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• The War at Home: Norwegian Critics Rain Fire on Prodigal Son Bjarne Melgaard for Munch Show

  23-02-2015 21:32 via artnews.com
  Bjarne Melgaard’s current show at the Munch Museum in Oslo, “The End of It Has Already Happened,” which pairs the work of Norway’s most celebrated contemporary artist with one of its national icons, has turned into “a huge national scandal … Read More
  
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• Arco Madrid adds more Latin flavour to the mix

  23-02-2015 21:17
  
  Colombian galleries will make a strong showing at the Spanish fair this year
  
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• Fifty Years Ago, Britain’s Only White Paper On The Arts Suggested Daily Engagement – Did It Work?

  23-02-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The good news is that the arts are a significant contributor to the economy; the bad is that culture and creativity are being erased from the classroom, and that audiences for the arts are substantially white, middle class, affluent and well educated. Worryingly, there is a downward trend in participation.”
  
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• Here’s How Peter Lik Priced That $6.5 M. Photograph

  23-02-2015 20:23 via artnews.com
  On Sunday The New York Times posted an impressive profile of Peter Lik, the nature photographer who, a few months ago, claimed to have sold the most expensive photograph in the world, and the curious way he does business, through … Read More
  
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• The deep religious roots of censorship | Letters

  23-02-2015 20:14
  
  Jonathan Jones is missing the bigger picture by concentrating on the gruesome depictions of Christ during the Counter-Reformation (The deep roots of our right to offend, 21 February). This sort of treatment was encouraged by the church precisely to promote the new, flesh-abasing mysticism of a Catholic church desperate to lure the flock back by means of fierce emotionalism. Not for nothing has Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Teresa been described as a magnificent piece of theatre. But the Council o
  
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• Goya: the Witches and Old Women Album review – staring at monsters

  23-02-2015 20:07
  
  Courtauld Gallery, London
  This extraordinary exhibition lays bare Goya’s thinking as he painted some of the most terrifying works of artThe hell of Francisco Goya has no parallel in art. No one has ever painted and etched such convincing and utterly terrifying visions of cruelty, superstition and madness. Goya’s Black Paintings unveil a world without hope. A dog drowns in quicksand. The god Saturn eats his children. The Fates – or are they witches? – float airborne over a barren twilit l
  
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• The Young Composer Forging Her Own Path In The ‘Archaic’ Worlds Of Classical Music And Opera

  23-02-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gabrielle Herbst: “People go to the opera to step out of their ordinary lives, and I was interested in the symbols and archetypes that opera’s stories have, and how people come to terms with their own lives in terms of these very intense emotions and gestures.”
  
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• Pablo Neruda’s Remains To Be Reburied In Chile After Four Investigations Into His Suspicious Death

  23-02-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For nearly two years, Neruda’s remains have been lying in forensic laboratories in three countries – and from early this year in a fourth – in an attempt to determine whether his death may have been accelerated by poisoning.”
  
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• Sony World Photography Awards: First sight of a possible award winner

  23-02-2015 19:58
  
  Judges for the Sony World Photography Awards have undergone the “monumental task” of whittling down 177,444 images – a record number of entries – for the 2015 shortlist, with a photographic essay of two blind girls undergoing life-changing surgery among those making the cut.
  
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• Why Magritte was like a standup comedian

  23-02-2015 19:51
  
  Heard the one about the surrealist comic? His name was René Magritte. Here’s why the great Belgian artist is up there with Louis CK, Dave Chappelle and Johnny VegasIt is 117 years since the birth of the Belgian painter René Magritte. The 117th anniversary is the most important for any surrealist, so we can expect events, exhibitions and retrospectives throughout Belgium this summer. Everyone will wear bowler hats and hold apples in front of their faces, tubas will be set ablaze, busine
  
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• Cuba refuses to return seized art despite thaw in relations with US

  23-02-2015 19:50
  Havana museum rejects exile’s claim as US shows miss out on Cuban loans
  
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• Can Pandora Soothe The Extremely Ruffled Feelings Of The Music World?

  23-02-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “To repair its relationships in the music world, Pandora has created a division to work with labels and artist managers, opened its vast databanks, and begun experimenting with artist promotions.”
  
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• The Woman Who Had A Huge Influence On Sculptor Anthony Caro, But Also Made Her Own Art

  23-02-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sheila Girling, who has died at 90, met Caro at art school. “Girling’s pictures often dazzle with their intense hues, and it was she who on occasion chose the colours in Caro’s sculptures, from his steel and aluminium compositions of the 1960s to more recent pieces in Perspex.”
  
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• Structure Rising: David Salle on ‘The Forever Now’ at MoMA

  23-02-2015 19:00 via artnews.com
  What the flawed survey tells us about painting today Read More
  
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• Rex Ray obituary

  23-02-2015 18:46
  
  My friend Rex Ray, the artist and graphic designer, who has died of cancer aged 58, was a major cultural force in the Bay Area of San Francisco, California, widely recognised for his collage work.Son of Luise and and Charles Patterson, he was born Michael Patterson on a US army base in Germany, and grew up in Colorado Springs. In 1981 he moved to San Francisco and completed a fine arts degree at the San Francisco Art Institute. Continue reading...
  
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• Tate hopes new show will encourage a fresh look at Victorian sculpture

  23-02-2015 18:44
  
  Sculpture Victorious has had withering reviews but Tate Britain thinks it may encourage an appreciation of the ingenuity and power politics of an era now seen as fusty and boringLots of people hate Victorian sculpture – it can be hilariously over the top, boring and supremely uncool, they say. Tate Britain hope visitors will see it as“jaw-dropping”, “mind-boggling” and “nothing short of incredible”.
  The argument is being put forward in the first major exhibition devoted to Britis
  
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• The NSA Might Be Displeased With Hollywood After The ‘Citizenfour’ Win

  23-02-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Academy voters “implicitly validated the project of exposing how government stores and monitors our private communications as a worthy enterprise rather than a discreditable one. In this way, civil society has just strengthened a core democratic norm.”
  
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• In Los Angeles, Small Theatres Are Quietly And Not So Quietly Freaking Out About Equity’s Minimum Wage Proposal

  23-02-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “By the time the meeting broke up it looked as if a civil war were at hand and that, in an extreme rarity for the U.S. labor movement, a substantial force within a union was mobilizing against a pay hike.”
  
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• Who, And What, Won At The 2015 Oscars?

  23-02-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hint: A lot, but not all, of the Oscars went to a film about a movie star trying to find meaning through theatre.
  
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• A New Conducting Award Honors Julius Rudel, Former Music Director Of The New York City Opera

  23-02-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The program, which is being financed through a bequest from the Rudel estate, will give some Mannes conducting students residencies with the Buffalo Philharmonic, which Mr. Rudel once led.”
  
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• 3 New Positions in NYC

  23-02-2015 15:00
  Sophie Macpherson Ltd
  
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• The Power Of The #Ballet Hashtag

  23-02-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Ballet is easily the most photogenic of the sports. An art form that toes the line between performance and feats of athleticism, it’s filled with pirouettes and arabesques that when frozen in a frame appear like paintings or perfectly sculpted statues.”
  
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• Second Stage Gets Extra Time To Find Money To Purchase Helen Hayes Theatre

  23-02-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A roughly $21 million balance exists on the total purchase price of $24.75 million.”
  
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• Sheila Girling obituary

  23-02-2015 13:29
  
  Modernist painter known for her chromatic brilliance who had a huge influence on the work of her husband, the sculptor Anthony CaroThe painter Sheila Girling, who has died aged 90, has often been acknowledged for her important influence on the work of her husband, the sculptor Anthony Caro, in what the couple themselves described as a “64-year conversation about art”, but her own acrylics and collages also deserve attention.Girling’s pictures often dazzle with their intense hues, and it wa
  
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• Technology’s impact on the arts to be debated in the Gulf

  23-02-2015 09:09
  
  Global Art Forum announces line-up for its ninth edition next month
  
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• The insider's cultural guide to Krakow: 'We've seen some radical changes'

  23-02-2015 09:00
  
  Writer and translator Olga Drenda tells us what everyone’s watching, listening to and laughing at in this formerly conservative, now buzzing Polish cityProgressive spirit within medieval frame. Five to follow
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• Burmese days: glimpses of a lost kingdom – in pictures

  23-02-2015 08:00
  
  British photographer Captain Linnaeus Tripe documented the stunning cultural artefacts of Burma and South India in the mid-19th century with an unprecedented series of photos. The first major collection of his work will be on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 24 February until 25 May
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 02.22.15

  23-02-2015 07:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Different Orientation (Beauty Class Wk 1) AJBlog: JumperPublished 2015-02-22 MFA’s Gets A Load of Rothschild Loot AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2015-02-22 Clark Terry Is Gone AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-02-22 Golden Meanness AJBlog: Infinite CurvesPublished 2015-02-22 Martha Graham and her Heritage AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-02-20 Because She Can . . . Therefore She Is AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2015-02-20 Music Schools in Transition, Part IV […]
  
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