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• William N. Copleys Are All Over Art Basel Miami Beach

  03-12-2014 23:39 via artnews.com
  We don’t usually get to see too much of the work of William N. Copley (1919–96) here in the United States, which is a sad, sad thing because he is one of the most peculiar and interesting artists of the 20th century, a … Read More
  
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• Tracey Emin's redesign of the Brit Awards statuette won't be winning any trophies itself

  03-12-2014 23:00
  
  Redesigning the statuette for the Brit Awards, as has happened every year since 2011, is a challenge worth sinking to. Why change it at all? Why bother? Fundamentally, the design is of the utmost banality, and to titivate it, as Damien Hirst, Peter Blake, Vivienne Westwood and others have done in the past, is to add a stardust sprinkle of nonentity to nothing much worth gawping at in the first place.
  
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• Carol Vogel Is Leaving the New York Times

  03-12-2014 22:49 via artnews.com
  Carol Vogel, a longtime arts reporter for The New York Times, is leaving the publication, the paper confirmed today. The news first appeared on the Twitter account of art journalist Charlotte Burns earlier this afternoon. Vogel’s Inside Art column that … Read More
  
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• Miami’s Perez Museum Celebrates A Year Open. Great Attendance. But Funding?

  03-12-2014 22:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Miami finally has a flagship public museum capable of staging its own major shows and hosting important travelling exhibitions—above and beyond what the city’s numerous private museums are able to offer. But an ongoing debate about public funding for the institution has laid bare the single biggest challenge for museums and galleries in the city: […]
  
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• A Tour of Art Basel Miami Beach 2014

  03-12-2014 21:25 via artnews.com
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• ‘The Earth Is Dying!': Naptime with Marina Abramovic

  03-12-2014 21:08 via artnews.com
  At the opening of Art Basel Miami Beach, a few confused visitors were standing in front of the Beyeler Foundation’s booth, tucked into a corner, where several people were lying on cots, cuddled up with colorful blankets, wearing noise-canceling head … Read More
  
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• Think Your Opinions Are Based on Facts? (Think Again)

  03-12-2014 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “New research suggests that, if options such as relying on biased sources of information prove insufficient, many of us simply rely more heavily on “unfalsifiable” assertions—ones that cannot be definitely proven or disproven.”
  
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• Apple Defends Raising E-Book Prices

  03-12-2014 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I knew some prices were going to go up, but hell, the whole world knew it, because that’s what the publishers were saying: ‘We want to get retailers to raise prices, and if we’re not able to, we’re not going to make the books available digitally.’ You have to fight for your principles no matter […]
  
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• David Teiger, Collector and Arts Patron, Dies at 85

  03-12-2014 20:53 via artnews.com
  David Teiger, a New Jersey management consultant who amassed a broad collection of modern, folk and contemporary artwork, died on Sunday of natural causes following an illness at the age of 85. His personal assistant Cabrina Potence confirmed the news … Read More
  
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• Celebrating Fat Dancers (Sure Is Controversial, But Really…)

  03-12-2014 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “You can’t make a simple work about body size because it’s an incredibly complex conversation. I personally use the word fat because I’ve reclaimed it and it doesn’t have any negative baggage. It’s just a description of my body, like tall or brunette.”
  
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• So How Come These Video Stores Are Surviving In The Age Of Streaming?

  03-12-2014 20:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I’m unconvinced that video stores are in direct competition with streaming services or Netflix any more so than a free concert in the park, the World Cup, a local film festival, or anything that distracts someone away from my shop on a Saturday night.”
  
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• Who Inspires Today’s Artists? Justice Scalia (Here’s The Proliferating Evidence)

  03-12-2014 20:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Justice Scalias are appearing in a stage play, an opera and a puppet show, to name three. The actual Justice Scalia ascribes his proliferating stage presence to the media culture of the modern age.”
  
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• Jacksonville Mayor Says City Won’t Remove Art Or Rescind Museum Grant Over Controversy

  03-12-2014 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  In his letter to City Council President Clay Yarborough, the mayor wrote: “I am hopeful we can put this issue behind us so that the city can continue working with the arts and cultural community to revitalize downtown, enhance our quality of life, and make Jacksonville a vibrant destination.”
  
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• Controversy Leads To Attendance Boom For Florida Museum (So This Is A Surprise?)

  03-12-2014 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Attendance has nearly tripled at Jacksonville’s Museum of Contemporary Art since the City Council president, Clay Yarborough, last week denounced as pornographic a photograph showing a nude pregnant woman reclining on a love seat.”
  
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• What The Guys Who Hacked Sony Got That The Studio Didn’t Want You To See

  03-12-2014 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The breach exposed two things the secretive movie industry is extremely sensitive about — the piracy of films and details about executive compensation — and sent a ripple of dread across Hollywood to Washington.”
  
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• Hans Ulrich Obrist – Portrait Of The Uber-Curator

  03-12-2014 19:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Though Obrist is often assumed to be the kind of megalomaniac who is more prominent than the artists he shows—and who is willing to crush the heterogeneity of artists’ work in order to extract coherent themes—that assumption doesn’t properly capture him.”
  
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• Japanese vagina kayak artist arrested again for obscenity

  03-12-2014 19:41
  
  Megumi Igarashi ‘planned to build boat based on her genitals using 3D printer’Artist was arrested and released in July on similar groundsA Japanese artist who made a kayak modelled on her own vagina has been arrested again in a case that has sparked accusations of censorship.Megumi Igarashi, who calls herself Rokude Nashiko – offensive slang which loosely translates as “reprobate child” – was arrested in July for trying to raise funds online to pay for the construction of a kayak, us
  
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• Turner masterpiece sells for a record £30.3m

  03-12-2014 19:18
  
  The chairman of Sotheby’s, understood to be facing a costly divorce, has been forced to stand by as one of his family’s most prized possessions went under the hammer in London.
  
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• Father of Sotheby’s chairman Lord Dalmeny sells prized Turner masterpiece for a record £30.3m

  03-12-2014 19:18
  
  The chairman of Sotheby’s, understood to be facing a costly divorce, has been forced to stand by as one of his family’s most prized possessions went under the hammer in London.
  
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• Father of Sotheby’s chairman Lord Dalmeny selling prized Turner masterpiece

  03-12-2014 19:18
  
  The chairman of Sotheby’s, understood to be facing a costly divorce, is having to stand by as one of his family’s most prized possessions goes under the hammer in London tonight.
  
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• These are tough times for the Turner Prize, but hardly the apocalypse | Charlotte Higgins

  03-12-2014 19:17
  
  A weak-ish shortlist led to demands for a revolution in the art prize’s administration – but surely this is an overreaction?The annual Turner prize ceremony at Tate Britain has, over time, lapsed from the status of a night tinged with nerve-racking glamour to that of a comforting pre-Christmas ritual. Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate, glides around the Duveen galleries dispensing goodwill like a benign end-of-term headmaster. Penelope Curtis, Tate Britain’s director and chair of the p
  
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• Did This Guy Reinvigorate Music Education And Make It Viable?

  03-12-2014 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Two months on, the success, not to mention the sheer speed, of the campaign, is impressive. Over 6,000 instruments were handed in to the 700 Oxfam stores acting as collection points. The instruments were then matched to specific requests from 150 primary schools across the UK, and delivered by Yodel. Each school has received up […]
  
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• Tired Of The Same Old Christmas Music? Wait – This Is The Digital Age, And There’s An App For That

  03-12-2014 19:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We admire Pandora’s spirit of giving, but 28 choices may be a bit daunting. So to save you some trial and error, I have explored every single one of its options (listening to at least 10 songs on each station) and ranked them.”
  
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• Bob and Roberta Smith will run against Michael Gove at the election on culture platform

  03-12-2014 18:37
  
  The arts proved a thorn in Michael Gove’s side throughout his four-year tenure as Education Secretary. Now, one acclaimed artist is taking protests a step further by running against him in the next general election.
  
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• Strange and marvellous: William Blake’s studio recreated in Oxford show

  03-12-2014 18:26
  
  Exhibition opening at the Ashmolean features more than 90 works, tracing Blake’s life from apprentice to masterVisitors to a new William Blake show opening in Oxford will learn much about a “strange and marvellous creature”, not least that the possibly 5ft 4in artist must have had considerable strength to have operated the heavy oak wooden press which took up so much of his small London studio.“It’s a hefty great thing,” said the writer and Blake fan Philip Pullman admiringly. “It
  
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• Robert Bordo Wins 2014 Robert De Niro Sr. Prize

  03-12-2014 17:11 via artnews.com
  It was announced today that the painter Robert Bordo is the winner of the 2014 Robert De Niro Sr. Prize and along with it $25,000 administered by the Tribeca Film Institute (TFI). Born in 1949 in Montreal, Bordo is an … Read More
  
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• Ben Eine: Street art is a luxury product

  03-12-2014 16:53
  
  Ben Eine is a bit fed up with being described as a street artist. But while it is true that the street artist (sorry, Ben) who gained international fame when David Cameron gave one of his paintings to Barack Obama during his first official state visit, has come a long way from the covert world of graffiti in which he first made his name, it is difficult to know how else to describe him.
  
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• TV Party Does Miami

  03-12-2014 16:52 via artnews.com
  “Fuck New York, fuck L.A., we’re putting Miami on the map,” said a drag queen named the American Dream, who carried four American flag umbrellas. She was, at that moment, being interviewed on a couch by Kembra Pfahler, who from … Read More
  
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• The Three Amigos: Picabia, Schnabel, Willumsen, and the Pleasure of Painting, at the NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale

  03-12-2014 16:40 via artnews.com
  Art Basel visitors flying into the Fort Lauderdale airport this week are a very lucky bunch since they are only a 10-minute drive from one of the absolute highlights of this week, or any Miami Basel week in recent memory: … Read More
  
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• Retrospective: Ed Ruscha Takes California into the ’90s

  03-12-2014 16:30 via artnews.com
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• Clip Art: you might be gone – but your happy floppy disks will never be forgotten

  03-12-2014 16:08
  
  Microsoft Office’s brutal closing of the legendary image library signals the end of a glorious era of clumsily resized birthday cakes and disembodied bridgesThe execution was as workmanlike as it was sudden. “The Office.com Clip Art and image library has closed shop,” a Microsoft Office blog declared on Monday.In an offensively hamfisted stab at consolation, the post continued: “Customers ... still have the ability to add images to their documents using Bing Image Search.” A fat lot of
  
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• Peter Marino at The Bass: Buyer Beware

  03-12-2014 16:07 via artnews.com
  Peter Marino’s new show at the Bass Museum in Miami Beach, which showcases both the architecture he makes and the art that he collects, shows the luxury sadist to be many things. First he’s a man obsessed with texture. See … Read More
  
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• Jeremy Deller: my summer in Andy Warhol’s Factory

  03-12-2014 16:02
  
  When he was 20, Jeremy Deller took up an invitation from Warhol to hang out at his New York studio. Now, the artist has put the pop art pioneer into a new show alongside William Morris. He talks about why he was flattered to be groped by Warhol – and why there’s more to Morris than floral wallpaperAndy Warhol and William Morris face off in Oxford exhibitionOne day when Jeremy Deller was 20, he heard that Andy Warhol was going to be at the opening of a show in London. “I thought, ‘I’m g
  
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• Ryan McNamara – ME3M 4 Miami Art Basel review: the web made dance

  03-12-2014 15:52
  
  Miami Grand Theatre
  This award-winning work attempted to convey the experience of the internet through performance artHow to make a ballet out of the web: with pop, spandex and wheelchairs
  The headline work of Art Basel Miami is a piece of performance art by the New York-based artist Ryan McNamara. First performed in New York in 2013, it won the Malcolm McLaren award for innovation, named after the late Sex Pistols manager and cultural impresario. Watching it, you feel that the ghost of Talcy Ma
  
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• Liz Glynn and Dawn Kasper Debate the Theory of Everything

  03-12-2014 15:48 via artnews.com
  Art Basel’s quiet and airy sculpture garden in Collins Park in front of the Bass Museum is someting of a temporary respite from all the hysteria this week elsewhere. How jarring, then, to walk into a geodesic dome installed in … Read More
  
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• Jonathan Jones reviews Maggi Hambling: ‘If she’s a painter, I’m Rembrandt’

  03-12-2014 15:47
  
  National Gallery, London
  A total lack of integrity distinguishes Hambling’s latest collection of daft daubs, which pastiche Pollock, Van Gogh and Monet to loathsome effectI think of the National Gallery as a supremely tasteful place. It is a temple of high culture, revered around the world for its serious atmosphere and immaculate collection of European art. So what bizarre brainwave made its curators invite Maggi Hambling to put on an exhibition here?Hambling is proof that you can be a well-k
  
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• ‘Images of Existential Crisis Almost Look Cute to Us Now’: A Talk with Michael Williams

  03-12-2014 15:30 via artnews.com
  Bill Powers: You are in the new painting survey at MoMA this winter. Do you plan to include a particular series? Michael Williams: I’m going to include three inkjet paintings with airbrush and oil or acrylic. BP: Some of these … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Tax Edition

  03-12-2014 15:15 via artnews.com
  “The personal collection of late artist Lucian Freud was among the £45m worth of art donated to the public over the last year under a scheme that accepts cultural artefacts in place of tax.” [BBC] Kelly Crow visits Richard Prince’s … Read More
  
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• Pelleas et Melisande, review: Salonen and a brilliant solo line-up triumph with Debussy's opera

  03-12-2014 15:01
  
  Esa-Pekka Salonen’s ideas are inexhaustible, and his latest, ‘City of Light: Paris 1900-1950’, has generated a very fruitful season. Taking Paris as a parallel universe to Vienna, he argues that while the Viennese cultural revolution was played out by the end of the Thirties, the Parisian one is still going strong, thanks to the enduring power of Debussy, Stravinsky, Ravel, and Messiaen. 
  
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• Childhood Rivals and Leather Daddies: At the Opening of Design Miami

  03-12-2014 14:49 via artnews.com
  The opening of Design Miami on Tuesday had one of the most apathetic opening press conferences I’ve ever encountered, with the fair’s director, Rodman Primack, talking softly into a microphone, flanked by an unsmiling Peter Marino (in his usual leather … Read More
  
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• ‘ME3M': At the Old Playboy Theater, Ryan McNamara Opens Miami Basel With a Stunner

  03-12-2014 14:41 via artnews.com
  The audience members for the debut performance last night of Ryan McNamara’s dance work “ME3M 4 Miami: A Story Ballet About the Internet,” a new version of his 2013 Performa piece presented by Art Basel, were warned in email after email … Read More
  
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• Tom Grimsey obituary

  03-12-2014 13:34
  
  My friend and co-author Tom Grimsey, who has died aged 54 after suffering from cancer, was a sculptor with a passion for science/art collaborations. This led him to pioneering work in making nanoscience accessible and, most importantly, visible. In collaboration with scientists from Cambridge, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham and Sheffield, alongside the sculptor and all-round electromechanical wizard Theo Kaccoufa, he created kinetic installations that showed the remarkable patterns t
  
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• Brit Awards meet Brit Art yet again as Tracey Emin's design of Brittania statuette unveiled

  03-12-2014 11:38
  
  Tracey Emin has become the latest artist to design a Brit Award, choosing to turn the statuette of Brittania pink and adorn it with her spidery scrawl.
  
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• New sensation: Tracey Emin's Brit Awards statue unveiled

  03-12-2014 10:33
  
  Following previous designs by Vivienne Westwood and Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin is the latest prominent British figure to use the music award as canvasTracey Emin’s design for the Brit Awards statue has been unveiled, ahead of the ceremony which takes place in February 2015.A light pink colour with a fabric rosette pinned to the back, Emin has laid her handwriting across the softly pretty statue. It reads: Congratulations on your talent on your life On everything you give to others Continue rea
  
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• Chinese Government Tries To Ban Wordplay And Puns In The Media

  03-12-2014 10:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The State Administration for Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television “has banned wordplay on the grounds that it breaches the law on standard spoken and written Chinese, makes promoting cultural heritage harder and may mislead the public – especially children.” Problem is, puns have been enmeshed in every single aspect of Chinese culture, from the […]
  
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• And Why Would China’s Authorities Try To Ban Puns?

  03-12-2014 10:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oh, the Party has its reasons – alpacas, for instance, and marijuana. Nikhil Sonnad explains.
  
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• “The Happiest Ballet Studio In The World”

  03-12-2014 10:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sarah Kaufman: “The happiest ballet studio in the world may be the one just down the street from a Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery [in Charlotte], inside a bright purple building bearing the words ‘Patricia McBride/Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance’.”
  
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• Theatre Critics – Theatres Miss Them, Now That They’re Disappearing

  03-12-2014 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tim Walker: “‘Another day, yet another newspaper critic in @ThatTimWalker faces the axe,’ the Tricycle Theatre in north London tweeted recently, when it was announced the curtain was coming down on my run as the Sunday Telegraph‘s chief theatre critic. ‘What’s going on? Theatre will be the poorer without these voices.'” Many professionals, not least […]
  
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• Philadelphia Theatre Company Edges Away From The Brink

  03-12-2014 09:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With the help of former Kennedy Center president Michael M. Kaiser, the financially beleaguered Philadelphia Theatre Company has bought itself some time, buoying hopes for its survival.”
  
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• Americans Have Always Felt Guilty About TV Watching

  03-12-2014 09:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Television’s association with guilt has persisted since the medium’s early days, but the nature and tenor of that guilt has evolved under the influence of several factors, including demographics, time period, technology, program type, and intellectual stimulation.”
  
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