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• Bronx Museum Plans Exchange With Cuba’s National Museum of Fine Arts, in First U.S.-Cuban Institutional Collaboration

  21-01-2015 23:45 via artnews.com
  The New York Times reports that the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana have planned a collaboration that will have the Bronx send 80 objects south this spring for the 12th Havana … Read More
  
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• Marina Abramovic Has a Dinnerware Collection

  21-01-2015 22:28 via artnews.com
  If you’re wondering what to get that special someone for Valentine’s Day, dearest reader, might I suggest the Marina Abramović dinnerware collection for Bernardaud? No? Come on. Give it a shot, people. Here’s what Abramović said about it in a … Read More
  
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• Eduardo Paolozzi's 'much-loved' murals at Tottenham Court Road Tube station under threat from £400m Crossrail redevelopment

  21-01-2015 19:55
  
  Campaigners have called for Tottenham Court Road tube station’s “much-loved” murals – which were designed by the Scottish artist Eduardo Paolozzi – to be saved from demolition.
  
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• Darren Bader is Crowd-Funding a Lot At Christie’s

  21-01-2015 19:14 via artnews.com
  The conceptual artist Darren Bader (whose past works have included a pretty face) has started a crowd-funding campaign that will have someone at the Christie’s Post-War & Contemporary Day Sale in London on February 12 bidding for an amount of … Read More
  
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• Met’s $250m bond offering to fund expansion

  21-01-2015 19:01
  
  Moody’s gives museum’s debt a AAA rating due to “favorable cash flow”
  
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• Renewal in the Arab world to come from women and the young, says French president

  21-01-2015 18:45
  
  Conference at the Institut du Monde Arabe acquired special meaning after Charlie Hebdo
  
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• Art among the ruins: Danh Vo's perverse empires

  21-01-2015 18:38
  
  Danh Vo was rescued at sea aged four as his family fled Vietnam. Now, he’s an expert arranger of flotsam and jetsam ... from crates of Carnation milk to a Madonna possessed by the devil and a picture of Queen Victoria’s puppy Looty
  A beheading and a wedding; some lines from a song by Nico; a satyr, a cherub and Queen Victoria’s pet Pekingese. The more I look (and there doesn’t seem all that much to see at first), the more Danh Vo’s art troubles me. Amid the exhibition’s reaches of el
  
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• Why Belgium's plagiarism verdict on Luc Tuymans is beyond parody

  21-01-2015 18:23
  
  One of Europe’s most influential painters has been found guilty of plagiarism. Even if you don’t buy that Luc Tuymans’ painting of a newspaper photo was parodic, it is still a part of his career-long interrogation of all images
  On Tuesday, a Belgian court found the Antwerp-born painter Luc Tuymans guilty of plagiarism, in his use of a photograph of the politician Jean-Marie Dedecker taken by Katrijn van Giel for Belgian newspaper De Standaard.Tuymans is one of Europe’s leading and most i
  
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• Understanding Ed Ruscha

  21-01-2015 18:20
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• Pivotal Tracey Emin art installation ‘Exorcism’ goes on sale for £600,000

  21-01-2015 17:33
  
  Collection of works, produced naked in a gallery in 1996 as a performance, also comes with CDs, magazines and a radioIf a rich art buyer succeeds in buying nearly 100 paintings and drawings that a naked Tracey Emin made during a cathartic – and, for her career, pivotal – three-week period 19 years ago, they will also have to own some peripheral items. Not least her Right Said Fred CD.With an estimate of £600,000 to £800,000, Christie’s has announced it is selling an important a
  
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• Engage With The Arts? So What’s The Problem?

  21-01-2015 17:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After two decades of declining audience numbers, is that decline an aberration or a new reality? Is the demand for the core arts now permanently smaller than it once was, or is it that the demand for the core arts in the way we deliver them is what has permanently changed?”
  
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• Tyson Reeder, Piano Man

  21-01-2015 17:01 via artnews.com
  On a rainy afternoon last Sunday, Tyson Reeder turned the main room of Lower East Side gallery CANADA into a chilled-out jam session. For his one-day-only “Piano Party” event, Reeder’s casually ecstatic paintings and sculpture (his show “New Paintings” is … Read More
  
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• Why Mark Rylance Won’t Be The Next Artistic Director Of The Guthrie

  21-01-2015 16:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I’m in a moment in my career after 10 years at the Globe where all this kind of film stuff is opening up,” he said. “It very challenging and interesting to me.”
  
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• How Should Artists Be Paid. Here’s One Idea

  21-01-2015 16:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The campaign is lobbying for artists to be paid a fee for showing their work in public galleries. It found that 71% of UK artists have not been paid to display their work in publicly funded galleries over the past three years and 63% of artists have turned down exhibitions as a result. The research […]
  
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• LA Chamber Orchestra Exec To Step Down Leaving Orchestra With Healthy Surpluses

  21-01-2015 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I think the organization is extremely well positioned right now,” Fine said. “It’s financially solid.” The orchestra spent about $3.1 million in the fiscal year ending in 2013, according to audited financial statements. It reported a surplus of about $1.8 million for the year. Fine said the orchestra is forecasting another surplus for the current […]
  
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• Norton Simon Museum Dealt Blow In Lawsuit Over Two Prized Paintings

  21-01-2015 16:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  The museum had hoped that the Supreme Court would overrule the 9th Circuit’s most recent decision in June, ending Von Saher’s claim. The museum issued a statement Tuesday reiterating that it “remains confident that it holds complete and proper title to Adam and Eve, and will continue to pursue … all appropriate legal options.”
  
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• This Year’s Edge Question: What About Machines That Can Think?

  21-01-2015 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is Artificial Intelligence becoming increasingly real? Are we now in a new era of the “AIs”? To consider this issue, it’s time to grow up. Enough already with the science fiction and the movies, Star Maker, Blade Runner, 2001, Her, The Matrix, “The Borg”.
  
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• Now Here’s An Argument: Oil Lobby Says Building Keystone Pipeline Is Like Painting The Mona Lisa (No Kidding)

  21-01-2015 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  According to American Petroleum Institute, the pipeline is just like the Mona Lisa: “One of the world’s most recognized works of art was created by a painter who made his living on temporary jobs”
  
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• The uglification of Italy is a moral failing

  21-01-2015 16:30
  
  The problems of Venice are a paradigm for other historic cities, says a former Getty chief
  
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• Some Odd Research: Want Someone To Better Appreciate Surrealist Art? Remind Them They’re Going To Die First

  21-01-2015 16:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It finds people are more likely to forge a positive emotional connection with surrealistic art if they have just been reminded of their own mortality.”
  
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• Here’s What The “Vinyl Comeback” Really Looks Like

  21-01-2015 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When one of these kinds of bands sells 1000 LPs, it’s doesn’t look like much in the scheme of the entire music industry. But in terms of the personal economy of the sort of band I’m talking about, it can be significant. That’s why this sector doesn’t need to grow to 1970s levels to be […]
  
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• Revised SAT Test Revealed (Let The Uproar Begin)

  21-01-2015 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The College Board’s decision to eliminate the vocabulary component from the reading section and redesign the essay portion has garnered lots of attention. But it’s the revision of the math section that could have particularly egregious consequences.”
  
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• Famed NY Art Gallery Vs. Government Of Qatar Over A VERY Expensive Building

  21-01-2015 16:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The lawsuit involves two clearly deep-pocketed parties. But while Wildenstein family members and those of the Qatari ruling family have been habitués of opulent showrooms and frequent the thoroughbred horse racing circuit, court proceedings indicate they are in different leagues.”
  
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• Andrea Chenier, Royal Opera House - review: An exquisitely realised production

  21-01-2015 15:56
  
  André Chénier was a poet-satirist who fell foul of Robespierre and was guillotined in 1794; the formal beauty and moral fury of the poem he penned on the eve of his execution makes one of the most chilling death-row utterances ever. An Italian translation of that poem’s first line – comparing the sunset of his life with the end of a fine spring day - provides the aria which Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chénier sings as he waits to mount the scaffold.
  
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• Cities within cities: the graffiti artists who are shaking up maps

  21-01-2015 15:47
  
  Street artists are showing how they’d map cities differently in a new show that lets visitors step into their clandestine worlds. Conventional cartography this is not ...Swags of skin hang from the walls of the New Wing of Somerset House, like the flayed flesh of some strange sea creatures, stretched out to dry. It’s an alarming sight in this abandoned suite of rooms, which have been off-limits since they were recently vacated by the Inland Revenue. Was this the gruesome fate of those who di
  
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• The stone-cold truth: Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore are not in the premier league

  21-01-2015 15:11
  
  Leave St Ives’ star sculptor, and her Yorkshire counterpart Henry Moore, as the provincial powerhouses they are. To pretend they had international influence is just petty nationalismThe sculptor Barbara Hepworth died in harness, killed in a fire at her St Ives studio in 1975, when she was 72.Today, the studio is a shrine to this dedicated artist, and you can see the last pieces of stone she was still working on when she died. Hepworth had real belief in craft. She was hands-on, right up to the
  
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• Morning Links: January 21, 2015 Edition

  21-01-2015 14:41 via artnews.com
  Luc Tuymans has been found guilty of copyright infringement. “A civil court in Antwerp ruled on 15 January that Tuymans’s painting A Belgian Politician—a dramatically cropped image of the MP Jean-Marie Dedecker—borrowed too heavily from a photograph taken one year … Read More
  
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• An Aladdin's cave of Soviet art bought on a shoestring budget

  21-01-2015 13:49
  
  An exhibition at Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery is celebrating George Costakis, the diplomat who scoured the USSR buying works by artists like Marc Chagall when they were still ‘worth less than a pound of potatoes’. The Moscow Times reportsGeorge Costakis’s apartment on Prospekt Vernadadskogo in southern Moscow was an Aladdin’s cave of avant-garde art, full of works by Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky and many more — all bought on the salary of a humble embassy employee.
  
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• Architect Simon Mitchell on Prada Marfa, Texas

  21-01-2015 13:30
  
  As a designer of luxury retail premises, Simon Mitchell was astonished to find what looked like an upmarket boutique by a desert highway in TexasEvery year I take a motorbike holiday, just booking a hotel the night I arrive and then heading off into the unknown. Last year I flew into LA for a 3,500-mile trip around California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas and New Mexico. On the way from Fort Davis to El Paso, where there is nothing as far as the eye can see but desert and long straight roads, I stumbl
  
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• Tuymans found guilty in copyright case involving political portrait

  21-01-2015 11:19
  
  The artist’s painting of a Belgian MP’s sweat-bedewed forehead deemed too close to original photograph
  
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• Brian Blessed Collapses While Playing King Lear – Then Comes Back And Finishes The Show

  21-01-2015 10:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The 78-year-old had just begun his lines at the start of the Shakespearean tragedy when he fainted, falling off a raised platform with his crown rolling to a halt at the front of stage.” After being examined by a doctor in the audience and 20 minutes of rest, Blessed returned to the stage, apologized, and […]
  
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• Broadway Has No Room Anymore For Shows That Are Merely Good

  21-01-2015 10:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “How do you tell somebody who’s going to spend anywhere from $175 to $500 or more, per ticket, for a show, how do you tell them ‘It’s so-so, but you can’t miss this performance’? … Unless you come out of the theater saying ‘I have to tell everybody I know they must see this show,’ […]
  
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• The Woman Who Made Playboy A Literary Outlet, Alice K. Turner, Dead At 75

  21-01-2015 10:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While not known most widely for its literary fiction, Playboy was for many years one of the few mainstream monthlies that published ambitious short stories. Ms. Turner became fiction editor in 1980 and guarded that tradition, shepherding works by John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Bob Shacochis and other acclaimed writers into pages better known for […]
  
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• Yoko Nagae Ceschina, 82, Japanese-Italian Countess And Classical Music’s Fairy Godmother

  21-01-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  A young Japanese harpist who went to Venice to study and met and married a wealthy nobleman, she spent her adult life discreetly but lavishly funding major performers and institutions – and sometimes taking personal care of them.
  
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• This Play Isn’t Coming To Broadway Because It’s Doing So Well In Toronto

  21-01-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Mirvish, lead producer of The Heart of Robin Hood: “In light of the great reception we are getting from audiences and the media in Toronto, we have decided not to rush in to New York this season.” (Think that’s all there is to it?)
  
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• New Zealand’s Maori War Dance Looks Even Cooler On Ice

  21-01-2015 09:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sports fans and viral video mavens have seen the haka, the traditional pre-battle dance that New Zealand’s national sports teams (most notably, rugby’s formidable All-Blacks) do on the field before a match. Now the clever Kiwis have figured out how to do the haka on skates. (video)
  
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• Painter Jane Wilson Dead At 90

  21-01-2015 09:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the postwar era, Wilson marshaled the dominant Abstract Expressionist style – loose brushwork and wide swaths of color – to record real places, from the endless skies of her Midwestern childhood and the seascapes of Long Island’s East End to Tompkins Square Park in New York City.”
  
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• Calling all Middle Eastern artists

  21-01-2015 09:26
  
  Art Jameel announces second New York residency
  
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• The Museum Of The Future Is Here (And It’s On Fifth Avenue)

  21-01-2015 09:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Cooper Hewitt has transformed into an organization not unlike Wikipedia, Pinterest, or, for that matter, The Atlantic: Somewhere between a media and a tech firm, it is a Thing That Puts Stuff on the Internet. Or, more precisely, A Thing That Puts Things on the Internet. But to get to that point, the museum […]
  
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• For The First Time, Italy Looks Abroad For Museum Directors

  21-01-2015 09:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Wanted: Directors for 20 of Italy’s leading museums, including the Uffizi in Florence, the Galleria Borghese in Rome and the Accademia in Venice. Strong art history background, management experience and an interest in improving visitor experience a must. Fluency in Italian a definite plus, but not a requirement.”
  
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• Artists fight for fair pay

  21-01-2015 09:00
  
  Campaigns in US and the UK want creators to be compensated for exhibitions and productions
  
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• Are We All Born With Synaesthesia?

  21-01-2015 08:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The under-examined complexities of ordinary perception, some neuroscientists and developmental psychologists contend, suggest that, like the Nabokovs, we all inhabit the synaesthetic spectrum – we just need to look back in time, to when we were infants with developing brains.”
  
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• Spain Arrests Alleged Forgers Of Picasso, Matisse, Miró

  21-01-2015 08:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Three suspected members of an art forgery ring were arrested in the Spanish cities of Zaragoza and Tarragona … Accused of peddling drawings falsely attributed to Miró, Picasso, and Matisse, they’ve been charged with crimes against intellectual property and fraud.”
  
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• Houston Grand Opera Zooms Past Its $165M Fundraising Goal

  21-01-2015 08:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Inspiring Performance campaign, launched quietly in 2007 and publicly in 2012, raised $172.9 million to “fund world premieres, new productions of established operas and the company’s first staging of Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung.”
  
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• Drowning Ulster Orchestra Gets Lifeline From Northern Ireland Assembly

  21-01-2015 08:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The orchestra had been facing closure but a deal was announced this week to provide funding – reportedly in the region of £400,000 – giving the body a reprieve.”
  
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• TV Critics Demonstrate, Embarrassingly, Why America Needs “Fresh Off The Boat”

  21-01-2015 08:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the Television Critics Association press conference for the new ABC series about an Asian-American family, the first question wasn’t about creating the show or issues of assimilation or any such thing. It was about chopsticks.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.20.15

  21-01-2015 07:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The benefits of price discrimination AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2015-01-20 Excited audience AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-01-20 The Will of Eva Perón, Painted in Tango AJBlog: Fresh Pencil Published 2015-01-20 The Prototype Festival’s Scarlet Ibis(and the day I almost ate glue) AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2015-01-19
  
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• Here’s the Exhibitor List for Paramount Ranch 2

  21-01-2015 03:14 via artnews.com
  Los Angeles’s freewheeling Paramount Ranch fair, which debuted last year on the eponymous film set in the Santa Monica Mountains during Art Los Angeles Contemporary, is returning for a second round this year, and today revealed the exhibitors taking part. … Read More
  
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