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• Cincinnati Symphony CEO Named New Head Of Interlochen

  27-10-2016 23:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A nonprofit, Interlochen includes one of the nation’s most renowned arts camps, which draws 2,500 students each summer for intensive work in seven arts disciplines in a nature setting. The center also has a 500-student fine arts boarding school, an acclaimed concert series and a public radio station. Its alumni include opera legend Jessye Norman, pop singer Josh Groban and conductor Lorin Maazel.”
  
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• Marian Goodman Accepts the Leo Award at the 2016 ICI Benefit, Discusses Riding on Motorcycles with Larry RIvers

  27-10-2016 23:34 via artnews.com
  With so many annual fundraising galas here in New York, all of them with distinguished honorees to speak at the end to help drum up funds for various arts organizations, you would think that someone would have gotten around to honoring … Read More
  
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• Long may he continue: on John Berger at 90

  27-10-2016 23:25
  
  A number of books have been published to celebrate John Bergers 90th birthday this month, but this review focuses on four: two compilationsPortraits and Landscapesa collaboration with John Christie, and a volume of new essays. Portraits is a vast and nourishing compendium of Bergers essays that begins with a new preface by the master in which the first line is unequivocal: I have always hated being called an art critic. He admits, however, that he operated as such for a decade (mostly for the Ne
  
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• First Look At George Lucas’s Futuristic Plans For A San Francisco Museum

  27-10-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Call it hedging your bets, call it beefing up your odds, call it the architectural equivalent of quite publicly asking two people to prom on the same day: The dual-track proposal is an unusual gambit by any measure. And it suggests that rather than feeling chastened enough by those prior defeats to reassess his sales pitch, to slow down and rethink the plans for the museum in a wholesale way, Lucas is instead growing ever more impatient to get a deal done.”
  
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• Photography Review

  27-10-2016 23:00
  Whos collecting photography in London, Paris and San Francisco
  
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• Latin American women take centre stage at Bogotá’s Artbo fair

  27-10-2016 23:00
  
  From Clara Peeters at the Prado in Madrid to the Guerrilla Girls at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, female artists around the world are being reappraised. At the Artbo fair (Feria Internacional de Arte de Bogot), which opened its 12th edition in the Colombian capital of Bogot this week (until 30 October), Latin American women are also in the spotlight.
  For the Proyectos (projects) section, Jens Hoffmann, the director of special exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, has drawn inspirati
  
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• Benin bronze, sold off by British Museum in 1950, returns to market

  27-10-2016 23:00
  
  A Benin bronze sold off by the British Museum for around 200 in the 1950s came back on the market at Quinns Auction Galleries in Falls Church, Virginia on 1 October with an estimate of $800,000-$1.2mbut failed to find a buyer.
  The 16th-century plaque, depicting a warrior chief holding a ceremonial sword, was among 500 objects offered from the collection of the New York-based African-American artist, collector, dealer and musician Merton Simpson, who died three years ago. Photographs showed that
  
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• Overnight Earthquakes Damage More Italian Heritage, Church Collapses

  27-10-2016 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 5.4-magnitude and 5.9-magnitude tremors near Visso in the Marche region follow a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that destroyed the town of Amatrice, 70km to the south, on 24 August, killing at least 295 people. The impact was felt in Rome, Naples and the Veneto coast, according to Italian press reports.”
  
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• Why Do Witches Ride Broomsticks?

  27-10-2016 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Before the Wicked Witch of the West or Harry Potter took flight on the spindly cleaning tool, the image first appeared in the 15th century.” You may not be surprised to read that the depiction was an attack on both sexuality and heresy.
  
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• Tefaf takes Manhattan

  27-10-2016 22:00
  
  Tefaf made its much-anticipated American debut in New York last week, drawing some 15,000 visitors during its run from 22 to 26 October. The Park Avenue Armorys dusky interior was transformed for the European Fine Art Fair with airy scrims, pale carpeting and cascading flower curtains by the Dutch designer Tom Postma, while champagne flowed and oysters were shucked on the spot for the well-heeled, if rain-damp, preview crowd on Friday, 21 October.The fair, announced in February, joined with the
  
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• Avalanche of artists in Gstaad for Elevation 1049

  27-10-2016 21:38
  
  Artists are running for the (Swiss) hills once again with the launch early next year of the third edition of Elevation 1049, the biennial event that takes place in and around Gstaad (3 February-19 March). The eagerly anticipated show in the snow, curated once again by the independent curator Neville Wakefield and the artist Olympia Scarry, is based on avalanches, their power, dynamics and the unexpected, according to a project statement. Wakefield says: The curatorial impulse of this winters sho
  
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• Who picks up the garbage after the revolution? On maintenance as art

  27-10-2016 21:35
  
  In 1969, Mierle Laderman Ukeles was frustrated. The new mother, whose time was increasingly taken over by childcare and housework, felt she had lost the freedom to make her art. Realising that her artistic uncles Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko and her grandfather Marcel Duchamp never changed diapers, she authored her Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969! My working will be the work, she wrote. Through the force of re-naming, and then doing, she would convert the repetitive, thankless labor of ho
  
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• Research: What Kind Of Arts Video Do Audiences Want?

  27-10-2016 21:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Based on our research data, digital content has two functions primarily: it develops the audience’s familiarity with the company’s work, and it aligns their expectations of a particular performance. Rather than using supporting materials to make a purchase decision, audiences tend to consume them after booking their tickets, to gain an insight into the story and creative process, reassure themselves of the quality of the company and production, and increase their level of anti
  
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• The Memory Lane In Your Brain Has A Three-Way Fork

  27-10-2016 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There are things you remember, and there are things you remember well. Even if you can recall a past event, your memories will vary considerably in how much detail they contain, and how correct those details are. In an elegant experiment, a team of neuroscientists … [at] Cambridge have shown that these aspects of our memories – our success at recalling them, their precision, and their vividness – depend on three different parts of the brain.”
  
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• Researchers: Why Happiness Doesn’t Make You More Creative

  27-10-2016 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A positive mood is useful when first brainstorming, processing information, and coming up with as many ideas as possible—you don’t want to bring judgment into that, because it could stifle idea generation.But rigor is the key to overcoming obstacles and completing tasks—and good mood doesn’t improve problem-solving, which involves judgments that almost by necessity won’t feel good: critique and evaluation, experimentation and failure. The stress that arises f
  
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• Sotheby’s Acquires Mei Moses Art Indices, an Analytic Tool that Evaluates Market Strength on Basis of Repeat Sales

  27-10-2016 20:24 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s announced today that it has acquired the Mei Moses Art Indices, a data-mining art market analytics tool that judges strength of the art market against other asset classes. It does so by looking at works that have been sold … Read More
  
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• Richard Branson's big head and naked sax player star in art show

  27-10-2016 20:07
  
  Benedict Drew installation on show in Arts Council Collection exhibition in LiverpoolIt is a dreamlike, or possibly nightmarish, art installation – a huge, menacing, fluorescent Richard Branson and a jazz saxophone played discordantly by an apparently naked man. The work by Benedict Drew opens to the public at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool on Friday.It is owned by the Arts Council Collection (ACC), this year celebrating its 70th birthday, and its unveiling coincided with the launch o
  
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• Remember Bookmobiles? Here’s A Book Boat

  27-10-2016 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Perahu Pustaka (Book Boat) is sorely needed. … More than 10% of the [province of] West Sulawesi’s adult population cannot read, while in many villages, the only book available is a solitary copy of the Quran. So in 2015, local news journalist Muhammad Ridwan Alimuddin decided to combine his twin passions for books and boats by setting up a mobile library on a baqgo, a small traditional sailboat.”
  
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• Lawrence Abu Hamdan Wins the 2016 Nam June Paik Award

  27-10-2016 19:58 via artnews.com
  The Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, announced today that Lawrence Abu Hamdan has won its 2016 Nam June Paik Award. Given to an artist working with the digital media, the prize comes with €25,000, or about $27,000.Abu Hamdan won for … Read More
  
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• Hal Prince: Theatre Needs More Producers

  27-10-2016 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Today, the producing population has been infiltrated by investors who assume the job title of “producer.” In the days when I was producing, I had 175 investors. They were press agents, company managers, actors, stagehands, and, of course, a few of my parents’ friends. But the names of producers above the title were never more than three. If you are a creative producer with an impressive track record, investors should have no serious role reading a script, contributing to
  
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• The Three Marina Abramovićs

  27-10-2016 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As she likes to say herself, there are three Marina Abramovićs: Warrior Marina (who can endure any pain and scream louder than anybody else), Spiritual Marina (who can endure any amount of stillness and remain silent longer than anybody else) and Bullshit Marina (who adores celebrity and likes to talk about fickle men and why she sometimes feels fat and ugly).”
  
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• A Need For Women’s Theatre

  27-10-2016 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I believe in small, immersive theatre, and that the disappearance of the black box—which is happening all over—means devastation to the form. When we package theatre up and market it like dollar store pregnancy tests, we lose the power of the form. Women make up 50 percent of our world, so without the contemporary voices of women on today’s stages, audiences are only getting half of the story. Humanity cannot afford this. Especially not now.”
  
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• Herzog & de Meuron wins competition to build Berlin’s Museum of the 20th Century

  27-10-2016 18:19
  
  The Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron has won a competition to build a new museum of 20th-century art in central Berlin with a long, low red-brick design that invited comparisons to a rail station, a barn, a temple and an indoor market.The site for the new museum is between Ludwig Mies van der Rohes metal-and-glass Neue Nationalgalerie and Hans Scharouns spiky gold Philharmonic, two architectural landmarks of the 1960s. It is also flanked on one side by Friedrich August Stlers red-
  
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• Herzog & de Meuron win competition to build Berlin’s Museum of the 20th Century

  27-10-2016 18:19
  
  The Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron have won a competition to build a new museum of 20th-century art in central Berlin with a long, low red-brick design that invited comparisons to a rail station, a barn, a temple and an indoor market.The site for the new museum is between Ludwig Mies van der Rohes metal-and-glass Neue Nationalgalerie and Hans Scharouns spiky gold Philharmonic, two architectural landmarks of the 1960s. It is also flanked on one side by Friedrich August Stlers red
  
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• Now *This* Is A Public Service: Cairo Bookstore Provides Room Where Customers Can Go To Scream

  27-10-2016 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Visitors to a bookshop in Cairo are being invited into a dark, soundproof room to scream at the top of their lungs in an effort to relieve their frustrations and escape from the stresses of daily life. The new ‘scream room’ is tucked away in the “The World’s Door” [Bab Aldounia] bookshop and is also equipped with a full drum kit allowing customers to let go of their worries.” (includes video)
  
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• ICA London Elects Donald A Moore Its Council Chair

  27-10-2016 17:39 via artnews.com
  The Institute of Contemporary Art in London announced this morning that Donald A Moore, the chair of Morgan Stanley Group Europe, has been elected as chair of the ICA Council. Moore takes the place of outgoing ICA Council Chair Alison … Read More
  
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• Donald A Moore Elected ICA London Council Chair

  27-10-2016 17:39 via artnews.com
  The Institute of Contemporary Art in London announced this morning that Donald A Moore, the chair of Morgan Stanley Group Europe, has been elected as chair of the ICA Council. Moore takes the place of outgoing ICA Council Chair Alison … Read More
  
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• What Bob Dylan’s Non-Response To The Nobel Means

  27-10-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Nobel Prize is in fact the ultimate example of bad faith: A small group of Swedish critics pretend to be the voice of God, and the public pretends that the Nobel winner is Literature incarnate. All this pretending is the opposite of the true spirit of literature, which lives only in personal encounters between reader and writer. Mr. Dylan may yet accept the prize, but so far, his refusal to accept the authority of the Swedish Academy has been a wonderful demonstration of what real art
  
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• Taking The ‘Hall’ Out Of ‘Concert Hall’ – Classical Organizations Move Into Un-Classical Venues

  27-10-2016 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Arts administrators are united in the belief that spreading music as far as possible, in both the digital and physical worlds, is more than just a marketing gimmick: It’s a strategy for survival. The world is full of intellectually curious, artistically adventurous young people who would no more buy a ticket to hear Brahms’s Requiem in concert at Geffen Hall than they would stick a stamp on a handwritten letter.”
  
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• Anne Imhof Will Represent Germany at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  27-10-2016 16:51 via artnews.com
  It was announced today that the Frankfurt–based artist Anne Imhof will represent Germany at the 2017 Venice Biennale. The news came via a cryptic message on the German Pavilion’s website that recapped some news that was already announced, that Susanne Pfeffer, … Read More
  
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• New York's Moma exhibiting emojis? It's like a teacher trying to twerk

  27-10-2016 16:37
  
  Once, New York’s Museum of Modern Art was a temple of profound and serious work – but in acquiring emojis, it’s joined the race to the bottomSo the Museum of Modern Art is exhibiting emojis now. It figures. Once, it was a temple of greatness that fought for the serious, worthwhile and profound in modern art. Now, thrown off balance by the triumph of Tate Modern, it is just another postmodern emporium where every cultural spasm is given spurious value.When they go low, we’
  
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• Preview Periods For Plays Will Disappear ‘In My Lifetime’, Says Leading Director

  27-10-2016 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Grandage: “One of the jobs of a director, and certainly I see it as one of my jobs, is to make sure the rehearsal period is such that when you get to that first preview, you are effectively getting to an opening night. … Opening previews will be opening nights before too much longer in some form. They already are, if you like, because of social media.”
  
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• Prado Mounts Its First Show Ever Dedicated To A Female Artist (It Only Took 197 Years)

  27-10-2016 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Art of Clara Peeters, which travels from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, is a display of 15 still-lifes by one of the few women to work as a professional painter in 17th-century Europe. The Flemish artist is among just 41 women to be represented in the Spanish museum’s permanent collection (compared with more than 5,000 men).”
  
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• Here lie the unwanted of Calais – an indictment of us, not them | Jonathan Jones

  27-10-2016 15:32
  
  This is an age of unparalleled harshness. While desperate people sleep amid piles of rubbish, we have lost sight of their humanity, and oursThese are people in Calais now. People who wanted to find new lives. Instead they lie like cocooned caterpillars, desperately hoping to wake up to a different world. Others sit on the rubbish-strewn pavement, hunched in blankets. They too are rubbish, or so it would seem, according to widespread attitudes that have in recent weeks seen calls for children to
  
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• From Joe Friday To Dirty Harry: How Pop Culture’s Cops Turned Away From, And On, Their Communities

  27-10-2016 15:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As Andy Taylor [of Mayberry] became even more anachronistic, a fantasy of policing as it never really was, he was replaced by successive generations of cops who gradually came to occupy a separate, hermetically sealed sphere. Pop culture may not have predicted our current [Black Lives Matter] moment, but it captured the disconnectedness and animosity that define our discussions about how policing should work.”
  
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• In American Popular Culture, There’s No Such Thing As A Bad Police Shooting

  27-10-2016 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Decade after decade, pop culture has continued to churn out stories that justify and even lionize officers who kill. These stories first turned shootings – and they are almost always shootings – into acts of last resort by noble policemen, and later into exciting executions of dangerous villains. Hollywood has promoted the very myths that result in our being shocked when we see an officer shoot a fleeing person or fire into a parked car, as well as an inflated narrative of val
  
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• Cultural impact of Brexit revealed in new report

  27-10-2016 15:09
  
  Brexit has exposed severe social divides, according to a new report by the UKs Creative Industries Federation. The report provides the most detailed published assessment of the impact on culture of leaving the European Union (EU). It follows a survey just before the June referendum which showed that 96% of its respondents wanted to remain in the EU.According to the federations chief executive, John Kampfner, our job now is to be intensely practical and not to indulge in laments, but to work ver
  
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• 2,000-Year-Old Roman Statue At British Museum Had Its Thumb Knocked Off By Caterers

  27-10-2016 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Townley Venus, one of the British Museum’s most important Roman sculptures, was damaged when its thumb was knocked off as catering staff were setting up for an evening event last December.”
  
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• Morning Links: Old Master, Modern Forgery Edition

  27-10-2016 14:49 via artnews.com
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• Pittsburgh Mayor Tries To Intervene In Symphony Strike

  27-10-2016 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mayor Bill Peduto and Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald will meet with [Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra] management and musicians this week in an effort to mediate the bruising labor dispute at Heinz Hall.”
  
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• ‘The Red Detachment Of Women’ Is Coming To Australia, And People Are Fussing About Commie Propaganda

  27-10-2016 14:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Chinese-Australian members of the Australian Values Alliance … are drawing up a petition against four Australian performances of The Red Detachment of Women by the National Ballet of China in February at the Melbourne Arts Centre. … The alliance says The Red Detachment was orchestrated by Jiang [Qing, Mao’s wife] ‘to brainwash civilians during the horror of the Cultural Revolution’.”
  
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• It’s Been A Long Time And Boatloads Of Money, But Hamburg’s Landmark New Concert Hall Is Finally Opening

  27-10-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After a delay of six years and about a tenfold increase in costs, a new classical music performance space here is preparing to open its doors. The Elbphilharmonie, a glass-paneled building mounted atop a former warehouse, includes not just two concert halls but a four-star hotel, a restaurant and residential apartments.”
  
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• Financier David Rubenstein Named Chair Of Smithsonian Board

  27-10-2016 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “David M. Rubenstein has resuscitated some of this city’s icons with multimillion-dollar gifts to the Washington Monument and the National Archives. … With his newest duties, Rubenstein – whose day job as co-founder of the Carlyle Group has him steering one of the country’s largest private-equity firms – will oversee both of the city’s major cultural institutions.”
  
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• Turin’s Top Museum Official Forced Out By Maverick Reformist Mayor

  27-10-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chiara Appendino, a member of the populiist Five Star Movement who took office this summer, demaded the resignation of Fondazione Torino Musei president Patrizia Asproni “after it was revealed that a major sponsor of a proposed Edouard Manet exhibition was backing out of a plan to host the show in Turin” – a show that Appendino herself had reportedly opposed.
  
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• Esperanto: The Constant Battles Over The Language Of World Peace

  27-10-2016 13:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The inventor of Esperanto, Ludovik Lazarus Zamenhof, explicitly hoped that his simple, easy-to-learn language would lead to easy communication between nations and peoples – and thus to an end to conflict between. Even that ideal was controversial, and was rejected at Esperanto’s first international congress. And the arguments kept going from there.
  
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• Float above Yorkshire’s ‘sunken city of Semer’

  27-10-2016 12:54
  
  This weekend a prized ancient spear will be recreated as a 50-metre-long pontoon and floated on Lake Semerwater in Yorkshire, north England. Spear (2016), by the London-based artist David Murphy, was inspired by the bronze-age artefact found at the lakes edge in the 1970s, as well as by the legend of the sunken city of Semer. Its a kind of Atlantis myth, Murphys says. A beggar curses the city with a deluge after being turned away from every home. The only structure that survives this watery end
  
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• Heritage sites damaged as more earthquakes hit Italy

  27-10-2016 11:47
  
  The crisis unit of the Italian culture ministry is working to verify the damage caused to heritage sites by two strong earthquakes that struck central Italy yesterday evening (26 October). The 5.4-magnitude and 5.9-magnitude tremors near Visso in the Marche region follow a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that destroyed the town of Amatrice, 70km to the south, on 24 August, killing at least 295 people. The impact was felt in Rome, Naples and the Veneto coast, according to Italian press reports.The chur
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.26.16

  27-10-2016 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Star Turn for Giovanni di Paolo
  Ever since I first saw Giovanni di Paolo’s The Creation and the Expulsion from the Paradise in the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum, I’ve been a huge fan of the Sienese painter. … read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2016-10-26Get a room!
  Looking at an orchestra through the four frames, I don’t see any space designed for innovation, imagination and open questions. I don’t see anything l
  
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• Roe Ethridge's best photograph: his car being pulled from a Florida canal

  27-10-2016 09:00
  
  ‘It’s like the opening shot in a film noir, but it was just stupid old me, embarrassing my family again’This was taken in Belle Glade, a small agrarian town in Florida where my parents were high-school sweethearts. It’s all sugar cane fields round there and they’re basically dissolving back into the earth, causing the town to fall apart. There’s no good news really: Belle Glade has been in decline since the 1980s, when it had the highest incidence of Aids per
  
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• The end of the world is coming to Manhattan

  27-10-2016 05:51
  
  In a palette of fire, the three-paneled painting Fin del Mundo (End of the World) by Robert Cenedella is a panorama of cataclysmwar, environmental rot and cultural decaywith an orange-haired Donald Trump holding a pitchfork at its center. The Liberty Bell can be seen in the foreground, bearing the names of black men shot by the police in the US. Amid the fires are the Twin Towers, Hitler, and a grotesque headless woman vomiting over Trumps headthe alternative, Cenedella says, to the Miss Univer
  
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