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• Royal Shakespeare Company To Stage "Chilled" Performances

  17-07-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The performance will be characterised by a more casual approach to noise and movement in the auditorium. However, the performance itself will be unchanged. Chilled performances are aimed at people who feel more at ease knowing they are able to leave the auditorium at any time. These include people with dementia and people with babes in arms. They are similar to relaxed performances, which the RSC already runs. However, unlike relaxed performances they do not make any changes to the production,
  
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• ‘Blue Black’ at Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri

  17-07-2017 23:17 via artnews.com
  
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• NPR, Unions Make Agreement On A New Contract

  17-07-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SAG-AFTRA and NPR had been approaching a standoff as the union balked at management’s proposals for lower minimum salaries for new hires and more flexibility in allowing union work to be contracted out to its 600 member stations, most of which use employees who are not covered by the bargaining unit.
  
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• Royal Academy of Arts lifts Burlington Gardens veil with end of revamp in sight

  17-07-2017 23:00
  
  Much of the scaffolding and the Yinka Shonibare-designed hoarding that has covered the Italianate faade of 6 Burlington Gardens in central London for more than a year is coming down this summer as the 50m redevelopment to create a cohesive two-acre campus by uniting the building with long-time home of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA), Burlington House, takes another step nearer to completion. The revamped RA is due to open in 2018 for the institutions 250th anniversary.The redevelopment has been
  
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• Report gauges state of art market in post-Brexit UK economy

  17-07-2017 23:00
  
  A report released today by the British Art Market Federation (BAMF) is aimed at measuring the UK art trade and its impact on the larger economic landscape.
  Prepared by Clare McAndrews Arts Economics, the report affirms that the UK hosts the second largest art market in the world, with 9.2bn in art and antiques sales representing 21% of transactions worldwide. (The US comes in first, with 40% market share, and China a close third, at 20%.) The industry employs 41,700 people directly and supports
  
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• Object lessons: a work from a Chicago Imagist and a promotional gift from the Campbells Soup Company after Andy Warhol

  17-07-2017 23:00
  
  Chicago Wright18 July: Art + DesignBella Donna (1979) by Ed PaschkeEst. $20,000-$30,000
  One highlight of the houses sale of art and design is an abstract painting by the late Chicago Imagist Ed Paschke, a well-known yet under-appreciated artist, Richard Wright, the director of the auction house, told The Art Newspaper. Paschke, an Art Institute of Chicago alumnus, is well known locally (he taught at Northwestern University for 26 years, while an art center that bears his name opened in 2014), b
  
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• Catherine Opie turns her lens on David Hockney, Gillian Wearing and Isaac Julien

  17-07-2017 23:00
  The US photographer Catherine Opie will show dramatic new portraits of the artists David Hockney, Gillian Wearing and Isaac Julien in a show due to open at Thomas Dane Gallery in London this autumn (3 October-18 November). The works form part of Opies ongoing series, Portraits and Landscapes, which look to Old Master European portraiture and historical landscape photography.
   
  The sitters, which include Opies fellow artists along with the London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu, pose in fr
  
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• Blame Shakespeare For The Gender Imbalance On Canadian Stages

  17-07-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dozens more men than women are acting on stage because of the continuing fascination by arts institutions and audiences with William Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies and histories – written during a time and in a place where women were legally prohibited from acting.
  
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• UK Report: Music Participation Versus Football Participation - Some Jarring Inequities

  17-07-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The report makes a direct comparison between choirs and amateur sports clubs, noting that while around 300,000 more people sing in choirs than play amateur football, football receives £30m in funding every year – compared with under £500k a year for choirs."
  
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• What Is The Cure For A Love Of Culture? Why, More Culture, Of Course

  17-07-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "So what do you do when you have the fever and work in a field more or less unrelated to your love for Friedrich Nietzsche and Emily Dickinson? Naturally, you spend your off hours reading books and talking about them with others who share the fever. There are legions of us, and in truth I’m one of the more dilettantish members of the tribe."
  
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• Linguistic Theory Is So Abstract, Maybe It's Not Really A Science?

  17-07-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The nub of the disagreement here boils down to what exactly linguistics says about the world, and the appropriate archetypes we should apply to make it effective. So just what kinds of questions does linguistics want to answer? What counts as evidence? Is universal grammar in particular – and theoretical linguistics in general – a science at all?"
  
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• Study: Yoga Might Slow Cognitive Decline (Scientists Don't Know Why)

  17-07-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Compared to their counterparts, the longtime yoga practitioners showed significantly greater cortical thickness "in left prefrontal lobe areas associated with attention and other executive functions," the researchers report. Previous research has linked activity in this area of the brain with language and memory.
  
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• Tomb-Robbing Has Become A Very Big Business In China

  17-07-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "With prices for some Chinese antiquities reaching into the tens of millions of dollars, a flood of amateur and professional thieves looking to get rich quick has hit China’s countryside. While accurate figures are difficult to come by, the looting has resulted in the permanent destruction of numerous Chinese cultural heritage sites."
  
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• Louvre Says Violent Storm Damaged Some Of Its Art

  17-07-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The French museum confirmed that water had invaded the mezzanine of the Denon wing, affecting the “Arts of Islam” and “From the Mediterranean Orient to Roman Times” rooms, both of which have been closed pending hygrometric stabilization. Water also entered the first floor of the Sully wing, affecting the “Salle des Sept-Cheminées” and Henri IV staircase, and the second floor of the Cour Carrée, affecting some rooms housing French paint
  
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• Coming to Light: Long-Lost New Media Pioneer Thomas Wilfred Dazzles in Yale Retrospective

  17-07-2017 20:02 via artnews.com
  Thomas Wilfred (1889–1968) created experiments in light and movement which in their ephemeral form and duration—some projections repeat only once every several years— challenge our notion of an artwork as a viewable experience. A show at Yale curated by Keely … Read More
  
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• Exhibitor List Announced for New York’s Salon Art + Design Fair

  17-07-2017 19:44 via artnews.com
  The Salon Art + Design fair has announced the exhibitor list for its upcoming edition, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York November 9-13. The sixth edition of the design fair will present historic and contemporary furniture, decorative arts, and fine … Read More
  
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• The Maddening, Infuriating, Surreal Road For Syrian Actors Trying To Get To The US To Perform

  17-07-2017 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The play’s lead actor, Mohamad Alrefai, showed up for his first interview at the United States Embassy in Beirut eager to introduce himself and to show his supporting documents for a visa, only to be told by an American consular official to keep his mouth shut, he recalled, and his stack of papers to himself. Several members of the group were asked to furnish their social media handles so American officials could read what they had posted. The director, Omar Abusaada, said he was asked if
  
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• "Game Of Thrones" Is A Global Blockbuster Phenomenon. Here's How That Happened

  17-07-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "We’d expect changes wrought by the internet to have played a key role. They did, but not in the way you’d expect. HBO didn’t use the internet to distribute “Game of Thrones” to subscribers around the world like Netflix and Amazon Video have done with their series. Instead, the internet was important to the series’ global growth because of the opportunities it gave fans to interact with one another."
  
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• Experts: Social Media Is Dumbing Down Our Communication

  17-07-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Experts who look into such things say that while social networking has its benefits — professionally, personally, politically — it’s also dumbing down the ways people communicate with each other. Having so many channels of communication has overwhelmed our ability to thoughtfully interact online, encouraging cheap and easy forms of communication.
  
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• In Tucson, A Trial Over The Right To Teach Kids About Their Histories And Cultures

  17-07-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A week into a federal trial over whether a law preventing Tuscon from teaching elective ethnic studies classes was racially motivated, the former head of public instruction, one of the strongest supporters of the ban, "reaffirmed things like saying that Spanish language media should be banned from the United States with a limited exception of Mexican restaurant menus."
  
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• Neuroscience Is Confirming Why Some Buildings Work And Some Don't

  17-07-2017 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I realized that our paradigm of understanding how people experience their environments had radically shifted, and no one had really figured out what this meant. One of the things I found was that, basically, [given] what we now know about human cognition and perception, the built environments we inhabit are drastically more important than we ever thought they were."
  
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• Evil Robot Masters Are Ruining Theatre Tickets, And Maybe The World As Well

  17-07-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Don't read this piece if you ever want to sleep again. "Today’s impersonation-bots are different from the robots imagined in science fiction: They aren’t sentient, don’t carry weapons and don’t have physical bodies. Instead, fake humans just have whatever is necessary to make them seem human enough to 'pass.'"
  
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• Louvre’s Poussin masterpieces damaged after torrential rain hits Paris

  17-07-2017 16:32
  Officials at the Louvre in Paris say that "traces of water" were found last week on paintings by Nicolas Poussin and Jean Franois de Troy after heavy storms hit the capital (9-10 July). Other works under threat by Georges de la Tour and Eustache Le Sueur were subsequently placed in storage as a safeguard measure.
   
  According to a museum statement, water seeped into the mezzanine of the Denon wing (the Islamic Art and Eastern Mediterranean areas), the first floor of the Sully
  
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• Watching A Former Literary Icon Fall Out Of Fashion

  17-07-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What happened to reading Rebecca West? Her 1941 nonfiction "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon" was often listen as a top nonfiction book of the 20th century ... and then somehow the book, "an attack on empire, a defense of small nations, and an embrace of concrete delights over abstract causes," passed its 75th anniversary with nary a notice, even from the International Rebecca West Society.
  
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• A Few Things You May Not Know About 'The Scream'

  17-07-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For instance: "The U.S. Department of Energy proposed to use an image of the face at the nuclear waste repository in Nevada's Yucca Mountain to warn future explorers of radioactive waste."
  
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• The British Actor Who Altered His Career - And The Narrative Around Gay Men - For One 1961 Film

  17-07-2017 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Before Victim, [Dick Bogarde] was 'the idol of the Odeons,' the biggest movie star in the land. But he willingly relinquished that status for Victim. Even more jolting than hearing the word 'homosexual,' must have been hearing Bogarde confess to Syms, 'I wanted him!' – a jolt of erotic passion even heterosexual movies of the era would avoid."
  
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• Playwrights, Designers, And Even NYT Critics Are Trying To End 'Theatrical Manspreading'

  17-07-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Laura Collins-Hughes: "The capacity to take women seriously is at the heart of all of this: the idea that we’re not an aberration but half the population, and just as human as the other half. It is ridiculous to me that the need for equal footing even has to be a discussion — that the inherent value of a theater that looks and sounds and feels like all of us should require defending."
  
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• The Next Big Thing In Books: James Comey

  17-07-2017 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Publishers started courting him, hard, as soon as he was fired by the current president, and especially after he leaked some memos. "Comey was reluctant at first to entertain offers, but he later decided that he had something to say beyond a rehashing of his career highlights and low points, according to his agent."
  
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• Turkey Has Fired 7,000 More Civil Servants, Academics, And Even Police

  17-07-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The announcement comes a day before the one-year anniversary of a failed coup against the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In the wake of the coup, around 150,000 officials have been dismissed from their posts and more than 50,000 people have been jailed."
  
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• Morning Links: Knocking Over Sculpture With a Selfie Edition

  17-07-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  A Tour Through EuropeA show of work by Modigliani at the Doge’s Palace in Geneva has closed after 21 works turned out to be fakes. [The Telegraph]Read this very positive review of “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age … Read More
  
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• Confronting The Past Through Pop-Up Refugee Art

  17-07-2017 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Surprised that the tour guide was also a painter, Saskia Leefsma, one of the visitors in the group, asked, 'Do you have a studio now?' Mr. Mukasa admitted that no, this was the very first painting he’d made in a very long while because he had been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder."
  
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• Let's Discuss The Sheer Genius Of Hamilton's Music (No, Not The Lyrics - The Music)

  17-07-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Shut up, critics who can't stop talking about how rap isn't music. "Since rap’s natural language is the repeated loop, the critique of it can’t be that it uses inert repeated loops. We actually have to accept the loop as a given and to dig deeper to see if those loops are malleable enough for the artist to create thematic meaning. Miranda does not disappoint. Listening to the cast album reveals an entire world of sonic meaning."
  
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• Martin Landau, Who Won An Oscar For Playing Bela Lugosi, Dies At 89

  17-07-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Of course, Landau also starred as Rollin Hand for several years in the original Mission: Impossible and the heroic villain of Crimes and Misdemeanors.
  
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• It's Really Hard For People (Mostly, But Not All, Male) To Let Women Just Read

  17-07-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At least, it's hard in the United States. In France, no such problem. "If you sit for many hours and look down at a book and then up at a city and then down at the book again, eventually the two blend into one, and there is no longer any difference between them. This is how the collapse between literature and life happens."
  
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• For Syrian Actors, An Intensely Lengthy, Challenging Road To The United States

  17-07-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For a play running at the Lincoln Center, actors and designers converged on New York from six different countris. "Under most circumstances, obtaining a United States visa is arduous. In the case of these visiting artists, the ordeal involved proving that they had a good reason to enter the United States, that they were not a security threat and that they had no intention of staying in the country. The Trump administration’s travel ban — and the legal turmoil around it — has ma
  
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• Design dealers are back in the Fiac fold

  17-07-2017 11:20
  
  The 44th edition of the Fiac fair (Foire Internationale dArt Contemporain) in Paris this autumn (19-22 October) will include five design dealers, relaunching a section last seen at Fiac in 2009. The Modern and contemporary art fair at the Grand Palais is due to include 192 galleries, compared to 186 last year, with the largest contingentmore than a quartercoming from France. The five design dealers, all Paris-based, are Jousse Entreprise, kreo, Laffanour Galerie Downtown Paris, Eric Philip
  
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• Artists rally for Grenfell Tower online auction

  17-07-2017 10:46
  
  A raft of artists, from Charles Avery to Juergen Teller and Cornelia Parker, have donated works to an online auction in aid of people affected by the Grenfell Tower fire. The web sale, which is due to go live tomorrow on Artsy.net (18 July-1 August), features works by 25 artists. Parker has donated two photogravure worksBlack Tulip (2017) while Darren Almond has contributed a photograph from his full moon series: Full Moon @Valley Floor (2013). The artist Peter Liversidge ha
  
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• In hot water: Iran through the ages – in pictures

  17-07-2017 08:01
  
  From a killer about to be hanged to a wedding couple in a burned out car, four decades of post-revolution Iran have been condensed into a riveting exhibition Continue reading...
  
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• Postcards from Australia: aerial photos by Hulia Boz

  17-07-2017 04:35
  
  Stunning views over the Australian outback and its coastline captured by the acclaimed photographer Hulia Boz. The images will go on show at Special Group Studios in Sydney from Tuesday until 23 July Continue reading...
  
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