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• Ryan Gander at Art Basel: 'If you want sell your work, you have to take your pig to market '

  04-12-2014 22:42
  
  Amid the ‘crapstraction’ of Miami Beach, the British conceptual artist says he plans to go gently into that good night – ie, ‘be really fucking hot for a really long time’At Art Basel, you can’t move for celebrities, art dealers and the super-rich, but the people whose work it depends on – the artists – are rather more scarce. Many prefer not to have to worry about the buying and selling of their work, or at least don’t want to see the hustling up close. British artist Ryan Gan
  
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• Ryan Gander at Art Basel: 'If you want sell your work, you have to take your pig to market'

  04-12-2014 22:42
  
  Amid the ‘crapstraction’ of Miami Beach, the British conceptual artist says he plans to go gently into that good night – ie, ‘Be really fucking hot for a really long time’At Art Basel, you can’t move for celebrities, art dealers and the super-rich, but the people whose work it depends on – the artists – are rather more scarce. Many prefer not to have to worry about the buying and selling of their work, or at least don’t want to see the hustling up close. British artist Ryan Gan
  
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• Price Check: Art Basel Miami Beach

  04-12-2014 21:45 via artnews.com
  At art fairs, the ARTnews team checks in from time to time with dealers at certain booths to hear about any sales they’ve made. These disclosures are collected in a completely non-scientific fashion and based mainly on which booths have … Read More
  
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• Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program Announces 2014 Grants

  04-12-2014 21:37 via artnews.com
  The recipients of the 2014 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program were announced today. The program has awarded a total of $600,000 to twenty writers in four categories—articles, blogs, books and short-form writing. The individual prizes range from $6,000 … Read More
  
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• Arts Writers Program Announces 2014 Grants

  04-12-2014 21:37 via artnews.com
  The recipients of the 2014 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Program were announced today. The program has awarded a total of $600,000 to twenty writers in four categories—articles, blogs, books and short-form writing. The individual prizes range from $6,000 to … Read More
  
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• A Room of One’s Own: Grand Century Brings the Fair Upstairs

  04-12-2014 20:50 via artnews.com
  Grand Century, the ambitious Lower East Side space run by artists Dora Budor, Alex Mackin Dolan, and Olivia Erlanger, is doing its first-ever art fair this week, showing in a pint-sized project booth at NADA Miami Beach, which opened today … Read More
  
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• Beats By Dr. Dre at NADA Miami Beach

  04-12-2014 20:33 via artnews.com
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• ‘Selling Like Hot Cakes': NADA Opens in Miami Beach

  04-12-2014 20:03 via artnews.com
  The publicist said they had to open the doors to the NADA fair at the Deauville Beach Resort five minutes early because the crowd was that eager. Publicists are paid to say those kinds of things, but inside there was a … Read More
  
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• Cibelle Cavalli Bastos Goes Back to the Future

  04-12-2014 19:47 via artnews.com
  The booth of São Paulo gallery Mendes Wood at Miami Basel was taken over by the artist Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, who–behind a curtain that said “Welcome to Las Vegas” (Vegas was crossed out and the word “Venus” was written over … Read More
  
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• PSA: Somebody Please Get Beyoncé to Gavin Brown’s Miami Booth

  04-12-2014 19:01 via artnews.com
  The New York art dealer Gavin Brown is the kind of guy who, when asked how the opening of Art Basel was going, responded, “Frothy, to quote the former head of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan.” He had a long, … Read More
  
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• The Debut Book That’s Outselling Harry Potter And Setting Records

  04-12-2014 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The vlogger’s book Girl Online has become the fastest selling debut novel since records began. She tweeted she was “blown away” after more than 78,000 copies were picked up in its first week. That’s more than Harry Potter author JK Rowling and EL James, who wrote 50 Shades of Grey, achieved with their debuts.”
  
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• Violinist Stuns Audience, Berates Child From The Stage

  04-12-2014 18:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kyung Wha Chung took offence at a child coughing during her performance of Mozart’s Sonata In G. “Maybe bring her back when she’s older,” she scolded the parents from the stage. “With one shrivelling put-down, a tetchy atmosphere turned toxic.”
  
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• Dancing With Fractals (It Changes The Way You Think About Moving)

  04-12-2014 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I realized that when I dance I use all the space around me with my arms. But in this case the fractal responded to motion in some parts of space more than others. For example, moving my arms up and down made the fractals change much more than moving them side-to-side.”
  
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• The Uncomfortable Questions Technology Is Forcing Us To Ask

  04-12-2014 17:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “These are ancient questions we have faced since the beginnings of science and philosophy, and today new information technologies, which indeed rapidly change our world, force us to ask them again.”
  
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• NY Armory Works On Defining Its Art As It Seeks A New Artistic Director

  04-12-2014 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Since the Armory’s opening, a number of curators have come and gone in relatively quick succession. The cutting-edge programming originated when the building was home to the Seventh Regiment National Guard and hosted concerts.”
  
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• Why The Novel Is Lagging

  04-12-2014 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The novel form isn’t the reason so much contemporary fiction seems uninspired; for that, we’d do better to consider other causes, of which there are plenty: an emphasis on documenting social conditions and modernity over the study of individual characters, a post-Freudian tendency to lean on secondhand psychoanalytic ideas as a cover for incomprehension or […]
  
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• Globalization’s Downside For New Music

  04-12-2014 17:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For all their strengths, new music festivals like Tanglewood or the Bang on a Can Marathon can’t attract the same sort of money (and therefore glamour and press attention) as the Whitney, São Paolo, or Venice biennials. Art, through the biennial, can become particularly symbolic of the flow of global capital—often concretely too, as works […]
  
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• Is Instagram The New Authentic Art Experience?

  04-12-2014 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I love the idea of finding something that I might not have found otherwise. So I follow one unknown name to another who has “liked” something on another unknown person’s account, who has then “liked” something on another person’s feed, and so on. Linking. Looking. And looking some more. And I have found plenty.”
  
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• Cirque Du Soleil – A Need To Reinvent Itself As Business Declines

  04-12-2014 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Following a bleak outlook report from a consultant, a spate of poorly received shows and a decline in profits, executives at Cirque say they are now restructuring and refocusing their business — shifting some of the attention away from clowns and acrobats, towards other business ventures.”
  
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• Can The Atlanta Symphony Survive Its Downsizing?

  04-12-2014 17:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Questions remain, and not just about the evolution of the orchestra’s sound as things fall back into place. Can Atlanta pull together to sustain a world-class orchestra, or are we seeing an orchestra in retreat?”
  
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• After the Flood: Douglas Gordon and Hélène Grimaud at the Park Avenue Armory

  04-12-2014 16:30 via artnews.com
  A pianist as powerful and enigmatic as the notes flowing from her instrument, playing in the center of a vast, empty space steadily filling with water sounds like the kind of haunting dream that might prompt William Blake to pick … Read More
  
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• Karen Mirza & Brad Butler, artists: 'We've worked together for 19 years, but have an open relationship'

  04-12-2014 16:00
  
  Finding the studio of artistic collaborators Karen Mirza and Brad Butler is a challenge. Amid the street market and colourful clothes shops on Bethnal Green Road, east London, a discreet doorway opens to a vertiginous flight of stairs. On the first floor at the back is the studio for No.w.here, founded in 2004 in the duo's garage in Kilburn, and moved here in 2010. It is a space for artists to produce their films with a lab still capable of developing analogue prints, a yearly subscription al
  
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• At Basel, Naomi Fisher Offers Dancers, Coconuts, Dancarchy

  04-12-2014 15:49 via artnews.com
  Those who visited Art Basel Miami Beach last year may experience a bit of deja vu at this year’s fair, over in the Arts Nova section, where a row of booths is once again interrupted by an unmarked corridor and … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: André 3000 Edition

  04-12-2014 15:22 via artnews.com
  The Wall Street Journal checks in with the Park Avenue Armory: “The Armory is now in the midst of replacing its well-regarded artistic director Alex Poots, who took over programming in 2013. He recently announced he’s moving to the Culture … Read More
  
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• Mr Turner’s record year should blaze a trail for British painting’s other greats

  04-12-2014 15:12
  
  The avalanche of interest in JMW Turner is welcome – but he was not the only artist to give colour to the 18th and 19th centuries. Let’s give some others a chance
  
  • Auction sets new record for TurnerJoseph Mallord William Turner has had one hell of a year. His exhibition at Tate Britain is a blinder. His reincarnation by Timothy Spall was hailed as a masterpiece of acting. Turner is making headlines and stirring souls. Perhaps he should get the Turner prize.Just to confirm what a big year
  
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• Pierre Huyghe at Lacma – a sometimes baffling but always engaging retrospective

  04-12-2014 14:15
  
  LA is the ideal location for a Pierre Huyghe retrospective – the artist’s baffling and borderless installations fit right in with the city’s chaotic characterLos Angeles is a city where there’s no border between reality and artifice. Images here have lives their own. It’s hard to think of a better city in which to encounter the art of Pierre Huyghe – an artist whose fictions gives rise to realities, whose sometimes baffling, always engaging art turns real life into a dream, and vice
  
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• Serpentine pavilion 2015 to be built by Spanish subversives Selgas Cano

  04-12-2014 14:00
  
  The Spanish architects, who specialise in semi-submerged builds in harmony with their natural surroundings, promise an ‘absolutely experimental’ pavilion that will ‘really embrace the garden’A low-lying acrylic box glows in the woods outside Madrid like a futuristic polytunnel. Half submerged in the forest floor, it is an unlikely container in which to find an architecture office – particularly one that’s working on projects from Stockholm to Los Angeles. But then Selgas Cano, the Sp
  
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• The world's most extreme shoes in history to be showcased at V&A's new exhibition

  04-12-2014 13:30
  
  Earlier this year the V&A announced its next fashion exhibition, Shoes: Pleasure and Pain, which will showcase some of the most extreme shows in history. Now the London museum has revealed some of the 200 rare pairs which will be on display.
  
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• Take a trip through the most extreme shoes in history with the new V&A exhibition

  04-12-2014 13:30
  
  Earlier this year the V&A announced its next fashion exhibition, Shoes: Pleasure and Pain, which will showcase some of the most extreme shows in history. Now the London museum has revealed some of the 200 rare pairs which will be on display.
  
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• Artist who made canoe modelled on her vagina arrested on obscenity charges

  04-12-2014 11:16
  
  The debate about censorship and women's rights in Japan has been reignited after an artist who made a canoe modelled on her vagina was arrested for the second time on obscenity charges.
  
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• San Diego Opera Was Nowhere Near Financial Collapse Last Season, Audit Shows

  04-12-2014 10:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  The company’s previous board and general director abruptly tried to shut down the company last spring, claiming that there was not money or local interest enough to keep it going. But the audited financial statements for that season show an operating deficit of $52,067 on operating expenses of $15.9 million – roughly one-sixth the deficit […]
  
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• Did Putin Give A Picasso From The Hermitage As A Bribe To Get The World Cup?

  04-12-2014 10:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  A secret British report given to Parliament alleges that the Russian president took two paintings from state collections – one allegedly a Picasso from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg – and gave them to FIFA officials in exchange for their votes for Russia’s bid to host the 2018 world soccer championship.
  
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• Maybe *All* The Designs For The Guggenheim Helsinki Are A Bad Idea

  04-12-2014 10:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There’s nothing especially wrong with any of the individual designs, but taken as a whole, they cast a cynical view of the purpose of architecture (as hype for a project). … “Finns are right to ask whether Helsinki needs the Guggenheim as much as the Guggenheim needs South Harbor.”
  
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• Are Smartphones In The Audience Bad For Stand-Up Comedy?

  04-12-2014 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  As Chris Rock puts it, “If you think you don’t have room to make mistakes, it’s going to lead to safer, gooier standup. You can’t think the thoughts you want to think if you think you’re being watched.” Brian Logan observes, “And, let’s face it, they are being watched – by which I mean (and […]
  
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• Brian Macdonald, 86, Choreographer, Director, Leader Of Ballet Companies On Three Continents

  04-12-2014 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “He served as artistic director of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Royal Swedish Ballet, and the Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv, and he “won acclaim for creating or staging ballets, operas and Broadway musicals” through Europe and North America, including 19 productions at Ontario’s Stratford Festival.
  
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• Could the Creative Class Be Priced Out of L.A.?

  04-12-2014 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “From Santa Monica to Venice to Highland Park – and now the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles – the painters, sculptors, musicians and dancers who made those and other neighborhoods centers of artistic creativity can’t afford to live or work there anymore.” (audio)
  
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• Why The Backlash Against “Serial” Is Plausible – And Wrong

  04-12-2014 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Conor Friedersdorf grants that “journalism requires its practitioners to delve into unfamiliar subjects, communities, and subcultures. Mistakes happen often and can be difficult for the reporter or audience to discern.” But he goes on to explain, with detailed examples, why the recent “white reporter privilege” objections to Serial, notably in Jay Caspian Kang’s widely-read-critique, simply […]
  
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• European Union Finally Publishes Guidelines On Right To Be Forgotten

  04-12-2014 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Search engines (mainly Google) that have been attempting to comply with the European Union’s right-to-be-forgotten regulations have had to muddle through without guidance for making subjective decisions about what to take down and what to leave up. Now the EU has finally released guidelines.”
  
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• They May Finally Have Found The Remains Of García Lorca

  04-12-2014 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the hills overlooking Granada, forensic archeologists buzz excitedly around a cordoned-off site. A blue tarp sits in the middle, marking the spot where they believe lies the answer to one of Spain’s great mysteries of recent times.”
  
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• The Was-Shakespeare-Gay? Wars Are Back

  04-12-2014 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If wide notice is taken of a current spat over what we can read about Shakespeare’s sexuality into the sonnets in the correspondence columns of the Times Literary Supplement, Sonnet 20 may be a future favourite at civil unions. “
  
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• “He Sounds Gay” – What Exactly Does That Mean?

  04-12-2014 09:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Affect a lisp, assume a lilt, and add a fair amount of flamboyance. Presto! Instant gay man’s voice. It’s a stereotype, to be sure, but is there any truth to it? Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to Benjamin Munson, a speech scientist at the University of Minnesota, about what it means to sound gay.” […]
  
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• Manchester To Get New £78M Arts Venue Named The Factory

  04-12-2014 09:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  The theatre, built on the site of the old Granada TV studios, will be “‘a large scale, ultra-flexible arts space’ that [will] hold 2,200 people when seated, or 5,000 standing … and provide a permanent home for the Manchester International Festival.”
  
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• Canada Denies Travel Visa To Afghan Artist

  04-12-2014 09:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Hanifa Alizada, a photo-artist and art teacher at Kabul University, has been refused a visa to enter Canada to deliver a speech about life for Afghan women and to exhibit her work at a symposium [in Ottawa] Jan. 22-25.” No reason has been given.
  
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• RSC to Begin on Restoration of Swan Wing at Stratford-Upon-Avon

  04-12-2014 09:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Swan Wing, which contains the Swan Theatre, is the only remaining part of the original 1879 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, which burnt down in 1926. It originally housed a library, reading room and picture gallery, and it currently includes the façade and entrance, hallway, bar area, staircase, Ferguson exhibition room and the bridge that links […]
  
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• The Human Brain Is Engineered For Kindness

  04-12-2014 09:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In a neat little animated video published yesterday by the University of California, Berkeley, psychologist Dacher Keltner explains that we were essentially built to be nice.”
  
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• Florida Caves To Satanic Temple, Will Allow Holiday Display Of Angel In Hellfire

  04-12-2014 09:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2013, calling the idea “grossly offensive”, officials rejected the Temple’s request to put its seasonal display in the State Capitol Rotunda alongside those of Christians, Jews, secular humanists, atheists, and even Pastafarians. So why is this year different? …
  
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• Upwardly mobile

  04-12-2014 09:00
  Visitors find Calders galore, works on a nautical theme and some very lusty paintings at Art Basel in Miami Beach
  
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• Artists call the shots

  04-12-2014 08:58
  When Gustave Courbet organised an exhibition, it was a radical act—but now artist-curators are everywhere
  
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• Bass lifts the lid on treasure trove: interview with Peter Marino

  04-12-2014 08:57
  
  The “hyper-materialist” reveals his collection of contemporary art
  
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• Anselm Kiefer is coming to Margulies space

  04-12-2014 08:56
  
  The artist's work is due to go on show at the Warehouse in Wynwood next autumn
  
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