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• Executive Director - Boulder Philharmonic

  26-09-2017 23:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Live and work with a premier regional orchestra in Boulder, Colorado. The Boulder Philharmonic is looking for energetic candidates with orchestra knowledge, fund raising, and staff management experience to serve as Executive Director.
  H C Smith Ltd is pleased to represent The Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra (Boulder Phil) in its search for a new Executive Director. The Boulder Phil is beginning its 60th season and has established itself among the nation’s leading regional orchestras. During
  
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• Gavin Brown’s Enterprise to Host Fundraiser for Puerto Rico Organized By Rirkrit Tiravanija

  26-09-2017 23:30 via artnews.com
  Visitors must donate $100 to a YouCaring crowdfunding site. Read More
  
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• Gavin Brown’s Enterprise to Host Fundraiser for Puerto Rico

  26-09-2017 23:30 via artnews.com
  Visitors must donate $100 to a YouCaring crowdfunding site. Read More
  
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• How Politics And The American State Department Helped Shape Post-War Art

  26-09-2017 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The end of New Deal subsidies led to a new wave of competition between artists, and the abstract-expressionist style expanded. The market for this new art was energized by a number of factors: the postwar period of inflation and the pent-up demand and incomes from the war led to a new cascade of collectors. Additionally, French art was no longer imported after 1944, and the European art market had been devastated by the war.
  
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• Linda Nochlin’s Essay ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ Inspires, Figures in, New Dior Collection

  26-09-2017 23:08 via artnews.com
  Audience members for the runway show in Paris received copies of the seminal text. Read More
  
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• The Psychopath's Playlist? Study Links Music Preference To Psychopathic Personality

  26-09-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a study of 200 people who listened to 260 songs, those with the highest psychopath scores were among the greatest fans of the Blackstreet number one hit No Diggity, with Eminem’s Lose Yourself rated highly too.
  
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• ‘Chingaderas Sofisticadas’ at Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles

  26-09-2017 22:43 via artnews.com
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• Selfies In The Museum - Yes Or No?

  26-09-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “That selfie audience has brought a virtual community activated via Instagram. Surely that entry point has been apart of our success. ... There is some resistance to the selfies, but we're stuck with it. ... Isn't every painting a selfie in some effect?”
  
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• Why Founders Leave, And Sometimes Shut Down, Their Dance Companies

  26-09-2017 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dance Magazine's Nancy Wozny talks to Trey McIntyre, Liz Lerman, and Sandra Organ Solis about how they made their fateful decisions and what they went on to do.
  
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• Moscow's Plan For A Massive New Museum Complex

  26-09-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Inspired by the 19th-century world’s fairs and exhibitions in London and Paris, VDNH began life in 1939 as an agricultural showcase for the Soviet Union, with dozens of elaborate pavilions representing the different republics and industries. In the 1990s, the site lost state funding and became a flea market. Now, like much of Moscow, it is in the throes of a massive reconstruction programme backed by the city government."
  
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• The NFL now has a new offensive formation – it’s called Trump | Tim Dowling

  26-09-2017 21:26
  Rule changes to stop player concussion and brain disease? The president’s take is ‘they’re ruining the game’You can tell it’s about to happen when he pauses and juts his chin out: Donald Trump has decided to stop reading out the mildly crazy things on his autocue in order to say something totally crazy off the top of his head.He did it again at a rally in Alabama on Friday. Seemingly triggered by the words “respect” and “flag” in his prepared
  
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• This Ballet Company Is Creating An Entire Program From Scratch In Two Weeks

  26-09-2017 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Choreographers Javier De Frutos, Craig Revel Horwood, Ivan Perez and Christopher Wheeldon have teamed up with all-male dance company BalletBoyz for its new show, Fourteen Days. The choreographers will each work with different composers and given just 14 days to work with the BalletBoyz ensemble to create a new piece."
  
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• Jean Nouvel Explains How His Abu Dhabi Louvre Works

  26-09-2017 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Louvre Abu Dhabi is a neighbourhood with its streets, squares and terraces, where the works of art are shown inside the galleries as well as outside. It is also a palace, with palatial proportions; a peninsula, with its own mystery, shaped by light and water, the archetype of a micro-city devoted to a spiritual mission that you can only guess at from the outside and only discover by entering."
  
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• The Two Years Year That Changed Alexander Calder's Life And Made Him The Sculptor We Remember Today

  26-09-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the late 1920s, "Calder's figure sculptures had already gained him a reputation as a troubadour of the giddy high spirits of the Roaring Twenties on both sides of the Atlantic." (For example, the pictured sculpture of Josephine Baker from 1929.) "What changed? In the years 1930 and 1931 Calder made two life-changing decisions: He became a married man and an abstract artist."
  
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• Some Advantages To Being Mis-Translated?

  26-09-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 1980, Henry Kissinger (the former US secretary of state and a non-native English speaker, originally from Germany) told Arianna Huffington (the Greek immigrant and entrepreneur/writer who would eventually start The Huffington Post) not to worry about [her] accent, ‘because you can never, in American public life, underestimate the advantages of complete and total incomprehensibility’.
  
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• The Man Who Created 'Veep' Explains The Joys Of Opera (Including Regie)

  26-09-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Opera is the coming together of music, theatre, design, people and coughing in the greatest synthesis of art capable of collapsing at the beep of a watch alarm. ... As the sounds soar and mingle perfectly, the evening makes sense, the stupidity is forgotten and the burglars and the rain and the hundred cars outside and the fight 40 yards across the street, and then someone sneezes, which is when, somewhere in the middle of the second act, in a radical switch to the American midwest, we return t
  
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• When The Rise Of Modernism Made Us All Nervous

  26-09-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The era’s psychiatrists were fighting the psychic fallout produced by the frenetic pace of urban existence. The profession faced an epidemic of so-called “nervous” diseases, such as hysteria and neurasthenia, which were thought to be caused or exacerbated by overstimulation. Modernity brought speed, stress, and constant sensory bombardment—a perfect recipe for rattled nerves. To repair a shaken nervous system, doctors often prescribed a change of scene, sometimes coupled
  
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• Lynn Novick Has Been Making Movies With Ken Burns For Decades - Why Is Only One Of Them Famous?

  26-09-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Burns has long worked with multiple teams; these different squads of writers and producers mean that he can sometimes release as many as two ambitious films in a single year. Among these collaborators, Novick stands out. She is one of the few people who have shared directing credit with Burns more than once, collaborating with him on Frank Lloyd Wright, Prohibition, The Tenth Inning (an update to Baseball), The War, and now The Vietnam War. Novick, not Burns, now conducts most of the interviews
  
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• Art over easy: Guatemalan avant garde arrives in LA disguised as an egg

  26-09-2017 18:00
  Lacma is hosting a replica of Guatemala City’s Nuevo Museo, an egg-shaped kiosk showcase that is the brainchild of artists Stefan Benchoam and Jessica KairéOne of the biggest museums in the United States is now home to one of the world’s smallest. Following a Kickstarter campaign and two weeks on the road, a life-sized replica of Guatemala City’s Nuevo Museo, an egg-shaped former kiosk that now shows contemporary art, has arrived on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art&r
  
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• The Post-Truth World: Matters Of Fact Versus Issues Of Intent

  26-09-2017 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The truth of mathematics holds independently of what facts might obtain in the world. The laws of physics could change but the maths wouldn’t. That’s why Hume distinguished between the truths of mathematics, which he said involved the “relations of ideas”, with “matters of fact”, truths about the world."
  
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• Hollywood Launches Campaign To Press For Investigating Russian Interference In 2016 Election

  26-09-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Big Hollywood names have helped found the Committee to Investigate Russia, a nonprofit aiming to spread information about Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and create debate about possible threats to the country's institutions. The committee launched Tuesday in the U.S., with director Rob Reiner on the advisory board and actor Morgan Freeman featured in an introductory video." (And that video has led to a big anti-Morgan Freeman campaign in Russia.)
  
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• '#StopMorganLie' - Morgan Freeman Has Become Russia's New Favorite Piñata

  26-09-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kyle Swenson reports on "the Russian reaction that greeted a two-minute online video [Freeman] recorded recently for a group hoping to keep alive concerns over Kremlin meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Freeman is being portrayed as a tool of the U.S. establishment trying to bring down Trump" - and as everything from a silly, high-strung thespian to a marijuana-addled old man to someone with a "Messianic complex."
  
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• A Rediscovered Essay By A Carolina Slave

  26-09-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the early 19th century, the young George Moses Horton used to create impromptu poems for students at the University of North Carolina. "He also began publishing more serious poems, like 'On Liberty and Slavery,' in newspapers, and in 1829 became the first African-American in the South to publish a book. His efforts to gain freedom through his writing failed. But he was able to buy his time from his owner. ... And now, from the archives, comes a previously unknown essay by Horton, which sheds
  
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• Unknown Shostakovich Work Found In Moscow State Archives

  26-09-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The short work, consisting of title sheet, a single page for the viola part and one for the piano score, is titled Impromptu op.33. It was found among documents belonging to Vadim Borisovsky (d. 1972), the violist of the Beethoven Quartet for over 40 years."
  
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• Can Philly's Kimmel Center Make Itself Welcoming All The Time And Not Just At Curtain Time?

  26-09-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "When the Kimmel programs the plaza and streetscape, as it does with festivals and summer solstice parties, the vibe is superb. ... But when there's nothing going on there, as is the case many daylight hours during the week, it's just you, a security guard or two, and the psychic tumbleweeds. To have Center City charged with workers, shoppers, and students as the Kimmel sleeps is an oddly squandered opportunity at a time when the arts are looking for all the friends they can get."
  
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• Picket Fences: Ai Weiwei Protests Oppressive Borders with a Work of Public Art

  26-09-2017 15:05 via artnews.com
  'Good Fences Make Good Neighbors' takes over New York for four months beginning October 12. Read More
  
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• Guggenheim Pulls Three Works From Show Following Protests (And Some Threats) From Animal-Rights Activists

  26-09-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The museum, in Manhattan, made the decision after it had come under unrelenting pressure from animal-rights supporters and critics over works in the exhibition, 'Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World.'" The museum's statement said, in part, "Although these works have been exhibited in museums in Asia, Europe and the United States, the Guggenheim regrets that explicit and repeated threats of violence have made our decision necessary."
  
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• Morning Links: Art vs. Hurricane Edition

  26-09-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Houston Grand Opera, Like So Many Other Houstonians, Takes Refuge From Harvey In Convention Center

  26-09-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With the flood-damaged Wortham Theater Center, HGO's home, out of commission until at least next May, the company has decided to set up a flexible 1,700-seat performance space - dubbed the "HGO Resilience Theater" - in Exhibition Hall A3 at the George R. Brown Convention Center.
  
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• The BBC's Drama Programming Is Built On The Back Of Theatre, So It Should Damn Well Provide Decent Theatre Coverage

  26-09-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lyn Gardner: "At a time when newspapers are facing financial disaster and theatre coverage is one of the first casualties, the BBC should step up to the plate in a way it has neglected in the past. ... If Radio 5 Live can have sports news every half-hour, why can't it have a few minutes of arts news too? Just as many people would be interested to know about the casting of Follies or National Theatre Wales' plans to make a show about the NHS as would want to know who is in the England cricket tea
  
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• Germany Will Spend €400 Million To Renovate Sanssouci And Charlottenburg Palaces

  26-09-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The funding through to 2030 is destined for museum sites including the former royal palace at Charlottenburg in Berlin, Frederick the Great's Sanssouci complex in Potsdam and the Cecilienhof palace ... Priorities include renovating dilapidated buildings and parks, increasing fire precautions and security, improving depots and working spaces, and upgrading services for visitors."
  
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• The Buried Treasures Of Teotihuacan, Revealed After 1,800 Years

  26-09-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In 2003, a tunnel was discovered beneath the Feathered Serpent pyramid in the ruins of Teotihuacan, the ancient city in Mexico. Undisturbed for 1,800 years, the sealed-off passage was found to contain thousands of extraordinary treasures lying exactly where they had first been placed as ritual offerings to the gods."
  
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• London's Young Vic Theatre Names New Artistic Director (And He's Coming From Baltimore)

  26-09-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The London theatre has been in the process of appointing a successor to David Lan since he announced his departure in June, after 17 years at the helm. [Kwame] Kwei-Armah, a writer, director and actor is currently artistic director of Center Stage in Baltimore, Maryland. He is already set to leave that post in June 2018."
  
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• E. Annie Proulx Wins National Book Award Medal For Lifetime Achievement

  26-09-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In awarding her its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, "the National Book Foundation praised the author of The Shipping News, 'Brokeback Mountain' and other fiction for her 'impressive lyricism and wit that captivates readers of all ages.'"
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.25.17

  26-09-2017 10:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  So You Think You Know Zurbarán?
  The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University is currently exhibiting Zurbarán: Jacob and His Twelve Sons, Paintings From Auckland Castle, a noteworthy exhibition for a couple of reasons. First, the paintings are totally fresh to the ... read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-09-25Higdon on Cold Mountain
  Opera lovers can be forgiven for imagining the works they love were born in a flash of inspiration.  Sometimes t
  
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• Guggenheim Museum pulls three artworks featuring animals after threats of violence

  26-09-2017 09:33
  Works in an exhibition of Chinese art that included reptiles eating insects and dogs on a treadmill are removed from show in New York following outcryNew York’s Guggenheim Museum will remove three art pieces from an upcoming show featuring Chinese conceptual artists, amid accusations of animal cruelty and repeated threats of violence.
  The museum will not exhibit three pieces during Art and China after 1989: Theatre of the World – two videos featuring live animals and a sculpture that
  
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• Blurred porn and Mars in 3D: the unsettling visions of Thomas Ruff

  26-09-2017 07:00
  From gender-swap portraits to blown-up images of internet porn and 3D craters on Mars, his photographs are perfect for the age of image overload. As a major Whitechapel retrospective opens, we profile an artist always ahead of the game‘Photography is a base passion that has taken hold of every continent and every section of the population,” wrote the Austrian author Thomas Bernhard in 1988. “Everyone wants to be portrayed as good-looking and happy, when they are in fact ugly an
  
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• Guggenheim Museum Pulls Works Involving Live Animals from Chinese Art Survey

  26-09-2017 04:05 via artnews.com
  The works had been the subject of statements and open letters from animal-rights groups. Read More
  
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• Instagram Now Has 800 Million Users

  26-09-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Video viewing time grew 80 percent year-over-year, and the amount of videos uploaded to the platform every day quadrupled over the past 12 months, according to internal data from June of 2017. What’s more, Instagram now has over 2 million advertisers.
  
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