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• How Would You Define American Music? (And, BTW, Why Do You Care?)

  24-03-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  What is American music? And, perhaps more to the point, why do we care so much? “I remember being asked in Prague not so long ago, ‘What is your obsession, you Americans, with American music?’ ” said Robert Spano, the music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, which will perform at SHIFT on March 31. “The only answer I could give . . . was: It’s because we don’t know who we are, and so we’re endlessly fascinated, because there
  
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• While US Considers Killing Federal Arts Funding, Canada Proposes $1.8 Billion Increase In Arts Budget

  24-03-2017 23:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The federal government will devote $1.8-billion more to culture and recreation spending over the next decade, “modernize” the Broadcasting Act and Telecommunications Act, and spend more on official and Indigenous languages, according to the budget delivered on Wednesday by Finance Minister Bill Morneau. But anyone looking for details of the extensive cultural-policy overhaul promised by Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly since the government took office in 2015, will find scant e
  
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• Facing Pressure From an Increasingly Fair-Oriented Art World, London’s Vilma Gold Gallery Will Close

  24-03-2017 22:32 via artnews.com
  In a vaguely worded email sent yesterday, London’s Vilma Gold gallery revealed that it would close and begin what it called “a new model of collaboration” with its artists. The news came from Rachel Williams, the gallery’s owner and director, … Read More
  
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• How Netflix Is Becoming A Global Media Company

  24-03-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Netflix has morphed into an international service that streams in nearly every country around the world. This fast-paced growth has meant that the company’s dedication to improving models now extends to just about everything it does. Another reveal at Labs Day was that it has even created an online translation test, called Hermes, that helps it recruit the best foreign talent to dub its shows and movies."
  
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• ‘Hippie Modernism’ at BAMPFA, Berkeley

  24-03-2017 22:17 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• End Of History? The Much-Maligned Francis Fukuyama Was Right About Our Current Political Circumstances

  24-03-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rarely read but often denigrated, it might be the most maligned, unfairly dismissed and misunderstood book of the post-war era. Which is unfortunate for at least one reason: Fukuyama might have done a better job of predicting the political turmoil that engulfed Western democracies in 2016 – from Brexit, to Trump, to the Italian Referendum – than anybody else.
  
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• Looking For A Theatre Response In A Time Of Trump

  24-03-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Since the election, I have been urgently seeking direction from dramatists in the way a cardiac patient might turn to nutrition and meditation after a heart attack. I have been thinking not just of Chekhov but of Harold Pinter, who is an even better guide to Trump’s brutal relativism and canny opportunism. Pinter’s plays throw into relief the territorial nature of human beings — the way reality, both present and past, is a turf war in which the will to dominate supersedes all
  
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• This Building Would Be A Stunning Addition To Manhattan's Slyline

  24-03-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Described as the ‘longest building in the world’, the project's concept drawings reveal a skyscraper reaching an apex then curving back down. And featuring an elevator system that can travel in curves, horizontally and in loops.
  
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• PAD Paris loses its vetting committee after opening of 20th edition this week

  24-03-2017 21:00
  
  PAD, the Paris art and design fair (until 26 March), has lost its vetting committee, the panel of experts that screens all the works offered by dealers, with a right to veto any objects they find to be questionable. Soon after the opening of the fairs 20th edition on Wednesday, the Centre National de l'Expertise (CNE), which was in charge of PADs vetting, decided to withdraw. The circumstances were such [that we] could no longer perform a proper job, its chairman Frdric Castaing told The Art Ne
  
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• PAD Paris loses its vetting committee after opening of 20th anniversary edition this week

  24-03-2017 21:00
  
  PAD, the Paris art and design fair (until 26 March), has lost its vetting committee, the panel of experts that screens all the works offered by dealers, with a right to veto any objects they find to be questionable. Soon after the opening of the fairs 20th anniversary edition on Wednesday, the Centre National de l'Expertise (CNE), which was in charge of PADs vetting, decided to withdraw. The circumstances were such [that we] could no longer perform a proper job, its chairman Frdric Castaing tol
  
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• Patti Smith Buys Arthur Rimbaud's House

  24-03-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The dwelling, which is located near the French border with Belgium in a small town called Roche, is a reassembled version of Rimbaud's childhood home. It was here that the late 19th-century French poet wrote his most famous piece, A Season in Hell, when he was merely 19 years old.
  
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• Tate Britain to open till midnight to cope with Hockney show demand

  24-03-2017 20:03
  
  Retrospective of Yorkshire-born painter broke pre-sales records and is one of most popular exhibitions in gallery’s historyTate Britain will be opening its doors until midnight for the first time to cope with demand for the David Hockney exhibition.The retrospective of the Yorkshire-born painter broke pre-sale records for all Tate galleries, selling more than 350,000 tickets before the doors opened in February, and has gone on to become one of the most popular shows in Tate Britain’s
  
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• ‘There’s Something in This Model That Feels Outdated’: Ibid Gallery Closes Its Central London Space

  24-03-2017 19:33 via artnews.com
  Closures of mid-sized galleries keep on coming, with another one now across the Pond: Ibid Gallery, which was established by Magnus Edensvard in 2004 in London, has closed its space in central London permanently. The gallery will, however, continue to operate its … Read More
  
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• Inside Mirriam-Webster's Version Of The 21st Century Dictionary

  24-03-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are only about 50 lexicographers working at dictionary companies in the United States today, Kory Stamper estimated. But their work, she believes, remains as vital as it was in Noah Webster’s day. “There’s something to having a bunch of nerds sitting in an office dispassionately reading lots and lots of material and distilling the meaning of a word as it’s been used in lots of places,” she said. “It really is this weird democratic process.”
  
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• Social Revolution At The Drive-In Movies

  24-03-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Drive-ins also appealed to a new audience-a mixed bag of viewers of different classes, neighborhoods, and races. ... They were some of the South's first integrated sites, and African-American moviegoers felt more safe and respected there than in the dirty balconies of Jim Crow movie theaters. Obese and disabled people, housewives and children, and working-class families also flocked to drive-ins. This sense of mixing ... created anxiety among cultural and business leaders and a perception of th
  
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• How English Has Created A New Caste System In India

  24-03-2017 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Fluency in English is endemic of the deep class-based divisions that continue to plague Indian society. A 2014 report from the Centre for Research and Debates in Development Policy in India found that only 20 percent of the population speaks English, and only 4 percent of the population speaks the language fluently. The report emphasizes that men in India who spoke fluent English earned 34 percent higher wages than those who had some fluency."
  
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• From the Archives: Lucy R. Lippard on Jo Baer’s Beguiling Paintings, in 1972

  24-03-2017 18:25 via artnews.com
  "Baer's paintings should not be as hard to take as they apparently are." Read More
  
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• Shia LaBeouf’s Trump art project shut down one day after moving to Liverpool

  24-03-2017 18:20
  
  He Will Not Divide Us is curtailed on police advice after reports of ‘dangerous trespassing’, with alt-right group thought to be involvedHe Will Not Divide Us, Shia LaBeouf’s artistic protest against the Trump presidency, has been shut down again, just one day after moving to its latest location in Liverpool. On Wednesday. the city’s Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (Fact) centre announced that they would be displaying the project, which currently takes the form
  
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• 'A Renaissance Of Gore': We're In A Golden Age Of Onscreen Violence

  24-03-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, if "golden age" is the right term. "If you have a massive appetite for high body counts, stunning fight choreography, and general onscreen savagery, Hollywood might finally be meting out enough punishment for you to scream your safe word." Jordan Crucchiola looks at how and why this has happened.
  
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• Pump Up the Volumes: Hefty Diebenkorn Catalogue Raisonné Sheds New Light on Luminous Paintings

  24-03-2017 17:46 via artnews.com
  Catalogues raisonnés are many things to many people. As robust tomes that attempt to faithfully reproduce every known work of art by the painters and sculptors who serve as their subjects—say, Paul Cézanne, Jacob Epstein, or even Dan Flavin—they function … Read More
  
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• Carey Perloff To Retire From San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre After 25 Years

  24-03-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Perloff, who will leave after the end of next season, plans to write and direct on a freelance basis. One of the few women leaders in the still male-dominated American theater, the indefatigable Perloff first came to the 50-year-old ACT back in 1992 when the theater was in disarray both physically, in terms of the massive earthquake damage at the Geary, and in terms of its artistic reputation, which had stumbled in the wake of the volatile Bill Ball era.
  
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• Tate Modern opens first 'live' show with mist, plants and a rave

  24-03-2017 17:13
  
  The veteran Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya has created a site-specific work made of mist as the centrepiece of BMW Tate Live Exhibition: Ten Days Six Nights (24 March-2 April)the Tate Moderns first ever live exhibition, says the museum director Frances Morris.Nakayas worktitled London Fog (2017) and made in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shiro Takataniis on show outside the museums new Switch House building. The exhibition brings together old friends with new friends, Morris says. Nakay
  
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• Tate Modern opens first 'live' exhibition with mist, plants and a rave

  24-03-2017 17:13
  
  The veteran Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya has created a site-specific work made of mist as the centrepiece of BMW Tate Live Exhibition: Ten Days Six Nights (24 March-2 April)the Tate Moderns first ever live exhibition, says the museum director Frances Morris.Nakayas worktitled London Fog (2017) and made in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shiro Takataniis on show outside the museums new Switch House building. The exhibition brings together old friends with new friends, Morris says. Nakay
  
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• One Sector Of The Art World That's Thriving Under Trump

  24-03-2017 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  According to NPD Group, 2.7 million poster and foam boards were sold in the US in the week leading up to the post-Inauguration march. That’s 33 percent more poster board that was sold during the same time period in 2016!
  
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• Have A Look At Domestic Customs Of China A Thousand Years Ago, Shown On These Tomb Murals

  24-03-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Archaeologists in the northern Shanxi province of China have uncovered a vibrant record of the customs and costumes of the people living in the area about 1,000 years ago. An ancient tomb filled with colorful, partially preserved murals resurfaced in Datong City as part of Datong Municipal Institute of Archaeology's excavation of 31 tombs of the Liao and Jin dynasties."
  
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• MOCA Los Angeles Adds Amanda Hunt, Anna Katz to Curatorial Staff

  24-03-2017 16:01 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles has made two recent curatorial hires: Amanda Hunt, who will now be the museum’s director of education and public programs, and Anna Katz, who will be an assistant curator. Hunt began her position … Read More
  
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• A Voyage To The Depths Of Merriam-Webster HQ

  24-03-2017 15:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jennifer Schuessler's guide on the trip is Kory Stamper, one of Merriam-Websters new generation of social-media stars.
  
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• 'The Final Word' On The Oxford Comma, As Decreed By Columbia Journalism Review

  24-03-2017 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Newspaper style has long been to omit that final comma. But every stylebook that allows omission of the Oxford comma includes a caveat, often forgotten: Once the sentence moves beyond a simple series, that comma might be necessary for clarity."
  
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• Scenes from Around Art Basel Hong Kong

  24-03-2017 15:14 via artnews.com
  Just days before Hong Kong elects its new leader, Art Basel Hong Kong opened to the public on Thursday and continues through Saturday. Situated along the northern waterfront of Hong Kong Island and flanked on one side by a major construction … Read More
  
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• Whaling, worship and a farewell to Howard Hodgkin – the week in art

  24-03-2017 14:47
  
  The National Gallery pits Rubens against Rembrandt, while the National Portrait Gallery hosts Howard Hodgkins’ posthumous show – all in your weekly dispatchHoward Hodgkin
  This exhibition serves as a farewell to the great British painter who recently died. His works may seem abstract at first sight, but each one is a passionate evocation of people, places and lost time.
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• Daniel Dennett, Scientist Of The Soul

  24-03-2017 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Dennett does not believe that we are 'mere things.' He thinks that we have souls, but he is certain that those souls can be explained by science. If evolution built them, they can be reverse-engineered. 'There ain't no magic there,' he told me. 'Just stage magic.'"
  
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• Where Did Thinkers Search For The Location Of The Human Soul Before Modern Neuroscience?

  24-03-2017 14:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Daniel Suggs reviews the early history of the science of the soul in the Western world, from Vesalius to Donne to Marlowe to Overton to the New England doctor who determined (with methodology that wasn't exactly rigorous or ethical) that the soul weighs 21 grams.
  
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• Indianapolis Symphony Principal Bassoonist Sues Orchestra For Age Discrimination

  24-03-2017 14:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  John Wetherill, 62, accuses music director Krzysztof Urbański, 34, of a five-year campaign of harassment, including attempts at public humiliation, in an effort to get Wetherill to retire or give up his principal chair in favor of a younger player. The ISO has no comment. (Where's the musicians' union?)
  
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• Morning Links: Sterling Ruby’s Skivvies Edition

  24-03-2017 14:00 via artnews.com
  News in BriefsSterling Ruby is working in a spectacularly commercial fashion thanks to what gets called “patronage” from Calvin Klein. On top of a big advertising campaign, the artist has redesigned the style company’s office building—complete with work enlisting his … Read More
  
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• Maggi Hambling: ‘I am relieved for my grandchildren that they are non-existent’

  24-03-2017 14:00
  
  The artist talks about ballroom dancing with her mother and getting to know her father in her 20s but how she’s always felt conflict in family lifeI was born in Sudbury in Suffolk. My sister, Ann, is 11 years older than me, and my brother, Roger, nine years older. It was a sort of miracle that I was born at all because, by that time, my father preferred gentlemen.My brother had wanted a brother. My mother had to apologise when she brought me home. But Roger just ignored the fact that I had
  
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• Controversy over Emmett Till painting at Whitney Biennial goes beyond art world

  24-03-2017 13:49
  A painting in New Yorks Whitney Biennial, Open Casket by the artist Dana Schutzdepicting the body of Emmett Till, an African American teenager who was lynched in 1955has raised a storm of controversy that has reached far beyond the art world. Critics of the work say a white artist has no business appropriating an image of brutal violence against black youth, and have called for the painting to be destroyed, while supporters have defended Schutzs right to free speech. Till was a 14-year-old
  
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• A Musical Instrument You Can Play With Your Mind Alone

  24-03-2017 13:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  It's called the encephalophone (brain instrument), and it was developed "with a double-edged purpose: to explore new frontiers in music technology and as a possible therapeutic tool for people who'd suffered from strokes or neurological problems like ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease)."
  
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• Crowds At The Smithsonian's New Museum Of African-American History Have Been Big - And They're Going To Get Bigger

  24-03-2017 13:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  "If you think you can wait a few months to avoid the long lines and crowded galleries at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, you'll need a new strategy." Peggy McGlone reports.
  
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• An 'Audience Manifesto': This Theatre Asked Its Biggest Stakeholders What They Really Want, And Here's What They Came Up With

  24-03-2017 13:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Director of Engagement at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester writes about how she and her colleagues developed their two-years-and-running project, You,The Audience.
  
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• Beloved Miami City Ballet Star Patricia Delgado Says Farewell

  24-03-2017 13:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Repeated injuries - and a longing to finally join her boyfriend of several years, New York City Ballet resident choreographer and dancer Justin Peck - mean that Delgado is retiring from the company."
  
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• Refuge and rebellion: how queer artists worked in the shadow of the law

  24-03-2017 13:00
  
  Fifty years after homosexuality was decriminalised, a new Tate Britain exhibition uncovers the stories of the LGBT artists who were branded criminalsYou might think they were three Hoorays on a spree, caught by a paparazzo’s bulb in the fishbowl of a cab. Michael Pitt-Rivers almost appears to be smiling, hair slicked back, collar jacked up. Lord Montagu has turned towards him. Only Peter Wildeblood is looking out, jaw jutting forward, some unreadable emotion – fury, defiance, disgust
  
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• Andy Warhol’s Electric Chair, 1964: a dark mirror to pop art

  24-03-2017 13:00
  
  Part of the artist’s Death and Disaster series, Warhol counterpointed the vibrancy of his famous works with the bleak underbelly of popular culture Continue reading...
  
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