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• What John Lasseter's Departure Will Mean To Pixar And Disney

  24-11-2017 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Industry analysts and experts in the animation community said Lasseter’s absence could be a significant blow to the studio if his departure becomes permanent because the executive has been such a key figure in its success. Lasseter is the chief creative officer of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios.
  
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• The FBI's Long History Of Investigating Black Musicians

  24-11-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The FBI's focus on black musicians has its roots in the agency's Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO), which led to the surveillance of several of the most important black jazz musicians of the mid-20th century.
  
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• Apple Could Spend $4.2 Billion On Original Streaming Content By 2022

  24-11-2017 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Apple won’t catch up to either by 2022 in terms of spend, projecting that Amazon will eclipse Netflix, $8.3 billion to $6.8 billion. Earlier this year, Apple signaled its intent to invest as much as $1 billion into original programming. That’s still well short of Netflix, which announced previously an $8 billion budget toward original and licensed content in 2018, and Amazon, which is expected to spend more than the $4.5 billion that went into premium video entertainment this year."
  
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• The British Pride Themselves On Their Choirs. But How Good Are They?

  24-11-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Are Britain’s leading choirs actually the best? We wouldn’t know, because as a concert-going public we take almost no interest in foreign ensembles. Attracting an audience in the UK is one of the most difficult challenges an overseas choral group can face."
  
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• Kehinde Wiley review – black souls sail between empowerment and exploitation

  24-11-2017 21:35
  Stephen Friedman Gallery, LondonThe US artist picked as Obama’s official portraitist plots a romantic, maritime course for his show In Search of the MiraculousKehinde Wiley is the superstar American painter famed for placing anonymous, beautiful black men in kitsch pastiches of Old Master portraits of the ruling class. He is also that rare thing, an artist who has broken through to a mass audience. In addition to his street-cast “boys”, as he has called his models, he’s p
  
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• A boom In Inventing New Musical Instruments

  24-11-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "You would be forgiven for thinking instrument-making reached its endpoint long ago. The orchestra has largely been fixed since the Belgian Adolphe Sax patented his eponymous instrument in the 1840s. And these days, a standard laptop can make so many sounds, why would we need anything new? But there are hundreds, even thousands, of instrument inventors beavering away."
  
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• More Studies Say Using Laptops In Class Leads To Less Learning

  24-11-2017 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A growing body of evidence shows that over all, college students learn less when they use computers or tablets during lectures. They also tend to earn worse grades. The research is unequivocal: Laptops distract from learning, both for users and for those around them. It’s not much of a leap to expect that electronics also undermine learning in high school classrooms or that they hurt productivity in meetings in all kinds of workplaces."
  
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• Machines Are Learning In New Ways. But What If We Can't Understand Them?

  24-11-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In many arenas, A.I. methods have advanced with startling speed; deep neural networks can now detect certain kinds of cancer as accurately as a human. But human doctors still have to make the decisions — and they won’t trust an A.I. unless it can explain itself. This isn’t merely a theoretical concern."
  
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• Will The $450 Million Leonardo Recallibrate The Art Market?

  24-11-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Given the Christie’s result, there is a temptation to wonder if the art market will be recalibrated in the way that it was in 1987, when Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” sold for $39.9 million. That price also blew minds, being almost four times the previous high for any artwork at auction at the time."
  
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• Florence court puts foot down over Michelangelo's David

  24-11-2017 19:40
  Civil court orders tour firm to remove images of famous nude from marketing used to sell expensive tickets to museum
  His are the most famous curves in Florence and adorn everything from aprons to fridge magnets, but images of Michelangelo’s David can only now be used with official authorisation, a court in Italy has ruled.
  The 16th century marble statue is the star attraction at the Galleria dell’Accademia, which took legal action against a tour company that used an image of the Bibl
  
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• Of Art And Fallen Artists (Do We Reject The Art Now?)

  24-11-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Wrestling with what to do with the product of tainted executives, artists or news figures is not that far from the eternal issue of how (or even whether) to separate our views of art from our views of the artists. Wagner was blatantly anti-Semitic. Alfred Hitchcock abused actresses who worked for him, so openly that you can see his dysfunctional psychosexual power dynamics right onscreen. Roman Polanski was convicted of having sex with a 13-year-old, but does that mean “Rosemary’s B
  
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• What We Learned On a 13-Hour Immersive Theatre Performance On A Plane From London To JFK

  24-11-2017 18:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Our work is interactive so audiences are not passive observers but in the midst of the action, both as witnesses or participants. We had members of the press offering to write a tale for our heroine’s birthday and one passenger, who had forgotten to take his usual Valium dose, dealt with his in-flight nerves by becoming a character in the show. However, being thrust into a theatre show for 13 hours can be bit much, even for the most ardent theatre-goer."
  
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• Britain Has Been Thrown Out Of The "European Capital Of Culture" Program

  24-11-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Government has been advised to discontinue the selection process for the five bidding cities – Belfast, Dundee, Nottingham, Milton Keynes and Leeds – “immediately”. The DCMS said it is “deeply disappointed” with the decision and is in “urgent discussions” with the European Commission on the matter.
  
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• Why Are Our Buildings So Tightly Sealed?

  24-11-2017 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Our current built environment squanders too much fresh water and other vital resources, and tips too many poisonous substances into our surroundings. To develop a more sustainable relationship with the natural world, we need to allow chemical exchanges that take place within our living spaces, and between the inside and the outside. We need to embrace permeability."
  
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• The Revolution That Flash Photography Created

  24-11-2017 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Flash brings a form of democracy to the material world. Many details take on unplanned prominence, as we see in the work of those Farm Security Administration photographers who used flash in the 1930s and laid bare the reality of poverty during the Depression."
  
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• Should Theatre Reflect Audience Or Create It?

  24-11-2017 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Populism aims to represent the people. That can function on two levels: reflecting it on the one hand and creating it on the other. With the former, we assume that the people exist before a representation of them is made. With the latter, we want to make it exist. This second concept is performative; we understand that it is close to the performance. The link with theatre and the other performing arts depends perhaps on how we should understand what an audience is."
  
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• Why Spoken English Is So Different From Written English

  24-11-2017 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Modern languages with a long literary tradition show a stark split between their written and spoken styles across many contexts. In current English, writing uses more varied vocabulary than conversational speech, and it uses rarer and longer words much more often. Certain structures (such as passive sentences, prepositional phrases, and relative clauses) appear more often in written than spoken language. Writers generally elaborate their ideas more explicitly through syntax whereas speakers lea
  
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• Regrets, They’ve Had a Few: Top 200 Collectors Reflect on the Ones That Got Away

  24-11-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  Memories of ill-fated Warhols, bypassed Basquiats, and eclipsed works by Koons linger. Read More
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• Vasari Diary: Judith Bernstein, ‘The Animal Gazer,’ and Birds in Art

  24-11-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  This is the third edition of the newly reanimated ARTnews column. Read More
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• Artist List Revealed for Fourth Edition of Dhaka Art Summit

  24-11-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  The biennial event will take place in Bangladesh in February 2018. Read More
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• Ungender, deprogram, urinate: how post-cyber international feminism can improve your life

  24-11-2017 14:01
  Do you know your IRL from your AFK? Ever heard of the mercenaries of slime? And what does all this have to do with the gloriously liberated feminist future the web was supposed to deliver? A mind-boggling conference at the ICA had the answersYou don’t have to wear a hi-tech bodysuit to be a post-cyber feminist, though some did. The ICA’s recent Post-Cyber Feminist International conference drew an arty crowd of intellectuals, feminists and the intellectual, feminist, gender non-confor
  
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• Das Boot in drag, gherkin legislation and Mr Scream at the Met – the week in art

  24-11-2017 12:51
  Photographer Olivia Locher explores US pickle laws, two deranged film-makers hijack the great submarine epic and New York covers its ears as Munch hits town – all in your weekly dispatchRose Wylie
  Deliriously slapdash paintings that defy all notions of convention or respectability from this veteran maverick of British art.
  • Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, 30 November to 11 February. Continue reading...
  
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• Paul Cézanne’s Child in a Straw Hat: humanity robbed of personality

  24-11-2017 11:00
  The Frenchman was more interested in geometry – engaging with nature via the sphere, cylinder and cone, as he put it – than psychological realismTo say that Paul Cézanne’s paintings of children were unsentimental is an understatement. Here, the son of a hotel gardener becomes a sphinx, with eyes that seem to stare eternally into unknown mysteries. His pale, symmetrical face – with its elegant arcs of eyebrows – might be a painted mask. Continue reading...
  
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• The 10 best things to do this week: Rose Wylie and The Disaster Artist

  24-11-2017 10:00
  The 83-year-old artist gets her first major London exhibition, while James Franco’s semi-biopic of director Tommy Wiseau opensRose Wylie: Quack Quack
  It feels as if the art world has been playing catch-up when it comes to Kent-based Rose Wylie’s large paintings, often inspired by recollections and facts (Pink Skater: Will I Win, Will I Win, above). Five years ago, at the age of 77, she found herself being talked about as an up-and-coming artist, while this show is her first major Lon
  
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