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• Arizona's Largest Theatre Gets A New Director

  15-05-2017 23:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Ivers was artistic director of the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City from 2011 until stepping down earlier this month to accept the same title with Arizona’s leading producer of live theater. He takes over on July 1 from David Ira Goldstein, who has led the company for 25 seasons — including the current one, which was nearly canceled in the midst of a financial crisis.
  
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• "The Walrus" Lit Mag Editor Quits Over Cultural Appropriation Comments

  15-05-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The editor-in-chief of The Walrus resigned late Saturday after mounting criticism, including from some of the magazine’s own contributors, for his role within a swirling controversy over the toxic subject of cultural appropriation."
  
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• Magnum Photos: how it all began 70 years ago

  15-05-2017 23:00
  
  Magnum Photos, the celebrated co-operative of leading photographers, is marking its 70th anniversary this year with exhibitions in New York, Paris and London and the publication of an illustrated history of the group. Entitled Magnum Manifesto, the book includes key documents from the organisations archive as well as images by different generations of its members. It is edited by Clment Chroux, the senior curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, who has co-organised an
  
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• Cerith Wyn Evans’s Tate commission presented a sticky situation

  15-05-2017 23:00
  
  How do you suspend almost 2km of swirling neon lights from a ceiling that you cannot drill holes into? That was the question faced by Tate Britains team of art handlers recently when they set out to install Cerith Wyn Evanss dazzling light work Forms in Space...by Light (in Time) (2017) in the London museums Grade II-listed building. The ambitious scale and intricate composition [of the installation] demanded a unique method suspend [it] from the ceiling, says Elsa Coustou, the assistant curato
  
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• ‘There’s Really No Platform in New York’: The Institute of Arab and Islamic Art’s Director, Mohammed Rashid Al-Thani, on Its Ambitious Plans

  15-05-2017 22:50 via artnews.com
  Until the Institute of Arab and Islamic Art opened in New York earlier this month, with a four-woman show of work by Dana Awartani, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Zarina, and Nasreen Mohamedi, the city did not have an institution devoted to modern and … Read More
  
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• Are "The Arts" Really A Brand?

  15-05-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "One problem is that all of those organizations that have their own individual brand within our sphere, very few, if any at all, spend any concerted or coordinated effort at pushing for the overall sector brand change.What is needed is consideration by every organization, that in addition to marketing itself as valuable, is the simultaneous marking of the value of the overall arts.And not just in times of defending the arts against specific attacks such as the recent NEA issue.And, of course, co
  
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• Alexandre da Cunha at Pivô, São Paulo

  15-05-2017 22:28 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Before There Was Modern Behavioral Economics, There Was Plato...

  15-05-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Almost 2,500 years before the current vogue for behavioural economics, Plato was identifying and seeking to understand the predictable irrationalities of the human mind. He did not verify them with the techniques of modern experimental psychology, but many of his insights are remarkably similar to the descriptions of the cognitive biases found by Kahneman and Tversky. Seminal papers in behavioural economics are highly cited everywhere from business and medical schools to the social sciences and
  
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• Christie's New York evening sale finds success with Brancusi and Picasso

  15-05-2017 22:00
  
  Dinging the opening bell on the spring auctions in New York, the Impressionist and Modern evening sale at Christie's New York on 15 May rung up a total of $289,178,500 with fees, approaching the higher end of the pre-sale estimate ($207m-$307m)and, the house said, its best result in the category in seven years.Three lots made up 54% of the evening's total. The night's biggest success was Brancusis La muse endormie (cast by 1913, based on a marble sculpture of 1909-10), "a quest for many years"
  
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• TV Ratings Are Way Down. But Does Anyone Care?

  15-05-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is not the same thing as saying, “Ratings don’t matter anymore.” We’re not in a post-ratings world — at least not yet. As long as revenue from advertisers remains part of the network TV business model, ratings will matter. Broadcasters aren’t Netflix or HBO. They still want to live up to their name and find shows with a broad appeal, like This Is Us or The Big Bang Theory. But after a decade of audience erosion, including double-digit declines for the vas
  
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• Bright lights on the lagoon: Venice Biennale 2017 – in pictures

  15-05-2017 21:24
  
  From swinging gongs to a post-truth Pinocchio, Venice Biennale is a ravishing carousel of international art. Take our whistlestop tour Continue reading...
  
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• In A Challenge To Hollywood, The World's Largest Movie Studio Is Being Built In China For $8.2 Billion

  15-05-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Projected to open officially in August next year, it will contain the world’s largest production facility: 400 acres, 45 sound stages, one a record-breaking 10,000 sq metres. It’s an attempt by Wang Jianlin – China’s richest man and the founder of the overarching Dalian Wanda group – to steal some of Hollywood’s thunder.
  
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• Was "Cool" Ever Really Cool?

  15-05-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In its origin, cool was a creation of African-American jazz musicians to face the pressure of Jim Crow arrangements during a time when the United States was an unembarrassedly racialist white society. At various points in its history, cool was, in Dinerstein's language, "the aestheticizing of detachment," "an emotional mask, a strategy of masking emotion," "a public mode of covert resistance," "a walking indictment of society," "relaxed intensity" played out through the jazz musician, who was "g
  
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• Venice Biennale: slaps, drenchings and Dobermans on the prowl

  15-05-2017 20:06
  
  The main show is a woolly walk through hand-wringing hippydom and flowerpot trainers. But elsewhere, the biennale bares its teeth in works of danger and daringAn upbeat shout-out for the enduring power and vitality of art, Viva Arte Viva provides the title of both the 57th Venice Biennale and its main exhibition. Filling the central pavilion in the Giardini, and running the length of the Arsenale in the medieval dockyard, Viva Arte Viva begins with photographs of Austrian sculptor Franz West, ha
  
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• Are Pop Music Lyrics Really Poetry? (The Answer Is Poetic)

  15-05-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Adam Bradley’s answer to the dorm-room question is nuanced but unequivocal, and boils down to this: Pop lyrics are not by themselves poetry, but pop songs can be. He does not fall into the trap of treating pop lyrics as technically equal to the heights scaled by great poetry; he understands that “song lyrics need music, voice, and performance to give them life.” He denies the need for “creating a canon of pop lyrics, so that Steven Tyler can sit with Shakespeare,” i
  
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• Luis Miret, Noted Cuban Gallerist, Dies at 58

  15-05-2017 19:38 via artnews.com
  Luis Miret, the longtime director of Galería Habana, which revolutionized Cuba’s contemporary-art scene, died on May 11. He was 58.As director of Galería Habana, Miret oversaw one of Havana’s few contemporary-art spaces and actively promoted a vibrant Cuban art scene. … Read More
  
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• Do You Believe The World Keeps Getting Faster? Then You're An Accelerationist

  15-05-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Over the past five decades, and especially over the past few years, much of the world has got faster. Working patterns, political cycles, everyday technologies, communication habits and devices, the redevelopment of cities, the acquisition and disposal of possessions – all of these have accelerated. Meanwhile, over the same half century, almost entirely unnoticed by the media or mainstream academia, accelerationism has gradually solidified from a fictional device into an actual intellectu
  
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• Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg Gives Up The Bay Area For New Orleans

  15-05-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Having come through what can only be described as a midlife crisis, she is getting ready to find solace not through any of the traditional remedies (sports car, younger paramour, dangerous hobby), but with a new city — New Orleans, which she now describes as “the great love of my life that I just didn’t know about.”
  
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• Maria Popova: Why Storytelling Matters

  15-05-2017 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A great storyteller — whether a journalist or editor or filmmaker or curator — helps people figure out not only what matters in the world, but also why it matters. A great storyteller dances up the ladder of understanding, from information to knowledge to wisdom. Through symbol, metaphor, and association, the storyteller helps us interpret information, integrate it with our existing knowledge, and transmute that into wisdom."
  
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• Hamburg's New EbPhilharmonie Concert Hall Is A Sensation. Why?

  15-05-2017 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Why this building? What about its design, its location and the implicit social messages embedded in its architecture have made it so successful? Carsten Brosda, a senator in Hamburg’s state government and head of its cultural authority, says location is a primary factor in its success. “I was never a fan of iconic buildings because so many of them are rather generic,” he says. But Elbphilharmonie is exceptional, located in the geographical heart of the city, on a site that dema
  
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• See Something, Say Something?

  15-05-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We knew that there was going to be a water feature but we didn’t know there would be a 30-foot long exposed electric circuit along the drip edge of this pool which had three- to 4,000 gallons of water."
  
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• Amazon Versus Book Publishers, Round 87

  15-05-2017 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For all outward appearances, the relationship between Amazon and the publishing industry had settled into a wary peace, following a highly publicized dust-up in 2014 between Amazon and Hachette, wherein Amazon tried to bully Hachette in negotiations over e-book prices. But tensions had been quietly ratcheting up since then. While some of Amazon’s advances against the publishing industry have gained headlines, many of its most damaging moves have received little coverage outside publishing
  
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• In A Bit Of Good News, The Philadelphia Orchestra Has A New National Radio Deal

  15-05-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Orchestra hasn't had a series on national radio since 1990. Now ,"starting with a broadcast Monday night and continuing three times a week for at least the next year, concerts recorded in Verizon Hall will be carried on SiriusXM radio, a paid service with a monthly fee, to listeners across the U.S. and Canada."
  
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• Ravi Shankar's Opera, Composed From His Deathbed, Is All About Myth, And Love

  15-05-2017 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ravi's daughter Anushka Shankar: "Here he was aged 90, not yet content to rest on his laurels but still wanting to push the boundaries to further horizons. It was simply another area in which my father was able to imagine something that hadn’t been done yet – an Indian opera. Such a thing had incredible scope for creating bridges between two wonderful traditions from the east and west."
  
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• You're Keeping At Least Five Secrets You've Never Told Anyone Else, And That's Cool, If You Don't Think About Them

  15-05-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Having a secret is mostly about thinking about the secret, alone (which makes sense, really). "The actual act of hiding — the moment a person makes up a lie, or changes the subject, or simply omits certain information from a conversation — proved to be only a minor part of the experience of having a secret. Instead, what seems to affect people much more is how often they think about the secret."
  
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• British Architects Are Starting To Flip Out About Brexit

  15-05-2017 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  They're not happy with the Tories' discussion of forcing non-British EU members - who make up a considerable number of their coworkers - to leave. "We are appalled that the government should use those who have made considerable personal and professional commitments to this country, and who enrich our culture, as a negotiating chip. This is not the behaviour of a civilised society."
  
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• Someone Stole A Handwritten Harry Potter Prequel Postcard

  15-05-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  J.K. Rowling wrote the story - about Sirius Black and Harry Potter's father, James - for a charity auction. "The manuscript was auctioned in 2008 to raise money for literacy causes, selling for 25,000 pounds, or about $32,100 at current exchange rates, according to the BBC. Police said that burglars had also taken jewels."
  
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• Katja Novitskova Delivers a Sci-Fi Horror Show for Estonian Pavilion in Venice

  15-05-2017 15:15 via artnews.com
  It’s not completely clear where the humans have gone, but my best guess is that they were killed off by something that they created: either supercharged microbes designed for warfare, computers that suddenly achieved sentience, or genetically modified animals. All … Read More
  
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• How Do People Feel About Having To Pay Admission At The Met Museum?

  15-05-2017 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Pretty OK, it seems. "Some regulars love the Met so much that they don’t need new enticements. Melinda Fuller, an art teacher from Connecticut who has visited the Met more than 50 times, excitedly said on her way out of the museum that she had just signed up become a member. She volunteered that she’d be willing to pay $30 for admission."
  
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• Morning Links: Edie Sedgwick Was America Edition

  15-05-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• India's Film Industry Goes Way, Way Beyond Bollywood

  15-05-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Consider the runaway success of Baahubali 2, whose numbers - it was "budgeted at $39m, made in Telugu and Tamil, with Hindi and Malayalam dubbed versions – are astonishing by Indian standards. The film opened on 28 April and grossed $194m in 13 days, making it the highest Indian grosser of all time and putting it on track to become the first Indian film to gross $200m."
  
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• So Canada Isn't A Great Place For Journalists Of Color, As This Twitter Pile-On Pledge Shows

  15-05-2017 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just as a half-hearted apology flew out after an editor wrote an entire piece on how great cultural appropriation was, and the whole thing was dying down "thanks to the vicious half-life of the news cycle, a bunch of high-ranking members of Canadian media — all white — decided to go lose their shit on Twitter.:
  
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• This 12-Year-Old Is Relatively New To Ballet And Is Already Rising In The Ranks

  15-05-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The girl started late for a classical ballerina, and her teacher doesn't usually send in kids so young for the Joffrey summer program - but Dayanara Villanueva is heading to the summer intensive in New York.
  
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• Who Won The BAFTA TV Awards?

  15-05-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Shockingly, not The Crown - though a show of the actual Queen's 90th birthday party did win an award.
  
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• People Are Tuning Out Of TV In Droves (Maybe)

  15-05-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Things have changed, a lot. "After a decade of audience erosion, including double-digit declines for the vast majority of shows this season, networks have finally accepted reality: People aren’t watching the TV the way they used to, and selling commercials isn’t enough to pay the bills (and make a big profit)."
  
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• What It's Like Being The Daughter Of Kara Walker

  15-05-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Octavia Bürgel: "My mother, the art world, and I function as an ever-evolving trio, and while my mother and I each require the other two to sustain, I cannot say that the art world has needed me for anything."
  
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• Chilean architects win competition to design Qatar’s huge Art Mill gallery

  15-05-2017 12:52
  
  The Chilean architectural practice Elemental has won the competition to convert a former flour mill on the coast of Doha Bay, known as the Art Mill, into a vast new gallery for Qatar Museums. The Santiago-based company beat off eight other finalists to design the new space, which is located east of the Museum of Islamic Art.According to the competition brief announced by Malcolm Reading Consultants, the Art Mill will measure up to 80,000 sq. metres and "predominantly" comprise gallery and exhib
  
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• Kenya works a miracle to bring its exhibition to the Venice Biennale

  15-05-2017 12:12
  
  Kenya has made it to the Venice Biennale, despite receiving none of the money promised by its government for its national pavilion.
   
  At the opening of the Kenya pavilion last Friday, 12 May, the curator Simon Njami, who has acted as the project adviser, described it as a miracle, adding: The fact that we are here is in itself a success.
   
  Just a few weeks ago, Jimmy Ogonga, the pavilions curator, was forced to embark on a frantic fundraising effort after the money pledged by the
  
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• Victoria Wood statue to be built by creator of Eric Morecambe memorial

  15-05-2017 08:00
  
  Graham Ibbeson, whose work the late comedian is said to have admired, will sculpt lifesize bronze for her home town of BuryLate actor and comedian Victoria Wood is to be honoured with a lifesize bronze statue in her home town.Graham Ibbeson, who created Lancashire’s Eric Morecambe monument, will design and sculpt the piece to be erected in Library Gardens in Bury, Greater Manchester. Continue reading...
  
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• Mahtab Hussain's portraits of British Muslim men – in pictures

  15-05-2017 08:00
  
  From boxing gyms to bedrooms, photographer Mahtab Hussain asserts the humanity of British Muslims in an age when they are often demonised Continue reading...
  
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• Moscow’s Constructivist architecture under threat by government demolition plan

  15-05-2017 05:58
  
  An interactive map of the former Soviet Unions Constructivist architectural heritage went online just days before the city of Moscow published a list of 4,500 apartment buildings proposed for demolition as part of a plan to relocate up to 1.6 million residents. Describe by many residents as a property grab akin to the forced collectivisation of property under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, the demolition plan has proven so unpopular that thousands turned up for a demonstration against it in Mos
  
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