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• The Year in Books—A Few Favorites Fit for Perusal

  26-12-2017 23:50 via artnews.com
  Turn the pages of volumes devoted to anti-museums, Latinx art, ersatz earthworks, pissing figures, and more. Read More
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• Sable Elyse Smith at Queens Museum, New York

  26-12-2017 23:30 via artnews.com
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• Artists Heap Scorn On UK Government's Report Of Impact Of Brexit On Creative Industries

  26-12-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Commenting primarily on the structure of the sector and noting that 6.7% of the workforce in 2016 were EU nationals and there were 2 million jobs in the creative industries, the publication has been met with scorn from the arts sector for glossing over issues such as freedom of movement and refusing to include ‘sector views’. The Committee received these from the Government but “decided not to publish”.
  
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• Here's What Hollywood Should Learn About The Bad Movies It Made This Year

  26-12-2017 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The takeaway? Audiences seem to have grown cynical of the whole Marvel-inspired interlocking universe trope. And in an era when summer moviegoing (the studios’ most reliable money-making time frame) hit a 25-year low, with revenues tumbling more than 14 percent and tying with 2014 for the worst year-over-year decline in modern history, that emphasis on spectacle, formulaic filmmaking, and empire-building (at the expense of creating relatable characters or even coherent story lines) proved
  
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• Defend The Humanities? Why?

  26-12-2017 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Vulgar conservative critiques of the humanities are usually given the greatest exposure, and yet at the same time, it is often political (and religious) conservatives who have labored the most mightily to foster traditional humanistic disciplines in schools. Left defenders of the humanities have defended their value in the face of an increasingly corporate and crudely economic world, and yet they have also worked to gut some of the core areas of humanistic enquiry—“Western civ and al
  
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• A History Of Our Fascination With Prodigies

  26-12-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ours is an era, a popular parenting adviser has written, when Lake-Wobegon-style insistence on above-average children is “yesterday’s news,” overtaken by an anxious credo that “given half a chance, all of our children would be extraordinary.” Yet versions of today’s uneasy preoccupation with off-the-charts early achievement actually go back further than we think.
  
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• The Year in Auctions: A Tale of Two Lots (Plus Nine More)

  26-12-2017 21:00 via artnews.com
  See the ten priciest lots bought by bidders in 2017. Read More
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• The Unlikely Friendship That Produced "The Night Before Christmas"

  26-12-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "On one hand, we have a man of inherited wealth, his way greased by the power and position of his family, but also a man who believed in the public good (even if he didn’t like city hall telling him what to do with his property) and believed in helping struggling artists—and a man, yes, with enough twinkle in his soul to write the world’s most famous poem about Santa Claus—in the spirit of Christmas, let’s be generous and assume he was the author. And then you have
  
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• The Singer Soars After Two Double-Lung Transplants

  26-12-2017 19:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Diagnosed at age 20 with pulmonary arterial hypertension, or high blood pressure in the lungs, Charity Tillemann-Dick's heart was more than three times larger than normal. But she couldn't imagine a life without song. As her career flourished, Tillemann-Dick's body deteriorated until a 2009 lung transplant saved her life. She was 26."
  
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• Colin Dick obituary

  26-12-2017 18:19
  When my friend Colin Dick died aged 88, I was part way through cataloguing his prolific output of paintings. This fascinating journey followed on from Richard Yeomans’ critical survey Colin Dick: Seeing Life (2011).Colin was born in Cheam, Surrey, the son of Stanley Dick, an administrator for BP, and his wife, Mabel (nee Cant); wartime evacuation of his father’s company took the family to Henley, in Oxfordshire. After the second world war, Colin studied at St Martin’s School of
  
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• Ian Langford obituary

  26-12-2017 16:11
  Ornithologist, conservationist and publisher with a special interest in wildlife artIan Langford, who has died of oesophageal cancer aged 61, was a conservationist and publisher with a special interest in wildlife art. He showcased the work of artists who were also passionate about conservation, such as John Threlfall and Carry Akroyd. The Langford Press art books he issued were sumptuous large-format volumes packed with pictures and sketches based on the patient observation of natural landscape
  
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• The Year in Memes with Kyle Mabson

  26-12-2017 15:05 via artnews.com
  In 2017, Instagram-based visual memes continued to be a powerful cultural driver, influencing everything from politics to the world of contemporary art. Within this large pool, one account stands alone. Under the @selfies_food_and_pets moniker, the Los Angeles-based artist and musician … Read More
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• Morning Links: Tennis, Anyone? Edition

  26-12-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• My best winter photograph

  26-12-2017 07:00
  A polar limousine, ice skyscrapers in China, a New York snowstorm, Sitting Bull’s descendant at a pipeline protest, and a flying figure-skater … top photographers pick their coolest shotNaoki Ishikawa Continue reading...
  
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