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• Gagosian Gallery Now Represents Jia Aili

  06-07-2017 23:44 via artnews.com
  Jia Aili, the Chinese artist whose show at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Malaga, Spain, just closed at the end of June, is now represented by Gagosian Gallery.“Having followed Jia’s artistic journey thus far, we are very pleased to establish … Read More
  
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• Hollywood Memoirs Aren't Necessarily True, They're Often Weird, But They Can Give The Real Flavor Of History

  06-07-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Idiosyncratic and biased, obfuscatory and boastful, even unctuous and vain, the Hollywood memoir is not going to portray the past in a clear light. But like Sriracha on the table, it’s going to bring the heat and make the meal better. So much better."
  
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• ‘Sunlight arrives only at its proper hour’ at 356 S. Mission Road, Los Angeles

  06-07-2017 23:20 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Hepworth Wakefield Named 2017 UK Museum of the Year

  06-07-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The museum won "Art Fund's prestigious, £100,000 first prize. The David Chipperfield-designed gallery in the Yorkshire town where the sculptor Barbara Hepworth grew up was competing in a strong field, which included London's recently expanded Tate Modern."
  
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• Remembering Khadija Saye, the artist who died in the Grenfell Tower fire

  06-07-2017 23:00
  
  A series of self-portraits by Khadija Saye (1992-2017) are now on show in the Diaspora Pavilion, a collateral event in this years Venice Biennale, the opening of which the artist attended in May. Saye and her Gambian-born mother, Mary Mendy, died in the Grenfell Tower fire in west London on 14 June. As a memorial to the artist and all the victims of the disaster, which claimed at least 80 lives, Tate Britain is displaying a print from Sayes final series, Dwelling: in this space we breathe (
  
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• Hockney topples Hirst as Tate’s most popular living artist

  06-07-2017 23:00
  
  Tate Britains recent David Hockney retrospective (9 February-29 May), has become the Tate groups most popular ticketed solo exhibition by a living artist. With a total of 478,082 visitors (4,346 a day), it eclipsed the previous record holder, Damien Hirst, whose show drew 463,087 people (2,912 a day) to Tate Modern in 2012. Hockney was in such high demand that in March the London museum extended its opening hours to 10pm every Friday and Saturday, and until midnight on the exhibitions final wee
  
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• First renowned, then overlooked, now rediscovered: on Edme Bouchardon

  06-07-2017 23:00
  
  Edme Bouchardon 1698-1762: Une ide du beau was the catalogue for the recent exhibition at the Muse du Louvre, which has been translated as Bouchardon: Royal Artist of the Enlightenment for the exhibition that has transferred to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles (until 2 April). Thanks to its thorough coverage of his life and work, they may be regarded as a monograph on this gifted sculptor and draughtsman, especially when taken with Juliette Treys new catalogue of the Louvres huge holdings
  
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• David Hockney gallery opens in Bradford ahead of artist’s 80th birthday

  06-07-2017 23:00
  
  The city of Bradford is honouring its most famous artist son, David Hockney, by opening a permanent gallery in Cartwright Hall today (7 July) dedicated to the veteran painter. The launch of the Hockney Gallery, which will house the artists early sketchbooks and family photography albums, marks his 80th birthday on Sunday (9 July). The new space will house the largest collection of work dating from Hockneys time as a student at Bradford School of Art (1953-57), before he moved to London in
  
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• Adjusted to fit: on Louise Lawler at MoMA

  06-07-2017 23:00
  
  Its a tight, close-up, black-and-white shot taken with a wide aperture, and the print itself is small: just three by six inches. In the centre of the picture is an ashtray, and inside it, a book of matches. Across the book, three unpunctuated words appear in sharp focusWHY PICTURES NOWwhich brings into relief the focal blur from which the phrase emerges. There is no way to tell whether the capital emphasis is orthographic or typographic: the typeface used is Copperplate Gothic, a 1905 font for
  
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• 1000 Zombies Descend On This Week's Hamburg G20 Meeting In Unique Protest

  06-07-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Called 1000 GESTALTEN, which translates in English as '1,000 figures,' it was a performance in which actors covered in grey, crusty clay moved silently and steadily through the city in a transfixed state. For the days leading up to July 5, these figures started appearing all over Hamburg, slowly growing in numbers until culminating yesterday in a giant formation in which a “transformation” took place, the actors breaking free from their clay shells."
  
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• New York Foundation for the Arts Names 2017 Fellows

  06-07-2017 21:44 via artnews.com
  The New York Foundation for the Arts has named its 2017 fellows and finalists for its annual grants. Ninety-five artists are being recognized in categories that range from digital and electronic arts to nonfiction literature. Each fellow receives $7,000; finalists do not … Read More
  
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• HobbyLobby Hit With $3 Million Fine Over Smuggled Antiquities

  06-07-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Department of Justice filed a civil complaint in New York, and announced that Hobby Lobby had agreed to the fine and to forfeit thousands of antiquities including cuneiform tablets and clay bullae that prosecutors said were smuggled through the United Arab Emirates and Israel to the United States using deliberately false labeling practices.
  
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• Transcendent Experiences - Who Was Right About Them, Freud Or James? And Are They Actually Good For You?

  06-07-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Transcendence is a fundamental part of the human experience. Since the dawn of our species, people have been losing themselves in ritualistic prayer, song, and dance. Even so, for a long time, the prevailing consensus in psychology was that such experiences were pathological rather than natural. Freud believed that 'oceanic feelings of oneness' were neurotic memories of the womb and the signs of a deranged mind. ... The person who got transcendence right, [research psychologist David] Yaden say
  
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• Proposals for Margaret Thatcher statue near parliament turned down

  06-07-2017 21:00
  
  Plans for statue in Parliament Square rejected over fears former PM’s family do not approve of it A controversial proposal for a statue of Margaret Thatcher in Parliament Square has run into trouble after the government, Royal Parks and neighbours lodged objections to the application.The Royal Parks manages the land on which the statue would be sited but said it refused permission on the grounds that it has not been given assurances that Thatcher’s family approve of the monument. Con
  
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• The Tap Dance Films That Sparked A Revival And Now Are A Historical Link To The Past

  06-07-2017 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The films, which I consider the two best ever made about the art, didn’t just record tap history; they became part of it, helping to stoke a revival.
  
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• Pierre Henry, Pioneer of Experimental Electronic Music, Dies at 89

  06-07-2017 20:06 via artnews.com
  Pierre Henry, a pioneer of musique concrète and experimental electronic music of other ear-widening kinds, died last night at the age of 89.In the late 1940s, along with fellow composer Pierre Schaeffer, Henry made epochal aural collages and compositions with … Read More
  
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• Learning Philosophy At The Movies

  06-07-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Cinema can serve philosophy not in some ancillary role - for example, by providing 'illustrations' of philosophical problems in classroom settings - but in its own right, with its own means, and in a manner irreducible to the methods of traditional philosophy." Exhibit A: Rashomon.
  
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• How To Bring Up A Child To Love Reading Books: An Online Guide

  06-07-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Pamela Paul and Maria Russo of The New York Times Book Review say that "raising a reader is fun, rewarding and relatively easy" - and explain how. (First key hint is not to wait to get started: "Baby books are a necessity. ... Read out loud, every day. Any book. ... The content doesn't matter." And audiobooks don't count.)
  
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• In His Lifetime, Toscanini Was A Musical God. His Star Has Faded Considerably With Time

  06-07-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In recent decades, "Toscanini’s musical reputation has faded badly. Some of his old fans have shifted their loyalty to the work of other conductors—to Furtwängler, say, whose soulful expressiveness and spontaneity have been held up as musically and emotionally superior to Toscanini’s fiery propulsiveness. In the revisionist view, Toscanini rushed through passages that other conductors would turn into contemplation or mystery or sheer loveliness. He offered a maximum of lin
  
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• New Orleans Museum of Art Acquires 10 Works from Souls Grown Deep Foundation

  06-07-2017 18:27 via artnews.com
  The New Orleans Museum of Art has acquired ten works from the Atlanta-based Souls Grown Deep Foundation. The acquisition is part of the foundation’s “strategic gift/purchase program” that strives to increase the representation of African-American artists from the South in museums across … Read More
  
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• How Do You Choreograph A Dance With 10,000 Gestures, Every One Of Them Different?

  06-07-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "10000 Gestures ... may be a one-line idea, but it's an extremely complicated one. [Boris] Charmatz's concept is that no gesture - a word he uses to refer to any single movement, be it a dance step or a shoulder shrug - is ever repeated; and that every dancer's sequence is unique." Says Charmatz, "If you don't repeat, you are throwing your material away all the time. You cannot do 'good' choreography like this. ... It takes the pressure away."
  
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• Art Fund’s UK Museum of the Year Award Goes to the Hepworth Wakefield

  06-07-2017 17:59 via artnews.com
  The Art Fund, an organization that raises money to help British arts institutions acquire works and maintain their collections, has given its annual Museum of the Year award to the Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire. The prize, which comes with … Read More
  
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• Longtime Chicago Institute Of Art Teacher Quits, Citing Hostile Environment

  06-07-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In his resignation letter, dated June 12, Bonesteel protested what he called "abuse of Title IX protections. Overall," he wrote, "it is my contention that I have been unfairly vilified and demonized by [a] small cadre of militant LBGT students with an authoritarian agenda."
  
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• Longtime Chicago Institute Of Art Quits, Citing Hostile Environment

  06-07-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In his resignation letter, dated June 12, Bonesteel protested what he called "abuse of Title IX protections. Overall," he wrote, "it is my contention that I have been unfairly vilified and demonized by [a] small cadre of militant LBGT students with an authoritarian agenda."
  
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• Comic-Con Is A Non-Profit (Who Knew?) - And A Very Successful One

  06-07-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "When, in the nonprofit sector do you see revenue growth like this? The sponsoring organization's 990 reports on GuideStar show that the organization's revenue has grown from $185K in 2011 to $3.8M in 2015." And how many nonprofits do you know of whose conventions draw well over 100,000 participants?
  
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• ADAA Adds Four New Members, Including Andrew Kreps Gallery and Luxembourg & Dayan

  06-07-2017 17:00 via artnews.com
  The Art Dealers Association of America has added four new members: Andrew Kreps Gallery (of New York), Di Donna Galleries (New York), Luxembourg & Dayan (New York and London), and McClain Gallery (Houston, Texas). These galleries will join a network … Read More
  
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• Is Urban Dictionary 'Really, Really Racist' And 'Insanely Sexist'?

  06-07-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Started in 1999 by then-computer science student Aaron Peckham, the crowd-sourced online dictionary that The New York Times calls the 'lexicon of instant argot' has grown over the past two decades into an internet behemoth." Problem is, the definitions are submitted by ordinary users. In other words, as Clio Chang argues, "it is a pure product of the internet hordes" - and the hordes have contributed some very ugly stuff to the site, stuff that Peckham seems uninterested in policing.
  
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• Consumer Reports: Olia Lialina

  06-07-2017 16:30 via artnews.com
  Moscow-born Olia Lialina is a renowned internet artist, critic, professor, and curator. Her 1996 work My Boyfriend Came Back From The War is a seminal piece in the history of 1990s internet art and has been referenced and remixed across platforms. Her … Read More
  
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• A Guide To Classical Music Slang

  06-07-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For example: "Head-bobbers: Audience members who fall asleep during concerts. 'Hey, Bob. Check out the head-bobber in the front row.'"
  
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• Revisiting The First Great Art Heist Of The New Millennium

  06-07-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Sometime after 1 a.m. on New Year's Day, while fireworks were blasting and revelers carousing in the surrounding streets - a thief successfully carried out his plan to steal Paul Cézanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise from the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum."
  
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• Imagine the Fun Florine Stettheimer Would Have with Donald Trump: The Artist as Feminist, Democrat, and Chronicler of Her Time

  06-07-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  Not only was artist Florine Stettheimer an ardent Democrat, she despised anyone and anything she found pompous, misogynistic, or egotistical. As is evident in her paintings and poetry, Stettheimer’s early 20th-century political beliefs—equality for women and acceptance of all varieties … Read More
  
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• Kelan Phil Cohran, 90, Chicago Jazz Composer, Bandleader, Teacher, Macher

  06-07-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Chaka Khan and Earth, Wind & Fire's Maurice White studied with him. The globally influential Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) was co-founded by him. And generations of musicians drew inspiration from the pioneering work of Chicago composer and multi-instrumentalist Kelan Phil Cohran."
  
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• U.S. Authorities Are Delaying And Denying More Visas To Visiting Artists (And Giving More Ulcers To Presenters)

  06-07-2017 15:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Says one specialist attorney, "There's no conspiracy. There's no one out there saying we're going to stop artists. It's basically much broader than that and artists they consider collateral damage." Says another, "What is a broader effect, I think, is that there is a pervasive sense in the international community that the U.S. is becoming a hostile environment for performing artists."
  
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• Morning Links: Hobby Lobby Wabi-Sabi Edition

  06-07-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• The New York Times' '9 Young New Yorkers Poised for Creative Greatness'

  06-07-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  You won't find any novelists, playwrights, painters, or classical musicians on this unconventional and diverse list: there are two videographers, two chefs, three models (each of whom has at least one other discipline), a photographer, and the founder of a museum.
  
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• Is Shakespeare More Powerful Live Or In Cinemacast? Let's Use Heart Monitors To Find Out

  06-07-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Royal Shakespeare Company will put the devices on a group of theatre patrons in July and simulcast viewers in August; the idea is to measure not only whether one medium is more or less emotionally involving, but also whether violence in mainstream movies has desensitized screen viewers to the brutality in the play. And which play's brutality will be the test case? The one that's really notorious for gore.
  
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• Putting Opera On A Flatbed Truck And Taking It To The 'Hood

  06-07-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A correspondent checks out a production of Don Giovanni by the OperaCamion, a project which sends out young artists from the Rome Opera to perform in impoverished neighborhoods on the city's outskirts where many residents have never seen an opera.
  
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• A Conference For Young Male Dancers Who Are Feeling Marginalized

  06-07-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "With so few male dancers in classes, a sense of alienation, as well as bullying and a lack of recognition are common experiences. 'I allowed the boys we were approaching to tell us what they need, what is missing in their dance studios, what they're looking for," [co-founder Michael] Vadacchino says about programming [the first Male Dancer Conference, to be held next month in New York's West Village]. 'There are little to no all-male large group settings in the dance world. With the exception o
  
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• In Qatar, Cultural Institutions Try To Carry On Through The Blockade

  06-07-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The tense standoff with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt is putting as deep a strain on the Persian Gulf nation's efforts to become a cultural capital as it is on the rest of the country. Even so, work continues: as one arts professional in Doha puts it, "If political relations were severed for any period of time, the close family connections across the region would act as a continued link. ... At the moment, everything is continuing as normal."
  
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• Ireland Is Finally Getting Its National Opera Company Back

  06-07-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The old company, Opera Ireland, was shut down in 2010 to make way for a new Irish National Opera - which was never actually formed. Now two smaller companies who share an artistic director are being merged: they'll form the main resident company in the capital, Dublin, with some productions traveling to Wexford and Cork.
  
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• Whitechapel Gallery to host first major Thomas Ruff retrospective in London

  06-07-2017 13:21
  
  The Whitechapel Gallery is to stage the first major London retrospective of photographs by Thomas Ruff this autumn. Organised by the institutions director, Iwona Blazwick, the survey will include examples of all the German artists key seriesfrom his billboard-sized portraits of friends shot in Dsseldorf in the 1980s to his exquisitely coloured photographs derived from Japanese manga.This is an artist who changed the language of photography, Blazwick says. His entire oeuvre is very complex, but
  
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• Three to See: Les Rencontres d'Arles photography festival

  06-07-2017 12:52
  
  Joel Meyerowitz: Early Works (until 27 August)Salle Henri-ComteA woman peers out from a cinema box office booth, her face completely obscured by the voice grill. The black-and-white imageTimes Square, New York (1963)is one of Joel Meyerowitzs earliest pictures, capturing street life in the metropolis of Manhattan. Meyerowitz, who ventured into the city with two Leica cameras, has said: The best way is to look at the old guys like Brassa and Atget. The street teaches you to act quickly when you
  
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• Dennis Hopper documents the 1960s – in pictures

  06-07-2017 11:00
  
  Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album is an exhibition featuring his photographs taken in the 1960s, stored and forgotten until their discovery after his death in 2010. Covering the cultural landscape at the time, he shot Hells Angels, celebrities, artists and political events. The show runs at Kohn Gallery Los Angeles until 1 September 2017 Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.05.17

  06-07-2017 09:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Metropolitan Museum’s Empty Director’s Chair: Text of Dan Weiss Memo to Staff
  Now that Metropolitan Museum director Thomas Campbell has officially left the building (as of June 30), who will serve as acting director until a new director is chosen? Surprisingly, the short answer appears to be: ... read more
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2017-07-05
   
  
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• Welcome to anywhere: Lewis Baltz's blandsville – in pictures

  06-07-2017 08:00
  
  From garden cities built on contaminated ground to bland housing projects and towns devoid of landmarks, Lewis Blatz chronicled the dehumanised urban landscape of America, brick by brick Continue reading...
  
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• Freudian slips: the secrets hidden inside Emma Hart's ceramic art

  06-07-2017 08:00
  
  Venus flytraps, socks with mouths and giant heads … as the artist’s new show Mamma Mia! opens, she tells us about putting therapy into clayAt Emma Hart’s studio, two assistants are helping the artist with last-minute touches to graphic patterns inside a group of outsized ceramic heads. The heads appear to be consuming them as they lean deep inside, torches strapped to their foreheads, delicate paintbrushes in hand. In a little over a week, the finished works will be moved to L
  
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• Hepworth Wakefield wins Art Fund UK Museum of the Year prize

  06-07-2017 05:14
  
  The Hepworth Wakefield was named the 2017 UK Museum of the Year, winning last night (5 July) the Art Fund's prestigious, 100,000 first prize. The David Chipperfield-designed gallery in the Yorkshire town where the sculptor Barbara Hepworth grew up was competing in a strong field, which included London's new, expanded Tate Modern.Speaking at the award ceremony held in the Great Court of the British Museum, the chair of the Hepworth Wakefield, David Liddiment, attributed its success to the fact t
  
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• First Half Of 2017 Sets Streaming Music Records

  06-07-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Nielsen released its latest annual midyear music report, and thus far in 2017, on-demand audio streams topped 184 billion, up 62.4% over the same time period last year. When video streams are added to the equation, the total soars to 284 billion streams, an increase of 36.4% versus the first half of 2016. The gains in streaming have been more than enough to offset the continued decline of physical and digital sales: overall audio consumption has grown 8.9% despite a 17% dip in the former a
  
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