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• Some People Have No Reaction To Music. Nada. Zip. Let's Try To Understand This...

  10-03-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Previous research shows that the vast majority of people who enjoy music show an increase in heart rate or skin conductance—where a person’s skin temporarily becomes a conductor of electricity in response to something they find stimulating. Musical anhedonics, however, show no such physiological change to music. A recent study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, took those findings a step further by studying neural responses to music."
  
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• Cool - Robotic Socks That Teach You How To Dance

  10-03-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "We equipped the socks with pressure sensors and vibration motors to monitor and guide the feet movement of the pair dancers. These are controlled by a master application running on an Android phone. The steps are indicated by vibration signals at specific positions of the foot, at the heel for a forward step, etc. When a user makes a mistake or gets out of sync, negative feedback is provided. It is possible to dance in the socks for several minutes without making a mistake."
  
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• How Joe Haj Is Reinvigorating Minneapolis' Guthrie Theatre

  10-03-2017 22:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Building on a foundation laid by his predecessor Joe Dowling — a visionary leader who built the Guthrie's new home but became somewhat isolated from his staff and the community by the end of his 20-year tenure — Haj is bringing new voices and more resonant programming into the mix. He and his leadership team also are pressing the flesh in the community in ways that have been a pleasant surprise to Twin Cities arts leaders."
  
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• The Whitney Biennial Arrives! Here’s a Round-Up of Coverage of Artists in the Show

  10-03-2017 22:33 via artnews.com
  With the Whitney Biennial opening to the public on Friday, March 17, here is a quick compendium of ARTnews stories involving the 63 artists in the show. Below, find everything from profiles, reviews, and news items to photo tours of … Read More
  
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• Jeff Koons And Pompidou Convicted Of "Counterfeiting" In French Court

  10-03-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The court ruled that Koons had copied the work of a photographer...
  
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• Big brothers are watching you: Ai Weiwei and Herzog and de Meuron collaborate on surveillance installation

  10-03-2017 22:00
  
  In our technology-laden world, surveillance scandals are no fairytale. Hansel and Gretel, an immersive new commission by the activist artist Ai Weiwei and the Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron, will allow visitors to navigate a terrain filled with infrared cameras and surveillance drones that record their every movement. The work draws on the Brothers Grimm tale, where the siblings leave a trail of breadcrumbs to find their way back home, by creating an environment where visitors cannot hid
  
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• Big brothers: Ai Weiwei and Herzog and de Meuron team up for surveillance installation

  10-03-2017 22:00
  
  In our technology-laden world, surveillance scandals are no fairytale. Hansel and Gretel, an immersive new commission by the activist artist Ai Weiwei and the Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron, will allow visitors to navigate a terrain filled with infrared cameras and surveillance drones that record their every movement. The work draws on the Brothers Grimm tale, where the siblings leave a trail of breadcrumbs to find their way back home, by creating an environment where visitors cannot hid
  
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• Nelson-Atkins Museum’s new European art galleries come with a “love story”

  10-03-2017 21:48
  
  The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City is due to unveil a $12m overhaul of its European art galleries on 11 March. The highlight is 29 works of Impressionist and post-Impressionist art donated by Henry Bloch, the co-founder of the tax preparation company H&R Block, and his late wife Marion Bloch.The couple initially promised the works by Picasso, Manet, Morisot and others to the museum in 2010, but planned to wait until after their deaths to permanently donate them. After Marion die
  
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• Howard Hodgkin at Gagosian, Hong Kong

  10-03-2017 21:42 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• A Couple Of Jazz Guys Sitting Around Talking... (And Then A Sexist Comment Bomb Goes Off)

  10-03-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The many online apologists for Ethan Iverson and Robert Glasper have been dismissing their sexist remarks as the clumsy gestures of good ol' boys. But inadvertently sexist remarks, like inadvertently racist remarks, can be more telling, because they often point to more fundamental and systemic discrimination. The jazz world has a right — and, some would say, a duty — to criticize speech that promotes sexist culture, whether that speech had a malicious or benign intent.
  
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• Andy Warhol Museum Chooses A New Director

  10-03-2017 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Patrick Moore, who has been with the museum since 2011 as its director of development. He takes the place of Eric Shiner, who announced last summer that he would step down from the top spot to take a job at Sotheby’s, a nonprofit-to-for-profit move that is rarely seen in the art world. Moore had been serving as interim director in the intervening time.
  
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• This Is France's Most Controversial Movie Right Now...

  10-03-2017 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  How much is at stake in France’s upcoming elections has become evident again in recent weeks as controversy has erupted over the new arthouse film This Is Our Land (Chez nous). The political drama hit French screens in late February, just two months before the country chooses a new president.
  
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• Model Behavior: James Casebere Photographs Mini Sets Inspired by Luis Barragán

  10-03-2017 20:38 via artnews.com
  The architecture of Luis Barragán—somehow both lush and austere, inviting and severe, formalist but spirited and congenial—has inspired many a visitor to Mexico City, where his former home is open for tours and other beckoning sites can be found. It has … Read More
  
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• A Sonata Misattributed To Felix Mendelssohn Debuts Under Its Real Authorship

  10-03-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Written in 1829, the manuscript of “Easter Sonata” was considered “lost” for more than 140 years, until the original turned up in a French book shop bearing the signature “F Mendelssohn.” The collector who bought it concluded the “F” stood for Felix. It didn't...
  
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• Then and Now: Reaching for the Stars, Artists Capture and Replicate the Awe-Inspiring and the Invisible

  10-03-2017 20:30 via artnews.com
  From George Inness, who “translates just the light and feeling of a fixed hour,” to Vincent van Gogh, whose cypresses are like “voices of aspiration, joy or fear,” to Jackson Pollock, who, Robert Rosenblum wrote, “evokes the sublime mysteries of … Read More
  
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• The Land That Time Forgot: In His Paintings, David Diao Tries to Recall His Hong Kong Boyhood

  10-03-2017 20:21 via artnews.com
  Through March 11, at Postmasters, in New York Read More
  
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• How To Train People To Envision A Better City? Teach Them To See What Works

  10-03-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Why is keeping an urban diary worthwhile? Charles Wolfe argues that it trains us to be better citizens, to care more and understand more about where we live. Therefore, we might be more motivated to attend meetings or offer insights and solutions into the planning process."
  
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• How Should We Think About Extinction Of A Species? The Answer Lies At The Intersection Of Science And Art

  10-03-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Should we be horrified by extinction? Charles Darwin didn’t think so. In On the Origin of Species, he mocked the catastrophist view of extinction as scientific illiteracy: “So profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world!” Extinction was no cataclysm. Without it, the human species—along with all other life—would nev
  
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• Warhol Museum Names Patrick Moore Director

  10-03-2017 19:15 via artnews.com
  The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh has picked a new director: Patrick Moore, who has been with the museum since 2011 as its director of development. He takes the place of Eric Shiner, who announced last summer that he would step down … Read More
  
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• Warhol Museum Hires Patrick Moore as Director

  10-03-2017 19:15 via artnews.com
  The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh has named a new director: Patrick Moore, who has been with the museum since 2011 as its director of development. He takes the place of Eric Shiner, who announced last summer that he would step down … Read More
  
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• Practice Does Not Actually Make Perfect - At Least, Not By Itself

  10-03-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ulrich Boser reminds us of one of those factors that's so obvious that people forget about it.
  
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• Inside Palmyra After The Second ISIS Occupation

  10-03-2017 18:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Days before, these troops and other forces loyal to the Syrian government had recaptured the Roman city, a world heritage site and an important symbol of Syrian diversity, from Islamic State for the second time in a year. Graffiti at the entrance read: “No entry without Isis permission – not even brothers.” The Russians crunched up the piles of rubble and posed for triumphant pictures under the arch – all that was left of the central temple."
  
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• A Pleasure Cruise: An Interview with Roe Ethridge

  10-03-2017 18:16 via artnews.com
  In a 2007 self-portrait that was recently on view at the Whitney Museum in New York, Roe Ethridge appears, close-up, sporting a white ship captain’s hat, a solid beard, longish hair, and a shy smile. Giving a little wave to the … Read More
  
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• Reading Jane Austen's Final, Unfinished Novel

  10-03-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Anthony Lane: "Although - or precisely because - Sanditon was composed by a dying woman, the result is robust, unsparing, and alert to all the latest fashions in human foolishness. It brims with life."
  
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• "Once In A Lifetime" Find Of Goya Etchings

  10-03-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The library was full of handsomely bound volumes, but at the back of one shelf the owners found a drab ledger, holding a rather dull series of 90 French military prints – and a few pages further on, a complete pristine set of the first edition of Goya’s La Tauromaquia etchings, apparently forgotten about for more than 150 years.
  
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• Hallelujah! IKEA Introduces Furniture You Can Snap Together

  10-03-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The fiddly ritual of assembling IKEA furniture is set to become a thing of the past as the furniture giant introduces products that snap together 'like a jigsaw puzzle.'" No tools necessary! (includes video)
  
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• Netflix To Introduce Interactive Storylines

  10-03-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  "This new way of watching television will allow viewers the ability to control the fate of their favorite characters and make decisions on key plot points."
  
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• 'Netflix, This Is Not Chill': Interactive Storylines Are A Bad Idea

  10-03-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lucy Mangan: "It seems to me to misunderstand the fundamental appeal of television; that it is bedtime stories for grownups."
  
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• Sacramento Ballet Dancers Fight Back Against Board's Firing Of Artistic Directors

  10-03-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Despite an order threatening 'disciplinary action' for any ballet employees who speak to the media, four company dancers blasted the board via email over their opting not to renew the contracts of co-directors Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda beyond the 2017-18 season ... The dancers also accused the board of mismanaging the company, questioning its ability to decide what's best for the ballet."
  
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• Using Shakespeare To Help Heal Veterans' Trauma, Onstage And Off

  10-03-2017 15:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Laura Collins-Hughes profiles Stephan Wolfert, who teaches acting classes specifically for vets, and who performs a solo show combining Shakespeare texts with his own memories of the military.
  
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• Why Rosalind Is Shakespeare's Most Complex Character

  10-03-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Angela Thirlwell: "Rosalind is a grand paradox. Man and woman, authentically alive yet forever a fiction, ageless and modern ... When she sprints into the forest of Arden as the boy Ganymede, she expands our ideas about gender, and epitomizes what love feels like for both sexes, through the whole gamut of human emotions, in every time and place."
  
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• Goya etchings found in French chateau are 'once in a lifetime discovery'

  10-03-2017 15:28
  
  Pristine prints of famous bullfighting series stored in old ledger hidden on library shelf could fetch up to £500,000 at auctionRelated: From princes to paupers: how Goya’s portraits tell the story of SpainContinue reading...
  
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• A Project To Recreate Frank Lloyd Wright's Destroyed And Unbuilt Buildings

  10-03-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Frank Lloyd Wright Revival Initiative, founded by documentary filmmaker Michael Miner, plans to start with a 1911 park pavilion (demolished) that Wright designed for Banff in the Canadian Rockies. But is this a good idea?
  
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• Ending Weeks Of Disasters, Fresno Grand Opera Shuts Down

  10-03-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  The California company, founded in 1998, had faced cash shortfalls, unpaid musicians, allegations of financial mismanagement, the firing of its music director, and a defamation lawsuit.
  
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• Former Fresno Grand Opera Directors Sue Company For Defamation

  10-03-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ronald Eichman and Thi Nguyen, who were general director and associate director until the end of 2014, allege that the company and Matthew Buckman (Eichman's successor) falsely accused Eichman and Nguyen of financial malfeasance and conflicts of interest in several stories published in The Fresno Bee last year. (The company itself promptly closed down.)
  
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• Morning Links: Electrified Peyote Cactus Edition

  10-03-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
  
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• Louvre Staffers, Sick Of The Vermeer Show Chaos, Go On Strike

  10-03-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Thursday, more than 70 attendants at the Paris museum followed through on a threat to strike in protest of the disastrous planning for the big Vermeer exhibition that opened there in late February.
  
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• Painter Howard Hodgkin Dead At 84

  10-03-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  His brightly colored paintings on wood made him one of Britain's most popular living artists. While most of them appeared abstract, he insisted for his entire career that he was a figurative painter.
  
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• New York Times Critic Bonds With Taxi Driver Over Classical Radio

  10-03-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim writes about the immigrant cabbie who ended up recommending to her a composer she'd never before encountered.
  
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• Michelangelo's friend and Canada's punk conceptualist – the week in art

  10-03-2017 14:00
  
  The ambition of Renaissance Rome, Rodney Graham paddling into Gateshead, revolutionary Russian architecture and South African sensuality – all in your weekly art dispatchMichelangelo and SebastianoA fascinating closeup on Michelangelo’s genius in the years when he competed with Raphael and collaborated with his friend Sebastiano del Piombo in the intensely ambitious atmosphere of High Renaissance Rome.• National Gallery, London, 15 March-25 JuneContinue reading...
  
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• Economist Rachel Pownall to present online art market report at Tefaf Spring in New York

  10-03-2017 14:00
  
  A comprehensive report on the growing online art market is due to be presented at the inaugural edition of Tefaf Spring in New York (4-8 May). The announcement was made Friday, 10 March, in Maastricht at Tefaf's annual symposium, where the Dutch fairs annual art market report was presented by the economist Rachel Pownall. She took over this year from Clare McAndrew of Arts Economics, the author of the report for the past eight years.While compiling the data for Tefaf's report, it became clear t
  
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• Pieter Bruegel the Younger’s Visit to the Farmhouse: imitation can be flattery

  10-03-2017 13:00
  
  The Younger Bruegel made a living copying his father’s works and managed to preserve the details that turned peasant life into high art Continue reading...
  
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• GF Watts: the Victorian painter who inspired Obama

  10-03-2017 13:00
  
  Paintings by GF Watts have influenced figures as diverse as EM Forster and Barack Obama. Two hundred years after his birth, he stands out as one of the most distinctive – and elusive – painters of his timesThe great Victorians who made our modern world are in the process of turning 200. Dickens, Darwin and Charlotte Brontë all recently celebrated their landmark birthdays while younger peers – George Eliot, Florence Nightingale and Queen Victoria herself – are getting
  
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• Collectors take up residencies—alongside artists—at London’s Delfina Foundation

  10-03-2017 11:58
  
  The Delfina Foundation in London, a non-profit organisation catering to emerging contemporary artists, is offering residencies this year not just for artistsbut also for collectors. Six international collectors will undertake residencies as part of the foundations Collecting as Practice programme, which looks at the psychology and different philosophies behind collecting today.The six participating collectors are Pedro Barbosa (Brazil), Dorith Galuz (France), Sean Lu (China), Luba Michailova (U
  
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• From Michelangelo to Rauschenberg: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  10-03-2017 10:30
  
  The world-famous artist’s brief yet productive collaboration, plus the renowned American painter’s dazzling and ingenious creationsThis exhibition is a micro-history: a detailed exploration of a short period in the life of Michelangelo Buonarroti when he collaborated closely with a painter far less famous than he was. It is a tale that takes you to the heart of High Renaissance Rome, with stunning exhibits including a rarely seen Michelangelo statue of the risen Christ and a convinci
  
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• ‘It is quite petrifying’: designer JW Anderson on his first exhibition

  10-03-2017 08:12
  
  Landmark fashion meets great sculpture in the designer’s ambitious new show Jonathan Anderson is a busy man. The 32-year-old fashion designer from Magherafelt, Northern Ireland, puts out 12 collections a year as both head of his own label, JW Anderson, and creative director of the Spanish luxury brand, Loewe. He is constantly jumping on and off the Eurostar, splitting his week between London and Paris, where each label is respectively based. So when the Hepworth Wakefield gallery in Yorksh
  
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• Stunning collection of modern art goes on display in Tehran

  10-03-2017 07:00
  
  Exhibits include works by Francis Bacon and gay Iranian painter Bahman Mohasses – bought before Islamic revolution of 1979A remarkable collection of modern western and Iranian art that had been gathering dust in the cellar of a Tehran museum and blocked from being shown in Europe has gone on display in Iran’s capital.The collection features works by two prominent gay artists, Francis Bacon and Bahman Mohasses.Related: Parviz Tanavoli: Iranian artist who made something out of nothingR
  
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