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• This Year's Top Music Video Was Seen 4.4 Billion Times

  04-12-2017 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The reggaeton-pop tune by Luis Fonsi, featuring Daddy Yankee, was number one in 47 countries.
  
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• UK's Creative Industries Grew Twice As Fast As The Rest Of The Economy Last Year

  04-12-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Now worth £91.8 billion in terms of gross value added to the UK, the sector grew by 7.6% over the year, while the economy as a whole grew by 3.5% in the same period.
  
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• Les Rencontres de Bamako African Biennale of Photography Announces 2017 Prize Winners

  04-12-2017 22:39 via artnews.com
  The winners are Athi-Patra Ruga, Julien Creuzet, Fethi Sahraoui, Gabrielle Goliath, and Moïse Togo. Read More
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• Movie Critiques Are Thriving On YouTube

  04-12-2017 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some of their “trailer reaction” videos actually boast more views than the trailers they reference, meaning that, mathematically speaking, a significant portion of their audience watch the reaction but not the trailers to which the reaction is, um, reacting.
  
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• Canadians Make Some Great Movies. Pity No One Sees Them (Here's Why)

  04-12-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "There is a paradox in the missing cohort of current homegrown films and filmmakers at the box office. It's not a lack of talent. Canadians make movies for Hollywood every day. We have the best movie craftspeople on the planet. It, X Men: Apocalypse and Blade Runner 2049 are recent Hollywood releases made mostly by Canadian crews. It's also not a lack of market. Canadians spent around a billion dollars on movie tickets last year. So why has it become so rare for an
  
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• Design District Debut: The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami Gets a New Home

  04-12-2017 21:52 via artnews.com
  The recently conceived institution makes a play for prominence in the city's complex art ecosystem. Read More
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• Louisville's Speed Museum Lays Off Staff, Closes Store

  04-12-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is the second substantial round of layoffs since the Speed reopened in March of 2016 after a huge renovation project, with a price tag of $60 million. The first round of layoffs came in August 2016, just five months after the Speed’s reopening, when seven employees were let go.
  
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• J. Paul Getty Trust Names Steven A. Olsen as Vice President, CFO, and COO

  04-12-2017 21:24 via artnews.com
  In the tripartite role, he will oversee the trust's budget, finance, and capital planning operations. Read More
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• UK Regional Theatre Saw Drop In Attendance, Boost In Box Office Last Year

  04-12-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Theatres outside London sold 169,000 fewer tickets in 2016 than the previous year – a 1% drop – but improved overall box office sales by 3%, bringing in a total of £14.7m. New data from membership body UK Theatre shows income from plays, pantos, comedy and dance is down on last year, but this was offset, largely thanks to an increase in sales for musicals, which increased by around £20m last year."
  
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• Rene Gonzalez Architects to Design New Miami Home for Fairholme Unlimited, With James Turrell and Richard Serra as Centerpieces

  04-12-2017 20:34 via artnews.com
  Gabriela Palmieri was also named chairman of Fairholme Unlimited's board. Read More
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• The Reading Revolution Of The 1800s - Powered By People Reading Aloud

  04-12-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There were practical reasons for reading books aloud. “Domestic lighting was primitive, and prohibitively expensive. Why strain the eyes with insufficient light and small print when a single person with a well-lit book could do the work of many?” Also, eyeglasses were rare until late in the 18th century, so it made sense for a person with good eyesight to read to people whose eyesight was poor. And reading aloud was a way of entertaining others—including people who were illiter
  
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• On The Morality Of Plants (And Of People Of Course)

  04-12-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Human beings and other animals are, like plants, living things. In all three cases, Philippa Foot urged, there is room for speaking of healthy or unhealthy, excellent or defective specimens of their kind. This means that there is room to speak of the qualities conducive to their being healthy or excellent or otherwise. The vocabulary of human virtues and vices – courage, temperance, justice and so forth – belongs among the same structure of concepts. The human virtues, she proposed,
  
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• Willie Doherty at Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich

  04-12-2017 19:50 via artnews.com
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• Has Hollywood's Attack Dog Lawyer Reached His "Sell By" Date?

  04-12-2017 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  His “cease and desist” and proceed “at your peril” letters to media outlets and accusers on behalf of clients are legendary. Recently, as The Times prepared stories in which more than 10 women accused Ratner of sexual misconduct, the lawyer sent the paper multiple letters filled with florid language and threats of litigation. The missives, which would not have seemed out of place in the Hollywood novels of Michael Tolkin and Elmore Leonard, were the pummeling prose of a l
  
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• Dorothy Cross: Glance review – life and death in a sorceror's workshop

  04-12-2017 19:17
  New Art Centre, Roche Court, WiltshireSkulls carry meteorites, fingers weigh fate on scales, and telescopes point to mysteries in the Irish sculptor’s fascinating contemplation of mortality, symbolism and beliefTwo bronze fingers turn slowly on an old pair of scales. Like everything else in Glance, Irish artist Dorothy Cross’s new show at Roche Court sculpture park, digits hang in the balance. Life offsets death, the cosmic is pitted against the terrestrial, the supernatural shines i
  
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• Dorothy Cross: Glance review – life and death in a sorcerer's workshop

  04-12-2017 19:17
  New Art Centre, Roche Court, WiltshireSkulls carry meteorites, fingers weigh fate on scales, and telescopes point to mysteries in the Irish sculptor’s fascinating contemplation of mortality, symbolism and beliefTwo bronze fingers turn slowly on an old pair of scales. Like everything else in Glance, Irish artist Dorothy Cross’s new show at Roche Court sculpture park, digits hang in the balance. Life offsets death, the cosmic is pitted against the terrestrial, the supernatural shines i
  
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• Social Networks Are Trapped In The Tragedy Of The Commons

  04-12-2017 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The digital commons fosters great communal benefits that go beyond being a publisher in the traditional sense. The fact that YouTube is open and free allows all kinds of creativity to flourish in ways that are not enabled by the entertainment industry. The tragedy is that it also empowers pornographers and propagandists for terror.
  
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• Fine art to topple fine wine in 2017 luxury investment league

  04-12-2017 19:01
  Rich investors burned in the financial crisis are back in the market for modern masterpieces, according to Knight Frank luxury investment indexArt is expected to overtake wine as the best-performing luxury investment asset this year as a growing number of millionaires snap up contemporary masterpieces for their mansions.
  Rich people, hit by a collapse in art pricesafter the 2007-2008 financial crisis, have returned to the market, according to high end estate agent Knight Frank. Art sold at aucti
  
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• Works by artist who died in Grenfell fire to be shown at Cambridge gallery

  04-12-2017 18:37
  Khadija Saye, who died with her mother in London tower blaze, was like a young Tracey Emin, according to director of Kettle’s YardWorks by Khadija Saye, an emerging artist who died in the Grenfell Tower fire, are to be exhibited as part of the reopening of Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge.Saye was asked to be part of the show before she died, with her mother, in the flat they shared on the 20th floor of the west London tower block last June. Continue reading...
  
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• TV's Existential Crisis

  04-12-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TV, the art form, is in its platinum age. But the future present of video packaging and distribution is on-demand and digital. TV the platform simply cannot survive under its current business model. It must evolve.
  
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• Justin Davidson: I'm Not Sure The Met Can Survive Levine's Disgrace

  04-12-2017 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The company is an outgrowth from, and a uniquely regressive example of, the 19th-century commercial opera houses that flourished through specialization, activity, and growth. August companies erected massive buildings, mounted expensive shows, packed in audiences, and concentrated prestige in the hands of very few gatekeepers, all of them men. That power structure produced a century and a half of lavishly misogynistic operas in which women are constantly going mad, turning into prostitutes, dyi
  
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• The Met Suspends James Levine After New Sexual Abuse Revelations

  04-12-2017 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Three men have now accused the conductor of abusing them when they were teenagers. "I don’t know why it was so traumatic,' [Christopher] Brown, who is now 66, said in a recent interview at his home in St. Paul, Minn., fighting tears at the memory, which he said he was moved to share as part of the national reckoning over sexual misconduct. 'I don’t know why I got so depressed. But it has to be because of what happened. And I care deeply for those who were also abused, all the people
  
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• Why Do So Many Adults Love Young Adult Literature?

  04-12-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, one expert says, what you might suspect is the reason actually is the reason: "It all goes back to Harry Potter."
  
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• Jewish Museum Suspends Jens Hoffmann After Sexual Harassment Allegations Surface, MOCAD, Honolulu Biennial, and Kadist Follow

  04-12-2017 16:44 via artnews.com
  He has worked for the institution in New York since 2012. Read More
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• Jewish Museum Suspends Jens Hoffmann After Sexual Harassment Allegations Surface, Honolulu Biennial Cuts Ties

  04-12-2017 16:44 via artnews.com
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• Jewish Museum Suspends Jens Hoffmann After Sexual Harassment Allegations Surface, Honolulu Biennial and Kadist Follow

  04-12-2017 16:44 via artnews.com
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• Jewish Museum Suspends Jens Hoffmann After Sexual Harassment Allegations Surface

  04-12-2017 16:44 via artnews.com
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• It's Been One Year Since The Ghost Ship Tragedy, And Here's How An Artists' Collective Called 'Deathtrap' Is Doing

  04-12-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The artists left Deathtrap in July, feeling betrayed by the city of San Francisco, which fractured their community. "If there’s a silver lining to being forced from their home, it’s that some of the former Deathtrap residents formed 30 West, a nonprofit that hopes to build a live-work place that won’t be shut down because of code violations and zoning restrictions. The 30 West collaborative began leasing an empty warehouse in Oakland in June."
  
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• Milein Cosman obituary

  04-12-2017 16:06
  Artist who sketched some of the greatest cultural figures of the 20th century including Benjamin Britten, TS Eliot and Barbara HepworthMilein Cosman, who has died aged 96, drew many of the greatest artistic names of the 20th century. Working on commission for publishers, magazines and newspapers, she sketched Benjamin Britten, Yehudi Menuhin, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Sir Thomas Beecham, TS Eliot, Francis Bacon, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, among others.She drew primarily from life, and her
  
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• Theatre Has Its Cellphone Abusers, But Also The Issue Of Those Who Fall Asleep And Snore

  04-12-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Advice from a critic: "You’ve paid a lot of money to attend the theater. Take a nap before you get there, or wait till you get home and fall asleep in front of the TV."
  
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• Preview Art Basel Miami Beach 2017, Part 1

  04-12-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  The fair will bring together more than 268 galleries from 32 countries. Read More
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• A New Director Has El Museo Del Barrio Wondering If It Can Build A Bridge Between The Art World And Its Activist Founders

  04-12-2017 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There are budget problems, and the museum is about to close for seven months for renovations. How will El Museo stay connected and current? New executive director Patrick Charpenel "said he would organize panel discussions and publish books to 'open a bridge of knowledge' about the cultural contributions of Latinos and to explore subjects like immigration, exclusion and diversity."
  
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• Why Did The New York Times Omit These Books From Its Best 100 List?

  04-12-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Always a mystery. Sure, sure, some of the books were only (we are being sarcastic here) reviewed by daily book critics, not in the New York Times Book Review, but seriously, NYT, WYD?
  
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• What Virtual Reality Might Do To Our Nervous Systems

  04-12-2017 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Vision has a general advantage, in humans, over touch, so the virtual reality environment should be OK. And yet! "Touch is the fact-checking sense. ... Touching is more psychologically reassuring than seeing. Touch does not always make us experience things better, but it certainly makes us feel better about what we experience. Even when we can see that the keys are in our bags, we are much more certain that they are once we’ve touched them."
  
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• Morning Links: Metal Machine Music Edition

  04-12-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
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• Christmas Music Is Not Neutral For Our Mental Health

  04-12-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It all depends on how you experienced the holiday as a child, apparently. (Also, it depends on whether you're trapped working in a retail environment where Christmas music plays endlessly, and on repeat.)
  
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• At The Kennedy Center Honors, No Stand-In For An Absent President

  04-12-2017 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The absence of the president in the president's box "is notable for several reasons. The gala is a fundraising event for the national arts center, and having a sitting president in attendance is a significant draw. In addition, the lasting image of the annually televised event features the first couple seated alongside the smiling honorees. This year’s celebration of the performing arts will air at 9 p.m on Dec. 26 on CBS."
  
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• Actor Geoffrey Rush Steps Down From Presidency Of Australia's Screen Academy After Allegations Of Inappropriate Behavior

  04-12-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rush denied the allegations about harassment when he was starring as King Lear at the Sydney Theatre Company but said he stepped down to keep from tainting others in the industry.
  
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• The AIDS-Crisis Silence=Death Poster Is Iconic, But How Did It Come To Exist?

  04-12-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Avram Finkelstein: "For public discourse to pierce through the churning perpetual motion machine of the American commons, it needs to come in bursts. Manifestos don’t work. Sentences barely do. You need sound bites, catchphrases, crafted in plain language. The poster is exactly that, a sound bite, and vernacular to the core. The poster perfectly suits the American ear."
  
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• William Mayer, Prolific Composer Who Ranged From Serious To Whimsical, Has Died At 91

  04-12-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mayer composed everything from the six-minute opera "Brief Candle" to other, longer operas and orchestral works, choral works, and many, many pieces for children, including the well-known "Hello, World!"
  
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• Vincent Honoré to Curate Special Brussels Edition of Independent Art Fair

  04-12-2017 14:00 via artnews.com
  He is currently organizing the 2018 edition of the Baltic Triennial of International Art. Read More
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• Awards Race: New York Preferred 'Ladybird,' But Los Angeles Is All In For 'Call Me By Your Name'

  04-12-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There's no clear favorite now, with Spielberg's The Post getting a different award, and both Ladybird and Call Me By Your Name winning multiple awards - and there's always Get Out or The Florida Project, both of which are accumulating smaller awards as well. (Does that mean it's a good year? Hm.)
  
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• This Year's Bestsellers List - And The Book Sale Numbers, Yikes - Tell Us A Lot About Ourselves

  04-12-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aside from Hillary Clinton's memoir - which sold well for any kind of book, not just a political book - things are kind of grim, maybe because "leveraging a massive publicity platform is one of the few proven methods of selling a lot of books, but the media has become so balkanized that many best-selling authors are 'celebrities' invisible to most of the nation: YouTube stars, radio hosts, reality TV contestants."
  
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• Poem of the week – Walter Osborne: Apple Gathering, Quimperlé by Frank Ormsby

  04-12-2017 11:00
  A richly described Victorian painting of a harvest scene is full of innocent joy, shadowed by what history would soon bring to the fields of northern FranceWalter Osborne: Apple Gathering, Quimperlé
  Weep for the green orchards of northern France
  before the two world wars, their apple-rich largesse
  bound ripely to the sap and to the sun
  in fertile villages. At Quimperlé,
  two girls are harvesting a tree bent sideways
  by the weight of apples, one wielding a long stick
  to bring them to
  
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• Berlin exhibition questions CIA's influence on global art scene

  04-12-2017 06:00
  The Trump era has prompted Germany to review the historic effects of America’s soft power, and debate Berlin’s future relationship with WashingtonIn Europe’s city of spies, it was a feat of cold war counter-propaganda: a modernist congress centre with an audaciously curved roof, gifted by America to West Berlin in direct response to the buildup of Soviet’s Stalinallee boulevard on the other side of town.Its initiator, Eleanor Dulles, a sister of the head of the CIA at the
  
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