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• Early Sales at the Armory Show

  04-03-2015 23:58 via artnews.com
  Halfway down one of the aisles in Pier 94, which houses the contemporary art portion of The Armory Show, Ingleby Gallery’s booth features a painting by Harland Miller emblazoned with the words “There’s No Business Like No Business.” As if flouting that … Read More
  
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• A Tour of the Armory Show’s Modern Section

  04-03-2015 21:36 via artnews.com
  The Armory Show has been open for only a few hours, but Champagne bottles are popping with impressive regularity, red dots denoting sales are appearing next to works, and gargantuan croissants are being snapped up at the outpost of Breads Bakery. The Modern section on … Read More
  
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• Armory takes steps in the right direction

  04-03-2015 21:31
  
  New York fair opens today with 197 international galleries
  
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• Michael Müller’s Pink Truth

  04-03-2015 21:30 via artnews.com
  “Oops, I didn’t know I was supposed to take them off,” said a visitor, comparing his feet to the shoeless ones of others that padded around the pink carpet of Michael Müller’s installation, Workshop, at Berlin gallery Aanant & Zoo’s … Read More
  
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• Brad Troemel Climbs Mt. Furby

  04-03-2015 21:15 via artnews.com
  On Kathy Grayson’s Instagram account about a week ago, the gallerist and artist posted a detail from a new work by Brad Troemel and commented: “I guess it was only a matter of time until rock climbing grip abstraction appeared.” … Read More
  
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• Jim Dine gives 234 prints to British Museum

  04-03-2015 20:57
  
  Works mainly from 60s to mid-80s cover period where American pop artist’s imagery included tools and bathrobesMore than 200 prints by the American pop artist Jim Dine, featuring imagery including paintbrushes, bathrobes, tools and hearts, have been gifted to the British Museum.The collection was the largest gift made to the museum’s prints and drawings department in 2014. Continue reading...
  
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• Leaks Call for Emergency ‘Diapers’ on Pier 94’s Ceiling

  04-03-2015 20:42 via artnews.com
  It’s easy to forget, while cruising the aisles of the Armory Show, that there is water coursing beneath our feet. It’s harder to ignore when the water is above our heads. Recent snows and a sudden March thaw exacerbated a … Read More
  
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• Don’t Kill the Birds: Brandon Ballengée’s Environmentalist Call to Action

  04-03-2015 20:21 via artnews.com
  The woodpeckers, sheep, and butterflies you love are dying, which is why the altered lithographs in Brandon Ballengée’s “The Frameworks of Absence,” on view at the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth in the Armory Show, feel so dour. Ballengée wears … Read More
  
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• Feelin’ Lucky? Andrew Ohanesian Gambles At The Armory

  04-03-2015 19:52 via artnews.com
  At the front of Pierogi Gallery’s Armory Show booth rests two large Vegas-style slot machines, plugged in and ready for play. These readymades are the work of the artist Andrew Ohanesian, who at last year’s fair displayed a paper towel … Read More
  
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• I Can Show You the Art Fair: Taking a Magic Carpet Ride Through the Armory Show

  04-03-2015 19:27 via artnews.com
  The Armory Show opened Wednesday afternoon at Piers 92 and 94 on the far west side of Manhattan. It’s a tricky spot to navigate under ideal circumstances, but if you think it’s tough navigating the crowds of collectors drifting like well-dressed zombies … Read More
  
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• Rethinking How Technology Can Help Students Learn

  04-03-2015 19:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We’ve seen that technology can do a lot of stuff to support students, but the real driver is: Do they actually want to learn something? If they do, kids will go through a lot of barriers to learn it. Creating the conditions that turn on that drive has become the major function of our work.”
  
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• Biggest Selling Book Last Week? Workers Of The World Unite!

  04-03-2015 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “More than 1,700 bargain copies of The Communist Manifesto have sold in the last week, in the form of an 80p edition of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s call to the working classes to revolt.”
  
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• Controversy Over Twerking Exposes Dance Hierarchy

  04-03-2015 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The whole conversation around twerking unwittingly exposed a dance-world hierarchy, whereby some styles are ignored while others are bestowed with the status of art. “[That debate] raised a question about why some dances become very well-funded, and other dances just remain in the dark.”
  
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• Remake Of Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall Will Be Named For Geffen

  04-03-2015 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “David Geffen, the entertainment magnate who has shaped cultural tastes in music and movies and holds one of the world’s leading art collections, is extending his reach into classical music with a $100 million gift that will renovate — and rename — Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center.”
  
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• Logical: Canadians Are Turning Their $5 Bill Into Tributes To Mr. Spock

  04-03-2015 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For years, Canadians have been wielding pens to draw Spock’s pointy Vulcan ears, sharp eyebrows and signature bowl haircut on the fiver’s image of Laurier. Contrary to what many believe, the Bank of Canada said Monday it’s not illegal to deface or even mutilate banknotes, although there are laws that prohibit reproducing both sides of […]
  
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• Big Final Push To Finish Abu Dhabi’s Louvre Museum In 2015

  04-03-2015 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 5,000-strong workforce is expected to swell to 7,500 over the coming months. “We shall deliver the building at the end of 2015,” its architect Jean Nouvel tells The Art Newspaper. “Then a few months will be needed to set up the inner structures and hang the works,” he says. The museum’s official opening date, […]
  
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• Has sentimental remembrance met its Waterloo?

  04-03-2015 17:55
  
  This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. Artists of the time – such as Turner and Byron – showed the full horror of its slaughter. Let’s not resort to fake empathy or cheap mawkishness nowIt was a bloody national sacrifice, and we must mourn the men who gave their lives for this country. This is a year to be proud of them.That’s the conclusion of an article about the Battle of Waterloo in the Daily Telegraph: “The bodies still lying beneath the fields of Waterlo
  
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• Report: Women And Minority Writers Losing Ground In Hollywood

  04-03-2015 17:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In a new report, the guild said women writers’ share of TV staff jobs was 29% in the most recent season, down from 30.5% in the previous season. Meanwhile, minorities accounted for 13.7% of employment, compared with 15.6% during the 2011-12 season.”
  
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• A-List Stars Used To Sell Movies. Now, Not So Much

  04-03-2015 17:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The shelf-lives of A-listers are just much shorter. Basically, you find a lot more actors having that spark of an A-list spark. The ability to structure a career almost as completely and militantly as someone like Tom Cruise” — who conquered Hollywood hit by hit — “is very tough.”
  
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• The Sad, Sorry Story Behind The Fraudster “Japanese Beethoven”

  04-03-2015 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The irony is that Mamoru Samuragochi didn’t have to lie. His story was compelling without embellishment. He was the child of Hiroshima survivors; he did have hearing problems; his brother did die young. If he and Niigaki had simply billed themselves as a team, they might have still shared fortune and fame. Instead, Samuragochi cultivated […]
  
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• Norway Calls the Cops on Melgaard

  04-03-2015 17:29 via artnews.com
  Bjarne Melgaard’s show at the Munch Museum in Oslo has resulted in wide ranging coverage in the Norwegian press–some of it positive, a lot more of it sensational, going so far as to accuse the artist and the exhibition’s organizers … Read More
  
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• Cops Called on Melgaard’s Munch Museum Show

  04-03-2015 17:29 via artnews.com
  Bjarne Melgaard’s show at the Munch Museum in Oslo has resulted in wide ranging coverage in the Norwegian press–some of it positive, a lot more of it sensational, going so far as to accuse the artist and the exhibition’s organizers … Read More
  
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• The Great Pianist Who Keeled Over Dead Performing In Carnegie Hall

  04-03-2015 17:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the 1950s world of classical music, Simon Barere was mentioned in the same breath as other superpianists of the era – Georgy Cziffra, Ignatz Friedman, Vladimir Horowitz and Josef Lhevinne. But his most ardent admirers say he was actually in a class by himself. Barere had given frequent solo recitals, sometimes twice a year, […]
  
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• Dubai Unveils Plans For Futuristic “Museum Of The Future”

  04-03-2015 16:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  The latest in innovation. “The $136 million project is expected to open in 2017. The curving, oblong — and of course futuristic-looking — building will feature poetry written by the Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who is also the Emirati prime minister.”
  
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• ISIS Smashed Priceless Artifacts? They Might Not Have Been Real

  04-03-2015 16:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If you watch the video – which is, of course, what the Islamic State wants you to do – you’ll notice that several of the pieces disintegrate into a cloud of white powder as they hit the ground. That is plaster not stone, the experts say: Those statues are modern replicas. At one point, you […]
  
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• The Double-Edged Sword Of Nostalgia

  04-03-2015 16:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I try to support what few record and book stores survive, and I still mourn the closing of Driggs Pizza in Williamsburg, where on our first date, my wife and I shared a few of the most exquisite pesto-enhanced grandma slices Brooklyn ever conceived. But I also like living in a city that moves to […]
  
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• Big Plans For Transforming Milwaukee’s Waterfront

  04-03-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The project is described as “catalytic” for downtown and is intended to create public plazas, improve pedestrian access from downtown to the lakefront, calm traffic, create a sense of arrival to the city and enhance Milwaukee’s sense of civic identity.
  
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• Dustin Yellin: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bookworm

  04-03-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Dustin Yellin has always been into books. His collection includes one owned by Robert Frost in which the poet scribbled a verse, and he has the first English translation of Nostradamus from the 17th century. All this is to say … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: X-Rated Edition

  04-03-2015 15:28 via artnews.com
  The Louvre Abu Dhabi will open in 2016, thanks to a 5,000-person workforce, which is expected to grow to 7,500 in coming months. [The Art Newspaper] UK galleries and museums receive 15 oil paintings and 29 works on paper by Frank … Read More
  
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• Velvet Ropes and Mirrors Set the Tone at Elegant ADAA Opening

  04-03-2015 15:14 via artnews.com
  Some of the worst weather of the winter didn’t keep collectors away from the Seventh Regiment Armory building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side last night for the opening of the ADAA’s annual fair, The Art Show. Raymond Learsy, Martin Margulies, … Read More
  
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• State of Emergency: Biesenbach’s Björk Show Turns MoMA Into Planet Hollywood

  04-03-2015 14:42 via artnews.com
  One gloomy morning this week at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, I was standing in a snaking, claustrophobic line–the first of many–for the press preview of a retrospective of the Icelandic singer Björk, when a woman with … Read More
  
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• Cult of the Spankers: the X-rated artists who turned Times Square into smut central

  04-03-2015 14:17
  
  US authorities tried to ban them, but a gang of artists, models and writers made a living from dirty books sold under-the-counter in 1950s New York. Enter a world of Raw Dames and superheroesRaw Dames to Swish Bottom: X-rated illustrations banned in the 1950s – in pictures Seven years ago, I was browsing through a secondhand bookstore in Manhattan when I came across an old paperback with an extraordinary drawing on the cover, clearly designed to be sexy, if not actually pornographic. It showed
  
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• London gallery to exhibit unusually personal Henry Moore works

  04-03-2015 13:36
  
  Rare personal works by the artist to go on display, including a life-sized concrete cast of his nephew’s headA life-sized cement head-cast of Henry Moore’s baby nephew Peter will be among rare early works by the artist in an exhibition opening in May.The show, at London art dealer Osborne Samuel, will be unusually personal, with many early pieces never previously exhibited, including his sister Betty’s personal collection of sculpture and drawings that Moore gave her in the 1920s and 30s �
  
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• ASCAP Pulled In More Than $1 Billion In 2014

  04-03-2015 10:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “ASCAP, the music licensing agency, is in one sense fighting for its survival, seeking to change decades-old rules to fit the economics of online music. In another, it is finding ways to distribute more money than ever to its thousands of songwriters. … [Last year was] the first time that ASCAP or any organization like […]
  
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• Here’s How The Egyptian Museum Is Responding To The Tutankhamun’s Beard Debacle

  04-03-2015 10:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The embattled Egyptian Museum says it has begun to log every act of conservation it makes, as it attempts to restore its reputation following the furore over Tutankhamun’s botched beard.”
  
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• There Will Be No Oprah “‘Night, Mother” On Broadway (“Too Depressing”)

  04-03-2015 10:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Last February, The New York Times reported that talk show queen Oprah Winfrey was in talks to make her long-awaited Broadway debut in a revival of Marsha Norman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play ‘night, Mother opposite five-time Tony-Award winner Audra McDonald. Winfrey was reportedly interested in portraying the role of a mother who desperately tries to prevent […]
  
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• “Saturday Night Live” Is Going To China

  04-03-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After 40 years as a weekend staple on U.S. television screens, Saturday Night Live will start a Chinese version in partnership with Sohu.com Inc., operator of an online search engine and video streaming sites.”
  
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• Workers Of The Word Unite! – Language And Class At The Copy Desk

  04-03-2015 09:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The truth is that the work of the copy editor is largely disdained. And because their work is so undervalued, copy editors (and fact checkers) routinely work significantly longer hours for much less money … The popular image of the copy editor as a usefully malfunctioning person justifies the natural order of things: In the […]
  
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• “Relying On Private Sector Funding Makes Me Uneasy,” Says Top British Stage Director

  04-03-2015 09:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rupert Goold, artistic director of the Almeida Theatre: “The arts have to be very uncomfortable and provocative at times, that is their function, it is their function to really serve you. Inevitably, people who are bringing people to see the work in a corporate climate may be resistant to that kind of work being made.”
  
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• How Much Do Britain’s Top Arts Institutions Get From Corporate Sponsors? And What Do The Sponsors Get For Their Money?

  04-03-2015 09:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Details of specific deals are usually secret, because neither arts organisations nor sponsors want their rivals to know exactly what is changing hands. So we looked at the accounts of 10 top arts organisations – Royal Opera, English National Opera, National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Southbank Centre, British Museum, Science Museum Group, Victoria and Albert […]
  
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• Director Luca Ronconi, 81, “One Of The Great Theatrical Innovators Of The 20th Century”

  04-03-2015 09:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[His] most revolutionary production, and the one which brought him international renown, was in 1969, a stage adaptation of Ariosto’s mammoth epic poem Orlando Furioso.”
  
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• Man’s Law or God’s Law? Sophocles’s Antigone: Heroine Or Criminal?

  04-03-2015 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is this tension that is at the heart of the play: which law trumps all others? For Creon, obeying the law of the land is the single most important thing we must do, as citizens. … It is this tension that is at the heart of the play: which law trumps all others? For […]
  
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• Zoë Wanamaker: “I Had A Lot To Live Up To”

  04-03-2015 09:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As she prepares to play poet Stevie Smith, Zoë Wanamaker talks to Lyn Gardner about acting through grief, finding her voice – and why she has never performed in the theatre that bears her father’s name.”
  
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• Understanding the Two Types of Extroversion (Yes, There Seem To Be Two)

  04-03-2015 09:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Agentic extraversion is about sensitivity to reward, engagement with goals and achievement, persistence, and taking a leadership position when you have an opportunity to do that. In other words, being comfortable in the limelight. … Affiliative extraversion is also a really great trait – it’s a dimension of social warmth. People who are high on […]
  
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• Burlesque Dancer Fired For Being Too Curvy, Sparks Online Uprising

  04-03-2015 09:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  When the Bourbon Street burlesque club Lucky Pierre’s dismissed performer Ruby Rage – over the objections of the show’s producer – “word spread quickly and social media did what it does best, dumping voluminous righteous outrage on every conceivable target: the club, its owners, its employees, [producer] Bella Blue, the traditions of burlesque itself.”
  
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• Who Was THE Original Manic Pixie Dream Girl? (Hint: You Saw Her On The Oscars)

  04-03-2015 09:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[She] is one of the earliest examples of an affected and oft-debated cinematic trope … that fictional bearer of quirky fun and madcap outings and ultimate lifelong happiness once emotional walls have been dismantled, brick by brick.”
  
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• Work on Louvre Abu Dhabi goes into overdrive

  04-03-2015 09:16
  
  Official opening date probably in 2016 as thousands of workers drafted in to complete the vast building
  
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• Sharjah Biennial’s 12th edition casts a utopian gaze across the city

  04-03-2015 09:00
  Off-the-beaten-track spaces house new site-specific works
  
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• UK galleries gain prize works from Lucian Freud’s estate

  04-03-2015 08:45
  More than 40 paintings and drawings by Frank Auerbach distributed to public collections in lieu of inheritance tax
  
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• Who bought what at Arco?

  04-03-2015 07:13
  
  International collectors were out in force, but Spanish institutions also shopped hard
  
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