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• Badlands Unlimited Publishes Post-Ferguson Reading List

  09-12-2014 22:47 via artnews.com
  Today, Badlands Unlimited — the New York-based independent publisher founded by the artist Paul Chan and consisting of artists Ian Cheng, Micaela Durand, and Matthew So — released a reading list in the aftermath of the deaths of Mike Brown, … Read More
  
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• The Art of Good Business: Hans Haacke Goes After a Koch, Readies London Plinth

  09-12-2014 21:42 via artnews.com
  Anyone in need of a potent antidote to the feeding frenzy at Art Basel Miami Beach last week should head right now to Paula Cooper Gallery’s second-floor space at 521 West 21st Street in West Chelsea. On view there is … Read More
  
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• ‘At Dinners After Openings I Sometimes Feel Like I’m Watching Bank Accounts Have Sex': Hal Foster’s ‘Interview’ Interview Is Diverse, Enjoyable

  09-12-2014 20:08 via artnews.com
  Rather than line up the customary one person to interview him for Interview’s just out Insiders issue (featuring m’colleague Andrew Russeth), Hal Foster chose to allow Tacita Dean, Seth Price, Jeffrey Eugenides, Rachel Kushner, Jeremy Deller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Wade Guyton, … Read More
  
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• Steve Cuozzo Dislikes ‘F-word Blaring Jocks’ at Kappo Masa

  09-12-2014 20:00 via artnews.com
  If you missed it last week (as we all probably did, being down in Miami): the New York Post’s real estate columnist and restaurant critic Steve Cuozzo wrote that he found Larry Gagosian and Masayoshi Takayama’s much worse than the“three-Michelin-starred, … Read More
  
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• New Lesescenario

  09-12-2014 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aziz Ansari (@azizansari) recently used Twitter to post a new Lesescenario (or “closet screenplay/film”) hashtag-titled #GhostPlane. It’s been added to the Lesescenario bibliography, and SCRIPT’s thanks are due Nicholas Roth (@ScholarNick) for bringing #GhostPlane to our attention.
  
  
  
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• Rich Artist Designs Book Cover for Rich Man

  09-12-2014 19:05 via artnews.com
  Today in the Department of Things You Could Have Seen From A Million Miles Away, Jeff Koons has designed the cover for film producer Brian Grazer’s book, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life. Sure would like to … Read More
  
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• A most beautiful bible

  09-12-2014 18:36
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• Prospect Biennial In New Orleans Is Now Officially a Triennial

  09-12-2014 18:06 via artnews.com
  New Orleans’ Prospect biennial, which is now in its third iteration and has never actually been held biennially, has been “officially” changed to a triennial, according to the festival’s board of directors. The fourth edition will be held in 2017. … Read More
  
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• Nástio Mosquito and Carlos Motta Split 2014 Future Generation Art Prize

  09-12-2014 17:44 via artnews.com
  Last Saturday in Kiev, Angolan artist Nástio Mosquito and Colombian artist Carlos Motta were chosen out of a short-list of twenty artists as split winners of outspoken Ukrainian collector Victor Pinchuk’s 2014 Future Generation Art Prize, taking home $30,000 in … Read More
  
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• Lower East Side’s Brennan & Griffin Gallery Will Expand to Red Hook

  09-12-2014 17:42 via artnews.com
  New York’s Brennan & Griffin gallery has picked up a building in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn. The new space will open in May of 2015 with a show by painter Mary Weatherford. It’s a sizable location, measuring 5,000 square … Read More
  
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• ‘You Definitely Need to See This Work in Person': Kenny Schachter at Art Basel in Miami Beach

  09-12-2014 16:13 via artnews.com
  For weeks I’d been telling myself, and anyone who would listen, that I was going to skip the 2014 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. It had been a busy fall. October’s Frieze London fair is at least on my … Read More
  
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• Christmas and contemporary art? Like chalk and blue cheese

  09-12-2014 16:05
  
  The Yuletide spirit makes today’s art look brittle, cold and unseasonal – it’s time to set aside good taste and embrace the kitsch
  Let’s face it. Contemporary art and Christmas are not even a tiny bit compatible. Nothing is less Christmassy than up-to-the-minute art. There is a complete lack of fit between minimalist austerity and the magically silly spirit of Yuletide.Who wants to see cool conceptual art at Christmas? Not me. I’d rather look at a Lego reindeer. The display of Santa an
  
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• When Orchestras Go Out Of Business (Doesn’t Mean They Stay Out Of Business)

  09-12-2014 15:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Here is the story of how three orchestras collapsed, then rose from the ashes. “The resilience of orchestras cannot be overstated,” says Jesse Rosen, president and CEO of the League of American Orchestras.
  
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• How New Ideas Spread: Contagion Or Persuasion?

  09-12-2014 15:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In contagion models, influence goes one way, from one infected person to an uninfected one, or from someone who has adopted an idea to one who hasn’t. In persuasion models, on the other hand, influence is a two-way street, and adoption isn’t an either/or condition. Instead, people have some belief in a new idea’s value, […]
  
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• Dance Theatre Of Harlem Executive Director To Step Down

  09-12-2014 15:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Mr. Naidu, a former dancer and choreographer who was born in South Africa, joined the company in 1991, and was director of the Dance Theater of Harlem School and the company’s community outreach program, Dancing Through Barriers, before he became executive director.”
  
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• Whistler: The Original Art Star

  09-12-2014 15:30 via artnews.com
  A century before Warhol, Whistler treated his own persona as a work of art. In the Peacock Room, he created an installation that expressed his bitterness about the ties between art and money. Read More
  
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• Anna Netrebko, Freedom Fighter

  09-12-2014 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netrebko said her gift to the Donetsk opera and ballet theatre was “a step to support art where it is needed now”. Russian Channel 5 TV showed her giving the cheque to Oleg Tsarev, a leader of the armed separatists in Donetsk.
  
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• Kicking The Habit: For First Time Ever, The Number Of UK Homes Without Television Increases

  09-12-2014 15:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Media watchdog Ofcom said TV-owning households dropped by 300,000 between the end of 2012 and the end of 2013, from 26.33 million to 26.02 million. Nearly one million of the homes without a TV set do have internet access.”
  
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• Musical Tourism – It Can Deeply Warp Your Sense Of Reality

  09-12-2014 15:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Traditions, styles, vernaculars—so many new pieces I hear these days pledge allegiance to some form of authenticity, some repertoire, some community. A lot of times, such pieces are the result of a deep engagement with the cited style on the part of composer and performer; a lot of times, it’s simply an expression of momentary […]
  
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• Venerable Canadian Theatre Launches Painfully Modest Fundraising Campaign (Really? That’s All?)

  09-12-2014 15:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In good Passe Muraille tradition, McKim argues that an achievable campaign that asks a lot of people to give small sums lets all donors feel they are making a difference. But can the citizens of Toronto really value this past and this present so lightly that a contribution of $1 a week is all they […]
  
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• As Our Relationships With Artists Change, So Do The Ways We Treat Public Art

  09-12-2014 15:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We don’t see artists as sole, heroic, mysterious creators any more. We are used to appropriation of all kinds, from sampling to mashups to critical homages. We are used to referencing and remixing. We are in constant debate over the possibility of originality. And we are used to the idea of art as vandalism, too.”
  
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• Morning Links: Swizz Beatz Edition

  09-12-2014 15:04 via artnews.com
  Here’s a Q&A with LaToya Ruby Frazier about her new book of photographs. [Los Angeles Times] After 5 months in prison, Helly Nahmad has moved to a halfway house. [New York Observer] Expletive-yelling protestors were arrested at Miami Basel. [NBC … Read More
  
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• Are Humans Born With An “Instinct” For Language?

  09-12-2014 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “How much sense does it make to call whatever inborn basis for language we might have an ‘instinct’? On reflection, not much.”
  
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• Why Twitter Buzz Doesn’t Correlate With TV Ratings For Most-Watched Shows

  09-12-2014 14:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Measuring how Twitter activity correlates with ratings remains an elusive process. Nielsen, the dominant ratings company, has announced and then delayed the much-anticipated rollout of its multiplatform measurement services, which would help assess what Twitter buzz is doing (or not) for shows.”
  
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• Is It Important To Save Dying Languages? (Of Course, But Not For The Reasons You Think)

  09-12-2014 14:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Certainly, a culture can thrive without its own language: No one would tell today’s American Indians that if they no longer spoke their ancestral language it would render them non-Indian. Likewise, being Jewish does not require speaking Hebrew or Yiddish. Yet because language is so central to being human, to have a language used only […]
  
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• Binge-Watching: How TV Networks Are Programming For Your DVR

  09-12-2014 14:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Perhaps the best example of this phenomenon comes from FXX’s recent Simpsons marathon, which produced astounding results. The network screened more than 500 episodes back-to-back with 25 million unique viewers tuning in at some point and the average viewer watching 23 episodes. The ratings boost launched FXX from the 49th-ranked basic cable network for the […]
  
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• What’s Wrong With Art School

  09-12-2014 14:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jerry Saltz: “A lot of the timid, judgment-averse writing afoot in criticism, as well as the snark adopted by those who were turned cynical in critical programs before they even had a chance to exercise belief, can be traced back to these posh programs. We need to find a way to stop dogmas from being […]
  
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• The daffodil code: doubts revived over Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks in London

  09-12-2014 14:42
  
  Experts say London version of painter’s Madonna masterpiece has fake flowers and ‘misses the point geologically’Leonardo da Vinci always impressed on his students the importance of depicting nature accurately. He wrote: “Painter, you should know that you cannot be good if you are not a master universal enough to imitate with your art every kind of natural form.” Indeed, his own paintings and drawings of the natural world are as scientifically accurate as they are beautiful.Five centuri
  
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• The majesty of beards to be celebrated in Somerset House exhibition

  09-12-2014 14:09
  
  Biologists may have warned/pleaded that we've reached 'peak beard', but the trend shows no sign of slowing, with London set to celebrate facial hair in a new exhibition.
  
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• Cooper Hewitt puts can-do spirit into the house Carnegie built

  09-12-2014 11:21
  
  Smithsonian Design Museum reopens this week with array of high-tech displays
  
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• Broadway Press Agent Bans Wall Street Journal Writer Who Walks Out Of Plays

  09-12-2014 10:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  In response to Joanne Kaufman’s column about how she regularly bails out at intermission from shows to which she’s received press tickets, top Broadway publicist Rick Miramontez announced that he will “unburden Joltin’ Joanne from her hardship.”
  
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• Beard exhibition at Somerset House – in pictures

  09-12-2014 10:30
  
  A series of 80 photographic works of people sporting impressive and interesting facial hair will go on display in London in early 2015 Continue reading...
  
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• Classical Grammy Nominations 2015: Both John Adamses, Seattle Symphony, Partch

  09-12-2014 10:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  John Luther Adam’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Become Ocean and John (Coolidge) Adams’s City Noir are both up for awards, as are the beleaguered Atlanta Symphony, the up-and-coming Seattle Symphony, 86-year-old pianist Leon Fleisher, and Partch (the percussion ensemble, not the late American composer/hobo).
  
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• Bolshoi Ballet Star Alla Sizova Dead At 75

  09-12-2014 10:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[Her] outsize talent was apparent even before she joined the Kirov (now the Mariinsky) in 1958. … Her extraordinarily high jump and astounding technical prowess as the Queen of the Dryads in a school performance of Don Quixote won raves from the Leningrad critics and a nickname, Flying Sizova.”
  
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• Aaron Sorkin Under Fire For “The Newsroom” Episode About Campus Rape

  09-12-2014 10:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Mr. Sorkin, in an astonishing case of prescience, created a plot that hewed closely to the recent article in Rolling Stone magazine about an accusation of gang rape at the University of Virginia.” The backlash to the script is coming close to the backlash against Rolling Stone , too.
  
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• “Serial”: The Syed Family Talks About “Five Million Detectives Trying To Work Out If Adnan Is A Psychopath”

  09-12-2014 09:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The podcast exploring the case of Adnan Syed, who was convicted of the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, has become a global phenomenon. In an exclusive interview, Adnan’s family talk to Jon Ronson about listening to Serial, toxic Reddit threads and how his imprisonment has destroyed their lives.”
  
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• Veteran British Actor Gets In Hot Water For Saying “Theatre Is A White Invention”

  09-12-2014 09:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Janet Suzman, frustrated at the lack of black faces in the audience at a South African play she recently did in London, said, “I rail against that and say why don’t black people come to see a play about one of the most powerful African states? And they don’t bloody come. They’re not interested. It’s […]
  
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• As China’s Art Market Explodes, An Old Mandarin Tradition Is Revived

  09-12-2014 09:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The literati tradition holds the appreciation of art, calligraphy, music, chess and other ‘gentlemanly’ pursuits in high esteem. … Cultural power-brokers have been keen to promote old-style art collecting values, based on connoisseurship, history and tradition. In this vein, museums have been focusing on important collectors and their collections.”
  
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• How Much Does It Matter That “In Cold Blood” Wasn’t 100 Percent Accurate?

  09-12-2014 09:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Laura Miller looks at some recent controversy over Truman Capote’s account of a Kansas murder case and the relationship between crime fiction, true-crime narratives, and how Americans perceive the criminal justice system.
  
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• We’ll Never Find A Unified Theory Of Life, The Universe, And Everything

  09-12-2014 09:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The idea “that behind nature’s manifest diversity there is a simple, unified explanation” goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks (if not farther) and right up to today’s physics labs and philosophy workshops. Theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser argues that we probably just have to live with the mystery. (“42″ simply isn’t enough.)
  
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• What Makes Someone An Atheist Or Theist?

  09-12-2014 09:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Should we express religious categories in terms of people’s beliefs or their behaviors? Commentator Tania Lombrozo examines why we describe (a)theism the way we do.”
  
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• Folks Do Not Like Pantone’s New Color Of The Year

  09-12-2014 09:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marsala. Pantone describes it as “a naturally robust and earthy wine red color”. The Cut describes it as “a color that makes you want to go to Olive Garden or order Tampax in bulk” – and the online commentariat has lots of equally unappetizing assessments.
  
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• The Space: is this what £16m worth of digital art looks like?

  09-12-2014 09:00
  
  Its aim is to dazzle a young global audience with the best of digital art. But The Space has been called a ‘shocking waste of public money’. Maggie Brown finds few defenders for the £16m websiteRuth Mackenzie has just flown in from Beijing, where she was signing up Ai Weiwei to create an artwork for The Space. Mackenzie, the woman largely credited with making the 2012 Cultural Olympiad such a success, became launch director of the website for digital arts last year – and has clearly
  
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• Art of Building 2014 photography competition

  09-12-2014 09:00
  
  Finalists for the Art of Building 2014 photography competition organised by the CIOB, where the winning artist earning the most votes will earn a cash prize of 3,000 and the title of the Art of Building Photographer of the Year Continue reading...
  
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• The Art of Building 2014 competition – in pictures

  09-12-2014 09:00
  
  From a flaming brick kiln in India to a rare look inside the futuristic new Metro in Amsterdam, here are the finalists for the Art of Building 2014 photography competition Continue reading...
  
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• ‘We make arts, not ants’

  09-12-2014 08:30
  
  Collector Victor Pinchuk denounces “repressive regimes” in eastern Ukraine at art awards ceremony
  
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• Fire at Paris Old Master gallery

  09-12-2014 08:00
  
  Paintings protected from damage by high-security vault
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.08.14

  09-12-2014 05:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Perelman Vs. Gagosian: A Decision AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-12-08 The New Republic is Not About Politics AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2014-12-08 Neil MacGregor Plays Russian Roulette with the Acropolis Marbles AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2014-12-08 Streaming and royalties for musicians – a plea for better reporting AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2014-12-08 Monday Recommendation: […]
  
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• Snow White Rising #3

  09-12-2014 03:58 via feedproxy.google.com
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• 'Theatre is a white invention' says leading actress Dame Janet Suzman

  09-12-2014 01:33
  
  Theatre is “a white invention” and in the DNA of white people but not others, one of Britain’s most respected actors has said.
  
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