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• At the Spring/Break Fair, Exhibitors Get Free Booths But Pay a Cut of Sales

  06-03-2015 23:14 via artnews.com
  One of the most talked- and written-about artist projects during Armory Week in New York, which began on March 5 and continues through Sunday, is happening not at one of the headliners—the Armory Show and the ADAA Art Show—but rather … Read More
  
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• Untitled(The internet is an entity of its own that will survive humanity)

  06-03-2015 22:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It was a clear warm March day in the seventies. The young woman talked about the multiuniverse, atoms, dark matter, and infinite galaxies. Everything they said on Star Trek is proved to be true, the young woman said. She was very young, maybe twenty two. She had on a bandana. She really got talking in ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Vote for the Best Booth at the 2015 Armory Show

  06-03-2015 22:13 via artnews.com
  Armory Week is in full swing in New York City, with all of the fairs now open to the public. The main event, the Armory Show, runs through Sunday, March 8, and features some 200 exhibitors. Have you been? Do you have a … Read More
  
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• An embarrassment of riches: UK museums struggle with archaeological archives

  06-03-2015 22:00
  
  Specialists debate what to do with growing collections of excavated materials at the “Dig It!” conference in London
  
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• Simon Rattle: Maestro with the magic touch

  06-03-2015 19:55
  
  It has been the worst kept secret in the arts world. The London Symphony Orchestra has long been the most likely destination for Britain’s most illustrious conductor when his contract with the Berlin Philharmonic runs out. Yet the announcement kept being delayed.
  
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• French court rules it can hear cases brought against Facebook

  06-03-2015 19:14
  
  Clause forcing users to agree litigation must take place in US is abusive, says court, after site blocks man who posted painting showing naked womanA Paris court has ruled that it has jurisdiction to judge a case against Facebook, which blocked the account of a French teacher who posted an image of a vagina.
  The court ruled that Facebook’s clause forcing all users to agree that any litigation must be based in California, where the site is based, was abusive. Continue reading...
  
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• The art of revenge: How obscure messages reveal painters’ true feelings at a stroke

  06-03-2015 18:47
  
  A British artist has become the latest painter to admit leaving a mischievous hidden message in one of his paintings, following the revelation that a portrait of former US President Bill Clinton contained a veiled reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
  
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• Amount of money that art sells for is shocking, says painter Gerhard Richter

  06-03-2015 18:46
  
  ‘The records keep being broken and every time my initial reaction is one of horror,’ says world-famous German artist, after sale of one of his works for £30mGerhard Richter, the world-famous German painter, has expressed his incredulity at the astronomical sums paid for his works, calling the art market “hopelessly excessive” and saying that prices are rarely a reflection on quality.Richter, 83, told the German daily Die Zeit he had watched the outcome of a recent auction at Sotheby’s
  
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• The Art of Cunning: Paul Chan on Erotica, Ancient Greek, and His New Work

  06-03-2015 18:12 via artnews.com
  Yesterday, Paul Chan opened his show at the Guggenheim Museum, “Nonprojections for New Lovers,” which follows his winning the museum’s Hugo Boss Prize. Best known for his work involving projections and shadows, his staging of Waiting for Godot in a … Read More
  
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• Are These The Ten Best Concert Halls In The World?

  06-03-2015 17:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  What, no Disney?
  
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• A Tour of the Independent Art Fair

  06-03-2015 17:51 via artnews.com
  The Independent Art Fair opened yesterday at the former Dia building on West 22nd Street. The fair features over 50 galleries and nonprofit institutions and represents 14 countries. ALL PHOTOS: KATHERINE MCMAHON/ARTNEWS For more Armory Week coverage, go here.
  
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• A Tour of Independent Art Fair

  06-03-2015 17:51 via artnews.com
  The Independent Art Fair opened yesterday at the former Dia building on West 22nd Street. The fair features over 50 galleries and non-profit institutions and represents 14 countries. ALL PHOTOS: KATHERINE MCMAHON/ARTNEWS For more Armory Week coverage, go here.
  
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• Why Graphic Design Gets No Respect?

  06-03-2015 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Graphic design has always been the poor relation to its more lordly cousins… But graphic designers? If they’re lucky, they can pay through the nose for the chance to win a novelty yellow pencil.”
  
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• Technology Is Changing Our Lives. How We Control That Technology Is Getting To Be A Bigger Issue

  06-03-2015 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Just as the change from hand work to mass production dramatically changed our society over 100 years ago, the digital revolution isn’t just altering specific sectors of the economy, it is changing the way we think and live. This time, though, the transformation is different. This time, it is being driven by just a few […]
  
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• Winner Of Germany’s Eurovision Song Competition Declines To Compete

  06-03-2015 17:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Andreas Kuemmert, whose voice had wowed national audiences, told German television viewers that “I’m overwhelmed by your affection” before adding: “I’m not really in the right state to accept this.” Instead, he handed the title to 24-year-old runner-up Ann Sophie, who tearfully accepted.
  
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• The Most Shocking Thing About MoMA’s Bjork Show? The Music

  06-03-2015 16:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I can’t remember the last time I saw an excerpt of actual music—with ledger lines, key signatures, rests and notes—in a mainstream book about classical music, or in a program note at a symphonic concert or almost any other context where classical musicians actually make music. This has all been banished. The visual presence of […]
  
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• ISIS Takes Bulldozers To Destroy Ancient Site At Nimrud

  06-03-2015 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Many of the massive Nimrud statues remain buried at the site. But the ISIS video from the Mosul Museum clearly shows at least one statue from Nimrud being defaced. And the site has many areas that archaeologists have not yet explored.”
  
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• Oklahoma City Philharmonic’s Founding Music Director To Step Down

  06-03-2015 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Tracing its roots to the city’s first professional orchestra created in 1924, the Oklahoma City Philharmonic was formed in 1988 under the musical direction of Joel Levine and with the strategic vision and guidance of many civic and corporate leaders, committed to its future.”
  
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• Performers And The Art Of “Physical Leakage”

  06-03-2015 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We all carry a physical signature in our bodies. When we’re under any kind of stress, our bodies behave in their usual habits – it’s called “physical leakage”. Your real personality starts to come out. Often, actors and dancers aren’t aware of what those habits are. Having someone who can look at them, and suggest […]
  
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• Common Experience, Different Impact: Why Are People Affected Differently By Trauma?

  06-03-2015 16:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A strange fact of human nature is that two people can experience exactly the same seemingly traumatic event and respond completely differently. One might face years of struggles as a result of suffering from the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological fallout, while the other, after an initial period of being shaken up, […]
  
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• Inside The Theatre – Immersive Experience Taking Hold Of Audiences

  06-03-2015 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Immersive theater takes place without a stage of any kind, in deserted industrial spaces, nightclubs, hospitals, hotels and more. It invites audience members to explore the action at their own pace by following performers around. Guests can roam the site at will, experiencing it as an interactive art installation.”
  
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• Ivy League: A Secret Garden at Johnen Galerie

  06-03-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Mounted at the very edge of Johnen Galerie’s booth at the Armory Show, evenly spaced square boards jut out of the wall in a column reminiscent of Donald Judd’s iconic stacks. This piece has a bit more humor, though, than … Read More
  
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• Fourth Plinth: Hans Haacke’s Gift Horse is being looked in the mouth

  06-03-2015 15:29
  
  The blue cockerel has hopped off Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth to be replaced by an emaciated horse.
  
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• How Geographically Diverse Is the 2015 Venice Biennale?

  06-03-2015 15:24 via artnews.com
  The artist list for the main show at the 2015 Venice Biennale, “All the World’s Futures,” curated by Okwui Enwezor, is out, including more than 136 artists from around the world. Just how global is the show? As the above graphs indicate, there are strong contingents from every … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Venice Biennale Edition

  06-03-2015 15:16 via artnews.com
  Hans Haacke’s new Fourth Plinth commission for Trafalgar Square in London, Gift Horse, has made quite a splash. [The Art Newspaper] Okwui Enwezor, director for the upcoming Venice Biennale, announced during a press conference that artists from Grenada, Mauritius, Mozambique and the … Read More
  
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• Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze should not be returned, panel rules

  06-03-2015 14:50
  
  Heirs claimed the Austrian government extorted the famous fresco
  
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• All That Glitters: The Armory Show Is a House of Mirrors

  06-03-2015 14:18 via artnews.com
  Do the fairs get shinier every year? As more and more people crowd the aisles of the Armory Show, they are being endlessly multiplied in the gleaming surfaces of sundry sculptures and wall-mounted works. Selfies and reflections abound. A giant PVD-coated … Read More
  
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• All That Glisters: The Armory Show Is a House of Mirrors

  06-03-2015 14:18 via artnews.com
  Do the fairs get shinier every year? As more and more people crowd the aisles of the Armory Show, they are being endlessly multiplied in the gleaming surfaces of sundry sculptures and wall-mounted works. Selfies and reflections abound. A giant PVD-coated … Read More
  
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• A dark horse and a duplicitous Boris Johnson – the week in art

  06-03-2015 13:57
  
  See the most provocative fourth plinth statue yet, and learn how the London mayor plans to fund the garden bridge with public money. Plus traces of Monica in Bill Clinton’s official portrait, and the best of banned 1950s smut – all in your weekly dispatchJoshua Reynolds
  The 18th-century portrait purveyor and founding president of the Royal Academy was a daring and experimental painter, claims this intriguing show at one of Britain’s most beautiful galleries.
  • Wallace Collection, Lon
  
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• Austrian panel rules against return of Klimt masterpiece to Jewish heirs

  06-03-2015 13:53
  
  Freize, painted for a 1902 exhibition celebrating Beethoven, is on permanent display at the Secession Building in ViennaAn Austrian panel has ruled against returning one of the country’s most stunning works of art to heirs of a Jewish collector.The monumental Beethoven Frieze is being claimed by heirs of Erich Lederer. Continue reading...
  
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• Austrian panel rules against return of Klimt frieze to Jewish collector's heirs

  06-03-2015 13:53
  
  Work, painted for a 1902 exhibition celebrating Beethoven, is on permanent display at the Secession Building in ViennaAn Austrian panel has ruled against returning one of the country’s most stunning works of art to heirs of a Jewish collector.The monumental Beethoven Frieze is being claimed by heirs of Erich Lederer. Continue reading...
  
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• Women Composers: Genius Is Gender-Blind – And So Should We Be

  06-03-2015 10:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sara Mohr-Pietsch of BBC Radio 3: “Someone asked me the other day if the reason there are fewer women composers represented at the highest level was that male composers were simply better. My response was unrepeatably rude. Frankly, it’s too ludicrous a question to validate with a polite answer. My litmus test for those kinds […]
  
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• Why That “Things I Can Say About MFAs” Essay Struck Such A Nerve With Writers

  06-03-2015 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Laura Miller: “Not much of ‘Things I Can Say‘ offers a fresh take on the endless MFA debate. More at issue is the swashbuckling, bridge-burning and sometimes contemptuous tone Boudinot adopts and the implication that, as a one-time MFA instructor, he is speaking the secret thoughts of every creative writing teacher to whom a student […]
  
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• Six Questions About The Future Of American Culture

  06-03-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scott Timberg, author of the recent book Culture Crash and of the ArtsJournal blog of the same title, lays out the half-dozen issues he’s left wondering about after writing the book and traveling to country to promote it.
  
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• Harper Lee Gives Direct Response To Journalist: “Go Away!”

  06-03-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It appears that Nelle, as her friends call her, is very much with it, that she is still lucid and that her acerbic, press-averse side is fully intact.”
  
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• Neil Patrick Harris On The Difficulty Of Hosting The Oscars

  06-03-2015 09:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s so difficult for one who’s simply watching the show to realize just how much time and concession and compromise and explanation has gone into almost every single thing. Every joke. Wording of joke. Placement of joke. Canceling of joke. Embellishment for just one line.”
  
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• Kazuo Ishiguro Thinks His Fantasy Novel Is Not A Fantasy Novel – Does That Matter?

  06-03-2015 09:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Another day, another argument about whether a book about dragons is fantasy or not. … Well, if it walks like an orc, quacks like an orc, and generally behaves like an orc, it’s fantasy, right? The author isn’t so sure. … It is an argument that resurfaces every time an author with ‘literary chops dips […]
  
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• Theatre Folk – Performers And Audiences – Should Stop Being So Uptight About Viewers Making Noise Or Moving Around

  06-03-2015 09:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Maddy Costa: “For an art form so dedicated to thinking about human behaviour and interactions, theatre is remarkably bad at allowing its audiences to be human beings once they take their seats.”
  
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• Can Theatre Really Work As Treatment For Mental Illness?

  06-03-2015 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Theatre provides a rare stimulus for psychotic, schizophrenic and depressed patients, giving them an opportunity to communicate and interact constructively with others.” Beth McLoughlin looks at a program in Rio de Janeiro that’s giving it a serious try.
  
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• MoMA’s Björk Show Is A “Disaster”, Says Jerry Saltz

  06-03-2015 09:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I wanted to be surprised and proven wrong about the Björk show. Alas, I haven’t been. … It’s a discombobulated mess.”
  
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• “Little Short Of Hostile”: Roberta Smith On MoMA’s Björk Show

  06-03-2015 09:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “She probably should have trusted her first response – No thanks – when the Museum of Modern Art came calling … not because her work isn’t museum-worthy but because, as proved here, the Modern is not up to the task..” What’s more, “given the number of Björk fans it will probably attract, the show’s future […]
  
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• “I Always Say Bill Is Balanchine On Steroids”: Dancer Thomas McManus On William Forsythe

  06-03-2015 09:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We’d take his moves and deconstruct them for six hours a day … Bill’s methods were so codified he could use them on stage as improvisations. We would be real-time choreographing, making decisions about timing and phrasing and spacing. There was a lot to be aware of.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.05.15

  06-03-2015 07:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Policy for the Arts: The White Paper of 1965 AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2015-03-05 Badly Bungled Philanthropy AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-03-05 Sotheby’s Annual Report: Doubled Cap on Guarantees; Reduced Profits Attributable to Investor Activism AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-03-05 American Ballet Theatre’s Historical, Eye-Popping New The Sleeping Beauty AJBlog: Fresh Pencil […]
  
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