpose as writers at these panels is to broaden the understanding of white people, when we could you know, talk about writing. Worse, it’s the same talk we gave last year, and the year before that, and the year before that one, going back years, and decades. Either we’re not speaking loud enough, or clear enough, or maybe nobody is listening. Maybe a diversity panel should be all white.”
  
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• On my radar: Susan Greenfield’s cultural highlights

  23-10-2016 11:00
  
  The scientist and writer on The Affair, a Swedish arts centre and a book that tackles machine intelligenceBaroness Susan Greenfield was born in London and studied experimental psychology at Oxford, gaining her DPhil in 1977. Her work focuses on the physiology of the brain, with an emphasis on neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, and on the impact of 21st-century technologies on the mind, which she describes as “mind change”. She was named woman
  
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• Merkel at Fiac (but just in make-up)

  23-10-2016 10:46
  
  Last week, we spotted the maverick UK artist Simon Fujiwara poring over one of his paintings at the Fiac fair in Paris (until 23 October). Fujiwara pointed out that the particularly abstract work, entitled Masks (Merkel F6.1, 2016), depicted a famous facethat of the German chancellor Angela Merkel. The artist explained that the politicians very own make-up assistant outlined the face of Merkel in her own foundation powder, which Fujiwara amplified and converted into a varied range of images. It
  
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• Yves Klein review – all things blithe, beautiful and blue

  23-10-2016 08:00
  
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  Klein anticipated pop art with his spirit of mockery and fun, but there was more to the French artist than painting with naked women, as this rare show revealsYves Klein was a joker, a thinker and an extreme provocateur. In his dragonfly life – born in 1928, dead of heart failure at 34 – he became France’s most notorious artist. He patented a shade of blue – International Klein Blue, in fact just ordinary ultramarine pigment bound in polymer to preserve its
  
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• The unsung Madchester artist

  23-10-2016 07:05
  
  Matt Carroll, who created riotous art in the early 90s, is exhibiting with his sister Maria, who has Down’s. You may already know her work, discovers Paul FlynnTom and Mary Carroll raised nine children in their modest council house in Little Hulton, Salford. When daughter Maria was born with Down’s syndrome, her siblings would occasionally have to run down to the shops to have a word with local scallywags teasing her. So incensed was Tom by the treatment of kids with Down’s, he
  
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• We’re killing national treasures and closing our minds to great art | Laura Cumming

  23-10-2016 01:05
  
  The closure of Edinburgh’s Inverleith House and the wider assault on our cultural fabric diminish us allMy first encounter with modern art was in the botanical gardens in Edinburgh. I was four and just learning to read. On the walls of Inverleith House, a gracious Georgian mansion among the tall trees, was an enormous painting of a man with his arms defiantly crossed and the letters OK scrawled beneath like some terse approval. It seemed important that the artist had painted himself so muc
  
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• The greatest light show on Earth heralds Blackpool’s rebirth | Duncan Hodgson

  23-10-2016 01:05
  
  The town is playing host to a series of festivals, starting with a revamp of the famous IlluminationsLike many of the UK’s coastal towns, Blackpool has its fair share of challenges, with widespread poverty, a seasonal economy and a highly transient population.Like other coastal towns, it has turned to the arts in search of hope and prosperity. On the other side of the Pennines, Hull is set to become the UK City of Culture in 2017 and in Blackpool, in the next weeks, you will be as likely t
  
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