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• Music Sales Hit Five-year High In The UK

  14-04-2017 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Combined takings from streaming, downloads, physical sales and licensing for use in films, TV and computer games rose 5.1% to £926m. The main contributor to growth was streaming, but vinyl revenues rose by more than two thirds."
  
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• Report: Impacts Of Streaming Live Performances Of The Arts

  14-04-2017 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The report, compiled by Frédéric Julien of CAPACOA and research consultant Inga Petri, argues that non-profit groups will need to consider their own versions of vertical integration, with presenters making strategic alliances with producers or co-operating with private industry to build networks large enough to draw the audiences they will need. As a model it points to Radioplayer Canada, a single app implemented by 400 public, private, community and campus radio stations. For the
  
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• Fight fire with flair

  14-04-2017 23:00
  
  I got Fags Hate Trump, said Dirk Rowntree, 69, showing off a poster hed bought at the Greene Naftali closing party on 15 April for Paul Chans show there. I dunno. I like fags, homosexuals. I admire what they do, I admire the positions they're in in our society. Its a tribute to their opposition and their resistance to Trump, and what they stand for. As a heterosexual graphic designer, Rowntree also admired how the signs look, in the way they ape the Westboro Baptist Church God Hates Fags signs.
  
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• Dispatches from our Man at the Antarctic Biennale: Desolation Island

  14-04-2017 23:00
  
  Saturday 25th March: Blurred tannoy at brutal 6.30 and staggered out on deck, wind blowing strong and wondrous vision of our approach to Deception Island, the sun breaking out from behind us lighting ancient the red rocks like Uluru, and through into the volcanic bay beyond. Magical dawn light and this sheltered cove. But the sun vanished as we embarked onto this desolate stretch of black volcanic beach, Whales Bay; old metal brown tanks for whale oil, collapsed buildings, decaying corrugated i
  
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• TS Eliot Had Very Specific Ideas About The Function And Role Of Criticism

  14-04-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What makes a critical judgment true is still a quandary. Eliot and F.R. Leavis exempted themselves from “interpretation,” which Eliot declared to be “only legitimate when it is not interpretation at all, but merely putting the reader in possession of facts which he would otherwise have missed.” This sentence marks a typical rhythm in Eliot’s critical mind: he tends to say that an exalted something is nothing but something mean to which it may decently be reduced.
  
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• "Miss Saigon" From A Vietnamese Perspective

  14-04-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Much has been written about Miss Saigon, primarily by white writers: about the yellowface controversy, about the actors involved. But very few Vietnamese-Americans have weighed in. We are the sixth-largest immigrant group in America, numbering 1.3 million. And yet popular narratives of the Vietnam War typically exclude us. And as Miss Saigon tours the country next year, the most popular narrative of all will continue to shut us out."
  
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• ‘I Just Enjoy Making a Big Mess’: Albert Oehlen on His Deconstructed Tree Paintings at Gagosian

  14-04-2017 21:49 via artnews.com
  Albert Oehlen started painting trees decades ago, if he ever actually started painting trees. “In the beginning, when I first had the tree in the painting, it was, um—I needed some motif as an excuse to paint something at all, … Read More
  
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• Like The Great Barrier Reef, London's Orchestra Scene Is Dying - And Quickly

  14-04-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The inertia of state funding, allied to the lack of imagination of arts centres, has sapped the fizz from London’s halls, like champagne bottles left uncorked for too long. Where once we were cocks of the concert walk, audiences in Munich and Milan cannot tell one London orchestra from the next. That’s how low we have sunk in five short years. So what’s to be done?"
  
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• New York’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Art Details Inaugural Exhibition

  14-04-2017 21:14 via artnews.com
  The Institute of Arab and Islamic Art, a New York-based nonprofit founded last year by Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Al-Thani announced that its inaugural show will feature four female artists and open May 4 in a space at 3 Howard Street. The show, aptly titled “Exhibition 1,” will feature … Read More
  
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• They May Have Found Where Empathy Lives In The Brain

  14-04-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  They did it by studying the brains of children right at the age where they develop empathy and theory of mind.
  
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• Werner Herzog: Los Angeles Has The Most Substance Of Any City

  14-04-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Herzog says his humor has been buoyed over the past 20 years by his living in Los Angeles, which he turned to after things didn’t work out with San Francisco. “My wife and I found it not the most exciting place in the United States and we said we want to move to the city with the most substance, and it was immediately clear that Los Angeles, that’s the place.”
  
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• Role Play: At MoMA PS1, Hannah Black Alights as Artist and Heroine

  14-04-2017 20:31 via artnews.com
  This past Sunday, at MoMA PS1 in Queens, Hannah Black became a superhero. You wouldn’t have known it just by looking at her, though. When she walked into the museum’s dark VW Dome, she was dressed like any of the … Read More
  
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• The More You Use Facebook, The Worse You Feel, Says (Yet More) Research

  14-04-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "So, while we know that old-fashioned social interaction is healthy, what about social interaction that is completely mediated through an electronic screen? When you wake up in the morning and tap on that little blue icon, what impact does it have on you?" Well, ...
  
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• Abraham Cruzvillegas at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

  14-04-2017 19:53 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Fearless Girl v Charging Bull: New York's biggest public art controversy in years

  14-04-2017 19:48
  
  After controversy over the statue’s placement, people are divided on whether it’s a symbol of feminist strength or questionable corporate marketingAlmost all the public statues of people in New York City depict men. There is a huge green exception in New York harbor. But Lady Liberty wasn’t real, not like the men who inspired the 23 statues planted in Central Park alone. (There are no statues of real women in Central Park, though there is one of Alice in Wonderland.)The latest,
  
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• Fearless Girl brings women visibility in a city full of statues of men

  14-04-2017 19:48
  
  Despite controversy over its placement, people are flocking to the latest, most famous statue in New York City that shows ‘women have balls, too’Almost all the public statues of people in New York City depict men. There is a huge green exception in New York harbor. But Lady Liberty wasn’t real, not like the men who inspired the 23 statues planted in Central Park alone. (There are no statues of real women in Central Park, though there is one of Alice in Wonderland.)The latest, m
  
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• Has A Push For Women In STEM Hurt Women In Arts And Humanities?

  14-04-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While Trump recently signed two bills to encourage women to pursue careers in STEM, there are no arts-and-humanities equivalents. And Trump’s budget proposes doing away with the National Endowment for the Arts entirely. Madeleine Johnson, for one, believes “women in the arts are in the shadow of STEM, because it is a field with more power, more sway, and more funding.” Other female artists agree. Has the push toward STEM inadvertently stymied women in the arts and humanities?
  
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• 'S-Town' - What Was Put In, What Was Left Out, And How That Was Decided

  14-04-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Pacific Standard's Katie Kilkenny talks with S-Town producer and narrator Brian Reed "about structuring his story, gaining subjects’ trust, and choosing what to include."
  
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• An Argument Against Cultural Repatriation

  14-04-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The idea of cultural continuity between the remains, some of which are thousands of years old — one of the most well-known, Kennewick Man, is, at 8,500 years old, older than the pyramids — and a contemporary group, is highly questionable; human populations are not bounded entities through time in this way. That a selected group can decide the future of remains — and the future of research — on the basis of their biology, is disturbing. Identity should not dictate the pur
  
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• A 21st-Century Psychiatrist Analyzes Robert Lowell

  14-04-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kay Redfield Jamison, a specialist in manic depression and other mood disorders, talks about how Lowell's poetry changed after being treated with lithium, his own attitude to his mental illness (and that of several of his well-known contemporaries), and the ethics of using the medical records she used (and those she chose not to use) in writing a book about Lowell.
  
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• Charles Truman obituary

  14-04-2017 17:41
  
  My friend and colleague Charles Truman, who has died aged 67, was an eminent historian of the decorative arts. His work on gold boxes, most of them designed to hold snuff, showed that they were not merely rich men’s toys, but among the most remarkable achievements of 18th-century craftsmanship.He was born at Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire, to Kenneth Truman, a solicitor, and his wife Dorothy (nee Harris). Charlie, as he was affectionately known, chose the art world in which to forge a career
  
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• Study: Americans' Political Polarization Is Strongest Among Those Who Don't Go Online

  14-04-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The paper, issued last month by the National Bureau of Economic Research and written by economics professors from Stanford and Brown Universities, found that the growth in political polarization was most significant among older Americans, who were least likely to use the internet between 1996 and 2012, the years for which data was available when the paper was written."
  
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• Holding It Down: Fisher Parrish Inaugurates Brooklyn Space With ‘The Paperweight Show’

  14-04-2017 17:06 via artnews.com
  I’m not going to lie: During my tenure as an arts journalist, there have been times when I’ve gazed blankly at some sort of abstract sculpture or conceptual object and thought to myself, Hey, that might make a cool paperweight. … Read More
  
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• 'Chocolate-Covered Broccoli' - The Problem With 1990s 'Edutainment' Games

  14-04-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In the infancy of computers, educators quickly figured out that computer games could be a great vessel for both education and entertainment. Problem was, the educators were always better at the teaching part than the game part. Today's Tedium, in the midst of practicing its home-row keys, ponders why that was. (Includes the story of "the tutor who became a multi-millionaire edutainment innovator because she went to the wrong restaurant")
  
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• ‘I Was Really Unthinking Before’: Yoshitomo Nara on His Recent Work and His Show at Pace Gallery in New York

  14-04-2017 16:55 via artnews.com
  The cartoonish children and animals featured in Yoshitomo Nara’s drawings, paintings, and sculptures enjoy widespread appeal because of their very adult bad attitudes. Whether the characters wield guitars or outsize knives, they have made Nara a genuine crossover artist, taken … Read More
  
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• Once Upon A Time, 'Sesame Street' Was Actually Controversial

  14-04-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Most of us take the show's educational purpose (learning letters, numbers, and the like) for granted now, but in Sesame Street's early years on the air in the 1970s, experts differed enormously over how effective the program was, and the results of studies were all over the place. Some even argued that the Muppet monsters promoted antisocial behavior and aggression.
  
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• Mat Collishaw restages 1839 photography show in virtual reality

  14-04-2017 16:13
  
  Artist says VR will change our outlook as he prepares Somerset House display based on Henry Fox Talbot’s seminal exhibitionArt galleries have long specialised in transporting visitors to another world, allowing them to dive into Hockney’s swimming pool, hear the clamour of war in Picasso’s Guernica or feel the spray of the sea from a Turner scene – all within the confines of four white walls.But a new dimension is making its way into museums and galleries across the UK, o
  
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• Whatever Happened To Google's Grand Plan To Make Every Book Ever Searchable?

  14-04-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Two things happened to Google Books on the way from moonshot vision to mundane reality. Soon after launch, it quickly fell from the idealistic ether into a legal bog ... that finally ended last year, when the US Supreme Court turned down an appeal by the Authors Guild and definitively lifted the legal cloud ... But in that time, another change had come over Google Books, one that's not all that unusual for institutions and people who get caught up in decade-long legal battles: It lost its drive
  
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• Founder/Director Of Detroit's Opera Company Diagnosed With Cancer

  14-04-2017 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Dr. David DiChiera, founder and artistic director of Michigan Opera Theatre and the man responsible for saving and restoring the Detroit Opera House, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer."
  
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• 'Angels In America' After 25 Years: An Appreciation By The Director Who Staged The 1992 UK Premiere

  14-04-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Declan Donnellan: "Plays without ideas are boring. But all ideas are dead until someone gives them flesh. Angels is full of ideas - bursting with them - but they land in our laps only because they have been vomited up by the living situation."
  
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• A ‘LIDL’ Early: An Exhibition of 1960s Jörg Immendorff Shows His Politically Engaged Art and Sense of Mischief

  14-04-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
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• The Famous Concert Pianist Who Has No Idea What To Do With Chopin

  14-04-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Steven Osborne: "The only thing I've played in the last 20 years by Chopin is the Cello Sonata. I enjoyed doing it, but it was hard work finding my way into the style: I worked out what gestures were going to work and did my best to make it organic. With the music I love playing I don't have to think in those terms because the gestures come immediately from the feeling I have about the piece. Some day I might suddenly fall in love with Chopin - but the world doesn't really need another Chopin pi
  
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• Josée Bienvenu Heads Down to Street Level

  14-04-2017 15:15 via artnews.com
  There’s always action and reaction in New York’s contemporary art scene, with moving vans and heavy-duty construction equipment intercepting pedestrians and looking entirely like transient installations themselves. And more than ever, we have grown accustomed to disruption, not least in … Read More
  
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• Trinity Church Wall Street Sued By Artist For Moving His 9/11 Sculpture

  14-04-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Steve Tobin's The Trinity Root was made to commemorate a sycamore tree in the churchyard of Trinity's St. Paul's Chapel that took the brunt of debris from the Twin Towers (which were across the street) and saved the historic chapel from serious damage. He gave it to Trinity for free in exchange for the promise that the church would keep it in its courtyard permanently. Then, two years ago, a new rector packed the sculpture off to Connecticut.
  
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• Morning Links: Marshmallow Peeps Yayoi Kusama Edition

  14-04-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• The National Dance Company That Puts The Phrase 'Differently Abled' Into Practice

  14-04-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "AXIS today includes six professional dancers with and without disabilities, a 100-city annual tour schedule that includes regular performances in the Bay Area, burgeoning apprentice and teacher-training programs, school visits that reach approximately 15,000 students, ... and partnerships with institutions and organizations in the vanguard of inclusive instruction and physically integrated dance."
  
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• American Repertory Ballet Hiring: Executive Director

  14-04-2017 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  American Repertory Ballet’s Executive Director is the chief operating officer for American Repertory Ballet (“ARB”), the preeminent contemporary ballet company in the state and Princeton Ballet School (“PBS”), one of the largest and most respected non-profit dance schools in the nation, with responsibility for all financial, development, personnel, and legal aspects of the operations of ARB and PBS. The Executive Director leads the team of Program and Administrative
  
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• Baltimore's Theater Scene Is Putting Down Roots - Brick-And-Mortar Roots

  14-04-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nelson Pressley looks at the growth taking place at Charm City's flagship theater company, Baltimore Center Stage, and smaller companies that are feeling secure enough to invest in actual real estate.
  
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• Museum For Female Pioneer Of Abstract Art Held Up By Battle Between Her Heirs And 'Anthroposophists'

  14-04-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) painted geometric compositions even before Kandinsky and Malevich did. She was also a mystic, and her planned museum south of Stockholm is being planned by a group of "anthroposophists." But Klint's family claims that the group is exaggerating her connection to the movement and is refusing to lend any of her art to the project.
  
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• Joan See, Who Created A School For TV Acting, Dead At 83

  14-04-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When she found success in television commercials in the 1960s (Oxydol, Tide, Ivory Snow, Thomas's English Muffins, American Express), she said that "I had to learn to act all over again for TV." So she created a school to teach Sanford Meisner technique adapted for the requirements of the small screen - a school that grew, changed names twice, and is here today.
  
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• Maria Lassnig’s Self-Portrait With Speech Bubble: laughing at the tragi-comedy of life

  14-04-2017 13:00
  
  The Austrian painter was in her late 80s when she created this work, inspired by her experiences of pain and hospitalisationThe face is outlined in a glowing, ill green, its double profiles – one closed and one open-mouthed – suggesting a simple flipbook animation. The cartoonish speech bubble of the title is a puny fleshy knot, a tongue tied. It threatens to melt into the background of noisy lurid pink. An eye bulges, frightened. Continue reading...
  
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• 'Freud would have had a field day': Sidney Nolan and the menage à trois that made him

  14-04-2017 13:00
  
  Australia’s greatest artist, famed for his paintings of a black-helmeted Ned Kelly, owed everything to a free-spirited couple from Melbourne who took him in. Why did he turn his back on them?A modest exhibition of slate paintings will not be the grandest tribute paid to Sidney Nolan in his centenary year. But it is perhaps the most poignant. Australia’s greatest 20th-century artist painted them in the early 1940s while in the early throes of his decade-long affair with Sunday Reed, a
  
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• Anish Kapoor and Graham MacIndoe: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  14-04-2017 10:30
  
  The celebrated artist continues his exploration of colour, while the photographer displays the self-portraits that documented his heroin addictionOne of our greatest artists, this modern Rubens continues the exploration of colour and its emotional power that started with his early experiments in bright-hued sculptural forms in the 1980s. In his latest works, he plays with the idea of painting in the same way a child might play with a doll – by pulling it apart. Spectacular, intensely vivid
  
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• Red review – vivid portrait of Rothko's brushes with comedy

  14-04-2017 08:00
  
  Lyric, Belfast
  Patrick O’Kane embraces both the humour and humanity of the troubled abstract expressionist in John Logan’s award-winning playHumour is not readily associated with the abstract expressionist painters, but in Prime Cut’s production of John Logan’s award-winning play, comic timing turns some of Mark Rothko’s grave pronouncements into quips. Working in his Manhattan studio on the murals commissioned for the Seagram building in 1958, Rothko (Patrick O&rsq
  
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