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• Apple Music Positions Itself As Platform, Promoter, Reinventor Of The Music Biz

  22-12-2016 23:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  "We all have to reinvent ourselves now that paid streaming is starting to lock in. There’s going to be a lot of new technology, and everyone’s going to be reforming their roles. We have no interest in being a label. But we do have interest in making our platform the one that’s best to communicate with the audiences."
  
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• Colorado Ballet Wins Best "Nutcracker" (Did You Even Know There Was A "Best" Nutcracker?)

  22-12-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Ticket discounter Goldstar said Wednesday that Colorado Ballet's production of the Christmas staple was voted the best by Goldstar members who rate and review "The Nutcracker" shows they recently attended. Previous winners include the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, Boston Ballet and The Joffrey Ballet."
  
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• Look, Look Again: Bortolami Group Show Considers the Art of Close, Careful Viewing

  22-12-2016 22:44 via artnews.com
  'Michel François, Liz Larner, Tony Lewis, Virginia Overton,' on view in New York through December 22 Read More
  
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• The Idea Of America As A Fiction

  22-12-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "America cannot be made great again because America isn’t real. America never was real. America is 325 million different ideas that disagree with each other just enough for human lives to be lost in the process of translating between them. America is nothing but miscommunication and unspoken secrets and fragmentary dreams that fail to cohere. It’s a multiplicity of states, none of them united. America, like money, isn’t the final product of human creativity."
  
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• Carrie Mae Weems, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Sarah Lewis, and Rebecca Carroll on ‘Vision and Justice in Racialized America’

  22-12-2016 22:21 via artnews.com
  WNYC recently presented a conversation with artists Carrie Mae Weems and LaToya Ruby Frazier and scholar Sarah Lewis at its Greene Space in downtown Manhattan. The topic was “Vision and Justice in Racialized America,” and it was part of “How I … Read More
  
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• Technology, Art, At Some Point The Two Are Indistinguishable

  22-12-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  "In these cases, the engineers are as much creators of the work as the named artists are. What is the difference between art and technology here? After all, the most advanced of technology has always been indistinguishable from magic."
  
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• Toronto's Three Big Theatres Need A Miracle Worker To Reinvent

  22-12-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’d call it a rescue mission, because each of these three theatres has lost its way in recent years. Now, they need to be reinvented in order to help Toronto solidify its place as one of North America’s top theatre destinations – a reputation that also depends on the Mirvish organization with its four theatres, a lively fringe scene and two internationally renowned summer festivals (Stratford and Shaw) within easy reach of the city.
  
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• Selling Out? Why Is That Always A Bad Thing?

  22-12-2016 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  We’re all familiar with the way the artistic life gets romanticized as a struggle, but it’s time to put this harmful stereotype to rest; some may be happy waiting tables, asking their friends to support their Kickstarter campaigns or taking every odd gig in hopes they’ll finally get noticed or “make it.” But it’s not the only way. “Selling out,” when it enhances our work without compromising our creativity or our values, is a good thing, and p
  
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• ‘Giacometti–Nauman’ at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

  22-12-2016 20:10 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Experimental Music, Listenability And Progress (Much To Say)

  22-12-2016 19:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The history of the French salons in the 19th century, and of the early reactions to musical and literary modernism, has made people aware of how easy it is to miss the true creative product, and to exalt the dead and the derivative in its stead. The safest procedure for the anxious bureaucrat is to subsidize music that is difficult, unlikely to be popular, even repugnant to the ordinary musical ear. Then one is sure to be praised for one’s advanced taste and up-to-date understanding. Besi
  
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• Sound Disposition: A Personal, Peculiar Top 10 of a Memorable Year in Art

  22-12-2016 19:17 via artnews.com
  Anything like a clear through-line connecting what I marked down as the year’s most affecting shows has proven elusive. As happens often when in my own head, though, I can’t help but think of sound. It didn’t figure highly (or … Read More
  
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• A Reminder: Galleries and Museums Are Changing Their Hours for the Holidays

  22-12-2016 19:07 via artnews.com
  Good afternoon, dear readers. Just a reminder from your friends at ARTnews that, with the holidays coming up, quite a few art dealers and museums are changing their hours and some are even closing up until 2017. Take it from … Read More
  
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• After Oakland Fire, Cities Around America Are Evicting Artists In Sub-Code Spaces

  22-12-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Baltimore, for example: "We have a shortage of those spaces," he said of properties where artists can live, work or perform. "This is a great arts city, and it needs to continue to be that way. No one wants Baltimore to become like D.C., where there are no artists who can afford the rent. If we don't get a space out of this, then that's basically Baltimore City telling us they don't want us to exist."
  
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• The Campaign That Made Marshall McLuhan Famous (A Study In Fame)

  22-12-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Understanding Media garnered a few mainstream print reviews upon publication, but McLuhan’s break came in early 1965, when a pair of San Francisco prospectors — one, Gerald Feigen, a physician, the other, Howard Gossage, an ad-agency executive — “discovered” McLuhan and promptly arranged to visit the Canadian in Toronto. Feigen and Gossage were self-fashioned avant-gardists, using profits from their business consulting firm for “genius scouting”; the do
  
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• The Vatican appoints its first female museum head – but it can go further

  22-12-2016 17:03
  
  Hiring art historian Barbara Jatta is another progressive move from the Vatican Museums – now it must open up its secret wonders to the publicWhich museum will be the next to appoint a female director? Most of the world’s great visual arts institutions remain firmly under male control. The current bosses of the British Museum and the National Gallery in London are men, as are the directors of the Prado in Madrid, the Louvre in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. So
  
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• Why Should Sexual Assault Allegations Against Nate Parker Sink His 'Birth Of A Nation' While The Ones Against Casey Affleck Don't Affect 'Manchester By The Sea'?

  22-12-2016 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michael Schulman wonders if the Academy voters don't need their own rabbi or ethicist.
  
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• Why Scorsese's 'Silence' Is So Different From Most 'Faith-Based' Films

  22-12-2016 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "'Faith-based film' is the label typically used to describe movies with an agenda: Some, like 2016's Risen, exist to proselytize, while others, like 2014's God's Not Dead, seek to make a narrow argument about politics or culture. For some audiences, this kind of work may be satisfying, and that's fine. But ultimately, movies in this genre usually aren't designed to complicate or challenge people's worldviews; they're not created to deepen people's understanding of themselves and the world. Silen
  
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• Leading Antiquities Dealer Arrested, Charged For Selling Looted Items

  22-12-2016 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The dealer, Nancy Wiener, has sold illicit Asian objects to Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses, according to the criminal complaint filed in Manhattan Criminal Court. The case is likely to revive questions about the auction house's due diligence procedures before they sell antiquities."
  
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• Even A Century Ago, There Was A Campaign Against The Crass Commercialization Of Christmas

  22-12-2016 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Here's the story of the Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving, co-founded by a famous stage actress and the daughter of J.P. Morgan.
  
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• Morning Links: Zap! Pow! Bam! Edition

  22-12-2016 15:14 via artnews.com
  Must-read stories from around the world Read More
  
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• Where Did The Whole 'War On Christmas' Issue Come From, Anyway?

  22-12-2016 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Blame a book with a too-incendiary title and a conservative media star.
  
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• Why Science Took So Long To Accept The Idea Of Animal Consciousness

  22-12-2016 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  It wasn't so long ago that the dread accusation of anthropomorphism could sink scientific careers. (Even Jane Goodall got scolded for giving the primates she studied names.) Why? Because of the nature of the scientific method itself.
  
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• Should Scientists Really Bother Going To All The Trouble To Find What's Unique About Strads?

  22-12-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Acousticians Bruno Fazenda and Trevor Cox suggests several reasons why the answer is probably no.
  
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• Pope Francis Names First Woman Head Of Vatican Museums

  22-12-2016 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "A native of Rome, [Barbara] Jatta has worked at the Vatican since 1996, until this year within the Vatican Library, where she oversaw the library's collection of rare prints."
  
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• Medieval Lamps Stolen From Egypt's National Museum Found In Emirates

  22-12-2016 13:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  "One Gulf collector had paid £500,000 for one of the lamps while an Abu Dhabi buyer was said to have purchased a second. After lengthy negotiations they were officially returned to Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities in a ceremony in Cairo this month."
  
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• The Dance Moves That Can Heal The Sick, Raise The Dead, And Enable Time Travel (On Netflix's New Sci-Fi Show)

  22-12-2016 13:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Q&A with choreographer Ryan Heffington, who created "the Movements" with magical powers for the series The OA.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.21.16

  22-12-2016 11:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  The devastating debut of 4:48 Psychosis (the opera) stands high in 2016’s best
  4.48 Psychosis Royal Opera / Lyric Hammersmith, LondonThe guy behind the ticket counter at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre checked out my Brooklyn zip code and asked “Did you come over for this?”  ... read more
  AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2016-12-21“Meditations on Mortality”: Illustrated Companion to My WSJ Review of Jasper Johns/Edvard Munch at VMFA
  John Ravenal, curator of t
  
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• Harley Weir's free associations – in pictures

  22-12-2016 08:00
  
  With her enigmatic and wondrous photography, Harley Weir finds colour-rich beauty in overlooked places Continue reading...
  
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• Orchestras Are Charities? Not Compared To Museums

  22-12-2016 07:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  The estimable Adrian Ellis writes about potential pressures on New York's major art museums in the Trump era, warning about potential tax changes and financial instability:
  The outlook for New York’s largest art museums is a little unsettling. A Trump presidency is anxiety-inducing not because of any direct financial impact, but because of its potential impact on the world economy, and therefore on New York philanthropy and tourism. Perhaps more significantly, a culture war between scapego
  
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• Sidney Nolan: little-known Opera Australia paintings hark back to golden age of the arts

  22-12-2016 03:24
  
  Commissioned by Opera Australia in 1983 but never exhibited, the eight works show the helplessness of men and animals faced by hostile natural worldNestled among the concrete wilderness of Surry Hills in Sydney, the Opera Australia centre is a large but unassuming building, filled with music rooms, building workshops and costume studios. As I’m shown into the antiquated boardroom for a meeting, I see a remarkable set of paintings. They hang haphazardly on the walls and look like the work o
  
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• Job Opportunity for Staff in the USC Kaufman School of Dance

  22-12-2016 01:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  The University of Southern California is seeking applicants for the position of Senior Business Officer I for the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance.
  USC Kaufman marks the first new school to open at USC in close to 40 years. Featuring a rigorous curriculum within a conservatory style environment, USC Kaufman provides students with opportunities to work and collaborate with world-renowned artists and to study in a range of dance styles. In fall 2015, the school opened its doors to its first coho
  
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• What The Oakland Ghost Fire Tragedy Says About Need For Artist Spaces

  22-12-2016 01:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "If we need art in our lives — and I am thinking not only of painting and sculpture but also of music and literature and performance and entirely new forms of expression yet to be invented — then we certainly must have places where the constant fear of eviction does not stifle every generative urge, where creators can share and encourage each other’s growth, where the outsider feels safe to live according to their true nature."
  
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• Untitled(i read the first pages of a penguin edition thoreau.)

  22-12-2016 00:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  i threatened a thick hick with stellar blue eyes and reddish blond hair, he looked like he had a black leather hood on with a zipper mouth hole, not to tell me to close the door.     don’t you fucking tell me to close the door, i said.i left not having closed the door behind me.i ordered noodles, sea food and vegetables. i opened the door that led to the hallway and the bathroom. i had to take a shit. i felt a severe pressure in my anus. last week i had the same pressure and
  
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• New African American Museum Opens Up Ticket Passes, Sells Out In Four Minutes

  22-12-2016 00:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The museum distributed 880 free passes grouped in 30-minute time slots between 10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. The tickets became available at 6:30 a.m., and by 6:34 the banners saying “unavailable” and “sold out” covered every time slot. The passes represented about 10 percent of the 8,700 distributed for the day.
  
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