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• Taking Stock Of Houston's Architecture After The Storm

  05-09-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "This week, Houston's art and architectural communities are beginning to take stock of the damage to historic and contemporary structures, as well as cultural projects still under construction."
  
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• We Knew It: Study Says Trained Musicians Make Better Decisions

  05-09-2017 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In addition to the rich sensori-motor benefits early music playing may have on the developing brain, music training may also confer long-lasting benefits in complex cognitive functions," writes a team led by Kirsten Smayda of the University of Texas–Austin. "The music classes offered during many children's elementary and high-school education in America may result in improved decision-making ability as an adult."
  
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• If A.I. Can Paint Pictures and Compose Music, Why Can't It Tell Good Jokes?

  05-09-2017 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As we've seen this summer, artificial intelligence software has written songs and created paintings that many listeners and viewers can't distinguish from those made by humans. So why have the few attempts at A.I.-created comedy lagged behind> Turns out humor is a lot more complex than music or art.
  
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• The End Of Nations And Rise Of The City-State

  05-09-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "This is the crux of the problem: nation-states rely on control. If they can’t control information, crime, businesses, borders or the money supply, then they will cease to deliver what citizens demand of them. In the end, nation-states are nothing but agreed-upon myths: we give up certain freedoms in order to secure others. But if that transaction no longer works, and we stop agreeing on the myth, it ceases to have power over us. So what might replace it? The city-state increasingly l
  
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• Moshekwa Langa at Stevenson, Johannesburg

  05-09-2017 22:00 via artnews.com
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• Poll Of 50 Nobel Winners: The Biggest Threats To The World Right Now

  05-09-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Political polarization, the rise in populism, ignorance in world leaders, distortion of the truth, and encouraging distrust among people, their leaders, and the media are considered dangerous enough to be featured on a list that includes climate change, population increase, and infectious diseases.
  
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• Billy - The Story Behind IKEA's Ubiquitous Bookcase

  05-09-2017 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It's the archetypal IKEA product. It was dreamed up in 1978 by an IKEA designer named Gillis Lundgren. He sketched it on the back of a napkin, worried that he'd forget it. Now there are sixty-odd million in the world, nearly one for every hundred people."
  
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• How Our Brains Tell Time

  05-09-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Different parts of our gray matter respond to different timing tasks, and brain imaging has helped us parse which areas do what. From drumming along with a musical phrase to figuring out how long a lecture has lasted, these specialized areas work together to shape our temporal perception."
  
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• Vice President of Ticketing Sales

  05-09-2017 19:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Victoria Theatre is Seeking A Vice President of Ticketing & Sales to serve as a vital member of our Organization and an active and collaborative member of our Senior Leadership Team. Responsibilities includes growth in sales and development for the business operations of Ticketing Center Stage including Box Office, Group, and Telemarketing sales initiatives. . This position also serves as the liaison and company representative amongst other arts organizations and licensees utilizing Ticket C
  
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• Dancing With Technology Amplifying Movement From Above

  05-09-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One line of experimentation has involved electronic shadows on the stage floor, an effect that can be hard to see from the seats of many conventional theaters. That’s not a problem at the Guggenheim, where the audience is above the dancers. Here’s how it works: An infrared camera scans the dancers’ outlines, 60 frames per second, even as they move, and transmits that information to a computer, which then projects images around the dancers. As Mr. Simkin explained during a recen
  
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• Gladstone Gallery Now Represents Ian Cheng

  05-09-2017 19:11 via artnews.com
  Gladstone Gallery, which has outposts in New York and Brussels, announced today that, going forward, it will represent Ian Cheng, the American artist who currently has his first solo U.S. museum show up at MoMA PS1.“We are honored and excited … Read More
  
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• The Art And Science Of Stage Blood

  05-09-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Though all Shakespearean characters may bleed, at [DC's] Shakespeare Theatre Company, they don't all bleed the same blood - or at least, not the same fake blood. Chris Young, the theater's properties director, mixes a unique version of the vital fluid for every gory scene in every show. No ketchup or red food dye here: Young's complex recipes vary depending on the color and fabric of the actor's clothes, the nature of the stage lighting and the type of theatrical injury at hand (or leg, or hear
  
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• Has The Berkshire Museum Overstated Its Financial Difficulties?

  05-09-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Berkshire Museum wouldn't need to sell some of its most prized works of art to remain operational if it grew its endowment by $4.5 million, according to an expert on nonprofits. "I continue to believe that they have overstated how much of an emergency they are in," said Stephen C. Sheppard, "and I think there would exist a clear path to a sustainable, essentially status quo, outcome that would not require deaccession of the 40 artworks."
  
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• Here's One Texas Museum That Was Ready For Hurricane Harvey

  05-09-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Back in 2008, when Hurricane Ike pummeled Texas, the Galveston Arts Center sustained steep losses. ... Art valued at more than $100,000 was ruined, and the storm caused upward of $1 million in damage to the historic, 19th-century bank building that houses the Arts Center. ... So this time around, the team was prepared."
  
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• Ufizzi Director Leaving To Lead Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum

  05-09-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The first non-Italian to head the Uffizi, Eike Schmidt will leave at the end of his four-year tenure, not entering a second mandate as many had expected he would. The 49-year-old director was initially appointed as part of the Italian government’s sweeping overhaul of the leadership positions in Italy’s leading cultural institutions under culture minister Dario Franceschini.
  
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• We've Had The 'Fake News' Debate Before - In The Early Days Of Radio

  05-09-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Adrian Chen looks back at Orson Welles's 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast, the wildly exaggerated newspaper reports of public panic over it, and the anxieties behind the entire uproar, noting the parallels with today's concerns over false reports spread via the internet.
  
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• Top Street Artist Designs The Egyptian Palaces Of 'Aida'

  05-09-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anne Midgette meets Retna (aka Marquis Lewis), who created the sets for Washington National Opera's new staging of the Verdi evergreen (co-produced with San Francisco Opera).
  
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• Dakota Elders Decide Not To Burn Sam Durant's Controversial 'Scaffold' - They'll Bury It Instead

  05-09-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The sculpture, which references the hanging of 38 men during the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, was greeted with protests when it was installed at the Walker Art Center this summer and was quickly removed. Chief and spiritual leader Arvol Looking Horse dissuaded his fellows from following the original plan to burn the disassembled work.
  
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• Shakespeare Theatre Company, Senior Director of Development

  05-09-2017 15:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Senior Director of Development will lead the design, development, and execution of strategies that grow a comprehensive fundraising program.
  “Is there no play / to ease the anguish of a torturing hour?”--A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  The Shakespeare Theatre Company, recipient of the 2012 Regional Theatre Tony Award, is the leading premier classical theatre company in the nation. STC has staged more than 150 innovative productions, bringing them to vibrant life in a provocative,
  
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• Creating A Dance-Only TV Episode For HBO

  05-09-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The new Duplass brothers anthology series, Room 104, just aired an episode that included no spoken text - only dance. Dance Magazine talks with choreographer Dayna Hanson, who created both the storyline and the movement of the episode.
  
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• Downs & Ross Gallery Heads to New Location on New York’s Lower East Side

  05-09-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  Two locations become one in a new downtown site. Read More
  
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• What We Talk About When We Talk About L.A.

  05-09-2017 15:01 via artnews.com
  Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA puts Latin American and Latinx art at the center of art history Read More
  
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• Morning Links: 26-Foot-Long Wall Edition

  05-09-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• William Gedney: a photographer exiled in his own land

  05-09-2017 07:00
  From California hippy communes to remote Kentucky farms, Gedney caught intimate glimpses of an America he never felt at home in himself‘Why am I not able to focus myself?” William Gedney wrote in his journal on 21 January 21 1962. “I have the talent, I love to create, yet why do I waste most of my time, my days, now years in meaninglessness?”
  Given his prodigious output – he left 60,000 items in his archive to Duke University, North Carolina, including thousands of
  
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