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• $1.3 M. In Swatch Watches To Be Auctioned At Sotheby’s In Hong Kong

  07-04-2015 22:28 via artnews.com
  The Guardian reports that 68-year-old retired insurance broker Paul Dunkel of Luxembourg is set to sell his collection of over 5,800 Swatch watches (valued at more than $1.3 million) today in a “superlot” facilitated by the Hong Kong outpost of … Read More
  
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• ‘Robert Whitman: Soundies’ at the Pace Gallery, New York

  07-04-2015 22:20 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Robert Whitman: Soundies” which is on view at the Pace Gallery’s 57th Street location in New York through May 2, 2015. The exhibition includes an audio component and … Read More
  
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• Slow start for fledgling Paris fair

  07-04-2015 21:10
  Paris Beaux-Arts’s first edition was handicapped by awkward timing and a vague concept
  
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• Black people in post-war America: New exhibition documents an often brutal experience

  07-04-2015 19:57
  
  In 1987, the playwright Adrienne Kennedy wrote a list of all the people who had influenced her creativity, which became a book titled People Who Led to My Plays. As a black girl growing up in segregated America during the Second World War, her influences included fairytales, Hitler, and Jesus: "He could endure, and as a 'Negro' I needed that quality."
  
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• Carmen with a twist: From toreador to city boy

  07-04-2015 19:12
  
  When does an expertise become a straitjacket? It is not only actors playing a long-running role in a soap or a detective series who can find themselves "stuck" with a character: pity the opera singer who happens to be good at Carmen. Playing Bizet's seductive, fate-obsessed gypsy over and over again, in city after city – not just recreating her personality, but reliving her murder by her lover at the end of the opera – could drive anyone towards insanity.
  
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• ‘Advertising Is Fueled By Prejudice': An Hour With Hank Willis Thomas

  07-04-2015 18:18 via artnews.com
  Hank Willis Thomas was in his studio near the Port Authority bus terminal in Midtown Manhattan showing me a ten-year-old advertisement featuring the rapper 50 Cent. “We’ve become media-literate,” Thomas said. “We’ll consume an ad before we even look at … Read More
  
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• The scourge of the bronze zombies: how terrible statues are ruining art

  07-04-2015 17:47
  
  ‘Scary Lucy’, a terrifying bust of Lucille Ball, is the latest in a long line of sculptures to offend good taste. We can only hope a young artist somewhere is vowing quietly to restore the craft to its former gloryIt may be time to ban artists from creating statues. They have simply lost the ability to do it. The art that once gave us Michelangelo’s David and Rodin’s Burghers of Calais has degenerated into a cynical province of second-rate hacks who are filling up city squares, railway s
  
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• We’re In A New Golden Age Of Comedians

  07-04-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There has never been a better time to be a comedian: The talent pool is broad, deep, and more diverse than ever before; a new generation of passionate fans is supporting experimental work; and there are countless ways (online, onscreen, in your earbuds, at live shows) for new voices to be heard and — not […]
  
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• Preview SP-Arte 2015

  07-04-2015 17:00 via artnews.com
  The 11th edition of the SP-Arte fair opens April 9 in São Paulo, with a VIP preview on April 8. The fair will include 159 galleries from around the world, including blue-chip outfits like David Zwirner, Gagosian, and White Cube, … Read More
  
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• Fund Saves 16 San Francisco Non-Profits From Soaring Rents

  07-04-2015 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A music recording studio operated by women, legal services for people living with HIV/AIDS and a performing arts theater were among the nonprofits threatened with closure amid a climate of soaring commercial real estate rents. The funding contributes to expected long-term solutions for the organizations.”
  
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• Is The Quote On The New Stamp Honoring Maya Angelou Misattributed?

  07-04-2015 16:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  According to Postal Service spokesman Mark Saunders, the post office’s research team said the quote had “come up in different media interviews Maya Angelou had done” and that using it had been approved by her family members. He didn’t know which ones.
  
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• Joseph Mitchell Came To Work At The New Yorker For 30 Years But Never Published Anything

  07-04-2015 15:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Despite not publishing one single piece during that time, Mitchell kept showing up to work, and The New Yorker kept paying him. So, what exactly was Mitchell doing the last 30 years of his life?”
  
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• Short Movies Are Hot Right Now, Even Sparking Bidding Wars (They Just Don’t Make Money)

  07-04-2015 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The short film is becoming a hot commodity as actors and/or directors want to showcase their talents in a digestible format that can land deals, win awards and lead to features. The catch is: they just don’t make money.”
  
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• NADA Miami Beach Will Move to the Fontainebleau Hotel in 2015

  07-04-2015 15:45 via artnews.com
  NADA Miami, the New Art Dealers Alliance’s fair during Art Basel Miami Beach in December, will be moving to the Fontainebleau Hotel on Collins Avenue for its 2015 edition. NADA opened in Miami in 2003, and in 2009 moved to … Read More
  
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• NADA Miami Beach Will Move to the Fontainebleau Hotel

  07-04-2015 15:45 via artnews.com
  NADA Miami, the New Art Dealers Alliance’s fair during Art Basel Miami Beach in December, will be moving to the Fontainebleau Hotel on Collins Avenue for its 2015 edition. NADA opened in Miami in 2003, and in 2009 moved to … Read More
  
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• Art Made in Harm’s Way

  07-04-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  From war zones to natural disasters, many artists are seduced by extreme conditions Read More
  
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• Alex Ross’s Tribute To Andrew Porter

  07-04-2015 15:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I would guess that no critic in the magazine’s history—not Edmund Wilson, not Lewis Mumford, not Pauline Kael—possessed greater authority in his or her field.”
  
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• Study: Did Competition Shorten Lives Of The Great Composers?

  07-04-2015 15:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Their analysis suggests being forced to fight for status and recognition—not to mention commissions, performances, and pupils—took a physical toll on these artists. It provides evidence that the stress of competition—particularly among fellow composers living in the same city—literally took years off their lives.”
  
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• Ryan Trecartin, Alec Soth, Frank Stella Included In Lineup For Anderson Ranch’s 2015 Summer Series

  07-04-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  Aspen, Colorado’s renowned artist community Anderson Ranch has announced its lineup for its 8-week Featured Artists & Conversations Series, which brings together artists, critics, collectors, and curators together to participate in panel discussions, Q&As, and lectures. This year, participating artists … Read More
  
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• How Reviews Of Books, Movies, TV, Music Are Morphing Into A Strange Commodity

  07-04-2015 14:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Movie reviewing has been reduced, largely, to data production for Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes. Song and album reviews rarely precede the actual release of the music, so they’re treated as broad cultural writing prompts. Five or so years ago TV writing split into reviewing and recapping, which in the last couple years have merged into […]
  
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• Morning Links: Dallas Edition

  07-04-2015 14:58 via artnews.com
  Sixteen Romanesque Biblical manuscripts known together as as “The Idda Collection””Te will go on display, for sale, at the Les Enluminures Gallery in New York from April 9-May 2. Dated between 980-1240, the manuscripts are priced from $180,000 to $6.5m—the latter … Read More
  
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• Artists Erect Bust Of Edward Snowden In Brooklyn

  07-04-2015 14:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Speaking to Mashable on the condition of anonymity, the artists said they chose the spot because it is “loaded with significance and meaning and reverence of others.” It positions Snowden, they said, “as a continuation of a story that began at the beginning of this country” — one represented in the plight of the captured […]
  
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• Why Are Museums Trapped In Silly Spectacles?

  07-04-2015 14:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The widespread zeal for buzz among museum trustees and directors is taking a toll, culturally, on museums and their place in the civic realm—especially as inflation drives the scale and ubiquity of stunts up and up and up.”
  
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• RIP the selfie: when Prince Harry calls time on a craze, you know it's well and truly dead

  07-04-2015 13:55
  
  The selfie was the great silliness of our time, the trainspotting of the techno age. So take them if you dare – the world is laughing at you
  Remember selfies? They became a global cultural obsession in 2012, when Time magazine made selfie one of its top 10 buzzwords of the year. For a while, it seemed the selfie was the pop art of the future. Everyone, from teenagers to prime ministers, was taking them, everywhere. The invention of the selfie stick turned the taking of selfies into an even str
  
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• Feathers and feminism: global street artists transform Delhi - in pictures

  07-04-2015 12:55
  
  St+art India facilitates art in public spaces, making it accessible to a wider audience by taking it out of the gallery. The foundation’s street art festival in New Delhi has attracted artists from across the world in a rare global effort to bring murals, installations, workshops and street walks to India’s capital Continue reading...
  
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• David Lynch Pulls Out Of “Twin Peaks” Revival

  07-04-2015 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Explained the director in a Facebook post, “I left because not enough money was offered to do the script the way I felt it needed to be done.” The producing network, Showtime, still hopes to win Lynch back.
  
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• Toronto Symphony Cancels Valentina Lisitsa’s Concerto Gig Over Tweets About Ukraine

  07-04-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The orchestra’s president said that Lisitsa’s contract was bought out due to “ongoing accusations of deeply offensive language by Ukrainian media outlets.” The Kyiv-born, ethnically Russian pianist’s “tweets about the Ukrainian regime have included some harsh comparisons with Nazi Germany, sometimes laced with morbid comedy.” Lisitsa’s outraged fans are fighting back.
  
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• Jennifer Higdon’s Opera “Cold Mountain” – A First Preview

  07-04-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Patrick Stearns visits the Guggenheim Museum for the music’s first public outing, and he talks with the opera’s creators. (Librettist Gene Scheer: “When I wrote [Jake Heggie’s] Moby-Dick, I wasn’t worried about getting e-mails from Herman Melville.”)
  
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• Teaching Evolution To Students Who Tell Me They’ll Pray For My Soul

  07-04-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  James J. Krupa, biology professor at the University of Kentucky: “Where I live, many believe evolution to be synonymous with atheism, and there are those who strongly feel I am teaching heresy to thousands of students. A local pastor, whom I’ve never met, wrote an article in the University Christian complaining that, not only was […]
  
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• More Forensic Psychiatry About The Crazed Wife-Murdering Composer

  07-04-2015 09:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dr. Ruth McAllister looks at contemporary testimony about Gesualdo and his relationships with others, including his second wife, a rival composer, musicians employed by someone else whom he dressed down to their faces, a former mistress tried for witchcraft, and one of his uncles, St. Carlo Borromeo.
  
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• Why Our Presence On Earth Matters

  07-04-2015 09:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A cognitive scientist and a German philosopher walk into the woods and come upon a tree in bloom: What does each one see? And why does it matter? While that may sound like the set-up to a joke making the rounds at a philosophy conference, I pose it here sincerely, as a way to explore […]
  
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• Damn Kids Today Don’t Have The Discipline To Succeed In Ballet, Suggests Tamara Rojo

  07-04-2015 09:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We live in a society that rewards fast success based on little talent or commitment, which is transient and a dangerous place to be. Do we want to promote instant success and instant failure, or do we want to promote self-esteem and hard work? … I had a strong technique and was hard-working – I […]
  
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• Baritone Steps In For Plácido Domingo On Half-Hour Notice, Then Does Double-Header

  07-04-2015 09:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fortunately, when Luca Salsi got a call Saturday afternoon saying Domingo wasn’t feeling well enough to sing the matinee of Ernani at the Met, he was only nine blocks away from the opera house. On the other hand, he was due to sing Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor that evening.
  
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• Watching Matthew Bourne Rehearse ‘The Car Man’

  07-04-2015 09:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There is never a sense that Bourne is berating his dancers or psychologically buffeting them into shape, and he certainly is not a shouter. … But although he is a self-effacing presence for much of the time, the dancers are keenly attuned to his gaze; when he does speak to the entire cast, the studio […]
  
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• Watching A Music Critic Part With His 25,000-Item Record Collection

  07-04-2015 09:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Star Tribune rock/pop/jazz write Jon Bream kept his giant record vault in a distant corner of the newspaper’s building since 1991. Now that the paper is moving its offices – and now that we’re in the digital age – Bream decided it wasn’t worth schlepping the collection. Here’s what’s happening to it.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.06.15

  07-04-2015 07:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Cash Cow” Collections: Two More Maier Museum Works Sold, by Hicks & Hennings AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-04-06 Monday Recommendation: Rudresh Mahanthappa AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-04-06 Gerry Mulligan At Brecon AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-04-06 “How the 1 Percent Always Wins”: Interview AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-04-06
  
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• Development Director, California Symphony

  07-04-2015 03:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  We are redefining what it means to be an orchestra in the 21st century. San Francisco Bay Area.
  
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