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• Retrospective: MoMA’s First Matisse Show

  29-12-2014 22:16 via artnews.com
  As the blockbuster “Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs” moves into its final weeks at the Museum of Modern Art, we look back to the first time the museum held a major show of Matisse’s work. The retrospective, MoMA’s 13th exhibition, ran … Read More
  
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• ‘His Stock Will Be Sent Sky-Rocketing’: Read ARTnews’ 1931 Review of MoMA’s First Major Matisse Show

  29-12-2014 22:16 via artnews.com
  As the blockbuster “Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs” moves into its final weeks at the Museum of Modern Art, we look back to the first time the museum held a major show of Matisse’s work. The retrospective, MoMA’s 13th exhibition, ran … Read More
  
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• Cabaret Is Enjoying A Mini-Renaissance, But It Might Not Be Long For This World

  29-12-2014 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Fitful attempts to bring cabaret to television in a variety-show format have fizzled. The pace of contemporary life is too fast and too loud to showcase new, rising talent in an intimate, convivial atmosphere. Nowadays, singing on television is a competitive sport.”
  
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• Paying (In Security, Interruptions, Incessant Photos) For Celebrities On Broadway

  29-12-2014 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “New audiences, however, have sparked new security needs, particularly around the stage door that cast members use to enter and exit the theater. Fans, sometimes ones who didn’t attend the production, flock to them, so that most Broadway stage doors are now flanked by steel barricades.”
  
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• The Mind-Hacks Of Stoicism Beat Out Anything in Christianity Or Zen Buddhism

  29-12-2014 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Only by envisioning the bad can we truly appreciate the good; gratitude does not arrive when we take things for granted. It’s precisely this gratitude that leaves us content to cede control of what the world has already removed from our control anyway.”
  
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• Bankruptcy Auction – Assets of New York City Opera

  29-12-2014 18:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Notice of Sale of Certain Assets of The New York City Opera, including its Trademark and Related Assets. To find out more, go here.
  
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• Working Close To The Art, As A Museum Jill Of All Trades

  29-12-2014 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Everyone wears a lot of hats. I also sweep the floor, take the garbage out and lay bug traps. I always thought when I reached this point that I’d wear pencil skirts and kitten heels and look fancy, but the reality is I spend a lot of time on the floor.”
  
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• Are Cinema’s New Shared Universe Sagas A Good Thing?

  29-12-2014 18:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There’s a chunk of every Marvel movie that doesn’t belong there, either because it’s effectively a trailer for a subsequent film, or because it’s an arch allusion to an earlier one. The danger is that as the MCU gets more byzantine, and the intertextual nods and winks become more common, its films won’t make any […]
  
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• Will The San Fernando Valley Finally, Like, Get Its Own Museum?

  29-12-2014 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘We’re on the verge of a cultural renaissance in the Valley,’ Sterling says. ‘It’s happening really fast, and people are getting behind it. If we were a city, we’d be the fifth-largest population base in the U.S. The Valley needs a world-class museum.'”
  
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• Gender And Writing, Blah Blah Blah – But Yes, It’s Still Important

  29-12-2014 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Everyone is shaped by their experience of gender, whatever that experience is; there is no view from nowhere. Men’s experience is no less specific than women’s; it’s just that we fail to see it as such.”
  
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• About To Go To Sleep? Put Your E-Reader In A Different Room

  29-12-2014 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The use of such devices ‘has unintended biological consequences that may adversely impact performance, health and safety,’ according to a research team led by neuroscientist Anne-Marie Chang of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.”
  
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• It’s Snowing Art Advisers: Kenny Schachter’s Best of 2014, and Predictions for 2015

  29-12-2014 16:59 via artnews.com
  The Best of London in 2014 Let us put aside the oodles of money, the stupefying levels of celebrity worship and the trend of early retiring art brats and focus on the good stuff: the art, the artists, the museums, … Read More
  
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• The Ideals Of ‘Rent’ – And What It Got Completely Wrong, Too

  29-12-2014 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It depicted what to me was a fantasy as attractive as any I’d ever seen: that you could be in your twenties, living in New York City, surrounded not by the family you’d left behind but by the ones you’d made. That you could pursue above all else art and love. At its end, I […]
  
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• Morning Links: Tracey Emin’s Bed Edition

  29-12-2014 16:10 via artnews.com
  Alex Ross on Meredith Monk at BAM. [The New Yorker] “Curator Joanne Heyler sketches out Broad Museum’s 2015 opening.” [Los Angeles Times] “Did Tracey Emin ever sleep in her £2.5m bed? Art expert claims there are significant discrepancies between different … Read More
  
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• Streaming Liberates Obsessive Collectors From Endless Record Shows (And More)

  29-12-2014 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I had arrived in the promised land — or at least Spotifyland — no more bulky records and CDs strewn about my home requiring alphabetization, no more ripping, no more glitchy files downloaded nefariously from KaZaa needing to be retitled and volume equalized, no more agonizing how I would parse my eMusic allowance, no more […]
  
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• Portraits of Christmas: readers' share their festive artworks

  29-12-2014 16:00
  
  We asked our readers to share their drawings and photographs of Christmas scenes with us over the holidays. Here are some of our favourites Continue reading...
  
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• Ballet Is Ruthlessly Darwinian, Not To Mention Dangerous

  29-12-2014 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Ballet is a high-risk activity, and a slippery patch of stage or a split-second’s inattention in a leap can spell serious injury and months of rehabilitation.”
  
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• Cuban And U.S. Artists Have Always Found Ways To Collaborate Around The Embargo

  29-12-2014 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The announcements by Obama and Castro won’t affect the particulars of any of these projects in progress. But the move does have many people in the cultural sphere considering what might be artistically possible between the two countries down the line.”
  
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• Funding Is A Struggle Even For Big-Name Hollywood Projects, If They Feature African Americans

  29-12-2014 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Despite America’s changing demographics, Hollywood’s most powerful industry leaders have been slow to respond to a demand for movies that reflect cultural and racial shifts that have long been underway.”
  
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• Before ‘Google It,’ We Had ‘Call The Reference Librarian’

  29-12-2014 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Here’s one salacious example: ‘I went to a New Year’s Eve Party and unexpectedly stayed over. I don’t really know the hosts. Ought I to send a thank-you note?’ asked a ‘somewhat uncertain female voice’ during a mid-afternoon telephone call on New Year’s Day, 1967.”
  
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• Buddy DeFranco Played The Clarinet With Frank Sinatra, But His Great Jazz Skill Shone In Other Venues

  29-12-2014 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Captivated by the complex, challenging new sounds and increasingly aware that the music market was evolving, Mr. DeFranco moved quickly to carve out a fresh career in bebop, a perilous undertaking on an instrument that requires nearly superhuman skill and dexterity to keep up with bebop’s sometimes freakishly fast tempos.”
  
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• Art of the Americas placed in continental context

  29-12-2014 08:04
  
  Museums from Buenos Aires to Toronto collaborate on an unprecedented scale as institutions broaden their horizons
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 12.28.14

  29-12-2014 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This Art Map Will Startle You AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2014-12-28   Ruskin’s Influence on Ives AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2014-12-28   Price discrimination in the air AJBlog: For What it’s WorthPublished 2014-12-26  
  
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• Master List of Unusual Satisfactions

  29-12-2014 05:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Master List of Unusual Satisfactions I was recently invited by Mr. Zouch to create a Master List, which made me reflect on a lovely Japanese book that I’d come across at a church sale some years ago. The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is essentially an early version of Master Lists, and I fell in ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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