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• ARTnews’ Complete 2014 Art Basel Miami Beach Coverage

  05-12-2014 23:30 via artnews.com
  Below, a continuously updated list of ARTnews’ reports from Art Basel Miami Beach. Art Basel Miami Beach – A Tour of Art Basel Miami Beach 2014 – Copleys Are All Over Miami Basel – Naptime With Marina Abramovic – Liz Glynn and Dawn Kasper … Read More
  
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• ICA Boston Names Eva Respini Chief Curator

  05-12-2014 23:27 via artnews.com
  The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston has found its new chief curator—Eva Respini, who is currently a curator in the Museum of Modern Art’s photography department. Expected to begin at the ICA in March 2015, Respini will replace Helen Molesworth, who began … Read More
  
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• UK export ban on Jan Brueghel the Elder Garden of Eden painting

  05-12-2014 20:15
  
  British buyer sought for 17th-century work Garden of Eden With the Fall of Man, judged to be of outstanding aesthetic importanceA temporary export ban has been placed on an early 17th-century painting, one of the most refined of the paradise landscapes by Flemish artist Jan Brueghel the Elder, in an attempt to keep it in the UK.The Garden of Eden With the Fall of Man (1613), an oil on copper work measuring just 23.7cm by 36.8cm, was set to go overseas after selling at Sotheby’s in London in Ju
  
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• Prada brings artistic spirit into Milan’s industrial centre

  05-12-2014 19:38
  
  Former distillery to become city’s newest and largest gallery of contemporary artIt was once home to a distillery in the industrial heart of Milan. But a sprawling warehouse that for decades sat crumbling into disrepair, the paint peeling and the windows boarded up, is to be transformed into the city’s newest and largest contemporary art gallery.The ambitious project is the vision of the Fondazione Prada, the art foundation set up by fashion designer Miuccia Prada and her husband Patrizio Be
  
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• A List of Things at Art Basel Miami Beach That I Don’t Like, In the Order In Which They Occur to Me

  05-12-2014 19:15 via artnews.com
  I arrived to the party for Glenn O’Brien, celebrating his TV Party show, at Casa Claridge on the early side. The hotel lobby was bathed in hot light from production lamps because a crew was filming the proceedings. A guy … Read More
  
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• Elgin Marbles: Fury in Greece as statue is loaned to Russian museum

  05-12-2014 19:11
  
  Athens reacted furiously after it was revealed that the British Museum had loaned one of the Elgin Marbles to Russia.
  
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• Mary Burkett obituary

  05-12-2014 18:42
  
  Champion of the arts, she explored Cumbria’s cultural heritageArt was “the foundation of life” for Mary Burkett, who has died aged 90. “Everyone’s mind needs art whether they know it or not” was her creed, and she spent her career proving this. Her energetic promotion of the arts, mainly in Cumbria and the north-west of England, was inspirational and unfaltering. Over six decades and several generations she kept the cultural wheels turning and in good repair.She was appointed assista
  
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• New Thinking In How We Engage Audiences And Where

  05-12-2014 18:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  ‘The future of the arts depends on programming in both new and old spaces, creating experiences that satisfy current participants and speak to new ones. Ultimately, “where” should and will grow to be an ever more important variable in the presentation and production of art, especially as one considers “who” one serves.’
  
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• No Filters At The Art Basel Miami Beach Instagram Panel

  05-12-2014 18:37 via artnews.com
  Had the concept of art fairs existed in 1410 (the date of some of the earliest surviving canvases), would we have had panels about canvas that praised it as a medium? Would we even have even had to ask how … Read More
  
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• David Shrigley: Comedy In Misunderstanding The Context

  05-12-2014 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Comedy is not the opposite of seriousness. The opposite of seriousness is incompetence. And the opposite of comedy is not seriousness – it’s misery. The ability to laugh is a luxury that everybody should be able to afford.”
  
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• Serial Opera (In Series, Not Notes)

  05-12-2014 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Although it will be filmed before live audiences, it is meant to be seen on television or online, in short installments that will be released over two years. The production will also include online extras, including video clips that look at the process of composing and staging the piece.”
  
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• Michael Hofmann’s Grim Assessment Of Contemporary Poetry

  05-12-2014 17:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Discouraging, isn’t it? It’s just a fact that there are never very many poets around at any given time. I think poetry is always one or two poets away from extinction anyway. “
  
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• Growth Industry: Boston College Has Big Plans For Its Museum

  05-12-2014 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Boston College plans to relocate its McMullen Museum of Art, doubling its exhibition space by moving into a Renaissance Revival mansion that for decades served as the home of Boston’s cardinals, the college said Thursday.”
  
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• Study: Does Artists’ Creativity Go Up During Times Of War?

  05-12-2014 17:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is possible that war impacts (an artist’s) emotional state in a non-linear way. and some wars may result in a psychological blockade of the creative process.”
  
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• The Ticket Prices You’re Paying Are Changing (Sometimes Daily)

  05-12-2014 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s game changing. There’s a lot of publicity given to what happens on Broadway, the fact that they can charge hundreds and hundreds of dollars for a ticket, but for theaters like ours, the ability to adjust prices both upward and downward means that you can stimulate demand when you’re doing a new play or […]
  
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• What This Year’s Oscar Competition Says About The Current Documentary Business

  05-12-2014 17:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Long a quietly aggressive race, the documentary competition has been growing more rambunctious as nonfiction film has evaporated from theaters.”
  
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• British Museum sends Parthenon sculpture to the Hermitage

  05-12-2014 17:36
  
  Brief but historic loan marks St Petersburg museum's 250th anniversary
  
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• Who Really Wrote “Little House On The Prairie”?

  05-12-2014 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The story of how this beloved series came to be has drawn great interest in recent years, as critics have debated Rose Wilde Lane’s role: How much of the “Little House” books did she revise or even write herself? Lane always insisted that she merely edited them; she didn’t believe there was much prestige in […]
  
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• Minnesota Orchestra’s News It “Only” Lost $650K This Year Is Greeted With Relief

  05-12-2014 17:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Revenue in the year ending Aug. 31 reached $20.8 million and expenses totaled just under $21.5 million. Smith said the budget for the current fiscal year is about $29 million, compared with several years in the recent past when expenses reached as high as $32.4 million (in 2009). The decrease in musicians’ compensation accounts for […]
  
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• Toronto Symphony Reverses Reverses And Finishes Its Year With A Surplus

  05-12-2014 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The deficit era is over,” new CEO Jeff Melanson said in an interview before the TSO’s annual general meeting where it was announced the orchestra posted a modest surplus of $222,349 on revenues of nearly $24 million. It’s a considerable improvement over last year’s deficit of $1.2 million and $800,000 the year before.
  
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• The Clash's Paul Simonon puts guitar away for paint brush

  05-12-2014 17:00
  
  Paul Simonon is better known for being The Clash’s bass guitarist than for sitting at an easel. But his new series of paintings, “Wot No Bike”, at London’s ICA, next month, is his visual diary in paint of British subculture and counterculture in the post-Second World War decades.
  
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• Super-Gallerist Larry Gagosian Wins Billionaire’s Lawsuit

  05-12-2014 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Billionaire collector Ron Perelman “sued Gagosian and his gallery in September 2012, accusing them of concealing material information and manipulating art prices. Gagosian sued Perelman the same day, accusing him of reneging on an agreement to buy two pieces of art for more than $23 million and offering less money and other works in exchange.”
  
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• Why Theatre Should Take Risks

  05-12-2014 16:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Failure is an inevitable part of risk-taking, and you discover things along the way. But of course, failure and success and risk-taking all mean different things in different places and different contexts, too.”
  
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• Donor Pledges $100 Million For Opera House, Dies; Theatre Sues, Court Rules

  05-12-2014 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The planned theater has been the subject of one of the most closely watched legal battles in the worlds of classical music and philanthropy, after a major benefactor of the Lucerne Festival, Christof Engelhorn, offered to donate more than $100 million to build it, but died before the money was paid. That led officials from […]
  
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• Meyer Vaisman: If I Still Owned Work in Rubell Collection ‘I Would Destroy It’

  05-12-2014 16:43 via artnews.com
  Right now, the Rubell Family Collection in Miami is hosting an exhibition called “To Have and to Hold,” toasting the 50 years that Don and Mera Rubell have been married and collecting art. It features work from their holdings by … Read More
  
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• The Winner Of This Year’s Bad-Sex-In-Writing Award

  05-12-2014 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ben Okri won the Booker in 1991 for The Famished Road and has received, among other prizes, the Commonwealth Writers’ prize, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Guardian Fiction prize. Unable to attend, he issued a terse and less than ecstatic statement: “A writer writes what they write and that’s all there is […]
  
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• Report: The State Of How We Pay For The Arts

  05-12-2014 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The average organization brought in nearly $8 in contributed support for every dollar spent on fundraising. Fundraising expenses generated a similar level of total contributions over the years regardless of annual shifts in the mix of organizations.”
  
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• Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe Get Metafictional in Miami

  05-12-2014 16:19 via artnews.com
  The artists Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman staged their performance Shadow Pool: A Natural History of the San San International at the Edition hotel in Miami Thursday night. Freeman sat at a table in front of a large crowd and … Read More
  
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• Art Goes Off the Record and Off the Rails at the W

  05-12-2014 16:09 via artnews.com
  Women in one-piece bathing suits and illuminated lampshades welcomed visitors to the Dom Pérignon-sponsored after-party for Aby Rosen’s dinner at Wall, the club in the W South Beach, last night, which, despite having a color-coded wristband entry system, still left … Read More
  
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• Struggle For The Soul Of Nashville Culture

  05-12-2014 16:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “These two tendencies — save our soul, but grow grow grow — are now colliding in a bizarre form of hyper-gentrification. Neighborhoods close to downtown once drew teachers, writers and musicians with well-built, well-priced Craftsman homes. But with the influx of wealth has come a new kind of buyer, often an investor offering cash well […]
  
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• Legendary sculptor Phillip King at 80

  05-12-2014 16:00
  
  Phillip King’s sculptures from the 1960s helped to define a new era in British art. As he turns 80, and ahead of a Tate retrospective of his work, he talks to Nicholas Wroe
  It was 60 years ago that Phillip King, then a young conscript doing his national service, was posted to Paris. “I could speak French and was supposed to be joining a general’s staff. But when I got there my post had been taken by someone else and so I found myself living this very independent life, with my own flat, a
  
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• Phillip King: 'sculpture is the art of the invisible'

  05-12-2014 16:00
  
  Phillip King’s sculptures from the 1960s helped to define a new era in British art. As he turns 80, and ahead of a Tate retrospective of his work, he talks to Nicholas Wroe
  It was 60 years ago that Phillip King, then a young conscript doing his national service, was posted to Paris. “I could speak French and was supposed to be joining a general’s staff. But when I got there my post had been taken by someone else and so I found myself living this very independent life, with my own flat, and
  
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• Manderella

  05-12-2014 15:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Once upon a time, there lived a woman, who after her handsome and kind husband died, married the proudest and meanest man in all the land.   She had two sons from a previous marriage who were just as nasty, haughty and smelly as their mother. The lady also had a young son by another husband ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Morning Links: Parthenon Edition

  05-12-2014 15:12 via artnews.com
  David Altmejd’s studio receives 30 pounds of marijuana in the mail by accident. [New York Post] “The British Museum has loaned one of the Parthenon Marbles to Russia’s Hermitage Museum — the first time in 200 years that any of … Read More
  
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• Lucky PDF, the DIY art agitators

  05-12-2014 15:00
  
  The subversive south London collective staged parties, launched an online channel, and now makes subversive and often participatory art works for the digital generationForget climbing the greasy art-world pole, schmoozing dealers to get your work inside a white cube’s protective walls. The young art collective Lucky PDF – James Early, John Hill, Oliver Hogan and Yuri Pattison – have, with the aid of social networks and cheap, readily-to-hand technology, set about toppling the tired old hie
  
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• DIS Magazine Organizes Astounding, Unreal Performance at Pérez Art Museum Miami

  05-12-2014 13:52 via artnews.com
  Last night, the Pérez Art Museum Miami celebrated the one-year anniversary of its move into its very beautiful Herzog & de Meuron-designed building with a party that included the DJ supergroup Future Brown (who have a great video on view … Read More
  
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• DIS Magazine Organizes Astounding, Unreal Miami Basel Performance

  05-12-2014 13:52 via artnews.com
  Last night, the Pérez Art Museum Miami celebrated the one-year anniversary of its move into its very beautiful Herzog & de Meuron-designed building with a party that included the DJ supergroup Future Brown (who have a great video on view … Read More
  
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• Sergei Tcherepnin Wins 2014 Artadia/NADA Award

  05-12-2014 13:19 via artnews.com
  Artadia: The Fund for Art & Dialogue, a nonprofit arts organization started by banker Chris Vroom, announced that Sergei Tcherepnin is the winner of this year’s Artadia/NADA Award prize, which is presented to one artist at the NADA Miami Beach each year. It … Read More
  
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• The 10 best Christmas story paintings

  05-12-2014 13:00
  
  From Bruegel to Botticelli, Laura Cumming chooses her favourite depictions of the Christmas story1 | The Census at BethlehemPeter Bruegel the Elder, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels Continue reading...
  
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• Neon nights: Chris Bracey retrospective – in pictures

  05-12-2014 12:32
  
  Neon artist Chris Bracey from Walthamstow in north London started out making signage for Soho strip clubs and went on to work on films including Blade Runner and Batman. After his death in November a pop-up gallery takes his work back to his Soho roots and celebrates his 40-year career. God’s Own Junkyard can be seen at Lights of Soho, Brewer Street, London W1 until 18 January 2015
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• Blade Runner neon artist Chris Bracey retrospective – in pictures

  05-12-2014 12:32
  
  Neon artist Chris Bracey from Walthamstow in north London started out making signage for Soho strip joints and went on to work on films such as Blade Runner and Batman. He died in November and a pop-up gallery takes his work back to his Soho roots and celebrates his 40-year career. God’s Own Junkyard can be seen at Lights of Soho, Brewer Street, London W1 until 18 January 2015
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• Earthquake At The New Republic: New CEO Pushes Out Editor-In-Chief And Leon Wieseltier (!)

  05-12-2014 10:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Guy Vidra came to the magazine in October, he told the staff that “there were peacetime chief executives and wartime chief executives, and he was the latter. He added, using a profanity, that he planned to break stuff.”
  
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• Open Rebellion At Seoul Philharmonic: Staffers Demand CEO Resign Over Abusive Behavior

  05-12-2014 10:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  A press release from the orchestra’s own offices accuses Park Hyun-jung of “abusive language and sexual harassment” and violating employees’ human rights, hiring the children of her friends, and driving away half of her staff and three-quarters of the SPO’s patron group. (in English)
  
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• Japan’s Vagina Kayak Artist Arrested For Obscenity Again

  05-12-2014 10:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “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, using a 3D printer, inspired by her genitals. She was released days later following a legal appeal and after thousands […]
  
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• Dealer Who Sold Forgeries Of DeKooning And Pollock Pleads Guilty To Fraud

  05-12-2014 10:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “An East Hampton man accused of selling dozens of fake paintings and sketches purported to be by famous artists, and using some of the money to buy a submarine, pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to one count of wire fraud.”
  
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• Are Museums The Best Place to Appreciate Art? Maybe Not, Says The Former Director of the Met

  05-12-2014 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Philippe de Montebello, the longest-serving director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in its history, discusses how and why we look at art … [and] reflects on the importance of museums, but wonders if they might be the worst possible places to look at art.” (audio)
  
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• How Michael Price Built A Little Musical-Theater Empire At Goodspeed

  05-12-2014 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A tough, old-style producer with a glad-handing public persona, … Mr. Price, a small, slender Chicago native with bright white hair and a flashing smile, can often be found working the crowd. ‘It’s like running a general store,’ he said. ‘You’ve got to know your people.'”
  
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• Movie Stars Talk About Acting On Broadway

  05-12-2014 09:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As much as Broadway now relies on Hollywood actors to bring in the crowds, so A-listers increasingly view stints onstage as integral to a rich career. Here, seven award-winning actors” – Bradley Cooper, Glenn Close, Jake Gyllenhaal, Patricia Clarkson, Martha Plimpton, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Alessandro Nivola – “on their new roles.”
  
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• Elgin Marbles: British Museum loans statue of god Ilissos to Russia's Hermitage

  05-12-2014 09:35
  
  One of the Elgin Marbles is to leave Britain for the first time since the relics were brought here to go on display in Russia.
  
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• Elgin Marbles: British Museum lends statue of god Ilissos to Russia's Hermitage

  05-12-2014 09:35
  
  One of the Elgin Marbles is to leave Britain for the first time since the relics were brought here to go on display in Russia.
  
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