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• At Pulse Miami Beach, Walter Robinson Offers Up Clothing Catalogs, Porn

  08-12-2014 23:56 via artnews.com
  This year the Miami edition of Pulse art fair decamped from its longtime home in the Ice Palace in Miami proper for a tent in Indian Park Beach in Miami Beach—a major improvement in terms of location, spaciousness, and lighting. … Read More
  
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• Jed Perl to The New Republic: ‘You Have Broken the Hearts of Many People’

  08-12-2014 22:20 via artnews.com
  Among the staff exodus over at The New Republic after owner Chris Hughes fired the magazine’s top editor, Franklin Foer, is Jed Perl, the magazine’s ever-cranky art critic for two decades and the author of such pieces as “Liberals Are Killing … Read More
  
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• Here’s The Full List of Everything Going From MOCA to The ICA

  08-12-2014 22:17 via artnews.com
  Last week in my story about the creation of the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami and its offshoot the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, I pointed out that while 70 percent of the MOCA collection will stay at that … Read More
  
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• Inheritance tracks that take us nowhere | Letters: Jane Kelly and Karl Lam

  08-12-2014 21:24
  
  Once again the fabulously wealthy Duke of Northumberland is selling a family treasure that will go to a foreign owner unless public funds and donations can be raised to keep it in this country (Report, 6 December). The £6.8m auction price achieved in July for The Garden of Eden With the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder was double the estimate – probably inflated by media hype – and it will now apparently take more to prevent the painting going abroad.I remember an earlier example
  
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• Nicholas Baume on Ryan Gander’s Bodyguard Performance: ‘It Felt Slightly Odd’

  08-12-2014 21:00 via artnews.com
  The first two nights of Art Basel Miami Beach, the already important Public Art Fund Director and Chief Curator Nichalas Baume seemed significantly more important. That’s because the artist Ryan Gander— whose breeze you may remember from Documenta 13—hired two professional … Read More
  
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• An Anselm Kiefer – brilliant to behold, impossible to steal | Catherine Shoard

  08-12-2014 20:40
  
  I can’t be near something valuable for long without wondering how one might nick it, but Kiefer’s gargantuan art had me beatTwo years ago a man called Andrew Shannon punched a Monet right in the skyline. The painting was Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat, the location the National Gallery of Ireland, and the damage substantial.At the time, Shannon claimed he’d come over a bit faint, stuck out an arm and – too late! – found an £8m masterpiece in the way. Last week he was sen
  
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• Another Group Of Investors Has A Proposal To Revive New York City Opera

  08-12-2014 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The low price reflects how little is left of the opera company, which filed for bankruptcy protection in October 2013 after years of growing deficits and costly missteps with its endowment.”
  
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• Arts Council England Tells Theatres To Diversify Or Lose Funding

  08-12-2014 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We have to open up access to power and to resources. Looking up, too many see the white cliff-face of the arts establishment and feel they just cannot climb it.”
  
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• When A Funding Source Abruptly Ends, How Can A Dance Community Move On?

  08-12-2014 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘Philadelphia was poised to be a great American dance capital,’ said Welk. ‘Now we’re a little less poised.'”
  
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• An American Violinist Attacks The Suzuki Method – And Suzuki Himself

  08-12-2014 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The kerfuffle exploded in the violin world like an out-of-tune screech in a Haydn quartet. The Suzuki method is vastly popular, selling some half a million books a year, according to its publisher; Mr. O’Connor is a star who has toured with the jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli, worked as a major session musician in Nashville, […]
  
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• 10 Art Events to Attend in New York This Week

  08-12-2014 18:04 via artnews.com
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• U2 stream Films of Innocence, 11 visual interpretations of recent album

  08-12-2014 17:45
  
  Band ‘do a Beyoncé’ and launch a series of videos which visually interpret songs featured on Songs of Innocence U2 are currently streaming a series of graffiti-inspired films based on their latest album, Songs of Innocence. Referencing the political murals of Northern Ireland, a group of video artists interpreted each of the 11 tracks on their album for the project entitled Films of Innocence. Previously described as “11 of the world’s most celebrated urban artists”, the list of creat
  
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• Hollywood Now Has A Flood Of Social Media Data, And Analyzers To Sort It All Out

  08-12-2014 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The system, for instance, looks at the size of the online conversation and how much of it is positive or negative. It also tracks how much activity is organic and how much is the result of specific studio efforts.”
  
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• How Is Google Maps So (Generally) Awesome? Big Data, But Also A Big Project

  08-12-2014 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Satellites and algorithms only get you so far. Google employs a small army of human operators (they won’t say exactly how many) to manually check and correct the maps using an in-house program called Atlas. Few people outside the company have seen it in use.”
  
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• The Disconnect Between Life And The Arts, Played Out In Black Bodies In The Art World

  08-12-2014 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I’ve now learned what it really means to be a black woman working in the arts. It means I carry the burden with none of the gains. It means that black lives in this country will never be more newsworthy to my peers than art world scandal.”
  
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• So, A ‘Punk Rock Water Ballet’ – What *Is*That?

  08-12-2014 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The landscape evokes danger with the possibility of death yet still upholds elegance and class.”
  
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• The Kennedy Center Honors Will Soon See A Changing Of The Guard

  08-12-2014 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As is tradition, the artists sat with the president and first lady and watched the evening unfold. But that and other traditions could change. Producer George Stevens Jr., who has been at the event’s helm since 1978, told the audience that this will be his last event — after Kennedy Center officials told him they […]
  
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• After 3000 Book Reviews Jonathan Yardley Calls It Quits At The Washington Post

  08-12-2014 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If anyone had told me as I began this long career that I would spend most of it as a book reviewer and that I would even write a few books of my own, I would have been astonished.”
  
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• After 300 Book Reviews Jonathan Yardley Calls It Quits At The Washington Post

  08-12-2014 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If anyone had told me as I began this long career that I would spend most of it as a book reviewer and that I would even write a few books of my own, I would have been astonished.”
  
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• A Look Around the Untitled Art Fair in Miami Beach

  08-12-2014 16:18 via artnews.com
  The Miami fairs closed yesterday, and now the only remains of the wild week of Art Basel Miami Beach are memories and photographs. Among the highlights was the return, for a third year, of the Untitled fair in a tent on the beach near 12th Street. It’s … Read More
  
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• This Old House: Cooper Hewitt Museum Reopens

  08-12-2014 16:00 via artnews.com
  On December 12, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum on New York’s Museum Mile will reopen after a three-year renovation of its home in Andrew Carnegie’s former mansion, restoring the jewel-box grandeur of the building while making it far more … Read More
  
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• Archiving Anything Weird On Film, And Turning It Digital

  08-12-2014 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I realized if I started my own archive I could have all the source material I wanted to create my own work. I chose film because I thought it would end up being the medium with the most longevity.”
  
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• Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Whose Rural Life Inspired Her Poetry Dies At 57

  08-12-2014 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Already a songwriter, [Claudia Emerson] was inspired to write poetry by the scenery on her rural 86-mile mail route and by reading Rainer Maria Rilke’s ‘Letters to a Young Poet.'”
  
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• Morning Links: Jonathan Swift Edition

  08-12-2014 15:05 via artnews.com
  The Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn will close after 20 years due to rising rents. The owners plan to relocate to Detroit, where they have purchased about 600,000 square feet of space. [The New York Times] “Modern art’s desire to … Read More
  
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• Can The Green Bay Symphony Save Itself By Joining Forces With The Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra?

  08-12-2014 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘This would not be a takeover, and it’s not throwing a life raft to a sinking ship,’ Cantrell said. ‘I want to look at it as a partnership into the future.'”
  
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• Brooklyn Rent Is So High, One Art Space Is Just Moving To Detroit

  08-12-2014 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Over the past year, Mr. Elmes and his wife, Philippa Kaye, have bought nine buildings totaling about 600,000 square feet in that city’s Corktown neighborhood and in neighboring Highland Park, paying what he described as the price of ‘a small apartment in New York City’ for the properties.”
  
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• Satellite Fairs Like Art Basel Miami Beach Can Show Power Curators ‘The Next Big Thing’

  08-12-2014 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Fairs are tough on art—and dealers. Curators on tight schedules are not going to ring twice, if a gallerist is missing in action when they visit the fair.”
  
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• It’s Easy – Too Easy? – To Write About Yourself

  08-12-2014 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The bot encourages you to communicate in emojis, but you can also add words. Everything you say is logged on your iPhone, and the idea is that if you’re diligent and reply every time it asks you what’s up, eventually you have yourself a journal.”
  
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• Tristan und Isolde, Royal Opera House, review: Overwhelming and emotionally magnificent

  08-12-2014 10:30
  
  ‘On the stage walk sounds, not people,’ wrote a perceptive German critic of Tristan, and that could be a summing up of the philosophy underlying Christof Loy’s cinematic and psychologically acute staging, now revived at Covent Garden.
  
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• In 2015 vote for creativity, not austerity | Bob and Roberta Smith

  08-12-2014 10:01
  
  We need art more than ever in tough times. That’s why I’m standing against Michael Gove in next year’s electionThe remarks made by Nicky Morgan, the education secretary, last month about “the arts holding kids back” seem far more kneejerk than anything her predecessor Michael Gove said on creative education. But it was Gove who paved the way to erode confidence in the arts, and he remains the inspiration for my effort to better advocate the arts to government. This is why I intend to s
  
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• Why I’m standing against Michael Gove | Bob and Roberta Smith

  08-12-2014 10:01
  
  In tough times we need art more than ever, so in 2015 I hope people will vote for creativity, not austerityThe remarks made by Nicky Morgan, the education secretary, last month about “the arts holding kids back” seem far more kneejerk than anything her predecessor Michael Gove said on creative education. But it was Gove who paved the way to erode confidence in the arts, and he remains the inspiration for my effort to better advocate the arts to government. This is why I intend to stand as an
  
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• Head of Queen Jeanne de Bourbon on the auction block

  08-12-2014 09:30
  
  Marble sculpture may be a fragment from tomb destroyed during the French Revolution
  
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• China’s gentlemen collectors have a cachet that money can’t buy

  08-12-2014 09:30
  
  While records tumble in the saleroom, museums are quietly celebrating the literati tradition
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.07.14

  08-12-2014 07:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  What To Make of The Turner Record? AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2014-12-07 Life Under the Dome AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2014-12-07 Health policy is arts policy AJBlog: For What it’s WorthPublished 2014-12-07 Everybody’s Got One AJBlog: We The AudiencePublished 2014-12-07 Easier than Literature AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2014-12-06  
  
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• Untitled(“the priest.. gasoline and burning flesh in the air.. they thought they saw the face of buddha”

  08-12-2014 02:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Your nipples are a God send, I said. Do you think I’m a feminist, she said. I don’t really know what feminist are, I said. She said her piece:I just told her she’s making me feel like shit like everyone else does and I can feel that she’s disappointed in me and it hurts it’s ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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