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• Why Do We Treat Arts Education As Remedial Activity Rather Than Enormous Possibility?

  25-04-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "While most community arts programs for underserved youth were planned by caring, well-intentioned organizers, they are doing serious harm. They are designed to mitigate risk — to treat participants not as creative talent full of ideas and possibility, but as disadvantaged youth or, worse, cautionary tales in the making. Their target outcomes are preventing violence or pregnancy, lowering obesity rates or other deficits attached to their community’s identity — not to prepare ou
  
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• Why Linda Winer Is Quitting Her Job As A Theatre Critic After 30 Years

  25-04-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Winer’s beef, it should be clear, is not with her employers, about whom she had nothing but kind words in a brief interview today. She’s instead stepping down in protest over (or surrender to) the apparent collective indifference of readers to arts criticism, as a chill wind of click metrics has blown through the profession and shriveled word counts even for the most venerable of critical voices. After nearly 50 years on the aisle, Winer made clear, groveling for clicks is not how s
  
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• Sotheby’s first Modern and contemporary African art sale set to be a record-breaker

  25-04-2017 23:00
  
  With a low estimate of 2.8m for total sales, Sothebys first auction of Modern and contemporary African art on 16 May is due to smash the 1.6m hammer record, set by Bonhams a year ago. 
   
  The London auction is jam-packed with well-known names from across the continent and across generations, from Meschac Gaba and Nicholas Hlobo to Ablade Glover and William Kentridge. One of the most striking aspects is the variety of objects, media and styles on offer, including Modernist pai
  
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• Shows set to let textile artist and printmaker Anni Albers shine

  25-04-2017 23:00
  
  When we hear the name Albers, we tend to think of Josef and his Homage to the Square series of paintings. But Anni Albers (1899-1994), his wife and fellow Bauhaus refugee, is at the forefront of two forthcoming exhibitions, including a full-scale survey of her work planned for 2018 at Tate Modern.
  The show, which will travel to the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dsseldorf, is preceded by a smaller survey, Anni Albers: Touching Vision, which is due to open this autumn at the Guggenheim Bil
  
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• New faces at Art Cologne seize Berlin calendar clash opportunity

  25-04-2017 23:00
  
  The opening of the 51st edition of Art Cologne was marked by discussions about the changes under way in the German art scene. For the first time, two of the most important events in the German art calendarArt Cologne (until 29 April) and Berlins Gallery Weekend (until 30 April)are clashing this year. This overlap triggered a collaboration between the organisers of Berlins ABC fair and the Cologne fair, who are in negotiations to launch a fair in September called Art Berlin to replace the experi
  
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• I.M. Pei’s life and work celebrated to mark architect’s centenary

  25-04-2017 23:00
  
  The Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei turns 100 years old on 26 April, and institutions across the globe are celebrating his centenary. The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), where Pei both studied and taught, is co-organising a series of conferences with the University of Hong Kong and M+ museum about the architects influence. We hope to generate a much-needed contemporary discourse on the global significance of Peis prodigious list of incredible projects, says Mohsen Mostafavi, t
  
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• Fondation Louis Vuitton offers a snapshot of contemporary African art

  25-04-2017 23:00
  No single exhibition can fully capture the art scene of the worlds second-largest continent, which has 54 countries and a population of more than one billion. So organisers at the Fondation Louis Vuitton have focused their survey of recent African art, titled Art/Africa: the New Atelier, on two themes.
  The first focus, called The Insiders, is a selection of works on loan from the Geneva-based collection of Jean Pigozzi, who entered into unknown territory when he began buying art directly from a
  
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• ‘One Always Knows a Hilton Paragraph’: A Night on the Bowery with Hilton Als, New Pulitzer Winner and Triple Canopy Honoree

  25-04-2017 22:45 via artnews.com
  A few days after he won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Hilton Als walked to a busted black metal door in deep Chinatown, was buzzed up, and took the stairs to a party in his honor, in a Bowery loft … Read More
  
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• Marisol Estate Heads to the Albright-Knox

  25-04-2017 22:40 via artnews.com
  Late last year, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, announced that it had raised $103 million of the $125 million needed for its OMA/Shohei Shigematsu–designed expansion, thanks to a $42.5 million donation from investor and gold enthusiast Jeffrey Gundlach. … Read More
  
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• The Joy With Which The Onion Imagines Orchestra Musicians Anticipate Pops Concerts

  25-04-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To repeat the same sequence of eight notes over and over again while staring at the back of John Mellencamp’s head as amplified guitars and boisterous audience members drown out most of the sound—I can’t think of a greater privilege than that. The only thing better would be playing with Jon Bon Jovi, but I’m not getting my hopes up.”
  
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• How The Barnes Museum Figured Out How To Use The Cloud To Track Visitors

  25-04-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Counters keep track of average visit duration in any space where we use them and by tracking at our main entrance, special exhibition, and collection gallery we have a sense of visit duration throughout the building on any given day and at any given time. This has given us the opportunity to manage queues effectively at high capacity events because we know roughly what the average stay rate is and how quickly those lines will move."
  
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• Fifty Years Ago Canada Threw Itself A Giant Party (Looking Back, We Can See What A Different Time It Was)

  25-04-2017 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  1967 “was a year in which most Canadians felt good about themselves and their country.” A principal reason was Expo, which attracted more than 50 million people and was described by the respected Canadian writer Peter C. Newman as “the greatest thing we have ever done as a nation.”
  
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• NYT Classical Music Editor Talks About Attempts To Think Differently About Coverage

  25-04-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "How can we change what we do so that we are bringing in more readers in more places to be more engaged. It’s not a question purely of page views, but more engaged: the term that encompasses both sheer numbers and the kind of readers they are, whether they are subscribers, how long they’re spending on the articles, where in the world they’re located. So what we want in classical music, and what everyone in the paper wants, is to be bringing our journalism to a substantive and e
  
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• Can Literature Give You Hope?

  25-04-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "When reading about the feeling of hopefulness in a novel, it can become an almost tangible thing, perhaps made out of the fiber of the pages you’re turning, or housed within the blackness of the ink used to print the words you’re reading. And hope can often be easier to hang on to in literature than in real life, where it might feel ephemeral, intangible, and unsteady. And now, more than ever, hope takes work."
  
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• Natalie White at Bill Brady, Miami

  25-04-2017 20:22 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music: Associate Director of Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music

  25-04-2017 20:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music seeks an experienced administrator and university-level instructor to be the Associate Director, under the title of Academic Administrator Level III, of the newly formed UCLA Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music, and to teach School of Music courses.
  The position is a full-time annual (12-month) appointment. On average, about 80% time will be devoted to administration and 20% to teaching. The appointment will be in one of the School of Music Departmen
  
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• $24M Project To Save Britain's Oldest Sound Recordings

  25-04-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The British Library has launched a preservation and access project which will save almost half a million rare and unique recordings which are threatened by physical degradation or stored on formats which can no longer be played. ... Recordings include oral histories from WWI and WWII, Cornish brass bands, local dialect from the UK regions, drama and literature readings, regional radio, traditional music, pirate radio recordings, music from around the world and the sounds of rare and extinct spe
  
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• ‘Push Unusual Ideas Into the World’: Prem Krishnamurthy of P! and Chris Sharp of Lulu Discuss Their Hybrid Spaces

  25-04-2017 19:33 via artnews.com
  It’s a strange truth that, even as the art world expanded dramatically over the past decade, the number of truly interesting spaces—those operating in more unusual, riskier ways—remained pretty pretty low.One that would have to be included in that small group, though, is P!, which … Read More
  
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• Tonys Reinstate Sound Design Awards

  25-04-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Next season, Best Sound Design of a Musical and Best Sound Design of a Play will be reinstated to the list of competitive Tony Award categories with a new voting process. In addition, it was determined that for similar reasons, the category of Best Orchestrations will adhere to this same new voting process. The Tony Nominators will nominate for these categories as in the past. However, voting on the winners of the three categories will now be the responsibility of a subset of the overall voter
  
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• When Dan Savage Meets Wagner: The Problematic Sexual Politics Of 'The Flying Dutchman'

  25-04-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim looks at the still-common dynamic that the opera explores via myth: as Savage puts it, "It's a common delusion, particularly among women, that their love is transformative. That they can find their damaged man and, by loving him, they can save him, restore him, fix him, make him a better person."
  
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• Joan Baker obituary

  25-04-2017 18:56
  
  My friend the painter and teacher Joan Baker, who has died aged 94, was the first woman to run a major art department in Wales, at Cardiff College of Art, where she was head of foundation and assistant director of studies. She made a big contribution to the artistic culture of Wales from 1945 onwards, even though she never sought attention for herself and exhibited rarely, despite painting for 70 years.Joan was born in Cardiff, the daughter of Joseph Baker, a marine engineer, and his wife, Mary
  
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• High Museum in Atlanta Receives 54 Works from Souls Grown Deep Foundation

  25-04-2017 18:54 via artnews.com
  The High Museum of Art in Atlanta has received 54 artworks from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, a nonprofit that archives and exhibits work by American self-taught artists. Included in the purchase and gift are 11 quilts from Gee’s Bend … Read More
  
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• Art in America Editor-in-Chief Lindsay Pollock Steps Down

  25-04-2017 18:52 via artnews.com
  After more than six years as editor in chief of Art in America, Lindsay Pollock announced today that she will be stepping down to pursue other projects. Pollock, who began her tenure in 2011, was the seventh editor in the … Read More
  
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• The New Generation Of "Reality" TV Shows Is Fascinating (If You Want To Understand America)

  25-04-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Niche reality shows reveal a range of American cultures and give the audience a new experience: the chance to plunge into others’ unfamiliar realities. Dividing “reality” into ever more microscopic fields, the joyously weird new contest shows celebrate the deviations from the normal, amplifying a subculture’s arcana to stadium size. A cynic might cavil that networks are merely exploiting the American viewer’s new taste, trained by social media, for variety and dist
  
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• My Dinner With Georgia O'Keeffe, When Her Eyebrow Burned Off

  25-04-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I saw O'Keeffe rise unsteadily to one knee, and then to her feet. She looked shaken. 'Well,' she said, with a thin smile, 'It seems we're not having chicken.'" Calvin Tomkins remembers a visit to the artist at her summer home in New Mexico, the Ghost Ranch, in 1973.
  
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• Nostalgia Is Huge Business Right Now. Here's Why

  25-04-2017 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The feeling that every advertiser wants to evoke in millennials is nostalgia; that warm, comforting sensation that one experiences when recollecting the past. People usually feel nostalgic for their own past, commonly referred to as autobiographical nostalgia. But oddly enough, they can also feel nostalgia for time periods when they weren't alive; perhaps their parents played old music to them when they were young, and now, they associate those sensory details with positive memories."
  
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• 38 New Commissions Over 20 Years To Create Modern Riffs On Shakespeare's Plays

  25-04-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The project by the American Shakespeare Center, in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, "invites writers to submit plays inspired by each of Shakespeare's, on a schedule coordinated with the theater's season. Two winners will be chosen each year, and will be performed in repertory along with the Shakespeare play that inspired them, starting in 2019. (Each winning playwright will receive $25,000.)"
  
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• 'Art Criticism Shouldn't Be The Consumer Reports Of Art' - Blake Gopnik On The Art Of Art Journalism

  25-04-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I think art critics should be more like science journalists. We should be some kind of intermediary between the smartest people who talk about art, the smartest writing from art historians and the general public." (podcast)
  
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• That Ballerina Fired For Being Too Tall? She's Headlining A New Ballet Company That's Making Diversity Its Focus

  25-04-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sara Michelle Murawski made headlines in January after the Pennsylvania Ballet told her (shortly before she went onstage) that her contract wasn't being renewed because she's too tall to fit in visually with the company's other dancers. Now she's joining the American National Ballet, a new company, launching this fall in Charleston, that's making a point of engaging gifted dancers of varied physiques and skin tones - and giving them a decent standard of living. (Oddly, neither Charleston City Pa
  
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• The Art World Has Gone To War With Trump - But Will It Shoot Itself In The Foot?

  25-04-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The protests started almost immediately after the presidential election. ... And it hasn't let up. Each Trump proclamation has seemed to inspire a new round of agitation and action. ... Whether this ideological high alert will produce good art is one question; whether the art will do any good is another." Carl Swanson explores the battle lines.
  
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• What Kinds Of Protest Art Actually Work?

  25-04-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rachel Corbett of New York magazine asked 22 artists, curators, and critics what works of political art they found genuinely powerful. Here's a slideshow gallery with their answers (with which one may or may not agree).
  
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• Mixing Things Up: Anne Midgette On Two Attempts To Break Out Of The Concert-Experience Rut

  25-04-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Expanding the concert experience is a pet theme of classical music these days. And if you wonder why the concert experience needs expanding, it's because the term 'classical concert' tends to translate as '19th-century music played in a stuffy setting' - at least, to the people who aren't coming. In fact, classical concerts are more and more varied, and this weekend I saw a couple of different attempts - one more subtle, one more overt - to mix things up."
  
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• Morning Links: Nude George Washington Edition

  25-04-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• A New Tool To Fight Art Forgery And Fraud: Online Bots Trolling The Dark Web

  25-04-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "While several companies already exist to police artists' copyright, few have the technical firepower to search the dark web for works that are potentially stolen or forged." But a DC-based art forensics firm and Singapore-based specialists in online intellectual property violations have teamed up to develop that firepower.
  
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• Trial Begins For Lawsuit Over Doomed Broadway 'Rebecca'

  25-04-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Opening arguments began on Monday in a civil trial about a Broadway musical that never came to be, a real-life drama that, even by showbiz standards, stretched the suspension of disbelief."
  
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• Paris Has Another New Concert Hall, And A Woman Conductor Is Running It

  25-04-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Well, strictly speaking, it's in Boulogne-Billancourt, about 10 miles and 20 Métro stops southwest of the city center. Designed by the Pritzker Prize winner Shigeru Ban (known for his extraordinary way with much materials as cardboard and paper tubes), La Seine Musicale has a 6,000-seat hall for rock events (it opened on Friday with Bob Dylan) and an 1,150-seat classical concert hall that's been turned over to conductor Laurence Equilbey and her professional chamber choir, Accentus, and p
  
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• Kristine Jepson, Mezzo-Soprano, Dead At 54

  25-04-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Among the many roles that won her acclaim at the Met, Covent Garden, and two dozen other international opera houses were the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Idamante in Mozart's Idomeneo, and, in contemporary opera, Kitty Oppenheimer in Doctor Atomic and Sister Helen Préjean in Dead Man Walking.
  
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• Smartphones And Siri Don't Understand Icelandic, And That Has Icelanders Really Worried

  25-04-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 1,200-year-old language isn't among the many options available on smartphones, virtual assistants, voice-activated devices, and even many computers - and with a small base of speakers (fewer than 350,000), Silicon Valley has little reason to spend money to add Icelandic. The worry: "The less useful Icelandic becomes in people's daily life, the closer we as a nation get to the threshold of giving up its use."
  
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• Police Forced To Intervene To Keep Nationalists From Disrupting Controversial Play In Croatia

  25-04-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Carrying a banner reading 'Satan, leave our city,' about a dozen right-wing supporters Monday chanted extremist slogans and sang nationalist songs inside the theater in the coastal town of Split before police pushed them out." The local Catholic archdoicese had called for the play, Oliver Frljić's Our Violence and Your Violence, to be banned due to some extreme imagery.
  
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• Political art withers as Mamut 5 opens in Istanbul

  25-04-2017 12:24
  
  At a time of growing challenges for the Turkish art scene, an art project showing works by around 50 emerging Turkish artists opens to the public in Istanbul tomorrow, 26 April. Works submitted from around 1,000 applicants for the Mamut Art Project, with a jury including the top Turkish-born Armenian conceptual artist Sarkis, suggest that artists are retreating from highly charged political work, curators say, with painting and more solitary work in the studio showing a distinct prominence.
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.24.17

  25-04-2017 10:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Who Gets What? David Rockefeller’s Art Bequests
  Of all his art interests, we have long known that the Museum of Modern Art came first for David Rockefeller, who died last month. But there were in his will a few other bequests for museums. ... read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-04-24Monday Recommendation: Krukowski, The New Analog
  Book: Damon Krukowski, The New Analog (The New Press)The introduction of the compact disc in 1982 made analog sound delivered by phonograph records
  
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• Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic review – a totally tropical tapestry

  25-04-2017 07:00
  
  National Gallery, LondonWaterfalls and dancers, Maya Angelou and Mario Balotelli … Chris Ofili’s exotic reverie took five weavers three years to translate from watercolour to tapestry. The result plunges you into a heady over-ripe EdenLarger than life, the women dance round the walls. Grey upon grey, picked out with darker accents and the soft sheen and sinuous billowing of drapery, the glimmering whiteness of bangles and anklets, necklaces and earrings, hairdos and turbans, the pai
  
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• Uh-Oh - Has Science Gotten Too Complex For Humans To Comprehend?

  25-04-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The twin challenges of too much quantity and too little quality are rooted in the finite neurological capacity of the human mind. Scientists are deriving hypotheses from a smaller and smaller fraction of our collective knowledge and consequently, more and more, asking the wrong questions, or asking ones that have already been answered. Also, human creativity seems to depend increasingly on the stochasticity of previous experiences – particular life events that allow a researcher to notice
  
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• Dianne Bos at Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris

  25-04-2017 00:01 via artnews.com
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