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• Peter Lik: The self-proclaimed 'fine-art photographer' whose work sells for millions

  11-12-2014 23:30
  
  A little-known Australian photographer who looks like Crocodile Dundee and describes himself as “one of the most important artists of the 21st century” has reignited a fierce debate about photography as art after selling an image of a canyon for a record £4m.
  
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• Why Would A Journalist Leave The Theatre At Intermission? Well…

  11-12-2014 22:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The objections to the column seemed to fall in two camps. People in the business, who feel they are wasting their money, and impassioned theatergoers who say they would never ever leave a show, no matter what. I understand both points of view, though I’m not wedded to either side.”
  
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• Douglas Gordon: the man with the black lagoon

  11-12-2014 21:51
  
  The artist has flooded New York’s Park Avenue Armory and put a pianist in the middle of the water in a dramatic new workWhat better place to flood than New York?” says Douglas Gordon, whose epic water-and-music collaboration with pianist Hélène Grimaud is showing at the Park Avenue Armory.Gordon’s flood covers 28,000 square feet of the drill hall. Sometimes he prefers to call it an inundation. Or a loch. Call it a lake and the Scottish artist will glare at you. On 10 evenings
  
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• MoMA Announces 2015 Yoko Ono Show

  11-12-2014 21:40 via artnews.com
  Today the Museum Of Modern art announced its first solo exhibition dedicated exclusively to the work of Yoko Ono. Titled “Yoko Ono: One Women show, 1960-1971,” it will run from May 17 to September 7, 2015. The show will focus on what … Read More
  
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• Germany Plans New, Tighter Regulations On Art And Antiquities Trade

  11-12-2014 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the future, anyone who imports antiquities into Germany will need for each piece a valid export permit from the land of origin, which is to be presented when the object enters the country.”
  
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• This Year’s Golden Globe Nominations Have a Few Surprises

  11-12-2014 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Though much attention has been given to Oscar’s best actor race, this year’s directing category just gotten even more interesting.”
  
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• Four by Two

  11-12-2014 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Four by Two is a paper and ink quarterly printed on a single sheet bent five times and glued or stapled to post consumer waste. Conceived long distance by klipschutz (@klipschutz) of San Francisco, who serves as house poet, editor and curator and Jeremy Gaulke (Richmond) designer, illustrator and printer. We strive to surprise ourselves ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Poetry Review: Four by Two

  11-12-2014 21:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Four by two is a somewhat of a new approach to publishing poetry: not a magazine, journal or chapbook, but poems wrapped in origami.
  
  
  
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• The Reinvented Cooper Hewitt Museum

  11-12-2014 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After a three-year, $81 million renovation, during which the museum was closed to the public, a reinvigorated Cooper Hewitt is set to reopen. The 1902 mansion that was once Andrew Carnegie ’s home now has 60% more gallery space, interactive elements to highlight its collection, and free access to its cafe and garden starting at […]
  
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• Worcester Art Museum Taps Elizabeth Athens to Be Assistant Curator of American Art

  11-12-2014 21:07 via artnews.com
  Today the Worcester Art Museum, of Worcester, Massachusetts, hired Elizabeth Athens, a Ph.D. candidate in art history at Yale, as its new assistant curator of American art. A specialist in 18th- and 19th-century American art, she will start at the … Read More
  
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• Former Walker Director Martin Friedman Remembers Mushroom Adventures With John Cage

  11-12-2014 19:33 via artnews.com
  As part of its 75th-anniversary celebrations, Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center is running on its website unpublished writings by Martin Friedman, who directed the museum from 1961 to 1990 and made it into one of the most progressive institutions for contemporary art … Read More
  
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• How The US Government Co-Opted Hip Hop Protests In Cuba And It Backfired

  11-12-2014 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Instead of sparking a democratic revolution, it compromised an authentic source of protest that had produced some of the hardest-hitting grassroots criticism since Fidel Castro took power in 1959, an AP investigation found.”
  
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• Why Art Censorship Is On The Rise

  11-12-2014 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Why have these recent demands to censor been so successful? It’s worth reflecting on who is protesting, because this is also different from the earlier, top-down attempts to censor.”
  
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• Photography is art and always will be

  11-12-2014 17:50
  
  Do Jane Bown, William Eggleston and Diane Arbus not sing on a gallery wall? Photography critic Sean O’Hagan hits back at Jonathan Jones’s damning claim that photographs cannot be considered fine art• Jonathan Jones: why photography is not artImagine, if you will, the following scene. I pop into the National Gallery to view the 2014 BP National Portrait Award and look in bemusement at the exhibition, which is mostly comprised of rather old-fashioned paintings. It’s an uninspiring show, a
  
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• Balling Off Painting: MoMA Opens ‘The Forever Now’

  11-12-2014 17:19 via artnews.com
  Tuesday night, at the Museum of Modern Art’s opening for “The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World,” most people had a hard time remembering when the last group show of young painters had happened at the museum (technically, the … Read More
  
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• Holly Zausner: The Doppelgänger Stretch

  11-12-2014 16:15 via artnews.com
  Known for hurling her rubbery sculptures from rooftops, the sculptor is now letting them perform in her films Read More
  
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• Here’s the List of Participants for Independent 2015

  11-12-2014 16:00 via artnews.com
  If you’re still experiencing a Miami hangover, you’re out of luck. Armory Week is right around the corner! Independent, which just held its inaugural second event (called Independent Projects) in New York during the November auctions, will return during Armory Week, … Read More
  
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• Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Kills Himself

  11-12-2014 15:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jose Feghali shot himself in the head. “The Brazilian native, trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London, won the gold medal and the chamber music prize in the 1985 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Since 1990 he had been artist-in-residence at Texas Christian University’s School of Music, more recently also serving as its […]
  
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• Morning Links: The American Museum of Natural History Expansion Edition

  11-12-2014 15:10 via artnews.com
  Norman and Irma Braman talk to The New York Times about their new museum, the ICA Miami: “‘If the curator and director of the museum want to have a show on the New York School of Artists, we’d be very … Read More
  
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• Here Are The Amazing Trees Where Stradivari Got Wood For Violins (The Forrest Still Thrives)

  11-12-2014 14:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The forest where the luthier got his lumber is alive and well. And thanks to the surprising teamwork of modern instrument makers and forest rangers, Stradivari’s trees are doing better than ever.”
  
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• Sony Hacking Ignites Hollywood Turmoil

  11-12-2014 14:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The breach has caused havoc within Hollywood’s inner circles as private correspondence between powerful producers and executives have exposed internal politics and petty gripes. More importantly, the data also appeared to include spreadsheets outlining financial deals Sony had with third parties, which could hurt its standing with its partners. These details also expose how much […]
  
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• Showdown At Seoul Philharmonic: Music Director Says He’ll Quit If CEO Isn’t Removed

  11-12-2014 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Less than a week after the orchestra’s staff openly demanded the resignation of their boss, Park Hyun-Jung, artistic director Myung-Whun Chung (a local hero in Seoul because of his high-level career in Europe’s capitals) said that Park’s on-the-job behavior “is a clear violation of human rights [of her staff] … such attitude is not acceptable.”
  
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• Young Woman Wins Major Conducting Competition In London

  11-12-2014 10:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “First prize in the 2014 Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition was awarded … to the competition’s first female winner, Elim Chan. The 28-year-old was born in Hong Kong to British parents and currently studies at the University of Michigan.”
  
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• What Makes A Good Conductor? And Do Conducting Competitions Help Find Whatever It Is?

  11-12-2014 10:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “How you define that something, though, is hard; and its elusiveness can turn conducting competitions into strange events of questionable meaning. … Good orchestras instinctively compensate for directorial shortcomings. But hearing successive conductors unleashed on the same orchestra in quick turnover, as is the case in such competitions, shows that the person wielding the stick […]
  
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• How George Balanchine Found His Ideal “Nutcracker”

  11-12-2014 10:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Fifty years ago, George Balanchine finally staged the Nutcracker of his dreams, a triumph for the New York City Ballet in its then new Lincoln Center home. Laura Jacobs tells how Balanchine’s childhood Christmases, his youth in St. Petersburg (dancing multiple roles in The Nutcracker himself), and his 41-foot tree sparked an American holiday tradition.”
  
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• Backstage At The “Edward Scissorhands” Ballet

  11-12-2014 10:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Vanity Fair gets a look at Matthew Bourne’s adaptation of the cult film. (slideshow)
  
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• Reclaiming The Swastika

  11-12-2014 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[Recently] there have been calls to reclaim the symbol from its Nazi links and restore its origin as an ancient symbol signalling good luck. So can these two views ever be reconciled? Mukti Jain Campion examines the symbol’s long and surprising pre-Nazi history and discovers how the Nazi adoption of it is based on a […]
  
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• Ten Different Uses Of The Swastika, None Of Them Nazi

  11-12-2014 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Many people know that the now-notorious sign has been (and is) used in India as a good luck sign for centuries. But the swastika has been used in many other times and places, from ancient Greek pottery to Japanese Buddhist temples to – believe it or not – the U.S. and British military during World […]
  
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• The Most Controversial Novel In Israeli History Finally Hits U.S. Shelves

  11-12-2014 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In 1949, the publication of a short novel Khirbet Khizeh, about the forceful [sic] evacuation of a Palestinian village by Israeli soldiers, created a stir in the newly established state of Israel. Now, 65 years later, the controversial Hebrew classic by S. Yizhar is taking on a new life in English.”
  
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• Ten Important Things Happened At Art Basel Miami Beach This Year

  11-12-2014 09:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  From the debut of one museum of reinvention of another, to the new prominence of certain artists and dealers, to the triumph of dance, to the night when supposedly superficial Miamians found their outrage …
  
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• How To Move Contemporary Art Beyond The 0.1 Percent To The “Creative Class”

  11-12-2014 09:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sure, the market for new visual art is booming among the super-rich. Marion Maneker argues that art can become vitally important to the wider public – well, educated urbanites – the way high-quality food has, and in more or less the same way.
  
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• Letting The Audience Set The Ticket Price – After The Show

  11-12-2014 09:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  That’s just what one venue in England is doing for the first half of next year: free entry for all theatre, spoken-word and dance performances, with each audience member deciding after the show is over what it was worth. How will they make this work?
  
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• L.A. Philharmonic Gets Surprise $20 Million Gift

  11-12-2014 09:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  David C. Bohnett, founder of GeoCities (remember GeoCities?), intends half of the amount to fund efforts to spread classical music through technology.
  
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• A Major New Museum In South Florida, And They’re Funding It All Themselves

  11-12-2014 09:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Norman and Irma Braman promise that, for the new Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, “not one cent of taxpayer dollars are going into the construction, or the acquisition of properties for the sculpture garden, or anything.” And they will not put their name on it, either.
  
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• Jane Freilicher, 90, New York School Artist Who Dared To Paint Landscapes

  11-12-2014 09:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “She was not widely known by the general public, but her consistent, steady experimentation earned her intense acclaim throughout her life, particularly from contemporary critics and poets, many of whom were her close friends. In 1958, the poet James Schuyler termed her ‘a poet’s painter who may yet become the public’s painter” – an apt […]
  
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• Today’s Most Revolutionary Documentaries Are Being Made By A Group You’ve Never Heard Of

  11-12-2014 09:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[They] come not from a brand-name auteur or even some up-and-coming, Sundance-anointed visionary. Rather, they come from a place called the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, which sounds more like somewhere an ophthalmologist might send you than a source of great filmmaking.”
  
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• Cathedral’s hunt for stolen Bible pages worth £1m

  11-12-2014 09:05
  
  Eight could have been taken in past 150 years
  
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• Michael C. Hall on Being Hedwig

  11-12-2014 09:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “You get [from audience members] the stand-offish, I’m-not-gay-don’t-look-at-me-that-way vibe; you get the I’m-not-gay-but-I’m-kind-of-feeling-funny-in-a-way-that-I’m-not-entirely-uncomfortable-with vibe; you get the I’m-gay-and-I-entirely-approve-of-your-behavior vibe … And I think it’s compelling for a woman to see a man behave as a woman, and it might be liberating for her to watch a man jump off of hoods of cars in platform […]
  
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• Oronyms Lead To Mondegreens (How We Mis-Hear Song Lyrics)

  11-12-2014 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Maria Konnikova explains the processes by which some people come to think Queen did a song called “Bohemian Rap City” and children wonder why Olive the other reindeer was mean to Rudolph.
  
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• Sotheby’s steals a march with Churchill’s paintings

  11-12-2014 08:44
  
  Items offered are from the estate of the prime minister’s daughter Mary Soames
  
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• French antique dealers target younger collectors with new fair

  11-12-2014 08:30
  
  Paris Beaux-Arts to take place alongside Biennale des Antiquaires in April, but will include more contemporary and international galleries
  
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• Achenbach trial begins

  11-12-2014 08:30
  German art advisor has been in detention since his arrest in June
  
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• Stalemate over Brussels answer to MoMA and Tate Modern

  11-12-2014 08:18
  
  Regional and federal divide stalls Citroën plan
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.10.14

  11-12-2014 07:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Excellence Is Heterogeneous AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2014-12-10 Conundrum AJBlog: Sandow Published 2014-12-10 Menil Repurposes Sacred Space For Contemporary Art AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-12-10 Stubbornly Figurative in an Age of Abstraction: Jane Freilicher, 90, Dies AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2014-12-10 Other Matters: Risk And Playing From The Heart AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2014-12-10
  
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• Guggenheim Bilbao acquires Yoko Ono works

  11-12-2014 07:30
  
  Museum aslo reveals 2015 exhibition schedule, including shows on Alex Katz and African design
  
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• Christie’s Americas President to Depart

  11-12-2014 00:11 via artnews.com
  The Financial Times reports that incoming Christie’s CEO Patricia Barbizet will soon find someone to replace Christie’s President of the Americas Doug Woodham. Ms Barbizet is herself a replacement for Steven Murphy, who announced that he would step down last week. … Read More
  
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