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• ‘I Have Long Been Worried About the Increasing Size of Art Museums’: Rem Koolhaas and Dasha Zhukova Discuss Garage’s New Home

  12-01-2015 23:23 via artnews.com
  The cover story for next week’s WSJ. magazine has dropped, and it’s a lengthy profile of Dasha Zhukova and Rem Koolhaas ahead of their latest project: a new home for Zhukova’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. Garage is named for its … Read More
  
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• TEFAF Hires Patrick van Maris as CEO, Paul Hustinx Retiring

  12-01-2015 23:02 via artnews.com
  The European Fine Art Fair, or TEFAF, which takes place annually in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and which is known for its top-flight galleries, top-notch canapés  (150,000 were served at the preview in 2011, the last year on record) and generous beverage … Read More
  
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• Dulwich Picture Gallery invites art lovers to play spot-the-replica with specially commissioned take on an Old Master

  12-01-2015 21:25
  
  An unknown Chinese artist has been paid £120 by one of Britain’s leading art galleries to copy an Old Master in its permanent collection, so it can be hung among other great works and the public challenged to identify it.
  
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• Cuban Performance Artist Tania Bruguera Speaks Out About Her Recent Detention

  12-01-2015 21:12 via artnews.com
  Over at the Los Angeles Times, Carolina A. Miranda (an ARTnews contributor) has an interview with artist Tania Bruguera, who was recently detained by state security authorities following her attempt to stage Tatlin’s Whisper #6 in Havana. The piece consists … Read More
  
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• Filming Hong Kong – And Expected Your Movies To Be Banned In China

  12-01-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cinematographer Chris Doyle: “We want some ongoing relationship with this generation, which is more or less frustrated, if not dissatisfied, with the financial and socioeconomic, and in the background, the political journey of this period of time. … We have certain talents, we have a certain idealism, we have a certain voice, and we’d better […]
  
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• The Percentage Of Children Reading For Pleasure Has Plummeted In The Last Few Years

  12-01-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Sixty per cent of the children who enjoyed reading more when they were younger put this down to the fact there are ‘so many other things that I now enjoy more than reading,’ and 47% blamed the fact that ‘I have to read so much for school that I just don’t feel like reading for […]
  
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• Art Collectors Who Open Private Museums Can Take Massive Tax Write-Offs

  12-01-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While these jewel-box museums can house extraordinary work and offer a small group of art lovers an unusual viewing experience, critics wonder whether taxpayers are helping subsidize wealthy collectors’ multimillion-dollar purchases with little public benefit in return.”
  
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• The New Yorker’s Longtime Pop Music Critic Leaves To … Join A Startup?

  12-01-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Mr. Frere-Jones will use his contacts in the music industry to bring artists and writers into Genius, seeking a critical mass of influential names for ‘that Twitter moment when suddenly the smart kids stop holding their noses up in the air and they take part, and it just improves.'”
  
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• Hollywood Is Deeply Whitewashed, And Producers Don’t Have An Incentive To Change That

  12-01-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The absence of color is egregiously noticeable in the sci-fi and fantasy genres, where characters can be any ethnicity.”
  
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• Writing A Singable English Version Of The World’s First Good Opera Wasn’t As Easy As It Sounded

  12-01-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The technical problems of making a singable version of an Italian opera can be stated very simply: you have to make English sentences fit music written for Italian ones. However, this is like trying to fit a set of spanners into a velvet box made for a dinner-service. It also means you have to flip […]
  
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• Theatre Needs Excellent Regional Critics If Plays And Directors Are To Improve

  12-01-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Newspapers barely cover those theatres now – so building a career regionally is becoming harder than ever. Even with greater funding, until we can resource bloggers and journalists to make those trips and build the national profile for regional work, directors will continue to scrape by in London.”
  
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• Matthews, Padmore, LSO and Chorus/Rattle at the Barbican, London: A first-class line-up

  12-01-2015 17:23
  
  It’s quite something to present a major work by a major composer which hardly anyone in the audience has heard, but that’s what Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra did with Schumann’s oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri.
  
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• Dulwich picture gallery challenges art lovers to spot the fake

  12-01-2015 17:13
  
  London gallery will hang replica by Chinese studio alongside genuine Old Masters and ask public to guess odd one outThe Dulwich picture gallery is to set the public, and any art critics with the nerve, a potentially mortifying challenge. A £120 replica of a priceless painting, commissioned online from a Chinese studio which churns out masterpieces from any period and style, will be hung in the genuine frame alongside the gallery’s collection of dazzling Old Master paintings this spring.
  
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• The Art World Has To Ditch The Rich Russians

  12-01-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The great myth about the art world is that it is loaded with money. It is, of course, but only at the top end. Collectors, successful dealers and some artists are rich. Yet around this elite, and servicing it, is a constellation of magazines, books, critics and websites, curators and exhibitions that is not so […]
  
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• Off and Running: James Shalom on His Offsite Project

  12-01-2015 16:40 via artnews.com
  Tucked away on the fifth floor of 195 Chrystie Street, a hulking studio building on New York’s Lower East Side, is “Seven Artists in Two Rooms,” the latest exhibition from Offsite, an itinerant curatorial project run by James Shalom. It’s a handsome one, and its seven artists are pleasantly, unusually … Read More
  
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• Renato Guttuso review – the communist painter who loved Marilyn Monroe

  12-01-2015 16:28
  
  Estorick Collection, London
  This surprising Sicilian painter and staunch communist showed the joys of real Italian life – by inserting Monroe and Picasso into its streetsSocialist realism is not exactly the most fashionable of art movements. The early avant garde art of the Soviet Union is widely celebrated; El Lissitzky’s red wedge is agreed to be cool. But when Stalin came to power and proclaimed the doctrine of realism, communist art stepped back and never recovered its vitality.There’
  
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• Modern Architecture Continues To Implode

  12-01-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Modernist architecture, like Modern art, has tended to be a revolt against bourgeois taste (and values): If granny, abuelita, or bubbe is for it, they’re against it. But if bourgeois taste is bad—all that chintz and those lace curtains, those cushy sofas, that flag flown from the front porch—just imagine what architects think of the […]
  
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• Ballet On The Beach In Paradise

  12-01-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘There are many people who have come with their wives who wouldn’t go to the (Sydney) Opera House or the State Theatre in Melbourne,’ says Artistic Director David McAllister. ‘Interestingly this is something that can change people’s minds, and it’s a great relationship-building exercise”
  
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• The Anatomy Lesson: Miranda July Channels Her Inner Roth In Debut Novel

  12-01-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  For all the different masks she wears—director, screenwriter, actor, artist, short-story writer, and, with the publication this month of The First Bad Man (Scribner), novelist—there are really only two Miranda Julys, and they don’t seem to get along with each … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Getting the Band Back Together Edition

  12-01-2015 15:02 via artnews.com
  Patricia Cohen deep dives on private museums, which give “the ability to have your cake and eat it too,” in the words of lawyer Ralph E. Lerner. [The New York Times] The competition for top museum directors is on: the … Read More
  
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• From Hollywood Star To Hollywood Power Broker (And Star)

  12-01-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Witherspoon has certainly emerged, somewhat unexpectedly, as one of the flagwavers of Hollywood feminism.”
  
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• The Cartoons Of Charlie Hebdo Were Firmly In The Long French Tradition Of Lampooning Religion

  12-01-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Anticlerical French thought traces its origins to rambunctious early Catholic practices such as Carnival, in which Christian morality was temporarily and gleefully suspended, as well as to Renaissance literary representations of priests as importunate louts.”
  
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• The Man Who Secretly Filmed A Shakespeare Play Right After Directing The Avengers On How To Be Prolific

  12-01-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This comes from Kai, my wife, who produced the film. She [quotes from] Rio Grande: ‘Get it done, Johnny Reb.’ It’s like, don’t make excuses. There aren’t any anymore. If you’re talking about it, you should be doing it and she doesn’t like to see talent go fallow. She doesn’t like to see people repeat […]
  
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• Artists’ low income and status are international issues

  12-01-2015 13:20
  
  Even in countries with well-developed fee and pay systems, artists’ wages remain a problem few are willing to addressHere in the UK, as the Paying Artists campaign revealed in 2014, the majority of contemporary artists are barely surviving financially, with no or low pay the norm.In real terms, nearly three-quarters of artists are getting just 37% of the average UK salary from their practice. At £10,000 a year, these artists receive only 66% of the living wage: the UK benchmark for a civ
  
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• 'Without freedom, there is no humanity' - Charlie Hebdo victims paid tribute to in special issue of Spirou magazine

  12-01-2015 13:00
  
  The editorial team at Spirou - based at Dupuis in Marcinelle - has organised its own tribute to support the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack.
  
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• Vito Acconci's plan to link Anzac memorials is a bridge too far for some in Hobart

  12-01-2015 11:16
  
  Collector David Walsh supports plan to mark Gallipoli centenary in Tasmanian capital but heritage experts object
  
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• New York’s first Italian sale to look beyond Arte Povera

  12-01-2015 10:00
  
  The curator Francesco Bonami is organising a Phillips auction in May
  
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• New York-based researcher for Exhibition Attendance Survey

  12-01-2015 08:52
  The Art Newspaper, New York: paid, temporary, part-time position
  
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• Mickey Mouse the child beater: Tomi Ungerer's brilliant satirical cartoons – in pictures

  12-01-2015 08:00
  
  The Statue of Liberty is swallowed whole and Disney’s main man smacks orphans ... ahead of his first US retrospective, the prolific French illustrator known for children’s books shows his clout as a controversial cartoonist
  Tomi Ungerer: All in One is at The Drawing Center in New York from 16 January until 22 March Continue reading...
  
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• Minnie Mouse the child beater: Tomi Ungerer's brilliant satirical cartoons – in pictures

  12-01-2015 08:00
  
  The Statue of Liberty is swallowed whole and Disney characters smack orphans ... ahead of his first US retrospective, the prolific French illustrator known for children’s books shows his clout as a controversial cartoonist
  Tomi Ungerer: All in One is at The Drawing Center in New York from 16 January until 22 March Continue reading...
  
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• At The Golden Globes, ‘Boyhood’ And (Unexpectedly) ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Clean Up

  12-01-2015 06:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It was a very progressive, surprisingly forward-thinking show — for about an hour or so, during the TV winners. The movie choices felt far more conventional.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 01.11.15

  12-01-2015 06:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not So Fast: Private Art Museum Under Scrutiny AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2015-01-11 Remember That Retracted Announcement from Chicago? AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2015-01-11 Two Becoming One Remaining Two AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-01-10 “In Praise of Gatekeepers” AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2015-01-10 How Do We Save Journalism? AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2015-01-09
  
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• Will The Brits Win At The Golden Globes Because Of Youth Theatre Schools?

  12-01-2015 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Tutors at both drama centres have raised their glasses in anticipation on the eve of the ceremony in California and are ready to toast the theatrical tradition that prepares actors to work at the highest level.”
  
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• If You Want To Be Fair, Get Enough Sleep

  12-01-2015 00:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Selfishness may be the default, automatic response — and the one that takes energy and self control to overcome.”
  
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• Das Paradies und die Peri review: Simon Rattle and the LSO revive the unfashionable twaddle of Schumann oratorio

  12-01-2015 00:16
  
  It’s quite something to present a major work by a major composer which hardly anyone in the audience has heard, but that’s what Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra did with Schumann’s oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri.
  
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• What Makes ‘Selma’ Director Ava DuVernay Different

  12-01-2015 00:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Selma could have been a run of the mill biopic—following a tremendous man who made tremendous changes. But DuVernay makes Martin Luther King Jr. more than the myth—she makes him human. … DuVernay looks at Selma as a story of the community and all the people who were integral to making change happen, showing the […]
  
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