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• In Praise Of Ignorance: Why Is The BBC Covering The Arts As If Expertise Is Bad?

  24-10-2017 23:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The presenters of Front Row, the only arts magazine programme on the whole of BBC television, began their new assignments by announcing they could not be bothered with theatre. Giles Coren, a restaurant critic, says he finds plays too stressful and the seats too uncomfortable and has barely been to the theatre in years. No matter, he still got the job. Amol Rajan, the BBC’s media editor, rather than, oh I don’t know, its arts editor, said he was too busy with his baby to go. Poo
  
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• Adia Milllett at State, San Francisco

  24-10-2017 23:04 via artnews.com
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• Report: UK Music Teachers Have Never Had It So Bad

  24-10-2017 22:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Music teachers have never had lower pay or less job security, a new report by the Musicians’ Union (MU) has found. It also stresses job dissatisfaction is on the rise due to a widespread lack of financial support, such as maternity pay and sick pay, and questions the extent to which a career in music teaching “is still viable”.
  
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• Kirkus Changed The Rating On A Book - Why This Is An Earthshaking Move

  24-10-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In doing so, Kirkus, one of the country’s most prolific book reviews, has somehow managed to misapprehend both the nature of reviewing and the nature of books. As I’ve written in this magazine, criticism exists in different flavors, but its defining feature is an individualism of response. That response can be wise or unwise, popular or unpopular. A reviewer can squander authority by seeming too often at odds with good judgment. But, without critical autonomy, the enterpris
  
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• Oskar Eustis Talks About His 30 Years Working With Tony Kushner

  24-10-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "There’s no artist I’ve learned more from than Tony, and what I’ve learned is a kind of fearless grandiosity. Angels was an immense act of arrogance — to write a seven-hour play about gay people when you were a completely unknown writer whose one show was at best a succès d’estime. So there came a moment where it became clear to me that the Eureka Theatre did not have the resources to do Angels in America.And at that point, I’d
  
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• Rozalia Jovanovic Named Director of Collective Design Fair

  24-10-2017 21:35 via artnews.com
  The former writer and editor will be joined by Deborah Harris, the fair's new director of arts initiatives. Read More
  
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• Connecting Neuroscience With Human Nature

  24-10-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In his new book Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Robert Sapolsky, a neurobiologist at Stanford, endocrinologist and expert on baboons, sets out to ground morality in neuro­biology as opposed to the pure reason of Kant’s “categorical imperative”. But unlike Kant (at least for me), Sapolsky is highly readable.
  
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• Berkshire Museum Director to Go on Medical Leave

  24-10-2017 21:27 via artnews.com
  The board said it remains committed to its controversial plan to sell works at Sotheby's. Read More
  
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• LA's New Institute Of Contemporary Art Joins An Increasingly Crowded Downtown Art Scene

  24-10-2017 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The ICA LA joins a number of new downtown arts spaces. The Broad Museum, founded by collector Eli Broad, opened in 2015, and the Main Museum, spearheaded by downtown developer Tom Gilmore, followed in 2016. Other speculators have latched onto the art angle too. Plans for a recently announced, futuristic development by Danish architecture wunderkind Bjarke Ingels feature outdoor sculptures and gallery spaces alongside boutiques and upscale “artist lofts.” The Artist Loft Museum of Lo
  
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• Jackie Chan Has Become, Simply, A Good Actor (As Well As A Businessman And Martial Arts Legend)

  24-10-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Idle is not one of the speeds in Jackie Chan's gearbox. 'Sometimes I look at some other actors, famous actors,' he says incredulously. 'They're so comfortable! After filming, just holiday! With a girlfriend or the family.' After filming, Jackie tends to an ever-expanding portfolio of business interests, and then he makes more films."
  
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• Following Departure of Beatrix Ruf, Stedelijk Museum Names Jan Willem Sieburgh Interim Business Director

  24-10-2017 19:51 via artnews.com
  He will take over some of her former duties. Read More
  
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• Here’s the Exhibitor List for the 2018 ADAA Art Show

  24-10-2017 19:26 via artnews.com
  Seventy-two galleries will take part in the 30th edition of the fair. Read More
  
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• The New Power Players In Selling Art Online

  24-10-2017 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "No single seller has achieved critical mass, and the model that has gained the most traction is the third-party marketplace, which functions not as a threat to existing, trusted brands but as a facilitator for them. Rather than competing with bricks-and-mortar houses for quality consignments, they help market it to a wider clientele and provide sophisticated live-bidding technology."
  
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• Art Behind The Scenes: How Paintings Get Framed, Sculptures Get Forged, And Art Gets Moved Around And Installed

  24-10-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "With a sense of craft and care comparable to that of the artists whose work they tend, art-service professionals play a crucial role in making sure artworks get where they need to go, in preserved condition and suited to be seen in the proper light. ... ARTnews visited art services in and around New York City to see how [the work gets done]."
  
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• Tehching Hsieh, extreme performance artist: 'I give you clues to the crime' | Brigid Delaney

  24-10-2017 19:00
  The Venice Biennale is hosting the biggest exhibition of work by the Taiwanese artist Marina Abramović calls ‘the master’. He looks back with Brigid Delaney
  “My impression of the Venice Bienniale is that it is the Olympic Games of the arts,” says Tehching Hsieh. “I’m in the category of marathon.” If any artist knows about endurance it is is Hsieh, a Taiwanese artist who has created some of the most extreme performance art ever made. His work, mostly
  
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• Hate The Artist, (Still) ove The Art?

  24-10-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Harvey and Bob Weinstein produced some schlock and some beauts. Both brothers had awful reputations as people to work for and with. Now, because some 50 women have had the courage to accuse Harvey, we know chapter and verse on being a bully and pig in Hollywood. On that evidence, the soaring movies his name is on did nothing to enlighten or redeem their producer. But it would be a pity if his grossness were to deprive us of the light that those creations let shine."
  
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• Read This Ferocious 1855 Review Of Whitman's 'Leaves Of Grass'

  24-10-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The man is the true impersonation of his book - rough, uncouth, vulgar. ... Walt Whitman is as unacquainted with art as a hog is with mathematics."
  
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• Artforum Responds to Reports of Sexual Misconduct by Publisher Knight Landesman

  24-10-2017 17:41 via artnews.com
  'Artforum is devoted to the freedom of expression and we have no wish to silence anyone, nor will we engage in any attempts to do so.' Read More
  
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• Scientists Compare Brain Activity Of Jazz, Classical Musicians. Turns Out There Are Differences

  24-10-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The researchers used EEG to compare the electrical brain activity of 12 Jazz musicians (with improvisation training), 12 Classical musicians (without improvisation training), and 12 non-musicians while they listened to a series of chord progressions. Some of the chords followed a progression that was typical of Western music, while others had an unexpected progression."
  
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• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Has Lunch With Dave Eggers

  24-10-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Adichie looks with a gimlet eye at American liberal doctrine, preferring open and frank debate to the narrow constraints of approved messaging. Though she is considered a global icon of feminism, she has, on occasion, displeased progressive sects when she's expressed her beliefs about gender with candor and without using the latest terminology."
  
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• The Story Of The Internet's Number-One Source For Scores

  24-10-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In 2006, a New England Conservatory student named Edward Guo founded the online portal IMSLP, or International Music Score Library, a kind of Wikipedia for musicians. Now the site contains some 350,000 scores and 40,000 recordings from 14,000 composers. The works of composers who have been dead for less than 70 years are not in the public domain and don't appear on the site. Still, IMSLP is omnipresent enough that I've encountered music students who assumed there were no scores to Strauss songs
  
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• The Four Horsemen of America’s Apocalypse: Their Work Unearths the Seething Muck Beneath the Shiny Surface of American Culture

  24-10-2017 16:25 via artnews.com
  On Bruce Conner, Jim Shaw, Raymond Pettibon, and David Wojnarowicz Read More
  
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• The City You Didn't Know Was An Early Hotbed Of Black Ballet Talent

  24-10-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  During the 1930s, '40s and '50s, Philadelphia had a thriving scene that nourished some of the later 20th century's most important African-American dancers. Dance Magazine's Jennifer Stahl interviews Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet founder Theresa Ruth Howard about what made the city such a relatively good place for black dancers to work, while Judith Jamison, Delores Browne, and Joan Myers Brown offer comments on video about the city's dance history.
  
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• Alt-Right Demonstrators Harass Oakland's Revolution Books

  24-10-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "On September 24, conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos made a brief visit to Berkeley, an event that drew police from around the region. That evening, a band of between 30 and 40 right-wing activists stormed Revolution Books. The attackers recorded the episode on video, rattling windows and confronting patrons. Since the initial incident, these activists have orchestrated at least five more visits to the store - posting their exploits in online videos."
  
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• Post-Charlottesville, How Is America Changing Its Approach To 'Gone With The Wind'?

  24-10-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aisha Harris: "How are cinemas, TV networks, and classrooms rethinking how they present this historical epic and all-time box office king? And could it go the way of Hollywood's original historical epic and first megablockbuster, 1915's The Birth of a Nation, leaving it shown very rarely and almost exclusively in academic settings? To find out, I talked to theater managers, academics, television programmers, and fans. The answers I received were mixed, not least because Gone With the Wind is sti
  
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• Building Moving-Image Collection, Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester Commissions Work by Isaac Julien, Dara Birnbaum, Javier Téllez

  24-10-2017 15:05 via artnews.com
  The artists will work with the archives of the city's university for the John G. Hanhardt–curated project. Read More
  
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• Tourist Killed By Falling Masonry In One Of Florence's Most Famous Historic Churches

  24-10-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The stone piece, about 6 inches by 6 inches, fell nearly 60 feet after it broke off near a chapel on the right side of the [Basilica di Santa Croce], where it had been supporting a beam."
  
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• Morning Links: Peace, Love, and Szechuan Sauce Edition

  24-10-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
  
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• Yo-Yo Ma Steps Away From Leadership Of Silkroad Ensemble

  24-10-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Silkroad turns twenty next year. Like a teenager approaching adulthood, we are exploring our purpose in the world. ... One thing we have discovered is the joy and significance of working as an ensemble, and at this turning point, we are formalizing a new approach to leadership that celebrates that collaborative spirit. To this end, I am thrilled to hand over the artistic direction of Silkroad to Jeffrey Beecher, Nicholas Cords, and Shane Shanahan, three extraordinary colleagues who have taught
  
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• Court Rules For Matisse's Heirs And Against Dealer In Case Of Stolen $4.5M Cutouts

  24-10-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The judgment is a crushing blow to the French expert and dealer Jérôme Le Blay. The court ruled that his company Côté Art had not acted 'in good faith' in claiming to own the [two] works," which were among the Matisse pieces stolen from a storage facility just after the 1989 death of the artist's son Pierre.
  
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• Pierre Audi Of The Park Avenue Armory On Presenting New Work In The U.S. Versus Europe

  24-10-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The complaints we hear over and over again are that European audiences are more open to the new and European institutions are better funded. Audi, who's spent nearly three decades running the Dutch National Opera and came to the Armory in 2015, says that audiences over here, especially in New York, are hungry for good work from all over the world. The problem is getting that work to the States.
  
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• 'One Of The Buddhas Of American Dance'

  24-10-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A reporter travels to the northeastern corner of Vermont to visit Steve Paxton, who was a star in Merce Cunningham's company in the 1960s and went on to invent Contact Improvisation.
  
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• One Of UK's Top Stage Directors Fired From Company He Founded Over 'Inappropriate Behavior'

  24-10-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Renowned director Max Stafford-Clark - the former artistic director of London's Royal Court theatre - was forced out of the Out of Joint theatre company after a formal complaint that he made lewd comments to a member of staff. ... A spokesperson for Stafford-Clark said the director had suffered from pseudobulbar palsy and 'occasional disinhibition' since a stroke and brain injury in 2006."
  
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• Brazilian Artists Fight Back Against Right-Wing Activists Disrupting Art Events

  24-10-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "An open letter written by a group of Brazilian artists and art professionals that condemns 'the rise of hate, intolerance and violence against freedom of expression in the arts and education' in the country has been signed by more than 1,000 people since it was published online last week. ... The letter cites a specific string of incidents that have happened over the past year, including the closing of an exhibition dedicated to queer art at the Santander Cultural Center in Porto Alegre ... and
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.23.17

  24-10-2017 09:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dark Matters from Finland
  Tero Saarinen Company performs at the Joyce Theater. ... read more
  AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2017-10-23Music as Communication: with you, with myself, with it
  I write music for three reasons that I can name, though there may be others that elude me.  These three reasons jockey with one another for primacy from one work to the next, and sometimes ... read more
  AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2017-10-23The Most Under-Rated 20th Century Ame
  
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• New Brown University Conductor Fired Because He Was Intimidating?

  24-10-2017 01:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to The Brown Daily Herald, orchestral students had complained about Brown’s leadership. Orchestra member Katerina Rademacher told the paper that Brown acted “in an intimidating manner that made students fearful and anxious to approach him.”
  
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• Find Your Purpose? Sorry, But That's Not The Way It Works

  24-10-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For the average 20-year-old in college or 40-year-old in an unfulfilling job, searching for the silver bullet to give life meaning is more likely to end in frustration than fulfillment.
  
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