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• Family of Deceased Qatari Sheik Will Pay $7.5 M. for Stamps, Rep Says

  22-12-2014 23:50 via artnews.com
  The New York Post reports that Qatar’s ruling family, the Al-Thanis, will pay the $7.5 million it allegedly owes for a set of stamps recently purchased by its patriarch Sheikh Saud bin Mohammed Al-Thani, who died in November. The Al-Thianis … Read More
  
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• Women’s Worth: The Price of Being a Female Artist

  22-12-2014 22:37 via artnews.com
  There has never been a time when auction results for art made by women have equaled those of art made by men. This year has seen a reawakening of the discussion of this disparity—of why, and by how much art … Read More
  
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• The Price of Being a Female Artist

  22-12-2014 22:37 via artnews.com
  There has never been a time when auction results for art made by women have equaled those of art made by men. This year has seen a reawakening of the discussion of this disparity—of why, and by how much art … Read More
  
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• The Challenge – And The Joy – Of Playing Martin Luther King

  22-12-2014 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Mr. Oyelowo worked and traveled throughout the South, studying Dr. King and his times to offer a deeply inhabited interpretation, hoping to accomplish what Daniel Day-Lewis did with the title role in ‘Lincoln’ and Denzel Washington did as the star of ‘Malcolm X.'”
  
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• Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Adds Four Board Members, Artist David Hartt Among Them

  22-12-2014 19:53 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announced today that it has added four new trustees to its board: Nancy Crown, Eve Rogers, Dia Weil, and David Hartt. Hartt is the first living artist to join the board. Last year he … Read More
  
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• National Museum of Women in the Arts Wins Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom

  22-12-2014 19:46 via artnews.com
  The 2015 Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom is being awarded to Washington, D.C.’s National Museum of Women in the Arts, the museum announced today. It is the first American organization to take home the honor. Here’s a bit … Read More
  
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• Some Questions To Ask – And Answer – For Theatres Doing ‘Color-Conscious’ Casting

  22-12-2014 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As a South Asian American, I’ve often felt frustrated by the lack of my community’s stories on stage; what’s even more frustrating is feeling that, when that story is being told, it relies on stereotypes or caricatures as opposed to challenging those mainstream perceptions.”
  
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• Year of record sales, but at what cost to the art?

  22-12-2014 19:42
  
  Unease grows as it gets harder for artists to resist servicing a booming market
  
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• Wave Of ‘Weird Architecture’ May Have Hit Its Peak In China

  22-12-2014 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As Communist uniformity gave way to a tangle of political and market forces over the past three decades, avant-garde foreign and overseas-trained Chinese architects have burst on the scene, making booming Chinese megacities staging points, critics argue, for radical visions that would be unbuildable elsewhere.”
  
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• The Portrait King Of Elizabethan England

  22-12-2014 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘If he lived today, we’d probably call him a selfie-addict,’ said the historian Elizabeth Goldring, who has uncovered details of Dudley’s extraordinary collection for a new study of the man who probably won the heart, although not the hand, of Elizabeth I.”
  
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• Hilliard Ensemble, Wigmore Hall London, review: A triumphant adieu

  22-12-2014 18:13
  
  The Hilliards have been edging towards their disbandment for a long time now, but they went out with all guns blazing.
  
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• North Korea Refuses To Meet With UN Security Council, Partly Because Of Controversy Around ‘The Interview’

  22-12-2014 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The mere threat of damage to Kim Jong Un’s image has outraged the North Korean government. Such fury is thought to be behind the Sony hacking. North Korea has denied the attack but has suggested it was a ‘righteous deed’ carried out by sympathizers.”
  
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• Will These Twin Ballet Dancers Be Among The Last Cuban Artists To Seek Refuge In The US?

  22-12-2014 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When they set foot in the U.S. almost three months ago, they had no idea what was next — where they might end up, where they’d be sleeping a week later. (A lucky break connected them to someone at the San Diego Ballet, which intends to hire them when their work authorization papers come through; […]
  
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• A Photographer Who Made People – Like The Queen, The Beatles, And Samuel Beckett – Her Focus

  22-12-2014 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “She joined the Observer in 1949 and, resisting all offers from other prospective employers, continued to appear in the office every week for more than half a century, working on 35mm film to the end, meekly waiting for assignments, and turning in dazzlingly beautiful images for news stories and features.”
  
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• Blockbuster Yayoi Kusama Retrospective Overwhelms A Mexico City Museum

  22-12-2014 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Tamayo’s attendance has gone from an average of 5,000 visitors per month to around 2,100 visitors per day,” so the museum has hired more security staff, more janitors, and more guides.
  
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• Is YouTube Going To Kill Off Cable?

  22-12-2014 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s worth remembering that the idea for YouTube was hatched at a dinner party in San Francisco less than 10 years ago. Just as abruptly as it changed how we watch TV, it could become the victim of disruption itself.”
  
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• What Do You Remember About Classical Music From 2014?

  22-12-2014 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Brit-heavy quiz on the year’s comings and goings and general spectaculars.
  
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• Fired Theater J Artistic Director Speaks About Artistic Freedom, Israel, And His Controversial Tenure

  22-12-2014 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ari Roth: “The ideal always was to engage with Israel in an honest and as mature and as nuanced a way as possible to present the humanity of the people who lived there, and who lived in the midst of and on other sides of the borders, so that’s where we began.”
  
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• Dan Byers Joins ICA Boston as Senior Curator

  22-12-2014 15:56 via artnews.com
  A big month for Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art continues to get bigger. Following news that MoMA photography curator Eva Respini will be its new chief curator and that it had acquired 43 works from the collection of Barbara Lee, … Read More
  
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• Make your own Friends: street art turns New Yorkers into sitcom stars

  22-12-2014 15:41
  
  Artists Justin Bettman and Gözde Eker’s Set in the Street project puts living rooms and bathtubs on the streets of New York – and lets the public take a seat and act out their own stories
  Ever fancied starring in a New York movie? With Justin Bettman’s art project Set in the Street you can.Bettman and collaborator Gözde Eker put up film sets overnight on the streets of New York, at corners and on open lots, and leave them for people to play with. Passersby sit in a bathtub or on a so
  
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• Will Sony Release ‘The Interview’ On YouTube?

  22-12-2014 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Michael Lynton, the studio’s chief executive, insisted on Sunday it had ‘not caved’ to hackers who crippled the company and that it was exploring ways to let audiences see the film. ‘We would still like the public to see this movie, absolutely.'”
  
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• Morning Links: Paul Simonon Edition

  22-12-2014 15:07 via artnews.com
  “Leading artists and curators take stock of 2014″ [The Art Newspaper] Mass MOCA is celebrating books this month. [The Wall Street Journal] “Musician Paul Simonon can’t keep away from the canvas—the bass guitar player with 1970s punk band The Clash … Read More
  
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• She Was Samuel Beckett’s ‘Perfect Actress’

  22-12-2014 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Billie Whitelaw “described Beckett as demanding and meticulous, but added: ‘Because I knew he was radiating love and he cared and he wanted you to be perfect… it didn’t upset me.'”
  
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• The Hipster Rebranding Of Libraries Has Begun

  22-12-2014 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Libraries should “become more like coffee shops with free Wi-Fi and comfy sofas, according to a report into the future of the service. The era of libraries as hushed reading rooms with books as their sole product is over.”
  
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• Christmas 2014: 'Silent Night' named nation's favourite carol

  22-12-2014 14:16
  
  “Silent Night” has been named the UK’s favourite Christmas carol for the first time in 12 years, after ousting “O Holy Night” from the top spot.
  
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• The Weird Network Of Science Paper Plagiarizers

  22-12-2014 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Where in the world did researchers most often copy the work of others? And how often were people straight-up plagiarizing versus quoting heavily—but still citing—someone else’s stuff? What they found surprised them.”
  
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• Seven new art words you didn't need to know

  22-12-2014 13:46
  
  The Art Newspaper's (least) favourite neologisms
  
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• Killer mice and rainbow wolves: the best of Share Your Art – in pictures

  22-12-2014 13:41
  
  From a psychedelic wolf to a murderous Mickey Mouse, via space-time curvature, carnival dancers and the circle of life, you have been sending us your excellent and eclectic artworks for almost three years. Here’s the best of Share Your Art so far, theme by themeShare Your Art: your chance to be exhibited in London and New York Readers’ Art: send us your art on a different topic every month
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• Share Your Art: your chance to be exhibited in London and New York

  22-12-2014 13:40
  
  In 2015, we are taking the Share Your Art series to the next level with exhibitions in London and New York. What themes would you like to tackle?Killer mice and rainbow wolves: the best of Share Your Art – in pictures Since we started asking readers to share their artworks back in 2012, it’s been a constant treat. Every month we have been delighted by the quality, variety and astonishing imagination shown in your artworks. From pencil drawings to digital artworks, collages and even works in
  
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• The Women Who Made Los Angeles A Superb Place For Classical Music

  22-12-2014 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the last quarter century we’ve seen women at the helm of symphonies and opera houses. But what is often overlooked is that in L.A., women had a larger hand in the creation of music capital than in any other major city.”
  
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• Jason Farago's top 10 US art shows of 2014

  22-12-2014 13:00
  
  It was a banner year for Brazillian women artists while ‘craft’ was finally admitted to the academy – but it was one wayward German genius who created the year’s unmissable exhibitionMuseum of Modern Art, New York Continue reading...
  
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• The year that was by people in the know

  22-12-2014 11:43
  
  Leading artists and curators take stock of 2014
  
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• Year in review: critic's pick of the top ten shows of 2014

  22-12-2014 11:20
  
  From Malevich to Jeff Koons: Blake Gopnik chooses his highlights
  
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• Critic's pick of the top ten shows of 2014

  22-12-2014 11:20
  
  From Malevich to Jeff Koons: Blake Gopnik chooses his highlights
  
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• Year in review: six things you need to know about the art market

  22-12-2014 10:14
  
  Changes were amplified, directions were unpredictable and the future is clouded
  
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• Untitled(Gogol starved himself to death)

  22-12-2014 07:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sue is still obsessed about her roommate Justin. She overheard him having a conversation with a social worker about putting a gun to his head and not being responsible for himself if no one helped to commit him. He has been having black outs and doesn’t remember what he did the next day. Frankie, Sue’s ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.21.14

  22-12-2014 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Problems with data: measuring diversity AJBlog: For What it’s WorthPublished 2014-12-21 Should nonprofit museums have free admission because they are tax exempt? AJBlog: For What it’s WorthPublished 2014-12-20 Art in Disguise: A Koons or Not a Koons? AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2014-12-20 Has Architecture Lost Its Connection? AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2014-12-19 The DIY Museum, Part I: New Souped-Up Cooper Hewitt (with video) […]
  
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• The week in arts: MOFO Sideshow, Sugar Mountain and Flickerfest

  22-12-2014 04:30
  
  Get through the festive season with Anne Ferran’s Shadow Land, Australia’s largest short film festival and the cellists who made it big on YouTubeAnne Ferran’s photographs capture more than just their subjects – they capture the stories and histories that haunt them. With an interest in Australia and New Zealand’s colonial histories, Ferran investigates gaps in the past and aims to shed light on lost storylines, particularly those of anonymous women and children. This exhibition includ
  
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• The month in arts: Mofo Sideshow, Sugar Mountain and Flickerfest

  22-12-2014 04:30
  
  Get through the festive season with Anne Ferran’s Shadow Land, Australia’s largest short film festival and the cellists who made it big on YouTubeAnne Ferran’s photographs capture more than just their subjects – they capture the stories and histories that haunt them. With an interest in Australia and New Zealand’s colonial histories, Ferran investigates gaps in the past and aims to shed light on lost storylines, particularly those of anonymous women and children. This exhibition includ
  
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• Me, me, me … the Elizabethan earl who kept portrait painters busy for 30 years

  22-12-2014 01:01
  
  First Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley – a would-be suitor to Elizabeth I – sat for at least 20 portraits, says historianIf you can tell a person by their collection of paintings, what are we to make of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who commissioned more portraits of himself than any other courtier in Elizabethan England?"If he lived today, we'd probably call him a selfie-addict," said the historian Elizabeth Goldring, who has uncovered details of Dudley's extraordinary collect
  
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• Boys Won’t Read? Give Them More Screen Time

  22-12-2014 00:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Boys were twice as likely as girls to spend more time with stories on touch screens than printed stories.”
  
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