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• Modern Languages Association: Full-Time Jobs Teaching English In Universities Declines To New Low

  21-11-2017 23:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The association’s Job Information List -- a proxy for the tenure-track (or otherwise full-time) job market in English and foreign languages -- included 851 jobs last year in English, 11 percent (102 jobs) fewer than the year before. The foreign language edition list included 808 jobs, or 12 percent (110 jobs) fewer than the year before.
  
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• Shannon Michael Cane, 43: He Transformed The World Of Art Book Fairs

  21-11-2017 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One force behind the rise of these fairs was Shannon Michael Cane, an exuberant, heavily tattooed Australian expatriate and autodidact book aficionado who in 2013 took over the Printed Matter book fair in New York, the granddaddy of such gatherings. He proceeded to transform it into a radically inclusive affair, attended by venerable rare-book dealers alongside obscure zine makers so scrappy that they could barely afford the plane fare to participate.
  
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• Study: Why So Much Sexual Harassment? It's All About The Power (Or Lack Thereof)

  21-11-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  "People who see themselves as chronically denied power appear to have a stronger desire to feel powerful, and are more likely to use sexual aggression toward that end," writes a research team led by psychologist Melissa Williams of Emory University. "Power can indeed create opportunities for sexual aggression, but it is those who chronically experience low power who will choose to exploit such opportunities."
  
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• Dallas Symphony Names Its First Woman President

  21-11-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kim Noltemy joins a small but growing group of female symphony CEOs, including the ones who run the orchestras in Chicago, Pittsburgh and Detroit. But she also brings another possibly major change to the symphony. In her 21-year career with the BSO, Noltemy comes out of marketing and digital marketing in particular
  
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• MoMA and Neue Galerie Jointly Acquire Self-Portrait by Paula Modersohn-Becker

  21-11-2017 21:30 via artnews.com
  The work will go on view tomorrow in MoMA's permanent-collection galleries. Read More
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• Chinese Movie Box Office Tops $7.5 Billion, Up 15 Percent Over Last Year

  21-11-2017 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Local reports say that as of 6:57PM on Monday night local time, a total of 1.45B moviegoers had attended cinemas in 2017 so far, a 15% increase on 2016. Last year’s box office saw a severe deceleration in growth, to just 3.7% (RMB 45.7B/$6.58B) after a record 2015 had surged 48.7%.
  
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• Dealer Mary Boone Settles Art Dispute With Alec Baldwin

  21-11-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The actor received a seven-figure settlement from Boone over a $190,000 Ross Bleckner painting he bought in 2010 that turned out to be a different painting than the one she promised to deliver. The agreement, reached last month and finalized on Friday, concludes a civil fraud case that was scheduled to head to trial next year.
  
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• Alina Szapocznikow at Hepworth Wakefield, England

  21-11-2017 20:15 via artnews.com
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• Instagram Nation? True We're Obsessed With Images, But We Always Have Been

  21-11-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It is tempting to believe that we live in a time uniquely saturated with images. And indeed, the numbers are staggering: Instagrammers upload about 95 million photos and videos every day. A quarter of Americans use the app, and the vast majority of them are under 40. Because Instagram skews so much younger than Facebook or Twitter, it is where “tastemakers” and “influencers” now live online, and where their audiences spend hours each day making and absorbing visual c
  
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• Scientists Are Wrong. A Lot...

  21-11-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Most reasonable people will begrudgingly accept that any given scientific finding has a small chance of being false. It’s like finding out that the FDA allows 1mg of mouse feces in a pound of black pepper; mouse poop is unsavory, but at least it only makes up 1 part in 450,000. However, there has been a growing concern for a bit over a decade that the state of science is far worse than this.
  
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• Karma International Relocates Gallery in Zurich, Will Open with Meret Oppenheim Show

  21-11-2017 19:27 via artnews.com
  The inaugural show will open December 13.Read More
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• Drag acts and drunken sailors – Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: We Are Ghosts review

  21-11-2017 19:25
  Tate LiverpoolIn their bizarre black-and-white films, the Americans confront war and death – with a boisterous, cartoonish take on Das BootThe films of American artists Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley are, to use a technical term, bonkers. Actors and sets are rendered as though they inhabit a slapdash monochrome painting, rejigged as a silent-era black-and-white movie. The actors wear cartoonish theatrical makeup, which extends to cover their clothes and all the objects and furnishings
  
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• Founder Of AXIS Dance Company Talks About The History Of Dancing While Disabled In America

  21-11-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Judith Smith: "[Thirty years ago,] there were people doing contact improvisation and including dancers with disabilities in that. But we didn't know any other companies that were actually setting choreography. The first 10 years were really trying to convince the dance world that we were doing dance, and not dance therapy. "
  
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• Superhero Conspiracy Theories: Rotten Tomatoes And The Justice League

  21-11-2017 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Was Rotten Tomatoes, which is owned in part by Warner Bros., actually trying to shield the studio from an inevitably bad grade that could help kill its opening weekend?
  
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• Director of Development & Institutional Advancement – Brooklyn Youth Chorus

  21-11-2017 17:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Brooklyn Youth Chorus seeks a full-time Director of Development & Institutional Advancement to lead its growing development team during a time of significant growth and excitement in the organization’s 25-year history. This individual will play a critical role in building the Chorus’s contributed income for long-term financial sustainability. The ideal candidate will be a strategic, creative, and innovative fundraiser who will drive a comprehensive development strategy for Brookl
  
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• Gotta Dance: Woman Ejected From Stevie Nicks Concert For Dancing

  21-11-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I've paid for a ticket I want to dance. I'm only 5'5, it's not like I'm 6'7or anything," she said. "All I wanted to do was dance."
  
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• Exhibition on Screen: David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts review – a master in sharp focus

  21-11-2017 17:29
  This illuminating documentary portrait details the undimmed curiosity and enthusiasm of the grand old man of British paintingIn recent years, David Hockney has become the grand old man of British painting, with a giant touring exhibition, A Bigger Picture, in 2012 and a high profile 2014 documentary called, yes, Hockney. With these in mind, this latest offering from the Exhibition on Screen series is a little more modest, taking its cues from the Bigger Picture show with its revelatory multifram
  
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• Largest collection of Modigliani nudes ever seen in UK go on show

  21-11-2017 17:07
  Tate Modern exhibition opens 100 years after police shut Paris show because painting showed woman’s pubic hairA hundred years ago police in Paris closed down a show by Modigliani because of his scandalous and indecent painting of a female nude which included, horror of horrors, pubic hair.On Thursday, Tate Modern will exhibit 12 nudes by the artist and do not expect an eyelid to be batted. “It is really fantastic. We are so excited,” said Nancy Ireson, the gallery’s curat
  
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• Metro Pictures Now Represents Judith Hopf

  21-11-2017 17:05 via artnews.com
  Her work will be the subject of a KW Institute for Contemporary Art show in February. Read More
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• Scents Memory: How Actors Use Perfumes To Get Into Character

  21-11-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Ball uses bay rum for Sweeney Todd and a cheap old perfume of his mother's for Edna Turnblad (Hairspray). Fenella Woolgar deployed Chanel No. 5 (with an extra spritz) for a 1950s snob. David Greig sniffed canned mackereal to put him in mind of the chilly mountains of Scotland. Before playing a homeless man, Arthur McBain sniffed a paper coffee cup after the coffee was finished. David Jays explores the use of aromas, and the emotions they trigger, with these and other actors as well as a
  
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• Getty Foundation Reveals Line-Up for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA Performance Art Festival

  21-11-2017 16:44 via artnews.com
  The festival will run from January 11 to 21. Read More
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• Why 30 Seconds Just Isn't Long Enough To See A Kusama Infinity Room

  21-11-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jori Finkel: "It turns out that half a minute is not enough time to experience the most powerful dynamic of these rooms: our shifting perceptions of what is far versus near, or personal versus universal, as one collapses into the other through the unending regression of mirrored images. ...The Hirshhorn, The Broad and other venues have essentially decided to give twice as many people half as much art, with what you might call infinitely diminished returns."
  
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• 'Inside Pussy Riot' - Russia's Punk Priestesses Do Immersive Theatre

  21-11-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The piece particularly draws on the experience of Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova, who served 16 months of a two-year sentence for hooliganism ... Recreating the humiliation, intimidation and forced labour of a Russian gulag might seem like the ultimate in misery porn - especially when it's taking place in the Saatchi Gallery, just a stone’s throw from Sloane Square."
  
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• Why 'Actress' Is A Gendered Term To Use Proudly, Says Denise Gough

  21-11-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "We fought to be on the stage. We should reclaim that word: I don't know where it came from, this fucking notion that putting 'ess' on the end makes us weak. I would be no less afraid of a lioness than a lion."
  
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• Recreating Marcel Duchamp's Intricate Final Work, Using Only The Instruction Manual

  21-11-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For years, artist Serkan Özkaya has been fascinated by Duchamp's Etant données, the darkened room you view through peepholes in the closed door. He wanted to know exactly how it works, but the curators at the its home, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, aren't allowed to go in and inspect its mechanisms themselves, let alone allowing a stranger access. So Özkaya did it Ikea-style.
  
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• Newly-Discovered Raymond Chandler Story Attacks US Health Care

  21-11-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Found in Chandler's archives at the Bodleian Library in Oxford ..., the story, "It's All Right - He Only Died," opens as a 'filthy figure on a stretcher' arrives at a hospital."
  
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• Morning Links: Bragging Rights Edition

  21-11-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Hiking With John Adams In The Mountains Where His New Opera Is Set

  21-11-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "From time to time when driving in the High Sierra I'll see amateur gold miners, panning in a river that 150 years ago gave up the best of its treasure to the first prospectors," says the composer, "and I'll be tempted to wonder if the image of these latter-day panners, hoping only for a tiny nugget, isn't an illustration of my own predicament as a composer."
  
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• Della Reese, R&B Singer And Actress, Dead At 86

  21-11-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Reared in gospel, Reese became a seductive, big-voiced secular music star with her No. 1 R&B and No. 2 pop hit 'Don't You Know' in 1959. ... She ranged through a series of releases that showed off her mastery of standards, jazz and contemporary pop through the early '70s, and over the course of her career she received four Grammy Award nominations." She went on to become an even bigger star on television, where she was the first black woman to host her own variety show and played major role
  
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• Bramwell Tovey Named Chief Conductor Of One Of BBC's Orchestras

  21-11-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The music director of the Vancouver Symphony (from which he departs next year) and popular guest conductor will succeed Keith Lockhart at the podium of the BBC Concert Orchestra this coming January. "Tovey's new role will see him work with the orchestra for five years, including a Radio 3 concert at Watford Colosseum in February 2018, before leading performances in the BBC orchestra's 2018-19 season at Southbank Centre."
  
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• Thief Carries Botero Sculpture Right Out Of Paris Gallery

  21-11-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Colombian artist's 57cm-high sculpture, Maternity (2003), of a mother sitting on a plinth and cradling her baby, ... was stolen from Galerie Bartoux in an upmarket district of Paris earlier this month in broad daylight. Gallery staff became aware of the theft only when they prepared to close the gallery."
  
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• $1.5 Million Bounties For Beheading Bollywood Star And Director Offered By Indian Politician

  21-11-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A state-level boss of India's ruling party, the Hindu nationalist BJP, is offering 10 million rupees each for the heads of the lead actress and director of Padmavati, a new movie about a legendary 14th-century Rajput queen. A leader of the present-day Rajput clans has threatened to cut off the star's nose, and violent demonstrations have led to the delay of the film's release. All this over rumors of a scene the director says isn't even in the movie.
  
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• Pakistan Bans Film About Rape Victim's Revenge, Then Reverses Itself After #MeToo-Style Campaign

  21-11-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Verna, which stars popular actor Mahira Khan, was originally denied a certificate by the Central Board of Film Censors (CBFC) because of its 'mature themes' and 'edgy content'. This caused an outcry among women's rights campaigners, who accused board members of censoring women's voices and putting their heads in the sand at a time when ... 'rape is a rampant issue in Pakistan' ... Soon the ban had inspired a Twitter campaign under the hashtag #UnbanVerna, which emerged as Pakistan's own #MeToo
  
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• Modigliani review – 'a gorgeous show about a slightly silly artist'

  21-11-2017 10:00
  Tate Modern, London
  He took the drugs and had the sex. But Modigliani was no barrier-breaking subversive when it came to painting, despite what this exhibition claims. Was there anyone he wouldn’t steal from?She looks at me through leaf-shaped eyes with huge black pupils fringed by spiky lashes. Just these eyes alone say sex, without having to even look at the opulently rounded breasts, narrow waist and curvaceous hips of Amedeo Modigliani’s Reclining Nude on a White Cushion.This is
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.20.17

  21-11-2017 09:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Forgetting Hitchcock
  Unlike most of my colleagues, I liked, and was even a little moved by the world première of Nico Muhly’s Marnie by the English National Opera (it goes to the NY Metropolitan next year). ... read more
  AJBlog: Plain English Published 2017-11-20All there is
  I’ve worked on enough shows by now to be familiar with the all-consuming experience of rehearsing, yet its disorienting nature still comes as a surprise each time it happens. ...&n
  
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• Christie’s to Sell David Rockefeller’s $70 M. Picasso—and Potential Record-Breaking $50 M. Matisse—During Standalone Spring 2018 Sale

  21-11-2017 07:00 via artnews.com
  The works are part of an estate that could bring in a record-breaking $700 million for the house.Read More
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