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• Why The Arts Need Think Tanks

  30-05-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Given the disparity between what the public says about arts and culture and their actions, given the repeated and regular attacks on the Arts, given both the suggested and proven value of the arts on multiple levels and given the extent to which the arts and creativity are a major facet of the American job market and economy, one would think the many disciplines under the banner of Arts and Culture would be a prime area for the formation of a Think Tank dedicated to the study and considera
  
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• When Dreams Guide Civilizations (And Nations)

  30-05-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Many societies throughout human history have taken dreams as important, worldly documents. The history of human dreaming shows time and again how dreamers have come to a new understanding about themselves and their world through the processing of their nighttime minds. Dreams have proven to be mental activities through which humans have come to a novel idea, a much-needed methodology, and a revolutionary way of perception."
  
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• Documenta & Münster 2017

  30-05-2017 23:00
  Our guide to the influential German exhibitions, which only coincide once every ten yearsand this time expand to Greece
  
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• Serge Alain Nitegeka at Stevenson, Johannesburg

  30-05-2017 22:52 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• The Essential Art Of Improvisation (In Life As Well As Music)

  30-05-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Anyone who has played improvisational music with others is familiar with the virtuoso who has great skill and expertise but bad social sensitivity. In performance, he tears into melodic acrobatics, but never listens enough to know when to stop, or hand it over to another player, or modify and adapt to the aural environment. His narcissism undoes his own musicality. And it can go the other way too, since the overly shy improviser never gets courage enough to assert his musical ideas. A psycholog
  
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• Can You Ever Really "Know" Classical Music? (The Virtues Of Ignorance)

  30-05-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Many people, myself included, have criticised classical concert programming for an over-reliance of a limited pool of familiar music. But would we want a concert series like the ‘antilibrary’, a constant stream of new discoveries and world premieres? You could argue that a narrow repertoire is a sensible response to an overwhelming avalanche of potential scores – that at least it allows audiences to develop a deep relationship with a certain set of pieces."
  
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• In London, Anne Imhof Talks About Her Kicking, Screaming Venice Biennale Hit ‘Faust’

  30-05-2017 21:43 via artnews.com
  Anne Imhof, whose work in the German Pavilion won the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Biennale, was in London last week to offer insights into her unsettling and much-discussed performance piece Faust. Biennale visitors fortunate enough to have already experienced the work and … Read More
  
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• How Nick Serota Built The Tate Into The World's Most Popular Modern Art Museum

  30-05-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With 3.71 million followers, Tate (which dropped its “the” when Tate Modern opened in 2000) has a bigger Twitter following than any other museum in the world. It makes millions from its shops and restaurants. But Tate has also helped rebrand London – and perhaps even Britain. Serota was part of a delegation that travelled to China with then Chancellor George Osborne in 2005.
  
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• How We're Creating Games That Change People's Minds, And Even Their Real-Life Actions

  30-05-2017 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lindsay Grace: "In American University's Game Lab and Studio, which I direct, we're creating a wide range of persuasive games to test various strategies of persuasion and to gauge players' responses. We have developed games to highlight the problems with using delivery drones, encourage cultural understanding and assess understanding of mathematics. And we're expanding the realm beyond education and health."
  
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• Urinating dog joins Fearless Girl and Charging Bull in New York statue row

  30-05-2017 20:59
  
  Artist Alex Gardega installed a pug statue on Wall Street to protest against a statue that he sees as advertising rather than artA statue of a urinating pug has joined a heated art row on Wall Street in New York. Related: Fearless Girl v Charging Bull: New York's biggest public art controversy in years #gamedev #indiedev Urinating "Sketchy Dog" statue shows up next to Wall Street's "Fearless Girl" … pic.twitter.com/2g0CpTINaj Continue reading...
  
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• Alternative election posters: from psychic love waves to Chicken Cottage pledges

  30-05-2017 20:49
  
  Does your vote go to Cornelia Parker’s right-sniffing dogs, Bedwyr Williams’ comic-book villains or Corbyn’s manifesto rebranded as a fashion choice? Continue reading...
  
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• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Acquires Archive of Jazz Great Sonny Rollins

  30-05-2017 20:48 via artnews.com
  The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a branch of the New York Public Library, announced today the acquisition of a personal archive spanning the 60-year long career of American tenor saxophonist and jazz icon Sonny Rollins. The collection will be … Read More
  
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• How Deriding America's Midwest Became A Thing (It Wasn't Always So)

  30-05-2017 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Books such as Edgar Lee Masters’s “Spoon River Anthology,” Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” and Sinclair Lewis’s “Main Street” quickly exemplified what has been called “the revolt from the village.” City slickers like H.L. Mencken and magazines such as the New Yorker further ridiculed the Midwest as a backward, second-class culture of yokels and rednecks who lacked a dedication to the intellect, let alone sensitivity to the a
  
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• An Unknown Play By Edith Wharton (!) Emerges

  30-05-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As Rebecca Mead reports, the manuscript of The Shadow of a Doubt wasn't hidden in a trove of papers in some remote attic; it was right there in a collection of theater manuscripts at a well-known research library.
  
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• You're Sadly Mistaken If You Think Libraries Are Just For Storing Books

  30-05-2017 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "If a library is just where a society keeps its books, then it’s easy to see why many people no longer perceive libraries as relevant. In the days of yore, a building full of books was a clear metaphor for collective knowledge. But today, knowledge is no longer bound to the printed page, and electronic and non-textual forms of media proliferate. Our cultural knowledge is no longer represented primarily as text within books. Moreover, with the internet, we can access our multimedia cultural
  
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• ‘The Color Makes the Structure’: Stanley Whitney Paints a Picture

  30-05-2017 19:09 via artnews.com
  In 2015 Stanley Whitney had his first solo museum show in New York—“Dance the Orange,” at the Studio Museum in Harlem—after a long career, much of it spent under the radar. The exhibition was widely praised as a revelation of … Read More
  
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• This Artist Was Ancient Greece's Greatest Painter Of Vases (And We Don't Even Know His - Or Her - Name)

  30-05-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  James Romm writes about the "Berlin Painter" - "an artist whose name, nationality, and even gender remain unknown, but whose distinctive and confident illustration in the red-figure style stands out as clearly as any signature."
  
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• Czeslaw Milosz: Poetry As Sunlight

  30-05-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Unlike many great twentieth-century writers, who saw truth in despair, Milosz’s experiences convinced him that poetry must not darken the world but illuminate it: “Poems should be written rarely and reluctantly, / under unbearable duress and only with the hope / that good spirits, not evil ones, choose us for their instrument.”
  
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• 'It feels important': the counter-narrative artist challenging how news is reported

  30-05-2017 18:30
  
  Alexandra Bell’s carefully redacted prints of New York Times articles question the ‘deliberate choices’ that are made in the newsroom, from coverage of the Michael Brown shooting to Ryan Lochte’s Rio scandalIn 1897, the New York Times coined its slogan and motto: “All the news that’s fit to print.” Every day since, it has floated above the paper’s masthead.Sitting in her small artist’s studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Alexandra Bell, artist and
  
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• Walker Art Center postpones opening of sculpture park after Native American protests

  30-05-2017 18:13
  
  The Walker Art Center has postponed the opening of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden until 10 June following protests from Native American groups surrounding a work by the artist Sam Durant that references US state-sanctioned hangings. Among the historic gallows recreated in Durants wooden sculpture Scaffold (2012) is one used in 1862 to hang 38 Dakota men executed by the US Army in Mankato, Minnesota. The work will probably be dismantled after a meeting between the artist, the museum and Dakota
  
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• Fundraising campaign launched to transform Sidney Nolan’s UK home into an art centre

  30-05-2017 18:08
  
  The UKs Sidney Nolan Trust has launched a campaign to raise 2.3m to create an international centre of artistic practice, research and engagement at the Roddthe 20th-century Australian artists estate, near Presteigne, on the Welsh borders. The plan is to refurbish a series of 17th-century barns on the 260-acre farm to create artists studios and a permanent gallery dedicated to Nolan (1917-92), who emigrated to the UK in 1951. 
   
  Nolan wanted to create a place in this special part of th
  
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• What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About Language And Cognition

  30-05-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A cognitive scientist looking at [scholar Stephen] Booth's explanation of Shakespearean effects would spot many concepts from her own discipline. Those include priming - when, after hearing a word, we tend more readily to recognize words that are related to it; expectation - the influence of higher-level reasoning on word recognition; and depth of processing - how varying levels of attention affect the extent of our engagement with a statement. (Shallow processing explains our predisposition to
  
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• The man who put Hirst in a spin—Blue Peter’s John Noakes

  30-05-2017 17:52
  
  John Noakes, the amenable presenter of the classic UK childrens show Blue Peter who died earlier this week, has the unlikeliest of fansBritish mega-artist Damien Hirst.  In a BBC broadcast available online, Hirst explains that a 1975 episode of Blue Peter inspired him to become an artist. In the 1970s snippet, Noakes explains how to make and use a spinning picture painter, a rather basic machine for people who like to paint but never know what to draw. He splashes a few daubs of paint
  
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• Why This Collector Paid $110 Million For A Basquiat

  30-05-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You’re talking about a handful of masterpieces, which are distributed among a few collectors who are not sellers,” said the art dealer Brett Gorvy, a former Christie’s chairman. “You’re going to have to wait a long time if you are a major collector to see another extraordinary painting like this.”
  
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• How Hedwig Finds The Newly Annoying Neighborhood In Every City She Visits

  30-05-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hedwig and the Angry Inch, now nearing the end of its national tour, always works in local references. Erik Piepenburg finds out how those references get chosen and offers a few choice examples.
  
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• How Big Data Is Replacing Execs' Taste And Intuition At The Center Of The Music Biz

  30-05-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Whereas in the past, the industry relied primarily on sales and how often a songs were played on the radio, they can now see what specific songs people are listening to, where they are hearing it and how they are consuming it."
  
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• New Museum To Open Themed Show ‘Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon’ This Fall

  30-05-2017 16:22 via artnews.com
  The New Museum in New York will play home to battles of the sexes—or at least artistic conversations among them—with a fall exhibition likely to be a talking point for the season and then some: “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and … Read More
  
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• Devastation, Triumph, And A Naked Guy With A Boa Constrictor: Steven Lavine Remembers His 29 Years As President Of CalArts

  30-05-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In this edited oral history, he reminisces how he battled deficits, rebuilt a shaken campus, opened a downtown performance outpost and contended with the student who showed up at graduation wearing nothing but a snake."
  
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• 'Testosterone Rex' - There's Some Serious Hidden Sexism In The Ways We Think About Risk-Taking

  30-05-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Testosterone Rex" is historian of science Cordelia Fine's term for "the idea that women are driven by biology and evolution to be cautious, and men to be daring." Fine argues that this idea is way too simplistic (unsurprising) but still undergirds way too much social science (surprising, but perhaps not to female social scientists).
  
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• Opera And Broadway Have A Fruitful Relationship - If Only More Opera Fans Understood That, Says Anne Midgette

  30-05-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It seems arbitrary to assert that Broadway musicals exist in a separate category from an art form that happily embraces popular forms such as opéra comique, Singspiel and operetta (all of which involve spoken dialogue interspersed with sung numbers). Those opera lovers who profess to look down on musicals act as though the genre were best represented by Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick."
  
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• Why Are So Many Americans So Hostile To Government Funding Of The Arts?

  30-05-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In most wealthy countries, the idea of completely abolishing the equivalents of the NEA and NEH would be politically poisonous if not unthinkable; in the United States, there have been factions calling for those agencies to ve terminated for pretty much their entire existence. Why is the U.S. such an outlier on this issue? Josephine Livingstone argues that the reasons lie deep in the nation's history.
  
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• Morning Links: Sam Durant Sculpture Edition [Updated]

  30-05-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• How David Hallberg Got His Dancing Mojo Back

  30-05-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 2014, he was a genuine ballet celebrity, admired enough to become the first American ever invited to become a principal at the Bolshoi Ballet. Then he suffered a complex ankle injury, and a year later, he was ready to give up dancing entirely. (And he was already getting offers to direct companies.) But ABT artistic director Kevin McKenzie convinced him not to abandon the stage just yet. Candice Thompson has the story of how Hallberg struggled through a surprisingly difficult recovery, rework
  
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• Unknown Sylvia Plath Poems Discovered In Old Carbon Paper

  30-05-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Talk about unlikely places! "Written at the start of Plath and [Ted] Hughes's relationship in autumn 1956, the two unseen poems were deciphered from a carbon paper on which Plath had also typed up a table of contents for Hughes's groundbreaking collection The Hawk in the Rain."
  
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• Bette Midler May Not Be Singing At The Tonys: Report

  30-05-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Not having the biggest star from the season's biggest musical appear on the show that's Broadway's biggest chance to market itself to America - well, that could be a problem. But it looks like that's what will happen, thanks to an "an impasse [in negotiations] over the conditions under which Ms. Midler would sing."
  
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• Meet Christopher Wheeldon's Right-Hand Man

  30-05-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "While still in the corps of New York City Ballet, Jason Fowler was drawn to the role of répétiteur. ... So it comes as little surprise that 20 years later, Fowler is a primary stager of Christopher Wheeldon's ballets around the globe."
  
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• Author Ann Birstein Dead At 89

  30-05-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[She was] a novelist and memoirist who recounted her bittersweet Jewish roots in New York as a rabbi's daughter in Hell's Kitchen and her turbulent marriage to the literary critic Alfred Kazin."
  
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• You Know Blockbusters Are Costly When The Snacks Line Item Is $2 Million

  30-05-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yeah, that's for the latest in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series (and it's more than the entire budget of "Moonlight"). But of course, the cast and crew could fill a small town ...
  
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• Final show in Vienna for Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary as organisation relocates to Prague

  30-05-2017 13:29
  
  Works from the collection of the Vienna-based Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary organisation, known as TBA21, will go on show at the National Gallery in Prague next year as part of a new initiative spearheaded by the Austria-based foundation. Meanwhile, a new show inspired by the oceans, Tidalectics, launches at the TBA21 Augarten space in Vienna this week (2 June-19 November).This will be the last exhibition for TBA21 in this venue [the Augarten] for some time as the foundation is relocating
  
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• Rare loans from Hermitage Museum—including ancient lumps of cheese—to feature in British Museum's Scythian show

  30-05-2017 12:31
  
  Speaking at the launch of a forthcoming British Museum exhibition on the Scythians, the Russian ambassador in London, Alexander Yakovenko, said that some objects would be leaving the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg for the first time.Loans from the Hermitage are mainly from excavated tombs. They include gold treasures, fragments of tattooed human skin (fourth-third century BC) found at Pazyryk (south of Novosibirsk) and a recently-discovered battle axe (seventh century BC) exc
  
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• Hong Kong show traces origins of Modern art in Vietnam

  30-05-2017 11:53
  
  The relationships shaping Vietnams society and art get an airing in Departures, an exhibition that opened last Friday (until July 8) at de Sarthe Gallery Hong Kong. Ho Chi Minh City-based Vietnamese-American artist Richard Streitmatter-Tran created new works engaging with 40 pieces by Modern Vietnamese masters and their Western mentors to explore the artistic interplays between Vietnam and the West as well as the countrys past and present and Modern and contemporary art. The show reaches b
  
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• Dutch museum’s entire Mondrian collection gets a health check

  30-05-2017 11:29
  
  Every painting by Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) in the Gemeentemuseums collection has been scrutinised by conservators as part of the Dutch institutions major Mondrian Restoration Project. The public is sure to reap the benefits of this initiative when the museums landmark exhibition on Mondrian opens on 3 June. The show features 301 paintings, drawings and sketchesevery work by Mondrian in the museums collection, from the very first piece he exhibited (Basket with Hare (1891)) to his final co
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.29.17

  30-05-2017 09:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Enduring Memory Of A Friend
  A friend from the military chapter of my life asked if I would republish a story that first ran on Memorial Day weekend five years ago. Presented with pleasure at the memory of an ... read more
  AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2017-05-28
  
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• Raphael: The Drawings review – a magnificent, mind-opening exhibition

  30-05-2017 08:00
  
  Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
  The Renaissance star has always been held up as a model of formal perfection but this outstanding show reveals the artist’s warmth and tenderness too
  A woman is running towards us, mouth open in a scream, a baby cradled in her arms. The violence around her seems to part and give safe passage through the slaughter. What the open pathway through the heart of the horror really gives, however, is a heartbreaking visual connection between our eyes and her pain. To look
  
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• 'Extraordinary' Raphael show to be big draw at Ashmolean in Oxford

  30-05-2017 08:00
  
  Museum has collated 120 of Renaissance artist’s rarely seen drawings, considered some of the greatest by an old master An exhibition described by the director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford as “a once in a lifetime opportunity” has brought together some of the greatest old master drawings, 120 works by the Renaissance genius Raphael.“Not since 1983 when an exhibition of drawings from British collections was on display at the British Museum has such an extraordinary gat
  
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• Grayson Perry to unveil Brexit vases in Channel 4 show Divided Britain

  30-05-2017 07:01
  
  Artist curious to see how quickly people identify which pot represents leave and which represents remain in Matching PairThe two vases made by Grayson Perry have so much in common, but are so far apart: they are identical in size and shape; are mostly blue; have images of teapots, bacon and eggs, families by the seaside, walking the dog, and going down the pub. But between them they represent the opposing sides of the most bitter political debate in a lifetime: Brexit.“I asked people to se
  
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• Modern master: how Nick Serota's Tate skyrocketed to success

  30-05-2017 07:00
  
  He’s created the most popular modern art museum in the world, but that’s just one corner of a sprawling empire. As Tate’s driven director steps down after 30 years, we reveal how he transformed a dusty pile by the Thames into an £86m global forceWhen Nicholas Serota, aged 42, took up the post of director of the Tate Gallery in September 1988, his domain was a patch of land on the north bank of the Thames, and a newly opened outpost on Albert Dock, Liverpool. As he readies
  
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