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• The Met May Do a Jean Pigozzi Collection Show at the Breuer Building

  08-01-2015 23:54 via artnews.com
  In this month’s Vanity Fair, Bob Colacello tackles the competition for influence between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, and there’s a lot of fun gossip there (like the idea that Glenn Lowry is among … Read More
  
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• Whitney Museum Massively Expands Online Collection Database

  08-01-2015 20:32 via artnews.com
  For the longest time, one visited the Whitney Museum’s online collection database with a certain amount of sadness, since images of only 700 works were available. A search for even a well-collected luminary like Mike Kelley, for instance, returned only … Read More
  
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• Mamma Andersson: crepuscular studies of the everyday

  08-01-2015 19:49
  
  The Swedish artist’s new show once again reveals her ability to capture the ways in which we remain remote to those nearest us – and to ourselvesNine women converge at a table. Most are wearing black, their bodies disappearing into the intimacy of friendship, of a figureless shape. One is sipping tea, and another is smoking a cigarette. Behind them, a tawny-brown curtain is half-drawn and falls floor to ceiling. Adjacent to it, four paintings hang arbitrarily on a wall. One is a portrait of
  
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• 2015 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards

  08-01-2015 19:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Faculty, nominate your sculpture students today! For rules and details please visit www.sculpture.org/studentawards/2015. Deadline: March 23, 2015. Each year the International Sculpture Center presents an award competition to its member colleges and universities as a means of supporting, encouraging, and recognizing the work of young sculptors and their supporting schools’ faculty and art program. The […]
  
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• Levitt-ating through the city

  08-01-2015 19:05
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• Ryan McNamara Wants You To Be Surprised By His New Show at Mary Boone

  08-01-2015 18:32 via artnews.com
  On a recent phone call, Ryan McNamara wasn’t giving much away about what to expect from his new show at Mary Boone’s uptown location, which was curated by Piper Marshall and opens tonight. “I think the element of surprise is really important … Read More
  
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• Punk band find stolen George Rodrigue painting worth $250,000 five minutes after discovering it was missing

  08-01-2015 17:52
  
  Punk band Stereo Fire Empire have found and returned a stolen painting by Louisiana artist George Rodrigue worth $250,000 in what they described as a “Scooby Doo-like” adventure.
  
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• British Museum loans Belvedere Torso from Vatican for body exhibition

  08-01-2015 17:41
  
  Michelangelo’s favourite sculpture stars in show billed as a celebration of the beauty and ideals of ancient Greek artMichelangelo’s favourite sculpture, an impressively muscled torso more than 2,000 years old, is to travel from the Vatican to the UK for the first time, for the British Museum’s big spring exhibition on the human body in ancient Greek art, exploring a preoccupation with the body beautiful that continues today.From Bondi Beach to California and beyond, it remains the “body
  
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• British Museum borrows Belvedere Torso from Vatican for body exhibition

  08-01-2015 17:41
  
  Michelangelo’s favourite sculpture stars in show billed as a celebration of the beauty and ideals of ancient Greek artMichelangelo’s favourite sculpture, an impressively muscled torso more than 2,000 years old, is to travel from the Vatican to the UK for the first time, for the British Museum’s big spring exhibition on the human body in ancient Greek art, exploring a preoccupation with the body beautiful that continues today.From Bondi Beach to California and beyond, it remains the “body
  
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• Celia Paul, painter: 'Lucian Freud came to my last show in 2011 - he was so tender and loving'

  08-01-2015 17:30
  
  The painter Celia Paul has been living and working in her apartment overlooking the British Museum in London since 1982. Up 80 stairs, it has wonderful light and a breathtaking view of the museum. "When I lie in bed, I am eye-level with the frieze above the door." The smell of paint and white spirit engulfs you as you enter the space, which is furnished simply with an easel, bed and chaise-longue.
  
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• Vatican to loan famed Belvedere Torso to British Museum

  08-01-2015 17:23
  
  Adam reaching out to God across the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel ranks among the most iconic works in Western art history.
  
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• With the DIA’s art secure, director announces plans to retire

  08-01-2015 17:04
  
  Over 16 years, Graham Beal shored up the museum’s finances and saved its collection from being sold off to pay the bankrupt city’s creditors
  
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• Master Forger (Of Dorothy Parker) Lee Israel, 75

  08-01-2015 15:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the early 1990s, with her career at a standstill, she became a literary forger, composing and selling hundreds of letters that she said had been written by Edna Ferber, Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, Lillian Hellman and others. That work, which ended with Ms. Israel’s guilty plea in federal court in 1993, was the subject […]
  
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• Here’s Why The Same Old Music Sells Best

  08-01-2015 15:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, scientists found that the more popular a musical style grew, the more generic it became—partly due to the glut of artists that flock to a burgeoning sound and the drop-off in innovation that tends to accompany demand.”
  
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• Study: How Musical Complexity Correlates With Popularity

  08-01-2015 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We show that changes in the instrumentational complexity of a style are related to its number of sales and to the number of artists contributing to that style. As a style attracts a growing number of artists, its instrumentational variety usually increases. At the same time the instrumentational uniformity of a style decreases, i.e. a […]
  
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• True Confessions of a Justified Art Dealer, Part Two: Forget It, Joel. It’s Chinatown.

  08-01-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  This is the second part in a recurring column. You can read part one here. Giovanni Intra started China Art Objects in 1998 with Steve Hanson, who still runs the gallery, now in Culver City. The Los Angeles art world … Read More
  
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• Charlie Hebdo: cartoon satire is a more potent weapon than hate

  08-01-2015 15:15
  
  Humour is an essential force in the defence of free speech, as the murdered cartoonists’ final cover on Michel Houellebecq defiantly attestsHouellebecq’s Submission will still be published in EnglishThe massacre at Charlie Hebdo was devastatingly effective. The terrorists objected to jokes about their religion, so they killed the jokers. Now nobody is laughing.Sombre demonstrations do not defeat this assault on free speech. For comedy is killed as stone dead by collective sadness as it is by
  
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• Lisa Oppenheim Joins Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York

  08-01-2015 15:08 via artnews.com
  New York’s Tanya Bonakdar Gallery announced that it now represents New York–based artist Lisa Oppenheim. Born in 1974, Oppenheim is a leader within a generation of artists who approach photography and video with an expansive sense of their boundaries, and … Read More
  
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• Glenn Horowitz to Open New Manhattan Gallery Across From MoMA

  08-01-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  Next week, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller will open a new gallery in Manhattan, called Rare, which will showcase “editions, manuscripts, letters, archival material, fine art, photography, and decorative art from the 19th century to the present,” according to an announcement from … Read More
  
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• Here’s How Robots Will Take Over The World (Really)

  08-01-2015 14:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Yes. I think eventually, robots will take over your job. If you work in the fast food industry, I think at this point the whole restaurant could just be run by robots. I’m not trying to insult fast food workers – I’m just trying to tell the truth. A robot can make some chicken nuggets […]
  
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• How Data About The Music You’re Listening To Is Changing The Music Business

  08-01-2015 14:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Concert promoters study Spotify listens to route tours through towns with the most fans, and some artists look for patterns in Pandora streaming to figure out which songs to play at each stop on a tour. In fact, all of our searching, streaming, downloading, and sharing is being used to answer the question the music […]
  
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• Study: Reading Aloud To Children Encourages Them To Read Alone

  08-01-2015 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The finding about reading aloud to children long after toddlerhood may come as a surprise to some parents who read books to children at bedtime when they were very young but then tapered off.”
  
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• Detroit Institute Of Arts Director To Retire

  08-01-2015 14:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Graham “Beal’s retirement comes after an extraordinarily stressful 18 months during which the DIA found itself an unwitting pawn in the city’s bankruptcy saga.”
  
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• FCC Rules: Airlines Must Allow Musical Instruments On Planes

  08-01-2015 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This rule requires that carriers must allow a passenger to carry into the cabin and stow a small musical instrument, such a violin or a guitar, in a suitable baggage compartment, such as the overhead bin or under the seats in accordance with FAA safety regulations.”
  
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• Morning Links: Public Transportation Edition

  08-01-2015 14:29 via artnews.com
  Christie’s and Sotheby’s are bullish on guarantees. “Perhaps it’s a mark of confidence in the art market. Or a sign that profit margins are thin. Or simply another big gamble, like the ones taken in 2008.” [The New York Times] … Read More
  
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• How The Digital Revolution Is Destroying Our Culture

  08-01-2015 14:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The discussion of culture is being steadily absorbed into the discussion of business. There are “metrics” for phenomena that cannot be metrically measured. Numerical values are assigned to things that cannot be captured by numbers. Economic concepts go rampaging through noneconomic realms: Economists are our experts on happiness!”
  
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• The Sixteen, Harry Christophers, review: A flawless performance proving the popularity of plainsong

  08-01-2015 14:09
  
  It made perfect sense for the opening concert of Kings Place’s Minimalism Unwrapped season to begin with the back-to-the-future frisson of plainsong, because, as The Sixteen’s director Harry Christophers pointed out mid-way through this concert, medieval polyphony’s beginnings were as explosive - and as viscerally exciting - as Stravinsky’s Rite was eight centuries later. Only in the twentieth century did composers find the nerve to create dissonances as crunchy as those of the thirte
  
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• What Will Happen To The New Generation Of Private Museums When Their Founders Die?

  08-01-2015 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As also happened during the Gilded Age, critics today have raised questions about these new museums’ devotion to their own communities, whether regarding accessibility or admission fees. But what has not been examined so thoroughly is what will happen to these new institutions on the death of the founder or the decline in their collecting […]
  
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• Will Cable TV Rates Go The Way Of Airline Add-On Fees?

  08-01-2015 13:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Several studies have shown that, contrary to many peoples’ intuition, the unbundling of cable service could actually lead to slightly higher prices for fewer channels.”
  
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• 'The Death of Bronson': New exhibition gives insight into the mind of 'Britain's most violent criminal'

  08-01-2015 13:29
  
  Notorious criminal Charles Bronson is to exhibit a new collection of his artwork which according to his fiancé will help to end his violent public persona.
  
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• John Cage Was ... photographs and introduction by James Klosty

  08-01-2015 10:48
  
  My first contact with John Cage was in London in 1964. It was in the Phoenix Theatre on Charing Cross Road that I first saw the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Those performances galvanised me, seeming the closest thing to Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes that I could imagine: an exhilarating confluence of new choreography and new music, with innovative scenic designs and lighting by Robert Rauschenberg. I photographed the dance company from 1967 to 1972, and in 1975 I published the first book about
  
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• The Paris Magazine Massacre And The Right To Commit Blasphemy

  08-01-2015 10:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jonathan Chait: “The Muslim radical argues that the ban on blasphemy is morally right and should be followed; the Western liberal insists it is morally wrong but should be followed. Theoretical distinctions aside, both positions yield an identical outcome. The right to blaspheme religion is one of the most elemental exercises of political liberalism. One […]
  
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• The Charlie Hebdo Shooters Aren’t Defending Islam, They’re Degrading It

  08-01-2015 10:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  William Saletan: “The fantasy of these terrorists, like those who previously bombed Charlie Hebdo and attacked a Danish cartoonist, is that they’re honoring Islam. But they aren’t. They’re disgracing it. When you murder people in the name of Allah, you fulfill the most pernicious of all Muslim stereotypes. You do so not in ink, but […]
  
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• Charlie Hebdo’s Most Controversial Religious Covers, Translated And Explained

  08-01-2015 10:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While they’ve mocked everything from Sept. 11 to Michael Jackson, Charlie Hebdo has riled up the most controversy when covering religion, particularly the Prophet Mohammed – whom many Muslims believe it is forbidden to depict.”
  
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• AP Takes Down “Piss Christ” Image After Complaints About Censorship Double Standard

  08-01-2015 10:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings, the Associated Press released a statement: “None of the images distributed by AP showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. It’s been our policy for years that we refrain from moving deliberately provocative images.” Then a conservative magazine observed that Andrés Serrano’s notoriously controversial photograph was available via […]
  
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• London Actor Dies During Rehearsal For “Dante’s Inferno”

  08-01-2015 10:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Khan Bonfils, who played key villains in two recent James Bond films and Jedi master Saesee Tiin in Star Wars: Episode 1 The Phantom Menace as well as the King of Siam in the 2000 revival of The King and I at the London Palladium, collapsed during rehearsals for the Craft Theatre Company’s upcoming production […]
  
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• Barnes Foundation Names New CEO

  08-01-2015 09:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Barnes Foundation has selected Thomas Collins, head of the resurgent Pérez Art Museum in Miami, to be its new chief executive and president.”
  
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• Clampdown sends Russian artists into exile

  08-01-2015 09:46
  
  Berlin, Montenegro and, ironically, Kiev are popular destinations as Moscow curbs free speech
  
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• Banksy's illustrated response to the Charlie Hebdo attack isn't by Banksy. But it is striking

  08-01-2015 09:37
  
  Thousands of Banksy fans have shared this strong pictorial response to the terror attack at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
  
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• Banksy's illustrated response to Charlie Hebdo attack isn't by Banksy. But it is striking

  08-01-2015 09:37
  
  Thousands of Banksy fans have shared this strong pictorial response to the terror attack at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
  
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• Moscow arts agitator leaves for Montenegro

  08-01-2015 09:30
  
  Marat Guelman, the former director of the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, will open new cultural centre in resort town of Budva
  
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• Meet The Philosopher Who’s Helping Keep Google Out Of Court

  08-01-2015 09:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oxford professor Luciano Floridi is helping Google comply with the EU’s right-to-be-forgotten ruling by helping the search engine’s programmers and attorneys change the way they understand and think about the issues involved – including the nature of identity in the Internet age.
  
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• Helgi Tomasson (And The Rest Of Us) Celebrate His 30 Years With San Francisco Ballet

  08-01-2015 09:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What Tomasson has done here over these three decades is to transform a respected regional American ballet company into an international-caliber organization that commands worldwide respect for the depth of its repertoire and its superb technical standards. In fact, the S.F. Ballet’s history of the past 30 years has rendered the term ‘American regional company’ […]
  
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• You Know It’s Oscar Season When The Historical-Accuracy Hit Squads Show Up

  08-01-2015 09:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Over the past several weeks, it seems that almost every major awards contender has had some kind of high-profile accusation flung at it over its misappropriation of the truth. It happens every year, of course …, but this time, it’s reached comically epidemic levels … These movies are not documentaries, nor are they acts of […]
  
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• So Why *Do* Women Cry More Than Men?

  08-01-2015 09:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We can intuit that men cry less often than women owing to social conditioning; crying doesn’t really fit in with our image of stereotypical manhood, after all, and that’s no doubt a partial explanation of why men are more likely to hold in their tears. But men may also be biologically built to shed fewer […]
  
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• Can A Video Game Help Rape Survivors?

  08-01-2015 08:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “An upcoming Oculus Rift experience tracks a character’s recovery following a sexual assault – aiming to enable empathy, even therapy, for survivors and outsiders alike.”
  
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• Will there be life after death for new private museums?

  08-01-2015 08:46
  Will there be life after death for new private museums?
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.07.15

  08-01-2015 08:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Picturing Mary: It Could Have Gone Another Way AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-01-07 Museum-Commercial Gallery-Museum: John Elderfield’s Head-Spinning Revolving Door AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-01-07 Other Places: The Latest On Young Louis Armstrong AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-01-07 We’re all wild about Harry: Paul Levy loves a Birtwistle masterpiece AJBlog: Plain English Published 2015-01-07 Reflections on […]
  
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• Gallery Director, Japan Society Gallery (New York)

  08-01-2015 05:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Japan Society seeks a dynamic Gallery Director to develop and implement engaging and innovative exhibitions of both traditional and contemporary Japanese art and culture. Established in 1907, New York’s Japan Society is an internationally recognized nonprofit, nonpolitical organization that provides access to information on Japan, offers opportunities to experience Japanese culture, and fosters sustained and […]
  
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