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• Lost painting attributed to Leonardo seized from Swiss bank vault

  10-02-2015 23:43
  
  The portrait of Isabella d’Este, which Italian police have been trying to track down for over a year, was about to be sold for €120m
  
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• Picabia Alert #4: A Portrait of Paul Haviland in Zurich

  10-02-2015 20:45 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 the Picabia retrospective opens in 2016 at the Kunsthaus Zurich and New York’s Museum … Read More
  
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• Young masters: Dulwich gallery's Made in China challenges public to spot fake art work

  10-02-2015 20:09
  
  American conceptual artist Doug Fishbone has challenged art lovers to find the modern Chinese copy among the south London gallery’s 270 paintings
  How fleshy is that nude, how glossy that horse, how stormy those lowering clouds? Somewhere among the 270 priceless masterpieces on the walls of the Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London, there now hangs its $120 (£80) Chinese bargain, commissioned from a factory that churns out replica paintings made from emailed jpegs of the originals.
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• Dulwich Picture Gallery's Made in China challenges public to spot fake artwork

  10-02-2015 20:09
  
  Conceptual artist Doug Fishbone sets art lovers a test - to find the modern Chinese copy among the south London gallery’s 270 paintings
  How fleshy is that nude, how glossy that horse, how stormy those lowering clouds? Somewhere among the 270 priceless masterpieces on the walls of the Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London, there now hangs its $120 (£80) Chinese bargain, commissioned from a factory that churns out replica paintings made from emailed jpegs of the originals.
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• First winner is named in Ian Rankin’s Cordis Trust prize for tapestry

  10-02-2015 19:27
  
  Norwegian Ann Naustdal wins £5,000 top prize in crime writer’s inaugural competition for dizzying and delicate tapestry of mountain treesA kilim dealer in Istanbul once tried to sell me the “Rothko of rugs”, but Ann Naustdal’s Arid Landscape II makes even Rothko red look transparent. If ever a tapestry could speak, this one does, forcefully and unmistakably, in the gallery of Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academy building – even if it is dwarfed in size (and often out-shouted in colour
  
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• Tate Modern set for two-day dance takeover

  10-02-2015 18:44
  
  Performances from ballet to krump, workshops and Turbine Hall club night planned for event led by French choreographer Boris CharmatzTate Modern is to become a museum of dance for 48 hours as 75 performers take over the gallery spaces for displays and workshops, and the Turbine Hall is transformed into a nightclub.The project in May, led by the renowned French choreographer Boris Charmatz, will feature performances ranging from ballet to krump as well as works by Charmatz himself. A 4-metre-wide
  
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• Director of Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery dismissed

  10-02-2015 18:23
  
  Zelfira Tregulova will replace Irina Lebedeva
  
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• Picasso trial: Pierre Le Guennec and wife Danielle accused of stealing £50 art hoard

  10-02-2015 17:53
  
  Would Pablo Picasso have donated 271 works to an electrician who worked for him for a few years in southeast France?
  
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• The 10 most expensive paintings ever sold

  10-02-2015 17:47
  
  A Gauguin painting has sold for a reported $300m, making it the most expensive painting ever sold. See how it compares with other pricey paintings that have sold for vast sumsA painting by Paul Gauguin has reportedly been bought for $300m (£200m). This would make it the most expensive painting ever sold. The New York Times reports that the painting of two Tahitian women, Nafea Faa Ipoipo? (When Will You Marry?), is believed to have been purchased by a a Qatari buyer from a Swiss private co
  
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• Study: Yes, A Live Audience Makes An Artist Better

  10-02-2015 17:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “One theory as to why live performances are preferred over studio recordings relates to a phenomenon called social facilitation, whereby skilled performers carrying out simple or familiar tasks tend to perform better in the presence of others.”
  
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• Samsung Warns: Careful What You Say. Your TV Is Listening To You

  10-02-2015 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  When the feature is active, such TV sets “listen” to what is said and may share what they hear with Samsung or third parties, it said.
  
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• Picasso’s Former Electrician On Trial For Stealing 271 Works Of Art

  10-02-2015 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec say they were given the art, worth 80m euro (£50m) by Picasso’s second wife. The Picasso estate says their account is “ridiculous” and is suing them for illegal possession of the works.”
  
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• Grammy Viewership Plunges

  10-02-2015 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The roughly three-and-a-half hour show, broadcast on CBS, averaged 25.3 million viewers, according to Nielsen ratings. It was the show’s lowest turnout since the 2009 telecast, which drew just 19 million viewers. Viewership was down about 11% from the 28.5 million people who tuned in to last year’s show. In the key 18-to-49-year-old demographic, this […]
  
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• How To Advocate For Your Art Form? (It’s Not Sexy, But It Works)

  10-02-2015 16:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As with any political issue, your inner Che Guevara might be telling you to organize a protest or to occupy a square on your campus. While that could be a good way to draw attention to an issue, it’s clearly not the best way to get lasting results.”
  
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• John Singer Sargent at the National Portrait Gallery review – scintillating

  10-02-2015 16:46
  
  Easily mistaken for a conservative throwback, Sargent’s portraits in fact are daring, haunting and astonishingIn 1906 the celebrated society portraitist John Singer Sargent painted his own august image in starched white collar and silver tie for the venerable collection of self-portraits in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. That same year in Montmartre, Pablo Picasso finished a portrait of Gertrude Stein by giving her a stone mask for a face. Picasso’s attack on the idea of the painted likenes
  
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• Massive Change Coming To North America’s Second Largest Repertory Theatre

  10-02-2015 16:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  By the end of 2015 The Shaw Festival “will announce Jackie Maxwell’s successor as artistic director, Elaine Calder’s replacement as executive director and, if the new leaders are up to it, a concrete plan to build two brand-new theatres on a tract of land the festival purchased for $4.5-million on Dec. 30.”
  
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• MoMA Names Leah Dickerman as First Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture

  10-02-2015 16:40 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Modern Art has appointed Leah Dickerman as the first Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture. The position was recently established with an endowment from Hess, a museum trustee since 2002. The appointment acknowledges Dickerman’s many accomplishments as … Read More
  
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• Jonathan Katz Talks About The State Of State Arts Agencies

  10-02-2015 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I know that the arts are a symbol system (we can call it sensory imagery) of equal importance to literacy and numeracy. I know that if you don’t include and resource arts education as you do literacy and numeracy that a large portion of the student population will learn much less of all subject matter, […]
  
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• Books A Dancer Reads

  10-02-2015 16:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  A lot of dance books tend to be about fitness or glamorize one company or one dancer. I like to read about trends so I look at writers like Selma Jeanne Cohen, who wrote “Dance as a Theatre Art” about the history of dance, and the New Yorker dance critic Arlene Croce.
  
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• Can You Really Know An Author If You Don’t Follow Her Social Media?

  10-02-2015 16:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While some scholars may shun such developments, others are embracing them, leveraging analytical tools and techniques to account for a landscape of authorship and reading that is no longer confined to simple geometries and lines of influence, and no longer served by the established critical schools.”
  
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• Italian police order seizure of 'Leonardo' portrait in Switzerland

  10-02-2015 16:16
  
  Italian authorities believe portrait of Isabella d’Este, attributed to Da Vinci and valued at €95m, was illegally exported
  Italian authorities have ordered the seizure from a Swiss bank vault of a portrait attributed to Leonardo da Vinci that they say was illegally taken from Italy.Italian financial police said on Tuesday that Swiss authorities had seized the portrait of a noblewoman, Isabella d’Este, valued at €95m (£70m). Continue reading...
  
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• Why Reselling Tickets At An Inflated Value Hurts Us All

  10-02-2015 16:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I am a Bollinger Bolshevik, apparently, because I believe I should have a final say in what my tickets cost, in order to manage audience expectation of the work itself, to control perceptions of my own apparent avarice and to make sure that money that is spent on me by punters reflects the cost savings […]
  
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• Shocking: Here’s What The US Government Spends On The Arts Compared To Other Countries

  10-02-2015 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Federal funding to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), created by Congress to offer support and funding for art projects, remains static at $146.2 million a year, with a measly annual budget of $158 million. To put that into context, the government has disbursed over $245 billion bailing out banks and financial institutions.”
  
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• How to Kill Your Idols: Kim Gordon Takes No Prisoners In New Memoir

  10-02-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  “Rock music is all about repression,” Kim Gordon wrote in the catalogue for the artist Mike Kelley’s 1993 retrospective at the Whitney Museum. Thankfully, though, Gordon holds nothing back in her new memoir, Girl in a Band (HarperCollins, 2014). The … Read More
  
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• Who’s An Artist Now?

  10-02-2015 15:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Just as artists in the last century questioned the hierarchy of art above life, we have an opportunity to dismantle hierarchies that can make the arts seem inaccessible and elitist, that segregate the arts by class, race and gender and create a top-down dynamic between organizations and the artists they were created to serve.”
  
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• Morning Links: Picasso Edition

  10-02-2015 15:49 via artnews.com
  The Swiss family foundation that reportedly sold a painting by Paul Gauguin to the Qatar Museums Authority for a record $300m has withdrawn the long-term loan of its 19th- and 20th-century art collection from the Kunstmuseum Basel. [The Art Newspaper] Arthur … Read More
  
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• America’s Orchestras And Music Schools Have A Diversity Problem

  10-02-2015 15:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Ethnic diversity remains a troublesome question for American orchestras. Just over four percent of their musicians are African-American and Latino, according to the League of American Orchestras, and when it comes to orchestra boards and CEOs, the numbers are even starker: only one percent. Ethnic diversity is also a rare sight among guest soloists and […]
  
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• Die Meistersinger, English National Opera, review: A world-class ensemble production

  10-02-2015 14:10
  
  ENO desperately needed a hit after its recent managerial troubles, and Richard Jones’s revival of his Welsh National Opera production of Die Meistersinger comes perfectly on cue.
  
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• La Traviata, English National Opera, review: Elizabeth Zharoff is a delight from start to finish

  10-02-2015 14:03
  
  Peter Konwitschny’s ‘Traviata’ travesty doesn’t get any better on a second viewing. His view is that this is a social drama in which Violetta is the only real person, with the chorus like a hyperactive crowd of George Grosz caricatures given to quasi-sexual cavortings.
  
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• Der fliegende Holländer, Royal Opera House, review: An immersive and immersing experience

  10-02-2015 13:58
  
  Before the opening night of Der fliegende Holländer some of the Royal Opera House Orchestra had already taken a soaking; apparently the patch of on-stage sea for act III found its way into the pit at the dress rehearsal. But Tim Albery’s Olivier Award-nominated staging, first seen in 2009, is an immersive and immersing experience, pulling you into its depths even if you don’t get splashed en route.
  
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• Happy Valentines Day suckers: how Damien Hirst's cashing in on lurv

  10-02-2015 12:23
  
  The artist’s latest show, featuring banal images of love hearts and butterflies, looks like an attempt to squeeze money out of innocent puntersIs Damien Hirst short of cash? Presumably not, so he must have some psychological, intellectual or even aesthetic fascination with making it. His creed is money for money’s sake. There is no reason for his latest exhibition except to squeeze a few thousand quid out of punters innocent enough to think a Damien Hirst print makes a cool gift for Valentin
  
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• Trial of Picasso's handyman begins

  10-02-2015 12:08
  
  French court starts assessing case of Pierre Le Guennec and his wife, who claim artist gave them 271 of his worksWould Picasso have donated 271 works to an electrician who worked for him for a few years in south-east France?A French court has begun to contemplate that mystery as the three-day trial begins of Pierre Le Guennec and his wife, Danielle. They claim the artist or his wife gave them the 180 lithographs, collages and paintings and 91 drawings in around 1970 when Le Guennec began working
  
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• Swiss sellers of $300m Gauguin remove 18 masterpieces from Basel museum

  10-02-2015 11:35
  
  Rudolf Staechelin Family Trust is seeking another institution to house loan
  
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• Trial begins for suspected Russian avant-garde forgers

  10-02-2015 11:00
  
  Wiesbaden-based men accused of selling 18 fakes
  
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• Trial begins (and goes on hold) for suspected Russian avant-garde forgers

  10-02-2015 11:00
  
  Wiesbaden-based men accused of selling 18 fakes
  
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• What Alan Gilbert Has (And Hasn’t) Achieved At The New York Philharmonic

  10-02-2015 10:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Make no mistake: Gilbert is a first-rate musician – you don’t get re-engaged by the Metropolitan Opera for nothing – and has a bright future ahead of him, part of which might well be in New York, owing to his presence on the faculty of Juilliard. But the musical bond between him and the players […]
  
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• What “Boyhood” Shows Us About Girlhood

  10-02-2015 10:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As the title declares, the film is very much a boy’s coming-of-age story, but Boyhood is also about girlhood. Mason has a sister, Samantha, who grows up alongside him over the course of the 12 years it took to make the film.” Her trajectory is, in its way, as telling as his.
  
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• Just What Exactly Has The National Gallery in D.C. Taken From The Corcoran?

  10-02-2015 10:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Philip Kennicott: “Ever since [the two institutions’ merger], the National Gallery has been on a Falstaffian mission, the art-world equivalent of a six-month hot-dog-eating contest. Curators throughout the museum describe an unprecedented process, sorting through, analyzing and making a first round of decisions about what to accession, and what to set aside for future consideration, […]
  
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• Composer Marvin David Levy Dead At 82

  10-02-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[Levy] shot to fame at age 35 when his opera, Mourning Becomes Electra, premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in its inaugural season at Lincoln Center in 1967.”
  
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• The Playwright Whose Work Is Never Done (In More Than One Sense)

  10-02-2015 09:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Terrence McNally plays are like city buses: They sweep by, may not take you where you think you’re going, and, when absent for a while, suddenly arrive in droves and from all directions.”
  
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• The Christmas Gift That Made “To Kill A Mockingbird” Possible

  10-02-2015 09:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The book is now so central to our culture that it exudes an air of inevitability. But that wasn’t the case one Christmas Day on the Upper East Side of New York, when the literary existence of Scout and Atticus and Boo depended on a tired but determined Harper Lee. And on an envelope in […]
  
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• Meet The Russians’ Favorite American – Who May Be About To Lose A Lot Of That Favor

  10-02-2015 09:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Odin Biron, a wholesome young man from Minnesota who went to study at the Moscow Art Theater, is now a hugely popular actor who co-stars in one of Russia’s most-watched sitcoms and is playing the lead in an acclaimed staging of Gogol’s Dead Souls. Now he’s going public with a fact that could end his […]
  
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• Let’s Hear It For Cowardice

  10-02-2015 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  The word coward is one of the most contemptuous insults one can hurl at a person. And yet, argues Chris Walsh, cowardice serves more than one important social function.
  
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• Eat Your Heart Out, Rothko Chapel (And Dallas, Too): Austin Is Getting A Chapel By Ellsworth Kelly

  10-02-2015 08:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 91-year-old Color Field artist has given the University of Texas’s Blanton Museum of Art “an unrealized design for a chapel first conceived for a private collector in 1986. For the past two years, Kelly’s been working with the museum to finally bring the now-titled Austin chapel to pass.”
  
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• ISIS Is Burning Books And Libraries

  10-02-2015 08:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘These books promote infidelity and call for disobeying Allah. So they will be burned,’ a bearded militant in traditional Afghani two-piece clothing told residents” of Mosul in ISIS-occupied Iraq. The extremists “loaded around 2,000 books – including children’s stories, poetry, philosophy and tomes on sports, health, culture and science – into six pickup trucks. They […]
  
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• Rejected, neglected, saved: architect’s interiors restored by Czech Capital of Culture

  10-02-2015 08:13
  
  Pilsen’s project to protect rarely seen Modernist masterpieces
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.09.15

  10-02-2015 07:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  $80.4-Million Question: Why Hasn’t Crystal Bridges Disclosed Purchase of Major Works by O’Keeffe and Johns? AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-02-09 Arkansas Times Detective Work: Four More Likely Crystal Bridges Acquisitions at Sotheby’s AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-02-09 The latest track AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-02-09 Ensemble AJBlog: PianoMorphosis Published 2015-02-09 Music Schools in Transition, Pt. II, i […]
  
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• Parviz Tanavoli: plenty of 'nothing' - exhibition

  10-02-2015 06:10
  
  An exhibition in Wellesley, Massachusetts, highlights the work of master Iranian sculptor who has made folk and religious forms his ownIt is rare for an Iranian artist to be widely celebrated at home, withstanding the scrutiny of a nation in love with both art and the contemporary and yet highly critical of its living artists because it recognizes the contemporary as a category imposed from the outside. Born in 1937, Parviz Tanavoli has become a legendary figure through a prolific career as arti
  
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• Arts Administration Lecturer at the University of Kentucky

  10-02-2015 02:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  UK seeks a dynamic and passionate faculty member to join the Arts Administration Program team. The program offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees to approximately 150 students annually.
  
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