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• National Symphony To Let Eschenbach Go In 2017

  18-02-2015 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The National Symphony Orchestra announced this morning that Christoph Eschenbach will become Conductor Laureate of the orchestra in the 2017-18 season. In other words, his contract, after what will have been seven seasons as music director of the orchestra and of the Kennedy Center, is not being renewed.”
  
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• Hermitage Museum Staffer Arrested For Cutting Illustrations From Books And Selling Them

  18-02-2015 23:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “An employee of the State Hermitage Museum’s research library has been arrested in connection to the suspected theft of historic illustrations, engravings and photographs from its collection. The images were allegedly cut out from from books in the library and offered for sale at antiquarian bookshops.”
  
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• And Now Random House Will Introduce | An Unpublished Book By Dr. Seuss!

  18-02-2015 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The manuscript had been in a box that was discovered in the home of Dr. Seuss (otherwise known as Theodore Geisel) in the La Jolla section of San Diego, shortly after his death in 1991, and set aside. In 2013, Mr. Geisel’s widow, Audrey, and longtime secretary and friend, Claudia Prescott, went through the box […]
  
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• Paris Museum Shuts Down Without Warning

  18-02-2015 22:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is a sad 20th birthday for the Musée Maillol in Paris, which shut its doors indefinitely this weekend. The museum has posted a message on its website that says the closure is due to planned renovation work, but there is more to the story. On 5 February, the company that manages the museum, Tecniarte, […]
  
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• New Opera Boss’s First Decision: Fire Wagner’s Great-Granddaughter

  18-02-2015 22:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Darío Lopérfido took over last week at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the very first change he made in the house’s program was to cancel the contract of Katharina Wagner – great-granddaughter of the composer and director of the Bayreuth Festival – to direct Parsifal in December. His stated reason: “I wanted something […]
  
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• L.A.’s Mistake Room Will Honor Isaac Julien at First Biennial Fundraiser

  18-02-2015 22:06 via artnews.com
  Los Angeles nonprofit the Mistake Room will hold its first biennial fundraising event on March 28, which will “celebrate a philanthropist and an artist whose unique contributions have had a profound and lasting impact on the world at large,” according … Read More
  
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• How Bad Has The Mess At Buenos Aires’s Once-Brilliant Opera House Been?

  18-02-2015 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Enormously, breathtakingly bad. The Teatro Colón, once the peer of almost any opera company in the world, has gone through years of badly-targeted staff cuts, unfinished renovation and construction, labor unrest (justified and not), and disastrous political interference. Now a new general director faces the fearsome challenges of cleaning up. (in English)
  
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• Is This America’s Weirdest Playwriting Professor?

  18-02-2015 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “He asks students to write bad plays, to write plays with their nondominant hands, to write a play that takes five hours to perform and covers a period of seven years. Ms. Satter recalled an exercise in which she had to write a play in a language she barely knew.” Yet his master’s program has […]
  
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• Pussy Riot Gets Buried Alive In First English-Language Video

  18-02-2015 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s called ‘I Can’t Breathe,’ and as the title indicates, the song is something of a tribute to Eric Garner, the Staten Island man who died last summer after New York Police Department officer placed him in an apparent chokehold. ‘I can’t breathe’ were Garner’s last words, repeated and captured on video.”
  
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• Tanks, bazaars and wheelchair basketball: everyday Afghanistan as seen by illustrator George Butler

  18-02-2015 20:00
  
  Eight years after first visiting Afghanistan to draw British soldiers in their camps, George Butler returned, this time to portray day to day life in the country
  Eight years ago, I visited Afghanistan as a guest of the British army. For two weeks, I drew soldiers in the British camps in Helmand and Kabul. However, I was aware that, outside the foreign fortifications, ordinary life continued for most of the Afghan villagers. Towards the end of last year, I had a chance to go back and see this f
  
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• “They Are, In A Way, Aliens”: Helen Mirren On The British Royal Family

  18-02-2015 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The world they live in is so beyond our understanding. You’ve never queued for anything. Ever, for anything. Every time you go in the street, the traffic is stopped for you. It’s a world you can’t imagine. They are, in a way, aliens. But inside that, they are the same flawed, insecure, vulnerable, complicated human […]
  
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• Tamara Rojo Programmed An Entire Evening Of New Ballet By Women Choreographers – But It Wasn’t Easy

  18-02-2015 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There are so many talented female choreographers out there, but they’re much less quick than men to accept work. Some of the women I approached had little children and decided it was too much to deal with. Some felt they were not ready for a big London commission. … There’s no shortage of men who […]
  
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• Meet The Healer To The Stars Of Ballet

  18-02-2015 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Since founding her practice in 2008, Rodriguez has become the go-to physical therapist for much of the ballet world’s elite talent, treating marquee dancers like Benjamin Millepied and Wendy Whelan, as well as members of companies including the New York City Ballet, the Alvin Ailey school and France’s Paris Opera Ballet.”
  
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• Life Size Marble Statue Of A Crucified Pete Doherty To Be Displayed At London Church

  18-02-2015 19:17 via artnews.com
  According to an article in today’s edition of The Independent, a life size marble statue of notorious Libertines frontman Pete Doherty is set to be displayed at a new art exhibition (titled “Stations Of The Cross”) at London’s St. Marylebone Parish … Read More
  
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• Go Ahead And Muck About With Shakespeare, Says Top British Shakespearean (He Can Take It)

  18-02-2015 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Despite his reverence for the Bard, Simon Russell Beale argues against a puritanical approach to his texts, suggesting that they should be seen as blueprints. Shakespeare is ‘big enough’ to withstand having scenes cut and lines transposed or obsolete words changed for the sake of clarity, he said.”
  
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• Five Common Beliefs About The Brain That Are Simply Wrong

  18-02-2015 18:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  You know what? There’s no such thing as “left-brained people” and “right-brained people,” and we use way more than 10% of our brains.
  
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• Studio Museum in Harlem Hires Director of Institutional Advancement

  18-02-2015 18:19 via artnews.com
  Hallie S. Hobson will begin a new role as the Studio Museum’s director of institutional advancement, managing development and fundraising. Hobson worked at the Studio Museum from 2005 to 2007, before leaving for development positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art … Read More
  
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• Mexico’s Modern-Day Diego Riveras

  18-02-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the 1920s and ’30s, Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco painted murals that powerfully illustrated the issues of their day. Today, street artists rule the nation’s walls, addressing its problems with an arsenal of wit and aerosol cans.”
  
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• ‘For the Most Part It’s Introspection’: A Talk with Theodora Allen

  18-02-2015 18:00 via artnews.com
  Theodora Allen’s inaugural show with Blum & Poe opens in L.A. on March 7. Bill Powers: The last time we met you were on your way to a Joni Mitchell concert. She was also silhouetted in a painting at your … Read More
  
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• Art+Feminism Group Announces Second Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

  18-02-2015 17:48 via artnews.com
  Following last year’s massively successful edition, the Art+Feminism group has announced a second Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, designed to start closing Wikipedia’s gender gap, for March 7. Last year, the Edit-a-Thon brought together 600 volunteers at Eyebeam and 30 satellite locations across … Read More
  
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• Yes, We *Should* Fact-Check Movies About History

  18-02-2015 17:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Edward Rothstein: “The historian is starting to be perceived as a pedant. And the ‘Gotcha Game’ – as one critic has called efforts to call out film inaccuracies – is being portrayed as a culturally philistine enterprise. … Actually, if these films didn’t make such claims on history, they would get considerably less attention. History, […]
  
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• For Pete's Sake: Libertines frontman Doherty crucified for exhibition at St. Marylebone Parish Church

  18-02-2015 17:43
  
  Out of rehab and onto the cross? Pete Doherty is set to return to London from a Thai rehabilitation centre just in time to see a life size marble statue of himself being crucified go on display.
  
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• Lifesize Pete Doherty crucifixion sculpture to be unveiled in church

  18-02-2015 17:26
  
  The work, co-created by Alabama 3’s Nick Reynolds, is part of an exhibition in aid of a fund to help find Tom Moore, who went missing in 2003A lifesize sculpture of a crucified Pete Doherty will be on show at a London church from 20 February as part of a temporary exhibition collecting for a missing person’s cause.The work will hang in St Marylebone parish church until 17 March as part of the exhibition Stations of the Cross, designed by art curator Ben Moore to raise money for the Missing T
  
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• A New Cryptocurrency Enters the Art Market: BitchCoin

  18-02-2015 17:12 via artnews.com
  Artist Sarah Meyohas launched her own personal cryptocurrency on Sunday night in the Financial District at Trinity Place, a bar located across from the birthplace of the Occupy movement, Zuccotti Park. Called BitchCoin, perhaps a feminist play on the name … Read More
  
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• Put arts at the heart of Britain | Bob and Roberta Smith

  18-02-2015 16:19
  
  Dance, drama and design are not luxuries; they are vital components of the UK economy, and investment in them will only boost our national wealth
  The findings of the Warwick commission report, published this week, that arts and culture are being “systematically removed” from the UK education system, should not be interpreted by the creative community as simply reinforcing the views they already held. Rather, the report points out two huge problems with how governments and society perceive
  
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• John Hopwood obituary

  18-02-2015 15:51
  
  My friend John Hopwood, who has died aged 72, was an artist all his life, creating detailed and beautiful portraits and still-life paintings, mainly in oil but also other media. John exhibited in many galleries in London and the Thames valley region. He had several paintings accepted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, including a portrait of the artist Andrew Logan. Two of his works, Apparition: Sun Man (1991) and Tunnel of Trees (2006), have been purchased by Reading Museum.John was born
  
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• Ink-credible: do tattoos count as art?

  18-02-2015 15:28
  
  Writing on the body is as old as time. But perhaps because it was adopted by popular culture first – every sailor had a tattoo – it hasn’t been classed as artTattooing is one of the greatest human artistic expressions. It may also be the oldest. An exhibition that has just opened in Hamburg is right to celebrate this rich and sensual body art.Why was this German city so prominent in the rise of tattooing as a subculture? Because it is a port, and sailors brought the habit home in the 19th
  
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• Morning Links: Edvard Munch Edition

  18-02-2015 15:05 via artnews.com
  The Edvard Munch Award is set to return after a hiatus of nearly a decade. [The Art Newspaper] Musée Maillol in Paris shuts its doors indefinitely on its 20th birthday, due to falling attendance and rising debts. [The Art Newspaper] … Read More
  
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• Here Is the Lineup of Special Projects for the 2015 Armory Show

  18-02-2015 14:59 via artnews.com
  The Armory Show at Piers 94 and 92 in New York has announced the full line-up of special projects for its 2015 edition, which are part of the fair’s Focus section, centering this year around the Middle East. Projects at … Read More
  
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• Moira Beaty obituary

  18-02-2015 14:03
  
  My friend Moira Beaty, who has died aged 92, was an artist and teacher who played a key role during the second world war as a Bletchley Park cryptographer.She arrived at Bletchley Park, where she joined the group known as ISK (Illicit Signals Knox), as a typist in the machine room. Her boss was Peter Twinn, who with others had been involved in cracking the Enigma code machine used by the German secret services. Moira quickly demonstrated an ability to identify patterns and codes, and joined the
  
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• Israel Museum receives 'transformative gift' of 300 antiquities by New York philanthropists

  18-02-2015 13:22
  
  Two New York philanthropists are donating a major collection of more than 300 ancient Greco-Roman sculptures and Near-Eastern glass vessels to The Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
  
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• Exclusive Images of Fiona Hall’s Work for the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

  18-02-2015 13:02 via artnews.com
  Artists’ projects for national pavilions at the Venice Biennale, which opens this year on May 9, are generally kept tightly under wraps, but ARTnews can reveal some exclusive images of Fiona Hall’s project for the Australian Pavilion. The Australian pavilion is … Read More
  
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• Musée Maillol shuts its doors as management company files for bankruptcy

  18-02-2015 11:33
  
  The Paris museum’s abrupt closure this weekend comes after falling attendance and rising debts
  
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• Sheila Girling dies aged 90

  18-02-2015 11:08
  
  The artist advised her husband, Anthony Caro, on his works
  
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• Wonder Woman Wins A History Book Prize

  18-02-2015 10:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “America’s favorite female superhero has a new medal to pin on her Stars-and-Stripes bustier, thanks to the New-York Historical Society, which has awarded its annual American History Book Prize to Jill Lepore’s best-selling The Secret History of Wonder Woman.”
  
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• Even The Cheap Seats On Broadway And The West End Aren’t Cheap Anymore, And That’s A Serious Problem

  18-02-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mark Shenton: “Every single seat, regardless of where in the house it is, is becoming an investment. And if you have to pause before you even book a ticket in the balcony, why bother? … It’s the poorer, younger theatregoers – and the theatregoing habit we hope they will gain, as I did, in the […]
  
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• Dooley Meadows Basketball god

  18-02-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dooley Meadows stood on the small hill: the one with a basketball court where nobody played. Sometimes they ran half court drills there, but most times it remained empty. He stood weeping on the small hill looking down upon the main court. His heart broken and soul shattered. There was an All Star came in ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Shakespeare’s Globe Faces Strike By Tour Guides

  18-02-2015 09:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Union BECTU is demanding a rise in the hourly rate that tour guides working at the venue receive, claiming that collectively the employees help make the Globe thousands of pounds. According to the Globe, tours generate a turnover of £3 million a year, and a net profit of £200,000 annually.”
  
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• Being Guillaume Côté

  18-02-2015 09:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 33-year-old Quebecker is a principal and the National Ballet of Canada and arguably the nation’s biggest male ballet star. He also makes high-profile guest appearances, composes and performs music, runs a summer arts festival in the countryside north of Montreal, and is choreographing a full-length ballet based on one of the most beloved works […]
  
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• Here’s Why Patricia Arquette Is Going To Win An Oscar

  18-02-2015 09:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Slate film critic Dana Stevens takes a closer look at Arquette’s remarkable performance as Olivia, the doughty single mother in [Boyhood,] Richard Linklater’s 12-years-in-the-making coming-of-age story.” (video)
  
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• Prison Design And Architects’ Professional Ethics

  18-02-2015 09:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The American Institute of Architects [has] rejected a petition to censure members who design solitary-confinement cells and death chambers.” Michael Kimmelman argues that AIA should reverse that decision.
  
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• When A Pack Of Puppets United The TV Viewers Of America

  18-02-2015 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In 1951, NBC trimmed the show from a half hour to 15 minutes, and a national storm of protest erupted, a story that dominated headlines for days, even weeks. … When ABC canceled the show in 1957, viewers again responded passionately. Many threatened to throw their television sets out the windows.”
  
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• Looking For The Langston Hughes He Himself Worked Hard To Conceal

  18-02-2015 09:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hilton Als: “One of the architects of black political correctness, he saw as threatening any attempt to expose black difference or weakness in front of a white audience. … Hughes’s reluctance to reveal the cracks in the black world – which is to say, his own world – curtailed not only what he was able […]
  
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• 50 Essential African-American Independent Films

  18-02-2015 09:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Now here’s a good way to celebrate Black History Month: four dozen-and-change movies to revisit or to discover, from all the way back in 1920 (Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates), through the landmarks (Nothing But a Man, Sweet Sweetback, New Jack City, She’s Gotta Have It, Daughters of the Dust) to this decade (Fruitvale Station).
  
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• Why Does The Idea Of Multiple Universes Get Any Credibility From Scientists Whatsoever?

  18-02-2015 08:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[The hypothesis] is unlikely to be true, … [and] since no one knows how to test it, the idea is perhaps not truly scientific at all. Those are valid criticisms, but the main reason we should hold out is that it is incoherent, both philosophically and logically. There could be no better contender for Wolfgang […]
  
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• Werner Herzog Motivational Posters

  18-02-2015 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Tired? Jaded? Lacking motivation and energy? Who better to provide you with a pep talk than cinema’s foremost exponent of positivity and general joie de vivre, Mr. Werner Herzog?!”
  
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• Edvard Munch Award set to return

  18-02-2015 08:34
  Revamped biennial award includes prize money and exhibition
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.17.15

  18-02-2015 07:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Boldface names (Greg Sandow on potential candidates for New York Phil music director)AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-02-17 Cubist Accumulation: How “Unrestricted” Are Leonard Lauder’s Metropolitan Museum Gifts? AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-02-17 Stevie Wonder on Duke Ellington AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-02-17
  
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• Centuries of Studio Visits: John Elderfield on ‘In the Studio,’ His Essay in Pictures at Gagosian

  18-02-2015 00:21 via artnews.com
  When John Elderfield stepped down as chief curator of painting and sculpture at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, he had three shows left on his list of projects: “Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–17” (presented in 2010), his 2011–12 de Kooning retrospective, and an idea … Read More
  
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