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• Amateur Archaeologists Find Ancient Roman Mosaic

  13-09-2017 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The exquisitely detailed strip was found during a dig in a field near the village of Boxford in Berkshire. Experts have already described it as the most exciting mosaic discovery in Britain for the last 50-years.
  
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• A History Of Time Capsules And What They Say About Us

  13-09-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Slate history maven Rebecca Onion: "Over the 19th and 20th centuries, American time capsules went from containers for civic virtue, to carefully curated museums of popular culture, to catch-alls, capturing the overwhelming amount of stuff that drifts through a consumer society. Looking at the evolution of time capsule contents, it becomes clear that our ideas about which items future historians could use in order to figure out how we lived have changed drastically. But through it all, we've reta
  
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• Can A City Engineer A Great Music Scene Through Public Policy?

  13-09-2017 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The arts often lose when budgets tighten, but even a little coordination by—and representation in—city government can help. “Offices of arts and culture are really about curating relationships and opportunities, and seeing all of the ways a municipality can partner. In order for that to happen, you have to have folks in the room who are specifically thinking about that as an issue area.”
  
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• An HBO Cinematographer Talks About How To Properly Light The Faces Of Black Actors

  13-09-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Any brown person who's taken a selfie in the club can tell you cameras aren't made for us. Yet in Insecure's club scenes, dark-skinned protagonists like Yvonne Orji's Molly continue to impress. You can thank Ava Berkofsky, the show's director of photography, for that. ... So how do you make a show look like a piece of art while also doing justice to black faces? The answer is a special whiteboard and a light dab of shiny makeup."
  
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• Sally Saul at Rachel Uffner, New York

  13-09-2017 21:57 via artnews.com
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• Americorps For The Arts - A Philly Program Goes National

  13-09-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The grant is a first for AmeriCorps. “This is the first time there’s been a program that allows artists to dedicate a year of service to their country,” said AmeriCorps spokeswoman Samantha Jo Warfield, citing the innovative model as one criterion for the award.
  
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• Preparing The Intricate, Ornate Artwork To Be Burned On The King Of Thailand's Funeral Pyre

  13-09-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Nine steel pavilions, rising several stories high, have already been erected at the centre of the royal cremation park, or Sanam Luang. The skeletal thrones that stood bare just weeks ago have now been adorned with gilded and carved cedar, teak and timber. ... When it comes to crafting a royal funeral pyre the devil is in the detail. Every carving, flick of the paint brush, or wooden strut has been designed, excoriated and redesigned multiple times."
  
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• A Reaction To Beauty And Symmetry - Celebrating Ugly

  13-09-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The digital age has made everyone want to get their hands into things and get dirty and messy and make things out of clay. With that comes the voice of the hand, which is inherently imperfect.”
  
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• David Hockney At 80: Still Stylish, Sunny, And Stubborn (Especially About Smoking)

  13-09-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Deborah Solomon goes to visit the artist in California: "Hockney is still a dapper, vigorous presence. His conversation is wide-ranging and larded with literary references, and his manner is so genial and confiding that at first you do not notice how stubborn he can be. He delights in espousing contrary opinions, some of which come at you with the force of aesthetic revelation, while others seem perverse and largely indefensible."
  
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• Gareth Sansom's radical, provocative, technicolour world – in pictures

  13-09-2017 20:00
  Known for his bold and boundary-pushing work, avant-garde Australian artist Gareth Sansom receives the largest survey of his career to date in Gareth Sansom: Transformer, at the National Gallery of Victoria.
  Samson broke ground in the 1960s with punk-inspired collages and paintings that challenged sexual, aesthetic and social norms, and for more than 60 years his practice has continued to evolve. Before the exhibition, which comprises more than 130 works including paintings, photography and work
  
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• Christie’s to Auction Picasso’s ‘Femme accroupie (Jacqueline)’ for First Time Ever, Estimated at Up to $30 M.

  13-09-2017 19:33 via artnews.com
  The painting was made on a storied day in 1954. Read More
  
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• Florida Museums Assess Damages - Perez Museum Unscathed

  13-09-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One historic site, the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Coconut Grove, did sustain some serious flooding to its basement, café and stores, although the main building and its collections remained safe. A truck arrived on Tuesday to begin pumping out the water from the lower levels. “The good news is there are no art collections stored [there].”
  
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• How The Folks At 'Jeopardy!' Come Up With All Those Questions, Er, Answers

  13-09-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "'We all came to the show from different places wanting to be in the entertainment industry, but also being trivia nerds, so we've been lucky enough that this merges those two things.' Jeopardy! head writer Billy Wisse ... walked us through the question-making process from start to finish."
  
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• Alice Walton Creates Art Bridges, a Foundation That Supports Exhibitions of American Art

  13-09-2017 18:43 via artnews.com
  The Wal-Mart heiress previously founded the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in 2011. Read More
  
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• German Researchers: We Can Now Compose Music Using Only The Brain

  13-09-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Twenty years ago, the idea of composing a piece of music using the power of the mind was unimaginable," said Gernot Müller-Putz of the Graz University of Technology, a co-author of the study. "Now, we can do it."
  
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• Käthe Kollwitz: Portrait of the Artist review – a brooding tableau of trauma

  13-09-2017 18:06
  Ikon Gallery, BirminghamA powerful new exhibition shows how the great Berliner raged against war and poverty – and how death was her lifelong creative companionA dead child lies, bone white and fine-featured, between its mother’s thighs. The mother is a hulking creature, something from a nightmare, caught in what is every parent’s worst nightmare. Her body has the heavy muscles of Mary in Michelangelo’s marble Pietà, but here grief has turned her into an animal rat
  
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• How Caravaggio's Life Of Crime Changed His Art

  13-09-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last week, Noah Charney wrote about how the great painter became a violent, impulsive train wreck. This week, he tells us how much worse Caravaggio got - for instance, he fled to Malta for sanctuary and the Knights welcomed him; the next year, they called him a "putrid and fetid member" of the order and threw him in jail - and how the fact that he was constantly fleeing the authorities affected the way he painted.
  
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• Peter Hall, A Director Who Animated Language

  13-09-2017 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Directors can’t simply let a play speak on its own, but they must put their ear to the ground. Meaning for Hall always returned to an intimate confrontation with the line. He didn’t believe that Shakespeare could be properly done without respecting the forms in which he wrote his plays. Verse, diction, rhetorical patterns — attention to these matters is what allowed a play to live again."
  
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• The Creative Force That Was Peter Hall

  13-09-2017 17:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Billington: "What I most admired about Hall at the National was his tenacity in withstanding industrial action, persistent attacks from disappointed members of the Olivier regime and media abuse."
  
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• Director Peter Hall, 86

  13-09-2017 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hall’s most startling and lasting achievement is to have been the founding father of the UK’s two biggest subsidised theatres in the form that we now know them: the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
  
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• Rashayla Marie Brown and Claire Pentecost Win 2017 Chicago Artadia Awards

  13-09-2017 17:18 via artnews.com
  Both artists get $10,000 and booth space at Expo Chicago. Read More
  
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• Get A First Look Inside A Newly-Opened 3,500-Year-Old Egyptian Tomb

  13-09-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Discovered at the Dra Abul Naga necropolis on the west bank of the Nile [near Luxor], the newly opened tomb holds statuettes, mummies, pottery, and other artifacts ... One of the statues depicts a goldsmith named Amenemhat sitting beside his wife. A figure of one of their sons stands beneath them. The archaeologists say the family lived during Egypt's 18th Dynasty." (includes video)
  
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• Ian Buruma Talks About Launching A New Era At The New York Review Of Books

  13-09-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Some shoes are harder to fill than others. Robert Silvers .. ran the left-leaning intellectual magazine with single-minded fervor from the time he co-founded it in 1963 until he died at 87 in March. His shoes may as well be Shaquille O'Neal's." But Buruma is up for the challenge, and, as he tells John Williams, he'll do his job differently: "It was a monarchy, and I think perhaps it will be a slightly more democratic operation. Certainly I think I'll be more collaborative."
  
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• A Total Of 864 People Will Be Able To See Punchdrunk's New Production - Is That A Bad Thing?

  13-09-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lyn Gardner: "Access is always going to be a problem with small-capacity or small-scale shows. But does that mean we should ban artists from making shows that involve an intimacy of experience or one-on-one work because very few can get to see it? It would be odd if in the quest for access we started asking artists to censor the kind of work they might dream of and make."
  
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• Did Someone Really Just Figure Out How To Read The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript?

  13-09-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last week, researcher Nicholas Gibbs announced in the Times Literary Supplement that he had cracked the medieval text's long-uindecipherable code. (He says it's a women's health manual.) But other experts in the field aren't convinced. Here Brigit Katz gives us some of the other (weird) theories about the Voynich and the six basic things to know about it.
  
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• Daniil Simkin Is Joining A Second Ballet Company

  13-09-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "One of the ballet world's busiest superstars is adding another role to his resume, and it's a big one. American Ballet Theatre principal Daniil Simkin is joining Staatsballett Berlin as a principal beginning with the 2018-2019 season. Though he will be based in Berlin, the virtuoso will maintain his position at ABT, performing with the company as often as his schedule will allow." Here he talks with Lauren Wingenroth about how he got the job and what his plans for it are.
  
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• Double Trouble: Billy Grant and Rich Porter Join Forces for Brooklyn Show

  13-09-2017 15:11 via artnews.com
  Their exhibition is on view at Safe Gallery through October 8. Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Origami Edition

  13-09-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
  
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• London galleries in 'landmark collaboration' for Tacita Dean shows

  13-09-2017 14:57
  ‘One artist, three venues, three genres’ at National Portrait Gallery, National Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in 2018Three of the UK’s most important galleries have announced an unprecedented collaboration in which they will stage exhibitions devoted to different aspects of work by one living artist: Tacita Dean.In 2018, the National Portrait Gallery will show the portrait work of Dean, while the National Gallery will show still life and the Royal Academy of Arts will show
  
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• Cecilia Alemani to Run First Art Basel Cities Project, in Buenos Aires

  13-09-2017 14:00 via artnews.com
  Advance planning will begin this November for programming for September 2018. Read More
  
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• Stuart Shave’s Modern Art Gallery to Open Second London Space

  13-09-2017 11:30 via artnews.com
  The second space's address will be Vyner Street E2. Read More
  
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