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• Seattle Art Museum and Clark Art Institute Make Superbowl Bet

  29-01-2015 23:57 via artnews.com
  The administrators of the Seattle Art Museum and the Clark Art Institute of Williamstown, Mass., have made a wager on Sunday’s Super Bowl that will have the winning team’s museum receive a painting for a three-month loan. Should the Seahawks … Read More
  
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• Preview: The Outsider Art Fair in New York

  29-01-2015 23:51 via artnews.com
  This afternoon, amidst installation, I had a look around New York’s Outsider Art Fair, which officially opens tomorrow at the old Dia building in Chelsea on West 22nd Street. There’s much to see! The fourth floor features not only some paintings by … Read More
  
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• New BBC Radio 3 Controller promises more female composers

  29-01-2015 23:08
  
  The new Controller of BBC Radio 3 has promised to give more airtime to female composers and vowed that the station will not “dumb down” in an attempt to copy commercial rival Classic FM.
  
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• New BBC Radio 3 Controller promises more airtime to female composers

  29-01-2015 23:08
  
  The new Controller of BBC Radio 3 has promised to give more airtime to female composers and vowed that the station will not “dumb down” in an attempt to copy commercial rival Classic FM.
  
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• Broad Museum Hires Caitlín Doherty as Curator

  29-01-2015 21:55 via artnews.com
  Caitlín Doherty has been appointed curator and “deputy director of curatorial affairs” at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, the museum announced today. Doherty was previously the exhibitions and speaker curator at Virginia Commonwealth University … Read More
  
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• Broad MSU Museum Hires Caitlín Doherty as Curator

  29-01-2015 21:55 via artnews.com
  Caitlín Doherty has been appointed curator and deputy director of curatorial affairs at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, the museum announced today. Doherty was previously the exhibitions and speaker curator at Virginia Commonwealth University … Read More
  
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• Here’s the 2015 Pulse New York Exhibitor List

  29-01-2015 21:40 via artnews.com
  Fair season in New York is nearly here. March 5 to 8, the Pulse New York fair will take place at the the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, 125 West 18th Street, with more than 40 national and international exhibitors. Eighty percent of … Read More
  
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• Art in the Dead of Winter: A Painting Blowout at Gavin Brown, the Winter Antiques Show, and ML Artspace

  29-01-2015 20:45 via artnews.com
  It is cold and wet outside in New York, which is not an ideal combination, the conditions making it essential for any trip outside to really count. Below, two suggestions for art exhibitions on view with plenty to offer, and … Read More
  
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• How To Think About Dance And Movement? Start With An Idea

  29-01-2015 20:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I am convinced that choreography is not only the best [art] form to buy a ticket for, it is also an orchestration of encounters, the setting up of encounters between different minds,” she said. “I hope we give audiences the possibility to enter the choreography themselves, but also to intellectually stimulate the publics we encounter, […]
  
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• Bring back The 8-Track! Why Physicality Matters In Music

  29-01-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s not about toggling between tabs, one for streaming music, one for chatting with coworkers, and another for checking bank statements. It’s about experiencing music as an artifact, and really listening.”
  
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• France Considers Taxing Netflix, Amazon To Support Culture

  29-01-2015 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “France has a vibrant film and television sector thanks to a system that requires television networks to hand over a proportion of their turnover to back domestic production, on top of a series of public grants and funds. The result is a diverse field of many small- to mid-size production companies, unlike in the United […]
  
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• Want To Boost Your Creativity? Study Says Ponder Who You Are

  29-01-2015 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Spending a few minutes pondering the various identities you wear—spouse, parent, employee, sports fan, political partisan, what-have-you—can lead to more creative insights.”
  
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• “Thorn Birds” Author Colleen McCullough Dies at 77

  29-01-2015 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Thorn Birds, which has never been out of print, has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and been translated into more than 20 languages. In hardcover, it spent more than a year on the New York Times best-seller list; the paperback rights were sold at auction for $1.9 million, a record at the […]
  
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• Have We Become Too Sensitive In Public Debate To Have Real Conversations About Ideas?

  29-01-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After political correctness burst onto the academic scene in the late ’80s and early ’90s, it went into a long remission. Now it has returned. Some of its expressions have a familiar tint, like the protesting of even mildly controversial speakers on college campuses.”
  
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• That “Public Radio Voice” – Is It A Cultural Problem?

  29-01-2015 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The voices on podcasts and public radio are informed, interesting, gentle friends. They keep me company as they share important, entertaining, and sometimes tragic stories. But the timbre, accent, inflections, rhythm, metaphors, and references of these voices reflect class, region, ethnicity, gender, and other components of identity.”
  
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• PARSE Co-Director Amy Mackie on Shaping the New Orleans Art Scene

  29-01-2015 19:54 via artnews.com
  Amy Mackie speaks fast, and her answers wind around into other answers. Her conversation is ornamented by her encyclopedic knowledge of the community she works in. After leaving a curatorial position at New York’s New Museum in 2011, she went … Read More
  
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• One Of This Year’s Best Sundance Festival Movies Was Shot On An iPhone

  29-01-2015 19:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Plenty of amateur films have been shot using iPhones, but by all reports, this is the first movie at the Sundance Film Festival to be shot almost entirely on an Apple device. It was a decision that indie writer and director Sean Baker made to accommodate the film’s small budget. But you’d never guess the […]
  
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• Woman Steals Artist’s Identity. Artist Makes Art Out Of Woman’s Life

  29-01-2015 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Sanctioned stalking” … interesting. I could see how someone would see it that way. And I think anyone outside — anyone who is not me or my PI — I could see that perspective. But I do not consider it to be that at all.”
  
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• Banksy prints sell for £435,000 at Bonham's auction

  29-01-2015 18:06
  
  A collection of Banksy prints has fetched more than double its estimate at auction in London.
  
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• Banksy prints sell for £435,000 at auction

  29-01-2015 18:06
  
  A collection of Banksy prints has fetched more than double its estimate at auction in London.
  
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• Ragna Róbertsdóttir: 'I always have done my art very simply. Often the story is in the material'

  29-01-2015 17:00
  
  Getting to the studio is an important part of my experience. It is my first trip to Iceland and I am in Reykjavik. Even at 10am it is still dark. I am also a little disorientated, wandering through the snowy streets. I am reassured to find the right street and to be greeted by this formidable yet affable artist.
  
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• Charlie Sheen portrait 'capturing essence of addiction' goes up for auction

  29-01-2015 16:58
  
  Charlie Sheen says this is the true face of addiction.
  
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• The Art of the Curious Nineties

  29-01-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  The decade is back big-time—but whose ’90s is it, anyway? Read More
  
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• February 2015 Exhibition Reviews

  29-01-2015 15:45 via artnews.com
  Art criticism from around the world, published in this month's print edition Read More
  
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• The Problems With Obsessing About Measuring Impact Of Art

  29-01-2015 15:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If we are constantly debating what “good” or “quality” looks like, we’re wasting time we could be using honing our work to better deliver on the social impact we’ve all agreed is important. I’d love to work for an organization that clearly knows that the impact it wants to have is X–so we can focus […]
  
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• That Sounds So Familiar (But Does That Mean I’ve Just Plagiarized Tom Petty?)

  29-01-2015 15:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Come to think of it, Petty is more like a musical Mark Rothko, in that he usually paints with only a few big splotches of solid color. Just because he’s famous for doing it, does that really mean nobody else is allowed to?”
  
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• The New Lands Of Opportunity: Buffalo, Detroit

  29-01-2015 15:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  If moving to New York City is like dating the most popular kid in your high school only to discover “all the blemishes that aren’t visible when gazed upon from a distance,” then Buffalonians will tell you that moving to their city is like dating the girl next door who’s undergoing a She’s All That-style […]
  
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• Is The English National Opera Losing Audiences And Money? ENO Responds

  29-01-2015 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The unequivocal fact is that in the last eight financial years the ENO has run an unrestricted surplus of £2.4 million. Our total audience for 2013/14 was up by 11% and audience numbers for the 2014/15 season to date remain stable.”
  
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• Imran Qureshi at Ikon Gallery

  29-01-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• Philippe Parreno at Schinkel Pavillon and Esther Schipper

  29-01-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• One Of The Most Infamous Behavioral Experiments, Rethought 50 Years Later

  29-01-2015 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Under the watch of the experimenter, the volunteer—dubbed “the teacher”—would read out strings of words to his partner, “the learner,” who was hooked up to an electric-shock machine in the other room. Each time the learner made a mistake in repeating the words, the teacher was to deliver a shock of increasing intensity, starting at […]
  
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• Why Novelists Turn To The Vividness Of Music

  29-01-2015 15:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Perhaps, fearful of losing the attention of their readers, novelists are borrowing the captivating force of music, feeding off its sensuousness in an effort to regain a lost immediacy. The lengthy musical passages in recent novels, including a few loving and climactic concert scenes, seem to strive for music’s Orphic power.”
  
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• Takashi Murakami at Gagosian

  29-01-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Richard Pousette-Dart at Pace

  29-01-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
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• ‘Fiber: Sculpture 1960–Present’ at Institute of Contemporary Art

  29-01-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Morning Links: Piero di Cosimo Edition

  29-01-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  Architect Zaha Hadid has settled her libel lawsuit against the New York Review of Books. [The New York Times] Five hundred years after his death, Old Master Piero di Cosimo is getting his first retrospective. [The Art Newspaper] In his … Read More
  
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• Klara Liden at Reena Spaulings Fine Art

  29-01-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
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• James Castle at Smithsonian American Art Museum

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• Alexander Ross at David Nolan

  29-01-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Tut-tut: Head of restoration leaves Egyptian Museum after Tutankhamun’s beard debacle

  29-01-2015 14:35
  
  The world groaned in unison last week when it was revealed that Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun’s beard had been snapped off and stuck back on with the wrong glue in a “botched” restoration.
  
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• Wolf Hall is wrong: Thomas More was a funny, feminist Renaissance man

  29-01-2015 13:08
  
  He was a literary wit, a family man ... and a proto-feminist. Evidence that Hilary Mantel’s version of More is a travesty abounds in Hans Holbein’s revealing painting and the statesman’s own masterpiece, UtopiaWhy does Wolf Hall demonise one of the most brilliant and forward-looking of all Renaissance people? Its caricature of Thomas More as a charmless prig, a humourless alienating nasty piece of work, is incredibly unfair. You only have to consider one of Hans Holbein’s greatest works
  
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• French Comedian Stands Trial Over Comment Against Jewish Journalist (Est-Il Charlie?)

  29-01-2015 10:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The provocative French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala stood trial in criminal court on Wednesday over a comment he made lamenting that a prominent Jewish journalist did not die in ‘the gas chambers,’ prosecutors said. Mr. M’bala M’bala has become an emblem in France of the struggle between upholding the secular republic’s commitment to free speech […]
  
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• A Struggle Over The Very Nature Of Science (Seriously)

  29-01-2015 10:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There’s a battle going on at the edge of the universe, but it’s getting fought right here on Earth. With roots stretching back as far as the ancient Greeks, in the eyes of champions on either side, this fight is a contest over nothing less than the future of science. It’s a conflict over the […]
  
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• John Constable painting set to fetch up to £2m at Sotheby's after Christie's sold it for £3.5k

  29-01-2015 10:16
  
  The loss of one auction house look set to be another’s gain in New York today as a John Constable painting mistakenly sold for £3,500 at Christie’s is expected to fetch a not-so-shabby £2 million at Sotheby’s.
  
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• Battle royale: Fontainebleau aims to rival Versailles after €115m funding boost

  29-01-2015 08:07
  
  The French stately home Bonaparte called “the true abode of kings” is about to get a 12-year overhaul
  
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• Israeli soldier’s war memories revived at ICA London

  29-01-2015 08:01
  
  The anonymous artist who was drafted to serve in the 1973 Yom Kippur War stopped painting for 15 years because of post-traumatic stress disorder
  
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• After 500 years, a solo show at last for the Surrealists’ favourite Old Master

  29-01-2015 07:34
  
  Piero di Cosimo’s idiosyncratic paintings are given a long-overdue major show and catalogue which belie Vasari’s claim in Lives of the Artists that he was “more animal than human”
  
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• Untitled(But even an innocent has the need to vomit)

  29-01-2015 06:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I’m fascinated by the pain of not knowing what is wrong. I won’t worry about what could have made me happy, although it would have made me unhappy. Y lived near route 440 near Kennedy blvd.. Z a frizzy haired woman who came from the west side at dawn in black torn pantyhose asked Y ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS

  29-01-2015 01:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Director of Marketing and Communications - Alley Theatre, Houston, Texas
  
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• Preview: ‘Body and Matter’ at Dominique Lévy

  29-01-2015 00:08 via artnews.com
  Earlier today Dominique Lévy gallery hosted a press preview for “Body and Matter,” a show that pairs the work of Kazuo Shiraga and Satoru Hoshino, whom Lévy called “near contemporaries” during a speech with reporters at the gallery. While the … Read More
  
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