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• Wadsworth Atheneum Director Susan L. Talbott Will Retire Next Year

  19-12-2014 23:01 via artnews.com
  Susan L. Talbott, who has been the director of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, in Hartford, Connecticut, since 2008, said today that she will retire next fall, after the completion of a $33 million renovation that she has overseen. … Read More
  
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• John Waters Will Show a 74-Minute Sequel to ‘Pink Flamingos’ at Marianne Boesky in 2015

  19-12-2014 23:00 via artnews.com
  Director John Waters, shown here in an over-Botoxed fake portrait, will screen a new 74-minute video at Marianne Boesky Gallery at his exhibition that opens there on January 9, 2015. Since Waters hasn’t released a feature-length film since 2004’s A … Read More
  
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• Berkeley Art Museum Acquires Leiber Conceptual Art Collection and Library

  19-12-2014 22:31 via artnews.com
  When hunting around for information about about art ephemera, one lands with surprising regularity on stevenleiberbasement.com, the richly detailed and idiosyncratically designed website that was created by the eponymous San Francisco-based dealer and collector to show his collection and items … Read More
  
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• Threat: Jeff Koons Sued Over Copyright (Again)

  19-12-2014 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Franck Davidovici, creator of a 1985 ad campaign for the French clothing retailer Naf Naf featuring a similar figure and pig, is pressing a legal complaint.”
  
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• Jeff Koons Sues Over Copyright (Again)

  19-12-2014 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Franck Davidovici, creator of a 1985 ad campaign for the French clothing retailer Naf Naf featuring a similar figure and pig, is pressing a legal complaint.”
  
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• The Bach Choir proves itself Britain's brainiest cultural institution

  19-12-2014 21:21
  
  The Bach Choir, one of the world’s leading choruses, has sung in prestigious venues around the UK, collaborated with the Rolling Stones, and worked on blockbuster films including Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.
  
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• Retrospective: The Cuban Art Scene in 1964

  19-12-2014 20:30 via artnews.com
  Following President Obama’s announcement that the United States will normalize relations with Cuba, many in the art world have begun to predict a boom in the island nation’s art market. To mark the occasion, we are republishing Tana de Gàmez’s in-depth report on the Cuban art … Read More
  
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• Too Much Choice? Yeah, Well, That’s Why You’re Unhappy…

  19-12-2014 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We evaluate ourselves by comparing ourselves to other people. Well, if you compare yourself to other people in life, you get to see their good moments and bad moments. But if you’re comparing yourself to other people on Facebook, well, everyone is a superstar on Facebook. The result is you feel that your life is […]
  
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• Music (Or Any Art) Without An Audience Is… A Failure

  19-12-2014 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As much as we, in the solitary spaces of our practice rooms, can throw ourselves into a piece, we must remember that if the performance hall is as empty as that practice space then we have clearly not achieved connection with our audience. That is our responsibility.”
  
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• A Gajillion Gallons Of Water, A Piano, And A Concert

  19-12-2014 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Armory’s latest installation-meets-performance piece Tears Become…Streams Become…required its staff to slowly, over the course of a 10-minute piano piece, fill the 55,000 square feet of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall with a standing pool of water that would mirror the hall’s gilded ceilings.”
  
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• Daughter of one of Northern Ireland’s ‘hooded men’ wins MAC arts prize

  19-12-2014 19:09
  
  Mairéad McClean won arts centre prize using drawings and letters to her father, who was interned in Long Kesh prison, as part of filmA daughter of one of the 14 “hooded men” the British army is accused of torturing at the start of Northern Ireland’s Troubles has turned her family’s trauma into a video that has won one of the world’s newest art prizes.In the same year as a number of the detainees subjected to white noise and death threats successfully persuaded the Irish government to
  
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• The Day Justin Beiber Lost 3.5 Million Instagram Followers

  19-12-2014 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In December 2014, we’re fixing an ongoing issue that incorrectly includes inactive or fake accounts in follower/following lists,” the company explained in a recent post.
  
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• Why Is Our New Architecture Looking Back?

  19-12-2014 18:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Architecture spent the year puzzling over its own self-sufficiency, finding various ways to wonder if it is capable, for the first time in a long while, of standing on its own two feet.”
  
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• Vispo Supplement 4

  19-12-2014 18:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Including work by Volodymyr Bilyk, Jim Wittenberg, Lawrence Upton, and other vispoets.
  
  
  
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• The $100 Million Painting You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

  19-12-2014 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Edsel & Eleanor Ford House quietly sold a Paul Cézanne oil painting in 2013 to a private buyer for $100 million, likely making the piece one of the 15 most expensive works of art ever sold.”
  
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• Why we painted over Berlin’s most famous graffiti | Lutz Henke

  19-12-2014 17:20
  
  Berlin’s gentrification and zombification is in full swing. We would rather destroy our street art than let it contribute to that processThe sound of a megaphone shrills through the cold Berlin night air. Some passersby yell at us in anger. Others silently wipe tears off their cheeks. “It’s the first time in my career as an artist that somebody is booing me,” says a voice next to me. We stop painting for a moment to watch the small crowd that has gathered on the other side of the fence,
  
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• Cultural people of the year: From Scarlett Johansson to Taylor Swift to Rembrandt

  19-12-2014 16:11
  
  Film: Scarlett Johansson by Nicholas Barber
  
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• Morning Links: Secret $100 M. Cézanne Sale Edition

  19-12-2014 15:45 via artnews.com
  “The Edsel & Eleanor Ford House quietly sold a Paul Cézanne oil painting in 2013 to a private buyer for $100 million, likely making the piece one of the 15 most expensive works of art ever sold.” [Detroit Free Press] … Read More
  
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• Abstract art unlocks the truth about the universe

  19-12-2014 15:25
  
  Great abstract painters like Pollock and Monet lose themselves in colour, sensation and memory to show that reality is subjectiveAbstract art is a kind of miracle. How can a painting that is just a white surface, or a swirl of colour, mean something? But it can and it does, and the unlikely greatness of abstraction is one of the most moving achievements of modern times.The Whitechapel Gallery’s new-year exhibition Adventures of the Black Square explores the story of abstraction since Kazimir M
  
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• Un ballo in maschera, review: Verdi's opera is hampered by woefully hammy acting

  19-12-2014 15:14
  
  Assassinated at a masked ball at his opera house in 1792, Swedish king Gustav III was seen by Verdi as the perfect subject for an opera, but the censors in nineteenth century Italy kept demanding changes.
  
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• Manuscript dealer suspected of running ‘Ponzi pyramid’

  19-12-2014 13:05
  
  Gérard Lhéritier, founder of Aristophil, fights to clear name after police raid
  
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• Tim Burton on Big Eyes: 'A weird symbolic version of the American dream' - video interview

  19-12-2014 12:58
  
  Andrew Pulver sits down with Tim Burton and Christoph Waltz, director and star of Big Eyes, to discuss suburban art and why it's hard to judge characters based on real people. Big Eyes stars Waltz as Walter Keane, who took credit for paintings depicting unnaturally big-eyed children that were actually the work of his wife Margaret, played by Amy Adams Continue reading...
  
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• New York School Painters & Poets: Neon in Daylight by Jenni Quilter – review

  19-12-2014 12:34
  
  The art of collaboration – how a group of artists and writers worked generously and playfully in mid-20th-century ManhattanThe New York School refers to a sociable coterie of painters and poets at work and play in downtown Manhattan around the midpoint of the 20th century. Used first to describe the abstract expressionists of the 1940s (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston and so on), the term subsequently became identified with a younger generation of more figuratively
  
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• Kusama retrospective gives Mexican museum a spot of trouble

  19-12-2014 11:30
  
  The Museo Tamayo has had to add security staff and guides to keep up with the number of visitors
  
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• New York Times Lays Off Critic Allan Kozinn

  19-12-2014 10:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  The paper’s longtime classical critic (on staff for 23 years, a freelancer for 14 years before that), who was reassigned to the general cultural news beat in 2012, departs on Friday.
  
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• The Highs And Lows Of Classical Music In 2014 – A Roundtable

  19-12-2014 10:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Joining host Naomi Lewin for this discussion … are Anne Midgette, the classical music critic of The Washington Post; David Patrick Stearns, classical music critic of The Philadelphia Inquirer and for WQXR’s Operavore blog; and Zachary Woolfe, freelance classical music critic for The New York Times.” (audio)
  
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• Kandinsky Prize winner supported Russia’s annexation of Crimea

  19-12-2014 10:52
  
  Pavel Pepperstein’s controversial comments resurface after he receives €40,000 Russian art award
  
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• MoMA Will Bring Its Matisse Show To Cinemas

  19-12-2014 10:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Borrowing a page from the opera and European museums, the Museum of Modern Art will soon begin to experiment with taking its exhibitions into movie theaters. On Jan. 13, Matisse – a documentary based on the highly popular exhibition Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs … – will open in movie theaters across the United States.”
  
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• San Francisco Gets To Keep The Bay Bridge Light Sculpture

  19-12-2014 10:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After a two-month campaign, the nonprofit Illuminate the Arts announced Wednesday that it had raised the needed $4 million to reinstall the Lights permanent fixture on the western end of the bridge.”
  
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• The Near-Impossible Challenge Of Fitting The Harvard Art Museum Expansion Into That Location

  19-12-2014 10:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The long list of difficulties Renzo Piano faced with this renovation and expansion point to why many architects prefer greenfield builds to infill.”
  
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• Portland (Maine) Ballet’s Founder Steps Aside After 35 Years

  19-12-2014 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[Genie] O’Brien began Portland Ballet in 1980 and guided its development from a niche school focused on classical and contemporary ballet to one of the top dance schools and presenters of modern dance in northern New England.”
  
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• “One Of The Most Bizarre Cultural-Political Episodes Of Recent History”

  19-12-2014 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Andrew O’Hehir: “Let me see if I have this right, because the whole thing stretches credulity: North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has apparently managed to kill a major Hollywood movie. … We had a choice – ‘we’ being a term of art that does not actually include you and me – of whether to stand […]
  
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• North Korea Is Not Funny, And “The Interview” Is Not Brave

  19-12-2014 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Adrian Hong, co-founder of the refugee rescue organization Liberty in North Korea: “It takes no valor and costs precious little to joke about these things safely oceans away from North Korea’s reach. … To pretend that punchlines from afar, even in the face of hollow North Korean threats, are righteous acts is nonsense.”
  
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• U.S. Gov’t Should Pay Costs Of Releasing “The Interview” (Argues Pundit)

  19-12-2014 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jonathan Chait: “We don’t entrust for-profit entities with the common defense. And recognizing that the threat to a Sony picture is actually a threat to the freedom of American culture ought to lead us to a public rather than a private solution. … Either Washington should guarantee Sony’s financial liability in the event of an […]
  
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• Watching What Might Have Been One Of The Last-Ever Screenings Of “The Interview” – With Seth Rogen

  19-12-2014 09:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Your correspondent talks with the co-star/co-producer/co-writer of the comedy-turned-cause célèbre about why he decided to make a movie about Kim Jong-Un in the first place, negotiating with Sony about the details of the Dear Leader’s exploding head, and what he listens for at the many, many test screenings he attends.
  
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• Hollywood’s Other North Korea-Themed Project Just Got Canned

  19-12-2014 09:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “New Regency has ditched plans to produce Pyongyang, a paranoid thriller starring Steve Carell that was to be set in North Korea. … New Regency is 20% owned by News Corp., parent of 20th Century Fox. The studio had indicated to New Regency that it would not release the project.”
  
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• Amazon Publishing ‘Suppresses’ Book With Too Many Hyphens

  19-12-2014 09:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When they ran an automated spell check against the manuscript they found that over 100 words in the 90,000-word novel contained that dreaded little line,” says author Graeme Reynolds. “This, apparently, ‘significantly impacts the readability of your book,’ and, as a result, ‘We have suppressed the book because of the combined impact to customers.'”
  
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• Would People Really Rather Get Electric Shocks Than Be Alone With Their Thoughts? Don’t Be So Sure

  19-12-2014 09:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Texting, email, social media – we use these to self-stimulate throughout the day and, for some of us at least, throughout the night as well. So there’s got to be something deeply right in the finding that, in the words of the paper, ‘most people do not enjoy ‘just thinking’ and clearly prefer having something […]
  
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• Why I Became A Philosophy Journalist (And Why We Need Such A Thing)

  19-12-2014 09:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Steve Neumann: “I feel I owe a debt to philosophy. It liberated me; it gave me the courage to leave behind the comfort and security of a religious worldview, and provided me with a purpose I will be glad to pursue for the rest of my life. So despite having a demanding day job as […]
  
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• An Old Membership-Only Library Remakes Itself As A Thriving Intellectual Equivalent Of Church

  19-12-2014 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The [Providence] Athenaeum, a Greek Revival edifice that still gives its solid wooden card catalog pride of place, looks and feels like it belongs in another century. But it has lately become a vital part of 21st-century civic life, thanks to a lively Friday night salon series with discussion topics ranging from the 100th anniversary […]
  
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• Private bank opens second Shanghai museum and plans even bigger one in Beijing

  19-12-2014 09:00
  
  Opening show at M21, the city’s new contemporary art museum in former Expo pavilion, attracts interest of China’s censors
  
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• Virna Lisi, 78, Italian Actress Who Won, Then Fled, Hollywood Stardom

  19-12-2014 08:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the 1960s, like many other female Italian actors of the time, Virna Lisi was tempted to try her luck in Hollywood. However, after films in which her co-stars included Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Frank Sinatra, she returned to Europe, where she had painstakingly built up a reputation, particularly in Italy and France. It […]
  
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• “If They Stop Clapping, Tinker Bell Will Die”: What “The Colbert Report” Taught Us About The Psychology Of American Conservatives

  19-12-2014 08:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Leslie Savan: “You can’t stick with that kind of truthiness-based character (and play him in public appearances off the show) without some sympathy for him, and even for conservatism itself. Colbert expressed that sympathy by showing that beneath his character’s assertion of omnipotence and certitude, there’s a fragility, one that’s also buried in most of […]
  
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• The Colbert Report’s Executive Producer And First Co-Head Writer Remembers

  19-12-2014 08:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “One of the tricky things about the show, especially early on, was figuring out what the honest point of view of the show was, and then how to communicate that through the character of Stephen’s contrasting point of view. When you’re working very quickly on complicated stories, that can get hard. It always reminded me […]
  
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• Liberace To Return To The Stage As A Hologram

  19-12-2014 08:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A simulated version of the late pianist will be resurrected by some of the same people who staged Coachella’s holographic Tupac Shakur, with a debut performance scheduled to take place in Las Vegas.”
  
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• Why John Waters Is a National Treasure (By Jerry Saltz)

  19-12-2014 07:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “No one gets the cross-section of showbiz and fandom like him. In giving us these extraordinarily particular individuals and distinct visages – both psychological and visual – Waters gets you to know in your bones that the more we are part of a vast crowd of people who idolize someone or something, the more alone […]
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.18.14

  19-12-2014 06:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Freer-Sacker Digitization Project: A Modest Suggestion AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2014-12-18 Digitization Project Raises A Question AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-12-18 Dynamic pricing and fairness – Uber in Sydney AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2014-12-18 Music in the midst of life AJBlog: Sandow Published 2014-12-18 Analyzing Music No Longer Allowed AJBlog: PostClassic Published […]
  
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