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• 'Broadcast News' Is Terrific, But There Was An Disastrous Alternate Ending That Would Have Wrecked It

  27-12-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When the movie was first in previews, audiences wanted Holly Hunter's newscast-producer character to end up with one of her two guys. So James L. Brooks, against his better judgment, shot a scene to provide that happy-ish ending. As Jane Craig (Hunter) said in another context, "It's awful." Jason Bailey explains.
  
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• Good Design Is A Public Good (Why Is This So Hard To Understand?)

  27-12-2017 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The conventional wisdom is that design costs more and is only a luxury. Yet people from all walks of life deserve good design. The power of design to dignify will never be fully explored until average people have some sense that they deserve better."
  
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• The Beloved, Popular Books That Got Rejected Over And Over Again

  27-12-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was turned down 121 times by publishers; Stephen King's Carrie, 30 times; Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, 36; Catch-22, 22 times (of course). Emily Temple's list includes other surprising titles - including (!) The Diary of Anne Frank.
  
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• Rosângela Rennó at Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo

  27-12-2017 19:00 via artnews.com
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• How Traveling To Learn Lost Its Edge

  27-12-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a world where travel has lost many of its mental and physical exertions, one meets people who fly thousands of miles to do a bit of shopping in Dubai, to lie on a beach in Bali, or to watch a cricket match in Adelaide… Some travellers travel enormous distances and keep all their preconceptions intact.”
  
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• The New York Times Comedy Critic Explains How He Works (And Decides What's Funny)

  27-12-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jason Zinoman: "The first question I ask of a show isn't whether or not it's funny. Rather, I look to understand: What is the comic trying to do, and how interesting or new is it?"
  
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• The Year in, and Beyond, New York Galleries—Plus a Top 10 from Around the World

  27-12-2017 17:47 via artnews.com
  A look at developments on the home front, and delights internationally. Read More
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• Christmas Movies Are Really Propaganda For Capitalism

  27-12-2017 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In Christmas movies, audiences can bank on heartwarming plots where grouches become kind and misers become charitable. But Christmas movies also tend to reinforce the myth of the "good capitalist," favoring stories about individual virtue over any real social change. The way Christmas movies tell it, the generosity of individuals is sufficient to mitigate the harms of class inequality."
  
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• Let Go Of The Guilt - Science Has Officially Approved The Practice Of Re-Gifting

  27-12-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kate Wheeling: "It's that time of year again: The day after Christmas. The holiday-season stress is over; the only thing to worry about now is what you're going to do with that pair of Sauna Pants from Aunt Midge, who, bless her heart, still hasn't grown out of her as-seen-on-TV phase. I'm here to tell you that science says you can just give them away. You're welcome."
  
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• A Final Miami Post: Toasting Andy Warhol

  27-12-2017 16:47 via artnews.com
  Here are photos from a book party in Miami hosted by Assouline, Sotheby's, and ARTnews. Read More
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• They're Producing 'Fiddler On The Roof' In Yiddish (What Took So Long?)

  27-12-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lyricist Sheldon Harnick and director Jerry Saks will consult on the New York production by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene. And, evidently, the author of the original Yiddish-language Tevye-the-Dairyman stories will be a character.
  
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• The First Computer-Generated Christmas Carols Came From Alan Turing's Lab In 1951

  27-12-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Now researchers from the Turing Archive at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand have used old recordings to recreate a now-lost 1951 BBC broadcast of a couple of [those] Christmas carols." (includes sound clips)
  
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• Why Is 'Nutcracker' So Popular Everywhere? Because It's So Adaptable

  27-12-2017 15:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Not only does the scenario offer interpretative possibilities ranging from a simple child-oriented extravaganza to a sexual awakening for young Clara, it has proved flexible enough for localized versions everywhere from China to Hawaii to South Africa. (Not to mention Mark Morris's trailer-trash Americana.)
  
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• Tim Rollins, Artist and Activist Whose Work Thrived on Collaboration, Dies at 62

  27-12-2017 15:34 via artnews.com
  He was known for his collaborations with Kids of Survival, or K.O.S. Read More
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• Tim Rollins, Artist and Activist Whose Work Thrived on Collaboration, Dies

  27-12-2017 15:34 via artnews.com
  Tim Rollins, whose work bridged the gap between activism and art, bringing together strands of literature and art history, painting, Minimalism, conceptual art, and social justice, has died, according to the Maureen Paley gallery, which showed him in London.Much of … Read More
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• A Breakthrough In Deciphering The Incas' Mysterious Knotted-String 'Writing', Made By A Harvard Undergrad

  27-12-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Unlike the Mayans, the Incas never developed a system of writing: they recorded information in intricately knotted and colored sets of string called khipu or quipu. No one in the modern age has been able to figure out how to read them, because there's no equivalent of the Rosetta Stone. Then, three years ago, then-19-year-old Manny Medrano made a key discovery.
  
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• The Forgotten Story Of How Lincoln Center Was Built (It Was An Ugly Business)

  27-12-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Lincoln Center was the crown-jewel project of the Mayor's Committee on Slum Clearance, which was overseen by Robert Moses, the man who reshaped the city in the mid-20th century." As Robert Caro wrote, "Moses was not making even a pretense of creating new homes for the [7,000-plus] families displaced."
  
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• Explaining The New Tax Bill's Potential Effect On The Art Market

  27-12-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anna Louie Sussman looks at the implications of the legislation.
  
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• Morning Links: Not a Hermès Bag Edition

  27-12-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Morning Links: Not a Hermes Bag Edition

  27-12-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Artsy's 25 People Who Defined Visual Culture In 2017

  27-12-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This year's list runs from Maria Balshaw (the first woman to head the Tate gallery system); through Dana Schutz and the artists who led the attack on her painting of Emmett Till, the creators of the "pussy hat" and of the Fearless Girl sculpture on Wall Street; down to the photographer who created the pregnant-Beyoncé image - not to mention Beyoncé's sister, Solange Knowles.
  
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• WNYC Firings: What Went Wrong At America's Biggest Public Radio Station?

  27-12-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Over the past two decades, under CEO Laura Walker and deputy Dean Cappello, New York Public Radio has become known (even more than before) as a programming and podcasting powerhouse. How did things get to the point that three of the station's best-known hosts were fired within four months? And why only now, when management was aware of the relevant problems for years? A reporter looks into how, as Walker puts it, concerns about growth and content crowded out concern with the people producing the
  
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• Can The Arts Really Help Repair A Broken, Divided Society? This Research Grant Aims To Start Answering That Question

  27-12-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Intuitively, most of us arts types sense (or at least want to believe) that the answer is yes. Now the Mellon Foundation is funding a study to get real data to back up that answer (or not).
  
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• Flooded Stage On Christmas Eve Causes Cancellation Of Berlin's 'Nutcracker'

  27-12-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Deutsche Oper announced the last-minute cancellations on Twitter, saying that a 'technical defect' in the opera house's fire sprinkler system caused the stage to flood."
  
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• The Church Of Bookstores

  27-12-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Unless you're just about to board, bookshop browsing can be a deeper and more untethered exercise than other kinds of shopping. Just opening a book and reading a few lines can draw you partly into another world, one you might not have planned to visit. According to Vancouver publishing consultant Thad McIlroy, only 40 percent of bookstore purchases are premeditated. All the rest are decided on impulse."
  
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• London's First Permanent Virtual Reality Museum

  27-12-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “VR technology offers a new means of creating and subverting our interaction with an environment, allowing images to become sculptural and encouraging a different kind of attention. 360 will allow visitors to view some of these early and pioneering works produced by artists.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.26.17

  27-12-2017 10:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Al Cohn, Twice
  It is neither Al Cohn’s birthday (November 24, 1925) nor the anniversary of his death in 1988. As on any day, it is simply a good time to listen ... read more
  AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2017-12-26
  
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• Canada Faces A Reckoning Of Its National Cultures

  27-12-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Blithe celebrations of a national birthday in the art world turned into a fury of self-critique, a rupture in the status quo through which all manner of marginal histories came flooding. Indigenous art in particular came to dominate the scene with major institutions nationwide joining an earnest, long-overdue effort to acknowledge not only its remarkable breadth and power, but the ugly, long-waged, government-sponsored effort to erase it from our national life."
  
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