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• Book ahead, Australia: British India, Dinner in Perth and Pacific art

  10-03-2015 23:43
  
  In our weekly tout of the hottest tickets just released, book now to see a triumphant modernist exhibition, a devilish dinner hostess in Perth and moreFinding previously unseen works by well-known contemporary Australian artists would be a challenge for anyone, but Edmund Capon has succeeded with this new show at Hazelhurst regional art gallery. By combing through the gallery’s collections, Capon has selected works by Sidney Nolan, Charles Blackman, John Olsen, Howard Arkley and Aida Tomescu
  
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• Untitled(The Condor Can Lift The Whale)

  10-03-2015 23:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I think Alex would be interested in the movie. It reminds me of her. It’s about a dude with a shit job who listens to metal doom and tells everyone he will kill them. I should get the title so I can tell her or someone else about it and not confuse them. I look ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Art+Feminism’s 2015 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Adds 334 Articles on Female Artists

  10-03-2015 21:48 via artnews.com
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• Hello, Kitty: Japan's obsession with cats hits New York

  10-03-2015 19:13
  
  Centuries before Maru the YouTube star, cats were revered in Japan – despite the fact they are not native to the country. That love endures, as a new show revealsBefore there was Grumpy Cat, there was bakeneko. A supernatural cat monster from Japanese folklore, the bakeneko was capable of shapeshifting, speaking human words, manipulating the dead, and casting curses – but is most often depicted dancing with a napkin on its head. Sometimes a good spirit, sometimes a bad one, the bakeneko is j
  
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• Why Writing By Robots Might Be Important

  10-03-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Wordsmith essentially does two things. First, it ingests a bunch of structured data and analyzes it to find the interesting points, such as which players didn’t do as well as expected in a particular game. Then it weaves those insights into a human readable chunk of text. You can think of it as a highly […]
  
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• YouTube Is Ten Years Old. Uh-Oh – Here Come The Competitors

  10-03-2015 18:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some disgruntled partners aren’t convinced the No. 1 vidsite will be able to fully retain its share of eyeballs moving forward. A top exec at one large multichannel network puts it more bluntly. “YouTube has positioned itself to potentially blow the biggest halftime lead in the history of sports,” he says.
  
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• Everything Around Us Is Recorded Now. So What’s The Role Of The Writer?

  10-03-2015 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The rise of corporate capitalism, and the astonishing, almost exponential rate of its recent acceleration, I would argue, present a huge challenge to the writer, forcing him or her to rethink their whole role and function, to remap their entire universe.”
  
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• British Government Accepts Churchill’s Paintings To Pay Tax Bill

  10-03-2015 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The paintings, created between 1915 and the late 1950s, were offered last year after the death of Mary Soames, Churchill’s youngest and last surviving child, who died at the age of 91 in May.”
  
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• How The Starchitects Of The 1950s Reimagined Baghdad

  10-03-2015 18:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the 1950s, King Faisal II enlisted a coterie of architectural heavyweights—Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Josep Lluís Sert, and Alvar and Aino Aalto—to reimagine Baghdad as a bustling, cosmopolitan city.”
  
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• Barbarians At The Gate: What was Lost At Nimrud

  10-03-2015 18:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Before ISIS’s razing of Nimrud, the Met had created a stunning 3-D tour of the northwest palace, to show Ashurnasirpal’s stronghold in all its glory.”
  
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• Can You Tell If What You’re Reading Was Written By A Human?

  10-03-2015 18:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “These days, a shocking amount of what we’re reading is created not by humans, but by computer algorithms. We probably should have suspected that the information assaulting us 24/7 couldn’t all have been created by people bent over their laptops.”
  
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• A Victory For Photographers: Taking Pictures Is Not A Crime

  10-03-2015 18:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Los Angeles has agreed to pay a $50,000 settlement to three photographers after they were detained by LA County Sheriffs while taking pictures in public places. As part of the settlement, the city will also teach its sheriff deputies that photography is not a crime.”
  
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• UK arts funding in ‘severe’ crisis, museum director says

  10-03-2015 18:07
  
  Two institutional leaders speak out about the government’s cultural cutbacks ahead of general election
  
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• Inside The Giant Particle Accelerator, Artists Try To Make Sense Of The Science

  10-03-2015 18:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “van Leer and his team wanted to research how they could connect multiple levels of movement, including music, sound, animation, data clouds, and camera work, into a single visual experience.”
  
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• The World’s Most Eccentric Library

  10-03-2015 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  It is a library like no other in Europe—in its cross-disciplinary reference, its peculiarities, its originality, its strange depths and unexpected shallows. Magic and science, evil eyes and saints’ lives: these things repose side by side in a labyrinth of imagery and icons and memory. Dan Brown’s hero Robert Langdon supposedly teaches “symbology” at Harvard. […]
  
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• What Ten Things Does Science Say makes Kids Smarter?

  10-03-2015 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Check out number one…
  
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• US artist retypes Amis’s Lucky Jim verbatim

  10-03-2015 17:36
  
  Tim Youd is copying out Kingsley Amis’s classic of academic life on the same typewriter it was written on, at the University of Leicester campus that inspired it – the 32nd novel he has recreatedAmerican artist Tim Youd has found his own way of getting to grips with Kingsley Amis’s campus novel Lucky Jim: he is retyping the comic story, word for word, on an Adler Universal typewriter, the same model used by the late novelist.Youd’s own particular brand of close reading began this week in
  
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• Designer animals: scary science or superb satire?

  10-03-2015 17:25
  
  Highwire giraffes, beaked porcupines, reflective cats … an artist’s proposal to refashion the natural world is either a mad solution for extinction or a comical comment on our perverse attitudes about natureThe internet has broken my sense of humour. Designer Kathryn Fleming has proposed biologically engineering hybrid animals that bred to resist extinction. Beasts include a beaked porcupine that can lay eggs, and the superbivore, a kind of souped-up deer/giraffe that can tightrope walk. The
  
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• Polke Dance: Kenny Schachter in New York (Part 2)

  10-03-2015 17:19 via artnews.com
  Kenny Schachter is a London-based art dealer, curator, and writer. The opinions expressed here are his own. The first part of Shachter’s Armory Week report is here. On my second day in New York the snow was so heavy that I feared … Read More
  
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• Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Pledges $200,000 Towards Joan Jonas’s Venice Biennale Presentation

  10-03-2015 15:59 via artnews.com
  The MIT List Visual Arts Center has announced that the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation has pledged a gift of $200,000 in support of Joan Jonas’s presentation for the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year. This gift raises the List’s fundraising … Read More
  
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• The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Gives $5 M. to the ICA Miami

  10-03-2015 15:31 via artnews.com
  The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded a $5 million gift to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, with the aim of supporting “the development and presentation of experimental exhibitions of contemporary art by emerging and under-represented … Read More
  
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• The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Gifts $5 million to the ICA, Miami

  10-03-2015 15:31 via artnews.com
  The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded a $5 million gift to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, with the aim of supporting “the development and presentation of experimental exhibitions of contemporary art by emerging and under-represented … Read More
  
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• Laurie Simmons: Eyes Wide Shut

  10-03-2015 14:30 via artnews.com
  The artist's new work ventures closer to the human Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Pickle Edition

  10-03-2015 13:46 via artnews.com
  Deborah Luster has been named the 2015 Gardner Fellow in photography at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The honor carries with it a $50,000 stipend for a project and the publication of a book. [Photograph] The increasing length … Read More
  
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• Winston Churchill paintings accepted for nation in lieu of tax

  10-03-2015 13:26
  
  The 37 paintings by former PM were offered following death last year of wartime leader’s last surviving child, Mary SoamesAn important collection of paintings by Winston Churchill has been accepted for the nation in lieu of inheritance tax and will mostly hang at his family home, the National Trust property Chartwell.The 37 paintings were offered following the death of the wartime leader’s last surviving child, Mary Soames, who died aged 91 in May last year. Continue reading...
  
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• Conservators prove an unlikely gateway to more museum loans

  10-03-2015 09:29
  
  Institutions are lending more works than ever, exploding the myth that preserving art means denying access to it
  
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• English National Opera Hires New CEO Above Artistic Director

  10-03-2015 09:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The ENO, widely viewed as in crisis, has employed Cressida Pollock” – a management consultant from McKinsey and Co. – “as its interim head, quietly adding a new layer of authority above artistic director John Berry.”
  
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• ISIS Destroys Third Ancient Site In Three Days

  10-03-2015 09:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “On Friday, the group razed 3,000-year old Nimrud and on Saturday, they bulldozed 2,000-year old Hatra – both UNESCO world heritage sites.” On Sunday, they reportedly went after Khorsabad, which “was constructed as a new capital of Assyria by King Sargon II shortly after he came to power in 721 BC.”
  
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• “They Want To Turn The Clocks Back To Year Zero”: Why ISIS Destroys Ancient Monuments

  10-03-2015 09:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Destroying some of the world’s greatest archaeological and cultural treasures is something that flows from a fanatically purist interpretation of Sunni Islam as first laid down in 7th-century Arabia and revived more than a millennium later.” (scroll down to third headline)
  
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• These Ideas Must Die

  10-03-2015 09:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Rather than asking if a new idea is a good one, we ask whether it’d be better if some of the ideas we cling to were killed off.” For instance, testing products on mice. (podcast)
  
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• “The Notion That No Current Popular Music Is Of Quality Is Philistine”: Robert Christgau Lets Loose

  10-03-2015 09:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Christgau – who under the influence of a glass of iced coffee was sometimes so intense that he would not let his interlocutor finish a sentence – spoke from his home in New York” with Scott Timberg.
  
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• How Britain’s Theatre Reinvented Itself In The Face Of Funding Woes

  10-03-2015 09:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lyn Gardner: “What do we mean by ‘the nation’s theatre’? Think back just 30 or so years and the answer was probably fairly straightforward. It was Shakespeare on our main stages across the country, the big flagship companies such as the NT and the RSC, the state-of-the-nation plays by David Hare, … the loved but […]
  
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• Philadelphia’s Prince Music Theater Saved

  10-03-2015 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Coming to a choice parcel on Chestnut Street just west of Broad: neither a chic new condominium nor another drugstore. The Prince Music Theater isn’t going anywhere. The defunct theater in the center of town was sold Thursday to the Philadelphia Film Society – a transaction that not only gives the film group a new […]
  
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• Spare us the so-called experts and call for the connoisseurs

  10-03-2015 08:59
  
  Inherited moral rights, over-ambitious academics and discredited catalogues raisonnés have led to a crisis in attribution
  
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• American Tourists Caught Carving Names Into Rome’s Colosseum

  10-03-2015 08:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Californians, aged 21 and 25, snuck away from their tour group on Saturday and began scratching their initials into the amphitheatre with a coin. They managed a ‘J’ and an ‘N’ around 8cm high, before taking a selfie with their handiwork.”
  
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• Lebanese TV Host Cuts Off Islamist Scholar Who Tells Her To Shut Up Because He Doesn’t Have To Listen To A Woman

  10-03-2015 08:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sheikh Hani Al-Siba’i: “Are you done? Shut up so I can talk.” Rima Karaki: “How can a respected sheikh like yourself tell a TV host to shut up?” Sheikh Al-Siba’i: “It’s beneath me to be interviewed by you. You are a woman who -” (Mic cuts off.) Karaki: “Either there is mutual respect or the […]
  
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• Old Master dealers feel the pressure

  10-03-2015 08:55
  
  Currency crises, shrinking supply and online price databases are making for a difficult market
  
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• “A Turning Point In Cultural History”: Why The Louvre Abu Dhabi Is Worth Celebrating, Despite Its Dark Side

  10-03-2015 08:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jonathan Jones: “Nothing excuses the inhuman working conditions that have been reported. But I suspect that when it opens, this audacious new museum will be admired as a world destination and artistic treasure house. And so it should be. For the Louvre Abu Dhabi is a turning point in cultural history.”
  
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• Male Belly Dancers Make A Comeback In Istanbul

  10-03-2015 08:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Dressed in skirts decorated with coins and shimmering tassels, male belly dancers are back in vogue, jerking their hips and trembling their abs to hypnotic Turkish rhythms. Known as zennes, the performers were once a mainstay at the courts of Ottoman sultans, but they have been largely out of sight for decades. Their renewed popularity […]
  
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• When Grownups Read Their Teenage Diaries Aloud In Public

  10-03-2015 08:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Real teenage diaries are becoming a form of public entertainment – often self-deprecating – in a number of places, as brave souls divulge details of unsatisfied crushes and lost friendships. Ruminations that now seem ridiculous had once seemed profound to those who had written them down.”
  
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• Sometimes Even The Danes Can’t Understand Danish

  10-03-2015 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “One thing every foreigner living in Denmark knows to be true is that it’s a lot easier to comprehend written Danish than spoken Danish. … But fret not foreigners, you’re not alone.” Now even Danes need subtitles with some mumble-mouthed actors.
  
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• Bright young things who want to sell you older art

  10-03-2015 08:50
  
  The fast and fashionable contemporary scene is not for everyone
  
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• Fair wades deeper into contemporary waters

  10-03-2015 08:05
  
  The selling show “Night Fishing” has brought eight new galleries to Maastricht
  
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• Discomfited by video art? That shouldn’t mean discomfort

  10-03-2015 08:00
  
  The increasing number and increasing length of video works is throwing up problems in presentation
  
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• Berenice Abbott: the photography trailblazer who had supersight

  10-03-2015 07:59
  
  Avant-garde artist Berenice Abbott is famous for her shots of New York skyscrapers – but she also developed an all-new kind of scientific photographyAll-seeing eye: photographs that go beyond human vision – in pictures
  In April 1939, Berenice Abbott wrote a “manifesto” entitled Photography and Science. “We live in a world made by science,” she stated. “There needs to be a friendly interpreter between science and the layman. I believe photography can be this spokesman, as no other f
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.09.15

  10-03-2015 06:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Other Places: Mr. P.C. On Jazz Wage Economics AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-03-09 Monday Recommendation: The Surprising Tom Varner AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-03-09 Just because: a Q-&-A session with Helen Frankenthaler AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-03-09
  
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