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• ‘Sticky Fingers’ at Arsenal Contemporary, New York

  31-08-2017 23:47 via artnews.com
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• Lessons For The US? - How New Delhi Dealt With Its Colonial Monuments

  31-08-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Britain withdrew from the subcontinent seventy years ago this month, creating, amid the bloodshed of Partition, the independent states of India and Pakistan. (They came into being at the famous stroke of midnight, the moment when Britain withdrew its sovereignty.) The imperial statues in New Delhi presented a dilemma; compared with the challenges of poverty, industrialization, and the desire to consolidate a constitutional democracy, they were a minor irritant, but a highly visible one."
  
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• Art In Support Of Homeless: 9000 to Sleep In A Park In Edinburgh

  31-08-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It is hoped 9,000 people will take part in the sleepout, which will see Liam Gallagher, Deacon Blue, Amy Macdonald and Frightened Rabbit play unplugged. No tickets will be sold, with members of the public and businesses joining the event by reaching fundraising targets and accepting the sleep-out challenge."
  
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• It's Two Years Before The Final Season Of "Game Of Thrones." So An Engineer Enlisted Artificial Intelligence To Get There First

  31-08-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Software engineer Zack Thoutt has trained a recurrent neural network (RNN) to predict the events of The Winds of Winter. This machine-learning algorithm is modeled after the human brain—it can quickly analyze text and remember thousands of plot points.
  
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• Artist To Swarm Philly's Ben Franklin Parkway With Lantern-Covered Pedicabs

  31-08-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a new project titled Fireflies, Cai Guo-Qiang, the artist known for (literal) fireworks such as Fallen Blossoms on the front steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, will send a fleet of pedicabs swathed in colorful lamps to perform synchronized maneuvers on the city's grand avenue and then pick up passengers for an evening ride.
  
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• The Onion And Satire In The Age Of Fake News

  31-08-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If someone doesn’t recognise the joke we’re making, then that’s a whole lot of labour lost. We aim never to trick people but rather to train them to see the world as we see it. In a world infested by ‘fake news’, the intention [and subsequent execution] is everything.”
  
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• Drama Critic Gets Bad Review, Takes It Personally, Discovers That It Hurts

  31-08-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In which Time Out London's theatre editor books a room in Edinburgh via Airbnb, has a minor disagreement with his host, and finds himself on the receiving end of a 500-word "screed". "As I proceeded to moan about it on Twitter, I heard the faint sound of a very distant penny dropping ..."
  
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• No, Asking The Community Who Doesn't Attend Your Theatre What You Should Do Isn't The End Of Expertise

  31-08-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Of course dig deeper behind the headline and the York initiative is not quite the latest nail in the coffin for expertise that it might first appear. Rather it’s a smart move to broaden audiences and repertoire and involve the local community from a theatre that has already pioneered involving young people in every aspect of theatre production from programming through to producing and marketing with the annual excellent Takeover Festival.
  
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• Bringing Western Opera (Back) To India

  31-08-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Patricia Rozario, a Mumbai-born soprano who made her name singing the music of the late John Tavener and now teaches at London's Royal College of Music, has been making regular visits to her home country to give young singers advanced training in opera technique - and then creating opportunities for them to perform. Last month, Rozario and her colleagues produced the first opera seen at Mumbai's old Royal Opera House in some eight decades.
  
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• How Tiny Eau Claire Wisconsin Became The Mid-West's Hot New Town

  31-08-2017 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The tipping point came in 2012: Arts advocates, the city, the state, and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UWEC) joined forces on the $85 million Confluence Arts Center. Previous big projects proposed for downtown had failed to gain approval, but Confluence’s critical mass of partners overcame some mild opposition. When it’s completed next year, across from Phoenix Park, it’ll have two theaters, apartments, retail space, and a pedestrian plaza, along with artist and techn
  
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• Why 'Gone With The Wind' May Be The One Confederate Memorial Worth Saving

  31-08-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alyssa Rosenberg: "Both types of period pieces are valuable historical artifacts, not of the events and people they portray, but of previous generations of Americans' efforts to figure out how they feel about the Civil War. ... [What's more, the film] casts a more gimlet eye on the Confederacy than it often gets credit for."
  
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• So Curiosity Is A Genetic Trait?

  31-08-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There are many studies that have shown that there is a strong genetic component to curiosity,” he notes. “It is also the case that some people are more curious than others, in the same way that some people have talent for music and others don’t or some people are smarter than others ... But all people are curious, with the possible exception of people who are very deeply depressed or have certain kinds of brain damage.” Humans exhibit two basic types of curios
  
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• 'The Man Who Was Eaten Alive,' Wildlife Filmmaker Alan Root, Dead At 80

  31-08-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[He] splashed through crocodile-infested rivers, piloted hot-air balloons over stampeding wildebeests and lost a 'Coke bottle'-size chunk of his calf to an angry hippopotamus, all while producing nearly two dozen acclaimed nature documentaries."
  
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• Vital Organ: Musicians Blend Traditions at Brooklyn Church for ‘Blow Hard’

  31-08-2017 17:47 via artnews.com
  One Friday evening in mid-August, I took a car through a looming thunderstorm to get to the San Domino Mission Catholic Church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, for “Blow Hard,” a night of organ and electronic music performed by various artists. The … Read More
  
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• How A Bell Labs Scientist Gave Us A Framework For Defining Information

  31-08-2017 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The information value of a message depends in part on the range of alternatives that were killed off in its choosing. Symbols chosen from a larger vocabulary of options carry more information than symbols chosen from a smaller vocabulary, because the choice eliminates a greater number of alternatives. This means that the amount of information transmitted is essentially a function of three things: the size of the set of possible symbols, the number of symbols sent per second, and the length of t
  
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• Alex Da Corte Directs a Music Video for St. Vincent

  31-08-2017 17:25 via artnews.com
  The Philadelphia-based artist's taste for primary colors and odd design elements is on full display. Read More
  
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• Why We Keep Coming Back To 'Waiting For Godot'

  31-08-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Samuel French, Inc., which licenses it, reports that Godot will be professionally produced at least ten times around the world in the next three months, nearly 65 years after it first premiered." Shannon Reed considers the reasons why - including this one: "we return to Godot at least partly to be able to walk out of Godot."
  
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• Second Annual NADA Miami Beach International Gallery Prize Goes to Carne Gallery and Dawid Radziszewski

  31-08-2017 17:00 via artnews.com
  Both galleries will present work at NADA Miami Beach, which runs December 7-10. Read More
  
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• One Public TV Station Cut Back On Pledge-Drive Time - And Saw Revenue Rise

  31-08-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In what began as a one-year experiment last summer, the New York pubcaster [WNET] carved out regular time slots for fundraising programs on its flagship channel, ending the campaign-style drives that go on for weeks. With pledge confined to a limited number of slots - including Thursday primetime and weekends - the station also changed how it communicated with viewers and members about fundraising."
  
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• William Eggleston to Release New Album of Surprising Synthesizer Music This Fall

  31-08-2017 16:05 via artnews.com
  The 78-year-old photographer makes an improbable musical debut. Read More
  
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• This Guy Played His Sax While Undergoing Brain Surgery

  31-08-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Granted, this isn't truly a first - an opera singer and a violinist have done the same thing - but it's for a very good reason.
  
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• Violinist Dmitri Kogan Dead At 38

  31-08-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The descendant of a celebrated musical dynasty" - two of his grandparents were Leonid Kogan and Elizabeth Gilels, Emil's sister - "he was known for curating and supporting innovative music projects in his native country and abroad."
  
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• Crystal Bridges Museum To Open Satellite Venue

  31-08-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The facility, in a former Kraft Foods factory about a mile and a half from the main museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, "will be known as the Momentary and will showcase visual and performing arts. It also will house an art[ist]-in-residency program."
  
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• Canada's Globe And Mail Kills Its Weekday Arts Section

  31-08-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The country's national English-language daily "will be consolidating its 'Life and Arts' and 'News' sections, beginning in December. The reshuffling means that arts reviews will be relegated to the generic 'News' section, and that dedicated space for other arts coverage would be found exclusively in the paper's weekend edition."
  
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• Morning Links: Wax Tom Brady Edition

  31-08-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• How Houston's Dance Community Is Holding Up Under Harvey

  31-08-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While the basement and parking garage of the Wortham Theater Center (home venue of Houston Ballet) are flooded, "so far, it seems that the small and mid-size companies came through the storm with minor damage."
  
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• Miranda July curates interfaith charity shop opening in Selfridges

  31-08-2017 14:42
  Filmmaker works with Artangel and faith-based groups to celebrate ‘hope’ of charity shops inside luxury department storeThe UK’s first interfaith charity shop is opening in the most unlikely of locations: the Selfridges department store on Oxford Street in London. The pop-up shop, opening on Thursday, is curated by the filmmaker, artist and author Miranda July for Artangel, which is known for staging bold and inventive art in unusual places. Related: Miranda July: ‘I alwa
  
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• Turning Trucks Into Art And Rolling Them Across Spain

  31-08-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Jaime Colsa owns a transport company that delivers ordinary consumer goods - computers, food, drinks. The contents of his trucks aren't eye-catching, but his vehicles certainly are, adorned with paintings showing cartoonlike faces, dogs, brightly colored geometric patterns, spirals and landscapes."
  
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• Truck Drivers Are Addicted To NPR, Even When They Disagree With It

  31-08-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As one trucker told reporter Alan Yu, "Every single driver I've ever talked to listens to NPR." Why? Some of it is that the substance can keep people engaged for mile after mile. But this is also another case where geography is destiny.
  
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• New York City To Get European-Style Nightlife Czar

  31-08-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "'Night mayors,' as they are commonly known, are popular in Europe, where these figures are chiefly concerned with how people can have a good time after dark in their cities. London, Berlin, Paris and Zurich all have them - and now the initiative is making its way to New York, where night life is in great need of attention."
  
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• She Directs Some Of The Most Searing Theatre Around Today

  31-08-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yaël Farber: "Directing is basically asking a bunch of people to run full speed at a wall with you, and to believe that you'll all pass through. And sometimes you won't. But you have to feel it's still worth the injury."
  
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• Howard Kaminsky, 77, Publisher Of Blockbuster Books

  31-08-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Brash and witty, Mr. Kaminsky developed his reputation at Warner with best sellers like Never-Say-Diet (1980), by Richard Simmons; Megatrends (1982), by John Naisbitt; sequels to The Happy Hooker, by the former madam Xaviera Hollander; potboiler fiction by Andrew Greeley, a Roman Catholic priest; the paperback edition of Judith Krantz's Scruples; and novels by Nelson DeMille. But his best-known deal was certainly the one that Warner made with a recently disgraced former president: Barely six we
  
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• Miranda July turns corner of Selfridges into interfaith charity shop

  31-08-2017 12:42
  On the third floor of the Selfridges department store in London, among the Marc Jacobs and Moschino couture, shoppers can now pick up a Ralph Lauren tie for 3 or a Zara skirt for 7. The bargains come courtesy of the US artist and writer Miranda July, who has set up a fully functioning charity shop inside the London department store. The pop-up, which opened today (until 22 October) and was commissioned by the non-profit organisation Artangel, comes complete with the harsh strip lighting, c
  
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• David Tang, fashion entrepreneur and Chinese art collector, dies aged 63

  31-08-2017 11:19
  The Hong Kong and British socialite, fashion entrepreneur and early collector and supporter of Chinese contemporary art David Tang died on Tuesday 29 August aged 63. According to The Financial Times, where Tang penned a weekly advice column, he passed away at Londons Royal Marsden Hospital from cancer. The UK-educated scion of a wealthy family originally from Shanghai, Tang founded elite restaurant chain China Club in 1991 and the fashion brand Shanghai Tang in 1994, both purveyors of
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.30.17

  31-08-2017 08:37 via feedproxy.google.com
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  Web 1.0 was the internet before “talkback.” It was static one-directional communication. Whether intentional or not, it was inherently self-centered, presenting the view of the owner of the website. Web 2.0 is the interactive internet ... read more
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• Fake off! Meet baking’s masters of illusion cakes

  31-08-2017 08:00
  On Tuesday, Channel 4’s first batch of Bake Off contenders wowed Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood with cakes resembling sandwiches and watermelons – but they’re nothing compared with these hyperreal delightsIllusion cakes – cakes that look like something they are not – must have seemed the perfect trick to divert the eye from The Great British Bake Off’s own recasting. (Was it really Bake Off?) Illusion is a burgeoning area of baking, although its practitioners p
  
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• Drug stores, jazz and a smoking Statue of Liberty: pop-art provocateur Larry Rivers – in pictures

  31-08-2017 08:00
  Larry Rivers became an artist in the 1940s, and was soon part of a New York avant-garde scene of dancers, musicians and writers. A saxophonist-turned-painter, he refused to adhere to any genre, and his puckish work has an air of jazz improvisation. He’ll be celebrated at (RE)APPROPRIATIONS, an exhibition spanning five decades of his work at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York from 6 September Continue reading...
  
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• Max Ernst, the anti-traditionalist – archive, 31 August 1961

  31-08-2017 06:00
  31 August 1961 Audrey Davis visits the German artist at his home in France on the eve of a major exhibition of his work at London’s Tate Gallery Huismes is a village built on a hillside on the fringe of the forest of Chinon, not far from the junction of the Indre with the Loire. It has no feudal castle, no Renaissance chateau, nothing to attract visitors, merely a handful of little shops and a church with a grey slate spire. Its narrow main street is often blocked by high farm carts pulled
  
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