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• Marsha Cottrell Joins Eleven Rivington

  02-02-2015 22:54 via artnews.com
  New York’s Eleven Rivington gallery now represents the artist Marsha Cottrell, and on February 27 will open her first one-person show in the city in more than a decade, at its two Lower East Side locations. (Her last show here … Read More
  
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• Romania Taps Adrian Ghenie for 2015 Venice Biennale Pavilion

  02-02-2015 22:14 via artnews.com
  Painter Adrian Ghenie has been selected by Romania to represent it at the 56th Venice Biennale, which opens to the public in just a little more than three months, on May 9. Ghenie, who was born in 1977, is known … Read More
  
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• Art Basel Hong Kong Announces ‘Encounters’ Sector

  02-02-2015 21:46 via artnews.com
  It’s the beginning of February, one of the twelve cruelest months of the year, notable especially as the time when the winter malaise of January gives way to incipient cabin fever, producing strange irrationalities, colored by thoughts like, “Maybe I … Read More
  
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• Ballroom Marfa Names Laura Copelin Associate Curator

  02-02-2015 21:42 via artnews.com
  The Marfa, Texas alternative space Ballroom Marda has tapped Laura Copelin, previously an assistant curator at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, to be its associate curator. “What excites me most about Ballroom Marfa is the ambition of the artist-driven … Read More
  
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• Rapture and rejects: the beautiful, flawed world of Marlene Dumas

  02-02-2015 19:49
  
  From rural South Africa to Amsterdam sex clubs via Amy Winehouse and Bin Laden, the painter’s thrilling retrospective captures the paradoxes and ambiguities of both painting and life
  
  • Marlene Dumas: polymorphously perverse in every way – video
  A wall of faces greets you in the opening room. Dozens of ink and graphite images look back at us, wonky and misproportioned, but also weirdly right. They’re called Rejects – do their sometimes wild imperfections signal failure, or something el
  
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• The Making Of A Hip-Hop Musical – About Founding Father Alexander Hamilton

  02-02-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The headlong rise of one self-made immigrant becomes the story of America. Hamilton announces himself in a signature refrain: ‘Hey, yo, I’m just like my country / I’m young, scrappy and hungry / And I’m not throwing away my shot.'”
  
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• Antiquities forgery makes for not-so-divine comedy at Sundance festival

  02-02-2015 19:28
  
  “Don Verdean” is the story of a biblical archaeologist who decides, if you can’t find it, fake it
  
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• Armenia’s 2015 Venice Biennale Project Marks the Centenary of the Armenian Genocide

  02-02-2015 19:19 via artnews.com
  Armenia’s ministry of culture announced today that its pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale will feature a group show of artists from the Armenian diaspora, and mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. The 16 artists tapped for the exhibition, … Read More
  
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• For Two Weeks, Reclusive Writer Haruki Murakami Has Been Answering Fan Questions Online

  02-02-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The website is part advice column, part author Q & A. Murakami told readers they could ask about any subject — but he did note that he was particularly interested in cats and Japanese baseball.”
  
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• Can Computers Interpret Abstract Art?

  02-02-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Some scientists say they’re closer than ever to closing the emotional gap between humans and machines — that is, the ability to feel, which is essential to arts criticism.”
  
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• Tinnitus Punishes Musicians And Music Fans – Can It Be Fixed?

  02-02-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There is good recent evidence suggesting that as well as damage to hair cells in the cochlea causing tinnitus, connections between those cells and the brain could also become damaged by noise exposure. “
  
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• A ‘Pay What You Decide’ Trial Works So Well That A Theatre Decides To Use It For 6 Months

  02-02-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Turpin explained that although the scheme would encourage bigger audiences through potentially lower prices, it is more important to remove the gamble involved in seeing new work at the theatre.”
  
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• Literary Sexism Isn’t Dead – Yet

  02-02-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It seems that the genre McCullough is most beloved for may be the very reason for the disrespect in memoriam. Romance is maligned by literary critics and often stigmatised as the lightweight reading of bored housewives. It also happens to be a genre populated almost entirely with female authors, which goes some ways to explaining […]
  
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• Turns Out You Can’t Patent A Phrase Supporting Freedom Of Speech

  02-02-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Roncin said that even arms manufacturers had filed requests with the French patent office, hoping to sell weapons with the phrase. He said that the patent office has said it will not trademark the slogan.”
  
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• The great outdoors: share your landscapes now

  02-02-2015 16:30
  
  After heading to outer space, we’re coming back down to Earth and getting bucolic for this month’s Share Your Art theme. Send us your sublime landscapes nowThe truth is out there: your artworks of outer spaceYour chance to be exhibited in London and New YorkMother Earth’s surface has been oft portrayed in art, from medieval Chinese paintings to Tracey Emin, via the impressionists and Renaissance masters. Landscapes are one of art’s main themes – and one we haven’t tackled yet in Shar
  
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• A dad has been getting his son's doodles tattooed and they look pretty awesome

  02-02-2015 16:14
  
  Sometimes the worst tattoos are the best tattoos. Properly designed ones can look clichéd or overly ornate, and something more simple can be more effective.
  
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• A dad has been getting his son's doodles tattooed

  02-02-2015 16:14
  
  Sometimes the worst tattoos are the best tattoos. Properly designed ones can look clichéd or overly ornate, and something simpler can be more effective.
  
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• China Is Isolating Itself From The Wider World Through Internet Firewalls

  02-02-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “To mention one of countless implications: how many first-rate international scientists will want to move to Chinese universities, if the Internet ‘simply does not work’ there?”
  
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• Retrospective: Duchamp’s ‘interior-decorator’s eye’

  02-02-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  And other excerpts from our coverage 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago Read More
  
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• Why Will Amazon Lose BBC Shows? Because It Wants Them All To Itself

  02-02-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s a bit of hardball that could frustrate Amazon’s customers in the short term, but demonstrates just how serious the company is about Prime.”
  
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• From Michelangelo to Caravaggio, why masterpieces are coming out of the woodwork

  02-02-2015 15:19
  
  It may not be as dramatic as a tomb raid, but the discovery of the only surviving bronzes by Michelangelo is the latest in a long line of thrilling art re-attributionsThe attribution of two bronze nudes to none other than Michelangelo is one of those rare art stories that are genuinely important and authentically sensational. And like so many truly significant art history discoveries, this one does not involve digging a lost masterpiece out of a cellar or finding it in a Nazi hoard, but is inste
  
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• The Hurdles Of Left-Wing Performance (Especially In The Circus World)

  02-02-2015 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The circus is traditionally a populist form attracting performers who have been marginalized by society. ‘It’s a language that can speak to all kinds of people on all kinds of levels,’ Miller says. ‘And I certainly knew that postmodern dance wasn’t going to hold them in the parks.'”
  
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• UK government places export bar on Claude Lorrain painting

  02-02-2015 15:13
  
  The recently rediscovered painting by the 17th-century French artist will leave the UK unless £5m can be raised to keep itA UK government export bar has been placed on a recently rediscovered and gloriously light-filled harbour scene by the 17th-century French painter Claude Lorrain.The painting, considered one of the finest examples of Claude’s seaport scenes, will leave the UK unless £5,066,500 can be raised following its purchase by an overseas buyer. Continue reading...
  
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• UK government place export bar on Claude Lorrain painting

  02-02-2015 15:13
  
  The recently rediscovered painting by the 17th-century French artist will leave the UK unless £5m can be raised to keep itA UK government export bar has been placed on a recently rediscovered and gloriously light-filled harbour scene by the 17th-century French painter Claude Lorrain.The painting, considered one of the finest examples of Claude’s seaport scenes, will leave the UK unless £5,066,500 can be raised following its purchase by an overseas buyer. Continue reading...
  
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• New Filmmakers Are Energizing Nordic Cinema

  02-02-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The popularity of Scandi helmers hasn’t gone unnoticed by international talent agents and sales companies. In fact, most buzzed-about Scandinavian directors are repped by Hollywood agents from UTA, WME or CAA and are working on an English-language project if they have not already made one.”
  
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• Morning Links: Blue Chip Edition

  02-02-2015 14:17 via artnews.com
  Carol Vogel talks to Frank Gehry, and others, about his new Louis Vuitton Foundation, and the impressive Modern works of art that will fill it. [The New York Times] Two bronzes are attributed to Michelangelo. [The Art Newspaper] “Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza … Read More
  
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• David Oyelowo Had To Tell His Son He Can Be More In Movies Than A White Man’s Best Friend

  02-02-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s because films like Selma are so rarely made that we end up putting them under the microscope. One, maybe two, a year. As a white person, you don’t have that. You have the gamut. No one says to Oliver Stone: ‘Another film about Vietnam? White characters again?’ Benedict Cumberbatch is never asked, ‘What, you’re […]
  
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• This Writer Wrote The Book Gravity, And Sold The Rights To Hollywood – And This Is What Happened Next

  02-02-2015 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The principles involved go far beyond my individual lawsuit. Every writer who sells film rights to Hollywood must now contend with the possibility that the studio they signed the contract with could be swallowed up by a larger company — and that parent company can then make a movie based on your book without compensating […]
  
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• Snow White Rising: First guide

  02-02-2015 12:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sorry about missing last weeks posts, my internet was completely down.  
  
  
  
  The post Snow White Rising: First guide appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Robin Tritschler / Graham Johnson, Wigmore Hall, review: Tritschler breaks new ground

  02-02-2015 12:56
  
  Robin Tritschler is making a name for himself not only as a tenor with an unusually pure sound, but also as an adventurous programmer: his new CD No Exceptions No Exemptions is a fascinating collection of songs by poets and composers who fought for their country – France, Russia, and Germany as well as Britain – in the First World War.
  
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• Painting that shows how people used to learn the news

  02-02-2015 12:25
  
  The days when newspapers were read to family groupsI spotted, in the Irish Times, an article about the painting above being up for sale. Called “Reading the news”, it was painted in 1871 by Richard Staunton Cahill, an Irishman who later moved to London.According to the piece, papers were often read aloud in rural houses in Ireland to family groups, usually by priests or schoolteachers, thus enabling “the illiterate to keep abreast of current affairs”. Continue reading...
  
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• Thyssen-Bornemisza keeps Spain in suspense over loan

  02-02-2015 12:07
  
  The collector has until May to decide the future of 429 works
  
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• Barcelona’s ethnographic collections united with opening of World Culture Museum

  02-02-2015 09:00
  
  New space takes over former home of design and pre-Columbian art institutions
  
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• Michelangelo bronzes discovered – in pictures

  02-02-2015 08:01
  
  It was thought that no bronzes by Michelangelo had survived, but a team of international experts have gathered compelling evidence that two masterpieces, on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, are early works by the artist. The bronzes and a selection of the evidence are on display in the Italian galleries at the museum from 3 February until 9 August 2015. Photographs by Michael Jones.
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• Trip of a lifetime: Roger Steffens and the Family Acid

  02-02-2015 08:00
  
  They met on acid and rode the counterculture. The result was a family album unlike any otherAcid flashback: one man’s LSD adventures – in picturesRoger Steffens has led a life that might seem almost unbelievable if he hadn’t captured it all on film. An actor, poet, broadcaster and writer, he is regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on Bob Marley and the Wailers. Six rooms of his house in Los Angeles are given over to his collection of reggae music and cultural ephemera. It was
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 02.01.15

  02-02-2015 06:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Super Bowl Jazz AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-02-01 The Madness of Kelly Link AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2015-02-01 Introducing The 21st Century Musician AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2015-01-31 What is “The Hard Problem”? AJBlog: Plain EnglishPublished 2015-01-31 The wrong man AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-01-30 Make it new (or don’t bother) AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-01-30
  
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• Robin Tritschler/Graham Johnson review, Wigmore Hall, London: Some lovely Shakespearean discoveries among second-rate Schumann

  02-02-2015 03:33
  
  Robin Tritschler is making a name for himself not only as a tenor with an unusually pure sound, but also as an adventurous programmer: his new CD No Exceptions No Exemptions is a fascinating collection of songs by poets and composers who fought for their country – France, Russia, and Germany as well as Britain – in the First World War.
  
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• The new Michelangelo sculptures are a sensation, but are they any good? | Jonathan Jones

  02-02-2015 01:01
  
  The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, has unearthed two original bronzes that show the great Renaissance artist inventing the art of the bizarreThe discovery of two new sculptures by one of the greatest artists in history is a sensation of the highest order. For them to turn up in Cambridge, where they are on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum from an anonymous private owner, is an amazing coup for the town and a tribute to the university’s art historians whose scholarship led to this recognition. Re
  
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• Michelangelo's bronze panther-riders revealed after 'Renaissance whodunnit'

  02-02-2015 01:01
  
  Sculptures to be displayed at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, thought to be the only surviving bronzes by the Renaissance artistTwo handsome, virile naked men riding triumphantly on ferocious panthers will on Monday be unveiled as, probably, the only surviving bronze sculptures by the Renaissance giant Michelangelo.In art history terms, the attribution is sensational. Academics in Cambridge will suggest that a pair of mysterious metre-high sculptures known as the Rothschild Bronzes are by the mas
  
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• Michelangelo bronzes discovered

  02-02-2015 01:01
  
  Sculptures to be displayed at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, thought to be the only surviving bronzes by the Renaissance artistTwo handsome, virile naked men riding triumphantly on ferocious panthers will on Monday be unveiled as, probably, the only surviving bronze sculptures by the Renaissance giant Michelangelo.In art history terms, the attribution is sensational. Academics in Cambridge will suggest that a pair of mysterious metre-high sculptures known as the Rothschild Bronzes are by the mas
  
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• Two bronzes attributed convincingly to Michelangelo

  02-02-2015 01:01
  
  The “powerful and energetic” male figures have been identified as the only surviving metal sculptures by the Renaissance master after scientific and art-historical research
  
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• Bronze statues of naked men riding panthers could be Michelangelo's only surviving bronzes

  02-02-2015 01:00
  
  Depicting naked, muscular men riding triumphantly on two ferocious panthers, a pair of bronze statues have long been revered in the art world for their homoerotic beauty. Yet the experts were missing one crucial fact: the artist who created them.
  
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• Theatre Explores What Will Happen If Football Goes Away

  02-02-2015 00:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The playwrights wondered whether, as fans, they had some responsibility to the players — and to the future of football itself.”
  
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