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• The Israel Philharmonic's Biggest Change In Decades

  26-01-2018 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Founded by Hitler refugees in the 1930s and patronised by the café-dwellers of Tel Aviv, the orchestra has seen its audience grow old and its output stagnate. An influx of Russian musicians and concertgoers in the 1990s gave a brief blip of renewal but the IPO was set on a road to irrelevance. Young Israelis go to clubs, not concerts. Part of the problem has been the IPO’s resistance to change."
  
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• Margaret Atwood On Why It Was A Bad Time For Ursula Le Guin To Leave

  26-01-2018 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As an anarchist, she would have wanted a self-governing society, with gender and racial equality. She would have wanted respect for life-forms other than human. She would have wanted a child-friendly society, as opposed to one that imposes childbirth but does not care about the mothers or the actual children. Or so I surmise from her writing. But now Ursula K. Le Guin has died.
  
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• The Antidote To Fake News Is...?

  26-01-2018 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We should be clear that when we lament the ‘fake news’ take over we are talking about media illiteracy, not actual fake news. Fake news was originally reported in our current public discourse to describe actual false information knowingly posted by bloggers in Macedonia who were gaming the system to get more clicks to make money from ads on their websites, as reported by Craig Silverman and Lawrence Alexander in Buzzfeed.  Facts may be framed within a news story in interpre
  
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• Pace Will Open Its Ninth Gallery, in Geneva

  26-01-2018 22:03 via artnews.com
  It arrives in March. Read More
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• James MacMillan: Scottish National Party Is Using The Arts For Propaganda

  26-01-2018 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The SNP is anxious to keep its “artsy stormtroopers onside” because of the threat posed by a resurgent Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn to its support in any future independence referendum campaign, he writes.
  
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• We're Fascinated By Dystopias. But Why? They're So Dull!

  26-01-2018 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We have seen a marked diminution in the production of new utopias over the last decades (along with an overwhelming increase in all manner of conceivable dystopias, most of which look monotonously alike).”
  
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• Old Vic Theatre Institutes New Program After Harassment Claims About Kevin Spacey

  26-01-2018 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The programme comes after an internal investigation commissioned by the theatre led to 20 people making claims against Spacey.
  
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• Melanie Flood at Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon

  26-01-2018 21:02 via artnews.com
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• Dissident Art After Fidel's Cuba

  26-01-2018 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the past few months, several unofficial art spaces, both non-profit and commercial, have opened up across Havana. As the ruba's Fidelegular influx of US collectors to the island has dried up under the Trump administration’s travel restrictions, artists have turned their attention to works and projects aimed at the local community.
  
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• Sex In The Middle Ages - There Was More Of It, And More Sophistication About It, Than You'd Think

  26-01-2018 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Which is not to say that all the ideas they had about sex in medieval Europe were scientifically or medically sound, mind you. But they weren't exactly prudes.
  
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• How Technology Is Creating Voices For Those Who No Longer Have Them

  26-01-2018 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VocaliD’s technology works by capturing a few seconds of vowel sound (the source) from the recipient, and applying it to the filter provided by a donor. The combination allows the production of a voice that’s largely “of” the recipient.
  
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• Queens Museum Director Laura Raicovich Steps Down

  26-01-2018 19:21 via artnews.com
  She has led the museum for three years. Read More
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• Director of Sales & Marketing for The Cleveland Orchestra

  26-01-2018 19:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  For decades The Cleveland Orchestra has been a point of pride in its hometown. It is universally admired for its world-class credentials, its gifted musicians, and its acoustically perfect and visually stunning concert hall. The orchestra welcomes people of all ages, all walks of life, and invites them to experience something that is unique in the world. Reasonable ticket prices and the orchestra’s groundbreaking Under 18s Free programs through the Center for Future Audiences make it possi
  
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• Guided Tours Are Tacky, Touristy, And The Best Way To Sightsee

  26-01-2018 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jeffrey Bloomer: "Friends offered stories of backdoor culinary tours in Istanbul down rickety staircases and through secret restaurants. I heard about guides whom you pay just to skip the line at overrun international museums but then charm you half to death anyway. And then there were many stories of guides like mine in Vermont, stewards of decidedly unexotic locations who know enough local chicanery to make every government building and local landmark feel like the seed of the next great Ameri
  
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• From the Archives: Howardena Pindell’s Rich Visual Feasts Throughout the Years

  26-01-2018 18:49 via artnews.com
  Ahead of a Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago survey, a look back at the artist's career. Read More
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• World War I Footage Restored, Colorized By 'Lord Of The Rings' Director

  26-01-2018 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[Peter Jackson] admitted even he had been surprised by what was possible using the latest technology.'We can make this grainy, flickery, sped-up footage look like it was shot in the last week or two,' he said. 'It looks like it was shot with high-definition cameras ... It is so sharp and clear now.'"
  
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• Why Russians Are Churning Out Dozens Of Parodies Of A 15-Year-Old Music Video

  26-01-2018 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It started when just over a dozen cadets at the air transport academy, wearing very little, did a lip-synch cover of Benny Benassi's "Satisfaction." The effect was rather Tom of Finland, which got them in trouble when the powers-that-be found the video online. Masha Gessen recounts what happened next - "a story of spontaneous solidarity, self-organization, and, ultimately, just possibly, the triumph of freedom over bureaucracy."
  
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• College Art Association Announces 2018 Awards for Distinction

  26-01-2018 17:46 via artnews.com
  Pepón Osorio took home the 2018 Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime AchievementRead More
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• Some Scientific Thinking On Music As A Universal Language

  26-01-2018 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A new study finds categorizing obscure songs by their intended function is surprisingly easy to do—even when they're the product of a faraway foreign land. Universal patterns of human behavior steer songs "into recurrent, recognizable forms," writes a research team led by Samuel Mehr of Harvard University. It adds that these commonalities can be detected even as music maintains "its profound and beautiful variability across cultures."
  
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• João Ribas Named Director of Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Portugal

  26-01-2018 17:10 via artnews.com
  He was previously the museum's deputy director and chief curator. Read More
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• Some Skepticism About "Music As A Universal Language"

  26-01-2018 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While music is universal, its meanings are not,” adds Anne Rasmussen, an ethnomusicologist at the College of William and Mary. And those meanings are created both by the people making and hearing the music, and by the entire cultural package that surrounds it. A Bach cantata that was composed to celebrate God, for example, means something very different when played in a 21st-century concert hall or in a New York deli. The meaning of music, in other words, “is not somethin
  
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• 'Praise the lord and pass the rattlesnakes': the pastor killed by the viper he preached with

  26-01-2018 16:54
  Mack Wolford coiled venomous snakes round the arms and necks of his congregation. One, called Old Yeller, killed him. Photographer Lauren Pond relives how she captured the tragedyPastor Mack Wolford had many ways of getting the faithful all fired up. He would drive from town to town, preaching, singing, speaking in tongues and brandishing – on several occasions – venomous snakes. Wolford, who lived in McDowell County in West Virginia, belonged to the Full Gospel Apostolic House of th
  
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• Scientists, Activists Push For American Museum Of Natural History To Kick Rebekah Mercer Off Board

  26-01-2018 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "This week, more than 200 scientists and other academics who have advocated policy action on climate change endorsed an open letter that calls on the museum to remove [the prominent right-wing donor] from its board and 'end ties to anti-science propagandists and funders of climate science misinformation.'" Protesters have been demonstrating in front of the museum as well.
  
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• Olivia Cole, Actress Who Won An Emmy For 'Roots', Dead At 75

  26-01-2018 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A dedicated stage and screen performer - and an African-American woman who earned degrees from Bard College, London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and the Univ. of Minnesota in the 1960s - she won the Emmy for playing Matilda, the wife of Chicken George in the Alex Haley miniseries. She was nominated for a second Emmy for Backstairs at the White House and co-starred in the Oprah Winfrey production The Women of Brewster Place.
  
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• How A 16th-Century Legal Document Ended Up In A Copy Of 'Alice In Wonderland' In Rural Australia

  26-01-2018 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Lorraine Smith's detective story began at her second-hand bookshop in Warrnambool, Australia, when a customer came to her with what looked like a piece of paper. It had been hiding in an old copy of Alice in Wonderland, the customer said, that she had paged through while browsing in the back of the store. ... Smith grew determined to discover what this manuscript was and where it had come from. What was that obscure writing? Who was the document's original owner? And how did it end up in Austra
  
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• Why would Trump turn down a golden toilet? Because he already has one

  26-01-2018 15:21
  The 18-karat loo offered to the US president by the Guggenheim is a modern masterpiece – as the 100,000 people who have used it can testify. The White House should plumb it in prontoArt can be a terrific way of insulting the powerful. It is the ultimate smirking courtier, seeming to suck up while in reality, gesticulating rudely behind the king’s back – or, in the case of Donald Trump and the golden toilet, under his backside. Continue reading...
  
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• Three Ballerinas Explain How They Actually Pull Off Those 32 Fouettés In 'Swan Lake'

  26-01-2018 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "You've done your variation, you run offstage, you have a moment to collect yourself, and you just go. If you were to give yourself time to think, 'I have to do 32 fouettés now,' I don't think you'd go back out on stage." Elizabeth Murphy, Lesley Rausch, and Laura Tisserand, principals at Pacific Northwest Ballet, explain how they do it, physically and mentally. (includes video)
  
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• Pacifica Radio Gets $2 Million Loan, Dodges Bankruptcy

  26-01-2018 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last fall, a judge ruled that the Pacifica Foundation was in default for $1.8 million in unpaid fees for New York station WBAI's use of transmitters on top of the Empire State Building. Scrambling to keep the creditors from seizing Pacifica's assets, the foundation has essentially mortgaged the building of its Los Angeles station.
  
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• Morning Links: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Edition

  26-01-2018 15:00 via artnews.com
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• New York’s Ameringer McEnery Yohe Gallery Renames Itself, Expands

  26-01-2018 14:56 via artnews.com
  After a renovation, the Chelsea gallery will add 1,500 square feet of space. Read More
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• Trump Asks Guggenheim To Lend A Van Gogh For White House; Guggenheim Offers The Solid Gold Toilet Instead

  26-01-2018 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The White House asked to borrow van Gogh's Landscape with Snow for Donald and Melania Trump's private quarters. Curator Nancy Spector denied the request - but she did offer, with the artist's support, the notorious "interactive sculpture" titled America, Maurizio Cattelan's auriferous commode that was in use for a year in the Guggenheim's fifth-floor public restroom.
  
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• Glorious art from a dreadful king and the cosmos in a plastic cup – the week in art

  26-01-2018 14:44
  The RA’s perverse Charles I show opens, Tara Donovan makes the ordinary extraordinary and Velázquez paints a nobody – all in your weekly dispatchCharles I: King and Collector
  Great paintings by Mantegna, Titian, Rubens, Holbein, Durer and Tintoretto feature in this perversely hagiographic homage to a king who drove his subjects to rebel. Read our review.
  • Royal Academy, London, 27 January to 15 April. Continue reading...
  
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• Pianist Angela Hewitt Injured In Fall Before Concert, Performs Nevertheless

  26-01-2018 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[The Canadian pianist] took a tumble down a flight of stairs before her concert in Oxford last night, twisting her ankle. But she still managed to carry on with the show. Giacomo Panico reached her in England for the rest of the story." (podcast)
  
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• Christo To Float Pyramid In London's Serpentine Lake

  26-01-2018 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The artist will create on of his Mastaba sculptures - a large group of colored barrels stacked into a pyramidal shape - to float on the man-made lake in Hyde Park as a centerpiece of a show this summer at the Serpentine Galleries.
  
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• Maurizio Cattelan – the artworld prankster whose gold toilet would have been perfect for Trump

  26-01-2018 14:05
  The Italian provocateur has played with images of Hitler and John Paul II. Getting his satirical loo into the White House would have been his greatest coup yetName: Maurizio Cattelan.Age: 57. Continue reading...
  
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• Harassment And Bullying Are Rife In UK Theatre: Survey

  26-01-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the wake of the Weinstein and Spacey scandals, "The Stage carried out a survey to determine the scale to which harassment and bullying has affected, and continues to affect, theatre and performing arts professionals." Here is an extended presentation and analysis of the survey results. Among the leading stats, 43% of respondents had experienced bullying in the course of their theatre work, and 31% had experienced sexual harassment.
  
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• Rijksmuseum's Branch At Amsterdam Airport Closes Due To Roof Leaks

  26-01-2018 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A water leakage at the Rijksmuseum's branch at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport continued for nearly a week, initially dripping down a glass showcase with 17th-century Golden Age paintings. ... Water entered through the roof during building work." The museum has removed the ten Golden Age paintings at the satellite and will return them once construction is complete this summer.
  
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• Goodspeed Cancels Woody Allen's 'Bullets Over Broadway'

  26-01-2018 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The storied Connecticut nonprofit that launched Annie and has been a prominent showcase for musical theater talent for more than four decades, announced this afternoon it was canceling an upcoming production of Bullets Over Broadway in response to the resurgence of allegations that Woody Allen had inappropriate sexual contact with Mia Farrow's daughter Dylan."
  
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• White House asks for Van Gogh loan – but Guggenheim offers gold toilet instead

  26-01-2018 08:46
  The Guggenheim Museum proposed lending Maurizio Cattelan’s America after turning down a request for Landscape With Snow The Guggenheim Museum has reportedly turned down a White House request to borrow a Van Gogh painting, and has instead offered the Trump administration the use of a golden toilet.The White House had asked the Guggenheim, based in New York, to borrow Landscape With Snow, Van Gogh’s 1888 work depicting a man and a dog walking through a field. Related: On the throne: wh
  
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• National Gallery Cancels Chuck Close Show Following Allegations of Sexual Misconduct

  26-01-2018 04:45 via artnews.com
  An exhibition of Thomas Roma photographs was also called off. Read More
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