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• Why It's Essential That Computer Scientists Study The Humanities

  24-04-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Universities should start with broader training for computer science students. I contacted eight of the top undergraduate programs in computer science, and found that most do not require students to take a course on ethical and social issues in computer science (although some offer optional courses). Such courses are hard to teach well. Computer scientists often don’t take them seriously, are uncomfortable with non-quantitative thinking, are overconfident because they’re mathematica
  
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• At Seven on Seven Conference, Artists and Technologists Unite to Ponder Politics, Sexting, Fake News, and More

  24-04-2017 23:06 via artnews.com
  By the time Olia Lialina took the stage at the Seven on Seven conference this past Saturday at the New Museum in New York, the word “technology” had been invoked several dozen times. That, for Lialina, was a problem. “The word ‘technology’ … Read More
  
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• Bang On A Can - Still Banging Away 30 Years Later

  24-04-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Unplugged, soft-spoken and unchaotic — parents now, rather than children — is a good summary of the Bang on a Can founders these days, even as their energy is undimmed. Their work, once punkishly outsiderish, is now showered with mainstream accolades.
  
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• UK exhibition costs statue an arm and a leg—in a good way

  24-04-2017 23:00
  
  The old repair looked horrendousas if a child had rolled up a piece of Plasticine is how Deborah Howard from the history of art department at the University of Cambridge describes an earlier attempt to restore a late Medieval maiolica statuette of the Virgin and Child that had lost two of its limbs. At some point in the past century, a restorer decided to recreate the Virgins missing arm and the Childs lost leg. Unfortunately, the result looked more comical than spiritual.
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• Schiele’s landmark Danaë comes to auction at Sotheby’s

  24-04-2017 23:00
  
  Sothebys will offer an early figural painting by Egon Schiele, Dana (1909), in its Impressionist & Modern Art evening sale in New York on 16 May. Dubbed by the house as the artists first major oil painting of a female nude", the work, painted when he was just 19, is estimated to sell for between $30m and $40m.
   
  Simon Shaw, the worldwide co-head of the Impressionist and Modern Art department at Sothebys, said in the houses news release: "Dana makes a bold and compelling statement,
  
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• Object Lessons: studies in space and time, from an Andalusian astrolabe to a Sioux pictorial calendar 

  24-04-2017 23:00
  
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  Sothebys26 April: Arts of the Islamic WorldA rare Umayyad brass astrolabe, signed by Muhammad ibn al-Saffar, Cordoba, 1020 AD (est. 300,000-500,000)Sothebys will offer the earliest astrolabe from Muslim Spain known to exist, engraved by the Andalusian astrolabist Muhammad Ibn al-Saffar of Cordova. In their most basic form, astrolabesan inclinometer formerly used for astronomical measurements and marine navigationconsist of a disc with marked degrees and a rotating pointer. This more
  
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• Late artist Marisol leaves the lot to the Albright-Knox

  24-04-2017 23:00
  
  The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New Yorkwhich made a splash last year by raising $100m for an endowment and expansion campaign in only three monthshas another exciting announcement: the Venezuelan-American artist Marisol (Mara Sol Escobar), who died in April 2016 aged 85, has left it her entire estate.
  The museum was the first institution to acquire a work by Marisola sculpture, The Generals, purchased in 1962 at her solo exhibition at the Stable Gallery in New York. As a result of th
  
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• Fake news! Photographers’ project explores the media in the post-truth era

  24-04-2017 23:00
  
  Stop the press! The photographers Jim Goldberg, Dru Donovan and Jason Fulford are staging a fake news project in San Francisco based entirely on imagery, sourced daily through the Associated Press (AP). Fake Newsroom, at the Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco (until 29 April), explores aspects of imagery and news today as Goldberg, Fulford and Donovan each take a turn as editor-in-chief of a daily online publication.
   
  The project takes its inspiration from a 1983 project called Newsr
  
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• Christie’s and Sotheby’s top Hiscox ranking of online platforms

  24-04-2017 23:00
  
  Christies and Sothebys are emerging as the frontrunners in the online art market, according to the annual report by the fine art insurer Hiscox, released today, 25 April.Christies online business increased by 34% in 2016 (from $162m to $217m), while Sothebys equivalent activities grew 19% to $155m, according to the Hiscox Online Art Trade Report, produced in association with ArtTactic. It ranks the auction houses first and second respectively in a poll of 758 art buyers. Last year Christies was
  
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• Adult Baby: John Waters Is Doing a Summer Camp for Grown-Ups

  24-04-2017 22:45 via artnews.com
  The modern world is incredible. If you wait long enough, your favorite cult celebrity will probably end up hosting a cruise or summer camp of some sort. Enter Camp John Waters, a new venture from the esteemed movie director and 2017 … Read More
  
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• Richard Florida: The Rise Of Creative Inequality

  24-04-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The clustering of talent and economic assets in cities is benefiting “the already privileged, leaving 66 percent of the population behind,” Florida says. “Left unchecked, this clustering force generates a lopsided, extremely unequal kind of urbanism in which a relative handful of superstar cities, and a few elite neighborhoods within them, benefit while many other places stagnate or fall behind.”
  
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• Early Schiele Painting, Estimated at $30 M. to $40 M. by Sotheby’s, Could Shatter Artist’s Auction Record

  24-04-2017 21:42 via artnews.com
  The consignments keep on coming. Today, we get word that Sotheby’s has managed to snag what it’s calling the “first masterpiece” by the Austrian Egon Schiele, Danaë (1909), a nude that he painted when he was 19. (He would die of the … Read More
  
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• Is Classical Music Still Relevant? Sorry - But That's The Wrong Question

  24-04-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The only possibility for orchestras and opera houses to find new repertoire, with the chance that they hit upon something of real value, is to preserve a practical framework: the one which defines the fundamentals of the art form. This means ignoring the postwar modernist ideologies of progress – because there is no progress in the arts – and requiring of new repertoire that it be suited to the medium as it has developed over time."
  
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• I.M. Pei At 100

  24-04-2017 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Over the course of his career, the aristocrat of American architects, who turns 100 on April 26, has drawn on a dazzling range of influences, from Chinese gardens to ancient Colorado cliff dwellings to the fountain in a Cairo mosque. He blended the austere modernism of the Bauhaus with opulent Beaux-Arts classicism, technological daredevilry with reverence for precedent and a minute study of the past."
  
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• Master of Arts in Arts Administration – Goucher College

  24-04-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Designed for the working professional, the MA in Arts Administration from Goucher College allows you to live and work anywhere while you study with national arts leaders.
  FLEXIBLEOur limited-residency format provides you the flexibility to enhance your career without interrupting your life. You can keep your job and engage in advanced learning that is interactive and immediately applicable. Attend classes backstage, from your office or wherever your career takes you. An annual residency each sum
  
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• Frances Stark: 'Contemporary artists are hyper-alienated and hyper-competitive'

  24-04-2017 20:37
  
  The LA artist who once had a run-in with Dr Dre has now teamed up with one of his peers – DJ Quik – and is turning the Magic Flute into a hip-hoperaWhen artist Frances Stark was invited to participate in the prestigious 2017 Whitney Biennial, last year, she was in the middle of producing an opera. She had no time for interruptions. It was her first opera: Mozart’s Magic Flute, which she retranslated, re-orchestrated, recorded with a group of young musicians, and turned into a t
  
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• Contemporary Criticism Is Having An Identity Crisis

  24-04-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The primary concern of contemporary criticism is not whether a given cultural object is good or bad, but how that object reflects the realities of the social world, and how it can potentially (re)shape that same world. For Weinmann, “this new turn of criticism, this emphasis on the politics behind art, may be better for a work’s reputation than criticism that ignores politics.”
  
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• Gawpers go home: how luxury flat-owners could shut down the Tate's viewing platform

  24-04-2017 19:57
  
  They were sold on their proximity to Tate Modern. Now the residents of luxury flats are taking the gallery to court, arguing its viewing platform invades their privacy. It’s part of a wider hijacking of cultural hotspots by property developersGood walls make good neighbours – but not, it seems, when they are made entirely of glass. Five residents of the multi-million-pound Neo Bankside towers, which loom behind Tate Modern like a crystalline bar chart of inflated land values, have is
  
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• Creative Class Cities - What Ails Ye

  24-04-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "If I understand [Richard] Florida, he’s arguing that today’s troubles are a consequence of the success of a few cities such as Seattle, and especially New York, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. And they are also victims because of affordability. As Florida correctly puts it, these cities have 'wildly disproportionate shares' of advanced industries, startups and talent. But what really caused this?"
  
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• The Trumpet Virtuoso Who Reinvented Himself As A Teaching Virtuoso

  24-04-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tim Wilson was a star trumpeter. But he began to go blind. Now - instead of playing Puccini’s “La Bohème” at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House, the 58-year-old maestro is working up to 14 hours a day coaxing “Jingle Bells” out of beginners and pouring much of his life savings into bringing music back to a school where 95 percent of students live in poverty. If he can take kids who can’t play a note and teach them a song, Wilson believes, th
  
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• Art Appraisers Who Lowball Values To Cheat The IRS

  24-04-2017 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The I.R.S. has long viewed the valuations given for artworks in income, estate and gift tax returns as a “potentially high abuse area,” as described in several recent reports. It sometimes uses a group of dealers, museum curators and scholars, known as the Art Advisory Panel of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, to advise the agency on works worth more than $50,000. According to annual reports by the panel, about 58 percent of the 1,840 works it reviewed from 2011 to 2015 were val
  
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• Rebecca Warren chosen for inaugural show at Tate St Ives extension

  24-04-2017 18:06
  
  Exhibition by British sculptor in October to be first in new gallery space carved out of hillside as part of £20m redevelopmentA major exhibition by the British sculptor Rebecca Warren is to be the inaugural show for the UK’s newest contemporary art space, a gallery literally pounded into the cliffs of Cornwall.The extension to Tate St Ives will open in October with a programme that includes Warren, a Patrick Heron retrospective and a group exhibition of 35 female artists responding
  
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• Asking Kids The Big Questions - How They Philosophize

  24-04-2017 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “From ages eight to eleven, kids are natural philosophers—before puberty and those awful inhibitions creep in. All you have to do is trigger the question and let it roll.”
  
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• To All Tomorrow’s Parties: Break Out the Bubbly—Florine Stettheimer’s Back

  24-04-2017 17:36 via artnews.com
  At Florine Stettheimer’s funeral, in 1944, her longtime friend Georgia O’Keeffe delivered a eulogy. Referring to Florine’s sisters, Carrie, who ran the family salon and built a famous dollhouse, and Ettie, a novelist who held a Ph.D. in philosophy, O’Keeffe … Read More
  
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• Philip Reeves obituary

  24-04-2017 17:02
  
  The career of my friend the artist, printmaker and art school lecturer Philip Reeves, who has died aged 85, coincided with a radical, international shift in the status of limited edition printmaking as an art form rather than a craft.The son of Bert Reeves, a printer and proofreader, and his wife, Lillian (nee Langford), Philip was one of twin boys born in Cheltenham. He went to school locally, then trained at Cheltenham School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London (RCA), after undertaking
  
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• Ludovic Morlot To Leave Seattle Symphony

  24-04-2017 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We were very aggressive about being relevant for the community we were in,” Morlot said. “We want people to feel that this symphony is their community orchestra.” But that part of his job, he said, “is crucial but sometimes exhausting” — the fundraising, the meetings, the oversight for educational programs and civic engagement.
  
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• What Do You Do After You Found An Itinerant Theatre Troupe With $500 And Then Keep It Going For 25 Years?

  24-04-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michelle Hensley founded Ten Thousand Things, which "pioneered an operating style — paying good wages to top-notch actors while cutting costs by keeping designs minimal — now practiced by at least eight companies nationwide." Now she's stepping down.
  
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• Rome Prize Names 2017–18 Winners, Including Sanford Biggers and Rochelle Feinstein

  24-04-2017 15:51 via artnews.com
  The Rome Prize announced its 2017–18 winners this weekend. Each of the awardees will receive a residency at the American Academy in Rome lasting anywhere from six months to two years, as well as a stipend.Among the winners in the … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Frank Ocean’s Kerry James Marshall Album Art Edition

  24-04-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Eureka! Why a naked Archimedes is causing controversy in Hampshire

  24-04-2017 14:56
  
  The village of Ellisfield is home to a 9ft naked statue of the Greek mathematician, but one resident is doing his best to subtract him from the landscapeName: Archimedes.Birthplace: Syracuse, Sicily, then part of greater Greece. Continue reading...
  
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• Magdalena Abakanowicz obituary

  24-04-2017 14:46
  
  Sculptor acclaimed internationally after overcoming a privileged background to establish a successful career in communist PolandThe Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz, who has died aged 86, could trace her lineage back to Genghis Khan. At least, that was the family legend. As a child in the 1930s, she had privileges that were soon to be destroyed by the second world war and its aftermath. Yet, despite her background, she managed to launch a highly successful career in communist Poland, eventual
  
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• Hermitage to loan Scythian treasures for British Museum show

  24-04-2017 12:01
  
  The British Museum is planning a major exhibition on the Scythians in September with loans from Russia, including gold jewellery. Although few details have been released, the State Hermitage Museum will lend 200 objects.
   
  The Scythians, one of the great nomadic civilisations of antiquity, dominated a huge area of what eventually became the Soviet Union, stretching from Siberia to the Black Sea. Their empire was at its height from the seventh to third centuries BC. The Hermitage loans will
  
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• Tomás Saraceno collaborates with 7,000 spiders to make largest-ever exhibited web

  24-04-2017 11:11
  
  Arachnophobes look away now. The Argentinian artist Toms Saracenos first show in a public institution in his home country, which opened this month, includes an installation of the largest spider web to have ever been exhibited. Made by around 7,000 spiders, the work titled Quasi-Social Musical Instrument IC 342 built by 7000 Parawixia bistriatasix months (2017), covers an area of more than 190 sq. m.
   
  The piece is one of two large installations that form the exhibition How to Entangle the
  
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• Dennis Dinneen: the pub landlord who captured Cork – in pictures

  24-04-2017 08:00
  
  Dennis Dinneen turned his pub into a photography studio, and everyone stopped by – from awkward teenagers to boozy wedding parties Continue reading...
  
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• A pint and a portrait: the landlord who snapped small town legends

  24-04-2017 08:00
  
  If you lived in rural Cork in the 60s and wanted your picture taken, there was only one place to go: Dennis Dinneen’s barIn 2003, aged 16, David J Moore moved to the small town of Macroom in County Cork, where he soon gravitated to Dinneen’s bar to play pool with the local lads. “It was a regular country pub except that the walls were covered in black and white photographs,” he recalls. “There were all these amazing shots of the locals and the town as well as family
  
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