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• Elizabeth Taylor Trust Sues Christie’s

  25-02-2015 23:21 via artnews.com
  A federal complaint against Christie’s was filed on Tuesday by Elizabeth Taylor’s Southern Trust. The claim alleges that the auction house mismanaged the sales of Taylor’s “most prized and valuable possessions” (including her jewelry, wardrobe, and art collection) and stole … Read More
  
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• Havana Biennial’s high-profile artist line-up includes Kapoor, Sehgal and Schneider

  25-02-2015 22:20
  
  Instead of a central venue, this year’s exhibition will see works installed across the city, including universities and research centres
  
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• Vervoordt Foundation, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia Will Examine ‘Universal Proportions’ in Venice Biennale Show

  25-02-2015 22:09 via artnews.com
  The Axel & May Vervoordt Foundation and the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia will present a show called “PROPORTIO” at the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, which will run from May 9 through November 22. This fifth edition of their biennial … Read More
  
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• Consumer Reports: Andrew Jeffrey Wright

  25-02-2015 21:52 via artnews.com
  Andrew Jeffrey Wright is a multi-hyphenate Philadelphia artist known for, among other things, his screenprints, paintings, animations, drawings, collages, videos, installations, and performances. He is a co-founder of the influential Philadelphia gallery and creative community Space 1026 and has worked in collaboration with artists … Read More
  
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• New Museum's Generational Triennial: wired for the future

  25-02-2015 21:00
  
  The 51 young artists in the New York gallery’s show are exploring the frontiers of digital technology, from the surveillance state to gaming culture“Almost everybody wakes up and does something they don’t like – we can do better than this! ... You are going to die: Make something beautiful before you die!” Screaming manically, alone in a damp Maine forest, the euphoric intensity of internet poet Steve Roggenbuck is balanced with humour in his 2012 video Make Something Beautiful Before
  
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• The 2015 New Museum Triennial Is a Pointed, Bracing Survey of Now

  25-02-2015 20:44 via artnews.com
  The New Museum’s forward-looking third triennial, “Surround Audience,” is dark and anxious, and cut through with levity and humor. It sees quite a few intriguing young artists stepping up their games, and it introduces others to these shores. In short, … Read More
  
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• Preview ADAA’s 2015 Art Show

  25-02-2015 19:45 via artnews.com
  The Art Dealers Association of America’s 27th edition of The Art Show opens March 4, with a gala preview on March 3. The fair will include 72 galleries, with the majority hailing from New York, and will boast several monographic … Read More
  
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• Where Beethoven Is A Star: Violent Video Games

  25-02-2015 16:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The spirit of Beethoven has come back to life in first-person shooter games. Over-the-top Romanticism, in all its most extravagant manifestations, is now the preferred musical accompaniment to virtual killing.”
  
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• Waqas Khan: the Pakistani artist who makes you want to say yes

  25-02-2015 16:34
  
  Inspired by Sufi songs and scripture, Waqas Khan toils through the night making vast hypnotic pictures out of tiny dots – and his work is now being snapped up around the world. Jonathan Jones goes drinking with art’s hottest new starWaqas Khan is talking to me in paradise. Or at least, his art makes me feel as if I’ve been transported there. The artist’s delirious drawings are all around us in Vienna’s Galerie Krinzinger: spirals, waves and circles that shimmer delicately in pink, blac
  
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• These Artists Promote Cultural Understanding (But Not If They Can’t Get Visas)

  25-02-2015 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In a time when cultural understanding is more critical than ever before, it’s become an uphill battle for artists from Islamic countries to obtain permission to travel to the United States.”
  
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• Study: Violent Video Games Are Less Violent For Good Players

  25-02-2015 16:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The level of aggression and hostility such games produce varies considerably depending upon the skill of the individual player.”
  
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• Here’s Why Classifying Writers Is A Bad Idea

  25-02-2015 15:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Given the chance, we would resist classification. I have never met a writer who wishes to be described as a female writer, gay writer, black writer, Asian writer or African writer. We hyphenated writers complain about the privilege accorded to the white male writer, he who dominates the western canon and is the only one […]
  
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• Non-Profits Versus For-Profits – The Lines Are Blurring

  25-02-2015 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “All organizations – not just nonprofits – are now in the business of promoting “social good” in order to gain support… If your organization imagines one of its key differentiators to be its social responsibility, well, then your thinking may be at complete odds with the way the market perceives and evaluates all organizations (i.e. […]
  
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• Theatre Cancels All-Asian “Showboat” After Concluding It Couldn’t Be Done

  25-02-2015 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We spoke with, and listened purposefully to members of racially diverse communities and particularly with our most direct constituents, Asian-Americans, regarding how tackling this work might be perceived when the Asian presence is thrust into the center of a conversation that has historically excluded it. After carefully absorbing arguments of both support and opposition, we […]
  
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• Con Men Try To Sell Fake Goya, Get Paid In Counterfeit Money, Then Get The Book Thrown At Them

  25-02-2015 15:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The con artists realized they had been tricked when they tried to deposit 1.7 million Swiss francs (€1.5 million) in a Geneva bank and were told that the banknotes were mere photocopies.”
  
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• Morning Links: Radiohead Edition

  25-02-2015 15:19 via artnews.com
  Mexico City’s Museo Jumex cancels a controversial Hermann Nitsch show. [New York Times] London’s Wellcome Collection’s new exhibition, “Forensics, The Anatomy of Crime,” showcases female artists who make art out of murder. [The Guardian] Read this review of the New … Read More
  
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• Results: Arts Rank Low In Survey Of Essential Skills Students Need

  25-02-2015 14:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Despite decades of work citing and arguing the value and benefit of the Arts as a core subject important to the education of our children, despite substantial research on that importance, despite the flourishing of hundreds, if not thousands, of exemplary programs across the country, and despite all our efforts, the public seemingly STILL thinks […]
  
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• The Arts Are Always Talking About Being Inclusive. And Yet Hypocrisy Is Rampant

  25-02-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the face of such bleak statistics, it’s time for us to ask why the industries with some of the loftiest ideals and the most vocal commitments to progressivism still far so far short of reasonable expectations.”
  
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• Oops. Hackers Buy Up First Batch Of “Burning Man” Tickets

  25-02-2015 14:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “They figured out there was a problem when passes went on sale last week. Some 80,000 people tried to buy $390 tickets to the massive, free-for-all festival in a remote dry lake bed in the Black Rock Desert in Northern Nevada in late August. But only the first 20,000 people who clicked were guaranteed a […]
  
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• Why Can’t Art Just Be Art?

  25-02-2015 14:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Cultural institutions once saw it as their priority to cultivate, preserve and display the best of the arts. Their unique contribution was to cultivate culture in the public sphere, for anyone to enjoy, by developing public understanding of the arts and sciences that have shaped the world we live in today. Through providing access to […]
  
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• Ivo Pogorelich, Royal Festival Hall, review: A strange comeback at the Southbank

  25-02-2015 13:02
  
  In the Eighties Ivo Pogorelich was the hottest pianist on the planet, combining haute couture with a fabulous technique and very individual artistry.
  
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• Dutch Soccer Hooligans Damage Historic Bernini Fountain In Rome

  25-02-2015 10:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “One of the central victims of the clash was the Berninis’ Fontana della Barcaccia, a fountain of a half-sunken ship that sits at the foot of the famous steps in piazza di Spagna. In addition to being left looking like it had a hangover, filled with beer bottles, balloons, and trash, at least 100 scratches […]
  
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• Yes, Sometimes You Do Have To Censor Shakespeare, Says Mark Rylance

  25-02-2015 10:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I don’t think there’s pressure [to remove] the bawdy jokes. He’s bawdier a lot more times than people realise. The pressures I feel are more for times where he will say something very antisemitic.”
  
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• ISIS Burns 8,000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul’s Library

  25-02-2015 10:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Among its lost collections were manuscripts from the eighteenth century, Syriac books printed in Iraq’s first printing house in the nineteenth century, books from the Ottoman era, Iraqi newspapers from the early twentieth century and some old antiques like an astrolabe and sand glass used by ancient Arabs. The library had hosted the personal libraries […]
  
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• The Genius And Excess Of John Berryman

  25-02-2015 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Centennial celebrations, meant to re¬suscitate a reputation, run the risk of burying it instead. Consider the case of John Berryman … Not so long ago he was a commanding figure in what had come to be known as confessional poetry, for its seemingly raw autobiographical excavation of alcohol and drugs, adultery and divorce, madness and […]
  
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• The Murky Gay (And Not-Gay) Politics Around Graham Moore’s “Stay Weird” Oscars Speech

  25-02-2015 09:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A lot of people assumed that by comparing himself to Turing, Moore was specifically addressing the plight of people who aren’t straight … But knowing that he’s straight, and knowing the primary controversy surrounding The Imitation Game has been about its minimization of the gay experience, makes Moore’s Oscars moment a somewhat strange one. In […]
  
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• How A Museum Can Help Make Science Accessible

  25-02-2015 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ellen V. Futter, president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York: “The public has a real thirst to understand the world around them. But what people don’t want to do is be intimidated or made to feel like it’s too much for them to understand. We are … removing any sense that […]
  
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• UK Labour Party: We’ll Put Arts “At The Heart Of The Government” (But We Might Cut Funding Anyway)

  25-02-2015 09:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ed Milliband: “I come here with an offer: to put policy for arts and culture and creativity at the heart of the next Labour government’s mission. … The arts and culture define our character as a nation … [But] I can’t make promises about what funding’s going to look like in the future.”
  
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• Beyond The Turing Test: Artificial Intelligence Will Never Be Human Intelligence

  25-02-2015 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Some insist that ‘hard A.I.’ (with human-level intelligence) can never exist, while others conclude that it is inevitable. But in many cases these debates may be missing the real point of what it means to live and think with forms of synthetic intelligence very different from our own. … A mature A.I. is not necessarily […]
  
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• What Philly Cheesesteak Does To The Brain (The Science Of Appetite)

  25-02-2015 09:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  And then there’s scrapple. The researcher’s name for the appeal of these two Philadelphia delicacies is dynamic contrast. (podcast)
  
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• Heart Of A Ballet Superstar: Wendy Whelan At 47

  25-02-2015 08:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “She was, and is, longer than most. More angular. Like calligraphy, critics said. And that’s just the start. They go crazy for her work ethic. Her astounding strength. Her rapturous, incandescent spirituality. So have choreographers. … Last fall, at 47, Whelan left the New York City Ballet. But she’s still dancing.” (audio; includes video clips)
  
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• Robert De Niro To Direct Stage Musical

  25-02-2015 08:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Along with theater veteran Jerry Zaks, the Oscar-winning actor will direct a musical adaptation of Chazz Palmintieri’s play A Bronx Tale, a film version of which De Niro directed in 1993.
  
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• Mexico City Museum Cancels Exhibition Because Artist’s Work Is Too Bloody

  25-02-2015 08:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Anticipating that [Hermann] Nitsch’s disturbing oeuvre might upset Mexicans already alarmed by the bloodshed ravaging their country, the Museo Jumex … abruptly canceled an exhibition that was scheduled to open this week. The pre-emptive decision by the Jumex Foundation, which runs the museum, has been denounced by collectors, curators and art critics as an embarrassing […]
  
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• Bruce Sinofsky, 58, Documentary Filmmaker

  25-02-2015 08:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  He is best known for the series of three Paradise Lost films he made with co-director Joe Berlinger about the West Memphis Three, defendants in a controversial Arkansas murder case.
  
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• U.S. Officials Return Tiepolo Painting and Etruscan Bronze to Italy

  25-02-2015 08:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Federal law enforcement authorities in New York announced Tuesday that they had returned to Italy two pieces of that country’s cultural heritage stolen decades ago before being brought to the United States: a painting attributed to the 18th-century artist Giambattista Tiepolo and an ancient Etruscan bronze statuette of Herakles.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.24.15

  25-02-2015 08:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Superstars have always been with us AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2015-02-24 From “Griddle Griswold” to “Twister Griswold”: New Outreach by Cleveland Museum’s Playful Director AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-02-24 The Future of the Arts AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-02-24 Elling And Iyer At The PDX Festival AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-02-24 Hail to college jazz radio […]
  
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• Ab Solomon's miniature pay-packet art – in pictures

  25-02-2015 06:02
  
  For 55 years, shoemaker Ab Solomon would paint a tiny artwork on the back of his weekly wage packet for his wife Celie, chronicling their lives. When his nephew, theatre-maker Danny Braverman, found this treasure trove, he realised he’d uncovered a great artist, a universal love story and the beginnings of his show Wot? No Fish!!, at Melbourne’s Malthouse theatre until 8 March• Wot? No Fish!! review – immensely affecting, often comic
  • A romantic ‘Greek tragedy’ drawn on wage packe
  
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• Skate’s: Top Four Online Auction Houses Cleared $144 M. Last Year

  25-02-2015 01:04 via artnews.com
  In its latest Market Note, Skate’s notes that Berlin-based online art trading platform Auctionata published its 2014 results, rising to the number-one spot ahead of peers like Paddle8, Christie’s, and artnet.com with $41 million in gross merchandise value sold, a 148 percent increase … Read More
  
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• Untitled( There would be no shame without her)

  25-02-2015 00:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tomato soup and a Rainier beer help my insomnia. Sometimes I’m in pain and I don’t know what to do about it but hand myself over to someone who will hurt me more and then I can hate them instead of myself. A Russian woman (I have processed) boy has an earache. I remember having ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Granddaughter of French dealer whose collection was confiscated by Nazis opens New York gallery

  25-02-2015 00:00
  
  Marianne Rosenberg says she plans to continue the family legacy of working with contemporary artists, as well as show the Modern art her ancestor promoted
  
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