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• Heirs of Jewish dealers file suit in US for the return of Guelph Treasure

  24-02-2015 22:50
  A similar restitution claim was rejected by a German government commission last year
  
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• Thousands write to prison pen pals through Alcatraz art installation

  24-02-2015 21:20
  
  Ai Weiwei’s project on the former penal island in San Francisco Bay has result in 50,000 postcards to political prisoners
  
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• Artis Receives $1 M. Anonymous Donation

  24-02-2015 21:10 via artnews.com
  The independent nonprofit organization Artis—created to raise awareness and understanding of contemporary visual art from Israel—announced today that it has received a $1,000,000 gift from an anonymous donor. According to the organization’s news release, the donation will allow for a new Artis … Read More
  
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• As 'The Indian Queen' opens, can Peter Sellars save the ENO?

  24-02-2015 20:22
  
  These are grim times at English National Opera. Earlier this month the company, which occupies the London Coliseum, the capital's largest theatre, was placed in "special measures" by Arts Council England: it has two years to shape up or face the funding axe. Its chairman, Martyn Rose, and executive director, Henriette Götz, had resigned within two weeks of each other, while the artistic director, John Berry, holds on despite a barrage of criticism; vision, finance and politics both internal
  
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• True crime: the women making art out of murder

  24-02-2015 18:13
  
  From the photographer who uses CSI techniques to the woman who turned her friend’s murder scene into a work of art, a new exhibition puts female artists first at the scene of the crime. Emine Saner snaps on her latex gloves to find out why
  It soon became clear to Sejla Kamerić how big her work, Ab Uno Disce Omne (From One, Learn All), would become. Commissioned by the Wellcome Collection for its new exhibition Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime, the Bosnian artist – whose previous work has tri
  
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• Writing As A Lonely Tortured Struggle? Not So Much

  24-02-2015 17:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Take those demons, for example. For some of us, writing is not a matter of being driven by them, but casting them out. Difficult family relationships? Sort them out on the page. Horrible love life? Write it again with a better ending. Feeling your age? Slip into the skin of a 20 year old and […]
  
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• Oscars Mop Up: Viewership Down, Petty Controversies, Relevancy Questions, And Then The Boringness Factor

  24-02-2015 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s sad, but most people have to finally accept that the Oscars have become, well, elitist and not in step with anything that is actually popular. No one really believes anymore that the films they chose are the ones that are going to last over time.”
  
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• Family Sues Germany Over Treasure Looted By The Nazis

  24-02-2015 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Two claimants to a collection of medieval Christian treasure filed a suit in the U.S. District Court in Washington on Monday against the German government and the government-controlled museum that owns the artifacts.”
  
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• Are Humans Smarter Than They Were 100 Years Ago? Here’s The Evidence

  24-02-2015 17:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Our improved ability to reason abstractly may also be the result of the spread of scientific thinking-reason, rationality, empiricism, skepticism. Thinking like a scientist means employing all our faculties to overcome our emotional, subjective, and instinctual brains to better understand the true nature of not only the physical and biological worlds, but the social world […]
  
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• Here’s Why American Musical Theatre Has Slipped From The Mainstream

  24-02-2015 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Now that Broadway-minded songwriters no longer have a universal musical language on which to draw, it isn’t possible to write a show with genuine broad-gauge audience appeal. It says everything about the desperate state of the American musical that the last theatrical song to become an enduringly popular hit, Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns,” […]
  
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• Why Satire Is Important (Especially When It’s Offensive)

  24-02-2015 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If I try, in the aim of cool-headed analysis, to contain that dismay, I find that my American colleagues’ quasi-rationalization of the assassination of caricaturists is rooted in a failure to distinguish between certain basic varieties of the exercise of the freedom of expression. In particular, there seems to be a broad misunderstanding of the […]
  
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• St. Paul’s New Ordway Hall – Key To A Revitalized City

  24-02-2015 16:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “St. Paul is as strong now as we’ve been in decades, with light rail in and a new regional ballpark coming,” said St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman, an early champion of the project. “But the arts and culture stuff is what continues to drive development. The Ordway, which is so beautiful on Rice Park, is […]
  
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• John Luther Adams: Making Music In A Time Of Crisis

  24-02-2015 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Today a growing number of geologists believe we have left the Holocene and entered a new period—the Anthropocene—in which the dominant geologic force is humanity itself. What does this mean for music? What does it mean for my work as a composer, or for any artist working in any medium today?”
  
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• Death Of A Dancer – How To Prepare?

  24-02-2015 16:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “So how does one plan for a tragedy? You really can’t. You plan for your organization’s response to one. That is to say, put in place the information, guidelines, training, and materials needed to help company leadership and staff deal with a most difficult and often chaotic time.”
  
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• So London Needs A New Concert Hall For Simon Rattle? Is This The Real Priority?

  24-02-2015 16:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Is this more than a vanity project? Is Simon Rattle’s musicianship really worth it? Would such a “world-class hall” be sustainable after his departure? At 63 he would be, even by the gerontocratic standards of classical music, not a young man when his Berlin contract runs out in 2018.”
  
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• Big Improvements Ahead For Sydney Opera House?

  24-02-2015 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The proposed upgrades include a permanent function centre at the Opera House overlooking the harbour and a new waterfront public square at Walsh Bay. About $202 million would be spent on the opera house, which was completed in 1973 and attracts 8 million tourists a year.”
  
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• Rudi Fuchs Will Curate ArtZuid 2015

  24-02-2015 15:40 via artnews.com
  Rudi Fuchs will curate the fourth edition of ArtZuid, an open air sculpture biennial in Amsterdam. The selected artists–which include Ai Weiwei, Georg Baselitz, James Lee Byars, Tony Cragg, and KAWS–will each have their own podium to display ensembles of … Read More
  
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• Carol Rama at MACBA

  24-02-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• ‘The Sensory War 1914–2014’ at Manchester Art Gallery

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• Larry Sultan at Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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• Duane Michals at Carnegie Museum of Art

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• Kellyann Burns at McKenzie Fine Art

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• Thomas Houseago at Hauser & Wirth

  24-02-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Sculptor Thomas Houseago created an object/environment that could be construed as all things to many people. Called Moun Room (2013–14), the installation was a huge cubistic maze divided into three chambers. Visitors could walk, climb, and crawl through it, sit … Read More
  
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• John Waters at Marianne Boesky

  24-02-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• Sturtevant at Museum of Modern Art

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• Joe Fyfe at Longhouse Projects

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• Morning Links: Surrealist Comedy Edition

  24-02-2015 14:47 via artnews.com
  Despite improved relations with the US, Cuba is still refusing to return seized art. [The Art Newspaper] Labour leader Ed Miliband has promised to set up a Prime Minister’s Committee on the Arts, Culture and Creative Industries if he wins the … Read More
  
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• Portrait of the artist as a drowned man: Simon Faithfull’s watery visions

  24-02-2015 13:11
  
  He’s sunk a boat to build his own reef, filmed icebergs that leave people nauseous, travelled to derelict whaling stations in the Antarctic – and inspired the film Up. The video artist’s new solo exhibition is full of haunting marine worlds and eerie faraway placesSimon Faithfull’s first solo exhibition in a French museum is in Calais, but it is far from the shore. Yet the Musée des Beaux-Arts is filled with the sound of the sea, a constant rumble of waves swelling and breaking, t
  
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• Labour leader promises high-level arts committee

  24-02-2015 12:00
  
  Ed Miliband's pre-election pledge comes with no extra cash
  
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• Early Music Leader Philip Pickett Gets 11 Years’ Prison For Rape

  24-02-2015 10:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  The founder and director of the New London Consort and Musicians of the Globe (the resident ensemble at Shakespeare’s Globe), with a discography of 48 titles, Pickett was convicted of assaulting several of his students at the Guildhall School.
  
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• René Magritte Was A Comedian

  24-02-2015 10:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A good comic can take something mundane and familiar and make you see it an unexpected way, whether it’s Dave Chappelle talking about ‘grape drink’, or Louis CK ranting about his four-year-old daughter. Magritte will do the same by sticking a silk mask on an apple. Or having a cloud enter a room by a […]
  
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• Suzan-Lori Parks Wins $100K Playwriting Prize

  24-02-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The critically acclaimed epic play Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3) by Suzan-Lori Parks has won the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for a theatrical work inspired by American history … A check for $100,000 will also go to Ms. Parks, a Pulitzer Prize winner for the drama Topdog/Underdog.”
  
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• Rothschild Family Treasures Find A Resting Place In Boston

  24-02-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The gift all but closes the book on a collection that was started in the mid-1800s by Baron Nathaniel von Rothschild and his brother, Albert, and became entwined with 20th-century history.”
  
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• How Mexican Filmmakers Reached Hollywood’s Top Tier

  24-02-2015 09:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s not just Alejandro González Iñárritu’s wins for Birdman. Alfonso Cuarón won last year for Gravity, and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki won Oscars two years running for those movies. Then there’s Guillermo del Toro, Rodrigo Prieto, and others. “So who is this band of Mexican artists and how did it fight to the top of one […]
  
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• Opening Up Paris Theatre To Visitors And Expats

  24-02-2015 09:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While the locals flock to the 300 or so venues, they are largely un-visited by tourists and expats because one of the main requirements for a visit is a good knowledge of French. At least that’s what Carl de Poncins says. He quit his job as the marketing director of a multinational company last year […]
  
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• How Much Should A Funder Be Able To Dictate What The Art It Funds Should Accomplish?

  24-02-2015 09:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is a given now that in order to get a foundation grant, it’s often not enough to simply apply for funding of what you do day in and day out. What do funders want? Innovation! New ways of ‘engaging’ younger audiences! High-impact special projects that others will want to emulate!”
  
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• What Happens When You Let A Listicle Writer For A Finance Website Name The Ten Most Influential Choreographers Ever?

  24-02-2015 09:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, for a start, you get Maurice Béjart and Pina Bausch ranked ahead of Marius Petipa and Bob Fosse. And there’s more to argue about where that came from. (On the other hand, at least she doesn’t forget about hip-hop and Bollywood.)
  
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• Relations With The U.S. Or No, Cuba Is Not Returning Exiles’ Art

  24-02-2015 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With the recent loosening of US restrictions on trade with Cuba, prisoner exchanges and the promise of warmer relations to come, the two countries are closer than they have been for 50 years. But for those Cuban exiles in the US whose art was seized by the Cuban authorities in the 1960s, restitution of their […]
  
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• Henry Segerstrom, 91, Philanthropist Who Transformed Orange County, California’s Cultural Life

  24-02-2015 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The scion of a lima-bean-farming family, Segerstrom turned some empty fields into South Coast Plaza, one of America’s high-end shopping meccas. He went on to donate the land and much of the money to build the venues at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, renamed after him in 2011.
  
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• Poetess, Actress, Aviatrix, Rockette, And Other Gendered Occupations

  24-02-2015 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Listen to Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the history and etymology of feminine suffixes – including -ess, -ette, and -trix – with University of Michigan professor Anne Curzan.” (podcast)
  
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• Sculpture at heart of Romanian identity waits to hear her fate

  24-02-2015 08:45
  
  Owners have to offer the state first refusal before selling the Wisdom of the Earth by Constantin Brâncuși – but they may be in for a long waitThe woman, carved from limestone, sits with her arms resting on her pulled-up legs and looks enigmatically ahead. She is regarded as one of Romania’s finest modernist artworks, yet the Bucharest government’s refusal to say whether it wants to buy her has left the €20m (£15m) sculpture in a murky legal limbo, and its owners unable to sell.T
  
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• Turnip Princesses And Boy Cinderellas: A Rediscovered Collection Of Fairy Tales Is Even More Different From The Grimms Than You’d Think

  24-02-2015 08:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Working just a few decades after the Brothers Grimm, Schönwerth considered scholars his natural audience, and as a result the tales he recorded are bawdier, racier and significantly more scatological than the collection the Grimms published under the title Children’s and Household Tales.” The English translator of a new collection tells us more.
  
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• Yes, It Is Possible To Be Scared To Death

  24-02-2015 08:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Adrenaline can be a dangerous thing.
  
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• Development Manager – Institutional Giving

  24-02-2015 06:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  From the Top is America’s largest national platform dedicated to celebrating the stories, talents, and character of classically-trained young musicians.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.23.15

  24-02-2015 06:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Different Orientation (Beauty Class Wk 1) AJBlog: Jumper Published 2015-02-22 Fear of Music, Then and Now AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-02-23 Freda Payne At Jimmy Mak’s AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-02-23
  
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• Snow White Rising: Fourth Guide

  24-02-2015 03:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The post Snow White Rising: Fourth Guide appeared first on Zouch.
  
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