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• Donald on Donald: what Judd thought of Trump

  20-12-2016 23:38
  
  Donald Trump has received negative reviews not only from around the world, but also from beyond the grave. A recently discovered unpublished note by the late Donald Judd, written in 1989, reveals that the US artist did not think much of the property tycoon, now US president-elect. Judd recounts reading an interview with Trump in Life magazine while he was sitting in the dentists office. He says in Life that he only buys Old Masters and that contemporary art is a con, Judd wrote. And of course r
  
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• English National Opera Box Office Soars 32 Percent, But Donations Dip

  20-12-2016 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "According to its box office receipts, the £11.4 million in its current report was up from £8.6 million in the previous year. Its total income was £40.3 million, compared with £38.2 million the previous year. However, money from donations and sponsorship tumbled, from £3.6 million in 2015 to £2.7 million in the year to March 2016."
  
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• John Baldessari reunites Jackson Pollock with his teacher Thomas Hart Benton

  20-12-2016 23:26
  
  Art doesnt just arise out of nowhere, says the 85-year-old artist US John Baldessari. Art comes out of art; Im interested in artists who influenced me, and how one artist interests another artist. Twelve new pictures by Baldessari, on show at Marian Goodman gallery in New York (until 23 December), juxtapose details of paintings by Jackson Pollock with those of works by the Abstract Expressionists teacher, Thomas Hart Benton.
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• Why Does Time Sometimes Seem To Slow Down Or Speed Up? Scientists Now Have An Answer

  20-12-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Since the brain estimates the passage of time by how much information is stored within a given interval, richer memories make it feel like more time has passed. What’s neat is that this explanation sheds light on other ways that time can feel bendy to us, on all different sorts of scales. For instance, if you look up at a clock on the wall, you’ll notice that as you first look at it, the second hand seems to be frozen in place, then after a moment proceeds to move normally. That&rsq
  
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• A Survey Of The Literature On Benefits Of The Arts

  20-12-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The team at Createquity gathered up all the research they could find on how the arts improve lives and tried to organize it in usable form. "Over the past half century, hundreds of researchers have spent thousands of hours and millions of dollars grappling with these questions. And while the literature still has a ways to go before we can consider the answers definitive, it is becoming clear in at least several arenas that it’s not just our imagination: arts participation really does impro
  
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• Ten Contemporary Operas By Ten Women

  20-12-2016 22:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  "I’ve often been referred to as 'that impudent brat.' You’re impudent when you’ve no claim to power. But does anyone call a young man 'impudent'? Instead he’s 'that gutsy fellow,' and 'gutsy' in this context means he commands respect and attention. Some male presenters proudly broadcast: 'Now we’re presenting an all-women festival' or 'Now we’re focusing exclusively on women conductors,' and yet if their inner attitude is 'Now we’ve done our part and may
  
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• Stolen Old Master paintings heading back to Verona

  20-12-2016 22:00
  
  In time for Christmas, Veronas Museo del Castelvecchio is preparing to welcome back 17 Old Master paintings this week that were stolen by masked thieves more than a year ago. The works by Tintoretto, Mantegna and Rubens, among others, were discovered near the Moldovan border of Ukraine in May after what the Italian culture ministry calls a long and complex investigation coordinated by Italian, Ukrainian and Moldovan authorities.
  An Italian delegation including the culture minister, Dario France
  
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• Stolen Old Master paintings head back to Verona

  20-12-2016 22:00
  
  In time for Christmas, Veronas Museo del Castelvecchio is preparing to welcome back 17 Old Master paintings this week that were stolen by masked thieves more than a year ago. The works by Tintoretto, Mantegna and Rubens, among others, were discovered near the Moldovan border of Ukraine in May after what the Italian culture ministry calls a long and complex investigation coordinated by Italian, Ukrainian and Moldovan authorities.
  An Italian delegation including the culture minister, Dario France
  
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• Shine a light: ICA Boston examines ten years of collecting

  20-12-2016 22:00
  
  Traditionally, art trades in paintings and sculpturesin materials. But since the 1960s, a glut of multimedia installations, found objects and textual manipulations have inaugurated a shift towards a more conceptual paradigm, and the message has eclipsed any single medium. This new-found focus on ideas has threatened to unsettle the familiar ritual of museum-going: what justification can we manufacture for schlepping to see works of art that are just fodder for essays we might as well read at ho
  
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• Quianlong seal scooped up by Chinese collector for €22m at Paris auction

  20-12-2016 22:00
  
  A red and brown soapstone seal of the Chinese emperor Quianlong (1711-1799) sold for 17.5m (21m including buyers premium) at a 14 December Far Eastern sale at Drouot in Paris. The final sale pricemore than 20 times the estimateis a world record for an imperial Chinese seal, said the auction house Pierre Berg and Associates. The buyer has been identified as a Chinese collector but no further details have been given.
  Described in the catalogue as scratched and chipped, it was estimated to make ar
  
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• Quianlong seal scooped up by Chinese collector for €21m at Paris auction

  20-12-2016 22:00
  
  A red and brown soapstone seal of the Chinese emperor Quianlong (1711-1799) sold for 17.5m (21m including buyers premium) at a 14 December Far Eastern sale at Drouot in Paris. The final sale pricemore than 20 times the estimateis a world record for an imperial Chinese seal, said the auction house Pierre Berg and Associates. The buyer has been identified as a Chinese collector but no further details have been given.
  Described in the catalogue as scratched and chipped, it was estimated to make ar
  
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• Qianlong seal scooped up by Chinese collector for €21m at Paris auction

  20-12-2016 22:00
  
  A red and brown soapstone seal of the Chinese emperor Qianlong (1711-1799) sold for 17.5m (21m including buyers premium) at a 14 December Far Eastern sale at Drouot in Paris. The final sale pricemore than 20 times the estimateis a world record for an imperial Chinese seal, said the auction house Pierre Berg and Associates. The buyer has been identified as a Chinese collector but no further details have been given.
  Described in the catalogue as scratched and chipped, it was estimated to make aro
  
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• London foundation Calvert 22 partners with Hermitage to mark 100th anniversary of Russian Revolution

  20-12-2016 22:00
  
  Calvert 22, the London-based foundation that focuses on Russian and Eastern European contemporary art, is partnering with the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg for a programme of events marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution next year.The year-long season will explore how the events of 1917 changed economic balance, gender relations, even attitudes towards alcohol consumption through a series of informal debates, conferences and exhibition. The revolution is still romanticised th
  
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• English minificence: why Opus Anglicanum can no longer be dismissed as a minor art

  20-12-2016 22:00
  
  Few English medieval works of art grip the imagination quite like the ferocious and racy Bayeux Tapestry, the embroidered epic of the Norman Conquest. So many storytelling and aesthetic words come from stitching and weaving: the words text and textile both stem from the Latin word texereto weave. We spin a yarn, weave a story, embroider or embellish an argument. The word subtlety derives from the Latin subtilisthe thread that passes under a warp. Embroidering between the Middle Ages and the 19th
  
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• David Robertson To Step Down As Music Director Of St. Louis Symphony

  20-12-2016 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a telephone interview Tuesday morning, Robertson said that he didn't have a new assignment with another orchestra. "I think my sell-by date has come," he said, "and I think it's important not to overstay one's welcome."
  
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• Someone Stole A Rhode Island Ballet Company's Nutcracker Costumes. Dance Companies Across The US Pitched In To Help

  20-12-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "According to AP, ensembles in Ohio, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, New York, and New Hampshire sent costumes and props to Providence, charging only minimal fees for shipping, warehouse restocking, and costume cleaning."
  
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• Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques at Aperture, New York

  20-12-2016 21:03 via artnews.com
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• British Film And TV Academy Says Non-Diverse Films Won't Be Eligible For Major Awards Starting In 2019

  20-12-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "To be eligible for the two awards, films must prove they have worked to improve diversity in two of the four following areas: On-screen characters and themes; Senior roles and crew; Industry training and career progression; Audience access and appeal to under-represented audiences. The measures comply with the diversity standards the BFI (British Film Institute) uses to guide its activities and the projects it funds."
  
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• Cruise Ship Art - It's The Biggest Art-Selling Gallery In The World

  20-12-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Park West was founded in 1969, is based outside Detroit, and boasts it’s the world’s biggest art gallery. It sells pictures and sculptures at thousands of live auctions held on more than 100 ships each year. Norwegian, Royal Caribbean, and Carnival all host Park West. And they all get a cut of the revenue. Park West has had annual sales as high as $400 million and counted more than 2 million customers. With those big numbers come bitter complaints."
  
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• 57 Years Ago Barbara Roston Checked Out A Library Book. This Year She Decided To Return It

  20-12-2016 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  This volume was due back on Nov. 18, 1959. After 20,842 days since, Ms. Roston would owe the library $1,042.10...
  
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• The Hazards Of David Foster Wallace Disease

  20-12-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The specific quality of Wallace I wanted to mimic is what I’d call his gift of sight. He had a way of generating luminosity by perfectly capturing tiny pieces of sensation spliced out from even the most banal moment of consciousness—his descriptive powers could give the sound of an air conditioner the consequence of a dying star. He had seemingly endless receptivity."
  
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• Every Night in January, a Pipilotti Rist Video Will Be Shown in Times Square at Midnight

  20-12-2016 19:22 via artnews.com
  If you’ve walked by the New Museum recently, you might’ve seen Pipilotti Rist pressing her face against the museum’s glass, rubbing her lips back and forth, up and down, across it. That work, Open My Glade (Flatten), 2000, comes in … Read More
  
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• Andrew Kreps Gallery to Rep Liz Magor

  20-12-2016 19:14 via artnews.com
  Andrew Kreps Gallery has announced that it now represents Vancouver-based sculptor Liz Magor.In her work, Magor focuses on the peripheral details of the quotidian, replicating objects with masterful verisimilitude. She re-presents these forms in new contexts, blurring the lines between … Read More
  
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• John Wright obituary

  20-12-2016 19:08
  
  My friend John Wright, who has died aged 88, was an artist and lecturer, full of passion and curiosity.In the 1960s and 70s, John showed his work at the John Moores exhibition, the Royal Academy summer exhibition, and galleries in London, Liverpool and Bradford. In the 20-year period following his retirement, he was able to devote himself more fully to painting, producing a significant body of work that testifies to the depth of his talent. Continue reading...
  
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• The Jedi Order Is Not A Religion, Rules Commission

  20-12-2016 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Temple of the Jedi Order applied for charitable organization status in England and Wales, but the Charity Commission ruled that Jediism "lacked the necessary spiritual or non-secular element" it expects.
  
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• Nina Simon On Five Tools That Can Help A Museum Manage Growth

  20-12-2016 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The biggest mistake I made as we grew was not to proactively address my personal fears and hesitations about growth. I resisted building better structures. I didn't own up to their necessity, impact, and tradeoffs. Now, I own it. Now, instead of resisting growth, I'm learning how to make structure work for us--so we can continue to grow in ways that are gloriously, radically collaborative."
  
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• Inside GameAugur, Artist Edward Shenk’s Mystical Sports Betting Service

  20-12-2016 18:18 via artnews.com
  Last year, the artist Edward Shenk was dining at an “uninspired Irish restaurant” in Long Island City when he made an observation. He spotted around a dozen men “all looking down at the tables, clearly preoccupied with something, many of … Read More
  
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• Misty Copeland Goes To Cuba

  20-12-2016 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The thing Copeland is most vocal about is the lack of diversity in ballet. But being in Cuba was a moment to not stand out. Copeland was surrounded in brown diversity."
  
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• Two Years of Turbulence for New York’s Galleries

  20-12-2016 17:52 via artnews.com
  New York’s gallery landscape has shifted many times over the last few decades, as dealers followed artists to new neighborhoods in search of cheaper rents. There have been a few seismic movements, from the rise and fall of SoHo, to the … Read More
  
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• Bocelli Out For Inaugural

  20-12-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  A source said that, by Monday, “Andrea Bocelli said there was no way he’d take the gig . . . he was ‘getting too much heat’ and he said no.” But another source told us, “Trump suggested to Bocelli he not participate because of the backlash. It’s sad people on the left kept him from performing on a historic day.”
  
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• Job Opportunity: Executive Director, Greenville Symphony Orchestra

  20-12-2016 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Greenville Symphony Orchestra seeks an Executive Director to work in partnership with a volunteer Board of Directors and Music Director Edvard Tchivzhel to develop and implement the strategic plan that both sustains the current level of operations and drives the organization forward in an orderly manner, following its long-term strategic plan.Reporting to the President of the Board, the Executive Director serves as the chief operating officer and is responsible for financial planning and hum
  
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• How The 'Last Tango' Butter Scene Went From Somewhat Disturbing Story To Outrage-Clickbait And Almost-Fake News

  20-12-2016 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Neither Maria Schneider not anyone else involved ever claimed that actual rape (or penetration of any sort) happened on the Last Tango set. Yet when the story resurfaced earlier this month, celebrities were tweeting things like "All copies of this film should be destroyed immediately. It contains an actual rape and sexual assault." Lindsay Zoladz investigates the source of the distortion and how it spread.
  
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• The Art Newspaper Russia announces nominees for fifth annual awards

  20-12-2016 16:52
  
  To celebrate the fifth edition of The Art Newspaper Russia Annual Prize, a longlist of five nominees for each of its five categories has been announced. The prize includes awards for the best book, exhibition, museum and restoration of the year, and an award for best personal contribution to the arts. Speaking of the five-year anniversary, Inna Bazhenova, the owner of The Art Newspaper group says, We are happy that [the prize] has won recognition and that we not only describe the events in the
  
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• We Can Now See The Brushstrokes On The Ghent Altarpiece

  20-12-2016 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  "In this first phase of restoration on one of the earliest art works to use oil paints on a large scale, new scanning techniques uncovered the singular skills of the Flemish brothers Jan and Hubert Van Eyck, beneath layers of overpainting and varnish."
  
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• We're Saved! Merriam-Webster's 2016 Word Of The Year Is Not 'Fascism'!

  20-12-2016 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  These folks, unlike their colleagues, name their Word of the Year based on what gets the most search queries - and at the beginning of this month, they sent out a plea saying that "fascism" was in the lead and "There's still time to look something else up." Looks like we (or they) came through: Merriam-Webster's official word for 2016 is something all-too-fitting.
  
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• Norman Lear's Classic Sitcoms May Get Remakes

  20-12-2016 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The idea currently being discussed by Lear and Sony executives would be to have new actors recreate classic episodes of the shows, working from the original scripts, and package them as short, six-episode anthologies. The scripts would be treated similar to plays being mounted in new productions."
  
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• 'Dear Evan Hansen' Breaks The $1-Million-A-Week Mark On Broadway

  20-12-2016 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The musical, about an anxious adolescent whose social status improves after the suicide of a high school classmate, has benefited from strong reviews and positive word of mouth. And, in another sign that it is breaking through in a crowded theater season, it has begun attracting a stream of celebrities."
  
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• Handel's 'Messiah', Class Warfare, And The 1%

  20-12-2016 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mark Swed: "Last week there happened to be something remarkable: two different (and they couldn't have been more different) performances of Handel's oratorio oriented around the one percent - the top and bottom one percent, that is."
  
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• Morning Links: Decolonize This Place Protesters Edition

  20-12-2016 14:55 via artnews.com
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• The Art In New York's New Second Avenue Subway Line

  20-12-2016 14:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chuck Close, Sarah Sze, Vik Muniz and Jean Shin each got a station "to treat ... as their very own and make them into individual installations" as part of what the Times calls "one of the most ambitious contemporary art projects that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has ever undertaken."
  
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• Ignore the snobs – Monet is a contender for the greatest artist ever

  20-12-2016 14:35
  
  A Monet pastel gifted to the Scottish National Gallery shows how powerful the impressionist is – a genius creator of poetic symbolism Who is the greatest artist of all time? Names like Rembrandt, Michelangelo and Picasso spring to mind. Yet a very strong contender has to be Claude Monet. That’s right, Monet. The soft and soppy, “chocolate box” impressionist, that painter of picnics and haystacks. Early in 2016, Monet’s water lily decorations revealed their reflectiv
  
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• What We've Lost With The Destruction Of Aleppo's Old City

  20-12-2016 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Lina Sergie Attar, a writer and architect who grew up in Aleppo, remembers a city that has been nearly lost after years of conflict." (audio)
  
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• Another Yellowface-In-Theatre Battle Breaks Out

  20-12-2016 14:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  "London fringe venue the Print Room has moved to defend itself over casting Caucasian actors in a production set in ancient China, describing the play as a 'very English' one. The theatre was widely criticised for its use of four Caucasian actors in a play by Howard Barker called In the Depths of Dead Love."
  
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• Theatre's Explanation For Yellowface Row Is Clueless

  20-12-2016 14:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Howard Sherman: "The Print Room would do well to consult with Asian artists ... if they wish to remedy this situation, rather than forging forward with abstract, disingenuous excuses that fool no one who actually understands what diversity and inclusion genuinely mean."
  
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• Nashville Symphony Posts First Budget Surplus Since Bankruptcy Scare

  20-12-2016 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "It's been a trying three years for the Nashville Symphony, which was teetering financially and barely avoided foreclosure on its iconic Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Now, audited financial statements show an organization that is operating in the black."
  
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• Will Brexit Be Bad For Literature? Maybe Not (Oops, Is That The Wrong Answer?)

  20-12-2016 13:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Author and translator Tim Parks writes of taking part in a recent London panel discussion: "It was evident that we were expected to find Brexit detrimental. ... All the same, none of us were quite able to conjure up the required predictions of post-Brexit literary decline."
  
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• Composer Karel Husa Dead At 95

  20-12-2016 13:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "[He] won the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1969 for his String Quartet No. 3, and the 1993 Grawemeyer Award for his Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, and many other composition prizes over his career."
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.19.16

  20-12-2016 10:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Orchestras, equity and disruption
  Thinking about orchestras and equity, two things have helped me frame a perspective: Angus Maguire’s reboot ... read more
  AJBlog: SongWorking Published 2016-12-19Chen Yi and Stylistic Synthesis
  Every year, we have our composition students do focused study of the works of a living composer, then Skype with that composer to discuss the music.  This year, one of the composers we focused on ... read more
  AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2016-12-19
   
  
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• Jonathan Jones's top 10 art exhibitions of 2016

  20-12-2016 10:30
  
  From great masterpieces by Caravaggio and Picasso to Georgiana Houghton’s hypnotic rediscovered paintings, this was a year full of stunning blockbustersMore on the best culture of 2016
  Adrian Searle’s top 10 art shows of 2016Picasso emerged here as the modern world’s true god of sculpture, an artist with no respect for what art 'should' be Continue reading...
  
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• Notable Stories From Last Week’s ArtsJournal – Blockbuster Mozart?

  20-12-2016 05:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  This Week: Mozart outsells every CD this year?… How artificial intelligence is changing thinking… Why should artists be entrepreneurs?… How the West dominated global culture… Zadie Smith speaks out about multiculturalism.
  
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