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• George W. Bush: ‘Never Paint Your Wife or Your Mother’

  15-12-2014 23:05 via artnews.com
  The Los Angeles Times reports that George W. Bush gave an interview to CNN on Sunday in which he discussed his painting. From the Times: Bush’s portrait of his father is featured in the new book. In the CNN interview, … Read More
  
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• Snow White Rising #4

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• Hirshhorn Museum Hires Stéphane Aquin as Chief Curator

  15-12-2014 22:43 via artnews.com
  Washington, D.C.’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced today that it has tapped Stéphane Aquin, the curator of contemporary art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, to be its new chief curator. Aquin, who has been with the MMFA since … Read More
  
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• Abstract Expressionist John Grillo Has Died at 97

  15-12-2014 22:12 via artnews.com
  Abstract Expressionist painter John Grillo died of a heart failure at age 97 on November 26, just over a month after a five-decade retrospective of his work at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Born in 1917 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Grillo became … Read More
  
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• From Montgomery to Montclair: 30 Quilts Visits the Garden State

  15-12-2014 21:24 via artnews.com
  The Montclair Art Museum is on a roll. Earlier this year the institution, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, presented “Robert Smithson’s New Jersey,” a scholarship-packed exhibition about the Earth artist’s work in the Garden State. Now it … Read More
  
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• From Montgomery to Montclair: 30 Quilts Visit the Garden State

  15-12-2014 21:24 via artnews.com
  The Montclair Art Museum is on a roll. Earlier this year the institution, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, presented “Robert Smithson’s New Jersey,” a scholarship-packed exhibition about the Earth artist’s work in the Garden State. Now it … Read More
  
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• 'Early Mona Lisa': Unveiling the one-in-a-million identical twin to Leonardo da Vinci painting

  15-12-2014 21:17
  
  A second painting of the Mona Lisa thought to be produced a decade earlier than the one on display in the Paris Louvre has been unveiled in Singapore.
  
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• National Gallery looks to Holland for new director but could an Englishman in New York win out?

  15-12-2014 20:03
  
  Three leading Dutch gallery bosses and the British curator who masterminded the National Gallery’s blockbuster Leonardo da Vinci exhibition have been shortlisted in the race to become the UK gallery’s new director, The Independent can reveal.
  
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• Tristan and Isolde: Should an opera production be changed if audiences dislike it?

  15-12-2014 19:48
  
  When the director Christof Loy’s production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde first opened at the Royal Opera House in 2009, some of the audience were in for a shock.
  
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• When Is It Better to Donate Art Rather Than Sell It?

  15-12-2014 18:53 via artnews.com
  Over in The Wall Street Journal today, Daniel Grant looks at when it’s better to give a work to a museum rather than sell it. He actually crunches the numbers on this, in a section I’ve excerpted below, and it’s … Read More
  
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• The New Louvre Will Still Be Monumental, But It Won’t Be As Scary

  15-12-2014 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Among the changes: “Revamping the museum’s basic storytelling tools: almost 40,000 banners, wall text, signs and symbols that now explain its treasures in French. The plan is to make them more readable and concise, in English and Spanish for the vast majority of visitors searching for cloakrooms or the Mona Lisa in the sprawl of […]
  
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• The Pressure Mounts For Museums To Return ‘Stolen’ Objects

  15-12-2014 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Dubious purchases had been made for years by Western museums, but the practice is now widely considered to be immoral. The prevailing wisdom today is that illegal excavations and trade in archeological objects is destroying our world cultural heritage.”
  
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• Handmade vinyl albums: Yours for £2,500

  15-12-2014 18:25
  
  We know that vinyl is back, but now the demand for retro is leading to some extraordinary prices. As LP sales return to a level not seen for almost 20 years, a small west London vinyl-only record label is busy producing handmade limited-edition albums that sell for up to £2,500.
  
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• Don’t Blame The Labels – The Internet Killed The Music Biz (And Perhaps Music Itself)

  15-12-2014 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I miss those suits at the major labels calling the shots and deciding what was worthy of release. The suits made hits and created stars because they knew something. The suits had been around the block and back, having experienced, firsthand, everyone.”
  
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• We were responsible for Berkeley effigies of lynched black trio, says artist collective

  15-12-2014 17:44
  
  Artists apologise for offence over cardboard effigies of three lynched black people, but say they were not intended to be racistEffigies of black men found hanging at BerkeleyAn artist collective claimed responsibility on Sunday for the effigies of three lynched black people hanging on UC Berkeley’s campus, saying the cardboard cutouts were meant to confront the “systemic racism” that claimed the lives of Eric Garner and other black Americans.In a statement posted to a campus bulletin boar
  
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• Wassily Kandinsky's 148th Birthday: Why the painter is being celebrated in a Google Doodle

  15-12-2014 17:35
  
  Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky’s 148th birthday has been celebrated in a Google Doodle today that reflects his own distinct abstract style.
  
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• Wassily Kandinsky's 148th Birthday: Why is the painter is being celebrated in a Google Doodle?

  15-12-2014 17:35
  
  Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky’s 148th birthday has been celebrated in a Google Doodle illustration today that reflects his own distinct abstract style.
  
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• Wassily Kandinsky's 148th Birthday: Why is the painter being celebrated in a Google Doodle?

  15-12-2014 17:35
  
  Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky’s 148th birthday has been celebrated in a Google Doodle illustration today that reflects his own distinct abstract style.
  
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• Catherine Opie Did the Posters for Portlandia Season Five

  15-12-2014 17:30 via artnews.com
  Catherine Opie, known for her tough portraits that often celebrate queer culture, has designed the posters for the fifth season of the IFC television series Portlandia. They feature the show’s stars, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, at right, as depicted by … Read More
  
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• How The Humanities Can Save The World

  15-12-2014 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There is tremendous suspicion — at least, in American society — that what makes a text a work of art is nothing more than some ideological prejudice: Eurocentrism, say, or political correctness. A related worry is that any provisional canon — the very notion that certain works call for heightened attention and a special place […]
  
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• The Mystery Around This Art Deco Theatre In Sydney Deepens As Possible Owners Float A Plan To Save It

  15-12-2014 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Escalating hostilities between the pair have brought legal challenges, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal hearings and even a restraining order that prevents the landlord from entering his own building. … Now, though, peace may have broken out.”
  
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• If Today’s Languages Want To Survive, They’d Better Look To Egypt

  15-12-2014 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Whatever precautions we take against cultural annihilation, one intractable problem remains. There is a gorgeously convoluted name for those words that, in a given corpus, appear only once: hapax legomena.”
  
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• Jewish Songwriters Penned Many Beloved Christmas Songs – Why Weren’t They Concentrating On Jewish Holidays?

  15-12-2014 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Jewish songwriters’ own successful assimilation and gratitude to America pervades their midcentury Christmas and other songs, and appealed to a country that wanted to feel brave and united as it fought World War II.”
  
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• The Prime Minister Of Canada Is Still Atoning For A Remark About The Arts From 2008

  15-12-2014 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “His attempt to brand the arts as an elite concern played particularly badly in Quebec; some analysts believe the quote cost him a majority in that election. Many outside Quebec were equally unimpressed: Surely ordinary Canadians, with their garage bands and their dance lessons, are as appreciative of the arts as any elite.”
  
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• Ice hotel opens in Swedish Lapland – in pictures

  15-12-2014 16:20
  
  The 25th Icehotel has just opened for the 2014/15 season in the village of Jukkasjärvi, Swedish Lapland. Carved from 1,600 tonnes of snow and ice, the hotel features 16 artist-designed suites, a bar and theatre.
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• Grant Saves Dance/UP – For A Time

  15-12-2014 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The William Penn Foundation has decided to provide short-term funding for Dance USA/Philadelphia, the service organization whose grant application was unexpectedly denied by the foundation last month after many years of support.”
  
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• How A Chicago-Based Film Producer Snagged A Possible Oscar-Winner This Year

  15-12-2014 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The early Variety review, Arentz says, ‘actually scared off all of our competitors. There was no bidding to speak of. We found out later there was one competing offer, and it was ridiculously low.'”
  
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• Double Take: Jane and Louise Wilson

  15-12-2014 15:30 via artnews.com
  Being identical twins has had its trials for British artists Jane and Louise Wilson. Besides it being the first thing people comment on, “you come with all those clichéd perceptions about twins,” says Louise, 47. “Come on, you’re thought of … Read More
  
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• The Russian Orthodox Church Originally Blocked The ‘Eye Of Sauron,’ But Gave In For The Holidays

  15-12-2014 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The evil eye appeared exactly where it was first planned to be installed – on top of a skyscraper in the Moscow City business area, a stone’s throw away from the country’s government office. The symbol, which has sparked controversy among Muscovites, is hidden from bare eyes; to see it, one needs a smartphone or […]
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Petite Révolution’ Edition

  15-12-2014 14:44 via artnews.com
  The Louvre has begun its $67 million makeover to make it feel more accessible to visitors in what amounts to what new president Jean-Luc Martinez calls a “petite révolution.” [The New York Times] Remember the 83-year-old woman in Borja, Spain … Read More
  
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• Is Philly’s Proposed Velodrome A Cool Urban Plan – Or Just Another Land Grab?

  15-12-2014 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Project 250’s backers have come up with an ambitious plan and a seductive set of renderings, showing a sleek, 21st-century velodrome that looks like a cross between a spaceship and a tidal wave. Not only do they maintain they can build this high-tech, enclosed arena with zero public dollars, but they also insist they can […]
  
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• The Sneaky Contract Language That Lets Broadway Owners Push Out Shows That Aren’t Hits

  15-12-2014 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Many of Broadway’s 40 theaters are off the market because they house long-running hits, giving landlords the upper hand and creating pressure for productions like ‘Side Show’ to click quickly with audiences, or at least demonstrate that they might.”
  
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• Agnès Varda Is Fed Up With The Sexism Of European Cinema

  15-12-2014 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I know a lot of very good female directors and women editors and I would like them be more represented and helped by the European film academy.”
  
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• Laura Cumming’s top 10 art shows of 2014

  15-12-2014 11:30
  
  All human life was on show at the staggering Late Rembrandt exhibition, and there were revelatory, revolutionary works elsewhere by Ai Weiwei, Mondrian, Matisse and Malevich
  • Jonathan Jones’s top 10 art shows of 2014
  • Adrian Searle’s top 10 art exhibitions of 2014This was staggering: the kind of show you never ever expect to see, for which museums all over the world yield up their most treasured possessions just so that the gallery-goers of one country can witness Rembrandt’s last de
  
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• Smithsonian’s Asian art collection goes online

  15-12-2014 08:30
  
  More thank 40,000 works have been digitised and will be fully accessible to the public in the New Year
  
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• Venice's Accademia doubles down for next year’s Venice Biennale

  15-12-2014 08:29
  
  Samsung and Venetian Heritage’s €600,000 deal allows the museum to complete renovation project
  
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• James Turrell: A Retrospective review – light and colour reach for the sublime

  15-12-2014 07:43
  
  National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
  The American artist plays with real and artificial light to create tricks on the mind and eye, invoking a feeling of awe that’s rare in contemporary artJames Turrell has worked throughout his five-decade career with an essential ingredient of art: light. From works on paper and holograms to immersive gallery installations and the monumental earth work Roden Crater in Arizona’s Painted Desert, Turrell is fascinated with the perceptual mechanics of visio
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 12.14.14

  15-12-2014 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  No Other Word For It: Fundraising Failure AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2014-12-14   Taste, Race and Meaning Making AJBlog: We The AudiencePublished 2014-12-14 Part of a Targeted Audience for Once AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2014-12-14 The Mission Creep of Peer Review AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2014-12-14 C.I.A. Refutes Torture Report, Tells Us: ‘Lick That Boot’ AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2014-12-13
  
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• FIRST NIGHT

  15-12-2014 01:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bonnie finishes dressing for her Saturday night into Sunday morning adventure. A relief from her weekday of lectures and studying at the college within an university. She leaves the apartment, going to the neighborhood steak and hoagie shop. she orders a loaded cheese steak, medium basket of french fries to fortify her stomach in case ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Untitled I Hated The Pretty Flower For Being Pretty And Not Hearing me

  15-12-2014 00:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Goofy British guy, the good looking young man said. He was researching. He’s into all these pictures yea. I was only getting parts of what the young man was saying. I’ve grown to like him, the young man said. I went to a show with him and Alex, the young good looking woman said. There ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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