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• Robots As Art - What You See Helps Shape How You Engage With Them

  16-08-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Today’s AI inhabits the realm of minimalist or abstract art, with Amazon Echo as a sort of Brancusian monolith. There’s even a new robot you can have sex with, meant not just as an object of lust-satisfaction, but also a companion. It’s the ancient story of Pygmalion, the sculptor who falls in love with his work, Galatea, only for it to come to life. AI is art: man-made approximations of nature, whatever the look of their skin."
  
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• Object lessons: an unearthed Norman Rockwell, a glass flower by Chihuly and a rare work by Ursula von Rydingsvard

  16-08-2017 23:00
  DallasHeritage19-20 August: Platinum Night Sports Collectibles Study for Tough Call, Saturday Evening Post (1948) by Norman Rockwell
  Est. $300,000 Amid the houses sale of sports-related memorabilia is a newly discovered oil on paper study for a Norman Rockwell painting, Tough Call (1948), which cleverly puns on a baseball umpires call and graced the cover of a 1949 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. Rockwell gave the study to the late umpire John Edward Beans Reardon and for decades, Rear
  
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• Documents Show Architects Herzog & de Meuron Reduced Their Fee For Tate Modern Extension

  16-08-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Minutes from a Tate board of trustees meeting held in July 2015 show that Herzog & de Meuron was asked not to take its full percentage fee for extra work on the 10-storey project as the brick-clad scheme ballooned in costs from £215 million in 2012 to £260 million on completion in 2016.
  
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• ‘The Geometry of Making’: A Mary Heilmann Doubleheader in New York

  16-08-2017 22:09 via artnews.com
  The painter has shows at the Dan Flavin Institute and Craig F. Starr Gallery. Read More
  
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• The True Crime Genre Has Gone Upscale And Literary. Is It An Improvement?

  16-08-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Not for them the tabloid gusto of the genre’s doyenne, Ann Rule (“The stalking, predatory animal cuts the weakest from the pack, and then kills at his leisure,” The Stranger Beside Me).They’re more likely to follow the lead of one of the first post-Serial memoirists to wrap a crime story in her own enveloping subjectivity, Amy Butcher, author of 2015’s Visiting Hours: A Memoir of Friendship and Murder."
  
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• ‘The Way Things Do’ at Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona

  16-08-2017 21:33 via artnews.com
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• Is Scotland Yard Going To Close Its Famous Art Crime Unit?

  16-08-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Scotland Yard looks set to close its Art and Antiques Unit, according to a former head. Its three detectives have been reassigned to help the Metropolitan Police’s investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire, in west London, which killed more than 80 people on 14 June.
  
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• What's A Snipe? If You Go To The Movies, You've Seen One (And You Probably Did What It Told You)

  16-08-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Here's a little history of those promos and announcements that run before the trailers, like Let's All Go to the Lobby, the classic animated short in which the singing-and-dancing popcorn, soda and candy encourage us to go buy snacks at the concession stand.
  
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• How The Information Age Became The Information Age

  16-08-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It was Claude Shannon who made the final synthesis, who defined the concept of information and effectively solved the problem of noise. It was Shannon who was credited with gathering the threads into a new science. But he had important predecessors at Bell Labs, two engineers who had shaped his thinking since he discovered their work as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, who were the first to consider how information might be put on a scientific footing, and whom Shannon’s la
  
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• Not Enough Good Roles For Actresses? A New 36-Woman Theatre Company Is Addressing That

  16-08-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Following 12 months of workshops and training for the participants, the London-based project, called Dangerous Spaces, will commission half a dozen playwrights to write scripts for six actresses each. Those scripts will be produced, along with an all-female Shakespeare staging, in the 2018-19 season.
  
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• There Is No Money In American Theatre. So How Is It Going To Continue?

  16-08-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "At a time when funding for the arts is in absolute peril, how will we inspire the next generation of theater artists to still see the theater as an art form worth dedicating their lives to? How can theaters keep the focus of not only their audiences, but now their artists too? Perhaps playwrights could bounce seamlessly between stage and screen. But as so many are finding themselves fulfilled both artistically and monetarily by other mediums, will the theater become what it often does for succe
  
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• This May Be The Most Excruciating Celebrity Profile Of All Time

  16-08-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In which Robert Pattinson tries extremely, breathtakingly hard to get through an interview without revealing anything (except about dealing with paparazzi).
  
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• Pamela Singh's best photograph – a woman dying in India's City of Widows

  16-08-2017 18:51
  ‘The town of Vrindavan is a magnet for bereaved women. Elderly widows come to this square to die in the sun’One day in 1994, while staying in Vrindavan, a small town in Uttar Pradesh, I went exploring on my own. I came upon a quiet square. It was midday and the Indian heat was sweltering. I saw a woman lying alone, swaddled in fabric. In the background of this shot, you can see a bundle of clothes. That’s her.I moved towards her and saw she was dying. She was extremely old and
  
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• The Netflix Of Movie Theatres? New Pass Gets You In To Theatres For $10/Month

  16-08-2017 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In layman’s terms, that means for just under $10 a month you can see an “unlimited” number of movies at any cinema near you, although the company clarifies that the maximum number of movies you can see per day is one.
  
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• 2 Friends From ABT + 1 New Festival In The Mountains = 1 New Ballet

  16-08-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Isabella Boylston doesn't remember the time, years ago, when she and Gemma Bond tried to choreograph a ballet together. Ms. Bond does, though. 'I got so bossy,' Ms. Bond recalled. 'I was like, 'Isabella, this isn't going to work.'' But now they've found a way to be creative together - and circumstances in which they both can act a little bossy."
  
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• Study: Increased Diversity On TV Shows Increases Acceptance Of Diversity

  16-08-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The increasing presence of racial and ethnic minority characters on comedies and dramas has been linked to a gradual decline in racial prejudice. Newly published research suggests this welcome dynamic also applies to the transgender community.
  
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• Why Olafur Eliasson’s yellow room is coming to London's National Gallery

  16-08-2017 17:20
  The National Gallerys engagement with contemporary art will take an immersive turn when Olafur Eliassons Room for one colour (1997) is installed in its Sainsburys Wing as an epilogue to Monochrome, a show about the artists decision to paint and draw in black, shades of grey or other single colours since the Middle Ages (30 October-18 February 2018). The room, which is illuminated by yellow mono-frequency lamps like those that bathed Tate Moderns Turbine Hall during Eliassons The Weather Project
  
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• At Last, Philly Gets A Public Statue Of An African-American

  16-08-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Next month, ... educator, activist, and ballplayer Octavius V. Catto will be honored by the city where he was murdered with a full-blown sculptural commemoration in bronze and granite on the southern apron of City Hall. Amazing to say, Catto will then become the first named African-American to be memorialized on public land in [Philadelphia's] history."
  
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• Yayoi Kusama Built Herself An Entire Museum While We Weren't Looking

  16-08-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The five-story building in Tokyo's Shinjuku district was actually completed in 2014, with installation going on since. The museum, which opens October 1, will have rotating exhibits changing twice a year, a separate floor for the Infinity Rooms, and a library/archive; timed tickets will cost ¥1,000 (just over $9.00).
  
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• Sweden's Fotografiska to open first overseas gallery in east London

  16-08-2017 16:21
  Centre for contemporary photography will take ground floor of new building in Whitechapel due for completion in 2018A new photography gallery is to open in the East End of London, the first overseas branch of Sweden’s Fotografiska, founded in Stockholm in 2010.Fotografiska will take the entire ground-floor area of a new building in Whitechapel, close to the acclaimed Whitechapel Gallery, according to an announcement from the property investment company Derwent.Continue reading...
  
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• What Michiko Kakutani Meant For The Times, And Where Its Books Coverage Is Headed Without Her

  16-08-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Boris Kachka investigates how the notoriously publicity-shy critic worked and what she's like as a person (no mean feat, that), and he looks at how changes in both the Times approach to her beat and her own interests seem to have led to her decision to take a buyout.
  
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• Blanton Museum in Austin Receives Gift of Seven Works by Leon Polk Smith

  16-08-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  The pieces were given by Jeanne and Michael Klein and the late artist's foundation. Read More
  
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• Ways of Seeing: Using Virtual Reality, Mat Collishaw Shuttles Elegantly Between the Past and Future of Photography

  16-08-2017 15:40 via artnews.com
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• Michael Moore Puts His Broadway Audience On Buses And Takes Them To Protest At Trump Tower

  16-08-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Like any Broadway spectacle, the excursion was a splice of authentic emotion and fabrication. It seemed equal part an earnest bid to get people off the sidelines and into a picket line and equal part showbiz hoopla aimed at bolstering a show that opened last week to mixed reviews and that has not yet caught fire with ticket buyers."
  
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• Unknown Bootlegs From Bob Dylan's 1965 Tour Surface - And They Were Made By Allen Ginsberg

  16-08-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "With some interruptions, they document two Dylan shows from 1965, near the beginning of that fateful tour: one in San Francisco on September 11, 1965, and the other in San Jose from the following evening. As you might expect, the performances are enough to knock you out, but the sound quality is up and down." (Alas, they've been removed from YouTube.) Andy Cush tells the story.
  
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• 'Newfields': Indianapolis Museum Of Art Rebrands Its Grounds And The Many Things On Them (Because People Don't Know They're With The Museum)

  16-08-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "During springtime, the Indianapolis Museum of Art welcomed you to friendlier weather with thousands of color-drenched blooms on its outdoor campus. A beer garden and, later on, 18 holes of mini-golf designed by artists kept you coming back. Starting in mid-November, ... the museum's gardens will be illuminated by millions of lights that dance along to the music of the Nutcracker Suite. You'll have your choice of drinks and firepits to roast s'mores. These are the type of cultural experiences In
  
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• Morning Links: Sly Stone Edition

  16-08-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• What the NYC Cultural Plan Means for the Dance Community

  16-08-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "While there is nothing specifically dance-related in the plan, many dance companies and artists within marginalized and lower-income communities stand to benefit from increased funding. Here are the key takeaways."
  
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• Thieves Are Stealing Paris's Favorite Street Mosaics (And It Seems To Be A Custom-Order Job)

  16-08-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  About 15 works by the street artist known as Invader have been removed from the walls of buildings by two men in yellow jackets who claim to be city workers (and then drive off in a Mercedes).
  
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• Opera Superagent Bruce Zemsky Dead At 62

  16-08-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The co-founder of Zemsky Green Artist Management worked with some of the leading opera singers in the world today, among them Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros, Brandon Jovanovich, and Pretty Yende.
  
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• Too Many Accountants In The Arts World Are Making It 'Frightened' And 'Risk-Averse,' Says Top UK Director

  16-08-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dominic Dromgoole, who spent a decade as artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe and oversaw that company's worldwide tour of Hamlet: "Institutionally I think we have a problem that we have possibly over-stacked our governance areas with people from the world of ... accountancy. They are entirely honourable and entirely nice people, but I think from the moment they begin working on things they're always overly calculating risk and overly worried about danger. Their inclination is to say no to a
  
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• Bitter Novelist Whose Play Got Bad Reviews Says Critics Shouldn't Get Free Tickets And That Theatre World Despises Him

  16-08-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anthony Horowitz, author of the Alex Rider teen spy novels and some Sherlock Holmes and James Bond sequels, and whose comedy Dinner with Saddam had a less-than-successful run at London's Menier Chocolate Factory in 2015, went on quite the rant at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
  
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• Hal Prince To Recreate Original 'Evita' Production For World Tour

  16-08-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The staging makes its debut in October in Johannesburg, followed (so far) by runs in Cape Town, Tokyo, and Sydney, where Opera Australia will present it at the Opera House. Prince is said to be 'determined' to bring the project to Broadway, though no such arrangements have been announced.
  
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• Sean Henry sculpture gives Woking’s commuters pause for thought

  16-08-2017 12:55
  Woking in Surrey is only 28 minutes from Londons Waterloo Station, when the trains run on time. This August, the towns many commuters are suffering more delays than usual as Londons busiest station is closed for maintenance. But there is good news on platform one, where a sculpture by Woking-born Sean Henry has been installed along with four other larger-than-life works that complement the artists solo show of painted bronze figures and drawings in the towns award-winning museum, The Light
  
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• Charlottesville protestor thought to have targeted LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner work with anti-Semitic comments

  16-08-2017 12:25
  A man who was filmed making anti-Semitic comments during a performance organised by the artist collective LaBeouf, Rnkk & Turner was photographed marching with white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia last Friday night, according to the London-based artist Luke Turner.Turner, who collaborates with Shia LaBeouf and Nastja Sde Rnkk, posted a photograph of the man in question on Twitter with the caption: ughthe man with the moustache here is the same neo-Nazi that repeatedly target
  
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• Scotland Yard’s Art and Antiques Unit heading for closure

  16-08-2017 12:03
  Scotland Yard looks set to close its Art and Antiques Unit, according to a former head. Its three detectives have been reassigned to help the Metropolitan Polices investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire, in west London, which killed more than 80 people on 14 June.Vernon Rapley, who led the Art and Antiques Unit from 2001 until 2010, told The Art Newspaper that he is worried that the closure of the unit is now being considered. He added: I am very concerned that the Metropolitan Police i
  
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• Thieves posing as Paris city employees caught on camera stripping street artist’s mosaics

  16-08-2017 11:35
  The theft of mosaic artworks in Paris by the French street artist Invader has sparked a public outcry. Around 15 workscharacterised by pixellated imagery and made from small ceramic tileshave been removed from the faades of buildings throughout the capital in the past 10 days, according to the French daily Libration. One was a mosaic of the Mona Lisa near the Muse du Louvre, another was a tiled ghost at Espace Cardin, often used as an exhibition venue.
   
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.15.17

  16-08-2017 11:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Board’s Role in Community Engagement: Part II
  Last time I presented the first part of a discussion about the potential for boards as positive resources for community engagement. Here is the rest of the text. ... read more
  AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2017-08-15Monday Recommendation: Chet Baker Biography Revised
  Jeroen de Valk: Chet Baker, His Life And Music (Aspekt)de Valk has revised his 2000 biography of the trumpeter. The new version includes ... read more
  
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• Brothels and blossom: Japan's grandest journey – in pictures

  16-08-2017 08:00
  From mystical mountains to snowy passes, from samurai swordsmen to sex workers in shop windows, two woodblock artists in the 1830s depicted the astonishing sights on the ancient route from Edo to KyotoContinue reading...
  
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• Director of Development - Authors Guild Foundation

  16-08-2017 05:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Support free expression and authors' rights to earn a living from their work. Position involves working with Board to cultivate and solicit major donors, annual mail campaigns, and a $500K gala. Generalist and multi-tasker needed.
  Director of Development, The Authors Guild Foundation
  The Authors Guild Foundation seeks a proven professional fundraiser with experience in major gifts, special events, and direct mail to lead its fundraising program. Working closely with the Executive Director and an
  
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• How Brick And Mortar Bookstores Are Competing With Online

  16-08-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In reality, a bookstore is a really unique kind of space where people from different walks of life can cross paths. I mean, it's a very sort of democratic kind of product, and it's kind of a space where people can come in and start to have conversations. And that's the kind of space we want to be."
  
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