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• Bryn Terfel interview: Britain's best-loved baritone looks back on his 'wonderful journey' through the world's greatest operas

  04-02-2015 23:15
  
  Gods. Murderers. Dictators. Ghosts. Bryn Terfel is used to playing them all, and more. The towering bass-baritone from north Wales, who turns 50 this year, is probably the best-loved figure in British opera today: gigantic in stature and personality, with a booming voice that is effortlessly flexible and expressive even when speaking, never mind singing. So huge a presence is he that it is almost startling to find him arriving for a rehearsal of Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying D
  
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• Barnes Foundation Elects Three New Trustees

  04-02-2015 22:56 via artnews.com
  The Philadelphia-based Barnes Foundation has announced the election of three new members to its board of trustees: John J. Aglialoro, Catherine L. Hughes, and Gregory Charles Miller. Aglialoro is described in the press release as “Chairman of CYBEX, a manufacturer … Read More
  
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• Walter Liedtke, Met’s curator of Dutch and Flemish paintings, killed in train crash

  04-02-2015 22:40
  
  The distinguished scholar, known for his droll sense of humour, organised one of the most-visited exhibitions in the world
  
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• Bali Nine: Kerobokan prison becomes Myuran Sukumaran's life canvas

  04-02-2015 22:09
  
  Drug trafficker’s art classes are so popular that many former prisoners return to prison to keep taking themWhile Bali Nine member Myuran Sukumaran waits to hear the date of his execution, he continues to hold art classes for his fellow prisoners at Kerobokan prison.While waiting to hear if he and fellow drug trafficker Andrew Chan would be allowed one last review of their case, Sukumaran gave his friend, Norwegian academic Øivind Klungseth Zahlsen, a list of people he believes can carr
  
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• Sheila Heti Publishes Autofill Email Short Story

  04-02-2015 22:08 via artnews.com
  Later this month the art world-adjacent writer Sheila Heti will debut her play All Our Happy Days Are Stupid at The Kitchen in New York. The show will run February 19 through 28. First, though the show will hit Heti’s … Read More
  
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• Picabia Alert #3: A Trio of Picabias in Gladstone’s ‘Beautiful Monsters’

  04-02-2015 22:06 via artnews.com
  “Picabia Alert” is a recurring feature that takes note of shows that feature work by the wily French artist Francis Picabia (1879–1953). Its aim is to sate Picabia appetites until his retrospective opens in 2016 at the Kunsthaus Zurich and New York’s Museum of … Read More
  
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• CEO For Luminato Festival

  04-02-2015 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  The CEO of Luminato must balance the international ambitions and reputation building of Luminato with deepening local and national relationships.
  
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• All This Fuss Over English National Opera. What Fun!

  04-02-2015 21:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  I can’t help feeling we’ve been here before, and repeatedly, in the past – and not just with ENO, either, but with so many of our opera houses. The management-level soap opera that surrounds it all is always great gossipy fun, but whoever resigns, stays, joins, is fired, insulted, or otherwise slandered, Charlotte I think […]
  
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• Pianist Aldo Ciccolini, 89

  04-02-2015 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Throughout Mr. Ciccolini’s career, critics praised his playing for its technical virtuosity, airy lyricism and cool, assiduous elegance.
  
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• Troubled Flanders Ballet Gets A New Director

  04-02-2015 20:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The internationally prominent choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui will be the new artistic director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders, the company announced Wednesday in Antwerp, Belgium. Tamas Moricz , a former dancer with William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt, will be the associate artistic director.”
  
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• Picasso’s Granddaughter Is Selling Off The Art She Inherited. Uh-Oh.

  04-02-2015 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Her unconventional sales approach is reverberating through international art markets, worrying dealers and auctioneers accustomed to playing key — and lucrative — roles in the sale of renowned art. In an interview, Ms. Picasso said she would sell works privately and would judge “one by one, based on need,” how many, and which, of the […]
  
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• Why has presidential hopeful Bobby Jindal's portrait been whitewashed?

  04-02-2015 20:04
  
  The Bible-bashing, pro-life Louisiana politician has ended up with a painting in his office that gets one crucial details wrongAge: 43.Appearance: Well, that’s the thing.Hey @CenLamar-that's not the official portrait. Constituent loaned it.This 1's official. Thx 4 ur race-baiting tweet pic.twitter.com/wx2SBY3ZBQ Continue reading...
  
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• Union rep suspended amid National Gallery strike negotiations

  04-02-2015 19:45
  
  Five day walk-out by gallery staff is due to continue until Saturday
  
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• Where the internet lives: the artist who snooped on Google’s data farm

  04-02-2015 19:09
  
  Welcome to the end of the information superhighway – a ‘data farm’ in the midwest. When Google refused to let artist John Gerrard photograph it, he hired a chopper and decided to beat them at their own gameWell, they started it. Google Street View allows people to crawl virtually along your street and look at your house. Google Earth offers global intrusion from above. The web giant has done its bit to abolish privacy. Now an artist has out-Googled Google, offering a sneak peak at its less
  
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• ‘You Should Be Part of the International Blah Blah': Leslie Wayne Eulogizes Claude Simard

  04-02-2015 18:42 via artnews.com
  ARTnews readers may recall that over the summer, when longtime New York gallerist Claude Simard passed away, we asked Nick Cave to say a few words. Cave recalled Simard, co-founder of Jack Shainman Gallery, as a “visionary” who had “that ‘It’ factor. … Read More
  
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• All for a golden cause

  04-02-2015 18:20
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• A great beginning: Angolan artist Nástio Mosquito’s show in Birmingham

  04-02-2015 18:07
  
  Joint winner of the International Future Generation Art Prize, the future star of the art world has his first solo exhibition at the Ikon GalleryIf the Angolan artist Nástio Mosquito does become the big name that many predict then Birmingham will have proved a crucial early step. “It feels like a great beginning,” he said. “It is the start of something. This is the first chapter of my empowerment of a generation, a five chapter novel … I’ll have to find a snappier name.”Mosqui
  
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• Why It Took Harper Lee 55 Years To Publish A Second Book

  04-02-2015 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The extraordinary career – or perhaps non-career – of Harper Lee bears witness to a quite different way of conducting a writing life. She wrote one novel, an immediate classic and perhaps the best-selling novel of the 20th century, To Kill a Mockingbird. Since its publication in 1960, Lee has published no other book.
  
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• Problem: TV/Video/Movie Producers Don’t Have A Reliable Way To Measure Who Is Watching

  04-02-2015 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The fact that we don’t have the ability to look at a telecast of a show or the flight of a series…and don’t understand the (audience) behavior is really sad.”
  
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• NYC Mayor Pledges New Affordable Housing For Artists

  04-02-2015 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “in Bill de Blasio’s second State of the City Address, delivered this afternoon, the mayor outlined his plan for addressing New York’s housing problem, which includes building 1,500 affordable artist work/live spaces by 2024.”
  
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• The Peculiar History Of The Unicorn

  04-02-2015 17:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Today, the unicorn is a decidedly more magical, gentle creature, running around on rainbows and inspiring millions with regular appearances in My Little Pony and the occasional acid trip and in North Korea, apparently. I’d recommend against heading over to Pyongyang to find one, though. Maybe just stick to the acid.”
  
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• Monet and Matisse help Sotheby's beat London auction record in £186m night

  04-02-2015 16:50
  
  Monet and Matisse have helped Sotheby’s break the record for the highest sales total at any London auction after figures reached a massive £186 million.
  
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• Monet and Matisse help Sotheby's beat London auction record in £168m night

  04-02-2015 16:50
  
  Monet and Matisse have helped Sotheby’s break the record for the highest sales total at any London auction after figures reached a massive £186 million.
  
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• British Invasion (NY’s Three Biggest Arts Projects Led By Brits)

  04-02-2015 16:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “New York City has three arts centers under development and the artistic leadership at each one is coming from across the pond.”
  
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• The Bill Evans Effect (Even 35 Years After His Death)

  04-02-2015 16:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Evans is so much a part of the jazz environment that many musicians who reached maturity in the 21st century are not conscious that his concepts are part of their musical DNA.”
  
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• The (Improbably) Hottest Show In New York

  04-02-2015 16:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The mobile-ticket site, Today Tix, has between 1,500 and 2,000 entries daily for a lottery to two tickets offered for $10 each. Sporadic tickets are available on StubHub for exorbitant fees: a single ticket is listed for $650 for this Saturday.”
  
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• Mad, magical and mesmerising: Gusmão + Paiva's labyrinth of silent films

  04-02-2015 16:38
  
  Portuguese artists have transformed a London gallery into a whirring maze of silent films and optical tricks to get lost inWhat a peculiar world the Portuguese artists João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva inhabit. Populated by birds, fish and animals, cyclists, smokers and donkey-riders, it is a place of abstractions and illusions, the everyday and the impossible.Bristling with ideas, snatches of reality, optical tricks and enigmatic moments, this magical, mesmerising exhibition is al
  
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• The Kids Are All Right: What to Expect at the New Museum’s 2015 Triennial

  04-02-2015 15:45 via artnews.com
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• 'Love is an antidote to the horror in the world,' says Damien Hirst ahead of Valentine's show

  04-02-2015 15:42
  
  Spots, pills, butterflies…love hearts? Damien Hirst, the man famed for suspending dead animals in formaldehyde, is tapping into his cute side.
  
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• Morning Links: Biblical Art Edition

  04-02-2015 15:18 via artnews.com
  Linda Wolk-Simon, a former curator of drawings and prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been hired as director of Fairfield University’s Bellarmine Museum and its Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery. [Fairfield Citizen via Artforum] The American Bible Society … Read More
  
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• Ukraine's art in exile: Donetsk culture collective starts new life in Kiev

  04-02-2015 12:11
  
  Izolyatsia, an arts fund once based in war-torn Donetsk, is staging its first exhibition in Ukraine’s capital. Kyiv Post reportsIzolyatsia, an arts fund once based in Donetsk, has started a new life in Kiev – the latest relocation forced by the conflict in eastern Ukraine.Last summer, Russia-backed separatist fighters seized the former insulation factory in Donetsk where the art centre been located for four years. Izolyatsia says the separatists destroyed works that did not fit with their id
  
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• Islamic State burns libraries in Iraq

  04-02-2015 12:03
  
  Historic collections on science, culture, poetry and even children’s books are destroyed in Mosul
  
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• Double Mastectomy Survivor Tells What It’s Like To Do Major Stand-Up Comedy Gig Topless

  04-02-2015 10:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “But nothing could prepare the audience for set at New York City’s Town Hall last November, where [Tig Notaro] stunned attendees by removing her shirt and performing the rest of her set topless. … We asked her how she came up with the idea, how it felt to perform without a shirt on, and whether […]
  
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• Obama Budget Proposal Calls For Slight Increase In NEA, NEH Funding

  04-02-2015 10:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “President Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal 2016 calls for slight increases in federal funding for cultural institutions, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. But the proposed increases wouldn’t come close to reversing the cuts experienced by those groups during the previous five years.”
  
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• This Dance Venue Can Show The Rest Of Us A Few Things About Developing New Audiences

  04-02-2015 10:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sadler’s Wells in London “has started to build a programme of commissioned work for children and family audiences that runs throughout the year and not just at Christmas.”
  
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• Milan Kundera’s First Novel In 13 Years Is On The Way

  04-02-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Faber will release Kundera’s The Festival of Insignificance, translated from the original French by Linda Asher, on 18 June. The short work was first published in Italy in 2013, and has since topped charts in Italy, Spain and France. … The US edition will be released by HarperCollins on 23 June.”
  
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• A Window Into Jane Austen’s World, Through The Letters Of Her Mother’s Family

  04-02-2015 09:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Huntington Library in California has acquired 52 unpublished letters, poems and other material from six generations of the Leigh family. Austen’s mother was Cassandra Leigh, and the novelist visited her Leigh family in Adlestrop several times, with some believing that the setting of Mansfield Park is partly drawn from the Gloucestershire village.”
  
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• San Francisco Symphony Musicians Have New Three-Year-Contract

  04-02-2015 09:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[The agreement comes] less than two years after a strike that led to the cancellation of several local concerts and a high-profile East Coast tour.” Said the chair of the musicians’ committee of that strike, “I think everybody was a little unnerved by what happened,” which made these negotiations smoother.
  
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• Philadelphia Museum Of Art Receives Five Major French Impressionist Paintings

  04-02-2015 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A late Cézanne view of Mont Sainte-Victoire, a Manet still life of fruit, a landscape and a cityscape by Pissarro, and a portrait of a young girl by Berthe Morisot – all [are from] a bequest from longtime museum supporter Helen Tyson Madeira, who died last year.”
  
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• Pedro Lemebel, 62, Chile’s Writer/Performance Artist/Activist/”Poor Old Queen”

  04-02-2015 09:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  He died Friday morning. “By the afternoon, newspapers in Latin America and Spain teemed with tributes. In his native Santiago, hundreds gathered for his funeral on Saturday, and celebrities and politicians competed to offer the most extravagant praise. … This is a surreal end for a writer who called himself a ‘queen’ (una loca) and […]
  
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• New Arab News Channel Shut Down By State After One Day

  04-02-2015 09:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  The general manager of the network, called Al-Arab and based in Bahrain, said before launch, “We are going to be neutral; we are not going to take sides. We are going to bring in all sides in any conflict because right now we have a conflict in almost every Arab country.” And they did …
  
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• Albers Foundation to sell work to raise money for Senegal art centre

  04-02-2015 08:45
  
  Christie’s New York auction to support work of local charity
  
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• Sinai antiquities museum damaged in terrorist attack

  04-02-2015 08:26
  
  Collection, moved into basement and offsite storage since 2013, survives destruction
  
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• Moving Museum finds permanent home online

  04-02-2015 08:24
  
  The travelling art project launches a new web platform to archives its exhibitions and present new digital commissions
  
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• Little horse on the prairie: Charlotte Dumas's beasts of the wild west – in pictures

  04-02-2015 08:00
  
  Charlotte Dumas has a keen animal instinct, from her wistful pictures of wild horses wandering the old gold rush towns of Nevada, to her soulful portraits of the burial horses at Arlington National Cemetery Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.03.15

  04-02-2015 06:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Minimum wages in the cultural sector: the case of Borderlands Books AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2015-02-03 The living dead AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2015-02-03 Andrew Patner AJBlog: Life’s A Pitch Published 2015-02-03 Useful questions (1) AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-02-03
  
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