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• If You Could Sum Up 2016 With A Punctuation Mark, It Would Be This One

  27-12-2016 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Scare quotes (also known, even more colorfully, as 'shudder quotes' and 'sneer quotes') are identical to standard quotation marks, but do precisely the opposite of what quotation marks are supposed to do: They signal irony, and uncertainty. They suggest words that don't quite mean what they claim to."
  
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• John Williams Is The Reason Star Wars Resonates So Much, So What Is The New Star Wars Movie Doing Without A John Williams Score?

  27-12-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "A big part of what makes Williams’s music so resonant is his consistent, masterful use of shifting themes—across all of the films—to carry ideas and represent characters. In that way, the franchise has more in common with Wagnerian epic opera than with your standard action movie, where sound is so often used to trigger a quick emotion."
  
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• 'Seinfeld' Writers Reveal The Shocking Truth: They Did Not Make Festivus Up - It Was Real

  27-12-2016 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dan O'Keefe explains how his father invented it as a family holiday 50 years ago, and how it got into a Seinfeld script. (O'Keefe really, really hoped it would get cut.) The real-life Festivus didn't have a set date or season or the Feats of Strength, but there was an aluminum pole and there was most definitely Airing of Grievances.
  
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• We turn our back on expertise at our peril

  27-12-2016 22:00
  
  Are we facing a crisis of expertise in the art market? I believe we are.
  It is not just that it appears impossible to reach a consensus on important artists such as Modigliani. Nor is it the way the auction houses are discarding specialists at an alarming rate. Nor even the fact that key artistic Foundations (Warhol, Pollock and Lichtenstein) no longer provide an authenticating service. It is all this and more. We are witnessing the gradual erosion of expertise and its function in the art world
  
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• US-Russia museum loans could resume as deadlock ends

  27-12-2016 22:00
  
  Mikhail Piotrovsky, the director of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, is optimistic that museum loans between Russia and the US can begin again soon. Piotrovsky spoke to The Art Newspaper as the US Senate voted to pass new legislation that will protect works of art on loan to the US from foreign institutions.All Russian loans to the US were halted in 2011 amid fears that they could be impounded after a US federal judges ruling that Russia must transfer a collection of books seized by
  
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• The future is now: mobile phone photos are coming to the Met

  27-12-2016 22:00
  
  The next time you take an artistic snapshot with your iPhone, make sure to store it somewhere safeit just might end up in a museum some day. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is inviting 24 artists to conduct exchanges with one another through their phones, sending images back and forth in a game of visual ping-pong.
  The resulting photographs will be presented in the exhibition Talking Pictures: Camera-Phone Conversations between Artists (June 2017-January 2018). The images will be pre
  
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• Immersive Art Has Taken Over Music Festivals

  27-12-2016 21:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  And social media is to blame: "People just want to share what they’re experiencing, even if it’s unsharable."
  
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• How Scentists On TV Went From Bruce Banner And The 'Gilligan's Island' Professor To 'CSI' And Walter White

  27-12-2016 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Gone is the lone genius with a shed full of goofy contraptions and bubbling liquids. Today's fictional researchers work in realistic labs, with high-tech equipment, and in teams with others. Their dialogue is scattered with words from the latest scientific literature, and they have so much depth and personality that they carry entire shows."
  
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• What It's Like To Be A Poet Who Writes About The Elimination Of A Tyrant

  27-12-2016 20:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Poet Alice Notley says, "The tyrant is what enslaves us to our forms. The tyrant is the form of our life, the form of our politics, the form of our universities, the form of our knowledge, our thinking we know something. All of that is the tyrant."
  
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• Carrie Fisher, Performer, Writer And Activist, Dead At 60

  27-12-2016 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  The woman who played Princess (and General) Leia, wrote Postcards from the Edge, spent decades punching up scripts in Hollywood, and made it OK to publicly speak about mental illness, suffered a heart attack on a plane ride from London to Los Angeles on Dec. 23 and died on the morning of Dec. 27.
  
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• Technology Has Betrayed Our Privacy, And Artists Are Inspired

  27-12-2016 19:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Artists tangle with the implications of our trackable lives - including a widely used app called "Churchix," that surveills and records the identities of anyone who goes into certain churches. "Because many artists — all of us, really — were so captivated by the initial promise of the internet, they were blinded to its potential problems."
  
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• Robert Morris at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York

  27-12-2016 19:06 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Can We Now Officially Call Arvo Pärt A Great Composer?

  27-12-2016 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Patrick Stearns considers the strong and weak points in the music of the world's most-performed living composer. (He also offers "the only theory I have on why hipsters will listen to Pärt meditating on the baptism of St. Augustine.")
  
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• How Did Television Address 'Black Lives Matter' In 2016?

  27-12-2016 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  From "Empire" to "Blackish" and, in new shows, from Ava DuVernay's "Queen Sugar" to Donald Glover's "Atlanta," TV approached the new civil rights movement with varying degrees of success.
  
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• The Pay Dispute In Small Los Angeles Theatre Gets Even More Dramatic (And Weird)

  27-12-2016 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  There's a new minimum wage for actors at L.A.'s 99-seat theatres (a special Equity category), but theatre owners, as well as some actors, say the minimum wage threatens their work, and they want it to go away.
  
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• How An 18th-Century Presbyterian Minister Helped Create Modern Computer Science, Forensic Science, And Brain Science

  27-12-2016 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1748 David Hume argued, inter alia, that the probability of witnesses inaccurately claiming to have witnessed the risen Jesus was greater than that of Jesus actually rising from the dead. For the Reverend Thomas Bayes, this was simply not acceptable.
  
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• The Staging Of A 'Foto-Novela' In L.A.'s Rapidly Gentrifying Arts District

  27-12-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  As Los Angeles demolishes the 6th Street Bridge, artist Harry Gamboa Jr. saves its memories and relevance through a series of staged photos. His fotonovela practice "has the effect of connecting art world professionals with neophytes, master’s candidates from the graduate fine arts program at CalArts with first-year students from Northridge — most of them Chicano, like Gamboa."
  
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• Critical Mass: Four Books Explore the Role of Writers in an Expanding Art World

  27-12-2016 15:54 via artnews.com
  On Douglas Crimp's 'Before Pictures,' 'Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015,' and more Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Denver Art Museum Edition

  27-12-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Hong Kong will build branch of Beijing's Palace Museum

  27-12-2016 10:16
  
  A Hong Kong branch of the Palace Museum in Beijing is due to open in the $3bn West Kowloon Cultural District by 2022. The museum will show works from the former Chinese imperial collections on long-term loan after an agreement was signed between the Hong Kong government and Palace Museum officials on 23 December, catching many by surprise.The 30,500 sq. m museum will be funded with a $450m donation from the Hong Kong Jockey Club, the city's biggest private charity. The Hong Kong outpost will li
  
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• Kolor Collective: Rio de Janeiro's afro-feminist fantasists – in pictures

  27-12-2016 08:00
  
  Photographer Pol Kurucz’s vivid collection of photos explores issues faced by black Brazilian women, from political misrepresentation to unrealistic beauty standardsContinue reading...
  
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