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• The Making Of Ta-Nehisi Coates

  29-09-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At the age of 41 (he turns 42 on Saturday), Mr. Coates has become one of the most influential black intellectuals of his generation, joining predecessors including Ms. Morrison, Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Dr. Cornel West. “He’s a rock star,” said Dr. Nell Irvin Painter, professor emeritus of American history at Princeton University, adding that Mr. Coates is asking questions that even “other historians have not been asking.”
  
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• Film Incentives Gone Wild: Canary Islands Have Become Most Lucrative Place To Shoot Movies

  29-09-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The territory now ranks among the most financially attractive locations for shooting movies. The benefits extend to feature films, documentaries, animation projects and TV series. To qualify, a film’s minimum spend should be 1 million euros, or about $1.2 million, and the minimum budget must be 2 million euros, or approximately $2.3 million.
  
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• A Local Theatre That Acts Globally

  29-09-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Identifying La MaMa as a New York theatre is accurate in the geographical sense only. It might be more apt to think of it as the international theatre of the East Village, in accordance with Ellen Stewart’s belief that the local is global and the global local.
  
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• MoMA Names Ana Janevski Curator of Performance and Media Art

  29-09-2017 22:10 via artnews.com
  She will oversee the media and performance program in the institution's planned expansion. Read More
  
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• The Museum Made For The Age Of Instagram: Ice Cream!

  29-09-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "More than 241,000 people follow its page, and countless more have posted their own photos from within the space. (Instagram doesn’t show how many photos have been posted at a particular geotag, but there are over 66,000 images with the #museumoficecream hashtag.) All those grams have made the Museum of Ice Cream a coveted place to be: In New York, the $18 tickets to visit—300,000 in total—sold within five days of opening. At its San Francisco location, which opened this month,
  
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• What, Exactly Is Temperature? (Maybe Not What You Think)

  29-09-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Since temperature is really a statistical quantity, you can't have a temperature of a single particle. So, the next time someone talks about the temperature of a single electron—or worse, the temperature of a photon—maybe you should just walk away."
  
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• With The Trump Presidency, Images Have Taken Public Art To New Levels

  29-09-2017 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The images spread as they do because, taken together, they can seem to reveal hidden truths about a president who remains, for all his spotlighting and swaggering, a cipher. This is an era, after all, in which the American public, primed with Making a Murderer and American Crime Story and NCIS, embraces forensic analysis as a form of entertainment. In that context, each new image of the president, and each image of the people and things surrounding him, takes on not onl
  
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• Experts: Leonardo Might Have Drawn Nude Mona Lisa

  29-09-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Scientists in Paris have been looking into a charcoal drawing of a woman, which was until now believed to have been drawn by Leonardo's students. The drawing, titled Joconde Nue, shows a topless woman who bears a striking resemblance to the Mona Lisa that hangs at the Louvre museum in central Paris. Experts at the same museum have concluded, after weeks of tests, that the charcoal drawing was “at least in part” actually done by Leonardo himself.
  
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• A New E-Book Format Designed To Be Read In Web Browser

  29-09-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The platform, designed by the New York studio HAWRAF, "lets users play around with font, text size, line spacing, and background color." (There's also a text-to-speech function and a mode with a typeface specially for people with dyslexia.) "When you click on the footnotes, located in tiny typography to the right of the main text, they overtake the main text so you can get a closer look. ... A 'focus mode' blacks out most of the browser, keeping your wandering eyes from getting distracted."
  
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• ‘TRANS-Ville’ at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York

  29-09-2017 20:00 via artnews.com
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• This Is What Theatre That Has Become Gentrified Looks Like

  29-09-2017 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The London-based company has become synonymous with a particular form of immersive theatre, where you are less of an audience member and more of a participant. Punchdrunk takes over a large building, such as an old office block, turns it into a meticulously decorated, multiroom stage set and sends theatregoers wandering through."
  
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• Brushing over the impact of Tate St Ives | Letters

  29-09-2017 19:21
  Janet Axten challenges the idea that the local community should welcome a gallery extension to please directors, architects and the wider art world, while Alison Brooker wants to see classic Cornish art. Plus letters from Simon Casimir Wilson and Tim JamesI was sad to read Oliver Wainwright’s article (The new Tate St Ives: great gallery, pity about the flats, 27 September). The suggestion, as was amply brought out in the 2005 meeting, reinforces the idea that the local community shoul
  
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• ‘The Painting’s Not Really on the Wall’: Mary Corse on 50 Years of Her Elusive, Seductive Art, and Shows in Los Angeles and New York

  29-09-2017 19:01 via artnews.com
  The artist discusses perception, gender politics in the art world, and more. Read More
  
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• Pompeii To Build Contemporary Art Collection

  29-09-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Pompeii is inviting artists to create sculptural works incorporating archaeological fragments from the ancient Roman site near Naples, which its director-general Massimo Osanna says will show that it is still 'a place of the contemporary'. Osanna hopes to build a permanent collection of new works and open a space to display them."
  
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• Our Music Is Incredibly Diverse. But With Globalization How To Keep It From Becoming Generic?

  29-09-2017 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The engagement with music is one of the most universal activities of humans that does not have a direct link to our survival as a species. Nobody ever died from music depravation, yet we work and worship to music, dance and court to music, make love and relax to music, rejoice and grieve with music. With the developments in migration, travel and technology over the past 70 years (which in retrospect we will probably regard as the most significant period of musical change of the past two millenn
  
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• With a Focus on the Estates and Legacies of Artists, a New Advisory Opens for Business

  29-09-2017 18:20 via artnews.com
  Mary Dinaburg, Saul Ostrow, Kathy Battista, and Bryan M. Faller are behind the new enterprise. Read More
  
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• The Guy Who Auditions Dancers For Cirque Du Soleil Explains What He Looks For

  29-09-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rick Tjia: "Little do the dancers know how many tens of thousands of dancers I have seen and auditioned to get to this moment in time, little do they know the complexities and the enormous number of hours needed to cast one show, much less 22 at the same time - all the time - and counting. Little do they know how much audition 'success' is out of their control and how much of it actually is. But they wouldn't know, and I guess I wouldn't expect them to. During this wait time the question going t
  
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• Then and Now: China, An Old New Tradition

  29-09-2017 17:57 via artnews.com
  Read excerpts from the ARTnews archives about the nation's ever-evolving art scene since 1989. Read More
  
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• Brian Belott to Sell Works at New York Museums for Arbitrary Prices, from 5¢ to $5,000

  29-09-2017 17:51 via artnews.com
  The profits will go toward the making of a piece for the 2017 Performa biennial. Read More
  
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• Qatar Museums Names Julia Gonnella Director of the Museum of Islamic Art

  29-09-2017 17:13 via artnews.com
  She was previously a curator at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin. Read More
  
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• How A Playwright Sparked A Critic's Memories Of Her Own Late Father

  29-09-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Theater is where I go to confront the hard stuff; to have my heart shredded there is O.K." Laura Collins-Hughes writes of her recent encounters with Sarah Ruhl's For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday and Eurydice and how they helped her with her father's decline and death from Parkinson's disease.
  
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• Caped crusaders hit town and a felt-tip conquers the universe – the week in art

  29-09-2017 17:00
  Danish superheroes fly in, the Frieze frenzy builds, Waqas Khan keeps it cosmic and Raphael reveals the wonders of wooden furniture – all in your weekly dispatchSuperflex
  The latest superhero in the Marvel universe becomes fantastically bendy after an industrial accident and is soon signed up by the Avengers … No wait, it’s a socially engaged intervention by Denmark’s coolest art collective, your friendly neighbourhood Superflex.• Tate Modern, London, 3 October to 2
  
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• What Carey Perloff Achieved In Her 25 Years Leading American Conservatory Theater (A Miracle, Basically)

  29-09-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Her ability to make a go of ACT in the wake of dual disasters - the artistically uncompromising [founder Bill] Ball's financial mismanagement and 1989's Loma Prieta earthquake, which partially collapsed and temporarily shuttered the palatial Geary Theater - looks downright miraculous even to her. ... The story of those early years, particularly a riotous first season that included a picket by the Catholic Church and exercised critics and season subscribers alike, is now theatre lore." Perloff t
  
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• Is 'Mother!' Insane Enough To Be An Opera? Its Director Is Considering It

  29-09-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In a new Reddit AMA with Darren Aronofsky, the director was asked by a commenter named chickenmagic (of course) if he considered staging his new movie as a play, to which he responded, 'johan johansson and i are thinking about turning it into an opera.'" (Jóhannsson composed the score for the film.) This could make sense - indeed (as some have observed), it could make more sense than the movie does.
  
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• Marcel Proust Had Sock-Puppets Plant Good Reviews Of His Work

  29-09-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The French writer Marcel Proust paid for glowing reviews of the first volume of his Remembrance of Things Past to be put into newspapers, letters by the great author reveal. The novelist wrote the notices himself and sent them to be typed up by his publisher 'so there is no trace of my handwriting' to distance himself 'absolutely from the money that will change hands'."
  
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• California School Board Resists Pressure, Declines To Ban Transgender Book From Kindergarten

  29-09-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A Rocklin school board voted unanimously late Monday night to retain the policies that allowed a book about a transgender child to be read in kindergarten, but adopted a provision to forewarn parents of potentially controversial subject matter. The vote followed months of controversy that erupted over the book" - which was brought in by a transgender child - "being read at a Rocklin charter school's story time."
  
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• Dirty Looks Presents a Gay Porn Theater for 24 Hours in New York This Weekend

  29-09-2017 15:13 via artnews.com
  Dirty Look’s Sesión Continua, a roving 24-hour queer porn theater, is staging its first edition in New York, beginning Friday, September 29, at 11:59 p.m. at Video Revival, a nonprofit film-arts organization in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.The program, which will run … Read More
  
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• To Close Deficits, Met Opera Resorts To Staff Buyouts

  29-09-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Metropolitan Opera, which has continued to struggle at the box office and face what it calls 'economic challenges,' has offered voluntary buyouts to 21 of its 243 administrative employees."
  
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• Morning Links: Murakami in Moscow Edition

  29-09-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• What Lyric Opera Of Chicago And The Joffrey Ballet Are Getting Out Of Their New Partnership

  29-09-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chris Jones writes that the deal "is, at its core, an acknowledgment that it is no longer viable for even a world-class institution like the Lyric to sustain, maintain, operate and program a huge opera house entirely with productions of the repertory for which it was built." But there's more to it than that, Jones finds, and the benefits aren't only about saving money.
  
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• When A Starchitect Designs A Major Project He Doesn't Want You To Notice

  29-09-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Chipperfield is doing a gut renovation of Berlin's New National Gallery - designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - to, as a reporter puts it, "fix problems caused by age, as well as some that have plagued it since birth. ... [He wants it] to perform as well as the most modern, assiduously climate-controlled and carefully lit museum - without any visitor noticing that he was ever there."
  
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• The Hidden Museum: Tate St. Ives Doubles Its Space, But Where The Neighbors Can't See

  29-09-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In a deft feat of engineering, an almost 600-sq-metre space has been excavated into the hillside, chiselled 15 metres down into the granite bedrock, providing a vast light-flooded chamber for temporary exhibitions that the gallery has sorely needed for years." Why take all that trouble? Because the residents of the tiny Cornwall town where the gallery is located absolutely hated the original expansion plan.
  
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• Katharina Grosse torpedoes painting: This Drove My Mother Up the Wall review

  29-09-2017 14:13
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  From plumes of lava orange to ribbons of speckled colour bleeding down the walls, the German artist wields her spray-gun like a weapon in this gallery takeoverThe landscapes that have succumbed to the brilliant, blaring colours of Katharina Grosse’s spray-paint gun include abandoned buildings, public gardens and seashores: a spectacular blend of painting and land art that has made the German a major player on the international art circuit. In the Rockaways, New York, s
  
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• The Most Popular Theatre In Glasgow Serves Meat Pies And Beer (And No, It's Not Playing 'Sweeney Todd')

  29-09-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Scarcely past midday on a Monday lunchtime, a full 45 minutes before curtain up, the queue for the box office is already snaking on to the road. Inside Òran Mór, a spacious pub-cum-performance venue in Glasgow's West End, the line of ticket holders is even longer. They are here for A Play, a Pie and a Pint, a lunchtime series launched by David MacLennan in 2004 and not so much a success as a phenomenon."
  
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• Vermont Gets A New Professional Ballet Company

  29-09-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ballet Vermont grew out of the Farm to Ballet project (agriculture-themed dance on local farms) that got some media attention two summers ago; artistic director Chatch Pregger now plans to make the endeavor more firmly established and permanent. Yet there are no plans for a home base: Ballet Vermont will continue to perform around the state, often outdoors.
  
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• Even Though He's Stepping Down As Its Boss, Julio Bocca Wants Uruguay's National Ballet To Be A World-Beater

  29-09-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Ballet Nacional Sodre in Montevideo has been making strides and leaps (ahem) since the former international star, a native of neighboring Argentina, became director of the company in 2010. The announcement that he's resigning as director made news in South America last month, but he's not actually leaving the company: he'll focus solely on training its dancers.
  
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• Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait: the race to make art come alive

  29-09-2017 13:00
  The Dutchman was the master illusionist of the Renaissance, creating incredibly detailed images laden with symbolism and meaningThe art historian EH Gombrich described the Arnolfini Portrait as “a simple corner of the real world … fixed on to a panel as if by magic”. Renaissance painters were in a race to translate real life into a convincing likeness in paint, and Van Eyck was the master illusionist. From the hairs on the funny little dog to the biblical scenes behind glass i
  
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• Family tree: the exquisite brilliance of William Morris's daughter

  29-09-2017 13:00
  You could mistake her exquisite designs for those of her father. Yet, as a new exhibition featuring her original artwork, embroidery and jewellery shows, May Morris was a remarkable artist in her own rightAt first glance Honeysuckle looks like a classic bit of William Morris. Based on a pattern of intertwining woody stems, curling leaves and fluted flowers, the design hovers somewhere between botanical literalism and stylised motif. The colours are likewise lush but persuasive. Originally made a
  
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• Leonardo da Vinci may have drawn nude Mona Lisa

  29-09-2017 11:17
  Experts believe Renaissance master at least partly created charcoal drawing that bears resemblance to the Mona LisaA nude sketch that bears a striking resemblance to the Mona Lisa may have been drawn by Leonardo da Vinci, experts have said.Scientists at the Louvre in Paris, where the painting is held, have been examining a charcoal drawing known as the Monna Vanna, which had been attributed to the Florentine master’s studio. Continue reading...
  
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• Superflex and Waqas Khan: this week’s best exhibitions in the UK

  29-09-2017 10:30
  The Danish collective take over the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, while the visionary Pakistani artist brings his abstract, web-like works to ManchesterTate Modern’s vast Turbine Hall may seem custom-made for spectacular sculptures by Jeff Koons or Damien Hirst, but in recent years its installations have stressed participation and engagement. That continues with this intervention by the Danish collective Superflex, whose diverse projects propose alternative commercial models. Their act
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.28.17

  29-09-2017 08:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  CultureGrrl Video: My Opinionated Tour of the Embattled Berkshire Museum
  Having written extensively and critically about the Berkshire Museum’s deaccession plans, I thought I ought to revisit that embattled institution in person. I’d been there twice before, decades ago, ... read more
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2017-09-27Deciphering Codes, Or Not
  Sarah Michelson premieres a new work at Bard College’s Richard B. Fisher Center.If a frien
  
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• 'Is it art or pain?' Iran's Parastou Forouhar on family, death and the failed revolution

  29-09-2017 08:19
  Daughter of high-profile dissidents talks about how their murder nearly 20 years ago continues to inform her workEvery autumn, the Iranian artist Parastou Forouhar returns to Tehran from Germany to hold a memorial service for her murdered parents.Dariush Forouhar, a secular politician, and his wife, Parvaneh, were two of Iran’s most high-profile political activists when they were stabbed to death in their home on 22 November 1998. The killers placed her father’s body in a chair facin
  
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• How A Major Studio Acts: Amazon Makes Movies. Now It Will Also Distribute Them

  29-09-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Instead of burning down the customary system of releasing movies, Amazon is ready to become a full-fledged studio, equipped to handle every step in the life span of the films it creates and acquires. In the past, Amazon partnered with the likes of indie distributors Roadside Attractions, Bleecker Street and Lionsgate to support the rollout of its movies in theaters. But starting with Woody Allen’s “Wonder Wheel” in December, Amazon will begin distributing its own films and over
  
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