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• Book ahead, Australia: Chinese New Year, Groovin the Moo and War Pictures

  28-01-2015 23:59
  
  In our weekly tout of the hottest tickets just released, book now to see Charlie XCX go country, a seal juggling a piano and a world premiere at Griffin theatreChinese New Year celebrations for the year of the sheep get under way across the country and some of the biggest events will take place in Sydney. While the annual Twilight Parade and the Dragon Races will be as popular as ever, one of the highlights is sure to be the spectacular Lanterns of the Terracotta Warriors, created by Chinese art
  
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• Adjaye's form, Adjaye's content

  28-01-2015 23:48
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• What Does An Orchestra Engaging With Its Audience Look Like?

  28-01-2015 22:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “No more music stands. No more physical barrier between musicians and audience. Musicians free to look at the audience, to make eye contact (if the lighting allows them to see anyone’s eyes). To smile. To show how much they love the music, and love playing it. (And if they don’t love it, or love playing…that’s […]
  
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• Employees at London’s National Gallery Vote to Strike

  28-01-2015 22:04 via artnews.com
  Workers at the National Gallery in London have voted in favor of a five-day strike, The New York Times reports, in response to the museum’s decision to “outsource visitor and security services to a private company.” The change is expected … Read More
  
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• Carnegie Hall Will Commission 125 New Works

  28-01-2015 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Carnegie Hall will celebrate its 125th anniversary next season not only with its customary assortment of the world’s leading orchestras and performers playing long-cherished masterpieces but also by starting a new project to commission some 125 new works over the next five years.”
  
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• Christian Marclay: let’s get messed up

  28-01-2015 19:44
  
  How do you follow up a worldwide art phenomenon? If you’re Christian Marclay, you go on a booze-fuelled paint-splurging bender. Adrian Searle gets drunk on his dizzying new showAfter the global success of his 24-hour film The Clock, which features thousands of movie clips that include watches, clocks and people telling the time, it has been intriguing to imagine what Christian Marclay might do next. I have to record that the Swiss and American artist, who now lives in London, has gone on a gar
  
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• Kinda Creepy? New Machines That Control Your Hand As It Draws

  28-01-2015 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Teacher, for example, is a machine that coaches you to draw by forcing your hand to perform certain motions. The thinking goes, repeat the task enough times and eventually your hand will remember how to do it on its own.”
  
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• London’s National Gallery Workers Plan Strike To Protest Privatization

  28-01-2015 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  According to the union, the National Gallery plans “to privatise almost all staff, including those who look after the paintings and help the gallery’s six million annual visitors”.
  
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• Surely Self-Censoring Art Is Not An Acceptable Answer

  28-01-2015 19:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While we desperately need an open debate about free speech and the freedom to offend in our society, the obsessive focus on Muslims, religion, and blasphemy has diverted attention away from the bigger question of how we handle offending and being offended as part of a big, broad society where not everyone is going to […]
  
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• Battle For The Soul Of Children’s Cartoons (It Ain’t Pretty)

  28-01-2015 19:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Branded toys routinely make more money than the films and cartoons on which they are based—sometimes a lot more—so it’s logical in a way that yes, children’s television shows and movies are basically long, elaborate toy commercials.”
  
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• How The Meaning Of Movies Changes Depending On When You See Them

  28-01-2015 19:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Whatever impact a film might have on those who see it, the reality is that events, attitudes and present-day understandings affect and shape how we view movies as much, if not more. This cultural exchange doesn’t apply only to new films.”
  
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• Take That Marriott – FCC Bans Blocking Of Wifi Signals

  28-01-2015 18:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Willful or malicious interference with Wi-Fi hot spots is illegal…The Enforcement Bureau has seen a disturbing trend in which hotels and other commercial establishments block wireless consumers from using their own personal Wi-Fi hot spots on the commercial establishment’s premise.”
  
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• High Museum Hires Katherine Jentleson as Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art

  28-01-2015 18:52 via artnews.com
  Katherine Jentleson has been named the first Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art. The museum made the announcement today, which comes five months after it shared news of a $2.5 … Read More
  
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• The Meaning Of Art – Is Writing A Job Or…

  28-01-2015 18:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There is something dreary about wanting writing to be a real job. The sense of inner purpose, so often unmentionable in a society enamored of professionalization, distinguishes a writer from a hack.”
  
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• Greece And Spain’s Economies Are Basket Cases, Yet Their Opera Companies Are Flourishing. Here’s Why

  28-01-2015 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Those countries have been stuck in a six-year depression, with unemployment rates of around 25 per cent. Yet their principal opera companies have somehow come through the valley of austerity with no debt, full and lively artistic programs, and higher standing in their communities. They have done far better, in fact, than some companies in […]
  
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• A History Of Shocking Art (Are We All Shocked Out?)

  28-01-2015 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “To be shocking, to be offensive: the meaning of these noble terms might not be obvious. There are so many variants of shock. What might be necessary, for more precise orientation, is some kind of shock genealogy.”
  
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• N. Dash Joins Casey Kaplan in New York

  28-01-2015 18:15 via artnews.com
  New York’s Casey Kaplan gallery now represents the artist N. Dash, who is known for her muted post-minimal paintings, which she typically makes by applying water mixed with adobe to linen. They are resolutely spare. Kaplan, which is moving to Manhattan’s … Read More
  
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• The 20 Top University Fundraisers (A Record Year)

  28-01-2015 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Donors increased the amount they gave colleges in 2014 by 10.8 percent, up from $33.8 billion in 2013, which was the previous historic high. Without adjusting for inflation, the growth between 2013 and 2014 was the largest since 2000.”
  
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• OLISHKA

  28-01-2015 18:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sam was a quiet person who became wary and conservative whenever he appeared in public.  But his wife Melissa was tall and daring, an extravagant woman who dressed in extraordinary fashions and colors and whom other men found very attractive.  Melissa adored Sam.  They lived in a very nice house on the side of a ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Are We Exiting The Era Of Big Stage Musicals?

  28-01-2015 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I think we are in a slight time of shift, in that the sung through musical perhaps is now receding, and the book musical is starting to come back. It’s delicate…you have to have a theme which engages as much as you need glorious music.”
  
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• We’re Losing Our Working Class Actors. And Here’s What We’re Really Losing

  28-01-2015 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The important thing is: what do we do about that? Because otherwise we lose all these interesting characters like Richard Burton and Richard Harris, and playwrights like John Osborne who were writing working-class stories. What happens to that? Does that just go? Or do we go back to the 30s when you had incredibly posh […]
  
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• King Tut’s Beard Disaster: Conservation Chief Demoted To The Royal Stables

  28-01-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Last week, her duties included the conservation of one of the world’s most important collection of artefacts, including Tutankhamun’s fabled death mask and jewellery, as well as hundreds of ancient mummies, tombs and statues. From now on her role will be limited to overseeing the contents of Egypt’s royal stables.”
  
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• Japanese cannibals and German executions: Luc Tuymans goes over to the dark side

  28-01-2015 17:28
  
  The new London exhibition by one of Europe’s most influential painters features a portrait of Japanese killer Issei Sagawa and The Shore, a ‘really dark’ artwork of a German submarine crew about to be shotLuc Tuymans is best known for his washed and bleached-out canvases, so one huge work in a new show represents a real departure for one of Europe’s most influential painters: it is incredibly dark.The painting is literally dark, in that it is a night-time scene, and metaphorically dark �
  
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• Artists often take the money and run – but we must say no to oil companies | Mark Ravenhill

  28-01-2015 16:59
  
  The arts have banked on corporate sponsorship, but the City played its own role in causing cuts to our funding. And those organisations who accept cash from oil? They’re simply destroying the environmentFor some 30 years now, many of us in the arts have prided ourselves on our skills as conmen. We can find the money, wherever it may be. And we can take it. And run.It might not be the ideal situation. But ideal situations rarely come along. And Robin Hood isn’t such a bad thing to be. It’s
  
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• Gilbert & George, Ice Cream, and a Talk Show at Art Stage Singapore

  28-01-2015 16:38 via artnews.com
  One afternoon last week, at the Art Stage Singapore fair, which closed on Sunday at the futuristic-looking Marina Bay Sands Exhibition and Convention Center, French collector Steve Rosenblum and his wife Chiara talked for an hour with Cambodian artist Svay … Read More
  
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• Tut-tut: Cairo museum relocates head of restoration after ‘botched’ Tutankhamun repair

  28-01-2015 16:27
  
  Illham Abdel Rahman moved to museum in Bulaq
  
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• Morning Links: January 28, 2015 Edition

  28-01-2015 15:09 via artnews.com
  Deborah Solomon profiles Kehinde Wiley, a story that begins with his thoughts on Ferguson, Mo.: “‘I know how young black men are seen,’ he said on a recent winter afternoon in his studio in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. ‘They’re … Read More
  
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• Somebody is going around telling people he's Banksy - but it isn't the street artist

  28-01-2015 14:57
  
  The elusive street artist known as Banksy has been less-than elusive in 2015 introducing himself to a schoolboy on a train and popping into a restaurant to admire the décor. But is it really him?
  
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• Does Banksy have a Cumbrian impersonator?

  28-01-2015 14:57
  
  The elusive street artist known as Banksy has been less-than elusive in 2015 introducing himself to a schoolboy on a train and popping into a restaurant to admire the décor. But is it really him?
  
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• Another Banksy hoax? Man going around claiming to be Robin Banks is not the street artist

  28-01-2015 14:57
  
  The elusive street artist known as Banksy has been less-than elusive in 2015 introducing himself to a schoolboy on a train and popping into a restaurant to admire the décor. But is it really him?
  
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• Scholars meet in Mali to save Timbuktu’s remaining manuscripts

  28-01-2015 12:34
  
  Three-day symposium is supported by the UK government
  
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• MP leads campaign to stop Islamic State funding terror through trafficking

  28-01-2015 11:37
  
  UK and US collaborate to cut off one of group’s top revenue streams
  
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• ‘No one group has done more to put our heritage at risk than Islamic State’

  28-01-2015 11:19
  
  International cooperation is key to shrinking the market for looted art from the Middle East
  
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• Woody Allen and Placido Domingo joining forces for LA opera revival

  28-01-2015 10:34
  
  Placido Domingo is teaming up with Woody Allen for a revival of the filmmakers first opera production at the Los Angeles Opera.
  
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• Doomed Orchestra Has Actually Saved Itself With Crowdfunding

  28-01-2015 10:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Danish National Chamber Orchestra was disbanded at New Year’s, after “this 75-year-old ensemble’s state funding was cancelled at ludicrously short notice … Through a Kickstarter campaign to raise 3m Danish kroner (£300,000), the orchestra received more than a third of that money from supporters, and have now had pledges for the rest of the […]
  
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• Italy’s Most Popular, And Maybe Best, TV Series Ever – Will It Be Bad For Italy?

  28-01-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In short, Italy has created a popular, realistic, beautifully rendered TV series – which is what has so many people worried. The international success of Gomorrah could turn into bad publicity for Naples and Italy, just as the young government of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is trying so hard to restore confidence among foreigners.”
  
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• How To Enjoy Modern Music: A 14-Point Guide For The Perplexed By An Artist

  28-01-2015 09:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Curt Barnes’s suggestions include “Remember when you hated what you now love”, “Music is not necessarily for your entertainment”, “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom”, and “Don’t trust the program notes” (even if the composer wrote them).
  
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• Why The Idea Of Machines That Can Think Creeps Some Of Us Out

  28-01-2015 09:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tania Lombrozo: “My sense is that the valley of ‘uncanny thinking’ is real, but elicits a more existential than visceral response. And if that’s so, perhaps it’s because we’re threatened by the idea that human thinking isn’t unique, and that maybe human thinking isn’t so special.”
  
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• Looks Like The Tate Gave Itself To BP For Cheap

  28-01-2015 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  The (40% state-funded) group of museums, having lost its years-long battle against environmental activists demanding disclosure, revealed how much it has been receiving in sponsorship money from the petroleum giant over the past 17 years. The amount has been described in press headlines as “surprisingly low”, “embarrassingly small”, and “laughably small”.
  
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• We May Be Closer To Recovering The Only Surviving Library Collection From Ancient Rome

  28-01-2015 09:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Researchers have found a key that may unlock the only library of classical antiquity to survive along with its documents” – from a villa in Herculaneum, destroyed along with Pompeii by the Vesuvius eruption – “raising at least a possibility of recovering vanished works of ancient Greek and Roman authors such as the lost books […]
  
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• Helen Macdonald’s “H Is For Hawk” Wins Costa Book Prize (And £30,000)

  28-01-2015 09:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[The memoir] tells of how the Cambridge historian, illustrator and naturalist was so overcome by grief after the death of her father that she went almost mad and decided to train the most untameable of raptors, the goshawk.”
  
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• Wanted: a new generation of Monuments Men for US army

  28-01-2015 09:23
  
  Curators, art historians and museum directors sought to provide expert advice in combat zones
  
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• D.C. Theaters Expand Helen Hayes Awards Into “Helens” And “Hayeses”

  28-01-2015 09:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The split generally falls along professional lines. If most of a show’s performers are Equity (union) actors, that’s a Hayes show. If they aren’t, it’s a Helen, regardless of theater. Got it? … Illustrating how the ‘Helen’ and ‘Hayes’ distinctions really go show by show, not theater by theater, is the case of Arena Stage.”
  
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• Is Washington, D.C. Oversupplied With Serious Theater? Arena Stage And The Shakespeare Worry

  28-01-2015 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The town is so crowded … that even voices from the small independent sector have begun to wonder aloud whether the city is oversaturated. Washington also teems with competition for audiences increasingly lured by a burgeoning restaurant scene and the cyber circus of online diversions. All this adds to the special pressure faced by big […]
  
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• Male-Female Inequality Is Still A “Dangerous Subject” In The Arts, Says London’s Top Arts Exec

  28-01-2015 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jude Kelly, artistic director of the Southbank Centre: “I think cultural spaces are the places to talk about dangerous subjects, and gender equality is still a dangerous subject, and it’s just as relevant in the arts as anywhere else.”
  
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• French artist withdraws prayer rug installation from show after threats from Muslim group

  28-01-2015 09:09
  
  Curators ask Clichy’s mayor to support the display of Zoulikha Bouabdellah’s Silence or shut the exhibition down entirely
  
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• Why Scientology Appeals to Aspiring Actors

  28-01-2015 09:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lawrence Wright, author of Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, and Alex Gibney, director of the book’s film adaptation, explain. (video)
  
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• This Opera Company Just Got A Regular Gig At Versailles

  28-01-2015 09:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Opera Atelier is already the busiest touring opera company in North America, but its 30th season will enhance that reputation even further. Already a regular guest at the Opera Royal at the Palace of Versailles in France, the Toronto company will now make it official, appearing at Versailles every other season.”
  
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• Leonora Carrington: wild at heart

  28-01-2015 09:00
  
  She ran off with Max Ernst, drank with the surrealists – and kept her tea under lock and key. Charlotte Higgins on the dazzling life and art of Leonora CarringtonLeonora Carrington was a debutante who ran away with the surrealists. Born in 1917, she was exactly the same age as Jessica Mitford – who eloped with Winston Churchill’s nephew to the Spanish civil war. Aside from their class (Carrington, a ravishing beauty with a cloud of curly dark hair, was presented at court in 1935), the two
  
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• Mark McGowan: the artist taxi driver with a rear-view manifesto | Dawn Foster

  28-01-2015 09:00
  
  Mixing an artist’s eye and cabbie’s perspective, Mark McGowan’s online polemics against social harms he sees caused by politics are moving trafficMark McGowan spends an awful lot of time in cars, as a minicab driver. To fill the dead time, he records videos on his iPhone – short rants about politics, social and current affairs, and uploads them to YouTube, where he is better known as ChunkyMark, the Artist Taxi Driver. The first videos appeared in 2010, and were watched by only a few hun
  
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