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• Is The Met's New Cancellation-Plagued "Tosca" Jinxed?

  28-12-2017 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There have been plenty of star-crossed productions in Met history, including the premiere of Samuel Barber’s “Antony and Cleopatra” that opened the Met’s Lincoln Center home in 1966 (amid serious last-minute technical glitches and labor woes) and Robert Lepage’s recent “Ring” cycle (built around a 45-ton set that had a habit of breaking down). But Mr. Gelb said that he had never before had to recast all the leads in a new production. “Luckily, ther
  
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• How Big Data Is Transforming Social Research (And What's To Come)

  28-12-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I think the biggest change that is still to come is that much of the tracking and experimentation that we associate with online behavior will increasingly apply to our offline behavior. That is, right now, many researchers are aware that all our behavior online is tracked and subject to experimentation. For example, when you visit Amazon, they are recording and analyzing your browsing behavior, and they are running experiments to improve their business metrics. However, increasingly, more and m
  
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• Ivan Chermayeff obituary

  28-12-2017 19:28
  One of the leading graphic designers of his generationIvan Chermayeff, who has died aged 85, was one of the most admired graphic designers of a generation that redefined the profession. His 60-year professional life, from which he never retired, was shared with a fellow student from Yale, Tom Geismar, and a succession of other partneirs, the first having been Robert Brownjohn and the most recent Sagi Haviv. The work of their firm - currently known as Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv –
  
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• ‘Nuvolo and Post-War Materiality 1950-1965’ at Di Donna, New York

  28-12-2017 19:00 via artnews.com
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• A Year in Queer: 8 Notable Moments of LGBTQ Art in New York

  28-12-2017 18:47 via artnews.com
  In these dark times, the writer has often turned to art, when his mental health allows, seeking comfort as this country falls to pieces. Read More
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• 2017: The Year in Review

  28-12-2017 17:56 via artnews.com
  The editors of ARTnews look back on the past year. Read More
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• The Year in Music: Sounds for Artful Appreciation (with a Playlist to Stream)

  28-12-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Hear recordings by Yves Tumor, Dirty Songs, Eli Keszler, Jlin, Umfang, and more. Read More
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• Morning Links: First Date Edition

  28-12-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Country diary: a stone dog marked by time and tides

  28-12-2017 06:30
  Wrest Park, Bedfordshire The statue was pitted and scarred with marine fossils, drooling threads of spider web anchored to its teethEven before the stonemason struck soft rock with hard metal for the first time, he must have known that he was destined for imperfection. Three hundred years later, the evidence was plain to see on an animal sitting on the terrace of the big house, haughty, imperious and mildly deformed.The mason had chiselled a block of sediment from an ancient sea into a guard dog
  
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