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• Picabia Alert #7: A Trove at the SP-Arte Fair

  08-04-2015 23:52 via artnews.com
  “Picabia Alert” takes note of shows that feature work by the wily French artist Francis Picabia (1879–1953), aiming to sate Picabia appetites until the Picabia retrospective arrives at the Kunsthaus Zurich and New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2016. SP-Arte, which opened to VIPs and press in … Read More
  
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• From a Gorgeous Bridget Riley to a Gargantuan Pile of Cookies: A Look Around SP-Arte 2015

  08-04-2015 21:04 via artnews.com
  When the 11th edition of the SP-Arte fair opened to invited guests this morning at 11 a.m. in Saõ Paulo, all was quiet. The few collectors on hand strolled through the airy, curvaceous 1957 building that Oscar Niemeyer designed for the … Read More
  
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• British Museum’s Director Will Step Down

  08-04-2015 19:47 via artnews.com
  Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum since 2002, will retire at the end of December. Under MacGregor’s tenure, attendance rose from 4.6 million a year in 2002 to 6.7 million, according to the BBC. (The museum is behind … Read More
  
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• These 20 Buildings Point To The Future Of Architecture

  08-04-2015 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There’s a tremendous variety. Some, like Jeanne Gang’s Aqua Tower, are feats of form—her 82-story Chicago skyscraper is elevated to the realm of massive sculpture by the addition of curving balconies that jut out from the rectangular base. Others, like Neri Oxman’s pavilion made from silkworm thread, give us a sense of how new materials […]
  
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• Ronald Lauder: Still Much To Do In Returning Nazi-Looted Art

  08-04-2015 19:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Citing the statute of limitations to hold on to a painting that was forcibly taken by the Nazis is not just wrong—it is immoral. There should be no statute of limitations in the case of Nazi-looted art, just as there is no statute of limitations for genocide, because for almost every stolen painting, a felony […]
  
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• Norman Lear: PBS Is Stepping Away From Its Core Mission

  08-04-2015 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Unfortunately, PBS is now threatening, for the second time in four years, to downgrade documentaries, which are at the heart of its public mission. As it chases ratings, PBS risks neglecting the core of its public mission and mandate.”
  
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• American Museums Begin Returning Stolen Antiquities To India

  08-04-2015 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Several American museums have begun returning possibly stolen artifacts to India in response to a major federal investigation into the activities of Subhash Kapoor, a dealer identified by authorities as having once run the largest antiquities smuggling operation on American soil.”
  
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• Humorist Stan Freberg, 88

  08-04-2015 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Mr. Freberg was a hard man to pin down. He made hit comedy records, voiced hundreds of cartoon characters and succeeded Jack Benny in one of radio’s most prestigious time slots. He called himself a “guerrilla satirist,” using humor as a barbed weapon to take on issues ranging from the commercialization of Christmas to the […]
  
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• UK Rejects Mediation On Parthenon Marbles

  08-04-2015 18:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “British ministers said they believed the Greek call for “mediation” was intended simply to secure the return of the Marbles to Athens. Greece criticised British negativity. Greek Culture Minister Nicos Xydakis insisted the dispute was between nations, not museums.”
  
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• British Museum Director Neil MacGregor To Step Down

  08-04-2015 18:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Since taking the helm in 2002, MacGregor has overseen acclaimed exhibitions on topics including Ice Age society, ancient Pompeii and the Vikings.”
  
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• Don McLean’s “American Pie” Manuscript Sells For $1.2 Million

  08-04-2015 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The manuscript and McLean’s supporting notes “achieved the 3rd highest auction price for an American literary manuscript, a fitting tribute to one the foremost singer-songwriters of his generation,” said Tom Lecky, head of the books and manuscripts department at Christie’s auction house in New York.”
  
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• Canada’s Shaw Festival Gets A New Leader On The Eve Of A Big Project

  08-04-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tim Jennings will lead the Shaw Festival. Originally from Georgetown, Ont., he “has had a long career in theatre management, having worked at the Canadian Opera Company and held the position of managing director at Toronto’s Roseneath Theatre and the Seattle Children’s Theatre.” Most recently he has led Minneapolis’s Children’s Theatre Company.
  
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• ‘Mark Ruwedel: Pictures of Hell’ at Gallery Luisotti

  08-04-2015 17:30 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: ‘Mark Ruwedel: Pictures of Hell’ is now on view at Gallery Luisotti in Santa Monica, CA until May 30, 2015. Ruwedel’s ambitious exhibition aims to document the sites in … Read More
  
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• What Kind Of “Truths” Should We Expect In Poetry?

  08-04-2015 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In general, one does not look to poems for factual truths, lest Keats’s Cortez be permanently swapped for Balboa in the history books. But if poetry proves largely unsatisfactory to Plato and Detective Sergeant Joe “Just the facts, ma’am” Friday in terms of veracity, then what kind of truth is poetry after?”
  
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• Silvia Koch Named Director of Contemporary Istanbul

  08-04-2015 17:20 via artnews.com
  Contemporary Istanbul announced today that Silvia Koch will be the director of the Turkish art fair’s 10th edition. Koch comes from artnet, where she oversaw galleries from Berlin and London for the past seven years. Currently slated for November, the … Read More
  
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• Hidden Worlds: The Creative World Runs On Assistants

  08-04-2015 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When I was an undergrad at Harvard, the English department produced fancy brochures about the opportunities available to its majors: teacher, editor, Rhodes scholar. Personal assistant was not listed. I hadn’t even heard of such positions until senior year, when older friends, artistically inclined friends, started snagging them. It’s the position I think I’ve heard […]
  
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• We’re Entering The Next Phase Of Music Streaming

  08-04-2015 17:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When artists lament Spotify’s meager payouts, the real culprit isn’t the streaming service, which pays out 70 percent of its revenue to labels and musicians—it’s the fact that streaming doesn’t make a whole lot of revenue to begin with. The most likely way for that to change is for there to be more paying users […]
  
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• ‘This Hamburger’s Got Legs': Trenton Doyle Hancock as an Emerging Artist, in 2000

  08-04-2015 17:00 via artnews.com
  In honor of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s “Trenton Doyle Hancock: Skin and Bones, 20 Years of Drawing,” we turn back to 2000, when Hancock was still little-known in the art world. That year, his work was part of the … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Edward Snowden Statue Edition

  08-04-2015 15:35 via artnews.com
  Director of the British Museum Neil McGregor will be retiring in December, after thirteen years at his post. He is considered one of the greatest directors in the museum’s nearly 300-year history, due to his international developments and his attempts … Read More
  
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• Artists' studios to open in News International’s former home

  08-04-2015 15:30
  
  Revamped site in east London will open in June
  
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• First He Takes Manhattan: Sean Scully Prepares for Global Domination with Shows In New York, Venice and São Paulo

  08-04-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  “My life is like some sort of fairy story sometimes,” Sean Scully said, sitting in a paint-covered chair in his Chelsea studio. “I can’t really believe it.” He was in a buoyant mood, showing photos on his iPhone of his … Read More
  
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• Jesus Christ the family man? Why the church won’t buy it

  08-04-2015 15:07
  
  New scientific evidence on the tomb of Jesus – and his wife and child – will never be accepted. Religion prefers its relics, like its art, with smoke and mirrors
  If only the great arguments between religion and doubt could be settled by scientific evidence. A story this week has it that solid evidence has emerged about the historical Jesus: the “tomb of Jesus” reportedly contains proof that Jesus was married, had a son – and was never resurrected.So that’s settled then. Or at least i
  
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• Neil MacGregor announces departure from British Museum

  08-04-2015 13:46
  
  Neil MacGregor, who has transformed the fortunes of the British Museum during his 13 year reign, is to leave the UK’s most popular visitor attraction at the end of the year.
  
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• 'Banksy of LA' Plastic Jesus protests against Kardashians with rogue parking signs

  08-04-2015 13:36
  
  An LA artist has taken a stand against the Kardashian regime by putting a series of signs up across the city.
  
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• British Museum’s Neil MacGregor will retire on a high

  08-04-2015 13:13
  
  “Extraordinary contribution” praised as director sets sights on Mumbai and Berlin
  
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• Swanhunter, Linbury Theatre, review: Jonathan Dove produces another winning children's opera

  08-04-2015 11:10
  
  Jonathan Dove is unique among British opera composers in that he’s tirelessly and dependably prolific.
  
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