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• How Our Attempts At Crowdfunding Failed Big Time (And Taught Us How To Think Better)

  22-11-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Well, it was hard – possibly worse than anyone had advised.
  
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• A Brief History Of The Fabergé Egg

  22-11-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It's really unusual to have a piece of decorative art (not a painting) that has as much cultural resonance as a Fabergé egg," says curator Jo Briggs. "It's almost the Mona Lisa of the decorative art world."
  
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• Former Met Museum Director Ignites Leonardo Controversy With Instagram Post

  22-11-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Below the image of the Leonardo da Vinci, Campbell, who left the Met at the end of June, wrote the caption “450 million dollars?! Hope the buyer understands conservation issues…” followed by “#readthesmallprint”.
  
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• Is It True That Barbara Hannigan Won't Sing The Queen Of The Night Because It's Too Easy?

  22-11-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nope. She won't sing the role because she doesn't want to get typecast in it - "It would drive me nuts." But it is true, as she tells David Patrick Stearns, that she hums Pierre Boulez to herself.
  
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• Spike Lee Talks About Turning 'She's Gotta Have It' Into A TV Series - And Hiring Women Scriptwriters

  22-11-2017 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "This was a story that didn't need to be told entirely through a male gaze. I've been accused of telling things through a male gaze, and I didn't want to give people any more ammunition. Plus, why wouldn't I want Lynn Nottage to write scripts? She's won two Pulitzer Prizes, for Ruined and Sweat. Why wouldn't I want Eisa Davis, Radha Blank, even my sister Joie wrote a script?"
  
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• The 'Psychedelic Dream Homes' Of El Alto, Bolivia

  22-11-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Times 360 video tour of the exuberant architecture of Freddy Mamani Silvestre, a Bolivian architect whose house designs for the world's highest city (El Alto, at 14,000 feet, sits on a plateau above La Paz) incorporate visual motifs and colors from the indigenous Aymara culture.
  
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• English And The Imprecision Of Languages

  22-11-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "English and German have common origins, Anglo-Saxon, or Old English. There’s a lot of overlap, but there are also some crucial differences. English is a left-leaning language, meaning that relevant information tends to be clustered on the left side of a sentence. German, on the other hand, is a right-leaning language. (We are a generally a right-leaning people.) As a result, German sentences can surprise you with an unexpected verb or participle at the end of a sentence."
  
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• 'Singin' In The Rain' On Stage, Looking Like An Old Black-And-White Movie Musical

  22-11-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Robert Carsen's production of the old Gene Kelly classic for Paris's Théâtre du Châtelet (and which he hopes to bring to Broadway) isn't entirely in black-and-white: "We use sepia toning sometimes. If it's in a garden, it's tinted green. If it's indoors, it's tinted pink. In the fantasy section, when it's not in Los Angeles anymore or making a movie but dreaming of being on Broadway, in the Broadway melody, that all goes into gold and warm tungsten stage lights."
  
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• DC's New Bible Museum Has Lessons For Other Museums

  22-11-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Philip Kennicott: "Every resource of museum design and careful argumentation has been mustered to sweep up these unrelated ideas in one, big, overwhelming package. This has implications for people in the museum business. The Bible Museum has come to town, in all its technical splendor, bearing with it something that most historians and museum professionals may have thought was long discredited: the “master narrative” idea of history, that there is one sweeping human story that needs
  
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• Mary Batchelor obituary

  22-11-2017 19:02
  My friend Mary Batchelor, who has died aged 73, was one of Scotland’s best- loved artists. Although she began painting professionally in later life, her commitment to the Scottish art scene was then immediate.She became an associate member and regular exhibitor with Visual Arts Scotland and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, and artist member of Paisley Art Institute. She was also awarded the Mayfest MacRoberts prize in 1997 and the Mackintosh residency in Collioure, on France&r
  
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• Architect Albert Ledner, 93, Famous For His Portholes

  22-11-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[He] gave Modernism his personal, often whimsical spin, putting portholes in buildings in New York and using things like ashtrays and salvaged convent windows in unusual ways in houses in New Orleans."
  
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• Indianapolis Theatre Plans Reinvention With A New Building

  22-11-2017 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Phoenix Theatre: “Once you build a big machine and have to keep feeding it, then you’ve made a decision that’s going to impact every area of the organizations, not the least of which is the artistic. But we never want to be so beholden to chasing dollars that that becomes our major pursuit... At the end of the day, the business operation is there to enable the art.”
  
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• Zanele Muholi Awarded France’s Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

  22-11-2017 18:21 via artnews.com
  She considers her photographs of members of the LGBTQI community a form of visual activism. Read More
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• Putin's Cultural Forum Turns Into Debate Over Artistic Freedom In Russia

  22-11-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Russian government's annual St Petersburg International Cultural Forum (16-18 November) set off a new round of debate about the state of artistic freedom in Russia, with officials saying it is flourishing and a model for the world and the liberal intelligentsia saying it is under attack."
  
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• London gallery honours Tarantino precursor Jusepe de Ribera

  22-11-2017 17:40
  Art of Violence exhibition in Dulwich to explore depictions of torture and martyrdom by 17th-century Spanish artistA stomach-churning exhibition of tortured human bodies will open in London next year. Described by the director of Dulwich Picture Gallery as “akin to witnessing a Quentin Tarantino film”, it will be the first major show in the UK devoted to the 17th-century Spanish artist Jusepe de Ribera.Titled Ribera: Art of Violence, the gallery currently housing a charming exhibitio
  
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• Adam Pendleton at Pace Gallery, Palo Alto, California

  22-11-2017 16:15 via artnews.com
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• Consumer Reports: Gerasimos Floratos

  22-11-2017 15:52 via artnews.com
  The artist shares a week in his life. Read More
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• Santa Fe New Mexican Critic Craig A. Smith, 63, Dead In Apparent Suicide

  22-11-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "He began writing both feature stories and critical reviews [on opera, classical music, and theater] for Pasatiempo [magazine] in 1990 and continued to contribute to both Pasatiempo and The New Mexican after he left the staff around 2010 until the time of his death." He was also the author of a 2015 biography of Santa Fe Opera founder John Crosby.
  
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• Stolen John Lennon Diaries Recovered In Berlin

  22-11-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "German police recovered around 100 items that belonged to late Beatles star John Lennon that were stolen from his widow in New York, including three diaries, two pairs of his signature metal-rimmed glasses, a cigarette case and a handwritten music score."
  
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• Morning Links: $55,000 Air Jordans Edition

  22-11-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• 'Call Me By Your Name', 'Get Out', 'Lady Bird', 'Good Time', 'The Rider' Lead Independent Spirit Awards Nominations

  22-11-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Not only are these prizes for indie movies with budgets under $20 million honors in their own right, but for the last four years, the winner of the Best Feature prize went on to win the Best Picture Oscar the following night.
  
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• China and Vatican turn to 'diplomacy of art' as rapprochement stalls

  22-11-2017 14:33
  Each will send the other 40 works to go on display simultaneously from MarchThe Vatican is to send 40 works of art to China in a cultural exchange amid signs that attempts at rapprochement between the two powers are faltering.The Vatican museums, home to the Sistine chapel and countless other works of importance, and the China Culture Industrial Investment Fund (CCIIF) announced the exchange initiative in Rome this week. Simultaneous exhibitions will open in March in the Forbidden City in Beijin
  
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• China and Vatican to exchange artworks in bid to boost relations

  22-11-2017 14:33
  Each will send the other 40 works to go on display simultaneously from MarchThe Vatican is to send 40 works of art to China in a cultural exchange amid signs that attempts at rapprochement between the two powers are faltering.The Vatican museums, home to the Sistine chapel and countless other works of importance, and the China Culture Industrial Investment Fund (CCIIF) announced the exchange initiative in Rome this week. Simultaneous exhibitions will open in March in the Forbidden City in Beijin
  
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• Christo And Smithsonian Sued For Copyright Infringement Over 'Running Fence' Images

  22-11-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The photographer Gianfranco Gorgoni ... says he was not properly credited or paid when his photographs of the land art project in California were used in a 2007 exhibition and book, and is seeking recognition for his work."
  
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• Two Groups Of Female-Led Investors Look At Buying Weinstein Co. And Making It A Feminist Concern

  22-11-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Throwing a lifeline to an entertainment company that has become a symbol of the systemic mistreatment of women in Hollywood would seem like the last thing that feminists like Gloria Allred and Ana Oliveira, chief executive of the New York Women's Foundation, would be interested in doing. But each is involved with a group holding separate acquisition talks with the embattled Weinstein Company - with the aim of benefiting sexual misconduct victims."
  
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• Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky Dead Of Brain Cancer At 55

  22-11-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A favorite of audiences thanks to his alluring voice and heartthrob presence, Mr. Hvorostovsky cut a striking figure, his trim 6-foot-1 frame topped by a mane of prematurely white hair. He also had a compelling personal story: He escaped the street-gang life as a teenager in a grim Siberian city, found his talent there despite the region's cultural isolation, and overcame a tempestuous drinking problem that could have ruined his career."
  
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• Classical Music Critic Conrad Wilson Dead At 85

  22-11-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One of Scotland's leading critics, he spent a quarter-century at each of the country's major newspapers, The Scotsman and The Herald.
  
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• Artist launches airline that guarantees you will 'fly with happiness'

  22-11-2017 13:33
  Want to jet off to the best biennales of 2018? Try Angelhaha: the world’s first artist airline will fly passengers direct to shows and exhibitions around the world – for a priceCould an artist create the perfect air travel experience? Chinese-American artist and choreographer Qinmin Liu believes she can. Her new airline, Angelhaha airlines, will, from December, carry passengers to art events around the world, guaranteeing the “most positive energy” to its customers in the
  
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• Why Journalism Needs A 'Language Beat'

  22-11-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Erard: "Immediately after the election, Masha Gessen ... called for a 'language beat' to track the erosions [in the meanings of words in the current climate]. But here's a reality check that I hope isn't merely pedantic: language consists of more than words. This gives the writer interested in politics, language, and the shifting of realities many topics to tackle beyond lexicography and semantics. As someone who's been writing about language and linguistics for a long time - I consider
  
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• Manifesto review – Cate Blanchett is astonishing in bravura character study

  22-11-2017 13:00
  Blanchett plays 13 characters performing screeds by the likes of Marx and Debord in a hypnotically fascinating exploration of philosophyThere is a hypnotic fascination to this work by artist and film-maker Julian Rosefeldt, one of the few commercial films that explores the boundaries between cinema and installation, or cinema and video art. It owes this relative prominence to the presence of Cate Blanchett, who may be rivalling Tilda Swinton as Hollywood’s experimentalist and patron-muse.
  
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• Manifesto review – Cate Blanchett is astonishing in bravado character study

  22-11-2017 13:00
  Blanchett plays 13 characters performing screeds by the likes of Marx and Debord in a hypnotically fascinating exploration of philosophyThere is a hypnotic fascination to this work by artist and film-maker Julian Rosefeldt, one of the few commercial films that explores the boundaries between cinema and installation, or cinema and video art. It owes this relative prominence to the presence of Cate Blanchett, who may be rivalling Tilda Swinton as Hollywood’s experimentalist and patron-muse.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.21.17

  22-11-2017 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Soft power and the arts (3/3)
  The rituals behind cultural diplomacy leave me wondering about its effects. That cultural diplomacy is a soft-power approach to achieve hard goals is known by all participants in this game. We "see through" attempts by a nation to use carefully chosen works of art to convey a particular message ... read more
  AJBlog: For What It's Worth Published 2017-11-21
   
  
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• Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed – in pictures

  22-11-2017 08:00
  A new exhibition positions Edvard Munch as a revolutionary whose personal tragedies peppered his work, and made him more than a symbolist screamThe Met Museum, New York, 15 November to 4 February, 2018
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• Rose Wylie: 'I want to be known for my paintings – not because I'm old'

  22-11-2017 07:00
  She didn’t get her break until her 70s, but the world now can’t get enough of Rose Wylie’s blissfully unruly paintings. On the eve of her solo Serpentine show, the artist shows our writer round her Kent cottage – then dabs her down with turpsA lot has changed for Rose Wylie since Germaine Greer first praised her vast and blissfully unruly paintings in the Guardian seven years ago. Then the late-blooming artist was a new discovery and her unsold, unstretched canvases were
  
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• Are Digital News Media Publishers Crashing?

  22-11-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Online advertising is looking more and more like a contest that publishers can’t win—not on a large scale, at least. Advertising can help to cover some of their costs, but online ads alone won’t pay for big, serious, high-quality journalistic enterprises the way that print ads once did. The idea that the news business needs to find different revenue models—subscriptions, memberships, events, nonprofit status—is hardly new. But it’s time for online media compa
  
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