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• Billboard USA: when rock took over advertising's roadside monoliths

  25-03-2015 23:17
  
  Rock’n’roll’s relationship with LA’s famous billboards hasn’t always been the most harmonious, a new exhibition revels in the era advertising turned the strip into a ‘drive-thru art gallery’It all started with the Doors in 1967. That was the year that Jac Holtzman, head of Elektra Records (specializing in folk at the time), moved to Los Angeles when the label signed their first rock band, some newbies from Venice calling themselves the Doors. As Holtzman commuted up and down Sunset
  
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• Hitler painting withdrawn from auction

  25-03-2015 22:43
  
  Los Angeles auction house declines to comment on decision but will still hawk signed two-volume set of Mein Kampf and change-of-address documentA Los Angeles auction house has withdrawn a still-life watercolor painted by a young Adolf Hitler, which was due to be auctioned on Thursday.Nate D Sanders, the Los Angeles auction house, confirmed it withdrew the painting but refused to comment on the decision. The auction was to be held online, and bidding for the canvas was set to start at $30,000 (&p
  
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• Here’s How Much Cultural Tourists Impact London’s Economy

  25-03-2015 19:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The report comes after the latest figures from the Society of London Theatre reported an 11th consecutive year of growth among West End theatre box office takings, measuring gross sales of more than £623 million in 2014. Similarly, attendances for the 53 theatres in full SOLT membership grew to 14.7 million in 2014, a 1% […]
  
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• What Should Italy Do With Recovered Stolen Antiquities? Sell Them?

  25-03-2015 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The recent photographs of the stalwart carabinieri in front of the 5,000 stolen antiquities do, however, invite a fundamental question. Where should they go now?”
  
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• Where Is The Dialogue Between Music Of North And South Americas?

  25-03-2015 19:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “we can no longer talk about Latin America as a single unit, given the lack of information that exists between its different countries. For example, in Chile, we are not informed about what is happening in Ecuador or in Colombia with respect to their musical life. Only occasionally do we pay attention to our neighbors […]
  
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• Serpentine Gallery’s 2015 Pavilion Will Be a Psychedelic Cocoon Designed by Selgas Cano

  25-03-2015 19:47 via artnews.com
  The Serpentine Gallery announced their commission for its 15th annual Serpentine pavilion today. This summer, Spanish architect duo Selgas Cano—composed of young couple Jose Selgas and Lucia Cano—will create a psychedelic cocoon in the middle of Kensington Gardens. Their neon-colored plastic structures are … Read More
  
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• ‘The Bronze David of Donatello': Randall Jarrell’s 1957 Poem for ARTnews

  25-03-2015 19:32 via artnews.com
  In 1956, the American poet Randall Jarrell was selected as a consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (a position now called poet laureate). One year later, in October 1957, ARTnews kicked off a series of previously unpublished poetry … Read More
  
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• Here’s the Artist List for the First Vienna Biennale

  25-03-2015 19:29 via artnews.com
  Another biennale is officially hitting the crowded art calendar. The Vienna Biennale has announced that its first edition, which runs from June 11 to October 4 this year, will be titled “Ideas for Change,” and feature the work of more … Read More
  
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• Scientists Petition to Have David Koch Removed From Natural History Museum Boards

  25-03-2015 19:28 via artnews.com
  Scientists including climatologist James Hansen and ecologist George Woodwell have drafted an open letter to science museums across the country to reject money from David Koch, founder of Koch Industries and a major arts donor, and to remove him as … Read More
  
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• Consumer Reports: Austin Lee

  25-03-2015 19:22 via artnews.com
  Austin Lee is a New York-based artist who specializes in paintings created using an airbrush that often start as digital drawings made with an iPad. Since receiving his MFA from Yale in 2013, Lee has staged solo exhibitions at Carl Kostyal … Read More
  
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• Picasso, baby: Christie's sets sights on art auction record book with $140m ask

  25-03-2015 19:21
  
  Auction house assesses cubist work Les femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’) at final price in excess of $155m for appeal to deep-pocketed global market of trophy worksRecords look set to tumble at the big spring art auctions with Christie’s announcement on Wednesday of a Picasso oil poised to set the mark for the most expensive work of art in auction history.
  Les femmes d’Alger (Version “O”), a vibrant cubist work last auctioned in 1997 when it nearly tripled the expected price, is estimat
  
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• Ai Weiwei, Camille Henrot, Instagram Founder Mike Krieger, More Will Participate in Rhizome’s Seven on Seven Conference

  25-03-2015 18:47 via artnews.com
  Rhizome, the online art and technology organization, announced the line-up today for its annual Seven on Seven conference, in which seven artists are paired with seven technologists, who then create works together over the course of one day, present them to … Read More
  
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• Would I do a nude art tour? Sod that

  25-03-2015 18:24
  
  The artist James Turrell wants his works to be viewed in the nude. But would it add anything to the gallery experience ... other than shame?Would you get naked in an art gallery? If so head for Canberra, where the National Gallery of Australia is offering naked tours of an exhibition for the first time. You can join a nude tour of James Turrell’s light-filled retrospective there, because the artist claims that we drink in light through our skin, so nudity adds a new dimension to his hallucinat
  
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• You Down With YCC? Meh, Not So Much: Young Collectors Council Parties at Guggenheim

  25-03-2015 18:00 via artnews.com
  Last Thursday, self-described “dynamic” young professionals elbowed one another to get to a bar made entirely of ice at the Guggenheim’s Young Collectors Party. Last year, I was told, there were two bars. The young woman next to me set … Read More
  
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• Pierre Boulez Turns 90: His Influence Is Undeniable

  25-03-2015 17:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Boulez’s style is explosive. He detonates a germ of an idea and, like a seed, it grows a sonic forest. The common fallacy is that pieces as highly and intricately structured as these require technical understanding. But you don’t need to be a botanist to be stirred by a field of wild flowers.”
  
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• How Philip Glass Changed American Music

  25-03-2015 17:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Whatever the long-term prospects for Glass’s music may be, no one now doubts its historic significance. One reason musical modernism finally collapsed under its own weight in the 1970s was that Glass and his like-minded contemporaries refused to kowtow to the anti-tonal regime of the postwar avant-garde musical monopoly. As a result, there is no […]
  
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• As The Internet And TV Converge, A New Free-For-All Competition For Eyeballs

  25-03-2015 17:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “To prosper, analysts say, Netflix, Amazon and Hulu will have to spend even more on the production and marketing of exclusive comedies, dramas, films, documentaries and other shows. The greater the acclaim and the more exclusive the offerings, the easier it will be to distinguish the services and persuade people to pay up every month.”
  
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• America’s Public Radio Challenge: Good Local Reporting To Match The Quality National Stuff

  25-03-2015 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “NPR’s own staff sets a national standard for serious, if often entertaining, national coverage; local coverage can be as good, but often flags in reporting smarts, voice and quality. Anyone who has ever listened to local public radio traveling across the country can recognize the great disparities in reporting. Closing that gap is central to […]
  
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• Why Are So Many Arts Organizations’ Mission Statements So Bad?

  25-03-2015 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Yuck! Those are awful, and for different reasons. Some are dumb. Some are unclear. But all are more about the “what” of the organization more than the “why.” There is no expression or explanation of their purpose, no sense of what they are doing that is good for us.”
  
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• New York Attorney General Investigating Cooper Union

  25-03-2015 17:13 via artnews.com
  New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is launching an investigation into the financial decisions leading up to the controversial 2014 decision to start charging undergraduate tuition for the first time in the institution’s history, The Wall Street Journal reports today. … Read More
  
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• Fox TV Sues To Keep “Empire” Name For New Hit Show

  25-03-2015 17:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Unfortunately, success today can often make creators a target for a myriad of baseless legal claims. They hope you will just pay a little something from that success to make them go away. As underscored by today’s complaint, Fox has no intention of allowing anyone to leverage Empire’s success for their own unwarranted financial gain.”
  
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• Denver Art Museum Goes Free for Children

  25-03-2015 17:00 via artnews.com
  Today the Denver Art Museum announced that it will no longer charge admission to its collection galleries for visitors 18 years old and under, joining a number of museums that in recent years have eliminated fees for various segments of … Read More
  
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• Loic Gouzer Follows Up ‘Gritty’ Sale With Auction Featuring Potentially Historic Picasso

  25-03-2015 16:49 via artnews.com
  Loic Gouzer, international specialist at Christie’s auction house, has organized a special contemporary evening sale during the spring auctions in New York for the second year in a row, this one called “Looking Forward to the Past.” It is a … Read More
  
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• Ed Ruscha to serve up cactus omelette in the name of art

  25-03-2015 16:28
  
  Art has been referred to as “food for the soul” but later this year one of America’s most influential living artists is to go one better and bring art for the stomach to London.
  
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• Morning Links: David Wojnarowicz Edition

  25-03-2015 14:28 via artnews.com
  The British Museum’s exhibition on ancient Greek sculpture includes a bronze copy of the lost Greek original Doryphoros (spear-bearer) by Polykleitos, made in 1920 by the German sculptor Georg Römer, and long believed to be destroyed in WWII. [The Art Newspaper] MoMA … Read More
  
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• Trial date set after 14 charged for museum thefts

  25-03-2015 13:34
  
  One of the accused pleads guilty to thefts of Chinese artefacts and rhinoceros horn from museums and an auction house in 2012
  
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• British Museum unveils long-lost bronze sculpture in ancient Greek art show

  25-03-2015 12:55
  
  Archaeologists believed the spear-bearer had been destroyed in the Second World War
  
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• Magic mushroom maze: this summer's Serpentine pavilion will be a psychedelic trip

  25-03-2015 12:02
  
  The playful plastic structure heading for the Serpentine will bring a welcome dose of mischief, and a secret stained-glass corridor, to London
  A psychedelic labyrinth will land in Kensington Gardens this summer, courtesy of young Spanish architects Selgas Cano, whose plans to weave a colourful plastic cocoon for the 15th annual Serpentine pavilion have been unveiled today. Formed from layers of jazzy plastic fabric and coloured webbing stretched over a framework of interlocking tunnels, it looks
  
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• Why Italy should sell the 5,000 antiquities recovered by the police

  25-03-2015 10:00
  
  Improperly excavated artefacts could be auctioned to help cash-strapped museums
  
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• Time For Domingo To Retire, Says NY Times Chief Critic

  25-03-2015 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Anthony Tommasini, reviewing Verdi’s Ernani at the Met: “The time to stop will just come to [Domingo] when it’s right, he explained. ‘I think it will be one evening,’ he said, ‘after a performance, to say, ‘That’s it.’ It may be the moment for Mr. Domingo to heed his own words.”
  
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• Couple Who Hid 271 Picassos In Garage For Four Decades Convicted

  25-03-2015 08:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  The court in a Côte d’Azur town gave Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec “a two-year suspended sentence, ending years of intrigue surrounding a mysterious suitcase full of drawings that the couple took to Paris in 2010 to show Claude Picasso, the late painter’s son who represents the artist’s heirs and estate.”
  
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• Akhil Sharma’s “Family Life” Wins £40,000 Folio Prize For Fiction

  25-03-2015 08:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Indian-American banker-turned-author won the second-ever award “for a novel which took him 13 long and painful years to complete, charting one emigrant family’s heartwrenching search for the American dream.”
  
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• Finalists For Man Booker International Prize 2015 Announced

  25-03-2015 08:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Three African nations and one Caribbean island have authors on the shortlist for the first time; a few familiar names (Amitav Ghosh, László Krasznahorkai, Fanny Howe) made the cut, but literary stars Karl Ove Knausgaard and Haruki Murakami did not.
  
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• How A Bharatanatyam Choreographer Is Remaking French Ballet’s Great Chestnut About An Indian Temple Dancer

  25-03-2015 08:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Shobana Jeyasingh first heard of La Bayadère, she was excited at the idea of a classic ballet about someone like her. Of course La Bayadère bore no relationship to real Indian classical dance or dancers – until, that is, Jeyasingh got her hands on the piece. (includes video)
  
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• After Fire, London’s Battersea Arts Centre Gets £1 Million Emergency Funding

  25-03-2015 08:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Half the money will help the venue to find an off-site location that will enable it to accommodate productions that were due to be staged in the Grand Hall. The rest … will go towards BAC’s ongoing £13 million redevelopment project, which needed an additional £500,000 to reach its target.”
  
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• Málaga Tries To Make Itself Spain’s Newest Arts Hub

  25-03-2015 08:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Francisco de la Torre, mayor since 2000 of the Andalusian seaside city, has attracted branches of such museums as the Pompidou, the Thyssen-Bornemisza, and the State Russian Museum – in a bid to make the city a destination for more than just cruise ships. Not all Malagueños are pleased, however.
  
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• Norman Scribner, 79, Founder Of D.C.’S Choral Arts Society

  25-03-2015 08:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The late Washington Post music critic Paul Hume once called Mr. Scribner ‘one of Washington’s finest musicians and one of the most gifted choral conductors in the country.’ A skilled pianist, organist and composer, he spent nearly five decades at the helm of the Choral Arts Society.”
  
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• What ‘Pretty Woman’ Would Have Been Like If They’d Shot The Original Script (Ugly)

  25-03-2015 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In its original form, which you can read here, it was neither a Cinderella story nor a romantic comedy – it was a cynical, rather depressing tale of a junkie prostitute and the rich asshole she spends a week with. Neither of them is particularly likable, either at the beginning of the story or its […]
  
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• The Detective Novel That Convinced A Generation Richard III Wasn’t Evil

  25-03-2015 08:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Though writers and historians have been arguing since the seventeenth century that Richard III wasn’t the villain whom Shakespeare described, it was a 1951 mystery novel that sparked mass interest in Richard’s redemption. The writer went by the name Josephine Tey, and the novel was called The Daughter of Time.”
  
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• A Solo Theater Piece About The Israel-Palestine Conflict – By Arafat’s Own Foster Daughter

  25-03-2015 08:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  After Raeda Taha’s father was killed while hijacking a passenger plane in 1972, she was, in effect, adopted by Yasir Arafat and later worked as his press secretary. In Where Can I Find Someone Like You, Ali, Taha looks at the human costs of the conflict, especially those that Palestinians like her father exact on […]
  
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• How Akira Kurosawa Mastered The Art Of Movement In Movies

  25-03-2015 08:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Back in January, Tony Zhou shared a sharp little video essay on Akira Kurosawa’s geometric style, a video that was technically culled from a much larger, more expansive piece on the director that Zhou was still fine-tuning. That piece is now finished, and it’s a bracing analysis that applies Zhou’s insight to Kurosawa’s use of […]
  
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• What A Neuroscientist Says About Jon Stewart’s Brain

  25-03-2015 08:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Quick-witted would be the layman way to put it; he’ll be interviewing someone… and he’s just very quick, very quick at making these unexpected connections. But the term we would use for that is divergent thinking – that is, making novel connections between things that other people don’t put together, and finding the humor in […]
  
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• What A Forensic Psychiatrist Says About Gesualdo, The Wife-Murdering Composer

  25-03-2015 08:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Don Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa is even more famous for killing his wife and her lover in flagrante than he is for his surpassingly weird madrigals. But he didn’t simply dispatch the pair himself: he brought along three men armed with guns and double-headed axes and he energetically mutilated the dead bodies. Dr. Ruth McAllister […]
  
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• “The Jeff Koons Of The Pop World” And Its “Gloriously Tacky” Future

  25-03-2015 08:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spencer Kornhaber on PC Music at SXSW: “Many of the grooves and hooks are undeniable – and listening to it, you realize just how unnecessary the big-budget production currently defining popular dance music might be, and how ridiculous the mist-machine drama and pained soul singing of the average zillion-selling Avicii record really is.” (Wait, that‘s […]
  
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• Dance USA/Philly May Be Gone, But Its Portable Dance Floor Lives On

  25-03-2015 08:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Small news? Practically speaking, it’s a godsend. One of the service organization’s great services was renting the sprung wood floor at affordable rates to companies performing all over the city. But Dance USA/Philadelphia is closing next week. Happily, one ballet troupe has rescued the floor.
  
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• Come on, vogue: striking poses from a century of fashion photography

  25-03-2015 08:00
  
  From Gloria Swanson to Kate Moss, desert starkness to urban grit, a new exhibition cherrypicks the most arresting images from every era of fashion photographyMasterpieces of Fashion Photography is at the Lumas Gallery, London W1K, 25th - 29th March 2015
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.24.15

  25-03-2015 07:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  More Metropolitan Museum Good News: Elated Over Ellsworth, Chipper About Chipperfield AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-03-24 An Arts Advocacy Day Conversation in Decatur, GA AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-03-24 The sloth aquatic AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-03-24
  
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• Snow White Rising: Seventh Guide

  25-03-2015 06:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The post Snow White Rising: Seventh Guide appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• From giants to heavy metal: contemporary African art - in pictures

  25-03-2015 06:00
  
  A major sale of African artworks in London boasts big names old and new from across the continent, and reflects a growing appetite in the art market Continue reading...
  
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• From giants to heavy metal, African 20th century art - in pictures

  25-03-2015 06:00
  
  A major sale of African artworks in London boasts big names old and new from across the continent, and reflects a growing appetite in the art market Continue reading...
  
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