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• Casting Call: Keith Edmier Makes a Final Mask of Himself for ‘Mother Mold’ at Petzel

  07-09-2017 23:52 via artnews.com
  The artist is showing a series of casts he has made throughout his career. Read More
  
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• American Music's Elder Statesman: George Walker At 94

  07-09-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "What perhaps makes Walker’s story even more unusual is that while he is now arguably the eldest statesman among still-active composers, he began his career as a child prodigy. He started studying the piano at the age of five, composing as a teenager, and had become something of a cause célèbre by his early 20s. He made his New York piano recital debut at Town Hall at the age of 23 in a program of mostly standard repertoire, which also featured three of his own compositions."
  
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• Seriously - Do We Really Know Who Our Audience Is?

  07-09-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Let’s be realistic: theatres can’t force self-identification on our audience members. Most people want to come to the theatre, see a show, then leave with their friends. They aren’t interested in meeting our nonprofit funders’ reporting requirements. Still, arts administrators have to come up with estimates, because we have to complete those final reports. And unfortunately, any estimation method we select has problems."
  
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• Jennifer Y. Chi Named Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Brooklyn Museum

  07-09-2017 22:32 via artnews.com
  She was previously the Institute for Study of the Ancient World's exhibitions director and chief curator. Read More
  
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• Before The World Wars, "Trauma" Was Physical. There Wasn't A Term For The Psychological Version

  07-09-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In the 1920s and 1930s, trauma is still used to refer to physical trauma. The idea of trauma as a psychic wound develops a little during the Second World War, where there is talk of ‘traumatic neuroses’, but it is quite tightly defined, and is more a psychoanalytic concept than a standard psychiatric one. I have looked through issues of the Lancet and the British Medical Journal published during the Second World War, and the word trauma still has a fundamentally
  
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• Borinquen Gallo at Burning in Water, New York

  07-09-2017 22:18 via artnews.com
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• America's Latin American Art Connection - It's Incestuous, Really

  07-09-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Disney borrows from Latin America, they turn it into something Hollywood, they send it back to Latin America, and the Latin Americans do something else with it and send it back.”
  
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• Art Tatum Was The Best Pianist Of All Time. But...

  07-09-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How well do we really know Tatum? Read further, and the contradictions begin to pile up. You’ll learn that he was heavily influential, but you will also read the opposite — that his style was so personal and technical that he had little actual influence.
  
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• Caravaggio: Genius, Thug, Gangster, Nightmare Tenant

  07-09-2017 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nightmare tenant? Oh, yes - he poked holes in the roof of his apartment and threw rotten vegetables at his landlady. That in addition to the murder, brawling, whoring and vandalism. In fact, writes Noah Charney, "we know far more about Caravaggio than most pre-modern artists because he was brought to trial so often."
  
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• The Spectacular Rise And Fall Of Tower Records

  07-09-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  By 1999, Tower was operating more than 150 stores in almost two-dozen countries, generating annual revenues of a billion dollars. But in 2004, the company was forced into bankruptcy, a victim of its own unchecked appetite for expansion, cutthroat competition from consumer-electronics retailers, tone-deaf marketing decisions on the part of the record industry, and viral file-sharing applications like Napster. Two years later, in 2006, Tower’s assets were unceremoniously liquidated.
  
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• Mariah Robertson Joins Van Doren Waxter

  07-09-2017 20:25 via artnews.com
  The artist also runs the Situations art space in Manhattan. Read More
  
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• Seeing Old and New: Two Shows in the United Arab Emirates Looked at the Past and Present of Emirati Art

  07-09-2017 20:11 via artnews.com
  On “But We Cannot See Them” at the NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery and “Is Old Gold?” at DUCTAC Read More
  
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• Neo-Nazis Are Fixating On Medieval Europe - How Should Medievalist Scholars Handle This?

  07-09-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Telling the story of the Nazi love affair with the medieval past doesn't require blaming medievalists per se. It's not about whether our intentions are good. ... Having discovered it, the question is what to do. And the first step is to understand the myriad forms that racist engagement with the Middle Ages can take."
  
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• Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Lulu, Signal, 13 More Join the New Art Dealers Alliance

  07-09-2017 19:49 via artnews.com
  The galleries hail from eleven cities. Read More
  
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• The Social Justice Side To Leonard Bernstein

  07-09-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bernstein is important for many reasons, including being the first American-born, American-trained conductor to rise to fame and lead an American orchestra. But perhaps most impressive is the fact that he created lasting works of art that were informed by his commitment to social justice, but largely avoided preachiness.
  
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• Changing Of The Guard: Graydon Carter To Step Dwon From Editing Vanity Fair After 25 Years

  07-09-2017 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Mr. Carter’s influence and stature in the magazine and entertainment world is so great that to call his exit a changing of the guard seems insufficient: This is more of a regal passage. One of the few remaining celebrity editors, Mr. Carter — famous for his double-breasted suits, white flowing hair and a seven-figure salary — is a party host, literary patron, film producer and restaurateur who presides over a monthly publication that can still break news in a round-the-clock m
  
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• Study: Listening To Vivaldi Boosts Creativity

  07-09-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The key result: Compared to working in silence, listening to the uplifting Vivaldi was "associated with an increase in divergent thinking." Convergent thinking, on the other hand, was not significantly affected by background music. The researchers argue that this suggests the music inspired higher levels of "fluency and flexibility," which are needed to come up with original ideas, but are less important in the paring-down process.
  
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• What Factors Keep Some World Musical Traditions Healthy As Others Wither Away?

  07-09-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The director and curator of the Smithsonian Folkways record label consulted with colleagues to identify five clusters of forces that affect the health and sustainability of various musical cultures. "[Then] nine international research teams carefully examined traditions ranging from Mexican mariachi to Korean samulnori; from Indian ragas to West African ewe dance-percussion; and from Aboriginal women's songs in Central Australia to Western opera."
  
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• Want To Make Dance Appealing To Millennials? Here's How

  07-09-2017 17:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Dance is a physical manifestation of abstract thought, and I can’t think of a better way to demonstrate this than by making work inspired by independent thought, by self-starting businesses. Using dance as a device for work advancement and learning also taps into something that Millennials increasingly desire in their work experience, something not only fun outside of work, but something applicable to professional growth."
  
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• Sadie Barnette and Carrie Hott Win San Francisco Artadia Awards

  07-09-2017 17:19 via artnews.com
  The artists will show new work at Artadia's booth at the 2018 edition of the Untitled San Francisco art fair. Read More
  
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• Why One Critic Hates 'Macbeth' (But Will Keep Seeing It Anyway)

  07-09-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "There is little in the way of a narrative arc - just a steadily growing pile of bodies. ... There is no one to root for, but there is little to root against, and the play just gets subsumed in a not particularly interesting form of misery. ... And yet however much I scorn Macbeth, I'll keep going back." Jane Howard explains why (and, in the process, gives a critic's credo).
  
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• Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes: Hollywood Blames Review Website For Its Rotten Summer

  07-09-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rotten Tomatoes has become the enemy for many studio bosses, writes Brooks Barnes: "Over lunch last month, the chief executive of a major movie company looked me in the eye and declared flatly that his mission was to destroy the review-aggregation site." The site's editors claim they love movies and movie fans and just want to help them. "How did a clunky website that has been around for 19 years amass such power?" Barnes explains how.
  
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• How Three Great Choreographers Set Work To Beethoven's 'Grosse Fuge'

  07-09-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lucinda Childs, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Maguy Marin talk about their approaches to Beethoven's strangest music.
  
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• From Maize to Museum: The Long-Awaited Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa Aims to Let the Continent Tell Its Own Story

  07-09-2017 15:40 via artnews.com
  The 102,000-square-foot institution opens in Cape Town this month. Read More
  
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• This Out-Of-The-Way Keith Haring Mural Wasn't Meant To Last 30 Years, But It Has

  07-09-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Haring painted We the Youth on the side of a South Philadelphia row house in 1987 after his first plan - to paint a city garbage truck - didn't pan out. The mural faced a vacant lot, and both Haring and his sponsors always expected another house to be built on it eventually. Then, of course, Haring became famous, and the mural is still there.
  
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• Portrait featuring Rudolph Valentino's 'cursed' ring goes on sale

  07-09-2017 15:33
  Federico Beltrán Masses painting of silent film stars Valentino and Pola Negri heads to auction – but will buyer break gem’s hex? Related: Last of the red-hot myths: what gossip over Rudolph Valentino's sex life says about the silents There were three in the relationship: Rudolph Valentino, Pola Negri – the Latin Lover and the Femme Fatale, two of the greatest stars of the silent screen – and the massive jewel on her finger, said to be the fateful ring that cursed
  
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• Comparing The Costs Of Being An Emerging Artist In New York, Los Angeles, And Berlin

  07-09-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "To better understand how to get by as an emerging artist, Artsy spoke to 11 of them from New York, Los Angeles, and Berlin about their overhead costs, the tradeoffs they make, and the financial strategies they employ to stay afloat at the pivotal early stage of their careers."
  
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• Opera And Symphony Audiences Used To Make Lots Of Noise - What Made Them Get So Quiet?

  07-09-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "When the first public opera houses were founded in the mid-17th century, they were designed more as venues for social interaction than as sites of aesthetic experience. ... [Audiences] might perhaps listen to an aria, or watch the ballet (if there was one), but no more; and, if they did not like what they heard, they would make their displeasure known." When and why did they quiet down? Historian Alexander Lee explains.
  
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• Morning Links: Table by the Ofili Edition

  07-09-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• How A Little Indiana Company Town Became A Mecca Of Modernist Architecture

  07-09-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Located 50 miles south of Indianapolis, Columbus owns dozens of architectural masterworks by internationally renowned designers from the era. Eliel and Eero Saarinen, and more than a handful of Pritzker Prize Laureates, including I.M. Pei, Richard Meier, and Robert Venturi, began developing projects there with sudden regularity in the mid-1950s." Why were all these heavyweight architects making buildings there? Because of the owner of this company town's company.
  
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• Salvador Dalí Is Not That Tarot-Card Reader's Father, DNA Tests Show

  07-09-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Pilar Abel, a 61-year-old tarot card reader and fortune teller from Girona, has spent the past 10 years trying to prove that she is the fruit of a liaison between her mother and Dalí in 1955. In June, a court in Madrid ordered the artist's body to be exhumed after previous attempts to determine paternity had failed." This attempt, alas for Ms. Abel, was definitive. (At least we know that Dalí's mustache remains intact.)
  
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• Underwater Ruins Of Lost Roman City Discovered Off Tunisian Coast

  07-09-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Neapolis is believed to have been submerged after a tsunami in the 4th century AD destroyed most of it, as recorded by Roman soldier and historian Ammien Marcellin. The natural disaster also badly damaged Alexandria in modern Egypt and the Greek island of Crete."
  
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• Houston Ballet Will Begin Its Season In New Location

  07-09-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Executive director Jim Nelson said the company will stage four performances of Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Mayerling Sept. 22-24 (including two evening shows and two matinees) at the Hobby Center for the Arts' Sarofim Hall. It also will stage two evening performances of its postponed 'Poetry in Motion' mixed repertory program there Oct. 26 and 27."
  
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• Broadway's Acclaimed 'A Doll's House, Part 2' To Close

  07-09-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The closing is earlier than expected - the play had been scheduled to run until Jan. 7. But the run will still have been longer than that of many contemporary nonmusical productions; at the time of the show's closing, it will have played 30 preview and 173 regular performances."
  
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• Movie About Democracy Movement Massacre Rocks South Korea

  07-09-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Ten million people in South Korea, one-fifth of the population, have watched Jang Hoon's movie A Taxi Driver (Taeksi Woonjunsa) since it was released on 2 August. ... The film is set in May 1980, during the mass democratic uprising - and ensuing military crackdown - in the southwestern city of Gwangju."
  
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• Here’s the 2017 Art Basel Miami Beach Exhibitor List

  07-09-2017 13:30 via artnews.com
  Newcomers this year include David Lewis Gallery and Chapter NY. Read More
  
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• Kate Millett, pioneering second-wave feminist, dies aged 82

  07-09-2017 13:20
  Author, activist and artist whose 1970 book Sexual Politics was a bestselling and hugely influential critique of patriarchal ideologyKate Millett, the wayward artist, thinker and activist whose 1970 book Sexual Politics became a keystone of second-wave feminism, has died at the age of 82. Perhaps aptly for someone who wrote widely and fervently of her pursuit of love, she succumbed to a heart attack during an annual holiday in Paris to celebrate her birthday with her wife and longtime collaborat
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.06.17

  07-09-2017 11:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The shallow breathing of rational management
  So much of our training, theory, practice, and focus in cultural management has to do with outcomes and processes. When we look to improve how our organizations ‘work’, we tend to choose between ... read more
  AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2017-09-06Three Small(ish) Exhibitions That Deserve More Notice
  Planning your fall outings to special exhibitions? The season about to begin has a wealth of fascinating shows – many
  
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• What if zoo animals roam free in Dubai? – in pictures

  07-09-2017 08:00
  What would the world be like if we weren’t dependent on oil? Photographer Richard Allenby-Pratt imagines a deserted Dubai in which the wealthy have fled, leaving giraffes and zebras to wander the alien landscapes Continue reading...
  
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• Sales and Advertising Manager

  07-09-2017 05:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Do you have talent and expertise that you want to share with one of the leading companies in the American Theatre today? Do you want to join a team of highly motivated and passionate people who love promoting theatre and building community as much as you do? Then this is the position for you!
  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is seeking a dynamic and experienced Sales and Advertising Manager to join its Marketing & Communications team. The successful candidate for this position will develop an
  
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• Get 3-for-1 Arts Marketing Conference Registration by September 15

  07-09-2017 03:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Come Together, Right Now. National Arts Marketing, Development and Ticketing Conference – Oct. 17-18 in LA! Hear from experts on what is working now to find, retain, and upgrade your audiences and donors. Includes Digital Marketing Track. Take advantage of the 3-for-1 special offer – you can bring 2 colleagues for FREE! read more
  Get 3-for-1 Arts Marketing Conference Registration by September 15
  Come Together, Right Now. National Arts Marketing, Development and Ticketing Conference &
  
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• Houston Arts Update: Assessing Harvey's Arts Damages

  07-09-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The flood water compromised museum archives, caused structural damage and knocked out electricity and the Internet. How extensive was the damage? We talked with representatives and gathered information from some of major Houston’s arts centers to find out.
  
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