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• The Secret Behind Multi-Tasking (Here's The Only Way It Works)

  19-01-2017 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Making multitasking actually work is not a matter of expanding your working memory. It's the reverse. In order to multitask effectively, you need to decrease the amount of working memory that a task requires. And that's where habits come in."
  
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• Claim: Brexit Is A Huge Gift To Hollywood

  19-01-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "For American producers, Christmas came early," says Adrian Wootton, head of the British Film Commission and Film London, who says he has seen a "record number" of inquiries from the U.S. "Suddenly [shooting in the U.K.] became about 20 percent cheaper."
  
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• Jazz Is Hot In Paris. Here Are The Top Ten Clubs

  19-01-2017 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  "It remains a flourishing art form that packs out bars, clubs and caverns. With a profusion of styles on offer (from trad, modern and avant garde to bossa nova, jazz-funk and Afro-jazz, not forgetting France’s singular contribution to the genre – gypsy jazz), its freedom-loving soul lives on."
  
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• Protesting the Inauguration? Will Luckman Has Made Some Posters for You

  19-01-2017 22:08 via artnews.com
  This inauguration weekend, there will no doubt be a flurry of street-level resistance throughout the country in response to a terrifying and surreal reality. Beyond Saturday’s surely massive Women’s March on Washington, D.C., there is a bevy of protest options … Read More
  
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• Is This Going To Be The First Blockbuster Audiobook?

  19-01-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo has 166 different characters, and for the audio version, he wanted to have each on them voiced by a different performer. Amazingly, Penguin Random House agreed - and you should see the astounding cast they've assembled. (includes video)
  
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• What a vivid imagination: on Sergei Eisenstein's erotic work

  19-01-2017 22:00
  
  Sergei Eisenstein was an auteur of film classics like October (1928) and Battleship Potemkin (1925) and a theoretician of cinema. He also designed sets for stage productions and drew those designs himself.
  But his draftsmanship was not so limited. Alexander Gray gallery in New York is now showing his erotic pictures, ranging from scenes of murder taken from Shakespeares Macbeth, to biblical stories, to couplings of humans and plants. There is a bawdy wit in this work that goes beyond any humour
  
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• Russian team creates 3D model to preserve Palmyra as fighting rages on

  19-01-2017 22:00
  
  The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg has joined forces with a Russian archaeological institute to build an interactive virtual model of Palmyra, as reports emerged today (20 January) that Islamic State (Isil) militants have destroyed the ancient city's amphitheatre and four pillard gates. When archaeologists and antiquities experts from the two institutions visited Palmyra, in Syria, in late September, they did not know that drone footage and co-ordinates they collected would capture a s
  
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• Russian team creates 3D model to preserve Palmyra as fighting intensifies

  19-01-2017 22:00
  
  The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg has joined forces with a Russian archaeological institute to build an interactive virtual model of Palmyra, a task that is becoming ever-more important as reports emerged today (20 January) that Islamic State (Isil) militants have destroyed the ancient city's amphitheatre and a tetrapylon. When archaeologists and antiquities experts from the two institutions visited Palmyra, in Syria, in late September, they did not know that drone footage and co-ordi
  
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• Rare Hebrew books and manuscripts acquired by National Library of Israel

  19-01-2017 22:00
  
  The National Library of Israel has made a major acquisition of rare Hebrew books and manuscripts. The Valmadonna Trust Library has been jointly purchased with the collectors David and Jemima Jeselsohn in a private sale arranged through Sothebys.
  The collection, which was assembled over six decades by the recently deceased collector Jack Lunzer, includes more than 10,000 works that show the development of Hebrew printing and the spread of Jewish culture across the world. Highlights include an ea
  
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• Brussels Art Fair embraces the contemporary

  19-01-2017 22:00
  
  A wall of mirror-plated squares suspended by transparent nylon threads moves gently in the breeze, creating dappled patterns on the floor. The 1963 kinetic sculpture, by the octogenarian Argentinian artist Julio le Parc, is not the kind of art that visitors to the Brussels Art Fair (Brafa) are used to seeing when first entering the fair, which is known for its mixture of antique furniture, tribal art and design objects.
  But for its 62nd edition, Brafa is embracing the contemporary (until 29 Jan
  
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• Anarchy in the UK: after Brexit, artists bite back

  19-01-2017 22:00
  
  A series of daring, defaced paintings depicting the UKs four most recent prime ministers, created by the New York-based collective The Bruce High Quality Foundation, reflect our turbulent post-truth times. The works, which are on show at the Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in London (5 Years at Heddon Street; until 4 February), show Theresa May and David Cameron with their faces daubed with angry splashes of paint. But what is the reason for this bile-fuelled display? Angry constituents and smar
  
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• Jeff Elrod at Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, Switzerland

  19-01-2017 21:33 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Simon Rattle Explains Why His Orchestra Needs A New Hall

  19-01-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rattle was blunt about the limitations of the Barbican. “It is very clear we can do a lot of wonderful work at the Barbican, but it is also clear there is about 20% of the repertoire that we can’t,” he said. “In my wishlist of pieces there is so much which simply would not work there. The stage was beautifully designed for a certain size orchestra. It was not designed for a very large orchestra and it was certainly not made with a chorus in mind.”
  
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• Steven Mnuchin Initially Did Not Disclose Nearly $100 M. in Assets, Children’s Art Holdings

  19-01-2017 21:27 via artnews.com
  There’s really never a dull day in Washington, D.C., as confirmation hearings for Donald J. Trump’s cabinet appointees zip along on Capitol Hill. Today brings word that Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s pick for Treasury Secretary, did not list almost $100 million … Read More
  
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• Kennicott: Trump Eliminating NEA, NEH And PBS Is Significant Step To Eliminating The Free Public Realm

  19-01-2017 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Phil Kennicott: "The loss of the NEA is mostly about symbolism. But along with the loss of the NEH and privatization of the CPB, these proposed budget cuts are part of a nascent but ominous larger movement to eliminate the last vestiges of a public realm free of the dictates of the market. Privatizing the social safety net and shifting tax dollars away from public schools are essential moves in a longer war on a social contract that preserves faith in the public realm. Academia is another target
  
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• The Stories We Tell Ourselves And What They Reveal (Whether We Want To Admit It Or Not)

  19-01-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "We tell stories that make us seem adventurous, or funny, or strong" - or virtuous or stoic or oppressed. "We tell stories that make our lives seem interesting. And we tell these stories not only to others, but also to ourselves. ... If we reflect on the stories we tell about ourselves, both to others and to ourselves, we may well find out things about who we are that complicate the view we would prefer to be identified with. Why might this matter? Here is one reason."
  
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• Milwaukee Art Museum Receives 500 Works by Jules Chéret, ‘Father of the Modern Poster’

  19-01-2017 21:02 via artnews.com
  The Milwaukee Art Museum announced today that it has been promised a gift of more than 500 artworks by Jules Chéret, the 19th-century designer and lithographer sometimes cited as the “father of the modern poster.” The gift has been promised by the … Read More
  
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• Binge-Watching TV Has Some Downsides

  19-01-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Binge TV is entering a new phase in which the makers of your shows, in particular at places like Netflix and Amazon, are betting that the satisfaction of gorging on eight to 10 episodes, batch-released, will be enough to glue you to your phone, laptop or, if you’re feeling fancy, your actual television. The joy is in the completion. Neither attention to quality nor narrative structure matter, necessarily. They drop it. You stream it."
  
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• Why Sydney festival's wooing of the west points to the future of the arts

  19-01-2017 20:11
  
  Performing arts companies tend to cluster in inner-city precincts but taking the road less travelled can lead to transformative theatre experiencesHeigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to the theatre we go – although this time, the path there is a little less worn.Theatre has traditionally concentrated itself in specific districts – think Broadway in New York, the West End in London, the Arts Centre precinct in Melbourne’s Southbank, the Opera House and Walsh Bay areas of Sydney.
  
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• The Straight Guys Who Made America's First Gay Record

  19-01-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Like a magic mirror held up to America’s heteronormative postwar culture, its music reflected a dignified, and seductive, vision of gay life. Just below the album's title read the teaser: 'For adult listeners only - sultry stylings by a most unusual vocalist.' The surprising story of Love Is a Drag, released way back in 1962.
  
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• Soprano Roberta Peters, 86

  19-01-2017 19:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ms. Peters, who would sing with the Met 515 times over 35 vigorous years, was internationally renowned for her high, silvery voice (in private, she could hit a high A, two and a half octaves above middle C); her clarion diction in a flurry of languages; her attractive stage presence; and, by virtue of the fact that she and television came to prominence at about the same time, her wide popular appeal.
  
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• Harvard's ART Institute Suspends Admissions After Education Department Review

  19-01-2017 19:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  "In an announcement last week, the Education Department listed Harvard’s ART Institute among hundreds of college and university programs across the country that did not meet federal regulations governing the amount of debt students can accrue when measured against their expected earnings."
  
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• Why Old-School TV Sitcoms Are Making A Comeback

  19-01-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  It's not only the Netflix reboots of One Day at a Time* and Full(er) House: after years of single-camera mockumentaries like The Office and Parks and Recreation, networks are turning back to multi-camera sitcoms - often driven by contemporary issues, Norman Lear-style. Elise Czajkowski looks at how the change is happening.*Any excuse to watch Rita Moreno is a good one.
  
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• 'Yolocaust' artist provokes debate over commemorating Germany's past

  19-01-2017 17:50
  
  Berlin-based Israeli satirist Shahak Shapira launches art project juxtaposing selfies of people at memorial with archive footage from concentration campsTucked away between the neoclassical pomp of the Brandenburg Gate and the lush greenery of Berlin’s largest inner-city park, the austere Holocaust memorial has become a part of the German capital’s varied urban texture since its unveiling 12 years ago.But in the space of 24 hours this week the status of the Memorial to the Murdered J
  
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• Report: Trump Administration Planning Budget Cuts That Will Eliminate the NEA, NEH

  19-01-2017 17:13 via artnews.com
  One day ahead of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration comes news that members of his transition team have been preparing dramatic budget cuts that would eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Hill reports that … Read More
  
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• Striking Up a Conversation: The Baltimore Museum of Art Unites Matisse and Diebenkorn in a Glorious Exhibition

  19-01-2017 16:51 via artnews.com
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• Ruba Katrib Named Curatorial Advisor for Frieze Focus

  19-01-2017 15:48 via artnews.com
  Frieze has tapped Ruba Katrib, curator of SculptureCenter in New York, to be a curatorial advisor for the Focus section at its annual London fair, which runs October 5 through 8 this year. Katrib, who has organized superb shows in … Read More
  
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• Consumer Reports: Zac Segbedzi

  19-01-2017 15:27 via artnews.com
  Zac Segbadzi is an Australian artist working in various media. He is currently the co-director of Suicidal Oil Piglet Gallery in Melbourne, Australia, and he runs the high-quality website melbourneoffsiteindex.org with Calum Lockey, among other endeavors. Recent solo and group exhibitions … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Silk Hat on a Pig Edition

  19-01-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Maison Rouge, category-defying art space in Paris, to close in 2018

  19-01-2017 14:08
  
  Antoine de Galbert is closing Maison Rougehis red-fronted art centre in Bastille, Parisin 2018 after 14 years of activity. Galbert said the absence of long-term durability, the feeling that he could not do better in years to come, and the risk of settling in all contributed to the decision.
  When I opened the Maison Rouge, I quickly realised that one day it would be necessary to bring it to a close, and I prefer to do so when its in top form, he said.Galbert, who opened his first contemporary ar
  
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• Richter’s Eisberg to loom large at Sotheby’s contemporary evening sale

  19-01-2017 14:00
  
  In line with the chilly weather, Sothebys has revealed the star lot in its contemporary evening sale in London on 8 March: Gerhard Richters Eisberg (1982), which carries a hefty estimate of 8m-12m. The work is widely regarded as one of the German artists finest landscapes, and may prove particularly appetising to collectors because it is the largest of only three iceberg paintings he ever made. One is owned by Doris Fisher, who, with her late husband Donald, founded The Gap clothing stores; she
  
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• Auctionata Paddle8 files for insolvency to restructure business

  19-01-2017 13:34
  The online auctioneers Auctionata and Paddle8, which merged last May, have filed for insolvency to restructure the business. The Berlin-based parent company announced on 19 January that it is holding several active conversations with investors about future funding for Auctionata and a possible buy-out of Paddle8.
   
  Auctionata will continue to run auctions and sell merchandise under a special protection regime, according to a statement. Paddle8 operations are not subject to the insolvency p
  
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• Fourth plinth shortlist includes winged bull and giant cream blob

  19-01-2017 12:51
  
  Models of five nominated artworks for Trafalgar Square installation go on display at National Gallery in LondonA huge splodge of cream with a cherry on top and a recreation of an ancient winged bull destroyed by Islamic State are among proposals for the next fourth plinth artwork.Organisers of the popular contemporary art commission revealed a shortlist of five ideas. From those, two will be chosen to occupy the plinth in Trafalgar Square, central London, in 2018 and 2020. Continue reading...
  
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• National Gallery finally takes the Fourth Plinth to its heart

  19-01-2017 12:33
  
  The unveiling at the National Gallery, London, of the five proposals for the next two commissions to fill the vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square presents a typically broad and stimulating range of ideas from global contemporary artists. But it also marks a significant shift in the response to the Fourth Plinth phenomenon at the gallery, on whose doorstep the plinth stands.
   
  Maquettes for the commission were shown at the gallery in the past, but the last time they were displayed, in 2013, t
  
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• MoMA turns to Paris dealer to sell deaccessioned Dubuffet

  19-01-2017 12:24
  
  The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) has deaccessioned two key post-war works and put them up for sale with a leading Paris dealer. Applicat-Prazan, a Modern and contemporary gallery, will put the pieces on the market and the proceeds will go to MoMA.The two works are Topographie Chataine (1959) by Jean Dubuffet and Thorme dAlexandroff (1955) by Georges Mathieu. They were consigned to the gallery last November. Franck Prazan, the gallery director, says that the Dubuffet work will be shown
  
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• US Capitol Building dome refreshed in time for Trump's inauguration

  19-01-2017 09:00
  
  The dome of the US Capitol building in Washington, DC will have a new look in time for the presidential inauguration ceremony, to be held on 20 January. Work to restore interior and exterior began in 2014 and finished in November. It consisted of repainting, rewiring and restoring or recasting decorative elements, such as basketball-sized acorns. Completed in 1866, the structure135 feet in diameter and weighing around 4,500 tonnesis the worlds largest cast-iron dome. The $96m restoration was ca
  
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