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• British Museum exhibition to showcase Australia's 'difficult' Indigenous history

  22-01-2015 22:27
  
  Curator hopes exhibition will educate the UK public about the diversity of Indigenous culture while not shying away from Australia’s dark past
  An exhibition of Indigenous Australian artefacts showcasing the nation’s diversity and “difficult history” will be held at London’s British Museum later this year.
  The exhibition, Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation, will run from 23 April to 2 August and is thought to be the biggest and most significant of its kind to be held outside
  
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• Björk Is Sick of a Certain Someone’s ‘Apocalyptic Obsessions’

  22-01-2015 22:03 via artnews.com
  Björk, who will be the subject of a career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in March, released her new album Vulnicura this week, two months earlier than expected. In a Facebook post announcing the release, the singer called … Read More
  
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• Angela Susan Anton Named President of Nassau Museum’s Board

  22-01-2015 20:29 via artnews.com
  The Nassau Country Museum of Art, in Roslyn, New York, announced today that its board of trustees has tapped Angela Susan Anton as its new president, taking the place of Clarence F. Michalis, who will become executive vice president. Anton is … Read More
  
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• Time for a fresh look at art exhibit captions | Letters

  22-01-2015 20:09
  
  Following the comments by Chris Stephens, co-curator of Tate Britain’s forthcoming Barbara Hepworth exhibition, about using Google to track down exhibits (Out of the shadows and back in focus, 20 January), I would be interested to know if he and his fellow curators intend to embrace new technology in another, scandalously disregarded, area of curatorship. Exhibition captions, those simple but crucial devices for enhancing gallery visitors’ knowledge and enjoyment, typically comprise lengthy
  
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• Consumer Reports: Body By Body

  22-01-2015 17:57 via artnews.com
  “Consumer Reports” is a recurring feature that profiles an artist’s consumption of any and all media throughout one work week. Body by Body is a collaboration between Melissa Sachs and Cameron Soren. In 2014 they had solo exhibitions at Interstate … Read More
  
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• The Tate should take BP’s money—and ask for more

  22-01-2015 17:15
  
  Protests about the gallery’s lack of transparency over its sponsorship miss the point
  
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• Katy Moran, painter: 'I want the viewer to see what I see in the works ... the titles are an aid'

  22-01-2015 15:30
  
  Katy Moran has been in this studio in west London for just a year, forced out of her former space by Crossrail and subsequent gentrification. The current studio is in a block filled with diverse businesses – fashion, music and sport. "I am the only artist here, but I come here to work so I hang out with my artist mates in the evenings".
  
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• David Chipperfield promises to keep ‘as much Mies as possible’ at Neue Nationalgalerie

  22-01-2015 15:30
  
  Cost of Berlin project estimated at €101m, while proposed museum of Modern art will be double
  
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• New Investigation Into Death Of Pablo Neruda (Was He Poisoned?)

  22-01-2015 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Tests on Neruda’s exhumed body in 2013 found no trace of poison but more will now be done. His death certificate says he died of prostate cancer. Neruda died 12 days after the military coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power.”
  
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• MSU Museum Director

  22-01-2015 15:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michigan State University seeks a dynamic leader with significant museum experience to serve as director of its AAM-accredited science and culture museum.
  
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• Here Are The Artifacts Tourists Have Stolen From Pompeii

  22-01-2015 15:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  In recent years hundreds of objects have been sent back to Pompeii in envelopes and packages, often accompanied by letters of apology. “There is a colourful legend that says that those who steal from Pompeii will be persecuted by bad luck.”
  
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• Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas accepts Turbine Hall commission

  22-01-2015 15:00
  
  Artist known for making sculptures from found material will take on inaugural Hyundai commission at Tate ModernThe Mexican conceptual artist Abraham Cruzvillegas is to follow in the footsteps of Louise Bourgeois, Anish Kapoor and Ai Weiwei by taking on one of the most prestigious contemporary art commissions – filling Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.Cruzvillegas is known for making sculptures from found material such as old furniture, bottles, bits of wood or feathers. Continue reading...
  
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• Thriller: James Patterson’s New Book Is Designed To Destruct In 24 Hours

  22-01-2015 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Designed to bring the thrill of Patterson’s book to new heights, the site shows who and where in the world the book’s early readers are, how far along through the book they’ve read and gives you the option to sabotage their efforts by cutting their 24 hours short.”
  
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• Morning Links: Modigliani Edition

  22-01-2015 14:46 via artnews.com
  From Usher to Pharrell, here’s “Why Celebrities Are So Into the Artist Daniel Arsham” [The New York Times] The Queens Museum has awarded $20,000 artist fellowships to Meredith James, Kameelah Rasheed, and Casey Tang. [Artforum] This is a wild one: … Read More
  
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• New National Theatre Head: Here’s Why Support Of Theatre Is Important

  22-01-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “One of the many arguments for public and private support of this organisation, and organisations like this one, is we are the compost, the manure, the fertiliser that feeds culture worldwide.”
  
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• A Revolutionary New Piano?

  22-01-2015 14:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  With promises of a “revolutionary piano” and its strapline “Sound Beyond Time” (I have literally no idea what that means) comes the Bogányi piano, named after its creator, the Hungarian pianist Gergely Bogányi.
  
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• Four Ways Artists Have Figured Out “Premium” Funding For Their Work

  22-01-2015 14:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Artists themselves are realising that their most devoted fans can bankroll the rest of their careers. Not only are they able to cut out the middle man, but they can make their runs far more limited – the extreme being just one person purchasing their goods. Here are some of the creatives who have cracked […]
  
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• Our Scientific Issues As Moral Issues

  22-01-2015 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The cost of modern skepticism about scientific virtue is paid not just by scientists but by all of us. The complex problems once belonging solely to the spheres of prudence and political action are now increasingly conceived as scientific problems: if the global climate is indeed warming, and if the cause is human activity, then […]
  
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• Van Gogh the preacher? New show to explore artist’s life before painting

  22-01-2015 13:30
  
  A Mons capital of culture event will examine the 18 dismal months Van Gogh spent in the tough coalmining region of the Borinage, Belgium, studying the lives of the poor around himThis summer the Grand-Place in the Belgian city of Mons will be transformed into a blaze of yellow, a field of 7,500 sunflowers celebrating the city’s turn as European capital of culture, and the peculiar man who spent 18 months living in the area and failing at yet another chosen career.This time his failure marked a
  
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• Claim: The Decline Of Venice Is A Moral Failing

  22-01-2015 13:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The current non-management of the tourist industry and the way in which the authorities fail to lift a finger against the shortest of short-term economic interests will destroy the city as a living and diverse community.”
  
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• The Arts World’s Diversity Problem (In All Its Forms)

  22-01-2015 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There is a severe problem with diversity in the arts, and the media, right across the board. It’s so obvious that you don’t even need statistics to see it. And it’s getting worse, now that the cost of living in many large cities plus, for example, the falling revenues in the music industry – means […]
  
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• Two Things The Canada Council Needs To Do To Make Its Arts Funding More Relevant

  22-01-2015 12:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “One is to start devoting as much energy to engaging Canadians in the arts as it does to helping art get made, a direction that is becoming politically important in a democratic culture where the barriers (and even the distinction) between consumer and producer are breaking down. The other is figuring out how to channel […]
  
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• Rain Room to Come to Shanghai, Singapore

  22-01-2015 11:06 via artnews.com
  At a panel discussion on Thursday at the Art Stage Singapore fair, Indonesian-Chinese collector Budi Tek announced that he will bring the Rain Room to his eight-month-old private museum in Shanghai in September. An installation created in 2012 by the art collective Random International, … Read More
  
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• The 12 Best Novels Of The 21st Century So Far

  22-01-2015 10:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, at least among those written in English – and as chosen by a roster of critics polled by BBC Culture. Have a look, nod or shake your head, and argue away.
  
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• Director Of Valencia’s Opera House Fired And Arrested

  22-01-2015 10:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Helga Schmidt, who has long been criticized for lavish spending – on her lodging and travel expenses as well as on such expensive artists as Lorin Maazel, Plácido Domingo and Zubin Mehta – has been accused of manipulating contracts and accepting commissions on artists she engaged at the Palau de les Arts, part of the […]
  
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• Chaos At India’s Film Censorship Board

  22-01-2015 10:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “India’s film censorship organisation is in crisis after the resignation of its chair, Leela Samson, amid complaints of ‘interference, coercion and corruption’, and more than half its board members.”
  
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• Television Becomes A Force At Sundance Film Festival

  22-01-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Independent film used to define the cutting edge in entertainment, but the indie crowd has lately ceded ground to television … The festival, fiercely proud of its heritage as America’s foremost showcase for independent cinema, is working to hold on to that identity. At the same time, it is tentatively embracing an art form, television, […]
  
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• Julie Taymor To Stage New Play About Drone Warfare

  22-01-2015 09:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  It seems such a good match of director and subject that you wonder why nobody thought of it sooner. George Brant’s Grounded features only one (human) character, to be played by Anne Hathaway.
  
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• John Bayley, 89, Literary Scholar, Critic, And Memoirist Of Wife Iris Murdoch

  22-01-2015 09:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As a critic and author, Mr. Bayley was acclaimed for his dissections of Goethe and Pushkin as well as of Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy and Henry James.” He drew an international readership, wide praise and some condemnation for Elegy for Iris, his account of his wife’s descent into Alzheimer’s disease.
  
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• ‘This Is Not Just A Show About Fat Happy Dancing People’

  22-01-2015 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Kate Champion, artistic director of Force Majeure, and Kelli Jean Drinkwater, associate artist and fat activist, talk about the company’s new show featuring big-bodied performers. Nothing to Lose is ‘driven by dance’, says Champion, but also draws on the dancers’ real-life experiences to challenge preconceptions and reclaim a performance space for large bodies.” (video)
  
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• Might At The Museum(s): The Met And MoMA In A Clash Of The Titans

  22-01-2015 09:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Sorting through talk of a growing rivalry between the Met and MoMA for artworks, board members, and prestige, Bob Colacello uncovers the forces at work.”
  
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• Trial Begins Over Theft Of Priceless Santiago De Compostela Manuscript

  22-01-2015 09:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  A laid-off electrician at the Spanish city’s cathedral is accused of having stolen the 12th-century Codex Calixtinus, considered the world’s first tourist guide (for pilgrims to Compostela) and one of the most important surviving sources for medieval music. The manuscript was stolen in 2011 and was found (along with other manuscripts and €1.2 million in […]
  
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• Chile To (Finally) Build Gaudí’s Only Project Outside Of Spain

  22-01-2015 09:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The project originated in 1922 through a series of letters exchanged between Gaudí and Chilean Franciscan Friar Angélico Aranda, who asked Gaudí to design a chapel for Chile.” The actual design, it turns out, is sort of an outtake from the plans for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.
  
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• Ward Swingle, 87, Founded The Swingle Singers And Made Bach Swing

  22-01-2015 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  His a cappella octet “reimagined Bach and Mozart with driving jazz rhythms and playfully scatlike vocals – and put centuries-old classical masterworks on the pop charts.”
  
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• English National Opera Chair Resigns (He Just Stand Any More Funding Cuts)

  22-01-2015 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The chairman of [ENO], Martyn Rose, will step down from his position on 15 February, reportedly because he believes that a full-time commitment is required to guide the organisation through its £5m drop in Arts Council England funding.”
  
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• Tony Verna, Who Invented Instant Replay, Dead At 81

  22-01-2015 09:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Mr. Verna was directing the Army-Navy football game for CBS Sports in 1963 when he ran the first instant replay on television, changing the way sports were viewed by fans and, over time, refereed by officials. His invention, for which he received no patent or payment, is considered one of the most momentous in sports […]
  
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• Pompeii to stage exhibition of objects returned by tourist-looters

  22-01-2015 09:00
  
  Ancient artefacts are often sent back by post, along with guilty-conscience confessions
  
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• Click here to enlarge: Paris’s modern art museum to grow its photo holdings

  22-01-2015 09:00
  
  The Musée d’art moderne is the first in France to establish a patrons group for the medium
  
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• Cleopatra show to open Pinacothèque de Paris’s new Singapore outpost

  22-01-2015 09:00
  
  For-profit museum to put on populist ticketed exhibitions, as well as free heritage displays, in redeveloped Fort Canning building
  
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• Archaeologists shake off their shovels at Bard’s last home

  22-01-2015 09:00
  
  Public invited to watch as dig resumes in Stratford-upon-Avon
  
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• 6.5 Million Sounds Are In Danger, Says British Library In Crowdfunding Pitch

  22-01-2015 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Collecting sounds is important. The experience of listening to them is as close to time travel as we’ve ever come. From the rare or iconic to the ephemeral and everyday, recordings give a living picture of the world changing around us. … This is urgent: these recordings go back to the late-19th century, and many […]
  
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• Inside Philadelphia’s Mummers Parade: Can It Evolve The Way The City Has?

  22-01-2015 08:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  A longtime resident who’d never seen the century-old New Year’s Day spectacle goes behind the scenes with one of the old-line South Philly clubs, meets the new brigades that draw from the city’s growing population of art-minded Millennials, and remarks on some of the parade’s worryingly retrograde elements. (Then she hits the after-party on Two […]
  
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• Dancing Waters: A Ballet Of Boats On The Mississippi River

  22-01-2015 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Choreographer Patrick Scully, who has already done a similar project in Germany, hopes to get a cast of 100 kayaks, racing sculls, motorboats, paddleboards, and maybe even a barge to perform a work on the river in the Twin Cities this summer. (No sailboats, though.)
  
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• Spain says art submitted in lieu of tax last year not good enough

  22-01-2015 08:50
  
  Taxpayers will have to cough up the cash since the state decline to acquire the works for public collections
  
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• Van Gogh’s Belgian beginnings displayed in Mons for its year as European Capital of Culture

  22-01-2015 08:46
  
  The first of many shows organised on the 125th anniversary of the artist's death opens this weekend's festivitites
  
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• Van Gogh’s Belgian beginnings

  22-01-2015 08:46
  
  Mons’s year as a European Capital of Culture opens with the first of many shows marking the 125th anniversary of the artist’s death
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.21.15

  22-01-2015 06:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Engagement Principles: Current Thoughts AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-01-21 New Horizons in Microtonal Neoclassicism AJBlog: PostClassic Published 2015-01-21 Excited audience AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-01-20
  
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• Landscape Art and Frederic Edwin Church

  22-01-2015 01:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One generation abandons the enterprise of another like stranded vessels.”- Henry David Thoreau, Walden Landscape art can be elusive. Within the sort of art exhibition that aggregates paintings from a variety of genres, those with the subjects of clouds, mountains, trees, forests, river, ocean etc. are very likely the least interesting ones for the most ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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