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• What Have the French Thought of the Jeff Koons Retrospective?

  05-01-2015 22:39 via artnews.com
  At the end of November, Jeff Koons’s impressive Whitney Museum retrospective travelled to Paris’s Centre Pompidou, and the reviews are in! American reviewers were not across-the-board positive, for sure, but it seems the often-fussy French are put off by Koons’s … Read More
  
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• Merce Cunningham Trust Awards Grants to Baryshnikov Arts Center, Foundation for Contemporary Arts

  05-01-2015 22:30 via artnews.com
  The Merce Cunningham Trust has given grants for $250,000 to the Baryshnikov Arts Center and $375,000 to the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, which was founded by two of Cunningham’s collaborators, John Cage (the choreographer’s longtime partner) and Jasper Johns. The … Read More
  
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• Skate’s Reports: 2014 Was the Worst Year for Global Art Industry Stocks

  05-01-2015 22:27 via artnews.com
  2014 was the worst year for the global art industry companies tracked by Skate’s Art Stock Index (SASI) since 2005. SASI tracks 16 listed companies that derive most of their business from servicing the art market, collectors and/or artists, with … Read More
  
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• Snow White Rising #5

  05-01-2015 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The post Snow White Rising #5 appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Names Kate Kunau Associate Curator

  05-01-2015 21:19 via artnews.com
  Iowa’s Cedar Rapids Museum of Art announced today that it has hired Kate Kunau, a Ph.D. candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Iowa, as associate curator of collections and exhibitions. Kunau was an intern in the CRMA’s curatorial … Read More
  
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• Russell Crowe’s answer to Hollywood sexism: act your age

  05-01-2015 20:30
  
  Hollywood’s female stars who complain they are overlooked for parts as they get older should stop expecting to play 21-year-olds and instead accept roles more suited to their age, the actor Russell Crowe has said.
  
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• Russel Crowe’s answer to Hollywood sexism: act your age

  05-01-2015 20:30
  
  Hollywood’s female stars who complain they are overlooked for parts as they get older should stop expecting to play 21-year-olds and instead accept roles more suited to their age, the actor Russell Crowe has said.
  
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• Bright Old Things: the old-timers who have found a late burst of creativity

  05-01-2015 20:27
  
  "I'm thrilled to be ancient. I could only wish that everyone has as wonderful an old age as me," says Molly Parkin, 82, fashion editor turned writer and painter, who is one of 14 leading designers and artists exhibiting her work in the windows of Selfridges from Thursday.
  
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• This week’s special: contemporary art for UK museums

  05-01-2015 19:40
  
  Works from 50 exhibitions at London’s ICA Studio to be donated to public institutions
  
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• Ivan Grubanov to Represent Serbia at This Year’s Venice Biennale

  05-01-2015 19:24 via artnews.com
  The Serbian pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, its 56th edition, will feature work by Ivan Grubanov, the Museum of Contemporry Art Belgrade, the commissioning institution, announced today. The Belgrade-born artist will work with curator Lidija Merenik for United Dead Nations, … Read More
  
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• The Man Who Brought North Indian Classical Dance To The U.S. Has Died

  05-01-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As a solo performer, Mr. Das proved an uncommonly entertaining exponent of Kathak. His slashing rhythmic attack, electrifying footwork, dazzling turns and verbalizations, all accompanied by the ringing of the weighty bells he wore around his ankles, won him lifelong fans.”
  
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• Our Patent System Is Utterly Borked, But There Are Ways To Fix It

  05-01-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “How ironic that we live in a democratized technological ecosystem in which anyone can invent and patent anything, yet it is mostly just the rich and powerful who can effectively partake of its resources. The patent system is thus hostage to a costly and exclusionary legal system. So let’s liberate it.”
  
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• Algerian Author Tries To Figure Out How To Live With A Fatwa Issued Against Him

  05-01-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There are elements of the absurd about the plight of Kamel Daoud, an Algerian writer whose debut novel reaped glowing international reviews, literary honors and then, suddenly, demands for his public execution.”
  
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• Matisse as ‘The Apostle of the Ugly,’ and ‘Good American Paintings Are Like the Stock Market’

  05-01-2015 18:00 via artnews.com
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• Netflix Cracks Down On ‘Pirates’ Trying To Evade Country Restrictions

  05-01-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Netflix’ efforts to block geoblocking circumvention tools doesn’t come as a surprise. TF has seen a draft of the content protection agreement Sony Pictures prepared for Netflix earlier this year. This agreement specifically requires Netflix to verify that registered users are indeed residing in the proper locations.”
  
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• Transatlantic Kinetic Energy: Perrotin Brings Jesús Rafael Soto to New York and Paris

  05-01-2015 17:52 via artnews.com
  Born in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, in 1923, Jesús Rafael Soto began his artistic career painting film posters for local movie theaters as a teenager. After discovering Cubism as a student at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas in Caracas, Soto moved … Read More
  
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• Panto Is Popular – Very Popular – In Northern Ireland

  05-01-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In 2013, more than a quarter of all theatre tickets sold in Northern Ireland (27%) were for pantomime shows, with the north-east close behind at 24%. Pantomime was proportionally least popular in London (2%) and the north-west (11%).”
  
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• Writers Everywhere Feel Censored – Or Have Censored Themselves – Thanks To Omnipresent Surveillance

  05-01-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The idea that we are seeing some similar patterns in free countries to those we’ve traditionally associated with unfree countries is pretty distressing.”
  
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• What A Musician Thinks Might Improve Classical Concerts

  05-01-2015 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “People are becoming more creative about using visual effects, such as lighting and sometimes images, in order to bring a certain aspect of the music to life.”
  
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• Contemporary African art fair expands to New York

  05-01-2015 16:33
  
  Organiser is also looking to launch event in Africa soon
  
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• Australia Returns Yet Another Stolen Statue To India

  05-01-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The NGA said a preliminary assessment had earmarked 54 ‘significant south Asian works’ for further investigation into how they ended up in the collection. It expected this work might take several years.”
  
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• Science Says It’s True That Most Popular Music Sounds (Almost Exactly) Alike

  05-01-2015 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The success of a song or album has little to do with its complexity or quality, and more to do with social influence, or what other people seem to enjoy listening to.”
  
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• Don Quixote, Royal Opera House London, review: Osipova stumbles on Spanish steps

  05-01-2015 16:15
  
  Even Natalia Osipova can’t always defy gravity. Making her debut in the Royal Ballet’s production of Don Quixote, the Russian star fell after a soaring leap. Though she finished the act with impressive dash, she had to pull out of the rest of the show. Young Akane Takada stepped in for the last two acts, dancing with superb assurance.
  
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• Artist Who Was Arrested Three Times Last Week In Havana Warned To Stay Away From Biennial

  05-01-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘This served to unmask everyone,’ Bruguera told the journalist Adriel Reyes of Radio Martí.”
  
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• Hilliard Ensemble, Wigmore Hall, review: Thrilling mix of the medieval and modern

  05-01-2015 16:00
  
  The Hilliards have been edging towards disbandment for a long time now, but they went out with all guns blazing.
  
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• National Gallery: a crushingly dull documentary that lacks an eye for art

  05-01-2015 15:53
  
  Rather than letting the paintings speak for themselves, Frederick Wiseman’s insipid and elitist documentary just gets in the way of the National Gallery’s treasuresThe National Gallery is a magic world in the centre of London. Outside it, on Trafalgar Square, street performers entertain tourists and contemporary art comes and goes on the fourth plinth. On the other side of the gallery, established in 1824 as a free public museum of European paintings, lie Leicester Square and Soho. But insid
  
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• The Day T.S. Eliot Invented The Hipster

  05-01-2015 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Neither hipsters nor Prufrock would exist without the modern urban setting that bred their sensibilities. It is in the city that the pulse of a civilization is taken.”
  
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• Jeff Koons: Paris Pompidou Centre retrospective exposes artist's shallowness and narcissism

  05-01-2015 15:05
  
  Jeff Koons’ retrospective has arrived in Paris after a critical and box-office success at the Whitney Museum in New York. Popeye, Michael Jackson and Bubbles, and the Incredible Hulk have taken up residency in the lofty galleries atop the Centre Pompidou where Bacon’s screaming Popes previously lived.
  
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• Morning Links: Year of the Warhol Edition

  05-01-2015 14:36 via artnews.com
  Get ready for a Warhol wave in 2015, and not just at auction. About 40 exhibitions of that artist’s work — much of it previously unseen by the public — will be flooding university art museums and institutions.[The New York … Read More
  
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• Expertise Can Be So Very Overrated (Especially In Critics)

  05-01-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The problem with demanding a certain kind of knowledge or a certain kind of expertise in criticism, then, is that it can end up presupposing, or insisting upon, a certain kind of conversation.”
  
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• We’re Tracked From The Earliest Moments Of Our Lives Now – But Sometimes The Numbers Are Wrong

  05-01-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I had been tracking my sleep for three years when I discovered that even if I hadn’t periodically cheated, everything I thought about ‘quality’ was, in fact, suspect.”
  
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• New Tomb Of Previously Unknown Pharaonic Queen Discovered In Egypt

  05-01-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This discovery will help us shed light on certain unknown aspects of the Fifth Dynasty, which along with the Fourth Dynasty, witnessed the construction of the first pyramids.”
  
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• Artist who tested limits of freedom of expression in Cuba warned off Havana Biennial

  05-01-2015 13:09
  
  Tania Bruguera plans to challenge back-to-back detentions in Cuban Courts
  
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  05-01-2015 12:28
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• Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch, Wigmore Hall, review: A brilliantly accomplished recital

  05-01-2015 12:08
  
  When the German tenor Jonas Kaufmann gives a recital, it goes without saying that it will be perfect from start to finish, and the only technical gripe which could be levelled at his Wigmore performance was that it was occasionally too loud.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 01.04.15

  05-01-2015 07:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Who Will Run the National Gallery? The Odds-On Favorite… AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-01-04   My American dreams  AJBlog: Performance MonkeyPublished 2015-01-04 The Dark Vision of Neil Postman AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2015-01-04 Enjoying the benefits of old money AJBlog: For What it’s WorthPublished 2015-01-02 Bob Gilmore (1961-2015) AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-01-02
  
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• The week in Australian arts: Ásgeir, AES+F and Stars in Disguise

  05-01-2015 06:48
  
  Icelandic singer Ásgeir’s three festival sideshows, I, Malvolio in Melbourne and your last chance to see David Moore’s photos of the Anzac bridge in Sydney Icelandic musician Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson creates folky, electronic-tinged melodies and sparkling harmonies with soaring vocals. Likened to James Blake, Bon Iver and Jónsi, his most recent album In the Silence is Iceland’s biggest and fastest ever selling album – a huge accomplishment in the face of his compatriots Bj
  
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• Roy Lichtenstein at the Tate: from the archive, 5 January 1969

  05-01-2015 06:30
  
  The American pop artist is being neither anti-art nor anti-comics, says Guardian reviewerRoy Lichtenstein is the Pop painter par excellence. His fame rests on paintings derived from, and largely imitative of, whole frames or sections of American comic strips, and you can’t get popper than that. He himself makes no bones about his idiom. “I like the style of industrialisation,” he has said, and, about Pop art, “It’s actually industrial painting.” Some of his work does literally involv
  
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• From an artist to a journalist: solidarity, Peter Greste | Hego

  05-01-2015 03:49
  
  My mural of Peter Greste doesn’t show his plight, but what he’s missing out on – the joy he took in the responsibility of bearing witness to injusticeFor me, street art is a pop-up on your daily screen – one you can’t click close on. It’s not an advertisement. It’s not something you’d expect to find. You stumble across it, the image hits you, and you can’t help but react. Most art in the streets is also consumed on social media. I knew that even if my mural of Peter Greste in R
  
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• Buddha statue found to have been stolen will be returned to India

  05-01-2015 00:12
  
  Kushan Buddha statue, dating from second century, will be the third artwork to be repatriated from Australia to India this yearAustralia is set to return a third artwork to India in a year, with a stone Buddha statue to be repatriated after the National Gallery of Australia realised it was stolen.
  The Kushan Buddha statue, dating from the second century, will soon be returned by the gallery after it emerged the piece had been stolen from an archaeological site in India, the Times of India repo
  
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