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• Jamian Juliano-Villani at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

  31-03-2015 23:44 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Detroit Affinities: Jamian Juliano-Villani,” which was on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit through March 29, 2015. Curated by Jens Hoffmann, MOCAD’s senior curator at large, it was … Read More
  
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• Penelope Curtis quits the Tate Britain: Director departs as critics claim her reign 'didn't quite work'

  31-03-2015 23:25
  
  With blockbuster exhibitions of Turner, Lowry and the Pre-Raphaelites under her belt, Penelope Curtis has had her successes. But after the director of the Tate Britain announced her departure, the criticism of her failures may be ringing in her ears following a reign that in critics’ eyes “didn’t quite work”.
  
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• Baldessari Interviews Benglis

  31-03-2015 21:31 via artnews.com
  Interview magazine recently published a conversation between the artists Lynda Benglis and John Baldessari. Benglis calls out Baldessari on a nude portrait he made of his wife, which she refers to as “one of the strongest works” he’s made, though … Read More
  
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• Tate Britain director Penelope Curtis to step down after five years in charge

  31-03-2015 20:58
  
  Curtis, whose time at the helm began in the wake of large cuts to the arts sector in 2010, leaves to take charge of the Calouste Gulbenkian museum in LisbonPenelope Curtis has stepped down as the director of the Tate Britain after a turbulent five-year tenure in charge of the London gallery.Curtis, who became the first woman to run the Tate when she joined in 2010, will leave to take the top job in Lisbon’s small but prestigious Calouste Gulbenkian museum. Continue reading...
  
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• Tate Britain director Penelope Curtis to depart after five years in charge

  31-03-2015 20:58
  
  Curtis, whose time at the helm begun in the wake of large cuts to the arts sector in 2010, leaves to take charge of the Calouste Gulbenkian museum in LisbonPenelope Curtis has stepped down as the director of the Tate Britain after a turbulent five-year tenure in charge of the London gallery.Curtis, who became the first woman to run the Tate when she joined in 2010, will leave to take the top job in Lisbon’s small but prestigious Calouste Gulbenkian museum. Continue reading...
  
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• From shopping lists to love poems: Our discarded jottings say much about our lives

  31-03-2015 20:04
  
  A Freemason staggers drunkenly though a park; a child throws a toy hippo on to a roof; a devotee of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry composes a forlorn prayer to God; someone, somewhere, forgets to buy potatoes.
  
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• Artist brings giant slides back to London's South Bank

  31-03-2015 19:38
  
  Visitors to Carsten Höller retrospective at Hayward gallery will be able to descend in 15-metre spiral slides commissioned for the exhibitionThe giant spiralling slides which proved a huge hit at Tate Modern are returning to London’s South Bank.
  The conceptual artist Carsten Höller installed slides – which caused several injuries – at the former power station’s Turbine Hall in 2006. Related: Hayward gallery to host UK's first Carsten Höller retrospectiveContinue reading...
  
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• Walker Plans $75 M. Renovation, Names Fionn Meade Artistic Director

  31-03-2015 18:55 via artnews.com
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• Adriana Varejão at Institute of Contemporary Art

  31-03-2015 18:31 via artnews.com
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• Ray Johnson at Richard L. Feigen & Co.

  31-03-2015 18:30 via artnews.com
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• Louise Nevelson at Pace

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• VKhUTEMAS at Martin-Gropius-Bau

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• Susan Philipsz at Tanya Bonakdar

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• Sun Xun at Sean Kelly

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• William Anastasi at Stellan Holm

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• ‘Post Pop: East Meets West’ at Saatchi Gallery

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• Shelly Silver at Slought Foundation

  31-03-2015 18:30 via artnews.com
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• Suzy Lake at Art Gallery of Ontario

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• How Tansy Davies turned 9/11 into her opera 'Between Worlds'

  31-03-2015 18:18
  
  Tansy Davies sits opposite me at a long table in one of the London Coliseum's odder side rooms: a heavily wallpapered, windowless space in which one might imagine local ghosts wandering by to eavesdrop. She is about to join the roster of composers whose stage works have been embraced by English National Opera: the company and the Barbican have co-commissioned her first opera, Between Worlds. Its world premiere is at the latter venue on 11 April.
  
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• Tate Britain director heads to Lisbon to run Gulbenkian Museum

  31-03-2015 17:05
  
  Penelope Curtis to put testing time in London behind her
  
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• The V&A’s election show is ‘the artistic equivalent of a hung parliament’

  31-03-2015 17:04
  
  Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  All of This Belongs to You was supposed to be a timely defence of free, publicly funded museums for voters to consider. Instead, a number of weak exhibits turn its message into a shaggy dog storyThe V&A has done something daring and launched an exhibition about the public sphere to coincide with the general election. Unfortunately, it mirrors the election result currently forecast by opinion polls. All of This Belongs to You is the artistic equivalent of a
  
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• So It’s Come To This: An Offer To Buy The New York Daily News For $1

  31-03-2015 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The offer would come one month after New York media and real estate magnate Mortimer Zuckerman said he was considering selling the newspaper and had hired Lazard Ltd (LAZ.N) to assist with the process. It underscores the declining readership and plunging advertising revenue that have plagued the tabloid for years.”
  
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• Competition To Design New Helsinki Guggenheim Shows How Architecture Has Been Transformed By Technology

  31-03-2015 16:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Witness the competition for the next proposed Guggenheim museum, in Helsinki. It attracted 1,715 entries online, arguably the largest number ever in an architectural competition. The winners flooded social media and were picked over on design blogs within hours. If one is built, it will likely employ complex geometries rendered with the help of robots.”
  
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• Canada’s Largest Non-Profit Theatre Balances Its Books As Audiences Shrink

  31-03-2015 16:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Stratford Festival ended its 2014 season in the black – but the latest news on the Ontario theatre festival’s attendance is less black and white.”
  
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• Have Humans Been Evolving Themselves?

  31-03-2015 16:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “People want to know if humans are getting taller, smarter, better looking or more athletic. My answer is truthful but disappointing: We’re almost certainly evolving, but we don’t know in what direction or how fast.”
  
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• Why We’re Still Fascinated By Jane Austen

  31-03-2015 15:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What explains the continued popularity of Jane Austen and the handful of novels she wrote? It is, after all, rather remarkable that a woman who spent her life in quiet provincial circumstances in early 19th-century England should become, posthumously, a literary celebrity outshining every author since then, bar none.”
  
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• Don’t Underestimate The Classics: “Cinderella” Tops The Weekend’s Global Movie Box Office

  31-03-2015 15:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The rags-to-riches story of a woman who captures a prince’s heart while losing her shoe is also the studio’s second highest-grossing live-action release in China, having made $65.1 million in the People’s Republic. Globally, its total stands at a regal $336.2 million.”
  
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• America’s Most Prolific (And Generous) Art Forger

  31-03-2015 15:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It obviously isn’t a crime to give a picture to a museum, and they treated me like royalty. One thing led to another, and I kept doing it for 30 years,” says Mark Landis, one of the most prolific art forgers in US history.
  
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• The Psychology Of Tall Buildings

  31-03-2015 15:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The current architectural zeitgeist, whereby form invariably follows finance, finds its purest expression in the skyscrapers de nos jours, with their parametrically designed waveforms that positively billow with opportunism.”
  
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• London is getting giant slides

  31-03-2015 15:35
  
  Like having fun but not unless it's under the guise of an important artistic statement? This is the exhibition for you, with the Hawyard Gallery set to be strapped with a pair of giant, spiralling slides this summer.
  
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• How To Develop An Instinct For Understanding Data

  31-03-2015 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “One thing I try to argue is that it’s not just about bigger machines to crunch more data, and it’s not even about pattern recognition. It’s about frameworks of recognition; how you choose to look, rather than what you’re trying to see.”
  
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• Her Hatchet Is More Like an Ax: Renata Adler and the Problem with Critics

  31-03-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  The most recently published piece in Renata Adler’s collected nonfiction, After the Tall Timber (New York Review Books), is a curious defense of the serial plagiarizer Jayson Blair by way of an excoriation of The New York Times, the paper … Read More
  
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• Think You Can Make A Living Writing A Book? Not With These Advances

  31-03-2015 15:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The median advance for traditionally published authors is “well under £6,600”, according to early findings of a survey into authors’ attitudes towards their publisher. The survey also found that bigger publishers pay more.”
  
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• Why American Education Needs To Focus On More Than The Basics

  31-03-2015 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “America’s last bipartisan cause is this: A liberal education is irrelevant, and technical training is the new path forward. It is the only way, we are told, to ensure that Americans survive in an age defined by technology and shaped by global competition. The stakes could not be higher. This dismissal of broad-based learning, however, […]
  
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• WQXR Boss: Here’s How To Pick The New Music Director Of The New York Philharmonic

  31-03-2015 15:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Graham Parker: “What has frustrated me more in all the articles I have read since Alan Gilbert announced his conclusion as music director, was the complete lack of considering the audience in the short listing of candidates. The audience, in this case, are: current patrons of the New York Philharmonic; future audiences who like classical […]
  
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• The best of Weegee's New York street photography – in pictures

  31-03-2015 14:52
  
  From crime-chasing news hound to art-world darling, the cult photographer’s unmistakeable images capture all the drama of life in the Big Apple. His work is celebrated in a new book, The Weegee Guide to New York Continue reading...
  
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• Morning Links: ‘My Bed’ Edition

  31-03-2015 14:00 via artnews.com
  Danny McDonald’s “The Beads (That Bought Manhattan)” at Bortolozzi Galerie in Berlin. [Contemporary Art Daily] A review of Silent Dialogues, art historian Alexander Nemerov’s account of the sibling rivalry between his father, U.S. Poet Laureate Howard Nemerov, and his aunt, the … Read More
  
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• Emin's bitter-sweet memories of unmade bed

  31-03-2015 13:46
  David Cameron has artist's vote in the bag
  
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• Dealer Oliver Hoare is back—and this time it’s personal

  31-03-2015 11:07
  
  Exhibition catalogue gives “different version” of Sheikh Saud’s story
  
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• Renoir, Picassos, Warhols Seized In Romanian Corruption Probe

  31-03-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Romanian prosecutors investigating an alleged bribery scheme have questioned the former finance minister about the origins of 100 paintings,” including three Picasso sketches, several works by Andy Warhol, and an apparent Renoir that was found in a safe along with gold bricks.
  
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• Anti-Curator Hysterics And Falsehoods Won’t Fix MOMA

  31-03-2015 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Greg Allen: “Christian Viveros-Fauné’s artnet News column earlier this week, which purported to pull back the curtain on Klaus Biesenbach’s reign of curatorial terror at MoMA, is not going to help; it is not only poisonous and pointlessly personal, it’s inaccurate.”
  
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• Jeffrey Deitch Says He Was Persecuted At L.A. MOCA, Just Like Klaus Biesenbach Is Now At MOMA

  31-03-2015 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘Some of you may have read the diatribes against one of my favorite colleagues Klaus Biesenbach raging today,” he said … “[It] reminds me of the diatribes that went on against me when I was at MOCA. … So with Klaus, it’s Bjork; with me, it was James Franco, unfortunately.’ This generated much laughter from […]
  
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• Reading Shakespeare In Tehran

  31-03-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Professor Stephen Greenblatt on his lecture at the first Iranian Shakespeare Congress: “Most of the questions were from students, the majority of them women, whose boldness, critical intelligence, and articulateness startled me. Very few of the faculty and students had traveled outside of Iran, but the questions were, for the most part, in flawless English […]
  
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• Beyond Ai Weiwei: How China’s Artists Handle Politics (Or Avoid Them)

  31-03-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thirty-something artist Cao Fei: “Criticizing society, that’s the aesthetics of the last generation. When I started making art, I didn’t want to do political things. I was more interested in subcultures, in pop culture.”
  
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• Tony Award-Winning Director Gene Saks Dead At 93

  31-03-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  While his career in both theater and movies included such hits as Mame, Same Time Next Year and I Love My Wife, Saks was best known for a long series of collaborations (stage and screen) with Neil Simon, from Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple through to the “Brighton Beach Trilogy.”
  
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• Michael Rush, Director Who Led Rose Art Museum Through Deaccessioning Fight, Dead At 66

  31-03-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following the successful struggle to keep Brandeis University from closing the Rose and selling off its collection, Rush went on to become founding director of the Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.
  
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• Here’s What Angel Corella’s First Season Running Pennsylvania Ballet Will Look Like

  31-03-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Justin Peck, Liam Scarlett, Wayne McGregor, Christopher Wheeldon: They’re among the hottest young choreographers in ballet today. And Pennsylvania Ballet will dance their works and more next year in a blockbuster-packed season, artistic director Angel Corella announced Monday. This is the sort of world-class programming that dance fans anticipated when Corella was hired in the […]
  
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• “The Wiz” To Be Performed Live On NBC, Then Eases On Down To Broadway

  31-03-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “On Dec. 3, a live version of The Wiz will make its debut on the network, produced in partnership with Cirque du Soleil’s theatrical division, which will then take it to Broadway for the 2016-17 season.”
  
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• Venice’s Opera House Is Staying In The Black By *Adding* Performances

  31-03-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  How do they do it? Don’t opera houses lose money on every performance? Not necessarily. And La Fenice is taking advantage of something Venice has more of than almost any other Italian city. (No, not water.)
  
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• Court Orders Turkish President To Pay Damages For Insulting Artist’s Work

  31-03-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Four years ago, when he was still prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan described a peace monument by sculptor Mehmet Aksoy near the Turkish-Armenian border as a “monstrosity.” Under libel laws that Erdoğan has been quick to use himself against critics, he was ordered to pay Aksoy 10,000 lire (about $3,800). The president is appealing.
  
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