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• Consumer Reports: Quintessa Matranga

  11-03-2015 21:50 via artnews.com
  Quintessa Matranga is both an artist working in many mediums and a curator at Mission Comics, a gallery operating in the back room of a comic book shop in San Francisco. Matranga has forthcoming group exhibitions at Gertrude Contemporary in … Read More
  
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• ‘I Find the Art World Very Oppressive': Tony Smith’s 1971 Q&A With Lucy R. Lippard

  11-03-2015 21:21 via artnews.com
  Tony Smith was something of a Renaissance man. Best known for his steel sculptures (he preferred the word “presences”), the New Jersey-born artist also dabbled in architecture, painting, and art criticism. Today, he is remembered most for Die (1962), a … Read More
  
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• Vintage Violence: Peter Saul on a Show of His 1960s Paintings at Venus Over Manhattan

  11-03-2015 20:31 via artnews.com
  “A lot of these I haven’t seen since I sent them off!” the painter Peter Saul announced as he walked briskly around an exhibition of his work from the 1960s and early ‘70s at the Upper East Side’s Venus Over … Read More
  
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• Here’s the 2015 NADA New York Exhibitor List

  11-03-2015 20:10 via artnews.com
  The New Art Dealers Alliance announced today the exhibitors for the fourth edition of its NADA New York art fair. Returning to Basketball City at Pier 36 on the East River, this year’s NADA will include 100 galleries, including 27 … Read More
  
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• Nearly half of the €51bn spent on art last year was on a handful of high-end works

  11-03-2015 18:42
  
  According to the economist Clare McAndrew’s annual report for Tefaf, there are fewer sales happening at higher prices
  
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• Who Should Be The Next Music Director Of The NY Philharmonic? (The Critics Weigh In)

  11-03-2015 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Can the New York Philharmonic woo someone who can thrill New Yorkers as much? Someone who can help raise funds in the nine figures for the coming renovation and who can keep audiences in the fold when the orchestra must play elsewhere in New York during at least two seasons of construction?”
  
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• Warning: Theatre Is Losing An Entire Generation

  11-03-2015 18:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Now, there are fewer young companies and there has been an incredible drop in the number of drama teachers working. And that seems to me to be a fairly urgent thing that theatres need to be talking and lobbying about.”
  
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• UK Arts Funding Is In Crisis Says Museum Director

  11-03-2015 18:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Most museum directors are wary about criticising government, which funds them, but David Anderson, the director general of National Museum Wales (funded by the Welsh government) and the outgoing president of the Museums Association, says it is time to speak out.
  
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• UK Museums Struggle With What To Do With Wealth Of Archaeological Artifacts

  11-03-2015 18:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We have archival material in museums that are becoming increasingly inaccessible because of the lack of specialist archaeology curators and we have museums that are ceasing to collect this material which has created a backlog that has nowhere to go.”
  
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• Programmes for the royal hunting lodge

  11-03-2015 17:55
  
  A study of the paintings made for Philip IV’s Torre de la Parada
  
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• Pharrell and Robin Thicke Lose Plagiarism Case – Why This Is A Blow To Creativity

  11-03-2015 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While we respect the judicial process, we are extremely disappointed in the ruling made today, which sets a horrible precedent for music and creativity going forward. Blurred Lines was created from the heart and minds of Pharrell, Robin and T.I. and not taken from anyone or anywhere else. We are reviewing the decision, considering our […]
  
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• Selfie sticks banned at National Gallery as attractions crack down on 'absurd' gadgets

  11-03-2015 17:33
  
  Selfie sticks have been banned at the National Gallery over fears that visitors could damage priceless works of art, as well as ruining the “overall visitor experience”.
  
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• San Diego Opera Names A New Leader

  11-03-2015 17:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  He is David Bennett, director of the adventurous Gotham Opera in New York. “In New York, Bennett helped build an international reputation for Gotham based on its acclaimed presentations of largely unknown operas in nontraditional and alternative venues.”
  
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• Is School Failing Dancers? (It Depends On What You Think School Is For)

  11-03-2015 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In a world of slash careers, where we easily understand the lawyer/journalist or physician/entrepreneur, why are we dancers or something else? Why would someone be thought of as a failure if they are a dancer/college professor or a strategic planner/choreographer? If they are happy, who is anyone to judge? Our foremothers and forefathers in the […]
  
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• What’s The Purpose Of Dance School Again?

  11-03-2015 17:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The purpose of the university dance program is to offer students the opportunity to participate in a deep and profound process of creating, performing, responding to, and connecting from the practice of an art form. Dance takes them into the life of arts-informed human beings; people who live not at the margins of the world, […]
  
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• How Our Attention Is Being Stolen From Us

  11-03-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Attention is a resource; a person has only so much of it. And yet we’ve auctioned off more and more of our public space to private commercial interests, with their constant demands on us to look at the products on display or simply absorb some bit of corporate messaging. Lately, our self-appointed disrupters have opened […]
  
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• Untitled and Zach Feuer Galleries Will Merge on the Lower East Side

  11-03-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  This May, two of today’s more prominent galleries for up-and-coming artists will merge. Zach Feuer, of the eponymous Chelsea gallery and Joel Mesler of the Lower East Side’s Untitled will together open Feuer/Mesler and Mesler/Feuer, two spaces on the L.E.S. that will … Read More
  
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• Scrapbooking with Andrea Rosen

  11-03-2015 14:30 via artnews.com
  Museums are fond of publishing tomes that celebrate their illustrious histories. These days, galleries are getting in on the game. But New York dealer Andrea Rosen’s decision to publish, this month, a boxed set of 26 books celebrating her gallery’s … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Cindy Sherman Emoji Edition

  11-03-2015 14:15 via artnews.com
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art has named Daniel H. Weiss, the president of Haverford College in Pennsylvania, as its new president. [The New York Times] David Anderson, director general of National Museum Wales, says UK arts funding is in a “severe” … Read More
  
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• Here Is the Exhibitor List for Paris Photo Los Angeles 2015

  11-03-2015 14:00 via artnews.com
  Paris Photo Los Angeles, the West Coast arm of the French photography fair that is held each year at L.A.’s Paramount Pictures Studios, has announced the exhibitor list for its 2015 edition. There are 80 galleries from 17 countries. The … Read More
  
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• 'Period pads' artist posts feminist messages all over city

  11-03-2015 12:19
  
  An artist has chosen an unusual way to promote feminism, writing messages on sanitary towels and placing them all over a German city.
  
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• Why we should save the theatre charity making creative dreams come true | Sabrina Mahfouz

  11-03-2015 11:05
  
  I had no contacts or money but IdeasTap helped launch my career as a writer. Other young people who wouldn’t normally stand a chance should be able to benefit tooWhen I first came across the boldly branded IdeasTap online I had two high-pressure jobs, in the wildly divergent fields of Mayfair nightclubs and the civil service, in order to pay my way through a part-time MA in international politics (hence the nightclubs) and to start a sensible, safe career trajectory (hence the civil service).I
  
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• Why we should save the arts charity making creative dreams come true | Sabrina Mahfouz

  11-03-2015 11:05
  
  I had no contacts or money but IdeasTap helped launch my career as a writer. Other young people who wouldn’t normally stand a chance should be able to benefit tooWhen I first came across the boldly branded IdeasTap online I had two high-pressure jobs, in the wildly divergent fields of Mayfair nightclubs and the civil service, in order to pay my way through a part-time MA in international politics (hence the nightclubs) and to start a sensible, safe career trajectory (hence the civil service).I
  
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• We must save IdeasTap – the arts charity making creative dreams come true | Sabrina Mahfouz

  11-03-2015 11:05
  
  I had no contacts or money but IdeasTap helped launch my career as a writer. Other young people who wouldn’t normally stand a chance should be able to benefit tooWhen I first came across the boldly branded IdeasTap online I had two high-pressure jobs, in the wildly divergent fields of Mayfair nightclubs and the civil service, in order to pay my way through a part-time MA in international politics (hence the nightclubs) and to start a sensible, safe career trajectory (hence the civil service).I
  
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• Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny: A sparky production by the Royal Opera House

  11-03-2015 10:16
  
  John Fulljames’s production of Mahagonny makes the most of the irony that this Brecht-Weill assault on capitalism should be staged in Britain’s most bank-rolled opera house, with self-mocking slogans flashed up thick and fast.
  
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• Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny,: A sparky production by the Royal Opera House

  11-03-2015 10:16
  
  Fulljames’s production of Mahagonny makes the most of the irony that this Brecht-Weill assault on capitalism should be staged in Britain’s most bank-rolled opera house, with self-mocking slogans flashed up thick and fast.
  
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• De Wain Valentine’s monumental Grey Columns to be shown side by side—at last

  11-03-2015 09:39
  
  The 1970s twin sculptures have never been installed as the Californian artist intended
  
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• Pritzker Prize Goes To Architect Frei Otto One Day After He Dies

  11-03-2015 09:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The German architect and engineer best known for his tent-like structures for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich … died Monday in Germany at age 89. … Otto’s death forced Pritzker officials to scramble to prepare an announcement that is typically carefully choreographed.”
  
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• Metropolitan Museum Names New President

  11-03-2015 09:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Metropolitan Museum of Art has appointed Daniel H. Weiss, the president of Haverford College in Pennsylvania, to succeed its outgoing president, Emily Rafferty, who is stepping down later this month after a decade in the post and nearly 40 years at the museum.”
  
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• Conducting’s Next Big Question: Who Will Bag The Berlin Phil?

  11-03-2015 09:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Here’s the situation as I see it, based solely on subjective rune-reading, along with a pinch of happenstance and hearsay.” Tom Service handicaps the possible candidates.
  
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• A romantic, peaceful Middle East lives again with the Thea Porter fashion show

  11-03-2015 09:21
  “Thea Porter, 70s Bohemian Chic”, Fashion and Textile Museum in London, until 3 May
  
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• Thomas Dausgaard To Be Next Chief Conductor Of BBC Scottish Symphony

  11-03-2015 09:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After all the fuss and fanfare of last week’s appointment of Simon Rattle as new music director of the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC SSO’s announcement is a veritable coup-de-théâtre of understatement. True, Dausgaard isn’t the household name that Rattle is, and the BBCSSO isn’t saddled with the hype and politics of London’s flagship orchestra. […]
  
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• Evelyn Glennie And Emmylou Harris Win 2015 Polar Music Prize

  11-03-2015 09:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Dame Evelyn, who played at the opening of the London 2012 Olympics, was the first person in history to have a full-time career as a solo percussionist. … Harris, from Birmingham, Alabama, has recorded more than 25 albums over four decades and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008.”
  
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• Sam Simon, 59, “Simpsons” Co-Creator And Philanthropist

  11-03-2015 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The nine-time Emmy Award-winning comedy writer and producer … served as the showrunner on the sitcom Taxi at the age of 23; wrote for and produced the comedies Cheers and The Drew Carey Show.” But he was best-known for developing, with Matt Groening and James L. Brooks, the long-running animated series that began as filler […]
  
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• The Truth About Psychedelic Drugs And Mental Illness

  11-03-2015 08:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Several recent studies are indicating that “so-called classical psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms)” may not be as dangerous as War-on-Drugs rhetoric has led us to believe – and that they can have genuine therapeutic value under certain circumstances.
  
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• Snow White Rising: Sixth Guide

  11-03-2015 08:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The post Snow White Rising: Sixth Guide appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Why Does Hunger Shape So Much Behavior That Has So Little To Do With Food?

  11-03-2015 08:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Hunger makes Belgians less charitable, Israeli judges more draconian, and Ohioans likelier to stick pins into voodoo dolls that represent their spouses. And, according to a paper published last month … it turns Canadians into hoarders.” Why? “Part of the answer can be gathered from observations of other animals.”
  
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• Knight Foundation Distributes More Millions To South Florida Arts Orgs

  11-03-2015 08:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Miami-based Knight Foundation on Sunday announced $25 million in new grants to South Florida cultural organizations that include the Perez Art Museum Miami, University of Miami Frost School of Music and the new Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, bringing its total investment in South Florida arts to $122 million since 2005.”
  
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• He Changed The Face Of The Art Form In Britain: The Verdict On Nicholas Hytner At The National Theatre

  11-03-2015 08:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michael Billington: “I’d say Hytner has done more than anyone since Peter Brook and Peter Hall in the 1960s and 70s to change the face of British theatre. His advocacy of cheap seats and of live broadcasts will, I believe, be viewed by future historians as a major cultural turning point.”
  
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• In Unprecedented Move, UK Equity Expels Member

  11-03-2015 08:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The union has expelled Craig Joseph, a member of Motown tribute band the Gillettes, after he lied in court during a case in which he was being supported by Equity, resulting in a costs liability for the union of more than £600,000.”
  
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• “The Work That Changed Ballet For Ever”: William Forsythe’s “In The Middle, Somewhat Elevated”

  11-03-2015 08:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sarah Crompton: “He is consequently the only choreographer who has ever been mentioned in the same sentence as the philosopher Michel Foucault, applying a similar critical intelligence to the nature of dance and its language.”
  
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• “Wolf Hall” TV Adaptation Is BBC2’s Most Popular Drama Since Modern Ratings Began

  11-03-2015 08:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The six-part series, starring Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell, Damian Lewis as Henry VIII and Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn, had an average of 4.4 million viewers a week, a 15.8% share of the audience.” (The series will be broadcast in the US on PBS beginning April 5.)
  
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• Hilary Mantel Wants To Try Playwriting

  11-03-2015 08:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The British author whose best-selling novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies have been adapted for a stage production soon to open on Broadway … said, ‘The process of working with this team has changed my vision of what I might want to do in the future.”
  
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• Chicago-Style Improv Comedy Comes To Brooklyn

  11-03-2015 08:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jason Zinoman: “My two-week binge at the Annoyance Theater, the first comedy theater in Brooklyn, ended in a pool of sewage.”
  
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• Kwes: why I love Paul Klee

  11-03-2015 07:59
  
  ‘I have synaesthesia, so I hear music as colour. And it’s as if Klee senses what colour feels like’I first came across Paul Klee while I was studying art at school in London. I was 15 and read a book featuring lots of painters from the early 20th century, Kandinsky and Franz Marc among them. It was Klee I kept coming back to, though. His paintings struck me as almost childlike, like someone discovering their surroundings for the first time. Perhaps that was the way I was feeling, too.There
  
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• Daniel Weiss named Metropolitan Museum president

  11-03-2015 07:08
  
  Weiss joins the museum from Haverford College
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.10.15

  11-03-2015 06:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s My Bag AJBlog: Out There Published 2015-03-06 Why I Love BJ’s, Part 2 – “Basket Case” AJBlog: Out There Published 2015-03-10 Breaking: Met Names New President AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-03-10 He got game AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2015-03-10
  
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• The art of Mambo: the bastard child of Australian surf culture – in pictures

  11-03-2015 01:35
  
  A three-decade retrospective of Mambo art has come to Sydney’s Ambush gallery, following a successful run at the National Gallery of Victoria. Self-described as the “bastard children of surf culture”, Mambo was established in 1984 and quickly rose to fame thanks to its irreverent sense of humour. Mambo: 30 Years of Shelf-Indulgence Exhibition (11 March – 26 April) features the works of Reg Mombassa, Emily Vanderlism and Numskull who mixed an unconventional celebration of the Australian i
  
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• Mambo artwork retrospective: the bastard child of Australian surf culture – in pictures

  11-03-2015 01:35
  
  A three-decade retrospective of Mambo artwork has come to Sydney’s aMBUSH gallery, following a successful run at the National Gallery of Victoria. Self-described as the “bastard children of surf culture”, Mambo was established in 1984 and quickly rose to fame thanks to its irreverent sense of humour. Mambo: 30 Years of Shelf-Indulgence Exhibition (11 March – 26 April) looks at how an unconventional celebration of the Australian identity met a surrealist sensibility in this much loved sur
  
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• Artwork chronicling England's footballing failures sells for £425,000

  11-03-2015 01:02
  
  The granite sculpture, by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, lists 124 years of the national team’s defeats and was auctioned as part of Sotherby’s Bear Witness saleA monument recording over a century of England’s footballing hurt by listing every defeat suffered by the team between 1874 and 1998 has sold at auction for a staggering £425,000. Starting with a 2-1 defeat to Scotland in Glasgow, the granite sculpture charts 124 years of the England national team’s failures, finishing w
  
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