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• Robert Campbell Jnr's depiction of a segregated Australia – in pictures

  03-03-2015 23:44
  
  Robert Campbell Jnr was an artist of the Ngaku people, born in the northern New South Wales town of Kempsey. An exhibition at Artbank, curated by Djon Mundine, will be the artist’s first major retrospective since he passed away in 1992. Campbell Jnr’s brightly coloured works tell a powerful Australian story of state-endorsed land dispossession and discrimination against Indigenous Australians, which carried on well into the second half of the 20th century. This selection of eight works detai
  
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• Coralville, Iowa Seeks Managing Director

  03-03-2015 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Coralville, Iowa is seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, and dynamic Managing Director for the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts.
  
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• After More Than 14,000 Posts, Joshua Abelow Will End Art Blog Art Blog

  03-03-2015 21:40 via artnews.com
  Art Blog Art Blog, the art blog prolifically updated by artist Joshua Abelow with exhibition announcements, installation shots, Bukowski poems, and sundry other items, and which also took the form of a temporary gallery and a print publication, will cease … Read More
  
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• After More Than 13,000 Posts, Joshua Abelow Will End Art Blog Art Blog

  03-03-2015 21:40 via artnews.com
  Art Blog Art Blog, the art blog prolifically updated by artist Joshua Abelow with exhibition announcements, installation shots, Bukowski poems, and sundry other items, and which also took the form of a temporary gallery and a print publication, will cease … Read More
  
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• Bring me the Head of Franco Toselli! Shapero Modern Gallery to show explicit Chapman Brothers film

  03-03-2015 20:42
  
  An artwork by the Chapman Brothers showing explicit sex scenes that caused a gallery to be shut down by the vice squad two decades ago is to go on display again – with the film being shown in a booth with a peephole placed at a respectable height in the hope of preventing minors from viewing it.
  
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• Bring me the Head of Franco Toselli! Chapman Brothers' explicit film to be shown by Shapero Modern Gallery

  03-03-2015 20:42
  
  An artwork by the Chapman Brothers showing explicit sex scenes that caused a gallery to be shut down by the vice squad two decades ago is to go on display again – with the film being shown in a booth with a peephole placed at a respectable height in the hope of preventing minors from viewing it.
  
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• Serge Lasvignes Nominated to Head Pompidou Center

  03-03-2015 20:34 via artnews.com
  Government secretary general Serge Lasvignes was nominated this week to replace Alain Seban as head of the Pompidou Center, a surprise choice considering his background as a high-level French government official and a graduate of the prestigious L’École Nationale d’Administration. … Read More
  
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• Why Net Neutrality Ruling Might Not Be All It’s Cracked Up To Be

  03-03-2015 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Competition on the internet is constantly evolving and poorly understood. AOL was a has-been before the ink was dry on the relentless complaints about its unassailable monopoly; cable content is suddenly challenged by streaming video; DSL, once thought dead, now offers 25-75 Mbps service. Yet the FCC’s rules ignore this complexity, insisting on a one-dimensional […]
  
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• And Then There Were None (New York’s Last Sheet Music Store Closing)

  03-03-2015 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Frank Music has been struggling for years, as music became readily available online, said Heidi Rogers, the shop’s owner. “We went from seeing 15 to 20 people per day to seeing two or three,” Ms. Rogers said on Monday. “I went from feeling like I was at the center of the world to feeling invisible.”
  
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• Sir Simon Rattle returns to London for his ‘last big job’

  03-03-2015 20:09
  
  The world-renowned conductor Sir Simon Rattle is “coming home” to take over as music director at the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) – but has insisted his move is not contingent on his wishes for a new concert hall in the capital being granted.
  
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• Survey: What Men Are Reading (And Why)

  03-03-2015 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  The “survey showed that 39 per cent of adult fiction works and 56 per cent of non-fiction were for males, suggesting men are not so keen on keeping up-to-date with storytelling, but slightly ahead of women when it comes to reading history, politics and biography.”
  
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• Watch Leon Golub's anti-Vietnam war art come to life – animation

  03-03-2015 19:02
  
  A giant frieze painting by the American artist Leon Golub, who was prominent in the late 60s anti-war movement, is installed at the Serpentine Gallery in LondonLeon Golub was a member of the Chicago School known as the Monster Roster. During the escalating American involvement in Vietnam, Golub joined the Artists and Writers Protest Group, becoming active in the anti-war movement. The battle scenes in his Gigantomachy series – the largest of which is seen being installed here – is Gigantomac
  
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• Leon Golub: Bite your Tongue review – so terrific, the paintings roar off the walls

  03-03-2015 18:52
  
  Serpentine gallery, London
  Late Chicago-born artist has never had the retrospective he deserves in US – perhaps galleries are afraid, for his work is as shocking as it is powerfulLions prowl, ravening dogs bark, someone fixes you with a grin. You could get stuffed in a car’s trunk and beaten senseless. Or you might end up coerced yourself. A job is a job. You could end up doing anything, given the circumstances. One day you’ll be dead anyway.
  Leon Golub found a way to paint the world an
  
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• MoMA takes a ‘layered’ look at Björk’s music

  03-03-2015 18:37
  
  The Museum of Modern Art presents a multimedia retrospective of Björk’s multifaceted work
  
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• Catherine Fried obituary

  03-03-2015 17:58
  
  My mother-in-law, Catherine Fried, who has died aged 78, was an artist, photographer and sculptor who turned to writing , and whose first book was published when she was 72.The title of her memoir of her marriage to the Austrian poet Erich Fried, Über Kurz Oder Lang, means ‘“sooner or later”, and plays on the German words for short and long, referring to the couple’s disparity in height. Catherine was the long one. The book was warmly reviewed, ran to three editions and launched Cat
  
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• Little-known civil servant in line for top Pompidou job

  03-03-2015 17:19
  
  Serge Lasvignes expected to be named as Alain Seban’s successor
  
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• True Confessions of a Justified Art Dealer, Part Four: Up All Night in the Dream Factory

  03-03-2015 16:15 via artnews.com
  I’d been an art dealer in Los Angeles for three years when I decided I’d had enough and got a job working the bar at Hop Louie, a neighborhood establishment in Chinatown. After Sinky, the 72-year-old Chinese bartender, suffered his … Read More
  
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• Mail

  03-03-2015 16:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mateo had been working for the USPS for a year. Having completed the Civil Servant Exam and taken various tests that involved sorting and memorization of sequences of numbers, he finally earned a spot as a substitute mail carrier. The job, albeit mind numbing at times, was to his liking. He fancied himself an old ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Mass Exodus? Why Nearly Half Of Miami’s Art Museums Don’t Have Directors

  03-03-2015 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Four museums in Miami are currently searching for new directors. In a city that has transformed itself into one of the top destinations for contemporary art in the US over the past decade and boasts perhaps ten significant art institutions, nearly half are now leaderless.”
  
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• Wu-Tang Clan Previews One-of-a-Kind Album at PS1

  03-03-2015 15:36 via artnews.com
  Last night the Wu-Tang Clan played 13 minutes of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, the group’s new album, for a select group at MoMA PS1. The event was even more significant because of the marketing surrounding the album, which, … Read More
  
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• Here’s What It’s Like To Run NY City Ballet

  03-03-2015 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I think the thing that’s changed the most over the years is that it just becomes more and more and more difficult to sustain organizations and to sustain the art itself. The funding climate has changed over the years: it’s much more difficult and much more competitive. And the nature of the audience has changed […]
  
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• Are These The Five Best Bookstores In America?

  03-03-2015 15:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Before the winner is announced in early April, each of the five finalists will submit a portfolio to impress the judges. The reward — publicity in Publishers Weekly and at the Book Expo convention in May — is certainly valuable, but this is a distinctly cordial competition.”
  
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• The Conflicting Values Of Self-Criticism

  03-03-2015 15:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We may not be able to imagine a life in which we don’t spend a large amount of our time criticising ourselves and others; but we should keep in mind the self-love that is always in play. Self-criticism can be our most unpleasant – our most sadomasochistic – way of loving ourselves.”
  
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• Here’s A Provocative Essay About Reasons For Decline Of Classical Music

  03-03-2015 15:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  “To gain a proper and complete understanding of what we call “classical” music is to appreciate that it was all written within the context of societies which were predominantly Christian in nature, and where celebrations of traditional national attributes were not seen as old-fashioned or backward-looking as they often are today.”
  
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• Why The Internet Isn’t Going To Solve Our Problems

  03-03-2015 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.”
  
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• In St. Paul: How A New Hall Redefines An Orchestra

  03-03-2015 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s the sound equivalent of what happens when curators at museums do that very careful cleaning process of old masters’ paintings and the colors become more vibrant and you can see all sorts of detail.”
  
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• Simon Rattle appointed music director of London Symphony Orchestra

  03-03-2015 14:38
  
  Sir Simon Rattle, one of the world's most acclaimed conductors, is to “come home” to the UK after he was appointed music director of the London Symphony Orchestra.
  
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• Another Day On Planet Earth

  03-03-2015 14:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Another Day On Planet Earth woke up drank tea edited part of a novel read through some reports on conflict in Gaza in other news a civilian airplane was blown out of the sky the TV guy said it landed in a field somewhere in the Ukraine not far from the Russian border went for ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Picabia Alert #6: Sailing on the Open Sea in Ostend, Belgium

  03-03-2015 14:05 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 arrives at the Kunsthaus Zurich and New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2016. Today’s Picabia Alert takes us to Ostend, Belgium, … Read More
  
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• Here Is the Exhibitor List for Art Basel 2015

  03-03-2015 12:30 via artnews.com
  Art Basel announced today the full line-up for its 46th edition, which runs June 18-21 in Basel, Switzerland. There are 283 galleries from 33 countries, spread out over four sections–the main fair, Edition (for prints and multiples), Feature, wherein galleries … Read More
  
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• Boom Time for Brazil’s Art Market

  03-03-2015 12:00 via artnews.com
  Who needs soccer when you’ve got fairs, galleries, and a flood of international collectors animating the country’s art scene? Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Monica Lewinsky Edition

  03-03-2015 11:45 via artnews.com
  The artist who painted the portrait of Bill Clinton that hangs in Washington’s National Portrait Gallery says he painted a shadow of the Monica Lewinsky scandal onto the canvas. [The Guardian] Tatiana Trouvé’s Desire Lines, an art project commissioned for Central Park by … Read More
  
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• Have We Just Found The Next Terrific Woman Conductor?

  03-03-2015 10:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mark Swed: “Word was out. The hall sold out. Presenters from Chicago, New York and elsewhere came to check her out. Managers who didn’t were simply not paying attention. The debut was a preview. Mirga mania can now officially begin.” (What’s more, “[she] was the third exceptional woman to conduct the L.A. Phil in a […]
  
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• ISIS And Its Sophisticated Cinema Of Terror

  03-03-2015 10:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The cinematography is as crisp and chilling as a horror movie. Men in orange jumpsuits kneel on a beach beneath a sky of broken clouds. Executioners hover over them, dressed in black, knives aglint. … This and other recent execution videos released by Islamic State are slickly produced narratives of multiple camera angles, eerie tension […]
  
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• Was ISIS’s Attack On Mosul Museum Staged? Just Another Of Its “Cinema Of Terror” Pieces?

  03-03-2015 10:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Christopher Knight, observing that several of the statues destroyed were obviously modern copies: “Earlier snuff videos … show the beheading of soldiers, journalists and humanitarian aid workers. The new video purports to show nothing less than the beheading of an entire civilization. The question is: Does it really? Or is the video, instead, a grotesque […]
  
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• Iraq’s National Museum Reopens, In Gesture Of Defiance To ISIS

  03-03-2015 10:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In response to the destruction of antiquities in Mosul last week by Islamic State militants, the Iraqi government reopened the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad this weekend, with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi speaking out against the terrorist group at the ribbon cutting.”
  
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• The Show That’s Turning Islamophobia Into A Laugh Riot

  03-03-2015 10:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What do you do if your inbox is clogged up with anti-Muslim hate mail? Turn it into a cabaret show. Daryl Lindsey reports from Berlin on a strangely joyful evening of horrendous abuse.”
  
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• Maggie Smith Will Do No More Theatre – “It’s So Exhausting”

  03-03-2015 10:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I just don’t think I could cope with it. Almost every Wednesday and Saturday I wake up relieved it’s not a matinee.. … It’s hard enough doing film and television, but at least you know it’s not day, after day, after day. I just found it so exhausting.” (By the way, what she actually said […]
  
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• Stolen 400-Year-Old Books on Their Way Home To Italy

  03-03-2015 10:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This is the odyssey of two rare books that were taken from an Italian library and wound up in the hands of a Bay Area rare-book collector. The books are safe and sound, the Homeland Security Department said, and heading home to their rightful owner.”
  
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• Should The NYPD Be Deciding When Busking Counts As Art And When As Begging?

  03-03-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Recently, a busking video went viral. In it a police officer, armed with a gun and club, passed judgment on a busker, who protested by reading out the law covering art in public. He got a loitering charge. Boos are bad, hisses worse and an audience unsatisfied enough to pelt is humiliating. But a criminal […]
  
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• The Economics Of Arthur Miller’s Plays

  03-03-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “But it was really his view of the crash of 1929 and the Great Depression: even more than an economic crash, it was a national emotional collapse, ‘like all the winds had stopped, gone dead’ … That sense of existential and economic desperation carries across all his plays.”
  
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• Concertgoers Start Yelling At Each Other Over When (Not) To Applaud

  03-03-2015 09:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The moment of shame came as the Staatskapelle Dresden, one of the world’s best orchestras, opened the 43rd Hong Kong Arts Festival with a performance of Richard Strauss’ Metamorphosen. … But just as the 20-minute masterpiece faded out into intense C minor chords, an audience member began to clap.” And then – well, not all […]
  
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• L.A. Phil’s Deborah Borda Is Going To Harvard (Temporarily)

  03-03-2015 09:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Deborah Borda will take a four-month sabbatical from her role as president and chief executive of the Los Angeles Philharmonic so that she can assume a residency at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.”
  
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• Another Friday-Afternoon-News-Dump Departure: CEO Of L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse Steps Down

  03-03-2015 09:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Kenneth Novice has departed the Geffen Playhouse after serving as its managing director for more than five years, the company has announced.” Both parties refused to comment further.
  
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• Russian Opera Director Faces Criminal Charge For Offending Religious Believers

  03-03-2015 09:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Thirty-year-old director Timofei Kulyabin told AFP he has been charged over his production of Wagner’s Tannhäuser at Novosibirsk’s State Opera and Ballet Theatre in Siberia, which premiered in December. ‘It’s absurd and I don’t want to take part in something absurd, to be honest,’ he said.”
  
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• The Philosophical Anxiety Behind The Arguments Over #TheDress

  03-03-2015 09:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What fascinates us about the dress, I think, isn’t its color: it’s the degree to which our perceptions can diverge. How could the same image appear so different to various people? The dress controversy is compelling because it touches, however unsophisticatedly, on some of the oldest and most difficult questions in philosophy of mind.”
  
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• A Day With Machiavelli In Exile

  03-03-2015 09:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Johns Hopkins classicist Christopher Celenza looks at a letter Machiavelli wrote to a close friend describing his daily life in the country, not long after he was banned from Florence, during the period in which he wrote the first part of The Prince.
  
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• Here’s One Of Those Fairytales Rediscovered In Bavaria A Couple Years Ago

  03-03-2015 09:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “An evil witch kidnapped three princesses and would not set them free. While they were in captivity, the girls learned a few magic tricks from the witch. …”
  
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• Miami’s art museums are becoming rudderless ships

  03-03-2015 08:27
  
  Nearly half the city’s institutions are without leaders as powerful patrons, unruly trustees, funding issues and rivalries between ethnic groups make the waters nearly impossible to navigate
  
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• Koons at cutting edge with giant stone mills

  03-03-2015 08:24
  
  Artist ramps up production at Pennsylvania workshpp where works are carved with lasers
  
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