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• Edward Snowden statue turns up in New York park – video

  06-04-2015 23:58
  
  A video released by local news and culture blog Animal New York showed a group of anonymous artists arriving at the park overnight, and erecting the 4ft tall bronze statue.'We look at this as a gift to the city, but gifts are sometimes not accepted.' The statue portrays Snowden with his signature glasses and a collared shirt. The voice in the video says they installed the bust, knowing it would likely be taken down, but that it would still be worth their efforts Continue reading...
  
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• Video game soundtracks hit classical music charts

  06-04-2015 22:37
  
  Music composed for video games is now being ranked alongside Beethoven and Mozart.
  
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• Busted: Edward Snowden statue prompts cover-up at Brooklyn park

  06-04-2015 20:21
  
  Park rangers throw tarpaulin over bust of NSA whisteblower, installed by artists in Fort Greene Park ‘to laud those who protect the ideals they fought for’The New York parks department on Monday covered a large bust of Edward Snowden that was installed in a Brooklyn park, thwarting the artists’ stated intent “to highlight those who sacrifice their safety in the fight against modern-day tyrannies”.The Snowden bust still stood at Fort Greene Park’s Prison Ship Martyrs monument, atop a
  
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• New Orleans Music Box: the shantytown you can play

  06-04-2015 18:30
  
  Part performance, part venue and part art installation, a collection of structures in New Orleans are bringing the avant garde to the city of jazzCelebrated jazzman William Parker plucks his bass in a grove on an abandoned golf course in New Orleans’s City Park. The 11-strong ensemble he leads makes a strange kind of music.Pulled ropes create the sound of whistling wind, while an amplified flute plays through steel sheet speakers. Windows and doors slide and slam, triggering musical samples. T
  
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• New Orleans Music Box: the shanty town you can play

  06-04-2015 18:28
  
  Part performance, part venue and part art installation, a collection of structures in New Orleans are bringing the avant garde to the city of jazzCelebrated jazzman William Parker plucks his bass in a grove on an abandoned golf course in New Orleans’s City Park. The 11-strong ensemble he leads makes a strange kind of music.Pulled ropes create the sound of whistling wind, while an amplified flute plays through steel sheet speakers. Windows and doors slide and slam, triggering musical samples. T
  
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• Price Check: Palermo at David Zwirner, Schnabel at Andrea Rosen, and Saul at Venus Over Manhattan

  06-04-2015 18:13 via artnews.com
  Price Check is a weekly column that looks into the price of works currently on view at commercial galleries. Have they sold? For how much? Are either or both of these answers shocking compared to the amount the works sold for at auction? … Read More
  
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• Let’s celebrate Leonora Carrington’s extraordinary life, as well as her paintings | Joanna Moorhead

  06-04-2015 17:36
  
  The artist would have been 98 today. She took risks and stayed true to her instincts, and I feel lucky to have known herSix years ago, on a sunny April day much like this one, I celebrated my cousin Leonora Carrington’s 92nd birthday with her in Mexico City. If I had been able to tell her then that a few years later her birthday would be heralded by one of the biggest global tributes possible, a Google doodle, she would have told me I should probably lay off the tequila. But today, on what wou
  
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• Preview the 2015 Dallas Art Fair

  06-04-2015 17:04 via artnews.com
  The seventh edition of the Dallas Art Fair opens April 10, with a gala preview on April 9 to benefit the Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center, and Dallas Contemporary. The fair will include 94 galleries from around … Read More
  
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• That Time Salman Rushdie Had No Idea How Goodreads Worked

  06-04-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Rushdie, who won the Booker Prize for Midnight’s Children and had a fatwa placed upon him upon the publication of The Satanic Verses, awarded Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis one star, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird just three.”
  
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• China Ramps Up To Become (Overtake) Hollywood

  06-04-2015 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “No longer content simply to build movie sets and provide extras in Hollywood films, Chinese studios are moving up the value chain, helping to develop, design and produce world-class films and animated features. They want a bigger role in the creative process, one that will allow them to reap more rewards, financially and artistically.”
  
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• Behind The Astonishing Markups Of Prices In Private Art Sales

  06-04-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s a $60 billion market where you can’t find out real prices, real ownership or the actual buyers and sellers. But as values have gone up, we have more lawsuits, and collectors are finding out what really goes on behind the scenes.”
  
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• How Precisely Did The Planned Island In The Hudson River Come About?

  06-04-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The $113 million for Pier 55, for which Hudson River Park still has only an oral pledge from Mr. Diller, has put the spotlight on the park’s longstanding financial problems, embodied by the deterioration of Pier 40, at the foot of Houston Street.”
  
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• Federal Judge Dismisses Animators’ Antitrust Suit Over Wage Practices

  06-04-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The animation workers tried to argue that the statute of limitations clock started when they first discovered what they considered evidence of wage fixing — at the time documents from the prior litigation were unsealed — but Koh disagreed.”
  
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• Can This Man #SaveNewYork?

  06-04-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “His personal ire is frequently directed at what he calls Yunnies, or young urban narcissists. Yunnies are, by his account, the silent accomplices of hyper-gentrification: de-cultured millennials who actively like to shop at Target and could not care less if a quirky shrine like Bill’s Gay Nineties, which is the tavern where Tallulah Bankhead used […]
  
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• Retrospective: Design as the Folk Art of the ’90s

  06-04-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  And other excerpts from our coverage 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago Read More
  
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• Morning Links: New Pace Gallery Edition

  06-04-2015 15:18 via artnews.com
  Pace Gallery will be renovating their Chelsea gallery at 540 West 25th Street, to begin in December 2015 with an estimated completion date of fall 2017. The gallery will take up 40,000 square feet of space in a new 60,000 square-foot building … Read More
  
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• The Film Scholar Who Tracked Down And Archived Decades Of African American Films

  06-04-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Seeking visual representations of black people in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, [Phyllis Klotman] learned of the existence of a body of work — long scattered, little known and unpreserved — by early black filmmakers. She traveled the country, scouring attics and cellars and museum vaults, assembling a collection of films by and […]
  
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• Adults Who Are Addicted To High School Musicals Are, Apparently, A Thing

  06-04-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Um: “Fans seek out the student performances for cheap entertainment or a chance to see a musical that otherwise might not be performed locally. Some even follow the teenage thespians as though they were A-list stars.”
  
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• I can worship religious art without believing in God

  06-04-2015 13:17
  
  For centuries, religious artists like Zurbarán and Caravaggio have created ecstatic, hallucinatory work that can move even a staunch atheist like meAtheism has never come up with anything like the art of 17th-century painter Francisco de Zurbarán, who created a pure and intense religious visual language. I find his images uniquely appealing at Easter – even though I don’t believe in his, or any other, god.Zurbarán worked in Seville in the days when this Andalucían city
  
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• Not just for children: 100 great picture books

  06-04-2015 08:00
  
  Spanning a century years and featuring foreign gems as well as British cult classics, Martin Salisbury’s stunning collection of the greatest picture books is a revelation for all ages
  • 100 Great Picture Books – in picturesIt is almost impossible to leaf through Martin Salisbury’s 100 Great Children’s Picture Books without becoming acquisitive. It is a book to make the eye greedy, to make collectors of us all. Indeed, Salisbury, professor of illustration at Cambridge School of Art, say
  
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• Top Posts For AJBlogs From 04.05.15

  06-04-2015 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Giant Step Forward At The Met AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2015-04-05 Why Is My Hotel Following Me? (Ah, It’s Big Data) AJBlog: diacriticalPublished 2015-04-05 Row, Row, Row Your Boat … Across the Ocean Blue AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2015-04-05 Minimalism Conference Deadline Extended  AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-04-05 Recent Listening: Brasileiras AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-04-05 Travelling through Inner Space and Beyond AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-04-04 A
  
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• The week in arts: Distant Lines, Cementa15 and A Moon Safari

  06-04-2015 03:01
  
  Guardian Australia’s culture team brings you the best of the week’s cultural events including slow art day and a behind-the-scenes film-making treatPirate Wi-Fi, fields of pom poms, and the sound of bird calls are just some of the wonderful ways that more than 60 artists will enliven the town of Kandos, NSW for the biennal contemporary arts festival Cementa15. Its focus in 2015 is the social, environmental and economic concerns of the central west NSW region, engaging directly with the commu
  
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• Leonora Carrington: artist's birthday commemorated with Google Doodle

  06-04-2015 02:46
  
  Surrealist painter was born in Lancashire but spent most of her life in Mexico Leonora Carrington: wild at heartThe birth of the artist Leonora Carrington is the subject of Monday’s Google Doodle.The surrealist painter, who was born in Lancashire but spent most of her life in Mexico, announced her intention to become an artist to her father at her coming out ball. Continue reading...
  
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• Artist Leonora Carrington commemorated with Google Doodle

  06-04-2015 02:03
  
  Surrealist painter was born in Lancashire but spent most of her life in Mexico The birth of the artist Leonora Carrington is the subject of Monday’s Google Doodle.The surrealist painter, who was born in Lancashire but spent most of her life in Mexico, announced her intention to become an artist to her father at her coming out ball. Continue reading...
  
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