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• Sara Greenberger Rafferty at Document, Chicago

  22-11-2016 23:55 via artnews.com
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• Why It’s So Difficult To Define “Consciousness”

  22-11-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For most people “consciousness” will have various meanings and include awareness, self-awareness, thinking in language. But for philosophers and neuroscientists the crucial meaning is that of feeling something, having a feeling you might say, or an experience. An easy way to think about it would be pain.
  
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• Maya Lin, Frank Gehry Take Part in Mannequin Challenge at the White House

  22-11-2016 22:54 via artnews.com
  Some readers may be thinking right now that the day’s biggest news was President-Elect Donald Trump’s weird live-blogged meeting with the New York Times. But that is not the case! Below, we can provide on-the-ground footage of a mannequin challenge that broke … Read More
  
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• Why Kara Walker's incendiary slavery art is as relevant as ever

  22-11-2016 22:05
  
  The artist’s bold new work, as seen in an exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art, has taken on a terrifying new prescience in the Trump eraA certain set of expectations attend any exhibition of the work of Kara Walker, the 47-year old African American artist whose tough-minded, incendiary work on the gulf between black and white in an enduringly racially polarized America shakes even the heartiest of souls.Related: Kara Walker: ‘There is a moment in life where one becomes black&rsquo
  
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• Book Illustrators Demand Equal Status With Writers

  22-11-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Covers of novels are ‘revealed’ on social media with no mention of the illustrator, signings take place without both the author and the illustrator of a picturebook present, publishers forget to list illustrators on Amazon, and in a recent case the illustrator of Pigín of Howth by Kathleen Watkins, Margaret Anne Suggs was left off the Irish Book Awards brochure. This is not acceptable and needs to be addressed.
  
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• Blockbuster on a manageable scale: on Richard Dorment

  22-11-2016 22:00
  
  Despite its intriguing title, this selection of Richard Dorments articles from almost 30 years as art critic of the Daily Telegraph is not an autobiography nor a primer for the neophyte. Exhibitionist: Writing about Art in a Daily Newspaper is, like all such anthologies, something of an indulgence, but it is also a useful reference work; too heavy to take to the beach, more apt for consultation in the study. The writing is compacted, intense and focused. This is not a book to read from cover to
  
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• The “Tinder Of Square-dancing” Has Sparked A Dance Craze In China

  22-11-2016 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On most mornings, loud EDM, tinged with strokes of traditional Chinese music, blasts from giant speakers in the nation’s parks. Those parks fill with grandmas and a smattering of grandpas who have forsaken tai chi for “sailor dancing.”
  
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• Big Drop In UK Arts Funding As Lottery Sales Plummet

  22-11-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The arts are bracing for an £18.4m cut in funding after a significant fall in Lottery ticket sales means the amount available for the National Lottery Good Causes has fallen by £92m so far this year, compared with last.”
  
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• Artist Richard Prince Sued Again For Copyright Infringement

  22-11-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This time it’s professional photographer Eric McNatt suing over Prince’s use of an image he took of former Sonic Youth leader Kim Gordon. “The complaint outlines at length Prince’s brazen attitude towards appropriating works, and his disposition toward previous legal actions against him, including the case brought by photographer Patrick Cariou.”
  
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• How The Right Is Using Left-Leaning Celebrity Angst Against Itself

  22-11-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While the angry tweets, therapeutic Instagram testimonials and fiery speeches may comfort their fans, these left-leaning celebrities are also inadvertently energizing the opposition. Conservative news outlets — most notably Breitbart News Network, the right-wing populist enclave — are perfecting the art of sapping Democratic stars’ name recognition and repurposing their words and actions into pro-Trump material.”
  
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• So What Exactly *Is* ‘Longform Journalism’? It’s Not Just A Word Count

  22-11-2016 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Brendan Fitzgerald considers, and questions, the taxonomy: “such labels sometimes reward the writer, who becomes associated with a popular movement. They sometimes reward the reader, who has a new word for what she seeks. … Whether labels like ‘longform’ reward a story is another matter.”
  
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• Now That Computers Dominate Chess, Some Of The Art Of The Game Has Been Lost

  22-11-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Grandmasters that have grown up with most of their training in the computer era play a much more objective style of chess. They’re less willing to dismiss a move because it’s ugly, or doesn’t appeal to their aesthetics.”
  
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• Helen Marten: from a Macclesfield garage to artist of the year

  22-11-2016 19:10
  
  She’s tipped for the Turner and has just won the first Hepworth sculpture prize. The 31-year-old talks about escaping an essay farm to create a parallel world out of matchsticks, pipes, spoons and threads Related: Helen Marten wins Hepworth prize for sculpture Helen Marten is having quite a year and, indeed, quite a career. Her first solo show in Britain was in 2012, at the Chisenhale in London, the seeding ground of bright young artists. Her work has twice been shown at the Venice Biennal
  
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• A Brief History Of Time Travel

  22-11-2016 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The first incidence of time travel in fiction (Rip van Winkle and the Connecticut Yankee notwithstanding) was H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine in 1985. Ten years later, Einstein first published his theories – and it turns out Wells’s fantasies matched up pretty well. “Time travel has been an object of fascination ever since.”
  
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• Universal Translator? An Expert Weighs In On The Challenges

  22-11-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I am a professional translator, having translated some 125 books from the French. One might therefore expect me to bristle at Google’s claim that its new translation engine is almost as good as a human translator, scoring 5.0 on a scale of 0 to 6, whereas humans average 5.1. But I’m also a PhD in mathematics who has developed software that ‘reads’ European newspapers in four languages and categorises the results by topic. So, rather than be defensive about the poss
  
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• ‘Fantastic Riches And Where To Find Them’ – How To Keep J.K. Rowling’s Astoundingly Successful Enterprise Growing

  22-11-2016 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A film franchise is like a shark: it must keep moving forward or die. Now that the goldmine of Harry Potter has been largely exhausted after eight phenomenally successful films, the baton has been picked up …”
  
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• How NPR’s “Tiny Desk” Concerts Attracted A Cult Following (And Millions Of Followers)

  22-11-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Over eight years, more than 550 musical acts have played at this “Tiny Desk.” The show has attracted a cult following on the internet, partly thanks to its musical curation — a peculiar mix of indie rock, hip-hop, world music, and jazz — but more so because of its authenticity.
  
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• Hokusai’s Picture Book Of Everyday Life In Edo-Era Japan

  22-11-2016 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Although most famous for his landscapes in his woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, he drew just about everything.”
  
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• They’re Here! The Finalists For The 2016 Bad Sex In Fiction Award

  22-11-2016 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  None of these six nominees are as bad as the ghastly passage that won Morrissey the trophy last year, but nevertheless … (includes explanation of why Donald Trump was disqualified from the contest)
  
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• Am I Blue? Rudolf de Crignis’s Quietly Complicated Works at Betty Cuningham Reveal Minimalism’s Deep and Expressive Potential

  22-11-2016 16:26 via artnews.com
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• Wim Delvoye to create public sculpture of French astronomer François Arago in Paris

  22-11-2016 16:21
  
  The Belgian artist Wim Delvoye has been commissioned to make a public statue in homage to the French physicist and astronomer Franois Arago (1786-1853) that will be erected in central Paris. The sculpture, budgeted at 350,000, has been commissioned by Association Ars Arago.
  Delvoye's bronze sculpture will replace the original statue honouring Arago on Place de l'le-de-Sein near Montparnasse that was melted by the Germans during the Second World War, leaving an empty pedestal. However, it cannot
  
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• Yeah, The Theater *Is* A Safe Space, In More Than One Way (But Should It Be?)

  22-11-2016 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jesse Green considers how theater has been a refuge from generations of high school bullies, the one public setting where he feels safe holding his husband’s hand, and, these days, a place where right-thinking liberals can stay secure in their bubble. However, Green reminds us, Peter Brook did not title his seminal book The Safe Space …
  
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• Winter Preview: Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World

  22-11-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
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• Be careful, Hockney – modern stained glass can shatter medieval beauty | Jonathan Jones

  22-11-2016 15:34
  
  The Church of England has asked David Hockney to create windows for Westminster Abbey – but nothing can touch the majesty and historical power of medieval glassDavid Hockney is to create stained glass for Westminster Abbey to mark the Queen’s 65-year reign – but should he think twice? Related: David Hockney window at Westminster Abbey to honour QueenContinue reading...
  
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• Tim Robbins Has Been Teaching Improv Classes In Prisons For Ten Years – And The Data, Now In, Says It Works

  22-11-2016 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘People said, ‘Yeah, yeah, you want to give them crayons. You’ve got acting classes?’ recalls Robbins of the launch of the Actors Gang Prison Project. ‘We’re like, ‘No, we don’t want anyone to be an actor. There’s too much unemployment in that. It’s about changing behavior.'”
  
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• Consumer Reports: Erika Hickle

  22-11-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  Erika Hickle is an artist living and working in New York City. Erika has shown at 321 Gallery in Brooklyn, Material Art Fair in Mexico City, and recently at Bug, a new online gallery run by the artist Quintessa Matranga. … Read More
  
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• Penn Foundation Gives Almost An Entire Year’s Grant Budget, $100 Million, To Rehab Philly’s Libraries, Parks, And Recreation Centers

  22-11-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The grant, by far the William Penn Foundation’s largest ever, covers one fifth of the entire cost of Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney’s Rebuild program.
  
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• Star Guitarist Cancels All Scheduled Concerts Due To ‘Movement Disorder’

  22-11-2016 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Miloš Karadaglić is giving up performing for at least a season to deal with the recurrence of what he describes as a “complex and uncompromising movement disorder.”
  
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• Morning Links: Authentic Facsimiles Edition

  22-11-2016 14:47 via artnews.com
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• New Immersive ‘Nutcracker’ Cancelled After One Performance

  22-11-2016 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Former Royal Ballet member Will Tuckett conceived, organized anc choreographed a new version of the Christmas chestnut that would have the audience at tables as guests at the Act I Christmas party and wandering through the space (a converted industrial print shop) to take in the set pieces of Act II. Then the cash ran out.
  
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• Lost Stravinsky Work, Now Found, Gets Modern-Day Premiere

  22-11-2016 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Funeral Song, written in memory of Rinsky-Korsakov in 1908 and believed lost in the Russian Revolution, turned up last year in a back room at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire. Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra will premiere the piece early next month in a concert carried on medici.tv and Mezzo.
  
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• Customs Withheld These Paintings At The Airport For Three Months Because They Didn’t Count As ‘Art’

  22-11-2016 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bjarne Melgaard sent 16 of his works from his studio in New York to his gallery in Oslo – which couldn’t collect them without paying $153,000 in VAT because customs agents insisted the paintings didn’t qualify for tax-free status. You see, they weren’t, as regulations require, “executed entirely by hand.”
  
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• B-Boy Zulu Rema, The Amputee Breakdancer Of Tunisia

  22-11-2016 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Oh yes, he can definitely do the moves. (photo gallery)
  
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• Here Are the Exhibitors for the 2017 Armory Show

  22-11-2016 14:00 via artnews.com
  There’s a big art fair in Miami Beach next week, but we don’t get a wild ‘n’ crazy art world hootenanny in New York until Armory Week in March, when the Armory Show takes over Piers 92 & 94 along the Hudson … Read More
  
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• The Religious Movie Boom You Probably Haven’t Heard About

  22-11-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  You’ll remember Mel Gibson‘s The Passion of the Christ, and you probably know about the recent biblical epics Noah and Exodus: Gods and Kings and this year’s Jesus bopics, The Young Messiah, Risen and Last Days in the Desert. There’s a similar trend in Middle Eastern cinema covering the early days of Islam.
  
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• The Founding Novelist Of Israeli Literature (Even Israelis Have Trouble Reading Him)

  22-11-2016 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  S. Y. Agnon, the only Israeli writer to win a Nobel, has never broken through to an international audience. Yet even present-day Israelis, who can read his Hebrew perfectly well, no longer have all the common knowledge required to comprehend Agnon’s work – and the ones that do likely avoid it on principle.
  
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• David Hockney to design stained-glass window for the Queen in Westminster Abbey

  22-11-2016 13:03
  
  The British artist David Hockney is swapping canvas for glass with a new commission from Westminster Abbey. Hockney will design a stained-glass window honouring the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest ruling monarch in British history. The window in the north transept, which is 1.8 metres wide and six metres high, will be known as The Queen's Window.
   
  The 79-year-old British artist, who turned down a knighthood in 1990 before receiving the exclusive Order of Merit in 2012, was commis
  
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• Jeff Koons unveils plans for a memorial to the victims of the Paris terror attacks

  22-11-2016 12:24
  
  The US artist Jeff Koons has unveiled plans for a commemorative sculpture in Paris modelled on the Statue of Liberty, honouring the victims of the terrorist attacks in the city in November last year when Islamic extremists killed 130 people.The 11-metre high bronze and stainless steel work, featuring a hand holding a bunch of flowers (Bouquet of Tulips), is due to be installed on the Place de Tokyo outside the Muse dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Palais de Tokyo next year.Koons says t
  
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• President Hollande unable to inaugurate Louvre Abu Dhabi

  22-11-2016 11:48
  
  The long-awaited opening of the Louvre Abu Dhabi has been delayed yet again on the eve of an international conference on protecting cultural heritage during conflict co-organised by France and the United Arab Emirate. And the Emirate has denied French President Franois Hollande the possibility of even a symbolic inauguration ceremony when he is due to make an official visit to Abu Dhabi next week. Technical delays and diplomatic sensitivity will prevent Hollande from taking any credit for the m
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.21.16

  22-11-2016 10:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Monday Recommendation: Bill Frisell’s Music From Movies & TV
  Bill Frisell, When You Wish Upon A Star (Okeh) … read more
  AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-11-21The Rise and Fall (?) of a Superhero (or Not)
  Faye Driscoll presents Thank You for Coming; Play at BAM Fisher. … read more
  AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-11-21Hod O’Brien, 1936-2016
  Friends of Hod O’Brien report that the pianist died yesterday at 80 following a long battle against cancer. He continued a
  
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• This Week In Audience: Flipping The Approach To Getting More Diverse Audiences, Challenging The Goal Of What Artists Do

  22-11-2016 01:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week: Maybe we need a new strategy to make arts audiences more diverse (the old ways haven’t worked)… An arts funder changes criteria to judge whether the artists “make change”…  The cult of the American “Outsider”… Your cell phone is designed so you can’t not pay attention to it… Do books have to be on pages to be books? (not what the data say)
  
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• Survey: More UK Adults Prefer Theatre Than Sport For A Night Out

  22-11-2016 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A forthcoming report finds 26% of British adults identify theatre or opera as a great evening activity, compared with 17% who said the same for sports. Overall, 45% of British adults enjoy going to see live performance across all genres, rising to 63% among the under 25s.”
  
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• Major Gift Officer – Advancement and External Relations Division

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  Do you enjoy meeting different people? Do you have an interest in helping others? Do you believe in the power of higher education to help transform lives? If you answered yes to all three of those questions, we have the best job in world for you!
  Join an experienced and energetic fund raising team at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. As a Major Gift Officer, you will have the opportunity to help our alumni and friends match their philanthropic passions to student success opportunities at th
  
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