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• Nobuyoshi Araki at Hamiltons Gallery, London

  14-11-2016 23:06 via artnews.com
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• Research Literature Is Growing Exponentially. Researchers Need Help. This New Search Engine Promises It

  14-11-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Judging from the research papers already indexed by the new search engine, the volume of academic research is increasing at an exponential rate, and one independent study says that the number of papers is increasing about 4 or 5 percent a year, with 2.5 million published in 2014. That means researchers just don’t have the time to look through everything. They need some help.”
  
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• Bringing Sports Medicine Into Dance

  14-11-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Training for sports has become scientific, with athletes working with scientists to optimize their performance. Now the idea has come to dance – both to prevent and mitigate injury but also to maximize performance.
  
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• Why the ‘Uber effect’ is proving elusive for online platforms

  14-11-2016 22:00
  
  Barely a month goes by without the launch of an online initiative that aims to disrupt the art market and bring the Uber and Airbnb effect to art transactions. But witness the crowds pacing the aisles at a big-league art fair, or spilling out of the salesrooms during the evening auctions, and the impact of the internet on this object-and-people-business seems minimal.October saw the official launch of two online art sales platforms: ArtAndOnly, for works valued at typically up to $500,000 and,
  
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• Romanian government will buy Brancusi work despite failed fundraising attempt

  14-11-2016 22:00
  
  Few works by the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi, who moved to France permanently at the age of 28, are held in his home country. So the Romanian government jumped at the chance to acquire his limestone sculpture The Wisdom of the Earth (1907), which depicts a seated female nude.The work was put up for sale for 11m by the heirs of Gheorghe Romascu, a friend of Brancusi, who bought it from the artist in 1911. (The sculpture was seized by the Communist government in 1957 and returned to Rom
  
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• Munch’s Girls on the Bridge fetches more than $50m in bellwether New York auction

  14-11-2016 22:00
  
  In the aftermath of Donald Trumps surprise election win last week, commentators have speculated about the effects of a Trump presidency on global and domestic business. Would his win spook the markets, or would the Republican partys pro-business stance buoy buyer confidence? For the art trade, one hint may lie in the UKs Brexit referendum in June, which had little effect on summer auctions, the results of which were mostly contingent on the quality of the lots on offer. Judging by the results o
  
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• Estonian National Museum reopens to religious uproar

  14-11-2016 22:00
  
  Museum has reopened in a 75m building on a former Soviet air base in Tartu, the Baltic republics second-largest city. For decades, the museum struggled to find a permanent home in the turbulent country, where visits from foreigners were severely restricted until independence from Soviet rule in 1991.The museums reopening on 29 September was overshadowed by a furore over Reformation (2016), a work of multimedia art by the Tartu-based artist Timo Toots. The work contains the image of a saint that
  
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• How The Royal Shakespeare Company Is Using Motion-Capture To Reimagine Shakespeare

  14-11-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The tools are only interesting when they’re in the hands of artists who do new things with them. So we worked with Imaginarium, who are excruciatingly talented, and gave them these tools and said: ‘What else would you do? How do we make that happen?’ Teaching our team the agility and resourcefulness you need in live theatre has been great. It’s also been great to see the ingenuity of the designer and then rise to that, and think about how they can do their work.&rd
  
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• How Is Ballet To be Relevant If It Doesn’t Challenge Audiences?

  14-11-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is with both bewilderment and sadness that one might look over the National Ballet of Canada’s 2016/17 season and think: What can be considered vital among it? What conversations can these ballets possibly provoke?”
  
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• Why Did Book Reviews Get So Polite?

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  “A literary culture whose tough-mindedness 20 years ago often verged on outright cruelty, has turned horribly emollient, to the point where it sometimes seems that books are not so much criticised, favourably or unfavourably, as simply endorsed.”
  
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• Why Do We Believe Fictional Stories When We Know They’re Not True?

  14-11-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Feeling a range of real emotions for fictional events is so commonplace we don’t often think to question it. But why should we get emotionally involved with characters and situations that we know are not real? Why should we get scared by something we know is only a movie? This is the paradox of fiction.”
  
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• How Our Brains Fill In The Blanks Of Ambiguity To Create Beliefs

  14-11-2016 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett: The structure of the brain is such that there are many more intrinsic connections between neurons than there are connections that bring sensory information from the world. From that incomplete picture, she says, the brain is “filling in the details, making sense out of ambiguous sensory input.” The brain, she says, is an “inference generating organ.” She describes an increasingly well-supported working hypothesis called predictive codi
  
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• Rema Hort Mann Foundation Names 2016 New York Emerging Artist Grantees

  14-11-2016 19:00 via artnews.com
  Today, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation—the charity founded in 1995 by friends and family of the late television executive Rema Hort Mann, which specializes in direct support for cancer patients and emerging artists—announced the winners of its 2016 Emerging Artist Grant … Read More
  
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• Poetry Isn’t Dying. Poets, On The Other Hand…

  14-11-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Not only is it not endangered, it will outlast any number of species of living things on the face of the earth. It will only perish with our own.  I worry about journalism.  I don’t worry about Poetry. Being a poet is a more complicated matter.”
  
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• Isolde Brielmaier Named Curator-at-Large at Tang Teaching Museum

  14-11-2016 18:22 via artnews.com
  The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, announced today that Isolde Brielmaier will be its curator-at-large. In her new position, which she begins this month, Brielmaier will oversee research projects … Read More
  
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• The Illusion Of Choice On Netflix (And Why It’s Bad For Movie-Lovers)

  14-11-2016 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The service has 47 million subscribers in the United States, and its movie library is affected not only by the limitations of particular licensing deals, which means that the number of titles is constantly contracting and expanding, but also by what subscribers actually watch. To use the contemporary buzzword “curated,” Netflix would argue that it does indeed take a curatorial approach to movies, but one that’s appropriate to a consumer product rather than a museum. It d
  
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• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Opera Debut At The Kennedy Center

  14-11-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Supreme Court justice made her official opera debut on Saturday night at the Kennedy Center — after a scattering of supernumerary roles in the past — as the Duchess of Krakenthorp, a small spoken part.
  
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• Did The Arts Fail To Help Make The Kind Of Country We Should Be?

  14-11-2016 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Theater, and art in general, have the power to change the world. And way too many of us relinquished that power in service of preserving our donor base and protecting white fragility. We used our power to produce Miss Saigon. We used our power to produce The Mikado. We used our power to enable blackface, brownface, redface, cripface and yellowface. We used our power to victimize women. We used our power to produce multiple stories about white people lamenting to other white peop
  
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• From Robert Wilson, a Note of Shock and Despair on the Election of Donald Trump

  14-11-2016 16:56 via artnews.com
  In Berlin working on a production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame (1957), Robert Wilson has not taken well to the U.S. election results.“I am shocked,” he wrote in a statement submitted to the German press and shared with ARTnews. “Stunned. Worried … Read More
  
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• Sixteen ‘New Yorker’ Writers, Including Toni Morrison In A Fierce Essay, Write About The Aftermath

  14-11-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The sad plight of grown white men, crouching beneath their (better) selves, to slaughter the innocent during traffic stops, to push black women’s faces into the dirt, to handcuff black children. Only the frightened would do that. Right?”
  
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• ISIL Has Bulldozed Ancient 2,900-Year-Old Nimrud Ziggurat

  14-11-2016 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Only the largest Egyptian pyramids are higher than Middle Eastern ziggurats and central American step pyramids. The Nimrud ziggurat was apparently bulldozed and pushed into the ancient bed of the Tigris river.
  
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• The UK’s Education System Is Facing An Emergency As School Libraries Close Across The Land

  14-11-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The current and all of the former children’s laureates of the UK have demanded that the government face up to what its policies are doing to children.
  
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• Did Director Hayao Miyazaki Just Un-Retire Again?

  14-11-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The director of such classic films as “Spirited Away” and “Howl’s Moving Castle” can’t quite seem to stop working. “Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki commented that Miyazaki will draw storyboards until he dies.”
  
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• If Dylan Can Win The Nobel Prize For Literature, Let’s Move These Authors Onto The Music Stage

  14-11-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tom Gauld’s cartoon posits entirely new opening acts to get concertgoers stoked for the musicians.
  
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• That Hammer In Mahler’s Sixth (Yes, It Does Get Too Much Attention, But … )

  14-11-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Marin Alsop says that Mahler, who was probably a narcissist, is right for our time: “He maintained a messianic conviction that posterity would recognize and embrace his greatness.”
  
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• To the Limits and Back: How Chinese Ex-Pat Zao Wou-Ki’s Experiments With Western Modernism Led Him Back to Traditional Chinese Aesthetics

  14-11-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
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• An Actor In Search Of His Lost Neighborhood

  14-11-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Edgar Oliver, who’s just concluded the third in a series of autobiographical plays, is so much more than a New York downtown fixture.
  
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• How A Technical Writer Created The Award-Winning Short Story That The Movie ‘Arrival’ Is Based On

  14-11-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ted Chiang writes so slowly that he spent five years researching linguistics before coming out with “Story of Your Life.”
  
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• Morning Links: A Tribe Called Quest Edition

  14-11-2016 15:03 via artnews.com
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• Singer Regina Spektor Says The Only Reason She’s Jewish – And An Artist – Is Anti-Semitism

  14-11-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The singer: “The only reason I’m Jewish is probably antisemitism. Think about Soviet Russia – religion is illegal. So there’s no cultural Judaism, no tradition. The only thing that made Jewish people marry other Jews is that they didn’t want to be called ‘kikes’. They knew they wouldn’t hear the word ‘zhid’ come out of their husband’s face when they had their first marital fight. So it’s the only reason a lot of us exist.&rd
  
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• Louvre Abu Dhabi announces Jenny Holzer and Giuseppe Penone commissions as institution edges closer to opening date

  14-11-2016 14:56
  
  Major permanent installations by the US artist Jenny Holzer and the Italian sculptor Giuseppe Penone will go on show next year in the Louvre Abu Dhabi as part of the museums contemporary art commissions programme. Holzer will unveil three stone walls inscribed with ancient text, while Penones four-part installation includes a vast bronze tree.The new museum is due to open in 2017 on Saadiyat Island according to the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority, which is developing the new museum and
  
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• Can The Canadian National Ballet Move The Cultural Conversation As It Turns 65?

  14-11-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Or is it just another ad for sequined pointe shoes with no meaning? “It is with both bewilderment and sadness that one might look over the National Ballet of Canada’s 2016/17 season and think: What can be considered vital among it? What conversations can these ballets possibly provoke?”
  
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• How Will The Art Market React To A Trump Presidency? Auctions May Give A Clue

  14-11-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  First of all, everyone’s sitting on great work because they’re waiting to see if the market will be there for great work. So that’s a slight problem.
  
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• Why Write About The Nastiness Of Humanity? Ask This Zimbabwean Author

  14-11-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Petina Gappah, winner of the Guardian First Book Award several years ago, Has a new book of short stories out. And the people in them experience quite a lot of painful challenges. Why? “The criminal justice system links everyone together, from the top politicians to the street vendors – it cuts across the boundaries of race and class.”
  
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• After A 60-Year Career, Ennio Morricone Has More To Say, And Conduct

  14-11-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ignore his 2015 Oscar: “Morricone is not a man to rest upon on his laurels with successful mainstream sound tracks. ‘I like to experiment still,’ says the longtime member of Italian avant garde-ist Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza.”
  
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• Why Are Migrants And Refugees In London? This Arts Project Asks Them

  14-11-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Battersea Arts Centre combines personal stories with an exhibit of what’s important to these migrants: “It reminds us that a culture is made up of individual stories about who we are.”
  
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• The Director Of ‘Selma’ And ’13th’ Explains What Trump’s Win Means

  14-11-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Basically? Private prisons – something well-covered in Ava DuVernay’s documentary “13th,” streaming on Netflix (and at a big screening in L.A. on Sunday night).
  
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• In Theatre Awards In London, The New ‘Harry Potter’ Play Comes Out On Top

  14-11-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ralph Fiennes won a best acting award, as did Billie Piper (whom US fans might know from Doctor Who) – and Glenn Close completes a theatre comeback in London with an award as well. The director of the Harry Potter play said, “It’s a show about the peril of isolation, about unity, about family and about love.”
  
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• Ancient Nimrud ziggurat bulldozed by Isil

  14-11-2016 12:20
  
  One of the tallest surviving structures from the ancient world has been totally destroyed by Isil extremists at Nimrud, the former capital of Assyria, which was captured by Iraqi government forces on 13 November. The ziggurat, which was nearly 2,900 years old, was obliterated. Only the largest Egyptian pyramids are higher than Middle Eastern ziggurats and central American step pyramids.
   
  The Nimrud ziggurat was apparently bulldozed and pushed into the ancient bed of the Tigris river, says
  
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• Top social-media jobs in the art world come with six-figure salary

  14-11-2016 12:07
  
  Looking for a job in museum communications? Then brush up on your Instagram and Twitter skills. A recent advert for a social media manager at the Smithsonians new National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, DC, offers a salary ranging from $92,145 to $119,794a testament to the essential role digital posts now play in museums.
  Social media jobs are some of the most exciting and influential non-curator jobs, says Sree Sreenivasan, the former chief digital offic
  
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• Top social-media jobs come with six-figure salary

  14-11-2016 12:07
  
  Looking for a job in museum communications? Then brush up on your Instagram and Twitter skills. A recent advert for a social media manager at the Smithsonians new National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, DC, offers a salary ranging from $92,145 to $119,794a testament to the essential role digital posts now play in museums.
  Social media jobs are some of the most exciting and influential non-curator jobs, says Sree Sreenivasan, the former chief digital offic
  
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