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• Mitchell Algus of Algus Greenspon to Open Mitchell Algus Gallery

  14-01-2015 22:59 via artnews.com
  Mitchell Algus of Algus Greenspon Gallery will open a new eponymous space on the second floor of 132 Delancey Street, on January 25, with a show of work by Agustin Fernandez. Asked over the phone if the new project had … Read More
  
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• David M. Schwarz Wins Driehaus Prize for Architecture

  14-01-2015 21:30 via artnews.com
  The Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Architecture has been awarded to David M. Schwarz. The prize–$200,000–is presented by the University of Notre Dame, and is given to a “living architect whose work embodies the highest ideals of traditional and classical … Read More
  
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• Two Arts Marketing, Development & Ticketing Conferences to Choose From!

  14-01-2015 20:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  New York City, March 19-21 & Toronto, May 19-20. Learn what is working to find, retain & upgrade patrons. Register by the Early Bird Deadline and bring a colleague for FREE! It's easy, convenient & affordable.
  
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• Originals in: celebrating replicas is moronic – it’s real art that matters | Jonathan Jones

  14-01-2015 20:15
  
  Dulwich picture gallery’s flirtation with fakery is neither clever nor funny, it’s a betrayal of the museum’s duty to preserve and present artFakes are fun. Fakes are cool. This week, Dulwich picture gallery launched a conceptual art project in which a replica made in China is concealed among its “real” paintings. Can visitors spot the fake? The intervention, said the gallery’s director, “will provoke a new way of looking at our collection”.No, it won’t. It will confuse the pub
  
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• Planet of the shapes: how art and society were driven to abstraction

  14-01-2015 19:34
  
  Whitechapel Gallery, London
  Can a century of abstract art from around the world be squeezed into one show? Adrian Searle gets a poke in the eye trying to find out at Adventures of the Black SquareHow fragile Kazimir Malevich’s compositions look, with their imprecise hand-painted edges, their slightly off-square forms, the shapes that don’t quite sit true. Geometry falters. This is not a fault. Malevich’s Black Square was made by a human not a machine. Other artists in Adventures of the B
  
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• Report: Arts Generate Billions For UK Economy

  14-01-2015 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Music, performing and visual arts, one of nine sectors included as part of the creative industries, showed a 19% increase on 2012, which is second only to product, graphic and fashion design. The new figures also show a 46% increase in the music and performing arts sector since 2008. Meanwhile, film, TV, video, radio and […]
  
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• What Do Movies Owe Us In Historical Accuracy?

  14-01-2015 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Some embellishments are harmless, especially when there’s no history to contradict. It doesn’t much matter if a movie about Elizabeth I has her sharing her bedchamber with a courtier – no one knows for sure and it’s not terribly important. But then there are elaborations that do change the story and mislead in serious ways.”
  
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• 2014 Film in Review

  14-01-2015 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Another year past, and this was a bit of a strange one. Franchises flourished while many continued to do daring work for cheap, as the spending gap between rich and poor films continued to widen. This year saw huge risks and fearless innovation cross further into the mainstream, thrilling and puzzling audiences alike, from Scarlett ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Re-creation of Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in New York to show different side of artist

  14-01-2015 19:00
  
  The artist’s first exhibition in the city for 10 years will focus on her relationship with nature and be set in the New York Botanical Garden in the BronxThe cobalt blue walls of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s studio and garden will be re-created in the Bronx this spring as part of an exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden focusing on the artist’s engagement with nature.
  Visitors to the show, Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life, will be “transported to Casa Azul, the artist’s home in C
  
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• Whose Job Is It To Raise An Engaged Audience?

  14-01-2015 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We need to raise our audience. As experienced audience members, we need to provide feedback regularly. Finally, it is our job as teachers in all facets to radicalize and actualize our students to understand the “why” and not just the “how” of making music for others.”
  
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• Animation Engine: CalArts Grads Generate Billions In Movie Business

  14-01-2015 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Valencia institution, founded by Walt Disney and his brother Roy, reported that movies directed by graduates from CalArts’ animation programs generated $1.5 billion in box-office revenue in 2014.”
  
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• New Art Machines Challenge Our Notions Of Art

  14-01-2015 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “New advances in technology, and of course the Internet, have led to a new kind of art machine that poses conceptual challenges even more interesting than their technical ones.”
  
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• This Was The Cultural Revolution That Changed The World Of The Late 1800s (And We’re Still Benefiting)

  14-01-2015 17:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Eating canned peaches in the winter, buying a chocolate bar at the corner newsstand, hearing an opera in your living room, and immortalizing baby’s first steps in a snapshot all marked a radical shift in human experience. Replacing scarcity with abundance and capturing the previously ephemeral—these mundane pleasures defied nature as surely as did horseless […]
  
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• Virtual Reality Device Helps Disabled Children Learn To Play Piano

  14-01-2015 17:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is still very early days for VR, though, and every week new applications for the technology are popping up from developers around the world. The latest might be one of the most worthwhile yet: helping children with physical disabilities to play the piano.”
  
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• The Arts Are An Impressive Economic Driver. Should We Be Worried That Demand For The Arts Is Falling?

  14-01-2015 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For every dollar of increased spending on artworks, $1.98 of total economic output is created. In the case of museums, every new dollar of demand creates $1.76 of gains. On the jobs side, every new publishing job created (which includes arts management software) produces a whopping 3.5 additional jobs throughout the economy, while each additional […]
  
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• Sharing For Fun And Profit

  14-01-2015 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Although there’s no admission charge, audiences are asked to consider making a donation to benefit a different nonprofit each month. The chosen nonprofit brings concessions, and the audience is invited to ‘Take what you like, give what you can.’ In this model, nonprofits are considered essential partners and not competitors. There’s no mentality of scarcity […]
  
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• Charles Bartlett obituary

  14-01-2015 17:13
  
  British painter and printmaker who married the maritime with the modernCharles Bartlett, known as Bob, who has died aged 93, was an exceptional painter and printmaker whose work brought the traditional seascape into the contemporary art world.He bought his first boat soon after the second world war, and this enabled him to explore the East Anglian coast and access areas out of reach on foot. The east coast was the primary source of inspiration for Bob; his watercolours and etchings celebrate the
  
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• Your E-Book Is Tracking What You Read. Should You Care?

  14-01-2015 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For the time being, the data being gathered concerns general patterns of behavior rather than what happens between each of us and our personal E-readers. But we have come to live with the fact that anything can be found out. Today “the information” is anonymous; tomorrow it may well be just about us. Will readers […]
  
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• Celebrating fakes is moronic ... it’s real art that matters

  14-01-2015 15:30
  
  Dulwich picture gallery’s flirtation with fakery is neither clever nor funny. It’s a betrayal of the museum’s duty to preserve and present artGallery challenges art lovers to spot the fake Fakes are fun. Fakes are cool. This week, Dulwich picture gallery launched a conceptual art project in which a replica made in China is concealed among its “real” paintings. Can visitors spot the fake? The intervention, said the gallery’s director, “will provoke a new way of looking at our collec
  
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• Lost in Translation: Kon Trubkovich at OHWOW

  14-01-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Adaptations of the folk standard “House of the Rising Sun” abound, but Moscow-born artist Kon Trubkovich was particularly fascinated by a video he recently found online of a group of Russians singing the song with their own made-up lyrics. He … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Albert-Kahn Museum Edition

  14-01-2015 15:01 via artnews.com
  “Heritage organisations have filed an appeal to halt a €26.7m expansion project at the Albert-Kahn Museum in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt over fears that it will change the character of the institution’s late 19th to early 20th century garden.” … Read More
  
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• Meet the ‘sleepwalking artist’ who can't draw when he's awake

  14-01-2015 12:56
  
  Imagine waking up and finding a masterpiece on your bedroom wall? A man dubbed the ‘sleepwalking artist,’ who can’t draw when he’s awake, is now making a living selling his artworks.
  
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• Meet Lee Hadwin the ‘sleepwalking artist’ who can't draw when he's awake

  14-01-2015 12:56
  
  Imagine waking up and finding a masterpiece on your bedroom wall? A man dubbed the ‘sleepwalking artist,’ who can’t draw when he’s awake, is now making a living selling his artworks.
  
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• Forget Tracey Emin’s Bed: Meet the ‘sleepwalking artist’

  14-01-2015 12:56
  
  Imagine waking up and finding a masterpiece on your bedroom wall? A man dubbed the ‘sleepwalking artist,’ who can’t draw when he’s awake, is now making a living selling his artworks.
  
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• Forget Tracey Emin’s Bed: Meet the ‘sleep walking artist’

  14-01-2015 12:56
  
  Imagine waking up and finding a masterpiece on your bedroom wall? A man dubbed the ‘sleep walking artist,’ who can’t draw when he’s awake, is now making a living selling his artworks.
  
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• Virtual debates about homelessness in Sim City hold up a mirror to real life

  14-01-2015 12:28
  
  A new art book, How to get rid of homeless, collects the virtual pleas for help from Sim City players, and rips them out of context to pose disturbing quetions about our attitude to homeless peopleAn Italian artist has written a 600-page, US$220, two-volume book on homelessness in the video game Sim City.Matteo Bittani’s “How to get rid of homeless” collects dozens of forum threads debating and discussing the homelessness that occurs in the game, highlighting the uneasy similarities betwee
  
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• Big Draw competition: the winning entries – in pictures

  14-01-2015 12:10
  
  In our 2014 Big Draw competition we asked for your drawings, paintings, sketches and collages inspired by great artists. This is what Marion Deuchars, one of the judges, had to say about all the entries: “The standard and quality of work entered was very high and extremely varied. We had many images inspired by Miro’s ‘automatic drawing’ and quite a few inspired by Kandinsky’s music-inspired paintings, but many also used their own imagination to produce their artwork. I was very impres
  
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• MoMA Is Selling One Of Its Monets

  14-01-2015 10:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sotheby’s will auction Les Peupliers à Giverny on Feb. 3; it’s currently expected to fetch between $13.8 million and $18.4 million. The auction house’s catalog says the painting is being sold to “benefit the acquisitions fund.”
  
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• Oxford Junior Dictionary Replaces Words About Nature With Words About Tech, Writers Kick Up A Storm

  14-01-2015 10:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The 28 authors, including [Margaret] Atwood, [Andrew] Motion, Michael Morpurgo and Robert Macfarlane, warn that the decision to cut around 50 words connected with nature and the countryside from the 10,000-entry [Oxford Junior Dictionary] is ‘shocking and poorly considered’ in the light of the decline in outdoor play for today’s children.”
  
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• Turning a block of ice into a penguin – in pictures

  14-01-2015 10:00
  
  In a freezing room, take a block of ice and a chainsaw, and put on some very thick gloves. Rhik Samadder makes his debut as a sculptorRead Rhik’s account of his Do Something Challenge
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• Ice sculpting a penguin: take a block of ice and cut away what’s not the bird

  14-01-2015 10:00
  
  As Michelangelo said about his statue of David, the process of sculpture is all about subtraction – this time, using a chainsawTurning a block of ice into a penguin – in picturesAll creative people know the tyranny of the blank page but it’s nothing compared with staring into a large block of ice, wondering how an aquatic bird is going to magically appear from it.“Study my penguin sculpture and sketch its profile,” advises Laura Giles, who carved one earlier. She’s an expert ice
  
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• Choreographer Alonzo King, Making It As An African-American In A White Ballet World

  14-01-2015 09:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If you’re inferring that there is racism in America, it’s not just a black problem, it’s everybody’s problem. For me it’s important that a company looks like the world, or at least reflects its community. Which you don’t see. I hire people based on their talent, and in 30 years this company has looked like […]
  
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• Hip-Hop Dance Has Started Imitating Cartoon Movement (With Flesh-And-Blood People)

  14-01-2015 09:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Animation dance is “a sub-category of popping [a hip-hop subgenre] that combines a range of skills like strobing, robotics and gliding, and claims inspiration from film animation in its use of splashy dramatic poses and jerky, freeze-frame dynamic.”
  
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• One Year After End Of Lockout, Minnesota Orchestra Is Back On Its Feet

  14-01-2015 09:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Orchestra Hall is a different place nowadays. Two words never heard during the lockout, ‘optimism’ and ‘collaboration,’ are now on everyone’s lips. Audiences are back, and the orchestra is playing well.”
  
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• 14 Years After Storming Away, Charles Dutoit May Return To Montreal Symphony

  14-01-2015 09:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Charles Dutoit, who led the OSM to glory in the 1980s and 1990s only to resign in bitter circumstances in 2002, will make a comeback as a guest conductor next year if plans unfold as expected.”
  
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• The Man Who Tried To Turn Perm Into Russia’s Art Hotbed Gives Up And Emigrates

  14-01-2015 09:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Marat Guelman, the Muscovite cultural impresario and political operative who attempted to create a contemporary arts revolution in the Soviet city of Perm, is moving to Montenegro this month to open a new cultural centre. He cites the difficulty of working in Russia and the conflict in Ukraine as factors in his decision.”
  
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• Are We Seeing The Start Of A Russian Artists’ Exodus?

  14-01-2015 09:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Russian government-led clampdown on free speech, the Ukrainian conflict and the current economic downturn have prompted some members of Russia’s art world to leave the country, and many others to start weighing their options.”
  
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• National Symphony Plays A Packed D.C. Club – And Totally Rocks The Joint

  14-01-2015 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Anne Midgette: “One of the NSO’s signal achievements with this evening was to integrate other kinds of area music without pandering or watering down. … It’s one of the best efforts I’ve seen from an orchestra at this kind of thing.”
  
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• Woody Allen To Make Video Series For Amazon

  14-01-2015 08:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Amazon has ordered a full season of the Untitled Woody Allen Project, a half-hour series written and directed by the veteran filmmaker. Episodes will be available next year on Amazon’s Prime Instant Video service in the U.S., the U.K. and Germany.”
  
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• Robert Stone, 77, Novelist Of Americans At War

  14-01-2015 08:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  The author of Dog Soldiers and A Flag for Sunrise “was widely regarded as one of the most significant novelists of his generation,” often compared to Conrad and Hemingway. “[He] took readers into the underworlds of drugs, violence and strife, both cultural and personal. His characters were sometimes strung out, often morally ambiguous and, above […]
  
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• Sir Neville Marriner, Still Conducting At 90

  14-01-2015 08:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  The birthday year of the founder of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra “has been a big deal in the world of classical music, where the conductor is widely regarded as one of the most prolific, rigorous and amiable musicians of his time.” (By the way, he says audiences are […]
  
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• St Petersburg’s treasures travel to Spain

  14-01-2015 08:43
  
  But the opening of the State Russian Museum’s first European outpost in Malaga depends on the schedules of visiting dignitaries
  
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• Moviegoers Want Cheaper Tickets And Subscription Plans, Study Finds

  14-01-2015 08:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Beyond lowering the prices, something movie theaters are likely loathe to do, there are other incentives that could be explored. For instance, 87% of moviegoers across all demographics were attracted to some kind of subscription plan, which would allow them to pay a set fee for an unlimited number of movies.”
  
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• Appeal seeks to halt changes to gardens at Albert-Kahn Museum near Paris

  14-01-2015 08:01
  Campaigners claim Japanese style will dominate after construction of new building
  
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• Comedian And Playwright Taylor Negron Dead At 57

  14-01-2015 07:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[He] started doing local stand-up gigs when he was still in high school. As his reputation grew, so did the variety of his roles: Negron played comic and serious characters on TV shows including Hill Street Blues, Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. He was a familiar face in film comedies such as Fast Times at […]
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.13.15

  14-01-2015 07:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  New research from the NEA AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2015-01-13 Nobody’s victims (David Jays on “victim art” 20 years after Arlene Croce’s notorious essay)AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2015-01-13 Walters’ Founding Story: Good, Except … AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-01-13 A triumph and a question(Greg Sandow on the National Symphony’s big club gig)AJBlog: […]
  
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• Artist Richard Long to stage first show in his native Bristol in 15 years

  14-01-2015 01:01
  
  Exhibition Time and Space, opening in July at Arnolfini, includes a drawing made in mud collected from the Avon riverThe silty water of the river Avon flowing a few yards from the front door of Bristol’s Arnolfini gallery is supplying some of the materials for works of art by Richard Long, the seminal land artist staging the first show in his native city in 15 years.Time and Space will include new pieces and recreations of earlier work including Ireland, concentric circles made on a beach when
  
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