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• Here’s the Exhibitor List for the 2018 Armory Show

  06-11-2017 23:33 via artnews.com
  Some 186 galleries are set to participate. Read More
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• Blockbusted: Is Directing A Marvel Superhero Movie Good For Your Career?

  06-11-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It’s actually hard to detect much of a career bump for filmmakers who have enjoyed success with the studio in the past—which is puzzling, considering the sheer volume of popular and profitable films Marvel has made. Nine years after the studio launched its “cinematic universe,” directing a Marvel movie still mostly seems to set you up to make more Marvel movies, or other franchise entries like them. It’s a far cry from the older blockbuster model."
  
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• P.P.O.W. Now Represents Ramiro Gomez

  06-11-2017 23:27 via artnews.com
  The artist's work is currently on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Read More
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• Rodrigo Hernández at ChertLüdde, Berlin

  06-11-2017 23:16 via artnews.com
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• Cultural Appropriation Versus Censorship

  06-11-2017 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The accusation that 'society tends to favor privileged voices' is, according to some, not only a political analysis but an economic one. “The fear,” one literary agent told me, “is that if a publisher takes on a book written by a successful white male writer about a disabled Native American lesbian, a real disabled Native American lesbian might have trouble placing a book about the same subject at the same house; the publisher already has one.” What this sugges
  
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• Diversity On The Theatre Spectrum

  06-11-2017 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To anyone who ever had any concerns or doubts or wondered, ‘Could an actor with autism play this role? Would an actor who falls on the spectrum be overwhelmed by this production?’ the answer is definitively no. Not if you’re Mickey Rowe.”
  
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• Report: UK Arts Sector Growing Five Times As Fast As Rest Of The Economy

  06-11-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Based on new figures from the Centre for Economic and Business Research, the GDP of the arts and culture industry in the UK grew by 10.4% to £11.8 billion, in 2015, compared with the 2.2% recorded by the entire UK economy over the same period.
  
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• Why Can't The Arts World Afford Its Own Think Tanks?

  06-11-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "As a sector, we regularly raise hundreds of millions of dollars to enable a single arts institution to build a single fancy building. But it’s basically impossible to scrape together even 1% of that total to study whether building fancy buildings is among the best uses of philanthropic dollars. It’s a real problem, and one that makes me concerned for the sector. And unfortunately, I don’t think it’s going to get solved until we make some changes to how and what rese
  
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• Is Bad Audience Behavior Killing Broadway?

  06-11-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The most notorious instance of bad behavior took place at “Hand to God” in 2015. Before the show started at the Booth Theatre, a young man climbed on the stage and plugged his phone into an outlet on the set. Several minutes later, as the houselights went down and the cast was waiting in the wings, he jumped back on stage to retrieve the phone.
  
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• Living With Gods review – 40,000 years of religious art, and this is it?

  06-11-2017 20:41
  British Museum, London
  Heavenly objects in a sterile limbo: the British Museum’s collection of faith-based artworks fails to convince – perhaps it works better on Radio 4After a few minutes in the exhibition that accompanies Neil MacGregor’s new BBC Radio 4 series on the power of religion, my skin started to sizzle and my blood to boil. I truly felt branded inside, marked out as a reprobate, for the premise of the show is that belief in God(s) is such a universal human trait th
  
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• Has Book Reviewing Degenerated Into A Kind Of Thought Police?

  06-11-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The ‘own voices’ policy conveys to reviewers that their primary job is not to assess a book’s storytelling, but to rate its adherence to a left-wing catechism (the fairness of whose tenets is presumably self-evident), to identify authorial heretics, and to stick the apostates’ heads on spikes along the digital public highway. Reviewing for Kirkus is now a cross between penning literary criticism and joining a shooting party, a sufficiently athletic undertaking t
  
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• Is This Planned $500 Billion City The Future of Cities?

  06-11-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Prince Mohammed envisions Neom as a hub for manufacturing, renewable energy, biotechnology, media, and entertainment, filled with skyscrapers, five-star hotels, and robots to free humans from repetitive labor. The website dedicated to the city proclaims that it will offer “an idyllic lifestyle…founded on modern architecture, lush green spaces, quality of life, safety, and quality in service of humanity paired with excellent economic opportunities.”
  
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• Why We Can Talk About Books We've Never Read

  06-11-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Good libraries hold several millions of books: even if we read a book a day, we would read only 365 a year, around 3,600 in ten years, and between the ages of ten and eighty we’ll have read only 25,200. A trifle. On the other hand, any Italian who’s had a good secondary education knows perfectly well that they can participate in a discussion, let’s say, on Matteo Bandello, Francesco Guicciardini, Matteo Boiardo, on the tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri, or on Ippolito Nievo&r
  
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• Sotheby's Posts Better Than Expected 3rd Q Financial Results (Though Still A Loss)

  06-11-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Analyst David Schick of Consumer Edge Research, who tracks Sotheby’s stock, wrote in a pre-call note that “we continue to see evidence of better deal-making” at Sotheby’s—presumably a reference to more restraint with guarantees, which can prove a black eye for a company’s bottom line if unsuccessful.
  
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• The New Generation Of Women Conductors to Watch

  06-11-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Marin Alsop, JoAnn Faletta, Simone Young and others have broken many barriers in the orchestra world. Anne Midgette looks at the generation of women behind them ready to take the podiums.
  
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• Portland's Reed College Is One Of The Most Liberal In The Country. And It's In Turmoil

  06-11-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Hum protest is visually striking: Up to several dozen RAR supporters position themselves alongside the professor and quietly hold signs reading “We demand space for students of color,” “We cannot be erased,” “Fuck Hum 110,” “Stop silencing black and brown voices; the rest of society is already standing on their necks,” and so on. The signs are often accompanied by photos of black Americans killed by police.
  
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• Sharjah Biennial to Be Curated by Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif, and Claire Tancons

  06-11-2017 17:56 via artnews.com
  Each curator will organize a separate exhibition as part of the biennial. Read More
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• Countdown: Is Our Ability To Think In Numbers Biological Or Cultural?

  06-11-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Scientists have long claimed that our ability with numbers is indeed biologically evolved – that we can count because counting was a useful thing for our brains to be able to do. The hunter-gatherer who could tell which herd or flock of prey was the biggest, or which tree held the most fruit, had a survival advantage over the one who couldn’t. What’s more, other animals show a rudimentary capacity to distinguish differing small quantities of things: two bananas from three, say
  
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• Consumer Reports: Chrissie Iles

  06-11-2017 17:30 via artnews.com
  The Whitney curator shares a week in her life. Read More
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• What Does It Mean To Be A Mid-Career Composer?

  06-11-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Also, can there be such a thing during a time of tenuous and not at all secure employment, if employment there is at all? "Mid-career generally seems to refer to someone who has spent a good number of years pursuing their vocation following their formal studies, but is not yet approaching old age and retirement. This can be a somewhat confusing designation for many of us."
  
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• Greta Gerwig, Like George Clooney, Has Made The Move From Actor To Director

  06-11-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's maddening at this particular moment to read the ways various media men have written about Gerwig as an actor. "Lady Bird, a remarkably self-assured debut, feels like a rebuke. Or at least an assertion of artistic intent. At 34, and moving, finally, behind the camera, Gerwig is exiting the phase of her life where she’ll be asked to represent a mysterious, fascinating rising generation."
  
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• ADAA Names Maureen Bray Executive Director

  06-11-2017 16:02 via artnews.com
  She takes the place of Linda Blumberg. Read More
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• We Have A Problem: The Internet Economy Is Too Huge To Handle

  06-11-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How do you regulate algorithms? "Digital capitalism badly needs new rules - because the old laws are no longer effective. They were made for an economy that traded in real goods and for which price was an important factor. That could all be taxed, controlled and, if need be, adjusted."
  
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• When Should Movie Theatres Raise The Lights?

  06-11-2017 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As the movie Call Me By Your Name gets rapturous reviews, two London theatre chains are in hot water for raising the lights during the credits - which actually scroll over the final scene in the movie. That could be because of automation or health and safety laws, but how can it be fixed?
  
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• Sex Workers Star In The Tour Of 'The Sex Worker's Opera'

  06-11-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One of them says, "Being a sex worker can be quite isolating. We don't have our own social club that we can go down to once a month and meet people."
  
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• The Food Writer Who Lost Her Sense Of Smell

  06-11-2017 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A bike tangles with a pedestrian - and the pedestrian, the food writer, gets a concussion. "Given that I’d never lost consciousness or suffered any memory impairment, I had unilaterally decided that the injury would be nothing more than a story with which to regale friends and acquaintances at future cocktail parties. Apparently, this memo never made it to certain parts of my cranium."
  
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• Morning Links: Wilbur Ross’s Offshore Ties Edition

  06-11-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  The Paradise PapersWilbur Ross, the United States commerce secretary and a major art collector who has a fondness for buying the work of René Magritte, has secretly kept an investment in the shipping company Navigator Holdings, which has significant business … Read More
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• How To Attribute Drawings, Or This Drawing Specifically, To Michelangelo

  06-11-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Style, handwriting, and documentary evidence all played a part. Details help: "The gnarled torso, the lightly sketched peripheral elements and the corrections made with parallel hatching are all hallmarks of Michelangelo."
  
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• Michelle Pfeiffer Isn't Shy About Saying That Sexual Harassment Is 'Pandemic' In Her Industry

  06-11-2017 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Pfeiffer told the BBC, "I know I’m having conversations with women I’ve known my whole life and we have never discussed this and it is coming out."
  
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• Artists And Their Tools

  06-11-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tracey Emin, who uses a yellow-and=black striped pencil: "There is something about the act of drawing that bypasses mundane consciousness and reaches straight to the brain."
  
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• Are You A Romance Audiobook Listener Who Just Wants To 'Skip To The Good Stuff'?

  06-11-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Well, audiobook technology now has you covered. Audible now offers binge-romance listeners "the option to jump to certain places in select audiobooks based on 10 categories." Ahem.
  
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• A 'Bionic Ballerina' Trying To Change The Discussion Around Dance And Disability

  06-11-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This dancer "formed the Fredericksburg dance group Company 360 eight months ago between operations, lung infections and doctor visits. ... Dance takes her to another place, beyond the aches and pains and away from a body that causes so much grief."
  
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• Hollywood Wonders Who's Next

  06-11-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Though let's be honest here, Hollywood probably knows who SHOULD be next. "This is, after all, Hollywood in the age of President Trump, a reality show host who crystallized the marriage of celebrity and politics, and a candidate who admitted to groping women only to land in the White House. The entertainment industry railed at Trump but the allegations against Weinstein, Ratner and others suggest a long pattern of abuse perpetrated by men who considered themselves artists and liberals."
  
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• 10 of the best contemporary art spaces in south-east Asia

  06-11-2017 07:00
  Artists in Myanmar, Cambodia and across south-east Asia produce work in a climate of authoritarianism – and often in open defiance of it. Here are 10 spaces that promote their artistic freedom and independenceIn the face of headlines about racial and religious tensions and complex political situations, a traveller today has to wonder: is it better to boycott or to engage, to ignore or to exchange?To varying degrees, issues of democracy, human rights and freedom of expression have been rais
  
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