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• New Banksy Murals Turn Up In London As Basquiat Show Opens

  18-09-2017 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The works, near the Barbican Centre, mark the opening of an exhibition by American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
  
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• The Bridge, a Micro-Fair on a Ritzy Hamptons Golf Course, Sees Sales—and Jay-Z and Beyoncé—at Inaugural Edition

  18-09-2017 23:17 via artnews.com
  "We haven't done something in the Hamptons before, and I was really surprised by how many collectors came by," one dealer said. "They're really all out here." Read More
  
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• How Hull Became Britain's Ballet Talent Engine

  18-09-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Skip back a generation or two, and those to have emerged from other Hull dance schools include former Royal Ballet principal Mark Silver and ex-Birmingham Royal Ballet principal Robert Parker. Hull seems to have a particularly good record with male dancers.
  
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• Expo Chicago 2017 Courted New Collectors and Exhibited Energy Fit for the Future

  18-09-2017 22:44 via artnews.com
  The five-day gathering drew formidable galleries to what was more than just a regional art fair. Read More
  
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• Silicon Valley Companies Say They're Building A Better World. But They Can't Even Build A Better Silicon Valley

  18-09-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This failure to create places for people—our logical "target user," in the region's parlance—is, in part, to blame for the soul-crushing, NIMBY-inducing, place-agnostic sprawl we've idly cobbled together here. Planning-wise, the city that's supposed to be inventing the future remains trapped in the 1950s, as Allison Arieff wrote recently in The New York Times. The Valley of Heart's Delight's once fine agricultural complexion is now forever marked with the suburban
  
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• Study: Medical Students Benefit From Studying Visual Art

  18-09-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "At the beginning and end of the program, all of the students took a series of tests. They were asked to describe, in detail, images that depicted artworks, retinas, and the faces of patients suffering from various eye-related diseases. The observational skills of the 18 students who took the art course increased significantly over the three months. Somewhat surprisingly, those of the 18 who did not take it actually declined during that same period."
  
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• Executive/Artistic Director Position Open!!

  18-09-2017 21:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  San Juan Community Theatre is seeking an Executive/Artistic Director.
  This position reports to the San Juan Community Theatre Board of Trustees and is responsible for conceiving, developing, and implementing the direction, focus and artistic vision for San Juan Community Theatre. The Executive/Artistic Director selects and evaluates programs for the year, including local stage productions, performance groups, touring artists, school presentations, educational outreach, and HD streaming events. T
  
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• Klaudio Rodriguez Named Deputy Director of Bronx Museum of the Arts

  18-09-2017 21:39 via artnews.com
  He is coming from the Frost Art Museum at Florida International University in Miami. Read More
  
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• Klaudio Rodriguez Named Deputy Director of Bronx Museum of Arts

  18-09-2017 21:39 via artnews.com
  He is coming from the Frost Art Museum at Florida International University in Miami. Read More
  
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• The Curious Case Of The Oregon Bach Festival Soap Opera

  18-09-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Previously undisclosed emails reveal that the colleague at the center of the inquiry, the countertenor Reginald Mobley, denied to festival administrators that Matthew Halls had been racially insensitive. But clear reasons for the firing remain elusive. And the attempt to deal with an ugly personnel issue sotto voce — last week, university officials agreed to pay Mr. Halls $90,000 as part of a settlement with a nondisparagement clause — has resulted in a crescendo of criticism, f
  
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• At Expo Chicago, Gagosian Returned to the Windy City with a Booth Tuned to Dark Times

  18-09-2017 21:20 via artnews.com
  The group display seemed to be the product of an artist's eye.Read More
  
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• Ever Noticed? That "Transformative" Technology Is Always Five To Ten Years Away

  18-09-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Slate has noticed a wily hedging mechanism among Silicon Valley soothsayers to circumvent these uncertainties—make predictions for “five to 10 years out.” It hits that sweet spot: just close enough that people can begin to taste it, but just far enough away that (almost) no one is going to call you out if it doesn’t become true. A review of press releases and tech articles stretching back to the 1990s finds that these Goldilocks forecasts are abundant."
  
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• They Seriously Think They Can Build A Computer That Can Predict The Future

  18-09-2017 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Supercomputers are already used to predict weather and earthquakes, but there’s not currently enough computing power to model complex biological systems precisely enough to make endeavors like large-scale transitioning to wind energy, for example, feasible. An exascale computer would be powerful enough to uncover answers to questions about, say, climate change and growing food that can withstand drought. It could even predict crime (hopefully with more accuracy and fairness than 
  
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• Science Is Showing How Art Affects The Brain (And Our Lives)

  18-09-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Some of the answers to art’s mysteries can be found in the realm of science. Art is considered the domain of the heart, but its transporting effects start in the brain, where intricate systems perceive and interpret it with dazzling speed. Using brain-imaging and other tools of neuroscience, the new field of neuroaesthetics is probing the relationship between art and the brain."
  
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• An ornithology of tedious colleagues | Letters

  18-09-2017 19:49
  Work colleagues | Mary Wollstonecraft | Social housing | Standardised tests | Religious popApropos recent letters about meetings and their effectiveness (Letters, 18 September), I compiled the following ornithology during a particularly tedious occasion. It suggests various species, frequently observable. They are: the red-necked table-thumper; the incorrigible rambler; the inveterate conclusion-jumper; the dismal doubter; the backward harker; the procedural plodder; the uncontrollable joker; th
  
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• What's Wrong With This Picture? Nikon Chooses 32 Star Male Photographers (No Women) To Promote Its New Camera

  18-09-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "What is so obvious to me – a professional photographer – as well as colleagues, photography bloggers and social media users, was not obvious to Nikon. Instead, it seemed to have worked on the campaign, from the concept stage through to development, marketing and public relations, without a thought for its female clients."
  
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• Darwin's Theory About Aesthetics Over The Fittest

  18-09-2017 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A little over a decade after he published “On the Origin of Species,” in which he described his theory of natural selection shaped by “survival of the fittest,” Darwin published another troublesome treatise — “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relationship to Sex.” This expanded on an idea he mentioned only briefly in “Origin.” Sometimes, he proposed, in organisms that reproduce by having sex, a different kind of selection occurs: Animals
  
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• School Administrator - Miami City Ballet

  18-09-2017 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Miami City Ballet is seeking a qualified School Administrator for the Miami City Ballet School.
  STRENGTHS
  Financial background and ease with budgets and accounting, strong writing skills, strategic thinker and planner, clear communicator, consensus and team builder, personable and able to deal with parents and students.
  Positions reports to and works with Director of Faculty and Curriculum and to Artistic Director
  DAILY MANAGEMENT OF SCHOOL
  Overseeing staff and general operations of both Summer
  
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• What Jane Austen's Picture On The New £10 Note Tells Us About Money

  18-09-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Tinkering with Austen’s image has a long history. According to Kathryn Sutherland and Freya Johnston in Teenage Writings, their new edition of her juvenilia, even writing that Austen never intended to publish didn’t escape others’ propensity to touch it up."
  
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• Documenta 14 Participants Defend Embattled Show in Open Letter: ‘Shaming Through Debt Is an Ancient Financial Warfare Technique’

  18-09-2017 18:26 via artnews.com
  Documenta 14 ended its 100-day run in Kassel, Germany, yesterday, but the debate about the exhibition there and in Athens, Greece, seems to be very far from over. Last week, reports surfaced that the grand show had opened up a … Read More
  
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• Alois Kronschlaeger at Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York

  18-09-2017 18:20 via artnews.com
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• How Color... Well... Colors The Way We Process The World

  18-09-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It can remind us of a place, a smell, a time of year, a person; our memories and cultures are filled with colour associations. They can even have different meanings from one culture to another. For example, in Japanese culture, yellow represents bravery and wealth, whilst in France the same colour represents jealousy and betrayal. In many cultures, blue represents masculinity, whereas it is considered a feminine colour in China. And red – the colour of danger, passion, love and fear in co
  
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• Scientists: Blind People Re-Map Visual Processors Of The Brain To Analyze Vocal Language

  18-09-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Neurons in the part of the brain normally responsible for vision synchronise their activity to the sounds of speech in blind people, says Olivier Collignon at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) in Belgium. “It’s a strong argument that the organisation of the language system… is not constrained by our genetic blueprint alone,” he says.
  
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• Artifical Intelligence Algorithms Can Now Diagnose Alzheimer's Years Before It's Obvious

  18-09-2017 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The AI distinguished between a healthy brain and one with Alzheimer’s with an accuracy of 86 per cent. Crucially, it could also tell the difference between healthy brains and those with MCI with an accuracy of 84 per cent. This shows that the algorithm could identify changes in the brain that lead to Alzheimer’s almost a decade before clinical symptoms appear."
  
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• Ottawa's National Arts Centre CEO Steps Down

  18-09-2017 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Peter Herrndorf, who joined the CBC in the mid-1960s, rose to become vice-president of the CBC's English radio and TV operations. He went on to become publisher of Toronto Life magazine from 1983 to 1992 and then served as CEO of TVOntario from 1992 to 1999 before taking the job of running the NAC."
  
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• This Year's Longlist For The National Book Awards

  18-09-2017 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lisa Ko is one of four début writers on the list, along with Carmen Maria Machado, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, and Carol Zoref. Two of the writers on this year’s list have contended for the award before: Ward and Jennifer Egan, who was a finalist, in 2001, for “Look at Me.”
  
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• Artificial Intelligence Is Mapping Our Faces - Say Goodbye To Privacy

  18-09-2017 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In the twenty-first century, the face is a database, a dynamic bank of information points—muscle configurations, childhood scars, barely perceptible flares of the nostril—that together speak to what you feel and who you are. Facial-recognition technology is being tested in airports around the world, matching camera footage against visa photos. Churches use it to document worshipper attendance. China has gone all in on the technology, employing it to identify jayw
  
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• "We Shall Overcome" Is Freed From Copyright

  18-09-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Described as the “most powerful song of the 20th century” by the Library of Congress, the suit against the existing copyright holders was brought last year by the same legal team who had successfully disputed longstanding ownership claims over Happy Birthday to You.
  
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• Morning Links: Harry Dean Stanton Edition

  18-09-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa Retires After Half-Century Career

  18-09-2017 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The world-renowned soprano, 73, said she had stopped performing a year ago but had not revealed her decision until now. Te Kanawa told the BBC it had taken her five years “to say the goodbye in my own mind” but wanted to decide “when it was going to be the last note”.
  
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• Degas from the Burrell review – the great voyeur

  18-09-2017 14:41
  National Gallery, London
  His work is often seen as safe and sexless. But this unsettling exhibition, which puts nude bathers alongside ballet dancers, shows the dark and daring side of DegasA young woman stares at you through binoculars at the beginning of this exquisite selection of drawings and paintings by Edgar Degas. She holds them firmly against her face, obscuring its upper half and casting her mouth and chin in shadow. Instead of her eyes looking back at you, a pair of glistening dark le
  
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• The Future Of Cameras Increasingly Is Computer Code

  18-09-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What we think of as a camera is largely a collection of software algorithms that expands with each passing year.
  
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• This Year's Emmy Winners

  18-09-2017 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "This year streaming shows accounted for four of the seven nominees for Outstanding Drama Series, two of the picks for Outstanding Comedy Series, and programs like The Handmaid’s Tale, House of Cards, and Master of None have earned praise in nearly every major category. But earning a nomination only does so much; at the end of the day, it’s who takes home the statue that matters."
  
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• How Indy Bookstores Are Making Themselves Popular Again

  18-09-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Bookstores are making a comeback. Just take a look at the membership numbers of American Booksellers Association (ABA), a trade organization that works with independent bookstores: In 2009, ABA membership hit a low, with just 1,651 locations. Like a phoenix, that number has risen for the last seven years, reaching more than 2,320 locations in 2017. Book sales in independent stores are also up. According to the ABA, book sales in U.S. indie shops grew more than 10 percent in 2015 over the p
  
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• The 50 Biggest-Selling Musicians Of All Time

  18-09-2017 13:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We compiled this list by ranking the most successful acts in music history according to their total certified album units sold in the US, as provided by the RIAA.
  
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• 10 of the best new art exhibitions in Europe for autumn 2017

  18-09-2017 07:30
  It’s blockbuster art show season across Europe, with old masters, surrealists and 60s radicals in the spotlight at the continent’s top galleriesGet immersed in the imaginative work of South African artist William Kentridge at Salzburg’s Museum der Moderne. Featuring his multimedia, cinematic installations, with playful animation and tricksy, theatrical filming evocative of early cinema, Kentridge’s work tackles themes ranging from revolution and colonialism to loneliness
  
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• Dalí, Duchamp, Basquiat and beards: the best art of autumn 2017

  18-09-2017 07:00
  Modigliani seduces, the Turner hits Hull, Rebecca Warren shakes up St Ives – and Gilbert and George have a close shave with facial hair• Autumn arts preview 2017: Stage | Music | Film | TVThe subway invaded the art gallery in 1980s New York. Basquiat, who died in 1988 aged 27, crystallised this moment, embodying a new youthful attitude that helped make today’s art what it is. He left behind a legacy of scrawled and slashed paintings that punch themselves into your mind. His angr
  
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• UK Report: TV Broadcasters And Demographic Diversity

  18-09-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The report found that across the five main broadcasters, women accounted for 48% of the total workforce - compared with 51% across the general population - and held 39% of senior roles. Ofcom also said those from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background made up 12% of workers, and disabled people just 3%, despite accounting for 14% and 18% of the general population respectively."
  
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