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• Canada Has A New Cultural Plan. But What If It's Wrong?

  05-10-2017 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The problem with Creative Canada isn’t that it devotes money to artists. It’s that it treats those artists as tech entrepreneurs. The ethos of Silicon Valley is encoded into the very dna of our new policy framework. Artists, says Creative Canada, are valued not for the art they produce but for “playing a critical role in driving innovation.” The plan answers the call “for developing the business, technology and entrepreneurial skills of Canadian artists an
  
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• Canada's Heritage Minister Is Lambasted For Proposed New Cultural Plan

  05-10-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Several things dragged the Minister down, some quite unnecessarily. It was a mistake for her to pose as a champion of consumers while waving away a tax that would have cost Netflix subscribers less than a dollar a month. She seemed not to realize that tax fairness is also a potent issue – especially when the lack of it directly penalizes Canadian companies competing with Neflix for audiences. Or, more likely, she was instructed not to let anything divert her from the mission of keeping Ne
  
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• Proxyco, a New Gallery Focusing on Latin American Art, to Open on New York’s Lower East Side

  05-10-2017 22:39 via artnews.com
  A show about Mexican art critic José Juan Tablada's influence will inaugurate the space in November. Read More
  
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• How Spotify Shrank The Intros To Pop Songs

  05-10-2017 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The average intro is down from 20 seconds in the 1980s to just five seconds today. The fight to get to the crucial 30 seconds of play mark (after which Spotify pays out) means that many have resorted to using the intro to create a sort of potted highlights reel of the song yet to come."
  
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• Miguel Ángel Madrigal at Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City

  05-10-2017 22:15 via artnews.com
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• Risk Intelligence: Scientists Try To Pin Down Why Some People Are More Inclined To Take Risks

  05-10-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Despite its importance, there is a lack of consensus over whether people’s tendency to take risks is consistent or whether it varies depending on the type of risk. To find out, Renato Frey at the University of Basel in Switzerland and his colleagues asked 1500 adults to complete 39 tests commonly used to measure risk preference in different scenarios.
  
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• Skowhegan Art School Receives $250,000 Gift from Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, in Midst of Renovation Plans

  05-10-2017 21:17 via artnews.com
  The historic home for art in rural Maine is looking toward the future. Read More
  
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• Curator Andrew Hunter Suddenly Quit Toronto's Art Gallery Of Ontario. He Explains His Indictment Of Museums

  05-10-2017 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  " 'Value' is decided by the very few and then presented to the many. When I look at the AGO and so many of its peers, I see an institution guided not by public participation, but by the generic, elite consensus that rules the global art market, which sees product over public good."
  
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• Is An Obsession With Arts-As-Useful-Policy A Road To Nowhere?

  05-10-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A problem arises if culture becomes simply a means to a non-cultural policy end. As Eleonora Belfiore argued, “if the logic of the instrumental view of culture… is taken to its extreme (but intrinsically consequential) conclusions, there would be no point in having a cultural policy at all”. Does an increasing emphasis on non-cultural policy intentions (health, wellbeing, etc) lead to a loss of meaning for cultural policy in its own terms? If so, what are the implications for
  
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• Finalist For Canada's Prestigious Journey Prize For Literature Disqualified After Copying Concerns

  05-10-2017 19:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The story The Most Human Part of You, by Richard Kelly Kemick, a National Magazine Award-winning writer from Calgary, Alta., was found to share elements with the story The Dog of the Marriage by the American writer Amy Hempel. As a result, Kemick's story, as well as a second work, have been pulled from The Journey Prize Stories, an anthology that features the best fiction published in Canadian literary journals and magazines.
  
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• The Utility Of Philosopher Roland Barthes' "Panic Boredom"

  05-10-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Barthes was a rock star of the writing world when he died suddenly in 1980 and, as with all rock stars, his death only led to a new lease of life. “Lately”, one commentator observed in 2012, “the posthumous corpus of Roland Barthes has been growing at a rate that rivals Tupac Shakur’s.
  
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• Sunday Fair Brings Galleries from Luxembourg, Arkansas, and Elsewhere to London

  05-10-2017 19:11 via artnews.com
  Offerings included a video game, beer koozies, and some rather scatological art. Read More
  
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• You're Probably Not As Self-Aware As You Think You Are (But You Could Get Better At It)

  05-10-2017 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "'On a good day, 80 percent of us are lying to ourselves about whether we're lying to ourselves,' [psychologist and author Tasha] Eurich says. Making things extra tricky is the fact that self-awareness has two components: Internal self-awareness is the ability to introspect and recognize your authentic self, whereas external self-awareness is the ability to recognize how you fit in with the rest of the world. 'It's almost like two different camera angles,' Eurich says. ... To be truly, fully sel
  
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• Boys Are Being Bullied For Dancing Ballet - It's An Epidemic, Actually

  05-10-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The statistics on boys, ballet and bullying are staggering. According to a study by dance sociologists Doug Risner and Maggie Allesee of Wayne State University in Detroit, 93 percent of boys involved in ballet reported “teasing and name calling,” and 68 percent experienced “verbal or physical harassment.” Eleven percent said they were victims of physical harm at the hands of people who targeted them because they are boys who study dance.
  
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• Smuggling Contemporary Art Lessons Into North Korea

  05-10-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Artist Mina Cheon, a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art, ... has successfully sent hundreds of USB sticks containing short videos of contemporary art lessons into North Korea as part of a new art project. ... Arranged by thematic subjects such as art's relationship to power, food, feminism, and money, the [ten] lessons trace major movements including pop art and abstraction.
  
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• What If America's Big Arts Institutions Can't Become More Diverse?

  05-10-2017 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "What happens if, despite the sincerest of intentions and tireless efforts to integrate, most organizations rooted in European forms of artistic expression never achieve anything close to proportionate representation of the demographics of their communities? What then?"
  
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• Director of Development, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City, UT

  05-10-2017 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Utah Shakespeare Festival, one of the country's most honored Shakespeare theaters, seeks a new Director of Development (DOD). With 3 theaters and the full complement of rehearsal spaces, shops and offices, USF presents a summer and fall season to over 100,000 visitors. It is located on the campus of Southern Utah University, nestled between 5 of America's beautiful National Parks. The DOD will be responsible for planning and executing the Festival's $2M+ annual fundraising efforts and supervise
  
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• The 'Bilbao Effect' At 20, And Why It's Been So Hard To Reproduce Elsewhere

  05-10-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "When he got to Bilbao a month before [the Guggenheim Bilbao] opened, says Frank Gehry, 'I went over the hill and saw it shining there. I thought: 'What the f*** have I done to these people?'' ... The museum was opened 20 years ago this month, by the king and queen of Spain, since when it has become the most influential building of modern times. It has given its name to the 'Bilbao effect' - a phenomenon whereby cultural investment plus showy architecture is supposed to equal economic uplift for
  
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• Hippie Lingo In The 21st Century - A Risible Relic? Not Entirely

  05-10-2017 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Linguist Geoff Nunberg: "Fifty years after the Summer of Love, that's been the fate of a lot of the language we associate with that era - faded psychedelia, sort of like acid rock and tie-dye, except that nobody ever tries to revive it. ... But it's striking how many words from the hippie era are still with us, from 'uptight' to 'bummer' to 'freak show.' As brief as the moment was, it changed the way we think and talk." (includes audio)
  
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• Wayne McGregor Creates Choreography From His Own DNA Code

  05-10-2017 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The "resident brainbox of British dance" tells David Jays about how he got a lab to sequence his entire genome ("three billion bits of information," McGregor says excitedly, "60 volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica"), created a series of "choreographic events," and uses a software algorithm based on his DNA to sequence those "events" differently for every performance. (Yes, he knows that's hard on his dancers.)
  
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• HBO Defends Its If-The-South-Won Series 'Confederate' But Acknowledges It 'Screwed Up' The Announcement

  05-10-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The concept, especially the revelation that a modern form slavery will be depicted, spurred a furious backlash on social media and in essays from high-profile writers like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay," and HBO's CEO acknowledged that the idea deserved more explanation than a three-paragraph press release. (Oddly, no one seems to be pointing out HBO's tactical error in initially spotlighting producers D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, who created Game of Thrones and are white, rather than execut
  
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• Kazuo Ishiguro Wins Nobel Prize For Literature

  05-10-2017 15:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Swedish Academy cited the 62-year-old British author of The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, and The Buried Giant for "novels of great emotional force [in which he has] uncovered the abyss beneath the illusory sense of connection with the world."
  
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• Santa Found Dead? Tomb Of Real St. Nicholas May Have Been Discovered In Turkey

  05-10-2017 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The body of Nicholas of Myra, the beloved fourth-century bishop whose figure morphed over the centuries into the jolly old Santa Claus seen everywhere each December, was long thought to have been disinterred in 1087 and taken to the Italian city of Bari, where his shrine was built and remains to this day. But it seems that the Crusader merchants who took the remains away 930 years ago got the wrong guy: a team of archaeologists says they believe they've found the tomb of the real St. Nicholas un
  
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• Morning Links: Banned from Kusama’s Studio Edition

  05-10-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
  
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• 'Charlie Hebdo' Launches A U.S. Edition - And It's Not At All What You Might Expect

  05-10-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The French original of the magazine is (in)famous for its ferocious, often blunt and sometimes offensive satirical cartoons. The American version - a limited-edition (four parts), online-only project - is graphic journalism: a Paris-based American reporter joined one of Charlie's cartoonists for a trip along the Northeast Corridor for a look at the American left.
  
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• Puerto Rico's Museums Start To Reopen, And To Help With Relief, After Hurricanes Irma And Maria

  05-10-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The main museums in San Juan and Ponce report that they suffered minimal damage from the storms. While most but not all are open, their staffs are all back at work, helping with rescue and rebuilding efforts and offering free programming for their suffering communities.
  
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• 'Shameful': David Geffen Calls Out Wealthy New Yorkers For Not Donating To Geffen Hall Renovation Plan

  05-10-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "That a city that has as many wealthy individuals who've made a fortune in New York - that they couldn't show up and support the most important cultural institution in New York, I think is too bad and shameful. New York deserves to have the best concert hall for the Philharmonic. New York should have the best of everything."
  
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• Arthur Janov, 93, Father Of Primal Scream Therapy

  05-10-2017 14:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Through his treatment of celebrities - among them entertainers John Lennon, Yoko Ono and James Earl Jones - Dr. Janov became a celebrity in his own right beginning in the 1970s. In a best-selling book, and in appearances on television programs such as The Dick Cavett Show, he converted curious onlookers to committed followers with an enticingly simple explanation of psychological ailments, and what he billed as a near surefire way of resolving them."
  
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• New York City Ballet Loses A Principal Dancer But Gains A Ballet Master

  05-10-2017 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Saturday, Rebecca Krohn performs with the company where she has danced for 19 years; next week, she starts her new role training and coaching her colleagues. Terry Trucco talks to Krohn about her career journey.
  
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• Recreating Václav Havel's Dissident 'Living-Room Theatre' Plays

  05-10-2017 13:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lyn Gardner reports on the project by London's Czech Centre and the interactive company Oneohone to perform updated versions of Havel's Vaněk Plays, which were originally staged in secret in a Prague apartment after the Czech Communist government banned the playwright.
  
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• More Controversy About 'Yellowface' Opera Casting, This Time In Contemporary Work

  05-10-2017 13:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Peter Eötvös's The Golden Dragon, "based on a play by Roland Schimmelpfennig [and set in a Chinese restaurant], has a cast of five who perform multiple roles that include 'Chinese mother', 'Chinese aunt', 'Old Asian' and 'An Asian'." Music Theatre Wales, generally a respected touring company admired for its unconventional productions, has fielded an all-white cast for the piece and is drawing criticism for it.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.04.17

  05-10-2017 08:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  BlogBack: Timothy Cahill, Regional Art Writer, on Berkshire Museum’s Decline (& how it should regroup)
  Timothy Cahill, a veteran journalist and critic focused on the Berkshire art scene, responds to CultureGrrl Video: My Opinionated Tour of the Embattled Berkshire Museum:I watched the video of the your visit to the ... read more
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2017-10-04Leaves Fall, Dancers Rise
  New York City Ballet presents its annual Fall Gala at Lincoln Center. ... 
  
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• The future of art – in pictures

  05-10-2017 08:00
  A utopian dentist, disappearing streets, kids with shotguns … the Other Art Fair is a showcase for hot new names in contemporary art – and this year more than half its participants are women. Here is a selection of their best work Continue reading...
  
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• What's the biggest question facing artists today?

  05-10-2017 07:00
  Commercialisation, climate change, studio space, censorship? As the art world flocks to Frieze, Nell Frizzell asks what’s on the mind of Marina Abramović, Jeremy Deller, Tacita Dean, Maria Balshaw and more Continue reading...
  
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• Whitney Reveals Plans for David Hammons Sculpture Alluding to Gordon Matta-Clark

  05-10-2017 04:56 via artnews.com
  The work would float over the Hudson River, where Pier 52 once stood. Read More
  
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• Hairy Maclary author Lynley Dodd on the secret lives of pets

  05-10-2017 04:19
  On the release of her new picture book, the acclaimed New Zealand writer and illustrator talks animal antics and her favourite children’s booksMany cat owners would be familiar with the experience of getting into the car and starting down the driveway, only to hear the thump and squeal of a frantically escaping moggy whose morning snooze on the roof has been rudely interrupted. Such is the premise behind children’s author Lynley Dodd’s new picture book, Scarface Claw, Hold Tigh
  
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• David Geffen Pledges $150 Million To New LA County Museum Complex

  05-10-2017 00:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Geffen’s pledge raises LACMA’s fundraising total to $450 million of the $650 million needed to break ground on a modernist Peter Zumthor building, arguably the most anticipated new piece of architecture in L.A. since Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall opened in 2003.
  
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