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• Garage Magazine Will Hold an eBay Benefit Sale for CalArts

  15-01-2015 23:04 via artnews.com
  Garage Magazine, Dasha Zhukova’s biannual art and fashion publication, has organized a sale to benefit the California Institute of the Arts. The sale–called “The Garage Sale,” natch–will take place on eBay on Sunday, January 25th. Garage said in a release … Read More
  
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• Louise's lithographs

  15-01-2015 22:56
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• L.A.’s Hannah Hoffman Has a Mysterious Late Picabia on View

  15-01-2015 22:40 via artnews.com
  “Picabia Alert” is a recurring feature that takes note of shows that feature work by the wily French artist Francis Picabia (1879–1953). Why Picabia? Because I love him and hopefully you do too, and because he is having a retrospective at the Kunsthaus Zurich … Read More
  
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• Xu Bing, Mark Bradford, Sam Gilliam, Maya Lin, Julie Mehretu, Pedro Reyes, and Kehinde Wiley Win U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts

  15-01-2015 22:31 via artnews.com
  Seven artists will be honored for their “outstanding commitment and contributions to the Art in Embassies program and international cultural exchange” with the U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts, a State Department spokeswoman told ARTnews in an email today. … Read More
  
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• Tom LaDuke to Kohn Gallery

  15-01-2015 21:52 via artnews.com
  It was announced today that the painter Tom LaDuke is now represented by Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles. LaDuke’s first exhibition for the gallery will open in March 2015. LaDuke’s work juxtaposes representational imagery (referencing everything from the history of cinema … Read More
  
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• French art organisations respond to the Charlie Hebdo attacks

  15-01-2015 21:00
  
  Cultural officials and institutions show their support for the satirical magazine
  
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• The Audiobook Business Is Booming

  15-01-2015 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What used to be an inconvenient niche industry for the gung-ho (a six-CD jewel-case monstrosity, or worse, a giant box of cassettes!) has performed death-defying backflips around its wilting print counterparts in recent years. And it’s only getting better.”
  
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• Why Would Publishers Be Interested In A “Netflix For Books”?

  15-01-2015 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Movie and TV studios can count on ticket sales and advertising dollars even as they offer their content on Netflix. Musicians can still sell concert tickets even if streaming services like Spotify cannibalize CD sales. But for book publishers and authors, the main source of revenue is still selling books. So why would they agree […]
  
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• The Thing About Theatre Audiences? They REALLY Want To Talk To You

  15-01-2015 18:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I’ve started to suspect that occasional theatregoers want to engage with a new play sooner than I previously thought and stay engaged for a longer time. They’d like more information before they see a show. They want more things to read and watch afterward. They want to hear from the director and the playwright and […]
  
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• Concert Companion – Orchestra Tests App To Enhance Your Listening Experience

  15-01-2015 17:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “At a time when most orchestras are policing interruptive phones during concerts – in China, red lasers zap offending users – here smartphones were not only kept on but encouraged, though the specially designed darkened screens created by the app are theoretically not distracting to nearby patrons, and repeated messages appear on phone screens reminding […]
  
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• Relationship Between Arts And The Press Is Fraying

  15-01-2015 17:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Last month, Opera Australia removed a music critic for the Sydney Morning Herald from its complimentary press ticket list after the company’s artistic director was reportedly “very offended” by a piece on the newspaper’s arts website. This was followed Jan. 2 by a similar “comp” list ban against a critic for the publication Stage Noise. […]
  
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• Architect Buys, Tears Down Ray Bradbury’s House

  15-01-2015 17:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “According to Curbed, Bradbury’s house was purchased by “starchitect” Thom Mayne, of the firm Morphosis, and his wife, Blythe Alison-Mayne. Mayne, who is on the faculty at UCLA, is a winner of the Pritzker Prize. Bradbury, who typed “Fahrenheit 451″ on a pay-as-you-go typewriter at the UCLA library, was presented with the National Medal of […]
  
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• Hugo Guinness Is Nominated for an Oscar

  15-01-2015 17:28 via artnews.com
  Nominations for the 87th Annual Academy Awards were released today and among the nine nods for Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel is a nomination for best original screenplay, credited to Anderson and the artist Hugo Guinness. This is not … Read More
  
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• Eight Films Nominated For Oscars

  15-01-2015 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Usually, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences heaps the honors on the more serious side of filmmaking. But on Thursday, the Oscars showed a sense of humor.”
  
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• The Arts In Movie Theatres: It’s Now Big Business

  15-01-2015 17:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Last season, I was tickled to learn, the Royal Ballet’s live cinema relay of Tchaikovsky’s seasonal favourite The Nutcracker beat the James Bond movie Skyfall at the cinema box-office, and came second only to The Hobbit. This year, the number of live opera, ballet and theatre productions that will be available to global cinema audiences […]
  
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• Live Q&A: How can culture and sport inspire climate action?

  15-01-2015 17:16
  
  Join us on 22 January, 1-3pm GMT to discuss how sport, film, music, art and fashion can influence climate action in the run-up to Cop 21 in Paris
  Sponsored by Connect4ClimateIn 2015 – the year of the highly anticipated Cop 21 climate talks in Paris – the key will be sustaining the momentum from last year’s People’s Climate March, and encouraging even more people to participate in climate action. With Ban Ki-Moon stating this week that ours is the last generation to fight climate change,
  
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• Is Our Creative Class Going Out Of Business?

  15-01-2015 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “According to Scott Timberg, a former arts reporter for the Los Angeles Times, we are witnessing a transformation: a downsizing of our cultural capital generated by ‘anti-elite rage, market populism, and corporate consolidation.’ The creative class is being exploited rather than supported — by its supposed ‘friends’ as well as its enemies.”
  
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• California Governor Proposes Slashing Arts Budget

  15-01-2015 17:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The $1.1 million in state taxes that Brown wants to allocate for the arts council is one one-thousandth of a percent of the $113.3 billion in overall general fund spending he proposed last week. That continues a longstanding policy going back to the early 2000s in which California governors invariably have proposed anteing up the […]
  
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• Elisa Sighicelli, photographer: 'There is no narrative in my work... I am not interested in attaching a story'

  15-01-2015 17:00
  
  Photographer Elisa Sighicelli has been in this studio for the past three years. "I wanted a space that was full of light, which was also somewhere easy to get crates in and out of. This building has a big lift." The space, a former factory, is unique to Turin, having been transformed into studios and workshops in the Eighties. She says that although there are several other artists there she does not have much to do with them other than saying hello as they pass.
  
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• Arts critics do not romanticise suicide

  15-01-2015 16:34
  
  A recent study finds UK arts journalists failed to uphold guidelines on the coverage of suicide. But many artists have killed themselves, and many more explore the ethical aspects of the topic. We cannot redact difficult bits of historyAcademic researchers have concluded that 100% of all the arts coverage of suicide they studied in British newspapers breached guidelines, reports Roy Greenslade in The Guardian. Specifically, they looked at 68 articles about the artists Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roth
  
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• From Basquiat to Jay-Z: how the art world came to fully embrace hip-hop

  15-01-2015 16:00
  
  These two spheres of influence haven’t always seen eye to eye, but at Art Basel Miami Beach rappers were as plentiful as artists. Jeff Chang examines the twists and turns in this decades-old romance that led to this generational momentIn early December at Art Basel Miami Beach, rappers seemed to outnumber artists at times. Andre 3000 presented an exhibition of the 47 sloganized jumpsuits he wore on the Outkast Reunion Tour. P Diddy was on the lookout for his very own Picasso, 2 Chainz turned u
  
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• Morning Links: Susquehanna Edition

  15-01-2015 15:19 via artnews.com
  Here’s a look at how New York institutions are finding money for their expansion projects in a very crowded field. [The Wall Street Journal] Checking in with Matthew Ritchie as he concludes his residency at the ICA Boston. [Boston Globe] … Read More
  
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• Frieze Names Artistic Director for Americas and Asia

  15-01-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  The Frieze art fair has named Abby Bangser as its artistic director for the Americas and Asia. The newly created position will support Frieze’s director, Victoria Siddall, who recently took over from Frieze co-founders and co-directors Matthew Slotover and Amanda … Read More
  
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• The 1926 painting that foresaw how London would look today

  15-01-2015 11:03
  
  Most artistic visions of London’s future have been darkly pessimistic. But this Underground poster painted by Montague B Black in 1926 offered an uncanny – and much more optimistic – view of the modern city In 1926, London Underground published a poster painted by Montague B Black, a publicity artist who also created images for Liverpool’s White Star Line, which imagines London in 2026. A golden sky enfolds a cityscape of skyscrapers over which various types of flying machine hover.We’
  
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• After A Century, Wisconsin Orchestra Is Going Silent

  15-01-2015 10:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Green Bay Symphony “has survived world wars, the Great Depression, financial troubles, years-long closures, the introduction of television and the rise of rock ‘n’ roll. It has performed under different names in various venues, and morphed from an amateur community group to a professional one. And now, amid donor fatigue and declining ticket sales, […]
  
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• 'Earlier Mona Lisa' goes on tour in Asia as owners try to prove it is a real Leonardo da Vinci

  15-01-2015 10:20
  
  The ‘second Mona Lisa’ believed by some to be an earlier version of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece has gone on tour in Asia in a bid to prove its authenticity.
  
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• Actors In Failed Musical Tour Sue Producers

  15-01-2015 10:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Actors from last year’s failed tour of the musical Copacabana are mounting legal action against the show’s producers for more than £30,000 in unpaid wages. The news comes as it has emerged that planned dates for 2015 have hit further problems.”
  
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• How Do You Make A Stage Comedy About A Kidney Transplant?

  15-01-2015 10:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michael Hollinger’s Under the Skin “started with a smirk – at a 2008 New York Times ‘Ethicist’ column, about a pair of siblings vying to supply their aging father with a kidney.” Hollinger ended up exploring a whole new concept: kidney-worthiness.
  
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• Lincoln Center and New York Philharmonic Move Into Opera (Look Out, Met!)

  15-01-2015 09:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For years, the Metropolitan Opera has gently encroached on the symphonic terrain of its Lincoln Center neighbors with orchestral concerts at Carnegie Hall. Now the shoe is on the other foot: Lincoln Center and the New York Philharmonic said on Wednesday that they would join forces to mount several fully staged opera productions” of acclaimed […]
  
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• Mark Rylance Gets Metaphysical

  15-01-2015 09:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We have people we admire, like Einstein, saying mystery is the most beautiful thing a human being can experience. Yet everywhere in our culture everything that is truly mysterious is immediately dismissed. In a way I think science is the modern religion and at times I despise it as much as I despise other religions, […]
  
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• The Trouble With Oscar-Bait Performances (And The Movies Surrounding Them)

  15-01-2015 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Richard Brody, on Julianne Moore in Still Alice and Jennifer Aniston in Cake: “They’re virtuosi who are here misdirected to turn ballades and fantasies into drawing-room miniatures. … They play each scene with restrained and unambiguous precision, as if filling out each moment of screen time by clicking out cinemoticons. Neither actor – and neither […]
  
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• How The Dardenne Brothers Make Films As One Auteur

  15-01-2015 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Luc: “We do everything together. The only place where there’s a slight division of labor is the screenwriting process. We structure and build the story together, and then I write. … In terms of the casting, the sets, the shoot, the editing – everything we do together.” Do they ever disagree? “No.”
  
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• Scepticism over US-backed freedom of expression award in Singapore

  15-01-2015 09:08
  
  Embassy and art fair launch new prize in wake of crackdowns on local and international artists’ work
  
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• When “Mein Kampf” Goes Into Public Domain, Will It Become The World’s Most Dangerous Book?

  15-01-2015 08:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “At the end of World War Two, when the US Army seized the Nazis’ publisher Eher Verlag, rights for Mein Kampf passed to the Bavarian authorities. They ensured the book was only reprinted in Germany under special [and controlled] circumstances – but the expiration of its copyright in December 2015 has prompted fierce debate on […]
  
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• Untitled(The Word Love Is Overused)

  15-01-2015 08:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  l feel neglected. I contract my nose and foot. I want to give in but I only have the clinical gaze and Amy’s anger. The word love is overused Amy said. I didn’t know if what she said was her thought or the thought of the novelist Pynchon. She studied his books. Recently on a ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• The Making Of A Male Ballet Virtuoso

  15-01-2015 07:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Men’s ballet technique, unlike women’s, finds its expression in short bursts of extreme but controlled athleticism. … There are so many things to think about at once: the position of the feet, the torque of the turns, the composure of the upper body, the shifting gaze, the placement of the arms.” Marina Harss watches one […]
  
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• Hip-Hop Dance Moves Are Just As Hard As Ballet, Says Darcey Bussell

  15-01-2015 07:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I’ve tried to do some hip hop and it is so difficult. You need so many things to be able to do hip hop – extraordinary strength and ability. … Asian dance, with the arms especially, couldn’t be more similar to classical ballet: those emphases on the tiniest amount of detail, just where a finger […]
  
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• Jake Berthot, 75, A Romantic Sort Of Minimalist Painter

  15-01-2015 07:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In many ways, Mr. Berthot spent his career exploring how to supplement and expand on the modernist monochrome without straying too far from it.” After a 1996 move to rural upstate New York, “the natural world became an increasing influence. He turned to depicting trees and hills so close in tone to their backgrounds that […]
  
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• 10 must-see art exhibitions – and good excuses for a city break – in Europe

  15-01-2015 07:00
  
  A visit to a major art show can make a short break, but with tickets going fast it pays to know where and when to go. Here’s our pick of the best in popular city-break destinations in 2015
  
  • Artistic differences? If we’ve missed a show, add a tip in the comments12 February-17 May
  It may be hard for another artist to get their head in the game in Amsterdam amid all the Vincent Van Gogh anniversary events (2015 marks 125 years since the post-impressionist’s death) but none stands a bett
  
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• Milan’s Trompe-L’Oeil Church

  15-01-2015 06:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Standing in the doorway, you’re drawn to the majestic, cavernous space behind the altar. Rows of columns support a lofty, gilded ceiling that matches the decadently adorned arches above the pews. But it’s all a clever deception – the space behind the altar is less than 3 feet deep. The seemingly vast expanse is actually […]
  
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• Artists Using Drones In Your Work, The FAA May Be About To Ground You

  15-01-2015 06:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Artists in the US could have less than a year left to freely use drones in their work. Although current flight restrictions apply only to commercial, not artistic, use of drones, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is working on new regulations that are due to be submitted to Congress by September.”
  
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• Paris’s New Concert Hall, Meant To Bridge Divides, Has Created New Ones

  15-01-2015 06:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  The location and programming of the Philharmonie de Paris, perched right on the city line next to the ring road, are aimed to reach out toward the four million people living in the capital’s northern and eastern suburbs. But they – many of them immigrants or their French-born children – are wary, even as many […]
  
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• The Philharmonie de Paris’s Architect Boycotted The Hall’s Grand Opening

  15-01-2015 06:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  In an editorial in Le Monde, Jean Nouvel alleges that he has been sidelined and ignored, and that key decisions about the hall, made with no input from him, have compromised the building. “The contempt these last two years for architecture, for the architect’s craft … prevents me from expressing my agreement and satisfaction with […]
  
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• Can Philadelphia’s Professional Symphonic Choir, About To Shut Down, Reinvent Itself?

  15-01-2015 06:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If leaders of the Philadelphia Singers are ready to throw in the towel, the singers themselves aren’t. A core group of members, plus assistant conductor Brian Schkeeper, says it is forming its own successor organization – a new 150-voice symphonic choir.”
  
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• Ten Neglected Literary Classics You Should Know About (Picked By The American Scholar)

  15-01-2015 06:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Let us simply say, then, that the following books are works we think ought to be read by more people, works that we keep coming back to but that aren’t talked about as much as we would like.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.14.15

  15-01-2015 05:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Notes from St. Louis (Doug Borwick on six myths about community engagement) AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-01-13 Corcoran Collection Under Wraps: Long Wait Until “Legacy Gallery” Opens AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-01-14 George Washington University Offers Corcoran’s Fillmore Building for $14 Million (plus: preservationists’ challenge) AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-01-14 Things Composers Can Do AJBlog: PostClassic Published […]
  
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• Meet Mira Calix, who puts wasps on stage and her audience in a maze

  15-01-2015 04:00
  
  The artist and composer on getting music out of stones, building palaces out of paper, training insects as a string quartet and why art is 49% problem-solvingIn 2003, Mira Calix premiered her groundbreaking musical composition Nunu in London. On stage at the Royal Festival Hall were an orchestra (no surprises there), Calix (playing electronics), and then the insects – both live and recorded. The piece revolved around wasps. Calix used them like a string quartet.Their songs were taped in an ane
  
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• Publicity Push for Purportedly Earlier Mona Lisa

  15-01-2015 00:14 via artnews.com
  The Wall Street Journal reports that a painting said to be an earlier version of the Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci himself, is now in Singapore as its owners make a new push for its authenticity. Basically no one … Read More
  
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