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• 24 Lessons From The Publishing World

  16-01-2015 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sometimes good books sell well; sometimes good books sell poorly; sometimes bad books sell well; sometimes bad books sell poorly. A lot about publishing is unfair and inscrutable. But…
  
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• Represent: 200 Years of African American Art review – not bold, but dutiful

  16-01-2015 22:02
  
  Despite the promising title, glaring omissions make this show in Philadelphia more a soft affirmation rather than a film history200 years of groundbreaking African American art – in picturesWe so badly need a major museum exhibition that reckons with the full history of black American art – one that tells the whole, diverse story of a practice that’s both an integral element of a larger American art history, and yet also its own proud tradition. We need a show that wrestles with the overla
  
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• PJ Harvey’s recording at Somerset House: The viewers are bathed in an eerie half-light

  16-01-2015 20:53
  
  PJ Harvey wowed audiences at London’s Somerset House, and yet she hardly opened her mouth.
  
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• Sotheby’s S2 Gallery Heading to Palm Beach

  16-01-2015 20:52 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s S2, the auction house’s contemporary art gallery, has mounted a show at Gavlak Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida that runs until January 25. The exhibition focuses on “the legacy of the flower through contemporary art” and–surprise, surprise–is Sotheby’s first … Read More
  
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• Satire Is Firmly Embedded In The Traditions Of Every Culture

  16-01-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In some of the discussion surrounding the case, there has been an implication that Muslims (and other non-Westerners, for that matter) don’t have the rich satirical tradition found in places like France. That’s not quite true. Satirical traditions may not be the same in France as they are in Iraq or Venezuela. But the mocking […]
  
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• Cal Shakespeare Director Leaving To Join Yerba Buena

  16-01-2015 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Jonathan Moscone is leaving California Shakespeare Theater, where he’s been artistic director for the past 15 years, and moving across the bay to join Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in the newly created position of chief of civic engagement.”
  
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• Understanding Creativity: Why John Updike Loved Comics

  16-01-2015 20:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Literary biography—an enterprise Updike regarded with some skepticism—is largely a hunt for such deeply buried evidence. As an aid to future biographers and anyone else interested in pursuing the mystery of Updike’s prodigious talent, I’d suggest paying attention to his lifelong love affair with cartooning, a passion that burned hottest when he was young but […]
  
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• 2014 – Video Games Sales Slumped

  16-01-2015 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Players still aren’t buying enough games. The holiday season, an opportunity for game makers to rebound, proved that not even the biggest companies with the most highly anticipated franchises could entice consumers to spend their money on new titles.”
  
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• Does Our Constant Technology Use Create Stress? Here’s What The Study Says:

  16-01-2015 20:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A new study by researchers at Pew Research Center and Rutgers University found the opposite: Frequent Internet and social media users do not have higher stress levels than those who use technology less often. And for women, using certain digital tools decreases stress.”
  
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• A Debate Over The “Rightness” Of A Dance Performance

  16-01-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There’s been heated disagreement over the past week about what’s right and wrong. Is the rocket-propelled ex-Bolshoi enfant terrible Ivan Vasiliev ‘right’ for Swan Lake? Is English National Ballet right to accept such huge thighs in this of all classics, when the sizeist cohorts of the Russian establishment always said nyet to the sturdy, forceful […]
  
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• 2014 – When The Oscars Killed Any Attempts At Diversity

  16-01-2015 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We expect the Academy Awards to ignore all kinds of great genre material; the 2015 list feels all the more galling because David Oyelowo’s performance and Ava DuVernay’s direction were not just extraordinarily good, but also very Oscar-friendly.”
  
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• Alabama Symphony Chooses New Music Director

  16-01-2015 19:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Carlos Izcaray, a Venezuelan-born conductor, 37, “has been announced as the new music director of the 53-member orchestra, taking over the baton from previous director Justin Brown. Izcaray, who lives in Germany, will move to Alabama with his family later this year and begin his official tenure as maestro in September.”
  
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• One Dancer’s Realization That His Art Was Killing The Planet

  16-01-2015 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  I was realizing more and more that my artistic journey was creating dramatic and lasting effects, not only on the generations to come, but on all living beings and I refused to continue down that path. I thought: “This is going exactly against the very nature of dance, which is to be ephemeral.”
  
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• Sheridan’s Innovative Bachelor of Craft & Design

  16-01-2015 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sheridan’s groundbreaking new Bachelor of Craft & Design is unlike any other undergraduate program. The interdisciplinary and collaborative curriculum offers studios in ceramics, furniture, glass, industrial design and textiles, integrating design thinking and hands-on experience.
  
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• Hollywood’s Missing Women Directors (By The Numbers)

  16-01-2015 19:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There have only been four women nominated for best director — ever. And there’s been just one female winner in the 87-year history of the Academy Awards.”
  
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• Trial of Medieval manuscript theft due to start next week

  16-01-2015 18:45
  
  More than 60 witnesses, including senior clergy, are schedule to testify in the case of the Codex Calixtinus
  
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• Famous Goldsmiths graduates donate to charity auction

  16-01-2015 18:30
  
  Damien Hirst, Sam Taylor-Johnson and Steve McQueen give pieces to raise funds for new gallery, to be created in LondonGraduates of Goldsmiths who have become household names in contemporary art, including Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley, Sarah Lucas, Yinka Shonibare and Michael Craig-Martin, are donating works to raise funds for a new art gallery at their old art school.Sam Taylor-Johnson, Julian Opie, and film director Steve McQueen, whose Twelve Years a Slave won an Oscar last year, have also giv
  
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• Sotheby's Caravaggio case: Former owner of 'The Cardsharps' loses legal bid after Sotheby's claimed work – later valued at £10m - was fake

  16-01-2015 17:56
  
  Lancelot William Thwaytes, the former owner of a potential Caravaggio masterpiece, has lost his battle for compensation from auction house Sotheby’s after he discovered the painting he sold for £42,000 under their advice, had been valued at £10 million.
  
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• Orfeo, Roundhouse, review: The Royal Opera House makes many firsts in temple to rock

  16-01-2015 17:40
  
  What an irony: while cash-strapped English National Opera cancels its much-trumpeted ‘Orfeo’ at the Bristol Old Vic, the Royal Opera House presents its first-ever staging of Monteverdi’s masterpiece in that erstwhile temple to psychedelic rock, the Chalk Farm Roundhouse.
  
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• Here, Maybe You’ll Enjoy this Exclusive Clip From The Marina Abramovic Interview on Amazon

  16-01-2015 17:27 via artnews.com
  Yesterday Amazon debuted its streaming television pilots. perhaps you caught The New Yorker‘s, which was called The New Yorker Presents? On it Ariel Levy conducts an interview with Marina Abramović, which was pretty good! (As those things go.) At any … Read More
  
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• Here, Maybe You’ll Enjoy this Exclusive Clip From The Marina Abramović Interview on Amazon

  16-01-2015 17:27 via artnews.com
  Yesterday Amazon debuted its streaming television pilots. perhaps you caught The New Yorker‘s, which was called The New Yorker Presents? On it Ariel Levy conducts an interview with Marina Abramović, which was pretty good! (As those things go.) At any … Read More
  
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• Dealer Matt Moravec Will Open Chelsea-Area Gallery

  16-01-2015 17:24 via artnews.com
  For the past two years, Matt Moravec, who ran the closely watched West Street Gallery in Manhattan with curator Alex Gartenfeld from 2010 to 2012, has been in Düsseldorf, Germany, studying with the artist Christopher Williams at the city’s Kunstakademie and running … Read More
  
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• Rubens, Rubens, everywhere

  16-01-2015 17:00
  
  He was hailed as a painter of princes, battles, hunts and nudes. Ahead of a Royal Academy exhibition, Michael Prodger traces Rubens’ influence, from Mexican churches to Chinese porcelain, Velázquez to PicassoThere was, it seems, nothing that Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) couldn’t do: except, that is, find his way into British hearts. In Europe he has always been held in the highest esteem. The 19th-century French critic and historian Hippolyte Taine said of him that “the whole of human na
  
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• Sotheby’s wins case involving questionable Caravaggio

  16-01-2015 16:34
  
  A court finds the auction house was not negligent in its assessment of a work Denis Mahon later identified as by the artist’s hand
  
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• CURATOR/ASSOCIATE CURATOR Post-war and Contemporary Art

  16-01-2015 16:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  CURATOR/ASSOCIATE CURATOR. Post-war and Contemporary Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Participate in rsrch, dvlpmnt, and active mngmnt of the Collection. Reqs 6+ yrs’ exp in a museum or acad inst & Ph.D (or equiv) in history of art.
  
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• Morning Links: Alice in Wonderland Edition

  16-01-2015 15:27 via artnews.com
  “Amid Arizona’s luxury playground, with its plastic-surgery centers, high-end car shows and multimillion-dollar Arabians horses, a museum that celebrates the Old West opens…in Scottsdale.” [The Arizona Republic] Times art critic Karen Rosenberg has been named deputy editor of Artspace Magazine. … Read More
  
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• ASSOCIATE CURATOR, MODERN DECORATIVE ARTS

  16-01-2015 14:56
  Modern and Contemporary
  
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• Specialist – Impressionist & Modern Art

  16-01-2015 14:47
  New York
  
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• Alison Gingeras, Justine Ludwig Named Curators at Dallas Contemporary

  16-01-2015 14:30 via artnews.com
  The Dallas Contemporary has named Alison Gingeras as its new adjunct curator and Justine Ludwig as its new director of exhibitions and senior curator. “Justine comes to Dallas Contemporary with an expansive international background and a curatorial insight to new … Read More
  
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• CURATOR/ASSOCIATE CURATOR

  16-01-2015 14:13
  Post-war and Contemporary Art
  
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• Specialist – Post War & Contemporary Art

  16-01-2015 13:54
  New York
  
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• Europe’s cultural collapse – the week in art

  16-01-2015 13:35
  
  A €390m spaceship lands in Paris with a thud, as the 2015 Capital of Culture gets off to a shaky start. Plus the photobook without a single photo, and why drones may be banned – all in your favourite newsletterIan Breakwell: Important Works from the 60s and 70s
  This conceptual artist with a unexpected playful streak is celebrated a decade after his death. Expect the surreal – and the explicit, warns the gallery.
  Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London W1F, from 21 January until 21 February
  
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• So How Are The Acoustics At Paris’s New Concert Hall?

  16-01-2015 10:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tom Service: “If the other 2,399 seats are as good as the one I was sitting in, I think that the Philharmonie could be one of the most dynamic and exciting places to hear orchestral music in the world – as well as the most fun simply to sit in, thanks to the combination of […]
  
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• Magical Thinking: What Prestidigitation Can Tell Us About Cognition

  16-01-2015 10:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Which is a better magic trick: turning a dove into a glass of milk, or a glass of milk into a dove? Turning a rose into a vase, or a vase into a rose? For most people, … in each case, they find the transformation from a nonliving object to a living thing more interesting […]
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg’s New Book Club: He’s No Oprah (Yet)

  16-01-2015 10:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “See, when Zuckerberg actually hosted the first book club ‘meeting’ – a Facebook Q&A yesterday with the book’s author, Moises Naím – he faced a problem familiar to far more plebeian bookclubs: Hardly anybody showed up. (And of those who did, few had actually read the book.)”
  
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• VTFF Brings Award-winning Turkish Cinema to Vancouver

  16-01-2015 10:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
    2014 was a memorable year for Turkish cinema; Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep snagged the Palme d’Or, the most prestigious prize at the Cannes Film Festival. This year, Vancouver’s Vancity Theatre will host the inaugural Vancouver Turkish Film Festival, which runs from January 23-25, showcasing fourteen films–the best that Turkish cinema has to offer–from surreal tales for obsessive cineastes to ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Milton Hebald, 97, Little-Known But Ubiquitous Sculptor

  16-01-2015 10:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Most art lovers won’t recognize the name Milton Hebald. But it’s safe to assume that tens of millions of people have seen his work: sculptures, installed in prominent public places in Los Angeles and New York City, that include a monumental display of the 12 signs of the Zodiac that stood for decades at New […]
  
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• Elaine Summers, Co-Founder Of Judson Dance Theater, Dead At 89

  16-01-2015 10:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Throughout her work, Ms. Summers was fascinated by the interplay of form and movement, something, she realized, that dance and film could exploit both singly and in combination. Through film, she was able not only to capture the motion of a dance itself, but also to add contrapuntal movement through camera work and cutting.”
  
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• Leadership! Business Schools (And A Business Magazine) Discover Orchestra Conducting

  16-01-2015 09:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Read however many books you like about the principles of leadership, but in watching an orchestra rehearse a new piece for two hours, you can learn everything there is to know about leadership.”
  
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• Wendy Whelan Is Ready To Dance For Herself

  16-01-2015 09:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Being 47 years old, what can I still do, and feel potent and active and alive and challenged?” says the recently retired NY City Ballet principal. “There’s plenty out there, it’s just a matter of making it happen.”
  
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• The Avant-Garde 1935 Ballet That Freaked The Soviets Right Out

  16-01-2015 09:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Bolt,” choreographed in 1931 by Fyodor Lopukhov to a score by Shostakovich, with designs by Tatiana Bruni, has a strange history. Despite an unimpeachable narrative – an idle saboteur plans to throw a bolt into factory machinery but is prevented from doing so by worthy workers – the ballet was banned after one performance.”
  
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• Houston’s Museum Of Fine Arts Plans $450M Expansion

  16-01-2015 09:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Steven Holl Architects “has re-imagined the campus’ north side as a pedestrian-friendly cultural hub with a lively landscape, two distinctive new buildings, ample underground parking and smooth circulation patterns for vehicles and people.”
  
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• The other Gurlitt: the dealer cherished by “degenerate” artists and Nazis alike

  16-01-2015 09:00
  
  The discovery of Hildebrand Gurlitt’s Nazi-confiscated art hoard caused a scandal. His cousin Wolfgang’s story is less well known, but asks troubling questions of collections across the world
  
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• Computers Are Learning To Read Humans’ Emotions

  16-01-2015 08:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Our faces are organs of emotional communication; by some estimates, we transmit more data with our expressions than with what we say … But since the nineteen-nineties a small number of researchers have been working to give computers the capacity to read our feelings and react, in ways that have come to seem startlingly human.” […]
  
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• Laughing In The Face Of Danger: The State Of Satire In The Muslim World

  16-01-2015 08:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Cartoons depicting Muhammad are unthinkable in Muslim countries. But there are plenty of homegrown satirists poking fun at reactionaries, autocrats and jihadis. Our writers in Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Pakistan, Iran, Lebanon and Iraq explain where the line is drawn.”
  
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• “The Interview” Was Not Enough: Hackers Target Kim Jong Un Video Game

  16-01-2015 07:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Glorious Leader! lets players battle invading imperialist U.S. paratroopers, face down tanks in Pyongyang, and (of course) play basketball with Dennis Rodman. Well, it did – until game maker Moneyhorse saw its servers hacked and locked during the holidays. The company is now “reevaluating its commitment” to the project.
  
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• Olafur Eliasson Tries To Capture In Pigments Every Point On The Light Spectrum

  16-01-2015 07:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  And he’s named the project after J.M.W. Turner, whom he sees as a forerunner in the endeavor.
  
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• Atlanta’s Woodruff Arts Center Gets Another Multimillion-Dollar Gift

  16-01-2015 07:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Having scored a $38 million Robert W. Woodruff Foundation grant in December, the Woodruff Arts Center announced Tuesday that it has a received a $6.6 million grant … [to fund] a new three-year program designed to better connect families and students with the arts center’s art and arts education offerings.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.15.15

  16-01-2015 06:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Passion and Permission AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2015-01-15 The Heard Museum Loses Its Director To … AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-01-15 The Artist in the 21st Century AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-01-15
  
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• Cataloger & Researcher - Post-War & Contemporary Art

  16-01-2015 03:18
  New York
  
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