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• Indian Tribe Develops Traditional Dance Workouts As A Health Prescription

  18-04-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There are some real health challenges in this community, says Terry O'Toole, senior health advisor with the division of nutrition, physical activity and obesity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC has given the Coeur D'Alene tribe $2 million to develop "Powwow Sweat." It also supports a community garden on the reservation and a project that stocks the gas station market with healthy food options.
  
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• Efrain de Almeida at Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo

  18-04-2017 23:28 via artnews.com
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• Why The Cannes Film Festival Is Now Including TV

  18-04-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It just seems inevitable. Cannes has always been auteur driven, and they are showing episodic work by directors whose work they’ve supported and loved. Those of us who are programmers, are always looking for great work. In this day and age, why would anyone still restrict to one time format?”
  
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• Pompeii will have 'regular maintenance at last'

  18-04-2017 23:00
  
  The Roman city of Pompeii has become a model for Europe just seven years after a string of collapses in 2010 left many concerned for the sites preservation. The European commissioner for regional policy, Corina Cretu, praised the progress of the so-called Great Pompeii Projectthe 105m restoration campaign launched in 2012 by the European Union (EU) and the Italian governmentin February. The original deadline to complete the works was extended from 2015 to 2017. Our sister newspaper, Il Giornale
  
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• Object Lessons: a 19th-century book of photographs of William Bradford's Arctic expeditions

  18-04-2017 23:00
  
  New YorkSwann Galleries20 April: Images & Objects: Photographs & PhotobooksWilliam Bradford, The Arctic Regions (1873)
  (est. $100,000-$150,000)An important document of 19th-century environmental photography, this rare leather-bound folio features 141 albumen photographs, including a two-part panorama, and text that capture seven art expeditions to the Arctic shepherded by the American artist, best know for his marine paintings. The most ambitious of the expeditions was undertaken in 186
  
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• Don’t get fresh with Betty

  18-04-2017 23:00
  
  Sushi chefs diced thick hunks of tuna on the bar at Happy Ending on 19 April at the Marlborough Contemporary dinner for shows featuring the work of Julius Von Bismarck, Betty Tompkins, Lucas Ajemian. (New artist Ahmed Alsoudani prowled the rooms, along with the other Marlborough crew.) But if fish was on the menu, cock was the subject of discussion: the smashed chickens artist Julius von Bismarck had had to smuggle through customs and, well, the other kind. My collectors are committed, said the
  
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• Dispatches from our man at the Antarctic Biennale: postcards from the edge

  18-04-2017 23:00
  
  Tuesday 28 March: In the middle of the night I look out of the porthole and see mysterious points of light in distance, the first lighthouse, lone houses on the distant outskirts of Ushuaia, homeward bound. And when I next wake I can feel our ship is at anchor, sense our stillness out in the black bay, like a sleeper train stalled at some mountain station in the middle of the night, awaiting daybreak.Too much drink, unable to sleep, I watch dawn emerge like murder. The light moving across the c
  
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• A closer look at Chris Burden

  18-04-2017 23:00
  Its really one of the great, untold stories of the art world, the writer and filmmaker Richard Dewey says of the life and work of the late artist Chris Burden. The artist is known for work that is both ephemeralhis shocking and gruesome 1970s performances like Trans-Fixed, in which he had himself crucified to a Volkswagen Beetleand monumental, such as the 2008 sculpture Urban Light, made of 202 antique street lamps, which is now a fixture outside of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The
  
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• Hallelujah! John Cale, Lawrence Weiner Honored at Kitchen Gala

  18-04-2017 22:57 via artnews.com
  In 1971, when the Kitchen was founded in the Mercer Arts Center on Broadway and Third Street, John Cale had already made a couple of immortal albums with the Velvet Underground and had moved on to producing classics for the Stooges and … Read More
  
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• How Today's Philanthropists Are Different Than Yesterday's

  18-04-2017 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Philanthropy has changed greatly from the days when wealthy people donated to a museum or hospital and got their name on the wall (though that still happens). The big money now is going to a battle over ideas shaping political discourse, education policy, health care research and more."
  
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• Preview Independent Brussels 2017

  18-04-2017 22:24 via artnews.com
  The second edition of Independent Brussels opens to the public on April 20, with preview days for invited guests on April 19. This version of the fair will bring together 70 international exhibitors from 32 cities to the Vanderborght Building in … Read More
  
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• How An Unemployed Actor Pursued JD Salinger (Much To Salinger's Displeasure)

  18-04-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Catcher in the Rye, which spent thirty weeks on the New York Times’ best-seller list, had generated immeasurable publicity and adulation for Salinger, who wanted none of it. Among his new suitors were such Hollywood bigwigs as Samuel Goldwyn and David O. Selznick, both vying for the screen rights to Catcher. They failed to secure Salinger’s approval, as did many others, in turn—but that didn’t stop Bill Mahan, an unemployed former child star and devoted fan
  
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• At 94 Norman Lear Is Still Working On Projects And Reflecting On America

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  "I am the peer of whoever I’m talking to. If I am talking to a 15-year-old, that’s who I am. If I’m talking to a 50-year-old, that’s who I am. I see too many 75-year-olds who seem much older than I feel. I’m aware I’m an older person, and I wish my back didn’t hurt and my legs didn’t weigh 1,000 pounds. But I go to bed at night and can’t wait for the first taste of coffee in the morning."
  
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• Barkley L. Hendricks, Whose Tender and Immaculate Portraits Define an Age, Dies at 72

  18-04-2017 21:22 via artnews.com
  “No artist deserves anything,” Barkley L. Hendricks said in an interview in 2008. “Van Gogh didn’t get squat in his lifetime.” At the time, the 63-year-old was at the start of a career resurgence—he had been in the Whitney Biennial … Read More
  
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• Did the NY Times Pass Up An Opportunity When It Hired Its New Theatre Critic?

  18-04-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For the greater good of theater criticism as a legitimate form of journalism and for the greater good of theater as an art form, yes, I’d have preferred that the Times authentically looked for, and found, a 30-year-old woman of color or a 34-year-old man of Asian ethnicity or even — in the spirit of a long tradition — pulled some 27-year-old reporter off the sports desk and provided them with a shot."
  
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• French Town Are Being Stripped Of Their Architectural Heritage

  18-04-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Throughout the French countryside, especially in less visited rural areas of eastern and central France, some homes have fallen victim to speculators who strip their architectural treasures and sell them, often abroad, leaving once graceful historic structures little more than empty shells behind gaily painted facades. In other cases, the owners themselves sell the architectural elements to raise some cash.
  
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• Which Is More Harmful To The Arts: Elitism Or Populism?

  18-04-2017 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Liesl Schillinger: "Those of a populist mind-set attack so-called elitist art forms as boring; those of an elitist mind-set attack so-called populist art forms as facile and unworthy. But in either case, it's usually the mind-set, not the work itself, that raises hackles."Adam Kirsch: "The truth is, however, that few writers ever make a conscious choice between elitism and populism, difficulty and accessibility. Writers write as their minds and fates compel them to."
  
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• Executive Director - International Festival of Arts & Ideas

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  The International Festival of Arts & Ideas seeks an Executive Director to provide the overall vision and leadership for the organization as it continues to expand its reach, explore ideas, and embrace its local communities.
  DHR International has been exclusively retained to conduct a search for the Executive Director, International Festival of Arts & Ideas.  James Abruzzo, Global Head, DHR Nonprofit Practice, is leading this assignment.
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• Birmingham to get £2m singing clock at site of planned HS2 station

  18-04-2017 19:45
  
  Turner Prize-winning artist Susan Philipsz will create work after being named winner of Birmingham Big Art Project contestA £2m singing clock is to be installed at the site of a planned high-speed railway station in Birmingham, with the new public artwork considered the most ambitious commission in the city’s history.The Turner Prize-winning artist Susan Philipsz was on Tuesday named winner of the Birmingham Big Art Project contest to place a major work at the centre of a city centre
  
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• The Couple Who Owned A Greenwich Village Building And Rented Only To Creative Artists

  18-04-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When the Frosts moved into their building, the Village was still a thriving creative enclave. The neighborhood became a sort of engine for Western culture after World War II, with Beats, artists, musicians and oddballs flooding the cheap, drafty rooms in rundown brownstones. On Ninth Street alone lived Dawn Powell, Marianne Moore, Astor Piazzolla, Barbra Streisand, Maurice Sendak and Jimi Hendrix.
  
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• Podcasters Are Bringing Alcoholics Anonymous Into The Digital Age

  18-04-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While there's no such thing as an "official" podcast for any 12-step program, "plug 'AA' or 'Alcoholics Anonymous' or 'Recovery' into your iTunes search and you'll find the options are abundant and growing." Emanuel Cavallaro meets several of the people making and distributing these podcasts.
  
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• Is Shen Yun Nothing More Than Falun Gong Propaganda?

  18-04-2017 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "To be sure, the persecuted Falun Gong movement is within its rights to promote its agenda. Through The Epoch Times and other means, it has worked hard to expose human rights abuses at the hands of the Chinese government that has mercilessly suppressed the movement’s spread. Many of the goals of Falun Gong followers are laudable, and its religious tenets – while perhaps striking Westerners as odd – seem to be generally focused on meditation and moral teachings. But none of that
  
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• Skaters Put An Art-Deco Half-Pipe Inside 'Detroit's Largest Art Object'

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  "It's a sight Fisher Building architect Albert Kahn couldn't fathom in 1928: a five-foot mini-ramp packed with skateboarders in one of his greatest architectural achievements. In Detroit, such a brash juxtaposition is becoming the norm."
  
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• Michael O. Kewenig, Cofounder of Berlin’s Kewenig Gallery, Dies

  18-04-2017 17:58 via artnews.com
  Michael O. Kewenig, a German art dealer who, with his wife, Jule, founded Berlin’s Kewenig Galerie, has died. His cause of death and his age could not be immediately verified.In 1986, Kewenig opened his gallery in Cologne, Germany. In the ’70s, … Read More
  
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• Writers In Hollywood Are Voting On A Strike Over Exclusivity Rules And Pay

  18-04-2017 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A strike would have serious implications. When writers walked out a decade ago, the impasse cost the Los Angeles economy an estimated $2.5 billion. As production halted, income dried up not only for writers but also for set decorators, caterers, limo drivers and florists. Fans were not thrilled, either, as television schedules became a sea of reruns."
  
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• Poetry in Simplicity: Greek Artist Dimitrios Antonitsis Reflects on Times of Economic Hardship

  18-04-2017 17:05 via artnews.com
  For those unable to fork out for a flight to the recently opened Athens segment of Documenta 14, certain lessons of life in those distant lands can be gleaned through “Fracture,” an exhibition in New York by the Greek artist Dimitrios … Read More
  
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• Ah, The Aromas Of Old Books (And The Science Behind Them)

  18-04-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A group of London researchers have analyzed samples of various tomes and developed a vocabulary for describing books' scents similar to the language used for discussing wines. (Yes, this can have some practical uses.)
  
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• Theatre Criticism Needs A 'Diversity Upgrade' - And Here's A New Program To Give It One

  18-04-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "While U.S. theatres have a long way to go in terms of equity, diversity, and inclusion, they are a multicultural utopia compared to the narrow demographics of those who write about the thea¬tre ... That's why American Theatre is proud this year to help administer an arts journalism track as part of the Rising Leaders of Color Program."
  
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• Vanessa Redgrave Directs Her First Film

  18-04-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The sight of a Syrian toddler's lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach was among the horrors that drove Vanessa Redgrave to make her directorial debut with a feature documentary about the refugee crisis, she said."
  
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• Doyenne of feminist art Carolee Schneemann awarded Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion

  18-04-2017 15:35
  
  The US artist Carolee Schneemann has been awarded the prestigious Golden Lion prize for lifetime achievement by the organisers of the 57th Venice Biennale. Schneemann, who is known for her feminist performance works such as Meat Joy (1964), was nominated by Christine Macel, the artistic director of this year's Biennale (Viva Arte Viva; 13 May-26 November).According to a statement issued by the Biennale, Schneemanns style is direct, sexual, liberating and autobiographical. She champions the impo
  
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• Christine Goerke - How A Mozart Soprano Overcame A Vocal Crisis And Became Everyone's New Favorite Brünnhilde

  18-04-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[It was] a challenge akin to a top pitching prospect's deciding to become an outfielder. ... She struggled through lean years without much work as she reinvented herself, taking on credit card debt for the first time as she and her husband raised a family in suburban New Jersey."
  
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• Genial Gay Comedy Attacked By Conservative Catholic Group For Blasphemy

  18-04-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Out Front, Atlanta's new LGBTQetc. theater company, was preparing its upcoming production of Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told when it began receiving messages and a petition from an organization called American Needs Fatima thundering that "this blasphemous play is a vile insult to the Mother of God!"
  
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• Art Critic Finds Out What It's Like To See Yayoi Kusama Show With Regular (Huge) Crowds - And It Worries Him

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  Philip Kennicott: "This exhibition highlights problems far deeper than those raised by the all-too-successful blockbuster shows of the past. This isn't about managing success and finding the right balance between access for crowds and the integrity of the individual aesthetic experience. Rather, this is about the nature of experience itself, and whether museums want to reinforce an understanding of existence that is fractured, competitive, capitalistic and ultimately alienated from art."
  
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• Morning Links: Bicycling Richard Long Edition

  18-04-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Since Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Rooms Are So Wildly Popular, Why Not Just Make More Copies Of Them?

  18-04-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Because one essential feature of the contemporary art world is artificial scarcity," Philip Kennicott writes. "Theoretically, the Hirshhorn could line its ringed galleries with four or five versions of each room. More people could see them, and more people could experience the effect for longer periods. Except that Kusama has defined her rooms as 'unique art works,' and that ultimately diminishes their reach and impact."
  
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• Michael Ballhaus, 81, Cinematographer For Scorsese And Fassbinder

  18-04-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Much of the visual dynamism associated with Fassbinder and Scorsese must be credited also to Ballhaus. There are the complicated but elegant compositions in Fassbinder, for example, where closeups, reaction shots and the simultaneous movement of actors are often incorporated into a single frame without recourse to cutting ... There are the accelerated zooms and dolly shots in Scorsese’s films, where the camera rushes toward a face or an object to afford it special emphasis."
  
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• Misty Copeland And Justin Peck Curate Ballet Series At Kennedy Center

  18-04-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Both Peck and Copeland are established names in their art forms, but handing them the reins for a major event on the Kennedy Center's ballet subscription series is a risk. Why did the center decide on guest curators, and on these artists?" Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter has an answer.
  
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• Cultivating The Next Generation Of Choreographers At Dutch National Ballet

  18-04-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Certainly there are other companies at work developing young dancemaking talent, but DNB artistic director Ted Brandsen has a unique four-pronged approach.
  
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• Battle Breaks Out Over Parking Lot At Britten's Own Aldeburgh Festival

  18-04-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The green idyll of the village of Snape and its environs is under threat, menaced by the prospect of a giant car park to serve the increasing number of visitors to the area. As battle lines are drawn, a coalition of local people and music lovers has formed to see off the threat and tempers are becoming frayed."
  
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• Artist who shot Beyoncé’s maternity photographs takes on Trump in London show

  18-04-2017 13:11
  
  On 2 February Awol Erizku was propelled to fame with his photograph of Beyonc, pregnant and framed by an enormous garland of flowers. With ten million likes, it is the most popular image to have ever been posted on Instagram. Now the Los Angeles-based artist is turning to painting with an exhibition of new works opening to the public on 21 April at Ben Browns London gallery. Titled Make America Great AgainRonald Reagans 1980 presidential campaign slogan that was appropriated by D
  
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