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• Why People Are Fearful Of Measuring Intelligence

  22-02-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The idea that intelligence could be quantified, like blood pressure or shoe size, was barely a century old when I took the test that would decide my place in the world. But the notion that intelligence could determine one’s station in life was already much older. It runs like a red thread through Western thought, from the philosophy of Plato to the policies of UK prime minister Theresa May. To say that someone is or is not intelligent has never been merely a comment on their mental facult
  
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• The World After The Post-War Golden Age Has Some Readjusting To Do

  22-02-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "For much of the world, the Golden Age brought extraordinary prosperity. But it also brought unrealistic expectations about what governments can do to assure full employment, steady economic growth and rising living standards. These expectations still shape political life today."
  
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• ‘Elevation 1049: Avalanche’ in Gstaad, Switzerland

  22-02-2017 23:01 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Here’s the Artist List for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017

  22-02-2017 22:36 via artnews.com
  Book your tickets, buy new walking shoes, and start hitting the gym. The artist list for the fourth edition of the once-a-decade show Skulptur Projekte Münster has arrived, and it includes 35 artists, whose work will be installed throughout its namesake … Read More
  
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• A Threat To The Journalistic Independence Of Miami Public Radio Station WLRN?

  22-02-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The board is considering a move to require 19 WLRN reporters and editors, now employed by an independent nonprofit, to reapply for their jobs; only this time, those jobs would be under the direct control and supervision of the school district itself.
  
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• Soviet Ballet Was Legendary. But Navigating The Politics? Brutal!

  22-02-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The daunting auditions of Soviet legend—teachers scrutinizing preadolescents for the slightest physical imperfection—found an ideological parallel in the required inspections by censorship boards at the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky–Kirov theaters."
  
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• The original Impressionist makes a return to Paris

  22-02-2017 22:00
  The first career survey of Camille Pissarro in Paris since 1981 opens this month at the Muse Marmottan Monet. It presents 75 of his greatest paintings, beginning with a seascape from his youth in the Danish West Indies, Two Women Talking by the Sea, St Thomas (1856), borrowed from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
  Pissarro was the first of the Impressionists, painting landscapes outdoors using bright colours and a vibrant technique. Although only 43 when he helped establish the Impre
  
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• Bjarne’s blow-out giveaway

  22-02-2017 22:00
  
  On Valentines Day, waves of unruly hypebeasts (the more consumerist incarnation of the hipster for those in the know) descended on Red Bull Arts New York, the pop-up exhibition space, for The Purge. This one-night-only event was the climax of the Norwegian-born artist Bjarne Melgaards fashion week send-up, The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment. The Purge was said to be Melgaards way of ridding himself of his designer clothing collection (and some items of his own new line), among them pieces fr
  
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• Argentina stakes its claim on the international art scene

  22-02-2017 22:00
  
  As the guest country at the Arco fair (22-26 February) and the subject of concurrent exhibitions, art from Argentina will be all over Madrid this month. Curators and dealers are hoping this will help elevate names such as Luis Garay, Diego Bianchi, Alejandra Seeber and Sol Pipkin to the same kind of global renown as Liliana Porter and Argentinian-born Lucio Fontana.
  This new-found visibility will carry through to the Venice Biennale, Documenta in Kassel, and Pacific Standard Time LA/LA, Souther
  
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• Argentina ends years of isolation

  22-02-2017 22:00
  
  As the guest country at the Arco fair (22-26 February) and the subject of concurrent exhibitions, art from Argentina will be all over Madrid this month. Curators and dealers are hoping this will help elevate names such as Luis Garay, Diego Bianchi, Alejandra Seeber and Sol Pipkin to the same kind of global renown as Liliana Porter and Argentinian-born Lucio Fontana.
  This new-found visibility will carry through to the Venice Biennale, Documenta in Kassel, and Pacific Standard Time LA/LA, Souther
  
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• How The Oscar-Nominated Score For "Moonlight" Got Reverse-Engineered

  22-02-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Many members of the audience may not notice that some of the more fantastic effects in the score are its main themes contorted beyond recognition. But the filmmakers do wink at the audience when they include a more traditional kind of chopped and screwed track: the slowed-down mix of Jidenna’s “Classic Man” that plays in the background in this scene.
  
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• How The Rorschach Test Became A Piece Of Universal Art

  22-02-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Over the past century, Rorschach would have seen his inkblots morph from an obscure therapeutic instrument into a nearly universal cultural meme, at once a familiar touchstone for art, music, film, and fashion, and a controversial test for assessing job applicants and prosecuting criminal defendants. Perhaps he would have wondered why his inkblots, once reserved for the assessment of patients with serious mental illnesses, should have emerged as the preeminent metaphor for the relativity of all
  
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• This Band Has Committed To Performing Women, Composers Of Color On Each Concert. It's Not Easy

  22-02-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The band directors at Spring Lake, outside of St. Paul, Minnesota, have pledged to include at least one piece by a female composer and one by a composer of color in each concert, for each of the school's bands. "We made a commitment this year to only buy music from composers of color," says Brian Lukkasson, one of the directors. He says it's been hard, but not because those composers aren't writing for band. They are.
  
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• In the Night Kitchen: Aubrey Levinthal’s ‘Refrigerator Paintings’ Chill and Excite the Imagination

  22-02-2017 20:12 via artnews.com
  January 3–January 28, The Painting Center, New York Read More
  
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• How The Oscars' Best Picture Voting Is Biased Towards Rewarding Movies Like "La La Land"

  22-02-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "When the Academy expanded the best picture category to more than five nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010, it also made a fascinating tweak to how the votes are counted. It used to be a first-past-the-post system, where all you needed was more votes than everyone else to win. This meant that movies used to be able to win without majority appeal, as all you needed to do was persuade a dedicated minority to pick your movie. But now, instead of picking their choice for best picture, voter
  
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• The Mall Of America Is Looking For A Writer-In-Residence

  22-02-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following in the footsteps of unlikely writer-in-residence stunts at places like the Ace Hotel, London’s Heathrow Airport, and aboard Amtrak, the Mall of America will give one writer the chance to spend a short residency “deeply immersed in the Mall atmosphere while writing on-the-fly impressions in their own words” in celebration of the mall’s 25th birthday this year.
  
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• A Brief History Of Yorick's Skull

  22-02-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  "No other piece of stage business has burned itself so deeply into the collective consciousness. All the greats have been there, from Richard Burbage to Thomas Betterton, Sarah Bernhardt to Laurence Olivier. Even Bart Simpson has got in on the act. Given all this, it's worth reflecting on the fact that, for Hamlet's earliest audiences, seeing real human remains on stage would have been a shock."
  
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• What The California Symphony Has Discovered About Attracting Millennials

  22-02-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "What the California Symphony discovered, in short, was that “almost every single piece of negative feedback was about something other than the performance.” Another important discovery was that it’s single-ticket buyers, not veteran subscribers, who are most likely to use the orchestra’s website."
  
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• Consumer Reports: Al Bedell

  22-02-2017 18:25 via artnews.com
  Al Bedell is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Her work as been featured in various online publications and a handful of group shows. Last summer, she curated the exhibition “Young Adult” at Interstate Projects in Brooklyn that included work … Read More
  
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• Klimt and Basquiat sales could help Sotheby's smash London record

  22-02-2017 18:08
  
  Auction of impressionist, modern and surrealist art next month has combined pre-sale estimate of nearly £400mWorks of art with a combined upper estimate of nearly £400m, representing one of the highest-value auctions to be staged in London, have gone on display.The works include one of the few paintings by Gustav Klimt in private hands, a 1907 garden landscape estimated at $45m (£36m); and an important Jean-Michel Basquiat work that went under the hammer in 1987, a year before
  
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• Has 'Interesting' Has Become A Meaningless Concept?

  22-02-2017 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Simon L. Garfinkel: Calling something interesting is the height of sloppy thinking. Interesting is not descriptive, not objective, and not even meaningful. ... Interesting is a kind of linguistic connective tissue. When introducing an idea, it's easier to say 'interesting' than to think of an introduction that's simultaneously descriptive but not a spoiler. ... In practice, interesting is a synonym for entertaining."
  
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• Alan Aldridge obituary

  22-02-2017 18:01
  
  Artist behind some of the most striking pop images of the 1960s and 70sOnce dubbed “Beardsley in blue jeans”, the artist Alan Aldridge, who has died aged 73, created some of the most enduring pop imagery of the 1960s and 70s. His illustration of the Who on their second album A Quick One (1966) was a distinctive period piece in which huge song titles swirled out from the musicians’ instruments and earned him a Grammy nomination. His poster for the 1966 Andy Warhol film Chelsea G
  
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• Turns Out Andy Warhol's Death Wasn't So Simple

  22-02-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "For at least a month before his death, Warhol had been ill, but had done his best to keep up his usual exhausting pace. His terror of hospitals had prevented him from getting any serious treatment. Even once Warhol had finally ended up in the office of Bjorn Thorbjarnarson, a leading surgeon — he was known for treating the Shah of Iran — Warhol had begged for some kind of stay-at-home treatment. “I will make you a rich man if you don’t operate on me,” the artist ha
  
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• Francis Kéré becomes first African architect to win Serpentine Pavilion commission

  22-02-2017 17:07
  
  The Serpentine Galleries have commissioned Dibdo Francis Kr to design the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion in Londons Kensington Gardens this summer (23 June-8 October). Kr, born in Burkina Faso and now based in Berlin, is the first African architect to participate in the prestigious annual programme.
   
  The Serpentine Pavilion launched in 2000 as a platform for major international names to build their first structures in the UK capital. Past pavilions were designed by Zaha Hadid (2000), Frank Gehr
  
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• How The Chelsea Manning-WikiLeaks Opera Changes (And Doesn't) With The Current Political Situation

  22-02-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ted Hearne's The Source premiered in Brooklyn in 2014, when Manning had been eclipsed by Edward Snowden; it played in Los Angeles just before the election; it's now, early in the Trump era, about to open in San Francisco. Hearne talks with Zachary Woolfe about the piece's content and context, then and now.
  
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• No one should demand the closure of galleries – even for far-right artworks

  22-02-2017 16:45
  
  The campaign to shut down London’s LD50 for giving a platform to extremist speakers is pathetic. Art galleries must be allowed to anger and disgust usShutting art galleries down is never a good idea. I don’t care how offensive you or I may find the art they show or the events they organise. Haven’t we learned by now that art has the right to offend, and that art galleries are spaces in which to be shocked, provoked, even disgusted?Only yesterday it was conservative taste that f
  
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• Oliver Sacks: A Love Story

  22-02-2017 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "He puts his ear to my chest and listens to my heart and counts the beats. 'Sixty-two,' he says with a satisfied smile, and I can't imagine anything more intimate." Bill Hayes, partner of the late neurologist and author, shares snippets from the diary of their life together that Sacks convinced him to keep.
  
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• Münster Sculpture Projects 2017 unveils artist line-up

  22-02-2017 16:21
  
  The curators of Sculpture Projects Mnster, the German sculpture festival held every ten years, have announced the line-up of 35 artists, artist duos and artist groups who will be taking part in the events fifth edition (10 June-1 October).
   
  Coming from 19 different countries, the artists span a broad spectrum of origins and nationalities, the organisers say in a press statement.
   
  Around a quarter of the artists on the list are German, including Gregor Schneider, Thomas Schtte,
  
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• What Will DC's Shakespeare Theatre Do Without Founder Michael Kahn?

  22-02-2017 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Kahn announced that he'd be stepping down after two more seasons, he said that he would leave his successor a financially healthy company. Artistically? That may be a different matter, worries Peter Marks.
  
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• New Music Is Booming In L.A. - And There's One Problem With That

  22-02-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  More groups and composers are competing for donors. Jim Farber looks at how some organizations, large and small, and handling the challenge.
  
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• Wendy Whelan And Brian Brooks On Making Dance Together

  22-02-2017 15:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  "On paper, Mr. Brooks is the choreographer, and Ms. Whelan the dancer and his partner onstage. But, as a recent conversation revealed, the lines between creation and interpretation have become increasingly blurred." Marina Harss shares excerpts from that conversation.
  
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• 'Spider-Man' Art Thief And Accomplices (Including The Guy Who Threw The Picasso In The Trash) Get Prison

  22-02-2017 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Vjéran Tomic - nicknamed "Spider-Man" for the athletic way he executed the theft - stole paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Braque and Léger from the Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris in 2010. He, the instigator, and the fence each got multi-year jail terms and six-figure fines plus an order to reimburse the city for the €104 million the art is worth. (The fence - who claims he threw the paintings into the garbage when his home was raided - executed a mem
  
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• Morning Links: Rembrandt Trove Edition

  22-02-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Met Museum Director Makes The Case For The NEA In New York Times Op-Ed

  22-02-2017 14:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thomas P. Campbell: "I fear that this current call to abolish the N.E.A. is the beginning of a new assault on artistic activity. Arts and cultural programming challenges, provokes and entertains; it enhances our lives. Eliminating the N.E.A. would in essence eliminate investment by the American government in the curiosity and intelligence of its citizens."
  
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• Portland, Maine Classical Radio Station Abruptly Switches To Country

  22-02-2017 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The announcement said no more than this: "We would like to thank the fans of WBACH and classical music for listening over the years and we regret any inconvenience as a result of the changes." WBACH's frequency is now used to simulcast a country station just a little ways down the dial.
  
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• Michelangelo Sculpture, Unnoticed For Centuries, Goes On View At Last

  22-02-2017 14:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  It's a seven-foot white marble nude statue of Jesus, and you'd think it would be famous by now - or stolen. But Risen Christ survived both Napoleon and the Nazis. Elisabetta Povoledo explains how.
  
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• Can Damien Hirst Win Back Pissed-Off Collectors With His New Show?

  22-02-2017 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Like previous Hirst extravaganzas, this project is being rolled out with the same hypervigilant level of control and fanfare. And hovering over the project is whether - given the precipitous drop in his prices after his all-Hirst Sotheby's auction in 2008 - the celebrity artist can have another chapter." Or has he (ahem) jumped the shark for good?
  
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• Bowie to be honoured in Brixton with three-storey steel ZiggyZag

  22-02-2017 14:00
  London seems set to get a new landmark with the announcement yesterday (21 February) of plans to raise a permanent memorial to David Bowie in his Brixton birthplace. It will take the form of a 9m-high steel rendition of the famous blue and red makeup flash from the cover of Bowies 1973 Aladdin Sane album.
  Called ZiggyZag, the three-storey monolith will be situated directly opposite Brixton Underground Station and beside the existing Bowie mural, which has become an impromptu shrine since his de
  
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• Boston Symphony Announces $30 Million Expansion At Tanglewood

  22-02-2017 13:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The new four-building complex, set to open in 2019, represents the largest building initiative at Tanglewood since the opening of Ozawa Hall more than two decades ago."
  
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• The New York entrepreneur behind the biggest private Rembrandt collection

  22-02-2017 11:50
  
  Thomas Kaplan, a New York entrepreneur, now owns nearly a third of the Rembrandt paintings in private hands. Since 2005, he has bought 11 Rembrandts out of the 35 or so that belong to collectors around the worldthe precise number depends on attributional issues. Kaplan describes himself as the largest private collector of the artist for a couple of hundred years.
  Kaplans Rembrandts include three of the panels of the five senses painted by the young artist (one was only recently discovered after
  
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• Row erupts as East London gallery accused of showing ‘alt-right’ and ‘racist’ art

  22-02-2017 10:53
  
  LD50, an East London gallery that has come under fire for promoting fascism, says the cultural sphere has become the preserve of the Left and anyone who opposes this political viewpoint is now publicly vilified, delegitimated [sic] and intimidated with menaces.
   
  The statement, posted on the gallerys website on 21 February, comes amid calls for the space to be shut down over an exhibition and series of talks it hosted about the alt-right movement. Last summer, the Dalston-based gallery, wh
  
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• Art gallery criticised over neo-Nazi artwork and hosting racist speakers

  22-02-2017 08:00
  
  Artists and campaigners call for closure of the LD50 gallery after accusing it of promoting ‘hate speech not free speech’ but owner criticises protestersA London art gallery has come under criticism for exhibiting neo-Nazi artwork and hosting openly racist speakers.This weekend, artists and campaigners will protest calling for the closure of LD50, in Dalston, east London, after accusations the gallery gave a platform to anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and “alt-right” figures
  
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• Cracking story: French artist to entomb himself in rock for a week, then use body to hatch eggs

  22-02-2017 03:57
  
  For his performance called ‘Egg’, Abraham Poincheval will be inside a 12-tonne boulder and then sit on a dozen hen eggs until the chicks arriveA French artist is preparing to be entombed for a week inside a 12-tonne limestone boulder in a modern art museum in Paris, after which he will emerge and attempt to hatch a dozen eggs by sitting on them for weeks on end. Related: The 10 weirdest artworks everContinue reading...
  
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• Andrea Rosen Gallery, a Chelsea Stalwart, ‘Will No Longer Have a Typical Permanent Public Space and Therefore No Longer Represent Living Artists’

  22-02-2017 01:34 via artnews.com
  Over the past two years, the commercial art world in New York has undergone profound changes, with numerous galleries relocating and others closing. Tonight, word came of undoubtedly the biggest shift yet, with dealer Andrea Rosen, a 27-year stalwart of … Read More
  
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