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• Kindle's Next Act: Reinventing The Book?

  22-12-2017 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In a world filled with distractions and notifications and devices that do everything, the Kindle's lack of features becomes its greatest asset. But readers also want to read everywhere, in places and ways a paperback can't manage. They want more tools, more features, more options, more stuff to do. Amazon's still working out how to satisfy both sides. Whatever route it takes, the next decade of Kindle is likely to be even more disruptive than the last. First it changed the book business. Next i
  
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• MacArthur's $100 Million Plan To Bring The Muppets To The Middle East

  22-12-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The five-year grant will fund a localized version of “Sesame Street,” distributed through television and digital devices, and home visits using “Sesame Street” content for an estimated 1.5 million children. Instead of the stars that Americans grew up with, like Big Bird, Elmo and Oscar the Grouch, the characters would be tailored to the region, speaking Arabic and Iraqi Kurdish."
  
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• Our Universities Have Become Polarized. What To Do About It?

  22-12-2017 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "There are many things we can do to reduce tribalism, strengthen our kids, and repair our universities. We—the baby boomers and gen-Xers who fill this room—we have made a mess of the clock. Left and Right, Republicans and Democrats. But we can make up for it if we can come together, admit that we messed up, and change what we are doing to kids, and to college students. We just might be able to raise a generation of kids who can care for the clock after all."
  
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• How A Fight Over Attending The Theatre Fueled Civil Rights Battle In the 1800s

  22-12-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Across America, on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line, the races were kept separate at the theater. Black people sat apart in the upper galleries or were excluded entirely, by custom and, in some southern cities, by law. As hybrid places—private associations open to the public—theaters were subject to municipal authority, but property owners possessed the liberty to exclude or restrict at will. The common law recognized no right of amusement seeking. After emancipation, statehouses
  
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• Montreal Music Critic: How Charles Dutoit Got A Pass On Abuse?

  22-12-2017 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Rumours about Dutoit’s behaviour were rampant for years. I confess straightaway to having done precisely nothing with them. Possibly the first reference in the Gazette to the Dutoit dark side, thickly veiled, was in the column I wrote last week on the case of disgraced former Metropolitan Opera music director James Levine."
  
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• How Do You Build A Dance Center In San Francisco? Buy Derelict And Package It With Affordable Housing

  22-12-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The dilapidated 1919 structure, a former furniture store that was remodeled with an Art Deco flair in the late 1930s, has been on and off the market for more than a decade as a succession of owners unsuccessfully attempted to redevelop it as a dialysis center, a vegan restaurant, a brewery and an organic grocery store.
  
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• New Visions For A New Generation Of American Public Monuments

  22-12-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "This new school of public sculptures, monuments and plaques range from lifelike portraits of millennial rappers to boulders honouring the lives lost in the Orlando massacre. It proves a new vision is under way to commemorate America’s updated values."
  
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• New York Times's 12 Small Gifts To Be Grateful For From The Arts In 2017

  22-12-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From the leotards in the Netflix comedy GLOW to a Janet Jackson backup dancer who got cheers of her own to the single-take episode of Mr. Robot, "these 12 blink-and-you-might-have-missed-them cultural moments of 2017 brightened up a year otherwise defined by the threat of nuclear war, natural disasters - from hurricanes to wildfires - that left hundreds of thousands homeless, a string of sexual harassment charges against some of the country's most prominent political and entertainment figures an
  
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• 500 Academics Protest Polish Government's "Repurposing" Of WWII Museum

  22-12-2017 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The museum, which opened to the public in February, has been at the centre of an ongoing battle over national memory. The right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS), elected to government in Poland in 2015, is determined to use the museum displays to present the “Polish point of view” while its critics argue for the autonomy of historians and museums."
  
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• A 'Herculean Task For An Actor': Playing An English Pantomime Dame

  22-12-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "What may seem disarmingly simple is actually incredibly complex. The dame is definitely a man in a dress, and one who needs to combine a character with strong maternal instinct, a mouth that's full of broad innuendo and ensure that the joke is always on them. The great dames also form the bridge between the audience and the action on stage. ... A great frock and wig can only take you so far."
  
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• Where Is St. Nick Buried? Turkey Makes The Claim

  22-12-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Since claims emerged of a newly discovered chamber beneath the church, an archaeological debate has raised questions on the ultimate resting place of his remains. Theologians say the most logical possibility is that his body was smuggled to Italy in the 11th century. But Turkish officials believe his remains may lie beneath the Byzantine church."
  
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• Four Hidden Biases That Shape (And Distort) Natural History Museums

  22-12-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "They are places for people, made by people. We might like to consider them logical places, centred on facts, but they can't tell all the facts - there isn't room. ... Museums are a product of their own history, and that of the societies they are embedded in. They are not apolitical, and they are not entirely scientific. As such, they don't really represent reality."
  
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• How Museums Are Trying To Diversify

  22-12-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Museums aren’t just working to cultivate new audiences because inclusiveness is a moral imperative — there’s also a strong business case for widening their nets. In an era of Snapchat videos and Instagram art, American cultural institutions are also trying to figure out how to cultivate the next generation of museum goers. 23 percent of the U.S. population is under the age of 18, according to census data — a generation that’s not particularly white, and not particu
  
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• Graffiti about sex with refugees stunned me – but I wasn’t surprised | Jade Jackman

  22-12-2017 17:07
  We need political art with teeth, but the obliviousness of the hastily-removed piece of Shoreditch street art speaks volumesAs our cities’ skylines spiral upwards, we have grown accustomed to increasingly bad street art. For self-preservation, we train our eyes to dull the slogans that cover the buildings that gentrification means many can no longer afford to enter, but the white words painted on a wall in Shoreditch, east London, will stay with me: “Sex with refugees is jasmine-scen
  
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• How Weird Al Yankovic Stayed Relevant For Four Decades And Outlasted Most Of His Parody Targets

  22-12-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In terms of longevity, Al falls somewhere between The Simpsons and Saturday Night Live, though rather than an ever-cycling comedic ensemble, Al's just one bespectacled, poodle-haired accordionist with an adenoidal voice who's never done illegal drugs in his life and kept the same band and manager for the duration of his career." Andy Beta looks at how he did it.
  
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• The Year in Screens, in Museums, Galleries, and So On

  22-12-2017 16:44 via artnews.com
  From a 3-D Anicka Yi video to restored net artworks, these are the best screen-based works that could be found in galleries, museums, and theaters, and on laptops. Read More
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• The Most Remarkable Art-History Discoveries Of 2017

  22-12-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In 2017, we gained new insight on the early years of Leonardo da Vinci and the final ones of Andy Warhol; amateur archaeologists were rewarded with major finds; and several masterpieces were discovered, simply hiding in plain sight. From newly mapped Venezuelan petroglyphs to a long-lost Magritte, these are 10 of the most notable art-historical discoveries of the year."
  
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• New Renaissance: how Florence is freeing its great female artists

  22-12-2017 16:27
  They painted magnificent works, from Madonnas to Last Suppers, often earning more than men. But their paintings were hidden away. Now a rescue mission is creating a fresh female RenaissanceIn a dark cluttered studio in central Florence, restorer Rossella Lari is working on a little-known jewel of the Renaissance. It’s vast: a seven metre by five metre depiction of the Last Supper, with figures that are almost lifesize, that was painted in the 1560s.As she works, Lari says she thinks often
  
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• Why Hoover's FBI Investigated 'It's A Wonderful Life' For Communist Influences

  22-12-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "An unnamed FBI agent who watched the film as part of a larger FBI program aimed at detecting and neutralizing Commie influences in Hollywood ... uncovered that 'those responsible for making It's a Wonderful Life had employed two common tricks used by Communists to inject propaganda into the film.'"
  
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• From the Archives: John Russell on Works by David Hockney for a Production of ‘Ubu Roi,’ in 1966

  22-12-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  "Hockney is, also, a gifted observer of vestimentary indiscretions." Read More
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• The High-Pressure, High-Drama World Of Kids' Competitive Dance

  22-12-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The children who enter these competitions train up to 30 hours per week, primarily on weekends and after school. Because children must compete in many styles - hip-hop, ballet, jazz and others - versatility is essential, and training can be rigorous to the point of extremity." Says one judge, "It was never like this when I was a kid. These kids are like gladiators."
  
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• The Top 10 Library Stories Of 2017

  22-12-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From net neutrality to ebooks to copyright questions to The Resistance to perennial issues of funding, here are the leading developments of the year for libraries.
  
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• Consumer Reports: Milah Libin and Arvid Logan

  22-12-2017 15:15 via artnews.com
  Arvid Logan and Milah Libin are the founders of Dizzy, a print magazine focusing on the arts: painting, writing, film, music, style, and beyond, all with an intergenerational span. In addition to the magazine, Logan is a painter who also makes airbrushed … Read More
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• Henry Codax at Everybody, Tucson, Arizona

  22-12-2017 15:10 via artnews.com
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• The Year in Lists, Tweets, Facts, Hot Takes, Jeff Koons x Louis Vuitton, and Canapés

  22-12-2017 15:05 via artnews.com
  Plus: Michael Govan's great airplane photographs. Read More
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• Charles Dutoit 'Released' As Royal Philharmonic's Artistic Director 'For The Immediate Future'; Six Other Orchestras Cut Him Off

  22-12-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The orchestra has released a statement saying that it, along with Dutoit, 'have jointly agreed to release him from his forthcoming concert obligations with the orchestra for the immediate future,' adding that it is 'committed to the highest standards of ethical behaviour'. ... He has been sacked from other positions at the San Francisco Symphony, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, while orchestras in New York, Chicago and Cleveland have all cancelled appearances fr
  
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• Morning Links: Odysseus Edition

  22-12-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• New York Public Radio Fires Longtime Hosts Leonard Lopate And Jonathan Schwartz

  22-12-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The two were suspended two weeks ago over allegations of "inappropriate conduct"; following an investigation, they were dismissed on Thursday. "It's a stunning end for two of WNYC's most recognizable voices: Lopate interviewed everyone from Barack Obama to Liza Minnelli on his long-running weekday show, while Schwartz maintained a devoted following for his weekend program dedicated to the American Songbook."
  
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• Clifford Irving, Perp Of 20th-Century's Greatest Failed Literary Hoax, Dead At 87

  22-12-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Despite several other notable books and a notably extravagant life, Irving is best remembered for his forged "autobiography" of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes - who briefly emerged from his extreme seclusion to denounce the volume as fake. (In an impressive bit of chutzpah, Irving later wrote and sold a book about his hoax, and even got a movie made of it.)
  
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• Dallas Opera Names Former Board Chair As Interim CEO

  22-12-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Dallas Opera responded Thursday to the recent departure of former general director and CEO Keith Cerny by appointing longtime board and executive committee member Kern Wildenthal as interim general director and CEO. Wildenthal, the announcement noted, 'will serve in a volunteer capacity, with no compensation, until a permanent director is appointed.'"
  
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• Afghanistan's Lost Ancient Cities Are Being Discovered By Spy Satellites

  22-12-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For archaeologists, Afghanistan is virtually off-limits for fieldwork, as Taliban forces battle the Kabul government in far-flung provinces and security remains tenuous even in the capital. Yet U.S. and Afghan researchers are now finding thousands of never-before-cataloged ancient sites in the country, which for more than a millennium served as a crucial crossroads linking East and West. The discoveries promise to expand scholars' view of long-vanished empires while giving the battered nation a
  
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• Orlando Ballet Names First Artist In Residence

  22-12-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The idea is for the artist in residence to help develop unique content for the ballet, serve as a role model for Orlando Ballet School students and through master classes and other events serve as an ambassador to the community. Dancer Arcadian Broad is the first person given the open-ended position, which will be reserved for those who demonstrate talent in multiple areas and can leave a lasting impact on the company and the wider dance community."
  
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• Turkish President To Replace Atatürk Cultural Center, Istanbul's Major Monument To Modern Turkey's Founder

  22-12-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan [has] unveiled plans for a new opera house and cultural complex on Taksim Square in central Istanbul ... which will entirely replace the Atatürk Cultural Centre built in 1969 in memory of the great modernising founding father of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. ... [The current building] is viewed as a Modernist landmark and the symbol of the progressive, secular Turkish Republic."
  
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• Siberian warriors and a Christmas cracker of surrealist fun – the week in art

  22-12-2017 13:00
  The Natural History Museum has a whale of an exhibition, a Games of Thrones world comes to life at the British Museum and Susan Philipsz finds her voice – all in your weekly dispatch Continue reading...
  
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• Paul Nash’s Winter Sea: the natural cycle of life and death

  22-12-2017 10:58
  The landscape painter created this work in the coastal village of Dymchurch, where he spent time recovering from the horrors he had witnessed at YpresWinter Sea is the beloved English landscape painter Paul Nash at his bleak best. Working a cubist reduction, his waves are knife-like slivers of black ice. This is a painting about transformation, freezing rolling waters into forms as solid as concrete, and suggesting the natural cycle of active life into petrified death. Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.21.17

  22-12-2017 10:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  National Gallery Does It Again: A Wonderful Christmas Theme
  “The first Christmas gift is gold …” says the National Gallery’s Caroline Campbell as she begins a video inviting visitors to explore the theme of gold in the stories told by art at the London museum. ... read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-12-20A Plenitude of Nudes: Drawn to Michelangelo’s Musclemen at the Met
  “This drawing is the reason why I’m a curator at the Met,&rdq
  
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