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• How Our Campaign For Media Literacy Might Have Eroded The Truth

  06-01-2017 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  "In the United States, we believe that worthy people lift themselves up by their bootstraps. This is our idea of freedom. What it means in practice is that every individual is supposed to understand finance so well that they can effectively manage their own retirement funds. And every individual is expected to understand their health risks well enough to make their own decisions about insurance. To take away the power of individuals to control their own destiny is viewed as anti-American by so m
  
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• Free Speech? As An Idea It Requires A Few Rules...

  06-01-2017 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The main schism in today’s free speech debates pits liberals, advocating unbridled speech as a tool of freedom, against radicals, who unmask unbridled speech as a tool of class privilege. But that rift tells only one story. In almost all democracies today (the United States being the sole and oft-criticised exception), mainline liberal doctrines overwhelmingly require limits on provocative speech."
  
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• Here's How You Hack Mainstream Attention And "Reconfigure" Power

  06-01-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Running campaigns to shape what the public could see was nothing new, but social media created new pathways for people and organizations to get information out to wide audiences. Marketers discussed it as the future of marketing. Activists talked about it as the next frontier for activism. Political consultants talked about it as the future of political campaigns. And a new form of propaganda emerged."
  
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• The CIA Helped Promote The Work Of Artists Whose Ideas Were Helpful To The US. How Did This Distort The Free Flow Of Ideas?

  06-01-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "World tours, fancy conferences, prestigious bylines and book contracts were bestowed on artists who hewed to political positions favored by the establishment, rather than on the most talented. In 1966, The New York Times confirmed suspicions that the CIA was pumping money into “civil society” organizations: unions, international organizations of students and women, groups of artists and intellectuals. The agency had produced the popular cartoon version of George Orwell’s
  
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• The International Language Of Science Is English. Alas, That Leaves A Lot Out

  06-01-2017 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  "This problem is a two-way street Not only does the larger scientific community miss out on research published in non-English languages. But the dominance of English as science's lingua franca makes it more difficult for researchers and policy makers speaking non-English languages to take advantage of science that might help them."
  
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• Translations Risk A Homogenization Of Ideas And Language

  06-01-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "While translations do cross borders, broadening our cultural knowledge as they present one language in the terms of another, they can also become an impediment to free communication. As a translator of contemporary Japanese fiction, I’ve seen both the flow and the congestion, and have witnessed at close range the unintended consequences—and our lack of control as translators—when it comes to the way our texts move or fail to move across borders."
  
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• Nona Faustine at Baxter St Camera Club New York

  06-01-2017 21:17 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Custodians of the Holy Land: the Franciscans to open new museum in Jerusalem

  06-01-2017 21:04
  
  Founded in 1217 by St Francis of Assisi, in the middle of the Fifth Crusade, the Custody of the Holy Land is a branch of the Franciscan monastic order that has operated in Jerusalem continuously for more than eight centuries. Their mission has been to preserve the places in the city that are important to the Christian faith, and to protect pilgrims to those sites, which number more than 2 million a year.
  As emissaries of the Catholic Church in Jerusalem, the Franciscans have also guarded religi
  
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• Dandyism Is An Artistic Act - And A Subversive One

  06-01-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "When we use the word [dandy] casually, we refer to men (it's almost always men) who are fussy, even anachronistic. But the figure of the dandy, historically, has been far more subversive."
  
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• Everything’s Coming Up DeFeo

  06-01-2017 20:38 via artnews.com
  One of the more heartening developments on the art-historical front over the past few years has been the renewed interest in Jay DeFeo, the Bay Area painter who was born in 1929, played a vital role in San Francisco’s Beat scene, spent … Read More
  
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• Recording Companies And Pandora Announce Bid For High Resolution Streaming

  06-01-2017 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new study commissioned ahead today's announcement by UMG, entitled "Global Insight: The Appeal of High-Res Audio (Studio Quality Sound)" presents a variety of data supporting a growing market for hi-res audio. The findings claimed that 85 percent of U.S. consumers say audio quality is "very important" to them; 48 percent of U.S. consumers are willing to pay more for better audio quality; and perhaps most significantly that "71 percent of existing music streaming subscribers
  
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• 'Design Thinking' Is The Latest Concept (Or Buzzword) In Education Circles

  06-01-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The problem is, as Jessica Lahey writes, figuring out what the term does (and doesn't) mean.
  
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• How Do We Make American Museums Multilingual?

  06-01-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Making museums multilingual (and not just via wall text) is a gargantuan task. It’s resource-intensive, requiring the investment of capital as well as time and, in best-case scenarios, incorporation into the museum’s overall strategic, marketing, acquisitions, programming, and hiring plans."
  
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• How I Learned To Love Cy Twombly

  06-01-2017 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Carl Swanson: "The combination of his inscrutability - all those words and phrases, scrawled and painted over, and grandiose titles referencing classical mythology - combined with the work’s billionaire home-decor market value to speak to something clubby, cushioned, and aloof which I never quite got, or felt I should get, or maybe that I felt that I needed to get. And it's not just me."
  
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• In An Era Of Viral Media And Fake News, What Is The Role Of Libraries

  06-01-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Making sense of information is hard, maybe increasingly so in today’s world. So what role have academic libraries played in helping people make sense of world bursting at the seams with information?"
  
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• 'The Shakespeare Of The East', And How China Uses The Shakespeare Of The West To Promote Him

  06-01-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Tang [Xianzu] is well known in China, though even in his home country he does not enjoy anything like the literary status of his English counterpart - he wrote far fewer works (four plays, [including The Peony Pavilion,] compared with Shakespeare's 37), and is not as quotable. But no matter. The timing was perfect. Tang died in 1616, the same year as Shashibiya, as Shakespeare is called in Chinese."
  
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• Louvre Lost $10 Million Last Year With Precipitous Visitor Decline

  06-01-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “2016, for the Louvre as for all sites in Paris, was a difficult year,”Jean-Luc Martinez, president and director of the Louvre, told Le Figaro. “We should finish the year at 7.3 million visitors, 15 percent less than in 2015, and a loss of at least €9.7 million ($10.2 million), not to mention the lower revenues in booksellers or restaurants,” he elaborated following the museum’s announcement.
  
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• Pop Culture Gets Metaphysical

  06-01-2017 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Across popular entertainment lately, science fiction, theoretical physics, and spirituality have blended to offer not escapism but wait-there's-more-ism, offering a tantalizing hint that our perception of reality is too narrow - and that with a little bit of effort, we can see extraordinary things."
  
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• Om Puri, Character Actor With Career In Bollywood And The West, Dead At 66

  06-01-2017 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  He first made his mark in the art cinema that developed in India in the 1980s; later, he moved regularly back and forth between popular and indie movies in India (acting in at least three different languages) and film and television in the U.S. and Great Britain (The Jewel in the Crown, East Is East, City of Joy, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Charlie Wilson's War).
  
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• Louvre Attendance Down By Over 20% In Past Two Years

  06-01-2017 16:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  As recently as 2014, Paris's flagship museum had a record 9.3 million visitors - and those numbers were projected to rise to 12 million by 2025. Then came the terrorist attacks.
  
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• Terror be damned – the Louvre is still the world's greatest gallery

  06-01-2017 16:13
  
  In the wake of terror attacks in Paris and Nice, visitor numbers to the Louvre have fallen by two million since 2015. We cannot let fear deter us from this temple to human achievementAfter the terrorist attacks on Paris in November 2015, tricolour flags were waved around the world and international solidarity with France was vociferously expressed. It seems the world was being hypocritical. Many people began altering holiday plans, even before mass murder came to Nice, with the Bastille Day truc
  
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• Post-Brexit: Victoria and Albert Museum show imagines Europe 2,000 years from now

  06-01-2017 16:04
  
  Imagine Europe 2,000 years from now, where citizenship can be downloaded on your smart phone, taxes are paid according to digital not geographical boundaries and Brexit is something you only read about in history e-books.An exhibition opening at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) next month aims to do just this. The London institution has joined forces with the Goethe-Institut to co-commission 12 international artists to create works depicting the future, or works that envisage how our cu
  
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• Oskar Eustis On Protecting America's 'Ramshackle Ecology' For Developing New Plays

  06-01-2017 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Says the director of the Public Theater, "I feel like I've spent the last couple of years outlining very big problems that American theater has to tackle and now we've moved into an environment where it will be more difficult to solve those problems."
  
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• You Can Always Go Downtown: The Lower Manhattan Art World Through the Years

  06-01-2017 15:58 via artnews.com
  Given the whirlwind of geographic and conceptual changes in contemporary-art landscape, we couldn’t help doing some serious navel-gazing (especially in light of the upcoming “Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965” exhibition at the Grey Art Gallery opening … Read More
  
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• The 52-Hertz Whale Takes a Turn in the Spotlight

  06-01-2017 15:53 via artnews.com
  Not to be confused with the “London Whale,” the financial trader whose dubious moves were linked to $6.2 billion in losses for JPMorgan Chase during the economic downturn of 2012, the “52-Hertz Whale” is an actual whale wandering the seas of the … Read More
  
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• Best friends, dark visions and wacky rococo – the week in art

  06-01-2017 15:48
  
  Turner’s watercolours are unveiled once more in Edinburgh, while Beyond Caravaggio enters its final week – plus the rest of the week’s art happeningsTurner in January
  Start the year with a dose of JMW Turner’s luminous genius in this traditional January unveiling of some of his most wondrous watercolours.
  • Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, until 31 January. Continue reading...
  
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• Did That 1896 Film Clip Of A Moving Train Really Cause The Audience To Run From The Screen In Panic?

  06-01-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  "According to the tale, as the silent black-and-white image of a moving locomotive filled a movie screen in Paris, the people in the cinema thought it was going to drive right into them. They panicked, and bolted for the back of the theater." In fact, that's probably the movie business's first-ever urban legend. Eric Grundhauser walks us through the evidence. (includes video)
  
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• Artspace Lays Off Nearly All Employees, Roiling Online Art Market Landscape [Updated]

  06-01-2017 15:23 via artnews.com
  Artspace, a startup that launched in 2011 with the aim of facilitating online sales for galleries and nonprofits, will part with the bulk of its staffers, sources have told ARTnews. The layoffs appear to have gutted its editorial team, which … Read More
  
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• Artspace Lays Off Nearly All Employees, Roiling Online Art Market Landscape

  06-01-2017 15:23 via artnews.com
  Artspace, a startup that launched in 2011 with the aim of facilitating online sales for galleries and nonprofits, will part with the bulk of its staffers, sources have told ARTnews. The layoffs appear to have gutted its editorial team, which … Read More
  
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• How Fred Astaire Helped Debbie Reynolds Learn to Dance

  06-01-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Seeing this story, we can finally understand what Reynolds meant when she said that, excepting childbirth, her big number in Singin' in the Rain was the hardest thing she'd ever done in her life. (includes video)
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Happy Birthday, Jonas Mekas!’ Edition

  06-01-2017 15:14 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading to start the day. Read More
  
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• Miami Herald Eliminates All Classical Music Coverage

  06-01-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  It's already been nearly a decade since the paper laid off its critic, Lawrence A. Johnson; since that time, the Herald has licensed reviews and articles from Johnson's subsequent venture, South Florida Classical Review. Now the paper has abandoned even that.
  
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• David Zwirner Poaches Postwar Senior Specialist From Christie’s, Now Represents Ruth Asawa Estate

  06-01-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Just weeks after Christie’s postwar and contemporary chairman left the auction house to become a partner in a gallery, another member of the department has defected for that world. This week, Jonathan Laib, formerly a senior vice president and senior specialist at … Read More
  
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• To Sing Bess In 'Breaking The Waves', Keira Duffy Had To Train, And Eat, Like An Athlete

  06-01-2017 14:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  "I had probably the most rigorous routine I've ever had in my professional life for this role. There was a lot of physical conditioning I had to do. It's a monster role, and the emotional stakes just get higher and higher and that takes an incredible toll physically."
  
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• Is It Even Possible For A Sketch Called 'The Real Housewives Of ISIS' To Be Funny?

  06-01-2017 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, the BBC tried it, and the resulting tweetstorm was pretty strong - and so was the counterbacklash. (In fact, this isn't the first time ISIS humor has been tried, although the first practitioners were themselves Syrian.) (includes video)
  
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• Do Matching Gifts Help Juice Up Arts Crowdfunding Campaigns?

  06-01-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  It seems there was no existing research on that question - so one organization organized this pilot project to find out.
  
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• Cameron Mackintosh Gives Up On Attempting To Salvage 'Martin Guerre'

  06-01-2017 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The producer said he had given the Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil musical 'three shots' and acknowledged that the writing team had 'unfinished business' with it. But he added: 'I firmly believe there is something wonderful in there but I am not the person that will ever get it out of them.'"
  
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• Makeshift Bookstore Helps Make Life In South Sudan Refugee Camp Bearable

  06-01-2017 13:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  "[Juma'a Ali] is fiercely proud of his role as the bookseller of Malakal. His little shop stands as a source of education and distraction from the often unbearable conditions the camp's residents live with on a daily basis."
  
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• Bringing Dance Education To Homeschooled Kids

  06-01-2017 13:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Christopher Connolly of Dance Manchester tells how one encounter with a homeschooling parent - along with "a few risks and a leap of faith" - led to a program for a difficult-to-reach community.
  
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• Marcantonio Raimondi’s The Dream Of Raphael: literally the stuff of nightmares

  06-01-2017 12:00
  
  The pioneering engraver’s work from circa 1508 features creatures from the deep, panicked stick men and a phallic bugThe sleeping women exposed to the psycho-sexual horrors crawling from the sea; the panic-stricken stick men in the burning building, hopelessly scrabbling up walls: this engraving is literally the stuff of nightmares. Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.05.17

  06-01-2017 10:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  12 Plays of Xmas:  9. The Town Fop by Aphra Behn
  ‘Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.’ WH Auden speaks true - one of the pleasures of this little project has been sitting down with the past. Sometimes, however, ... read more
  AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2017-01-05DBQ Having Fun In Paris
  As the Rifftides staff continues recovering from the holidays and auditions a few dozen incoming albums, let’s follow a lead sent by frequent commenter Terence S
  
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• Turner In January and the rest of this week’s best exhibitions

  06-01-2017 10:00
  
  Scotland’s spectacular collection of the great artist’s watercolours, plus Adventures In Moominland, Ken Price, War In The Sunshine and An Amateur’s PassionJMW Turner’s watercolour landscapes blaze and swirl, roar and storm in a way that belies the gentleness many associate with the medium. The collector Henry Vaughan left Scotland a spectacular bequest of these great works of art with the stipulation that all must go on view together every January, free of charge. So her
  
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• Turner In January and Ken Price: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  06-01-2017 10:00
  
  Scotland’s spectacular collection of the great artist’s watercolours, plus Adventures In Moominland, Ken Price, War In The Sunshine and An Amateur’s PassionJMW Turner’s watercolour landscapes blaze and swirl, roar and storm in a way that belies the gentleness many associate with the medium. The collector Henry Vaughan left Scotland a spectacular bequest of these great works of art with the stipulation that all must go on view together every January, free of charge. So her
  
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• People power: Mark Neville's documentary photography – in pictures

  06-01-2017 08:00
  
  Neville has travelled from Scotland to Pittsburgh, Helmand and beyond, documenting humanity with a clarity of purpose defined by social responsibility Continue reading...
  
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• The Coming Jobs Revolution Will Be Historically Profound. Are Artists Ready For It?

  06-01-2017 07:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Many experts believe the biggest disruption in our lifetime is about to take place. Automation - robots and artificial intelligence - is  going to eliminate a significant number of current jobs, say experts:
  A recent study found 50% of occupations today will be gone by 2020, and a 2013 Oxford study forecasted that 47% of jobs will be automated by 2034. A Ball State study found that only 13% of manufacturing job losses were due to trade, the rest from autom
  
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• What Top TV Stars Make For Their Work

  06-01-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The high fees for television’s 1% — at a time when business models, episode orders, and distribution strategies are in the midst of a massive transition — has exacerbated the earnings gap between stars and supporting players."
  
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