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• Meiyin Wang Named Curator of Park Avenue Armory’s Artist-in-Residence Program

  20-03-2015 21:48 via artnews.com
  New York’s Park Avenue Armory announced today that Meiyin Wang has been named the first curator of its artist-in-residence program. Wang, who will continue as the co-director of the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, is known for working with emerging … Read More
  
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• Artist, Academic, Shaman: Joseph Beuys on His Mystical Objects, in 1970

  20-03-2015 20:17 via artnews.com
  A wooden sled with a roll of felt and a flashlight strapped to it, a mound of fat, and a lightbulb plugged into lemon are just three of the 500-plus Joseph Beuys works currently on view at Mitchell-Innes & Nash … Read More
  
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• Picasso’s Electrician Receives 2-Year Sentence for Possession of 271 Stolen Artworks

  20-03-2015 20:07 via artnews.com
  The verdict has been reached—75-year-old Pierre Le Guennec, Picasso’s former electrician back in the 1970s, has been dealt a two year (suspended) prison sentence for possession of 271 stolen, never-before-seen Picasso works which he claimed were a gift from the … Read More
  
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• Here Is the Lineup for Frieze New York’s Sounds Program

  20-03-2015 17:27 via artnews.com
  Frieze Sounds, a program of auditory art works that play in the New York art fair’s fleet of VIP BMW cars, has announced its 2015 lineup. This year’s program will feature commissioned work by three artists–Alicja Kwade, Segei Tcherepnin, and … Read More
  
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• Mannequins, masters of colour, and the exhibition of the year – the week in art

  20-03-2015 17:05
  
  Ydessa Hendeles’s collection of 150 mannequins turns up at the ICA, Christina Mackie drenches Tate Britain in dye, it’s all Greek to the British Museum, and Grayson Perry smashes records – all in your weekly dispatchDefining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art
  This is the exhibition of the year – a stonkingly sensual survey of the ancient Greek world that includes many of the greatest sculptures ever created.
  • British Museum, London, from 26 March until 5 July. Continue reading.
  
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• New Database Seeks To Record Street Art Worldwide

  20-03-2015 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A new worldwide database of public art aims to preserve — if only in digital form — street art, a medium that is often political, sometimes renegade and, perhaps most important, frequently fleeting. These are artworks that may get tagged by graffiti or fall into decay because of weather exposure.”
  
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• Why Are European Theatres Broadcasting But American Theatres Aren’t?

  20-03-2015 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Yeah, this is embarrassing. And the Broadway ego takes a shellacking every time a list like this gets published. How are we supposed to uphold our reputation as being the biggest and best producer of live theater if other countries are beating us to the market? The UK and Canada are exporting and distributing better […]
  
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• Nashville Symphony Creates A “Composer Lab,” Names Aaron Jay Kernis To Head It

  20-03-2015 16:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The program aims to discover the next generation of outstanding American composers by providing them with the opportunity to develop their talents, gain hands-on experience working with a major American orchestra, and showcase their work for local audiences. Coupled with the announcement is a nationwide call for submissions for its inaugural session.”
  
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• New York Police Surround NY Museums After Attack On Tunis Museum

  20-03-2015 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “They have to think now, ‘Is ISIS going after cultural heritage? Are they going after museums? And could our museum be next?'” said Peter Herdrich of the Antiquities Coalition in ABC News’ report.
  
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• Sphinx Foundation Founder names To Head University Of Michigan Music School

  20-03-2015 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I wasn’t looking to leave Sphinx,” said Aaron Dworkin, the organization’s founding president. “But this job gives me the opportunity to make a difference and have an impact on a broader scale. Schools are at a critical time in thinking about what it means to have a life in the performing arts.”
  
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• Amerian Museums Band Together To Protect Giant Land Art

  20-03-2015 15:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Michael Heizer has spent the past 43 years constructing this massive land art project, which will be one of the biggest sculptures in the world once complete. City, which is located in the Nevada Desert, measures more than a mile-and-a-half in length and a quarter-mile in width, and comprises a complex of enormous geometric mounds […]
  
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• The Oldest Ballerina Dies At 101

  20-03-2015 15:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Galina Petrova was born in the city of Kerch in Crimea in 1913. She was educated as a ballet dancer at the Moscow Choreography School. During her student years the young, promising ballet dancer already danced ballet parts at Bolshoi. Upon graduation from the ballet school Petrova joined the Bolshoi ballet.”
  
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• Here Is The Movie Trailer That Got A Record 34 Million Views In Its First 24 Hours

  20-03-2015 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s a record for a Sony movie, 50% above the previous mark of 22 million streams for “The Amazing Spider-Man 2.”
  
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• Yemenis Take Refuge In Country’s Emptied Museums

  20-03-2015 14:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Among the cultural institutions being used as a shelter is Zinjibar Museum, the province’s main museum. Looted twice in 2012, and virtually empty of artefacts since then, today it houses around 60 people, who share the museum’s 15 rooms and its second-floor toilet.”
  
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• Fraggle Rock movie: Joseph Gordon-Levitt to star in and produce Jim Henson film

  20-03-2015 14:36
  
  Joseph Gordon-Levitt has signed onto the live-action Fraggle Rock movie, raising fans’ hopes that progress is finally being given a boost.
  
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• Morning Links: Tali Lennox Edition

  20-03-2015 14:26 via artnews.com
  Thousands of Yemeni people uprooted because of continued fighting against Al-Qaeda are using museums, as well as theaters and schools, as temporary homes. [The Art Newspaper] Ugo Rondinone’s “clouds” at Krobath Gallery in Vienna. [Contemporary Art Daily] Roberta Smith’s review … Read More
  
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• Picasso’s former electrician sentenced to two-years in prison for holding stolen art

  20-03-2015 14:06
  French court finds Pierre Le Guennec guilty of possessing a 271-strong stash of works by the artist
  
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• Picasso's handyman ordered to return £50 million 'lost' artworks

  20-03-2015 13:44
  
  The descendants of Pablo Picasso became £50m richer today, but the mystery of the 271 “lost” works by the Cubist master stored in a garage remained intact.
  
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• Pablo Picasso's descendants win case of lost art work, but mystery of missing pieces remains

  20-03-2015 13:44
  
  The descendants of Pablo Picasso became £50m richer today, but the mystery of the 271 “lost” works by the Cubist master stored in a garage remained intact.
  
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• Naked ambition: when the Greeks first stripped off

  20-03-2015 12:29
  
  We are so used to nude statues their strangeness escapes us. Was this exposure of the body to do with sex, athletics, war or virtue? James Davidson visits Defining Beauty, the stunning new exhibition of the body in Greek artThe oddity of ancient sculpture often escapes us. A male nude, a Greek statue, has become very familiar over the past 2,500 years: it is what we expect of ancient statuary, that it show off its muscles. At times it can seem overly familiar, a bit tacky or tawdry or maybe just
  
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• Richard Diebenkorn review – colour and line under a Californian sun

  20-03-2015 12:25
  
  Sackler Wing, Royal Academy, London
  Richard Diebenkorn’s figures may have lacked psychological depth, but his Ocean Park paintings are still endlessly involving, where fields of colour pull you to the horizonRichard Diebenkorn could be subtle and nuanced, delicate and clumsy. All this gives a human scale to his retrospective in the Sackler Wing of the Royal Academy. Catherine Lampert mounted a great Diebenkorn show at the Whitechapel in 1991, two years before the American artist’s death. It
  
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• Laughing At ISIS: Syrian Refugees Move From Fear Of Extremists To Video Mockery

  20-03-2015 09:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘The entire world seems to be terrified of ISIS, so we want to laugh at them, expose their hypocrisy and show that their interpretation of Islam does not represent the overwhelming majority of Muslims,’ says Maen Watfe, 27. ‘The media, especially the western media, obsessively reproduce ISIS propaganda portraying them as strong and intimidating. We […]
  
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• A (Female) Bach Scholar Takes Down The Anna-Magdalena-Wrote-The-Cello-Suites Theory For Good

  20-03-2015 09:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ruth Tatlow: “My decision to undertake this analysis of Written by Mrs Bach was not taken lightly. I had to weigh up the pain of writing critically about the well-meant research effort of an acquaintance, against the temporary relief but longer-term discomfort of remaining silent. I offer this analysis in the hope that it might […]
  
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• Australia's national photographic portrait prize 2015 – in pictures

  20-03-2015 08:59
  
  Melbourne photographer Hoda Afshar has been awarded the $25,000 national photographic portrait prize for her shot of a young Iranian boy. The judges were unanimous in their choice, describing the shot as a compelling and mysterious portrait. The prize attracted 2400 entries in 2015, its highest ever number, with the work of 44 finalists showcased at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra until 8 June, before going on tour across Queensland Continue reading...
  
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• What Does Art Smell Like?

  20-03-2015 08:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Imagine you’re in an art gallery, studying a portrait with a red background. Does your interpretation of it change if you taste ketchup while you look? Or smell blood? Or both? Tate Sensorium, an upcoming exhibition at the London museum Tate Britain, is attempting to answer these questions by using interactive technology to experiment with […]
  
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• The Top 10 Reasons To Support The Arts In 2015

  20-03-2015 08:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Randy Cohen on his annual list: “Changes this year include updating #3 with the BEA’s new Arts in the GDP research, #8 to include a statement about the benefits of the arts in the military, and #10 includes the new Creative Industries data (now current as of January 2015).”
  
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• Arts Education And Cognition: A Caution And A Path Forward

  20-03-2015 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Trying to find causation between arts education and better academic performance within other disciplines is a bootless errand. I do not believe that it is an effective strategy for arts educators to justify our existence through the improvements the arts may or may not contribute to learning in other disciplines. So what do we do?” […]
  
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• A Rothschild Is Selling Two Rembrandts For €150M, Causing Controversy In France

  20-03-2015 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  The portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit were acquired in 1877 by Baron Gustave de Rothschild. Eric de Rothschild is putting them on the market, and the French government has granted an export license – making some art lovers in the country furious at both of them.
  
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• Arts In England Face ‘Serious And Irreversible Damage,’ Says Arts Index

  20-03-2015 08:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Arts Index, which has been updated to include figures from 2012/13 and 2013/14, is described as a ‘health check’ on the arts in England and is measured by 20 indicators including financial inputs and outputs, and community and participation levels.”
  
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• ‘The Human Earthquake Of Modern Theatre’ – Peter Brook At 90

  20-03-2015 08:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michael Billington: “Brook himself hates looking back over his career … [but] the rest of us are entitled to put his 70-year-long career in perspective and the stock idea is that it falls into two distinct parts” – the British period and the internationalist period. “It’s a neat division but, to me, Brook’s career is […]
  
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• French Comedian Convicted Twice In Two Days, For Condoning Terrorism And Inciting Racial Hatred

  20-03-2015 08:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A French court on Thursday fined Dieudonné 22,500 euros ($24,000) for anti-Semitic comments … It caps a bad week for the comic, who was on Wednesday handed a two-month suspended sentence for condoning terrorism after a comment suggesting he sympathised with one of the jihadists who attacked Paris.”
  
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• Are ‘Big’ Truths Better Than ‘Small’ Truths?

  20-03-2015 08:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Humans, with our finite lives, are naturally drawn to grand questions about time, space and the cosmos. But, astrophysicist Adam Frank asks, where does that leave life’s little truths?”
  
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• When ‘The Glass Menagerie’ Conquered Broadway

  20-03-2015 08:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  In an excerpt from his prize-winning biography, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, John Lahr recalls the atmosphere in New York and the rest of America at the time of the play’s Broadway success – the close of World Wat II.
  
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• ‘No Bums Sticking Out': Rehearsing A Ballet With Hofesh Shechter

  20-03-2015 08:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Royal Ballet member Beatriz Stix-Brunell: “Performing the choreographer’s new commission for the Royal Ballet is like swimming through honey. Week by week, from our fingertips to our toes, our bodies begin to understand what they need to do.”
  
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• Karole Armitage Makes Eco-Dances

  20-03-2015 08:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In 2013, she created Fables on Global Warming, a performance-art ballet inspired by animal stories and, last year, presented an ecology-minded piece for families, Four Seasons – A Spinning Planet. Now with the premiere of On the Nature of Things, performed by Armitage Gone! Dance, March 25-27 at the American Museum of Natural History, Ms. […]
  
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• ‘Washeteria’ – Off-Off-Broadway Royalty Take Children’s Theater Through The Spin Cycle

  20-03-2015 08:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  This “theatrical installation” at a laundromat in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, “is the first for families ever produced by Soho Rep, the venerable downtown institution that has won 18 Obie Awards over the past decade.”
  
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• What’s The Deal With Mardi Gras Indians?

  20-03-2015 08:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The inevitable first question, though, can always be answered with: ‘No, they’re not Native American.’ This is a purely African-American tradition. … Some suggest it was a way of honoring Native Americans who sheltered runaway slaves, and also a means of paying respect to a culture that fiercely resisted European domination. Others say it arose […]
  
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• Japan’s Ministry Of Cool

  20-03-2015 08:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For over a decade, the country has embraced ‘Cool Japan,’ a government-supported movement focused on selling what many have described as its ‘gross national cool.’ … There is some irony at work here – an eagerness to promote something as trendy usually signals the opposite – but for years the country’s efforts have paid off. […]
  
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• Rip tide: new American photography pioneers – in pictures

  20-03-2015 08:01
  
  Kaleidoscopic cubes, metallic nudes and pop-culture collage … In Foam’s exhibition Under Construction – on show in Brooklyn until 26 April – these photographers mesh art history with internet snaps and experiment with 3D. Meet the artists breaking all the rules to reinvent photography Continue reading...
  
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• How The Solar Eclipse And Vernal Equinox Have Cast Shadows Across Literature

  20-03-2015 07:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A solar eclipse will be visible across the UK on Friday, coinciding with the vernal equinox. To celebrate, we look back at how authors have been inspired by this ‘obliteration’ of the sun as well as the onset of spring.”
  
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