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• Pérez Art Museum Miami Director Thom Collins to Lead Barnes Foundation

  07-01-2015 23:27 via artnews.com
  Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation announced today that it has hired Thomas Collins, who has served as director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami for the past five years, to replace its outgoing director Derek Gillman, who was recently named the new … Read More
  
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• PAMM Director to Barnes

  07-01-2015 23:27 via artnews.com
  Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation announced today that it has hired Thomas Collins, who has served as director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami for the past five years, to replace its outgoing director Derek Gillman, who was recently named the new … Read More
  
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• AAMD Art Museums Got Over 61 Million Visitors Last Year, and Are Stable, New Survey Shows

  07-01-2015 22:20 via artnews.com
  Over 61 million people visited art museums in the United States, Canada, and Mexico last year, according to a new survey released today by the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) that it plans to conduct annually. The survey (which is embedded … Read More
  
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• Classical Music Administrator Resigns From Position, Reminds Organization To Keep Things Radical

  07-01-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Question the impulse to administer people, to make them compete against one another, to set up panels of judges or bureaucratic processes to make what should be individual artistic decisions. Don’t put arbitrary barriers between artists and audiences. “
  
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• Meet the women redefining street art

  07-01-2015 20:59
  
  Though street art is still a boys’ club, women like ELLE, Swoon and Vexta are trying to change the status quoIf there is a gender disparity in the art world, it is all the more acute in street art. While some claim the physical danger of working outdoors makes women reluctant to participate, artists like Swoon, Vexta, ELLE and Maya Hayuk have battled through, undeterred by discrimination both on the street and in galleries.New York-based ELLE sums it up. “I understand the deterrents – pote
  
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• Collector’s Corner: Ryan Kortman

  07-01-2015 20:39 via artnews.com
  Collector’s Corner is a recurring interview feature on the ARTnews website that checks in with art collectors around the world. Ryan Kortman, started collecting art at the ripe age of 25, after he finished school at the School of the Arts … Read More
  
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• YA Author Tries A Kickstarter To Fund Her Writing, People Freak Out, Other Writers Respond

  07-01-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Writing takes time. Having the time to write takes money. You can’t get around that. Publishers pay advances. Most of the time it’s not enough to fully support you, but $7k is still a standard advance for a lot of authors.”
  
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• Devin Troy Strother Will Transform Marlborough Chelsea Into a Basketball Court This Saturday

  07-01-2015 19:27 via artnews.com
  On Saturday Marlborough Chelsea will open “Space Jam,” a show of new work by Devin Troy Strother that includes painting, sculpture, and a pretty ambitious basketball court installation. “I’m not really a big basketball fan at all,” Strother said over the … Read More
  
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• Hugo McCloud Joins Sean Kelly Gallery

  07-01-2015 19:16 via artnews.com
  Sean Kelly Gallery said today that it now represents Brooklyn-based artist Hugo McCloud, whose first solo show there opens on January 29. McCloud was included in a summer group show at Sean Kelly, and the gallery brought his work to … Read More
  
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• The Gates Foundation Is Using Art To Promote Vaccinations

  07-01-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The global roster includes photographers (Annie Leibovitz, Sebastião Salgado, Mary Ellen Mark); writers (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie); filmmakers (Luc Jacquet, director of the documentary ‘March of the Penguins’); and bands (Playing for Change).”
  
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• Creating The Sounds Of Giant Steps And Cow Burps For ‘Into The Woods’

  07-01-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “One falling tree managed to land directly on a very expensive microphone. Audiences can hear that in the movie.”
  
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• In sorrow: We are Charlie

  07-01-2015 18:59
  
  Demonstrators in Paris show their solidarity with journalists and artists killed in today’s massacre
  
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• Why Forgive? It’s A Biological Imperative

  07-01-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Research shows that forgivers perceive a less daunting world, and perform better on challenging physical tasks.”
  
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• DVD Sales Crumble As Digital Sales And Streaming Surge

  07-01-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “But the big increases in the digital realm couldn’t completely offset the weakness in the traditional, physical space.”
  
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• The San Francisco Symphony Is Loving Its Chance To ‘Break Out’ Of The Big Concert Hall

  07-01-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s an informal party setting for ages 21 and older, with the audience seated on faux leather benches set up between two stages. A half dozen well-attended bars serve exotic drinks: Mad Monk (Dolin Dry Vermouth, Benedictine, St. George Absinthe, orange peel) and dubious snacks (truffle-scented popcorn).”
  
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• A Dancer Trades In Ballet For Acting Because Of Ballet’s ‘Insular World’

  07-01-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘As a dancer you’re very coddled, especially when you’re in the company,’ she says. ‘You’re given a schedule every, single day. We are treated as children in a lot of ways.'”
  
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• Dear Russell Crowe: No.

  07-01-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The movies remain a deeply sexist business, and if middle-aged actresses complain about a lack of parts, it is because producers prefer that female leads be played by women under 40 – realism be damned.”
  
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• Dorrit Dekk obituary

  07-01-2015 17:55
  
  Graphic designer, printmaker and painter known as the ‘travel queen’ for her work with Air France and P&OAs a female graphic designer in the 20th century, Dorrit Dekk, who has died aged 97, was a rarity. She began her career in the postwar years at the government’s Central Office of Information, where her public information posters conveyed such messages as “Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases” or “Bones Are Still Needed to Make Glue ...” Then, in 1949, she set up on her own as
  
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• Dorrit Dekk

  07-01-2015 17:55
  
  Graphic designer, printmaker and painter known as the ‘travel queen’ for her work with Air France and P&OAs a female graphic designer in the 20th century, Dorrit Dekk, who has died aged 97, was a rarity. She began her career in the postwar years at the government’s Central Office of Information, where her public information posters conveyed such messages as “Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases” or “Bones Are Still Needed to Make Glue ...” Then, in 1949, she set up on her own as
  
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• Selma, Alabama, Doesn’t Have A Movie House Anymore, So ‘Selma’ Is Showing In An Auditorium

  07-01-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While the Walton thrived as a community playhouse, it stopped showing movies, which created a kind of cultural segregation for the city: for two decades, to see a first-run blockbuster, Selma residents were forced to drive nearly 40 miles to Prattville, a Montgomery suburb that, unlike Selma, was majority white and affluent. For many, the […]
  
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• Half a Million People Have Seen MoMA’s Matisse Cut-Outs Show

  07-01-2015 17:44 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Modern Art in New York announced today that it would be extending its “Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs” exhibition to February 10 (that’s two days later than originally planned). The museum will also stay open until 8 p.m. … Read More
  
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• Dramaturgs Unite! (To Edit Wikipedia)

  07-01-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Instead of our crafting a list, which invariably will leave off names that others feel should be included, an Edit-a-Thon empowers anyone to jump in as an editor. It allows all of us to fulfill a New Year’s resolution to make greater strides towards diversity and parity in American Theatre in 2015.”
  
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• Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Is Set To Be The ‘Next Oprah’ With New Book Club

  07-01-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The club also underscores the scope of Zuckerberg’s wide-reaching ambition for Facebook as an unbundled, omnipresent force online”
  
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• U.S. Sends Poland An Extradition Request For Roman Polanski

  07-01-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Justice ministry spokesman Mateusz Martyniuk said that the Polish statute of limitations (preventing prosecutions in cases where a number of years have lapsed since the crime) ‘does not apply to US requests,’ meaning that Polanski could yet be sent back to the US.”
  
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• Grant Park Festival In Chicago The Very Model Of A Modern Major Summer Classical Music Fest

  07-01-2015 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “One hot-weather classical enterprise that remains impervious to change, justifiably so, is the Grant Park Music Festival.”
  
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• House Of The Artist Now Known As ‘Mr. Turner’ Saved For Restoration By A Last-Minute Grant

  07-01-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Turner, one of Britain’s greatest painters, designed the building as a retreat from his central London studio and as a permanent home for his elderly father, a retired wigmaker and barber, who looked after the house and garden.”
  
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• Space Jam, Daddies ketchup – and other bizarre inspirations for high art

  07-01-2015 16:20
  
  With his homage to the 90s animated film starring Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny, LA artist Devin Troy Strother joins the canon of pop art greats who immortalise funny objectsThe 1996 film Space Jam, in which basketball hero Michael Jordan stars alongside Bugs Bunny and other Loony Toons characters, has been immortalised in paintings by the Los Angeles artist Devin Troy Strother. Is this the most unlikely artistic appropriation of popular culture ever? The short answer is no, not at all. Pop art
  
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• Gunmen Storm Satirical French Newspaper And Kill 12 People, Including Cartoonists

  07-01-2015 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A number of prominent editors and cartoonists [were] killed on Wednesday, including the cartoonists Stéphane Charbonnier, known as ‘Charb,’ and Jean Cabut, who signs his work ‘Cabu.’ He said that the cartoonists Georges Wolinski and Bernard Verlhac were also among the victims.”
  
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• British Museum director Neil MacGregor must be saved for the nation | Charlotte Higgins

  07-01-2015 15:41
  
  Cultural cross-pollination is all very well, but rumours that MacGregor is planning a move to Germany make a powerful case for a ban on certain human exportsAs Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, conducts David Cameron and Angela Merkel around the exhibition Germany: Memories of a Nation, the prime minister ought to consider keeping him close: German officials are making no secret of the fact that he would be a highly desirable candidate to run the Humboldt Forum, a new centre fo
  
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• Connectivity Problems: Loris Gréaud Gives Details (Sort of) About His Show In Dallas

  07-01-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  The French artist Loris Gréaud doesn’t like spoilers. In line with past exhibitions, details for his January 2015 museum-wide takeover of Dallas Contemporary were scant prior to opening. A few weeks back, the artist said in a phone interview from … Read More
  
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• Connectivity Problems: Loris Gréaud

  07-01-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  The French artist Loris Gréaud doesn’t like spoilers. In line with past exhibitions, details for his January 2015 museum-wide takeover of Dallas Contemporary were scant prior to opening. A few weeks back, the artist said in a phone interview from … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: January 7, 2015 Edition

  07-01-2015 15:02 via artnews.com
  “Chinese artist Du Zhenjun was chosen to design this year’s French Open tennis tournament poster.” [The Wall Street Journal] Vik Muniz partners with Bill Gates to encourage vaccinations. [The New York Times] “Amy Adams hosted a screening of her movie … Read More
  
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• Editorial Intern (three months, full-time, paid) New York

  07-01-2015 11:27
  The Art Newspaper
  
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• London's ghostsigns: Tracing the fading remains of the capital's hand-painted wall signs

  07-01-2015 11:25
  
  Long before Banksy's artwork graced the walls of Bristol and beyond, another type of street art was popular across the country, and its remnants can still be seen today.
  
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• Is urban graffiti a force for good or evil?

  07-01-2015 11:23
  
  Ban it, legalise it, put it behind glass ... no matter what city councils do, graffiti remains the scapegoat for all manner of urban ills, from burglary on one extreme to gentrification on the other. But it may have another effect on cities entirely
  In the spring of 2008, the Tate Modern opened the world’s first major public museum display of graffiti and street art, inviting six international artists to decorate its facade with enormous, eye-catching murals.
  Meanwhile, just down the riverba
  
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• Contract reporter, New York

  07-01-2015 11:00
  The Art Newspaper
  
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• High-level exits herald change at big two houses

  07-01-2015 10:55
  
  Focus on business models of Sotheby’s and Christie’s as chief executives go
  
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• Where Are The Greatest Dancers In The World Today? Some Of Them Are In India

  07-01-2015 10:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alastair Macaulay: “Who are the greatest dancers in the world today? Most of the contenders considered in the West for this category are the roving international stars of ballet. But many of today’s finest dance artists have been performing here [in Chennai] … Some – all women – have touched on the sublime.”
  
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• What To Wear To Symphony Concerts: Actually Useful Advice For Newbies

  07-01-2015 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sure, administrators and musicians so often say to wear whatever you’re comfortable in, we don’t mind, we’re just happy you’re here. But plenty of people who hear that just keep asking, because they don’t want to stand out or get dirty looks and they honestly don’t know what other people do. So Holly Mulcahy offers […]
  
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• Thirty Art-Writing Clichés To Ditch In The New Year

  07-01-2015 09:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ben Davis: “It’s a new year, which is a fine excuse as any to ditch old bad habits. Here below, I have assembled a not-at-all exhaustive list of art-writing words that I could do without in 2015. I admit, I’ve been guilty myself of abusing some or all of them – but of course that’s […]
  
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• Gay Tours Of The Vatican’s Museums (Yes, They’re Real)

  07-01-2015 09:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Among the many ways that Pope Francis has changed the tone of the Vatican is with his seeming openness to groups that have long been shunned, from divorced Catholics to children of gay couples. His approach has inspire one Italian gay travel company, Quiiky, to look at the Vatican Museums’ vast art collections from a […]
  
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• Is “Birdman” The Best Movie About Theater Ever Made?

  07-01-2015 09:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Matt Trueman: “Theatre – and I write this with admiration and awe – is full of freaks and weirdos. Brilliant freaks and weirdos, yes, but freaks and weirdos nonetheless. Birdman totally gets that. … It nails that slippage between on- and off-stage, between fiction and reality; the way a play can bleed into an actor’s […]
  
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• Turf wars: planned exhibition in National Garden of Athens sparks legal row

  07-01-2015 09:36
  
  Decision due on whether to allow outdoor show backed by Greek collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos
  
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• Whatever Happened To Helmut Lang? Sculpture Happened

  07-01-2015 09:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In 2005, the innovative designer walked away from fashion. Now, after quietly working for years on highly personal sculptures in the studio of his Long Island estate, he is making his debut at New York’s Sperone Westwater Gallery.”
  
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• Sleeper Constable sketch back on the auction block with $2m-$3m estimate

  07-01-2015 09:00
  
  Recently sold for £3,500, the work has been authenticated as a study for the Tate’s Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
  
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• Readibility? What Is It, Really? It’s A Myth, That’s What

  07-01-2015 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  So argues Noah Berlatsky: “‘Difficult,’ when applied to literature, generally refers to works that are hard to read, hard to get through, hard to finish. And for me, that describes Left Behind far more than it describes Atonement – the second of which I read twice in quick succession and would read again happily, while […]
  
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• The Jack Bauer Issue: Can Fictional Depictions Of Torture Make People More Willing To Condone It?

  07-01-2015 08:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Many of us would like very much to think that the answer is no, but researchers seem to be finding otherwise.
  
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• Don’t You Dare Put In Your Movie That Sergei Eisenstein Was Gay, Russia Tells Peter Greenaway

  07-01-2015 08:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Nikolai Borodachyov, director of Russia’s Gosfilmofond, or State Film Foundation, told newspaper Izvestia that his organization would not take part in the project” – titled The Eisenstein Handshakes – “unless details about Eisenstein’s ‘nontraditional sexual orientation’ were edited out of the screenplay.”
  
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• Pressure A Director To Hide Eisenstein’s Sexuality? Why, We Did No Such Thing, Says Russia

  07-01-2015 08:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  The director of the State Film Foundation, responding to earlier reports, said, “The reason is nothing to do with homosexuality, I didn’t talk about it at all. There are issues with the screenplay, but it’s not about this. For example, about the shooting of Battleship Potemkin. I really don’t like the way that Peter Greenaway […]
  
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• 200 years of groundbreaking African American art – in pictures

  07-01-2015 08:00
  
  From Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first African American painter to move to Paris and be accepted into the Salon, to superstars of today like Kara Walker, here’s how generations of artists have tackled race, identity and prejudice
  Represent: 200 Years of African American Art is at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 10 January to 5 April
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