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• Mark Swed: The Best Music I Heard This Year In LA

  15-12-2016 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  It's easy to talk about the need for new things in classical music, but then you read about the highlights of Mark Swed's listening diet in Los Angeles for 2016 and the concerns melt away...
  
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• Screenwriter Versus Writer - The Contest Is Rigged

  15-12-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The fact is, in the war between author and screenwriter, the screenwriter virtually always wins. “Living authors are a problem. It’s much better to have an author safely departed because they do cause trouble. What you have to remember is that you owe everything to the movie, and nothing to the original.”
  
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• Faculty Positions, USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance

  15-12-2016 22:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  The USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at the University of Southern California invites applications for several positions as Assistant Professors of Practice.The University of Southern California (USC), founded in 1880, is located in the heart of downtown L.A., and is the largest private employer in the City of Los Angeles. As an employee of USC, you will be part of a world-class research university and a member of the “Trojan Family,” which is comprised of the faculty, students, an
  
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• Monuments Men 2.0 - International Heritage Needs Protection Now More Than Ever

  15-12-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While art historians, provenance experts, and criminologists might seem like unlikely war heroes, the fact that the military recognizes the need for these types of experts, to advise commanders and to work with civilian authorities after battles, is hugely important. As the military are planning before and during a conflict, it is important for officers in charge to think ‘what are the historically significant places we need to protect in a conflict, and how do we preserve
  
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• Hollywood Is Getting Even More Crowded. Facebook To Begin Producing Video

  15-12-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Facebook’s aim is to seed content for the new video tab in its mobile app, to make it more of a destination for users to spend time watching video content. The effort is similar to its program under which it has paid celebrities and media companies, including BuzzFeed, CNN and the New York Times, to produce video for Facebook Live.
  
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• Post-election art

  15-12-2016 22:00
  
  This week, the New York bookstore of Housing Worksa non-profit that fights HIV/Aids and homelessnesshosted a six-hour marathon of performances, Art After Trump, in response to the shockwave of the US presidential election.  Around 150 artists, including the conceptual artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed, the writer Amy Rose Spiegel and the writer and actress Tavi Gevinson, gave two-minute responses to the election that ranged from speeches to musical performances. Mikola De Roo, the Housing Works
  
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• Object lessons: from Paris street scenes to an ancient Egyptian statue of Sekhmet

  15-12-2016 22:00
  
  Willy Ronis, Les amoureux de la Bastille, Paris (1957)De La Succession Willy Ronis, Collection Stphane Kovalsky, Artcurial, Paris, 13 December
  Sold for 10,140 with fees (est 2,500-3,500)While Henri Cartier-Bresson and Brassa are household names, their contemporary and fellow street photographer Willy Ronis (1910-2009) remains less well known. Seeking to redress the balance, his grandson has consigned 160 photographs from his collection to Artcurial for a single-artist sale. Born in Paris, the s
  
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• New edition of Paris Tableau to open in Brussels next year

  15-12-2016 22:00
  
  The organisers of the Old Masters fair Paris Tableau, which closed last year, are due to open an edition of the fair in Brussels next year under the name Paris Tableau Brussels. According to the web publication Le Quotidien de lArt, the fair will open at La Patinoire Royale next summer (8-11 June) with the Parisian dealer Maurizio Canesso at the helm. The fair will include around 20 international galleries.
  Last autumn, Paris Tableau was folded into the Biennale des Antiquaires, the prestigious
  
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• India’s leading Kochi-Muziris Biennale overcomes country’s ‘demonetisation’ crisis

  15-12-2016 22:00
  
  Organisers of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, the flagship art gathering in India founded and organised by some of countrys leading contemporary artists, struggled through Indias demonetisation crisis to make poetry and performance the beating heart of the exhibition, which opened this week (until 29 March 2017). Organised this year by the artist-curator Sudarshan Shetty, whose work has been shown in the Tate and the Guggenheim, the biennial includes an increased number of international artists amo
  
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• India’s leading Kochi-Muziris Biennale overcomes country’s ‘demonatisation’ crisis

  15-12-2016 22:00
  
  Organisers of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, the flagship art gathering in India founded and organised by some of countrys leading contemporary artists, struggled through Indias demonetisation crisis to make poetry and performance the beating heart of the exhibition, which opened this week (until 29 March 2017). Organised this year by the artist-curator Sudarshan Shetty, whose work has been shown in the Tate and the Guggenheim, the biennial includes an increased number of international artists amo
  
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• A bright spot in an otherwise darkened Egypt

  15-12-2016 22:00
  
  Over the past year, the Egyptian artist Mohamed Abla has made more than 60 mixed-media works that are fairy tales for adults from the hive mind of Eastern mythology. From afar, they are Pop art in pastels, but upon closer inspection his works synthesise collage and calligraphy, abstraction and tradition, the natural and the supernatural. None of these workswhich are on view at his show, titled On the Silk Road, at the Ofok Gallery in Cairo, the ministry of cultures premier contemporary exhibiti
  
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• The best American art of 2016

  15-12-2016 21:58
  
  Njideka Akunyili Crosby mapped the route to somewhere brave and important, while Manus × Machina intertwined the art and science of dressmakingNo more play. If 2016 endures in American history as a year of epochal disaster, then it will be fair to ask, in the grim years to come: how on earth could artists have joked around so much while the darkness gathered? But in a year whose most debated exhibition came from a quartet of dim New York fashion dropouts who laugh about fascism, one painte
  
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• Director of Marketing and Publications, International Sculpture Center

  15-12-2016 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Director of Marketing and Publications is responsible for advertising sales revenue, circulation, and marketing goals, works with and manages the publications departments, and reports to the Executive Director.Job Description: Director of Marketing and Publications, International Sculpture CenterThe position is responsible for advertising sales revenue, circulation, and marketing goals, works with and manages the publications departments, and reports to the Executive Director.Primary Respons
  
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• Tamara Henderson at REDCAT, Los Angeles

  15-12-2016 21:25 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• The MP3 Format Compresses Music. Turns Out It Has An Impact On Our Emotional Responses Too

  15-12-2016 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  "This paper investigates the effect of MP3 compression on music emotion. We conducted listening tests to compare the effect of MP3 compression on the emotional characteristics of eight sustained instrument sounds. We compared the compressed sounds pairwise over ten emotional categories. The results show that MP3 compression strengthened the emotional characteristics Sad, Scary, Shy, and Mysterious, and weakened Happy, Heroic, Romantic, Comic, and Calm. Interestingly, Angry was relatively unaffec
  
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• Daily Mail: Donald Trump Has Offered Sylvester Stallone ‘Top Art Job’

  15-12-2016 21:12 via artnews.com
  The Daily Mail claims to have some inside info as to who will run the National Endowment for the Arts in the Trump administration, and guess what! It’s Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot star Sylvester Stallone, who, like many … Read More
  
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• Teachout: The Best American Theatre Not On Broadway

  15-12-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Few theatre critics have the opportunity to cover theatre the way The Wall Street Journal's Terry Teachout does. He's on the road much of the year seeing theatre across the country. This year, he says, the best theatre was off Broadway and out of New York City.
  
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• 'The Surrealist Country Par Excellence' - Mexico, Cauldron Of Modern Art In The Americas

  15-12-2016 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mexico was called 'the surrealist country par excellence' by no less a Surrealist than André Breton himself. J. Hoberman writes that the show of Mexican Modernism at the Philadelphia Museum of Art "presents a ... response to European art that, at least up until World War II, was equal to and in some regards stronger than that of North America."
  
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• NYT Book Critics Pick Their Favorite Books Of 2016

  15-12-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The New York Times has three daily book critics: Michiko Kakutani, Dwight Garner and Jennifer Senior. Because they review different titles, it is impossible for them to compile a single unanimous Top 10 list. They have favorites, however, and are happy to have a chance to list them here."
  
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• Casey Kaplan Now Represents Jordan Casteel

  15-12-2016 19:10 via artnews.com
  Casey Kaplan in New York will now represent Jordan Casteel, the young painter who’s recently gotten attention for her portraits of men lounging in various environs. One of the the 2015–16 artists in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, … Read More
  
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• Have A Look At Oskar Schlemmer's 'Triadic Ballet', The Original Bauhaus Dance

  15-12-2016 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last month we told you about an updated version of this work with choreography by Karole Armitage. Here's video of a 1970s attempt at reconstructing the original.
  
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• UK's first major Moomin exhibition set to open in London

  15-12-2016 18:50
  
  The creatures of author Tove Jansson’s books are famous in their native Finland, and are building an international followingOn one level it is a journey through magical caves, beaches and forests inhabited by lovable, strange creatures that resemble tiny hippos. On another it is an existential journey touching on some of the biggest subjects including gender, sexuality, tolerance and freedom.The first major UK exhibition dedicated to the Moomins and the life of their Finnish creator, Tove
  
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• Washington DC Marching Bands To Sit Out Inaugural

  15-12-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  At least one D.C. public school marching band has participated in the past five inaugural parades, but none applied for consideration this year.
  
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• What People Don't Get About Vantablack, The Super-Dark Black That Anish Kapoor Got Exclusive Rights To

  15-12-2016 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The outrage [at Kapoor] was based on a slew of misconceptions: one, that Kapoor had exclusive rights to the material, period - he doesn't, only to one version of it and only in the field of art - two, that it's a pigment - it isn't - and three, that the material was ready to be used, which Kapoor himself has raised doubts about." And now it's not even the blackest black anymore.
  
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• Is The Only Way To Make Theatre Budgets Work By Underpaying Workers?

  15-12-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The debate over these overtime rules — in this article, in my head, in my heart, in our boardroom, in a courtroom, in our communities as well as among members, sponsors, and donors, has to include asking whether the only way to balance a budget is by marginalizing those who pour all of their passion, time and talent into their organizations."
  
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• How Marketers And Designers Make Things Cool

  15-12-2016 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  There's an optimal level of newness - not too familiar, not too surprising - that gets people receptive to a product, or a name, or an idea. Raymond Loewy, arguably the most influential designer of the 20th century, had an acronym for it: MAYA.
  
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• Consumer Reports: Paul McMahon

  15-12-2016 17:00 via artnews.com
  Paul McMahon is a musician and artist living in Woodstock, New York. Highlights from his varied and legendary career include having work in the 2009 “Pictures Generation” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, appearances on the Soupy Sales television show, and … Read More
  
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• The Problem Of Iago, And How Daniel Craig Solves It

  15-12-2016 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  "In recent productions he has been rendered modern (which is to say, not purely evil in the original, metaphysical sense) through complex psychological contrivances" - traumatized soldier, or repressed homosexual, or morbidly jealous husband, and so on. "Daniel Craig's Iago is not a psychopath, or a victim of trauma, or a man deluded about right and wrong. He makes a choice."
  
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• The Big Picture: A Talk With Douglas Crimp on the Changing Role of the Curator, the State of the Art World, and His New Memoir

  15-12-2016 16:32 via artnews.com
  In 1977, Douglas Crimp, then a grad student at the City University of New York, organized a group exhibition called “Pictures” at the small downtown New York alternative gallery Artists Space. The show launched the careers of Troy Brauntuch, Jack … Read More
  
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• L.A.’s Roberts & Tilton Now Represents Jeffrey Gibson

  15-12-2016 16:16 via artnews.com
  Los Angeles gallery Roberts & Tilton announced that it now represents artist Jeffrey Gibson, who is based in the Upper Hudson Valley of New York. The artist’s first show with the gallery will be in fall 2017.Gibson, who is Cherokee and … Read More
  
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• Scythian Gold From Crimea, Marooned Abroad After Russian Annexation, Must Be Returned To Ukraine, Court Rules

  15-12-2016 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Items of Scythian gold that had been on loan from four Crimean museums to a Dutch archaeological museum when Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 must be returned to Kiev, a court in Amsterdam ruled yesterday."
  
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• Three Misconceptions About Business Models In The Arts

  15-12-2016 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  For starters, a lot of us make the idea too hard: "A business model is a vital concept determining the success of any organisation and not a complex formula relating to its profit-making mechanisms. A business model is just a story explaining who your audiences and customers are, what they value, and how you will be able to sustain the organisation in providing that value."
  
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• 'How Does It Feel' - Patti Smith On Singing (And Fluffing The Words) At Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize Ceremony

  15-12-2016 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The opening chords of the song were introduced, and I heard myself singing. The first verse was passable, a bit shaky, but I was certain I would settle. But instead I was struck with a plethora of emotions, avalanching with such intensity that ... I was unable to continue. I hadn't forgotten the words that were now a part of me. I was simply unable to draw them out." (includes video)
  
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• Morning Links: Rookie Mistake Edition

  15-12-2016 15:01 via artnews.com
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• It's Not Easy Out There For Women Composers Writing Operas, But Here Are Ten Of Them Who Are Making It Happen

  15-12-2016 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  "We asked 10 composers to reflect on ... what it means to be a woman creating opera today. Read what they had to say while listening to excerpts from their works."
  
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• Glenda Jackson Talks Acting And Politics

  15-12-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  "They are not analogous. They are entirely different -- They're not entirely different ... The exclusive responsibility for arguing against the Iraq war or stating my opinion of Margaret Thatcher's regime was mine. If there was a fallout, it was mine. The responsibility in acting is not exclusively mine. There's a shared responsibility."
  
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• Six Tips For Arts Crowdfunding

  15-12-2016 14:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  It's getting to be an ever more important method for raising money, and nonprofit funding consultants Peter Baeck and Sam Mitchell offer half a dozen points for development folks to keep in mind as they plan a campaign.
  
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• 'I Hate The Written Word,' Says Choreographer Who Gives His Audiences Reading Lists

  15-12-2016 14:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marina Harss talks with Reggie Wilson, "who has been described as a kind of cultural anthropologist working in dance. [His] creations develop out of personal obsessions that lead to years of reading and research trips before he even sets foot in the studio."
  
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• Academy Rules 'Moonlight' And 'Loving' Ineligible For Best Original Screenplay

  15-12-2016 13:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Both [films] were being campaigned for Original Screenplay and determined to be originals by the Writers Guild in their WGA Awards ... Instead, the Academy's writers branch ruled them eligible only in the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race."
  
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• 'Arrival,' 'Manchester By The Sea,' 'Silence' Disqualified For Best Original Score Oscar

  15-12-2016 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Per Rule 15 II E of the Academy's rules and eligibility guidelines, a score 'shall not be eligible if it has been diluted by the use of pre-existing music, or it has been diminished in impact by the predominant use of songs or any music not composed specifically for the film by the submitting composer.'"
  
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• Here Are The Nominees For This Year's SAG Awards

  15-12-2016 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Among this year's movies, the Screen Actors Guild gave the most love to Manchester By The Sea, Fences, and Moonlight; the small-screen faves wereThe Crown, Stranger Things, and The People v. O.J. Simpson.
  
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• Bern inherits Gurlitt collection as court rejects cousin's challenge to will

  15-12-2016 12:12
  
  Berns Kunstmuseum will inherit Cornelius Gurlitts controversial art collection after a court in Munich dismissed a challenge to his will by his cousin Uta Werner, who had maintained that the elderly hoarder was mentally unfit to make a will.The decision brings to an end months of uncertainty hanging over the collection of around 1,500 works, including art by Claude Monet, Paul Czanne, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Dix and Gustave Courbet. Gurlitt had inherited the cache of art, discovered in his
  
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• Jennifer Scott first woman to be appointed Dulwich Picture Gallery director

  15-12-2016 11:13
  
  Jennifer Scott, the director of the Holburne Museum in Bath, has been appointed as the Sackler director of Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London. She replaces Ian Dejardin who is leaving after 12 years in the post to join the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Ontario as chief executive. Scott, the first woman to fill the post, takes up the position in April next year. In 2017, the gallery will celebrate 200 years since it first opened its doors to the public.Scott joined the Holburne Museu
  
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• Scythian gold should return to Ukraine, Dutch court rules

  15-12-2016 11:11
  
  Items of Scythian gold that had been on loan from four Crimean museums to a Dutch archaeological museum when Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 must be returned to Kiev, a court in Amsterdam ruled yesterday (14 December).
  The ruling by the Amsterdam District Administrative Court does not end the battle since the museums have the right to appeal, and even if the pieces go back to Kiev, to be kept at the Museum of Historical Treasures, a court there will have to decide on own
  
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• Scythian gold must return to Ukraine, Dutch court rules

  15-12-2016 11:11
  
  Items of Scythian gold that had been on loan from four Crimean museums to a Dutch archaeological museum when Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 must be returned to Kiev, a court in Amsterdam ruled yesterday (14 December).
  The ruling by the Amsterdam District Administrative Court does not end the battle since the museums have the right to appeal, and even if the pieces go back to Kiev, to be kept at the Museum of Historical Treasures, a court there will have to decide on own
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.14.16

  15-12-2016 08:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Art Emerging In A New(ish) Museum
  Come along with me to see a new museum filled with contemporary art that, for the most part, hasn’t been overexposed. My recent trip took me to Morocco, where ... read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2016-12-1Hedda Gabler: monster or philosopher?
  My colleagues among the London critics are divided by Ivo van Hove’s new National Theatre production of Hedda Gabler, in an un-gimmicky, plain new version by Patrick Marber - except that they all
  
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• Prehistoric cave art celebrated at new Lascaux centre in Dordogne

  15-12-2016 07:30
  
  Lascaux 4, a spectacular replica of France’s most celebrated cave art using interactive guides and multi-screen displays, opens on 15 DecemberThe International Cave Art Centre in the Dordogne, which celebrates the prehistoric art discovered in 1940 known as Lascaux, was inaugurated by President Hollande on Saturday 10 December. The €57m (£48m) centre sits at the foot of the hill where the original cave was found and is built of glass and grey striated concrete – though it
  
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• Long overlooked, Indigenous women’s art takes centre stage in Melbourne exhibition

  15-12-2016 06:36
  
  From rainbow-painted skateboards to dilly bags woven from scrap metal, the bold and diverse art of Australia’s Indigenous women is finally on show at NGV“This is not a feminist exhibition,” curator Judith Ryan tells me as we take the stairs down to the ground level at the National Gallery of Victoria, after seeing a preview of Who’s Afraid of Colour? It is, however, an exhibition that features only the work of Indigenous women, and this is a statement in itself.In a year
  
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