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• Why Common Sense Isn't Always A Reliable Moral Guide

  18-10-2017 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Why bother with moral philosophy when common sense serves most of us perfectly well? The simple answer is that, as history shows, commonsensical beliefs are very often wrong. Slavery, marital rape, and bans on interracial marriage were all widely accepted in the relatively recent past. Much like fish who, as the proverb goes, are the last to discover water, humans are so immersed in immorality that we can be entirely unaware of it.
  
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• A Rare Florine Stettheimer Doubleheader: As the Whitney Museum Acquires One Painting, Another Heads to Auction

  18-10-2017 23:23 via artnews.com
  It is extremely unusual for a work by the artist to be available on the open market. Read More
  
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• Will We Ever Get To The Point Where We Interact With Machines As We Do With Humans?

  18-10-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Today, the technical ability to produce a robot that truly looks and moves and speaks like a human remains well beyond our reach. Even further beyond our grasp is the capacity to imbue such a machine with humanness—that ineffable presence the Japanese call sonzai-kan. Because to re-create human presence we need to know more about ourselves than we do—about the accumulation of cues and micromovements that trigger our empathy, put us at ease, and earn our trust. Someday we may cr
  
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• Shadi Yousefian at the Space by Advocartsy, Los Angeles

  18-10-2017 22:43 via artnews.com
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• Creativity Versus The Arts

  18-10-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I think these creative endeavors resonate with people because they are grounded in each participant’s lived experience (rather than universal plots or a reflection of someone else’s perspective) and, as such, they cannot help but be authentic. Perhaps what we call “bad” or “amateur” art isn’t because of “aesthetics,” but because it feels derivative of some form that already exists rather than growing from this place of fearless, individual ex
  
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• Modern Movie Cowboys Are Redefining Mythology Of The Old West

  18-10-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A last gasp of the old west duly became the first movie western. But from there, the task quickly became mythmaking. The western turned inexorably towards the past – or a version of it. Soon came the movies that defined the genre, tales of heroes in stetsons and dastardly “injuns” somewhere between propaganda and mass hypnosis. The west had to be won, most westerns said, to save innocence from savagery. There were exceptions, and some of those were fantastic films – but
  
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• Charge: Sexual Abuse Of Bolshoi Dancers Is Rampant

  18-10-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For as long as anyone can remember, theater and movie directors, rich sponsors of art, dancing masters and acting coaches here in Russia have demanded sex from young actresses, ballerinas, and students in exchange for a part in a movie, a role in a play, or promotion in the ballet."
  
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• Mignoni Gallery to Open on Upper East Side, Headed by Former Christie’s Contemporary Director

  18-10-2017 21:26 via artnews.com
  The space will host two to three exhibitions a year, and first up is a Donald Judd show. Read More
  
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• The Filmmaker Who Put Korean Cinema On The World's Screens

  18-10-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Park Chan-wook ... combines dark humor, a painterly sense of composition and lots of gore. But beneath the violence lies a deep humanity - and a love of the absurd."
  
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• Netflix Won't Say How Many People Watch Its Shows. So Nielsen Figured Out How To Count Them

  18-10-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Nielsen announced the initiative on Wednesday morning, but it has been collecting Netflix viewership data over the last two months in a kind of test run. The company said it was able to determine how many viewers were streaming Netflix content through audio recognition software in the 44,000 Nielsen-rated homes across the United States."
  
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• Habitat: Peer into the World of Framers, Fabricators, Conservators, and More

  18-10-2017 20:29 via artnews.com
  A photo essay takes a look at art services in New York. Read More
  
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• What Is The Science Behind How We Experience Architecture?

  18-10-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Paul Goldberger: "If, until now, we - architects, critics, building dwellers - have had to guess what makes certain places attractive or comfortable or exciting or awe-inspiring, we now have some scientific basis for our reactions: what [Sarah Williams] Goldhagen calls a new paradigm, which 'holds that much of what and how people think is a function of our living in the kinds of bodies we do.'"
  
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• Google Says Its AI Machines Are Now Better At Design Than Its Human Engineers

  18-10-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Google has announced that AutoML has beaten the human AI engineers at their own game by building machine-learning software that's more efficient and powerful than the best human-designed systems.
  
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• Vann Molyvann, Cambodia's Great Modern Architect, Dead At 90

  18-10-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In the 1960s he transformed Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, from a colonial backwater into one of the most beautiful and innovative of south-east Asian cities. Drawing inspiration from the ancient bas-reliefs and designs of the Angkor Wat temple complex, Vann's style, which came to be known as New Khmer architecture, blended Khmer tradition with the modernist principles he had mastered during studies in Paris."
  
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• Why Novels Matter Now More Than Ever

  18-10-2017 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The novel matters because and so on. By which I mean that I’ve come to believe that all the arts are about time, but that the novel in particular is about the and-so-on of things, continuance and continuity, the continuum. It’s a form, too, very interested in the workings of society, so it tells us about how we’re living, who we’re living with, and where we are in the endless social structural cycle that eventually gets called history."
  
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• Ancient Papyrus Reveals How Egyptians Built Great Pyramid Of Giza

  18-10-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Historians have long been stumped at how people with relatively primitive tools managed to transport the estimated 800 tonnes of material every day from Aswan, 500 miles to the south. Now ancient papyrus, a ceremonial boat and a system of waterworks have revealed the complex infrastructure created by builders to complete the structure."
  
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• Domestikator is nasty public art. The Louvre was quite right to reject it | Jonathan Jones

  18-10-2017 17:33
  In a gallery, obscenity is one thing. But in a public space where people of all ages will see it without choosing to do so? That’s bullyingThe other day I walked into a Brussels art gallery where a colossal bronze woman was swooning in sensual ecstasy. In case of any confusion about its sexual content, this new sculpture by Tracey Emin is called All I Want Is You. I couldn’t help telling the artist she should erect it in a London park. “Erect” is the right word, for she j
  
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• Public Art In Hollywood Removed After Harvey Weinstein Scandal

  18-10-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The piece is a fiberglass sculpture of a daybed, the pinnacle of “The Road to Hollywood,” a large and complex installation by artist Erika Rothenberg. It was removed Thursday from its perch at Hollywood & Highland, the shopping mall adjacent to the theater where the Academy Awards are handed out. In the eyes of some, an innocuous daybed became a casting couch.
  
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• Metropolitan Museum of Art Names Lauren A. Meserve Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer

  18-10-2017 17:31 via artnews.com
  She has been on the institution's investment team since 2002. Read More
  
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• Too rude for Paris? 'Copulating' sculpture causes stir in French capital

  18-10-2017 17:26
  Dutch artist says it is not sexual, but Louvre decided giant sculpture of human appearing to copulate with an animal was too rude to be displayedFrom a vandalised butt-plug to a desecrated “queen’s vagina”, Paris has often been at the centre of rows over whether some public art is supposedly too rude to go on show.But the latest spat over a giant metal sculpture of a box-like figure appearing to copulate with a geometric being on all fours is proof that the label “too rud
  
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• Explicit sculpture finds new home at Pompidou Centre – video

  18-10-2017 17:20
  A huge abstract sculpture, rejected by the Louvre Museum because it was deemed obscene, has found a new home at Paris’ edgier Pompidou Centre. The sculpture, titled Domestikator, was unveiled on Tuesday in front of the Pompidou modern art museum. Dutch artist Joep Van Lieshout said he was very happy with the Pompidou’s offer to display the sculpture, which is about domesticationContinue reading...
  
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• 'He Mistrusted The Cosy, The Mimsy In Ballet' - Clement Crisp Salutes Kenneth Macmillan

  18-10-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  25 years ago this month, the choreographer suffered a fatal heart attack backstage at the Royal Opera House during a performance of his ballet Mayerling. Crisp, who was there, remembers the fateful evening and pays tribute to MacMillan's "fascination with the psyche rather than the fouetté ... [his] interest in movement's capacity to convey psychological complexity."
  
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• The Strange Capital That Starchitects Built For A Dictator

  18-10-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As part of "Secret Stans", a series about the cities of the little-known former Soviet republics of Central Asia, Oliver Wainwright visits Astana, Kazakhstan, where president-for-life Nursultan Nazarbayev brought in the likes of Norman Foster and Santiago Calatrava to create a futuristic capital city from scratch.
  
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• The Falcon, The Iron, The Jug, The Disco Balls: The Wildest, Weirdest New Architecture In Central Asia

  18-10-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A photo tour of the strange and fabulous (in more than one sense) buildings that have gone up in the cities of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, where the dictators were not going to let themselves be outdone.
  
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• Alexei Ratmansky And His Favorite Composer

  18-10-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Marina Harss talks with the choreographer and Leonid Desyatnikov, the only composer from whom Ratmansky has ever commissioned a score. Their sixth collaboration is about to open at American Ballet Theater.
  
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• More Than A Third Of Museum Visitors Don't Consider Museums 'Culture' - And Other Takeaways From The 2017 Culture Track Report

  18-10-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For many respondents, going to the park or eating at a food truck counts as a cultural experience, while attending a museum does not. ... Below, we spotlight seven findings from the study could have major consequences for how traditional cultural hubs like museums think about audience outreach, development strategies, and cultural participation in the 21st century."
  
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• St. Louis Symphony Posts First Surplus In 17 Years

  18-10-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Other good news from last season includes new contracts with the musicians and stagehands, the engagement of Stéphane Denève to succeed David Robertson as music director, and an uptick in box office revenue, with a third of attendees at core classical concerts being new to the orchestra's home concert hall.
  
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• Morning Links: 100-Car Edition

  18-10-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• How Three Decades Have Changed 'M. Butterfly' (And Vice Versa)

  18-10-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[The character Song Liling's] true gender was the meant-to-shock big reveal of the original Broadway production ... [But] by now, the play has been in the repertory for nearly 30 years. As [actor B.D.] Wong said by phone recently, 'The cat is out of the bag.' Yet here's the thing, as I saw when I bought a ticket and went to an early preview: [David Henry] Hwang has made a new cat, and [Julie] Taymor has put it in a very different bag." The playwright talks with Laura Collins-Hughes about that b
  
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• How 'M. Butterfly' Changed My Life: Five Asian-American Theater Artists Speak

  18-10-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Laura Collins-Hughes talks with actors B.D. Wong and George Takei, playwrights Julia Cho (Office Hour) and Jason Kim (KPOP), and National Asian American Theater Company co-founder Mia Katigbak.
  
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• Zurich's Tonhalle Orchestra Loses 20% Of Subscribers As It Moves To Temporary Venue

  18-10-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While the Tonhalle itself undergoes a major renovation, "the exiled orchestra can be seen in action for the next three years at the Maag Hall, part of an industrial complex in Zurich West ... CHF10 million has been invested in the acoustics, but there are 300 fewer seats than in the Tonhalle, and one in five orchestra subscriptions has been cancelled."
  
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• George Saunders's 'Lincoln In The Bardo' Wins Man Booker Prize

  18-10-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Saunders is the second American in a row to win the Booker prize, after last year's winner Paul Beatty. Saunders' win falls four years after eligibility rules were changed to allow writers of any nationality writing in the English language and published in the UK. There has been fierce criticism of the rule change."
  
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• Russia Extends House Arrest For Leading Theater/Film Director

  18-10-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kirill Serebrennikov, chief of Moscow's Gogol Center and best-known in the West as director of the Bolshoi's off-again/on-again ballet Nureyev, "was placed under house arrest in August on charges of embezzling 68 million rubles ($1.1 million) in government funds in a case widely seen as political. ... The judge denied Serebrennikov's request to be released for five days to complete the filming of a movie about rock legend Viktor Tsoi and to visit the Bolshoi Theater Dec. 9-10. The director will
  
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• Oklahoma City Ballet Gets Brand-New Home And $2 Million Gift

  18-10-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Up to last year, the company was based in a cramped building with three studios and a leaky roof. In February they acquired a former fitness center, which has now been renovated into a spacious, light-filled, multi-studio headquarters. To celebrate, the family of the company's founding donor has made a major new gift.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.17.17

  18-10-2017 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Excellence and Engagement: II
  Last time I began a discussion of excellence in community engagement ... This time I continue with a consideration of three potential categories of excellence that are often not part of our discussions in the arts. ... read more
  >AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2017-10-17Warhol Effect: Can Leonardo’s Strange Bedfellow Make Christie’s Bidders Salivate for Salvator Mundi?
  It seems Christie’s couldn’t resist the chance
  
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• Tim Storrier wins Doug Moran prize for portrait of McLean Edwards

  18-10-2017 03:46
  Storrier’s The Lunar Savant wins $150,000 national portrait prize and Dagmar Cyrulla’s self-portrait highly commendedDoug Moran portrait prize finalists – in picturesThe artist Tim Storrier has won the $150,000 Doug Moran national portrait prize for The Lunar Savant, his painting of the artist McLean Edwards.Storrier was one of 30 finalists in the annual award, Australia’s richest portrait prize, which was announced on Wednesday. The list of finalists also included one of
  
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• 'Obscene? Pornographic?' – Louvre deems sexually explicit sculpture too risqué

  18-10-2017 03:12
  Museum made the decision to drop Domestikator, which depicts a human figure penetrating an animal, after criticism on social media The Pompidou Centre in Paris will display a sexually explicit sculpture after it was deemed too risqué for the Louvre.Standing 12 metres tall, Domestikator, a creation from Dutch artist Joep van Lieshout, was originally expected to stand in the 13th century Tuileries Gardens adjacent to Paris’ Louvre museum as part of a contemporary art fair this month.
  
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• Rotoscope - Wher Dance And Interactive Animation Meet

  18-10-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Taking inspiration from the rotoscope – an early filmmaking device that allowed animators to trace over live-action – the Japanese design group EUPHRATES used an innovative computer algorithm to capture outlines and extract other information from a video of a ballerina, Kurimu Urabe of the Bolshoi, dancing in a ballet studio."
  
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