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• Boston Globe: Berklee School Of Music Tolerated Culture Of Sexual Harassment

  09-11-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A Globe investigation has uncovered a culture of blatant sexual harassment at Berklee with at least three male professors... allowed to quietly leave since 2008, after students reported being assaulted, groped, or pressured into sex with their teachers, according to court documents and interviews with more than a dozen people. Administrators at the renowned music school tolerated lecherous behavior, former Berklee students and employees said, and often silenced the accusers through financial se
  
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• Director Of New York's Armory Show Ousted After Complaints By Eight Women

  09-11-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In interviews, a total of eight who had worked with him at the Armory Show, Artnet and Louise Blouin Media said he made sexually inappropriate comments to them, and an additional 11 people said they had observed or knew about Mr. Genocchio making these comments, often in the workplace."
  
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• Studio Museum in Harlem Names 2018 Artists-in-Residence

  09-11-2017 22:30 via artnews.com
  Allison Janae Hamilton, Tschabalala Self, and Sable Elyse Smith will work out of the museum's 127th Street offices starting in April. Read More
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• Alfredo Volpi at Gladstone Gallery, New York

  09-11-2017 22:16 via artnews.com
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• Alfredo Volpi at Gladstone 64, New York

  09-11-2017 22:16 via artnews.com
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• When Is An Opera Not An Opera (Or - Where Does An Opera Start And A Space Begin?)

  09-11-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The non-opera parts aren’t add-ons; we’re doing an exhibition. For two weeks, we’re occupying this space, and the experience of this project lasts that entire duration. It’s not the sort of thing where you go to see an opera and maybe stroll through a gallery on your way out; we want to make a social gathering place where people come and hang out, and also there’s this opera happening as an extension of that.” Only the performances are ticketed; all the
  
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• Art Historians Say Reproduction Fees Are Killing Art Scholarship

  09-11-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Historians face bills of thousands of pounds to illustrate academic books with little commercial potential, the 28 signatories say. “We urge the UK’s national museums to follow the example of a growing number of international museums and provide open access to images of publicly owned, out-of-copyright paintings, prints and drawings so that they are free for the public to reproduce,” the letter says.
  
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• Watch David Hallberg Teach A Tech Guy To Dance

  09-11-2017 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The ABT star shows a butch, slightly stiff video producer how to do an assured waltz and a gracious stage bow - and even gets him doing a changement. (video with transcript)
  
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• Getty Conservation Institute Receives $5 M. Gift from John and Louise Henry Bryson

  09-11-2017 20:54 via artnews.com
  The institute will name its directorship for the philanthropists. Read More
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• New York graffiti artists triumph over developer who destroyed their work

  09-11-2017 20:30
  Legal victory for 5Pointz, world-famous graffiti haven painted over by building’s owner in 2013, could lead to greater protection for US street artists
  A jury has ruled that a real estate developer broke the law by destroying a swath of graffiti art in New York City, in a verdict that could provide legal protections for street artists across the US.
  The federal jury made its decision after a group of artists sued Jerry Wolkoff, who painted over their work at the 5Pointz building in Queens,
  
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• A Manifesto For The Arts In Difficult Times

  09-11-2017 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rip Rapson, president of the Kresge Foundation: I choose "to view this moment as an inflection point, not a new stasis. It is a call to reassessment … recalibration … recommitment. The nonprofit and philanthropic sectors have spent decades trying to create and assemble the building blocks of opportunity and justice. That architecture is woefully incomplete to be sure. But it is an architecture at once complex, dynamic, and resilient. Our charge is to continue fitting together those
  
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• Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch Join Forces Again to Present ‘Abstract / Not Abstract’ at Moore Building During Art Basel Miami Beach

  09-11-2017 20:03 via artnews.com
  For the third time, the two art world household names will stage an ambitious themed show in Miami. Read More
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• Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch Join Forces Again to Present ‘Abstract / Not Abstract’ at Moore Building During Art Basel Miami Beach

  09-11-2017 20:03 via artnews.com
  For the third time, the two art world household names will stage an ambitious themed show in Miami. Read More
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• Buddhist Thought Is More 'Western' Than You Think

  09-11-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Robert Wright, a scholar of science and religion, argues against the all-too-common belief in the West "that Buddhist ideas defy clear articulation - and that in a sense the point of Buddhist ideas is to defy clear articulation." In fact, he writes, "not only have Buddhist thinkers for millenniums been making very much the kinds of claims that Western philosophers and psychologists make - many of these claims are looking good in light of modern Western thought."
  
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• The Life of the Party: Phillips Collection Exhibition Examines Renoir’s Exhilarating, Festive ‘Luncheon of the Boating Party’

  09-11-2017 19:58 via artnews.com
  Painting the work, the artist the Impressionist revolutionized a genre subject long popular among French artists. Read More
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• VICE PRESIDENT, STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS AND ENGAGEMENT

  09-11-2017 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Interlochen Center for the Arts, one of world’s most prestigious institutions for arts education, public broadcasting, and fine arts presentations, seeks a Vice President to lead its strategic communications and engagement programs.
  VICE PRESIDENT, STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS AND ENGAGEMENT
  Traverse City, MI
  Interlochen Center for the Arts, one of world’s most prestigious institutions for arts education, public broadcasting, and fine arts presentations, seeks a Vice President to lead it
  
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• Hurricane Irma Unburied Some Ancient Artifacts

  09-11-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The items once belonged to the extinct Calusa tribe, which lived on the island between 700 and 1200 AD. Archaeologists have long suspected that the area was rife with historical artifacts, but the excavation of public land is illegal and wouldn’t have been approved by the local government.
  
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• Creative Capital Adds Five Members to Its Board of Directors

  09-11-2017 19:14 via artnews.com
  Jane Brown, Michelle Coffey, Hasan Elahi, Bill Foulkes, and Penny Lane have joined. Read More
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• Television Still Hasn't Stopped Reliving The Night Trump Was Elected

  09-11-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "There seems to have been an immediate need to memorialize it, even as its consequences are still playing out. And these depictions are still rolling in - while South Park and Saturday Night Live were able to recreate the moment almost immediately, shows with longer production timelines are only now getting around to it. But why are we even still interested in reliving the election?" Rachel Withers offers some ideas.
  
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• Wikipedia's Hundreds Of Millions Of Articles Were Written By One Percent Of Its Users

  09-11-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Today, Wikipedia is home to 43 million articles in 285 languages and all of these articles are written and edited by an autonomous group of international volunteers. Although the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation diligently keeps track of how editors and users interact with the site, until recently it was unclear how content production on Wikipedia was distributed among editors. According to the results of a recent study that looked at the 250 million edits made on Wikipedia during its f
  
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• The Business Of Academic Publishing Is A Disaster That Can't Hold Up

  09-11-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "As the dean of libraries at a state school, I contend that the economic model for academic journal publications is broken. As scholars are handicapped by limited access to the corpus of research in their fields, scientific progress is restricted and slows, and society ultimately loses." Patrick Burns of Colorado State University explains how things have gone wrong.
  
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• Pearl Paint The Rise And Fall Of An Iconic Paint Store

  09-11-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Over the decades the business went from a struggling housepaint store to one of the most prominent brands in art supplies, with 24 stores nationwide and James Rosenquist and Red Grooms as regular customers. The Canal Street location was one of the last bastions against the flood tide of IRS investigations, bankruptcy, unsellable inventory and empty shelves. It was also there, in a no-man’s land between SoHo, TriBeCa and Chinatown—and with a steady stream of traffic feeding the Linco
  
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• Frieze New York Tweaks Fair Schedule, Adds Second VIP Preview Day

  09-11-2017 17:21 via artnews.com
  It is the third tweak to the fair's schedule in as many years. Read More
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• A New Virtual-Reality Museum For Dutch Old Masters

  09-11-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The results are startling. You may feel as though you'll bump your head into the paintings, whose surfaces seem palpably close as you lean in to get a closer look - closer than you might in real life. Even the frames are stunningly 3-D."
  
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• The TV Show That Ate Times Square

  09-11-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A brief history of Total Request Live, which saved MTV, midwifed the boom in boy bands, and filled the busiest crossroads in New York with screaming teenage girls.
  
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• Dead Grasshopper Found Embedded In Van Gogh Painting

  09-11-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For over a century, it went unnoticed in the finished work, Olive Trees (1889), now owned by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, but a recent study by the museum's curators, conservators, and outside scientists has revealed its old, brown carcass."
  
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• Taking Ballet Class With Misty Copeland In Harlem

  09-11-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "What started as a technique class - focused on turnout of the legs, placement of the arms, straightness of the back - became a larger kind of learning experience, when Ms. Copeland, 35, was joined for an after-class discussion by a trailblazing African-American dancer of another generation, the 86-year-old Carmen de Lavallade. The two spoke about breaking down barriers for black ballet dancers and honoring those who had done so before them."
  
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• How Much Time Do People Really Spend Looking At The Art In Museums?

  09-11-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Isaac Kaplan looks at the research that's been done on the question over the past 16 years - and finds that the answer has hardly changed over that time span.
  
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• Kevin Spacey Is Being Edited Out Of His Newest Movie

  09-11-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In light of Spacey's ongoing abuse scandal, Sony decided that it couldn't promote Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World - a biopic about the kidnapping of J. Paul Getty III and the refusal of his billionaire grandfather to pay ransom for him - with Spacey in the role of the senior Getty. (Still less could they promote the film for Oscars, and it had been expected to be a contender.) So they're re-shooting all of Spacey's scenes with the actor Scott originally wanted for the role anyway - Chr
  
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• Morning Links: Grasshopper in the van Gogh Edition

  09-11-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Unknown Kurt Weill Song Surfaces In Berlin

  09-11-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The piece, 'Lied vom weissen Käse' ('Song of the White Cheese') - which was written for a Weimar-era musical revue and sung by the actress Lotte Lenya, Weill's wife - was recently found in an archive unrelated to Weill at the Free University of Berlin and is the most significant discovery of the composer’s music since the early 1980s. The song previously existed only in Lenya’s memory and was written off as chimerical." (includes video)
  
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• Smuckers Give $15 Million To Cleveland Orchestra

  09-11-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just a couple weeks after the jam company gave $1.1 million to the Akron (Ohio) Art Museum, the company's executive chairman and his wife have pledged the second largest donation in the Cleveland Orchestra's history. That executive, Richard Smucker, is the new chairman of the ensemble's board of directors.
  
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• A Pharoah's Tomb, Re-Created By A 19th-Century English Architect, Has Been Re-Re-Created In London

  09-11-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The sarcophagus of the pharaoh Seti I, carved from a single vast block of translucent alabaster, cost [Sir John] Soane £2,000 after the British Museum turned it down ... Almost 900 people trooped through his rooms and into the basement renamed 'the Sepulchral Chamber', where the sarcophagus glowed eerily, lit by candles placed inside. [His] museum recently recreated the experiment."
  
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• Prix Goncourt, France's Top Book Prize, Goes To Eric Vuillard's 'L'Ordre Du Jour'

  09-11-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[The book,]a historical work about shady business dealings behind the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938, ... [is] set to be translated in the United States under the title The Order of the Day." The Goncourt's cash prize is a mere €10, but it usually leads to a sharp rise in sales.
  
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• Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrors reignites art's selfie debate

  09-11-2017 14:00
  As the Japanese artist’s instagram-ready works come to Los Angeles, does the city’s obsession with self-image make it the ideal locale or the nadir?The hottest ticket in Los Angeles is the Broad’s Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, a survey of the 88-year-old Japanese artist’s five-decade body of work. The museum sold out all 50,000 tickets in the first hour, and each morning, a queue forms outside for the opportunity to pay $30 for a standby ticket at the door.Related: Self
  
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• Grammy Organization Is Raising Millions For Music Ed In Three Big-City School Systems

  09-11-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Grammy Music Education Coalition has launched a fund-raising initiative aimed at benefiting music programs in the school districts ofPhiladelphia, New York City, and Nashville. ... GMEC hopes to raise $5 million over three years for Philadelphia, with that money going toward both the district as well as programs run by partner education and outreach organizations."
  
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• How Might The Rise Of China Impact Western Values?

  09-11-2017 13:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The rise of China will foster a self-reflection of the Western Enlightenment heritage. Ultimately, it leads to a convergence of civilisations on the basis of cross pollination. Neither the Chinese nor the westerner can cling to their past glories, or stop the course of history. The Chinese have been intensively exposed to western civilisation and adapted to changes since the beginning of the last century. In this sense, they are ahead of the West.”
  
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• Seoul on a roll: art installation takes marble run to the next level

  09-11-2017 11:14
  Loop, built in a gallery on a mountainside in the South Korean capital, uses 400 metres of track and 100,000 marblesThey are one of the oldest symbols of child’s play – found in the ashes of Pompeii, in the tombs of ancient Egypt and in Native American tribes. But while millennial children may have left them to gather dust, a new installation is asking people young and old to reconnect with the simple joy of marbles. In the Gana Art centre gallery on a mountainside in Seoul, South Ko
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.08.17

  09-11-2017 10:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Trusty Rusty: Powell to Retire from Longtime Gig at National Gallery
  It’s entirely in keeping with Rusty Powell‘s self-effacing nature that the National Gallery’s homepage today is all about the art, with no hint of its big news: The museum’s longest-serving director, who assumed that post ... read more
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2017-11-08Camerata Pacifica and Chamber Music in SoCal
  Recently I've enjoyed a performance by the chamber group Came
  
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• Managing Director - Bristol Riverside Theatre

  09-11-2017 01:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bristol Riverside Theatre, Bristol, PA seeks a Managing Director to join the artistic team in leading the theater into its fourth decade. The MD, Artistic Director and Founding Director report to the board of directors and the MD oversees all administrative functions including fundraising, marketing and finance. Keys to success for the new MD will be the ability to be part of a collaborative team, strong fund raising skills, a leader and mentor to staff and a passion to be a leader in the local
  
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• Rotten Tomatoes Data: 2017 Is The Best Year Ever For Superhero Movies

  09-11-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The standard metric at Rotten Tomatoes, of course, is the “Tomatometer” score, the percentage of reviews by critics that are positive. But with its Best Superhero Movies of All Time rankings that the site started earlier this year, Rotten Tomatoes provides weighted scores that adjust for the total number of reviews each film has received.
  
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