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• New York’s Bannerman’s Castle to Host Light Installation

  16-12-2014 23:33 via artnews.com
  The National Endowment for the Arts will put $20,000 toward the realization of local artist Melissa McGill’s Constellation project at Bannerman’s Castle on the Hudson River, some 50 miles north of Manhattan, the Associated Press reports. The project has a … Read More
  
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• The best culture gifts for Christmas

  16-12-2014 20:30
  
  Joy Division oven gloves – just what I always wanted … If you’re stuck for presents, the arts can help! From Beano ukuleles to Play-Doh photographs and Yeezmas cards, here’s the best of what’s out there Continue reading...
  
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• Jacob Epstein: Letter shows sculptor’s disdain for Churchill’s art

  16-12-2014 20:17
  
  The acclaimed sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein criticised Sir Winston Churchill as an “amateur” artist despite the former Prime Minister being made a Royal Academician, private correspondence published online for the first time has revealed.
  
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• Hammer Museum Partners With New Arts Center Cofounded by Mark Bradford

  16-12-2014 20:17 via artnews.com
  Big moves on the museum front in Los Angeles! The Hammer Museum revealed today that it has entered into what it terms a Public Engagement Partnership with a new nonprofit called Arts + Practice, which will be located on a 17,000-square-foot … Read More
  
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• MoMA Takes Matisse To The Big Screen

  16-12-2014 19:05 via artnews.com
  Starting January 13, the documentary based on Matisse’s popular MoMA show “Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs” will open in movie theaters across the United States, The New York Times reports today. Produced by Fathom Events along with Arts Alliance and Seventh … Read More
  
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• Paris Photo Director Julien Frydman Quits

  16-12-2014 18:40 via artnews.com
  Artnet news reports that the director of Paris Photo, which stages art fairs in both France and Los Angeles, will step down in January. Frydman told the site that he has taken a new job, but that he won’t be … Read More
  
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• Have We Been Trying To Understand Race In The Wrong Way?

  16-12-2014 16:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  The authors argue that “quantitative researchers should acknowledge that any one person’s racial identity is more like a collection of many different factors — from skin color, to neighborhood, to language, to socioeconomic status. With this insight, it becomes possible to study race not as a single, unchanging variable, but rather as a “a bundle […]
  
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• This Museum Sold Off Art Works For Years And Replaced It With Fakes

  16-12-2014 16:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Between 1999 and 2014, museum workers replaced several original works by Russian and Soviet avant-garde artists, including Alexander Nikolayev, Richard-Karl Sommer and Victor Ufimtsev, who had lived and worked in Uzbekistan last century.”
  
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• Photographs Auction Record Set at Sotheby’s

  16-12-2014 16:37 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s 175 Photographs to Celebrate 175 Years of Photography sale last week set the record for a photographs auction, totaling $21,325,063 with 90 percent lots sold. The sale exceeded its high estimate of $20 million, and records were set for … Read More
  
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• The Warmest Color: On ‘On Being Blue’ Being Reissued

  16-12-2014 16:30 via artnews.com
  I know it’s a minor thing, and stupid, but the new cover bugs me. The On Being Blue I know is the Godine edition, gray text and this little squiggle thing (there’s a name for what it is, no doubt, … Read More
  
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• If You Don’t Buy This Art Today, We’ll Burn It

  16-12-2014 16:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We’ll get a nice old-timey metal trash can . . . (the art) will be up until midnight, then we’ll take down all the works that are going to be destroyed.”
  
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• What If We Made College Free? (It Actually Wouldn’t Cost That Much)

  16-12-2014 16:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “According to the most-recent calculations of Strike Debt, the debt-resistance group I work with, the cost would be relatively modest. The federal loan program is propped up by a motley assortment of subsidies and tax exemptions that amount to tens of billions of dollars.”
  
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• University Of Iowa Removes An Anti-Hate-Speech Art Work For Being “Offensive”

  16-12-2014 16:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Created by Serhat Tanyolacar, a UI visiting professor and printmaking fellow, the klansman sculpture was decoupaged in newspaper coverage of racial tension and violence throughout the past 100 years. The piece was meant to highlight how America’s history of race-based violence isn’t really history and “facilitate a dialgoue,” as Tanyolacar told university paper The Gazette.”
  
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• Spanish town saved by botched restoration of century-old Christian 'Ecce Homo' fresco of Jesus

  16-12-2014 15:49
  
  A Spanish town has undergone a miraculous recovery after a well-meaning pensioner accidentally destroyed a century-old fresco of Jesus Christ, prompting international mockery.
  
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• Opera Birmingham Gets A New General Director

  16-12-2014 15:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Wolfe, 43, is leaving his post as executive director of Fort Worth Opera to succeed John D. Jones, who has directed Opera Birmingham for 16 years.”
  
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• How Architecture Became Disconnected From The People Who Use It

  16-12-2014 15:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The question is, at what point does architecture’s potential to improve human life become lost because of its inability to connect with actual humans?”
  
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• Understanding the Other: Aga Kahn Museum debuts in Toronto suburb

  16-12-2014 15:30 via artnews.com
  The museum’s setting, in a suburb 20 minutes by car northeast of central Toronto, seems an odd location for this house of treasures commissioned and funded by the Aga Khan, a billionaire who is also spiritual leader of some 16 … Read More
  
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• The Dancer Who Conquered Autism Through Ballet

  16-12-2014 15:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I was diagnosed with autism when I was three, and I was always obsessed with dance. Anything movement-related I loved. My mother tried to put me in sports when I was younger even though I said I wanted to dance; she wanted to see if I could do anything else besides dance, maybe so I […]
  
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• A Reborn NY City Opera? (It Could Happen)

  16-12-2014 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “NYCO Renaissance is, in fact, one of several suitors who have been angling to take over the City Opera name and assets, and the group still has to win approval from a bankruptcy judge. But Capasso and Niederhoffer have raised $2.6 million in pledges, garnered support from former City Opera musicians, and have planned an […]
  
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• Romancing The Audience (More Than Putting On A Good Show)

  16-12-2014 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In my experience as a reviewer, one of the biggest mistakes that performers and presenters can make is not respecting their audience. They make it a show all about themselves instead of seeing themselves as a vehicle of interpretation.”
  
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• Everyone Is Dumping On Humanities Scholars. But Here’s Why Their Research Methods Matter

  16-12-2014 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Nowadays specialists can’t teach the survey courses of yesteryear. They haven’t read widely or thought about the big themes of history or literature (which of course was easier back when most ideas that mattered emanated from two continents). Instead they offer seminars focused on tiny questions and single authors and artists. Charismatic in their intellect, […]
  
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• Morning Links: Palermo Edition

  16-12-2014 14:49 via artnews.com
  “A Connecticut art dealer faces sentencing Tuesday for fraud involving the sale of an imitation Marc Chagall lithograph.” [Newsday] Osman Khan of Paddle8 discusses the auction house shakeup. [Bloomberg] It’s looking like the 2018 edition of Manifesta will take place … Read More
  
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• Report: Big Drop In Spending On UK TV Programming (And A Corresponding Drop In Viewers)

  16-12-2014 14:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There was a 34% decrease in spend on first-run UK-originated drama programming, from £487 million in 2008 to £323 million in 2013. UK-originated shows are those commissioned by or for a public service broadcaster, with a view to their first showing being on UK TV.”
  
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• Olivier Awards Invite Civilians To Become Judges

  16-12-2014 10:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Members of the public can now apply to become judges of the 2016 Olivier Awards, after the Society of London Theatre opened applications. Alongside professional panellists, members of the public are required to judge four different categories: theatre, affiliate – which covers smaller, non-West End theatres – opera and dance.”
  
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• Matthew Bourne’s Proudest Achievement? Following Up “Swan Lake”

  16-12-2014 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It became this massive hit and everyone was saying, ‘How can you follow that?’ It did what dance shows don’t normally do. It went into the West End and Broadway. It was almost impossible to follow it up, to try and build on that audience that loved that piece and show we could do more.”
  
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• Sean O’Hagan’s top 10 photography exhibitions of 2014

  16-12-2014 10:00
  
  Monks surfing on sharks, Hollywood hustlers, portraits of black Victorians and imperilled American landscapes ... Sean O’Hagan selects his favourite photography shows of the year
  Not just a retrospective spanning 45 years, but a testament to Adams’s enduring belief in photography as a powerful means of recording an American landscape under constant threat from human expansion. Long before it was fashionable, Adams was an ecologically attuned artist – a witness to the beauty of the natural
  
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• Hilary Mantel’s “Assassination Of Margaret Thatcher” Story Brouhaha Starts Up Again

  16-12-2014 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  BBC Radio 4 announced that the historical fantasy would be read on the popular Book at Bedtime broadcast, and the folks who fussed when the story was published this fall have resumed fussing. Says Mantel, “You’d think they’d learn. I was bemused when Lord Bell suggested the police should interest themselves in the case of […]
  
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• “Morally Treasonous And Spectacularly Dishonorable”: Sony Hackers Are Bad, But Media Who Report Info From Hack Are Worse

  16-12-2014 09:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Aaron Sorkin: “I understand that news outlets routinely use stolen information. That’s how we got the Pentagon Papers, to use an oft-used argument. But there is nothing in these documents remotely rising to the level of public interest of the information found in the Pentagon Papers. … Every news outlet that did the bidding of […]
  
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• Sony Hack: “Variety” Editor Feels Qualms About Revealing Info, But Rationalizes Anyway

  16-12-2014 09:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Andrew Wallenstein: “Let’s get real: The hackers are playing the press as pawns. Journalists are essentially doing their bidding by taking the choicest data excerpts and waving them around for the world to see, maximizing their visibility. … While I found a lot to question about the rationales, ultimately I’ve arrived at an uneasy peace […]
  
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• Could Sony Sue Media Outlets For Reporting Hacked Info?

  16-12-2014 09:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the weekend, star attorney David Boies wrote numerous news outlets on Sony’s behalf to warn that any leaked Sony documents should be destroyed, not published. Could the entertainment giant win a lawsuit over this? Probably not, argues law professor Eugene Volokh – if the media respect certain boundaries.
  
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• Renzo Martens – the artist who wants to gentrify the jungle

  16-12-2014 09:00
  
  It is one of the poorest parts of the planet, a place where workers earn $1 a day – which is why, according to one artist, the plantations of eastern Congo really need an art galleryNext month, Renzo Martens, along with his wife, son and baby daughter, are going to live in eastern Congo so he can continue his five-year plan to gentrify the jungle. The 41-year-old Dutch artist is trying to create an arts scene in one of the most impoverished parts of the world.It sounds like a sick joke. “It�
  
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• Prado partners with Botín foundation to research Goya’s drawings

  16-12-2014 09:00
  
  The €1.7m collaboration is to result in a five-volume catalogue raisonné and two exhibitions
  
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• Photographer captures the human face of Ebola epidemic

  16-12-2014 09:00
  
  Brussels art centre partners with Médecins Sans Frontières to show portraits of aid workers in West Africa
  
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• Manifesta biennial heads to Palermo

  16-12-2014 09:00
  
  Europe’s roving international art exhibition is in the “last stage” of an agreement to hold its 2018 edition in the Sicilian capital
  
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• Software Glitch Drops Amazon UK Marketplace Prices To One Penny; Sellers Panic

  16-12-2014 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There were Christmas shopping bargains galore on Amazon’s website over the weekend … for about an hour. Because of a technical glitch, the prices of thousands of items crashed to 1p – giving eagle-eyed customers a pre-Christmas treat while leaving scores of small family-owned businesses nursing heavy losses, with some warning they could enter the […]
  
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• Mark O’Connor Vs. Suzuki: A Violin Teacher Responds

  16-12-2014 08:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the wake of O’Connor’s sharp attack on both the Suzuki method of violin instruction (O’Connor has just published his own primer) and Shinichi Suzuki himself, longtime teacher Kate O’Brien, an ex-Suzuki instructor, weighs in candidly on the method’s strengths and weaknesses.
  
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• Philadelphia’s Largest Professional Chorus To Disband

  16-12-2014 08:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Philadelphia Singers’ board voted to shut down after learning in November that the William Penn Foundation had turned down a request for a three-year grant for general support; after its executive director resigned; and in view of $125,000 in debt, said Michael Martin Mills, board vice president.”
  
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• Indianapolis Museum Of Art To Drop Free Admission

  16-12-2014 08:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Indianapolis Museum of Art, which hasn’t charged an admission fee since 2007, will begin charging adults $18 for entry to the museum and gardens starting in April … The museum briefly imposed a $7 adult admission fee in 2006, but dropped the policy a year later” after attendance fell.
  
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• Detroit Symphony Continues March Toward Stability

  16-12-2014 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Officials confirmed that, following some very difficult years and the aftermath of the bitter 2010-11 strike, the DSO has posted the second balanced budget in a row and renewed contracts with music director Leonard Slatkin and president Anne Parsons through 2016-17.
  
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• Richard Linklater On The Hardest Scene To Write In His 12-Year Epic “Boyhood”

  16-12-2014 08:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If there was one scene that felt like it was looming over all those years, it was the good-bye scene. I knew that the last shot of the movie would be Mason at college meeting someone – I had that in my mind for ten years, and I was looking forward to that – but […]
  
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• Atlanta’s Woodruff Arts Center Receives Largest-Ever Gift, $38 Million

  16-12-2014 07:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  The grant from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation includes $25 million for the endowment (pledged as matching funds) and $13 million for capital improvements, in particular at the Alliance Theatre. (The Woodruff also includes the Atlanta Symphony, which locked out its musicians for the first nine weeks of this season, and the High Museum of […]
  
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• Irene Dalis, 89, Star Mezzo-Soprano And Opera Company Founder

  16-12-2014 07:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  After a two-decade-plus career as one of her generation’s leading dramatic mezzos, Dalis returned to her hometown of San Jose, where she founded Opera San José in 1984 and led it to become a widely-admired regional company with its own theater.
  
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• Curtis Institute Of Music Gets $11.5M Gift From Board Chair

  16-12-2014 07:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Baroness Nina von Maltzahn is making a $10 million gift to the endowment to establish the Nina von Maltzahn President’s Chair, a post currently held by Roberto Díaz, plus $1.5 million to underwrite the Curtis on Tour program during the next three years.”
  
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• Social Science Shows Us How To Give Less-Bad Gifts

  16-12-2014 07:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Unfortunately, much of the research shows that all the best gift-giving intentions in the world do not necessarily lead to good gifts. Here’s a brief look at some recently published studies that give us some hints on how to give less-terrible presents this holiday season, or any other time of the year, really.”
  
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• Pow! Right In The Canvas! This Video Game Lets You Punch A Monet

  16-12-2014 07:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Last week, IRL Monet-puncher Andrew Shannon was sentenced to six years in prison for his actions in 2012 (don’t worry, it has since been restored). As you take your anger out on the Impressionist masterpiece in the digital version, you can see the dollars’ worth of damage add up at the top of the screen […]
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.15.14

  16-12-2014 07:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Indianapolis Museum Stirs Up A Hornet’s Nest AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-12-15 “Forever Now,” Forever Yesterday: MoMA’s Failed Defense of 21st-Century Painting AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2014-12-15 Fire and Ice: Both Burn AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2014-12-15 Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows” AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2014-12-15
  
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• Artist James Turrell: I can make the sky any colour you choose

  16-12-2014 05:32
  
  Using only light, the American artist has lifted the ceiling off the traditional gallery and taken experiential art to surreal – even volcanic – new heights• James Turrell: A Retrospective – reviewed“It’s normal to get a little teary in there,” James Turrell reassures me as I sign a waiver before lying down on a bed that slides into a sphere that looks like a cross between an MRI scanner and a UFO. “You’re also agreeing to give me a good review when you sign that too,” jokes
  
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• Untitled(A lot is lost in translation don’t you think?)

  16-12-2014 03:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At the mansion the white guru with the Indian name spoke about breathing and not breathing. I told M not to despise the beginner. I’m always a beginner, she said. M’s hair was long and grey. She was with two dour women I didn’t care to know. The guru, whose real name was Daniel explained ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Untitled(It was another droll overcast Portland day)

  16-12-2014 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It was another droll overcast Portland day. I told her to stop drinking or she would die, the young woman said. She’s never been to a day job.She hates herself. She’s jealous. She doesn’t leave the house. The young man rolled up his sleeve. He was terribly handsome. He voice was phlegmatic and nasal. His ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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