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• Director of Development

  01-12-2014 23:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hartford Stage, one of the nation’s premiere non-profit theatres, seeks a dynamic and experienced Director of Development to manage and direct the theatre’s fund raising programs.
  
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• Duncan Campbell Wins the 2014 Turner Prize

  01-12-2014 22:39 via artnews.com
  
  This year’s Turner Prize, the United Kingdom’s most highly esteemed and controversial art award, has been given to Duncan Campbell for his film It for Others. The 42-year-old Irish artist now joins the ranks of such past winners as Damien … Read More
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• An instant/An Eternity

  01-12-2014 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In Miami for Art Basel? Stop by Scope Art Fair and check out Gauntlet Gallery at booth D22! Great Works to be seen! (gauntletgallery)
  
  
  
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• Turner Prize 2014: Video artist Duncan Campbell wins prestigious award

  01-12-2014 21:02
  
  Dublin-born artist Duncan Campbell last night won the Turner Prize for a “topical though not always obvious” film that ranges from African masks and comedy ketchup bottles, to the IRA and Marx’s theories interpreted through dance.
  
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• Turner Prize 2014: Video artist Duncan Campbell wins

  01-12-2014 21:02
  
  Dublin-born artist Duncan Campbell last night won the Turner Prize for a “topical though not always obvious” film that ranges from African masks and comedy ketchup bottles, to the IRA and Marx’s theories interpreted through dance.
  
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• William Blake's printing and engraving: New show does not do his vision justice

  01-12-2014 20:00
  
  “I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s,” wrote William Blake (1757-1827), poet, artist, and visionary in the true sense: he had visions of angels in the trees of Peckham Rye when he was a boy.
  
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• Hans Ulrich Obrist Is in The New Yorker This Week

  01-12-2014 19:15 via artnews.com
  
  Perfectly timed to coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach, D. T. Max has profiled the indefatigable curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, the co-director of London’s Serpentine Galleries, for this week’s issue of The New Yorker. Lots of good anecdotes here, ranging from … Read More
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• China’s Massive New Audiences For Movies Being Powered By Mobile Ticketing

  01-12-2014 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  An “important role has been played by convenience of mobile ticketing, which enables flexibility, impulse buying and seat selection that is valued by the 80, 90 and 00 generations (i.e. born in those decades), who are the main drivers of China’s cinema growth.”
  
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• Serious Writers Go To Work For Big Brands

  01-12-2014 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A number of companies are latching on to a broader advertising notion of ‘the writer,’ either as a conceptual, disembodied mascot or, in the case of Chipotle, by gathering literary luminaries to form a collective ‘spokescribe.’ As serious literature becomes further marginalized, cloistered from the cultural Kardashians at the gate, brands may be tapping into […]
  
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• Will The UK’s Big Chain Bookstore Finally Recover From The Recession?

  01-12-2014 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘We are heading towards break-even in the current financial year,’ said managing director James Daunt. ‘If we have a decent Christmas, that is where we will get to.’ Break-even would be an important milestone for the retailer, which narrowed its losses to £23m last year.”
  
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• Lucien Smith’s Father Explains Why His Son Is a ‘Coward’

  01-12-2014 18:56 via artnews.com
  
  Lucien Smith is having a great year. The 25-year-old New York-based painter opened “Tigris,” his first show at Upper East Side gallery Skarstedt, in May. In February, one of his abstract “Rain Paintings,” made using a fire extinguisher, sold for … Read More
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• Lucien Smith’s Father Calls His Son a ‘Coward’

  01-12-2014 18:56 via artnews.com
  
      Lucien Smith is having a great year. The 25-year-old New York-based painter opened “Tigris,” his first show at Upper East Side gallery Skarstedt, in May. In February, one of his abstract “Rain Paintings,” made using a fire extinguisher, … Read More
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• Drawing through depression: "the Doodle Chronicles"

  01-12-2014 18:55
  
  When Molly was diagnosed with clinical depression, she put pen to paper and discovered an unexpected therapy and communityClick here to donate to the Guardian and Observer Christmas charity appeal
  Molly, 21, is a student - and a doodler. She started her blog, The Doodle Chronicles, a few months ago when she was diagnosed with severe clinical depression and anxiety. She describes the creative experience as a kind of therapy:
  Externalising my thoughts and feelings is both helpful and enlightenin
  
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• Report: Big Tension Between Music Director, Musicians At The Dallas Symphony

  01-12-2014 18:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When you’re not playing well, you’re not playing well. And if I am the messenger of that, well, then, of course, I will be disliked by some people. But I am always honest, with myself and others.”
  
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• A Big New Contemporary Art Museum For Miami

  01-12-2014 18:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Groundbreaking is expected for next summer, with an opening planned for December 2016. The facility is to include more than 20,000 square feet of exhibition space, as well as classrooms and a 15,000-square-foot sculpture garden.”
  
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• Prizewinning Author Who Was The Target Of Racist Watermelon Joke Explains Why It Was So Painful

  01-12-2014 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Slowly, the hideousness of the stereotype began to sink in. In the eyes of those who told and repeated the jokes, we were shuffling, googly-eyed and lesser than.”
  
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• London’s architecture lacks Berlin’s sense of culture, says Chipperfield

  01-12-2014 18:35
  
  Leading British architect, who works in both cities, bemoans lack of public realm and discussion of buildings’ meaning in BritainThe leading British architect Sir David Chipperfield has said that he regards private investment’s hold over new architecture in London as an “absolutely terrible” means of building a city.In Berlin, where he employs an office of 90, “there is still an idea of the public realm. We have given that up in London. We have declared the public realm dead; the quest
  
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• British Campaign To Boycott Amazon For Christmas Racks Up Millions In Pledges

  01-12-2014 18:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “By the morning of Cyber Monday, 11,463 people had pledged ‘to avoid shopping on Amazon from 1 to 25 December,’ promising to spend a combined total of £2.59m at other retailers.”
  
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• Can Movie Theatres Become Cool Again?

  01-12-2014 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The seats shake in concert with the action onscreen, spray filmgoers with water, and emit action-matching smells. And there’s this: “Can’t cope with two hours away from your smartphone? One theater company has found success with instant on-screen messaging — the texted comments pop up next to the action.”
  
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• The Cautionary Architectural Tale Of One World Trade Center

  01-12-2014 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “1 World Trade implies (wrongly) a metropolis bereft of fresh ideas. It looks as if it could be anywhere, which New York isn’t.”
  
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• Simba, Bambi and other Disney characters shown skinned and bleeding in anti-fur campaign

  01-12-2014 17:38
  
  Bambi, Simba, Timon and some of Disney’s most loveable characters have been pictured skinned and dripping with blood in a campaign against the fur trade.
  
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• Simba, Bambi and Disney characters shown skinned and bleeding in anti-fur campaign

  01-12-2014 17:38
  
  Bambi, Simba, Timon and some of Disney’s most loveable characters have been pictured skinned and dripping with blood in a campaign against the fur trade.
  
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• When A Board Chair – And Formidable Philanthropist – Steps Down

  01-12-2014 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In her 20 years on the board, Ms. Weill built a formidable legacy: Ailey’s endowment grew to $61 million from less than $1 million. In 2005, the company moved into a custom-built $54 million building, which includes rehearsal studios and a theater.”
  
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• 6 Art Events to Attend in New York This Week

  01-12-2014 17:16 via artnews.com
  
  MONDAY, DECEMBER 1 Screening and Talk: Modern Mondays: An Evening With Ken Okiishi at MoMA The artist Ken Okiishi, who appeared in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and who is featured in the current MoMA show “Cut to Swipe,” will screen … Read More
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• The Star Wars Trailer Has A Black Stormtrooper & The Internet Freaks Out

  01-12-2014 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A black stormtrooper can very well be a black stormtrooper in the Star Wars Galaxy without there being any great significance to it. It’s not that simple in the fraught universe of Hollywood, though.”
  
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• Losing His Edge? Jeffrey Deitch Thinks You Were Too Hard on Him

  01-12-2014 16:30 via artnews.com
  
  Jeffrey Deitch, the art dealer, curator, and controversial former director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, opened his legendary gallery, Deitch Projects, in 1995 at 76 Grand Street in Manhattan. His first show, as he writes in his … Read More
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• Will Lars Von Trier, Newly Sober, Ever Make Another Film?

  01-12-2014 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Von Trier explained he felt a daily bottle of vodka helped him enter a ‘parallel world’ necessary for creation and that coming off both alcohol and drugs might mean he could only produce ‘shitty films.'”
  
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• Stop Saying ‘Serial’ Is Going To Save Podcasting, Because It Will Not

  01-12-2014 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Even if the hype for this show grows to a level where it brings podcasts exposure to a new audience segment perhaps even more sizable than that of current core podcast devotees, there’s little else like ‘Serial’ for this wave to listen to that will keep them around to sample more content.”
  
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• Art Basel Miami Beach 2014 Preview: Part 5

  01-12-2014 15:30 via artnews.com
  
  The week of Art Basel Miami Beach has arrived, and our preview concludes today, with 25 more works that will be on offer—many that are fresh out of artists’ studios, others that have been in private collections for years. Artists include … Read More
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• As time goes by: share your artworks about nostalgia

  01-12-2014 15:11
  
  As the year draws to a close, take a trip down memory lane and share your nostalgia-themed artIt’s that time of year – time to overeat, surrounded by loved ones, as the days draw in and another year comes to a close. Whether you’re firmly in the holiday spirit or sick of it already, the festive season prompts many people to look back and remember days gone by.A sense of nostalgia has inspired artworks for centuries, from JMW Turner’s wistful seascapes to John Constable’s bucolic countr
  
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• Look sharp: readers' best pencil drawings – from babies to meerkats

  01-12-2014 15:10
  
  2B or not 2B? Readers get graphic with graphite, in drawings that combine technical brilliance, humour and imagination …As time goes by: share your artworks about nostalgia now
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• Morning Links: Miami Edition

  01-12-2014 14:50 via artnews.com
  
  On Art Basel Miami Beach’s “unfulfilled promise” of making Miami a world class art destination. [The New York Times] James B. Stewart called around and asked about the value of art. Is it like C.d.o.s? Not really, it is determined. … Read More
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• ‘Cobra Was Arguably the Last Truly International Avant-Garde Movement': Alison Gingeras on Her Upcoming Exhibition at Blum & Poe

  01-12-2014 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  ARTnews recently learned that the gallery Blum & Poe is planning an exhibition of works from the Cobra movement. The show, organized by the former curator of the Pinault Collection, Alison Gingeras, will take place at the gallery’s New York location … Read More
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• All Of That CyberMonday ‘Free Shipping’ Isn’t Actually, You Know, *Free*

  01-12-2014 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Retailers including Amazon, Best Buy, and the Gap have all raised free shipping minimums, not just because of the higher cost of shipping, but rather because it encourages shoppers to buy more.”
  
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• Advertising Executive, The Art Newspaper

  01-12-2014 14:00
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• The alleged rape of Shia LaBeouf is inexcusable – but so is third-rate art

  01-12-2014 13:48
  
  Performance art is a difficult genre that often exploits physical threat, but LaBeouf’s #IAMSORRY is simply badThe actor Shia LaBeouf has told of being raped while performing his work #IAMSORRY at a Los Angeles art gallery. Was this a case of performance art creating an atmosphere in which anything, including crime, can happen?Ever since the first ancestral performance happenings in the early 20th century, this dynamic and unpredictable form of art has been associated with violence and danger.
  
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• Shia LaBeouf's #IAM SORRY: art is often violent, but nothing can excuse rape

  01-12-2014 13:48
  
  Performance art is a difficult genre that often exploits physical threat, but LaBeouf’s #IAMSORRY is simply badThe actor Shia LaBeouf has told of being raped while performing his work #IAMSORRY at a Los Angeles art gallery. Was this a case of performance art creating an atmosphere in which anything, including crime, can happen?Ever since the first ancestral performance happenings in the early 20th century, this dynamic and unpredictable form of art has been associated with violence and danger.
  
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• These Native Alaskans Hired Some Game Developers To See If They Could Hack The Winter …

  01-12-2014 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The result is ‘Never Alone,’ the story of a young female heroine and the fox who loves her. To play through the puzzle-based side-scrolling adventure (you avoid peril mainly by running and jumping) is to experience the sensation of stumbling upon a long-lost fairy tale.”
  
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• Duncan Campbell bookies favourite to win Turner prize 2014

  01-12-2014 13:11
  
  The Dublin-born film artist is the favourite to win the art prize, which will be announced tonight – though nearly every year brings a surprise
  Dublin-born artist Duncan Campbell is the favourite to win the 30th Turner prize, which is announced tonight.
  Campbell’s work includes a 54-minute film featuring segments of a 1953 French film essay by Chris Marker and Alain Resnais on colonialism and African art, plus a dance routine choreographed by Michael Clark that interprets economic equation
  
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• Here’s the Exhibitor List for Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2015

  01-12-2014 12:00 via artnews.com
  Today the Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair released the list of some 60 galleries appearing in its sixth edition, which runs January 29 to February 1, 2015, at the Barker Hangar. Big-name exhibitors include Canada and Foxy Production, both of … Read More
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• After Shia LaBeouf's art gallery trauma we should affirm that all rapes are 'real', and all are breaches of trust | Van Badham

  01-12-2014 09:38
  
  In Shia LaBeouf’s case, mainstream suspicion of contemporary art has intersected with the ingrained cultural habit of victim blamingHollywood star Shia LaBeouf says he was raped in an art gallery during a performance of his art project, #IAMSORRY. The actor was performing as a silent audience to individual visitors when, he says, an abuser – a woman – “whipped my legs for 10 minutes and then stripped my clothing and proceeded to rape me”. It’s extraordinary, but his clear, personal t
  
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• Our pick of shows to see when in Miami this week

  01-12-2014 08:00
  
  Previews of must-see exhibitions on during Art Basel Miami Beach
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.30.14

  01-12-2014 07:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  NPG Effort Raises Good Question Re: Crowdsourcing AJBlog: Real Clear Arts  Published 2014-11-30  What if there is no “Excellence?” AJBlog: We The Audience  Published 2014-11-30  Billy Strayhorn AJBlog: RiffTides  Published 2014-11-29  Dear Cannibals, Have a Piquant Thanksgiving AJBlog: Straight|Up  Published 2014-11-27  From Detroit to Delaware: Why We Need Government Deaccession Regulations AJBlog: CultureGrrl  Published 2014-11-26
  
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• Welcome to iWallet

  01-12-2014 02:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  First, A Video: Welcome to the world of iWallet. Welcome to Lenny. Lenny knows about finances, how to secure your personal information, and how to play the global markets.  - “Lenny. It’s our anniversary. Can we afford a fancy dinner?”  - “Sure. You have it coming. Get the tasting menu with wine pairing. If income ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Paris court delivers verdict in Rodin case

  01-12-2014 01:42
  After years of debate, it decides case does not fall under French law
  
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• International artist residency programme: call for applications

  01-12-2014 01:00
  Public Art Experience - BEHAVE
  
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• Write for Zouch!

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