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• Tyson Reeder to Canada Gallery

  09-01-2015 23:50 via artnews.com
  Buried in the press release for Tyson Reeder’s show at New York’s Canada gallery, which opens tonight, is a mention that the gallery now represents him. You should actually probably read the whole release because it’s pretty great: CANADA is … Read More
  
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• Meet Your Latest Art Auction Start-Up: FAB

  09-01-2015 23:43 via artnews.com
  In the Financial Times today, Georgina Adam reports that there’s a new “game-changer in the field of auctioneering” headed our way. Fine Art Bourse, or FAB, is an online auction house founded by Australian Tim Goodman, formerly a major player … Read More
  
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• What Keeps Art Museums Going? Private Money, Hands Down

  09-01-2015 23:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The average museumgoer in the US, Canada, and Mexico spends $7.93 during her visit (the average museumgoer must not be in New York City), while the museum spends $53.17 on her, according to the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD).”
  
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• In The UK, Regional Theatre Staff Want A Five Percent Raise

  09-01-2015 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The claim, submitted last month, sets out to ‘address a steady erosion of pay rates in the sector,’ which BECTU says has seen incomes fall by more than 12% in some cases since 2010.”
  
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• What Everyone Gets Wrong About (Classical Music) Minimalism

  09-01-2015 22:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Despite the terrible moniker, and the scorn of modernists and traditionalists alike, minimalism is triumphant. You can hear the echo of its pounding beats, static harmonies and slowly shifting patterns everywhere in the wider world of music, from TV commercials to film scores to pop music.”
  
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• The Power Of Iconoclasm Versus Art

  09-01-2015 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Sculptures have the face or head smashed and the eyes gouged out. The faces of paintings are often removed and burned. Far more art has been destroyed in the name of these four religions than has survived. Looked at through this prohibitive lens, it’s a wonder that any religious art survives at all.”
  
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• Here’s What Led Howard Becker to Write ‘Art Worlds’

  09-01-2015 22:09 via artnews.com
  A nice little Friday surprise: I was just making my way through this week’s New Yorker at the dentist office and finally had the chance to read Adam Gopnik’s profile of sociologist Howard Becker, who penned Art Worlds (1982), the classic syllabus … Read More
  
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• More Older Adults Turn To Ballet For Fitness And Flexibility

  09-01-2015 21:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Experts say the physically strenuous and mentally challenging pastime can improve vitality and provide a social outlet for older adults.”
  
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• The Fate of the Corcoran Gallery’s Collection Remains Uncertain

  09-01-2015 21:39 via artnews.com
  Five months have passed since a judge approved the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s merger with the National Gallery of Art and George Washington University in Washington D.C., but the status of the Corcoran’s holdings remains murky, and the National Gallery … Read More
  
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• Waterstone’s Christmas Sales Rise 5 Percent In 2014, And Print Lovers Rejoice

  09-01-2015 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kindle sales slumped dramatically in the book chain, but books did well. “I would like to think it was down to the booksellers in the shops, creating an energetic environment. The good weather gods were on our side as well.”
  
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• The Paris Phil Will (Possibly) Regret Its Rushed Grand Opening

  09-01-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The hall’s vaunting aspiration to energize its environs and redefine the concert-going experience could be for naught if the shortcuts and loss of time to fine tune prove crucial.”
  
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• Specialist – American Art

  09-01-2015 21:00
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• Look, No, The Internet Isn’t Killing The Creative Class – It’s Just Hard To Make A Living In The Arts

  09-01-2015 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This Jane Jacobs-ish defense of the Comic Book Guys of the world is passionate but unconvincing: Are we really losing something essential with these ‘gathering places’ that isn’t made up for by Wi-Fi-enabled coffee shops (frequently havens of creative production, not just consumption) on the one hand, and online forums for critical discussion on the […]
  
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• The Massacre Of French Cartoonists Will End Up Strengthening Art Itself

  09-01-2015 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Artistic forms — be they performance, installation, or more traditional methods of image-making — have come to the fore as a way of answering violence, challenging the official routes of art distribution.”
  
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• Michigan’s Oldest Opera Company To Lose Its Longtime Director

  09-01-2015 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘Die Frist ist um,’ Lyall said, paraphrasing The Dutchman’s opening line, ‘The time is up,’ in Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman. ‘I wasn’t asked to leave,’ he said. ‘This was strictly, 100 percent, my choice.'”
  
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• Cultivating A Youthful Orchestra (And Classical Music Audience)

  09-01-2015 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Despite the graying of the classical music audience — or perhaps because of it — American orchestras and major music institutions are chasing youth with ever more ambitious programs to reach, and teach, the next generation of players.”
  
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• Gary Simmons’s Prospect 3 Sound System May Travel

  09-01-2015 19:26 via artnews.com
  Over at Bomb magazine, writer Jodie Bass has a great interview with Gary Simmons about his project at the Prospect 3 triennial (née biennial) in New Orleans, which is a hulking sound system made with wood that was sourced from … Read More
  
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• Actors Are Narcissistic, But In The Nicest Way Possible

  09-01-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Theater stages represent ecological niches that provide narcissists with an opportunity to fulfill their desire for admiration.”
  
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• Sotheby's auctioning Monet painting for estimated £30m

  09-01-2015 18:39
  
  Sotheby’s is hoping to raise up to £30 million for a single painting depicting a view of Venice, which will be put up for auction next month.
  
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• Frieze Taps Clara M Kim to Curate Spotlight Section

  09-01-2015 18:21 via artnews.com
  Los Angeles–based independent curator Clara M Kim has been selected by the Frieze Art Fair to organize Spotlight, the special section of London’s Frieze Masters fair that is devoted to one-person shows of 20th-century work and that will also be part … Read More
  
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• Is MoMA’s Director Leaving For An Art Auction House?

  09-01-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Let’s face it, despite the perceived divide between working for ‘non-profit’ and ‘for-profit’ institutions, there are more similarities — perhaps especially in the art world — than most might want to admit.”
  
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• Why the art world needs to ditch the rich Russians

  09-01-2015 18:07
  
  As Russian investors snap up an even greater stake in the contemporary art world, Jonathan Jones asks if there can ever be a truly independent art pressThere’s an interesting story on the Art Newspaper website about Russian artists protesting with their feet against president Vladimir Putin’s government. Yet the most significant aspect of the story may be that it has actually been published.Crackdowns on freedom of speech are driving artists into exile, reports Sophia Kishkovsky, citing subv
  
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• Charlie Hebdo: Asterix creator Albert Uderzo comes out of retirement to draw 'Je suis Charlie' cartoon

  09-01-2015 17:55
  
  Albert Uderzo, the 87-year-old creator of the well-loved French comic series Asterix, has come out of retirement to draw a new cartoon to show solidarity with the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack this week.
  
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• The art market is disgustingly inflated, yes – but surprisingly meritocratic | Jonathan Jones

  09-01-2015 17:40
  
  Marlene Dumas isn’t the only artist to feel anxious about the money. Fortunately, though, it tends to be the best who benefitArt prices are among the most awful, repulsive, and sickening aspects of modern culture. There is no equivalent in any other field for the ostentatious extravagance of art collectors in a world that unapologetically confuses luxury and aesthetic appreciation.Literature, theatre and grand opera are ascetic practices compared with the art world, where the current record fo
  
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• Man finds horror film posters worth five times value of his house hidden in wall

  09-01-2015 17:19
  
  A man in New Zealand bought a modest house for $100,000 dollars only to discover a hidden stash of horror film posters worth five times that amount.
  
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• French Media, And Google, Will Help Charlie Hebdo Survivors Publish Next Week

  09-01-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The remaining staff aim to print 1m copies of the satirical weekly, which has a typical print run of 60,000.”
  
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• The power of satire and pointless lifehacks – the week in art

  09-01-2015 16:54
  
  Anti-fascist painting from Italy hits London in a week that demonstrated beyond all doubt the political clout of visual art – all in your favourite weekly art dispatch
  This anti-fascist, social-realist painter from Sicily – who also illustrated Elizabeth David’s cookery classic Italian Food – is an important and radical Italian artist, the painterly equivalent of postwar film-makers such as Rossellini and De Sica.
  • Estorick Collection, London N1, from 14 January until 4 April. Con
  
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• Frac Île-de-France opens a castle fit for an art king

  09-01-2015 15:49
  
  A renovation of the Château de Rentilly led by Xavier Veilhan gives the Paris region’s contemporary art collection a second space
  
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• Morning Links: Beauford Delaney Edition

  09-01-2015 15:37 via artnews.com
  Randy Kennedy on Ray Johnson, “The Art World’s Holy Fool.” [The New York Times] Holland Cotter on Horace Poolaw at the National Museum of the American Indian. [The New York Times] On the making of Frederick Wiseman’s documentary about the … Read More
  
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• In the studio with Celia Paul

  09-01-2015 14:12
  
  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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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.08.15

  09-01-2015 10:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whitney’s New Collection Database: The Good And The Requested AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-01-08 News Flash: Graham W.J. Beal, Detroit Institute of Arts’ Director, To Retire (“Quite a Ride”) AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-01-08 What I do AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-01-08
  
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• David Hepher: the landscape artist obsessed with London's tower blocks – in pictures

  09-01-2015 10:44
  
  To mark a new exhibition at London’s Flowers Gallery – and his 80th birthday – David Hepher offers a personal perspective on the urban artworks that characterise his celebrated career
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• L.A. Phil Moves Toward Unifying U.S. Sistema-Style Programs

  09-01-2015 10:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “To better unify the disparate El Sistema education programs across the United States, the Los Angeles Philharmonic is embarking on a new initiative with four other organizations to create a national platform for youth orchestras.”
  
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• John Luther Adams Wins $50K William Schuman Award

  09-01-2015 10:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Columbia University School of the Arts has announced that John Luther Adams is the newest recipient of the William Schuman Award, a major recognition given periodically over the past three decades. Named for its first recipient, the award, in the form of a direct, unrestricted grant of $50,000, is one of the largest given […]
  
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• Florida Grand Opera May Pull Out Of Fort Lauderdale

  09-01-2015 10:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Florida Grand Opera is considering exiting from the Broward Center for the Performing Arts next season, a move that would leave Fort Lauderdale without professional opera performances for the first time in the quarter-century since the center opened.”
  
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• Finally, Good News From Atlanta Symphony: $1.25M For Salaries

  09-01-2015 10:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s push to rebuild its ranks, a major issue in the stormy nine-week player lockout that delayed the 70th anniversary season, has received a boost in the form of a $1.25 million Musicians’ Endowment Fund pledge.”
  
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• In Praise Of Book Publishing’s Gatekeepers

  09-01-2015 10:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Daniel Menaker: “In my judgment, there are between 20 and 30 editors and publishers in New York who – along with experienced and discriminating publicists, marketers, and sales reps – have over the decades regularly and successfully combined art and commerce and, in the process, have supported and promulgated art. They are in fact the […]
  
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• Belarusian Publisher On Trial For Publishing Images Of Police Brutality

  09-01-2015 10:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Ihar Lohvinau is charged” – nominally – “with selling books from his bookshop in Minsk without the obligatory state registration, and faces a heavy fine and the closure of a store described by the International Publishers Association as ‘a vital hub for the country’s fragile literary community’.”
  
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• Renzo Piano Wants To Fix Italy’s Blighted Suburbs

  09-01-2015 10:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  As soon as the architect became a member of the Italian Senate, “he handed over the office, along with his government salary, to six much younger architects and asked them to come up with ways to improve the periferie – the often run-down neighborhoods that ring Rome and Italy’s other major cities.”
  
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• Sotheby’s And Christie’s Go Back To Guaranteeing Minimum Prices

  09-01-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[The two auction houses] all but gave up guarantees in late 2008, after the effects of the financial crisis spilled into the art market. … That auction house guarantees have come roaring back, despite the risks, is a reflection of the largely hidden turmoil in the art market.”
  
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• You Have Remarkable Music Abilities – You Just Don’t Know About Them Yet

  09-01-2015 09:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The more psychologists investigate musicality, the more it seems that nearly all of us are musical experts, in quite a startling sense. The difference between a virtuoso performer and an ordinary music fan is much smaller than the gulf between that fan and someone with no musical knowledge at all. … We aren’t talking about […]
  
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• The Last Time I Smiled: On Living With Facial Paralysis

  09-01-2015 09:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jonathan Kalb: “For the past thirteen years, my smile has been an incoherent tug-of-war between a grin on one side and a frown on the other: an expression of joy spliced to an expression of horror. … If a stranger approaches me smiling and I try to return the greeting, I watch the person’s face […]
  
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• Suis-Je Charlie? Philip Gourevitch On The Pen Vs. The Gun

  09-01-2015 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We like to say – we who work with pens (or pixels) – that the pen (or pixel) is mightier than the sword. Then someone brings a sword (or Kalashnikov) to test the claim, and we’re not so sure. … The truth is – for better and for worse – that, no, most of us, […]
  
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• Courtauld’s new gallery to show the unseen faces of its drawing collection

  09-01-2015 09:34
  
  The first exhibition of works never before displayed opens next week, followed by a rare Goya private album
  
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• Why Charlie Hebdo Matters

  09-01-2015 09:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Andrew O’Hehir: “Charlie Hebdo is not just some random publication that made fun of Muhammad. It’s something closer to a canary in the coal mine of democracy. It’s a dissident, thorn-in-the-side paper that was once closed down by its own government, in the putative homeland of liberty and equality. It’s a paper that has doggedly […]
  
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• Gospel Legend Andraé Crouch Dead At 72

  09-01-2015 09:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A dyslexic who in childhood had a bad stutter, Crouch was known for pioneering a gospel sound with a contemporary feel – sometimes to the dismay of critics who felt his work was too secular. But he and his group the Disciples received multiple Grammys for their efforts. In 2004, Crouch became only the third […]
  
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• Julianne Moore Says She’s Not A Brave Actress (Her Directors Disagree)

  09-01-2015 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Cronenberg, on one ickily Cronenbergian moment in his Maps to the Stars: “That scene definitely freaked out several actresses. With Julie it wasn’t even a discussion.”
  
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• Half Of UK Stage Directors Earn Less Than £5,000 Per Year

  09-01-2015 08:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A survey by the industry group Stage Directors UK found the average salary for directors in subsidised theatres was £10,759, far below the average national wage of £26,500. Some were being paid the equivalent of less than £1 an hour.”
  
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• Theatre Artists Are The Ones Really Subsidizing Theatre, And That Should End

  09-01-2015 08:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lyn Gardner: “Because although this is about money, it’s not just about money, it’s about the relationships between artists and venues and producers, and a proper and equal relationship between them that is not just a transaction but something that benefits and enriches all.”
  
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• Disabled Dancers And The Art Form, 20 Years After Arlene Croce’s “Victim Art” Essay

  09-01-2015 08:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Jays: “Two decades on, Croce appears stranded on the wrong side of history. Artists bringing personal histories to the table are now mainstream. You see ‘victim art’ in reality TV and verbatim theatre; in the work of oversharing visual artists like Tracey Emin and Ryan Trecartin; and, increasingly, you see it in dance, where […]
  
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