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• Five Contemporary African Artists To Watch

  15-03-2015 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Auction houses like Christie’s and Sotheby’s focus more on Africa’s antique statues than on contemporary photography or video installations. But contemporary art from the continent is finding a foothold at some premier gatherings in Europe and the U.S.”
  
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• Portrait of a photographer: McCullin by Sorapure

  15-03-2015 20:42
  
  War photographer Don McCullin is more used to capturing others in action – so it took him time to adjust to being painted by Charlotte Sorapure
  He is used to being the watcher rather than the watched, and at first found the experience of sitting for a portrait rather testing. But the great war photographer Don McCullin managed to remain still long enough for a striking portrait of him – wearing a century-old military trenchcoat – to be produced. The portrait will hang at the Holburne museu
  
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• The Planned Lucas Museum In Chicago Gets Hit With Another Setback

  15-03-2015 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A Chicago judge ruled Thursday that local conservation group Friends of the Parks could move forward with a suit to block construction of George Lucas’ radical new museum on the city’s lakefront. The lawsuit, filed in November, claims the planned site for the institution is part of a protected waterway belonging to the state and […]
  
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• The Striking Revamp Of Chile’s Pre-Columbian Museum

  15-03-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Pre-Columbian galleries are often overstuffed, musty affairs — a million clay shards in endless vitrines. But the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art brings drama to the works in its collection, which are just divine.”
  
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• Wait, *Who* Wrote That Agatha Christie? Why ‘Novels Of Continuation’ Are Having A Moment

  15-03-2015 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We might be living in the second ‘golden age’ of television, but this is also arguably the first golden age of the continuation novel, which is arguably a less impressive development. It prompts various questions, such as: Is literary publishing eating itself?”
  
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• How Nightclub Performers Led To More Asian Americans In Showbiz

  15-03-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Charlie Low opened Forbidden City in 1938, and from exotic dancers to comedians to acrobats, he made sure the club had it all. It was even featured in major media outlets, including Life magazine. But that didn’t shield performers from the mostly white audiences’ racial taunts.”
  
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• The Famous, Formative Manga Artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi Told Dark Stories Through Cartoons

  15-03-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Often cited as an innovator, Mr. Tatsumi was one of a group of young writers and illustrators who, in the late 1950s, created a manga subgenre — Mr. Tatsumi christened it ‘gekiga’ — that dealt, realistically and dramatically, with subjects like sex and violence, behavioral motives like greed and betrayal and emotions like anguish and […]
  
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• The ‘Blurred Lines’ Verdict Could Be A Disaster For Symphonic Music As Well As Pop

  15-03-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There was no issue of ownership. Pre-existing material was nothing more than building blocks, just as an A major scale might be. Music was born as an art of absorption. When Bach made concertos out of pieces by Vivaldi, he bettered Vivaldi, and the pieces became Bach.”
  
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• Wings of desire: how butterflies have captivated artists

  15-03-2015 19:00
  
  From Bruegel to Nabokov and The Silence of the Lambs, butterflies have flitted through our imaginations and into our culture. Patrick Barkham pins up the choice specimens – and finds out why new film The Duke of Burgundy is awash with themSignifying sunshine, beauty and freedom, butterflies are ubiquitous in our culture, ever-present on greeting cards and used to sell everything from oven chips to SUVs. For artists, novelists and film-makers, however, butterflies and moths have often taken on
  
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• John Knapp-Fisher obituary

  15-03-2015 18:42
  
  Only a few artists have had the power to change how we see particular landscapes. John Knapp-Fisher, who has died aged 83, was one of them, persuading visitors to the Pembrokeshire coast to experience it through his own eyes.He was born in Kensington, London, the son of Heather (nee Philip) and Arthur Bedford Knapp-Fisher, who became professor of architecture at the Royal College of Art two years later. John attended Eastbourne college, studied graphic design at Maidstone College of Art and then
  
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• Are Artists And Writers Condemned To Loneliness?

  15-03-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Visual artists and the authors of literary fictions are engaged in a profoundly social endeavor. In writing or creating, they partake in an artistic or literary tradition, elaborating on the works that preceded them.”
  
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• How Much Does It Cost To Audition For ‘Jeopardy’?

  15-03-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “FYI: ‘Jeopardy’ doesn’t pay for anything; you even pay for your own transportation and lodging in L.A. if you’re taping an episode.”
  
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• Parents Who Work In The Performing Arts Need A Childcare Revolution

  15-03-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Royal Court’s Vicky Featherstone was asked what might have helped her when she was developing her career. ‘Childcare,’ came the reply – or at least some tax relief on childcare.”
  
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• Why Do White People Dance Alone?

  15-03-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If partner dancing was wobbling in the 1940s, it wasn’t until the 1950s that the couple form began to collapse altogether, when the early rumblings of the rock ‘n’ roll revolution introduced solo dances like the Twist into American youth culture. And while there exists a long documented history of solo social dances going back […]
  
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• The Pittsburgh Symphony Asks Potential Audiences What They Think Of Classical Music, And Finds Painful Answers

  15-03-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Participants described classical music performances as boring, relaxing, soothing and long. They said older people, musicians and rich people were the sorts who attended them. And they said the genre made them feel relaxed, sleepy, peaceful and mellow.”
  
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• Can Architects Stop Skyscrapers From Blocking Out Sunlight?

  15-03-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The new design involves twin towers curved and angled to minimise any shadow. Using an algorithm, the architects took into account the angles at which the sun shines each day over a year, and translated the information into the buildings’ design.”
  
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• The Intense – And Rapidly Growing – World Of Fanfiction

  15-03-2015 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s only a matter of time before a writer that the literary-fiction crowd acknowledges as one of its own emerges from such fertile ground. In fact, given that most fic writers are pseudonymous, it’s quite possible that one already has and that the talent responsible for a first novel well reviewed by the New York […]
  
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• When An American Jewish Shakespeare Scholar Got An Invitation To Speak In Iran

  15-03-2015 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Stephen Greenblatt: “If I went to the Iranian Shakespeare Congress, it would not be with the pretense that our situations were comparable or that our underlying values and beliefs were identical. Sharing an interest in Shakespeare counts for something, as a warm and encouraging phone call from the principal organizer amply demonstrated, but it does […]
  
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• What In The Heck Is The ‘Village Voice’ Doing With A Homophobic, Racist Art Review This Week?

  15-03-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It seems to have to do with the fact that the male subjects in Wiley’s paintings are sexualized — an immediate red flag given the long, ugly history in this country of gay men being labeled sexual predators.”
  
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• Roberto Bolaño’s Novel ‘2666’ Is Coming To A Chicago Stage Because Of That Episcopalian Monk Who Won The Lottery

  15-03-2015 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In an interview on Friday, he traced the impulse behind the gift to a trip several years ago to London, where he saw Nicholas Hytner’s lavish adaptation of Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’ at the Olivier Theater.”
  
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• When Some Welsh Officials Say No To James Bond

  15-03-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The revelation caused a social media storm with some politicians saying it had been a missed opportunity to showcase Wales and attract visitors.”
  
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• Spatial Relations #6: “Four by Two,” an interview with Jeremy Gaulke

  15-03-2015 15:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jeremy Gaulke and klipschutz are the founders of the quarterly poetry publication Four by Two, an unusually stylish and inventive periodical. Printed on a single sheet and folded five times, it is not only a masterpiece of minimalist design but has contained some outstanding poetry. So far, it has featured John Tottenham, Paul Fericano, Jon ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• The Seoul Philharmonic, In Turmoil And Under A Police Investigation, Cancels U.S. Tour

  15-03-2015 15:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Accusations of sexual harassment, misappropriation of funds and more led to the this point: “The orchestra issued a statement Friday saying it was forced to cancel the tour because Seoul’s municipal government, a leading source of its funding, had withdrawn financial backing for the trip.”
  
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• Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley Will Survive

  15-03-2015 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  The dance troupe announced it had raised more than the $550,000 it needed in order to go on. “With many in the arts community still mourning the loss of San Jose Rep, the fact that the ballet was able to stay alive is the source of much relief throughout the South Bay.”
  
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• Sale of Asterix cartoon raises €150,000 for victims of Charlie Hebdo attack

  15-03-2015 13:59
  
  The sale of a rare original Asterix cartoon has raised €150,000 (£107,000) for Charlie Hebdo victims' families.
  
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• Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty review – superficially magnificent

  15-03-2015 08:00
  
  Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  A ravishing retrospective of the late designer’s work inspires awe, unease, frustration and covetousnessThe V&A’s retrospective of the career of Alexander McQueen, Savage Beauty, began its life at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where it was a huge hit. Expanded and edited to talk a little more to the city where the designer (1969-2010) was born and learned his craft, it will doubtless be an even bigger smash in London. At the early-mornin
  
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• Van Gogh’s fading Sunflowers… and other tales of decaying art

  15-03-2015 07:59
  
  Supposed damage to Van Gogh’s paintings is minimal, but other masterpieces by Leonardo and Duchamp et al are showing the ravages of timeLike people, works of art inevitably change with time. They get restored, are preserved in perfect environments by conscientious museums, and yet there is still no way to freeze a masterpiece for ever. Even the comparatively recent paintings of Vincent van Gogh were reported this week to be losing their original colour. Here are five works of art that have see
  
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• “It’s our media.” Patreon Campaign

  15-03-2015 06:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On April 28, 2015, In the SHED will be launching a Patreon campaign aimed at building a new kind of channel for musicians and storytellers.
  
  
  
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• It’s our media.

  15-03-2015 06:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  WE’RE CONNECTING CREATIVE VOICES AND FANS AND EMPOWERING BOTH IN EXCITING NEW WAYS. On April 28, 2015, In the SHED will be launching a Patreon campaign aimed at building a new kind of channel for musicians and storytellers.
  
  
  
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• Artists take stock of the Umbrella Movement

  15-03-2015 04:00
  
  Works inspired by pro-democracy demonstrations are emerging slowly from artists’ studios
  
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• Why China’s artists love (and hate) WeChat

  15-03-2015 03:58
  
  WeChat, Weibo and Douban too, pros and cons of China’s popular social media platforms
  
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• France and China reap rewards of cultural exchange

  15-03-2015 03:53
  
  President Hollande’s state visit led to a year of prestigious loans—and long-term benefits
  
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• Opportunity knocks for Hong Kong’s artists

  15-03-2015 03:45
  
  More galleries than ever but local artists still need somewhere with international kudos
  
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• Can political art awaken the drones?

  15-03-2015 03:42
  
  The artist as preacher, critic and consciousness-raiser leaves something to be desired
  
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• Curators in pursuit of the next big thing

  15-03-2015 03:39
  
  The first fruit of a collaboration between the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and K11 Art Foundation is based on more than a hundred studio visits
  
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• Seeking out Southeast Asia

  15-03-2015 03:30
  As curatorial interest grows, will collectors follow?
  
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• Hiroshi Sugimoto to build mountain-side art complex

  15-03-2015 03:20
  
  Japanese artist's ambitious plan for his foundation's home
  
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• China opens its door wider to foreign artists

  15-03-2015 03:19
  
  Artists make their debuts, with a little help from their dealers
  
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• Photographers capture the relationship between dogs and their owners - including Simon Callow and his beloved boxers

  15-03-2015 01:00
  
  What does your dog say about you? French bulldog: you wear brogues and buy artisanal bread. Staffordshire bull terrier: Nikes and sliced white.In reality, of course, the answer is more complex, and for centuries the relationship between man and his best friend has provided an interesting filter through which to observe social history. Think of the Sealyham terrier – once popular among the elite, now facing extinction; or the ongoing news reports of pitbull cross-breeds being trained for use
  
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• Photographer Beth Moon's black and white images celebrate the diversity of ancient trees

  15-03-2015 01:00
  
  It was while she was living in London 15 years ago that the American photographer Beth Moon first found herself enthralled by trees. "There were so many impressive ancient ones right there and I started to visit different ones all around the city. I just wanted to chronicle their existence."
  
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• Marvin Gaye Chetwynd interview: The performance artist on Isaac Hayes' smoke machine, and wanting to be a glamour model

  15-03-2015 01:00
  
  As an artist, I've always seen the world through a child's eye And I am still, at the age of 41, very near to being a child. I can think of few things I'd rather do than slide around with my two-and-a-half-year-old in a soft-play area.
  
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