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• Go West! That's Where The Best And Brightest Are Moving, Says New Demographic Research

  11-10-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Three cities in Colorado — a state whose fortunes have been tied to the boom and bust of oil, gas and other commodities — are among the top 10 leading destinations for the nation’s best and brightest as old cow and mining towns morph into technology hubs, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Another Colorado city is plotting a 21st century revival."
  
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• New Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing Our Culture

  11-10-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  eal social networks are not like either of these. Instead, people are strongly connected to a relatively small group of neighbors and loosely connected to much more distant people. These loose connections turn out to be extremely important. “Those weak ties serve as bridges between our group of close friends and other clustered groups, allowing us to connect to the global community.”
  
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• MFA Boston Gifted 113 Dutch and Flemish Works, Will Start Center for Netherlandish Art

  11-10-2017 22:18 via artnews.com
  Among the paintings is Rembrandt’s 1632 Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh. Read More
  
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• In 20 Top Markets, NPR Is Now The Leading News Source On Radio

  11-10-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  NPR stations are well on their way as the leading radio news source in 20 of the 50 or so Nielsen PPM markets according to NPR. In those 20 markets, NPR has more weekly cume listeners than their commercial news/talk competitors.
  
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• Cheryl Donegan at Kunsthalle Zurich

  11-10-2017 21:59 via artnews.com
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• Director Yuval Sharon On Being Awarded A MacArthur:

  11-10-2017 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It was so surreal. They read back to me why I was selected — and I don’t even have the words to describe what it felt like to hear,” he said. “I thought, ‘Wow, I guess that’s what I’m doing,’ but you get in the thicket of doing it, and with no warning, you get this bird’s-eye view of the past 15 years.”
  
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• How Shirley Jackson Messes With Your Sense Of Reality

  11-10-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Otessa Moshfegh: "Upon awakening, I often ask myself, 'Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing here?' and from time to time, I've felt that the answers were merely memorized responses, and that my reality might be an arbitrary dash of the imagination - believable, sure, but not entirely trustworthy. This specific vulnerability - of the conscious, willful mind - is precisely what Jackson titillates and exacerbates in her stories."
  
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• New York's New Museum Picks Koolhaas To Design Expansion

  11-10-2017 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The structure, which will connect to the museum’s Sanaa-designed building, will double the museum’s footprint on the Bowery, providing an additional 50,000 square feet for galleries, improved public circulation, and flexible space for the institution’s more experimental programs like its business incubator and the urban-policy think tank that it runs.
  
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• Pianist Collapses And Dies Mid-Performance

  11-10-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mikhail Klein, a pianist from the Siberian city of Irkutsk who was proficient in both classical and jazz repertoire, suffered cardiac arrest while playing a concert in his hometown's Philharmonic Hall.
  
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• In Praise Of The Grid As A Tool Of Creativity

  11-10-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The grid is ripe ground for tilting, warping, ripping, and otherwise distorting into new forms. As autumn and the back-to-school season get underway, it’s only natural to crave order. But a crisp gridded notebook needn’t be a way to restrain our thinking or reign in our imaginations. As Jefferson and other architects have long known, the grid is simply an underlying structure—upon which we may be able to build something new."
  
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• Martin Scorsese Writes A Column For The Hollywood Reporter, And What Does He Choose For His Subject?

  11-10-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The awfulness of Rotten Tomatoes and Cinemascore. (But he does give a defense of mother!, so there's that.)
  
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• Have Our Senses Been Polluted?

  11-10-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I don’t mean to depict our sensorium — the entire range and capacity of our sensory experience — as a pure state that has been defiled by light, noise, flavor and scent pollution; that would just be another version of the original-sin-and-fall narrative. I would argue rather that we have managed to turn the senses against themselves by pitting overwhelming light against lights, overpowering sound against sounds, intense flavor against flavors, penetrating aroma against aromas.
  
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• Tate St Ives to reopen with £20m underground extension

  11-10-2017 18:13
  Addition to Cornish art gallery, which is buried out of sight in a cliff, will house contemporary art showsTate St Ives will reopen this weekend after an 18-month closure and a long, drawn-out £20m expansion project requiring machines to pound the Cornish cliffside to remove blue elvan, the hardest rock in the British Isles.Now buried in the cliff is an incongruously bright and airy 500 sq metre gallery for contemporary art shows that curators hope will put the gallery firmly on the intern
  
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• If We Can't Even Gather Together For A Performance Without Worrying About Getting Shot, We're Doomed

  11-10-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  LA Times theater critic Charles McNulty: "We feed our minds and spirits as well our bodies. My way is theater. Yours might be movies, sports or church. It makes no difference. With gun regulation as irresponsibly lax as it is, we are all just a maniac away from being on the next casualty list."
  
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• Michael Friedman Was A Brilliant Talent. So Why Did He Die?

  11-10-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mr. Friedman’s death from complications of H.I.V./AIDS has rattled the theater world, both because he was seen as among the brightest lights of his generation and because it shocked those who had come to see H.I.V. infection as a chronic but manageable condition, at least for those with health care.
  
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• Margaret Atwood, Azar Nafisi, And Naked Ladies, All Side By Side: A Playboy Literary Editor Reveals All

  11-10-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Amy Grace Loyd, who was Playboy's literary editor from 2005 to 2011, writes about how, and why, she convinced some of the English language's top female authors (along with the likes of Junot Díaz, Walter Mosley, and Sherman Alexie) to write for the magazine.
  
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• The Pain in Spain: In a Country Where the Public Idolizes Great Artists, There Are Few Great Collections of Modern Art

  11-10-2017 17:00 via artnews.com
  Acquiring art has devolved into the hands of a few wealthy collectors and corporations, which are legally obligated to spend a percentage of their funds on “social projects,” including art collections and exhibitions. The same artists’ names are found over and over among these holdings. Read More
  
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• Rebecca Warren review – a creepy comic carnival on the edge of Cornwall

  11-10-2017 16:52
  Tate St IvesWarren’s sculptures are sensile, tactile and frequently terrific. But they seem strangely unable to fill the Cornish gallery’s uplifting new modernist extensionThe sea and sky are the first rivals any artist exhibiting at Tate St Ives has to reckon with. A big, bold view of both fills its beach-facing galleries. In the spectacular new concrete-roofed extension that opens this week, there are no views, just lots of bright natural light streaming in from above. Then again,
  
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• Letting All-Male Pas De Deux In Ballet Become Genuinely Romantic

  11-10-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Ballet is slower to change than most art forms, but in the span of just two weeks, New York City Ballet, one of the world's premier companies, will have shown two ballets featuring significant same-sex duets." Gia Kourlas talks with the choreographers of those ballets, Lauren Lovette and Justin Peck, and the men who'll be dancing those duets.
  
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• How A Dancer 'Unwinds' Bharatanatyam, South India's Classical Dance

  11-10-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Says Pranita Nayar, who has studied the form for decades, "My audience is not from a thousand years ago, so what are we preserving? For whom am I preserving it? ... [What's more,] the bharatanatyam of today is only about 100 years old."
  
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• Arts Center Damaged In California Wildfires

  11-10-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa (Sonoma County), which hosts hundreds of performances and workshops a year reports that its main building has suffered "minimal damage," but its eastern end and several classrooms are "destroyed."
  
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• As Fires Rage, How Are Northern California Art Museums Doing?

  11-10-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Museums in Napa and Sonoma Counties, including the Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, the Hess Collection, Stonescape, and the Oliver Ranch report no damage so far, though most of them are closed for the present.
  
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• Last Leonardo Painting In Private Hands Is Up For Auction (And Should Fetch $100M)

  11-10-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Salvator Mundi, long taken to be a copy, was only authenticated as a Leonardo original a few years ago, and already it has a tangled legal and ownership history.
  
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• Last Da Vinci Painting In Private Hands Is Up For Auction (And Should Fetch $100M)

  11-10-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Salvator Mundi, long taken to be a copy, was only authenticated as a Leonardo original a few years ago, and already it has a tangled legal and ownership history.
  
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• Morning Links: Genius Grant Edition

  11-10-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Why MacArthur Fellowships Matter: In Modern Culture, Expertise Is Under Fire

  11-10-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Today, in public attitudes toward everything from science to politics, expertise is under enormous stress. ... That pressure makes the MacArthur awards extra important," writes Christopher Knight, because "the danger is that manipulative demagoguery flourishes in an environment polluted by the anxiety driving the assault on expertise ... [so] I'll take a ringing endorsement of expertise anywhere I can find it."
  
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• MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winners For 2017 Include Annie Baker, Taylor Mac, Yuval Sharon, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Dawoud Bey

  11-10-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alongside playwright Baker (The Flick, Circle Mirror Transformation), theater artist Mac (A 24-Decade History of Popular Music), opera director Sharon (of the L.A. experimental company The Industry), critic and novelist Nguyen (The Sympathizer), and photographer Bey, winners in the arts include painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby, author Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones), composer Tyshawn Sorey, singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens, landscape architect Kate Orff, and geographer-artist Trevor Paglen. (Fo
  
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• Reports Of Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky's Death Are False

  11-10-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Early on Wednesday, a number of Russian media outlets" - led by Komsomolskaya Pravda, the modern-day descendant of the Soviet youth paper - "disseminated reports of the singer's alleged death, without sourcing this information to anyone." Hvorostovsky was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2015.
  
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• Another EU Orchestra Leaves UK Because Of Brexit

  11-10-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The orchestra was established in London in 1976 but the British vote to leave meant it had to come up with a plan for a future outside the UK. ... The orchestra said on Wednesday it had accepted an offer from the Italian culture ministry to be based in Ferrara and Rome." As EUYO chief executive Marshall Marcus says, "You can't ask for EU funding and then not be in the EU."
  
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• Art Museum Sold To Investors In Beijing (Wait, What?)

  11-10-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The parent company of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in the Chinese capital was purchased last week by a group of investors. "The museum's founders, Guy and Myriam Ullens, announced that the UCCA was up for sale in June 2016, fuelling concerns about the future of what has become one of mainland China's leading private art institutions since it opened in November 2007."
  
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• CEO Of Scotland's Only Full-Time Acting Company Suddenly Resigns

  11-10-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Nick Parr has resigned after just two years as chief executive of Dundee Rep, which boasts the country's only full-time company of actors. He has left with immediate effect less than two months after the Rep's new artistic director, Andrew Panton, took charge of his first show." While the company saw revenue rise under Parr, last week a newspaper column argued that morale at the company was sinking due to a perceived change in culture there.
  
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• From salami to art: how migrants helped turn Rome factory into a gallery

  11-10-2017 13:09
  Rome’s Maam gallery exhibits artists from all over the world, who often incorporate the site’s previous use as a slaughterhouse into their work, or are inspired by the lives of its residentsMuseums are usually hushed places that fall silent when the doors close at the end of the day. But one museum in Rome’s eastern suburbs is home to 200 squatters, 80 of them children, who live among and protect the works of art.In 2011, curator Giorgio de Finis came across a former salami fac
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.10.17

  11-10-2017 11:35 via feedproxy.google.com
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  Advocates for community engagement in the arts often get pushback from people who assume that concern for the interests of our communities necessitates a “lowering of standards.” What follows is my attempt to address the misgivings (legitimate and otherwise) people have ... read more
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• Golden girl: the 24-karat wonders of Lina Iris Viktor

  11-10-2017 08:00
  This British-Liberian artist uses gold, black and little else to create mesmerising works that draw on age-old techniques Continue reading...
  
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• Doug Moran portrait prize 2017 finalists: from Isla Fisher to Anh Do – in pictures

  11-10-2017 02:00
  Nick Stathopoulos’s photorealist portrait of Isla Fisher, Michael Simms’s moody vision of singer and actor Paul Capsis, and Vincent Namatjira’s painting of artist friend Tiger Yaltangki are among the 30 finalists of this year’s Doug Moran prize – Australia’s richest portrait prize.
  Anh Do, Jiawei Shen, Prudence Flint, Tim Storrier and McLean Edwards are also in contention for the $150,000 award, with the winner to be announced on 11 October. Here is a selectio
  
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• Artist Graffiti's Jeff Koons Work - In Augmented Reality

  11-10-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's a protest. And graffiti artist Sebastian Errazuriz didn't physically deface one of Koons' famous balloon dogs. But the augmented reality graffiti is Errazuriz's way of staking a claim to public space. He doesn’t think the privilege of geo-tagging should necessarily fall to technology giants. After Snapchat announced a partnership with the sculptor Jeff Koons that uses augmented reality to place his artworks into famous landmarks around the world, Mr. Errazuriz “graffit
  
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