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• How To Encourage And Support Canadian Content? Cut Budgets?

  21-08-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "As streaming services erode the broadcasting business model and render Canadian content regulations less effective, critics have accused the industry of fighting over who gets the best deck chair on the Titanic... But cutting the money that TV producers can get from broadcasters for their best work seems an odd way to encourage them."
  
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• Are We Really In A Time Of "Post-Truth"? That Presumes A Lot

  21-08-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Post-truth’s stations of the cross are pretty familiar. Most if not all of them are given some attention in each of the books under review. In terms of contemporary evidence, any journalistic book on the subject will do what all three of the ones here do at some length. They pick over the global warming “debate”; over claims made in the Brexit referendum – especially the notorious £350 million figure on the side of the Vote Leave bus; and the various lies
  
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• Object lessons: a Calder Aubusson celebrating America's bicentennial and 1933 poster for King Kong

  21-08-2017 23:00
  New York Christies22-23 August: Living with Art saleAfter Alexander Calder, American Revolution Bicentennial (edition 34) by Pinton Frres AubussonEst. $4,000-$6,000
  A highlight of the houses online sale of decorative objects and works of art is a handwoven tapestry designed by Alexander Calder and manufactured by the French atelier Pinton Frres of Aubusson, the area renowned for its centuries old output of fine tapestries that achieved its fame with the Flemish weavers who settled and worked th
  
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• Ai Weiwei builds ‘fences’ across New York in citywide exhibition

  21-08-2017 23:00
  The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will show works across all five boroughs of New York this autumn in a major citywide project. Good Fences Make Good Neighbours (24 October-11 February 2018) is staged by the Public Art Fund as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations. The exhibition uses fences as a way to explore immigration, boundaries and the ongoing refugee crisis. Ai, who lived in New York in the 1980s when he was a student, says it is a love letter to the city and its people.The outdoor show
  
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• Instrument Designed By Leonardo da Vinci Is Built For The First Time

  21-08-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The unusual instrument is a hybrid of elements from a harpsichord, an organ and a viola da gamba. It looks like a harpsichord and has a set of strings, but rather than being plucked, the strings press against rotating wheels covered in horse hair – the same mechanism that produces sound in string instruments."
  
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• Jean Shin at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn

  21-08-2017 22:30 via artnews.com
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• You Want Diversity In The Arts? What About Political Diversity?

  21-08-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Should we care if art doesn’t reach the people who might learn something, reconsider a point of view, or see the dangers of a current value or belief?
  
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• The Kennedy Center Honors Have Been Politicized. It May Be Difficult To Restore Their Place

  21-08-2017 21:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Honors may be governed and selected by a nonprofit institution occupying a national memorial, but they are what passes in this country for knighthoods for the performing arts: the highest-profile awards bestowed for lifetime achievement in popular and high culture. Now that the culture wars have intervened, stoked by a president who has alienated many artists throughout the nation, one wonders whether the political taint will be so easily removed."
  
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• Venezuela Cancels Dudamel Tour

  21-08-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The cancellation was first reported by El Nacional, which reported that the decision came from the office of the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro. It came days after Mr. Maduro openly mocked Mr. Dudamel, who is arguably Venezuela’s most important cultural export — and who, as the product of the El Sistema music program, has been an international symbol of the power of the nation’s government-supported social programs.
  
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• Study: Millennials Don't Watch, Don't Like, Classic Movies

  21-08-2017 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A new study finds that less than a quarter of millennials have watched a film from start to finish that was made back in the 1940s or 50s and only a third have seen one from the 1960s. Thirty percent of young people also admit to never having watched a black and white film all the way through – as opposed to 85 percent of those over 50 – with 20 percent branding the films “boring.”
  
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• Museum Visitor Steps On, Damages Yves Klein Artwork

  21-08-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even though we have several safety measures (warning signs, a partial barrier and a guard), the man was too fascinated [with the other work] to notice all of that,” a museum spokeswoman tells The Art Newspaper.
  
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• In The Age Of The Internet, Is There Any Point To Protests And Demonstrations?

  21-08-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "What has protest done for us lately? Smartphones and social media are supposed to have made organizing easier, and activists today speak more about numbers and reach than about lasting results. Is protest a productive use of our political attention? Or is it just a bit of social theatre we perform to make ourselves feel virtuous, useful, and in the right?"
  
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• How Statistics Have Lost Their Ability To Pursuade

  21-08-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Rather than diffusing controversy and polarisation, it seems as if statistics are actually stoking them. Antipathy to statistics has become one of the hallmarks of the populist right, with statisticians and economists chief among the various “experts” that were ostensibly rejected by voters in 2016. Not only are statistics viewed by many as untrustworthy, there appears to be something almost insulting or arrogant about them. Reducing social and economic issues to numerical aggregate
  
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• 9 Art Events to Attend in the New York City This Week

  21-08-2017 18:39 via artnews.com
  A guide to the next seven days. Read More
  
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• Turkey Sues Wealthy Art Collector And Christie's Over 5000-Year-Old Stone Idol

  21-08-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The dispute has cast an awkward spotlight on a closely held company better known for its discretion as well as on a hedge-fund pioneer -- and a member of Christie's advisory board -- who has repeatedly been caught up in disputes about the provenance of antiquities linked to him.
  
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• Bigger Space, Bigger Show: Second Annual Picture Room Multiples Sale Set to Surprise

  21-08-2017 18:04 via artnews.com
  The exhibition runs August 24 through 31. Read More
  
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• Richard Florida's Creative Class Problem

  21-08-2017 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After fifteen years of development plans tailored to the creative classes, Florida surveys an urban landscape in ruins. The story of London is the story of Austin, the Bay Area, Chicago, New York, Toronto, and Sydney. When the rich, the young, and the (mostly) white rediscovered the city, they created rampant property speculation, soaring home prices, and mass displacement. The “creative class” were just the rich all along, or at least the college-educated children of the rich.
  
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• Can Arizona Theatre Company's New Director Make It More Diverse?

  21-08-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As the state’s only member of the elite-tier League of Resident Theatres, with a $7 million budget and audiences in both Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona Theatre Company is better equipped than any other Valley company to be a leader on the issues of equity and representation for women and people of color — which, ironically enough, makes Ivers, who formerly led the Utah Shakespeare Festival, something of a “great white hope” for theater diversity here.
  
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• The Dramatic Courage Of Taking Artistic Selfies (OK, Self-Portraits) During The Cultural Revolution

  21-08-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This was a move against erasure. "'For me and my generational peers, this period of history is unforgettable, almost beyond belief,' Mr. Wang, now 67, said in an interview. 'Our entire youth was taken away. We didn’t fight a war, we didn’t learn anything, and when we came home, many of us couldn’t find jobs. We had nothing to show for ourselves.'"
  
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• Beg, Borrow, Steal: With Several Exhibitions Involving Appropriation, New York Has a Second ‘Pictures’ Moment

  21-08-2017 16:51 via artnews.com
  On Louise Lawler, Dara Birnbaum, Robert Longo, Rachel Harrison, Barbara Bloom, Leslie Hewitt, Marlon Mullen, Jef Geys, Tabor Robak,Sara Cwynar Read More
  
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• Does British Theatre Have A Toilet Problem? Let's Do A Survey

  21-08-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, seriously: "A nationwide survey on access to toilets in theatres has been launched. The Association of British Theatre Technicians, which is running the survey, hopes it will help to address 'issues of accessibility and inclusivity.'"
  
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• In Venezuela's Turmoil, Gustavo Dudamel Has Become A Target - And Helped Win A Release For An Imprisoned Violinist

  21-08-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Los Angeles' "Dudamel was involved in the talks to release Wuilly Arteaga, a Venezuelan violinist who gained a following on social media for playing music in the middle of violent street protests against President Nicolas Maduro. National guard forces arrested Arteaga during a demonstration last month; he was released Tuesday."
  
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• Here’s the 2017 NADA Miami Beach Exhibitor List

  21-08-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  Some art fair news in the doldrums of August: the New Art Dealers Association has released the exhibitor list for its annual fair in Miami Beach, which is timed to coincide with the run of Art Basel in early December. … Read More
  
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• Leslie Jones (Or Maybe Society) Has Come A Long Way Since Last Year's Twitter Debacle

  21-08-2017 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jones on making fun of getting hacked by racist, sexist haters after Ghostbusters came out: "That’s what comics do. You’re not a good comic if you don’t face your pain right off. That’s like the No. 1 rule on a comic’s list. You help a lot of people when you do that. You can’t ignore the elephant — you’ve got to make the elephant laugh. Me and the elephant are friends."
  
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• What's It Like Being A Black Female Millennial Composer At The BBC Proms?

  21-08-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hannah Kendall: "I’m a millennial composer! I have to make money to survive financially in London. I realised early on you need a range of skills for that. As a composer it’s incredibly helpful for me to understand press and marketing and fundraising, as I’m likely to have to do it for myself. It’s not so easy juggling working in an office with teaching composition at the Junior Royal Academy of Music and then trying to write your own stuff."
  
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• When Sue Grafton Started Her Series With 'A Is For Alibi,' Few People Knew She'd Get To The End Of The Alphabet

  21-08-2017 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How did this all get started? Grafton says, "I was reading an Edward Gorey cartoon book called 'The Gashlycrumb Tinies.' And that's little pen-and-ink drawings of Victorian children being done in in various ways. A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs. B is for Basil, assaulted by bears. C for Claire, who - you know, and on down the alphabet. I thought, what a keen idea."
  
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• Hammer Names Allegra Pesenti Associate Director, Senior Curator of UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts

  21-08-2017 15:01 via artnews.com
  The curator previously worked at the museum from 2007 to 2013. Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Goodbye, Golden Cattelan Toilet Edition

  21-08-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
  
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• A Long-Lost Banksy Is Rediscovered After Being Vandalized And Boarded Up

  21-08-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Wow: "Known as the Snorting Copper and considered an exemplary image by the elusive graffiti artist, it shows a uniformed policeman on his hands and knees snorting a line of cocaine."
  
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• Songs For The Eclipse

  21-08-2017 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, there's an obvious number one. And then a few more. (Each song lasts longer than the totality in most of the totality zone, but never mind that.)
  
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• Cambridge University Press Knuckles Under To Pressure From The Chinese Government

  21-08-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is not great: "In a letter made public on social media on Friday, the editor of the journal, Tim Pringle, said Cambridge University Press had informed him that the authorities had ordered it to censor more than 300 articles related to issues like the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong and the Cultural Revolution. The publishing house’s site risked being shut down if it did not comply with the request, the letter said."
  
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• The NYT's Holland Cotter: Don't Destroy Confederate Monuments

  21-08-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The resident art critic says to move them instead. "My reasons are pragmatic. When you find yourself at a crime scene, you don’t destroy evidence. You preserve it for the prosecution. In the case of images like this, the prosecutor is history, and the trial may be a long one, stretching far into the future, with many witnesses called. Rush to judgment and drastic action should be resisted."
  
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• Here's An Artist Building Colorful Bungalows To Highlight The Housing Crisis In The UK

  21-08-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Richard Woods: "There’s one house in the harbour, floating around – somebody heard through gossip in the town that it was going to be floated to Calais and back again. Some people are genuinely interested in whether “boat people” will move into the houses. But then lots of people in the town completely get the project."
  
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• It's The Solar Eclipse. Will You Be Watching The Sun ... Or The Animals?

  21-08-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just an idea: Don't get to close to the hippos. They get grumpy during total eclipses. (Seriously.)
  
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• The Passionate Poet's Path From Farm Life To Chinese Celebrity

  21-08-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yu Xiuhua lived an isolated life for many years. "Most days she would limp down a dirt lane to a pond to feed the fish. She cut grass, grasping a sickle with hands that did not always obey her, to feed her rabbits. In the shade near the house she wrote at a low table, struggling to control her shaking body — a symptom of the cerebral palsy that she has lived with since she was born in this village in the central province of Hubei. Then, in 2014, her life changed."
  
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• At Long Last, The (Hal) Prince Of Broadway Is Coming To Broadway

  21-08-2017 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The man who produced and/or directed more than 21 Broadway musicals and brought now-classics to the Great White Way had some issues getting his own story to the stage. "A shortage of investors was at one point an issue, astonishingly - or perhaps not so, given the proliferation of jukebox musicals and movie and brand adaptations that have attracted latter-day Broadway producers. Prince, now 89, was never fazed. 'So many of the shows I've done were met with cynicism, initially,' he says."
  
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• The King Of Audiobooks Doesn't Even Have A Near Rival

  21-08-2017 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  George Guidall's entire family was in the medical profession, and that was his parents' plan for him. "But as a self-described 'fat and antisocial' child in New Jersey, he discovered acting when a high school English teacher recruited him to play Teddy Roosevelt in 'Arsenic and Old Lace.'" More than 1300 audiobooks later ...
  
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• Museum visitor steps on Yves Klein work at Bozar in Brussels

  21-08-2017 12:10
  The Centre for Fine Arts (Bozar) in Brussels had a colourful day on Wednesday (16 August) when a visitor trod upon on and damaged a work in the Yves Klein exhibition, Theatre of the Void (closed 20 August). While approaching another work across a gallery space, the visitor inadvertently walked on Pigment bleu sec (Dry Blue Pigment), a shallow wood basin spread with sand and the artists signature matte pigment, International Klein Blue (IKB), leaving white footprints on the work and blue materia
  
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• Grenfell Tower exterior could be turned into a canvas for children’s art

  21-08-2017 11:31
  Grenfell Tower may be adorned with works of art made by local schoolchildren under plans put forward by site officials. Eighty residents died in the tower block fire in west London on 14 June.Michael Lockwood, the site and remediation manager, told The Sunday Times that scaffolding surrounded by netting will be erected around the 24-storey structure from the end of August. Site workers will remove debris and the towers cladding panels behind the covering. Lockwood recently met primary scho
  
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• UK artists call for rethink on climate change iconography

  21-08-2017 11:29
  The issue of climate change is insidious, warn eight UK-based artists who highlight the encroaching threat of environmental degradation in an exhibition opening later this year. Slow Violence, which is due to open at the Art & Design Gallery at the UKs University of Hertfordshire (29 November-20 January 2018), will include new and recent works by Katie Paterson, Adam Chodzko and Thomson & Craighead, among others.The exhibition title is taken from the 2011 publication, Slow Violence and
  
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• Banff Centre Leadership Programs | Register Today

  21-08-2017 09:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Step into your creative potential. Banff Centre Leadership programs prepare and empower leaders to make an impact in a rapidly shifting world. Our programs integrate the power of the arts, the wisdom of Indigenous practice, and the extraordinary beauty of Banff National Park.You have 200 characters to tease your ad.
  -Cultural Leadership: apply by Sept. 8-Foundations of Purpose: register by Sept. 26-Reconciliation and Right Relations: register by Oct. 3-The Aesthetic Advantage: register by Oct. 3
  
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• The magical world of Parisian mysticism – in pictures

  21-08-2017 08:00
  Forget The Da Vinci Code. Why look for secret symbols in Leonardo’s paintings if they can be found in modern art? The Guggenheim show Mystical Symbolism reveals the curious world of French Symbolism that art critic Joséphin Péladan revealed in his salon exhibitions of the 1890s Continue reading...
  
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