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• As New York Faces A Monster Snowstorm, The Times Gives The City A Guide To The Arts From Their Apartments

  26-01-2015 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Your stereo is searching for something better than what you’re listening to now? You need a new book? We hear you. Here are our recommendations for what’s streaming on TV, what should be rocking your apartment and great reads to curl up with.”
  
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• Apparently, Coloradans Love The Arts More Than The Rest Of Us Do

  26-01-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘Once you recite a line of Shakespeare, you are hooked for life,’ said Jeremy Shamos, board chair for Curious Theatre Company, which has an aggressive youth outreach program that includes a workshop for aspiring teen playwrights.”
  
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• Thatcher statue made famous after being beheaded now tucked away in the ‘perfect setting’

  26-01-2015 20:46
  
  Some things, you might assume, are easy to find. A once-decapitated 8ft-tall two-ton marble statue of Lady Thatcher, for example. 
  
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• Van Gogh to ‘Doudou’–Mons’s year as European Capital of Culture begins

  26-01-2015 19:36
  
  Belgian city promises blockbuster shows but also new museums devoted to local traditions
  
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• North Koreans Risk Everything To Import Illegal Soap Operas

  26-01-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The decidedly lowbrow dramas — with names like ‘Bad Housewife’ and ‘Red Bean Bread’ — have, in fact, become something of a cultural Trojan horse, sneaking visions of the bustling South into the tightly controlled, impoverished North alongside the usual sudsy fare of betrayals, bouts of ill-timed amnesia and, at least once, a love affair […]
  
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• Pamela Rosenkranz Will Represent Switzerland at the 2015 Venice Biennale

  26-01-2015 19:22 via artnews.com
  Pamela Rosenkranz will represent Switzerland at the Swiss pavilion of the 2015 Venice Biennale, in a show curated by Susanne Pfeffer. “I am interested in how Pamela reflects on technological change and the associated transformation in contemporary philosophy, science, global … Read More
  
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• From failed preacher to struggling artist, exhibition traces Van Gogh’s time in Belgian mining towns

  26-01-2015 19:04
  
  Some of the few surviving examples of the Dutch painter’s earliest creative efforts are on view in Mons
  
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• BP’s Tate sponsorship smaller than expected

  26-01-2015 18:17
  
  Campaigners force gallery to disclose it has received £4m from 1990 to 2006
  
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• Six Art Events to Attend In New York This Week

  26-01-2015 17:50 via artnews.com
  THURSDAY, JANUARY 29 Opening: Alec Soth’s “Slowdance” at Sean Kelly This new show is “an exhibition of over twenty-five new, monumental black and white photographs by Alec Soth,” maybe the best photographer working in America right now. It’s silly not … Read More
  
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• Maybe Chelsea Won’t Be Hit Hard By This Storm

  26-01-2015 17:25 via artnews.com
  Chelsea, arguably the center of the New York art world and on Manhattan’s far west side, was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and, to a far lesser degree, fairly hard by Hurricane Irene in 2011. Now as New … Read More
  
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• The world’s largest gif? The art world’s latest hype more like

  26-01-2015 16:04
  
  We may be able to see it from space, but the world’s largest gif is really just an advertising stunt. We still need a real artist to create the first digital masterpieceSo where is art headed in the digital age? Can we see the future yet?We must be experiencing the fastest rate of technological change in human history. The industrial revolution was a meandering process compared with today’s acceleration. And because communication is at the heart of this historical leap, it instantly and cons
  
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• Storm King Art Center Is Starting an Artist Residency Program

  26-01-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  Storm King Art Center in Upstate New York will start its first-ever residency program in 2015 with the help of The Shandaken Project, which has run a program of its own for artist in the Catskills since 2012. From June … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Margaret Thatcher Edition

  26-01-2015 14:59 via artnews.com
  Tania Bruguera’s arrest has raised questions about artistic freedom in Cuba. [The New York Times] Life magazine photographer Robert Morse has died. [The New York Times] “The controversial marble statue of Margaret Thatcher by Neil Simmons has been banished from … Read More
  
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• Tate’s BP sponsorship was £150,000 to £330,000 a year, figures show

  26-01-2015 13:58
  
  UK gallery group releases numbers from 17-year period to campaign group Platform after ruling by an information tribunalTate received annual sponsorship of between £150,000 and £330,000 from BP over a 17-year period until 2006, newly released figures show.Tate was ordered to reveal the numbers by an information tribunal last December and was given 35 days to comply. Continue reading...
  
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• Tate reveals it received between £150,000 and £330,000 a year from BP

  26-01-2015 13:58
  
  UK gallery group released the figures to campaigning group Platform after a ruling by an information tribunalTate received annual sponsorship of between £150,000 and £330,000 from BP over a 17-year period up until 2006, newly released figures show.Tate was ordered to reveal the numbers by an information tribunal last December and was given 35 days to comply. Continue reading...
  
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• Tate reveal they received between £150,000 and £330,000 a year from BP

  26-01-2015 13:58
  
  UK gallery group released the figures to campaigning group Platform after a ruling by an information tribunalTate received annual sponsorship of between £150,000 and £330,000 from BP over a 17-year period up until 2006, newly released figures show.Tate was ordered to reveal the numbers by an information tribunal last December and was given 35 days to comply. Continue reading...
  
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• The Tempest or The Enchanted Island, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, review: Forgotten corner of musical history brilliantly re-animated

  26-01-2015 11:43
  
  A forgotten corner of musical history has been brilliantly re-animated by the lutenist Elizabeth Kenny plus a group of her colleagues from the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment, and they’re presenting it in a replica of the theatre for which it was originally intended.
  
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• Top AJBlog Posts For 01.25.15

  26-01-2015 07:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Minimalism Unbounded but Helsinki-Bound AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-01-25 Let’s help this happen AJBlog: SandowPublished 2015-01-24 Recent Listening: Kenton Alums, Coltrane, Mraz, Among Others AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-01-24 In Memory: Carl Weissner, So Rudely Interrupted AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2015-01-24
  
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