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• All Music Starts From Language

  03-11-2017 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "All music exists on some kind of spectrum, from something that involves nothing you’ve ever heard before to music that sounds exactly like everything you’ve ever heard before. I think all great music exists somewhere along that.In music, you’re speaking a language of things heard already.You’re just rearranging it in a way that is unique.You use sonorities that have been heard before, like I use major chords.But even if you don’t use major chords, everything is alo
  
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• Seeking Director of Marketing and Communications

  03-11-2017 22:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  2017 Regional Theatre Tony Award® Recipient, Dallas Theater Center (DTC), in search for a Director of Marketing and Communications
  The Director of Marketing and Communications is a senior staff leadership position responsible for conceiving and implementing all strategic plans related to growing and sustaining audiences for the theater, and manages the “ad agency” needs for other DTC departments including Development, Education and Public Works Dallas. This position manages a 9-s
  
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• What Mazes Tell Us About Ourselves

  03-11-2017 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Culturally, mazes are now massively resurgent. Practically every country park has its hedge maze, mirror maze or maize maze – and so do a growing number of churches and cathedrals. In virtual reality, notably, the maze forms the basic substructure of innumerable videogames. So why do mazes draw us in? And what do they do to us while we are there?
  
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• How Virtual Reality Can Change How People Behave

  03-11-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Last year at the annual computer graphics conference SIGGRAPH, they debuted a new version of the game, called I Am A Robot, that allowed groups of people to don headsets and become genderless robots at either a ballet recital, cocktail gathering, or dance party. The response from participants was surprising – men in suits who swore they wouldn’t dance became entirely different people when in the genderless VR world – but it was the experience of two volunteers that moved Daffy
  
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• Toronto's Tafelmusik Orchestra Reports Its 17th Year In A Row Of Balanced Budgets

  03-11-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It finished the season in the black to the tune of $7,123. The period orchestra also reported a record-breaking year in donations, with more than 1,000 members and donors giving more than $975,000: a 63 per cent increase over the previous record set during the 2015/16 season.
  
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• How A Jazz Musician Is Redefining Culture At At The Kennedy Center

  03-11-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Not so long ago, Moran’s eclectic, adventurous approach to jazz would have placed him well outside the aesthetic boundaries of Washington’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts . But in the past few years, the big white box on the Potomac has opened its venues to jazz in tandem with skateboarders, stand-up comics, dancers, painters and rappers. This redefining of what it means to be the “national cultural center” is, to a large extent, the doing of Jason Moran.
  
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• Sheila Hicks at Alison Jacques Gallery, London

  03-11-2017 20:59 via artnews.com
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• At Performa, Xavier Cha Debuts a Work About Relationships, Videos, and the Internet

  03-11-2017 20:43 via artnews.com
  The work, which was staged at BAM, was part of the performance art biennial running through November 19. Read More
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• Cally Spooner Wins Artissima’s Illy Present Future Prize

  03-11-2017 20:42 via artnews.com
  Her work is currently on view at GB Agency's booth at the Italian art fair. Read More
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• This Year's Winners Of Canada's Governor General's Writing Awards

  03-11-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Thomas Hynes's We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night, described in a release from the Canada Council as a portrait of a man's hilarious yet disturbing journey from St. John's to Vancouver, is the winner of the English fiction category. Richard Harrison's On Not Losing my Father's Ashes in the Flood took home the top poetry prize, Hiro Kanagawa's Indian Arm was the winner under the drama genre and The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State by Graeme Wood was the pick for non
  
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• Cookbooks, Class, And Status Symbols: A Brief 600-Year History

  03-11-2017 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In the 15th and 16th centuries in Western Europe, the oldest published recipe collections emanated from the palaces of monarchs, princes, and grandes señores. ... Gradually, technology broadened cookbooks' intended audiences ... [and,] in time, as new ideas formed about equality, democracy, and social stratification, presenting certain books as best suited for rich or for poor was no longer considered effective marketing, but culinary literature nonetheless has borne class markers for as
  
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• From the Archives: Linda Nochlin on the Invention of the 19th-Century French Avant-Garde, in 1968

  03-11-2017 19:47 via artnews.com
  The art historian on the "revolutionary art and revolutionary politics" of 19th-century French artists. Read More
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• Should We Be Terrified That AI Will Let The Machines Take Over?

  03-11-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "After so much talking about the risks of ultraintelligent machines, it is time to turn on the light, stop worrying about sci-fi scenarios, and start focusing on AI’s actual challenges, in order to avoid making painful and costly mistakes in the design and use of our smart technologies."
  
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• Martin Luther Was A Stout, Lusty, Physical Guy - Here's Why That Mattered

  03-11-2017 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Luther physically embodied the Reformation. His massive size mirrored the bulky Saxon princes who protected him from Rome. Excommunicated, the rebellious priest married a former nun; he fathered children and celebrated family life as the antithesis of monasticism. He liked to eat, drink beer, and have sex, even as sin was ever present. ...Luther's physical monumentality became a positive view of the (male) body, a reflection of a positive image of Lutheranism, portraying an earthy and heroic wr
  
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• Why World-In-Decline Thinking Is Not Helpful

  03-11-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Our declinist age is noteworthy in one important way. It’s not just the Westerns who are in trouble; thanks to globalisation, it’s the Resterners too. In fact, we are all, as a species, in this mess; our world supply chains and climate change have ensured that we are poised before a sixth mass extinction together. We should worry less about our lifestyle and more about life itself."
  
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• Why Demand-Based Pricing For Movie Tickets Is A Bad Idea

  03-11-2017 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Under an 'alternative pricing model' the company will pilot in several markets in 2018, Regal [Cinemas] will charge more for tickets to movies people want to see, and less for under-attended flops. ... The thinking goes - especially in smaller markets where viewers don't have other multiplex options - that customers will feel compelled to pay more to see a Marvel movie or Star Wars, the kind of experience audiences still flock to the theater for." David Sims makes the case for why this won't wo
  
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• Scientists: Our Bodies Feel Music, Not Just Hear It

  03-11-2017 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The past few decades of work in the cognitive sciences of music have demonstrated with increasing persuasiveness that the human capacity for music is not cordoned off from the rest of the mind. On the contrary, music perception is deeply interwoven with other perceptual systems, making music less a matter of notes, the province of theorists and professional musicians, and more a matter of fundamental human experience."
  
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• Remember Rose Marie? She's Now 94, Still Working, And Walked The Women's-Equality Walk For Her Whole 91-Year Career

  03-11-2017 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  People of a certain age will remember her from Hollywood Squares; those slightly older know her from The Dick van Dyke Show, where she played a TV writer who kept right up with her male colleagues. But she had her own 15-minute national radio show when she was a toddler and did her first national vaudeville tour at 7 - and she's still doing voice-over work today. Also, as she tells Rachel Symes, she told off a Hollywood sexual harasser back in the 1950s (and suffered some consequences).
  
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• Sotheby’s Posts $23.5 M. Loss in Third Quarter, Besting Expectations Slightly During Slow Period

  03-11-2017 16:36 via artnews.com
  A change in timing of Hong Kong sales and a tax benefit made for a boost. Read More
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• Alan Turing is decoded, Hastings bags a prize and Gilbert & George go wild – the week in art

  03-11-2017 16:33
  A new way to crack Turing’s genius, a mighty pier in Hastings, and Scotland rewinds to 1540 – all in your weekly dispatchKen Currie
  Troubling images of disfigurement and war by the visceral Glasgow expressionist painter.
  Flowers Gallery, London, 8 November to 9 December. Continue reading...
  
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• Newly-Released Diary Shows Bin Laden Was Radicalized After Visiting Shakespeare's Birthplace

  03-11-2017 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A summer trip to the UK as a teenager and visits to Shakespeare’s birthplace convinced Osama bin Laden that the west was “decadent”, the late leader of al-Qaida and architect of the 9/11 attacks wrote in his personal journal shortly before he was killed by US special forces in 2011.
  
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• The 'Most American Of Operas' Is All About Empowering Women

  03-11-2017 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And that's not exactly common in opera. So which work is this? The Mother of Us All, Virgil Thomson's and Gertrude Stein's fantasia about Susan B. Anthony and the fight for women's suffrage in the U.S. (The description is Anthony Tommasini's.)
  
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• Why Twyla Tharp's Best Dances Are 'Classical'

  03-11-2017 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "'It's a confirmation of sorts when the old pieces live,' she says. 'Back in 1973, people gave me flak because that work didn't look classical enough. I said, 'This may not be your version of ballet but 'classical' is simply what survives.'"
  
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• Museum Of The Bible Says It Won't Promote Any Specific Religion - Will Its Conservative Christian Funders Stick To That?

  03-11-2017 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Financial documents and interviews reveal a tangled relationship between the nonprofit museum; Hobby Lobby and its owners, the conservative-Christian Green family; and the National Christian Foundation, a donor-advised fund that supports key soldiers in the national battle for conservative Christian values. ... The murky ties between the three entities have attracted the attention of museum and nonprofit experts who have expressed concern about the project's political agenda, potential conflict
  
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• In This Day And Age, Is There Any Point In Knowing The Bible? (Yea, Verily)

  03-11-2017 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As literary scholar Grant Shreve argues, themes, characters, and memes from the Bible are everywhere in American culture, even in 2017. (Besides, he says, knowing your Bible might have helped you figure out what the hell was going on in mother!.)
  
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• No Uncool Jokers Here: Barbara Kruger Debuts Installation at Manhattan Skate Park

  03-11-2017 14:30 via artnews.com
  The artist is one of the stars of Performa this year. Read More
  
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• The Hong Kong Bookseller Who Got 'Disappeared' Has Re-Released Pre-Modern China's Dirtiest, Kinkiest Novel

  03-11-2017 14:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "When associates at Causeway Bay Books in Hong Kong went missing about two years ago - and its scandalous books about mainland Chinese politicians were destroyed not long after - Woo Chih-wai thought he'd lost everything." Reporter Vivienne Chow recounts how, partly to earn some money back, he republished a very long, very graphic erotic novel from the 1730s titles Preposterous Words.
  
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• 'Sundance With Chinese Characteristics' - Can An Indie Film Fest Work When The State Approves All The Movies?

  03-11-2017 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It is the question hovering over the weeklong festival that opened on Saturday in the ancient walled city of Pingyao: Can you create and showcase independent films in a country that frowns on independence, much less dissent?"
  
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• Morning Links: Extremely Powerful Hito Steyerl Edition

  03-11-2017 14:00 via artnews.com
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• You Know What'll Bring Revolution To North Korea? Soap Operas

  03-11-2017 13:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Kim Jong Un's iron grip on the North Korean people is weakening, and an information campaign rooted in soap operas and dramas could help advance a civilian uprising, a prominent defector told a congressional panel Wednesday."
  
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• Denver Art Museum Suffers 'Data Security Incident' With Personal, Financial Info

  03-11-2017 13:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Denver Art Museum warned 800 people this month of a data breach that included sensitive personal and financial information about its donors, customers, and current and former employees, according to a letter obtained by The Denver Post."
  
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• How Foundations Are (And Aren't) Picking Up The Slack As British Arts Funding Shrinks

  03-11-2017 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "After the bottom dropped out of local authority arts funding, those in charge of the purse strings at arts organisations naturally looked elsewhere for support. ... But trusts and foundations have consistently stressed that they cannot - and will not - become a substitute for lost local authority funding. ... What impact has this tension had on the sorts of projects that receive funding through trusts and foundations in recent years? Representatives from [three foundations] provided more insigh
  
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• How London's Top Dance Venue Increased Membership And Ticket Sales Even As It Reduced Discounts

  03-11-2017 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The director of marketing and sales at Sadler's Wells writes about how the theatre was losing tens of thousands of pounds in income due to discounts that had become too successful - and how it fixed that problem without alienating members and other ticket-buyers.
  
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• Rome's Borghese Gallery To Create Caravaggio Research Institute

  03-11-2017 12:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Rome's Galleria Borghese is launching a three-year partnership with the Italian luxury goods brand Fendi to create an international study centre dedicated to Caravaggio. The museum inside a 17th-century villa is one of 20 leading Italian institutions, including the Gallerie degli Uffizi in Florence and Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, that gained financial independence from central government in 2015, allowing them to cultivate private funders for the first time."
  
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• Pop-Up Replica Of Shakespeare's Rose Theatre To Debut Next Summer

  03-11-2017 12:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A 950-capacity pop-up open-air theatre modelled on Shakespeare's Rose will rise next summer on a scruffy car park in York, to present a three-month season of [four] Shakespeare plays. ... The theatre, which is claimed to be the first of its kind in Europe, will stand in a mock Tudor fairground, with themed food and entertainment including free performances from the back of carts."
  
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• Claude Monet’s Houses of Parliament: a conjuring trick by an outdoorsy radical

  03-11-2017 11:00
  The celebrated impressionist warmed to the unique properties of London’s fog while living there in exile – and used it to spectacular effectMonet pulls off a spectacular conjuring trick in his 19 paintings of London’s Houses of Parliament. It’s as if the bricks and mortar are dissolving into air, or – more specifically – fog. Continue reading...
  
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• United by blood: Afghan artists come together for Iran exhibition

  03-11-2017 06:00
  Tehran show challenges attitudes in country where community is grappling with marginalisation after escaping warElyas Alavi’s performance piece at a Tehran exhibition showcasing contemporary Afghan artists invites participants to give blood. Samples are taken by a professional nurse and splashed on the wall next to each other.The idea came to Alavi’s mind when his sister, one of at least 3 million Afghan refugees living in Iran, was blocked from getting a kidney transplant because sh
  
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• German artist Hito Steyerl tops contemporary art power list

  03-11-2017 01:01
  Film-maker and writer is first female artist named by ArtReview Power 100 as most influential personHito Steyerl, a German artist, writer and theorist known for taking a strong political stand and being unafraid to challenge the power of the art market, has been named the most influential person in contemporary art.Steyerl is the first female artist to top the annual ArtReview Power 100 list, now in its 16th year. Continue reading...
  
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