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• Here’s a Preview of Lilith Wes’s Erotic Novella ‘We Love Lucy,’ Out in March on Badlands Unlimited [NSFW]

  13-02-2015 23:32 via artnews.com
  Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Badlands Unlimited has been kind enough to share an excerpt of Lilith Wes’s forthcoming novella, We Love Lucy, which they are releasing next month as part of “New Lovers,” a new series “devoted to publishing new works … Read More
  
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• Untitled(God never asks questions. He only gives commands.)

  13-02-2015 22:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Two students were shot in front of Lincoln high, one in the buttocks and the other in the arm, they never apprehended the shooter. Y  joined a clinical trial for depression at the Presbyterian hospital. The police in Jersey City should walk the streets if they want to reduce crime, Y said. MTA workers had ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Expansion opens at Manchester gallery, ‘a place where good, odd things happen’

  13-02-2015 22:01
  
  The Whitworth Art Gallery unveils a £15m redevelopment this weekend with works by Nathan Coley, Cai Guo-Qiang and Cornelia Parker
  
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• The Dance Ad That’s Got Everyone Talking (A Review)

  13-02-2015 20:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The images flash between the noble and the grotesque, as a Renaissance artist might put it–the polished and the rough, elegant and comic, masque and antimasque. Then as now, we’re fascinated by these contrasts, these irreconcilable parts of our essential humanness. It satisfies something innate to see opposites in play.”
  
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• Here’s What It Takes To Program A Dancing Robot (Amazing)

  13-02-2015 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Technically, the performance is astonishing. The robot itself required a full four months of on-site programming and rehearsal. That most demanding and conspicuous technical element makes the hour-long performance’s lighting seem elementary by comparison, but it is similarly high-tech and essential to the piece’s sleek, minimalist aesthetic.”
  
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• Prosecutor Asks For Suspended Sentence For Picasso’s Electrician

  13-02-2015 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  French media have called this the “€60 million trial”, an allusion to the estimated value of the hoard of art they (the electrician and his wife) kept in their garage for almost 40 years: 271 unsigned Picasso collages, drawings, sketches or lithographs, dating from the first third of the 20th century.
  
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• Everything’s Popping Up Pompidou (All Over France)

  13-02-2015 20:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Paris museum is expanding its empire, and aims to establish domestic temporary outposts. “We will soon launch an open call for candidates [to select a French city],” says a spokesman for the Centre Pompidou. These pop-ups will remain open for four years.”
  
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• What’s Up With The Peculiar Way The Grammys Treats Classical Music?

  13-02-2015 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If the Recording Academy feels that certain awards they give are not worthy of exposure on network television (which ultimately are the awards that wind up getting reported on in most of the media outlets and therefore the ones that most people are aware actually of), why give the awards in the first place?”
  
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• Buddhist art of Myanmar review: a subtle, sculptural nirvana

  13-02-2015 19:54
  
  Asia Society, New York
  The opening up of Burma has resulted in a beautiful and fascinating exhibition of paintings, weavings and manuscripts from the region – but it’s the scultpure that really shines“Beauty is meaningless until it is shared,” wrote George Orwell in Burmese Days – his coruscating first novel of life in Southeast Asia during the last days of the Raj. It was truer than Orwell could have realized. For five decades after 1962, when a military dictatorship took power in Bur
  
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• Return of the Mac: How a disastrous fire put architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh back in the limelight

  13-02-2015 19:53
  
  In the most famous photograph we have of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the Glaswegian’s eyes burn softly and sadly; his face seems touched by melancholy like Droopy the cartoon dog. Yet the architect and artist’s ruffled tie and insouciant pose say something different – they say: “I am a creator, a modern man.”
  
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• ICP Announces Chief Curator Brian Wallis Is Stepping Down

  13-02-2015 18:58 via artnews.com
  The International Center of Photography has announced that Brian Wallis, Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Collections and Chief Curator since 1999, will be stepping down at the end of February. Wallis has led the Department of Exhibitions and Collections since joining … Read More
  
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• Christie’s Will Auction ‘American Pie’ Manuscript

  13-02-2015 18:55 via artnews.com
  Christie’s New York will auction Don McLean’s original manuscript of “American Pie” in April, sold by McLean himself and estimated at $1-1.5 million. I’d hate to meet the person who likes “American Pie” enough to blow seven figures on it, … Read More
  
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• Named and shamed: the six worst works of British public art | Jonathan Jones

  13-02-2015 17:56
  
  These examples – from a dead tree in the middle of Kirkby to an eye-wounding erection off the coast of Tyneside – show how badly sculpture has lost its way
  I blame Thomas Cromwell. In real life the hero of Wolf Hall was the rottweiler of the Reformation who took an enthusiastic lead in ransacking a medieval artistic heritage rooted in shared beliefs, common symbols, and a popular visual language. The dissolution of the monasteries that Cromwell spearheaded shattered this culture of public
  
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• Margaret Foreman and Martin Cheek exhibit at the Horsebridge Gallery in Whitstable

  13-02-2015 17:24
  
  It's a rare household these days that has a thriving artist at its head. it's even rarer when two artists live and work under the same roof.
  
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• Prosecutor asks for five-year suspended prison sentence for Picasso’s former electrician

  13-02-2015 17:15
  
  A final verdict is due next month in the trial against Pierre Le Guennec, who was found to have kept a box of the artist’s works in his garage for 40 years
  
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• Intelligence Discourse: At David Carr’s Final Interview, With Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, and Laura Poitras

  13-02-2015 16:08 via artnews.com
  Last night Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Edward Snowden (via Google Hangout) took the stage with moderator David Carr at a New York Times TimesTalks at the New School that would amount to a last interview for Carr, who collapsed … Read More
  
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• Intelligence Discourse: At David Carr’s Final Interview, With Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras

  13-02-2015 16:08 via artnews.com
  Last night Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Edward Snowden (via Google Hangout) took the stage with moderator David Carr at a New York Times TimesTalks at the New School that would amount to a last interview for Carr, who collapsed … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Norman Rockwell Edition

  13-02-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Scott Reyburn on the “bubble that never really bursts.” [The New York Times] The Pompidou in Paris will open pop-up locations across France. [The Art Newspaper] “One of the most unusual auctions of a single collection ever to take place, … Read More
  
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• Love stories and Lionel Messi – the week in art

  13-02-2015 15:24
  
  The secrets of couples who’ve been together for over 50 years, and the World Press Photo winners ... plus art-world record breakers, a fake soul superstar, and the explosive relaunch of the Whitworth Art Gallery – in your weekly art dispatchAdam Chodzko
  This highly subversive artist presents a public artwork inspired by a mysterious 18th-century toolchest and entitled Great Expectations. Expect a tease.
  • Guildhall Museum, Rochester and other local venues until September. Continue read
  
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• Four Arts Leaders Killed In Car Crash In Saskatchewan

  13-02-2015 14:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  The arts communities in Regina and Calgary are in shock with the news that four of their own have been killed in a devastating highway crash in Saskatchewan. Emotional tributes about the four artists poured out on social media Wednesday.
  
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• Manager, Corporate and Foundation Relations

  13-02-2015 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts seeks a Manager, Corporate and Foundation Relations.
  
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• Rallying Cry: Teach Everyone To Code! (But Should We?)

  13-02-2015 14:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “My advice? Don’t teach everyone how to code. Teach them how to identify and understand needs, as well as how to visually express logic. Teach them how technology works, so they can understand the realm of possibility and then envision game-changing innovations. And then create an environment where they don’t even have to think about […]
  
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• Miami’s New Contemporary Art Museum Loses Its Director After Five Months

  13-02-2015 14:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Suzanne Weaver’s departure follows the news that Thom Collins, the director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, which opened in a Herzog & de Meuron-designed waterfront building in December 2013, is to leave the institution for the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia after five years. Meanwhile, the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach has been without a […]
  
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• Who Owns Lincoln’s Papers? (And Should They?)

  13-02-2015 14:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The idea of owning history may thrill those who trade in exclusivity. But when collectors do not afford scholars and the public access to important documents, private ownership conflicts with democratic values.”
  
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• The French connection: how Manet changed the face of British art

  13-02-2015 14:00
  
  When Manet crossed the Channel, he inspired British artists to revolutionise their depiction of women. Now the legacy of his exchange is on display for the first time American collectors were quick off the mark when it came to Manet. In Britain, only a handful of his important paintings are held in public collections, but among them is his late masterpiece A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, in the Courtauld Gallery, London. Dubbed “the father of impressionism”, and the subject of blockbuste
  
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• Science Reveals: There’s A Reason Harry Potter Fires Up The Brain’s Imagination

  13-02-2015 13:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The research suggests fantasy stories—or at least those good enough to hold our interest—produce neural reactions that are above and beyond those created by other narratives—even ones that are just as exciting, involving, or humorous.”
  
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• Minnesota Orchestra Will Be First American Orchestra To Play In Cuba Since American Policy Shift

  13-02-2015 13:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The trip marks a striking return to the limelight for an orchestra that only a year ago was emerging from the longest lockout in American orchestral history, with serious questions about its future. It is all the more fitting since the Minnesota Orchestra’s first-ever international performances were in Cuba in 1929 and 1930.”
  
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• Scientists Wonder: How Does The Brain Figure Out How To Read (Here’s What We Know So Far)

  13-02-2015 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “You know where the color of your eyes came from, your facial features, your hair, your height. Maybe even your personality — I’m stubborn like mom, sloppy like dad. But what we’re trying to do is find out, by looking at brain networks and accounting for everything in the environment, is where your reading ability […]
  
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• Extremists Destroy Important Sufi Shrine In Yemen

  13-02-2015 13:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Aside from anger at the act of violence, the difficulty of protecting such sites and the Islamists’ capacity to strike have caused frustration and pessimism. The attack took place “barely 20 km NW from Al Anad airbase, where hundreds of US armed forces personnel are based.”
  
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• When Sudan Banned Libraries

  13-02-2015 13:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the early 1990s, all of the city’s libraries were shut down and the books inside destroyed. Sudan became an authoritarian, single-party Islamic state following Bashir’s military coup in 1989, and censorship ruled. When Bashir came to power, the writers’ union was one of the first organisations he banned. “They don’t want gatherings, that’s all. […]
  
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• Oops! Netflix Releases New Season Of “House Of Cards” Online For An Hour Before Taking It Down (Or Was This Genius Marketing?)

  13-02-2015 13:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Nearly as soon as people began to share the news on Twitter – and possibly drum up fake illnesses to stay home for binge watching on Thursday – Netflix yanked the highly anticipated episodes.”
  
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• Longtime Director Of Boston’s Gardner Museum To Retire

  13-02-2015 13:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Anne Hawley said “she has been quietly weighing the decision for two years now, as the museum completed fund-raising efforts that included $114 million for the museum’s sleek 2012 expansion, designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano, and an additional $50 million to fortify the museum’s endowment.”
  
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• French Embassy Plants Its Flag In Bookstores Across America

  13-02-2015 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The cultural services of the French Embassy in New York has been signing up independent bookstores across the United States to create special sections, called French Corners, to display French works in the original and in translation. The goal, a spokeswoman for the embassy said, is to plant the French flag in one bookstore in […]
  
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• Solved: Here’s Why The Great Old Violins Have Such Power

  13-02-2015 13:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  A team of scientists worked on it. “Answering the musician’s simple question turned into a seven-year project in which the team examined the acoustic dynamics of stringed instruments through time, from the oud, lute, and medieval fiddles to the guitar and ultimately the violin — a period spanning from the 10th century to the 18th […]
  
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• Artists take sides in Ukraine-Russia conflict

  13-02-2015 11:35
  
  Art-world tensions run high as ceasefire deal reached
  
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• Thomas Wolsey's angels are a heavenly gift for the nation

  13-02-2015 11:08
  
  V&A raises fund to acquire four bronzes originally commissioned to decorate the cardinal's tomb
  
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• Perth International Arts Festival: giant girl marches on Perth – in pictures

  13-02-2015 09:17
  
  Thousands of spectators lined the streets as a giant marionette paraded through the city as part of the Perth International Arts Festival. Yet the six-metre marionette was by no means the biggest on display Continue reading...
  
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• From Suzanne Duchamp to Trash in Queens: A Stroll Through New York

  13-02-2015 00:23 via artnews.com
  Last night there was a standing-room-only crowd at the Swiss Institute in SoHo to hear artist Jamian Juliano-Villani talk about her work. Just back from opening her first solo museum show, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, she flipped … Read More
  
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