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• Meadows Foundation Gives $45 M. to SMU’s Art Museum, School

  23-03-2015 23:24 via artnews.com
  Dallas’s Southern Methodist University is celebrating its 100th birthday with a formidable gift: a $45 million grant from the Meadows Foundation, which is the largest single gift in the school’s history. Of that figure, $25 million is being given to … Read More
  
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• Defining Beauty review – Greek sculpture alive and kicking

  23-03-2015 19:32
  
  Are these the greatest works of art in the world? From an attacking centaur to a broken river god, Jonathan Jones finds the Elgin Marbles are the highlight of the British Museum’s astonishing new exhibition of Greek sculptureThis is like entering a dream or a Terry Gilliam animation. It does not seem quite real. Some of the greatest classical sculptures in the world have been brought together in the opening section of the British Museum’s epic and captivating survey of Greek sculpture.
  
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• Chile Details Plans for Venice Biennale Pavilion

  23-03-2015 19:30 via artnews.com
  Chile has announced plans for its Venice Biennale Pavilion, which will be titled “Poéticas de la Disidencia” (or “Poetics of Dissent”). The concept was selected out of a public competition sponsored by the National Council for Culture and the Arts of Chile (CNCA). The … Read More
  
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• The Postal Service Is Printing Martín Ramírez Stamps

  23-03-2015 17:53 via artnews.com
  This has to be the finest news I’ve heard in weeks: the United States Postal Service has announced that it is issuing five postage stamps with details of works by the great Martín Ramírez (1895–1963), the Mexican American artist whose … Read More
  
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• Senior Fundraising Opportunity at The New York Pops

  23-03-2015 17:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  The New York Pops, the largest independent pops orchestra in the United States, seeks an ambitious, passionate and knowledgeable fundraising leader as its New York-based Director of Development.
  
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• New Program In Arts Administration – Le Moyne College

  23-03-2015 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Beginning in fall 2015, Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y. will begin offering two new graduate programs in arts administration, leading to either a 36-credit master of science or a 15-credit graduate certificate.
  
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• Net Neutrality’s Final Frontier Takes Shape (Not So) Far Above The Earth

  23-03-2015 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A heavenly Internet is taking shape above our heads. In the same week this January, the spaceflight companies SpaceX and Virgin Galactic both announced plans for “megaconstellations” of low-Earth orbit, or LEO, satellites delivering broadband to every inch of the inhabited world.”
  
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• An Era Passes As Three Of The American Ballet’s Principal Ballerinas Retire

  23-03-2015 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  As Paloma Herrera, Julie Kent and Xiomara Reyes retire, “the greater burden is on ABT, losing one-third of its roster of top-rank ballerinas. Casting for its spring-summer run in New York suggests soloists Misty Copeland and Sarah Lane may be in line for promotion. But there is no replacing the veteran ballerinas.”
  
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• Sydney Theatre Refuses To Let A Jewish Youth Group Perform

  23-03-2015 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Their inquiry was dismissed with an unsigned email that read: ‘Our policy does not support ­colonialism/Zionism. Therefore we do not host groups that support the colonisation and occu­pation of Palestine.'”
  
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• British Copyright Law Changes Are A Disaster For The Arts And Artists

  23-03-2015 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The new regulation makes copyright breach in Britain a criminal, rather than a civil, offense. That is not just out of proportion but totally and utterly insane. Are we now going to start sending art publishers, authors, artists and museum curators to jail?”
  
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• Is It Time For Hollywood And China To Get Even Closer?

  23-03-2015 15:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We are at an interesting point on the road. Maybe a turning point. To date there has been more talk than action. Looking forward we will see more action with every passing year. We’ve moved from the looking stage to the consummation.”
  
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• Creative Men, Growing Old(er)

  23-03-2015 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For classical-music lovers, the movie is a treat, albeit a mixed one. It’s a source of exalted moments and a springboard for big ideas — but some of those moments and ideas evoke fractures in Bernstein’s world view and Hawke’s filmmaking.”
  
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• How Nature Writing Became Such A Powerful Literary Force

  23-03-2015 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Bondage is so last year. Publishers who spent much of the past year in search of the next Fifty Shades of Grey are now seeking to exploit another literary phenomenon: the British public’s seemingly unfettered desire for nature writing.”
  
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• The Actor Who Wished He’d Never Heard Of Ed Wood

  23-03-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Gregory Walcott, an admired actor who appeared in such memorable films as Mister Roberts, The Eiger Sanction, Norma Rae and, unfortunately for him, Ed Wood’s lamentable Plan 9 From Outer Space, has died. He was 87.”
  
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• Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist Says People Now Read Novels Purely For Fun

  23-03-2015 15:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mario Vargas Llosa: “You have such a mass of information about everything that qualification disappears completely, and everything is equally measured…. Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.”
  
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• Pierre Boulez at 90, Barbican, review: A brilliant total immersion day

  23-03-2015 15:20
  
  ‘Who is Pierre Boulez’ was the title of a brilliantly illuminating film made by Roger Graef in 1968. Screened to kick off the Barbican’s ‘total immersion’ day, with concerts by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Pablo Rus Broseta and Thierry Fischer, that question got a clear answer.
  
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• Christina Mackie's The Filters – a painting in space that fails to stain the imagination

  23-03-2015 15:16
  
  Tate Britain, London
  For the latest in its Commission series, the Tate hosts Christina Mackie’s giant dip-dyed fabrics and curious sculptural objects – but while it’s all initially striking, it ultimately can’t connect with the scale of the spaceNine 12-metre-long tubes of coloured silk and linen fabric hang from just below the skylights in the front half of Tate Britain’s Duveen gallery, almost reaching the floor. Beneath each of them stands a shallow, circular pool of dye. Earlier, e
  
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• Lee Kuan Yew dead: Young artist's emotive portrait tribute to Singapore creator made by writing his name 18,000 times

  23-03-2015 15:16
  
  Lee Kuan Yew changed the fortunes of Singapore.
  
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• South By Southwest Allows Young Musicians Into The Spotlight

  23-03-2015 15:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The promise for musicians is that a stray festival encounter or its ripples across the Internet can bring new opportunities, and many of them spend the festival in a whirlwind of performances, interviews, handshaking and making contacts.”
  
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• South By Southwest Is A Huge Scam That Exploits Musicians (And Many Others)

  23-03-2015 15:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “How is this different, you might ask, from unpaid internships at accounting firms or on Wall Street? How is it different from writers or artists working for “exposure”? I’ll tell you how it’s different: It’s not. It’s the same horrible, terrible, no good, very bad thing. And it’s wrong.”
  
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• The Seoul Philharmonic’s Tour Cancellation Might Have Come From Its Deep, Troubling Infighting

  23-03-2015 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When the respected Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra announced this month that it was canceling its United States tour set for April, it cited fiscal woes. Left unsaid were the lurid allegations of sexual harassment and financial improprieties that have rocked the orchestra recently, culminating in a police raid of its offices.”
  
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• How Did An 1830s Woodblock Print From Japan Go Viral?

  23-03-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Hokusai’s print was becoming more familiar just as the word tsunami was working its way into the English language … and the word and image soon became linked.”
  
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• The Johnny Carson Comeback Special That Never Made It To Your Screen

  23-03-2015 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Carson had taken up business in a laid back office in Santa Monica where he would take lunches with former friends and employees. At one of these lunches with Barrie and Mulholland, Carson mentioned that he had been considering what a return to TV special might be like.”
  
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• The Art and Science of Art Conservation | @GrrlScientist

  23-03-2015 14:36
  
  Behind-the-scenes looks at the science that goes into art conservation so we all can (potentially) experience the original work for ourselves rather than looking at a digitised scan, a poster-sized print or an encyclopaedia thumbnailWhen people think of great works of art, they probably think of Monet, van Gogh, Picasso, or Rembrandt. But rarely does anyone think of scientists; specifically, most people are unaware of the exquisite marriage of science and art that underpins art conservation so w
  
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• Did Buena Vista Social Club Sell A Tourist-Approved View Of Pre-Revolution Cuba?

  23-03-2015 14:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There is a huge disconnect between what Cubans are listening to and what tourists want. There is more modern and international-sounding dance music. There is timba or salsa cubana, a mixture of son, US funk, jazz and reggaeton, and local folklore drum styles. It’s very modern-sounding, very dense rhythmically.”
  
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• Morning Links: Jackson Pollock’s Cookbook Edition

  23-03-2015 14:27 via artnews.com
  Yarat, an Azeri non-profit organization, will show works by local and international contemporary artists on March 24 in its new location inside a Soviet-era naval building in Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital. “Making Histories” will show works by more than 20 artists, … Read More
  
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• These paintings were created by a blind man

  23-03-2015 13:35
  
  John Bramblitt of Denton, Texas, lost his vision 13 years ago due to complications with epilepsy and plunged into a deep depression, feeling disconnected from the world around him.
  
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• Baku art centre launched in former Soviet naval base

  23-03-2015 08:50
  
  New works by the Iranian-born artist Shirin Neshat to go on show
  
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• Tales of the unexpected: site-specific works that dream a new reality

  23-03-2015 08:00
  
  In the new book Unexpected Art, site-specific works are plunged into the most jarring and unlikely of places – from a crescent moon that’s fallen into Auckland to candy-pink clouds cropping up in Denver’s airport Continue reading...
  
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• The week in arts: Dirtsong, From the Rubble, As You Like it

  23-03-2015 07:10
  
  Bell Shakespeare marks 25 years in Canberra, photographer Anne Zahalka talks art in Brisbane and learn about Scando-influenced architecture in SydneyBell Shakespeare has been reinvigorating Shakespeare for Australian audiences for a quarter of a century. In one of his final appearances, founder John Bell will be joined by co-artistic director Peter Evans to discuss the challenges and successes they’ve faced and what the theatre world holds for emerging performers and directors. Zahra Newman al
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 03.22.15

  23-03-2015 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Problem with the L Word AJBlog: We The AudiencePublished 2015-03-22 Quantum Theory, Soul Removal, and Atheists AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2015-03-21 News: A Jan Lundgren Compilation AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-03-21 The Horatio Alger Myth: Amanda Palmer AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2015-03-20 Ask a Simple Question… or Three AJBlog: Field NotesPublished 2015-03-20 Stop Talking About Art as an Abstract Concept AJBlog: Field NotesPublished 2015-03-20 Arguing for […]
  
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• Heath Robinson picture collection is saved for the nation

  23-03-2015 00:30
  
  Hundreds of pictures by William Heath Robinson, the illustrator who became a byword for wackily eccentric yet ingenious devices, have been saved for the nation.
  
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