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• This Week In Understanding Audiences: Interactive Theatre, Arts Video And Artificial Intelligence

  06-11-2016 23:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week: Theatre used to be more interactive – can it be again?… There’s an awful lot of arts video out there – but what do audiences want?… Can you shame an arts organization into being more diverse?… More orchestras are getting out of their concert halls… Can artificial intelligence connect us more closely to art?
  
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• This Week’s AJ Highlights: Ominous Orchestra Results? New Arts Journalism? Accountable Algorithms?

  06-11-2016 22:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week: Record ticket sales at the Chicago Symphony but still a budget problem…Wall Street Journal cuts arts coverage and Boston Globe gets a subsidized critic…Why did Shakespeare’s Globe fire its director?…Two cities on opposite sides of a border, share common arts culture… Who will hold intelligent machines accountable?
  
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• US election casts a shadow over art market

  06-11-2016 22:00
  
  The US is bracing itself for the political fallout from its presidential election tomorrow, but the art world may already be feeling its economic effects. Along with the plummeting value of the British pound following the countrys Brexit decision, financial uncertainties have spurred auction houses to take precautionary measures for their flagship autumn sales in New York.
  Although they are prohibited from collaborating on dates, Christies, Sothebys and Phillips have all scheduled their major a
  
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• Tribute to the man who brought high design to the London underground

  06-11-2016 22:00
  
  The London-based artists Langlands & Bell unveiled a permanent installation in Piccadilly Circus tube station today (7 November). The piece honours Frank Pick, the man who gave Londons public transport network a visual identity that impressed the world in the 1920s and 1930s. Pick commissioned leading designers and architects to create commercial art and graphic design for the London Underground, including the first versions of the roundel still used today to mark each stations name. He com
  
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• Sotheby’s reports $54.5m in losses in third quarter

  06-11-2016 22:00
  
  In its quarterly earnings call to investors early this morning, Sothebys announced a net loss of $54.5m for the three months ending on 30 September 2016, its worst third quarter in many difficult years, compared to losses of $17.9m for the same period last year and $27.7m for 2014. As we communicated previously, the third quarter results were not expected to be good, said Tad Smith, Sothebys president and chief executive officer.
  The companys stock opened at $35.15 per share, compared to $35.08
  
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• One flew over the cuckoo’s nest: an avian séance with critics and curators at Marian Goodman Gallery

  06-11-2016 22:00
  
  Perhaps appropriately in the week of All Souls when the devout remember the dead, Marian Goodman Gallery opened their new show Animality (until 17 December) on Friday with a private sance, albeit one to raise the spirits of birds, rather than people. It was super-strict and very solemn with a prompt start and no entrance for latecomerswhich excluded your tardy correspondentand pictures absolutely not permitted.  Quite what the extinct birds being channeled by the Guatemalan artist Naufus R
  
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• Wedding dancers take centre stage in Brueghel family art show

  06-11-2016 18:58
  
  Celebration of artistic dynasty at Holburne Museum in Bath will include piece newly attributed to Pieter Brueghel the Younger A rollicking painting of peasants dancing in the open air at a boozy wedding immediately caught the eye of the the new director of the Holburne Museum in Bath, when she first toured the stores of her new kingdom. Her eye was keen: from under layers of grime and discoloured varnish, a previously unrecognised work by the 17th-century Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Youn
  
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• Brueghel's rediscovered wedding dancers to go on show in Bath

  06-11-2016 18:58
  
  Celebration of artistic dynasty at Holburne Museum will include piece newly attributed to Pieter Brueghel the Younger A rollicking painting of peasants dancing in the open air at a boozy wedding immediately caught the eye of the new director of the Holburne Museum in Bath when she first toured the stores of her new kingdom. Her eye was keen: from under layers of grime and discoloured varnish, a previously unrecognised work by the 17th-century Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Younger has emerg
  
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• Paul Nash review – between dream and nightmare

  06-11-2016 09:00
  
  Tate Britain, LondonStrangeness on the Downs meets the horrors of two world wars in the biggest show of Nash’s work in a generationOut walking, you are confronted by a long column of trees approaching across a bare winter landscape. You stop, and it seems as if they stop too. Stationed before them – the field marshal commanding his troops – stands a stone pillar topped with a pale sphere. And this sphere has a peculiarly exact echo in the white moon hanging beside it in the sky
  
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