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• Top Visual Artists See New Possibilities In The Opera House

  25-08-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Artists, on the other hand, can benefit from the backing of a deep-pocketed establishment to make vast artistic productions that revolutionize not only how an audience responds to an opera, but how they respond to the art. The music, libretto, and elaborate trappings of the opera house provide the armature on which a total artwork can be created. Now it’s just a question of getting the right audience in the seats to witness it.
  
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• Philadelphia's Mann Center Aspires To Be More Than A Place

  25-08-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Can the Mann be something more? A summer venue can dream, and the Mann is having some ambitious visions. Several trends are converging. Commercial music presenters have come into the Philadelphia market in a big way, giving the Mann some competition. At the same time, arts education has become a bigger priority for arts groups and funders, and the Mann, sitting in the middle of a neighborhood, is beginning to imagine becoming a bigger player in education, perhaps even morphing into an urban Tang
  
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• So Trump Is Skipping The Kennedy Center Honors. Does This Make A Difference?

  25-08-2017 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Phil Kennicott: "The big question looming over the awards now is whether future presidents will attend. Can a tradition be reassembled after it has been broken? The arts occupy an already marginal position in American society, and the custom of presidential participation in the Honors has always been an anomaly, given the priorities of American cultural life and a decades-long rhetorical assault against the arts by conservative politicians. If a future president needs an excuse to forego the eve
  
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• The Biennale de Montréal has cancelled its 2018 edition due to debt

  25-08-2017 22:13
  There will be no 2018 edition of the Biennale de Montral due to a deficit of C$200,000 after the close of the last edition, Le Grand Balcon (19 October 2016-15 January 2017). Despite having had artistic successes, we had to cancel the biennale, the chairman of the board, Cdric Bisson, tells The Art Newspaper. The event first announced the cancellation in July.Bisson says the board was given inaccurate figures by the management team during the event, and so they did not know the full scope of th
  
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• Look Inside: Scientists, Museums Work To Scan Every Vertebrate Species

  25-08-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Twenty Years ago Adam Summers, a biologist at the University of Washington, "began his quest to scan every fish in the sea. What may have been considered eccentric then can only be called essential now: new ways of digitizing and sharing scientific data are sprouting up everywhere, and Summers’ prescient work has spurred other experts to attempt the same."
  
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• Florida Court Rules That Facebook Friends Aren't Real Friends

  25-08-2017 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The appellate court said that a “Facebook friendship does not necessarily signify the existence of a close relationship,” noting that some people have “friend” counts in the thousands. Facebook members often cannot recall every person they have accepted as ‘friends’ or who have accepted them as ‘friends.’”
  
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• Amazon Using Artificial Intelligence Algorithms To Read, React And Create Fashion

  25-08-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Researchers at the e-commerce juggernaut are currently working on several machine-learning systems that could help provide an edge when it comes to spotting, reacting to, and perhaps even shaping the latest fashion trends. The effort points to ways in which Amazon and other companies could try to improve the tracking of trends in other areas of retail—making recommendations based on products popping up in social-media posts, for instance. And it could help the company expand its clothing
  
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• Sarah Tisdall obituary

  25-08-2017 20:52
  My sister, the painter Sarah Tisdall, who has died aged 79, was noted for the murals that decorated both private homes and public buildings, including hospitals and the Teddy Bear museum founded by Gyles Brandreth in Stratford-upon-Avon (whose collection has now moved to Newby Hall in North Yorkshire).When Sarah was born in Totnes, Devon our parents, Mary (nee Shelley) and Daniel Neylan, were teaching at Dartington Hall, home of the “Dartington experiment”, a project involving arts,
  
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• Family Damages An 800-Year-Old Coffin After - Get This! - They Put Child In It For A Picture

  25-08-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Closed-circuit television cameras were recording in the museum, but did not clearly capture what happened, the statement said. The family left without reporting the damage, according to news reports, but it was discovered later."
  
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• Russia and Ukraine’s battle over Crimean heritage heats up

  25-08-2017 20:01
  The struggle between Russia and Ukraine over Crimeas arts and culture heritage has recently ramped up, with Russian President Vladimir Putin this month proposing that Tauric Chersonese, a Unesco World Heritage site in Crimea, be promoted as Russias Mecca.The ancient Hellenic site on the Black Sea, on the outskirts of the modern city of Sevastopol, is where Prince Vladimir of Kiev is believed to have been baptised in the tenth century, so it is culturally significant to both Russia and Ukraine.
  
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• Next-Gen Post-New-Age Synth Music And The Tech/Instruments (And Composer) Who Make It

  25-08-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's "technique of blending synthesizers, acoustic instruments, and electronic-­sounding human voices has made the 30-year-old musician a star among the next generation of post–New Age synthesists."
  
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• A Turning Point For The New York Philharmonic?

  25-08-2017 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This season, the orchestra has a new music director and a new chief executive. But some very big challenges - including raising vast amounts of money for hall renovations and financial stabilization. Also - where is the orchestra artistically? Very big questions hang in the air. Brian Wise explores the issues.
  
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• Hotel Chain To Run John Cage's Music On 24-Hour Loop

  25-08-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "On what would have been his 105th birthday, [a] national hotel chain is partnering with the John Cage Trust in what the hotel describes as a 'listening event' curated by Mode Records called 'Untouchable Numbers.' For 24 hours, Ace Hotel locations across the country ... will fill their spaces with music by the late American composer."
  
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• An American in Paris: Berenice Abbott’s Early Portraits

  25-08-2017 18:48 via artnews.com
  A remarkable new book takes a look at the start of the artist's career. Read More
  
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• A Fascinating Tale Of How This Book Might Have Bought Its Way Onto The NYT BestSeller List

  25-08-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Nowadays, you can make the bestseller list with about 5,000 sales. That’s not the heights of publishing’s heyday but it’s still harder to get than you’d think. Some publishers spend thousands of dollars on advertising and blogger outreach to get that number. Everyone’s looking for the next big thing and that costs a lot of cash. For the past 25 weeks, that big book in the YA world has been The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, a searing politically charged dra
  
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• Brian Aldiss, Novelist Who Helped Turn Science Fiction Into Literary Art, Dead At 92

  25-08-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Author of the classic Helliconia trilogy, and the story on which Steven Spielberg’s 2001 film AI: Artificial Intelligence was based, ... he began publishing his stories in the mid-1950s, a time when SF was heavily dominated by US writers schooled in the markets of commercial magazines. Aldiss's work came as a breath of fresh air to a genre beginning to suffocate in its own orthodoxies."
  
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• Andrea Zittel's frontier spirit comes to Wiltshire

  25-08-2017 17:50
  A slice of southern Californias Mojave Desert can be experienced nestled among the green rolling hills of Wiltshire in the west of England. The US artist Andrea Zittel, who lives  in the desert 40 miles from Joshua Tree, has a solo show at the New Art Centre, the gallery in a country house setting at East Winterslow near Salisbury. East Winterslow is a long way from A-Z West, the artists ongoing experiment in living and working off-grid with coyotes for company. (Think dairy cows grazing a
  
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• Bern Museum Starts Removing The Cobwebs Off The Gurlitt Art Horde

  25-08-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Kunstmuseum Bern has so far received 220 works from the hoard of more than 1,500 pieces that Gurlitt inherited from his father, Hildebrand, an art dealer who worked for the Nazis. Cornelius died in May 2014, unexpectedly bequeathing his collection to the Bern museum. The Swiss institution has said it will only accept works it knows are free from suspicion of Nazi looting, while the rest will remain in Germany until provenance research is complete."
  
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• The Blossoming Of 'Documentary Theatre (Just Don't Call It That)

  25-08-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Amelia Parenteau: "Of the seven contemporary theatremakers I spoke to for this piece, not one was happy with the term 'documentary theatre' to describe their work. ... And yet each of these artists is undeniably engaged in creating some kind of documentary theatre, meaning that they draw from factual source material to craft their work and tell engaging stories in direct conversation with our present reality. Above and beyond holding a mirror up to society, as all art is charged to do, these the
  
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• Consumer Reports: Jamian Juliano-Villani

  25-08-2017 16:41 via artnews.com
  The New York–based painter details her media consumption over one week in August. Read More
  
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• Four Leading 'Documentary Theatre' Artists Talk About How It's Done And How It's Changed

  25-08-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Steve Cosson of The Civilians (This Beautiful City and The Great Immensity), The Laramie Project head writer Leigh Fondakowski, KJ Sanchez of American Records (ReEntry and X's and O's (A Football Love Story)), and veteran Ping Chong join Amelia Parenteau for a roundtable.
  
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• Moscow’s Pushkin Museum asks public to dig deep to buy Titian, despite stuttering economy

  25-08-2017 16:34
  The State Pushkin Museum's exhibition of Venetian Renaissance art (Renaissance Venice: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese. From Italian and Russian Collection) closed on 20 August but one painting is still making waves. Previously thought to be a copy of Titians Venus and Adonis, experts at the Pushkin say it is the earliest surviving version of the work and now the Moscow museum wants to buy it through crowdfunding. It does not come cheap thoughthe painting is reportedly estimated to be wo
  
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• David Hockney at Centre Pompidou, Paris

  25-08-2017 16:19 via artnews.com
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• Anna Deaveare Smith On Race In American Theatre (And In America)

  25-08-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In this speech, delivered at last year's Theatre Communications Groups national conference, the pioneer of verbatim theatre recounts the time she moderated an onstage debate between August Wilson and Robert Brustein (which organizers had wanted to turn into a verbal boxing match), performs excerpts from her Notes From the Field: Doing Time in Education (about the "school-to-prison pipeline"), and channels Margaret Mead and James Baldwin.
  
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• Art Forger Who Made £30,000 From His Fakes Ordered To Repay £1

  25-08-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Richard Pearson ... was jailed in January for selling 14 faked drawings and pictures ... he claimed were by the renowned 'pitman painter' Norman Cornish ... to a gallery in Northumberland. He admitted fraud and forgery charges and was sentenced to three years and seven months."
  
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• Big Band Contractor Sends Out Fat-Shaming Memo, Gets Pushback - And Promptly Shuts Down

  25-08-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On Tuesday, two singers released a memo from Sheraton Cadwell Group, a Toronto firm that contracts and manages big bands, that read in part, "As per our highly selective casting requirements ... only singers who are physically fit and slim (or at the very least, those who know how to dress strategically/suitably in order to not bring attention to their temporary physical/dietary indulgences) would be showcased with our boutique orchestras." On Wednesday, word of the memo hit the media. By Thursd
  
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• Yes, It IS Possible To Build New Ballet Audiences In 2017

  25-08-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Boston Ballet, Ballet Austin, and Colorado Ballet have all done it, and Ashley Rivers gives a look at the strategies they've used.
  
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• Morning Links: Empathy Edition

  25-08-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Some Artists Are Abandoning Dealers And Selling Directly To Collectors

  25-08-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A number of emerging artists are ... bypassing their dealers in a quest for a greater share of the earnings, a need for quick pocket-change, or the desire to test their e-commerce earning potential. These artists often position their sales as a critique of how the art market functions; taken together, they suggest a growing dissatisfaction with the traditional gallery sales model."
  
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• The Industries Whose Money Drives The Art Market In The 2010s

  25-08-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Artsy analyzed two sample cohorts of the world's top collectors to see how the industry make-up behind the most elite collectors has changed over the last two decades. The big takeaways? Finance is in, really in. 'Other' - a designation we used for lawyers, doctors, architects, and individuals who didn’t fit into the most highly represented categories - is out."
  
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• Solange Releases Interactive Project on Black Womanhood Tied to Tate Modern’s ‘Soul of a Nation’ Show

  25-08-2017 14:18 via artnews.com
  The piece is a collaboration with the artist Carlotta Guerra. Read More
  
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• Bea Wain, 100, Last Of The Big-Band Era 'Girl Singers'

  25-08-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[She] started singing on the radio at age 6, became a hit-making pop vocalist" - "Deep Purple," "Heart and Soul," "Kiss the Boys Goodbye" - "in the late 1930s and performed into her ninth decade."
  
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• In Provincetown, Listening For What Marks Some Pop Music As 'Gay'

  25-08-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "'Edge of Glory' is gay music? But plenty of straight people love that song.' When a bewildered straight friend said that to musicologist Chris White about the Lady Gaga hit, he was struck. "The musical gayness that is so obvious to me is invisible to him. I wonder whether there are reliable characteristics of music that can make a song obviously appeal to my particular sexual expression, while still 'passing' for mainstream music. What makes music sound gay to me? So, I took an audio recorder t
  
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• Mark Merlis, Whose Fiction Explored Gay Male Life In 20th-Century America, Dead At 67

  25-08-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "With [American Studies] and the three [books] that followed, Mr. Merlis was widely praised for the sensitivity with which he addressed such themes as the corrosive effect of shame and the intersecting paths of past and present." His An Arrow's Flight was voted by the LGBT industry organization Publishing Triangle as one of the best gay novels of all time.
  
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• Trove Of Previously Untranslated Medieval World Literature Goes Online

  25-08-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The initial offerings of Stanford's Global Medieval Sourcebook "range from a 15th-century song translated from Middle French that bemoans a lost love ... to five selections from Hong Mai's 12th-century Yijian Zhi, a sprawling 420-chapter chronicle that is an invaluable record of society, spirituality, and culture of the Southern Song Dynasty. The GMS is, as suggested by its title, a globally focused resource, with plans for medieval texts translated from Arabic, Chinese, Old Spanish, Latin, Midd
  
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• Ruairiadh O’Connell’s Chevron Relief III: a pattern of crime

  25-08-2017 13:00
  The artist’s 2017 work features chevrons cast from the same make of trainers worn by American footballer Aaron Hernandez when he killed his sister’s fianceChevrons abound in this solo exhibition by the young British artist. They can be seen in plaster reliefs, such as this recent work, a wall sculpture cast from sheets of rubber soling and hung on hessian. This example is far more muted than others in the show, which are spray-painted a variety of garish colours. Continue reading...
  
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• Spencer Finch creates colour ‘portrait’ of disappearing Spiral Jetty

  25-08-2017 12:11
  As Robert Smithsons Spiral Jetty has become more exposed due to drought in the past few years, debate has raged over whether the famous land art work should be preserved. But now a new site-specific installation by the US conceptual artist Spencer Finch has recorded the colours of the 1,500ft-long basalt rock work, as well as the 2,500 square mile Great Salt Lake in which Spiral Jetty sits.Finch, who created a crystalline blue work to honour those killed in the 9/11 attacks, spent three days in
  
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• Palestinian Museum's inaugural show focuses on contested city of Jerusalem

  25-08-2017 11:28
  The Palestinian Museum will open its inaugural exhibition this weekend focusing on the holy city of Jerusalem, a city that both Israel and Palestine claim as their capital. The wide-ranging, overtly political show will focus on the realities of living in Jerusalem as well as the idea that despite being seen as the original global city, it also serves an example of how globalisation has failed worldwide. The museum in Birzeit, in Palestines West Bank, opened in May last year
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.24.17

  25-08-2017 11:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jazz Singer Cecile McLorin Salvant
  orR some reasons, I typically have trouble with jazz singers after, oh, Sarah Vaughan or Abbey Lincoln. There may have been some great ones over the last two decades, but most of the time ... read more
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• ICA rolls out the red carpet for Bryan Ferry

  25-08-2017 11:09
  Major institutions regularly hold swanky dinners to honour patrons, and cultural trailblazers. The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London thus pays tribute to the co-founder of glam rock supergroup Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, at the inaugural Friends of the Institute of Contemporary Arts Dinner on 2 October. Its not a fundraiser. Its the first annual dinner held in honour of a significant cultural figure, an ICA spokesman says, adding: Its not a ticketed eventmore a thank you
  
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• A drop-dead Da Vinci and Magritte's stash of snaps – the week in art

  25-08-2017 11:00
  The ‘beer-mat Banksy’, 130 photos by René Magritte, Leonardo, the magic of Mantegna and more – all in your weekly dispatchSoul of a Nation
  David Hammons, Betye Saar and Frank Bowling are among the many important artists in this epic and intense journey through black art in a racially divided America. The civil rights era saw similar rifts of race to those tearing at the soul of the US today. Here is how the struggle for justice played out in art that time.• Tate Mod
  
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• Germany 1919-1933 and Whales: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  25-08-2017 10:30
  Dix and Sander offer a look at Germany on the eve of Hitler’s rise to power, while the Natural History Museum profiles the extraordinary giants of our oceansThe Natural History Museum wants to prove whales are just as exciting as dinosaurs. Not only has it replaced the famous diplodocus in its great hall with a blue whale, but this exhibition takes you further into the world of the largest animals that have ever lived. It is a moving and absorbing encounter with extraordinary creatures, in
  
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• Administrative Assistant / Bookkeeper

  25-08-2017 10:03
  Administrative Assistant/Bookkeeper The Art Newspaper, the worlds most respected art publication, is seeking an experienced Administrative Assistant/Bookkeeper to join its New York office. Reporting to the Accountant who is based in London, this role will have the following responsibilities:
  Maintaining the sales and purchase ledgers for the US business
  Managing and monitoring prepayments and accruals
  Generating and distributing invoices, in particular working closely with the advertising t
  
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• May Morris: the designer's daughter determined not to be outdone

  25-08-2017 08:00
  A new exhibition of unseen artefacts, including a childhood journal, reveals a talent to rival that of William MorrisThe eight-year-old May Morris was not easily impressed. She might be staying in a proper medieval castle with battlements and turrets, one of two owned by the grandest friend of her father, William Morris, but she was not prepared to be overawed by its splendour. “The glen is most beautiful and the air smells so sweet,” she wrote. But she added: “The garden is no
  
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• SCHOOL DIRECTOR – SCHOOL OF BALLET ARIZONA

  25-08-2017 07:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ballet Arizona is seeking a School Director to be responsible for the leadership and management of the School of Ballet Arizona. The School Director is accountable to Ballet Arizona’s Artistic Director with areas of oversight including the Children’s Lower and Upper Divisions, Pre-Professional programs, Summer Intensive, and Studio Company.
  Responsibilities Include but are Not Limited to:
  Artistic 
  Ensure the Artistic Excellence of the School at a national level standard in trai
  
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• Stress Of Being "Authentic" Weighs On YouTube Stars

  25-08-2017 00:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Some 20-somethings are making millions by playing video games or dispensing beauty tips online. But the pressure of having to endlessly produce original content that makes them look accessible, transparent and authentic has proved too much for some people."
  
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