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• Can Writers Reveal People With Better Insight Than Psychologists Can?

  04-08-2017 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Everyone from pop-psych authors to business-school professors to astrologers has come up with her own system for sizing up people. If it were possible, wouldn’t one method have prevailed by now? In fact, two recent paradigm-breaking studies suggest that personality traits can shift slowly yet drastically over time, and quite quickly after therapeutic interventions. This is a legitimate question for theoretical mathematicians, but in the science of personality (unlike mathem
  
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• This Machine Is Why Music Sounds So Generic Right Now

  04-08-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A lot of this aural blandness has to do with technology. It begins with the producer who relies on a computer rather than live instrumentalists and ends with the devices we use to consume our music, which cut out the dynamics captured in the recording studio."
  
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• Seattle Art Fair solidifies standing in year three

  04-08-2017 23:00
  The Seattle Art Fair (3-6 August) kicked off its third edition with an expanded exhibitor roster and measured optimism from local and international dealers. Since the fairs 2015 debut, under the auspices of billionaire Paul G. Allen's Vulcan Inc., in partnership with Art Market Productions, it has been eyed with interest: an urbane and underserved market with an existing coterie of dedicated patrons, plus a new class of would-be buyers from the computing and biotech fields.
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• We Need More Artists In Government - Now An Initiative To Encourage Them

  04-08-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "That’s where Artist Campaign School comes in: we’ll train you in everything you need to know to get your political campaign up and running. From fundraising to putting together policy statements, we are bringing together top-tier campaign veterans who will provide you with practical knowledge and set you up for a successful bid."
  
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• Is Instant Internet Judgment Killing Thoughtful Discussion Of Theatre?

  04-08-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "To proclaim judgment prematurely shuts down any hope of respectful dialogue. We cannot come to a mutual understanding without a spirit of generosity and empathy (full disclosure: I need to remind myself of this too). To create lasting, systemic changes, we first need to be able to talk to each other. In our increasingly divided society, filled with echo chambers, we need to build our ranks, not cut ourselves off at the pass."
  
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• The Average Hit Pop Song Now Has Four Writers And Six Publishers

  04-08-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In the 1960s, an average hit song on the Billboard Top 10 had an average of 1.87 writers and 1.68 publishers each year.  Songwriting duos were common, and creativity a simpler endeavor. Now, popular mainstream songs have (on average) at least four writers and six publishers each.  And that, ladies and gentlemen, underscores the challenge that the music industry faces in licensing and rights administration."
  
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• Why We Need Amateur Theatre

  04-08-2017 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As much as the themes of the show resonate with professional performers and dancers, it takes on a new level of connection for amateur performers who connect with its sentiments: For them, “What I Did For Love” means something wholly different and unique. Am-dram relies on love from every side; the hunger to be involved should be enjoyed and appreciated.
  
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• Nine Audacious Museum Designs That Never Got Built

  04-08-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
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• How Hunter S. Thompson Would Cover Donald Trump

  04-08-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Terry McDonell looks at what Thompson did to with Richard Nixon - and figures that HST would have completely understood Trump (not that he'd have liked him) and would have had a total blast writing about the Mooch.
  
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• ‘Sea Sick in Paradise’ at Depart Foundation, Los Angeles

  04-08-2017 19:38 via artnews.com
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• Anne Midgette: The Best 35 Women Composers, A List

  04-08-2017 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In the wake of much discussion about the chronic underrepresentation of female composers on American concert programs, I came up with my own best-of list. Since I was responding to a list of recordings, I confined myself to artists active in the recorded music era, the 20th and 21st centuries"
  
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• Executive Director - Quad City Symphony Orchestra

  04-08-2017 19:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Quad City Symphony Orchestra seeks an Executive Director to manage the staff and financial resources in order to achieve the QCSO’s mission. Responsibilities include revenue enhancement and fund-raising, strategic planning and action implementation, governance and financial management, and institutional growth and branding. The QCSO has an annual operating budget of approximately $2.3 million.
  Reporting to the President of the Board, the Executive Director serves as the senior executiv
  
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• At What Point Does Sacred Music Become Too Sensuous? Christianity Is Not The Only Religion To Struggle With The Question

  04-08-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Arguments about whether and when music in church was uplifting or distracting go back to at least St. Augustine and St. Jerome - but, as Alexander Lee finds out, various Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist sages and authorities have hashed out similar disputes and come up with widely varying answers. (Do we take it Hindus and Confucians saw no such dilemmas?)
  
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• How Tim Page Became Friends With Glenn Gould

  04-08-2017 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I flew to Toronto, and stayed for two days at the now-demolished Inn on the Park, on whose premises Gould kept a studio. He proffered a gentle, squeamish handshake when we met, and rarely looked at me thereafter; still, when we weren’t recording, we spent most of our time in hearty and contented laughter. That understanding, you see. Six weeks later, at the age of 50, Gould died from a stroke."
  
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• The Book of Miracles: 16th-century apocalyptic visions – in pictures

  04-08-2017 18:09
  Rediscovered a few years ago, an illustrated manuscript from 1550s Augsburg, Germany, shows awe-inspiring tales of the Old Testament, the Book of Revelation and contemporary events. Taschen’s new edition adds historical contextContinue reading...
  
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• Fears That '13 Reasons Why' Could Lead To Spike In Teen Suicide May Have Been Well-Founded: Study

  04-08-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Google queries about suicide rose by almost 20 percent in 19 days after the show came out, representing between 900,000 and 1.5 million more searches than usual regarding the subject.' And yes, there is typically a correlation between searches and attempts; also, "searches for precise suicide methods increased after the series' release."
  
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• George Little obituary

  04-08-2017 17:55
  George Little, who has died aged 90, was a painter who chronicled the heavy industry of south Wales. His life’s work documented the region’s decline, the most recent paintings showing the ruins of once vibrant and mighty industries.George was born in Swansea and spent his childhood in Danygraig, a working-class area close to the city docks. He witnessed the bombing raids between 19 and 21 February 1941 that destroyed the centre of the city. Many years later, he made a series of paint
  
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• Study: People Who Participate In The Arts Are More Likely To Participate In Their Communities

  04-08-2017 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The findings suggest "the arts provide an important vehicle for facilitating a cohesive and sustainable society," psychologists Julie Van de Vyver of the University of Lincoln and Dominic Abrams of the University of Kent write in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. "Fostering a society in which engagement in the arts is encouraged and accessible to all may provide an important counter to economic, cultural, and political fracture and division."
  
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• Artificial Intelligence Program Made Paintings People Liked Better Than The Ones At Art Basel

  04-08-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Researchers at Rutgers University's Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory not only created the software, "[they] showed the generated artworks to a pool of 18 people to judge, mixed with 50 images of real paintings - half by famous Abstract Expressionists and half shown at Art Basel 2016." Not only did the panel prefer the AI paintings, they thought that many of the Art Basel works had been created by the computer. (As Claire Voon puts it, "zombie formalism is real.")
  
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• Watching Will Shortz, New York Times Crossword Editor And NPR Puzzlemaster, At Work

  04-08-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A reporter visits Shortz's home office in the NYC suburbs and watches him collaborate with the Times digital puzzle editor, a former Shortz intern.
  
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• Why Male Crime Novelists Are Now Using Female Pseudonyms

  04-08-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Historically, of course, cross-gender pseudonyms for writers typically went the opposite direction. Now, Sophie Hilbert reports, publishers have found that novels by women writers (real or ostensible) tend to sell better - yes, even crime novels.
  
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• Abramovic and Ulay reunite at Louisiana Museum

  04-08-2017 15:58
  The artists Marina Abramovic and Ulay reunited on stage and on screen at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art this summer. The artists' pioneering performances and nomadic life as a couple ended acrimoniously in 1988 after an epic walk towards each other along the Great Wall of China. At the opening of Abramovics retrospective at the Danish museum in late June, her former lover joined her on stage and shared the microphone at the end of a talk by Abramovic. Unlike their silent and tearful meeting
  
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• Architectural Digest Picks The 18 Most Stunning University Libraries

  04-08-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There are the expected ones (Trinity College Dublin, Wren Library at Cambridge, the Sorbonne), modern marvels (Caltech, U. Chicago), places you might not expect (Oklahoma), and one you'd swear was from the English Middle Ages that is, in fact, in the Pacific Northwest. (So, what'd they miss?)
  
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• From the Archives: On Alberto Giacometti’s Connections to Cubism, in 1974

  04-08-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  "Why was Giacometti, despite his often expressed aim to paint and sculpt what he saw, restricted, for the most part, to a single view of the human figure?" Read More
  
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• National Academy Members Pen Open Letter in Support of Dana Schutz

  04-08-2017 15:25 via artnews.com
  Marina Abramovic, Catherine Opie, Kara Walker, and Jack Whitten are among the signees. Read More
  
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• People Who Enjoy The Arts Are More Likely To Give To Charity And Volunteer, Says Study

  04-08-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "New research into the connections between the arts and 'prosociality' - whereby individuals are likely to donate their time or money to charitable causes - found ... that [attendance at or participation in] the arts had a stronger connection to prosociality than other demographic variables."
  
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• Artlogic announces formal expansion in the US

  04-08-2017 15:11
  Art is one of the few markets to have resisted migration online, but there are signs this is now changing. Among them the rapid growth of Artlogic, the London-based technology company that designs and builds databases and websites for galleries, collectors and artists.This month, the firm is announcing its formal expansion in the US, adding Marian Goodman, Gagosian, Paul Kasmin, Elizabeth Dee, the Marciano Art Foundation and Jackson Fine Art to its burgeoning roster of clients. The Artlogic tea
  
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• Playwrights Grapple With Ohio's Opioid Crisis

  04-08-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "At least five plays about heroin abuse have been produced in northeast Ohio alone in the last year as the state's residents grapple with the surging epidemic." The writers and their colleagues are using as a model the theater's response to AIDS in the '80s and '90s.
  
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• Morning Links: Julie Mehretu Edition

  04-08-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Seattle Opera Faces 'Yellowface' Issues Around 'Madama Butterfly' Head-On

  04-08-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In reality, Cio-Cio San is a sex-trafficked 15-year-old Japanese teenager," says Seattle Opera's (Japanese-American) media-relations manager. "Why are we so comfortable with that, to the point of romanticizing it and telling the story over and over?" The company is, and has been, examining that question; Jason Victor Serinus reports on how.
  
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• Why We Need To Confront Racial Bias In Dance Criticism

  04-08-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Theresa Ruth Howard: "How can you truly comment on what you are seeing when you have no technical knowledge of a specific genre like African or hip hop? Critics who stand on the outside of a culture cannot write about what they do not know. ... The black body on stage is never neutral, and the effects of its inherent politicization as it relates to the subconscious cultural ignorance and biases held by critics is seldom addressed."
  
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• A 'Little Pompeii' In France Is Called Most Important Roman Excavation In Decades

  04-08-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A series of mosaics and a fountain decorated with a statue of Hercules were among the discoveries made when the 5,500 sq. m site [near Vienne, south of Lyon] was examined in preparation for the construction of four apartment blocks."
  
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• Actor Robert Hardy, Known For 'All Creatures Great And Small' And The Harry Potter Films, Dead At 91

  04-08-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In addition to his roles as Siegfried Farnon (the grouchy vet) on Creatures and Cornelius Fudge in the Potter franchise, Hardy played Winston Churchill in at least eight different properties on stage and screen (including one in French).
  
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• London's Oldest Pub Theatre Is Leaving Its Pub After 47 Years

  04-08-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The King's Head pub theatre in north London has announced plans to move to a £5.6 million purpose-built space. Widely recognised to be the first pub theatre since Shakespearean times, the King's Head has submitted plans to build a 250-seat auditorium and an 85-seat studio on Upper Street, Islington."
  
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• John Singer Sargent’s The Lady With the Umbrella: an artist letting his hair down

  04-08-2017 13:00
  This giant come-on of an image, from 1911, shows a more relaxed, experimental side to the great flatterer of Edwardian high societySargent was the great flatterer of Edwardian high society, famed for his oil portraits of its belles and beaus. Although on familiar territory, this watercolour is clearly the work of an artist letting his hair down. Continue reading...
  
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• Works by Rachel Whiteread and Cornelia Parker to be shown for the first time in Saudi Arabia

  04-08-2017 11:32
  Works by leading UK artists such as Rachel Whiteread, Ryan Gander and Cornelia Parker will go on show for the first time later this year in Saudi Arabia in an exhibition at Athr Gallery in Jeddah. The show, titled We Are Not Alone (17 October-16 November), is organised by six Saudi women selected for a British Council study programme called Contemporary Collective. The initiative aims to build the skills of a new generation of curators and arts managers in Saudi Arabia, according to a pres
  
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• The kinkiest art export, a hymn to breastfeeding, and Raphael's youthful genius – the week in art

  04-08-2017 11:22
  A meditation on popcorn, women weavers celebrated, plus a terrifying portrait of a nation on the brink of disaster – all in your weekly dispatchKate Davis
  Step into this Old Town gallery for a stimulating encounter with some original and powerful feminist video art, which includes a hymn to breastfeeding illuminated by a montage of medieval and Renaissance paintings.
  • Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, until 8 October. Continue reading...
  
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• Henri Matisse and Stephen Sutcliffe: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  04-08-2017 10:30
  The French painter’s art collection is the focus at the Royal Academy, while class and sexuality in the 1960s are examined at Talbot Rice GalleryThe art collection that Matisse built over a lifetime, from Kongo masks to north African furniture, has a starring role in his paintings and this exhibition. Born in 1869, Matisse lived more than a third of his life in the 19th century and was schooled in its conventions. In the 1900s, he played a leading part in turning those conventions upside d
  
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• Unseen works by Kurt Cobain to go on show at Seattle Art Fair

  04-08-2017 08:01
  Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide in 1994, is best known as the founder and frontman of the zeitgeist-defining band Nirvana. But at the Seattle Art Fair (3-6 August), United Talent Agency (UTA)better known for representing Hollywood screen starsis making a case for Kurt Cobain, creative polymath and visual artist. A compulsive processer of raw emotion via paper, Cobain left behind plenty of ephemera but few formal art works. So for UTA Artist Spaces first fair outing, Joshua Roth, founder
  
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