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• That Poor-Dancing Left Shark In Katy Perry’s Superbowl Show? It’s Become A Meme (Ergo The Lawsuits Commence)

  06-02-2015 23:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “First, there is the question of the costume copyrightability at all. It is not clear that anyone owns a copyright in Left Shark. And if no one owns a copyright in Left Shark, no one can demand that a Left Shark model get taken down from Shapeways.”
  
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• Crystal Bridges Announces New Directors of Curatorial Affairs and Exhibitions

  06-02-2015 22:59 via artnews.com
  The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced today that Margaret C. Conrads will be its new director of curatorial affairs and Robin Groesbeck will be its new director of exhibitions and interactive presentations. Conrads, who will move to Arkansas to … Read More
  
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• Tampa Museum of Art Names Michael Tomor Executive Director

  06-02-2015 22:24 via artnews.com
  The Tampa Museum of Art announced today that Michael Tomor will be its new executive director. Tomor, who has been the director of the El Paso Museum of Art since 2006, is expected to begin working at the Tampa Museum … Read More
  
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• Record-breaking Gaugin: What makes it worth $300m?

  06-02-2015 20:58
  
  Paul Gauguin began the first of his two extended visits to the post-paradisal world of Tahiti – French colonisers had succeeded in smudging out its innocence – in 1891, and the consequence of these visits was a tumult of paintings, some of which were very good indeed, and others less so.
  
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• Gauguin, Gauguin, gone! $300m sale rewrites art record books

  06-02-2015 20:57
  
  A painting of two Tahitian women by Paul Gauguin has sold for a reported $300m (nearly £200m), smashing the record price for a single piece of art.
  
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• Cayetano Ferrer Wins 2015 Faena Prize

  06-02-2015 20:47 via artnews.com
  The Faena Art Center in Buenos Aires announced today that Los Angeles-based artist Cayetano Ferrer has won the 2015 Faena Prize for the Arts. The prize has artists from all over propose site-specific projects for Sala Molinos, the main exhibition … Read More
  
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• Alan Gilbert To Step Down As Music Director Of The New York Philharmonic

  06-02-2015 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Mr. Gilbert, 47, who has brought a spirit of experimentation to the Philharmonic and has been the first native New Yorker to lead it, said in an interview that he had decided to leave then to allow the next music director to build a relationship with concertgoers before construction begins on the hall, which is […]
  
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• Is It Really Lack Of Time That Keeps People From The Arts?

  06-02-2015 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Either we’re asking people to give up leisure time to attend arts or to designate some leisure time to the arts, depending on whether they see the arts as a leisure activity. Regardless, the onus is on us to communicate why it is worth that time.”
  
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• The Dance Stars Of Social Media

  06-02-2015 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “American Ballet Theater icon Misty Copeland has over 402,000 followers on Instagram. To compare, athletes like Venus and Serena Williams have 89,500 and 992,000 followers, respectively. Michael Phelps has 462,000. Danica Patrick has 26,900.”
  
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• Hollywood Considers Reforming Its Lobbying Association (The MPAA)

  06-02-2015 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “They might, for instance, open the association to new members and expand its interests to include television programs or digital content. They might also reduce the heavy annual contribution of more than $20 million that is required of each of the six member companies: Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Universal and […]
  
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• 2014: Good Movies (But They Lost Their Nerve)

  06-02-2015 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This was the year cinema sparkled but failed to nurture. It had plenty to show but little to say. It chose to console rather than provoke. Yet we can’t just blame the industry for the blandness of its output.”
  
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• The Hot New Performance Space? Your Living Room

  06-02-2015 19:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Living rooms are just the best way to do that. It’s a space where a group of people can comfortably exist on its own terms – they can sit on chairs, if they want, or pig-pile on the carpet, which we prefer. People can clap when they want to, and play the air violin if […]
  
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• Cultural Boycott Of Israel: Here’s Where It Is

  06-02-2015 19:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Without taking sides, this document synthesizes information on the recent trend to boycott and includes summaries of notable recent incidents around the world of boycotts of contemporary art projects, some boycotting Israel while others calling attention to other causes.”
  
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• Rebound: Uptick In New Independent Bookstores Opening In US

  06-02-2015 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In 2014, the American Booksellers Association welcomed 59 indie bookstores that opened in 25 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. This is the largest number of new stores joining ABA in a single year since the start of the Great Recession in 2008.”
  
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• Long-lost sculpture resurfaces in Gauguin show

  06-02-2015 19:00
  
  Work reportedly sold for $300m is also included
  
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• It Was Defiance

  06-02-2015 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When I was very poor and could not afford the luxuries displayed on screens, I would become quite sad from time to time. It was silly, I realized that even then. Most of those flashing promises did not interest me one whit. But there is a grave difference between lacking something simply because you choose ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• On Kawara: Silence review – bringing cosmic time to a human scale

  06-02-2015 18:03
  
  Guggenheim, New York
  Over 3,000 times over 48 years, the artist painted nothing but the date – but there is nothing mechanical about this show, which reckons with the grandest questions but feels lived in and unpretentiousOne day is enough, Mrs Dalloway teaches us; one day contains everything. That was especially true for On Kawara, the Japanese-born American artist who turned each day into a monument. Day after day, for half a century, Kawara took his paintbrushes and, with the greatest econo
  
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• Nominees Named for the 2015 Marcel Duchamp Prize

  06-02-2015 17:45 via artnews.com
  The Association for the International Diffusion of French Art—ADIAF, for short—has announced the nominees for this year’s Marcel Duchamp Prize, which is given annually to a French artist whom they believe is worthy of foreign recognition. The four 2015 nominees, all … Read More
  
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• The great Picasso sell-off: heir to 10,000 works ready to offload grandfather’s art

  06-02-2015 17:31
  
  Marina Picasso’s plan to bypass traditional sales routes sends shockwaves through art worldThe granddaughter of Pablo Picasso has said she plans to privately sell off “one by one, based on need” some of her collection of more than 10,000 works by the artist to help fund her charity work.Marina Picasso’s plans to bypass traditional art market routes will send shivers down the spines of dealers and auction houses, though how much of an impact it will truly have on the art market depends on
  
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• Oldenburg, van Bruggen Donate 175 Works to the Stedelijk

  06-02-2015 17:04 via artnews.com
  The good news just keeps coming for Beatrix Ruf, the recently appointed director of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum. The museum announced today that it will receive a gift of 175 artworks from the collection of Claes Oldenburg and his late wife … Read More
  
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• French street artist Combo says he was beaten up

  06-02-2015 16:19
  
  Man seen as symbol of diversity of French society say he was attacked by group of men while pasting up some art on a Paris streetThe young French street artist, Combo, known for his topical graffiti around Paris, has revealed that he was beaten up in Paris while putting up his latest work: a picture of himself standing next to the word “Coexist” written with religious symbols.He wrote on his Facebook page that he was knocked to the ground and repeatedly beaten by a group of men as he was pas
  
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• Data’s In: A Map Of The Most Popular Music In Every Country Of The World

  06-02-2015 15:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The biggest surprise is that pop music doesn’t get more social-media love from Brazilians, who frequently request that pop stars “come to Brazil!” to the point of Internet meme notoriety.”
  
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• A Bill To Give Tax Breaks For Producing Broadway Shows

  06-02-2015 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Support Theaters in America Growth and Expansion Act would mean that shows and live theatrical productions would enjoy an incentive given to film and TV productions for certain costs. Under section 181 of the tax code, they are able to immediately expense up to $15 million when 75% of compensation is paid for services […]
  
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• Small Country, Huge Producer Of Books

  06-02-2015 15:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Last year 184,000 titles were produced – the equivalent of 2,870 titles per million inhabitants when population is taken into account. China and the US produced more overall titles – 444,000 and 304,912 titles respectively. However per capita, the US ranked 12th and China 25th.”
  
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• If Only The Rich Can Afford To Become Artists, What Does That Do To Our Culture?

  06-02-2015 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The question underlying the current posh war remains: are too many careers increasingly an option only for those with the backing of an affluent family? And what will Britain become if this continues?”
  
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• The Days When Big Stars Could Sell Movies Is Over

  06-02-2015 15:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The fact is that Hollywood stars aren’t just an endangered species; they’re almost an extinct one. The quaint old idea that an actor or actress could “open” a movie by marquee value alone long ago vanished in a global movie industry where concept frequently trumps talent.”
  
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• Only Three Percent Of Books Publushed In The US Are Translations. Why?

  06-02-2015 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Publishers’ resistance is fed by economic concerns, including the cost of paying translators, the elusiveness of a reliable audience, and the difficulty of mounting a publicity campaign if the author is not fluent in English.”
  
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• Scott Reeder: Moonstruck

  06-02-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  After eleven years, the painter Scott Reeder has finally finished his first feature film, Moon Dust (2014), and recently screened it in New York City. “David Lynch’s first film, Eraserhead, took about seven or eight years, so I kept thinking, … Read More
  
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• New Michelangelos discovered, and Damien Hirst’s Valentines Day show – the week in art

  06-02-2015 15:18
  
  Michelangelo’s panther-riders gallop into Cambridge as Hirst shows his softer side. Plus, the artist who broke into Google’s data farm and one man’s LSD adventures – all in your weekly art dispatchSargent: Portrait of Artists and Friends
  John Singer Sargent, the strange, compelling and subversive painter of the Edwardian age, is modern in the same way that his contemporaries Henry James and Joseph Conrad are. This overdue exhibition may turn out to be unforgettable.
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• Morning Links: Prince Albert Edition

  06-02-2015 14:36 via artnews.com
  “A sensuous Paul Gauguin painting of two Tahitian girls has been sold from a Swiss private collection for close to $300 million, one of the highest prices believed to have been paid for an artwork, according to European and American … Read More
  
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• 'Outstanding' Indian wall hanging rescued from the scrap heap goes on show at the V&A

  06-02-2015 13:03
  
  Two decades ago an art appraiser stumbled across an extraordinary length of hand-woven Indian fabric tossed out on a New York pavement. Realising the importance of what experts call an “outstanding” piece, he saved it from the scrap heap and donated it to the V&A.
  
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• Top five: National Doodle Day

  06-02-2015 12:23
  
  Pens at the ready – it’s National Doodle Day, in aid of the charity Epilepsy Action. Could there be a better excuse to splash out on new stationery? Continue reading...
  
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• Abraham Brody, review: An unexpected and arresting improvisatory session

  06-02-2015 11:50
  
  Making music in response to external stimuli is as old as the hills. It has always underpinned cinema – think of the pianists accompanying silent movies, or the celebrated soundtrack which Miles Davis created for Lift to the Scaffold by playing along with the images he saw as the film was silently projected.
  
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• Shortlist announced for controversial Warsaw monument

  06-02-2015 11:00
  
  Plans have attracted criticism over former Warsaw Ghetto site
  
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• Gauguin Painting Sells For $300 Million, Highest Price Ever For A Single Work

  06-02-2015 10:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  The seller won’t confirm the identity or nationality of the buyer (yet), but where have they been spending truly massive amounts of money for art lately?
  
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• Justin Peck Dances As Last-Minute Sub In His Own New Ballet

  06-02-2015 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Last-minute injuries aren’t uncommon in ballet. What is rare is for a choreographer to appear in his or her own work along with fellow members of the same troupe.”
  
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• Conor McPherson Has Been Trying A Little Tenderness In His Ferocious, Malevolent Plays

  06-02-2015 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Charles McNulty: “What is different about his most recent plays, however, is that amid the dilapidated settings, killer hangovers, corrosive humor and generalized brutality, McPherson draws our attention to moments of unexpected tenderness and camaraderie.”
  
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• Don’t Do It, Harper Lee!, Warns Bookslut

  06-02-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jessa Crispin: “Those eager masses, now overflowing with unconditional love for a book they have not read, propelling it to No. 1 on Amazon Wednesday, will be the very people wielding pitchforks if Ms. Lee’s second book does not live up to expectations that have been building for decades.”
  
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• Brian Williams’s Helicopter Story Has Turned Him Into An Art Meme

  06-02-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “On social media, the controversy has taken on several comic dimensions, one of which is Williams’ image being added Forrest Gump-style to famous paintings depicting key moments in history.
  
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• Should Critics See Films More Than Once?

  06-02-2015 09:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Slippery plots become clearer after a second viewing, but some movies – such as Inherent Vice – are meant to be confusing. And if critics go back for more, are they being fair to readers, who only get one shot?”
  
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• Tobias Picker Steps Down As Opera San Antonio’s Artistic Director

  06-02-2015 09:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Picker, who has been praised for his leadership of the company since its founding five years ago, wants to turn his focus back to his own career as an opera composer – including a commission from the Kennedy Center.
  
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• How To Be A Stoic

  06-02-2015 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As much as I love the Star Trek character of Mr. Spock (which Gene Roddenberry actually modeled after his – mistaken – understanding of Stoicism), those are two of a number of misconceptions about what it means to be a Stoic. In reality, practicing Stoicism is not really that different from, say, practicing Buddhism (or […]
  
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• The World’s Biggest Movie Superstar – Most Americans Have Never Heard Of Him

  06-02-2015 09:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Given that Bollywood films are watched by a global three billion people, Amitabh Bachchan has a good claim to be the most famous actor in the world. In India, he has long transcended his day job to become a national institution, Brando, Pacino and De Niro rolled into one. Across Asia and the Middle East, […]
  
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• The Thoreau Of The Suburbs

  06-02-2015 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When Annie Dillard wrote Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, she didn’t think anyone would want to read a memoir by a ‘Virginia housewife.’ So she left her domestic life out of the book – and turned her surroundings into a wilderness.”
  
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• Whatever Happened To Henry Winkler (Whom We Won’t Call The Fonz)? He Became A Dyslexia Activist

  06-02-2015 08:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  His own case – undiagnosed at the time – of the learning disability was so severe that he just barely managed to complete high school; he only discovered the reason when his son was diagnosed with the same condition. Since then, he has traveled the world as advocate – and co-written 28 children’s books (so […]
  
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• How Languages And Genes Evolve Together (Geography Is Destiny)

  06-02-2015 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The thing we’ve done that no one else has is match worldwide genetic populations to their languages, so that you’re looking at a comparable set, … showing that language and genes do in fact share similar geographic fault lines.”
  
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• It's a twin thing: the identical brother farmers from Hungary – in pictures

  06-02-2015 08:00
  
  Miles from the nearest road on the great plains of Hungary, the Papp Lukács brothers lived off the vegetables they grew and the animals they reared. Their way of life was hardly touched by modernity – though they did own a radio, and rode mopeds to market. Over several seasons in the 1980s, photographer János Stekovics made a fascinating record of their rural lives, which is now a book Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.05.15

  06-02-2015 07:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Too Many Artists Or Not Enough Value? AJBlog: diacritical Published 2015-02-05 Twixt AJBlog: Infinite CurvesPublished 2015-02-05 “Deep, Strong Opinions”: Met Director Tom Campbell’s Remembrances of Curator Walter Liedtke AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-02-05 Music Schools, in Transition… AJBlog: State of the Art Published 2015-02-05 Odds And Ends: Sloane On Balliett, Reilly On Haden AJBlog: RiffTides Published […]
  
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