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• Joshua Reynolds’ portrait of my avian ancestor | Letters

  09-03-2015 21:04
  
  The picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds of Lady Cockburn and her children was very familiar to me (Looking again – and finding a new master, 9 March). My family is descended from Lady Cockburn, and every one of my elderly Barstow relations, including my father, had a print of it hanging on their wall. It has always been understood in my family that we were all descended from the parrot. Not that we are actually birds, but family legend has it that there were four children, but one had measles, so t
  
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• A Truffle Pig Heads for the Piers: Kenny Schachter in New York (Part 1)

  09-03-2015 19:45 via artnews.com
  Kenny Schachter is a London-based art dealer, curator, and writer. The opinions expressed here are his own. There should be a rule in art journalism: always lead with Damien Hirst. Hirst is having a fuck-all, wildly ambitious (over-produced?) show to … Read More
  
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• Netflix Is Heading To Spain (Probably)

  09-03-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Since last year, when Spain was left out of Netflix’s launch in six new European countries, at least two factors have changed.”
  
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• Deputy Chief Development Officer

  09-03-2015 19:30
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• Who Stole (And Then Returned) An Oscar Murillo Painting From The Floor Of MoMA?

  09-03-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Doyle said that the painting was unharmed, adding that ‘no action such as an arrest was taken.’ The painting was returned to the floor of the gallery, where, she said, ‘the museum will assure that there is the appropriate level of security in the exhibition.’ She did not say how the museum was able to […]
  
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• Inventing Impressionism: The National Gallery's latest blockbuster is devoted to the art dealer who popularised the movement

  09-03-2015 18:32
  
  Inventing Impressionism, Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Art Market is the latest in a series of National Gallery blockbusters. Focusing on Durand-Ruel, an art dealer who has been credited with discovering and nurturing Impressionism. This has been organised in a "modern way", a manner designed to bring in a new and, I suspect, a younger audience.
  
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• King of the Road: Wim Wenders in America

  09-03-2015 18:00 via artnews.com
  “MoMA put me to work,” Wim Wenders recalled recently, not without tenderness, “forty-three years ago to this day.” The stalwart director was referring to the museum’s inaugural New Directors/New Films program from March 7, 1972, which showcased, among a handful … Read More
  
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• Manhattan court throws out Haring authentication suit

  09-03-2015 17:45
  
  Judge finds that the foundation was not violating anti-trust laws when it rejected works brought to it by a group of collectors
  
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• Fast cars and lumber shacks: how Jason Rhoades became the all-American bad boy of art

  09-03-2015 17:43
  
  Throbbing power tools, girly calendars, logs covered in porn and a slimy substance called PeaRoeFoam ... take an X-rated road trip through the American male psyche with the late artist RhoadesSlung from a hoist, a partly disassembled and re-jigged V8 engine is hooked up to a power drill. There’s mess everywhere, the usual garage mechanics’ slew of discarded tools, coiled cables, abandoned lunches and girly calendars.This plasterboard and timber shack, with a wonky basketball hoop over the do
  
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• Facebook And Amazon And Even Candy Crush Could Make Us Happier And Healthier, If They Chose The Right Metrics

  09-03-2015 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Some things that it would be great to see in 2015 are: Facebook optimizing the newsfeed to help its users grow and develop, not just click. Amazon optimizing recommendations for user satisfaction, not just purchase. Brain-training that actually works. Services that allow people to better understand themselves, make better decisions, become happier.”
  
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• E-Flux Launches E-Flux Conversations Site, Seeking Debate Away From Social Media

  09-03-2015 17:02 via artnews.com
  For the past few months, e-flux, the multitasking and curatorial publishing platform, has been experimenting with a new website called e-flux conversations, which publishes short posts from around the art world that are open to public comment—a hybrid blog and … Read More
  
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• Don’t Even Try To Write A Great Novel When You’re Young, Says Older Novelist

  09-03-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Joanna Trollope: “It’s a rather unkind thing to have to say, and I don’t mean it unkindly, but I always say to people you will write much better fiction after the age of 35 than before. Merely because life will have knocked you about a bit by then.”
  
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• Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Musicians Air Grievances On The Eve Of Season Announcement

  09-03-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Fifteen years ago, full-time orchestra members numbered 98 — 96 players and the two librarians. BSO members would like that level restored, something that would take a boost to the orchestra’s $27 million budget.”
  
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• The Brooklyn Filmmaker Who Says There’s Room For More Than Just Lena Dunham At The Table

  09-03-2015 16:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Desiree Akhavan: “I don’t see my male counterparts written about in the same way, as being the new Woody Allen, or the new Noah Baumbach, or Todd Solondz. I think the implication is that there is a limited amount of space for an intelligent, funny woman and right now it’s Lena Dunham. You can hang […]
  
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• The Ballet Dancers Were Born After Balanchine Died, But They Try To Keep His Flame Alive

  09-03-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Balanchine knew how quickly his ballerinas could lose details he taught. He used to tell them, ‘If I go away for a weekend, and I come back, I see the difference. If I’m away for two weeks, other people start to see it. If I’m away for a month, everybody sees it.’ “‘And so – […]
  
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• Retrospective: The State of Japanese Collecting in 1990

  09-03-2015 15:45 via artnews.com
  And other excerpts from our coverage 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago Read More
  
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• Graham Steele Named Senior Director at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel in L.A.

  09-03-2015 15:38 via artnews.com
  Graham Steele will join Hauser Wirth & Schimmel as a senior director, the gallery announced today. The Los Angeles outpost of Hauser & Wirth, the Swiss powerhouse that runs two spaces in New York, and one each in Zürich, London, … Read More
  
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• British People Don’t Think Simon Rattle Can Singlehandedly Save Music Education

  09-03-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Rattlemania, egged on by a self-interested cultural mafia, has got out of hand. The problem with the arts in the UK is there is no concrete policy for music and the other art forms.”
  
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• Where Playwrights Make Enough Money To Fund Their Little Theatre Habit

  09-03-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Peterson offered the example of the prime-time, one-hour network show: Minimums dictate that a staff writer earns about $3,800 a week—and a fee of more than $36,000 for any episode for which he or she is credited as story and teleplay writer. The first time that episode is rerun, its writer receives an additional $24,000. […]
  
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• Yet Another Ancient Iraqi Site (Probably) Destroyed By ISIS

  09-03-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘We are in despair with the government,’ Ali al-Nashmi, a professor of history at Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, said in a telephone interview. He was nearly in tears after hearing the reports about Hatra, which he said had been rare in Iraq for its classical ruins. ‘We are losing the country.'”
  
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• Time to find Hong Kong’s artists on their home turf

  09-03-2015 13:59
  
  Local works will be prominent at Art Basel and the new Art Central satellite fair
  
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• Morning Links: Lynda Benglis Edition

  09-03-2015 13:33 via artnews.com
  Find out what art icon Lynda Benglis has been up to in this interview with The Art Newspaper. (Hint: Benglis is currently showing work at the Hepworth Wakefield in Yorkshire until July 1, and has an exhibition of outdoor sculpture coming up at … Read More
  
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• How Black Comics Take On Unmentionable Subjects (Like ‘Drunk Mandela’) In South Africa

  09-03-2015 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The topics of the day were listed on a white board: ‘Je Suis Charlie'; the governing African National Congress party’s convention in Cape Town; results of the nationwide matric exams, South Africa’s equivalent to the SAT. But the crew remained stuck on the Paris killings, in an animated back and forth about free speech.”
  
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• Let’s Talk About Philip Guston’s Paintings, And How He Achieved Eerie Contemporary Status

  09-03-2015 12:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In much the same way as Brahms composed variations on themes from Haydn, Handel, Paganini, and Schumann, making their melodies his own by means of elaborate musical embroidery, Guston proved a skilled adapter of diverse sources, motifs, and mannerisms that came together in his hands as compelling, if still formative, works.”
  
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• Van Gogh landscape to be shown for first time in 100 years

  09-03-2015 12:10
  
  Experts expect Le Moulin d’Alphonse to fetch around $10m after research tying it directly to the artist via the records of his sister-in-law Johanna
  A landscape by Vincent van Gogh is to be exhibited for the first time in more than 100 years following the discovery of crucial evidence that firmly traces back its history directly to the artist.The significance of two handwritten numbers scribbled almost imperceptibly on the back had been overlooked until now. They have been found to correspond
  
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• Drones Will Completely Change How Directors Make Movies

  09-03-2015 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Filming with a camera-equipped drone isn’t hard at all. The controls, familiar to anyone who ever used a remote-control car, are easy to operate. The hardest part is keeping and eye on the drone and another on the smartphone displaying its video feed.”
  
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• The insider's cultural guide to St Petersburg: 'Best joke? Our government'

  09-03-2015 11:22
  
  Writer Anastasiia Fedorova gives us a tour of the former Russian capital – from bars, bridges and bands to style, seagulls and street artBridges, palaces, bars, grey, granite.
  Related: The insider's cultural guide to Krakow: 'We've seen some radical changes' Related: The insider's cultural guide to Quito: 'Sun, fog, corn, stone, cars …' Continue reading...
  
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• San Francisco museum finds 200-year-old DNA in African works

  09-03-2015 09:09
  
  De Young’s research could improve authentication by identifying the species of trees used
  
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• Monet takes centre stage at blockbuster exhibition at Städel

  09-03-2015 08:13
  
  The Frankfurt museum’s survey of the early years of Impressionism includes more than 100 works, with a focus on the French painter
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 03.08.15

  09-03-2015 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dueling With the Dean: Rock Crit Robert Christgau AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2015-03-08 Lew Soloff, 1944-2015 AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-03-08 Evolution of Postmodernism AJBlog: Infinite CurvesPublished 2015-03-07 There Are No Coincidences AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-03-07 It’s My Bag AJBlog: Out TherePublished 2015-03-06 Does Quality Exist? Does it Matter? AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2015-03-06
  
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• Wanted: Jazz Impresario-Scholar at Rutgers University – Newark

  09-03-2015 05:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Housed at Rutgers University – Newark for nearly 50 years, the Institute of Jazz Studies is revered among scholars around the world, yet it remains one of the best kept secrets in jazz. That is about to change . . .
  
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• Alice in Wonderland: Unsuk Chin brings an inexhaustible array of orchestral tricks out of her hat

  09-03-2015 02:05
  
  With the ever-fertile musical imagination of Unsuk Chin, and with Netia Jones’s characteristically brilliant meld of projected graphics and live action; with pen-and-ink-blot drawings by veteran cartoonist Ralph Steadman, and with a libretto-on-speed by the prolific David Henry Hwang, this opera on Lewis Carroll’s evergreen fable was a show of all the talents, and in the American soprano Rochele Gilmore it had the ideal performer for the title role.
  
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• Joshua Reynolds: the overlooked master who revolutionised British art

  09-03-2015 01:04
  
  An exhibition coming to London’s Wallace Collection paints the artist in a new light: as a daring Enlightenment portraitist who became the victim of his own boldnessIn 1773 the successful portrait artist Joshua Reynolds painted the aristocratically maternal Lady Cockburn and her three young sons using the methods he preached in his lectures as first president of the Royal Academy.Study the old masters, Reynolds instructed his students, for “the works of those who have stood the test of ages,
  
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• Joshua Reynolds: the overlooked genius who revolutionised British art

  09-03-2015 01:04
  
  An exhibition coming to London’s Wallace Collection paints the artist in a new light: as a daring Enlightenment portraitist who became the victim of his own boldnessIn 1773 the successful portrait artist Joshua Reynolds painted the aristocratically maternal Lady Cockburn and her three young sons using the methods he preached in his lectures as first president of the Royal Academy.Study the old masters, Reynolds instructed his students, for “the works of those who have stood the test of ages,
  
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