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• Picabia Alert #5: Waves Crashing at David Lewis Gallery

  20-02-2015 22:19 via artnews.com
  “Picabia Alert” takes note of shows that feature work by the wily French artist Francis Picabia (1879–1953), aiming to sate Picabia appetites until the Picabia retrospective opens in 2016 at the Kunsthaus Zurich and New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The sky is dark, the water is churning, and we … Read More
  
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• Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic – in pictures

  20-02-2015 22:13
  
  The Los Angeles-born artist, who takes black American streetlife as his subject matter and depicts it in the style of classical European portraiture, has his first retrospective at Brooklyn Museum in New York, including paintings, busts and work in stained glass. Here are a selection on images from the show Continue reading...
  
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• The New York Times Tells You How To Use Big Data To Win Your Oscars Predictions Pool

  20-02-2015 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If people are going by what they enjoyed, they’re likely to be unwittingly picking more underdogs than makes sense.”
  
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• Writing Is Nothing Like A Dream Job, But It *Is* Like A Horror Film

  20-02-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It plays havoc on relationships – because most writers are extreme introverts, who, when in the middle of a work, barely notice the rest of the world exists. When you are successful, you can quickly become vain and narcissistic. When you are not, depressed and despairing.”
  
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• Can Ugly Amsterdam Resist Gentrification?

  20-02-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Deemed most ‘authentic’ and ‘Amsterdam-style’, apartments in historic buildings (anything pre-war) are being sold first, leaving the ‘ugly’ 70s and 80s urban renewal flats largely untouched.”
  
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• The Crackdown On Little Free Libraries

  20-02-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Alas, a subset of Americans are determined to regulate every last aspect of community life. Due to selection bias, they are overrepresented among local politicians and bureaucrats. And so they have power, despite their small-mindedness, inflexibility, and lack of common sense so extreme that they’ve taken to cracking down on Little Free Libraries, of all […]
  
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• Hollywood’s Got All Kinds Of Problems With Diversity

  20-02-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Minorities are underrepresented compared to their numbers in the overall population by a factor of about 3-1 among lead roles in film and among film directors. That ratio is nearly 5-1 when it comes to screenwriters. On TV, minorities do best on cable, where they’re only underrepresented 2-1 among lead actors in dramas and comedies. […]
  
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• Suddenly, Baby Boomers Want To Write Big Checks, And U.S. Museums Are Cashing Them

  20-02-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘Coming out of the biggest financial crisis in virtually all of our lives, people are optimistic and are searching for legacy,’ says Dennis Scholl, a vice president at the Knight Foundation.”
  
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• Theatre Artists Decamping From London’s Skyrocketing Expenses

  20-02-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The days when all roads led to London for young artists are over, and there appears to be an exodus of artists looking south to Bristol and Cardiff and north to Manchester, Leeds and further afield to Glasgow, places which all have a creative buzz around them. Why barely survive in London when you can […]
  
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• How Ballet Dancers Make Pop Music Videos Incomparably Better

  20-02-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Behold, a brief history of ballet invading pop music.”
  
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• Joan Rivers: An Appreciation, And A Reckoning

  20-02-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “From the nineteen-sixties on, Rivers had been the purveyor of a harsh Realpolitik, one based on her experience: looks mattered. If you got cut off from access to men and money — and from men as the route to money — you were dead in the water. Women were one another’s competition, always. For half […]
  
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• Can Los Angeles Bring Back Its Own Broadway?

  20-02-2015 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Nowhere in the world can visitors walk by so many historic theaters and movie palaces. Block after block, stunning Beaux Arts, Art Deco, and revival-style buildings attract the eyes upward, teasing out its many intricate details. Famed acts such as the Marx Brothers, Houdini, and Duke Ellington once walked here, but it seems that time […]
  
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• Pablo Picasso: Spanish by birth, French at art

  20-02-2015 17:35
  
  The 20th century’s greatest painter was born in Malaga but came into his own amid the sleaze and bohemianism of Paris – the only city that could have matched his peerless imaginationPablo Picasso, the greatest artist of the 20th century, was French.Hold on … don’t comment yet. Continue reading...
  
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• Before Goodreads And Twitter, We Had Marginalia For Insults And Epiphanies, And Cake

  20-02-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The London Library’s copy of Edmund Husserl’s Logical Investigations, for example, contains such striking remarks — some clearly motivated by the text, some apparently not — as ‘What the devil does this mean?’ and ‘above all there should be cake.’ They were entered by T.S. Eliot.”
  
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• The Writer Of ‘Selma’ Tells His Side Of The Controversy Over The Script

  20-02-2015 17:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Ava DuVernay became attached as director. She has been blunt in the States in saying she rewrote much of the screenplay. How do you react to that? “Those claims are highly exaggerated. … She has told the story very well though it’s not quite the story she was given.”
  
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• London Will Get A New Concert Hall, If Sir Simon Rattle Has Anything To Say About It (And He Does)

  20-02-2015 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  London’s mayor: “We have heard the clarion call from Sir Simon Rattle and many others who wish to see a brand-new and world-class centre for music in London.”
  
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• The Guy Keeping Celluloid Alive In East London [VIDEO]

  20-02-2015 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Sometimes it ends up on DVD and remastered Blu-Ray, and what have you, and sometimes I think they make too big of an effort with the cleaning process.”
  
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• Drive-thru art: how the Tate is engaging the public with ad innovation

  20-02-2015 16:33
  
  Tate’s digital comms manager discusses its recent marketing campaigns and the location-based, personalised nature of its advertisingModern advertisers are under increasing pressure to provide innovative, unique campaigns that set their brands apart from the crowd. Arts organisations are no exception. In recent years Tate has embraced location and personalisation technologies to deliver large-scale ad campaigns that inform, educate and invite participation with the gallery – all with a real-t
  
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• Witchcraft, death threats and 25 years of Photoshop – the week in art

  20-02-2015 15:03
  
  Goya’s witches, the fall-out from the Tower of London poppy artwork, plus John Terry and text-messaging cows – all in your weekly art dispatchGoya
  Extraordinary drawings of witchcraft by a man of the Enlightenment who was at once fascinated and repelled by popular superstitions.
  • Courtauld Gallery, London, from 26 February until 25 May. Continue reading...
  
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• Morning Links: Kehinde Wiley Edition

  20-02-2015 14:40 via artnews.com
  Marina Abramović will have a solo show this summer, “Private Archaeology,” at collector David Walsh’s Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Tasmania. It will include her early work with former partner Ulay. [The Art Newspaper] Roberta Smith reviews “Kehinde Wiley: … Read More
  
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• Carnegie Hall’s New Chairman Of The Board Would Like More Pop Music There

  20-02-2015 10:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ronald O. Perelman, billionaire business titan and a self-described ‘frustrated musician,’ … [has] succeeded Sanford I. Weill, who has served as chairman for nearly a quarter-century. … Mr. Perelman, 72, said that he was not much of a classical music enthusiast and would push for the hall to stage more of the pop performances it […]
  
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• Kazuo Ishiguro’s New Novel Is About A Knight Slaying A Dragon (Wait, What?)

  20-02-2015 10:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yes, the author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go has written a book in which Sir Gawain, “now an old man responding – just like John Wayne in The Searchers or James Coburn in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid – to one last call to arms. ‘Dressed in rusted […]
  
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• There Ought To Be An Oscar For Best Dramatic Research

  20-02-2015 10:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Imagine a category that rewards excellence in blending fact and fiction in in an original manner (this is distinct from Best Adapted Screenplay, which celebrates the adaptation of a previous, distinct work.) … This is a category that doesn’t nitpick the details, but appreciates a film’s attempt to bring together the realms of fiction and […]
  
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• Actor Alan Howard, 77, Mainstay Of Classical British Theatre

  20-02-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Alongside Ian McKellen, Howard was the leading heroic actor of his generation, someone whose voice … thrillingly encompassed, said the critic Irving Wardle, a sardonic croak, a lyrical caress, a one-man brass section and a whinnying cry of horror.”
  
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• Valery Gergiev: I Just Wanna Play Music, So Why Does Everybody Keep Bothering Me About Putin? (Oh, By The Way, Speaking Of Ukraine, …)

  20-02-2015 09:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “People come to hear music, not to hear shouting. And to go on stage and scare Netrebko, how can the Met let this happen? If someone were to shout an anti-American slogan on the stage of the Mariinsky, it would be my fault.” The conductor then goes on to talk about Ukraine and Crimea.
  
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• Clinging To Timelessness In A Changing Cosmos

  20-02-2015 09:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Traditional science has little to offer our longing for permanence, leading many to disenchantment, says commentator Marcelo Gleiser. Can we be scientific and satisfy our desire for transcendence?”
  
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• Arguments Break Out Over Hotel Planned Near One Of Modern Architecture’s Holy Sites

  20-02-2015 08:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The jury tasked with selecting the design for a new hotel adjacent to Peter Zumthor’s Therme Vals spa in Switzerland has ‘dissociated itself’ with the client’s decision to appoint Los Angeles firm Morphosis,” headed by Pritzker winner Thom Mayne.
  
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• SoCal Arts Groups Courting A New Donor Source: Chinese-Americans

  20-02-2015 08:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With a median income that exceeds the national average, and a cultural heritage that prizes the arts, it’s little wonder that Chinese Americans would be seen as a promising source of donations. But there are challenges. Many wealthy Chinese Americans are immigrants who don’t have strong connections to L.A.’s cultural institutions. … [And] for wealthy […]
  
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• “Out of My Mouth Comes Unimpeachable Manly Truth”: Gary Shteyngart Watches Seven Days Of Russian TV

  20-02-2015 08:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Here is the question I’m trying to answer: What will happen to me – an Americanized Russian-speaking novelist who emigrated from the Soviet Union as a child – if I let myself float into the television-filtered head space of my former countrymen? Will I learn to love Putin as 85 percent of Russians profess to […]
  
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• This Greek Artist Is Hacking The Euro

  20-02-2015 08:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A handful of euro notes have circulated depicting ominous events like people fleeing buildings, hanging themselves, and writing bloody-looking graffiti that reads, ‘THE END IS NIGH.’ Playing off the typical euro note’s blandly interesting and politically approved historical architecture, this altered money strikes right to the heart of the crisis.”
  
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• Smoke and mirrors: Florence Henri, the queen of surrealist photography – in pictures

  20-02-2015 08:00
  
  From the 1920s to the 1940s, Florence Henri made her name as a major player in avant-garde photography. Born in New York in 1893, she settled in Paris in 1924, where she played with mirrors and light to create these beautiful mind-trick masterworks
  Florence Henri: Mirror of the Avant-Garde is at Jeu de Paume, Paris, from 24 February to 17 May
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• Tiger with a kill switch: prowling Centre for Contemporary Photography

  20-02-2015 07:32
  
  Melbourne’s Centre for Contemporary Photography opens it doors again on Friday, after a summer hiatus, with a series of new exhibitions including works by Robert Zhao Renhui. His series, titled A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World, depicts how human interference has corrupted nature. From rhinos born without horns to square apples and rewilded tigers, his images combine genuine adaptations as well as fictitious adaptations of the natural world order Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.19.15

  20-02-2015 07:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Audiencing: The New-York-in-January Laboratory AJBlog: We The Audience Published 2015-02-19 Portland 2015 AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-02-18 Norm Macdonald, SNL40, Paul McCartney, Eddie Murphy… AJBlog: blog riley Published 2015-02-19 Your Museum as an Essential Community Space AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-02-18
  
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• The Refugees Who Created The Sound Of Hollywood

  20-02-2015 07:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Violinist Daniel Hope looks at the composers who fled the Nazis and settled in Los Angeles – and supported themselves by creating a style of music that defined an industry.
  
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• Art (Drawing) Instructor

  20-02-2015 02:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Art (Drawing) Instructor at State Center Community College District
  
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• 'It looks like children's toothpaste': getting to grips with Mariko Mori – video

  20-02-2015 02:09
  
  Mariko Mori is regarded as one of the world's leading contemporary artists. But should everybody be expected to make immediate sense of modern art? Join Guardian Australia's intrepid non-arts correspondent, reporter Calla Wahlquist, as she analyses the world of Mori, in her first solo show at the Art Gallery of Western Australia for the Perth festival 2015 Continue reading...
  
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• “Not Indifference But Detachment” – Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer

  20-02-2015 01:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. I must focus on myself, my work and my friends. I shall no longer look at NewsHour every night. I shall no longer pay any attention to politics or arguments about global warming. … I still care deeply about the […]
  
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• “Unscrambling An Egg” – Can A Dance Work Be Edited?

  20-02-2015 00:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Judith Mackrell: “A couple of months ago I asked whether choreographers need editors and whether dance, like literature, might benefit from having some kind of inbuilt system of feedback, comment and control. It became clear that this was a question that others were asking. And a few weeks later, it was taken up by Rambert […]
  
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