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• Time To Seriously Consider Floating Cities

  14-11-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Long the stuff of science fiction, so-called 'seasteading' has in recent years matured from pure fantasy into something approaching reality, and there are now companies, academics, architects and even a government working together on a prototype by 2020."
  
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• Hannah Black at Chisenhale Gallery, London

  14-11-2017 23:12 via artnews.com
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• How Tina Brown Revitalized Legendary Magazines

  14-11-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "At Vanity Fair and then at The New Yorker, she expanded readerships. Her editorial appetites were fierce; she raked in news and new writers and cash. Some people found her style unsettling, and her victories did little to alter that judgment. Brown’s legacy remains controversial not because her success is in question but because, for some, too much was lost in her kind of success."
  
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• Terra Foundation for American Art Gives $100,000 Grant to DePaul University’s Center for Urban Education

  14-11-2017 23:01 via artnews.com
  Grants are also being given to the Rebuild Foundation, the DePaul Art Museum, and Theaster Gates. Read More
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• Why Do We Know So Little About Arts Funding Ecosystems?

  14-11-2017 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Do major capital campaigns have any effect on fundraising for either their peer groups, or the local field as a whole?  Does the existence of an arguably overcrowded field in a particular discipline, affect the fundraising of all the members of that single class?  What are the variables in a local funding ecosystem that play a role in the success or failure of the fundraising efforts of all those in the area, and in particular, the efforts of each?  Do some efforts result in a ca
  
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• Reconsidering Susan Sontag - Separating A Legend From Her Work

  14-11-2017 22:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sontag the personality has grown so large in death that it threatens to eclipse her work: She is remembered as a narcissist, a pugilist, the enemy of Camille Paglia, and a genius.
  
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• A Major Restructuring Of Phoenix's Performing Arts Companies

  14-11-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Arizona Opera this week is unveiling a daring new programming model that puts the company’s focus squarely on modern works. Meanwhile, and not coincidentally, the Herberger Theater Center in Phoenix is announcing that it will welcome three new resident companies for the 2018-19 season, doubling the current number."
  
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• Image of determined 16-year-old migrant wins Taylor Wessing portrait prize

  14-11-2017 21:19
  Spanish journalist César Dezfuli wins £15,000 award for his photograph of teenager rescued from the Mediterranean SeaAn arresting photograph of a solemn 16-year-old migrant from Mali taken after he had been rescued from the Mediterranean Sea has won a major portrait award.The Spanish photojournalist César Dezfuli was named winner of the 2017 Taylor Wessing prize at a ceremony on Tuesday night at London’s National Portrait Gallery, the award’s organisers. Related:
  
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• Berklee College Of Music President Addresses Reports Of Faculty Sexual Misconduct

  14-11-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Berklee College of Music president Roger Brown on Monday told a packed campus-wide forum that the renowned school has terminated 11 faculty members in the past 13 years for sexual misconduct. The admission punctuated an extraordinary day at the music school, with hundreds of students, many holding signs, marching down crowded Boylston Street at lunchtime to a gathering to discuss sexual assault and harassment at Berklee."
  
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• College Adjuncts Are Poor. It's Crippling The System

  14-11-2017 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Academic precarity is the year-to-year or class-to-class, contingent, underpaid and labor-intensive employment status most Ph.D.s now have to navigate while seeking a protected tenure-track position. After, say, eight years of graduate school, this tacks on another two to four to ten years at a $20-$40,000/year salary. We have crossed over into our thirties and forties in sustained poverty, now separated from our graduate communities and parceled into departments and towns in which we have
  
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• Nation Branding: The Art And Business Of Marketing A Country

  14-11-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In the 21st century, nation branding has grown to be busy business, and its practitioners take great pains to emphasise that what they do is different from the more straightforward marketing and advertising work that came before them. ... They regard their line of work as a kind of psychology: counselling for countries, therapy for towns. Look inward, discover yourself, find your place in the world."
  
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• Ballroom Marfa Promotes Laura Copelin to Executive Director

  14-11-2017 19:41 via artnews.com
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• Disney's LA Times Movie Critic Ban Provoked Confrontations Between Journalists And Times Ownership

  14-11-2017 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "During a daily meeting attended by roughly a dozen editors, a staff member proposed publicizing the two-part investigative series that had precipitated the ban. But Lewis D’Vorkin, the recently installed editor in chief of The Times, flatly rejected the idea, according to several employees with knowledge of the discussion. Later, some journalists received messages by email and Slack warning them against retweeting any praise of Times stories."
  
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• Mark Bradford: the artist and ex-hairdresser forcing America to face ugly truths about itself

  14-11-2017 19:22
  He turned the US pavilion at the Venice Biennale into a comment on slavery, Trump and police brutality. The outspoken painter talks about feeding off rejection, muscling into Monet territory – and what he’d like to do to middle-class lawnsMark Bradford created one of the most talked about displays at the Venice Biennale earlier this year. The artist from South Central LA piled up stones and gravel outside the US pavilion, to make it look like Monticello, the plantation in Virginia ow
  
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• Remember 'Second Life'? Hundreds Of Thousands Of People Still Spend Hours Living Second Lives On It

  14-11-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Leslie Jamison: "In the years since [the user-generated virtual world's] peak in the mid 2000s, Second Life has become something more like a magnet for mockery. When I told friends that I was working on a story about it, their faces almost always followed the same trajectory of reactions: a blank expression, a brief flash of recognition, and then a mildly bemused look. Is that still around?" Yet in these crazy days, writes Leslie Jamison, who talks to the platform's creator and some still-devote
  
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• Hollywood Has Avoided Filming In Greece. Greece Wants To Change That

  14-11-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Visiting the biggest film studios outside Hollywood in Chicago last month, the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, said the money had been set aside to provide 25% in cash rebates for expenditure by foreign producers in Greece. With the largest unemployment rate in Europe, officials now see the ever-expanding entertainment sector as a valuable source of jobs. Under the weight of its economic crisis, the country has suffered an unprecedented brain drain of its brightest and best.
  
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• The Inside Story Of The Three Billboards In 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'

  14-11-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "If the signage in a movie has top billing over Frances McDormand ... you can bet a whole lot of thought went into its conception and execution. ... And everything about the [eponymous signboards] - from the design and classic construction, to the custom structures that display them - is authentic. For the complete billboard blow-by-blow, we spoke with Three Billboards' production designer Inbal Weinberg, the brains behind Mildred's advertising war."
  
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• The Best Exercise To Stave Off Decline? Study Says Dance

  14-11-2017 17:31 via artsjournal.com
  
  A new study, published in the open-access journal <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00305/full">Frontiers in Human Neuroscience</a>, shows that older people who routinely do physical exercise can reverse the signs of aging in the brain, and dancing as a form of exercise is the most effective.
  
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• Olga Viso to Step Down as Executive Director of Walker Art Center

  14-11-2017 17:31 via artnews.com
  She has held the position at the Minneapolis museum for the past ten years. Read More
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• The woman who kept Hitler and Churchill in stitches: Hannah Ryggen Woven Histories review

  14-11-2017 17:22
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  From fascists to freedom fighters to farmyard animals, this staggeringly committed artist made spellbinding tapestries that have lost none of their power or humourOn a wind-blown farm on a remote Norwegian shore, with no running water or electricity, Hannah Ryggen worked utterly from scratch on her anti-fascist tapestries. Spinning wool from her sheep, she dyed it with things she’d found by foraging: birch leaves, bark moss and bog rosemary. Urine, too, was an essential p
  
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• France Struggles With How To Make Its Very Gendered Language Gender-Neutral

  14-11-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As anyone who's studied French knows, there's no neuter: every noun and adjective is either masculine or feminine, most words for occupations have different forms for men and women, and if there are both, "the masculine prevails over the feminine" (as the rule has it). Now a group of teachers and a publishing house grammar guide are arguing for an end to this rule and its corollaries. Naturally, the Académie Française is not having it.
  
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• 'Curatorial Activism': A Manifesto

  14-11-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Maura Reilly: "[It] is a term I use to designate the practice of organizing art exhibitions with the principle aim of ensuring that certain constituencies of artists are no longer ghettoized or excluded from the master narratives of art. It is a practice that commits itself to counter-hegemonic initiatives that give voice to those who have been historically silenced or omitted altogether."
  
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• Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces 2017 Painters & Sculptors Grant Recipients

  14-11-2017 16:14 via artnews.com
  Each individual will receive $25,000. Read More
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• Rolling Stone Was Inspired By A Leftist Catholic Journal

  14-11-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Ramparts was by no means a hippie magazine, but its rebellious spirit, flair for publicity and professional design would all leave their mark on Wenner and Gleason's fledgling magazine."
  
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• Again, Why Is There So Much Rape And Violence Against Women In Ballet Lately?

  14-11-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Six months ago, critic Siobhan Burke raised the issue in The New York Times. Now, in Britain's The Observer, Luke Jennings writes, "In the last few seasons the Royal Ballet stage has seen record numbers of female characters brutalised and killed. ... Consider this body-count alongside the number of recent abstract works in which women are split, splayed and otherwise manhandled, and certain embedded attitudes reveal themselves. None of these works, in which female characters are defined by their
  
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• Fake news: Queen Victoria's Cranach turns out to be the real thing

  14-11-2017 15:29
  Painting monarch bought for Prince Albert, which experts thought was an imitation, goes on display at Windsor CastleFor more than a century art historical experts have labelled a painting Queen Victoria bought as a Christmas present for Prince Albert a 19th-century fake.But a new generation of art historians has discovered they were wrong. Victoria and her advisers were correct when they bought the painting in 1840. It is a genuine work by the German master Lucas Cranach the Elder and his worksh
  
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• Ford Foundation President Darren Walker On The Power Of Art, Inequality, And Detroit

  14-11-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hrag Vartanian: "Our conversation took place soon after the organization announced plans to open an office in Detroit, a city it had left in 1953. We spoke about the public's interest in scrutinizing institutional authority, Walker's own love of art, and the renovations at the Foundation's building, and also discussed Agnes Gund's new Art for Justice fund, the role of the arts for marginalized communities, and the importance of public education." (podcast)
  
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• Stage Director Frank Corsaro, 92

  14-11-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Though he came out of the theater - he attended Yale Drama and the Actors Studio and directed on Broadway - his greatest impact was in opera: he was renowned (and occasionally infamous) for his daring interpretations and the high level of acting he drew from singers, especially at New York City Opera during its glory years.
  
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• Morning Links: Throwing Shade at Leonardo Edition

  14-11-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• ''Marnie' Screams For Operatic Treatment,' Writes Nico Muhly, Who Explains How He Gave It One

  14-11-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In this essay the composer talks about why he and librettist Nicholas Wright worked from Winston Graham's novel rather than the Hitchcock film, how he set a psychiatrist's session and a fox hunt for the stage, and how to deploy English National Opera's chorus. (Favorite line, about "the Marnettes": "The effect should be as if her inner monologue is actually a warped recording of the Tallis Scholars singing a single chord from an obscure Tudor motet.")
  
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• BBC Viewers Upset By Sound Levels For New 'Howard's End' Background Music

  14-11-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The four-episode adaptation by Kenneth Lonergan of E.M. Forster's novel has drawn plaudits from critics and high viewership, but many viewers have complained that the "most intrusive and dominating" music (as one irate Twitterer put it) frequently drowns out the dialogue. This seems to be a sound mixing problem rather than a musical one, and it evidently is not a new one for the network.
  
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• Two Journalists Covering Louvre Abu Dhabi Arrested And Held For Two Days Over Their Coverage

  14-11-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A reporter and cameraman for the Swiss public broadcaster RTS say they were arrested while taking images at an open-air market of migrant workers like those who built the museum. The pair were separated, blindfolded, and interrogated for up to ten hours at a time about the nature of their reporting on the migrants; their equipment was confiscated and has still not been returned.
  
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• Author Faces Criminal Charges For Exposé Of South Africa's President

  14-11-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jacques Pauw's The President's Keepers, an account of corruption, coercion and violence at the heart of Jacob Zuma's administration, has become the fastest-selling book in South Africa since Nielsen began tracking sales there - thanks in no small part to the government's Streisand-Effect attempts to suppress the book. Now the country's State Security Agency has reportedly filed criminal complaints against Pauw for "unlawful publication of classified information."
  
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• Old Vic CEO Says She Knew Nothing About Kevin Spacey Allegations

  14-11-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sally Greene, who hired Spacey as the theatre's artistic director, "said it made her 'sick to the stomach' to think people may have suffered harassment or abuse [there]. The theatre is facing questions about how much was known among management and trustees about Spacey's alleged behaviour during his 11 years in charge. Former employees have described it as an open secret.
  
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• Adam Driver's Arts In The Armed Forces Nonprofit Launches Award For Military Playwright

  14-11-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The organization announced the inaugural Bridge Award on Monday, granting $10,000 to a playwright who has served in the military for the production of a new play." This year's judge: Suzan-Lori Parks.
  
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• Shepard Fairey: 'I’m not going to be intimidated by identity politics'

  14-11-2017 12:00
  Is the world famous street artist guilty of cultural insensitivity? As his new exhibition opens in Los Angeles he doesn’t think he’s got a case to answerThere are inherent contradictions to being a commercially successful street artist, and Shepard Fairey will be the first to tell you. “I critique capitalism, yet there are works in here for sale,” he says at the opening of Damaged, a 200-piece exhibition in downtown Los Angeles featuring work that can cost up to $100,000.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.13.17

  14-11-2017 10:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Long Overdue: Women Artists In 19th Century Paris
  The exhibition entitled Her Paris: Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism, which debuted recently at the Denver Art Museum, is long overdue. It has been ten years in the making, the brainchild of independent ... read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-11-12Cool Heat
  Garth Fagan Dance comes from Rochester to the Joyce Theater, November 7 through 12. ... read more
  AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2017-11-12
  
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• Pantone project: a photographer's quest to capture colour

  14-11-2017 06:08
  Melbourne-based photographer Matthew Henry is methodically working his way through the Pantone swatch book, creating striking photographs that match the full spectrum of 1,114 colours. His work has been popular on Instagram where he used the social media format to display his series in chequerboard effect Continue reading...
  
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• Christie’s Strong Imp-Mod Sale Beats High Estimate with $479.3 M. Haul, Led by $81.3 M. van Gogh

  14-11-2017 05:23 via artnews.com
  Records were set for Fernand Léger, René Magritte, Edouard Vuillard, and others during the second highest-grossing Imp-Mod sale in Christie's history.Read More
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