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• Paris Biennale Struggles With Low Attendance, Critical Press

  16-09-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Attendance to the fair, especially by Parisians just back from the summer holidays, was notably lower that previous years and far from that of Frieze Masters in London or Tefaf Maastricht. In the middle of the week, late in the day, the aisles were almost empty. The organisers did not provide attendance figures or information on sales, but the press reviews have been grim."
  
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• Robert Palmer “Drive” 2003

  16-09-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Drive” is unjustly forgotten record. It is an album by the great late Robert Palmer released in 2003. It his last album, he sadly passed away the same year. Nevertheless, “Drive” is a dark sheep in his discography. Unlike his signature carribbean-tinged blue-eyed soul of the 70s and tacky 80’s rocco-waka-waka-bossa-nova-from-hell-rock – “Drive” is barebones hard-edged no holds barred old-school blues album with n
  
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• Will Augmented Reality Change The Ways We Interact With Art? Facebook Is Investigating...

  16-09-2017 14:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AR makes art -- in different ways -- both more and less accessible. On the one hand, art can be everywhere around you now. On the other, AR art can only be enjoyed by people who own smartphones. Around 5 billion people still don't.
  
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• Mocaa, Cape Town: grain silo reborn as Africa's answer to Tate Modern

  16-09-2017 11:00
  Thomas Heatherwick pulls off an awesome act of architectural mutilation – just don’t mention the luxury hotel upstairsTwinkling like rows of cut-glass decanters in a well-stocked drinks cabinet, the faceted windows atop Cape Town’s new contemporary art museum rise as a crystal beacon above a motley jumble of wharves, warehouses and shopping malls.The windows shine out from the crown of a majestic concrete grain silo that has stood here since the 1920s, once the tallest building
  
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• How photography became the hottest new investment choice

  16-09-2017 08:00
  The rich are shunning paintings while prices for photographs are soaring, but is it an investment that works for everyone?The Art Institute of Chicago is one of the world’s great galleries. Visitors flock to see Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks and Grant Wood’s American Gothic, two of the most recognisable images in modern American art. But what has stunned art collectors is that a photograph of visitors to the Art Institute, taken in 1990 by Thomas Struth, fetched more at auction th
  
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• Director, Communications - Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts

  16-09-2017 01:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts seeks a full-time Director, Communications for the development and implementation of strategies and content that advance Wolf Trap Foundation’s mission, goals, and objectives through traditional and digital communications. This includes earned and owned media to increase public awareness and revenue generating activities comprising websites, social media, email, public relations, publications, and other emerging platforms ensuring that story-tel
  
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• Artistic Director – Phoenix Chorale, Phoenix AZ

  16-09-2017 01:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The GRAMMY® Award-winning Phoenix Chorale is seeking a dynamic, consummately skilled, and inspirational conductor to serve as the Chorale’s next Artistic Director.
  This individual will exhibit exemplary musical, conducting, and artistic skills, demonstrate an innate ability to nurture and lead the Chorale’s singers, and offer a charismatic personality and energetic attitude for engaging in meaningful ways with the Chorale’s local and national audience. The selected Artistic
  
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• UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF DANCE, Assistant Professor

  16-09-2017 01:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  ABOUT THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC, THEATRE & DANCE: As a comprehensive performing arts school set in one of the world’s finest public institutions of higher education, the School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD) is deeply engaged in the creation, practice, scholarship, and pedagogy of music, theatre, and dance. We aim to provide leadership, nationally and internationally, in all three fields. We assert and celebrate the value of the arts to the mission of the University of Michigan. SMTD i
  
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• Songlines at the NMA: a breathtaking triumph of 21st century museology

  16-09-2017 00:13
  The National Museum, itself situated on an ancient corroboree ground, is telling an Indigenous story which words have failed​The shortcomings of the English language are never more apparent than when it is used to translate Indigenous Australian beliefs, customs and culture​. So it follows ​that English-style museums – which is to say, most Australian ones – also often fall short​. Museums of bricks and mortar are largely antithetical to Aboriginal repositorie
  
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