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• Untitled(She had large sad James Baldwin eyes)

  12-12-2014 23:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I stayed in the house. It was safe. I had my stove. I put seasoned logs in it, brush and twigs.I cultivated my brand of happiness. My life was senseless. The violence of it was unbearable. I’m your evaluator worker, said the black woman. She had large sad James Baldwin eyes. Do you have weapons ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Bright young things

  12-12-2014 22:45
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• Poetry Project Celebrates Jane Freilicher in New York Tonight

  12-12-2014 21:50 via artnews.com
  Just a quick note that, if you’re going to be in New York this evening, at 8 p.m. the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the East Village will be holding an event in honor of Jane Freilicher, the … Read More
  
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• Gawker Says Matthew Barney is Dating Sheryl Crow

  12-12-2014 21:33 via artnews.com
  Gawker’s Friday round-up of anonymous rumors from Gawker commenters has a particularly juicy one this week: Matthew Barney is dating Sheryl Crow. Whether he is trying to be ironic or not, it’s true. Give it three months until it shakes … Read More
  
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• The Forever Now review: calling time on the avant garde

  12-12-2014 20:15
  
  Museum of Modern Art, New York
  Moma’s first show of contemporary painting in 30 years contains some great work – mainly by women – but takes an overly optimistic view of the state of art The Forever Now, Moma’s long-anticipated new exhibition of contemporary painting, is a show worth seeing – which is not the same as saying it’s good. It takes (largely) abstract painting, the medium most beloved of the oligarchical art collectors of our time, and turns a blind eye to its market statu
  
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• Dee Dee Ramone's artwork is anything but sedated

  12-12-2014 20:07
  
  Artwork of the Ramones bassist is a cartoonish mix of Basquiat-esque primitivism and gritty portrait that brought out punk rock royalty to pay tribute“I predicted all of this,” said Gabriel Marchisio sweeping his hand around the crowded cement room of the Chelsea Hotel Storefront Gallery. Marchisio is the Chelsea Hotel’s resident turban-topped tarot card reader and he has come to check out the largest exhibition of Dee Dee Ramone’s paintings to date, which opened Wednesday and runs until
  
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• Swedish Auction House Sells Work to Online Bidder For $1.9 M.

  12-12-2014 20:04 via artnews.com
  The Financial Times reports that the Swedish auction house Bukowskis has sold a work by August Strindberg from 1894 to an online bidder for SKr14.3m, or $1.9 million. Though the opacity of these things can be tricky, that would seem … Read More
  
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• Uzbek museum sold off artworks over 15 years and replaced them with copies

  12-12-2014 19:31
  
  Chief curator and two other employees receive long jail terms‘Major’ losses include 25 works by European artistsSeveral employees from Uzbekistan’s top museum have been jailed for selling original art works and replacing them with copies for 15 years, the general prosecutor’s office newspaper reported on Friday.The chief curator of the Uzbek State Arts Museum, Mirfayz Usmonov, received a nine-year sentence and two other museum staff received eight years each, the Huquq newspaper reported
  
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• Record Set for Adriaen de Vries, But Apple-1 Sold By Steve Jobs Falls Short of Estimate at Christie’s

  12-12-2014 18:24 via artnews.com
  A 1976 Apple computer, originally sold to a customer by Steve Jobs himself out of his Los Altos garage, sold for $365,000 at Christie’s in New York on Thursday, below its estimate of $400,000 to $600,000. The computer was part … Read More
  
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• Jockum Nordström's art: sex, secrets and shame in an age of innocence

  12-12-2014 18:07
  
  From the figures who smoke pipes and wear frock coats to the couples that copulate behind closed doors, Nordström’s prurient pictures belong to an old-fashioned age. Adrian Searle peeps through the keyhole
  The colours are often dull, cheap as schoolroom paints from yesteryear, greyed, yoghurty, intractable and flat. Drawing is frequently laboured and cramped, and you can imagine a man bent over the paper with a pencil or a pair of scissors, his tongue poking from the corner of his mouth and
  
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• Spectacular beards and the best shows of 2014 – the week in art

  12-12-2014 16:46
  
  An exhibition devoted to the hirsute is announced, as our critics pick their top events of the year. Plus California’s pioneering skaters and rollergirls, ancient trees and the world’s most expensive photograph – all in your weekly dispatchMelvin Edwards
  The first solo show in Britain for a pioneer of African-American art, taking in his work since the 60s, which includes his celebrated Lynch Fragments.
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• The Highest-Earning Musicians Of 2014

  12-12-2014 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “To reach these figures, Forbes added together all musicians’ touring money, record sales, publishing royalties, merchandise, endorsements, and other major business ventures.”
  
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• Is Paris’ New Concert Hall The First “Perfect” Concert Hall?

  12-12-2014 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Philharmonie is a huge, organic structure rising up in the Parc de la Villette, the arts and science park built just inside the boulevard périphérique on the site of the old Paris meat market and abattoirs. It is the latest and, sadly, possibly the last major manifestation of the energy and willpower of Pierre […]
  
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• The Wikipedia Problem

  12-12-2014 16:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “That it has survived almost 15 years and remained the top Google result for a vast number of searches is a testament to the impressive vision of founder Jimmy Wales and the devotion of its tens of thousands of volunteer editors. But beneath its reasonably serene surface, the website can be as ugly and bitter […]
  
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• Why Teaching In American Schools Is Getting Worse

  12-12-2014 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When teachers were hired for their inborn ability to “nurture” schoolchildren, many derided or disregarded their intellectual capacities. Now we’ve created a system that is so firmly tied to scholastic achievement—as narrowly defined by standardized tests—that no serious scholar would want to teach in it.”
  
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• Does Arts Education Make An Impact? We Designed An Experiment To Find Out

  12-12-2014 15:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “By comparing outcomes for students who had these art experiences—by chance—with the outcomes of those who did not, we can identify with confidence what the arts do for young people.”
  
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• Are Video Games Culture? (It Matters Legally)

  12-12-2014 15:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Recognising games as cultural products would untie the red tape which unfairly prevents EU member state governments from supporting their national video game sectors.”
  
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• Maps Show Damage To Cultural Heritage In Syria

  12-12-2014 15:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The exact numbers still need to be validated on the ground, but the maps confirm the impression of devastation. Its analyses have “revealed a total of 13,778 affected structures in Homs, 8,510 in Aleppo, 5,233 in Hama, 3,112 in Deir Ez Zor, 467 in Ar Raqqa, and 351 in Daraa.”
  
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• Morning Links: Dinner Party Edition

  12-12-2014 15:24 via artnews.com
  Roberta Smith takes a nuanced view of “The Forever Now,” the contemporary painting show that just opened at MoMA. [The New York Times] Museums are collecting more data about their visitors, and trying to get your smartphone involved more in … Read More
  
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• The Way Back Home, Young Vic, review: Opera for children can be profound

  12-12-2014 14:17
  
  Produced in tandem with Paris Opera and Stockholm Opera, this is English National Opera’s first shot at a children’s opera. And in Katie Mitchell, their choice of director seems a wise one because Mitchell – with three successful children’s shows at the National under her belt – has a track record for this tricky kind of endeavour.
  
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• The 10 best murals

  12-12-2014 13:00
  
  Marijke Steedman chooses her favourite murals1 | This Used to Be Fields by Chad McCail, 2014, Dagenham, east London
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• What Happened To Jose Feghali?

  12-12-2014 12:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “His career fairly exploded after the Cliburn win. With top-drawer management, he had a busy schedule of playing with the world’s top orchestras, and in the most prominent recital halls. Latin good looks and that natural ebullience didn’t hurt. Given the bumpy history of Cliburn winners, critics speculated that this guy just might have staying […]
  
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• Visiting The Classical Dept. At The Last Tower Records Left

  12-12-2014 10:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “But Tower’s flagship Tokyo store, nine stories high, has remained the Godzilla of the world’s record stores, the largest and indestructible. It’s still there, just up the block in the Shibuya district from the busiest intersection in the world. A giant sign in Tower yellow and red reads: No Music, No Life.”
  
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• Australian Prime Minister Changes Jury’s Choice For Book Prize, Furor Ensues

  12-12-2014 10:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  The judges for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Award for fiction chose to give the $80,000 prize to Steven Carroll for A World of Other People. Then Tony Abbott stepped in (it’s his award, right?) to decree that Carroll should split the prize with Richard Flanagan for The Narrow Road to the Deep North, which […]
  
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• Nigerian Federal Court Blocks Release Of Ex-President’s Memoir

  12-12-2014 10:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  A high court judge in Abuja ordered that Olusegun Obasanjo’s three-volume My Watch be withheld from the market due to a rather strange libel suit brought against Obasanjo by a Nigerian who figures in a very different memoir: Piper Kerman’s Orange Is the New Black.
  
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• How the Arts Drove Pittsburgh’s Revitalization

  12-12-2014 10:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “But in looking at Pittsburgh’s impressive revival, it’s important to take note of the key role played over the last 30 years by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, an organization that has managed one of the city’s most vivid transformations, turning a large part of downtown that had been overtaken by porn shops, strip joints, massage […]
  
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• Google News Is Pulling Out Of Spain Due To New Law

  12-12-2014 10:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Starting Jan. 1, recently enacted Spanish legislation will require the search giant to pay the publications it links to. For previewing their articles. In addition to the article title, Google News offers a small content snippet, beckoning users to click on the link visit the news site. For that, the Spanish government believes, they should […]
  
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• Talking Ballet History With Jennifer Homans And Kevin McKenzie

  12-12-2014 10:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Homans, author of the survey of ballet through the ages Apollo’s Angels and director of NYU’s new Center for Ballet and the Arts, and McKenzie, former star and current artistic director of American Ballet Theatre, discuss the long Paris-to-Vienna-to-St. Petersburg-to-America trajectory of the art form with host Leonard Lopate. (audio)
  
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• What “Serial”, The Rolling Stone Rape Story, And Michael Brown’s Death In Ferguson Can Teach Us About Memory

  12-12-2014 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Our expectation that memory is consistent and reliable is ubiquitous. It is taken for granted in day-to-day interactions and determines countless decisions. We do not acknowledge often enough how unstable our memories are, how susceptible they are to change, and how serious the implications of those changes are when we rely on memory to determine […]
  
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• Why Not Bring Back The Movie Serial? (Hey, It’s Working For Cable TV And Public Radio Podcasts)

  12-12-2014 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Imagine if True Detective, which aired as eight one-hour episodes’ worth of cinema-quality entertainment, had instead been packaged as four two-hour installments of cinema-quality entertainment and released in theaters on the first Friday of every month. And imagine if, for the first three weeks after each release, the only place you could see the new […]
  
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• Shonda Rhimes: “I Haven’t Broken Through Any Glass Ceilings”

  12-12-2014 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If I had broken through any glass ceilings, I would know. If I had broken through a glass ceiling, I would have felt some cuts, I would have some bruises. There’d be shards of glass in my hair. I’d be bleeding. … So how come I don’t remember the moment? When me with my woman-ness […]
  
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• American Museum Of Natural History To Add New Science Center

  12-12-2014 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[The] sprawling hodgepodge of a complex occupying nearly four city blocks [in Manhattan] is planning another major transformation … a $325 million, six-story addition designed to foster the institution’s expanding role as a center for scientific research and education.”
  
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• Staging A Performance Piece With – Or On – The NYPD

  12-12-2014 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It became clear, over the course of listening to a variety of experiences, that the exercise worked not so much to disarm cops against us, but to disarm us against cops.”
  
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• The Greatest Animated Film That Never Got Finished

  12-12-2014 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Now in his 80s, the animator, director, and designer [Richard Williams] has created thousands of animated film titles and commercials and even written a book on the art of animation.” (Not to mention doing the Toons in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) “All this despite the fact that for three decades he was sacrificing other work […]
  
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• Some People Actually Like The Voices In Their Heads

  12-12-2014 09:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Joan of Arc, for instance. (Sure, and look what happened to her.) Seriously, though, one Dutch study found that only 4% of a group of sufferers found the voices they heard to be solely negative.
  
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• Disney’s first Christmas film found in Arctic archive

  12-12-2014 08:30
  
  Previously only known through a fragment owned by MoMA, a nearly complete copy of “Empty Socks” is to be screened in Norway next week
  
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• No free entry for Sweden’s museums

  12-12-2014 07:30
  The country’s current political crisis has scuppered a plan to drop entrance fees at state-run institutions
  
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• The week in arts: Wharf Revue, Turkish film festival and Let it Be

  12-12-2014 06:28
  
  Five shows to see before Christmas: performance art in Adelaide, wall paintings in Perth, and the Wharf Revue’s musical take on an already comedic political yearFrom ladies who laugh for an hour, pour milk over themselves in front of a crowded theatre and cut the floor away from under their feet, comes an exhibition that explores how the female body is both subjectified and objectified in performance art. With different approaches including endurance, video, and interventions in public space,
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.11.14

  12-12-2014 05:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pay-what-you-will performances – a caveat AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2014-12-11 Adrien de Vries Sculpture Fetches Record $27.9 Million AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-12-11 BlogBack: Spence Porter on British Museum’s Elgin Marble Loan AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2014-12-11 Brad Mehldau and the Bad Plus in Northridge AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2014-12-11 Sorkin HBO Rape UVA […]
  
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• Damn fine coffee and an individual slice of visual art – two sides of David Lynch

  12-12-2014 01:01
  
  Twin Peaks creator gears up for TV remake and a show of his paintings at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern ArtDavid Lynch will miss the opening of a rare exhibition in Britain showcasing his painting and photography. But the reason will cheer the hearts of millions. “I can’t come over,” he said. “I’m supposed to be working on Twin Peaks.”Lynch was speaking ahead of the opening of an exhibition at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) – a genuine coup for a small gall
  
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• Guy Bennett to Qatar Museums

  12-12-2014 00:43 via artnews.com
  The New York Times reports that Guy Bennett, former art advisor and former co-head of Christie’s Impressionist and Modern art department, has joined Qatar Museums (formerly the Qatar Museums Authority), as its new director of collections and acquisitions. Read more … Read More
  
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• Fulton Ryder to Close

  12-12-2014 00:36 via artnews.com
  Richard Prince’s secretive Upper East Side bookstore Fulton Ryder will close on December 25, the store wrote in an email to its mailing list today. Fulton Ryder, a pseudonym of Prince’s, was run by Fabiola Alondra and staged gallery-like shows—even … Read More
  
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• Just Saying Hello

  12-12-2014 00:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The good people at Zouch Magazine have invited me to write here, and pretty much post whatever I want to. Sounds like a really great deal. Maybe I’ll write about Japanese photography, Serbian poetry, obscure Russian sci-fi movies, interview my heroes of the internet, or write an essay on the gentrification of my South London birthplace ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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