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• Look Ma, a New Auction Record!: The Art World in 2015

  11-02-2015 23:39 via artnews.com
  Well, this has to be a first. A publicist at a boutique New York PR agency just emailed to note that a relatively young artist they work with—the artist’s age is included in the note—was a “high hitter” in a … Read More
  
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• St. Louis Symphony Picks A New Leader

  11-02-2015 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  A native of Québec, Marie-Hélène Bernard has been executive director and CEO of Boston’s early-music Handel and Haydn Society since 2007. Earlier, she worked for the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Canton (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra.
  
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• 19th-century sculpture: Propaganda for the British Empire, or middle class frippery?

  11-02-2015 23:30
  
  I grew up with a very odd virus, acquired at about nine and never shaken off: Victorian art or, more precisely, Victorian painting. The carrier was the 1890 to 1910 run of the greeny-blue Royal Academy Pictures books, published by Cassell. I pored over them long before I had the slightest critical context to filter my response. Long before anyone told me they were absurd or amusing, let alone imperialist, racist or misogynist.
  
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• Anne Hawley, Director of Boston’s Gardner Museum, Will Step Down

  11-02-2015 22:02 via artnews.com
  Anne Hawley is stepping down as director of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Hawley has been at the helm of the museum for 25 years, and she will leave at the end of the year. More from The New York … Read More
  
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• Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild sells for £30m in London

  11-02-2015 20:55
  
  Works by Francis Bacon, Lucio Fontana and David Hockney all fetch strong prices at Sotheby’s Titans of Contemporary Art saleA new record has been set for a work sold by an living European artist after an anonymous US buyer paid £30.4m for an oil-on-canvas by the German painter Gerhard Richter.The work, painted in 1986 and called Abstraktes Bild, went under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London, where it easily surpassed its £14m-to-£20m estimate. Continue reading...
  
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• Consumer Reports: Guthrie Lonergan

  11-02-2015 20:37 via artnews.com
  Guthrie Lonergan is an elusive and influential internet artist whom Cory Arcangel once called “our Bruce Nauman.” Along with a corresponding essay by Ed Halter, an image from his 2005 series “Lonely Los Angeles” was chosen as the cover of the … Read More
  
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• Terry Richardson Has a New Gallery Exhibition in Paris, Claims America Has a ‘Hysterical Fear of Sexuality’

  11-02-2015 19:54 via artnews.com
  Terry Richardson’s forthcoming show at Galerie Perrotin in Paris is his first at the gallery since 1999. It is also the photographer’s first real public exposure since the accusations of sexual assault directed at Richardson–which go back at least a … Read More
  
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• Mindbombs and meteor shows: Cornelia Parker at the Whitworth Art Gallery

  11-02-2015 19:30
  
  Spectacular but intimate, Cornelia Parker is a good choice for the new Whitworth’s first exhibitionThere is something very British about getting the army to blow up a garden shed and then displaying the arrested, flying debris as a work of art, and as a model of the Big Bang at the beginning of the universe. Caught mid-flight, ruptured hot water bottles, gumboots, rakes, hoes, teapots, singed toys, hair-curlers, a mangled copy of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past and the splintered wreckag
  
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• Aim High: On Niki de Saint Phalle’s First New York Solo Show, in 1962

  11-02-2015 18:10 via artnews.com
  Niki de Saint Phalle, the French New Realist sculptor who died in 2002 at the age of 71, has been having a comeback. Three years ago, to mark the 10-year anniversary of her death, New York’s Nohra Haime Gallery held … Read More
  
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• Judge Rules: Met Museum Can Charge Admission

  11-02-2015 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two separate lawsuits had been brought against the museum challenging its policy of charging a $25 “recommended” entrance fee, based on the Met’s original 1876 lease and a subsequent state law that provided city land and funds to establish the museum in return for free admission to the public during most of the week.
  
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• Since When Did We Expect Hollywood To Be Historically Accurate?

  11-02-2015 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Until recently, I’d assumed it was understood that Hollywood would emphasize the ‘story’ aspects of history, and that a distortion of real events, on screen, would hardly constitute a lie. At what point, I wonder, did we start expecting films to tell the truth about the past? And won’t we be in trouble if we […]
  
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• Big Name Hollywood Talent Agency Decides To Start Representing Artists (Beginning With You-Know-Who, Of Course)

  11-02-2015 17:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “United Talent Agency, the Beverly Hills-based talent agency known for representing actors like Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, and Gwyneth Paltrow announced the launch of a new division called UTA Fine Arts, which will manage the careers of visual artists.”
  
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• Dance Company’s New Artistic Director Quits Even Before He Takes The Job

  11-02-2015 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gustavo Ramirez Sansano was appointed in November 2014, alongside Paul Kaynes as chief executive, as National Dance Company Wales new artistic director and was due to begin his tenure in June. National Dance Company Wales’s previous artistic director and co-founder Ann Sholem stepped down in 2013 after 30 years in charge of the company.
  
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• Chinati Foundation Receives Grant to Support New Robert Irwin Installation

  11-02-2015 17:08 via artnews.com
  The Chinati Foundation has received $750,000 from the Lannan Foundation to support the Robert Irwin Project, Chinati’s chairman of the board Andrew Cogan announced today. The project, for which construction will begin this summer, will result in the building of a … Read More
  
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• Data On Income Inequality Translated Into A Piece Of Music

  11-02-2015 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The income data sourced from the 2011 US Census corresponds to the number of instruments playing, from 3 to 30, and the strength of their sound. For example, the blaring 1:37 mark represents the median income of $205,192 between Park Place and Chambers Street in the Financial District, while the most subdued movement of the […]
  
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• Human Rights Watch: Terrible Working Conditions Persist In Abu Dhabi’s Mega-Museum Construction

  11-02-2015 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The overarching narrative of the 82-page document is one of claims and ostensible efforts by involved parties to curb labor abuses — and the corresponding failure due to lack of enforcement.”
  
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• New Records for Gerhard Richter, Jonas Wood at Buoyant $188.2 M. Sotheby’s London Sale

  11-02-2015 16:58 via artnews.com
  Multiple records were broken last night at the contemporary art evening auction at Sotheby’s in London, including the total for that annual auction, which made £123,515,250 ($188.2 million) on a presale estimate of £88.6 million to £125.5 million ($135.43 million–$191.84 million). The highlight of the evening … Read More
  
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• So It’s Official: Australia Is Now Part Of Europe

  11-02-2015 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  The move to expand the contest outside Europe prompted bemusement, confusion and pride Down Under. An article on The Conversation website said Australia’s inclusion in Eurovision’s “unabashed and joyous celebration of musical kitsch can be seen as recognition of our growing national maturity and connectedness”.
  
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• The mystery of Mingering Mike: the soul legend who never existed

  11-02-2015 16:33
  
  When a ‘crate-digger’ found a massive vinyl collection at a flea market, he couldn’t understand how a soul star who’d released 148 albums could just disappear. But the truth turned out to be even stranger. Jon Ronson goes in search of Mingering Mike
  This story begins with a record collector unearthing something extraordinary at a flea market one dawn in 2003. His name is Dori Hader. He worked as a criminal investigator for a law firm in Washington DC and he’d been up all night with a c
  
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• The Art Of Cowboys – Alive And Kicking

  11-02-2015 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Ranchers, open-range cattle, and working cowboys are seen as creatures of a hazy, bygone era straddling the fence between history and fantasy, swallowed up long ago by the maw of industrial agriculture. Consequently, the art associated with them is often reckoned to be naive, little more than kitsch.”
  
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• Ronald Ronaldson obituary

  11-02-2015 16:28
  
  The artist Ronald Ronaldson, who has died aged 95, delighted in the colour and form of his pictures, the paint exploding on to the surface or applied with close toned subtlety. His paintings excited the buying public and many people were keen to own one.Ronald bought his first oils as a young seaman while he was in Cape Town, South Africa. A self-taught figurative painter, he used abstraction in the composition of his landscape, coastal and still-life paintings. Constantly re-examining art, he w
  
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• Think Libraries Are Dying In The Age Of The Internet? Au Contraire

  11-02-2015 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “People under 65 years old are actually more likely to have visited a library in the past year than their older counterparts. In fact, those between 16 and 29 are just as likely to use a library as those older than 29. And those younger visitors also feel the library in an integral part of […]
  
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• The Case Of The Missing Librarians (They’re Disappearing In Philly)

  11-02-2015 16:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In 1991, there were 176 certified librarians in city schools. Now there are 11 – for 218 schools. Studies have shown that students who have access to a school library and librarian – particularly students who live in poverty and students of color – achieve more. Increasingly in Philadelphia, school libraries are regarded as a […]
  
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• Mapping The Messy, Tangled Ways We Think

  11-02-2015 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Imagine if trail sharing became routine. Reporters could enrich their stories by showing how they came to their conclusions. You could send funny or jokey pathways, like cognitive emoji. Trails are like Proustian cookies, teleporting us back to mental states from weeks ago.”
  
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• Lost Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece worth £90 million recovered from Swiss vault

  11-02-2015 16:04
  
  Police have seized a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece worth £90 million which has been missing for centuries.
  
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• True Confessions of a Justified Art Dealer, Part Three: Downhill All the Way

  11-02-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  The first real crossover art celebrity to come out of Los Angeles’s Chinatown was Eric Wesley, who showed at China Art Objects. The gallery’s owner, Giovanni Intra, was selling Wesley’s bronze casts of onion rings in neighborhood bars ($100 a … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Fake Rock Edition

  11-02-2015 15:59 via artnews.com
  Suzanne Weaver, interim director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami, steps down after less than five months. [The Art Newspaper] “Barely a month in office, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has shelved a plan to turn the former Franklin School … Read More
  
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• Art world connections begin to emerge from HSBC leaks

  11-02-2015 13:01
  
  Worldwide investigation looks into wrongdoing and lax controls
  
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• The Centenary

  11-02-2015 11:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That awful sound would not stop. The chanting, the interminable chanting, the muffled sound of which showed no sign of abating. Its monotony compounded her distress- after a grueling day of grieving, even the tenderest sob provoked her. She compelled herself to reflect on what really happened, raking up the memory that was too tragic ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Police Seize Possible Leonardo Da Vinci Painting In Switzerland

  11-02-2015 10:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Negotiations to sell the oil painting of a fifteenth-century noblewoman, Isabella D’Este, for around 120 million euros ($135.9 million) were at an advanced stage,” … when the canvas was taken from the vault of a Swiss bank currently under investigation for tax fraud.
  
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• One Of Britain’s Most Admired Actors Is Giving Up The Stage Because He Can No Longer Remember His Lines

  11-02-2015 10:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michael Gambon: “This can’t work. You can’t be in theatre, free on the stage, shouting and screaming and running around, with someone reading you your lines.”
  
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• “Ian Bostridge Is Not A Classical Singer,” Says Anne Midgette

  11-02-2015 10:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Yes, he’s a tenor, and what he does is vocal performance, and it’s strikingly compelling. But classical singers produce sound in a certain way, with a certain kind of vocal support and certain accepted wisdoms about sound and line and diction. Bostridge, by contrast, comes at singing from entirely his own direction and arrives at […]
  
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• Dancers Will Take Over The Entire Tate Modern For Two Days

  11-02-2015 10:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Tate 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.”
  
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• Jon Stewart Was Really Our Greatest Media Critic

  11-02-2015 10:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  James Poniewozik: “So Stewart wasn’t an actual news anchor. What his show did with comedy was a kind of journalism nonetheless, using satire and some thorough research of source material to analyze the news and analyze its analysis. Any honest media critic knew that Stewart was doing the job better than the rest of us. […]
  
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• How Ousmane Sembene Invented African Cinema

  11-02-2015 10:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Senegalese filmmaker … effectively created an African film industry out of nothing: … French colonial authorities had made it illegal for Africans to make films of their own, so countries like Senegal had no film equipment, no professional actors, and no funding.”
  
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• What Makes An Artist “Subversive” In 2015?

  11-02-2015 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scott Timberg: “At a time when the term is applied to corporate pop stars like Lady Gaga and smug-plutocrat artists like Jeff Koons, subversive has come to mean close to nothing. It’s become the Marilyn Manson of critical terminology – somewhere between shock and yawn. How did we get here? … But the fact is, […]
  
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• Grant Strate, 87, Elder Statesman Of Canadian Dance

  11-02-2015 10:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Strate was a charter member of the National Ballet of Canada in 1951 and later its first resident choreographer. … In 1970, Strate went on to found York University’s department of dance, the first of its kind in Canada. Rejecting preconceived notions, he forged a vision focused on creative research and the concept of the […]
  
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• New York Museums Have Started Officially Banning Selfie Sticks

  11-02-2015 10:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The reason for the restriction is the threat of accidental damage to museum exhibits and art work, like potentially tearing through a rare Picasso painting at the Met. Stopping to position for a selfie can also lead to congestion in already crowded museums.”
  
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• Ballet’s Tormented Superstar Sergei Polunin Stars In Pop Music Video

  11-02-2015 10:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The gifted young Ukrainian, who became the youngest principal ever at London’s Royal Ballet and then abruptly bolted from the company in 2012, is burning up the Web with a new video, directed by David LaChapelle, of Hozier’s hit “Take Me to Church.”
  
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• Helen Mirren shines as Maria Altmann in ‘Woman in Gold’

  11-02-2015 09:41
  
  But the film, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this week, may not find the wide appeal it aims for with audiences
  
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• Where is Rocky II? The 10-year desert hunt for Ed Ruscha’s missing boulder

  11-02-2015 08:30
  
  At the end of the 1970s, artist Ed Ruscha left an artwork – a fake rock – somewhere in the vast Mojave desert. French artist Pierre Bismuth has spent a decade trying to find it – with the help of a private detective and a film crewAlthough believed to be the largest free-standing boulder in the world, Giant Rock, which stands seven storeys tall in the mountainous southern Mojave desert, attracts few tourists, doesn’t appear in any guidebook and is an absolute nightmare to get to, requiri
  
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• ICA Miami interim director steps down

  11-02-2015 08:19
  
  Three museums in the city are now without leaders following Suzanne Weaver’s departure
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.10.15

  11-02-2015 07:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Price discrimination, time and money at the theatre AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2015-02-10 Why Beauty in a Business School? AJBlog: Jumper Published 2015-02-10 College Art Association’s Guidelines for Appropriation Art AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-02-10
  
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• Untitled(Was it the Rome catacomb that Y chased me in in my dream?)

  11-02-2015 06:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I survived the warring factions of my family by withdrawing into myself. As a teenager my handwriting likened my stepfather’s elongated handwriting, my mother’s minute stark handwriting, and my loopy babysitter’s handwriting. When the infighting was brutal my handwriting was illegible, it was my code that I only was able to read. You don’t have ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Africa remix: the artists subverting colonial imagery

  11-02-2015 06:00
  
  Using Google search, old magazines, Photoshop and ethnographic images, artists across the continent are using the internet as a playground, says African Digital ArtShare, click, repost, send. These are the daily habits of hundreds of thousands of Africans living parts of their life online, connecting them to regions, histories and people that, like for all of us, were previously inaccessible.Africa’s major urban centres have since 2000 become rapidly digital ready: investment in mobile broadba
  
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• Hong Kong culture district chief steps down

  11-02-2015 04:25
  
  Michael Lynch resigns his post early because of family emergency
  
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• Hong Kong culture district chief to leave early

  11-02-2015 04:24
  
  Michael Lynch resigns because of family emergency
  
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• Snow White Rising: Second guide

  11-02-2015 04:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The comic is a day late today because yesterday was a holiday where I am living. Go Family Day!
  
  
  
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