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• Our Hidden Museum Masterpieces (And Why You Can’t See Them)

  23-01-2015 23:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Having 5% of your national collection on show is something people find difficult to understand,” says British curator Jasper Sharp, who was the commissioner of the Austrian pavilion at the 2013 Venice Bienniale. Many art institutions are thus coming up with ways to show their stuff, so to speak.
  
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• Budi Tek’s Next Museum Sounds a Bit Like a Theme Park

  23-01-2015 23:54 via artnews.com
  Collector Budi Tek’s next museum (following the Yuz Musuem which opened last year in Shanghai) will be an “art park” in Bali that will charge around $100 as an entry free, the Financial Times reports. Once inside “everything will be … Read More
  
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• Untitled(He has a drawn blank Dick Cheney death mask)

  23-01-2015 23:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I was dismayed. I found a place to hide. I was scared. The six foot broad John Wayne shouldered woman with a wig said I would be terrified. She said I would want to find a shit hole to die. I like unseemly hide outs. I didn’t like the idea of dying in one. I ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• SENIOR MANAGER, COMMUNICATIONS FOR WORLD-RENOWNED FOUNDATION AND MUSEUM

  23-01-2015 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (SRGF) is seeking a Senior Manager, Communications. The position will report to and collaborate with the Director, Communications – Foundation and Collaborations
  
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• MARKETING MANAGER FOR WORLD-RENOWNED FOUNDATION AND MUSEUM

  23-01-2015 20:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is seeking a Marketing Manager. This position will report to the Director of Marketing, and will work in close collaboration with the Associate Director Marketing and Associate Director, Digital Marketing Manager.
  
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• 50 Years Ago: Did This Sci Fi Writer Predict Today’s Approach To Studying Humanities?

  23-01-2015 20:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The general trend to introduce mathematical thinking into various sciences (including disciplines that did not previously use any math tools, such as biology, psychology, and medicine), is slowly extending to the humanities. For now, we have had some rare efforts in language studies (theoretical linguistics) and literary theory (the application of information theory to the […]
  
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• The strange case of the missing Rubenses | Letters

  23-01-2015 20:07
  
  I was grateful that, due to the first in, last out filing system in my rucksack, I read Jonathan Jones’s piece (Under the influence, G2, 21 January) after viewing the new Rubens exhibition at the Royal Academy, even though I agree somewhat with his conclusions. But given Jones’ strongly independent thinking on the exhibition, and his strident point that it had just six major Rubenses, it’s surprising that there was no mention of the elephants that weren’t in the room.One obvious reason t
  
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• Why Historians Are Losing Their Audience?

  23-01-2015 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For the past few centuries, historians have maintained an uneasy truce over the assumption that the search for “facts” should always take precedence over the more fractious difficulty of interpreting them.”
  
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• Dreamworks Animation Studio Has Fallen On Hard Times. Can It Be Saved?

  23-01-2015 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The underperformance of films like Turbo, Mr Peabody & Sherman, Penguins of Madagascar and Rise of the Guardians has wiped almost 40% from the studio’s share value, leading to 500 layoffs, a change of management and a heavily reduced release slate.”
  
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• Antiquities next to contemporary in Prada Foundation’s new home

  23-01-2015 19:51
  
  Rem Koolhaas-designed space in Milan to open in May with Roman sculpture and 21st-century art
  
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• Did The Family Of This Barcelona Art Collector Pull Off A Major Art Heist?

  23-01-2015 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The missing 352 paintings and drawings, together with tapestries and other works, constitute an art heist on a grand scale, according to the city. It is alleging theft and fraud in a criminal case against the four daughters of Julio Muñoz Ramonet, a Catalan industrialist who bequeathed the property to his native city of Barcelona […]
  
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• Why Mark Zuckerberg’s Book Club Is Really Cool

  23-01-2015 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Most of the coverage of Zuckerberg’s book club has taken the perspective of the publishing industry and invokes the hallowed name of Oprah. Will the Facebook founder become the book business’ new Prince Charming, bestowing instant fame and bestseller status on some obscure but deserving author twice a month? But far more intriguing is the […]
  
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• Andrew Edlin Boosts Outsider Art Market Ahead of Outsider Art Fair

  23-01-2015 19:27 via artnews.com
  On January 29 the Outsider Art Fair will launch its third New York edition, boasting 50 exhibitors (its most ever) at Center 548 in Chelsea, all part of a trend Director Andrew Edlin (of the eponymous gallery) sees as a … Read More
  
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• Beloved Danish Orchestra (That Is Technically Shut Down) Rises Through Crowdfunding

  23-01-2015 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Danish National Chamber Orchestra (DNCO) has launched a Kickstarter campaign to continue bringing music to audiences in Denmark and beyond—even though, officially, it seems to be shut down.”
  
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• Facebook’s Battle Against Nudity In Art

  23-01-2015 18:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Social media giant Facebook has been taken to court by a French user whose account was closed down after he posted an image of Courbet’s racy painting L’Origine du Monde (1866). According to Le Figaro, the world-famous oil-on-canvas was part of a promo for an art history video about the artwork, broadcasted by the highbrow […]
  
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• Madrid’s Protest Orchestra

  23-01-2015 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Although the term “protest music” conjures images of Baez, Dylan, Marley, Molotov, and many more, its roots lie in the classical traditions represented by La Solfónica, a rabble-rousing group that plays at demonstrations across Madrid.
  
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• Me me meme: artists’ selfies paint the full spectrum of self-obsession

  23-01-2015 18:25
  
  Turner Contemporary, Margate
  From a Van Dyck self-portrait to Ian Breakwell’s heartbreaking valediction as he lay dying of cancer, this absorbing show sorts the vain from the gloriousThere’s a body on the floor of the gallery, as if he’d been dragged up from an east Kent beach. Good lord, it’s Jeremy Millar. The exposed parts of his body are covered in weird holes. Something’s had a go at him. This ultra-realistic cast of the artist’s body in extremis is based on a story by chiller-w
  
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• Can art still shock?

  23-01-2015 18:15
  
  Is Grayson Perry right – can we no longer be outraged by art and literature? From Manet’s Olympia to Pussy Riot and Houellebecq, Adam Thirlwell presents a short history of shockFor a long time, I’ve been nostalgic for the era of shock. It’s with a certain fondness that I reflect on the crazed year of 1857, which began with Gustave Flaubert in court for his first novel, Madame Bovary (in the presence of a stenographer, hired by Flaubert, for the benefit of an incredulous posterity), follo
  
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• Penny Dann obituary

  23-01-2015 17:57
  
  Illustrator of children’s books and creator of The Secret FairyPenny Dann, who has died of cancer aged 50, was a prolific illustrator of children’s books, with a humorous and vivacious style. Her work appeared in numerous anthologies and in individual picture books by a wide range of authors; she also wrote and illustrated her own series, The Secret Fairy.Dann’s accessible and child-friendly style was noticed while she was still a student at Brighton College of Art, where she studied visua
  
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• Selfies and sex offenders – the week in art

  23-01-2015 17:05
  
  A potted history of self-portraits hits Margate, as a photographer enters Florida’s town for sex offenders. Plus Jurassica the theme park, and the art collective buying up ecstasy on the deep web – all in your weekly art dispatchRights of Nature
  A daunting Patagonia landscape by Darren Almond is among the works in this timely show that explores and protests the destruction of ecology in the Americas. Participants include Amy Balkin, Subhankar Banerjee, Mabe Bethônico, Ursula Biemann
  
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• London’s National Gallery Is Systematically Outsourcing Its Staff

  23-01-2015 15:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A letter to staff from the director, Nicholas Penny, says all gallery services go out to tender in April, something no other national gallery or museum has done. That includes visitor services, school bookings, public information and even complaints.”
  
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• Let’s Understand Why People Engage (Or Don’t) With The Arts

  23-01-2015 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Those who self-identify as lower or working class are more likely to attend events in order to “support the community” or “explore their cultural heritage;” upper classes often attend the arts “as a marker of their good taste, cultural capital and social identity.”
  
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• Morning Links: January 23, 2015

  23-01-2015 15:23 via artnews.com
  The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris is hoping to expand its photo department by establishing a patrons group dedicated to photography. [The Art Newspaper] Here is Carol Vogel’s last on-staff Inside Art column. [The New York Times] … Read More
  
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• Game of Crowns: The 1715 Jacobite Rising, National Library of Scotland - review

  23-01-2015 13:51
  
  An elaborately cuffed hand is drawn on the floor of The National Library of Scotland, pointing the way to Game of Crowns, an exhibition commemorating the 300-year anniversary of the 1715 Jacobite uprising. Follow it, and you step over contradictory words laid back to back so they appear to mirror one another ‘pretender/sovereign,’ ‘usurper/king,’ ‘traitor/leader.’
  
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• How we made the DeviantArt Mobile App | App story

  23-01-2015 13:00
  
  The art community app uses an innovative grid design to emphasise artworks and give users the feeling of walking through a real-life galleryDeviantArt (DA), the online art gallery and community, developed its first official mobile app as part of a journey that began with a rebrand to reflect how our community of 33.8 million registered members has changed and evolved over our 14-year lifespan. Our 65 million unique monthly visitors generate 2.5bn monthly views to more than 300m original artworks
  
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• Can you match the manifesto to the Russian protest? – picture quiz

  23-01-2015 12:41
  
  Activist group Blue Rider brought protest art back to Moscow's Red Square this week, dousing Lenin's mausoleum with "holy water". But why? Test your knowledge of Russia's new wave of cultural activists Continue reading...
  
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• First Lady Of Arabic Cinema, Faten Hamama, Dead At 83

  23-01-2015 10:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For a half-century, she stayed current by taking topical roles in films dealing with social justice and women’s rights. As an idolized national figure, she not only galvanized support for those causes but also helped redefine the Arab woman.” (She was also, by the way, the frequent co-star and erstwhile wife of Omar Sharif.)
  
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• Where Science And Science Fiction Meet

  23-01-2015 10:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Many scientists and engineers acknowledge that science fiction helped to spark their imagination of what was possible in science (immersion in the genre from a young age might help explain why I now research unconventional computers). And science fiction authors are inspired by future science possibilities. But how do novel scientific ideas get into SF […]
  
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• $150K Play Production Award To Rajiv Joseph’s “The Guards At The Taj”

  23-01-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Joseph, who was a Pulitzer finalist in 2010 for Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, won the 2015 Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award, “which provides $50,000 to the winning playwright and an additional $100,000 to defray production costs for the play’s premiere.”
  
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• Hunger Games: Wave Of New Video Games Focuses On Scarcity And Subsistence Rather Than Shooting

  23-01-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “These games subvert the usual arc of heroic triumph … at last breaking away from the technicolour militarist bloodbaths that dog the reputation of computer games. … Finding a mouldy crust of bread to eat is often a higher priority than blazing away at the robots.”
  
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• Literary Feud News: Naipaul And Theroux Bury 19-Year-Old Hatchet

  23-01-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The two men, who once had a close mentor-protégé relationship, began a nasty public feud in 1996; this week it came to an end as the ailing 82-year-old Naipaul was honored at the Jaipur literary festival.
  
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• NY City Opera Board Wants Lower Of Two Purchase Bids

  23-01-2015 09:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The board for the bankrupt New York City Opera said Thursday that it still wanted to sell the company’s name and few remaining assets to its preferred suitor, even though another bidder offered $250,000 more for them at an auction in court earlier this week.”
  
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• Museums Move Even Deeper Into Contemporary Dance

  23-01-2015 09:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While art museums have dabbled in live performance since the 1960s, ‘the real estate has changed,’ said the choreographer Ralph Lemon … ‘Museums are now offering performance spaces beyond just the gardens and basements and unannounced hallways.’ The trend is proving a sure way to drive up traffic.”
  
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• Harvey Weinstein’s Broadway Publicist Dumps Him (Or Was Fired)

  23-01-2015 09:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  The famously volatile film producer “and the veteran Broadway press agent Rick Miramontez have parted ways on Mr. Weinstein’s forthcoming musical Finding Neverland after sharp words were said at their weekly planning meeting on Tuesday.”
  
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• Oscar nominated ‘Leviathan’ may fall foul of Kremlin cultural decree

  23-01-2015 09:00
  
  Document signed by Vladimir Putin refers to “false ideas about Russia’s historic backwardness”
  
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• The Nazi Films Still Banned In Germany To This Day

  23-01-2015 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The first surprise is the wide range of propaganda subjects on which bans are still enforced” – not only anti-British, -French, -Russian, and (of course) anti-Jewish propaganda, but also films promoting fighter pilots (a musical, no less), the Hitler Youth, euthanasia, and the repatriation of ethnic Germans in Poland. Richard Brody considers why these movies […]
  
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• Notes On Grumbling

  23-01-2015 08:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Joshua Rothman: “Given its omnipresence, it’s tempting to say that grumbling may be the quintessential modern speech act. … Susan Sontag dedicated Notes on Camp to camp’s patron saint, Oscar Wilde. These far humbler notes are dedicated to that great grumbler Oscar the Grouch.”
  
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• You Should Never Worry Alone

  23-01-2015 08:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Worrying alone does not have to be toxic, but it tends to become toxic because in isolation we lose perspective. We tend to globalize, catastrophize, when no one is there to act as a reality check. Our imaginations run wild.”
  
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• Why Dannon Needs To Warn You That a Foot-Tall Strawberry Is Not Going To Pop Out Of Your Yogurt Container

  23-01-2015 08:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shirley S. Wang takes a look at the ever-expanding phenomenon of advertising disclaimers.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.22.15

  23-01-2015 06:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Approaching Beauty in a Business School AJBlog: Jumper Published 2015-01-22 What Are Ballet Conductors For? AJBlog: Unanswered Question Published 2015-01-22 Ward Swingle, 1927-2015 AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-01-22 “Translucent Complementary Contrast”: Steven Holl’s Alluring Expansion of MFA, Houston (with video) AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-01-22
  
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• The sound art of Mofo 2015: making noise in the art world

  23-01-2015 03:26
  
  Galleries transformed into giant speakers, microphones used as musical instruments – at Hobart’s Mona Foma, sound found a space and art could be heard• Mofo 2015: the festival hits and the misses
  • Experimenta Recharge biennale: new media, old storiesIt’s Friday afternoon, the second day of the Museum of Old and New Art’s Mona Foma festival, and Brendan Walls is more than a little disgruntled that his sound art piece Elements of Refusal has, ironically, been shut down because of nois
  
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• James Fuentes Opens Project Space This Sunday

  23-01-2015 02:03 via artnews.com
  New York’s James Fuentes gallery announced today that this Sunday it will open a project space within its gallery at 55 Delancey Street. The 400-square-foot space is called Allen & Eldridge (two streets that do not intersect, though they do frame … Read More
  
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• ‘Dr. Doom’ Predicts Art Market Troubles

  23-01-2015 01:55 via artnews.com
  Professor Nouriel Roubini, the famous NYU economist also known as “Dr. Doom” for his predictions about the housing crisis, sounded off on the art market at Davos, the Financial Times reports. From the FT: “Whether we like it or not, art … Read More
  
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• Prospect New Orleans goes off the beaten track with new artistic director

  23-01-2015 01:40
  
  Trevor Schoonmaker says he aims to show work “beyond what’s trending and top ten lists”
  
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