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• Met can charge admission, judge rules—even if it’s just a penny

  09-02-2015 23:38
  
  New York’s Supreme Court dismisses claims against museum’s ‘recommended’ entrance fee
  
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• ‘You Make the Marks and Let Them Lead You': Artist-Farmer Peter Nadin Exhibits His Early Work at Half Gallery

  09-02-2015 23:01 via artnews.com
  Peter Nadin, the British artist who arrived in New York in the late 1970s, has always been a Sphinx-like presence in the art scene, resisting trends and eschewing typical career paths. Probably best known today for his “First Mark” series, which used … Read More
  
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• Here’s the 2015 Dallas Art Fair Exhibitor List

  09-02-2015 22:29 via artnews.com
  The seventh edition of the annual Dallas Art Fair will run from April 9 through 12 at the Fashion Industry Gallery (f.i.g.) in Dallas’s downtown Arts District. The Dallas Art Fair is part of Dallas Art Week, which highlights the city’s … Read More
  
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• Dealer Hans Mayer Wins 2015 Art Cologne Prize

  09-02-2015 20:22 via artnews.com
  The German association of galleries and art dealers (BVDG) and Koelnmesse (the convention center in Cologne, Germany) have awarded the 2015 Art Cologne Prize, which honors “exceptional performance in the communication of art,” to longtime Dusseldorf dealer Hans Mayer. He’s marking … Read More
  
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• History Is Now: seven artists in search of a nation

  09-02-2015 20:14
  
  Where are we and how did we get here? Adrian Searle goes looking for clues among Nigella’s salad scoops and a surface-to-air missile at the Hayward’s ambitious new showUpstairs at the Hayward, watching a hilarious and poignant film from 1981 of Gilbert & George drinking and dancing, I glanced out of the window and noticed the gleaming white surface-to-air missile parked on the sculpture court, aimed in the general direction of Russia. Is there a war on?The Hayward would make a good bunke
  
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• André Brink, Literary Lion And Anti-Apartheid Activist, Dead At 79

  09-02-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The 79-year-old author, perhaps best known for his 1979 novel A Dry White Season which focused on the death in detention of a black activist and was filmed with Marlon Brando, was a literature professor at the University of Cape Town and had just received an honorary doctorate from the Université Catholique de Louvain.”
  
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• Fourteen artists protest at Cuban artist Tania Bruguera's detention

  09-02-2015 19:42
  
  Group of 14, including four Turner prize winners, condemns arrest and legal charges over free speech performance piece in HavanaFourteen of the world’s most prominent artists, including Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor and painter Howard Hodgkin, have publicly condemned the detention of Cuban artist Tania Bruguera.In an open letter to the Guardian on Monday, the artists – who count four Turner prize winners among them – collectively expressed their concern at Bruguera’s arrest and the subseq
  
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• The Debate Around The Discovery And Publication Of Harper Lee’s First Novel

  09-02-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What should have been a triumphant literary discovery — a find that could significantly add to the legacy of one of the country’s most cherished authors — quickly morphed into a puzzling controversy.”
  
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• Cuba’s detentions of performance artist Tania Bruguera condemned | Letter from Tomma Abts, Howard Hodgkin, Anish Kapoor, Jeremy Deller and 10 other artists

  09-02-2015 19:00
  
  We are writing to express our condemnation at the detention of the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera following her recent attempt to stage a performance about free speech in Havana’s Revolution Square. She was released and detained on three separate occasions (Report, 12 January) and her passport has been confiscated while legal charges are brought against her.Tania Bruguera is an artist who specifically addresses the relationship between art and politics in her work. In 2009, she enacted what has b
  
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• What The Heck Happened To Adapting Movies From Novels?

  09-02-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The novel is now in retreat — and not only in Hollywood — as screenwriters and moviegoers turn their gaze to movies based on established franchises, comic books, graphic novels, musicals, non-fiction books and magazine articles, TV shows, memoirs, and biographies.”
  
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• Georgia’s ‘Y’allywood’ Is Booming So Hard, There Aren’t Enough Crew Members To Keep Up

  09-02-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Georgia officials are concerned that the worker shortage will drive filmmakers to other states.”
  
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• Who Doesn’t Like a Good Art Joke? The Artist as Comedian

  09-02-2015 18:00 via artnews.com
  Over the past few years there has been a minor humor renaissance within the art world. Artists from a variety of backgrounds have been incorporating strategies cribbed from stand-up, operating in a cultural grey area that merges traditions and often … Read More
  
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• Michaela DePrince Doesn’t Have A Lot Of Hope That Ballet Will Become More Diverse

  09-02-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There’s a dancer [Precious Adams] who was at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow – they told her to bleach her skin. She’s now doing very well at the English National Ballet, but often you look around, and there are no black dancers. Classical ballet is beautiful, but it’s very old.”
  
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• Religion And Geography Are Destiny For Theatres In Boston

  09-02-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There are four factors that Boston’s 300-year-long struggle between censorship and commerce in the performing arts has produced. First, when we talk about theatre in Boston as it now exists, we are talking about a way of doing theatre that is only forty or so years old.”
  
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• Specialist, Prints

  09-02-2015 16:45
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• What’s On Author Anne Tyler’s Nightstand?

  09-02-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I keep only a New Yorker on my night stand, which I do my best to eke out over the space of an entire week. It distresses me that The New Yorker publishes just 47 issues a year, which makes the eking-out process a mathematical challenge.”
  
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• The idyllic art of Bagram airbase: Edmund Clark’s Mountains of Majeed

  09-02-2015 16:16
  
  Among the machinery of war at the world’s busiest airbase, Clark found a beautiful series of paintings by an Afghan artist that inspired his latest photobookIn October 2013, Edmund Clark spent nine days at Bagram airfield – the biggest US army outpost in Afghanistan, and the busiest military airbase in the world – while Operation Enduring Freedom was drawing to a close. Some 40,000 personnel worked there, though Clark soon realised that few of them (apart from an estimated 7,000 security-c
  
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• Lizabeth Scott, Siren Of Film Noir And Costar To Bogart, Dies At 92

  09-02-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “She had the goods: the luminous eyes and moist lips that belied a heart of stone, the slinky figure, the sculptured cheekbones, the cascading hair and husky voice suitable for torch songs or seductive close-ups.”
  
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• The Beautiful Brutalism Of Manchester

  09-02-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A man called David taps me on the arm. ‘Do you know there’s a website called Fuck Yeah Brutalism,’ he whispers. Is that a fan site? ‘Of course,’ he say. What made him a brutalist? ‘Insipid modern buildings,’ he says. ‘I like the unloved.'”
  
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• Morning Links: Ted Kennedy Edition

  09-02-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  The Other Art Fair, where artists sell directly to the public and dealers are nonexistent. [The Art Newspaper] Bronze statues originally designed for Cardinal Wolsey’s tomb have been purchased by the Victoria & Albert Museum. [The Guardian] The Louvre Abu … Read More
  
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• If You Cry While Reading A Book, You Cry Alone (But That’s OK)

  09-02-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “All the analysis and theory in the world must finally bow before the incommunicable experience of reading literature.”
  
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• Recovering A Lost Typeface From Its Watery Grave

  09-02-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I started looking into whether lead degrades in water, trying to find out why fisherman use lead weights and researching the composition of lead type, as I didn’t really know anything about the chemistry of it and wanted to make sure I wasn’t going to start looking for something that had rotted away.”
  
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• What Makes An Opera Last Forever?

  09-02-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s comic and serious, entertaining and erudite, silly and thoughtful, emotional and mysterious, harrowing and uplifting, intimate and over-the-top — and the more times you see it, the more you’ll find in it and the more you’ll get out of it.”
  
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• How To Get Out Of Your Failed Ebook Service Gracefully

  09-02-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Having managed to offload its online video service Blinkbox Movies to mobile operator TalkTalk, and Blinkbox Music to streaming business Guvera, Tesco has been desperately hunting for a buyer for Blinkbox Books. Last month there was much hope that Waterstones might take it over, and finally make a decisive step into the digital realm, but […]
  
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• Walker Art Center purchase saves late artist’s collection

  09-02-2015 09:11
  
  Danh Vo created an installation from Martin Wong’s bric-a-brac
  
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• Has art boxed itself into a corner?

  09-02-2015 08:30
  
  They’ve starved, stripped and suffocated. We’ve seen them sleep, do shopping and read out lists. Now, PJ Harvey wants us to watch her record a whole album while she sits in a big box. Time to pack in art’s most claustrophobic trend?“There was a funny moment when the door handle didn’t work properly,” recalls Ben Wright, lead singer of brutal death metal band Unfathomable Ruination. “There I was inside a metal box of about 1.6 metres squared with the band and our gear – and 40 min
  
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• Maria Balshaw: ‘Galleries that have collections like ours don’t usually reside in Moss Side’

  09-02-2015 08:00
  
  Director of the Whitworth in Manchester on an exciting new chapter for the art galleryThe Whitworth in Manchester is one of the most important galleries in Britain, but until recently a would-be visitor would have been hard-pressed to notice it. Built from the same imposing red brick as the Royal Infirmary opposite , with a messy car park in front, it looks more like part of the Edwardian hospital estate than a globally significant cultural institution that started collecting Picassos long befor
  
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• Top Posts from AJBlogs for 02.08.15

  09-02-2015 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Comfort break AJBlog: Performance MonkeyPublished 2015-02-08 About The Future… AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2015-02-08 Tripartite Triumph AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-02-08 Music Schools in Transition, Part II AJBlog: State of the ArtPublished 2015-02-08 Weekend Extra: Evans Reflects On Ellington AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-02-07 Crystal Bridges’ Great Catch: Margaret Conrads Named Director of Curatorial Affairs AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2015-02-06  
  
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• Watching The Grammys, Or Watching Twitter? Here Are A Few Live-Blog Choices

  09-02-2015 01:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Here are but a few of the many, many, many news organization live blogs of tonight’s GRAMMY Awards. Billboard, Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post, Vox. And finally, the one place online to watch all of the commentary and snark and happiness and anger and fashion analysis and discussion of air kisses: Twitter’s #GRAMMYs hashtag.
  
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• But Wait: Boyhood, Not Birdman, Won The British Oscars (BAFTAs)

  09-02-2015 01:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  And in another surprise, Grand Budapest Hotel wins the most awards of the evening.
  
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• Ennio Morricone review: Veteran soundtrack composer squeezes every last drop of spaghetti western magic for The Ecstasy of Gold

  09-02-2015 00:29
  
  Wooden crosses rush by, gravestones swirl, an outlaw’s eyes widen, grass blurs, dirt flies - that breathless final scene of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly as Tuco runs around a cemetery in search of buried treasure may not be playing on the screens beside the stage at the O2, but those images from Sergio Leone’s masterpiece are surely in the minds of everyone in the audience, as the arms of Ennio Morricone beseech the full orchestra before him to yield every last drop of spaghetti western
  
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