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• The world bodypainting festival 2017 – in pictures

  28-07-2017 23:54
  In the small town of Klagenfurt, Austria, artists from around the world have gathered to take part in the 20th world bodypainting festival and competition. It runs from 28-30 July and also includes fashion shows, music events and food and lifestyle markets Continue reading...
  
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• Study: Alcohol Can Boost Creativity

  28-07-2017 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It reports that, while moderate inebriation doesn't boost your ability to generate innovative ideas, it can help you avoid one major barrier to creative breakthroughs: getting stuck in a mental rut.
  
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• Marshall McLuhan's Ideas Only Become More Relevant As Time Goes On

  28-07-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The splintering of traditional media, the hostility of contemporary politics, the ways in which modern technology pulls us together while at the same time driving us apart – if you look, you'll find traces of it in McLuhan's work, which explored subjects ranging from pop culture to mass media to the ways in which technology would affect our ways of communication, decades before cellphones or the Internet. He was an avatar of the future, ironic considering his own, pessimistic view of thin
  
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• Cheech Marin's Search For The "Chicano Rockwell"

  28-07-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I’ve studied great painters all my life — most of my favorites are European: Caravaggio, Picasso. When I discovered Chicano painters, I knew they were great painters because I knew what great painting was. That’s what attracted me, not: “They’re Chicano and those are my people!”
  
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• Philadelphia's Army Of Theatre Voters

  28-07-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Theatre Philadelphia expanded the pool of nominators this year from 60 to 70, “to ensure we had all the voices in the room — race, ethnicity, people not on the binary, the LGBTQ community. “We wanted our nominator pool,” he said, “to reflect what we want to see in our theater audiences.”
  
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• How Do The Arts Make A More Appealing Case For Funding To Philanthropists?

  28-07-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It is this notion of competition that has preoccupied the case for the arts for much of the past ten years, leading to a greater focus on impact and evidence of outcomes than ever before. And while the resulting improvements in measurement and evaluation are in many regards enhancing the offer the sector makes, it is an argument we can never win and which in fact misses the point.
  
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• How Data About Writing Is Changing Writing

  28-07-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A few decades ago, the advent of the word processor made it easier than ever to revise on the fly; it also made it easy to dwell on one sentence ad infinitum, gilding the lily where once one would’ve advanced to the next thought. The glut of data is another mixed blessing—past a certain point, writers would do better in a state of blissful ignorance."
  
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• Opera Versus Gay Opera Versus Opera Queens, A Pocket History

  28-07-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alex Ross: The culture indicated by the phrase “opera queen” became visible in pioneering openly gay communities of the late nineteenth century, and undoubtedly existed long before that. Even so, operas on gay themes have proliferated in recent years.
  
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• The Trump Era Is Changing What Books Are Being Written And Bought (Is It Harder Now?)

  28-07-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For authors whose books were released in the thick of the political storm, to booksellers watching readers flock to dystopian works, the Trump administration has succeeded in influencing our consideration of books—not necessarily for better or for worse, but in ways that demonstrate how much we need words to survive and provide solace for troubling times ahead."
  
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• Met Names Quincy Houghton Deputy Director for Exhibitions, Fills Four More Positions

  28-07-2017 19:11 via artnews.com
  It has been a wild few days for personnel news related to the New York institution. Read More
  
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• Was Every American Movie Of The '60s And '70s Really A Vietnam War Movie?

  28-07-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you limit the genre to "movies that deal explicitly with combat, or the American presence in Vietnam generally," you get about two dozen movies (including post-'70s films). Yet, argues Clay Risen, expand those limits somewhat and "the genre spins off into dozens of subcategories, the shape of which say a lot about how America has viewed the war over the decades since it ended." (Risen includes Rambo, Hair, MAS*H, Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider, and even Love Story and Shampoo.)
  
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• How SoundCloud Became A Hotbed Of Musical Innovation

  28-07-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On SoundCloud, genres thrive on amorphism, defined more by a song’s uncompromising sentiment—rage, anxiety, body-rolling euphoria—than the pulse of the beat or musical composition. (A casual listener might be inclined to label “Please B Okay” as simply house music.) This has given the Berlin-based platform a unique advantage not just in breaking unknown talent but in becoming a breeding ground for experimental sounds.
  
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• Sarah Lucas at Legion of Honor, San Francisco

  28-07-2017 18:20 via artnews.com
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• How, And Why, I Taught My Computer To Compose Its Own Music

  28-07-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  John Supko: "As Bill [Seaman] and I saw it, human creativity can be defined as making connections - governed by unpredictable, subjective forces - between seemingly unrelated bits of information. Music is particularly well suited to serve as a model for the creative process. Human composers have multiple components of information - melody, harmony, rhythm - at their fingertips. ... These elements tend to implicate each other and emerge together from the composer's imagination. Bill and I wanted
  
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• From the Archives: A MoMA Design Curator Addresses a Frank Lloyd Wright Controversy, in 1954

  28-07-2017 17:58 via artnews.com
  "I think the bouts between Wright and the 'Internationalists,' however mean occasionally, will prove to be one of the most meaningful campaigns ever waged in the visual arts." Read More
  
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• Why Has Sotheby's Share Price Hit An All-Time High?

  28-07-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sotheby’s shares are up 45 percent for the year, reports Katya Kazakina of Bloomberg, outperforming the S&P 500 and marking the auction house’s highest level since the company went public in 1988.
  
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• Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle wins £750,000 for triennial show

  28-07-2017 17:17
  Arts Council cash to fuel region’s aspiration to build on historical pedigree and become a world centre for sculptureArt galleries in Yorkshire have been given funding to hold a large-scale triennial exhibition across several venues known collectively as the Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle, which organisers hope will cement the region’s bid to be a world centre for sculpture.Arts Council England has awarded £750,000 to the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Gallery, the Hepworth Wak
  
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• Philosopher Dies While Trying To Save Children From Drowning

  28-07-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anne Dufourmantelle, a well-known professor and columnist whose entire career was centered on the concept and embrace of risk, was swept out to sea when she attempted a rescue under dangerous conditions at a beach near St.-Tropez.
  
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• Air India Once Amassed The World's Greatest Collection Of Modern Indian Art - What's Happened To It?

  28-07-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  They don't know - and that's the problem. For much of the state-owned airline's history, it was one of a very few serious buyers of living Indian artists' work - in effect, a national art patron. Now that much of that artwork is worth many thousands of dollars (or more) a piece, there's no proper inventory of what Air India bought over the years or where it's supposed to be - and some of it has been turning up in the private market.
  
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• Millions In Gov't Funding For Emma Rice's New Theatre Company 'Makes A Mockery Of The Entire Arts Funding System'

  28-07-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Wise Children, the company, didn't exist until nine days before the deadline for registering a National Portfolio Organisation application [with Arts Council England]. ... It may be that the company's success provides a resounding and gratifying riposte to a ridiculous cock-up at Shakespeare's Globe ... But you have to ask: would other bold artists, who hadn't been blessed with the oxygen of publicity, be successful with a similarly astronomical application?"
  
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• BAM Starts Its First Formal Artist Residencies - And They're For Dance

  28-07-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Brooklyn Academy of Music, in what it says is its first formal relationship with a residency partner, will join forces with the budding Lumberyard Contemporary Performing Arts organization in upstate New York to commission and nurture three new dance works."
  
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• Publisher Withdraws Doctor's Book 'Mandela's Last Years' After Protests From Widow And Others

  28-07-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[The memoir,] written by his long-time physician Vejay Ramlakan, discloses intimate details about Mandela's health and family infighting prior to his death in 2013. ... Members of the Mandela family have strongly objected to the book's publication, slamming it as a breach of doctor-patient confidentiality."
  
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• Protesters Demand That ICA Boston Cancel Dana Schutz Show Because Of 'Open Casket' (Which Is Not In The Show)

  28-07-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Evidently believing that Schutz hasn't been punished enough for having shown her painting of the murdered Emmett Till at the Whitney Biennial, a group of activists wrote in an open letter, "The institution will be participating in condoning the coopting of Black pain and showing the art world and beyond that people can co-opt sacred imagery rooted in oppression and face little consequence ... Please pull the show. This is not about censorship. This is about institutional accountability."
  
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• Morning Links: Palace of Fine Arts Edition

  28-07-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Anger At Black Actor Getting Booted From 'Great Comet' To Make Room For Mandy Patinkin

  28-07-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This week it was announced that Patinkin would make a now-rare appearance on Broadway, starring for three weeks in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. To accommodate Patinkin's schedule, the producers cut short the contract of the actor currently playing Pierre, Hamilton alumnus Okieriete Onaodowan ("Oak"). Some fellow minority actors are denouncing the cast change on social media.
  
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• Mariinsky Ballet Names Xander Parish Principal Dancer

  28-07-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 31-year-old Briton "was confirmed last night as only the second foreigner [ever] to be promoted to the top tier of the company, which was previously known as the Kirov."
  
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• Ousted Met Museum Director Thomas Campbell Lands Next Gig: Getty Rothschild Fellowship

  28-07-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Thomas P. Campbell, who last month ended his tumultuous tenure as chief executive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been chosen as the second recipient of the Getty Rothschild Fellowship ... The fellowship supports scholarship in art history, collecting and conservation, offering art historians, museum professionals or conservators up to eight months of research and study at the Getty in Los Angeles and Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, England."
  
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• Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Book Critic, Steps Down After 38 Years

  28-07-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Sources familiar with her decision, which comes a year after the Times restructured its books coverage, [said] that last year's election had triggered a desire to branch out and write more essays about culture and politics in Trump's America."
  
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• The Essential Michiko Kakutani Reader

  28-07-2017 13:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Below are highlights from Kakutani's tenure at the Times - her reviews of major novels and autobiographies, her obituaries and appreciations, her profiles and essays. Together they represent a vigorously led life of the mind, a crash course in contemporary literature and a tour through the zeitgeist of the turn of the millennium."
  
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• Six Ex-Officials In South Korea Sentenced To Prison For Blacklisting Artists

  28-07-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The six, including former President Park Geun-hye's chief of staff and culture minister, were convicted of perjury, abuse of power, and related charges for having drawn up a list of cultural figures and denied them state funding and access to programs because they were seen as political opponents of Park.
  
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• Turin's Big New Tate Modern-Style Arts Complex Set To Open With William Kentridge And Tino Sehgal

  28-07-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "After Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof and London's Tate Modern, the trend for converting industrial buildings into contemporary art spaces looks set to continue in the northern Italian city of Turin. The Officine Grandi Riparazioni (OGR), an H-shaped complex of 19th-century railway repair workshops covering an area of 35,000 sq. m, is due to reopen as a privately funded 'arts and innovation centre' on 30 September with a trio of site-specific artists' commissions and two weeks of free concerts."
  
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• Jeremy Deller’s The History of the World: a cultural backlash

  28-07-2017 13:00
  The artist’s 1998 work shows the genesis of Acid Brass, his 1997 exploration of the link between the miners’ strike and the crackdown on the rave sceneA screenprint from a flowchart by a champion of the overlap between the personal and the political, Jeremy Deller. It provides the backstory to his cross-cultural collision Acid Brass of 1997, in which he got a Stockport brass band to play acid house tracks. Continue reading...
  
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• A flamingo frenzy, Matisse's personal stash and a Warhol in the attic – the week in art

  28-07-2017 13:00
  Edinburgh fizzes for the festival, a bio-artist makes books bloom with bacteria and low-riders enter high art – all in your weekly dispatchMatisse in the Studio
  The diverse world art collection of Henri Matisse is recreated by an exhibition that explores how it shaped his vision.
  • Royal Academy, London, 5 August to 12 November. Continue reading...
  
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• Carry on camping at Houghton with Richard Long

  28-07-2017 12:18
  The inaugural Houghton Festival takes place next month at the eponymous historic house in the east of England where Richard Long has created monumental works for Earth Sky (until 26 October), using mud, slate, flint and tree roots, joining works already in situ by James Turrell, Rachel Whiteread and Jeppe Hein, among others. Long, who rarely gives interviews, recently told John Wilson on BBC Radio Fours Front Row, that he didnt care that probably no one saw his first sculpture-path, a line he t
  
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• What Thomas Campbell did next: ex-Met chief decamps to L.A. for research fellowship

  28-07-2017 11:36
  Thomas Campbell, the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has announced his next career move. Campbell will relocate to the West coast after receiving the second Getty Rothschild fellowship. The tapestries scholar will split his time equally between the Getty in Los Angeles (November-February 2018) and at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire (March-June 2018).
  Campbell says in a statement that  he welcomes the opportunity to devote the coming year to examine, f
  
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• Shadows of War and Douglas Gordon: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  28-07-2017 10:30
  Roger Fenton’s photographs of the Crimea show the emergence of modern warfare, while a Turner prize winner takes on Robert BurnsThe war photographs of Roger Fenton are stilled landscapes haunted by bloodshed. In 1855, this Victorian camera pioneer took photographs of the aftermath of battle in the Crimea. Fenton conveys the conflict’s horror by photographing a valley laden with cannon balls, while his portraits preserve the inscrutable faces of soldiers at the dawn of modern warfare.
  
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• Making art out of Crossrail – tech podcast

  28-07-2017 08:00
  Navine G Khan-Dossos’s work explores the shared geometric and algorithmic language of Islamic art and the internetNavine Khan-Dossos is an artist whose work is often informed by technology and infrastructure. In her latest work, A Year Without Movement, she explores the symbology of London’s huge Crossrail project, painting directly on to the walls of the 18th Century House of St Barnabus, which rests directly above Crossrail tunnels. Continue reading...
  
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• Father John Misty by his wife – in pictures

  28-07-2017 08:00
  Their wedding at Big Sur, their mushroom trips at Joshua Tree, their hungover mornings somewhere in Germany … Emma Elizabeth Tillman has photographed her life with the singer also known as Josh Tillman. She picks her favourite shots Continue reading...
  
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• Emma Elizabeth Tillman: up close with Father John Misty – in pictures

  28-07-2017 08:00
  Their wedding at Big Sur, mushroom trips at Joshua Tree, hungover mornings somewhere in Germany … Emma Elizabeth Tillman’s intense photographic study of life with the singer Josh Tillman Continue reading...
  
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• Arts group to restage historic civil rights protest in New York

  28-07-2017 05:47
  On Friday, 28 July, on the centenary of New Yorks Silent Parade protest, where around 10,000 African Americans gathered on Fifth Avenue to march against racial violence and discrimination, the non-profit group Kindred Arts is organising a march memorialising the event, in partnership with the NAACP and the arts initiative Inside Out. The 1917 demonstration, organised by W.E.B. Du Bois and the NAACP, happened in the wake of the East St Louis riots in Illinois, where mobs of white men murdered so
  
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• Arts group restages historic civil rights protest in New York

  28-07-2017 05:47
  One hundred years ago today (28 July), around 10,000 African Americans gathered on Fifth Avenue to march against racial violence and discrimination in New Yorks Silent Parade protest. To mark the centenary, the non-profit group Kindred Arts is organising a march memorialising the event, in partnership with the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and the arts initiative Inside Out.
  The 1917 demonstration, organised by W.E.B. Du Bois and the NAACP, happene
  
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• Albert Namatjira: vivid watercolours of the Australian outback – in pictures

  28-07-2017 05:03
  Born 115 years ago today in Hermannsburg, Northern Territory, Albert (Elea) Namatjira remains one of Australia’s most famous artists, for his landscape paintings that celebrated the country through a unique lens of reds, ochres and purples. His story is a tragic one: the Western Arrarnta man became the first Aboriginal to be granted Australian citizenship in 1957. He was then exempted from laws that denied Indigenous Australians the right to vote, own property and drink alcohol, but was ar
  
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• Albert Namatjira: vivid watercolours of Australian outback – in pictures

  28-07-2017 05:03
  Born 115 years ago today in Hermannsburg, Northern Territory, Albert (Elea) Namatjira remains one of Australia’s most famous artists, for his landscape paintings that celebrated the country through a unique lens of reds, ochres and purples. His story is a tragic one: the Western Arrarnta man become the first Aboriginal to be granted Australian citizenship in 1957. He was then exempted from laws that denied Indigenous Australians the right to vote, own property and drink alcohol, but was ar
  
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• Albert Namatjira: vivid watercolours of Australia's outback – in pictures

  28-07-2017 02:32
  Born 115 years ago today in Hermannsburg, Northern Territory, Albert (Elea) Namatjira remains one of Australia’s most famous artists, for his landscape paintings that celebrated the country through a unique lens of reds, ochres and purples. His story is a tragic one: the Western Arrarnta man become the first Aboriginal to be granted Australian citizenship in 1957. He was then exempted from laws that denied Indigenous Australians the right to vote, own property and drink alcohol, but was ar
  
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• Why Is Hollywood Making Movies ABout Emojis And Video Games And Legos?

  28-07-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This trend toward I.P.-­based movies has been profound. In 1996, of the top 20 grossing films, nine were live-­action movies based on wholly original screenplays. In 2016, just one of the top 20 grossing movies, ‘‘La La Land,’’ fit that bill. Just about everything else was part of the Marvel universe or the DC Comics universe or the ‘‘Harry Potter’’ universe or the ‘‘Star Wars’’ universe or the ‘‘Star Tre
  
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