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• New York City Awards New Mayor’s Grant for Cultural Impact to Seven Projects

  10-01-2018 22:43 via artnews.com
  The total amount granted comes to $500,000. Read More
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• Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gives 24 Works to Philadelphia Museum of Art

  10-01-2018 22:38 via artnews.com
  Included in the donation are 15 Gee's Bend quilts. Read More
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• 24 Works From Souls Grown Deep Foundation Go to Philadelphia Museum of Art

  10-01-2018 22:38 via artnews.com
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• Elizabeth Catlett at Burning in Water, New York

  10-01-2018 22:07 via artnews.com
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• From $30 to Absolutely Free: More Than 200 U.S. Art Museums by Admission Price

  10-01-2018 21:58 via artnews.com
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• From $29 to Absolutely Free: More Than 200 U.S. Art Museums by Admission Price

  10-01-2018 21:58 via artnews.com
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• UK Report: Ticket Fraud Is Big Business (And Getting Bigger)

  10-01-2018 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  New data from the Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers, and Action Fraud – which reports on fraud and cyber crime for the police – shows that the total recorded losses between May and October 2017 came to £1.66 million. This is made up of 3,973 individual reported incidences of ticket fraud – when tickets are purchased but don’t arrive, or turn out to be fake. This is an increase from the 2,885 reports recorded over the same period in 2015.
  
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• LA County Museum And Autry Museum Join Their Collections Together

  10-01-2018 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The idea is to treat our collections as one and for our curators to work together accordingly,” LACMA director Michael Govan said in the announcement. “This exchange of works and ideas will allow both museums to bolster exhibition content especially in the areas of the historical and contemporary American West and the exploration of indigenous cultures across the Americas.”
  
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• Why So Many People Believed That Trump Watches The (Made-Up) 'Gorilla Channel'

  10-01-2018 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The issue, writes Jacob Brogan, isn't the "echo chamber" or "media bubble". Rather the contrary: Twitter is the opposite of a bubble - and that's precisely the problem.
  
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• Thw World Health Organization Wants To Classify Video Game Addiction A Disease. These Academics Object

  10-01-2018 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last week, a group called the Higher Education Video Game Alliance, which describes itself as a platform for higher education leaders to "underscore the cultural, scientific and economic importance of video game programs in colleges and universities," published a statement that strongly objected to the WHO classification. The alliance described the proposal as “premature” and said it was based on research into gaming addiction that showed “a clear lack of consensus&rd
  
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• Publisher Of 'Fire And Fury' Talks About Fighting Trump's Cease-And-Desist Letter

  10-01-2018 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Macmillan CEO John Sargent: "The person who told me said, 'Are you sitting down?' and I said yes, and they said, 'We have just received a cease-and-desist letter from the president of the United States.' The reason I was stunned is that it is actually hard to conceive that a sitting president of the United States would issue a cease-and-desist order, because it is extraordinarily unconstitutional."
  
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• Frances Kearney's best photograph

  10-01-2018 19:00
  ‘Sylvie was a 10-year-old vegetarian. She held the dead pheasants without flinching’This was taken on 10 April 2015. I remember the date because I was in London the day before and there was this strange light across town. A level 10 pollution warning had been predicted for the following day – which would be the highest level ever recorded in the UK. Something called the Sahara haze was coming and we were advised to stay indoors.I knew these atmospheric conditions would give me
  
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• New York State Makes It More Difficult For Inmates To Get Books

  10-01-2018 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Several observers pointed out that the initial five approved venders offered fewer than a hundred books for sale, two dozen of which are coloring books. “Why would they eliminate books?” Garcia asked. “It’s bureaucracy clashing with humanity.”
  
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• Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Donates 202 Works to Six Museums

  10-01-2018 18:04 via artnews.com
  The gift includes 88 works going to MoMA in New York. Read More
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• Charles Dutoit To Leave Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Post Immediately

  10-01-2018 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Dutoit, the orchestra's principal conductor and artistic director, had been due to step down in October 2019. Following an emergency board meeting, however, his departure has been brought forward and he will leave immediately. In December, three opera singers and a musician accused Dutoit of forcing himself upon them - which he denied."
  
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• Just How Many Dimensions Do We Exist In?

  10-01-2018 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Unlike mathematicians, who are at liberty to play in the field of ideas, physics is bound to nature, and at least in principle, is allied with material things. Yet all this raises a liberating possibility, for if mathematics allows for more than three dimensions, and we think mathematics is useful for describing the world, how do we know that physical space is limited to three? Although Galileo, Newton and Kant had taken length, breadth and height to be axiomatic, might there not be more&n
  
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• Ex-New York City Ballet Dancer Goes On-Camera To Detail Allegations Of Peter Martins's Violent Abuse

  10-01-2018 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Wilhelmina Frankfurt, a former NYCB ballerina and currently a dance educator, joined [Alyona Minkovski] on 'Salon Talks' to discuss Martins's legacy and reveal new claims against her former director." (text and video)
  
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• What Directing Teachers Teach Their Students: Five Veterans Explain

  10-01-2018 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Frank Galati: "Certain aspects of the job can most definitely be taught, the way a language can be taught - the grammar, the practice. Those are rules that don't really change."Sarah Schulman: "I can't teach you talent. I can't teach you insight, and sensitivity, and awareness, and perception. I can't teach you poetry - but I can help you expand these skills by asking the right questions."
  
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• Michael Williams Is Now Represented by David Kordansky Gallery

  10-01-2018 16:30 via artnews.com
  The artist has shown at Canada and Gladstone Gallery in New York, as well as with Eva Presenhuber in Zurich.Read More
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• What Directing Students Say They Learn In Their MFA Programs

  10-01-2018 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Robert O'Hara, who got his MFA in directing from Columbia University, was surprised when the program director, Anne Bogart, said she could teach the class all there was to know about directing in three weeks. What was the rest of the program about, then?"
  
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• Ireland's New National Opera Company Announces Its First Season

  10-01-2018 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Irish National Opera won't be parking itself in the capital: plans are for and 38 performances in eight regional cities as well as Dublin, plus a contemporary work at London's Barbican Centre. Repertory ranges from Mozart and Gluck through Verdi, Offenbach and Bartók to living composers Thomas Adès and Donnacha Dennehy.
  
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• Trocks Dancer Resigns, Accuses Company of Discrimination and Harassment

  10-01-2018 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chase Johnsey "says that he no longer believes the company" - the travesti troupe Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo - "stands for openness and gender freedom. He claims that he and other dancers have been mistreated, sexually harassed and discriminated against for appearing too feminine in classes and rehearsals, adding, 'We're being bullied for expressing our femininity and we're being given ultimatums just because we don't live up to some masculine idea of what a gay man is." (includes vid
  
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• Michelle Wiliiams Was Paid $1,000 For The Reshoots Of 'All The Money In The World' - And Mark Wahlberg Was Paid $1.5 Million

  10-01-2018 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Ridley Scott's Getty kidnapping drama was hastily reshot the week of Thanksgiving after a cascade of sexual misconduct allegations were made public against Kevin Spacey, who previously starred in the drama as billionaire J. Paul Getty. ... But new information reveals ugly math behind the Hollywood victory."
  
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• Morning Links: Weimaraner Puppy Edition

  10-01-2018 15:00 via artnews.com
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• New York Magazine's Sara Holdren Wins George Jean Nathan Award For Dramatic Criticism

  10-01-2018 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Holdren, who became the magazine's lead theater critic last summer after Jesse Green moved to the New York Times, won the $10,000 prize for "The Revolution Will Not Be Hashtagged: A Misguided 'Joan of Arc' at the Public Theatre," published at Culturebot last April.
  
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• Karin Von Aroldingen, Ballet Star For Balanchine, Dead At 76

  10-01-2018 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Trained in ballet in her native Germany, Ms. von Aroldingen admitted that she had to unlearn much of what she knew when adapting to [New York] City Ballet's fleet, streamlined style. Yet after Balanchine's death in 1983, she became an expert stager of his works for other companies in the United States and abroad, and performed a wide Balanchine repertoire herself before she retired from dancing in 1984. She served as a ballet mistress in the company from 2004 to 2016."
  
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• SF Ballet Star James Sofranko Named Artistic Director Of Grand Rapids Ballet

  10-01-2018 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 38-year-old dancer, who has been with San Francisco Ballet for 18 years and founded and directs the contemporary company SFDanceworks, succeeds Patricia Barker, now at the Royal New Zealand Ballet.
  
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• Egyptian Pop Singers Arrested For 'Inciting Debauchery' In Their Music Videos

  10-01-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Leila Amer will detained for four days, according to reports, while authorities investigate her video for the song 'Boss Oumek' ('Look At Your Mother'), which includes 'suggestive' dancing and gestures." (The complaining attorney called it a "moral disaster" and "an attack on society and the destruction of the state.") "Ms Amer's case occurs less than a month after a fellow singer [called Shyma] was sentenced to two years in prison over a raunchy video."
  
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• Gavin Stamp, Architectural Preservationist Who Pioneered 'Young Fogeyism,' Dead At 69

  10-01-2018 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In campaigns as a public figure and in print under the pen name Piloti, he led battles to save historic buildings from the wrecking ball and against postwar architecture and urban planning. He was perhaps best known for championing the preservation of the red telephone booth.
  
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• Three Win $100,000 Prize For The People Who Write Musical Theater's Words

  10-01-2018 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Kleban Prize, established by the lyricist of A Chorus Line, goes to promising lyricists and librettists. The 2018 award winners are Alan Schmuckler (lyrics for Diary of Wimpy Kid: The Musical), Amanda Yesnowitz (lyrics for Somewhere in Time), and Christian Duhamel (book for My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend).
  
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• William A Noguera: inside the life of an artist living on death row

  10-01-2018 12:00
  He committed a brutal murder and has spent almost 30 years waiting for execution but in a new book, the artist explains how painting changed his lifeWilliam A Noguera has spent almost 30 years on death row. He lives alone in a tiny cell in San Quentin prison, California. The previous execution in the state was in 2006, but Noguera lives with his death sentence hanging over him every day.But against that backdrop, Noguera has become an internationally recognized artist, his hyper-realistic compos
  
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• Escape artist: the life of a painter living on death row

  10-01-2018 12:00
  William A Noguera committed a brutal murder and has spent almost 30 years waiting for execution but in a new book, the artist explains how painting changed his lifeWilliam A Noguera has spent almost 30 years on death row. He lives alone in a tiny cell in San Quentin prison, California. The previous execution in the state was in 2006, but Noguera lives with his death sentence hanging over him every day.
  But against that backdrop, Noguera has become an internationally recognized artist, his hyper-
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.09.18

  10-01-2018 10:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  What You Need to KnowCommunity engagement and its potential for enhancing the viability of arts organizations is too often poorly understood or just plain misunderstood. It is conflated with other tasks and minimized by people who cannot envision its ... read moreAJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2018-01-09Should museums have free admission?A common refrain is that the museum can “afford” to have free admission for all, either through better management of costs, or through
  
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• Mindfulness - A Corporate Con?

  10-01-2018 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When the nature of work changes, companies reward new ways of feeling about it. The rise of white-collar work in the 1950s birthed the risk-averse organization man, whose highest values were loyalty and orderly conduct. The deregulation of the 1980s made virtues of aggression and ruthless competition. The new economy is characterized by instability and disruption; its ideal worker is calm in the midst of it all, productive and focused. The mindfulness training his company offers isn’t so m
  
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