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• Long Beach Museum of Art Receives $2 M. Gift, Largest in Its History

  18-03-2015 22:42 via artnews.com
  California’s Long Beach Museum of Art has been given a $2 million gift by longtime patrons of the museum, Ronald and Sylvia Hartman. This donation is not only the single largest in the museum’s history, but also the largest given … Read More
  
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• 303 Gallery Taps Fabiola Alondra for New Publishing Imprint

  18-03-2015 21:12 via artnews.com
  New York’s 303 Gallery has announced the launch of a new publishing imprint that will release “limited edition artist’s books, ephemera, and all manner of printed materials in collaboration with gallery artists,” according to a statement from the gallery. It … Read More
  
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• Kanye West Will Receive Honorary Doctorate From SAIC

  18-03-2015 20:10 via artnews.com
  It was confirmed today by the School of Art Institute of Chicago (via Hyperallergic) that the rapper Kanye West—in addition to gallerist Rhona Hoffman, artist Janet Neiman, Art Institute of Chicago director and president Douglas Druick, and German artist Albert … Read More
  
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• Gabriele Finaldi: National Gallery’s restoration begins with new director

  18-03-2015 19:28
  
  Entering a job that requires industrial relations expertise and moneymaking nous as much as a good knowledge of paintings, Gabriele Finaldi has been appointed head of the National Gallery at a crucial time.
  
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• Deadly Attack On Tunisian Museum

  18-03-2015 18:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Eight people were killed as they got off a bus to visit the museum, according to an Interior Ministry spokesman; 10 more were taken hostage and then killed. State television reported that a Tunisian museum guard who was injured in the attack and died later of his wounds.”
  
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• Roger Cecil obituary

  18-03-2015 18:42
  
  Painter whose artistic world was encompassed by the moors and valleys of WalesRoger Cecil, who has died aged 72, was an archetype for the artist who is insufficiently recognised during his lifetime. He was from a working-class background and largely stuck to his home area in the Welsh valleys, uninterested in worldly success but absorbed in trying to be the best possible painter.His inspiration was the fused natural-industrial environment that he saw all around him: “these big, gigantic sort o
  
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• Gabriele Finaldi Named Head Of London’s National Gallery

  18-03-2015 17:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The 49-year-old is currently deputy director for collections and research at the Prado museum in Madrid. Finaldi was a curator at the National from 1992 to 2002, where he was responsible for the later paintings in the Italian and Spanish collections.”
  
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• Maurizio Pollini, Royal Festival Hall, review: Chopin’s Preludes were like shining diamonds

  18-03-2015 17:55
  
  Maurizio Pollini’s recitals always flirt with failure. This one began with Schumann’s Arabeske played in an artlessly singing tone which allowed its delicately surfacing uncertainties to come across without false inflation.
  
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• New Arguments On The Value Of The Arts?

  18-03-2015 17:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Mark Stern and Susan Seifert suggest that cultural participation is one component–valued in its own right–of the broader concept of human wellbeing. Though the sentiment might seem obvious, the implication is not: it allows us to elegantly sidestep (if not quite resolve) the whole question of intrinsic vs. instrumental benefits by framing the idea instead […]
  
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• The Age Of Public Shaming

  18-03-2015 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We are seeing “a great renaissance of public shaming”. Social media, and Twitter in particular, has evolved into a rolling witch-hunt where reputations are smashed irreparably as the result of one ill-judged tweet or Facebook post. In extreme cases, a transgressor’s online identity never recovers: they bear the modern equivalent of being branded on the […]
  
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• Has Record Store Day Become Just A Marketing Hoax?

  18-03-2015 17:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Record Store Day, now a staple of the musical calendar in Britain and around the world, is facing increasing criticism that it is harming the very businesses it was originally set up to help.”
  
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• The Odd Museum At The Ends Of The Earth That Has Become An Unexpected Hit

  18-03-2015 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “To the shock of Tasmania’s patricians, some of whom can trace their lineage to the early settlers, and to the surprise of most of the island’s 500,000 largely working-class residents, the Museum of Old and New Art has been a huge success.”
  
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• National Gallery appoints Gabriele Finaldi as director

  18-03-2015 17:08
  
  The National Gallery has appointed Gabriele Finaldi as its new director, one of the most prestigious jobs on the British cultural scene.
  
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• Mathematically, Just How Many Songs Are Possible From Our Musical Scale?

  18-03-2015 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Here is my plan. I am going to write one song. This one song will have every possible 3 note sequence. If this song then makes it to the top of the charts, every following song will be based on my One Song and thus owe me royalties…..profit.”
  
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• Gabriele Finaldi Named Director of London’s National Gallery

  18-03-2015 17:01 via artnews.com
  The National Gallery in London announced today that Gabriele Finaldi, the 49-year-old Old Masters art historian, will be the museum’s new director. The appointment confirms a month and a half of rumors that Finaldi would be selected as the successor to … Read More
  
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• Neuroscientists Wonder: Can Our Brains Retain A Child’s Capacity To Learn?

  18-03-2015 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The possibility of reawakening our youthful, receptive brains has piqued a lot of interest among educators, therapists, and those in search of expanded experience or thought. I might be able to immerse myself in music lessons and absorb them more effectively. Others might disable the plasticity brakes before a trip abroad, quickly learning a new […]
  
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• This American Culture – A Mean Anti-Elitist Streak

  18-03-2015 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  When did “difficulty” become suspect in American culture, widely derided as anti-democratic and contemptuously dismissed as evidence of so-called elitism? If a work of art isn’t somehow immediately “understood” or “accessible” by and to large numbers of people, it is often ridiculed as “esoteric,” “obtuse,” or even somehow un-American.
  
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• Museums unite in campaign to save massive land art project

  18-03-2015 16:34
  
  Nevada Desert site around Michael Heizer’s City is under threat
  
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• Museum visitors attacked in Tunis

  18-03-2015 16:05
  
  Foreign tourists are among those killed
  
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• Multiple Personalities: Leonard Nimoy on His ‘Secret Selves’ Photographs in 2010

  18-03-2015 16:02 via artnews.com
  Though known for playing Spock on the sci-fi TV show Star Trek, Leonard Nimoy, who died at age 83 on February 27, also had one foot in the art world. He studied with conceptual photographer Robert Heinecken when he was … Read More
  
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• Jerry Saltz, The Art Internet Critic

  18-03-2015 15:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the hallowed halls of art criticism long dominated by self-serious arbiters of taste, Saltz will sometimes say he prefers to play the role of the hapless naïf. Saltz can look the part when he wants: he’s a petite man, with a receding hairline, bookish plastic frames, and a face that resembles a hybrid of […]
  
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• Rebel Energy: The Scene Around Dem Passwords Gallery

  18-03-2015 14:30 via artnews.com
  One of the most surreal assemblages of cultural signifiers I’ve ever encountered was in Los Angeles in the summer of 2011, when the rapper Riff Raff—soon to shoot to stardom after inspiring James Franco’s character in the 2013 Harmony Korine … Read More
  
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• Rebel Energy: The Scene Around Dem Passwords

  18-03-2015 14:30 via artnews.com
  One of the most surreal assemblages of cultural signifiers I’ve ever encountered was in Los Angeles in the summer of 2011, when the rapper Riff Raff—soon to shoot to stardom after inspiring James Franco’s character in the 2013 Harmony Korine … Read More
  
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• Leading lawyers stitch for liberty

  18-03-2015 14:00
  The Buck Stopped Here
  
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• Art in Island: The art gallery designed for taking as many selfies as you want

  18-03-2015 13:48
  
  They’ve been deemed too dangerous to be used in The National Gallery, but that hasn’t stopped one museum from cashing in on the selfie stick craze
  
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• Morning Links: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist Edition

  18-03-2015 13:38 via artnews.com
  Ads for menswear designer Patrik Ervell’s S/S 2015 collection will show previously unseen photographs by the late photographer Peter Hujar instead of clothing. [T Magazine] The 90-piece art collection of the late former chairman of Goldman Sachs, John Whitehead, will be the main feature … Read More
  
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• Head of Public Relations

  18-03-2015 11:34
  New York, Bonham's
  
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• National Gallery in London picks Prado deputy chief as new director

  18-03-2015 10:10
  
  Gabriele Finaldi, who presided over modernisation at the Madrid institution, takes over from Nicholas Penny in August
  Gabriele Finaldi, the deputy director of the Prado museum in Madrid, has been appointed as the new director of the National Gallery.Finaldi takes over from Nicholas Penny, who announced his retirement last summer, in August. Continue reading...
  
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• Spanish and Italian Old Master scholar to take over National Gallery London

  18-03-2015 09:30
  
  UK prime minister approves Gabriele Finaldi to replace Nicholas Penny
  
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• Is There Yet Another Harper Lee Manuscript Stashed Somewhere?

  18-03-2015 09:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Beginning in 1978, Lee visited Alexander City, Alabama to research the case(s) of Reverend Willie Maxwell, suspected in the death of five different family members but never convicted – and ultimately shot by another relative. Lee told Maxwell’s lawyer that she was working on a big In Cold Blood-style book and collected huge files of […]
  
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• €50,000 Karajan Music Prize To Period-Performance Star Thomas Hengelbrock

  18-03-2015 09:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Hengelbrock is founder and director of the Balthasar-Neumann-Chor and the Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, each dedicated to historically informed performance. … The annual award, presented by the Festpielhaus Baden-Baden in Germany, … [rquires] that the cash sum be used by the recipient to help further the careers of young musicians.”
  
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• Why “Dancing With the Stars” Endures

  18-03-2015 08:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “DWTS is easy to dismiss – all those sequins! … [But] the show really does do something unique – not just for reality TV, but for TV in general: It celebrates the merits of good, old-fashioned hard work. The people on the show aren’t just working it; they’re also just plain working.”
  
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• Vivid Sydney: Mad Men, monsters and music – but where are the women?

  18-03-2015 08:54
  
  Daniel Johns, Matthew Weiner and Morrissey headline a male-dominated program for Sydney’s annual winter festival of light, music and lecturesDaniel Johns, Matthew Weiner and a gigantic illuminated pig are among the highlights of a notably male-dominated line-up for Vivid Sydney 2015, as the winter arts festival continues its outward sprawl across the Australian capital.
  The former Silverchair frontman will give the live premiere of his new Aerial Love solo EP, while the Mad Men and Sopranos
  
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• Could G.K. Chesterton Be Canonized By The Church?

  18-03-2015 08:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If the Catholic Church makes G. K. Chesterton a saint – as an influential group of Catholics is proposing it should – the story of his enormous coffin may become rather significant. Symbolic, even parabolic. … In his vastness and mobility, Chesterton continues to elude definition: He was a Catholic convert and an oracular man […]
  
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• Where Are The Great New Musicals With Great Music?

  18-03-2015 08:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rupert Christiansen: “The glut of hugely successful shows – Mamma Mia!, Let It Be, Thriller, Jersey Boys, The Commitments – which effectively trade on nostalgia is rather depressing. Even more significant is the undeniable truth that the scores of the more recent crop of successful ‘original’ musicals – The Lion King, Billy Elliot, The Book […]
  
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• National Gallery of Australia reveals $8m of art masterpieces – in pictures

  18-03-2015 02:13
  
  The National Gallery of Australia has unveiled 19 works from one of the most significant bequests in its history. Former treasury worker Alan Boxer was a dedicated art collector who served as a volunteer gallery guide after his retirement. The $8m bequest includes works by some of Australia’s finest 20th-century artists, including Roy de Maistre, Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan Continue reading...
  
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• Islamic State and political instability at the centre of Venice Biennale’s Iraq pavilion

  18-03-2015 01:19
  
  Five artists respond to the country’s conflicts and Ai Weiwei selects works by refugees
  
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• For Venice, Iraq Taps Five Artists, Plans Ai Weiwei Collaboration

  18-03-2015 01:01 via artnews.com
  Iraq’s National Pavilion exhibition for the upcoming 56th Venice Biennale will be titled “Invisible Beauty,” the Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq, which is organizing the show, announced today. The exhibition takes its name from the unexpected nature of the works to be displayed, as … Read More
  
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