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• Canada Has Produced Numerous Global Stars. Alas, It's Unsustainable

  21-04-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The paradox in Canadian music is that we have so many superstars and very few developmental channels to build future superstars. We cannot expect to continue to have globally relevant Canadian pop stars without examining (or creating) the mechanisms needed to sustain pop chart ascension."
  
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• Vancouver Opera Is Trying To Be A Festival. But First The Company's Director Has To Get Off Crutches

  21-04-2017 22:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VO moved to a festival model to ensure the future viability of the company as it deals with universal challenges facing the opera world. Kim Gaynor says tickets are selling, but she concedes the buzz has been slow to build.
  
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• The Art Market Is Brutal - For Gender Equity

  21-04-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From 2011 to 2016, just two in 100 of the top lots sold by living artists at auction were works by women. Of 2,300 artworks in the National Gallery, only 20 are by women, and none of the top ten richest living artists in the world are women.
  
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• LAXART Founder Lauri Firstenberg and Artist Anthony James to Open Art Production Hub in East Hollywood

  21-04-2017 22:25 via artnews.com
  More than a year after Lauri Firstenberg stepped down as the director of LAXART, the Los Angeles alternative art space she founded in 2005, the curator has announced a new initiative that moves beyond the nonprofit model. The new project, dubbed there-there, … Read More
  
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• Looks Like Hackers Might Be Able To Break Our Strongest Encryptions. So now Quantum Cryptography. But...

  21-04-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Cryptographers think that a new kind of computer based on quantum physics could make public-key cryptography insecure. Bits in a normal computer are either 0 or 1. Quantum physics allows bits to be in a superposition of 0 and 1, in the same way that Schrödinger’s cat can be in a superposition of alive and dead states. This sometimes lets quantum computers explore possibilities more quickly than normal computers. While no one has yet built a quantum computer capable of solving problem
  
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• Is this painting to be sold in Madrid really a work by Velázquez?

  21-04-2017 22:00
  
  The painting Retrato de nia o Joven Inmaculada (Portrait of girl or Young Immaculate) is attracting the attention of experts at the Spanish auction house Abalarte in Madrid, where it has been billed as a potential early work work by Velzquez due to be auctioned on 25 April. The 57cm x 44cm oil on canvas was discovered by chance by Richard de Willermin, a specialist in 17th- and 18th-century Italian, Flemish and Spanish art who consults as an expert for Abalarte. Specialists at Madrids Prado mus
  
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• Stars and Scapes: Vija Celmins’s Eclectic Show at Matthew Marks Also Includes Satisfying Tomfoolery

  21-04-2017 21:38 via artnews.com
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• Are Internships Threatening Diversity Of The Arts?

  21-04-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The fact that internships are so prevalent in the creative industries is concerning, because the creative workforce lacks ethnic and socioeconomic diversity, particularly at entry level. If internships without measures to ensure equal access are common, there is a risk that the diversity of the sector will suffer.”
  
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• One Man’s Trash Is Damien Hirst’s Treasure: In Venice, the Artist Offers His Grandest Work Yet

  21-04-2017 21:15 via artnews.com
  Damien Hirst sold a lie, and he sold it very well.In the weeks leading up to his grand exhibition that now occupies all of the Punta Della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi in Venice, he gave out very little information: just … Read More
  
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• Magdalena Abakanowicz, Whose Poetic Sculptures Wrestle with the Trauma of World War II, Dies at 86

  21-04-2017 21:08 via artnews.com
  Magdalena Abakanowicz, the Polish sculptor whose lyrical art explored the stress of political regimes on individuals and redefined how contemporary artists portray the human body, died yesterday in Warsaw, where she had lived for the majority of her life. She … Read More
  
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• The Human Brain's Propensity To Make Stuff Up And Believe It - And How Most Of Us Control It And Some Of Us Manipulate It

  21-04-2017 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Confabulation does seem to be innate: consider the stuff that people imagine they've done when they have brain damage, and that children come up with while the prefrontal cortex is developing. Neurologist Jules Montague writes about the phenomenon and the "doubt tags" people use to keep it in check - and how they can be induced to miss those tags and develop false memories.
  
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• Today's "Thought Leaders" Tread A Very Narrow Line

  21-04-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Today, our most famous purveyors of ideas sell themselves to the wealthy much like the courtiers of the Middle Ages. Daniel Drezner notes that these ideas are therefore shaped by the “aversion” that plutocrats share toward addressing the problems we face. Inequality? Global warming? Populist nihilism? An explosion of global refugees? From a Silicon Valley perspective, Drezner notes, such things are not a failure of our system but rather “a piece of faulty code that n
  
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• Naked ambition: £15,000 appeal to revive nude sunbather statues

  21-04-2017 20:30
  
  Historic England seeks donations to restore Peter Laszlo Peri’s postwar sculpture found dilapidated in south-east London gardenTwo dirty and dilapidated concrete figures of naked sunbathers which lay mouldering in the corner of a hotel garden have been identified as an important, presumed lost sculpture from the 1951 Festival of Britain.Peter Laszlo Peri’s The Sunbathers was on the wall of an entrance to Waterloo station for the festival, an attempt by the Labour government bring che
  
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• The Original Elevator Music: A Potted History Of Muzak, Its Antecedents, And Its Huge Influence

  21-04-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The sounds frequently referred to as elevator music are, at least officially, no more; over five years ago the company folded in a deal with its new owner, Mood Music. Muzak often amounted to the sonic equivalent of a Pan-Am smile, inspiring the listener to a bland, blinkered contentedness. In part, its reputation has obscured much of what made the company viable, and the extent to which its style fed others in its wake."
  
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• Tania Pérez Córdova at MCA Chicago

  21-04-2017 19:55 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• The Theatre Designer Who Designed Modern America

  21-04-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "While older utopias often were predicated on returning to the virtues of an imagined past, a key figure behind this utopia of the new was Norman Bel Geddes, a theatre designer turned industrial designer. Bel Geddes is best known for designing the General Motors Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, a huge and hugely celebrated vision of the world of 1960, full of towering modernist skyscrapers in new cities and lots and lots of cars."
  
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• Wagnerian Tenor Manfred Jung Dead At 76

  21-04-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[He] is perhaps best known for taking on the role of Siegfried in Götterdämmerung for Bayreuth's centennial Ring cycle ... He also garnered fame for being one of the few tenors to sing every single tenor role in Wagner's Ring."
  
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• When Was The "Golden Age" Of Pop Music? Researchers Conduct A Fascinating Study

  21-04-2017 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Overall, “Music of the 1940s was preferred to music of its neighboring decades, and the same was true for music of the 1960s. The music of the 1980s also showed a peak, but … only for the younger participants.”
  
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• Battle Over The (Existence Of The) Armenian Genocide Plays Out In Rival Movies

  21-04-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "If history was any guide, the director Terry George figured, there'd be weirdness around his new film, The Promise, about the Armenian genocide. Sure enough, he was right" - there was a concerted pile-on at IMDb, and the unanticipated release of a competing film on strangely similar material, The Ottoman Lieutenant. Cara Buckley lays out the strange circumstances around the two titles.
  
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• Was This The Most Influential Music Teacher Of All Time?

  21-04-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We should raise a cheer to the woman who contributed so much, with so little fanfare, to the history of 20th and 21st Century music. Don’t take my word for it. “Nadia Boulanger,” says Quincy Jones, “was the most astounding woman I ever met in my life.” And he’s met a few.
  
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• The Tragedy Of Google Books: How 'The Most Significant Humanities Project Of Our Time Was Dismantled In Court'

  21-04-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them." James Somers runs down the history of the massive book-scanning project and of Authors Guild v. Google - and how "perhaps the most adventuresome class action settlement ever attempted" was taken apart despite the best interests of all the parties.
  
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• Getting A Southern Accent Right Is One Of The Big Challenges Of Making Audiobooks

  21-04-2017 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Southern accents are like hot sauces: dozens of varieties that can be difficult to distinguish, but they can be subtle or heavy-handed; they can add color or be a one-note distraction. ... When some people detect their presence, that's all they can focus on. In the wrong hands they can be dangerous." John Adamian talks to a professional audiobook narrator about the pitfalls involved.
  
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• What is Schneider hiding in Athens?

  21-04-2017 16:03
  
  The German artist Gregor Schneider, who is known for his unsettling installations, will transform a square in downtown Athens next month but the end result may, for now, be hard to decipher. Schneider plans to turn the site into a place of shelter according to a cryptic press statement. Omonia Square will become a neutral zone hidden from attackers and the watchful eye of Google maps alike as part of the Onassis Cultural Centre's Fast Forward Festival 4. The concept of camouflage will be key (th
  
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• A Conversation With A Trio Of Choreographers Who Reinvigorated Ballet

  21-04-2017 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Roslyn Sulcas moderates a three-way between Alexei Ratmansky, Christopher Wheeldon, and Justin Peck.
  
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• Consumer Reports: Leif Ritchey

  21-04-2017 15:40 via artnews.com
  Leif Ritchey is an artist who lives and works in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Over the past decade, he has staged solo exhibitions at venues including Martos Gallery, New York; the Journal Gallery, Brooklyn; Shoot the Lobster, New York; and Luce … Read More
  
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• East Anglian sculpture park set to be created on university campus

  21-04-2017 15:34
  
  Ambitious plans to turn the grounds of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (SCVA) into the east of Englands answer to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park have been announced. The arts centre, which was designed by Norman Foster in 1974 to house the large collection of Robert and Lisa Sainsbury, currently has seven sculptures including works by John Hoskin, Liliane Lijn and three bronzes by Henry Moore. The sculptures can be found around the 350-acre parkland that the SCVA shares with the campus of th
  
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• 'No Brits, No Chekhov Translations, No Classics' - Broadway's Smallest Theater Begins New American Plays Program With Nine (Diverse!) Commissions

  21-04-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That unequivocal statement came from Carole Rothman, the artistic director of Second Stage Theater, which, reports Michael Paulson, commissioned new works by the nine playwrights - seven of them women, three of them African-American, and one of them Asian-American - with the intention of bringing the shows to Broadway."
  
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• 'Really Galvanised To Make Work' - Director Sam Gold On American Theater In The Trump Era

  21-04-2017 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I think it's made the whole community feel braver about making work that pushes people harder and gives voice to subject matter and to people that we can see being silenced under this administration. The second he was elected, the theatre community got energy and it's a really great thing that we have a place to put our anger and our fear."
  
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• 'The Diva Whisperer' - Yannick Nézet-Séguin Starts Settling In At The Met

  21-04-2017 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "We [conductors] are the ears of the singer. But if we tell singers to please fit into a little box that I'm trying to create ... then the conductor is like a teacher, and that is not what it should be." David Patrick Stearns does a Q&A with YNS as he prepares for the opening of The Flying Dutchman, his first production at the Metropolitan Opera since becoming music director-designate.
  
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• Morning Links: CIA-Funded Middle Eastern Art Edition

  21-04-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Neighbors Sue Tate Modern Under European Convention For Human Rights (Yes, Really)

  21-04-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One unexpected sight at the London museum's new Switch House extension is a view straight into the glass-walled condos of the Neo Bankside complex, just 20 meters across the street. And visitors have been taking full advantage of that view, sharing photos of it all over social media, much to the residents' chagrin. (The Tate has not been sympathetic.) Now five plaintiffs "claim their high-rise homes have been turned into 'goldfish bowls' while they have become 'public exhibits'" - a violation of
  
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• Why Are London's Museums Royally Overhung?

  21-04-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Here's an exhausting irony: Tate Modern's room dedicated to Minimalism is so packed with works that it looks more like an industrial warehouse than a museum ... [It] is just one of the countless London exhibitions stuffed full of art like a trussed turkey."
  
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• Beyoncé's 'Lemonade' Wins A Peabody Award, And So Does 'Veep'

  21-04-2017 14:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The two were among seven titles to receive honors in the entertainment category.
  
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• 'O.J.: Made In America' And 'Frontline' Lead Documentary Peabody Winners

  21-04-2017 14:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Also among the winners of 2016 Peabody Awards in the documentary category were 13th, Zero Days, and MAVIS!.
  
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• Ofili tapestries, Hockney etchings and Apple's HQ – the week in art

  21-04-2017 14:14
  
  Mat Collishaw’s new cinematic sculpture questions the origins of art, while Langlands & Bell recreate Silicon Valley campuses – all in your weekly dispatchMat Collishaw
  A surreal cinematic sculpture that advances a provocative theory about the origins of art by this intelligent analyst of the power of images.
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• 'I Didn't Realize Then How Far We Would Go' - Masaaki Suzuki Talks About Recording The Complete Bach Cantatas

  21-04-2017 14:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lindsay Kemp visits Kobe to talk with the founder/director of the Bach Collegium Japan about the extraordinary (and excellent) 55-CD, 18-year project that Suzuki didn't expect he'd be undertaking when he started it.
  
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• On the edge of madness: the terrors and genius of Alberto Giacometti

  21-04-2017 13:56
  
  He drank with Sartre, mocked Picasso and took silent walks with Beckett – but his work was going nowhere until a vision on Boulevard Montparnasse left him trembling. Ahead of a major Tate show, we explore the obsessions of GiacomettiIn 1957, the writer Jean Genet described the studio of his friend Alberto Giacometti. It was “a milky swamp, a seething dump, a genuine ditch”. There was plaster all over the floor and all over the face, hair and clothes of the sculptor; there were
  
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• An Arts Festival For, And About, Refugees

  21-04-2017 13:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "As an arts festival with an explicit social change mission, Refugee Week faces some unique challenges. Emily Churchill Zaraa discusses how it tackles them head on."
  
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• Using The Arts To Brighten Up Scotland's Oil Capital

  21-04-2017 13:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The director of the independent regional agency SMART writes about the cultural renaissance taking place in Aberdeen and the differences it has made.
  
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• Aubrey Beardsley’s The Peacock Skirt: a bold vision of female sexuality

  21-04-2017 13:00
  
  This work, created for Oscar Wilde’s play Salome, would surely have floored the late Victorian establishment with its nonconformist take on gender rolesThis is one of the illustrations that Beardsley created for Oscar Wilde’s play Salome. Banned for translating biblical characters to the stage, its bold vision of female sexuality would surely have floored the late Victorian establishment. Continue reading...
  
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• New in Chengdu: private art museum opens its new venue

  21-04-2017 11:36
  
  The Luxelakes A4 Art Museum in the Chinese city of Chengdu opened its new location last weekend (April 15) with a 13-artist show Create Spaces (until July 16). The museum was established in 2008 and named after the building number of its original location, which closed in late 2015. It is the sole private art museum in the culturally vibrant capital of Sichuan Province.The opening exhibition occupies 1,500 sq m of a 3,500 sq m building, which rises dramatically over the man-made lake that is th
  
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• Degas and Constable and McTaggart: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  21-04-2017 10:30
  
  A plaster cast of the original Little Dancer comes to London, while two sombre masterpieces of English and Scottish art are shown togetherStatues of the Little Dancer – such as the one in the Tate Modern – were made after the death of the great French artist, based on a wax sculpture he worked and reworked over many years. Now, what appears to be a plaster cast of the original – as first exhibited at the impressionist exhibition in Paris, 1881 – has resurfaced. This dance
  
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• The winners of the Sony world photography awards 2017 – in pictures

  21-04-2017 08:00
  
  From Saudi single mothers to Chinese child gymnasts, the winners of the world’s largest photography competition have documented scenes across the planet Continue reading...
  
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