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• House for Sale: Group Show Takes Up Residence in Miami Beach Abode

  08-12-2017 23:47 via artnews.com
  Artworks are on show in a charming dwelling available for $2.25 million. Read More
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• Truth Is, There Just Isn't A Way (Right Now) Of Preserving History Of The Internet

  08-12-2017 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Across the board, the reality began to sink in that these proprietary services hold volumes of data that no public institution can process. And that’s just the data itself.
  
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• Most Of Our Airports Are Bland, Generic. It Shouldn't (Doesn't Have To) Be That Way

  08-12-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I think making an airport as local as possible is a great strategy toward improving the experience. Some people live in this paradigm that an airport should be a global space, super-cosmopolitan, but we’ve seen a reversal of that trend. What you want is a unique experience, not a generic one.” That means good barbecue and jazz at Austin-Bergstrom, country singers at Nashville. BWI sells Baltimore-style crab, and Vancouver has one of the world’s great collections of
  
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• Yachts! Tiki Bars! Drake! Scarily Empty Fairs! A Final Art Basel Miami Beach Notebook Dump

  08-12-2017 22:57 via artnews.com
  Parties, gossip, and other tidbits.Read More
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• H. C. Westermann at Fondazione Prada, Milan

  08-12-2017 22:51 via artnews.com
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• A Few More Sales at Art Basel Miami Beach as the Fair Goes into the Weekend

  08-12-2017 22:46 via artnews.com
  Artists whose works sold include James Rosenquist, Henry Taylor, and Ugo Rondinone. Read More
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• Our Culture Wars Come Down To Modernists Versus Post-Modernists

  08-12-2017 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The practice of science cannot be long sustained without the co-operation of our wider culture (legally, economically, pedagogically). This is the theoretical half of our present crisis. As the culture becomes more doubtful of scientific legitimacy—whether through postmodern philosophy, the rise of fundamentalism and superstition, or some other means—proponents of empirical science cannot remain indifferent to these doubts if the practice is to flourish. The best of them, the ones e
  
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• Why Hearing The Sounds Of Nature Make Us Feel Physically Better

  08-12-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A study published in March demonstrated that natural sounds have the ability to relieve psychological and physiological stress. Using fMRI and heart-rate monitoring, researchers Gould van Praag, et al, of the University of Sussex found that listening to natural sounds improved parasympathetic activity, whereas listening to artificial sounds prompted sympathetic arousal."
  
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• Spotify And The Illusion Of Choice

  08-12-2017 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "To understand the danger Spotify poses to the music industry—and to music itself—you first have to dig beneath the “user experience” and examine its algorithmic schemes. Spotify’s front page “Browse” screen presents a classic illusion of choice, a stream of genre and mood playlists, charts, new releases, and now podcasts and video. It all appears limitless, a function of the platform’s infinite supply, but in reality it is tightly controlled by Sp
  
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• In Wake of Sexual Harassment Allegations Against Jens Hoffmann, Editors of the Exhibitionist Resign

  08-12-2017 21:33 via artnews.com
  The editors' statement was released on Facebook. Read More
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• Leonardo's Salvator Mundi: Abu Dhabi bought world's most expensive painting

  08-12-2017 21:08
  Louvre Abu Dhabi to display artwork sold for $450m as buyer is revealed as emirate’s culture ministryLeonardo da Vinci’s painting of Jesus Christ, which was sold for a record $450m (£335m) at auction last month, was acquired by Abu Dhabi’s department of culture and tourism, according to Christie’s in New York.
  The announcement was the latest twist in a saga over the painting after it was reported that the buyer was the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.(Novemb
  
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• Broadway Broke Box Office Records In 2017. But...

  08-12-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Though rich in new American plays and gussied up revivals, Broadway this year often felt like a letdown, taking fewer risks and reaping fewer rewards.
  
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• Just a Schtickle of Fluoride: Artist-Musician Carlos Gonzalez Talks Upcoming Screening at Bridget Donahue

  08-12-2017 20:52 via artnews.com
  The concept for Forgotten Worlds came to him on a long tour performing music at underground venues across the U.S. Read More
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• Hey - You've Just Won A Nobel Prize. Congrats! Now Here's How To Accept It

  08-12-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It’s a formidable challenge, and one winners have to undergo twice (usually, as with Ishiguro, delivering a lecture and a “banquet speech” three days later). But most attempts include at least three of the following elements: profuse thanks to the Swedish Academy; equally lavish expressions of humility and unworthiness (but don’t overdo this passive-aggressively, like Luigi Pirandello); confessing a personal debt to Scandinavian literature (WB Yeats’s entire s
  
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• Scenes from Miami Art Week: Day 3

  08-12-2017 20:23 via artnews.com
  At the openings for NADA and Fair., a reception at the Pérez, a pop-up in Little Havana, and a club by Carsten Höller. Read More
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• How Classical Music Molds Itself To A Given Historical Moment

  08-12-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When David Patrick Stearns first heard Jacqueline du Pre's 1970 recording of the Dvořák Cello Concerto, he thought she "sounded like a freedom fighter." Turns out he was right: she had played the work in a protest concert shortly after the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Stearns looks at other examples, from Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting Tchaikovsky just after Kristallnacht to Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra playing Shostakovich in the Soviet Union to Bernstein p
  
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• Under the Paving Stones, the Beach: A Look Around the Untitled Art Fair

  08-12-2017 19:51 via artnews.com
  A few highlights from the fair on the sand. Read More
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• Big Tech's Arms Race For Artificial Intelligence (And Why You Should Care)

  08-12-2017 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The advantages of AI are most visible in firms’ predictions of what users want. Automated recommendations and suggestions are responsible for around three-quarters of what people watch on Netflix, for example, and more than a third of what people buy on Amazon. Facebook, which owns the popular app Instagram, uses machine learning to recognise the content of posts, photos and videos and display relevant ones to users, as well as filter out spam. In the past it ranked posts chronologically,
  
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• This Is Our Fair: Mac McCaughan and Merge Records Have a Booth at NADA Miami

  08-12-2017 19:30 via artnews.com
  The Superchunk frontman organized an auction to benefit the Southern Poverty Law Center. Read More
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• Saudi Crown Prince Named as True Buyer of ‘Salvator Mundi,’ Contrary to Previous Reports

  08-12-2017 19:11 via artnews.com
  Previous reports had suggested that Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al-Saud was the buyer. Read More
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• The Medium Is Massage: Christian Jankowski Offers Rubdowns in Miami

  08-12-2017 19:06 via artnews.com
  The stresses of Art Basel can be alleviated in an artful fashion. Read More
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• 'Call Me By Your Name' Author André Aciman Says That, At First, Elio And Oliver Never Had Sex

  08-12-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I don't usually write about sex. I'm kind of a person who wouldn't. By the time I'm on page 50 or 60, I sense, 'Okay, this has been a wonderful fantasy, but stop.' Something told me not to stop. ... I said, 'No, I want them to have fun. I want them to be sexual.'"
  
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• Moving Image, Moving Space: Olafur Eliasson to Present New Work at Marciano Art Foundation in L.A.

  08-12-2017 19:00 via artnews.com
  The light-and-shadow installation will open in March 2018. Read More
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• Glenn Kaino, Favianna Rodriguez, and Hank Willis Thomas to Curate ‘Into Action’ Pop-Up Show in Los Angeles

  08-12-2017 19:00 via artnews.com
  Called "Into Action!," the show will meditate on the year since the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Read More
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• Where Are The Most Artists In America? Nope, No Longer New York

  08-12-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Los Angeles tops the list on our combined measure of employed and self-employed artists. Los Angeles not only has a larger concentration of artists than New York City based on its LQ, it has a larger number of absolute artists, even though New York City has a much larger general population. Indeed, it’s been shown that a significant number of artists are moving from the New York City to the Los Angeles metro.
  
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• Nicolas Ceccaldi Offers His Version of the Gospel at Basel

  08-12-2017 18:08 via artnews.com
  A text written by the artist is available for free for everyone, regardless of religious denomination. Read More
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• The White American Woman Who Mastered Traditional Japanese Woodblock Printing Nearly 100 Years Ago

  08-12-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Artist and printmaker Lilian May Miller constructed her personal image as consciously as she did her artwork. When she was in Japan, she wore Western clothing, often favoring Amelia Earhart-esque ties and mannish blazers. On a 1929 lecture tour in America, on the other hand, at a time when Japanese women were casting off kimonos, she wore traditional Japanese dress. She cropped her hair short, went by Jack among family and friends, and described herself as unable to work up 'even the ghost of'
  
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• In Texas, Prison Inmates Not Allowed To Read "Charlie Brown Christmas"

  08-12-2017 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The publications are among the 10,000 titles banned by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, a list that includes best sellers like “Memoirs of a Geisha” and “A Time to Kill” and even obscure works, such as the “MapQuest Road Atlas.” Not banned: “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler and books by white nationalists, including David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard. They are also prohibited from reading the pop-up edition of “A Charli
  
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• William H. Gass, Postmodern Novelist And 'Magician Of The Word', Dead At 93

  08-12-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Mr. Gass wrote just three novels, none of them bestsellers, but he was often described as one of America's finest literary stylists - 'a magician of the word, the writer of a prose so rich that it makes Vladi¬mir Nabokov's seem impoverished,' Washington Post book critic Michael Dirda wrote in 2013."
  
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• Consumer Reports: Will Stewart

  08-12-2017 16:49 via artnews.com
  The artist shares a week in his life. Read More
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• Classical Music World Worries Over Clampdown On Trade In Rosewood

  08-12-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "New regulations on the international movement of rosewood have hit hard in parts of the music industry, which has long relied on rosewood as a 'tonewood' used in many kinds of instruments, including guitars, cellos and clarinets. The reason for the [customs] crackdown, and for Katz's anxiety? China. Specifically, Chinese consumers' growing demand for rosewood or 'hongmu' furniture."
  
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• Beyond Miami’s Fairs, a Wealth of Superb Public Art Installations Awaits

  08-12-2017 16:32 via artnews.com
  From nearly hidden Beverly Buchanan sculptures to a bilingual Ed Ruscha piece, a look at the city's finest works on view year-round. Read More
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• Why Saratoga Lost $1 Million On New York City Ballet Last Summer (And Cut This Summer's Performances In Half)

  08-12-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Says Saratoga Performing Arts Center president Elizabeth Sobol, "Here is what I observed: 80 percent of the audience only buys tickets to one performance, 11 percent buys a ticket to two performances. Only 9 percent buy for two or more night. And while it's wonderful to have this deeply passionate audience, by presenting two weeks we are doubling our expenses and cannibalizing our audience."
  
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• What Happened To 'LA Weekly'? Well, It's Pretty Weird ...

  08-12-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A set of Orange County business types closed on the purchase pf the alt-weekly on Wednesday; the very same day, the entire editorial staff except one writer was laid off. The new guy in charge says he and the new owners are socially liberal libertarians and that the left-leaning editorial stance of the Weekly won't change, but ...
  
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• Theatregoer Punched In Face For Asking Fellow Audience Member To Stop Using Cell Phone

  08-12-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Adam Gale, a New York producer, was attending A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic in London, asked a woman sitting nearby to stop using her phone several times during the first act and ultimately called an usher. Come intermission, says Gale, her boyfriend hauled him out of his seat and hit him in the face with a fist. Old Vic staff refused to call the police.
  
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• How Damien Hirst Outfoxed The Art-Market-Industrial Complex

  08-12-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Financial journalist Felix Salmon explains why the up-and-down prices for Hirst's art at auctions aren't a good indicator of how valuable his work really is, and argues that Hirst has basically become a maker and seller of luxury goods - which is as it should be.
  
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• Morning Links: Hedy Lamarr Radio Signals Edition

  08-12-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Met Opera's James Levine Denies Allegations Of Sexual Abuse

  08-12-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "'As understandably troubling as the accusations noted in recent press accounts are, they are unfounded,' he said in a written statement. 'As anyone who truly knows me will attest, I have not lived my life as an oppressor or an aggressor.'" In response, all four men who spoke to the Times stood by their stories. Said one of Levine, "He is lying. ... I will take a lie-detector test. Will he?"
  
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• To Prevent Abuse, Classical Music Needs A Code Of Conduct - And Here's What Should Be In It

  08-12-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston: "For example, no private meetings or rehearsals where a maestro is alone with a musician should be permitted; performance notes and discussions can and should always be given quietly in front of others. If it is suspected that a maestro has designs on an individual beyond the purely professional, a chaperone should be insisted on, especially during festivals and on tours."
  
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• Iggy Pop goes nude, the Turner grows up and Cecily Brown gets wrecked – the week in art

  08-12-2017 14:17
  The legendary singer poses for a life drawing class, Lubaina Himid wins art’s top prize and it’s shipwrecks ahoy at the Whitworth – all in your weekly dispatchFrom Life
  The tradition of drawing from life is explored through history and in the art of today, including a life class staged by Jeremy Deller with Iggy Pop as nude model.• Royal Academy, London, 11 December to 11 March.Continue reading...
  
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• Peter Martins Takes Leave From New York City Ballet Following More Harassment Accusations

  08-12-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "One of the most important directors in the ballet world, Martins, 71, said he would temporarily step away from both NYCB and its affiliated School of American Ballet, which he also heads, in a statement to The Washington Post on Thursday afternoon. He issued the statement after The Post sought Martins's comment on a previously undisclosed claim by former NYCB soloist Kelly Cass Boal that Martins behaved violently toward her."
  
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• Geoffrey Rush Sues Sydney Newspaper Over Report Of 'Inappropriate Behaviour'

  08-12-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "'Today I filed defamation proceedings in the federal court of Australia against the Daily Telegraph,' he said at a brief press conference in Melbourne. 'This is to address the hyperbole, lies and the spurious claims about me in entertainment community. They have splashed spurious claims with bombastic titles on their front pages.'"
  
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• Could Ballet Classes In Prison Lower The Number Of Repeat Offenders? New Zealand Is Trying It

  08-12-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Corrections NZ has invited the Royal New Zealand Ballet into a women's prison to offer classes. A pair of journalists visit just as a group of inmates is getting ready for holiday performances. (audio and video)
  
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• Pantone's 2018 Color Of The Year Is - Well, Not Bad After The Last Few

  08-12-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Three years ago, it was the singularly unlovely marsala; the next year, Pantone chose blue and pink (in honor of gender fluidity); for this past year, it was - not green, but "greenery." For 2018, it's "the highlighter-purple shade that has also been the name of a Warhol superstar who died in 2014; a 2006 dystopian action film starring Milla Jovovich as a rebel infected with a vampiric virus; an online activist community founded in 2012 to combat sexism and violence toward women; and a kind of l
  
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• Saudi crown prince 'is real buyer' of painting by Leonardo da Vinci

  08-12-2017 13:15
  US intelligence identifies Mohammed bin Salman, powerful heir to Saudi throne, as man behind $450m purchase at auctionThe saga of the only Leonardo Da Vinci painting in private hands has taken another twist with reports that US intelligence has identified the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, as the true buyer of the work, which was sold for $450m (£335m) at auction.The claim will raise eyebrows, coming in the midst of a sweeping anti-corruption drive in the kingdom that has seen 15
  
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• 'For too long, they have generated harm': the fight to remove offensive monuments in New York

  08-12-2017 13:00
  A 500-strong petition asks to remove four statues in Manhattan that artists and academics see as support for white supremacyThis summer, a series of Confederate monuments were torn down in Maryland, North Carolina, Florida, Texas and Louisiana after the death of a civil rights activist at a far-right protest in Charlottesville. It looks like New York City might be next.Related: 'This is surreal': descendants of slaves and slaveowners meet on US plantationRelated: The rise in art protests: how th
  
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• Nina Vatolina’s Fascism, the Most Evil Enemy of Women: stirring propaganda

  08-12-2017 10:57
  Artists were key to spreading Stalin’s ideology – and this image, created after the Nazi invasion in 1941, is a typically rousing take on the Russian everywomanNina Vatolina created this mighty figure as the Nazis invaded Russia in 1941. With her arms flung open and her wide stance, she has something of Hersilia, the woman who charges into the midst of the battle in David’s The Intervention of the Sabine Women. Continue reading...
  
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