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• Centre Pompidou-Metz Secures 2015 Budget

  19-01-2015 23:10 via artnews.com
  For the past few weeks the question of the 2015 budget for the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the Pompidou Center’s outpost in Lorraine, France, has been up in the air. Now, local news site Tout-Metz reports, the matter has been settled. Visitors … Read More
  
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• Alan Turing’s Notebook Heads to Auction

  19-01-2015 23:08 via artnews.com
  The Financial Times reports that the notebooks of computing hero Alan Turing (subject of the The Imitation Game, newly Oscar nominated), will head to Bonhams auctions on April 13. At 56 pages, the notebook is “probably the most extensive manuscript … Read More
  
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• Why Is The U.S. So Confident It Was North Korea That Hacked Sony? Because The U.S. Had Already Hacked North Korea

  19-01-2015 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For about a decade, the United States has implanted ‘beacons,’ which can map a computer network, along with surveillance software and occasionally even destructive malware in the computer systems of foreign adversaries.”
  
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• Choose The Books You Want To Read Carefully, For You Have A Limited Time On This Planet

  19-01-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Life is too short for Martin Amis. Life is too short for Ayn Rand. Life is too short for 1,000-plus pages of Infinite Jest and life is too short to give Philip Roth another chance.”
  
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• Wait, Someone’s Launching A New Radio Show All About The Nitty-Gritty Details Of Jazz?

  19-01-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yep: “What instantly sets ‘MusicHeads’ apart from other jazz shows is the format: Barber converses with fellow musicians before asking them to perform musical examples solo and alongside her. In effect, we in the radio audience are eavesdropping on a dialogue among peers.”
  
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• Preview Art Stage Singapore 2015

  19-01-2015 20:25 via artnews.com
  As this article is published, some 145 exhibitors are readying their booths for the fifth edition of the Art Stage Singapore fair, which runs January 22 through 25 at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre. Below, a brief look at works that will be … Read More
  
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• Tate Britain brings Barbara Hepworth out of the shadows and back in focus

  19-01-2015 20:13
  
  Gallery prepares to hold first big London exhibition of sculptor since 1968, bringing together photos, carvings and bronzesA shimmering, ghostly self-portrait by Barbara Hepworth is to be publicly displayed for the first time, featuring in a retrospective that aims to celebrate one of Britain’s most important 20th century sculptors and reassert her international significance.Tate Britain announced details of what will be the first big London show of her work since 1968, bringing together more
  
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• The Polish Author And Filmmaker Who Illuminated The 20th Century Journey Of Disillusionment

  19-01-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Often experimental in structure, mixing diary entries with intensely lyrical passages, [Tadeusz] Konwicki’s work was not always political, though his anti-Soviet novels, published underground, are among his most esteemed works.”
  
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• 24 Pieces Of Life Advice From Werner Herzog

  19-01-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Send out all your dogs and one might return with prey.”
  
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• Happy shoppers: the art collective buying ecstasy on the deep web

  19-01-2015 17:47
  
  From pills to Lord of the Rings, Mediengruppe Bitnikan brings the illicit side of the internet to life in an exhibition of items bought with bitcoinsArt has always drawn on the dark side. The sleep of reason produces monsters, warned Goya – but those monsters are prodigiously creative. Goya took macabre inspiration from witches and other horrors of the mind, and so have many artists through the centuries.When Max Ernst found frightening faceless hordes and sinister forests in his unconscious,
  
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• Theatre Companies In Southern California To Release A Plan To Bring Diversity To The Stage

  19-01-2015 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Tim Dang, producing artistic director of East West Players, has written an initiative that calls for at least 51% of those employed by Southern California theater companies by 2019 to be people of color, women or those younger than 35.”
  
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• Jane Lombard Will Start Eponymous Gallery at Former Lombard Freid Address

  19-01-2015 17:09 via artnews.com
  The Chelsea gallery Lombard Freid formally announced it will close in an e-mail blast on Friday, citing as a reason that “the partnership between the principals, Lea Freid and Jane Lombard, has come to an end.” This much had been … Read More
  
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• Amazon Is Making TV, Of Course – And Now It’s Going To Make Movies, Too

  19-01-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘Whereas it typically takes 39 to 52 weeks for theatrical movies to premiere on subscription video services, Amazon Original Movies will premiere on Prime Instant Video in the U.S. just 4 to 8 weeks after their theatrical debut,’ the company said in a press release.”
  
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• Lisitsa, Zhang, LSO - Barbican, review: Showy work beats up an admirable storm

  19-01-2015 16:48
  
  Once upon a time the Ukrainian pianist Valentina Lisitsa was known as a purveyor of recherché nineteenth-century curiosities.
  
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• As An Orchestra Turns More Professional In Tennessee, A Patron Laments The Loss Of Local Talent

  19-01-2015 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  After a patron writes a letter (which you can read here) calling West Tennessee’s Jackson Symphony “random good musicians hired from all over” and lamenting a lack of local music teachers on stage at the concerts, the Symphony responds with a letter that involves donors, standards, and football.
  
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• Do Britain’s Film Awards Not Care About The Great Mike Leigh Because He Spurns Them?

  19-01-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Bafta does not have a dazzling modern-day record in the field of independent voting. The shifting of its awards ceremony in 2001 to pre-empt the Oscars has done nothing to diminish the impression that it will always be a feeble facsimile of its US counterpart. The difference now is that, rather than mimicking the Oscar […]
  
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• A Choreographer For A Ballet … With Boats

  19-01-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘Now you get into the heart of the choreography challenge,’ Scully said. ‘You can’t teach a sailboat to do a cartwheel.'”
  
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• Henning Mankell, Author Of The Wallender Books, On The Horrors Of Having Cancer

  19-01-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When I got the diagnosis in January of 2014, it was a catastrophe for me. Everything that was normal to me up to that point was gone all of a sudden. No one had died of cancer in my family. I had always assumed I’d die of something else.”
  
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• Utah college returns statue of Confederate soldiers to artist

  19-01-2015 15:31
  
  Artist will donate other artwork for campus to replace controversial pieceDixie State College ‘rebranding’ in search of university statusA bronze statue of two Confederate soldiers removed from a southern Utah college campus two years ago has been returned to its creator.Under a settlement announced this week, Dixie State University in St George returned a statue called The Rebels to artist Jerry Anderson of the town of Leeds, Utah, in exchange for Anderson’s donation of other artwork for
  
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• Literary America Is Still Kind Of Obsessed With ‘The Great American Novel’

  19-01-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Our obsession with the Great American Novel is perhaps evidence of the even greater truth that it’s impossible for one to exist.”
  
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• The Oscars Are Finite, Which Is Why The ‘Selma’ Omissions Matter So Much

  19-01-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The nominations of the director this time around, and a British actor, David Oyelowo, playing a heroic black figure in the American narrative — not the victim of white oppression, but a corrective to it — would have had particular resonance at this moment. This year is the 50th anniversary of both the Selma marches […]
  
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• You Can See The World’s Greatest Stolen Artworks In One Place – Online

  19-01-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The virtual museum was designed to look just like a real one. The works hang on spare white walls, surrounded by ornate frames. An audio guide walks visitors through the halls. For Schneider, recreating the traditional museum environment was a chance to restore some dignity to these stolen works, which often just exist as thumbnail […]
  
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• Morning Links: Coney Island Edition

  19-01-2015 14:27 via artnews.com
  “A British judge ruled last week that Sotheby’s had not been negligent in the case of a painting that the auction house sold in 2006 for 42,000 pounds (about $63,600), only to be declared worth £10 million a year later.” … Read More
  
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• Los Angeles Hosts A Hyperlocal, Modern ‘Figaro’

  19-01-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Sung in English and Spanish, which are intertwined to create clever rhymes, ‘¡Figaro! (90210)’ finds the titular hero working in Beverly Hills as an undocumented gardener. The basic plot remains the same–a lecherous boss tries to seduce his employee’s fiancée on the eve of her wedding–but Guerriero has reimagined the characters as distinct L.A. archetypes.”
  
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• Does The Academy Give Nominations And Awards As ‘Make-up’ Oscars?

  19-01-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “That’s what happened in 1960, she adds, to a certain violet-eyed 28-year-old, Elizabeth Taylor. Taylor went unrewarded by the Academy for National Velvet, Giant, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Suddenly Last Summer. She won for Butterfield 8, a movie she herself called a stinker.”
  
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• Corning’s glass museum acquires contemporary works for new wing

  19-01-2015 09:00
  
  Fred Wilson’s Othello-inspired chandelier among pieces to go on show
  
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• Century-hoppers: the vintage Romanian portraits that time travel – in pictures

  19-01-2015 08:00
  
  When Jane Long stumbled upon a stash of old portraits by the Romanian photographer Costica Acsinte, she knew she was on to something special. So she took his pictures, coloured them in and added some bizarre props – like donkey ears, flocks of skeleton birds and pelicans wearing hats
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.18.15

  19-01-2015 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  KUAF Public Radio Gets Crystal Bridges Officials’ Response to Kevin Murphy’s CultureGrrl Lament AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2015-01-18 The Costs of Disruption AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2015-01-18 A Great Guy Created this Year’s Creepiest Videos AJBlog: Fresh PencilPublished 2015-01-18 A Born Symphonist Heard at Last AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-01-17 Culture-crashing – Is The Internet Killing Our Creative Class? AJBlog: diacriticalPublished 2015-01-16
  
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