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• LeRoy Neiman Foundation Gives $2.5 M. to the Smithsonian for Jazz Programming, Jazz Cafe

  02-04-2015 21:12 via artnews.com
  The Smithsonian’s Museum of American History announced that it will increase its jazz programming with a $2.5 million dollar endowment from the LeRoy Nieman Foundation. Part of the endowment will be used to make up a program of jazz-related events, including a performance … Read More
  
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• Hito Steyerl Wins the First EYE Prize

  02-04-2015 21:00 via artnews.com
  The newly created EYE Prize has been awarded to Berlin-based artist and cultural theorist Hito Steyerl. The £25,000 prize ($37,100) was established by the Amsterdam film museum of the same name with the goal of supporting outstanding artists who work primarily in … Read More
  
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• ‘Malick Sidibé: Studio Malik, Bamako, Mali’ at Maloney Fine Art, Los Angeles

  02-04-2015 20:56 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Malick Sidibé: Studio Malik, Bamako, Mali,” which is on view at Maloney Fine Art in Los Angeles through this Saturday, April 18, 2015. The exhibition includes … Read More
  
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• Yayoi Kusama is named the most popular artist in the world

  02-04-2015 20:19
  
  For all the hype that surrounds superstar artists such as Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, the world’s art lovers voted with their feet to make an 86-year-old Japanese woman the most popular artist of last year.
  
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• Dallas’s Nasher Sculpture Center Creates $100,000 Annual Prize

  02-04-2015 20:15 via artnews.com
  The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas has announced the creation of an annual $100,000 sculpture prize. The winner will be selected by a jury that includes some pretty fancy names in contemporary art–Phyllida Barlow, Lynne Cooke, Okwui Enwezor, Yuko Hasegawa, … Read More
  
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• 30 new species of fly discovered in LA

  02-04-2015 19:50
  
  City links: An entymologist makes an unusal discovery in a city dominated by cars, Finland builds a solar farm in a city with almost no light, and an artist makes drawings that only show up in the rain in this week’s best city storiesThe best city links from around the web this week meet the “crazy fly lady” of LA, discover Cairo’s guerrilla chairs and explore a map of the world’s street music. We’d love to hear your responses to these stories and any others you’ve read recently, b
  
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• Do We Still Need Theatre Critics?

  02-04-2015 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The American Theatre Critics Association, ATCA, the only national organization of American theatre critics, has been struggling with their criteria for membership. Right now they admit people who, as they put it, write professionally, regularly, and with substance about the theatre. But what does professional mean at a time when only a handful of critics […]
  
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• Two Star Ailey Dancers Leave Company For St. Louis

  02-04-2015 18:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is losing two of its most treasured members this summer. Antonio Douthit-Boyd and Kirven Douthit-Boyd — who were married in 2013 — have been named the co-artistic directors of the Center of Creative Arts, the St. Louis organization where Antonio Douthit-Boyd trained.”
  
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• Playwright Wins Copyright Infringement Suit Over “Three’s Company” Parody

  02-04-2015 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The play is a highly transformative parody of the television series that, although it appropriates a substantial amount of ‘Three’s Company,’ is a drastic departure from the original that poses little risk to the market for the original,” the judge wrote, noting that copyright law “is designed to foster creativity.”
  
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• Ukraine Opera Company Struggles On Through The Fighting

  02-04-2015 18:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A bomb destroyed some of our sets that were stored in a warehouse near the airport, we’ve lost 20 percent of our staff — or 150 people — and we are short of cash,” said the weary head of the theatre, Yevgeny Denisenko. “Tomorrow I will pay the salaries (that were due in) December.”
  
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• What It’s Like To Be A Ghostwriter

  02-04-2015 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For me, ghostwriting fulfills the creative side where I get to take a story from scratch—material that has been rolling around in the head of my subject—and build it up. On the other side, I can pay the bills, the mortgage, and have a great income.”
  
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• Arts Needs Spaces. Churches Have A Space Surplus. 1+1+…

  02-04-2015 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The arts need their space. For the roughly 2,000 arts organizations in Philadelphia, whether fledgling or established, space is typically one of the greatest expenses and most critical needs, second only to personnel. At the same time, some two-thirds of Center City Philadelphia sacred places report having space that could potentially be available for sharing […]
  
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• World’s Big Museums Face Crisis Of Too Many Visitors

  02-04-2015 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nearly 10 million people a year pass through the Louvre, 7 million visit the British Museum, and 6 million go to the Met in New York. “The Louvre was conceived for 5 million people,” noted the president of the sprawling Paris museum, Jean-Luc Martinez. “For the past three years straight we’ve had more than 9 […]
  
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• The Most-Attended Museum Shows In The World, 2014

  02-04-2015 18:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  The National Palace Museum in Taipei organised the top three best-attended exhibitions in 2014.
  
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• The Art Cartel: Figures Show That One Third Of Solo US Museum Shows Go To Artists Of Just Five Galleries

  02-04-2015 17:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The figure raises questions about the growing influence of a small number of galleries in a rapidly consolidating art market—especially when they often offer logistical and financial support for exhibitions. At the same time, some wonder whether museums are doing enough to expose the public to art they would not otherwise see.”
  
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• Erik Johansson's optical illusion photographs will boggle your mind

  02-04-2015 17:51
  
  Swedish photographer Erik Johansson is seemingly on a mission to blow our minds with his captivating optical illusions.
  
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• Talent War Breaks Out In Hollywood As Agents Defect

  02-04-2015 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  There was a flurry of activity inside CAA’s offices, known around town as the “Death Star,” on Wednesday. Agents were stunned by the velocity of the turnover, according to people at CAA who could not speak publicly. They said the large-scale relocation came with no warning to management, and even assistants turned up to work […]
  
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• It’s Inevitable: Streaming Music Will Dominate

  02-04-2015 17:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Even though it’s not clear how long it will take the majority of people to subscribe to an on-demand streaming music service, it’s almost certain to catch on. It’s coming—record labels want people renting their music, and consumers want access to it all.”
  
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• Frieze New York Taps Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream, Dimes, Roberta’s, More

  02-04-2015 17:39 via artnews.com
  Every year, on one beautiful day in spring, Frieze New York announces the list of almost uniformly delicious, relatively young downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn restaurants that it has brought onboard for its annual fair on Randall’s Island. That day is … Read More
  
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• Study: We Like Ambiguous Art More

  02-04-2015 17:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a small study in which participants evaluated paintings, the researchers found that “the higher the subjectively perceived degree of ambiguity within an artwork, the more participants liked it, and the more interesting and affecting it was for them.”
  
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• Study: Searching The Web Gives You The Illusion Of Being Smarter

  02-04-2015 17:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In a series of studies, a Yale University research team led by psychologist Matthew Fisher shows that people who search for information on the Web emerge from the process with an inflated sense of how much they know—even regarding topics that are unrelated to the ones they Googled.”
  
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• Executive Director – VisArts Richmond, VA

  02-04-2015 17:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Visual Arts Center of Richmond seeks an Executive Director with a passion for the arts, demonstrated fundraising success, and respected management and relationship skills. Our motto: Art for Everyone. Creativity for Life.
  
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• Arab Spring: Modern Middle Eastern Art Finds a New Audience in the West

  02-04-2015 16:55 via artnews.com
  One recent morning, art historian Nada Shabout was telling me about her search for a graduate program two decades ago. “When I contacted universities and said I wanted to work on modern Arab art, they would say, ‘What is that? … Read More
  
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• Michelangelo work destroyed in Spain's civil war unveiled after restoration

  02-04-2015 16:16
  
  Prado Museum in Madrid displays Young Saint John the Baptist, one of the few Michelangelo works outside Italy, after nearly 20 years of restoration workIt has been bombed, burned and smashed into pieces. Now, after nearly two decades of restoration work, Spain’s only sculpture by Michelangelo is triumphantly on display at the Prado Museum, its turbulent history merely hinted at by cracks and burn marks.Young Saint John the Baptist, one of the few Michelangelo pieces outside of Italy, is though
  
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• Gender dysphoria artist David Whittaker lays it bare

  02-04-2015 15:34
  
  The work of Newquay-based and self-taught artist David Whittaker has been described as a mash-up of John Constable and Francis Bacon. The identity crisis you might attribute to Whittaker’s powerful artwork is understandable when put into the context of the artist’s own gender dysphoria.
  
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• Van Doren Waxter Gallery Now Represents the Hedda Sterne Foundation

  02-04-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  The Upper East Side’s Van Doren Waxter Gallery now represents the Hedda Sterne Foundation, and will display a selection of Sterne’s works from April 2 to May 1. Sterne, who died in 2011 at the age of 100, was the only female … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Giant Slides Edition

  02-04-2015 15:25 via artnews.com
  An ancient Egyptian masterpiece displayed in Cairo’s Egyptian Museum—a 5-foot long painting known as “Meidum Geese”—may be a a forgery. [The Art Newspaper] The Art Newspaper analyzed 600 exhibitions submitted by 68 museums in the U.S., and found that almost … Read More
  
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• Graham Fagen, artist: 'In this space it's all about the making, in the other it's about the thinking'

  02-04-2015 15:00
  
  I visit Graham Fagen in the Glasgow Sculpture Studios, a somewhat corporate-feeling block of studios just outside the city centre. It's like a blank canvas, empty except for four large screens. Fagen tells me that he had difficulty choosing which of his two studios to bring me to. He has only been here since January having been working in his "soul" studio in the loft of his home for the last six years.
  
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• Nigel Farage reimagined as unsightly Judge Dredd villain 'Bilious Barrage'

  02-04-2015 12:39
  
  Few images are perhaps more frightening than the one that is about to stare Judge Dredd comic readers in the face.
  
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• Nigel Farage re-imaged as unsightly Judge Dredd villain 'Bilious Barrage'

  02-04-2015 12:39
  
  Few images are perhaps more frightening than the one that is about to stare Judge Dredd comic readers in the face.
  
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• Visitor figures 2014: the world goes dotty over Yayoi Kusama

  02-04-2015 11:36
  
  Taiwan’s National Palace Museum clinches top spot in our attendance survey, but Japanese artist’s retrospectives are a phenomenon in South America and Asia
  
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• Almost one third of solo shows in US museums go to artists represented by just five galleries

  02-04-2015 11:36
  
  Our visitor figures survey reveals prevalence of Pace, Gagosian, David Zwirner, Marian Goodman and Hauser & Wirth in exhibition programming
  
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• Visitor figures 2014: what do we want? Immersive installations by unfamiliar artists

  02-04-2015 10:59
  
  US institutions think big names draw crowds, but the public is not as predictable as it seems
  
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• How Rome’s Santa Cecilia Orchestra Came Back To Thrilling Life

  02-04-2015 10:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As Italy’s unofficial national symphony for more than 100 years,” the orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia “has long commanded respect and attracted the finest conductors. And while it is regularly ranked among the world’s top orchestras, it has had its ups and downs, like most such groups.” Over the past ten years, […]
  
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• When Inspiration Won’t Strike: Six Choreographers Explain How They Get Their Groove Back

  02-04-2015 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Choreographer’s block. It’s the black cloud that all dancemakers – seasoned artists and green ones alike – experience at some point nearly every time they create. What separates the professionals from the novices is learning how to press on and not let it derail the work.”
  
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• Russian Artists Face A Choice: Censor Themselves, Or Else – But They’re Never Sure How

  02-04-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Cultural figures in Russia today describe a climate of confusion and anxiety in which the law banning obscenities, as well as a 2013 law that criminalizes acts offending religious believers, are often ignored unless someone wants them applied.” Under the Soviets, said one publisher, “at least we knew the rules.”
  
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• Miriam Bienstock, 92, Co-Founder Of Atlantic Records

  02-04-2015 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “One of very few women in the record business at the time, Ms. Bienstock earned a reputation not only for toughness – her son, Robert, acknowledged in a eulogy for his mother that many of the businessmen she dealt with called her ‘Dragon Lady’ – but also for efficiency and for the kind of shrewd […]
  
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• How Much Has Pierre Boulez Done For Music In His 90 Years? Wow …

  02-04-2015 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As a composer and theorist, he shaped the path of modernism in postwar Europe. As a conductor, he redefined concert programming. As an educator and administrator, he oversaw the creation of groundbreaking music facilities.”
  
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• Whitney Museum Contemplates A Bigger Future, With Bigger Expenses (And Admission Fees)

  02-04-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  That new Renzo Piano building along the High Line is three times the size of the old Whitney, and 50% more expensive to operate.
  
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• Why Can’t Everyone Locate And Return Nazi-Looted Paintings As Quickly As The Dutch Royal Family Did?

  02-04-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When the King and Queen read that Dutch museums had volunteered to be investigated, they felt it would be useful for someone to research their works.” So the commissioned a review of the royal collections at the end of 2013; it’s complete, and they’re returning one Old Master canvas promptly.
  
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• A Black, Female Hamlet? Absolutely!

  02-04-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wilma Theater artistic director Blanka Zizka: “Hamlet is a remarkable play, and one that I have always wanted to direct, but I had to wait for an extraordinary actor, and it was not until I met Zainab that I knew it was time for our production.”
  
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• Play Reimagining ‘Three’s Company’ Fights Off Copyright Lawsuit

  02-04-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Federal district judge ruled that David Adjmi’s 3C “represented a ‘drastic departure’ from the TV show, which ran from 1977 to 1984 and remains in syndication.”
  
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• Women Of The Floating World: The Lives Of Japan’s Edo-Period Courtesans

  02-04-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  While most of the art depicting the Yoshiwara pleasure district in what is now Tokyo was basically marketing made by and for men, we can still get a picture of the complex world in which the women there lived and worked.
  
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• Did The Internet Ruin April Fool’s Day?

  02-04-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It used to be that an April Fool’s joke was, very obviously, an April Fool’s joke. … [But] the World Wide Web is an epistemological free-for-all.”
  
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• Six Facts About Trust And Gullibility

  02-04-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  What we need for April Fool’s Day: “Here’s a brief wander through some of the most interesting findings Science of Us could dig up on trust, skepticism, and gullibility, specifically as they apply to our relationships with each other.
  
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• An Illustrated Guide To “The End Of Art”

  02-04-2015 09:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[Arthur] Danto, who was both a critic and a professor of philosophy, is celebrated for his accessible and affable prose. Despite this, Danto’s best-known essay, ‘The End of Art,’ continues to be cited more than it is understood. What was Danto’s argument? Is art really over? And if so, what are the implications for art […]
  
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• Skinny-dipping in the void: the day I toured James Turrell's art show naked

  02-04-2015 09:07
  
  A nude tour of the artist’s light sculptures is more than a gimmick, discovers our culture writer, as she joins the naturists and curious art students in CanberraThe dignified halls of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra are an unconventional space to wear your birthday suit. But here we are, on Wednesday evening, 50 art lovers disrobing with quiet, private trepidation. I too begin to strip: the dress comes off, the underwear soon after – until I stand, breasts, bum and bush in the
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.01.15

  02-04-2015 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Ethics of Engagement AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-04-01 The Whitney Tests the Market: $$$ And Hours AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-04-01 Grousing about Klaus: Biesenbach and MoMA Get Björked AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-04-01 Juilliard Dance Tackles Masterworks AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2015-04-01 Humph AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-04-01 Paren(t)hesis AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-04-01 Keeping […]
  
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• He's Barack Obama's favourite artist. But is Britain ready for Glenn Ligon?

  02-04-2015 08:00
  
  He put lipstick on Malcolm X and breathed new life into Mapplethorpe’s nudes. As Glenn Ligon brings ‘his own personal museum’ to the UK, we meet the artist Obama handpicked for the White HouseObama’s favourite artist carves up the past – in picturesThe beautiful, powerful paintings of Glenn Ligon hang in museums around the world, but there is one artwork of his you can’t see – not since 2009, at least. To catch a glimpse of his 1992 canvas Black Like Me No 2, which reproduces a tex
  
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• Amelie von Wulffen at Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles

  02-04-2015 04:00 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: Amelie von Wulffen at Freedman Fitzpatrick, which is on view at Freedman Fitzpatrick in Los Angeles through May 2, 2015. These new paintings by the Berlin-based artist are funny and dark. As … Read More
  
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