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• Conductor Jeffrey Tate, 74, Collapses And Dies During Rehearsal

  03-06-2017 18:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tate made his career - which includes a large discography as well as guest appearances with almost every major orchestra on Earth - in spite of disabilities resulting from spina bifida. His served, over the years, as chief conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Opera House in London, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and the Hamburg Symphony.
  
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• Undercover art: Amish quilts go guerrilla in the supermarket – in pictures

  03-06-2017 18:00
  
  From cornflakes to air fresheners, Carson Davis Brown uses common groceries to create guerrilla installations in supermarkets. The LA-based artist covertly rearranges the objects, photographs them and has them made into blankets by Walmart’s personalised gift department. New American Quilts, supported by a VSCO Artist Initiative grant, is inspired by Amish quilts, but though Brown’s quilts are based on traditional patterns, they are made in the context of modern capitalism. “Co
  
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• Glass Artist Pioneer Dale Chihuly Reveals Bipolar Disorder, Fends Off Blackmail Threat

  03-06-2017 00:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Now 75 and still in the thrall of a decades-long career, he discussed his bipolar disorder in detail for the first time publicly in an interview with The Associated Press. He and his wife, Leslie Chihuly, said they don’t want to omit from his legacy a large part of who he is."
  
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• Design For MoMA's Expansion Rethinks Entire Approach To Displaying Art

  03-06-2017 00:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The final design for the Museum of Modern Art's $400 million expansion project ... is striking and provocative less because of its look than its implicit message: MoMA isn't modern yet. Under the new plans, the museum is moving away from discipline-specific galleries that feature established artists - many of them white men - and toward more chronological and thematic approaches that include multiple formats as well as more minority and female artists."
  
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• A Suggestion For What To Do With The Noose Left At DC’s African American Museum - Add It To The Collection

  03-06-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Linda St. Thomas, a Smithsonian spokeswoman, points out that the noose (one of two found in or near a Smithsonian museum this week) is in the possession of the Park Police and instrumental to a criminal investigation. Incorporating it into the museum would also set unwanted precedents and give hatemongers unwanted power over determining the content of the museum’s collection. And some would no doubt see incorporating it in the Smithsonian holdings as a kind of honor paid to the obje
  
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