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• Rotterdam museum wants to rent out storage space to private collectors

  13-03-2015 21:57
  
  Without an endowment, the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen says it is finding “creative” ways to support itself
  
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• Michael Graves, The Prolific Architect

  13-03-2015 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Few careers can claim to be as productive; Mr. Graves had over 350 buildings and some 2,000 products to his name. From his cake-white and keystone ornamented Portland Building (1982) in Oregon to the blue-handled Alessi tea kettle with the red bird whistle (1985), he aimed to make design approachable at every scale. Ultimately, he […]
  
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• NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale Acquires a Schnabel

  13-03-2015 20:44 via artnews.com
  The NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale announced that Olatz Schnabel, the model who was the wife and muse to painter Julian Schnabel for 17 years, has donated Portrait of Olatz Schnabel (1997) to the museum. The news comes a month and a … Read More
  
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• Pacific Northwest Ballet Case Study

  13-03-2015 20:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Getting Past “It’s Not For People Like Us” examines how the Pacific Northwest Ballet sought to cultivate interest among teens and adults under the age of 25, in part by showing that the art form could be meaningful to them. The ballet company’s efforts included revising promotional materials to appeal to younger audiences, posting online […]
  
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• Extending Reach with Technology

  13-03-2015 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Extending Reach with Technology, describes the Seattle Opera’s four-year endeavor to test which kinds of technology channels work well in audience engagement. A simulcast of Madama Butterfly succeeded in bringing in audience newcomers, while other efforts, such as behind-the-scenes videos, helped enhance the experience of patrons who already had a deep connection with the company. […]
  
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• What A Reality TV Series Did For Ballet West

  13-03-2015 20:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Despite the worries and righteous indignation at the company’s supposed lowbrow treatment of ballet, Ballet West seems to have emerged from the experience in fine shape and with an undeniably more prominent profile. Though there is no definitive correlation, ticket sales in the last two years have risen by more than 20 percent, and Ballet […]
  
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• Andy Warhol's family members crowdfunding to make feature-length film about him

  13-03-2015 20:05
  
  “In the future,” Andy Warhol said, “Everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Including, if they have their way, his own relatives.
  
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• New exhibition of Canaletto's British paintings at Compton Verney gallery

  13-03-2015 19:56
  
  Collection of pictures shows Italian artist’s view of vibrant ‘rule Britannia’ period of London historyFor most people, Canaletto is the artist who depicted Venice – the painter of some of the best known and beautiful views of his home city. But for nearly ten years he was an adopted English artist chronicling a society which, unlike Venice, was changing on an unimaginable scale.A new exhibition opening to the public on Saturday will for the first time bring together paintings Canaletto
  
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• Major Fire At Battersea Arts Center

  13-03-2015 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A large cloud of black smoke can be seen billowing across Clapham. The fire is believed to have started in the roof of the Grade II listed building, which houses a theatre. There are no reports of any injuries.”
  
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• Could Salvador Dali (who died in 1989) now become a dad for the first time?

  13-03-2015 19:03
  
  He may have died more than a quarter of a century ago, but Salvador Dali, the eccentric surrealist painter who once told a US talkshow that he didn’t believe in his own death, may be about to become a father for the first time.
  
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• The Success Problem (How It Gets In The Way Of Being Successful Again)

  13-03-2015 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Why not enjoy success? Why not accept that you are a genius, if people insistently tell you that you are? One way or another, from this point on it will be hard to achieve the same concentration, the same innocence, when you return to the empty page and the next stage in a life story […]
  
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• The Fascinating Economics Transforming Manhattan’s Skyline

  13-03-2015 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The stratospheric amounts now at stake in newly built Manhattan buildings perhaps can be best understood by comparison with today’s contemporary art market, where multimillion-dollar paintings and sculptures have become favored instruments in the global transfer of vast and largely unregulated sums.”
  
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• Mao, Buster Keaton, and the Buddha at Bustling Opening of Art Basel in Hong Kong

  13-03-2015 18:44 via artnews.com
  The mascot for this year’s edition of Art Basel Hong Kong may very well be the 2005 mixed media installation by Korean artist Nam June Paik that fronts Gagosian Gallery’s booth. Golden Buddha consists of a Buddha figure watching itself … Read More
  
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• Why Sampling Music Is A Creative Act

  13-03-2015 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Among sampling musicians, discovery has the same creative status as invention. DJs always want to play something that listeners don’t already know but that they will immediately like, and hip-hop producers have inherited this attitude. In a world saturated with recordings, creating more music ex nihilo is not the valuable service to humanity that it […]
  
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• Sascha Braunig Enters the Void: A Q&A

  13-03-2015 18:13 via artnews.com
  Sascha Braunig’s immaculately rendered paintings seem to exist in their own optical universe. She paints portraits, but only in the most expansive set of that term—”Ur-characters, blanks” is how she describes her subjects. As patterns hum in the background, humanoid elements emerge from fluid ripples of lines, … Read More
  
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• Sascha Braunig Enters the Void

  13-03-2015 18:13 via artnews.com
  Sascha Braunig’s immaculately rendered paintings seem to exist in their own optical universe. She paints portraits, but only in the most expansive set of that term—”Ur-characters, blanks” is how she describes her subjects. As patterns hum in the background, humanoid elements emerge from fluid ripples of lines, … Read More
  
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• No New Thinking In Gardner Museum Heist

  13-03-2015 18:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When opened in 1903, the Gardner was, for a time, the largest privately-owned museum in the United States and boasted priceless canvases by Rembrandt, Degas, Vermeer, and other masters. Yet when the museum was hit in 1990, there wasn’t even a central fire-alarm system. The fire alarms were independent buzzing wall models, like those ones […]
  
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• London Might Be Pricing Dance Out. Can New Buildings Help?

  13-03-2015 17:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “London is thriving as a world capital of dance, but there’s a danger that this may change. As in New York – once a creative playground because of its cheap rents and empty loft spaces – the rising price of property may soon drive the talent away.”
  
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• What Charlie Brown And Charlie Hebdo Have In Common

  13-03-2015 17:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Whatever could Charlie Brown and Charlie Hebdo have to do with each other? What could link Charles Schulz, the very definition of a cartoonist who hated provocation, with a publication whose very mission was to offend? And what could the editors of Charlie Hebdo, known for being bête et méchant (stupid and mean), ever have […]
  
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• How Do Young Musicians’ Brains Develop?

  13-03-2015 17:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Learning a sport develops gross motor skills “like how to kick a ball,” while music training develops fine motor skills, “like the way you draw a line. They’re complementary. Both are necessary and important.”
  
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• Should Military Action Be Taken To Prevent ISIS From Destroying Historic Sites?

  13-03-2015 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Saving ancient sites “needs to be a priority, it needs to be the first thing” in the struggle against Islamic State, Zahi Hawass said before lecturing this week at USC. “I receive emails all the time from young archaeologists in these countries, and they are afraid. We can’t wait, we can’t leave them to destroy […]
  
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• David Lynch hates graffiti and Gerhard Richter is shocked by his price at auction – the week in art

  13-03-2015 17:01
  
  The film-maker takes a swipe at graffiti artists while Richter slams the art market. Plus, the Magna Carta goes on display, and a designer imagines animals of the future, including reflective cats – all in your weekly dispatchMagna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy
  This surprisingly moving array of medieval and modern documents, superbly contextualised and translated, and spiced with fascinating works of art from manuscript illuminations to newspaper cartoons, tells the thought-provoking story of
  
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• Calling all art students: we want your alternative general election posters

  13-03-2015 16:55
  
  Could your image capture the real Britain in the run-up to the 2015 general election? If you’re an art student in the UK, we want to see your best shot
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  Election campaign posters have generated some of the most defining political images of the modern age – from the dole queues in the Tories’ Labour Isn’t Working billboards, to a demon-eyed Tony Blair against a New Labour, New Danger slogan. Continue reading...
  
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• Graffiti is ugly, stupid and threatening – there's more creativity in crochet

  13-03-2015 16:21
  
  David Lynch, that champion of the arts, says graffiti is ruining the world. And he’s right – this hypermasculine display is destroying our environmentIt’s a familiar scenario. Older person gets angry with modern world and rages against the visual white noise of graffiti that is, well, everywhere these days. Only this time the angry old man is film director David Lynch, whose surrealist pedigree and bizarre sense of style make his condemnation of graffiti difficult to dismiss as mere grey-h
  
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• Richard Diebenkorn review – gorgeous, serious, hard-won work of a lifetime

  13-03-2015 15:59
  
  Royal Academy, London
  A beautifully arranged overview of Richard Diebenkorn’s work, from blazing California abstracts to figuration and back again, dazzles and delightsOcean Park on a hot California morning, the sun already beating down, sprinklers playing across fresh lawns, white buildings rising above parched boulevards that stretch away to the cool waters of Santa Monica bay. I’ve never seen it. Yet it has entered my senses forever because of Richard Diebenkorn.It’s as if something fig
  
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• ‘And Since We’re Dealing with Infinity and Time and Nothingness…': An Hour with Julian Schnabel

  13-03-2015 15:54 via artnews.com
  Julian Schnabel inspires violent reactions in people, and even though I find some of his work indefensible, I fall on the side of thinking he’s a great artist—not just for the paintings, but also for everything else. He’s as much … Read More
  
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• The Portuguese return to Macau

  13-03-2015 14:35
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• Joana Vasconcelos at the MGM Macau

  13-03-2015 14:35
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• Morning Links: NSA Art Edition

  13-03-2015 14:15 via artnews.com
  St. Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum will open a satellite in Moscow with a focus on contemporary art. The museum could be open as early as 2018. [The Art Newspaper] China is the world’s largest market for Modern art with 30.6% of … Read More
  
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• Primary school protest: Children work with London artist to explore the art of demonstration

  13-03-2015 14:07
  
  What happens when you ask 60 children, aged between 8 and 9, what they want to protest against?
  
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• Eyewitness: Putrajaya, Malaysia

  13-03-2015 13:18
  
  Photographs from the Eyewitness series Continue reading...
  
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• Beautiful pictures of 'indigenous peoples unchanged for centuries' go on display

  13-03-2015 12:46
  
  Heist gallery founder, Mashael Al Rushaid, says her new exhibition ‘Origins’ draws on the narratives of  ‘indigenous peoples on the corners of the planet, whose lives have remained unchanged for centuries’.
  
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• Trevor Paglen review: turning the NSA's data combing into high-concept art

  13-03-2015 12:00
  
  Altman Siegel gallery, San Francisco
  The artist, who contributed to Citizenfour, makes the unseen surveillance systems overlooking our lives visible – and sometimes beautifulThe insidious enormity of the information age, our data-driven, privacy-compromised culture, is perhaps the most difficult of subjects for art. It requires an uncommon combination of tech-savviness, aesthetic sophistication and humanistic activism – attributes that, thankfully, exist in the work of the American artist Tr
  
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• Life on the wave: how fisherman turned artist John Craske was saved by the sea

  13-03-2015 12:00
  
  Admired by the likes of John Betjeman and Peter Pears, John Craske spent a spell in an asylum before taking up painting and embroidery. Now, seven decades after his death, his dramatic seascapes are finally getting wider acclaimJohn Craske was a fisherman from a family who had been fishermen for as long as anyone could remember, but he became too ill to go to sea. The sea was in his blood, he felt at home there, both when it was calm and breathing like a great beast and when it was wild and hold
  
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• How Santiago Calatrava’s Glorious Boondoggle At The World Trade Center May Be His Waterloo

  13-03-2015 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[He] was commissioned to design an architectural extravagance at ground zero. He succeeded, an accomplishment that threatens to destroy his reputation.”
  
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• Michael Graves, 80, Pioneering Postmodern Architect And Designer

  13-03-2015 09:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Not many architects can claim to have spearheaded a major design movement. Michael Graves played a prominent role in three.”
  
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• If There’s A Crisis At English National Opera, It Certainly Isn’t Artistic

  13-03-2015 09:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Let’s be absolutely clear about this … there has been no crisis in ENO’s run of productions over the past year and two months, indeed in the bigger picture of the last 10 years. … So where’s the problem? Clearly, as usual, in the management, not in the artistic team.”
  
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• Harper Lee Does Want Second Book Published, Says Alabama State Agency

  13-03-2015 09:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Joseph Borg, head of the Alabama Securities Commission: “We made a determination that Ms. Lee, based on our interview with her, was aware that her book was going to be published. She wanted it to be published. She made it quite clear she did.”
  
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• Marilynne Robinson, Roz Chast Win National Book Critics Circle Awards

  13-03-2015 09:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chast, a longtime New Yorker cartoonist, won the autobiography award for Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?“. Lila, the final book in Robinson’s Gilead trilogy, took the fiction prize; other winners included John Lahr (for his Tennessee Williams biography), the late critic Ellen Willis, poet Claudia Rankine, and historia of American slavery David Brion […]
  
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• It’s Time For Straight-To-Audio Books, Says Audible’s CEO

  13-03-2015 09:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Don Katz: “While performances are being elevated and attuned to this advanced listening experience, why not write to the form in an original way? So it’s not just book authors. TV writers, movie writers, others are flocking in to help us get to the next stage. Which is: What is the, from the ground up, […]
  
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• Rupert Goold Says The American Model Of Creating New Musicals Is Better Than The British One

  13-03-2015 09:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The English director, “whose production of Made in Dagenham is currently running in the West End, said that, unlike the US, the UK’s musical theatre scene is ‘led by a producing model that is dictated by the size of our theatres’ and added that musicals should originate from writers and composers who have stories they […]
  
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• Here’s What’s Getting Audra McDonald Back On Broadway (Since “‘Night, Mother” Didn’t Work Out)

  13-03-2015 09:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  She’ll be starring in a new musical, directed by George C. Wolfe and choreographed by Savion Glover, about the making of the 1921 all-black musical that launched Josephine Baker’s career.
  
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• Sense memory: Peter Watkins’s ghostly reflection on grief and loss

  13-03-2015 09:02
  
  Peter Watkins was nine years old when his mother drowned herself. In a moving new installation, he displays fragments of a life interrupted to explore how those we’ve lost live onIn 1993, when he was nine years old, Peter Watkins’s mother took her own life by walking into the North Sea at Zandvoort, in the Netherlands. Twenty years later, he began making the still-ongoing work of memory and loss he’s called The Unforgetting. This week, it is exhibited in a room in Pickford’s House in Der
  
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• How A Movie About Kremlin Corruption Became A No. 1 Hit in Russia

  13-03-2015 09:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It says something about Russia’s messy, fitful return to dictatorship that, in the week after the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, the best performing movie in the country, beating out Focus and Cinderella this past weekend, was a thriller whose villain works deep within the Russian government.”
  
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• The Problem With The Enlightenment(s)

  13-03-2015 09:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The greatness of the Enlightenment lies less in its ideals, than in our efforts to realize them. The tragedy of the Enlightenment lies there too. … It was a set of abstract philosophical ideals, but it was also a lived historical experience, full of ordinary disappointments and irregularities” – it was, like a centaur, an […]
  
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• 13 Reasons You’re Sleep-Deprived

  13-03-2015 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  No, we mean besides the fact that you’re an overworked arts professional.
  
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• Cuban Dance Is About To Change – A Lot

  13-03-2015 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With the reduction in foreign subsidies and the increase in actual trade, … Cuban dance is going to become something different. It is likely that things will start stirring not at the most privileged level, ballet, or at the humblest, such as Rumba Saturdays, but in the middle, in modern dance.”
  
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• When A Career Cunningham Dancer Gets His Own Company

  13-03-2015 08:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After the Merce Cunningham Dance Company disbanded in 2011, Robert Swinston, who was with the troupe for more than 30 years, did just that. He began again” – in France,”where he now directs the National Contemporary Dance Center in Angers and is also the artistic director of Compagnie CNDC-Angers.”
  
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• EU Rules That E-Books Are Services, Not Goods, And Can’t Be Taxed At Book Rates

  13-03-2015 08:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Electronic books cannot benefit from the same reduced rate of value-added tax as paper books, the top court of the European Union ruled … the court argued that a reduced rate can apply only to physical books and that even though e-books can be read on tablets and computers, they should be considered ‘electronically supplied […]
  
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• A 19th-Century Japanese View Of London, By An Artist Who’d Never Been There

  13-03-2015 08:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Utagawa Yoshitora’s 1866 prints Igirisukoku Rondon no zu form a triptych view of London. Together, the three images depict a street scene near the River Thames, complete with thronging English pedestrians, two sailing ships, horses, oxen, and carriages.”
  
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