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• Untitled(The Skinny Want What The Fat People’s Got)

  12-02-2015 23:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  K lives in the same salmon adobe Granada apartments as myself. She has three daughters with two different men. It seems a good deal of the women I have been meeting lately have several children with different fathers. K has the face of a pale faced sooty miner or a bigot southern sheriff. She has ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• De Blasio Nominates Hank Willis Thomas for Painter Seat of Public Design Commission

  12-02-2015 22:02 via artnews.com
  Today, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his nominations for the Landmarks Preservation Commission and Public Design Commission. Among them is the artist Hank Willis Thomas, nominated for the Painter seat of the PDC. Willis Thomas is a … Read More
  
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• Tang Teaching Museum Receives Grant From Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

  12-02-2015 22:00 via artnews.com
  Skidmore College’s Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery has received a $1 million one-to-one matching grant from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, to bolster the Tang’s endowment and support the expansion of museum programs. The Illumination Fund … Read More
  
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• Performa Starts Curatorial Fellowship Program With Mellon Grant

  12-02-2015 21:23 via artnews.com
  New York-based nonprofit Performa has started a curatorial fellowship program with a $460,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The fellowships will go to four post-doctoral scholars specializing in performance, with the aim of providing intensive training–over a two year … Read More
  
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• English National Opera's public funding may be withdrawn

  12-02-2015 20:48
  
  The future of the English National Opera is in doubt after Arts Council England took the unprecedented step of threatening to withdraw public funding.
  
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• Klara Lidén Painting Sets Artist Record at Sotheby’s London

  12-02-2015 19:34 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s has officially surpassed itself this week, recording its highest-ever total sales of contemporary art in Europe. Gerhard Richter’s Abstraktes Bild, which sold for £30.4 million ($46.3 million), contributed significantly to a grand total of £140.4 million ($214 million) over … Read More
  
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• A Guillaume Bottazzi monumental painting in the Paris La Defense artistic path

  12-02-2015 19:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Site-specific artwork from Guillaume Bottazzi compounded of 6 paintings 36 m² each. It takes place in Paris La Défense, near the D2 Tower.
  
  
  
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• More post-war than contemporary, but London has a second week of strong auctions

  12-02-2015 17:49
  
  International participation grows as African bidders now add to the mix
  
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• London's second week of auctions are strong, but more post-war than contemporary

  12-02-2015 17:49
  
  International participation grows as African bidders join the mix of Latin American, Chinese and US collectors
  
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• Rembrandt hits the silver screen

  12-02-2015 17:32
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• Bart Lodewijks, artist: 'The silence of the studio made me sleepy so I went outside to draw'

  12-02-2015 17:00
  
  Bart Lodewijks was born in Holland in 1972 but is now based in Ghent where he moved in 2008 with his wife and two daughters. He appreciates the quirkiness of Belgium compared to the orderliness of his birthplace. His current "studio" is a Turkish café where he is adding his unmistakable wall drawings, much to the bemusement of visitors to the canteen-style restaurant.
  
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• Pompidou to pop up all over France

  12-02-2015 16:08
  
  Paris museum plans to open temporary branches across the country
  
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• The Dancer As Athlete. Okay. But Is That Really The Highest Compliment?

  12-02-2015 15:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The highest praise for a dancer these days is to call her “an athlete.” What is wrong with “artist”? Why prolong the inferiority complex about art?
  
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• Morning Links: Hollywood Edition

  12-02-2015 15:52 via artnews.com
  Hollywood’s United Talent Agency now has an art world arm. [The Art Newspaper] Former NBA player Desmond Mason paints now and apparently George Clooney owns some of his work. [The New York Post] Jed Perl on photographer Duane Michals. [The … Read More
  
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• It’s All In The Framing (In Art And Politics)

  12-02-2015 15:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Frames are used as a metaphor in normal life. But it does make a huge difference to how a work of art is perceived.”
  
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• Study: Taking Art Lessons Alters The Brain

  12-02-2015 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Taking an introductory class in painting or drawing literally alters students’ brains. What’s more, these training-induced changes didn’t only improve the fine motor control needed for sophisticated sketching; they also boosted the students’ creative thinking.”
  
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• The Guggenheim Mounts an On Kawara Anti-Retrospective

  12-02-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  On Kawara was born on December 24, 1932, and died last summer just as curators were putting the finishing touches on his show at the Guggenheim in New York, “Silence,” which opened February 6 and represents the first major museum … Read More
  
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• The Guggenheim Mount an On Kawara Anti-Retrospective

  12-02-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  On Kawara was born on December 24, 1932, and died last summer just as curators were putting the finishing touches on his show at the Guggenheim in New York, “Silence,” which opened February 6 and represents the first major museum … Read More
  
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• Skate’s: Wealth Managers Investing Big in Sotheby’s, Shutterstock

  12-02-2015 15:27 via artnews.com
  Some $840 million in investment has poured into Sotheby’s and Shutterstock over the past few weeks from big-league wealth managers, Skate’s points out in the latest edition of its Market Notes column, with the Vanguard group grabbing a 5.5 percent stack in the auction house to join Morgan … Read More
  
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• The Movie Business Must Be Good: Warner To Boost Spending On Content To $19 Billion

  12-02-2015 15:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Warner Bros. could well set a profit record in 2015 and would be able to grow its earnings over the coming years.”
  
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• Advice for Art Writers: Keep Your Standard of Living Extremely Low

  12-02-2015 15:11 via artnews.com
  It’s a coincidence, but a rather piquant one, that yesterday, just a few hours after a blackboard work by Cy Twombly sold for $30 million in a Christie’s salesroom in London, Lucy Lippard took the stage in a Hilton in … Read More
  
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• A First: Music Streams Will Now Be Counted In UK Music Charts

  12-02-2015 15:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If the chart is to be a true barometer of what music is most popular in the UK, it can no longer look solely at purchases – it must also take into account individual listens. Downloads were fully integrated into the singles chart in 2007, but that part of the market has started to plateau […]
  
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• Kapoor’s bottomless whirlpool: a sublime spectacle from the magician of modern art

  12-02-2015 15:10
  
  I used to think Anish Kapoor was just another contemporary artist with nothing to say – but his latest installation shows just how daring he really isA pool of dark water swirls in a terrifying spiral, never stopping, never emitting light. It looks black and bottomless. It is the whirlpool to end all whirlpools – a spooky mixture of the vortex that sucked down the Pequod and an illustration from Stephen Hawking’s latest work on black holes. Yet this awe-inspiring phenomenon is an exhibit i
  
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• Who Might Miss Jon Stewart Most? Authors

  12-02-2015 14:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Getting an author booked on ‘The Daily Show’ was often the Holy Grail for book publicists,” says Kate Lloyd, Scribner’s associate director of publicity. Her authors loved Stewart, she says, because “his audience is made up of smart, book-buying readers who respond to the thoughtful treatment and authentic passion he customarily expresses for the books […]
  
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• Iconic Japanese Designer Kenji Ekuan, 85

  12-02-2015 14:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Mr. Ekuan was a prolific and widely lauded designer whose work shaped products closely associated with modern Japan, including Yamaha motorcycles and a bullet train used in the country’s Shinkansen high-speed rail network. He was also an evangelist for a potent national ethos, combining pacifism and materialism, which Japan embraced after the devastation of World […]
  
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• Life Is Getting Harder For Actors With Learning Disabilities

  12-02-2015 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Work seems to be being supported and assisted at a community level. So there’s a perception that people with learning disabilities can enjoy participatory activity but – on the other side of that – the professional opportunities and the professional training is dwindling. And it seems to be a strategic choice.”
  
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• The Numbers Don’t Lie: Women In Hollywood Movies

  12-02-2015 14:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Female characters comprised just 12 per cent of protagonists in the top 100 grossing films of 2014, the lowest figure for more than a decade, according to a new study.
  
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• An Ugly (And Dangerous?) New Turn In Arts And Politics

  12-02-2015 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Protesters shouting down concertgoers; musicians silenced by hecklers; agitators taking the stages of our performances. All this represents a new turn in the relationship between arts and politics. There’s even the whiff of a new blacklist.”
  
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• Latest Blow For English National Opera: Arts Council Threatens Funding

  12-02-2015 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “No one is doubting that ENO is capable of extraordinary artistic work, but we have serious concerns about their governance and business model and we expect them to improve or they could face the removal of our funding.”
  
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• Six creative ways artists can improve communities

  12-02-2015 12:10
  
  From Community Supported Art in Canada to a New York project that stages work in laundromats, Laura Zabel looks at the ways in which artists and communities can pull togetherFrom income inequality and unemployment to poverty, education and healthcare, communities around the world are facing critical challenges that require creative ideas and solutions. Any of these challenges could use an artist’s mind, a creative question or a critical thinker to help us find our way to a more healthy and jus
  
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• Russia Fires Director Of Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery

  12-02-2015 10:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Irina Lebedeva, the director of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, has been dismissed from her position, Russia’s Ministry of Culture announced … Zelfira Tregulova, a former deputy director of the Kremlin Museum, has been confirmed as her successor. … A statement on the ministry’s website was bluntly critical of [Lebedeva’s] managerial skills.
  
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• Tom Stoppard Says Audiences Are Now Too Ignorant To Get His Plays

  12-02-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Sir Tom explained how he had to change a scene in The Hard Truth three times between the previews, making a particular allusion more and more obvious each time. … ‘And I must say that I was completely wrong [in assuming the audience would understand it] and I really resent it.'”
  
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• Even 2,500 Years Ago, Acting Prizes Caused Drama

  12-02-2015 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Except that the prize at the festival of Dionysus wasn’t a statuette. It was a live goat.
  
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• London’s Wigmore Hall Will Live-Stream Concerts Starting Next Season

  12-02-2015 09:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Music venue Wigmore Hall is to undergo a £2 million refurbishment that will see the creation of new rehearsal spaces and enable the building to stream and broadcast its work.”
  
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• “Outreach And Access” Will Be Conditions For Funding UK Arts Orgs If Labour Wins May Election

  12-02-2015 09:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Harriet Harman, Labour’s shadow culture minister: “The money that goes into an arts organisation is taxpayers’ money. Outreach and access are not options, they must be part and parcel. … Taxpayers will not be happy to finance something if they think it’s not anything to do with them, especially in hard times.”
  
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• Cornelia Parker adds note of choreographed violence to Whitworth Art Gallery reopening

  12-02-2015 09:16
  
  After bullets and explosions, the artist creates forceful work from commemorative poppy paper
  
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• Cornelia Parker: Choreographed violence

  12-02-2015 09:15
  
  On the eve of a retrospective including a new commission at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester, Cornelia Parker discusses the often aggressive background to her tragicomic conceptualism
  
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• Copyright And Copywrong: A New Fair Use Guide Helps You Find The Line Between Them

  12-02-2015 09:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Hoping to remedy pervasive and often crippling uncertainty among artists and art professionals over how and when to invoke fair use when dealing with copyrighted materials, the College Art Association (CAA) has released a Code of Best Practices in Fair Use … [which] offers very clear and concise guidelines for artists, scholars, instructors, curators, and […]
  
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• Hollywood talent agency wants to show artists the money

  12-02-2015 09:02
  
  The firm that negotiates for actors like Angelina Jolie and Harrison Ford is launching a fine arts division
  
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• Why So Many People Are Freaking Out About The Release Of Harper Lee’s Unpublished Novel

  12-02-2015 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There are cultural currents afoot, beyond the book’s iconic power as a social document, that give the absurd situation a rational aspect and keep it going. One is the fear of the helplessness of old age. The spectacle of an author – and a beloved American author at that, one who has abided in our […]
  
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• Idiosyncracies And Obsessions And Perfection: The Musicians Of The L.A. Phil

  12-02-2015 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[Bass clarinetist David] Howard, 59, practices yoga to strengthen his lungs. Timpanist Joseph Pereira stretches damp calfskins across drums and fashions mallets out of wine corks and felt. Thomas Hooten … runs trumpet scales late into the night. And Christopher Hanulik, who calls his 25-pound bass ‘the beast,’ guards against strained ligaments and tendinitis: ‘I’ve […]
  
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• Why Jon Stewart Is Leaving “The Daily Show”

  12-02-2015 08:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Yesterday’s announcement … is jolting, but it shouldn’t be surprising. Last fall, on the eve of his writing-directing feature-film debut, Stewart openly wrestled with how much longer he wanted to keep doing the TV show that made him famous. It wasn’t hard to see which way he was leaning.”
  
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• How The Rise Of Jon Stewart Hastened The Demise Of Brian Williams

  12-02-2015 08:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In recent days, some commenters have dismissed Williams’s comic moonlighting as the work of a guy who couldn’t stand not to have a camera trained on him, or of a newsman who actually just wanted to be an entertainer. A more charitable view would be that he was an anchor trying to remain relevant in […]
  
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• The House That Jon Stewart Built: Comedic Journalism Will Not Disappear

  12-02-2015 08:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The idea that what Jon Stewart and his team did was journalism always rankled some journalists, but that’s exactly what it was. At its most fundamental level, the purpose of journalism in a democracy is to build a more informed citizenry. For many Americans, especially younger ones, Stewart fulfilled that task. And it seems to […]
  
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• Almost All Of Us Occasionally Do What Brian Williams Did

  12-02-2015 08:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alva Noë: “A lot of folks are trying to make sense of what would drive Brian Williams, a reporter, the face of NBC news, to make up easily fact-checkable stories about his experiences as a reporter … Ego? Self-aggrandizement? Trying to make himself seem better, braver, tougher, more experienced than he really is? I have […]
  
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• When Did Books Get Page Numbers – And Are They Even Useful Anymore?

  12-02-2015 08:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Numbering pages started out not as a tool for readers but a guide for those who physically produced books.”
  
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• Still crazy in love: happy couples together for over 50 years – in pictures

  12-02-2015 08:00
  
  When Lauren Fleishman discovered her grandfather’s early love letters to her grandmother, she was moved to find and photograph couples who have been together more than half a century. In her new photobook, The Lovers, they share their stories of lifelong success Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.11.15

  12-02-2015 07:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Arts Predispositions II: Maybes AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-02-11 Heft and excitement AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-02-11 A New Old Bill Evans Interview AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-02-11
  
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• Christie’s Nets $177.9 M. at Contemporary Sale in London, Led by $30 M. Twombly

  12-02-2015 00:11 via artnews.com
  It has been a roaring week for the contemporary art market in London. Last night, Sotheby’s sold £123.5 million (or about $188.2 million) worth of art at its annual postwar and contemporary sale across 65 lots (out of 75 on … Read More
  
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