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• Questions About Minnesota's Walker Center After The "Scaffold" Affair

  15-09-2017 23:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The issues at the museum have raised eyebrows in art circles nationally. “Obviously the Walker has a slight cloud over it right now,” said Tom Eccles, executive director of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. “It’s a cloud; not a downpour, but it needs to get out of it quickly.”
  
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• Playwright AR Gurney's Life In The Theatre - End Of An Era

  15-09-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Gurney’s work was never groundbreaking, but it resonated strongly with audiences of many ages, even though it was steeped in the lore of the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who had dominated America for many years. From the very start, Gurney was quietly, subtly rebelling against his genteel upbringing, simultaneously taking pleasure in the traditions that had surrounded him growing up while poking fun at them theatrically."
  
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• "Relaxed" Ballet Performance - An "Other" Experience of Dance?

  15-09-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Sleeping Beauty is being adapted to cater for those on the autistic spectrum, with a learning disability or a sensory and communication disorder. Taking place on February 20 at the Birmingham Hippodrome, the ballet will have a shorter running time, with changes to lighting, sound and seating. It is the first time the company has staged a relaxed performance, a practice that has become increasingly common in theatre."
  
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• Margaret Atwood: Science Fiction Isn't Really About The Future At All

  15-09-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "All stories about the future are actually about the now. However, it’s also true that you generally look ahead of you to see where you’re going and that’s what those kinds of books are like. They’re like blueprints of the possible futures that help us to decide whether that is where we want to go. 1984 was actually about 1948 and looking down the road what might happen should England become like the Soviet Union of the now. So the Handmaid’s Tale&nbs
  
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• Phillips Pulls Work From ‘New Now’ Sale After Mark Grotjahn Says ‘I’m Not Sure I Made This’

  15-09-2017 22:26 via artnews.com
  The painting was slated to go to auction on September 19. Read More
  
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• Silent Movies Return - As GIFs

  15-09-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We are living in the golden age of the silent video. Though we may still pop headphones in to watch a YouTube rant, social media has cultivated its own mute visual culture. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are designed to encourage endless scrolling, and that boosts videos that are made to catch the viewer’s eye without offending her ear with grating bursts of noise.
  
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• Robert Fulford: The Secret To Being Glenn Gould

  15-09-2017 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alberto Guerrero, the Chilean-Canadian who was Glenn’s second and last piano teacher (the first was his mother) said “The secret to teaching Glenn is to let him discover things on his own.” He felt that if Glenn claimed not to have learned anything from Guerrero, “I’d take that as a compliment.”
  
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• Wolfgang Tillmans Issues Images to Get Out the Vote in Germany

  15-09-2017 21:13 via artnews.com
  The artist is campaigning against the rise of the right-wing AfD party in advance of an election on September 24. Read More
  
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• The Future Of Technology (And Culture) In Amish Country

  15-09-2017 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For people bound by a separation from much of the outside world, new tech devices have brought fears about the consequence of internet access. There are worries about pornography; about whether social networks will lead sons and daughters to date non-Amish friends; and about connecting to a world of seemingly limitless possibilities."
  
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• On Your Mark, Get Set, Read: Marathon Readings of Thoreau, the U.S. Constitution Are Planned in New York

  15-09-2017 20:21 via artnews.com
  192 Books is seeking readers for its epic cruise through 'Walden.' Read More
  
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• The 'Monkey-Selfie' Copyright Case Is, At Long Last, Over

  15-09-2017 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Six years after a macaque in Indonesia picked up photographer David Slater's camera and took photos of herself, three years after the U.S. Copyright Office supposedly settled the matter, and two years after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals claimed standing and filed a lawsuit, PETA and Slater have settled the case. Reporter Sudhin Thanawala explains the terms.
  
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• The Knotty, Difficult Conceptual Problem Of Grappling With What Consciousness Is

  15-09-2017 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Computers are ingenious devices that exploit electronic states to control other devices—screens and loudspeakers—that make images and sounds. There are no images or sounds literally inside your computer, the way there are coins in your pocket. Information does not exist as a physical substance. It is a word we use, a form of shorthand if you like, to describe a process that allows a message to go from sender to receiver. However, in this theory, information, understood as
  
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• Why Science-Fiction Writers Couldn't Imagine The Internet

  15-09-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Indeed, scientists couldn't really imagine the World Wide Web much before it appeared. As Lawrence Krauss puts it, "the imagination of nature far exceeds that of human imagination. If you had locked a group of theoretical physicists in a room 50 years ago and asked them to predict what we now know about the universe, they would have missed almost all the key discoveries we have made since."
  
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• We're All Living Inside A Giant Computer (And Our Realities Are Being Changed By It)

  15-09-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "After a while, successful simulated machines displace and overtake the machines they originally imitated. The word processor is no longer just a simulated typewriter or secretary, but a first-order tool for producing written materials of all kinds. Eventually, if they thrive, simulated machines become just machines. Today, computation overall is doing this. There’s not much work and play left that computers don’t handle. And so, the computer is splitting from its origins a
  
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• How We Staged 'Merchant Of Venice' In The Old Venice Ghetto

  15-09-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Director Karin Coonrod writes about the process, from getting set materials to the site by boat and hand-truck to the dilemma of casting Shylock (and her unconventional solution) to reworking the unsatisfying-to-us-in-2017 ending, all in the places where the story would have happened.
  
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• Gavin Brown’s Harlem Space Will Screen Rachel Rose Work All Night, Five Days a Week

  15-09-2017 17:55 via artnews.com
  The exhibition will be on view from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Read More
  
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• Power Of Music: Study Reports That Women Rate Men's Attractiveness Higher If A Little Brahms Is Playing

  15-09-2017 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  "These results generally support the idea that the experience of music may play a role in women's social behavior in a mating context," the researchers conclude. "High-arousing (i.e., more complex) music affects the perception of male facial attractiveness and dating desirability."
  
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• ‘Upstream’ at Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles

  15-09-2017 17:19 via artnews.com
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• 'Fatal Attraction' At 30: An Oral History

  15-09-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Glenn Close: "I'm proud my character elicited such a visceral response. Now she's considered one of the greatest villains ever, and that to me is a mistake. I've never thought of her as a villain, just in distress."Adrian Lyne, director: "I never realized, 30 years later, people would still be talking about bunny boilers."
  
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• Pope painting by Francis Bacon to go on sale after 45 years hidden away

  15-09-2017 16:52
  Estimated to be worth £60m, the painting depicts a slumping pope whose formless body is capped by a drunk’s red noseThe pope’s body is a spiralling heap of sausages wrapped in white and pink robes. Go closer, and even stranger physical images arise: brown smears over his fleshy hands look disturbingly faecal. You could almost believe it, if this were not a £60m – or more – masterpiece soon to go on sale in the opulent setting of Christie’s London auction
  
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• Highland Center for the Arts, Inaugural Executive Director

  15-09-2017 16:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Inaugural Executive Director will be a collaborative and experienced leader, responsible for all aspects of HCA’s operations, including its artistic planning and programming, educational activities, strategic planning, financial administration, and community outreach. The Executive Director will be HCA’s chief advocate and networker throughout the region, cultivating new partnerships and relationships as a presenter, promoter, and facility renter to enhance the organization&rsquo
  
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• A Fyre-Festival-Level Fiasco For Contemporary Classical Music

  15-09-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For a first-time festival, the Newport Contemporary Music Series boasted a program that might make even Tanglewood blush: a star-studded lineup featuring appearances by Philip Glass, four-time Academy Award winner André Previn, and Lord of the Rings composer Howard Shore." It ended up, alas, as what an official with the Boston musicians' union described as "probably the greatest amateur act the union has ever seen." A bass player contracted for that festival orchestra says it was a disas
  
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• Why Big Musicals Have Become Big Business

  15-09-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "On the heels of its most lucrative season yet, with a record-setting $1.37b in ticket sales, Broadway has experienced something of a rebirth. From the success of La La Land on the big screen to Hamilton onstage, there's a collective renewed interest in theater that's been reflected in a wave of movie-musicals and televised live-concert experiences. All of this seems, to entertainment industry insiders, like the chorus following a crescendo." How has this happened? Disney and Glee.
  
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• Black Artist Takes Down His Nat Turner Paintings After Complaint, And More Controversy Ensues

  15-09-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[Stephen Towns's] Joy Cometh in the Morning series presents six painted figures, each representing a martyr from the rebellion ... In Towns's vision, each wears a noose around their necks, held in place by one raised fist, a gesture of black power." An employee at one venue where the paintings were shown objected, "stating that she shouldn't have to look at black faces with nooses around their necks at work." Towns immediately withdrew the series from the show, leaving blue tape on the walls wh
  
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• We Need Great Administrators As Much As We Need Great Artists

  15-09-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Susan Medak, longtime managing director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre, speaking at the TCG National Conference: "At the risk of being run out of this room on a rail, I would argue that great art alone is not going to make the American theatre healthy again. We need great artistic leaders and, more than ever, we need administrative leaders who will help us navigate these uncertain times. ... After all, where would Zelda have been without Tom Fichandler, or Joe Papp without Bernie Gersten?"
  
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• From the Archives: Anna Maria Maiolino on Why ‘Everyone Is an Artist,’ in 2014

  15-09-2017 15:05 via artnews.com
  “It’s just that some people accept it, and others don’t.” Read More
  
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• Oregon Bach Festival Settles With Fired Director For $90,000 (And Non-Disparagement Clause)

  15-09-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The University of Oregon agreed to pay a $90,000 settlement to fired Oregon Bach Festival Artistic Director Matthew Halls this week, in the midst of a public relations disaster over his abrupt termination in August. Under the terms of the settlement, which the UO released in response to a media request, Halls agreed not to sue the UO, and both parties agreed to make no 'negative or disparaging' written or oral statements about each other, publicly or privately, in 'any medium.'"
  
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• Morning Links: Hüsker Dü Edition

  15-09-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
  
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• ‘It was surreal': the day I met Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat

  15-09-2017 15:00
  Sandy Nairne recalls filming two legendary artists for Channel 4’s State Of The Art, October 1985State Of The Art was a Channel 4 series I made, as a writer, with producer John Wyver and director Geoff Dunlop – the man crouching down on the far right. This was the early days of the channel; six hours of primetime TV on contemporary art wouldn’t happen now. Each episode was thematic: the final one, featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat, was on identity, culture and power.We filmed
  
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• Isabelle Faust Upsets Joyce DiDonato For Gramophone's Record Of The Year Award

  15-09-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DiDonato's disc "In War and Peace" won the Gramophone Awards' Recital category and was a favorite for the overall prize, but the winner was a period-instrument recording of Mozart's violin concertos by Isabelle Faust and the orchestra Il Giardino Armonico. (Giardino also won the Orchestral category with a recording of Haydn symphonies; both discs competed in mainstream categories rather than those limited to period instruments.) Artist of the Year went to conductor Vasily Petrenko.
  
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• Brazil's First-Ever Major Queer Art Exhibition Shut Down In Face Of Right-Wing Outrage

  15-09-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The show at the Santander Bank Cultural Center in Pôrto Alegre, titled "Queermuseu," had been running for more than three weeks without incident when a self-styled "libertarian" group called the Free Brazil Movement (which was heavily involved in the movement to impeach former president Dilma Rouseff) began vehement protests of the exhibition on social media, argiung that the show promoted pedophilia, bestiality, and blasphemy. (There are no images in the show depicting sex with children o
  
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• Bramwell Tovey Headed From Vancouver Symphony To Boston

  15-09-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tovey, the longest-serving music director in the VSO's history, steps down at the end of this season and will become director of orchestral activities for Boston University's School of Music.
  
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• Burned, frozen, winched, dangled and hit by a car: the shocking extreme art of Guido van der Werve

  15-09-2017 13:03
  From crossing the Baltic on sea ice to setting his own body ablaze, the Dutchman goes to amazing lengths to create mind-boggling artworks. We meet him in rehabWhen I called the artist Guido van der Werve last year to arrange a meeting, Pauline Portrait, his studio manager, told me he was recovering from a serious bicycle accident that had left him with grave injuries. I met with Van der Werve some months later in his studio in Prenzlauerberg, Berlin, and talked about his work as a film-maker, an
  
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• Roy Lichtenstein’s In the Car: a dramatic close encounter

  15-09-2017 13:00
  The artist zoomed in on his source material, the comic strip Girls’ Romances, to instil in his beaus the energy of confident, capitalist postwar USAn early work derived from comic strips, this features Lichtenstein’s recreation of the mass media’s Ben-Day dots printing process. It would become one of the most recognisable 20th-century styles. Continue reading...
  
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• Degas and Martin Boyce: this week’s best exhibitions in the UK

  15-09-2017 10:30
  The National showcases the erotic imagination of the solitary Parisian, while the Turner prizewinner recreates the reality of modern citiesJean-Michel Basquiat replaced the jazz improvisations of Jackson Pollock with scrawled, death-haunted messages from the street. This raw style made him a sensation in 1980s New York. His death in 1988 at the age of just 27 only intensified that reputation. Now, with the US plunged into political and social disunion, Basquiat looks like a prophet of the countr
  
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