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• Big Eyes review – an ogle at who owns what

  18-12-2014 23:00
  
  Burton’s film about the painter of big-eyed children asks relevant questions about rights and marginalisation but he can’t quite champion the paintingsTim Burton matches style and subject, bringing his own brand of directorial oddity to this oddity in the history of popular art, though not precisely pop art.It is the story of Margaret Keane, whose chocolate-boxy paintings of sweet little kids with big eyes became a commercial smash in the early 60s, though mocked by snooty critics, rather li
  
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• Hamza Walker and Aram Moshayedi Will Curate 2016 Made in L.A.

  18-12-2014 22:43 via artnews.com
  The 2016 edition of the Hammer Museum’s biennial, “Made in L.A.,” will be organized by Aram Moshayedi, a curator at the museum, and Hamza Walker, the director of education and associate curator at the Renaissance Society in Chicago. This marks … Read More
  
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• 2014 science breakthroughs: no more ageing, cave art and landing on a comet

  18-12-2014 20:28
  
  Accolade for Philae probe and its mothership, Rosetta, but top spot in journal Science’s list goes to genetic researchersAll three of its landing systems failed on impact and its detectors and transmitters stopped operating after only 57 hours. Yet the Philae probe that moored itself to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko last month, together with its mothership Rosetta, were yesterday hailed as one of the journal Science’s Breakthroughs of 2014.The European Space Agency mission makes comet 67P
  
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• Two California Opera Companies Merge

  18-12-2014 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We were looking at a sustainable model to pay for, support and increase quality for markets of our size.”
  
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• No regrets for the police officer who wants to whitewash Banksy

  18-12-2014 18:39
  
  Colin Saysell denies being out of step with a society that celebrates the likes of graffiti artists Banksy and Ben EineDetective Constable Colin Saysell is the man graffiti artists love to hate. His relentless and increasingly hi-tech pursuit of graffiti writers for almost 30 years has earned him the reputation as the graffiti bogeyman.His name is frequently spray-painted on walls as a taunt to the authorities. Abusive comments about him have even been spotted on goods wagons in Germany. Saysell
  
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• Here’s the 2015 Frieze New York Exhibitor List

  18-12-2014 17:46 via artnews.com
  Today Frieze New York announced the nearly 200 galleries that will be included in its 2015 edition, which runs May 14 through 17 on Randall’s Island, the week after the Venice Biennale opens to the public. Among the galleries showing for the first … Read More
  
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• Small Music Venues Are Dying In The UK (Can They Be Saved?)

  18-12-2014 17:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is urgent that we find solutions to finance independent music venues which respect the spirit of live music and musicians. Artists are their customers, too, and we know that branding and club nights are not enough to keep some of our venues afloat.”
  
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• $10 Million Of Art Stolen In One Of America’s Biggest Art Heists Is Recovered In LA

  18-12-2014 17:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After an undercover operation at a West Los Angeles hotel in October, federal authorities detained Raul Espinoza, 45, who tried to sell the paintings — which are valued at $10 million — for $700,000 cash. The nine works recovered were among the dozen stolen from an Encino home on the morning of Aug. 24, 2008.”
  
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• Consumer Reports: Nick DeMarco

  18-12-2014 17:00 via artnews.com
  “Consumer Reports” is a recurring feature that profiles an artist’s consumption of any and all media throughout one work week.  Nick DeMarco is an artist based in New York who works in many mediums, including sculpture, furniture, and new media. His … Read More
  
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• Sure It’s Fun To Read The Hacked Sony Emails. But Should We?

  18-12-2014 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What it comes down to is that anyone who disseminates the information found in those emails is doing their bit to chip away at free speech.”
  
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• San Francisco Symphony Transforms A Dead Acoustical Space Into A Sound Marvel

  18-12-2014 16:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Using real-time reverberation and spatialization algorithms, this sound engineering solution tricks our brains into perceiving vastly different acoustic spaces. Add comfortable, if scarce, seating, evocative video projections, blue-and-green mood lighting, and of course alcoholic libations, and you might have created just the kind of alternative venue that would make Jonny Greenwood proud.”
  
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• Leadership Changes At Sotheby’s, Christie’s Have Art World Buzzing

  18-12-2014 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The leadership shake-ups coincide with changes in the contemporary art auction world, where record sales do not necessarily translate into big profits, and where new markets — primarily China and the Web — are proving vital for growth.”
  
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• Lawsuit Over California’s Artist Resale Royalty Payments Nears Decision

  18-12-2014 16:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Payments are supposed to be made to any artist who is an American citizen or who is a California resident — if his or her work is being sold by a California owner, regardless where in the United States the sale occurs. The royalty right extends 20 years after an artist’s death.”
  
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• Those Amazing Writing Machines (A Cult Of Typewriters)

  18-12-2014 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We felt we were more productive on a typewriter because we had to keep moving forward…. If we made a mistake, we kept typing. If we wanted to rearrange the information, we had to start over. With the word processor we’ve lost some of the immediacy. It’s too easy to delete, to cut and paste.”
  
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• Excuse Me For A Moment While I Rant About Celebrity Worship

  18-12-2014 15:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I used to get it, the whole carnival of one frock festival after another leading to the Academy Awards and the unveiling of the allegedly best movies of the year. Now I see an endless sprawl of mindless celebrity worship.”
  
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• Fights Over James Brown’s Estate Freeze Out His Final Wishes

  18-12-2014 15:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The bulk of his estate, worth millions of dollars — perhaps tens of millions — was to go to a trust to provide scholarships to needy children here in his native state and in Georgia, where he grew up. But nearly eight years after his death, at 73, on Dec. 25, 2006, the I Feel […]
  
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• The Death Of American Playwrighting

  18-12-2014 15:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In 21st-century America, playwriting cannot be thought of in earnest as a rival of screenwriting. In reality, it is more like a barnacle clinging to it. Indeed, the economic ruin of the playwriting profession is a 20th-century story, not a 21st-century one. It began in the 1920s, or thereabouts, with the rise of commercial motion […]
  
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• Freelance researcher and digital producer

  18-12-2014 15:37
  The Art Newspaper, London
  
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• Giacometti’s Legacy

  18-12-2014 15:30 via artnews.com
  After years of feuding, Giacometti experts and heirs are now united, moving ahead with a catalogue raisonné and planning the Institut Giacometti Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Jumbo the Elephant Edition

  18-12-2014 15:04 via artnews.com
  Lisa Oppenheim takes home the Israel Museum’s $45,000 Shpilman Prize. [Artforum] “How a legal pad covered in doodles saved Detroit’s art museum.” [Minneapolis Star Tribune] Jeff Koons is sued for plagiarism again, for an old series that’s given hiim trouble … Read More
  
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• Paul Simonon, artist & musician: 'I did a painting of some washing-up, and swapped it for Joe Strummer's jacket'

  18-12-2014 15:00
  
  When I tell friends I am going to Paul Simonon's studio, I am unprepared for their reaction: "He is the coolest man in town." Simonon has been in this three-floor former stable – now a fashionable mews – in west London for three years. His studio on the top floor was the hay loft, my affable host tells me, pausing to show me the trapdoor through which food was thrown down to the horses.
  
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• Why a charcoal of police in Ferguson is the most important artwork of 2014

  18-12-2014 14:46
  
  Robert Longo’s powerful drawing of police holding back protesters in Ferguson is a vital record of the resurgence of racism and a history painting for our time2014 has produced horrific politics. Racism has returned, that hydra-headed idiot, everywhere from Missouri to Rochester, where a Ukip candidate won a byelection after openly speculating about repatriating Europeans. It is not much by way of compensation to say the year also produced a mighty piece of political art. But it did.Robert Lon
  
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• HERD

  18-12-2014 10:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
          Keep taming the bewildered herd never allowing the herd to think So it can rage and destroy the organised class,   keep feeding the human herd heroic lies from an empirical past, with just enough necessary illusion,   So the organised class can develop a system of bloodline and exclusion!   ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• La Monnaie, Belgium’s National Opera House, Eliminates Dance Programming

  18-12-2014 10:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Faced with huge funding cuts from the federal government, the Brussels theater – home to Maurice Béjart’s company for 27 years, the place where Mark Morris created his most popular works, the base for Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and her company – must abandon dance, says its chief executive, so that it can continue its […]
  
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• No Prosecutions Over West End Theatre Ceiling Collapse

  18-12-2014 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A council investigation found the collapse happened because of the age of the roof, which dates back to the theatre’s original construction in 1901, and no laws had been broken. … The accident at the Apollo Theatre last December left 88 people injured when plaster fell from the roof … during a performance of The […]
  
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• Theatre Is Definitely Not “A White Invention,” Says UK Culture Minister

  18-12-2014 09:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Responding to actress Janet Suzman’s controversial comments of last week, Ed Vaizey said, “Every community has a tradition of performance and theatre so I wouldn’t agree with those comments. … If you talk to the black, Asian and ethnic minority community, the frustration is they feel this conversation has been going on for 30 years, […]
  
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• Can They Reinvent The Chamber Orchestra In St. Paul?

  18-12-2014 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  With now-stable finances, new leadership, a revamped musicians’ contract, 90% capacity audiences, and plenty of ambition, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra means to try.
  
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• Police killings prompt a resurgence in political art

  18-12-2014 09:01
  
  Artists are fighting back after the controversial deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown
  
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• Manuscripts rescued from the hands of Islamist rebels

  18-12-2014 09:00
  
  Historical texts smuggled out of Timbuktu in cars, carts and canoes are on show this week in Brussels
  
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• Egypt reopens tomb as tourism falls

  18-12-2014 09:00
  
  Minister increases public access in attempt to reverse post-revolution slump
  
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• Musée des Confluences opens in Lyons, a tribute to city’s great collector

  18-12-2014 08:57
  
  Loans from Paris's Louvre and Musée Guimet on show in vast new museum
  
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• Musée des Confluences in Lyons pays tribute to city’s great collector

  18-12-2014 08:57
  
  Loans from the Louvre and the Musée Guimet grace the museum's inaugural show
  
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• North Korea Was Behind Sony Hack, Says U.S. Gov’t Source

  18-12-2014 08:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “North Korea has denied it was behind the hacking, but security experts in Washington said it was an open secret Pyongyang was responsible.”
  
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• What We Actually Know So Far About Sony, “The Interview” And North Korea

  18-12-2014 08:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Here’s a rundown of what is and isn’t certain, who is affected, and how.
  
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• Syria and Iraq’s neighbours can help contain the looting

  18-12-2014 08:36
  
  Securing the borders of the two war-torn countries could hamper the antiquities smugglers
  
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• Explaining How An Opera Company Works To A Business Journalist

  18-12-2014 08:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  L.A. Opera CEO Christopher Koelsch talks about keeping the company healthy fiscally and artistically, how they weathered the financial crash and recession, and why lower total box office revenue isn’t always a worrisome thing.
  
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• Why’s It Taking So Long For The NEA To Get A New Theater Chief?

  18-12-2014 07:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This week marks a year since [Ralph] Remington left his job as director of theater and musical theater at the National Endowment for the Arts to take a position with the Actors’ Equity Association in Los Angeles. In the interim, the federal agency has advertised the position twice but hasn’t filled the job.”
  
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• Street artists protest police brutality

  18-12-2014 07:55
  
  Greg Lamarche among those creating work in Miami and New York
  
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• Police Investigate Corporate Philanthropy Chief’s Grant To His Partner’s Ballet Company

  18-12-2014 07:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The chair of supermarket chain Asda’s charitable foundation … resigned from his twin roles as vice president of corporate affairs and head of the £8.6 million foundation in September following the discovery that he had sanctioned [£180,000 in] payments … to the MurleyDance company, without the approval of the foundation’s board.”
  
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• Worrying About Stuff May Be A Sign Of Intelligence (Your Mother Is Totally Vindicated)

  18-12-2014 07:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Correlation doesn’t imply causation, of course, but this is not the first paper to have found a link between anxiety and intelligence. On the other hand, Penney and his colleagues also found an interesting association in the other direction: The more respondents said they replayed past events over in their minds, the lower they ranked […]
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.17.14

  18-12-2014 07:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  More on That Indy Admission Fee AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-12-17 Three (+) Cultures AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2014-12-17 Dreams and Journeys, Destination Uncertain AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2014-12-17 Portland’s Master Works: Looking Back And Forward AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-12-17 Les Paul Over The Rainbow AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2014-12-16
  
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• Writer and film-maker named first woman chair of London’s National Gallery

  18-12-2014 07:08
  
  Hannah Rothschild has served on the board of trustees since 2009
  
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• Hoffmann, Loos and the modernisation of Vienna

  18-12-2014 07:00
  
  Exhibition explores the architects’ influence and their differences
  
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• Australian art in 2014: the year of protest, politics and power games

  18-12-2014 06:50
  
  Like it or not, the Sydney Biennale was the event of the year but its fallout has little to do with art and everything to do with symbolism and power• Australian film in 2014: the year genre film-making hits its stride
  • Australian TV in 2014: the year the schedules ate themselves
  • Australian music in 2014: the year its pop wooed the world
  • A year of culture in listsIf there was ever a year when the conflicted relationship between politics and art in Australia came into stark relief th
  
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• ORCHESTRAL OPERATIONS MANAGER

  18-12-2014 01:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  We are currently seeking an Orchestral Operations Manager to ensure that the scheduling and production of concerts, rehearsals and special events in the large ensembles program within the SCM run smoothly, effectively and in a responsible manner.
  
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• Sony Cancels “The Interview” Release After American Movie Chains Refuse To Show It

  18-12-2014 00:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “On Wednesday afternoon, AMC Theaters, citing “the overall confusion and uncertainty” around the film, joined Carmike Cinemas, Cinemark and Regal Entertainment in dropping the film. Together, those exhibitors control more than 19,200 screens across the United States. Smaller American chains and Canada’s Cineplex Entertainment also canceled the film.”
  
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• Here’s the Soundtrack to Mario Garcia Torres’s Show at the Pérez Art Museum Miami

  18-12-2014 00:16 via artnews.com
  During Art Basel Miami Beach, Mexico City-based artist Mario García Torres unveiled a clever, quietly moving show at the Pérez Art Muesum Miami called “R.R. and the Expansion of the Tropics,” which concerns, among other things, Robert Rauschenberg’s life and … Read More
  
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• National Geographic photography contest 2014: Hong Kong man wins grand prize for picture of woman using her phone on a crowded train

  18-12-2014 00:10
  
  The winners of the National Geographic’s annual photography contest have been announced after the magazine received more than 9,200 entries from over 150 countries.
  
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