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• Who Is Drake’s Friend at Sotheby’s?

  19-03-2015 22:36 via artnews.com
  “I’ve got enemies, got a lot of enemies,” Drake rapped on his recent mixtape, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late. These enemies apparently do not work for Sotheby’s, which has tapped Drake to pick music to play at listening … Read More
  
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• Unseen Anthony Caro works on show in major Yorkshire retrospective

  19-03-2015 22:00
  
  Four sites in Yorkshire will host the sculptor’s works, including the pieces he was making before his death in 2013, in event given added poignancy by the recent loss of his wife, the painter Sheila GirlingThe most extensive UK retrospective of sculpture and other work by the late Sir Anthony Caro, which his wife the artist Sheila Girling had been working on until her own death last month, will be held across the four sites of the Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle this summer. The exhibition will i
  
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• ‘It’s the Ghost of Joseph Beuys!’ A Walkthrough at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

  19-03-2015 21:39 via artnews.com
  Opening today, Mitchell-Innes & Nash presents an exhibition of Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys’s multiples from the collection of Reinhard Schlegel—the largest collection of Beuys multiples ever shown in New York, featuring over 500 works dated between the early 60s to … Read More
  
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• Gavin Brown Will Open a Space in Rome

  19-03-2015 21:00 via artnews.com
  Next month, New York-based gallerist Gavin Brown will open a Rome gallery in an unexpected location: an 8th-century church named Sant’Andrea de Scaphis at Via dei Vascellari 69 in the Trastevere neighborhood. “I wouldn’t be opening in Rome unless I found … Read More
  
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• Using A “Musical Glove” To Help Stroke Victims Rewire Their Brains

  19-03-2015 20:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The glove is outfitted with tiny sensors that track the user’s hand movements. Patients use it to play a Guitar Hero-style game that involves pinching and gripping notes on the screen of a tablet.”
  
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• The Time Police Investigated Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  19-03-2015 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Newly discovered documents show that the Staffordshire police fabricated evidence to try to discredit Arthur Conan Doyle’s investigation into the curious case of George Edalji, a Birmingham solicitor accused of maiming horses and sending poison-pen letters at the turn of the 20th century.”
  
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• Saving Italy's cultural heritage by modern means

  19-03-2015 18:31
  
  In lieu of state cash, culture minister Dario Franceschini is turning to crowdfunding and tax breaks to save Italy’s treasures – and defeat heritage thievesThe walk to Dario Franceschini’s office is in itself testament to Italy’s vast heritage. Past countless paintings which line the corridors of the culture ministry, he sits dwarfed by high walls adorned with books. In any other capital such a scene might seem as if it were put on for guests, but in Rome it feels more as if Italy has si
  
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• El Museo Del Barrio Names Michael J. Garcia Chairman

  19-03-2015 18:14 via artnews.com
  Today, New York’s El Museo del Barrio announced that its board has selected Michael J. Garcia to be its new chairman. Garcia is a partner with the international law firm Kirkland & Ellis and has served as first vice chair of El Museo’s … Read More
  
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• Hong Kong’s Forthcoming M+ Museum Adds Dodiya Painting to Its Collection

  19-03-2015 18:07 via artnews.com
  M+, set to be Hong Kong’s first major museum for international contemporary art when it finally opens in the West Kowloon Cultural District in 2018, has acquired the painting S.S. Rajputana leaving the port of Bombay – 29th August 1931 … Read More
  
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• William Bowyer obituary

  19-03-2015 18:06
  
  Landscape and portrait painter admired for the post-impressionist brilliance of his picturesWilliam Bowyer, who has died aged 88, represented a tradition in British painting that extended back to the late 19th century. As honorary secretary of the New English Art Club for three decades, he was a fitting successor to luminaries such as Philip Wilson Steer, John Singer Sargent and Stanhope Forbes. His art was essentially conservative, but his bright hues and lucid compositions gave his landscapes
  
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• Turner nominee goes from orgasm art to designing a kids' playspace

  19-03-2015 17:16
  
  Tired of artists being seen as ‘tricksters’, absurdist performer Marvin Gaye Chetwynd has built a fantastical soft play area – called The Idol – in an east-London leisure centreA three storey-high creature peers out from the corner of a new leisure centre in east London, casting a beady gaze towards Barking town square. Incarcerated behind the glass facade, this strange monster looks half robot, half skeleton, a fantastical pipe-cleaner model of tubes and wires scaled up to the size of a
  
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• Our future is in the making

  19-03-2015 17:00
  
  Will the increased public interest in making things mean we’ll be seeing more craftwork in our galleries? Susan Jones has already seen plentyI’ll confess from the outset to being a great fan of making something from scratch. From my early years as a textile student when I had to learn how to thread the loom before I could get weaving and how to make a pattern repeat nicely if I wanted to print off a length of fabric, I began to appreciate how ideas became form when skill is combined with equ
  
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• João Penalva, artist: 'Dancing is like being in an orchestra. Painting is wonderful loneliness'

  19-03-2015 17:00
  
  João Penalva's studio is in one of the few remaining large group studios in south London not yet transformed into expensive lofts. He tells me sadly that the building is under threat as it has been recently sold.
  
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• Joao Penalva, artist: 'Dancing is like being in an orchestra. Painting is wonderful loneliness'

  19-03-2015 17:00
  
  Joao Penalva's studio is in one of the few remaining large group studios in south London not yet transformed into expensive lofts. He tells me sadly that the building is under threat as it has been recently sold.
  
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• Royal gardening exhibition unearths Henry VIII's thumbed manual and

  19-03-2015 16:29
  
  Buckingham Palace exhibition explores centuries of royal horticultural effort, unearthing William’s pineapple power games and Louis’ methane mortalitiesThe 14th century gardening manual which warned Henry VIII that his cucumbers would tremble with fear in a thunderstorm, and a spectacular painting showing the beautiful garden he created at his Whitehall Palace, are going on display in an exhibition tracking the gardening passions of generations of royal families.
  The painting, done in 154
  
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• Morning Links: Tunisian Terrorist Attack Edition

  19-03-2015 14:35 via artnews.com
  Yesterday, terrorists killed visitors at the National Bardo Museum in Tunis, taking others hostage after attacking the Parliament building nearby. Seven foreign tourists were killed, and French, Italian, British, and Spanish citizens were among the hostages. Two of the terrorists … Read More
  
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• French President vows to block terrorist attacks on cultural heritage

  19-03-2015 12:48
  
  François Hollande spoke at the Louvre, which is helping Iraq museums assess damage by Islamic State and organising Mesopotamia show in Lens
  
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• Berlin museum finally lays bare its war-damaged collection

  19-03-2015 12:07
  
  An exhibition at the Bode Museum surveys the ethical implications of restoring damaged art
  
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• How Musicians Conquer ‘Unplayable’ Works

  19-03-2015 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Classical composers have for centuries been dreaming up pieces so physically challenging they have initially been considered beyond the realm of human capability – until someone comes along and exerts such superhuman effort that they raise the bar for everyone else.”
  
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• Can One Web Site Be A Hub For Everything Literary On The Internet?

  19-03-2015 08:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Billed as a ‘go-to daily source for all the news, ideas, and richness of contemporary literary life,’ Literary Hub promises curated and original content such as interviews, profiles and essays.” Its founder, Grove Atlantic president Morgan Entrekin, wants LitHub.com to be “salvation rather than competition for the numerous literary Web sites already grasping for eyeballs.”
  
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• NY City Ballet To Offer Seven World Premieres Next Season

  19-03-2015 08:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two of them will be by the company’s current it-boy, Justin Peck; one will be by another NYCB member, Troy Schumacher, with another by San Francisco Ballet corps dancer Myles Thatcher, a protégé of choreographer Alexei Ratmansky.
  
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• Samuel Chambers, 85, The First Blues Musicologist

  19-03-2015 08:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When [his] first book, The Country Blues, was published at the tail end of the 1950s, the rural Southern blues of the pre-World War II period was a largely ignored genre. His book immediately caused a sensation among college students and aspiring folk performers … [and] created a tradition of blues scholarship.”
  
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• “Faith-Based” Movies Go Indie – And Some Of Them Are Really Good

  19-03-2015 08:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alissa Wilkinson: “As the chief film critic at one of the oldest and most widely read evangelical publications in the world, Christianity Today, I’ve come to realize there is both widespread category confusion in the industry about what constitutes a faith-based audience and ignorance about a burgeoning religious movement in independent cinema.”
  
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• The Dangers Of Spiritual Amateurism In America

  19-03-2015 08:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Much of the forbidden, obscure, and esoteric knowledge that once made Buddhism and other religions difficult to study has now become accessible – with potentially dangerous results. … This is the spiritual equivalent of giving every teen driver a Formula 1 racing car: It’ll go fast, but many young innocents will end up splattered on […]
  
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• Plays That Should Be Seen And Not Read

  19-03-2015 08:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The bare dialogue and stage directions give no sense of the unsettling and innovative spectacle that the work becomes in the theatre. Someone … who read the text without seeing it would be in the position of an archaeologist asked to guess the personality of a skeleton.”
  
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• Three Women’s Lives Become One Of Iran’s Most Celebrated Stage Dramas

  19-03-2015 08:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  “None has a name, but their [well-known] identities emerge from the tales they tell. Each narrates a monologue, never acknowledging the others. But they have common memories – of childhood, of war – and when their stories cross, one stops and another picks up the thread. They cook as they speak, each in her own […]
  
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• My Work Is Not “Confessional,” Argue Memoirists

  19-03-2015 08:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Now that amateur autobiography and its detractors are everywhere, autobiographical writers are increasingly invested in defining and defending the value of their work. How can it escape the gravitational pull of solipsism? For a growing number of essayists, memoirists, and other wielders of the unwieldy ‘I,’ confessional has become an unwelcome label—an implicit accusation of […]
  
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• Displaced Yemenis use empty museums and theatres as shelters

  19-03-2015 08:37
  
  Continued fighting against Al Qaeda in the southern regions has left thousands without homes
  
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• Britain Increases Tax Breaks For High-End TV Drama

  19-03-2015 08:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As part of the Budget, [Chancellor of the Exchequer George] Osborne revealed that productions where expenditure for pre-production, principal photography and post-production accounted for upwards of 10% of the production budget would be eligible for relief. The previous threshold was 25%.”
  
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• Sylvie Guillem To Receive Special Olivier Award

  19-03-2015 08:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The classical and contemporary dancer will be presented with a special award at the London ceremony on 12 April. In her 33 year career, Guillem has danced all the leading roles of the classical repertoire with companies including The Royal Ballet and Kirov.”
  
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• When “Bitch” Is Not An Insult

  19-03-2015 08:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Bitch is, of course, one of the oldest ways to insult a woman in English: an 18th-century slang dictionary called it ‘the most offensive appellation that can be given to an English woman, even more provoking than that of whore.’ And yet, the word has evolved in unexpected ways, ending up with some strangely positive […]
  
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• Amsterdam Museum Bans Artist For Threatening to Piss on the Art

  19-03-2015 08:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[A] judge slapped an unbending ban from the Stedelijk Museum on [Rob van Koningsbruggen] for saying that he would ‘piss all over’ a painting by Marlene Dumas ‘to improve it with a well-aimed stream.’ He had also threatened to urinate on a piece by Luc Tuymans.”
  
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• A Museum Designed For Taking Selfies (And Touching And Climbing On The Art)

  19-03-2015 08:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Manila venue called Art in island “helps jaded museum-goers regain a healthy perspective on art by allowing them to touch, sit on, and climb 3D approximations of paintings like Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night. With portions of each work slightly altered or left out entirely, the art isn’t […]
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.19.15

  19-03-2015 04:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  What’s the Matter with “Why the Arts Matter?” AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-03-18 Yep, We Do That – Sequel (Part II) AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-03-18 It’s Official: A New Director For National Gallery AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-03-18
  
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• Book ahead, Australia: tickets for Vivid, La Sylphide and Batmania in Melbourne

  19-03-2015 04:35
  
  In our weekly tout of the hottest shows just announced, book to see Queensland Ballet before their London debut, a bumper Vivid music line-up and some bat art Vivid SydneySydney’s favourite winter festival delivers again with a bumper program of light, music and ideas. Sufjan Stevens, Daniel Johns and Flume top the Vivid Live bill at the Opera House, while Vivid Ideas will be headlined by Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner and Wallpaper founder Tyler Brûlé. Vivid Light returns with i
  
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