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• Why The Rock Hall Of Fame Needs Fixing

  12-12-2017 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some 32 years after that first batch of inductees, with most, if not all, of the genre’s most influential practitioners voted in, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is facing its own midlife crisis. Just as rock originally was a hybrid of pop, blues, jazz, swing, country, R&B, gospel and folk, the music spawned a vast multitude of sub-categories in the half-century since its birth.
  
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• NY Philharmonic Raises A Quick $50 Million

  12-12-2017 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The rapidly raised $50 million was a coup for Deborah Borda, who has only been the orchestra’s president and chief executive officer for a few months but is already putting her stamp on the organization. Ms. Borda has pushed the Philharmonic to rethink the costly and disruptive plans to rebuild its Lincoln Center home, hired a new executive team, and turned her attention to the shaky finances of the orchestra, which has run deficits for most of the current century."
  
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• Music Series Will Accompany Anthony McCall’s ‘Solid Light Works’ at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn

  12-12-2017 22:41 via artnews.com
  Simultaneous soloists will perform in the expansive space on Fridays throughout the exhibition. Read More
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• UK Public Library Survey: 100 Libraries Closed Last Year

  12-12-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy’s annual survey of Great Britain’s libraries paints familiar picture: for the seventh year running, the number of branches and paid staff declined. There are now 3,745 branches remaining in England, Scotland and Wales, down by 105 since 2016, while the number of paid staff has declined by 5% compared with a year ago."
  
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• Study: Jazz And Classical Musicians' Brains Respond Differently To Sound

  12-12-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a new, small-scale study, a Wesleyan University research team led by Psyche Loui and Emily Przysinda report the brains of jazz musicians are uniquely attuned to surprising sounds. Electronic monitoring revealed these players have "markedly different neural sensitivity to unexpected musical stimuli," the researchers write. These musicians are trained not only to anticipate unpredictable turns, but also to engage with them in a positive, creative way. That dynamic reflex stimulat
  
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• Art Matters Names 2017 Grantees, Including Zoe Buckman and EJ Hill

  12-12-2017 22:00 via artnews.com
  Each grant comes with $7,500. Read More
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• How Artificial Intelligence Is Going To Change The Art World (And Not Just The Art)

  12-12-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As the complexity and capability of these algorithms grow, their users are beginning to cede more artistic control over their outputs to machines. In doing so, they may be ceding another type of control, too: ownership over the creative product. And the consequences could transform the way mainstream art is produced, how we consume it, and how we value the artists behind it.
  
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• Trump Ubu Alles: Rainer Ganahl Remakes an Alfred Jarry Classic in a Harlem Funeral Home

  12-12-2017 21:05 via artnews.com
  Père Ubu becomes Ubu Trump. Read More
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• Chatelet Artistic Director Ruth McKenzie On Producing Culture For A City (Or An Olympics)

  12-12-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The thing that’s frustrating about doing the Olympics is that you get to the end and then you understand what you should have done. When you’re running a theatre or an opera house or a festival, you can learn from your mistakes. You get to the end of London 2012 and think, ‘Damn, I’m never going to get a chance to apply this wisdom that I have now acquired."
  
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• Science's Broken Publishing System Abets Junk Science

  12-12-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Pseudoscience by definition is not supposed to find its way into scientific publications. From peer review to layers of ostensibly expert editorial scrutiny, the barriers to entry for nonsense are high—at least in theory. The reality, however, can differ substantially from the theoretical. Peer review can be porous, in that it allows errors, significant methodological problems, and misconduct into the literature. It also is vulnerable to gaming by researchers who exploit sloppy editorial
  
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• Joseph Rodriguez at Bronx Documentary Center, New York

  12-12-2017 20:28 via artnews.com
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• Why Aren't Hollywood Films More Diverse? Blame The Overseas Market

  12-12-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Is it possible that the lack of nonwhite and female lead characters in Hollywood films is driven, in part, by economic concerns from movie studios? Our analysis of more than 800 films sampled between 2005 and 2012 suggests the answer is 'yes'."
  
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• Adrian Searle's top 10 art shows of 2017

  12-12-2017 19:40
  Chris Ofili stitched up Eden, Rodney Graham went stilt-walking, Picasso biked to the bullfight and Rachel Whiteread poured herself a hot water bottle. But the year belonged to the unsettling, eruptive visions of Wolfgang TillmansA whole world unravelled, room after room, in this complex exhibition. Our hunger for images is insatiable and Tillmans gave us encounters with people, things, places, views, close-ups, emergencies, even the deconstructed machinery of photography itself. The exhibition d
  
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• Syrian Pirate Radio's Lifeline To The World

  12-12-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alwan is an independent Syrian news station broadcasting into that devastated country every day. It "provides much-needed news updates to information-starved Syrians and also runs popular entertainment programs and controversial discussions. After being forced to move its operations to Turkey, the voice of Radio Alwan still provides comfort to thousands of Syrians, at great risk to the individuals within Syria who help create the station’s programs."
  
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• Before Edward Lear Was A Limerick Genius, He Was A Teenage Parrot-Painting Prodigy

  12-12-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "When he was young, Lear was employed as an ornithological illustrator, and he spent years learning to draw birds, favoring live models in an era when most worked from taxidermy. Before he turned 20, he’d published Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots, a critical success, and the first monograph produced in England to focus on a single family of birds."
  
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• Old master paintings given to National Gallery by Dutch aristocrat

  12-12-2017 18:57
  Baron Willem van Dedem’s bequest called ‘Christmas gift to the nation’, with four works on public display from WednesdayFour old master paintings left to the National Gallery by a Dutch aristocrat who died in 2015 will this week go on public display.The gallery described Baron Willem van Dedem’s bequest as a “Christmas present to the nation”. Not only are they beautiful works of art, but they fill gaps in the collection.(November 15, 2017) Continue readin
  
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• Marketing & Communications Director - South Carolina Philharmonic

  12-12-2017 18:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Based in Columbia, SC's capital city, the South Carolina Philharmonic seeks an energetic, creative and forward-thinking Marketing/Communications leader. This is an exceptional opportunity for a early-career marketing professional who is passionate about music and ready to take on his/her first director-level position.
  ABOUT THE SOUTH CAROLINA PHILHARMONICThe South Carolina Philharmonic entertains, educates, enriches and excites diverse audiences through live symphonic music. An independent 501(c
  
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• "I'm A College English Instructor. My Breed Is Dying"

  12-12-2017 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "This is a bad time for my species — and a bad time for the study of English. In academe, we are witnessing an extinction of fields of study once thought essential. I teach at a private university that has just canceled majors in English, religious studies, philosophy, and music. The English major is becoming the useless gentleman, the Charles Smithson, of the modern university."
  
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• Could Artificial Intelligence Become Conscious?

  12-12-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Forget about today's modest incremental advances in artificial intelligence, such as the increasing abilities of cars to drive themselves. Waiting in the wings might be a groundbreaking development: a machine that is aware of itself and its surroundings, and that could take in and process massive amounts of data in real time. It could be sent on dangerous missions, into space or combat. In addition to driving people around, it might be able to cook, clean, do laundry - and even keep humans comp
  
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• Amaravati Buddhist art to finally be seen in full glory at British Museum

  12-12-2017 18:00
  After a two-year declutter and revamp, the Sir Joseph Hotung gallery will allow visitors to view Asian antiquities up closeFor decades, the Amaravati sculptures, a stupendous collection of early Buddhist art considered one of the greatest treasures in the British Museum, have been poorly lit and difficult for visitors to see close up.On Thursday, they will be displayed in their full glory when the central London museum reopens its largest gallery to the public after a two-year renovation. Contin
  
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• Can We Really Take Pleasure From Music That's The Product Of Suffering?

  12-12-2017 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Music is a product of a particular time and place and the context in which it is created can be dark, violent, exploitative, and even demonic.  To think seriously about music it is necessary to reckon with the problematic role it can play in culture.
  
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• You'd Think Dancers Would Be Careful With Their Bodies - So Why Do So Many Do Drugs?

  12-12-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Behind the satin and tulle, the 'work hard, play hard' mentality thrives and some dancers depend on good genes to cancel out bad behavior. 'I don't know any group of people that treats their bodies worse than dancers,' says [Miami City Ballet's Simone] Messmer. 'They don't rehab from injuries, they drink too much, they eat a lot of sugar. The idea that all dancers are healthy is a big myth.'"
  
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• Roxane Gay, Henry Louis Gates, Margaret Atwood, Hillary Clinton, And Others On The Words That Mattered In 2017

  12-12-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Truth (Gay), roots (Gates), belief (Atwood), empathy (Clinton), ally (Ana Marie Cox), gaslight (Carmen Maria Machado), crossroads (Ellen Pao), collusion (Mitch & Freada Kapor), and others.
  
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• Turning Hurricanes Into Music May Help Us Understand Them Better

  12-12-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "We are colleagues from different areas of the Penn State campus: One of us is a professor of meteorology, and the other a professor of music technology. Since 2014, we have been working together to sonify the dynamics of tropical storms. In other words, we turn environmental data into music. By sonifying satellite videos like those often seen in weather reports, we hope that people will better understand how these extreme storms evolve." (includes video)
  
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• Is It Art Or Arson? It's Both, And The Artist May Go To Prison For It

  12-12-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[Russian photographer] Danila Tkachenko's 2017 Motherland project documents the annihilation of villages, the plight of small farmers struggling to compete with big corporations, and 'a state over-reliant on oil, which has shown no interest in developing agriculture'."
  
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• Flower Power: On Vegetation and Verdure in Art

  12-12-2017 15:24 via artnews.com
  Take a sui generis tour of floral art history. Read More
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• García Márquez's Archive Is Now Available Online - For Free

  12-12-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The online archive, which is catalogued both in English and in Spanish, includes drafts and other material relating to all of García Márquez's major books, ... [as well as] previously unseen photographs, notebooks, scrapbooks, screenplays and personal ephemera, like a collection of his passports. Many archives are digitizing their holdings. But to make so much material from a writer whose work is still under copyright freely available online is unusual."
  
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• Jesse Green And Paul Rudnick Dish Gay Theater Past, Present, And Future

  12-12-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "During the 1970s, '80s and '90s, there was a rise in plays about gay life that addressed issues of identity, homophobia and the decimating AIDS epidemic. Plays like Boys in the Band, The Normal Heart and Angels in America shattered taboos and brought gay characters into the mainstream. Many of these groundbreaking plays are now returning to Broadway, but will they hold up a generation later?" (audio)
  
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• Morning Links: Issa Rae’s Art Basel Miami Beach Adventure Edition

  12-12-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• The Latest Pre-Broadway Tryout Town: Edmonton (Edmonton?)

  12-12-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The road to Broadway has rarely been this cold."
  
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• Let The Berkshire Museum Sell The Paintings: Tyler Cowen

  12-12-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The board of the Berkshire Museum made a decision to just shift focus [to history, natural science, and tech], not to tear up the institution and start all over again. ... The sad truth is that the people running the Berkshire Museum just don't care that much about American art any more, at least not from an institutional point of view. Given that reality, it's actually better if they are not entrusted with important artworks."
  
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• If You Need A Basic Primer On The Berkshire Museum Art Sale And Lawsuit, Here It Is

  12-12-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The AP's Mark Pratt offers "a look at the arguments for and against, and why the case against the Berkshire Museum has aroused such anger:"
  
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• The Much-Postponed, Much-Argued-About Nureyev Bio-Ballet Finally Premieres At The Bolshoi

  12-12-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "As [director Kirill] Serebrennikov himself notes in a program interview: 'I am doing an exotic, probably nonexisting job. Perhaps I am the only ballet stage director around.' And so the big questions: Does having a director make a difference? And is Nureyev any good? The answers are yes and somewhat." Roslyn Sulcas reports.
  
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