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• Why Missy Mazzoli Is The Composer Of Her Generation

  16-01-2018 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Seven or eight years ago, she started making waves with her chamber-ensemble-cum-girl-band, Victoire, a group with a funky alt-classical vibe that she formed as an outlet for performing her own music. Listening to the band’s post-minimalist drones overlaid with expressive spasms of melody in an electronic haze, playing at the Atlas on H Street in 2011, you might not have guessed that Mazzoli’s work was going to veer into the world of mainstream opera. But on Friday, the Washington N
  
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• Monya Rowe Gallery to Reopen Space in New York

  16-01-2018 23:01 via artnews.com
  The shop is coming back after fleeing down to Florida in 2015. Read More
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• Decline Of The Working-Class Actor

  16-01-2018 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For British actors, ever-growing division is a fact of life. The erection of roadblocks for working-class actors now begins at state schools, where drama has been squeezed out by slashed teaching budgets and a narrowing curriculum. Then come rising fees at drama schools. Overcome those and you get to chase dwindling roles in soaps and bad gangster movies."
  
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• Is Waterstone's Books For Sale? (It's Not A Good Time)

  16-01-2018 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s not a good time to be trying to sell a UK High Street retailer in light of higher [business] rates, Brexit, and some tough leases. That worries me. It’s important that it’s bought by a good owner, but who? It could even be Amazon, which would be disastrous and one would hope for Competition Authority intervention in that case, although they sometimes look the other way.”
  
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• Yale Center for British Art Receives 125 Photographs from Claire and James Hyman

  16-01-2018 21:45 via artnews.com
  The gift includes work by Martin Parr, Bill Brandt, and others. Read More
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• Allan D’Arcangelo at Waddington Custot, London

  16-01-2018 21:34 via artnews.com
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• Art World Expresses Concern Over The Future Of Ailing Documenta

  16-01-2018 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The signatories of the letter expressed concern that recent decisions made by Documenta’s supervisory board “have considerably damaged one of Germany’s internationally active and influential cultural institutions, and thus also the image of Germany abroad.” They said the city is debating changes that will lead to the “restructuring of Documenta in the direction of a pure commercialisation and marketing of the Documenta brand.”
  
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• What, Me Worry? Reading Robots Are Smart But Not Wise

  16-01-2018 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Advances in word recognition and comprehension can only make AI better at handling those kinds of requests. Machines that can better understand our questions will give us better answers. That could mean a doctor getting more accurate and actionable information with which to base a diagnosis, or a teacher more clearly representing a concept to a student."
  
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• Baltimore Museum of Art Adds Amy Sherald to Its Board of Trustees

  16-01-2018 20:55 via artnews.com
  She was chosen to paint Michelle Obama's portrait last year. Read More
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• For The First Time, Robots Can Now Read Better Than Humans

  16-01-2018 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The AI algorithm, developed by Chinese retail giant Alibaba, outscored humans in the Stanford Question Answering Dataset—a global reading test consisting of more than 100,000 questions. Using natural-language processing, the machine-learning model developed by Alibaba’s Institute of Data Science of Technologies beat rival humans with a score of 82.44 versus 82.305, the company said."
  
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• Man Ray in LA: what happened when the pioneering artist hit Hollywood

  16-01-2018 20:20
  A new exhibition sheds light on the visual artist’s time in Los Angeles and the many famous actors he captured on filmIn the autumn of 1940, Man Ray met a travelling tie salesman at a party in New York. The American artist had arrived back in the US earlier that summer, having spent nearly two decades in Paris. The salesman said he was planning a cross-country trip to Los Angeles; Man Ray decided to catch a lift.Related: History gathers dust … photographers add an extra layer t
  
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• Los Angeles’s Freedman Fitzpatrick Will Open New Location in Paris

  16-01-2018 20:00 via artnews.com
  The inaugural show will present work by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy.Read More
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• Everyone's Talking About A Backlash Against Tech. It's More Complicated Than That

  16-01-2018 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Our technological evolution is happening faster than most people ever imagined, and it is clearly happening faster than society is able to deal with it. How should we respond?"
  
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• 'Am I A Bad Feminist?' Margaret Atwood Worries About Fairness And Due Process In #MeToo, And About The Backlash She Suffered For Worrying

  16-01-2018 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The #MeToo moment is a symptom of a broken legal system. All too frequently, women and other sexual-abuse complainants couldn't get a fair hearing through institutions - including corporate structures - so they used a new tool: the internet. ... [But] if the legal system is bypassed because it is seen as ineffectual, what will take its place? ... In times of extremes, extremists win. Their ideology becomes a religion, anyone who doesn't puppet their views is seen as an apostate, a heretic or a
  
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• How Podcasts Are Democratizing Learning

  16-01-2018 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In a nation always on the go, it does seem as if the most serious intellectual production and consumption has been confined to the cloisters of higher education, where an elite professoriate soaks in high ideas in paneled seminar rooms safe from the hurly-burly of daily life. But what if a technology was able to bridge the gap, accommodating our culture's hyperkinetic habits while also bringing to it gems of intellectual wealth from the ivory tower? To a large extent this is exactly what the be
  
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• Former VCU Dean Joseph Seipel Named Interim Director of School’s ICA

  16-01-2018 18:13 via artnews.com
  He spent 40 years of his career at the school. Read More
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• The Problem With One-Person Plays

  16-01-2018 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Billington grants the genre its virtues - low cast, adaptability, the chance to spotlight an actor's skill - but wonders about its limits of perspective.
  
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• United States Artists Names 2018 Fellows, Including Dread Scott, Pepón Osorio, and Cassils

  16-01-2018 18:00 via artnews.com
  The award comes with an unrestricted $50,000 grant. Read More
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• Study: Broadway Is Becoming More Diverse

  16-01-2018 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The study, released Monday, examined the 2015-16 season and found it to be the most diverse the group has reviewed so far, with 35 percent of all roles going to minority actors, up from 30 percent the previous season and 24 percent the year before that. The coalition has now compiled 10 years of data on diversity on New York stages."
  
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• After Arctic Blast Leaves Roads Slicked with Ice, San Antonio Museums Close for the Day

  16-01-2018 17:10 via artnews.com
  The McNay Art Museum and the San Antonio Museum of Art are among them. Read More
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• The Biggest Questions Facing the Dance World About Sexual Harassment

  16-01-2018 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "What would dance-specific sexual harassment training and policies look like? How can we protect freelancers working outside an institutional setting?" Lauren Wingenroth spells out the issues.
  
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• What We're Losing When Arts And Music Get Whittled Away In Schools

  16-01-2018 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After asking the 10- and 11-year-olds in her French class to make a picture book with their new sentences and having them tell her that none of them could draw at all (they'd never had an art class in their young lives), The Guardian's Secret Teacher argues that it's not just that arts education increases test scores in other subjects ...
  
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• Finding your museum doppelganger is fun – but the science behind it is scary | Arwa Mahdawi

  16-01-2018 16:11
  Facial recognition technology allows Google to find the artwork you most resemble – but it also supports the rise of the surveillance stateWorried you’re no oil painting? Well, there’s an app for that! The internet is obsessed with a new feature in the Google Arts & Culture app that finds your museum doppelganger. You take a selfie, then Google trawls a database of art to find the museum portrait you most resemble. It is an irresistible proposition for everyone’s inne
  
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• England's Largest Medieval Stained-Glass Window Has Been Restored

  16-01-2018 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At York Minster, one of the great cathedrals of northern England, the Great East Window - completed 1405-1408 and roughly the size of a tennis court - has undergone a ten-year rehab costing nearly $15 million.
  
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• Podcasting Has Something That Public Radio (Badly) Needs: Risk Tolerance

  16-01-2018 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Eric Nuzum, who spent two decades in public radio before moving into digital audio: "The unspoken groupthink at work ... is that an idea cannot have both merit and risk at the same time. Resources are precious. Time is limited. As guardians of public funds, it is imperative that public radio's decision-makers ensure that they invest in winners. Every time. This philosophy is a petri dish for failure. And not the good kind of failure."
  
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• Artist Sells Off Space On Original Rauschenberg Piece To Advertisers

  16-01-2018 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Artist Nikolas Bentel is on a mission to destroy an original Robert Rauschenberg in a project intended to emphasize how the art market is, in his words, 'a glorified stock market.' Beginning this week, the artist - who is part of the New Museum-led incubator New Inc. - is selling off sections of the artwork as advertising space, so its surface will eventually be covered with an eclectic assortment of images."
  
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• How The Overseas Press Translated Trump's 'Shithole Countries' Remark Into Other Languages

  16-01-2018 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It was a debate that many journalists likely never expected to face." The problem isn't just with the unaccustomed vulgarity: while the original term's individual components are easy to translate, the combination is not. Samantha Schmidt looks at some of the attempts international news outlets made.
  
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• Morning Links: Stolen Markus Lüpertz Sculpture Edition

  16-01-2018 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Is The Renovation Of The Old Corcoran Gallery Literally Making The Students There Sick?

  16-01-2018 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "When the Corcoran failed as an institution in 2014, George Washington University absorbed the school and its [120-year-old] building at 17th Street and New York Avenue NW. The university soon after launched an unprecedented renovation, and decided to keep the school open to studios and classes for the duration." The disruption caused by the construction was bad enough, but now students are complaining of headaches, nausea, rashes, breathing problems, and even fleas.
  
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• Ocean Vuong Wins £25,000 T.S. Eliot Prize For Poetry

  16-01-2018 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Reflecting on the aftermath of war over three generations, 29-year-old Vuong's first collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds, has already landed the Forward prize for best first collection, as well as the Whiting and the Thom Gunn awards."
  
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• Tiny Art Town Of Marfa, Texas Loses One Of Its Main Spaces

  16-01-2018 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Marfa Contemporary, ... [which] offers a year-round exhibition program, workshops, educational initiatives, and a residency program, ... is permanently closing its doors. The space has been led by curator, art historian, and educator Kate Green since 2017. Green will soon take up the post of curator at the El Paso Museum of Art."
  
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• Houston Symphony Names A New CEO

  16-01-2018 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A California native, [John] Mangum comes to Houston from the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, where he worked as president and artistic director since 2014. He's also worked for the San Francisco Symphony and New York Philharmonic."
  
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• Telenovela Actors At Telemundo, Facing Terrible Work Conditions, Finally Unionize

  16-01-2018 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Leading telenovela star Pablo Azar, who led the campaign to join SAG-AFTRA: "Sometimes you shoot 40 scenes in one single day. So it's very demanding. ... Usually you have better conditions in the US than in countries like Mexico, Colombia. But funny enough, for actors it's backwards. Actors have better working conditions in Mexico than they have here in Miami. At least, I'm talking about Hispanic actors."
  
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• Cirque Du Soleil Banned Critic Lyn Gardner - Here's What Happened Next

  16-01-2018 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The critic Sanjoy Roy, who has never reviewed the company before, was approved for a press ticket for the show and The Guardian bought a ticket for me for £73, which offered a side view over the stage." Here's a review by both writers of Cirque's show Ovo - as Gardner writes, "I love the acts. It would be foolish to pretend that Cirque doesn't showcase some of circus's most skilled performers." But ...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.15.18

  16-01-2018 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Museum Admissions, Deaccessions: Let's Get RealI have not waded into either of the debates that are raging across the art museum world at the moment. So far, I've avoided commenting on ... read moreAJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2018-01-15Michael Gordon's Acquanetta: Backstage carnage amid on-screen horrorMystery is the canny substitute for substance. The less that is known, the more implication can spin grandeur out of the mundane. And that explains Acquanetta, the single-name
  
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• Watching (And Listening) To The Maria Callas Hologram Might Be A Bit Creepy

  16-01-2018 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It was amazing, yet also absurd; strangely captivating, yet also campy and ridiculous. And in a way, it made the most sense of any of the musical holograms produced so far. More than rock or hip-hop fans — and even more, you could say, than fans of instrumental classical music — opera lovers dwell in the past. We are known for our obsessive devotion to dead divas and old recordings; it can sometimes seem like an element of necrophilia, even, drives the most fanatical buffs."
  
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