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• THE MARLBORO MAN

  02-12-2014 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Marlboro cigarettes remind me of my stepfather. I guess he was the second stepfather I had, but some might argue that he was the first because he actually married my ma. I wasn’t at the wedding, but I remember it because my ma wore a white suit with black spots slapped all over it. I ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Jacksonville City Council President Deems Art Photo ‘Pornographic’

  02-12-2014 22:33 via artnews.com
  A portrait of a nude pregnant women by the art photographer Angela Strassheim — part of a larger exhibit of works by Strassheim titled “Focused on Family” and shown inside of the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville’s “Project Atrium” — … Read More
  
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• Finalists Chosen To Design New Helsinki Guggenheim

  02-12-2014 20:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The shortlisted entries — chosen by an 11-member jury from 1,715 anonymous submissions — come from emerging and established architectural practices located in a range of countries.”
  
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• Musicians With Disabilities Talk About The Keys To Success

  02-12-2014 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Those with physical disabilities are bound to meticulous logistical planners of everything from accessible concert halls to transportation to bathrooms. And then there is discrimination, which shows up in subtle, and less than subtle, ways.”
  
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• NADA Miami Beach 2014 Preview: Part 3

  02-12-2014 20:11 via artnews.com
  It’s a balmy, beautiful 79 degrees in Miami right now, and art-fair festivities are already well underway. Miami Basel opens tomorrow, and NADA the next day. Our fair previews conclude today, with one last look at the what dealers are … Read More
  
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• Study: Immigrants Who Join Music Ensembles Better Integrate Into New Culture

  02-12-2014 20:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Programs providing young migrants with the opportunity to perform music within a larger, culturally heterogeneous group can be viewed as an effective intervention to encourage adaptation to mainstream culture,” writes a research team led by psychologist Emily Frankenberg of J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt.
  
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• Why Are Our Children’s Books Getting Less Diverse?

  02-12-2014 20:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Of 3,200 children’s books published in 2013, only 67 were written by African-American writers, and only 93 centered on black characters. That’s actually the lowest tally recorded since 1994, when the Cooperative Children’s Book Centre began collecting data. Children’s books didn’t do much better with American Indian, Asian, or Latino kids.”
  
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• Chinese Theatre Owner Wants To Own Major Hollywood Studio

  02-12-2014 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The potential acquisition would accomplish two things: provide a steady stream of popular movies for Chinese theaters, and make Wang’s Dalian Wanda Group a more powerful force in the global entertainment industry. Dalian Wanda also owns AMC Theatres, the No. 2 chain in the U.S.”
  
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• Bands Turn To Brands Turn To Bands In Mutual Self Promotion

  02-12-2014 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Years after corporations began enlisting musicians as spokesmen, the alliance between brands and bands is deepening, with companies from outside the music world taking on creative and curatorial roles at a moment when record labels are ceding some of their authority.”
  
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• Florida City Official Decries Art Depicting Pregnant Woman As “Pornographic”

  02-12-2014 19:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jacksonville City Council President Clay Yarborough said “while we may all differ on the definition of art,” a more important question is whether anyone, especially a child, should have their rights violated by being forcibly exposed to such a piece in a government-owned building.
  
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• Why The UK’s Greatest Art Prize No Longer Matters

  02-12-2014 19:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Turner Prize has been a victim of its own success. The things it was created to do have now been done. So what is to be done with this albatross of an institution?”
  
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• Here Is The Great Art The UK Got Last Year In Lieu Of Taxes

  02-12-2014 19:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme allows owners to use their cultural and historical artefacts to pay inheritance tax. It was augmented last year by the Cultural Gifts Scheme, which allows people to give gifts to the nation for a reduction in income tax.”
  
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• Steven P. Murphy Stepping Down As Chief Executive of Christie’s

  02-12-2014 19:34 via artnews.com
  A press release from Christie’s today announced that Steven P. Murphy will be stepping down as Chief Executive Officer of the auction house at the end of the year. Patricia Barbizet will succeed Murphy while additionally continuing in her role … Read More
  
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• Steven P. Murphy Stepping Down as CEO of Christie’s

  02-12-2014 19:34 via artnews.com
  A press release from Christie’s today announced that Steven P. Murphy will be stepping down as chief executive officer of the auction house at the end of the year. Patricia Barbizet will succeed Murphy while additionally continuing in her role … Read More
  
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• How Renzo Piano Has Tried To Change The Culture Of A Harvard Museum

  02-12-2014 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The need to make things transparent—to break down the barriers between inside and out, between the realms of high culture and everyday life—shapes the structure itself as Mr Piano reveals aspects of the museum’s function that are usually concealed.”
  
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• Duncan Campbell: ‘Politics seeps into everything’

  02-12-2014 19:06
  
  A 54-minute Marxist meditation has just won Duncan Campbell the Turner prize. The artist tells Charlotte Higgins about the dialectics of Christmas stockings, his Das Kapital reading group with Michael Clark - and picking a fight with the British MuseumGone is the era – if indeed it ever truly existed – when winning the Turner prize was a pecuniary treat for an already wildly wealthy artist. Duncan Campbell, the Dublin-born, Glasgow-based film-maker, reckons he can “easily” make the &poun
  
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• Is Our Literary world Set Up To Exclude Poor People?

  02-12-2014 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While some aspiring writers from less privileged backgrounds do find their way to graduate school, they remain substantially outnumbered. Because socioeconomic disparities in the United States have long coincided with gender and race, that factor of class goes a long way in determining the demographic makeup of grad programs. This has far-reaching consequences for who […]
  
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• The Man Who Helped Turn Miami Into A Global Destination

  02-12-2014 18:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After aiding the transformation of the moribund South Beach area into a glamorous district of pristinely restored Art Deco hotels in the ’80s and ’90s, Craig Robins helped engineer the launch of Art Basel–Miami Beach and co-created the satellite fair Design Miami. Now he’s about to see the fruits of more than a decade of […]
  
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• Steven Hawking Warns About Artificial Intelligence

  02-12-2014 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  He told the BBC:”The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
  
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• Should We Be Afraid Of Artificial Intelligence?

  02-12-2014 18:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Is the risk real? Once humans code the first genuinely smart computer program that then goes on to develop its smarter successors, is the writing on the wall for humans?”
  
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• UK museums receive £45m of art in inheritance-tax windfall

  02-12-2014 18:19
  
  Works by Van Gogh and Constable among treasure trove of paintings, books and sculptures accepted by government in lieu of taxWorks of art valued at £45m, including an early painting by Van Gogh, a portrait by John Constable and a medieval manuscript from Chatsworth that was once the most expensive book ever sold, has been accepted by the UK government in lieu of taxes and allocated to museums across Britain.It was the largest offer of works of art to settle taxes ever agreed by the Accepta
  
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• UK museums net art worth £45m in inheritance tax windfall

  02-12-2014 18:19
  
  Works by Van Gogh and Constable among treasure trove of paintings, books and sculptures accepted in lieu of taxWorks of art valued at £45m, including an early painting by Van Gogh, a portrait by John Constable and a medieval manuscript from Chatsworth that was once the most expensive book ever sold, has been accepted by the UK government in lieu of taxes and allocated to museums across Britain.It was the largest offer of works of art to settle taxes ever agreed by the Acceptance in Lieu pa
  
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• Audrey Hepburn back at scene of her big break – at National Portrait Gallery

  02-12-2014 18:10
  
  Exhibition of famously glamorous film star shows Hepburn from first appearances at Ciro’s nightclub, which is now part of galleryBefore Breakfast at Tiffany’s, before even Gigi, there was a jolly musical revue in London called Petite Sauce Tartare that helped propel a young Audrey Hepburn into the limelight – a show in a nightclub that is now part of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG).“It is a wonderful coincidence,” said Helen Trompeteler, associate curator of photographs at the gall
  
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• Living in rural China: share your photos and stories

  02-12-2014 16:39
  
  We’d like to find out what life is like in rural China. Share your photos, videos and experiences via GuardianWitness
  Over the last decade, China’s mass exodus of the working population from the countryside to the cities has led to a dramatic decline of many rural areas. An increasingly affluent and mobile urban middle-class has led to a resurgance of interest in the country’s idyllic rural spots. But some Chinese artists, who’ve moved to the countryside, feel that they’re seeing a san
  
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• True Confessions of a Justified Art Dealer, Part One: Safe and Warm in L.A.

  02-12-2014 16:30 via artnews.com
  
  Not long after I graduated with an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute, Ella King Torrey, the school’s president during my time there, hanged herself in her house without leaving a note, and I realized this was a hard … Read More
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• Art Basel Miami Beach 2014 – live

  02-12-2014 15:47
  
  We’re at America’s biggest art fair, where artists, architects, collectors and celebrities hit Miami Beach to buy cutting-edge work by day – and go to parties by night 9.47am ET Morning from a cloudy Miami. Guardian US’s art critic Jason Farago and I are here to bring you the news and reviews from the city’s art week. As well as the famous art fair Art Basel, there’s a bewildering range of art-related events taking in a design fair, rival art fairs, many parties (here’s Vanity Fair
  
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• How to make a ballet out of the web: with pop, spandex and wheelchairs

  02-12-2014 15:41
  
  New York artist Ryan McNamara reckons he’s found a way – and it’s the headline event at next week’s art fair, Art Basel MiamiThe Guardian will be liveblogging Art Basel Miami from MondayThe ballet headlining the North and South American art world’s fall gathering at Art Basel Miami is about the mundane. It’s about the viral, the bizarre and distractions they cause. There might be a Taylor Swift moment. It’s a ballet about the internet.ME3m 4 Miami: A Story Ballet about the Internet
  
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• ‘Our cities are insufferable’: Chinese artists go back to the land

  02-12-2014 15:11
  
  China’s president Xi Jinping thinks the country’s artists should move to village communities. But some are well ahead of him – and transforming country lifeWhite houses with dark-tiled upturned eaves stand at the foot of a mountain, like shards of pottery emerging from the fields. With narrow lanes patrolled by chickens, and open doorways revealing heated games of mahjong, the village of Bishan in China’s rural Anhui province might seem an unlikely place to glimpse an experiment in the f
  
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• Morning Links: Fake Art and Submarines Edition

  02-12-2014 14:55 via artnews.com
  
  Art Miami will launch a fair in New York during Frieze Week this May. [Miami Herald] The six finalists for the design of the Guggenheim Helsinki are out. [Artforum] “An East Hampton man accused of selling dozens of fake paintings … Read More
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• I believe Shia LaBeouf – a person doesn’t have to be likable to be a victim | Lindy West

  02-12-2014 14:42
  
  The actor’s history of bizarre behaviour doesn’t mean we should take his allegations less seriously. That would be as bad as dismissing them because he is a manIn the sacred texts of my hysterical feminazi coven, there are a few political fixed points: women are people, my body my choice, believe victims, Chris Pratt is life. But when actor Shia LaBeouf revealed, four days ago, that he was raped by a female visitor at his February performance art piece #IAMSORRY, the public reaction felt any
  
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• Art Events to Attend Early in the Miami Basel Week

  02-12-2014 14:00 via artnews.com
  Art Basel Miami Beach opens to the general public on Thursday, December 4, the same day as NADA Miami Beach. However, before then there are plenty of superb openings, exhibitions, and parties to savor. Below, a very brief guide to a … Read More
  
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• Miami Vices: With the ICA, Miami’s Getting a New Art Museum, But At What Cost?

  02-12-2014 12:59 via artnews.com
  
  A version of this story appears in the December issue of ARTnews. Because of developments since that issue went to print, it has been expanded for its publication online. In late November 2013, Alex Gartenfeld, curator and interim director of the … Read More
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• $100K Grawemeyer Award Goes To Wolfgang Rihm

  02-12-2014 10:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 62-year-old composer’s winning piece, IN-SCHRIFT 2, was composed for the Berlin Philhamonic to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its concert hall, the Philharmonie, and had musicians spread throughout the venue’s famous vineyard seating.
  
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• Turner Prize 2014 Goes To Duncan Campbell

  02-12-2014 10:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A 54-minute ‘essay film’ that refers to IRA martyrdom, Marxist theory and anthropomorphic ketchup dispensers as it explores the value of art won its maker Duncan Campbell the 2014 Turner Prize. It was by no means a surprise.”
  
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• New York, Berlin Philharmonics To Take Extended Residencies In Michigan

  02-12-2014 10:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The partnership begins next fall [in Ann Arbor] with three concerts [by the New York Philharmonic] Oct. 9-11, 2015 in Hill Auditorium, including two led by music director Alan Gilbert. The Philharmonic will return in the 2017-18 and 2019-20 seasons. The Berlin Philharmonic and another orchestra to be named later will appear in the alternating […]
  
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• “Scottsboro Boys”, “Here Lies Love”, Gillian Anderson Take London Evening Standard Theatre Awards

  02-12-2014 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Scottsboro Boys, the controversial Kander & Ebb musical that treats a notorious 1931 Alabama criminal case in the style of a minstrel show, edged out the Imelda Marcos disco show Here Lies Love, which received a special award for “pushing the boundaries of the musical.” Anderson took Best Actress honors for her Blanche in […]
  
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• Evening Standard Theatre Awards: The Judges Speak

  02-12-2014 10:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A one-man war machine, a doe-eyed Blanche DuBois and two trips to Eighties New York – our judges on the performances and productions that triumphed at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.”
  
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• Arts, Culture And Sports Have “Zero” Effect On Local Economies, Says UK Report

  02-12-2014 09:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The financial impact of cultural events on local economies ‘tend not to be large and are more often zero,’ according to new data produced by the What Works Network, a government-backed initiative launched in 2013 to offer guidance on decision making and spending in public services.”
  
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• Curatorial Manager, Asian & Pacific Art

  02-12-2014 09:26
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• Confession: I Bail Out After The First Act Of Plays – All The Time

  02-12-2014 09:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Joanne Kaufman: “I’m embarrassed by how unembarrassed I am to admit [it] … Don’t ask me what happened during the second acts of Matilda, Kinky Boots, Pippin and, reaching back a few seasons, Boeing-Boeing and Billy Elliott. Really, I have no idea. But I am nothing if not cosmopolitan in my tastes, or distastes.”
  
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• Curatorial Manager, International Art

  02-12-2014 09:21
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• “What If The Thing That Everybody’s Talking About Is Wrong?” Chris Rock Talks To Frank Rich

  02-12-2014 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Honestly, it’s not that people were offended by what I said. They get offended by how much fun I appear to be having while saying it. You could literally take everything I said on Saturday night and say it on Meet the Press, and it would be a general debate, and it would go away.”
  
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• After Ten Years Off Due To Injury, A Great 20th-Century Violinist Is Back

  02-12-2014 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As a violinist who helped define the classical music scene through the 1970s and 1980s and became a role model for subsequent generations of players – not least, female Asian ones – [Kyung Wha] Chung could fairly be described as legendary. And she is certainly returning, concluding an extended “disappearance.
  
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• When Mark Twain Schooled Winston Churchill Onstage

  02-12-2014 08:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Winston expected to be lionized by Twain but instead had his tail tweaked. … The night’s verbal swordplay between the old American and the young Englishman reflected so many differences between the Crown and its former colony.”
  
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• The Dancer Who Chose Ballet Over Harvard

  02-12-2014 08:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Elizabeth Mateer of the Pennsylvania Ballet: “Ballet is a young career and you only get one shot at it … My admissions officer told me, ‘Elizabeth, you worked really hard and you are so multitalented, but Harvard is always going to be here.'”
  
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• Guitarist Sharon Isbin Wanted To Be A Rocket Scientist

  02-12-2014 08:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Her father, a chemical engineer, used to make her practice the guitar before she was allowed to work on the model rockets that she would construct and send speeding skyward.” She says, “Had we not gone to Italy, I would’ve become a brain surgeon or a scientist, no question about it.”
  
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• A 24-Year Theater Project Begins (And It Includes Naked Dance Parties)

  02-12-2014 08:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The spectacle – exhilaration and humiliation all muddled together, on stage as in life – [debuts this week] in the form of The Sincerity Project. Then, if all goes as planned, it will return with the same cast every few years for the next 24 years – like a live-theater version of the Up documentary […]
  
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• Bob Baker, Founder Of Oldest Puppet Theater In U.S., Dead At 90

  02-12-2014 08:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Bob Baker Marionette Theater was a hit when he opened it in 1962, in the midst of a career performing with and making puppets for everything from studio feature films to burger joint commercials to the children of Hollywood royalty.
  
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• Miami leads the way as museums fill in the gaps

  02-12-2014 08:30
  
  The Pérez Art Museum Miami is collecting more African-American art
  
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• Ian Fairweather's Drunken Buddha paintings reunited at Tarrawarra

  02-12-2014 08:08
  
  Scottish-born artist survived prisoner of war camp, near drowning and arrest to become one of Australian art’s most influential figures• Tony Tuckson’s masterpieces left to Australian nationIn the pantheon of 20th century Australian artists, the reclusive, eccentric and much-travelled painter Ian Fairweather has an exalted status. He’s the dedicated painter who gave his life to his art and whose influences – cubism, abstract expressionism, Chinese calligraphy, the art of the Pacific an
  
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