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• Four Smart People Warn Of The Threats Of Artificial Intelligence

  21-06-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "People who enjoy a lot of respect — like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk — warn of a coming artificial intelligence apocalypse. Others say the conversation has become alarmist — either that general AI is unlikely, or that even if it arrives, it will be here to help, not harm us."
  
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• Sotheby’s Pulls in $161.3 M. at Impressionist and Modern Sale in London, Led By Record-Breaking $41.6 M. Kandinsky

  21-06-2017 23:18 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s netted a total of £127.9 million (about $161.3 million) at its Impressionist and modern evening sale in London, healthily exceeding its low estimate of $141.2 million despite a middling sell-through rate of 74 percent. The haul was 24 percent up from the equivalent … Read More
  
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• A Spin Through All 13 Venues of ‘Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno’ in New York

  21-06-2017 23:12 via artnews.com
  Tonight, on the longest night of the year, 13 different venues will play host to the stateside edition of “Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno,” a massive exhibition of work by the artist John Giorno presented as a work of … Read More
  
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• Defending Chicago Theatre Critic Hedy Weiss

  21-06-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "As far as I know, Weiss has never bothered with political correctness. If a chorus line breaks with tradition by incorporating a variety of body types, she notices—as does everyone in the audience. If a play for young audiences glorifies vandalism in the form of graffiti, she objects. I'd argue that's her greatest strength as a critic: she's taking on the subject matter of the work, as any critic worth his or her salt should, and she's not afraid to go out on a limb. You might not share h
  
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• Spain’s new Centro Botín shuns the ‘Bilbao effect’

  21-06-2017 23:00
  
  Almost 20 years since Frank Gehrys $100m titanium-clad Guggenheim Bilbao opened, another city on Spains north coast is getting a major contemporary art centre designed by an internationally acclaimed starchitect. The Centro Botn, Renzo Pianos first big commission in the country, opens in Santander on 23 June. But comparisons with the museum that became a model for culture-driven regeneration schemes worldwide are too simplistic, say Piano and the president of the Fundacin Botns visual arts comm
  
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• Spain’s new art centre shuns the ‘Bilbao effect’

  21-06-2017 23:00
  
  Almost 20 years since Frank Gehrys $100m titanium-clad Guggenheim Bilbao opened, another city on Spains north coast is getting a major contemporary art centre designed by an internationally acclaimed starchitect. The Centro Botn, Renzo Pianos first big commission in the country, opens in Santander on 23 June. But comparisons with the museum that became a model for culture-driven regeneration schemes worldwide are too simplistic, say Piano and the president of the Fundacin Botns visual arts comm
  
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• Kandinsky record falls twice in patchy Sotheby’s sale

  21-06-2017 23:00
  
  Its a 1913 Kandinsky, said a shaky Hugo Nathan by way of explanation on why he bid a record 29.2m (33m with fees) on Wassily Kandinskys Bild mit weissen Linien at Sothebys Impressionist and Modern Art sale this evening in London.
  Nathan, one half of the London-based art advisory Beaumont Nathan, said he bought the oil on canvas on behalf of a private collector. The work, an early foray into abstraction by the artist, carried an estimate of in excess of $35m, and was subject to both a guarantee
  
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• Collector sues Christie’s for cancelling David Hammons sale

  21-06-2017 23:00
  
  A lawsuit filed in April suggests that Christies recently tried an unorthodox method to secure a lot for its big spring auctions: taking the art from someone who does not want to sell it.
  The suit, filed in a New York district court on 18 April, alleges that Christies tried to withholdand resell at last months post-war and contemporary evening salea David Hammons painting after title had passed to its purchasera Luxembourger named Philippe Dupont, the plaintiff in this case.
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• The Importance Of Historical Fiction In Times Of Historical Turmoil

  21-06-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Reading historical fiction not only puts our current events into a historical context, but also helps us understand and imagine and empathize with what people lived through in other times and places. It reminds us that other people, ordinary people, real people, have lived and survived and fallen in love, but also, died in these times of political turmoil before us."
  
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• ‘After the Fact: Propaganda in the 21st Century’ at Lenbachhaus, Munich

  21-06-2017 22:06 via artnews.com
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• Is FOMO The Essential Ingredient In Art For The Instagram Age?

  21-06-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The fact that some folks have managed to make the scene while others get left out in the cold is integral to the excitement of participatory art. The thrill is akin to exotic travel, or getting to see Hamilton. Because not everyone who wants the experience actually gets the experience, these works, even if their intentions and messages are democratic, tend to become exclusive affairs."
  
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• Portrait Of An Arts Economy By The Numbers: Sarasota

  21-06-2017 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to the “Arts & Economic Prosperity Report V,” a data-intense survey released during the weekend by the nonprofit Americans for the Arts, Sarasota County’s arts and cultural organizations and audiences pumped $295 million into the economy in 2015, up 64 percent from $180 million in 2010, when the previous survey was taken.
  
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• When Secondary Characters Get Novels Of Their Own

  21-06-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anjum Hasan looks at the phenomenon of "minor-character elaboration" - from Jean Rhys's The Wide Sargasso Sea (the story of Jane Eyre's madwoman in the attic) to Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad (how Ulysses's wife and queen passed the twenty years waiting for his return) and onward. (Hasan also includes Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, though we think that wasn't the same thing.)
  
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• Was There A "Golden Age" Of Local TV? And If There Was, Was Boston The Center Of It?

  21-06-2017 20:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "What makes that era seem if not golden then at least more sophisticated is that by comparison, local television today, Boston included, is in the doldrums. For the declining influence of local television, and for the withering influence upon younger viewers, executives blame the internet and the profusion of cable options. A reason they do not acknowledge is that it was made easier by the decline in quality since the era."
  
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• 'Power Chords And Pollock': A Theory Of Punk Rock And Abstract Expressionism

  21-06-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It was after seeing the sharp distinction in approach, methodology and effect between Rancid and the concert's headliners, Green Day, that a theoretical superstructure for punk rock struck me - one which can be linked to the history of art." Noah Charney - who grants that "normally you don't find 'punk rock,' 'theoretical superstructure' and 'history of art' occupying the same sentence" - makes the case.
  
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• 'We don't want to be dug out': the Indigenous art helping to protect the land from mining

  21-06-2017 20:00
  
  Each year, a community legal centre in the NT auctions off donated art to keep its doors open – and the proceeds now provide a third of its funds“It’s some sort of a hole they’ve got to dig in and get the oil and the gas, you know – but there’s spirits of Yolngu people in the ground,” says artist Nawurupu Wunungmurra.Wunungmurra, a senior Yirritja man from north east Arnhem Land, is describing long held Yolngu beliefs of the endless spiritual cycle of th
  
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• Opera As A Serial Episodic Experience

  21-06-2017 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Vireo is the first opera designed for episodic release, both on television and online, and the culmination of an artist residency project at the Grand Central Arts Center at California State University, Fullerton. “My hopes for Vireo,” says center director John Spiak in a promotional film about Vireo’s making “is that 30 or 40 years down the line it will be seen as one of those groundbreaking things that made a difference in the artistic world. We’ve taken a live en
  
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• Why Is Diana Vishneva Leaving ABT? She's Too Busy!

  21-06-2017 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  She's opening a studio in St. Petersburg that will teach yoga and gymnastics as well as ballet; she's running a dance festival that covers both that city and Moscow; she loves being a guest with other companies and wants to do more of it. In a Q&A with Gia Kourlas, she talks about her plans, ballet training today, and what she loves about American audiences.
  
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• Memorial appeals launched to remember Khadija Saye

  21-06-2017 18:34
  
  Two memorial appeals have been launched to remember the young artist Khadija Saye (1992-2017) who died with her mother, Mary Mendy, in the Grenfell Tower fire in west London on 14 June. As well as the Khadija Saye Memorial Fund, donors are contributing to a fund to support paid internships in galleries or other cultural organisations in her name.Saye benefited from a paid internship through Creative Access, a non-profit that provides Black, Asian and other young people from minorities job oppor
  
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• Theatre Impresario Garth Drabinisky Banned From Being Director Of Any Public Company

  21-06-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The disgraced theatre mogul had run the hugely successful Livent company. "At its height, Livent produced shows including The Phantom of the Opera and Ragtime across North America, the United Kingdom and Australia. The company sought bankruptcy protection in 1998 and was sold off three years later."
  
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• Queer Asian cinema king takes Shanghai art scene by storm

  21-06-2017 18:30
  
  The Thai filmmaker and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul has brought a bit of cinematic glamour to Shanghais art world this summer. Weerasethakul, a cult figure of queer Asian cinema, enjoys an enthusiastic following in mainland China, where both experimental styles and gay subject matter are heavily censored.  His exhibition Monuments (until July 27) at ShanghArts West Bund gallery has generated the sort of enthusiastic scrum usually reserved for film festivals. On the opening day, he was
  
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• James Salter: The Final Interview

  21-06-2017 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alexander Slotnick: "I conducted the following interview with James Salter in the Fall of 2014. It was published in the University of Virginia's literary journal Meridian several months later, and Jim died shortly thereafter, on June 19th, 2015, at the age of 90. As far as Literary Hub's editors and I know, this was Jim's last interview. It's republished here in full with thanks to Meridian and Jim's family."
  
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• On Fire: Peter Voulkos’s ‘Breakthrough Years’ Shine at the Renwick Gallery

  21-06-2017 18:00 via artnews.com
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• When We Care More About The Artist's Personal Story Than The Art

  21-06-2017 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The play reveals this odd, disconcerting paradox: we mythologize artists, but do so with precisely the attributes of authenticity we ironically think make them more real. It’s as if we want genuineness but don’t quite know how to grasp it. Master brings up the question of where artists actually exist in their careers — we think we see them, when they are not really there at all.
  
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• Paris's Opéra Comique, Lavishly Restored, Is Becoming One Of The City's Hot Tickets

  21-06-2017 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The ornate Belle Epoque theatre had lost its luster, visually and artistically, by the end of the last century. But the house's director, Olivier Mantei, is determined to bring excitement and audiences back. So he's overseen a meticulous restoration of the building to its original splendor, reopened it with a spectacular revival of a grand opera not seen in Paris for 246 years, and even commissioned a patisserie to create a new cake for the occasion.
  
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• Dinner After The Show With The Woman Who Disrupted 'Julius Caesar' In Central Park

  21-06-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Reporter Andrew Marantz: "[Laura] Loomer provided several rationales for her actions: that she had merely used words, whereas the left engages in actual violence; that she felt it was her patriotic duty to stop the play, which was 'a form of terrorism' that would 'bring us closer to civil war'; that the Public Theatre is 'aligned with ISIS, politically.' The only incontrovertible fact was one that she never uttered aloud: that the stunt would do wonders for her personal brand."
  
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• Forget 'Julius Caesar' - *This* Is The Shakespeare Play The Pro-Trump Folks Should Worry About

  21-06-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Susan Rella: "Now let me tell you about another play. It involves a king so bogged down by the personal and political conflicts of his staff of toadies that his ability to govern is utterly compromised. False narratives are spun on all sides until even the king doesn't know what's true. There are accusations of money laundering, of treason, of murder. While feigning innocence, the king stokes conflict by proposing a duel between the fighting factions, WWE-style ...Come to find out, the king has
  
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• Syrian refugees to be trained to rebuild Palmyra and other heritage sites

  21-06-2017 15:49
  
  The World Monuments Fund (WMF) is launching a 500,000 scheme to train Syrian refugees living in and around the Zaatari camp on the Jordanian border in traditional stone masonry. The aim is to develop skills so that cultural heritage sites that have been caught in crossfire or destroyed by Isil can be rebuilt once peace is restored to Syria. Organisers of the training course, which is due to launch in the border town of Mafraq in Jordan in August, are also hoping to recruit Jordanian studen
  
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• Jeff Koons Gives A Present To Paris - And Paris Is, Let's Say, Ambivalent

  21-06-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The gift is a large sculpture - a hand holding a bouquet of the artist's signature balloon tulips - in honor of the victims of the 2015 terrorist attacks. But it's a problematic present: it's too heavy for the site Koons wants, not everyone cares for it (one museum director says, "I think it will be much less kitsch in several years"), and the city is having trouble raising the required €3.5 million to have it made and installed.(Koons's donation, you see, isn't the completed work; it's the
  
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• Could This Be A New Funding Model For Dance?

  21-06-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Using the sports marketing model, where major brands advertise to capture the sporting fan market," the National Performing Arts Funding Exchange "will target corporate underwriters for various [small and independent] dance organizations. [Founder Cliff] Brody is convinced that companies will jump on the bandwagon to put their names behind dance."
  
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• 'Fearless Girl' Wall Street Statue Wins Three Awards - At Advertising Festival

  21-06-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "McCann New York's Fearless Girl statue, placed on Wall Street for State Street Global Advisors as a symbol of the power of women in business, enjoyed a spectacular first day here at the Cannes Lions festival, sweeping the first three competitions by picking up the Grand Prix in the Glass, PR and Outdoor Lions."
  
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• Morning Links: Balloon Bouquet Edition

  21-06-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Mass Resignations At Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art After Allegations Of Malfeasance

  21-06-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The museum and its ex-employees are offering starkly different accounts as the museum is reeling after losing five full-time staffers, at least two part-time visitor-services workers, and seven contract support staff and educators on June 13."
  
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• Time Warner Gets $100 Million Deal To Make Video For Snapchat

  21-06-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Under the two-year deal with Snap Inc., Time Warner - which owns Warner Bros. as well as cable networks CNN, HBO, TBS and TNT - will develop and produce up to 10 made-for-Snapchat shows per year. The projects will span genres, including scripted dramas and comedies, and will reach across Time Warner's networks and entertainment properties, meaning that Wonder Woman or Batman could one day end up on Snapchat."
  
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• Toronto's Biggest Theatre Company Sets Up Camp In New York For A Month

  21-06-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Soulpepper Theater Company isn't moving everything to New York for the month of July. Its theater in Toronto's Distillery District will still be open, with six productions on two of its three main stages. But a dozen other Soulpepper shows are headed for Manhattan, and 65 artists are making the trip. Add support staff, and it's quite a hefty operation."
  
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• Calgary Arts Orgs Ask City For $2 Million From Economic Development Fund

  21-06-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ten major organizations, among them the Calgary Opera, Alberta Ballet, and the National Music Centre, are arguing to the city council that they're the best bet for increasing tourism. Says Alberta Ballet artistic director Jean Grand-Maître, "If we develop a thriving cultural sector, they may stop by in the city for a while before they get out to the mountains and before you know it, it won't just be Banff that's thriving right now."
  
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• Ei Arakawa sculpture vandalised at Sculpture Projects Münster

  21-06-2017 13:54
  
  Part of Ei Arakawas sculpture on show at Sculpture Projects Mnster (until 1 October), the German sculpture festival held every ten years, has been stolen. The New York-based Japanese artists workHarsh Citation, Harsh Pastoral, Harsh Mnsteris on display in a field in front of Haus Kamp, which houses part of the citys Chamber of Crafts.According to the Sculpture Projects Mnster website: [Arakawa] has personally grouped seven pixelated LED panels he assembled himself on the grassy space these illu
  
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• Terrible News For UK Arts Funding: Lottery Revenue Down £55 Million

  21-06-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[National] Lottery operator Camelot has warned it expects the decline in sales to continue this year, which means arts funding is also likely to fall further. It is launching an internal review of its operations."
  
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• All-Star Group Of Actors And Playwrights Make Brexit Videos

  21-06-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Kristin Scott Thomas, Penelope Wilton, Joanna Scanlan and Steffan Rhodri are among the stars performing the monologues" - a series of nine online videos collectively titled Brexit Shorts: Dramas from a Divided Nation - "by writers including Abi Morgan, Meera Syal, Maxine Peake and David Hare."
  
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• Kassel to build permanent Documenta Institute

  21-06-2017 11:57
  
  Kassels city council has settled on a location to build a new Documenta Institute to serve as a research centre and to host events, conferences and exhibitions studying its significance in the contemporary art world.The city has budgeted the construction of the new centre at 24m and plans to build it on a plot of land that is currently a carpark in the north of the city, close to the university. The German government will stump up 12m, the state of Hesse will provide a further 6m and the city w
  
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• 'I think leftism is a disorder': is this artist the rightwing Banksy?

  21-06-2017 11:00
  
  Street artist Sabo shot to fame during the 2016 US election with his politically incorrect approach. Now he’s plastering LA with controversial worksThe guerrilla art movement is usually associated with leftwing politics. Banksy targets capitalism, consumerism and inequality. Blek le Rat, the father of stencil graffiti, depicts oppression and resistance.Shepard Fairey gilded Barack Obama’s rise with the iconic “hope” poster and now highlights the scapegoating of Muslims an
  
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• Entire body of UK public sculpture to go online by 2020

  21-06-2017 10:55
  
  Britain will be the first country to create an online catalogue of its entire collection of publicly owned sculpture. Art UK, a charity which recently completed a similar venture for 210,000 oil paintings, is undertaking the operation.
   
  Art UK believes there are around 150,000 sculptures in the UKs public collections, which it defines as museums, galleries, universities, hospitals and other public buildings. A further 16,500 outdoor public monuments and sculptures will also be included. A
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.20.17

  21-06-2017 10:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Engagement Terminology
  Since I got into the weeds of defining development terms last week (Development Terminology), I thought it was time to present the latest in my thinking about terminology related to community engagement. ... read more
  AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2017-06-20Great new jazz photography: Marc PoKempner portfolio from New OrleansPhotos of musicians making music - visualizations stirred in the photographers by watching sounds manifest - are exciting, and as different in st
  
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• ‘A Few Open Systems’ at And Now, Dallas

  21-06-2017 00:02 via artnews.com
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