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• Were The 'In Cold Blood' Murders Contract Hits?

  19-03-2017 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wait, what? Convicted murderer Richard Hickok left behind an unpublished memoir that claimed a man named "Roberts" contracted the hits. It's probably not true, but ... "Documents on file at the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka and the New York Public Library, along with letters of Mr. Capote and interviews with people who knew Mr. Nations, suggest that Kansas prison and law-enforcement officials sought to thwart the Hickock/Nations book while enabling Mr. Capote’s."
  
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• Terracotta Warriors’ museum in battle over copyright with Chinese amusement park

  19-03-2017 22:00
  
  The museum in China that oversees the Qin Tomb sites near Xian and its famous Terracotta Warriors is asserting its copyright in the army of funerary sculptures and their names at home and abroad. In February, the Emperor Qin Shihuang Mausoleum Site Museum in north-central China accused an amusement park that features replica warriors of violating its registered copyright. The response is an unusual effort by a state institution to assert copyright protection in cultural properties.
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• Olafur Eliasson’s Green lights to welcome refugees in Venice and Houston

  19-03-2017 22:00
  
  Green lights designed by Olafur Eliasson will be made during the Venice Biennale by around 60 refugees who live in and around Mestre on the mainland. Proceeds from the sale of the 300 lights, made from recycled materials during the artistic workshopswhich involve language courses, film screenings and other activitiesgo towards supporting the project launched last spring in Vienna by Studio Olafur Eliasson and founding partner TBA21 (Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary). They are working with th
  
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• ICP celebrates African American sheroes

  19-03-2017 22:00
  
  In a celebration of Womens History Month, a recent series of photographs, Indomitable: a Tribute to African American Women Who Led the Way, will be projected on the windows of the International Center of Photography (ICP) Museum on the Bowery in New York daily at dusk from tonight, 20 March, through 26 March. The 29 imagescaptured by the Kent, Washington-based amateur photographer Cristi Jones, mainly on her Samsung phonefeature Joness five-year-old daughter Lola dressed up as inspiring African
  
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• Eliasson’s Green light to welcome refugees in Venice and Houston

  19-03-2017 22:00
  
  Green lights designed by Olafur Eliasson will be made during the Venice Biennale by around 60 refugees who live in and around Mestre on the mainland. Proceeds from the sale of the 300 lights, made from recycled materials during the artistic workshopswhich involve language courses, film screenings and other activitiesgo towards supporting the project launched last spring in Vienna by Studio Olafur Eliasson and founding partner TBA21 (Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary). They are working with th
  
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• Collector’s eye: Wanwan Lei and Lin Han

  19-03-2017 22:00
  
  The Beijing art power couple Wanwan Lei and Lin Han cofounded M Woods in Beijings 798 art district in 2014 with their friend  Michael Xufu Huang, and the trio have established the institution as one of the capitals most varied institutions. Bringing with them the more relaxed globalism of Chinas young generation of  elites, they have shown artists ranging from Guido van der Werve and Andy Warhol to Duan Jianyu and Qiu Xiaofei. This month, M Woods opened a 94-work show (until June 11)
  
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• Netflix Wants To Dominate The World

  19-03-2017 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of its five public strategies to meet that goal: "Netflix is now dividing up its subscriber base into 1,300 taste communities, which are solely based on past viewing behavior. Each and every user can belong to multiple such communities, and all of these communities spread across the globe. Sure, Yellin admitted, German comedians may be more popular in Germany, but there’s also plenty of users in the U.S. who turn into their shows."
  
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• Shonda Rhimes Of 'Grey's Anatomy' And 'Scandal' Fame Has Decided To Get Into Theatre

  19-03-2017 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  As part of an endowment for the IAMA Theatre Company in Los Angeles, Rhimes is starting a competition for playwrights. She said, "I think it’s hard for any playwright to find opportunities. ... If people aren’t being included, then I’m going to find a way to make sure they’re included. I’m going to find a way to make sure they have opportunities."
  
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• Robert Morris Is (Perhaps) Not A Minimalist Anymore, But He's Sculpting More Than Ever

  19-03-2017 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  And he's wonderfully smart, spicy, thoughtful and funny in this Q&A with the NYT:"Wasn’t it a stretch to execute a sculpture from dirt?
  "I have always worked in more than one direction at a time. As the scorpion said after stinging the frog ferrying it across the river, 'It is my nature, what can I do?'"
  
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• Top AJBlogs Posts From The Weekend Of 03.19.17

  19-03-2017 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Poetry of the Absurd
  This is a tape cut-up I made with Carl Weissner way back in 1971. We used a recording of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley speaking to members of the city council. We “cut” the tape ... read more
  AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2017-03-19
   
  For The Weekend: A Beach Boys Song A La Charles Lloyd
  At the Jazz At Porquerolles Festival on the French Riviera in 2011, Charles Lloyd and his remarkable quartet of the period turned their attention to one of Brian Wilson&rsqu
  
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• Should Every Day Be 'Baby Day' At The Theatre?

  19-03-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Perhaps. Check out Belfast's Young at Art theatre festival to see what it could be like instead of what theatre often is like. "Parenthood can leave even the most ardent theatregoers feeling unwelcome as theatres seldom court families, often seeing prams and young children as a burden not a blessing. Too often theatres present themselves as grownup spaces, cut off from everyday life."
  
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• There Is No Frigate Like A Book, Especially In Times Of Fear Of Immigrants And Refugees

  19-03-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Books are part of the resistance to any repressive regime. "How many times, and in ways that did not seem to require my consent, have I suddenly and in my own bed found myself to be Russian or French or Japanese? How many times have I been a peasant or an aristocrat? How many times have I been a woman? I have been free and without liberty, gay, disabled, old, loved and loathed."
  
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• How Do We React To Movies And TV Shows? These Sensors Will Tell Us

  19-03-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Creepy/cool: "Right now, Dolby has about 40 trained subjects it rotates in and out of its labs (some from within the company, and some outside participants), who are all willing to inform the algorithms: What scene in a movie makes their hearts beat faster? What makes them sweat, or causes their cheeks to flush? What makes them fall asleep?"
  
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• Simone Lia on waiting

  19-03-2017 09:00
  
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• Michelangelo & Sebastiano review: two artists thinly drawn

  19-03-2017 09:00
  
  National Gallery, London
  This huge show exploring the ‘creative partnership’ between the Renaissance master and his follower does neither artist much justiceIt would be hard to imagine a more lopsided show than Michelangelo & Sebastiano at the National Gallery. The title is quaint, implying some impossible parity between the colossus and his sometime acolyte. Billed as the first attempt to examine “the creative partnership” between the infinitely famous Michelangelo a
  
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• Crowded house: inside a sculptor’s ‘museum’ home | Serena Fokschaner

  19-03-2017 07:00
  
  Artist Rachel Ducker’s Oxford home is more like a cabinet of curiosities than a living space
  “I warn you, it’s a bit of museum,” says artist Rachel Ducker, leading the way down the narrow corridor of her Oxford flat, past teetering bookcases. It is hard to know where to look first. On walls and tabletops, birdcages jostle with antlers, Gothic mirrors vie with peacock feathers and every surface teems with offbeat objects, adding to the impression that you have stepped into
  
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