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• Bill Clinton portrait features Monica Lewinsky reference, artist admits

  02-03-2015 23:33
  
  Another week, another dress controversy on the internet.
  
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• Bill Clinton portrait features Monica Lewinksky reference, artist admits

  02-03-2015 23:33
  
  Another week, another dress controversy on the internet.
  
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• Nina Jennings obituary

  02-03-2015 22:25
  
  My aunt, Nina Jennings, who has died aged 90, was a fiercely independent woman who enjoyed fulfilling various roles throughout her life, including as a teacher, electronics specialist, artist and peace activist.Born in Highgate, north London, to Kathleen (nee Fagnani) and Harold Jaques, who ran the Hotel Constance in Notting Hill, Nina attended the private Queenswood school in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, but was removed from there at 16 when her parents’ business faced bankruptcy at the outbreak
  
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• Chelsea Restaurant Moran’s, Longtime Staple for Gallery Dinners, Has Closed

  02-03-2015 22:09 via artnews.com
  Moran’s, a Chelsea restaurant on Tenth Avenue where auction house specialists, Upper East Side gallery directors, and Lower East Side art dealers have all joined together at some point to eat french fries at the bar and snort cocaine in … Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s ramps up commitment to middle market

  02-03-2015 21:20
  
  Full-year figures show auction house still “under tension”
  
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• Untitled(I throat my ear)

  02-03-2015 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I am thinking about nothing. We received a call from H. My father stalks me on line. He calls me a profligate. He asked me is it safe? It certainly is safe without his mind games and violence. It’s ironic that the victims in life are seen as hysterical and violent while the controllers are ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Untitled(I turn off the light)

  02-03-2015 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I need to have my mind space before I sleep. I separate myself from my wife and daughter. I meditate in the toilet. We’re in Vancouver Canada at the St. Regis Hotel. We are in a city and can see the mountain range across the river.  My wife Sheila thinks the mountains are called the ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Untitled(French woman)

  02-03-2015 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The French woman’s daughter takes class with my daughter. She has her small boy in her arm. He has white blond hair. I’m 38, she said. It didn’t seem that she knew that she was unhappy. She clearly was homesick. She talked like a newcomer who feels she has to tell her life story, that ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Yasar Kemal, Turkey’s Master Novelist And Fierce Critic, Has Died

  02-03-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Mr. Kemal’s home region — Cukurova in southern Anatolia, known in antiquity as Cilicia — is the backdrop for his sweeping tales of rapacious landlords, callous bureaucrats and peasant heroes who fight injustice. He wrote more than two dozen books, using a colorful narrative style that appealed to a broad audience, fiercely criticizing injustice and […]
  
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• NEW ONLINE DESTINATION FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN VISUAL ARTISTS

  02-03-2015 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Become a Content Contributor to MooreWomenArtists.org: provide existing content and receive a Contributor’s page to promote yourself and your work; create new content for the site and get a Contributor’s page plus a modest honorarium.
  
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• Classical Music Calms The (Not So Savage) Beast, Study Says

  02-03-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Dogs at the Scottish SPCA’s Dumbarton & West of Scotland animal rescue and rehoming centre spent less time standing and barking when the music was being played.”
  
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• For The First Time Ever, Chinese Box Office Tops U.S. Box Office

  02-03-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A record Lunar New Year bonanza brought in $650 million in the second-largest movie market, according to data from research firm Entgroup.”
  
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• Goya's 'Witches and Old Women Album': Pages on show together for the first time

  02-03-2015 19:01
  
  "Reject the angel, and give the muse a kick," the Andalusian writer Federico García Lorca said in a lecture in Buenos Aires in 1933. "The true struggle is with the duende." According to Lorca, it is the duende that rules the art of Spain, "a country of death, a country open to death". The duende is an elusive spirit with dark power that emerges in the moment of artistic creation and possesses the artist. In the shuddering body of the flamenco dancer and the murderous grace of the matador, it
  
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• Goya's Witches and Old Women Album go on show for the first time at the Courtauld Gallery

  02-03-2015 19:01
  
  "Reject the angel, and give the muse a kick," the Andalusian writer Federico García Lorca said in a lecture in Buenos Aires in 1933. "The true struggle is with the duende." According to Lorca, it is the duende that rules the art of Spain, "a country of death, a country open to death". The duende is an elusive spirit with dark power that emerges in the moment of artistic creation and possesses the artist. In the shuddering body of the flamenco dancer and the murderous grace of the matador, it
  
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• New Orleans Theatre Company Finds A(nother) Temporary Home

  02-03-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the years since leaving Canal Place, Southern Rep has almost settled in a new permanent location three times — in the Central Business District, Bywater and Mid-City. But each time the deal has fallen through. And each time, Hayes said, ‘you have to start from scratch.'”
  
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• Pulse Miami Shifts to Tuesday Opening, Saturday Closing

  02-03-2015 18:10 via artnews.com
  The Pulse contemporary art fair, which opens its New York edition this week, has announced new dates for its Miami Beach fair edition, which will return to a tent in Indian Beach Park this year. This year it will run from Tuesday, December 1, through … Read More
  
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• A Day Off, Sort Of, With The Director Of The Dia Art Foundation

  02-03-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I’m living next to the Earth Room, one of Dia’s sites. Usually artists stay there. I wake up and see the Earth Room, and say good night to it, too. It’s a project that Walter De Maria built in 1977 and it’s exactly as it sounds, a space on the first floor of a building […]
  
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• Turns Out Fiction Is (Just) Slightly More Complicated Than ‘A Stranger Comes To Town; Someone Leaves Town’

  02-03-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “To the aficionado, Jockers’s sheep/goats, wheat/chaff division of imaginative fiction sounds about as sophisticated as dividing the world of music into the up-chord and the down-chord. It sounds, indeed, like the lady in the Monty Python sketch explaining her theory about the brontosaurus (it starts off thin, becomes very thick, then thin again).”
  
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• The American Ballet Theater Goes To Court Against One Of Its Longtime Workers

  02-03-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The lawsuit rolls on, pitting a 57-year-old stage carpenter against one of the country’s premier ballet companies. And it puts two friends, who bonded during years of working alongside the likes of Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nureyev and Susan Jaffe, on opposite sides of the courtroom.”
  
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• Bob Hope Captured America, But His Legacy Is Sinking Fast

  02-03-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “These days few readers may know or remember just how big a deal Hope was in his prime. … Hope was both ‘the most popular’ and ‘the most important’ entertainer of the twentieth century, ‘the only one who achieved success—often No. 1-rated success—in every major genre of mass entertainment in the modern era: vaudeville, Broadway, […]
  
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• Gods and Monsters: Zhang Huan on ‘Semele,’ His Cross-Cultural Opera

  02-03-2015 16:47 via artnews.com
  In George Friedrich Handel’s 1743 opera Semele, which is based on a story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a young woman named Semele runs away from a would-be marriage to have an affair with Jupiter. She finds herself in trouble when Juno grows … Read More
  
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• A Beautiful Modernist Techno-Utopia Landed In New York In 1939 And ‘Opened A Whole New World’ [VIDEO]

  02-03-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s hard to imagine what a marvel the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair would have been to its visitors. Still living in the heavy shadow of the stock market crash of 1929, the many people who flocked to the big exhibition found not only bounteous luxuries such as free Coca-Cola and grand spectacles of entertainment, […]
  
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• Kristin Scott Thomas Says Hollywood’s Ageism Is A Disaster (And Boring, To Boot)

  02-03-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Until the average life-span is 150 years or something, I don’t think women in their 50s are going to be considered at all viable.”
  
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• Galleries across UK get Frank Auerbach works from Lucian Freud's collection

  02-03-2015 15:31
  
  The 40 paintings and drawings were offered to nation in lieu of £16m inheritance tax after Freud’s death in 2011Lucian Freud’s treasured collection of paintings and drawings by his friend Frank Auerbach is to be distributed to galleries across the UK, it has been announced.The 40 paintings and drawings were offered to the nation in lieu of around £16m in inheritance tax after Freud’s death in 2011, representing the largest ever single agreement under the acceptance in lieu (AIL) sch
  
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• How Did This ‘Jeopardy’ Winner Become A Cultural Critic And An ‘Ombudsman’ To Nerds?

  02-03-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  After his win streak, Arthur Chu called publicists and PR firms “and said straight up, ‘Hey, do you work with viral celebrities?’ Then I’d ask, ‘If you were me, how would you hang on to the fame, how would you monetize it?'”
  
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• The insider's cultural guide to Quito

  02-03-2015 15:20
  
  From alternative radio stations to contemporary art and digital cumbia beats, musician and researcher Ata Wallpa introduces Ecuador’s vibrant capitalSun, fog, corn, stone, cars.
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• The insider's cultural guide to Quito: 'Sun, fog, corn, stone, cars …'

  02-03-2015 15:20
  
  From alternative radio stations to contemporary art and digital cumbia beats, musician and researcher Ata Wallpa introduces Ecuador’s vibrant capitalSun, fog, corn, stone, cars.
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• The shape of things to come: share your art about the future

  02-03-2015 15:10
  
  When you imagine the future, do you see flying cars or rising floods? Share your utopian or dystopian visions now
  River deep mountain high: readers’ best landscapes – in picturesYour chance to be exhibited in London and New YorkHow do you picture the future? Such a hazy concept can be tackled in many ways, and plenty of artists have done just that. The futurists saw art as a way to express their hatred of the past – which seemingly manifested itself as a loathing of sadness, sentimentality
  
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• River deep mountain high: readers' best landscapes – in pictures

  02-03-2015 15:10
  
  Blasted northern moors, Welsh sunrises, the Cornish coast, and cloud-cloaked views of Exmoor ... here’s a selection of your stunning landscapesThe shape of things to come: share your art about the future Continue reading...
  
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• Morning Links: Robot Tour Guides Edition

  02-03-2015 14:52 via artnews.com
  Marina Abramovic has announced that her memoir will arrive in the fall of 2016, to coincide with her 70th birthday. [New York Times] The crown of the Siamese King offered in 1861 to Napoleon III in the Château de Fontainebleau … Read More
  
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• When Hollywood Was Truly The Wild, Wild West

  02-03-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The new movie colony’s lax self-governance galvanized middle-American arbiters of morality into a force so disruptive and outspoken that even an assumed untouchable like Zukor feared their wrath, lest their cries for reform prompt the Federal Trade Commission to censor his often lurid but profitable movies.”
  
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• Yes, Isis threaten art: it’s that simple

  02-03-2015 14:16
  
  The shocking videos of Isis fighters destroying priceless antiquities may have been staged, but that doesn’t mean the Middle East’s art heritage is safeAre lovers and protectors of art and archaeology a bunch of sensationalists who vastly exaggerate the threat to world heritage from Islamist extremists, in particular Islamic State?A comment by Mostafa Heddaya on Artinfo berates Tom Campbell, director of the Metropolitan Museum, for protesting emotionally at an attack on art, after IS release
  
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• Add Many Countries In Africa To Your List Of Places To See Great Works Of Modernist Architecture

  02-03-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There was an intense flowering of experimental and futuristic architecture in the 1960s and 70s, which the young African countries used to express their national identities. … But we simply don’t know about it.”
  
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• It’s Time To Consider Making The Destruction Of Cultural Heritage A War Crime

  02-03-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the face of vandalism on this scale and at this level of wantonness and depravity, something larger is called for. The collective voice of the civilized world must speak out and declare that, henceforth, the destruction of cultural heritage will be deemed a war crime, with appropriate penalties meted out by the International Court […]
  
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• London’s Post-War Paintings And Murals Are At Risk – Can They Be Saved?

  02-03-2015 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Following the removal of mosaics by Eduardo Paolozzi from a London tube station earlier this month to a storage facility in Norfolk, the Twentieth Century Society conservation group has called for a ‘Domesday Book’ survey of post-war public art.”
  
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• Siamese crown stolen from Château de Fontainebleau

  02-03-2015 11:01
  
  Smash and grab raid of around 15 historic Asian artefacts happened on Sunday morning
  
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• Iraq reopens Baghdad museum in response to Islamic State vandalism

  02-03-2015 09:33
  
  Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi sends a clear message that the government will not bow down to terrorists
  
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• Grand Palais curtain-raiser for Gap founder’s collection

  02-03-2015 08:47
  
  French debut of Donald and Doris Fisher’s art gives hint of what’s in store for San Francisco next year
  
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• Elmgreen & Dragset train their telescope on New York

  02-03-2015 08:20
  
  Project for High Line coincides with show of V&A installation at Perrotin gallery
  
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• The sponsorship files: who funds our biggest arts institutions

  02-03-2015 08:00
  
  We now know what BP pays the Tate to get its logo on posters. But what do other institutions receive from their donors – and how much would you pay to have dinner with a Viking?The recent release of figures by Tate that showed its galleries received sponsorship worth £3.8m (an average of £245,000 a year) from oil giant BP between 1990 and 2006 provoked mixed reactions. While the BBC’s Will Gompertz said this was “quite a lot of money for any arts institution”, the campaigners
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 03.01.15

  02-03-2015 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Coke Bottle And The High: Too Close For Comfort? AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2015-03-01   Music Schools in Transition, IV.i AJBlog: State of the ArtPublished 2015-03-01 Jazz composers meet symphony orchestra challenge AJBlog: Jazz Beyond JazzPublished 2015-02-28 The Failure of the Test AJBlog: Infinite CurvesPublished 2015-02-28 Culture Crash and the 21st C Musician AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2015-02-27 ISIS Crisis: Archaeologist […]
  
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• James Conlon Stepping Down From May Festival After 2016 Season

  02-03-2015 06:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After Conlon leads the ‘Hallelujah’ Chorus for the last time in 2016 – his 37th season – Music Hall is expected to close its doors for about 18 months to undergo a massive renovation. The festival will be displaced for at least a year. Conlon said that the uncertainty of the revitalization plans factored into […]
  
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• Augustus John’s peace conference portraits: from the archive, 2 March 1920

  02-03-2015 06:30
  
  Augustus John offers fine sketches of world leaders but it is the portraits of women that will captivate the publicLondon, Monday.
  One of the many piquant circumstances of the Peace Conference in Paris was that we were represented there by two official artists, who must have seemed to our allies as unlike the English artist of fact and fiction in the past as Mr. Lloyd George is unlike Lord Salisbury. Sir William Orpen, an Irishman of mocking brilliance, has given us portraits, already exhibite
  
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• Q&A: Mahsa Mergenthaler-Shamsaei, YPA curator

  02-03-2015 06:10
  
  ‘A lot of what makes art magic has been lost – to auction houses, glossy magazines, prices,’ says Mahsa Mergenthaler-ShamsaeiThe exhibition Hope Dreams Desire will be open daily from 1300 - 1900 5 - 15 March at Stattbad Gerichtstraße 65, 13347 BerlinCutting through the web of business interests obscuring Iran’s art scene has long been the goal of Mahsa Mergenthaler-Shamsaei, the Geneva-based founder of the online platform Young Persian Artists (YPA). Dedicated to promoting Iran’s youn
  
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• Week in arts: International Women’s Day

  02-03-2015 01:58
  
  Dance, draw and talk: our pick of great events to celebrate the 40th anniversary of IWD including All about Women, the F word series and the Muses trioSydney Opera House brings together some of the world’s most eloquent women to share, discuss and celebrate their stories in a series of 19 events. International speakers including authors Brigid Schulte, Elizabeth Gilbert and marine biologist Sylvia Earle are joined by homegrown talents such as journalist Annabel Crabb, author Helen Garner and f
  
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• On The Beach: plastic plays the silent ocean killer at the end of the earth – video

  02-03-2015 01:00
  
  On an isolated stretch of Western Australian beach, artist Tim Pearn creates works from the spread of plastic waste. Over the course of a year he collected plastics washed up on Albany's Goode Beach from around the world. Pearn's work On the Beach is on show in Albany during the Great Southern festival, part of the Perth International Arts festival Continue reading...
  
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• On the Beach: plastic is the silent ocean killer at the end of the Earth – video

  02-03-2015 01:00
  
  On an isolated stretch of Western Australian beach, artist Tim Pearn creates works from washed-up plastic waste. Over the course of a year he collected plastic washed up on Albany's Goode beach. Pearn's work On the Beach is on show in Albany during the Great Southern festival, part of the Perth International Arts festival Continue reading...
  
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• On the Beach: killer plastic art at the end of the earth – video

  02-03-2015 01:00
  
  On an isolated stretch of Western Australian beach, artist Tim Pearn creates works from washed-up plastic waste collected over the course of a year on Albany's Goode beach. The resulting artworks, both beautiful and disturbing, are on show during the Great Southern festival, part of the 2015 Perth festival Continue reading...
  
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