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• MoMA to Deaccession Monet

  13-01-2015 23:49 via artnews.com
  The New York Times reports that the Museum of Modern Art will sell a work by Claude Monet at Sotheby’s London’s Feburary 3 auction. The work features an irrevicoable bid, which is slightly akin to having been pre-sold, and carries … Read More
  
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• MoMA to Deaccession a Monet

  13-01-2015 23:49 via artnews.com
  The New York Times reports that the Museum of Modern Art will sell a work by Claude Monet at Sotheby’s London’s Feburary 3 auction. The work features an irrevicoable bid, which is slightly akin to having been pre-sold, and carries … Read More
  
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• That Time James Lee Byars Built a Wall Around the Office of His Los Angeles Dealer, Eugenia Butler

  13-01-2015 23:08 via artnews.com
  Writer Matt Stromberg just published a profile of the storied Los Angeles art dealer Eugenia Butler on KCET’s Artbound website, and I highly recommend giving it a read. Butler, who worked early on with the dealer Virginia Dwan, ran an eponymous … Read More
  
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• Kehinde Wiley to Receive the U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts

  13-01-2015 22:56 via artnews.com
  New York-based portraitist Kehinde Wiley will be awarded the U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts. Known for his flashy paintings that depict black men and women in the style of Old Master portraiture, Wiley is being honored for using … Read More
  
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• Unseen review - a beguiling delight full of intimate surprises

  13-01-2015 21:13
  
  Drawing exhibition hints at the inexhaustible creativity that comes about when a human being takes hold of a pencilEmma, Lady Hamilton’s lips pout and pucker in empty space in no less than seven repeated drawings of the sensual mouth of Horatio Nelson’s lover on a sheet of sketches by the Georgian artist George Romney. There’s a formally posed drawing of Lady Hamilton on the sheet too but it’s in his intense studies of her lips that Romney – who portrayed this famous beauty again and a
  
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• Don’t Miss Amy Sedaris at Invisible-Exports in New York

  13-01-2015 20:55 via artnews.com
  This winter has offered an impressive selection of winter group shows in New York, among them “Fetching Blemish” at Invisible-Exports, which offers work by Nicole Eisenman, Genieve Figgis, Cindy Sherman and, in a twist, the comedian Amy Sedaris. The works … Read More
  
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• Here Is the 2015 AIPAD Photography Show New York Exhibitor List

  13-01-2015 20:47 via artnews.com
  From April 16 to April 19, the AIPAD Photography Show New York, the annual fair dedicated to photography and held by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, will return to the Park Avenue Armory for its 35th edition. Today, … Read More
  
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• Shift: A Reimagined Spring For Music Festival Going To The Kennedy Center

  13-01-2015 19:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Called “Shift: A Festival of American orchestras,” and initially scheduled for a three-year run starting in the spring of 2017, the festival is a continuation, or reimagining, of the Spring for Music festival that ran in New York from 2010 to 2014, which brought orchestras large and small to Carnegie Hall with innovative, unusual programs.”
  
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• Data: Number Of Arts Jobs Declining (But Americans Spending More On Culture)

  13-01-2015 19:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In 2012, creative industries generated $698.7 billion in added value (total sales minus the cost of production), making up 3.8% of the US national GDP (more than the industries of construction, transportation, travel, tourism, or agriculture). The total US output for that year was $1.1 trillion.”
  
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• Delhi's modern murals: Street art festivals and extraordinary outdoor galleries

  13-01-2015 19:11
  
  "It's like a city within a city," says Hanif Kureshi, organiser of St.Art, a street art festival in Delhi and Mumbai. He is describing Delhi's Hauz Khas Village, which has turned into an extraordinary outdoor gallery since the first festival. Imagine London's Shoreditch, but set by a lake, overlooking the foliage-fringed ruins of domed 14th-century tombs and pavilions. "It was an ignored part of the city, where there was random development," he says. "So we were just adding a bit of colour to
  
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• Farber Foundation Announces Finalists for Cuban Art Awards

  13-01-2015 19:01 via artnews.com
  On the heels of news that the U.S. will begin to ease relations with Cuba and controversy surrounding the detention of Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera, the Farber Foundation has announced the finalists for the first Cuban Art Awards. The … Read More
  
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• Consumer Reports: Michael Williams

  13-01-2015 18:57 via artnews.com
  “Consumer Reports” is a recurring feature that profiles an artist’s consumption of any and all media throughout one work week. Over the past decade, Michael Williams has amassed a singular and idiosyncratic body of paintings, some of which are currently … Read More
  
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• Evidence Is In: Arts Audiences Are Declining

  13-01-2015 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Following a sharp decline in overall arts attendance that occurred from 2002 to 2008,” one NEA report states, “participation rates held steady from 2008 to 2012” for classical music, jazz, and dance performances. However, ticket sales for non-musical plays continued to slip further during those final four years, and attendance at stage musicals—one of the […]
  
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• New Rubens exhibition: painter, superstar, and multimedia factory manager

  13-01-2015 18:36
  
  The word "studio" does scant justice to the space in which Peter Paul Rubens worked. Galleried, grandiose, even palatial, it feels as much like a theatre – or a throne room – as a painter's workshop. The Flemish master added it to his house in Antwerp in the 1610s, during the building works in which Europe's most sought-after artist transformed a modest merchant's residence in the port on the Scheldt into a showcase that borrowed the style of an Italian "palazzetto".
  
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• President Hollande opens conference in Paris for progressive Arab voices

  13-01-2015 16:01
  
  Institut du Monde Arabe forum has extra relevance after Charlie Hebdo attack
  
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• President Hollande to open conference in Paris for progressive Arab voices

  13-01-2015 16:00
  
  Institut du Monde Arabe forum has extra relevance after Charlie Hebdo attack
  
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• Trapped By Your Concepts Of Culture? Then Try These

  13-01-2015 15:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The concepts and ideas we celebrate — like our spiritual beliefs and daily habits — are a choice, though sometimes it feels like we “have” to celebrate them, even if we don’t feel like it. Culture is ours to do with as we choose, and that means that we can add, subtract, or edit celebrations […]
  
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• How Amazon Is Reinventing TV

  13-01-2015 15:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As surprising as the company’s breakthrough success with “Transparent” may be, it is also consistent with its history and identity. Amazon is the first digital streaming service to win a Golden Globe for best TV series. In other words, the company that has changed the way consumers buy everything from diapers to high-definition TVs is […]
  
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• What Does The List Of The New York Times’ Most-Read Stories Of 2014 Say About Us?

  13-01-2015 15:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Many of the most popular items from 2014 aren’t conventional news stories at all — they’re contributed content (Dylan Farrow’s open letter about Woody Allen), quizzes (2013′s “How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk was on the list for two years straight), and question-and-answer sessions (The Times’ Q and A on the Ebola crisis made […]
  
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• Measuring America’s Arts Audience

  13-01-2015 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  The NEA releases its latest study: “The latest SPPA compares arts participation rates based on surveys from 2002, 2008, and 2012, as well as regional, state, and metro-area statistics. Several of the findings are particularly noteworthy. Adults who attended performing arts or visited museums as children were three to four times as likely to see […]
  
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• Halfway to fundraising goal, Florida museum launches public appeal

  13-01-2015 15:34
  
  Board has contributed nearly $30m towards the Norton Museum of Art’s Foster + Partners-designed expansion
  
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• Cities Are Becoming Inhospitable For Artists (But Not For The Traditional Reasons)

  13-01-2015 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The “urban Renaissance” we are living through is a terrific example of solving a problem by not solving it, or rather, by turning it inside-out. We’ve imported suburbia to the city, recreating its bucolic aura via bike lanes and urban gardening, and its gated community vibe via “broken windows” policing. Soon it will have all […]
  
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• It’s About Time: Wang Jianwei at the Guggenheim

  13-01-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Below, an excerpt from Barbara Pollack’s profile of Wang Jianwei, which was published in the January 2015 issue of ARTnews on page 64. The full story is on newsstands now. “The first time I saw Matthew Barney’s work, I didn’t … Read More
  
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• How Ironic Is It That Our Most Celebrated “Un-Blockbuster” Theatre Composer Has A Hit Movie?

  13-01-2015 15:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Stephen Sondheim is the antibody of the blockbuster, the antithesis of mass taste. He writes for questing minds, disdaining sunshine, inhabiting the deep, dark woods of moral ambiguity. At his most challenging, in Sweeney Todd, he elicits our sympathies for cannibalism. At his gloomiest, in Company, he seems to conclude that man’s fate is always […]
  
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• Morning Links: FAA Regulations Edition

  13-01-2015 15:25 via artnews.com
  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston plans a $450 million redevelopment plan. [Houston Chronicle] The dismissal of Leah Abir, the chief curator of the Haifa Museum of Art in Israel, allegedly because its director “found her difficult to work with,” has … Read More
  
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• Renzo Piano: Want To Preserve Historic Centers? Look To The Edges

  13-01-2015 15:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the nineteen-sixties and seventies, the big challenge—in Europe certainly, but everywhere—was to establish as a principle that historic centers have to be preserved. But in the two-thousands—probably for the next three, four, five decades—the real challenge is to transform the periphery. If we fail in doing this, it will be a real tragedy.”
  
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• Study: Muscles Are A State Of Mind

  13-01-2015 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In a small study recently published in the Journal of Neurophysiology, researchers found that much of muscle strength is based on brain activity, rather than on the mass of the muscles themselves.”
  
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• The Musician Making Money By Understanding Search Engines

  13-01-2015 15:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I realized people will type weird stuff into search engines, and there’s not always songs for the stuff. If you search for ‘love’ on iTunes or Spotify, you’re going to get something like 15 million songs. If you search ‘monkey,’ you’re going to get fewer.” So Matt Farley decided to fill that gap.
  
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• Our Idea Of “Fiction” Is Blurring. Reality Is Fungible

  13-01-2015 15:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  All of these novels point to a new future wherein the self is considered a living thing composed of fictions. Although critics will endlessly retread tired discussions concerning fiction vs. reality (and therefore the exhausted conversation about “realism”), that isn’t really what’s at stake here. What’s happening is that new novels… are redistributing the relation […]
  
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• Mons: it's the European Capital of Culture – but locals just want to go to Ikea

  13-01-2015 14:00
  
  Only one of the new buildings is ready, its centrepiece artwork had to be dismantled after bits fell off – and people are more excited about getting their first Ikea. Is the Belgian city the final nail in the coffin for European Capitals of Culture?A cloud of planks swirls above the streets in the Belgian city of Mons, thrusting neon-painted splinters out in all directions. Like the jazzy nest of some mutant raver-crows, it is a curious arrival to the sleepy medieval lanes, a 90m-long torrent
  
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• Mons: it's the European Capital of Culture – but locals just want Ikea

  13-01-2015 14:00
  
  Only one of the new buildings is ready, its centrepiece artwork had to be dismantled after bits fell off – and people are more excited about getting their first Ikea. Is the Belgian city the final nail in the coffin for European Capitals of Culture?A cloud of planks swirls above the streets in the Belgian city of Mons, thrusting neon-painted splinters out in all directions. Like the jazzy nest of some mutant raver-crows, it is a curious arrival to the sleepy medieval lanes, a 90m-long torrent
  
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• Andras Schiff, Wigmore Hall, classical review: A revelatory fortepiano recital

  13-01-2015 13:41
  
  Andras Schiff is a recent convert to the fortepiano, and his recital of two late Schubert sonatas on an instrument from the composer’s own time was a revelation. Made by Brodmann in 1820, this beautiful fortepiano had been owned by the Austro-Hungarian royal family, and restoration had revived all its original strengths.
  
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• Ian Bostridge and Thomas Ades, Barbican, classical review: A triumph

  13-01-2015 13:28
  
  Winter’s Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession is the title of the eclectic and stimulatingly off-beat book Ian Bostridge has just published, and that obsession is at once Schubert’s and his own.
  
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• A manifesto of no ideas: artist Gordon Shrigley stands in the general election

  13-01-2015 13:28
  
  Elections only interest artists when democracy is in crisis – and Shrigley is standing with apathetic slogans like ‘I have nothing to offer but offer itself’It is a marker of Britain’s political malaise that an artist is to stand in this year’s general election with no ideas, no commitments and no manifesto, except for a series of open-ended remarks designed to make voters think.“I’m from your imagination, and I’m here to help”, declares Gordon Shrigley, who is running for the
  
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• A short history of mental illness in art

  13-01-2015 11:52
  
  From Hogarth to Van Gogh, art has challenged our understanding of mental illness. Jonathan Jones’ shares his top ten for our mental health appealClick here to donate to the Guardian and Observer Christmas appeal
  Art has led the way in seeing mental illness not as alien or contemptible but part of the human condition – even as a positive and useful experience. Modern art has even celebrated mental suffering as a creative adventure. This psychiatric modernism started with the “madness” of
  
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• More Americans Are Enjoying The Arts Online And Not In Person, Says New NEA Study

  13-01-2015 10:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The NEA found that in 2012, nearly three-quarters of American adults – about 167 million people – used electronic media to view or listen to art. But just 33.4 percent of the more than 37,000 adults surveyed attended one of the seven categories of art events that same year, compared with 41 percent in 1992.”
  
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• Minnesota Orchestra’s Grammy-Winning Sibelius Cycle Is Back On

  13-01-2015 10:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Minnesota Orchestra will resume recording sessions this spring to complete its cycle of Jean Sibelius symphonies. The project” – released on the Swedish label Bis – “had been put on hiatus during the 16-month lockout of musicians that ended a year ago.”
  
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• Filmmaker Francesco Rosi, 92

  13-01-2015 10:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The French critic Michel Ciment once counted Mr. Rosi among ‘the three last giants of Italian cinema,’ the others being Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonio. His films won top prizes at the Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festivals. Yet he never acquired the kind of international fame many of his peers knew.”
  
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• T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize, And £20,000, To David Harsent

  13-01-2015 10:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After four previous appearances on the shortlist for the TS Eliot prize for poetry, David Harsent has finally taken the honour for his 11th collection of poems, Fire Songs. He was described by the chair of the judging panel, the poet and novelist Helen Dunmore, as ‘a poet for dark and dangerous days’.”
  
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• Rem Koolhaas And Dasha Zhukova Build A Moscow Museum

  13-01-2015 10:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Russian art collector “is launching an ambitious campaign to connect Moscow to the international art world, and she’s tapped [the Dutch architect] to execute her vision.”
  
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• Is There Really An Anti-Writer Trend In British Theatre?

  13-01-2015 10:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There has been a shift of opinion against playwriting, in favour of collective methods of theatre. The very activity of playwriting has been attacked as individualistic, undemocratic and even immoral,” playwright David Edgar recently declared. Lyn Gardner begs to differ: “But even if what Edgar is saying is just a provocation, I’m really not sure […]
  
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• You Know About Indian Classical Dance – How About Sri Lankan?

  13-01-2015 10:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Kandyan and Ruhunu forms of the genre do have similarities with India’s Bharata Natyam: “The body is held squarely upright in a vertical axis, holding a tight bend in the lifted elbows and knees, the foundation for intricate footwork patterns and expressive, flowering hand gestures. Repetition and sharpness of movement is a central feature […]
  
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• Elena Obraztsova, Great Mezzo Of Soviet Era, Dead At 75

  13-01-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the few Soviet opera singers to become famous beyond the Iron Curtain, she made many appearances at the likes of La Scala and the Met in addition to her extensive career at the Bolshoi.
  
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• English Theatre Closed Due To Statue Hanging From Roof

  13-01-2015 09:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Sunderland Empire has cancelled all shows this week after high winds caused the statue on the roof of its building to break loose.”
  
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• US artists that use drones could be grounded

  13-01-2015 09:14
  
  New FAA regulations may restrict the use of surveillance technology in works of art
  
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• Charlie Hebdo’s Next Cover Features Muhammad Himself (Because Even He Is Charlie)

  13-01-2015 09:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Never ones for prudence, the satirical French weekly’s editors have made the Prophet – holding a Je suis Charlie” sign – the cover boy for what they’re calling the Survivors’ Issue.
  
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• We Are All Charlie? Not In Australia, Where It Would Be Illegal

  13-01-2015 09:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Satirical French publication Charlie Hebdo could not be printed in Australia under existing restrictions on free speech … Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson [said that] the restrictions contained in section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act would ‘ensure it would be shut down'; he was supported in this position by media law experts.”
  
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• The Real Problem With “My Husband’s Not Gay”

  13-01-2015 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The problem, though, with making reality television about gay men who don’t want to be gay is that it will invariably lack empathy for the pain that likely defines those men’s lives. The failure of My Husband’s Not Gay is one of style, not substance; but the fact that it has been protested for its […]
  
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• Why Oscar Has Never Much Cared For Wes Anderson Movies

  13-01-2015 08:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Critics love them and audiences, represented by tickets sold, like them pretty well. But the Academy almost completely ignores them. Anderson’s eight feature films have received just four Oscar nominations total … [and] have lost every one. … Whether or not you like Wes Anderson movies, their failure with the Academy highlights several shortcomings of […]
  
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• Painting The Town Of Johannesburg – Pink (Yes, Literally)

  13-01-2015 08:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Led by the Colombian-American artist Yazmany Arboleda, the group [Beware of Colour] wanted to draw attention to the neglect of the city’s downtown buildings. A good number of them sit empty, even while many South Africans live in shacks. … Which is why he and roughly 30 other artists marked them with about 264 gallons […]
  
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