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• Here Is the Exhibitor List for Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2015

  06-01-2015 23:14 via artnews.com
  The Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair, which runs January 29 through February 1, 2015, has announced the exhibitors for its sixth edition, and also which artists those galleries will be bringing. The fair will be held at Santa Monica’s Barker … Read More
  
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• Pete Wells: The Average Markup for Wine at Larry Gagosian’s Kappo Masa Restaurant is 200 to 300 Percent

  06-01-2015 22:05 via artnews.com
  In his review of the Upper East Side’s Kappo Masa, a sushi joint owned by chef Masayoshi Takayama and dealer Larry Gagosian, Pete Wells, the restaurant critic for The New York Times, spends quite a lot of time discussing the … Read More
  
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• Jayson Musson Releases Preview for New Web Series

  06-01-2015 21:49 via artnews.com
  Artist Jayson Musson has released a preview for The Adventures of Jamel, a new web series set to premiere tomorrow night at Salon 94 Bowery. Starring Upright Citizen Brigade Theatre’s James III and directed by Scott Ross, the series is … Read More
  
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• Poppy designer Tom Piper was ‘perturbed’ by crowds flocking to the Tower

  06-01-2015 20:54
  
  The designer of the Tower of London poppy exhibition has spoken for the first time of how he became perturbed by the “frenetic, obsessive surge of emotionalism” towards his display and criticises the infamous review which called it “toothless”.
  
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• Director of Marketing

  06-01-2015 20:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which will celebrate its’ 45th Anniversary in the 2015-2016 season, is seeking an experienced and dynamic professional to lead its Marketing Team.
  
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• Chorus of disapproval: Artists attack Labour over funding cuts

  06-01-2015 20:01
  
  Labour is facing condemnation from supporters in the arts world after the party confirmed it would not reverse Tory cuts to culture spending if it wins the general election.
  
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• Why is Picasso's granddaughter selling off paintings of his worth £200m?

  06-01-2015 20:01
  
  There are many reasons for selling masterpieces – making money undoubtedly being one of them. In the case of Marina Picasso, granddaughter of Pablo, though, the motive appears to be a form of revenge.
  
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• 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair Announces New York Pop-Up

  06-01-2015 18:53 via artnews.com
  The London-based 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair will be jumping across the pond, albeit briefly, this year for 1:54 NY, the fair announced yesterday on its website. The pop-up will be held at Red Hook art center Pioneer Works from … Read More
  
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• Elgin Marbles: British Museum considers more overseas loans

  06-01-2015 18:49
  
  The British Museum is considering three further overseas loans from the Elgin Marbles – but a reluctance to entertain the sculptures’ return to Greece is set to provoke renewed anger in Athens.
  
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• Classical Music By The Numbers, 2014 Edition

  06-01-2015 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2014, we listed over 25,000 events cementing our position as the No.1 site for classical events. This enables us to see trends in concert halls worldwide. Who are the most performed composers? The busiest orchestras? The most popular operas?”
  
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• Benefit Preview: SculptureCenter at Maccarone

  06-01-2015 18:12 via artnews.com
  This February, Long Island City’s SculptureCenter will stage a benefit exhibition at New York’s Maccarone gallery and, whether or not you’re looking to buy, it seems like it’s going to be a great one. The show runs February 3 through … Read More
  
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• ‘I’m Less of a de Kooning and More Like Lichtenstein’: A Talk with Jonas Wood

  06-01-2015 18:00 via artnews.com
  Bill Powers: How did you get your start in Los Angeles? Jonas Wood: My wife [Shio Kusaka] and I decided to move to L.A. in 2003. I had gone to high school with Matt Johnson who offered me a job … Read More
  
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• Nicholas Cullinan quits New York to become new director of National Portrait Gallery

  06-01-2015 17:57
  
  A rising star of the art world, who co-curated last year’s blockbuster Tate Modern Matisse cut-outs exhibition, has quit a leading New York post to become the new director of the National Portrait Gallery.
  
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• THE MALL WALKER

  06-01-2015 17:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE MALL WALKER   He was moving quickly through the crowd of Saturday afternoon shoppers and browsers, his arms gesticulating as he moved about, at times wildly, yet carefully. He touched no one and no one had to get out of his way, although they did. His deftness of movement belied his size. As an ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Tricia Laughlin Bloom Appointed American Art Curator at Newark Museum

  06-01-2015 17:06 via artnews.com
  The start of the year is bringing all sorts of moves in the museum world, with news today that Met curator Nicholas Cullinan will lead London’s National Gallery and that Raven Row’s Alex Sailsbury will chair Whitechapel’s board of trustees. … Read More
  
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• A Patent System So Broken It Stifles Innovation

  06-01-2015 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s “a market so constricted by high transaction costs and legal risks that it excludes the vast majority of small and mid-sized businesses and prevents literally 95 percent of all patented discoveries from ever being put to use to create new products and services, new jobs, and new economic growth.”
  
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• Broadway Shatters Attendance, Box Office Records

  06-01-2015 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The total take was a 14 percent uptick over last year boosted by premium pricing, making 2014 the highest grossing calendar year on Broadway. And there was a 13 percent increase in attendance over 2013.
  
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• The Shrinking Of The Contemporary Literary Critic

  06-01-2015 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Literary critics have become more subdued, adopting methods with less grand speculation, more empirical study, and more use of statistics or other data. They aim to read, describe, and mine data rather than make “interventions” of world-historical importance. Their methods include “surface reading,” “thin description,” “the new formalism,” “book history,” “distant reading,” “the new sociology.”
  
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• Breakout Success Of “Into The Woods” Is A Surprise

  06-01-2015 15:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  For a popular but complicated Stephen Sondheim musical that had nowhere near the widespread appeal of such shows as “Les Misérables” or “The Phantom of the Opera,” the breakout success of the film is something of a surprise. The film is managing the difficult feat of appealing to the younger “Frozen” audience as well as […]
  
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• Why It Matters To Have A Canon Of Great Works

  06-01-2015 15:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Starting from the premise that aesthetics were just another social construct rather than a product of universal principles, postmodernist thinkers succeeded in toppling hierarchies and nullifying the literary canon. Indeed, they were so good at unearthing the socioeconomic considerations behind canon formation that even unapologetic highbrows had to wonder if they hadn’t been bamboozled by […]
  
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• National Portrait Gallery lures Met curator back to London

  06-01-2015 15:42
  
  Nicholas Cullinan to become second youngest director of one of Britain’s most prestigious institutions
  
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• Why More Of Us Aren’t Angry About Growing Inequality

  06-01-2015 15:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  The great irony found in three new books books, and of our age, is” that the people who suffer most from inequality are the ones who are least likely to do much about it.”
  
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• The State of Hong Kong’s Art Scene

  06-01-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  With the Occupy movement, “the entire city is a work of art, and everyone is an artist” Read More
  
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• The Cellist As Performance Artist

  06-01-2015 15:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After failing to establish herself as a soloist, and earning a reputation for lateness that she could only partly counter with her Southern graces, Charlotte Moorman fell in with the avant garde. The rigour and delight with which she embraced the work of composers such as Cage, Paik and La Monte Young was matched only […]
  
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• The Future Of Language (How We’ll Communicate 100 Years From Now)

  06-01-2015 15:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The days when English shared the planet with thousands of other languages are numbered. A traveler to the future, a century from now, is likely to notice two things about the language landscape of Earth. One, there will be vastly fewer languages. Two, languages will often be less complicated than they are today—especially in how […]
  
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• Next Gen Theatre: Actors Interacting With Animation?

  06-01-2015 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Like most plays by 1927, this production features just a few actors and live musicians. A multitude of other people, animals and eerie, stylized scenes are part of the show. But they are all animated, projected onto a blank white sheet behind the live performers.”
  
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• Whitechapel Names Raven Row’s Alex Sainsbury Board Chair

  06-01-2015 15:05 via artnews.com
  Alex Sainsbury, the founder of the closely watched nonprofit London art center Raven Row, has been tapped by the city’s Whitechapel Gallery to chair its board of trustees. He will take the place of Robert Taylor, who served from 2005 to … Read More
  
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• Architect Rafael Viñoly: The View From The Top Of The World

  06-01-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Architecture is the only media you cannot turn off. You can go to the movies or not go to the movies, and you can read a book or not read a book, but with [buildings] you don’t have a way out.”
  
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• Is This Man The Satan Of The Art World?

  06-01-2015 14:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In exchange for extraordinary support, Stefan Simchowitz asked not for his artists’ souls but for their art, a deal that many of his protégés lived to regret.”
  
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• “Satan” Of Art? Oh Come Now…

  06-01-2015 14:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “To suggest, as the Times does, that Simchowitz is the author of a form of financial innovation on par with the swashbuckling junk bond market that Michael Milken commanded from LA before his conviction on securities fraud is surely not believable.”
  
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• Detroit Institute Of Art Hits Its “Grand Bargain” Number

  06-01-2015 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “DIA board chair Gene Gargaro said Monday that he reported to Gov. Rick Snyder at the end of December that the museum had reached the present-value equivalent of its pledge to raise $100 million over 20 years.”
  
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• Morning Links: Pieter Coecke van Aelst Edition

  06-01-2015 14:31 via artnews.com
  After two years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he was a curator of modern and contemporary art, Nicholas Cullinan is heading back to London to become director of the National Portrait Gallery, where he was a “front-of-house assistant” … Read More
  
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• Will gay art tour of the Vatican get the Pope's seal of approval?

  06-01-2015 14:06
  
  A new art tour celebrating the sexuality of some of the Catholic church’s most revered artists provides exciting new perspectives on the world’s best-known artVisitors to Rome used to be told by tour guides that Michelangelo was “married to his art”. At least that was less shameless than the 1961 biopic that gives him a made-up girlfriend. It is a welcome sign of changing attitudes that an Italian tour company is now offering art tours of the Vatican that focus on the sexualities of Mich
  
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• Opera Australia Drops Two Critics From Press Tix List; Predictable Furor Ensues

  06-01-2015 12:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In early December, Sydney Morning Herald classical music critic Harriet Cunningham was removed from OA’s list after [artistic director Lyndon] Terracini was, according to an OA publicist, ‘very offended’ by a piece she wrote in Crikey‘s arts website … And on Friday, OA took another well-respected critic off its complimentary tickets list – Stage Noise […]
  
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• The Problem With The Whole Free-Tickets-For-Critics Deal (No Good Pretending It Doesn’t Exist)

  06-01-2015 12:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In other words, there is an entrenched and rather touching belief on our part that disinterested media coverage plus freebies doesn’t equal oxymoron. Although it is a far from satisfactory state of affairs the system continues because it is mutually beneficial. Mostly.”
  
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• National Portrait Gallery appoints Nicholas Cullinan as director

  06-01-2015 11:42
  
  Rising star will return to UK after two years as curator of modern and contemporary art at Metropolitan museum in New YorkA curator who 14 years ago worked as a visitor services assistant at the National Portrait Gallery in London is to return as the organisation’s new director.Nicholas Cullinan, who co-curated Tate Modern’s blockbuster Matisse cutouts exhibition last year, has been chosen to replace Sandy Nairne and become only the 12th director in the NPG’s 158-year history. Continue
  
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• Greece balks on art loan after Parthenon Marbles row

  06-01-2015 10:46
  
  British Museum still waiting to hear on its request for a sculpture from Athens
  
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• Greece baulks on art loan after Parthenon Marbles row

  06-01-2015 10:44
  
  British Museum still waiting to hear on its request for a sculpture from Athens
  
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• Head Of CBC Radio Placed On Leave Over Jian Ghomeshi Scandal

  06-01-2015 10:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chris Boyd, the director of the national broadcaster’s English-language radio network, and human resources director Todd Spencer were placed on indefinite leave of absence after investigations – including one by the CBC’s own flagship news program – into the way they handled complaints over now-fired radio star Ghomeshi’s conduct.
  
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• Giving Away Cheap Tickets Isn’t Easy – Just Ask The Met Opera

  06-01-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In principle, it should not be so hard to make discounted seats available. In practice, devising a fair and easy way to offer inexpensive tickets is more complicated than you might think.”
  
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• Andy Warhol Foundation Finishes Spree Of Art Giveaways

  06-01-2015 09:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts said it has finished one of the biggest art giveaways of all time, sending the remaining contents of what rocker Lou Reed once dubbed ‘Andy’s Chest’ to museums and colleges and universities in 48 states and 10 foreign countries.”
  
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• Leon Wieseltier Lands At “The Atlantic”

  06-01-2015 09:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Mr. Wieseltier spent 31 years as the The New Republic‘s literary editor until his highly public ouster as a part of the magazine’s reinvention last December.”
  
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• Merce Cunningham Trust Makes Cash Grants For First (And Maybe Last) Time

  06-01-2015 09:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Merce Cunningham Trust, established in 1990 to further the choreographer’s legacy, has announced an award of $250,000 to the Baryshnikov Arts Center and of $375,000 to the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. … [A trustee] said that this was the first time the trust had awarded cash grants, and that it was unlikely to happen […]
  
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• Is The Ulster Orchestra Saved? (Not Yet)

  06-01-2015 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “One of the Ulster Orchestra’s executives is optimistic that 2015 will see a deal reached to save it – but there is no sign yet of what it may be. Trevor Green, who has managed 13 orchestras during his career, arrived in November on a six-month contract to aid in its quest for survival.”
  
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• Even Sting Can’t Keep This Broadway Show Going

  06-01-2015 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Broadway musical The Last Ship will close on Jan. 24 despite an unusual attempt by Sting, its composer, to try to increase ticket sales and spread word about the show by joining its cast last month.”
  
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• Former director of Barnes Foundation heads Christie’s Impressionist and Modern art department

  06-01-2015 09:02
  
  Derek Gillman’s appointment comes in the midst of a management shake-up at the auction house
  
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• Former director of Barnes Foundation heads to Christie’s Impressionist and Modern art department

  06-01-2015 09:01
  
  Derek Gillman’s appointment comes in the midst of a management shake-up at the auction house
  
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• VAT rate on French art reduced from 10% to 5.5%

  06-01-2015 08:58
  Direct sales made by artists taxed the same as imports from 1 January 2015
  
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• New Orleans At War With Itself Over All The Music (Hey, It’s Loud!)

  06-01-2015 08:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  A strange combination of old zoning laws and local tradition makes live musical performance in the birthplace of jazz a more complicated matter than you’d expect. As the city continues to recover from Katrina, the conflicting forces of gentrification, preservation, amplification and tourism are leading to some ferocious political battles.
  
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• How Horton Foote Lasted Through 30 Years Of Obscurity To Become Acknowledged As A Great American Playwright

  06-01-2015 08:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  He had his first successes in made-for-TV plays, but once shows like Playhouse 90 ended, he was unable for decades to get theaters to consider his plays. Even his lauded screenplays for To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies didn’t help his theater career. How did he find the strength to keep at it?
  
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