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• Public debate warns of self-censorship in the arts

  16-03-2015 20:31
  
  Artistic institutions in Britain are increasingly self-censoring subversive material to secure funding and avoid protests, according to a panel of arts grandees.
  
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• Hot Diggity! Tony Matelli Dog Sculpture Stolen, Recovered in New York

  16-03-2015 19:33 via artnews.com
  Tony Matelli’s hyperrealistic painted bronze sculpture Stray Dog disappeared this weekend from in front of a Manhattan subway station at 72nd and Broadway, where it has been stationed as part of Max Levai and Marlborough Chelsea’s citywide outdoor sculpture show, “Broadway Morey Boogie,” since … Read More
  
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• A “New Yorker” Financial Journalist Investigates Peter Gelb’s Met Opera House

  16-03-2015 19:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  James B. Stewart examines the company’s greatly increased expenses, falling attendance figures, drops in large donations, dissension on the board of directors, and the difficult 2014 labor negotiations (and the disputed financial data tossed around at the time).
  
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• Bruce Nauman review – a revolving education in art

  16-03-2015 19:09
  
  The artist’s new Paris show combines works that play on adult fears with childlike instructions and repetitive movement – a compelling lesson for young and old alike
  The carousel goes round and the voices go round and the dancers go round and I return to Bruce Nauman once again. The Cartier Foundation’s Nauman exhibition in Paris is a mix of older works and new, Nauman at both his most electrifying and enigmatic and his most obtuse and apparently slight. Nauman is a compelling artist, not
  
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• Siege of Calais, Wild man of the West Indies, Boheme - review: ETO is back on tour with three superb productions

  16-03-2015 18:39
  
  This week visiting Truro and Poole, next week Norwich and Sheffield, English Touring Opera are back on tour, in top form and with three superb productions, two of which are rarities.
  
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• Bonhams Sends Early Computing Artifacts to Auction

  16-03-2015 18:24 via artnews.com
  The fine books and manuscripts auction at Bonhams New York on April 13 will feature a number of computing relics, the house announced today, including a recently discovered 56-page handwritten manuscript by British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, which is expected … Read More
  
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• Has The Classical Music World Expanded Enough To Truly Appreciate Schubert?

  16-03-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This sense that at his death Schubert was an incomplete composer stemmed also from his preeminence in two fields of musical composition that lacked the requisite Beethovenian grandeur: song and dance.”
  
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• When Book Titles Have Zero To Do With Book Contents (A Problem Of Fiction)

  16-03-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There’s something to be said for allusive titles: they can be intriguing and draw you in. And obscure titles at least make a change from the current trend for The Woman Who Climbed out of Her Car and Mowed the Lawn.”
  
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• Bob and Roberta Smith: on a mission to unseat Michael Gove

  16-03-2015 17:59
  
  Furious about the state of education, Patrick Brill (AKA the artist Bob and Roberta Smith) is standing against Michael Gove in the election. Nick Curtis joins him as he takes to the streets of Bagshot – converting a dog-walker and one Tory councillor to his cause“I call it the honeypot or the flypaper approach,” says Patrick Brill, better known as the slogan artist Bob and Roberta Smith. He’s talking about his unique style of canvassing: Smith is standing against Tory MP Michael Gove in
  
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• Did An Australian Conservator Forge Two (Or More) Paintings That Sold For Millions?

  16-03-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Police say the paintings, which sold for $2.5m and $1.1m respectively, were created in 2007 and 2008. [Brett] Whiteley died from a drug overdose in 1992.”
  
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• What Should Equity And Other Theatre Unions Do About Harassment And Violence?

  16-03-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Women and gay men in their 20s and 30s describe being propositioned for sex by influential directors, casting directors and others who could help or hurt their careers. Young gay men harassed one another, and groping was a problem for all genders and sexualities. When performers did complain, they felt they weren’t taken seriously by […]
  
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• Sotheby’s appoints new president with plans to grow its brand

  16-03-2015 16:59
  
  Tad Smith comes to the auction house from media and entertainment companies
  
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• Registrar Opportunities

  16-03-2015 16:13
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• Pharrell and Fast Sales as Art Basel Hong Kong Continues

  16-03-2015 16:07 via artnews.com
  In the days following Friday evening’s opening of Art Basel Hong Kong, which runs through Tuesday at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, dealers continued to report sales. Pace parted with a Chuck Close tapestry and an Alexander Calder … Read More
  
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• Hong Kong Audience Decides Art World Is Not a Boys’ Club

  16-03-2015 15:44 via artnews.com
  The annual Intelligence Squared debate, which takes place in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre concurrent with Art Basel Hong Kong, had a hot topic this year: Is or isn’t the art world a boys’ club? At the end … Read More
  
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• How to set up an art group

  16-03-2015 15:00
  
  Learning to paint is much more fun with friends. Here’s what you need to know to get startedEvery Tuesday, I spend three hours in a shed at the end of my garden, learning to paint. I’ve been doing this for 10 years with the art group that I started, and it’s still a pleasure. In a way, it’s not so much about the art. It’s a gathering of people: there are nine of us, and we have a good chat and a laugh. Afterwards, some of us might have lunch together and even a glass of wine. We’re a
  
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• My evening as a nude life model

  16-03-2015 15:00
  
  Most people balk at the idea of stripping off in front of strangers – does doing it in the name of art make it any easier?It’s 7.15pm on a chilly Tuesday and I’m feeling a mix of dread and expectation. Tonight, in the name of art, I’m about to expose myself to 55 strangers.Anne Noble-Partridge, founder of London Drawing, senses my anxiety and reassures me that her students’ objective is representing my image, not judging my masculinity. Continue reading...
  
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• See You in Havana: Rachel Kushner’s Cuba

  16-03-2015 14:30 via artnews.com
  With the publication in 2013 of her celebrated second novel, The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner earned the rare distinction of becoming a crossover novelist embraced by the art world. It helped that The Flamethrowers focused on a group of struggling artists … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Umbrella Movement Edition

  16-03-2015 13:54 via artnews.com
  The Umbrella Movement, a pro-democracy movement, is inspiring art in Hong Kong. [The Art Newspaper] Tourism at art museums and galleries in the UK has increased by 7% since 2013. [The Art Newspaper] The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has received a multimillion-dollar gift … Read More
  
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• Visitors to UK’s cultural attractions on the rise

  16-03-2015 12:08
  
  And political parties should pay more attention to tourism, association says
  
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• William Pope.L wants to bring down the house

  16-03-2015 08:09
  
  The artist’s exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles could blow away the building
  
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• Top Posts For AJBlogs From 03.15.15

  16-03-2015 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  From the East Village, ‘Ten Talk New York’ AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2015-03-14 Jazz health is not in its reported records sales AJBlog: Jazz Beyond JazzPublished 2015-03-14 The Merce Resurrection AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-03-13 The books that really matter AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-03-13 Bridging the Scholarly/Administrative Divide: My Q&A with Daniel Weiss, Metropolitan Museum AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2015-03-13 Ask a Composer AJBlog: Infinite Curve
  
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• I'm selling myself as art, and you pick the price. But what is work, anyway? | Casey Jenkins

  16-03-2015 05:20
  
  During my three week performance art project, Body of Work, I’ll do just about any kind of work - and you set the wage Performance art is notoriously, gloriously, uncommodifiable. You can’t hang it on your wall, oftentimes it’s not recorded, it occurs for a moment – and then what? Where does it go? What is it worth? Performance art: what even is it? Efforts to value it seem to cause anxiety. We all sell portions of our lives and buy those of others though, every single day. In my latest
  
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