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• Veteran Arts Admin Bob Booker Has Some Words Of Advice As He Retires

  07-08-2017 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In regards to arts advocacy in general, we need to take a new approach that places the arts as a vital, engaging activity of tremendous value to Americans.  Too often we approach advocacy and communication with our heads bowed and our hands out: “Please sir, can you save the arts? Can you save my organization that has been in the red for years and would you maybe consider following your state’s policy that requires arts programming in schools?”  We are too timid, too
  
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• The Dark Side Of Toscanini

  07-08-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "His players often sound as terrified as they must have been: it is worth going to YouTube and listening to a few of the maestro’s rehearsals, which still horrify in their sound and fury, the range of his imprecations, the breaking of his batons and hurling of his score. As Lotte Lehmann said, ‘If we weren’t good, this certainly wasn’t going to make us any better.’"
  
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• The story behind the ‘controversial’ Picasso sculpture that became a symbol of Chicago

  07-08-2017 23:00
  Pablo Picasso was 85 when he gave the monumental untitled sculpture now famously known as The Chicago Picasso to the city in 1967. The work precipitated an aesthetic shift in civic and urban planning, broadening the idea of public art beyond the commemorative. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the works unveiling, the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events is hosting the event Everyones Picasso at Daley Plaza on Tuesday, 8 August, at noon.
  Paul Durica, a public historian who produc
  
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• Lia Chaia at Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo

  07-08-2017 22:52 via artnews.com
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• Employers Say They Want More Creativity. But Integrating It Into The Office Is Difficult

  07-08-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "According to a 2008 survey, 85% percent of employers looking to hire creative employees reported were “difficulty finding qualified applicants.” Yet the same survey found 57% of respondents citing arts degrees as being reflective of creativity. More recent research from IBM found that CEOs think creativity will be the most valuable skill around the office. But that begs the question: if there is a purported interest on the part of companies, why aren’t there mor
  
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• Are Internet Standards A Threat To Digital Accessibility?

  07-08-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last March, when a judge ordered the University of California–Berkeley to make 20,000 videos and podcasts accessible to people with disabilities, the university balked. The videos and audio files contained lectures by Berkeley professors that the university wanted to make available to anyone, as an act of public outreach, but disability rights groups had sued on the grounds that the materials lacked captions, were often incompatible with the screen readers that blind people use to access t
  
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• Meet Today's Version Of The Yuppies

  07-08-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "On its face, this approach to conscientious living may look like a rejection of the uninhibited greed associated with the ’80s. But the new aspirational class shares more with its predecessors than it wants to admit. As populist surges in the United States and Europe make clear, rising economic inequality has made it more critical than ever to rethink and uproot the status quo. Yet, as Cowen and Currid-Halkett both find, for all the new elite’s well-intentioned consumption and subse
  
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• See What Michelangelo's Marble Quarry Looks Like Today

  07-08-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  High in the Apuan Alps of Tuscany sits Monte Altissimo, a 5,213-foot (1,589-meter) mountain, climbed in 1517 by the Italian artist Michelangelo in pursuit of fine marble for his sculptures. There, according to Reuters, he “found the marble of his dreams. It was, the Renaissance master wrote, ‘of compact grain, homogeneous, crystalline, reminiscent of sugar.’”
  
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• How The Smartphone May Have Killed A Generation

  07-08-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The arrival of the smartphone has radically changed every aspect of teenagers’ lives, from the nature of their social interactions to their mental health. These changes have affected young people in every corner of the nation and in every type of household. The trends appear among teens poor and rich; of every ethnic background; in cities, suburbs, and small towns. Where there are cell towers, there are teens living their lives on their smartphone."
  
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• Cinema

  07-08-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
   
  We landed at YVR and I waited with Greg to get his suitcase and we followed signs to the Skytrain. Two men in uniform were blue dots in the distance of the clean, vast baggage claim area, and they grew larger as we got closer. Before getting to an escalator we were stopped by the two customs officers and asked for our passports. We each had our own officer to question us.
  “Where you coming from?”
  Interrogation had a deafening effect on me. I only heard the questions darting a
  
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• Garage Museum founders Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova split

  07-08-2017 20:00
  The Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and Garage Magazine founder Dasha Zhukovaone of the contemporary art scenes biggest power coupleshave split. In a statement released to the media on Monday, the couple said: We are committed to jointly raising our two children. We will also continue to work together as co-founders of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and the New Holland Island cultural centre in Saint Petersburg.Abramovich, the owner of Englands Chelsea Football Club, is ra
  
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• Barbara Blackman: 'Nice' is a word that masks over things

  07-08-2017 20:00
  Ahead of the release of a documentary about her life, the doyenne of the Australian arts reflects on going blind and life with artist Charles Blackman In the film Seeing from Within, the life of its subject, Barbara Blackman – writer, patron of the arts and one-time wife of Australian painter Charles Blackman – is presented in chronological order, told in her own words. With almost anyone else, this singular focus and absence of other voices could become tiresome, but the life and ti
  
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• In Search Of The Lost Sylvia Plath Novel That We Know Exists

  07-08-2017 19:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "While the hope for new finds continues unabated, one known text eludes all who seek it. In the summer of 1962, Plath began work on her second novel. We know what it was about—a fictionalized autobiography in the vein of The Bell Jar about an artist who discovers her husband has cheated—and we know that she completed a number of pages of the book before her death. But in the years that followed, the manuscript for Double Exposure vanished."
  
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• In Hot Demand At Tech Companies? Workers With Liberal Arts Degrees

  07-08-2017 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Throughout the major U.S. tech hubs, whether Silicon Valley or Seattle, Boston or Austin, Tex., software companies are discovering that liberal arts thinking makes them stronger.  Engineers may still command the biggest salaries, but at disruptive juggernauts such as Facebook and Uber, the war for talent has moved to nontechnical jobs, particularly sales and marketing. The more that audacious coders dream of changing the world, the more they need to fill their companies with soci
  
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• Collectors Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova Split

  07-08-2017 19:14 via artnews.com
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• People Are Moving Out Of London - And The City's Culture Is Eroding

  07-08-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "All of this points to a process that sociologist Saskia Sassen calls “deurbanisation”. Numerically, this means haemorrhaging residents, while metaphorically it relates to the increasing hollowing out of the social and cultural vibrancy of the city. The very things that make up its fabric – the messiness, unpredictability and diversity of urban life – are stripped away. All that’s left is Costa Coffee, Pret-a-Manger and hoardings advertising buy-to-let investments,
  
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• Portland Museum of Art Biennial Curator Nat May Adds Team Members

  07-08-2017 18:58 via artnews.com
  Theresa Secord, Sarah Workneh, and Mark Bessire are coming on board. Read More
  
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• Lutz Bacher Toys With Trump’s Signature in Superb San Francisco Show

  07-08-2017 18:38 via artnews.com
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• A New Generation Of Super Fans Reinvents A Version Of Criticism For The Digital Age

  07-08-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "They are superfans — sophisticated ones — using visual aids to break down shows and movies for superfans. And their handiwork makes the audience for these pop-culture spectacles even bigger and more engaged."
  
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• For Those Kissing Scenes Onstage, Who Ya Gonna Call? The Intimacy Director

  07-08-2017 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Perhaps because of the successful staging of intimacy by some directors, many still struggle with the idea of needing special techniques for staging intimacy, even though they almost always recognize the need for other specialists, like fight choreographers. Onstage intimacy and fighting have a lot in common. In fact, many intimacy directors started in stage combat."
  
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• A Violinist Has Become The Face Of Resistance In Venezuela. But He's Gone Silent

  07-08-2017 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "As the political crisis worsens day by day in Venezuela, the forces of resistance have found an unlikely symbol in a slight-framed 23-year-old violinist named Wuilly Arteaga. Dressed in the colors of his country, he plays his violin at the front lines of pro-democracy protests, often floating, with a pure tone and a classical vibrato, the notes of the Venezuelan national anthem while armored vehicles fill the streets and fires rage nearby. Yet as his public stature grew this summer, so did the
  
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• Chuck Close, Marina Abramovic, Kara Walker And Others Condemn Calls To Cancel Dana Schutz Show In Boston

  07-08-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The National Academy artists wrote in response to Boston protesters asking the ICA to cancel the Schutz show because of her painting Open Casket, which is of the open casket and broken face of Emmett Till and was roundly criticized at the Whitney Biennial. The painting is not in the ICA show. The artists wrote, "It is also of the utmost importance to us that artists not perpetrate upon each other the same kind of intolerance and tyranny that we criticise in others."
  
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• Aphra Behn, Playwright And First British Woman To Make A Living Through Writing, Was Also A Spy

  07-08-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The playwright was wildly successful, but "beyond her successes on the stage and in fiction, Aphra Behn was a Royalist spy in the Netherlands and probably South America. She also served as a political propagandist for the courts of Charles II and his unpopular brother James II."
  
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• Morning Links: Pope Francis Edition

  07-08-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• National Academy artists including Marina Abramovic, Chuck Close and Kara Walker condemn calls to cancel Dana Schutz show

  07-08-2017 12:34
  Around 80 National Academy of Art members in the US have written a letter in support of Dana Schutz, whose painting based on a photograph of Emmett Tills open-casket funeral sparked condemnation when it went on show at the Whitney Biennial earlier this year. In response to this work, a group of Boston artists and activists recently called for the cancellation of Schutzs exhibition which opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston last month (until 26 November). We were hoping
  
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• North Korean art goes on show at the United Nations—in defiance of Kim Jong-un

  07-08-2017 12:00
  An exhibition at the United Nations headquarters in New York includes works by four North Korean artists who are participating anonymously for fear of reprisal. Ambassadors entering the building will see the works on display in the Delegates entrance as part of a 50-strong show called the International Youth Exhibition (until 11 August).The exhibition is organised by the Beijing-based non-profit Eye Art International in partnership with the Society & Diplomatic Review, an UN-affiliated jour
  
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• Former V&A director Martin Roth has died aged 62

  07-08-2017 11:43
  Martin Roth died yesterday (6 August) in Berlin, aged 62. When he retired as director of the Londons Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) last October he was in good health, but cancer was diagnosed immediately after he left. Roth remained undaunted by his illness. On 1 July, just five weeks ago, he took over as president of Germanys Institut fr Auslandsbeziehungen (Institute for Foreign Relations), which deals with cultural exchanges. After heading leading museums in Germany and Britain h
  
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• Steve McCurry's Afghanistan – in pictures

  07-08-2017 09:00
  Afghanistan, published by Taschen later this month, is a retrospective portfolio of the Magnum photographer Steve McCurry’s most striking images of the country, from 1979 to 2016 Continue reading...
  
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• Pure drama: Fabrizio Plessi transforms La Fenice opera

  07-08-2017 08:56
  The Theatre La Fenice in Venice has been given a dramatic overhaul courtesy of the artist Fabrizio Plessi whose Fenix DNA work was recently installed in the historic theatrical venue. The work featured 200 moulds by Plessi of the theatre's ornamental sculptures which were destroyed in the catastrophic fire of 1996 (the opera house, which opened in 1792, was devastated by another blaze in 1836). These moulds were scattered in the stalls area; a dramat
  
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