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• ‘Over the Rainbow’ at Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles

  24-07-2017 23:34 via artnews.com
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• What We Learned About Fandom After Studying It For A Year

  24-07-2017 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After a year of comprehensive and systematic research, we can safely say fandom is a relationship — a love relationship between the self and an object of fandom, whether that object is a show, movie, book, sport, team, league, band, genre, product, brand, person, activity, or idea. We actually refer to fandom as “love,” differentiating it from “liking something” by the loyalty, devotion, depth of interest, willingness to invest, and desire for closeness that it enge
  
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• The "Beautiful Soul" Idea That Underpins Our Ideas Of Self-Improvement

  24-07-2017 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "At the core of the beautiful soul is the idea that the individual possesses an innate cognitive potential. Subject to the right environmental and educational conditions, this latent potential can be developed to reach a more perfect state of intellect, morality, character and conduct. The beautiful soul is an aesthetic concept focused on developing human capacities and advancing knowledge and culture. It entails the pursuit of personal cultivation to create a convergence of the individual aesth
  
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• The sun sets on twenty years of art clan gatherings at the Hydra Workshops

  24-07-2017 23:00
  There are many outstanding events in the art world but few as eagerly anticipated or keenly attended as the annual gathering on the Greek island of Hydra hosted by patron extraordinaire Pauline Karpidas, accompanied more recently by her son Panos, and organised with quiet efficiency by the dealer Sadie Coles and her team. For twenty years, these meetings of overlapping art clans have opened the yearly summer exhibition in the Hydra Workshops on the islands harbour waterfront with three syb
  
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• The arts festival erupting in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

  24-07-2017 23:00
  How does an international arts festival end up on a small island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean? For the first edition of the Walk & Talk festival in 2011, its current artistic director Jesse James and fellow co-founder Diana Sousa wanted to bring just one artist to Ponta Delgada, the capital of the Portuguese Azores islands. 
   
  Now, in its seventh edition, the festival (until 29 July) has grown with more than 70 participating artists, from around the world and working across
  
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• Ren Hang’s provocative photographs feature in Shanghai Photofairs’ new Spotlight section

  24-07-2017 23:00
  Works by the late photographer Ren Hang are due to go on show at the Photofairs photography fair in Shanghai this autumn (7-10 September, Shanghai Exhibition Centre) in a show billed as the first major exhibition of the artists work since his death in February. All 19 works, previously seen at the KWM Art Center in Beijing in the exhibition Beauty without Beards, will feature in the new fair section called Spotlight which explores the critical and commercial standing of key contemporary photogr
  
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• How Parents Can Spark A Life Of The Mind

  24-07-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Explaining all the way, my father introduced his children to Shakespeare, play by play, as well as to classic Westerns. He explained each and every joke in each and every Gilbert and Sullivan operetta (“You shall sit, if he sees reason, through the grouse and salmon season!”). He read aloud an astonishing number of the works of P.G. Wodehouse, explaining the jokes, however inappropriate."
  
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• The Great Essay Is Rarely About What It Says It's About

  24-07-2017 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The essay, in Brian Dillon’s account, is both erotic and absent, lapidary and profuse, and is at its best when always concerned with its own realisation of its inherent sense of failure. Before this discussion of etymology, though, comes a bravura cadenza of topics, placed to make us realise the essay is never about what it claims to be at all.
  
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• How Cool Became "Cool"

  24-07-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The history of post-war cool is both a history of these strange convergences – between French intellectuals, African American musicians and white working-class Hollywood heroes – and of the continuing conflicts between and within them."
  
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• Are Pricey University Fine Arts Degree Programs On The Verge Of A Crash?

  24-07-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In recent days, it was announced that a graduate program in theater at Harvard would suspend admissions for the next three years after receiving a so-called failing grade from the Department of Education that could result in a loss of access to federal student loans. The finding, which I first read about in the Boston Globe, should be a shot across the bow for elitist arts programs with high tuitions, programs that long have ignored the realistic economic prospects of their graduates."
  
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• Has Classical Music "Recovered" From Atonality?

  24-07-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The tyranny is now gone and tonality is back. But the restoration of reality has not taken place all at once. What began emerging from under the rubble of 12-tone music back in the 1960s was minimalism. In it, tonality returned with a vengeance but was, at first, more like a patient from a trauma ward gradually recovering consciousness. The traumatized patient slowly comes out of a coma, only gradually recovering motor skills, coordination, movement, and coherent speech. The musical m
  
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• Istanbul Biennial Announces 2017 Artist List

  24-07-2017 20:22 via artnews.com
  The 15th edition runs September 16 through November 12. Read More
  
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• Librettists Get More Prominence In The New, Evolving Opera Landscape

  24-07-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Although the status of librettists has waxed and waned over the centuries, it’s time to recognize their importance again, particularly in the creation of contemporary opera. The resurgence of storytelling, along with the heightened media attention accorded premieres, has helped fuel the commissioning of a plethora of new operas in the U.S. in recent years. And the seemingly insatiable appetite of presenters for “celebrity” operas, as well as adaptations of well-known films and
  
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• Howling at the Moon: Watch New Video by Artist Will Benedict for Noise Band Wolf Eyes

  24-07-2017 20:00 via artnews.com
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• Addressing The Gender Imbalance In The Non-Profit Sector

  24-07-2017 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In the non-profit sector, 75 percent of all workers and volunteers are women. Yet somehow only 45 percent of women will go on to secure a top position at any of these organizations, and only 21 percent of these CEOs will have access to budgets of $25 million or more. So what gives?"
  
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• The LA Philharmonic Is Once Again Training Youth Orchestras To Work Hard And Kick Ass

  24-07-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  But is this enough, in a time of political upheaval (consider Venezuela, for instance, home of El Sistema)? "The mold is definitely breaking, but it is anyone’s guess how 100 young musicians playing for maybe 1,000 listeners can change the world. Isn’t it enough that they have changed their lives, and that they can go on to change others’ lives? And that the audience, which consisted mostly of their mentors and artistic movers and shakers, can use the knowledge of this success
  
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• Berkshire Museum courts censure from museums groups with plan to sell 40 works

  24-07-2017 18:32
  The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, plans to auction 40 works of art from its collection, including two original paintings by Norman Rockwell, to fund a $40m endowment and $20m refurbishment of the 114-year-old museum. The move has caused some controversy in museum circles, since works of art are usually sold only to fund further acquisitions, and the American Alliance of Museums, to which the Berkshire Museum belongs, has said the move violates its code of ethics.
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• Berkshire Museum courts censure from museums groups with plan to auction 40 works

  24-07-2017 18:32
  The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, plans to auction 40 works of art from its collection, including two original paintings by Norman Rockwell, to fund a $40m endowment and $20m refurbishment of the 114-year-old museum. The move has caused some controversy in museum circles, since works of art are usually sold only to fund further acquisitions, and the American Alliance of Museums, to which the Berkshire Museum belongs, has said the move violates its code of ethics. To think that
  
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• It's A Noisy Cacophonous World. Here's How Eight Top Curators Try To Make Sense Of The World

  24-07-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dickens’s characters are cardboard cutouts, even in their names: Inspector Bucket, the Brothers Cheeryble, Jerry Cruncher. They are mechanicals. His prose is turgid and, less forgivable, tortured. Here’s his rendition, in “Dombey and Son,” of a sea-captain’s dialect: “It’s an almighty element. There’s wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds is roaring and the waves is rowling.” What a load of bosh.
  
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• Stage Actors Must Fall In Love, Instantly, Performance After Performance

  24-07-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After a long rehearsal and a lot of planning, actors know how to substitute themselves for the characters (mostly without creating problems for the actors themselves). They can be "clear about drawing distinctions between performance and life. Ms. Grant believes in 'really healthy, strong boundaries,' she said, and as Mr. Hernandez put it,'This is literally my job. I went to school for it. I’m not skeezing on anybody. It is in the text.' No carnal appetite here."
  
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• A Dying Venice Turns On Tourists

  24-07-2017 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Around 2,000 people leave each year. If we go on this way, in a few years’ time Venice will only be populated by tourists. This would be a social, anthropological and historical disaster.” Whether irritated by selfie sticks, noisy wheelie suitcases or people snacking on one of the 391 bridges, Venetians’ contempt towards the 28 million visitors who flood the city each year has reached alarming levels.
  
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• Korean Broadcasters Decide To Stream Directly To U.S. K-Pop And K-Drama Fans

  24-07-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With a near-simultaneous translation plan, "Kocowa offers U.S. audiences access to a lineup of Korean TV programs from all three broadcasters — KBS, MBC and SBS — as soon as six hours after they’re broadcast in Korea. The service will compete primarily with DramaFever, the Korean-entertainment streaming service owned by Warner Bros."
  
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• Rock Musician Alice Cooper Finds A Long-Lost Andy Warhol In A Tube In A Storage Locker

  24-07-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, that headline sounds like word salad, but it's real: "The work in question is a red Little Electric Chair silkscreen, from Warhol’s Death and Disaster series. Never stretched on a frame, it sat in storage alongside touring artefacts including an electric chair that Cooper used in the early 70s as part of his ghoulish stage show."
  
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• Tate Liverpool’s long-serving art handler (Ken) gets his own show

  24-07-2017 16:19
  Tate Liverpool is honouring its art handling manager, Ken Simonswho has been at the institution since it opened in 1988in a special way. As he prepares to retire, Ken will present an exhibition of 30 works drawn from the Tate collection Kens Show: Exploring the Unseen (2 April-17 June 29108), in the ground floor Wolfson Gallery, includes some of his favourite works, many of which he has previously installed in the galleries, a Tate statement says. Kens preferred pieces include Light Re
  
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• Actor Michelle Terry Will Take Over From Emma Rice At The Globe

  24-07-2017 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Shakespearean actor said it was "a dream come true," despite the fact that she's succeeding another woman, Emma Rice, whose vision for the Globe was famously undercut when the theatre's board decided to force her out (Rice is headed to the Old Vic).
  
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• When You Teach, But Do Not Love, Jane Austen

  24-07-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's because of what Austen left out, and other women (and men) addressed in their own fiction from the time. "As I’ve realized the scope of 19th-century texts that took up the question of transatlantic slavery and the movements to abolish it, I haven’t read Austen the same way. I can appreciate her skill but feel an urgent need to teach and write about these other stories. With Austen as, often, the primary literary lens into her time period, it can be all too easy to forget how dee
  
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• Robots Need Morals, But Making Them Read Classic Literature Is Not Going To Help

  24-07-2017 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hmmmm. "Much fiction and drama will dizzyingly mislead poor robots about the world in which they have to make their decisions. Our favourite stories abound in ghosts, demons, wizards, monsters and every kind of talking animal. Human beings travel through time and fly through the air and get into or out of trouble by the use of magic."
  
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• Habitat: Studio Visits With Artists in Hong Kong

  24-07-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
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• Gillan Moore Is Determined To Program Classical Music - And Women Composers - In London's Southbank

  24-07-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Moore: "If we don’t support contemporary composers, their music is going to die. History is littered with people who struggled to get any recognition at all, even people who are big names now."
  
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• Will The Success Of 'Wonder Woman' And 'Beauty And The Beast' Lead To More Women-Centered Films?

  24-07-2017 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Maybe? "This weekend, with $389 million from the domestic market, 'Wonder Woman' can add a new accomplishment to its arsenal — the highest-grossing movie of the summer. It’s also the second largest earner of 2017 behind another film centered on a female protagonist, 'Beauty and the Beast' ($504 million domestic)."
  
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• Morning Links: Ivanka Trump’s $25 Million Collection Edition

  24-07-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• A Ballerina Explains What It's Like To Move From Europe To The U.S.

  24-07-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dores André, a principal dancer with San Francisco Ballet, "loves life in the United States. She considers San Francisco home. But with her Spanish perspective, she says she would like to see the government and US citizens reflect on their collective past more often. 'By being a pioneer, sometimes you forget to look back and [check] on your own history,' she points out. 'I think that learning from its past could be a really good thing.'"
  
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• Avant Garde Theatre Is Mainstream In The Netherlands

  24-07-2017 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Can the U.S. ever catch up? Hm. "Americans say we are modern and experimental. ... But for me, I don’t see that. I don’t think it’s that much of a provocative performance at all."
  
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• The Women Of The BBC Politely (But Firmly) Request Equal Pay For Equal Work

  24-07-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yikes, BBC, do better (and faster): "Earlier this week, under new government rules, the BBC was required to publish a list of presenters making over £150,000, or about $200,000. The disclosure showed a glaring pay gap at the company. ...In one example, John Humphrys, a male host on the flagship news show Radio 4 Today, earns between £600,000-£649,999. His female co-host, Sarah Montague, earns under £150,000."
  
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• What Hemingway Learned From Miro

  24-07-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It was pretty direct (Miró timed Hemingway's boxing matches, by the way): "Miró models a visual clarity that the writer, for whom the sun was a central symbol, used in the descriptive passages with which so many of his works begin. With Hemingway’s writing, this is not a passive record of the scene, but the probing vigilance of the hunter, fisherman, and combat veteran."
  
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• Paris exhibition and auction throw spotlight on refugee NGOs in France

  24-07-2017 12:31
  Artists such as Cindy Sherman, Glenn Ligon, Jimmie Durham, and Annette Messager have donated works to a special exhibition and auction in aid of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that assist refugees arriving in France. The show, We Dream Under the Same Sky, is due to open at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris this autumn (16-21 September); the works will be sold 27 September at the Azzedine Alaa gallery in a sale organised by Christies.
   
  Ligon will show Stranger Study#29 (2017), a work inc
  
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• ‘I'd be crushed if this was gone before anyone got to see it': Rone's Omega House – in pictures

  24-07-2017 08:24
  In the most extensive piece of art he has created in one space, internationally renowned Melbourne street artist Rone has taken over the inside of a crumbling old house in Alphington – the last remaining home on a development site that’s set to become an entire new suburb in ever-changing Melbourne.His signature ‘Jane Doe’ mural portraits stare out from the rooms, which are packed with furnished nostalgia for a forgotten Australiana, designed by interior stylist Carly Spo
  
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• Beauty meets decay: Melbourne street artist Rone breathes new life into condemned house

  24-07-2017 08:23
  Rone discusses the Omega Project, which sees his signature murals grace the walls of an abandoned house marked for demolitionMelbourne is busy growing, razing old houses and factories and throwing up apartment towers for the almost 2,000 new residents the state gets each week.
  Change is happening so fast there’s barely time to mourn what’s lost. Related: ‘I'd be crushed if this was gone before anyone got to see it': Rone's Omega House – in picturesRelated: Then and Now: t
  
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• 'We found it rolled up in a tube': Alice Cooper discovers Warhol classic after 40 years

  24-07-2017 08:00
  Silkscreen from Death and Disaster series sat in storage among other artefactsRocker became friends with Warhol in New York in the 1960sThe rock star Alice Cooper has found an Andy Warhol masterpiece that could be worth millions “rolled up in a tube” in a storage locker, where it lay forgotten for more than 40 years.Related: Andy Warhol’s Electric Chair, 1964: a dark mirror to pop art Alice says he remembers having a conversation with Warhol about the picture. He thinks the con
  
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