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• Portrait Of The Cellist As An Artist Of A Different Sort

  21-07-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As a corollary of his mission to rethink the performer’s role, Parker Woods refuses to let his identity as a cellist be restricted by conventional perceptions of what a classical string player does. Which is why, even at this still-early stage of his career, he’s already been leaving his imprint on a fascinating variety of collaborations across disciplines.
  
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• French Singer Dies In Mid-Performance Onstage

  21-07-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Barbara Weldens was singing at a church in the village of Goudron in southwestern France as part of the Festival Léo Ferré when she collapsed mid-song. There are conflicting reports regarding her cause of death with some reporting that she suffered a cardiac arrest and the BBC saying that she may have been electrocuted. Police are investigating, and the remainder of the festival has been canceled.
  
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• When Empathy Was "Aesthetic Empathy"

  21-07-2017 22:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The feeling we call “empathy” has shifted dramatically over the last century from a description of an aesthetic response, to a moral and political aspiration, to a clinical skill, and today, to the firing of neurons. Returning to empathy’s roots—to once again think about the potential for “in-feeling” with a work of art, a mountain, or a tree—invites us to re-imagine our connection to nature and the world around us.
  
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• The Precariousness Of Publishing In Today's Market (And Why Small Presses Might Be The Future)

  21-07-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "That Big Publishing remains conservative and homogeneous — and viewed with increasing ambivalence and disdain by the larger population — should not be surprising or contentious; axiomatic in antitrust law is the idea that a reduction in market participants, whether a result of competition, attrition, or consolidation, correlates with a reduction in consumer choice. We’ve seen this across any number of industries in our society, including airlines, autom
  
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• Seattle Goes To Voters To Raise Sales Tax To Fund The Arts

  21-07-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Prop. 1 is the culmination of a decade-plus struggle to pass a state law allowing counties to tax themselves for arts and culture education, and asks voters to approve a sales tax of 0.1 percent — a penny for every $10 — to support arts, culture and science access and education. In the campaign’s projections, that means $30 a year for a household with an income of $80,000. That might sound like a small ask, but Prop. 1 is provoking a large debate about our state’s tax sy
  
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• Why Is It So Hard For New Women Musicians To Hit It Big?

  21-07-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "These artists all have a mainstream presence – performing at major festivals, appearing on Spotify and Radio 1 playlists, nurturing healthy social media accounts – but their popularity feels more microcosmic than an all-conquering march. Look at the charts. No female solo artists or groups have scored a UK No 1 this year, and beyond Anne-Marie’s vocal on Clean Bandit’s No 1 Rockabye in January, and Little Mix’s No 1 album, the year has been dominated by m
  
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• Artists such as Mona Hatoum transform Muslim prayer rugs for San Francisco show

  21-07-2017 21:00
  The traditional Muslim prayer rug becomes a way to explore the universal human need for security, as well as ideas of heritage, family and cultural identity, in an upcoming exhibition Sanctuary, to be presented by the San Francisco arts non-profit For-Site Sanctuary this autumn (7 October-11 March 2018). The show will feature 36 wool prayer rugs hand-made by master weavers in Lahore, Pakistan, from new designs by 36 artists from 22 countriesmany of which are predominantly Muslimincluding the Pal
  
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• Artists including Mona Hatoum transform Muslim prayer rugs for San Francisco show

  21-07-2017 21:00
  The traditional Muslim prayer rug becomes a way to explore the universal human need for security, as well as ideas of heritage, family and cultural identity, in an upcoming exhibition Sanctuary, to be presented by the San Francisco arts non-profit For-Site Sanctuary this autumn (7 October-11 March 2018). The show will feature 36 wool prayer rugs hand-made by master weavers in Lahore, Pakistan, from new designs by 36 artists from 22 countriesmany of which are predominantly Muslimincluding the Pal
  
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• Artists including Mona Hatoum design prayer rugs for San Francisco show

  21-07-2017 21:00
  The traditional Muslim prayer rug becomes a way to explore the universal human need for security, as well as ideas of heritage, family and cultural identity, in an upcoming exhibition Sanctuary, to be presented by the San Francisco arts non-profit For-Site Sanctuary this autumn (7 October-11 March 2018). The show will feature 36 wool prayer rugs hand-made by master weavers in Lahore, Pakistan, from new designs by 36 artists from 22 countriesmany of which are predominantly Muslimincluding the Pal
  
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• If This Really Is The Death Of Retail, What Will Happen To All The Street-Front Stores In Our Cities?

  21-07-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "What becomes of the ground-floor city when retail mutates into new forms? Some luxury brands might keep their boutiques as indulgences and loss leaders. But as national chains’ contracts give up on physical locations, commercial rents could fall, clearing the way for a resurgence of small stores: designer cookies and pet spas, but also used-book stores and shoe-repair shops. Or maybe only bars and restaurants will survive, and we will repurpose vacant storefronts into living spaces for a
  
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• Study: Thinking You're Lazy Is Bad For Your Health

  21-07-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Among a large group of Americans who were tracked for up to two decades, the death rate was far higher among those who viewed themselves as less active than their peers. Intriguingly, this held true even "after adjusting for actual levels of physical activity." This suggests that, while spending too much time on the sofa is clearly bad for your health, there are dangers in simply thinking of yourself as couch potato."
  
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• If Your Job Is To Sell Books, What Do You Do When A Customer Wants A Book You Think Is Bad For Them?

  21-07-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Despite the immeasurable good work independent bookstores and their staff do—from promoting children’s literacy to hosting readings and book clubs to being a vital part of local economies, and more—I’d hazard that the primary goal is always going to be customer satisfaction. So what can you do when a customer wants a book that you not only find objectionable but also believe actually dangerous in the lessons it portends amidst such a politically precarious time?"
  
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• Is It Possible There's A Scientific Test For Consciousness?

  21-07-2017 19:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Week by week we hear claims from neuroscientists that would appear to confirm the prevailing “internalist” view of consciousness. If the brain creates a representation in our heads of the world around us through the firing of neurons, the argument goes, then we can identify neural activity that corresponds to particular aspects of consciousness.  How, then, can the internalist theory be tested and demonstrated scientifically?"
  
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• ‘Tomorrows: Urban fictions for possible futures’ at Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens

  21-07-2017 19:03 via artnews.com
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• Small and Heavy Spheres Turn: Christian Marclay Plays a Calder Mobile at the Whitney Museum

  21-07-2017 18:48 via artnews.com
  A freeform performance accompanied the exhibition "Calder: Hypermobility." Read More
  
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• Betrayal and Vengeance: Clark Filio Shows Fantasy-Inspired Paintings at Kimberly-Klark

  21-07-2017 18:36 via artnews.com
  A New York debut shows paintings made in league with fantasy artist Rick Berry. Read More
  
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• Complaints Of Sexual Harassment Against Longtime Minnesota Theatre Executive Director

  21-07-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The complaints — some anonymous — surfaced only after an internal dispute about whether the theater's latest production should have an intermission boiled over, angering many of the community volunteers the theater relies on to function. As anger over the theater board's oversight gained steam, MPR News interviewed these six people and one more who said they personally had been subjected to unwelcome sexual advances."
  
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• When New Yorkers Rioted Over How To Perform 'Hamlet'

  21-07-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "When Major-General Charles Sandford recalled the scene at the Astor Place Theatre on May 10, 1849, it was with a sentiment one would not normally associate with a night at the theater. 'During a period of thirty-five years of military service,' wrote the general, 'I have never seen a mob so violent as the one on that evening. I never before had occasion to give the order to fire.'"
  
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• The Smithsonian Has Discovered The Magic Of Kickstarter, Raising $1 Million And Finding New Audiences

  21-07-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We’re not only trying to fund the projects, we are reaching audiences that we might not reach through other channels,” said Scott Tennent, the Smithsonian’s director of advancement communications, noting that three-fourths of the Kickstarter backers are new to the Smithsonian. “We can raise awareness that the Smithsonian relies on public support. That’s something people don’t always realize.”
  
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• Lygia Pape's daughter sues LG Electronics over cellphone wallpaper

  21-07-2017 17:25
  Paula Pape, daughter of the Brazilian artist Lygia Pape, has filed a suit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against LG Electronics, several vendors of its mobile phones and Getty Images Korea alleging an infringement of copyright of one of the late artists works.
  Visitors to Papes exhibition A Multitude of Forms at Met Breuer (through 23 July) might recognize Ttia (2003), a delicate linear installation of golden threads that bisect in a dark room. The plaintiff char
  
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• Why I Wanted My Asian-American Daughter To See Asian-American Actors Playing Shakespeare

  21-07-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nicole Chung writes about her meaningful mother-and-child trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Winter's Tale.
  
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• From the Archives: Frank Bowling on Why It’s Not Enough to Say ‘Black Is Beautiful,’ in 1971

  21-07-2017 16:47 via artnews.com
  “It is as though what is being said is that whatever black people do in the various areas labeled art is Art—hence Black Art,” Frank Bowling wrote in the April 1971 issue of ARTnews. For the Guyanese-born painter, then 35, … Read More
  
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• The B-52s: The Most Subversive Band In American Rock History?

  21-07-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The subversive genius of the B-52s isn't quite acknowledged as much as it could be - even though the band invented new wave-wacky and was mindful about keeping ahead of the stylistic curve. ... You can chalk up a lack of respect to the group's kitschy veneer (and, more specifically, its penchant for making kitsch cool) unfairly superseding the music itself. That's perhaps most galling: After all, the B-52s' early LPs are gloriously weird without sounding forced or self-conscious."
  
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• Is The Age Of Trump Killing Comedy? No - It's Helping Comedy Return To What It Used To Be

  21-07-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "You may have heard, in the past year, that irony and satire are dead, that in the age of Trump they have become indistinguishable from their opposites. ... Everyone recognizes that something essential to comedy is failing: the power to defeat lies. ... [But] comedy's association with honesty is far more recent than we might think. You and I just happen to have grown up during an unusual period in the history of comedy, one in which it became strangely bound up with truth and virtue. Trump, than
  
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• Dalí’s moustache still in fine form

  21-07-2017 15:39
  Salvador Dals famous twirling moustache is in a good condition, says the embalmer who tended the Surrealists body after his death in 1989. The artists most recognisable facial feature remains unblemished, says Narcs Bardalet who assisted with the exhumation of Dals corpse yesterday at the Dal Theatre-Museum in Figueres (21 July). His moustache is still intact [set at] ten past ten, just as he liked it, its a miracle, Bardalet told the Catalan radio station RAC1. Last month, a Spanish court order
  
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• Stolen Francis Bacon Paintings Recovered In Spain

  21-07-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Three of the five works taken from the Madrid home of one of the artist's friends were found by Spanish police following a tipoff from a team asked to authenticate one of the paintings. Several suspects were arrested last year.
  
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• Federal Judge Okays Copyright Lawsuit Against Richard Prince - And Ruling Sounds Ominous For Defendant

  21-07-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Photographer Donald Graham ... alleges that Prince unlawfully used his photograph Rastafarian Smoking a Joint (1996) when he enlarged an Instagram post of it for his New Portraits show at New York's Gagosian Gallery in 2014." The judge noted in his ruling that "Prince has not materially altered the composition, presentation, scale, color palette and media originally used by Graham."
  
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• Rising Young Cabaret Singer Dies Onstage

  21-07-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Barbara Weldens, a 35-year-old Frenchwoman who took first prize in last year's Jacques Brel Young Talent competition and who released her first album in February, was performing at a festival in southwestern France when she abruptly collapsed, apparently having been electrocuted.
  
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• Morning Links: Beheaded Nicole Eisenman Sculpture Edition

  21-07-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• The First American Ever To Direct At Bayreuth, And They Chose, Of All People -

  21-07-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Yuval Sharon has instigated a mobile opera involving 126 performers, 24 limousines and six composers. He's produced a headphone opera, set among commuters passing through one of the country's busiest train stations. ... And, in 12 months, he'll become the first American to direct a production at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, founded by Richard Wagner in 1876."
  
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• They Warned Him Not To Take This Gig With The Bolshoi, But Choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot Made It Work

  21-07-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "'It was a huge gamble,” Mr. Maillot, the director of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, said in a phone interview from Monaco. 'Everything was in place for it to fail.' It did exactly the opposite. A success since its 2014 premiere, The Taming of the Shrew has become a calling card at home and abroad for the Bolshoi." Laura Cappelle reports on the difficulties and delights of the project.
  
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• House Appropriations Committee Approves Bill Funding NEA And NEH

  21-07-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The House bill, part of the process of thrashing out the federal budget for fiscal year 2018, includes $145 million for each endowment. The amounts represent a cut of about $5 million to each agency, but is a stark contrast to President Trump's proposal to eliminate the endowments entirely as outlined in his first federal budget plan he announced in March."
  
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• The Guy Who Started The Ballet-Hip-Hop Mashup Wants To Launch A Professional Hiplet Dance Company

  21-07-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  About 25 years ago, at a rap concert in Canada, Homer Bryant had an idea: "I thought if I put rap and ballet together, I might have a hit on my hands." Eventually, he did: video of his dancers went hugely viral (and got the pearl-clutchers a-clutching). Now (if he can find the donors) he's hoping to go fully pro. (includes slideshow and video)
  
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• Various roles, India

  21-07-2017 13:58
  Sophie Macpherson Ltd are running various searches for a client based in India which include:Commercial Director
  Operations Director
  Gallery Director
  Creative Director
  Outreach Director
  ArchivistAll positions are posted on our website: www.sophiemacpherson.com/opportunitiesIf you are interested, please send your CV to Hattie Culshaw at [email protected]
  
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• This Man Has Become The New Isabella Stewart Gardner Or Albert Barnes

  21-07-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In life, Federico Cerruti was a solitary bachelor who made his fortune binding books, lived in a small apartment above his office, and visited his villa packed with Old Masters and Modern art every Sunday. In death, he has become the latest equivalent of Henry Clay Frick, Isabella Stewart Gardner and Albert Barnes.
  
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• Sex and social realism, Scotland's new gothic folly and Frieze all summer long – the week in art

  21-07-2017 13:32
  The Frieze fair flings open the doors of its outdoor sculpture garden, Pablo Bronstein’s striking new sculpture is unveiled in Edinburgh and a show devoted to comics opens in Derby – in your weekly dispatchPablo Bronstein
  A gothic folly is connected with a Chinoiserie pavilion by a narrow rose walk in Bronstein’s new permanent commission for Scotland’s superb sculpture park.
  • Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, opening 27 July. Continue reading...
  
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• Lee Siegel On The Way The Cultural World Works

  21-07-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Money is the last taboo in contemporary writing — there is no Fifty Shades of Green. I have a simple, crude, and self-serving idea of why that is the case: the people in our world, from book editors to magazine and newspaper editors to writers, usually hail from pretty pampered backgrounds and live pretty pampered lives. Often they’re downright rich. It’s an article of faith among these liberal elites, if you will pardon the loaded term, that they got to where they are all by
  
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• Daniel Richter’s Tarifa: an emblematic image of suffering

  21-07-2017 13:00
  
  The German artist’s 2001 painting is a dystopian nightmare – but also a scene that could have been pulled from coverage of the current refugee crisisDaniel Richter’s Tarifa is both a dystopian nightmare and a scene that could have been pulled straight from recent front-page news. Women in headscarves and men, all hunkered low on an orange dinghy barely large enough to bear their weight, recall countless images of the ongoing refugee crisis. Continue reading...
  
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• Galleries and programme confirmed for ninth Abu Dhabi Art fair

  21-07-2017 12:55
  The new director of the Abu Dhabi Art fair, Dyala Nusseibeh, is making changes to the Middle Eastern event, including a new curated section organised by the high-profile museum curator Omar Kholeif. The ninth edition of the Modern and contemporary art fair,  which launches later this year at Manarat al Saadiyat (8-11 November), is due to include 48 galleries, up from 35 last year. These include regional dealers such as Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Modern Art Gallery and Lawrie Shabibi of Dubai. N
  
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• Send me a masterpiece: the museum texting its artworks to anyone who asks

  21-07-2017 12:07
  
  Fancy a Lichtenstein? How about a Warhol? San Francisco’s MoMA will now send you anything from its collection – all you have to do is ask the artbotIf you fancy receiving an artwork from a world-class gallery, all you now have to do is ask. Liberating itself from the confines of physical space, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has launched a service that has already gone viral. You simply take out your phone and text it a request, keying in “Send me” followed by a d
  
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• Pablo Bronstein and Jac Leirner: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  21-07-2017 10:30
  
  Architecture and the human body are intertwined at Edinburgh’s sculpture park, while across the city deeply personal minimalist works pack an uneasy punchIf you have ever wondered about the connections between the chinoiserie and gothic styles in the 18th century, this one’s for you. Bronstein is fascinated by architectural history and the human body. In his new permanent commission for Edinburgh’s wonderful sculpture park, he links two pavilions – one in the pseudo-Chine
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.20.17

  21-07-2017 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Fable of One Turtle and Four Humans: A Story of Community
  How did the turtle cross the road? The answer according to Greg Milo: thanks to a cardboard box and a community.  ... read more
  AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2017-07-20Growing Together
  Laura Gisler shares a beautiful meditation on what community means to her through these drawings and reflective, poetic words. ... read more
  AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2017-07-20
   
  
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• Three Francis Bacon works stolen in Madrid recovered by Spanish police

  21-07-2017 10:05
  
  Spanish police say that they have recovered three works by Francis Bacon that were stolen from a private residence in Madrid in June 2015. Five works by the Dublin-born artist were removed during the raid. According to the BBC, the three unidentified works, which belong to Bacons acquaintance Jos Capelo, were recovered following a tip-off from a London company specialising in locating stolen art. The UK organisation was contacted by an individual in Sitges who wanted to verify one of the w
  
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• Magnum's masterclass – in pictures

  21-07-2017 08:00
  
  Indian wrestlers grappled with futuristic pool players to scoop the top prizes at the 2017 Magnum and LensCulture photography awards Continue reading...
  
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• Untitled(they laugh when they see him because they fear death. )

  21-07-2017 02:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  i need to come over tomorrow, everyone i know is going to the river.that sucks.did i tell you robert left.i’m sorry.he’s a twisted individual.not just anyone can handle you.the homeless loser with a restraining order meth addict was telling me i’m not good enough and gas lighting me. he was lucky to even know me.he’s lucky you were mad at him.i need the money badly.what should i wear.sneakers and underwear. i just want for you to yell at me.you caught me at a good time to
  
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