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• Turkish President Erdogan fined 10,000 lira for calling statue symbolising peace a 'monstrosity'

  05-03-2015 23:58
  
  An Istanbul court has ordered Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to pay an artist 10,000 Turkish Lira (£2,500) in compensation, after the politician called his sculpture a “monstrosity.”
  
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• Readers recommend: songs about control | Peter Kimpton

  05-03-2015 23:00
  
  Whether losing, gaining, maintaining or fighting it, let the music take over and name songs about all emotional, physical or practical ways we take on turmoil
  Chaos. Where isn’t it? The world is a mess of entropy, energy, waste, injustice, and emotion. Chaos thrives in equally war, in corruption, in our hearts, in a pencil case, in ideas mangled or cables tangled. “I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me,” said Bob Dylan, with a shrug. “Darling – in chaos there is fertilit
  
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• Bad Weather Be Damned! Cold Collectors Raid Chelsea’s Independent Art Fair

  05-03-2015 22:48 via artnews.com
  Another snowy, terrible New York City afternoon (a people-watching game to play with younger fairgoers is “snot bubble or tiny septum piercing?”) was no deterrent for a flock of art enthusiasts descending on today’s Independent art fair in Chelsea. Some … Read More
  
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• A Tour of Pulse New York

  05-03-2015 22:30 via artnews.com
  The Pulse New York fair opened today at the Metropolitan Pavilion on West 18th Street. Bringing together 55 galleries and showcasing eight special projects, the fair, which is celebrating its 10th year, includes quite a few installations, an ode to Bosch’s The Garden … Read More
  
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• Islamic State extremists hit 3,000-year-old city of Nimrud with bulldozers

  05-03-2015 22:04
  
  Militants attacked the ancient site a week after vandalising museums in Mosul and Nineveh
  
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• Some Monsters Loom Large at the Armory Show

  05-03-2015 20:09 via artnews.com
  At the Fredericks & Freiser booth, dark and striking were paintings by Mark Thomas Gibson, a Yale School of Art grad and Kara Walker’s studio assistant. One painting, Searchlight, blares the words in all caps: “Some Monsters Loom Large.” The lettering is … Read More
  
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• Armory Show and Art Show: New York's fairs see painting thrive

  05-03-2015 19:44
  
  Look past the ‘zombie formalism’ aimed at taste-challenged oligarchs, and you’ll see some intense, confident and downright sensual paintingWhatever ills you diagnose in contemporary art, you can usually find a way to link them to the art fairs. With the market in perpetual boom, fairs have taken on such outsized importance that not only collectors but also curators, artists and exhausted critics spend more time than ever in the tents and barracks from Basel to Bogotá. There are now
  
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• A Checklist for the 2015 Armory Show Focus: Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean

  05-03-2015 19:19 via artnews.com
  This year’s Armory Show Focus edition highlights art from the Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean (Armory Focus: MENAM), curated by Whitechapel Gallery’s Omar Kholeif. Fifteen galleries offer excellent and eye-catching selections, many, unsurprisingly, with a political bent. Below, we a … Read More
  
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• Terminally ill woman's dying wish to see Rembrandt exhibition granted by Dutch charity

  05-03-2015 19:11
  
  A dying woman’s wish to see a Rembrandt exhibition has been granted by a Dutch charity.
  
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• How Brass Bands Have Shaped The Culture Of New Orleans

  05-03-2015 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Musically, these bands helped shape and were in turn influenced by jazz’s development through the early decades of the 20th century. Brass-band tradition has evolved in the decades since to embrace other styles, such as funk, R&B and hip-hop, irritating purists while enticing new fans. Still, the form’s communal function has never waned.”
  
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• Will Virtual Reality Help Heal People?

  05-03-2015 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For years, virtual reality has made inroads in helping to treat serious phobias, post-traumatic stress, and burn victims’ pain. Now, as the price of VR tech plummets, this therapeutic tech is advancing—and could soon become available to many more people who need it.”
  
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• The Reds In Van Gogh’s Paintings Are Turning White (And Now We Know Why)

  05-03-2015 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Van Gogh loved the vibrant lead pigment colors, and the red in “Wheat Stack” turned out to contain a rare mineral lead called plumbonacrite that through light exposure was gradually coated in carbonates that were causing the discoloration. Or, in less science speak, the paint particles are now like if you had a gobstopper with […]
  
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• “Fifty Shades Of Grey” Blocked In India By Censors

  05-03-2015 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The theme of the movie is such that it could not be cleared in the first viewing. In the second step, a wider committee will review the film.”
  
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• Prediction: A New Industrial Revolution Will Transform Our Culture

  05-03-2015 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “White-collar service industries are currently witnessing a huge increase in automation. Artificial intelligence, analytics and voice-recognition technologies are taking over more and more tasks employees used to do. Retailing is another example: we’re moving from physical to virtual retailing. Even lawyers, accountants or radiologists are afraid of the prospect of losing their job to a […]
  
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• What’s In A Name? LA Wrestles With Selling Naming Rights To Its Major Cultural Buildings

  05-03-2015 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Several Los Angeles arts organizations are in fundraising mode now, or expect to be, including the Music Center, which is L.A.’s performing arts equivalent of Lincoln Center.”
  
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• Ballet San Jose Warns It Might Have To Shut Down

  05-03-2015 17:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Ballet officials quietly began a fundraising drive in January and have thus far tallied half a million dollars. Now they must match that figure to keep the company afloat. Company officials also estimate they will need to have raised $3.5 million by October to be able to fully reinvent the company’s business model and ensure […]
  
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• The San Jose Ballet Problem

  05-03-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “You might think of Silicon Valley as awash in youthful exuberance and money, enough to keep a medium-size ballet company afloat. Indeed, the challenge of getting young techies excited about works by Twyla Tharp, Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine was what lured Jose Manuel Carreno, 46, to San Jose.”
  
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• Here’s the Artist List for the 2015 Venice Biennale

  05-03-2015 16:59 via artnews.com
  Yes! After months and months of speculation, prayers, and rumors, the Venice Biennale has released the artist list for its 56th edition, “All the World’s Futures,” which is being curated by Okwui Enwezor. At a quick glance, it looks like a thrillingly … Read More
  
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• Last Fall The World’s Largest Auction Houses Fired Their Leaders. The Art World Is Still Talking ABout It

  05-03-2015 16:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It may be the business has gotten too tricky for just one person to run it.”
  
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• Artist Shreds Thousands Of Dollars To Use In Art

  05-03-2015 16:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dustin Yellin resolved to take the allotted cash, in the forms of twenties, fifties and one hundred-dollar bills, and shred the loot in a wood chipper. He then used tweezers to apply the massacred dough to emulsion-covered canvasses.
  
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• Orchestra Pulls Piece After Learning It Quotes Nazi Song (Should It Have?)

  05-03-2015 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  The New York Youth Symphony pulled the piece this week after learning that it includes a musical quotation from the “Horst Wessel” song, the Nazi anthem.
  
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• The Ethics Around Photos Represented As Journalism Are Changing (Or Are They?)

  05-03-2015 16:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “At a time when anyone with an Instagram account can become a de facto reporter, the controversy raises questions about what viewers should know about photos classified as journalism — and where one of the world’s most respected photo prizes draws the line between documentary photography and art photography.”
  
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• Okwui Enwezor announces further details for Venice Biennale

  05-03-2015 16:33
  The curator promises a political show full of big names
  
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• Ray Exworth obituary

  05-03-2015 16:31
  
  Sculptor whose remarkable installations are displayed in outbuildings on a remote Cornish smallholdingThe sculptural installations by Ray Exworth, who has died aged 85, are huge in scale and ambition, making him one of the most remarkable artists of his generation. However, since a one-person show at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, in 1975, they have rarely been seen outside Cornwall, the county that became his adopted home.Visitors invited to see Ray’s work first had to negotiate a round of
  
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• Strange creatures and art of the unknown: kongourou and other animals

  05-03-2015 15:54
  
  George Stubbs’ painting will be among exhibits on display at the Grant museum, showing animals recreated according only to eyewitness accountThe kongourou, the overstuffed marsupial painted by George Stubbs who had never seen the living animal, will be joined in an exhibition by an armour plated rhinocerous, an elephant carrying the population of a small village on its back, a double-jointed lion, and other creations of centuries of artists struggling to represent sights unseen.“These images
  
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• Strange creatures and art of the unknown: kongouro and other animals

  05-03-2015 15:54
  
  George Stubbs’ painting will be among exhibits on display at the Grant museum, showing animals recreated according only to eyewitness accountThe kongouro , the overstuffed marsupial painted by George Stubbs who had never seen the living animal, will be joined in an exhibition by an armour plated rhinoceros, an elephant carrying the population of a small village on its back, a double-jointed lion, and other creations of centuries of artists struggling to represent sights unseen.“These images
  
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• Morning Links: Goodbye, Perm-36 Edition

  05-03-2015 15:35 via artnews.com
  A self-portrait by Van Dyck that was long thought to be a copy has been reconfirmed as original work, and currently hangs in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. It was lent to the museum by a US collector based on the … Read More
  
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• Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Potato Chips: Just Because You’re Paranoid Doesn’t Mean They Aren’t After You

  05-03-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  “Whisper cube, sound, 5,000 chip bags, various objects,” are the materials listed for Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Armory commission, A Convention of Tiny Movements. On view at Istanbul’s Galeri NON as part of the 2015 Armory Focus: Middle East, North Africa, … Read More
  
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• ‘Who Is This New, Hot Young Artist?’ Fresh Frank Stella at Boesky

  05-03-2015 15:15 via artnews.com
  A trio of new works by Frank Stella won over a slew of fairgoers cruising the Armory Show’s opening day—even ones who didn’t know they were by the minimalist master. “Another dealer, a very well-respected dealer, came in earlier and … Read More
  
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• Giddy up! The subversive sculpture on the fourth plinth is a dark horse

  05-03-2015 14:51
  
  Hans Haacke’s Gift Horse fits in with the 19th-century statues in Trafalgar Square – but what do the LED stock market updates on its leg mean? Related: Fourth plinth: 'provocative' artwork Gift Horse unveiled in London Following Katharina Fritsch’s Hahn/Cock, the surprising, cheeky and much-loved blue cockerel that has stood on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square for the past 18 months, Hans Haacke’s Gift Horse could not be more different. Where previous sculptures on the plinth have p
  
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• Fourth plinth: 'provocative' artwork Gift Horse unveiled in London

  05-03-2015 14:04
  
  Boris Johnson reveals Hans Haacke sculpture, said to be a symbol of City excess and political austerity, at Trafalgar Square ceremony The most overtly political sculpture since Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth was given over to contemporary art has been unveiled in central London two months before the general election.Gift Horse, by the German-American artist Hans Haacke, features an LED bow showing a ticker of the latest London stock prices tied round the bronze skeleton of a horse. It is bei
  
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• Fourth plinth: politically provocative Gift Horse is unveiled in London

  05-03-2015 14:04
  
  Trafalgar Square is temporary home to artwork by Hans Haacke, said to be a symbol of City excess and political austerity The most overtly political sculpture on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth since it was given over to contemporary art has been unveiled in central London.Gift Horse, by the German-American artist Hans Haacke, features an LED bow showing a ticker of the latest London stock prices tied round the bronze skeleton of a horse. It is being seen as a symbol of the ravages of the mark
  
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• Australian artists storm Venice

  05-03-2015 14:00
  
  The country’s new national arts policy prioritises international exposure
  
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• Jerry Saltz, Social Media’s Favorite Art Critic, Suspended From Facebook

  05-03-2015 10:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Art has always posed a problem for Facebook. Its community standards ban nudity, and the combination of algorithms and overseas workers that scan the site for infractions have trouble distinguishing between an artistically nude image and a pornographically nude one. … Now it seems New York magazine’s art critic Jerry Saltz has been caught in […]
  
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• Does The Future Of Orchestral Music Lie In These Two Pieces?

  05-03-2015 10:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Justin Davidson: “These two not-yet-senior composers … have double-handedly resurrected the grand symphonic manner that, like the novel and the painting, has died any number of times.”
  
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• Met Opera Pledges Yet More Art As Collateral For Loans

  05-03-2015 10:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The nonprofit secured the credit line with two sculptures by the late French artist Aristide Maillol displayed at the opera house, including the 62-inch bronze L’Eté (Summer) and the 69-inch Venus Without Arms … The Met had already pledged a pair of Marc Chagall murals to Bank of America before the credit line came up […]
  
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• Documentary On Delhi Gang Rape Banned In India Following Media Outrage

  05-03-2015 10:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “An Indian court blocked the broadcast of a documentary about a 2012 gang rape and murder that sparked national outrage and tarnished the country’s reputation, saying an interview in the film with one of the perpetrators could ’cause huge public outcry’.” (The BBC went ahead with a UK broadcast.)
  
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• David Hallberg Pulls Out Of ABT Spring Season

  05-03-2015 10:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “David Hallberg, the American Ballet Theater principal dancer, is injured and will not perform during the company’s Metropolitan Opera House season … Mr. Hallberg, who is also a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, had foot surgery last fall.”
  
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• UK Finally Overhauls Child Labor Laws For Performers

  05-03-2015 10:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A 10-year campaign to overhaul child licensing and performance regulations is celebrating success after the introduction of a new act marked the biggest change in legislation in more than 40 years.”
  
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• It Had To Happen Eventually: Lorna Luft To Play Mom (Judy Garland) In Jukebox Musical

  05-03-2015 10:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Judy Garland’s daughter Lorna Luft is to step into her mother’s ruby slippers for a career-spanning new show, Judy: The Life and Music of a Hollywood Legend. With Arlene Phillips as creative director, the show is billed as the only one authorised by the late star’s estate.”
  
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• Composer Ezra Laderman, 90

  05-03-2015 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A prolific composer of symphonic, chamber and vocal music, Mr. Laderman won public notice thanks to his work about Marilyn Monroe for the New York City Opera.”
  
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• Veteran Theater Critic Margaret Croyden Dead At 92

  05-03-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Born in Brooklyn and educated in New York, Ms. Croyden contributed regularly to The New York Times during the 1970s and 80s, The New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, American Theatre, The Nation and Theater Week” and wrote books about stage directors Jerzy Grotowski and Peter Brook.
  
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• Travels With My Censor: An American Author’s Book Tour Through China

  05-03-2015 09:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Recently, there have been a number of articles in the foreign press about Chinese censorship, with the tone highly critical of American authors who accept changes to their manuscripts in order to publish in mainland China. The articles tend to take a narrowly Western perspective: they rarely examine how such books are read by Chinese, […]
  
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• Should We Really Censor The Anti-Semitism In “The Merchant Of Venice”?

  05-03-2015 09:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  No less a Shakespearean than Mark Rylance recently said yes. Director Rupert Goold thinks shining a light on that prejudice is important. Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson says removing the prejudice from the script “is to tear out its very heart.” At least one Arab director won’t even go near the play.
  
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• The Power And Importance Of Touch (It’s Huge)

  05-03-2015 09:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Remember the orphanages of Ceausescu-era Romania, overstuffed and understaffed institutions where infants and young children were severely touch-deprived – and grew up seriously disturbed? Maria Konnikova explains why that was no fluke.
  
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• The 1906 Novel That Imagined New York In 2015

  05-03-2015 09:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Set ninety years after the cataclysmic Terror of 1925, Sutphen’s book imagines that the world of 2015 has devolved into three tribes: the Painted People, the House People, and the marauding Doomsmen. Keeps, drawbridges, archery, and Sirs and Ladies have grown back as thickly as vines over the ruins of American civilization. At the center […]
  
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• Russia’s Gulag museum to shut down after clash with regional authorities

  05-03-2015 09:00
  
  The closing of Perm-36, the country’s only historic site to commemorate Soviet repression, marks one of several recent battles over culture
  
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• Better digs for Liverpool’s mummies

  05-03-2015 09:00
  
  The World Museum has won a £300,000 grant to expand its ancient Egypt gallery
  
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• Wordnesia: When You Forget How To Spell Or Pronounce The Simplest Of Werds

  05-03-2015 08:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the 1996 movie Black Sheep David Spade “glances at a fold-up map and realizes he somehow has become unfamiliar with the name for paved driving surfaces. ‘Robes? Rouges? Rudes?‘ Nothing seems right. … ‘Rowds. Row-ads.‘ … Row-ad-type word wig outs similar to the one portrayed in that movie are things that actually happen, in […]
  
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• Why Do Japanese Seem Fond Of Insects While Westerners Abhor Them?

  05-03-2015 08:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Travel agencies advertise firefly-watching tours, there are televised beetle-wrestling competitions and beetle petting zoos. Department stores and even vending machines sell live insects. … Not all Japanese, perhaps not even the majority, admire insects. But while Western culture amplifies our perhaps innately human suspicion of insects into distaste and fear, Japanese culture encourages affection, even […]
  
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