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• Gibson Wants To Turn Its Guitar Business Into The "Nike Of The Music World"

  16-06-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Advanced sampling technology allows it to sound like any one of dozens of vintage electric or acoustic guitars at the touch of a button. A player can also quickly shift among any number of conventional and unconventional tuning setups at the touch of another button. And thanks to automatic tuning technology, one will never worry about it going out of tune. And that’s barely scratching the instrument’s high-gloss surface. “This has got more technology than you can shake a stick
  
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• How Georgia O'Keeffe Created Her Personal Brand

  16-06-2017 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  She knew how she wanted to be seen, and she sculpted her own fame. Her paintings made her wealthy and famous. She was the highest-paid woman artist in New York City within a decade of moving there from Texas. But her self-presentation—the high priestess of the high desert in crepe dresses and dirty work boots—made her an icon.
  
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• Marina Abramovic retrospective includes early paintings

  16-06-2017 23:00
  Marina Abramovic retrospective includes early paintings Fifty years of work by the Serbian-US performance artist Marina Abramovic is coming to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebk, Denmark (Marina Abramovic: the Cleaner, 17 June-22 October). The show includes more than 100 works, among them rarely-seen early paintings. The show's curator, Tine Colstrup, tells us more.
  Marina Abramovic became known to many after her 2010 tour de force at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Howev
  
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• How botany helped give birth to photography

  16-06-2017 23:00
  A survey of early photography at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (New Realities: Photography in the 19th Century, 17 June-17 September) will focus on the noisy century of the medium, says the shows curator, Mattie Boom. Around 300 pictures from the museums collection of more than 150,000 photographs will be included. Here, Boom discusses Anna Atkinss Seaweed Studies (184353), a key work in the exhibition."This extremely rare book is an important recent acquisition for the Rijksmuseum. The album doc
  
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• Does The "Julius Caesar" Controversy Signal A Scary New Front In The Culture Wars?

  16-06-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Public Theatre's Oskar Eustis believes that we have entered a frightening chapter in the cultural wars in which snippets of information are disseminated on the Web and elsewhere to discredit a piece of political art. “The thing that’s new is that somebody is using the arts as a way of manipulating people and lying about the arts. That’s the new toxic element in our culture.”
  
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• The Journalist As Serious Reader (As Opposed To Browsing Articles)

  16-06-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For one piece, the necessary reporting might include 20 books. Adam Gopnik writes with the morning coffee from 9 and reads after dinner until 11, usually for four hours each. “I’ve discovered that reading is actually one of those skills that increases exponentially the more of it you do, and it doesn’t stop improving the older you get, which is an encouraging fact,” he told me. For work, he now reads the average book, preferably with Mozart or Haydn playing, in one and a
  
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• Have Superhero Blockbuster Movie Franchises Run Their Course?

  16-06-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Studios will not be able to point to their international grosses forever, though. The days when only U.S. production companies could mount giant-scale productions with sophisticated special effects are rapidly receding. Major markets like China, Japan, and India have their own thriving film industries churning out big hits, and Hollywood is sorely lacking in younger stars with the kind of generational pull that Cruise or Depp still possess with viewers worldwide."
  
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• Should The Wishes Of The Dead Outweigh The Needs Of The Living?

  16-06-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Imagine that a legal structure were erected to execute the wishes of the dead, and that the law would side with the dead even when their wishes conflicted with the needs of the living, or with the wellbeing of future generations."
  
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• Chicago Theater Accountability Coalition Protests Longtime Sun-Times Theatre Critic

  16-06-2017 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Hedy Weiss has been with the newspaper since 1984 covering theater and dance, reporting on national and international productions outside of Chicago as well. She also contributes theater reviews to PBS’s program WTTW Chicago Tonight. The petition does not call for a ban on Weiss attending performances but rather asks that she is no longer given free press tickets due to accusations that she writes insensitive reviews."
  
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• The Eames Brothers Didn't Just Design Furniture, They Made Movies

  16-06-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Their films - they made more than 125 - "were unconnected to nearby Hollywood. Short, experimental, nontheatrical, and nonnarrative, they belong more to an avant-garde or independent tradition - and sometimes a commercial one. Charles said himself, 'They're not experimental films, they're not really films. They're just attempts to get across an idea.'"
  
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• The Self-Playing Violin And Pianos - They Were A Sensation In 1910

  16-06-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "During the machine’s heyday, the Hupfeld Company developed around 900 different music rolls for it. They sold thousands of the Phonoliszt-Violin, mostly to opulent hotels and restaurants that used them for background entertainment. But by the mid 1920s, the popularity of automatic instruments cratered as phonographs and radios spread throughout the world."
  
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• The Guy Who Played Barney The Dinosaur For Ten Years Tells Us What It Was Like Inside That Big Purple Costume

  16-06-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Joyner (who used to be a software analyst for Texas Instruments): "Now Barney is about 70 pounds, and it can get over 120 degrees inside. ... The head doesn't come off. The head doesn't swivel. There's no facial expressions that can be made. I can only see a certain amount, because of the peripheral of Barney's mouth. And when Barney's mouth is closed, I can't see anything. So what I would literally do [to prepare] is I would walk around my apartment as if I was blind." (video)
  
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• What’s Cooking at Basel? An Indian Feast by Subodh Gupta With Political Ambitions

  16-06-2017 18:31 via artnews.com
  Savor a meal that tries to mean something more than mere sustenance.Read More
  
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• City Planners Are Predicting Drastically Fewer Cars In Our Cities. So What Will Happen To All The Road (And Parking) Space?

  16-06-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is with relatively high confidence that I predict you’re going to see a boom in landscape architecture. You will see innovation and invention that has never been possible, because suddenly, everyone’s going to have all this excess space.”
  
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• Music of Changes: At Basel, Cally Spooner Offers the Sound of Reversal

  16-06-2017 18:30 via artnews.com
  Excerpt of Cally Spooner, And As The Medieval Cloisters Connect Seamlessly With The Corridors of Power… I’m quietly confident (U-Turn), 2013. ARTNEWSOver the past five days in Basel, I have probably walked by thousands of artworks. But one has stuck … Read More
  
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• Twist and Turn: Stunning Abstract Sculptures By Seven Masters Tell Rich Tales of Modernism

  16-06-2017 18:18 via artnews.com
  Through July 1, at Luxembourg & Dayan, New York Read More
  
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• From the Archives: Betty Parsons, Gallerist Turned Artist, Takes the Spotlight, in 1979

  16-06-2017 18:08 via artnews.com
  When art historians mention Betty Parsons, they’re usually talking about her New York gallery, which, in the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, was responsible in part for making Abstract Expressionism famous. In addition to showing Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, and many … Read More
  
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• How To Make Yourself Work When You Really Don't Feel Like It

  16-06-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In just the article we need for a summer Friday at the office, Melissa Dahl offers three suggestions that generally work for her.
  
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• Daniel Buren at Bortolami, New York

  16-06-2017 18:01 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Daniel Buren at Bortolami Gallery, New York

  16-06-2017 18:01 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Samdani Art Award Announces 11 Finalists, Exhibition Curated by Simon Castets

  16-06-2017 17:53 via artnews.com
  The Samdani Art Foundation, an art trust based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has announced the finalists for this year’s Samdani Art Award, which will be given out at the Dhaka Art Summit in February 2018. The finalists for the prize, which … Read More
  
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• ‘Feces Is Very Cosmopolitan’: Wim Delvoye on His Notorious ‘Cloaca’ at the Museum Tinguely in Basel

  16-06-2017 17:36 via artnews.com
  On Monday night in Basel, Galerie Perrotin hosted a garden party for Wim Delvoye at the Museum Tinguely, and as attendees walked up to a well-manicured lawn dotted with servers doling out quiche and champagne, the whole scene backlit by a glowing exhibition … Read More
  
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• Free Theatres Get Outpouring Of Threats After Public Theatre "Julius Caesar" Controversy

  16-06-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It began about two days ago,” Raphael Parry, the executive & artistic of Shakespeare Dallas said. “Some were just telling us ‘I will write to your sponsors to pull your funding,’ or to go to hell. But others said they hoped we’d all be sent to ISIS and killed with real knives.”
  
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• 'The Most Puzzling Music Director Departure Of Recent Years' - The Unanswered Question About Alan Gilbert And The New York Philharmonic

  16-06-2017 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Many pundits say he did all the right things - modern music, standard repertoire, plus staged operas. In a world that's being dazzled by high-personality Gustavo Dudamel and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the question is whether Gilbert did them right enough,with the personal magnetism to pull it off. Or with a fighting spirit,which, he suggested in exit interviews, was in shorter supply." Or, asks David Patrick Stearns, "might the unanswered question be, at least in part, the New York Phi
  
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• Need To Stage A Sex Scene In Your Play? Call The Intimacy Choreographer

  16-06-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Oh yes, it's a real job. Laura Collins-Hughes profiles Tonia Sina, who works with actors and directors on performing love and sex onstage in a way that's both convincing for audiences and (more or less) comfortable for the people doing it.
  
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• Superflex's triplicate treat

  16-06-2017 16:11
  
  The Danish artists collective Superflex are a bunch of japesters (their Investment Bank Flowerpots on show in the Aros Triennial in Aarhus serve, for instance, as containers for hallucinogenic plants). A piece available with von Bartha gallery at Art Basel (until 18 June) is another example of their canny creativity. If Value Then Copy (2017) is a triptych emblazoned with the aforementioned text, available at CHF65,000 for the original trio. Each of the works will be copied ten times,
  
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• The eyes have it: Grasso's all-seeing pic at Art Basel

  16-06-2017 16:04
  
  A new work by the French artist Laurent Grasso available with Sean Kelly at Art Basel (until 18 June) this week is all seeing. in the sense that the piece is dotted with numerous eyes. The work is part of Grassos Studies into the Past series, comprising famous portraits covered with silver so that only the recognisable retinas are on show. All of the eyes in this painting come from historical paintings found in museum collections including Kunstmuseum Basel. For Art Basel, i
  
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• How St. Augustine Made Sex Dirty (And Invented Biblical Literalism In The Process)

  16-06-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stephen Greenblatt leads us through the 4th-century theologian's life and writings to explain how he invented the doctrine of original sin and associated it with sex and conception - and how, to justify that doctrine, he constructed an elaborate argument to take literally a biblical story that thinkers had treated as an allegory.
  
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• What Critics Are For - And How Artists (And Politicians) Can Learn To Live With Them

  16-06-2017 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The contempt of artists for critics is, of course, understandable. To create an artwork is to give the world a kind of gift, and no one likes having a gift rejected, or even inspected too carefully. ... [Yet] once a work of art emerges from its creator's study or studio, it becomes the possession of anyone who interacts with it, and therefore it is open to judgment: Do I actually derive pleasure and enlightenment from it? ... Every reader or viewer or listener asks it, whether they want to or n
  
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• US Gov't Wants Rights To 'Dumb And Dumber' Sequel, Due To International Corruption Case

  16-06-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The US Justice Department is seeking to acquire the rights to films, including the comedy sequel Dumb and Dumber To, as part of an effort to recover $540m in assets it says were stolen from Malaysia's troubled wealth fund."
  
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• Where All The Art Goes When The Art Fair Is Over

  16-06-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Art storage facilities have become a big, global business, and one art storage mogul (yes, they exist) estimates that 80% of the world's artworks is in storage at any given time. Georgina Adam takes a look inside the often-secretive industry.
  
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• Three Years From Now, Streaming Video From Netflix And Amazon Will Pull In More Money Than Cinemas

  16-06-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Paying for TV content from on-demand digital video services will grow by more than 30% to £1.42bn at the turn of the decade, claims consultancy firm PwC. This rise in popularity will see revenue from video services edge ahead of an estimated £1.41bn from cinemagoers."
  
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• Morning Links: “Imagine” a Proper Song Credit Edition

  16-06-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Houston's Menil Collection To Close For Eight Months Next Year

  16-06-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The deep-black-stained pine floors that founder Dominique de Menil specified for the museum she founded three decades ago have worn down (as heavily trafficked pine wood floors will do after three decades). And the refinishing has to be perfect.
  
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• Something Old, Something New, Something Astonishing: Programming A Coherent Season At A Regional Theatre Company

  16-06-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "'Nobody knows how a theatre season is made,' Paul Miller says cheerily. There is no rule book, no key to artistic or box-office success. Still, nothing made Miller, the artistic director of the resurgent Orange Tree theatre in Richmond, more chuffed than a recent compliment from a fellow director, Ellen McDougall. She said she would recognise an Orange Tree season at a glance, even if the theatre's name was omitted. So, what gives a programme coherence?"
  
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• What's The Repertoire Score? A System For Gauging How Popular A Program Will Be

  16-06-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Consultant David Reece: "There are two key aspects to repertoire scoring. First, identifying the different components that have an impact on overall appeal. Second, scoring these elements from the perspective of your audience." And it's a tool that can be used for programming, marketing, pricing, and budget forecasting.
  
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• Caravaggio's dark genius and Sargent's sensual watercolours – the week in art

  16-06-2017 14:13
  
  Inter-war art from Germany, the fight against Thatcher in the 80s, and dazzling Turkish abstraction – all in your weekly dispatch Beyond Caravaggio
  This rapturously enjoyable detour through the candlelight and shadows of 17th-century art is one of the most beautiful exhibitions of recent years. Caravaggio’s paintings are shining daggers of profundity and truth. The works of his much less famous followers, from Artemisia Gentileschi to Georges de La Tour, are fascinating and moving. D
  
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• Museum of Sex Names Serge Becker Creative and Artistic Director

  16-06-2017 14:00 via artnews.com
  With its 15th anniversary approaching, the Museum of Sex in New York has named a new creative and artist director: Serge Becker, an impresario known for designing some of Manhattan’s most well-known restaurants and clubs. Becker will now oversee the museum’s … Read More
  
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• Canada Is Issuing Glow-In-The-Dark Money

  16-06-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The new $2 coin being issued for Canada's sesquicentennial features a colored design depicting a canoe on a lake under the Northern Lights, which do indeed glow in the dark. The new "Toonie" is the first photoluminescent coin in general circulation.
  
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• How New York City Ballet's School Is Addressing The Company's Diversity Problem

  16-06-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Since NYCB preserves its Balanchine legacy by keeping everything in house - dancers are hired almost exclusively from [the School of American Ballet], where they are trained by former members of the company - the school is a logical place to start transforming its image. And it's working. Presently, the children's division and intermediate/advanced division boasts 44% and 29% students of color, respectively."
  
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• Hip-Hop Choreographer Rennie Harris Headed Off-Broadway

  16-06-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The semi-autobiographical dance-theater piece Funkedified "reaches back to the music that 53-year-old Harris grew up in North Philly in the 1970s, when funk, psychedelia, and later dance-club music fatefully collided."
  
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• Peter Blake’s Self Portrait With Badges: a pop-art riff on portraiture

  16-06-2017 13:00
  
  The 29-year-old took Thomas Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy and made it socially and culturally relevant to the 21st centuryThis self-portrait by the then 29-year-old Blake became an instant pop art classic. Having clinched the 1961 junior John Moores painting prize, it was featured in the Sunday Times’ first colour supplement and in Ken Russell’s documentary Pop Goes the Easel. Continue reading...
  
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• 'He took sex to the point of oblivion': Tracey Emin on her hero Egon Schiele

  16-06-2017 13:00
  
  His work was once dismissed as porn. But the pain, anger and sexual frustration in Egon Shiele’s writhing nudes electrified Tracey Emin’s adolescence – and gave her a purpose that has never waned. She talks our writer through his stormiest work
  “That’s quite rude,” says Tracey Emin as we look through the drawings of Egon Schiele. “She’s laying on her elbows with her mouth on her arm, almost like she’s got to bite her arm to keep her mouth shu
  
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• Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection To Donate 119 Works to Five Museums

  16-06-2017 11:00 via artnews.com
  Four museums in the United States and one museum in Peru will receive parts of a 119-work donation consisting of Latin American colonial art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, which was created by ARTnews Top 200 Collectors Patricia … Read More
  
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• Beyond Caravaggio and Simon Patterson: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  16-06-2017 10:30
  
  The entrancing work of the 16th-century realist comes to Edinburgh, while one of Britain’s leading conceptual artists reassesses 25 years of his own outputThe sensual immediacy of Caravaggio’s art pierces your mind like a shaft of light in a prison cell. This painter of sex and death, bright white flesh and the depths of night not only left behind some of the greatest paintings on Earth when he died in 1610, but also inspired followers Europe-wide to emulate his potent realism. Artem
  
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• What would you put in a virtual museum? – tech podcast

  16-06-2017 10:14
  
  Artist Pippin Barr explores a virtual world where computer game visuals meet the work of artists Donald Judd and Gregor Schneider
  How is digital art engaging with ideas found in real-world artworks? Artist Pippin Barr has created a virtual museum of water, full of plinths containing water rendered by different video game and digital art engines, behaving in different ways. Continue reading...
  
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• The 10 best things to do this week: Kraftwerk and The Ferryman

  16-06-2017 10:00
  
  Ralf Hütter’s electronic titans bring their spectacular 3D show to the UK, while Paddy Considine stars in an IRA-themed thriller directed by Sam MendesA Museum of Modern Nature
  However inorganic our lives can feel, we’re usually closer to nature than we think. This show examines the evolution of our ecosystems and suggests how we can maintain and nurture connections with the planet.Wellcome Collection, NW1, 22 June to 8 October Continue reading...
  
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• Gods of garbage – in pictures

  16-06-2017 08:00
  
  Fabrice Monteiro travelled to the most polluted places in Africa and created terrifying characters who roamed their midst dressed in eerie debris. They are spirits, he says, on a mission to make humans change their waysContinue reading...
  
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