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• EU Ranks Creative Cities. Edinburgh Tops List

  22-09-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Selected cities in 28 European Union (EU) countries plus Norway and Switzerland have been ranked in a new report and online tool called the Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor. It uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative studies to give a comparative assessment of the cities’ levels of engagement with culture and creativity."
  
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• A Year Later, Washington's African American Museum Is Still An Audience Hit

  22-09-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It remains one of the hottest tickets in town, it is an essential stop for out-of-town tourists, and it has succeeded in attracting a diverse, engaged, multicultural and international audience. It has also changed the center of gravity on the Mall, drawing crowds to its symbolic nodal point, where the Washington Monument connects the White House and Jefferson Memorial to the Capitol and Lincoln Memorial. There is an energy along 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW that feels new, and welcome
  
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• Opera Takes Over Philadelphia - And It's A Hit

  22-09-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Opera Philadelphia has been planning this for a couple of years: Now, the O17 festival has begun, turning the city into a giant opera stage for 12 days. The company is striking a huge blow for the idea that arts organizations do better to add new, exciting things than to tread with financial caution. The festival is one of the most enjoyable additions to the fall calendar in years; it’s attracting opera fans from all over; and so far, it looks like a success."
  
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• Game of Tomes: At the Beloved, Crowded NY Art Book Fair, a Feast for Bibliophiles

  22-09-2017 22:08 via artnews.com
  The big openings of September have now passed, and the NY Art Book Fair, that cherished summer-closing tradition, has returned to MoMA PS1 for the weekend. The opening was last night, and it was exhilarating and charming as ever, with … Read More
  
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• ‘Between two rounds of fire, the exile of the sea’ at American University Museum, Washington, D.C.

  22-09-2017 22:04 via artnews.com
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• What London's Philharmonia Orchestra Learned With Its Virtual Reality Project

  22-09-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Creatively, VR felt like a natural progression for us, and I believe it’s a fantastic medium for orchestral music. 2D video and stereo audio can struggle to convey the complex dynamics and visceral energy of a live symphony orchestra. This could be why livestreaming orchestral performances to cinemas has not had the widespread success enjoyed by theatre and opera companies. An orchestra just comes across as too flat, with the players at risk of looking detached and remote from the viewer.
  
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• Seattle Is The Fastest-Growing City In America. Its Arts Community Is Struggling To Keep Up

  22-09-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For decades, Seattle has been a good arts town, with theatres, dance, music and visual artists prospering in a healthy arts scene. But rising rents, a huge influx of new residents and a changing culture are changing the city's culture.
  
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• Washington National Opera Lands A Star General Director

  22-09-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It is indeed a major step for Washington; Timothy O’Leary is one of opera’s leading lights. Having taken over in St. Louis when he was only 33, he has led that company — one of America’s best summer festivals — with notable strength, at once building its artistic profile with an interesting array of work and securing its finances.
  
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• How To Fix New York's Much-Debated Cultural Plan? Here Are Some Ideas

  22-09-2017 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We need a cultural plan matching the scale of the crisis, proposing bold, courageous action — but Mayor de Blasio’s “CreateNYC” Cultural Plan disappoints, with its cosmetic and feel-good narrative. Where’s the activist mayor who pledged to fight Albany so that New York City could collect higher income taxes? Where are the City Council members who faced arrest protesting the 2015 expiration of the rent laws?
  
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• Do You See Yourself As A Visual Learner Or An Auditory Learner? Turns Out There's Little Scientific Evidence For Either

  22-09-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The idea that people have different styles of learning - that the visually inclined do best by seeing new information, for example, or others by hearing it - has been around since the 1950s, and recent research suggests it's still widely believed by teachers and laypeople alike. But is there scientific evidence that learning styles exist? 'The short answer is no,' says Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville."
  
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• Meet Berlin's New Art Fair

  22-09-2017 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Art Berlin, featured 112 galleries, almost 80 percent of which were based in Germany. The event, owned and co-organized by the owners of the Art Cologne, replaced the gallery-run Art Berlin Contemporary (ABC), which for the previous nine years had struggled to market large-scale artists’ projects within the commercial context of a fair.
  
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• From the Archives: Barnett Newman on a Mistake in a MoMA Surrealism Show, in 1968

  22-09-2017 19:18 via artnews.com
  "My paintings are, in fact, a confrontation with Surrealism." Read More
  
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• From the Archives: Barnett Newman Criticizes a MoMA Surrealism Show—and John Ashbery—in 1968

  22-09-2017 19:18 via artnews.com
  "My paintings are, in fact, a confrontation with Surrealism." Read More
  
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• A New Art Camp For Grownups In Marfa, Texas

  22-09-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It's part of what the New Yorker calls the 'Peter Pan market': a vogue for youthful things (coloring books, summer camps, even faux pre-school classes) rebooted for an adult audience. And while some may bristle at the conceit - which, fair enough, can occasionally seem ripe for a Portlandia parody - it's worth considering the merits. For some, it might even be a fast-track to recover a lost creative impulse, all over the course of a long weekend."
  
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• World Literature - It's An Idea As Much As It Is A Reality

  22-09-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For Goethe, world literature represented the bold ideal of a world in which no single language or nation dominated. World literature was the cultural expression of a political order, one in which the world had moved beyond the nationalism and colonialism that were dominating the 19th century. Goethe knew he would have to convert his contemporaries to the ideal of world literature."
  
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• All The Lies About The Origins Of The Phrase 'Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire'

  22-09-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[It] is not the most intuitive of phrases. Although people's pants do sometimes catch on fire, this correlates more with carrying around accidentally explosive materials than it does with truthfulness. Meanwhile, the vast majority of liars make it through life unscathed by this particular fashion catastrophe. The mystery of the phrase's origins is compounded by the fact that several of its more popularly reported etymologies are, in fact, lies." Cara Giaimo gets to the bottom of the matter.
  
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• University Of North Carolina School Of The Arts Unveils Plan For City Of Arts

  22-09-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Here in the ‘City of Arts and Innovation,’ I’d like to see UNCSA lead the branding and development of a vibrant ‘Arts Quarter’ to complement what Wake Forest University has done so brilliantly and beautifully in the city’s Innovation Quarter,” he said.
  
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• The Predicament Of Arabs And Muslims In The American Theatre

  22-09-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Playwright Yussef El Guindi: "Americans are so averse to politics in their entertainment that the simple act of including Arab or Muslim characters in a play exposes it to the charge of being overly political or didactic. And if the play is written by an Arab or a Muslim? The writer must surely then be peddling some political agenda. Even if, for example, the play revolves around an Arab or Muslim family preparing a Thanksgiving dinner ... The very act of rendering a group of people usually depi
  
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• The Movie 'In & Out' Predicted The Progress Of Gay Rights 20 Years Ago

  22-09-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alyssa Rosenberg: "In & Out feels both like a slightly embarrassing artifact of its time and an ultimately correct argument for how (lots if not all of) America would change in the decades since its release." On the other hand, "if [the movie] were released today, it would be drowned in an actual flood of think pieces."
  
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• Why We Need Artists In Politics Now More Than Ever

  22-09-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "If there was ever a time that the world needed artists, it is now. We need their radical ideas, visions, and perspectives in society. ... The world [can] only be changed by those willing and able to conceive of reality in a holistic and intuitive manner." Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, sounds the call, with reference to artists from Joseph Beuys and John Latham to Theaster Gates and Tania Bruguera to Edi Rama, they mayor who had the dingy old buildi
  
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• Creative Time, Pioneer Works, and Yes Men Partner for ‘WTF Do We Do Now?,’ a Day-Long Town Hall Meeting in Brooklyn

  22-09-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  On October 15, ideas will roll at Pioneer Works. Read More
  
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• Creative Time and Yes Men Partner for ‘WTF Do We Do Now?,’ a Day-Long Town Hall Meeting in Brooklyn

  22-09-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  On October 15, ideas will roll at Pioneer Works. Read More
  
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• Jasper Johns' hot wax, Big Tom's geometry, and the strangest surrealist ever – the week in art

  22-09-2017 15:51
  The great America unfurls his flags, targets, maps and beer cans, an old master called Big Tom reveals some weird geometry, and the Turner prize hits Hull – all in your weekly dispatchJasper JohnsThe intellect and emotion of the objects and paintings, prints and assemblages of this exquisite artist put him at the centre of the art of our time. Flags, targets, maps and beer cans – Johns has done them all with unequalled wit. He managed to invent pop art, conceptual art and minimalism
  
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• Judi Dench And Maureen Dowd Play 'Confirm Or Deny'

  22-09-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "MoDo: You love embroidering rude cushions with bawdy language and giving them to your famous friends.JuDe: I used to do that a lot, but my eyesight doesn't let me anymore. I found someone to make the cushions for me."
  
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• John Oswald  ”Plexure” Review

  22-09-2017 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  John Oswald is one of those composers who pushes boundaries with such ease that it looks like a joke. But it isn’t. In fact his sonic experiments are amongst the most daring in the century of daring experiments. And that is saying something. From the very start he was dead-set on making something that was not only fresh and exciting but also been capable of exploring and analyzing the depths of our culture. And it all came together in the form of Plunderphonics —̴
  
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• Here’s the Artist List for KölnSkulptur’s 2017–19 Edition

  22-09-2017 15:22 via artnews.com
  The ninth edition of the sculpture biennial opens in October. Read More
  
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• Albert Speer Jr., 83, Architect Who Tried To Transcend His Father's Notoriety

  22-09-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The genial architect in wire-rimmed glasses planned and designed soccer stadiums in Qatar, sweeping roadways in China and entire cities in Algeria, and in a five-decade career was described as one of the finest urban planners in Germany. For all the acclaim, he received few commissions in the German capital. Clients, he said, probably feared the inevitable headline: that Albert Speer - 'the devil's architect,' Hitler's master builder - was again building in Berlin. Never mind that the builder w
  
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• Montreal Metro Bans Ballet Company's Ad, Saying It Could Incite Violence

  22-09-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The provocative image of dancer Vanesa Garcia-Ribala Montoya striking a pose, covered in blood with a nail through her foot, was chosen to advertise [Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal's] performance of Stabat Mater, set to a score by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi."
  
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• Morning Links: David Bowie’s ‘Low’ Edition

  22-09-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Bolshoi Says Cancelled Nureyev Ballet Will Premiere In December

  22-09-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Performances of the new biographical work were abruptly called off just a couple of days before the scheduled premiere on July 11 - allegedly, though not officially, because the piece would have violated Russia's notorious anti-gay "propaganda" law. Meanwhile, the ballet's creator, avant-garde stage director Kirill Serebrennikov, is under house arrest on unrelated charges, and the premiere may proceed without him.
  
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• English National Opera's 'Rescue' CEO To Step Down Early

  22-09-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The former McKinsey management consultant [Cressida Pollock] took over running of the crisis-hit company in September 2015 after Arts Council England placed it in special measures and demanded the recruitment of a leader who would turn the business around.
  
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• John Houck Is Now Represented by Marianne Boesky

  22-09-2017 14:30 via artnews.com
  Houck's photographs will be on view at the gallery's Art Basel Miami Beach booth in December. Read More
  
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• How The National Symphony's New Music Director Got Through What Should Have Been, But Wasn't, The Busiest Summer Of His Career

  22-09-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "He and his wife called a taxi to get him to his orchestra engagement. But when the taxi pulled up to deliver him to the theater, he couldn't get out of the car. He had to be taken away by ambulance. 'You have to be operated on within 72 hours,' the doctor told him." Anne Midgette writes about how Gianandrea Noseda coped with an enforced 50-day break due to a herniated disc.
  
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• The Ten Most-Produced Plays Of 2017-18: Shakespeare Leads The List, Even Though His Plays Don't Count

  22-09-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As it does every year, American Theatre magazine omits the Bard's plays and A Christmas Caroladaptations (because they'd lead year in, year out). Yet the most-produced play of the coming season is ... Shakespeare in Love. (Most of the rest of the list is higher-brow.)
  
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• The 20 Most-Produced Playwrights Of 2017-18 (Excepting Shakespeare)

  22-09-2017 13:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Editor Diep Tran: "This year, when I finished calculating the ... list for 2017-18, and saw who was at the top, I let out a laugh. 'Of course!' I exclaimed. I was not surprised by the name at the top; she had been on it last year, at No. 2, just under August Wilson. It was almost poetic."
  
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• Documenta 2017 Was An Unprecedented Success Despite Huge Costs In Athens, Say Officials

  22-09-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The mayor of the German city of Kassel, which hosts and helps fund Documenta, acknowledged that this year's unprecedented €7 million deficit was the result of extending the show to Athens. (This was the first time Documenta had taken place in any other city.) Even so, the organizers argued that, with total attendance of more than 1 million, this year's Documenta was the most visited contemporary art exhibition of all time.
  
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• David Shepherd, 86, Artist Whose Wildlife Paintings Helped Raise Millions For Conservation

  22-09-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "He liked to say, with the false modesty that is permitted to great successes, that his career was a series of disasters. As well as his failure to enter art school, he failed to make the grade in his first choice of career, as a game warden in Africa. His second choice was to work on the buses. Before he embarked on this, however, he put his artistic ambition and love of African wildlife together, to create the singular success by which he is known."
  
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• William Eggleston’s Las Vegas (yellow shirt guy at pinball machine): an American snapshot

  22-09-2017 12:59
  Taken from a series shot between 1965 to 1968, this photograph illustrates the artist’s ability to capture the idiosyncrasies of life in the USRacked up and positioned in rows that disappear along sharp diagonals, pinball machines, magazines and men are of a piece here. Related: Made in Memphis: William Eggleston's surreal visions of the American southContinue reading...
  
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• Jasper Johns and the Turner prize: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  22-09-2017 10:30
  The world’s greatest living artist gets the blockbuster treatment he deserves, while four nominees for the coveted award exhibit their work in HullThe world’s greatest living artist gets the blockbuster treatment he deserves. In 1954, Johns began painting an American flag in waxy layers over newspaper clippings. What was he saying about the US? Ever since, this enigmatic and highly intelligent artist has ploughed a furrow between art and life. Together with Robert Rauschenberg and Cy
  
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• The striking feminist art of Louise Bourgeois – in pictures

  22-09-2017 08:00
  The often provocative work of the French sculptor is being celebrated in a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and shines a light on some of her lesser-known print pieces that focus on issues of patriarchy, sexuality and womanhood. Continue reading...
  
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• Hauser & Wirth to Open Hong Kong Gallery, Offices in Beijing, Shanghai

  22-09-2017 08:00 via artnews.com
  The global giant makes a push into Asia. Read More
  
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• Laser Beak Man: how an artist with autism created his own superhero

  22-09-2017 06:46
  Art was Tim Sharp’s way of communicating as a child; now it’s inspiration for a joyful 90 minutes of puppetry, live music, animation and dad jokesTim Sharp takes things literally. Consider the term “flat white”. Most of us would imagine our morning coffee, perhaps being served to us by a bearded barista. Sharp, however, sees a steamroller and a rather unfortunate Anglo person.Sharp is an artist with autism, who communicates his unique perspective on the world through quir
  
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