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• The Thinking Behind Design Of The Whitney’s New Downtown Museum

  10-04-2015 23:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The features are a blueprint for museums today, as institutions the world over compete harder for the chance to mount crowd-pleasing shows by big names. Instead of courting donors with grand galleries or stark white rooms for displaying masterworks, museums are luring star artists with buildings that they can engage and ultimately reshape with their […]
  
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• Orange County Museum Of Art Lays Off People So It Can Build Ambitious New Building

  10-04-2015 23:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The plan also raises all kinds of questions about the future of the curatorial program at this venerable little institution — the sort of place that once had a show by Chris Burden shut down by the local Fire Department because his installation created the risk of toppling the museum’s walls.”
  
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• Using New Language Analysis, Scholars Attribute Another Play To Shakespeare

  10-04-2015 23:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We can tentatively add another play to the Shakespeare canon. Using a unique form of text analysis, in which they weigh the “psychological signatures” of three possible authors, psychologists Ryan L. Boyd and James Pennebaker of the University of Texas-Austin conclude Double Falsehood was written largely by the man who brought us Twelfth Night and […]
  
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• Artist Hideyuki Sobue unveils first portrait of William Wordsworth in 200 years

  10-04-2015 21:57
  
  The first new portrait of William Wordsworth in two centuries years – depicting him much younger than in previous likenesses – is to go on display after a Japanese artist found a “life mask” made years before the poet became a Victorian celebrity.
  
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• ‘Art Saved Our Marriage’: Mera and Don Rubell Toast 50 Years Together, in São Paulo

  10-04-2015 21:51 via artnews.com
  “We’ve been together for half a century, which is a miracle,” collector Mera Rubell said this morning in São Paulo, sitting with her husband Don in front of a crowd at the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, where the … Read More
  
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• A President, Seen From Every Angle: Elaine de Kooning on Painting JFK, in 1964

  10-04-2015 21:19 via artnews.com
  In December 1964, a little over a year after one of America’s most beloved presidents was assassinated, Elaine de Kooning recounted painting John F. Kennedy in ARTnews. De Kooning (who had already written several articles for ARTnews, notably a profile … Read More
  
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• The Traffic Can Be Hell, But the Galleries Are Great! A Look Around São Paulo

  10-04-2015 20:24 via artnews.com
  Because of São Paulo’s infamous traffic, it takes some time to get around to galleries by car (no dealer has yet installed a helipad on his or her roof, like the most exclusive hotels in town), but if you set aside … Read More
  
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• Van Gogh, Picasso and others go on display before New York sales jamboree

  10-04-2015 19:58
  
  Christie’s and Sotheby’s preview myriad of prized works in London including L’allée des Alyscamps and likely record-breaker Les femmes d’Alger (version “O”)An important Vincent van Gogh painting from a time when he was at the height of his powers – and working easel by easel with his friend Paul Gauguin – will be auctioned next month in New York.L’allée des Alyscamps has an estimate in excess of $40m (£27m) and is a late entry for the marquee May sales in the city
  
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• Gone to Texas: The Art World Flocks to Dallas Art Fair for a Little Lonestar Hospitality

  10-04-2015 19:33 via artnews.com
  Now in its seventh year, the Dallas Art Fair is held in the booming downtown Arts District, near the Dallas Museum of Art, designed by Edward Larabee Barnes; the Nasher Sculpture Center, designed by Renzo Piano; and the Morton H. … Read More
  
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• If there’s a joke, it’s on us: Juan Muñoz’s playful optical illusions

  10-04-2015 18:55
  
  Fourteen years after the Spanish artist’s death, a retrospective of his dramatic installations, full of strange grey figures, shows he’s still toying with usFigures turn above my head like acrobats. They dangle from ropes clenched in their jaws. One has fallen and laughs, eyes bulging, like a beetle on its back. Another hangs by his foot. More figures stand around in front of a curtain, as if they’re waiting for something to happen. It looks as if someone else is about to emerge, but they
  
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• Plaudits for Tate and brickbats for Emin | Letters

  10-04-2015 18:50
  
  Jonathan Jones’s article on Penelope Curtis, outgoing director of Tate Britain, (misogynist subtext?) is a highly unpleasant attack on a formidable scholar and curator. Since when has a major equivalent museum (National Gallery, Louvre or Prado) had as its remit the requirement to be “fun” (Tate Britain needs to put the fun into art, 2 April)? Jones is clearly happiest in the entertainment industry, but museums do have other functions, especially educational ones. He claims to be troubled
  
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• The Detroit Symphony’s New Principal Oboist Will Take The Job (As Soon As He Graduates From School)

  10-04-2015 18:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Alexander Kinmonth’s appointment also puts an exclamation point on the rapid transformation of the DSO under music director Leonard Slatkin, who has been rebuilding the ensemble following the epic six-month musicians strike in 2010-11 that threatened to push the orchestra into bankruptcy. Since the start of Slatkin’s tenure in 2008, he has appointed 10 current […]
  
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• The Cultural Difficulties Of Universal Instant Translators

  10-04-2015 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What I’m interested in with these technologies is whether they can get to a place where they become so transparent that it doesn’t feel like there’s a layer of something happening between you and the other person who you’re trying to build a relationship with.”
  
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• Azerbaijan’s Venice pavilion will recall long shadow of Soviet era

  10-04-2015 18:34
  
  Artist Hüseyn Haqverdi is creating installation about "lost generation" in gritty outskirts of Baku
  
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• It’s Now Possible To Insure Conceptual Art (Really? Insure An Idea?)

  10-04-2015 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “How does it work? In most fine art insurance policies, lost or damaged certificates of ownership can fall in a gray area—sometimes they are covered, but often they are not. In the case of conceptual artworks, the certificate is an essential component of the work, and without it the piece is considered worthless. In this […]
  
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• Anything To Be Learned From The Lisitsa/Toronto Symphony Debacle?

  10-04-2015 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The takeaway from all this is still unclear. In the short term, certainly, it’s a public-relations bonanza for Lisitsa, who gets to be a martyr to her beliefs, unpalatable though they may be to some. In the long term, I wonder if there will be lasting consequences to having her Tweets made more public, as […]
  
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• “Indie” Bands? What The Hell Does That Mean?

  10-04-2015 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  These never really were artists you could lump together easily, but for years they seemed to get by with “indie” or “indie rock” as an umbrella. Many people still use these terms, but what do they mean today?
  
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• Misty Copeland Talks About Succeeding As A Dancer

  10-04-2015 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The pain that dancers experience—I don’t know if it can be compared to any athlete, or anything. There’s something that is engrained in us as ballet dancers where we constantly have a poker face on. Even on stage, we experience some of the most extreme physical pain. You go through a ballet that’s three hours […]
  
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• ‘SOGTFO’ at François Ghebaly Gallery

  10-04-2015 17:30 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: ‘SOGTFO,’ curated by Charlie White, is currently on view at François Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles until tomorrow, April 11, and features the work of five contemporary … Read More
  
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• A history of Australia’s Indigenous art in 10 objects

  10-04-2015 17:00
  
  The Australian continent is larger than Europe, has been inhabited for more than 60,000 years and once belonged to hundreds of Indigenous groups. Ahead of a major British Museum show, curator Gaye Sculthorpe presents 10 objects that sum up the controversies of this complex national storyAustralia has some of the oldest rock art in the world, dating back more than 30,000 years. The rocky escarpments of western Arnhem Land contain thousands of images ranging from now-extinct ancient megafauna (suc
  
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• Turkey plans to make a splash with new museum

  10-04-2015 16:31
  
  Country’s ministry of culture approves project to make underwater Byzantine basilica a tourist attraction
  
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• The Big Con: Walter Robinson and Chris Dorland Discuss the Art Market in Chelsea

  10-04-2015 16:28 via artnews.com
  Last night a crowd of concerned art citizens packed the tiny Five-11 gallery in Chelsea for a talk between painters Walter Robinson and Chris Dorland, who currently has an installation in the new storefront space. The talk was cheekily titled … Read More
  
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• Vatican ‘satisfied and happy’ as Israeli court spares Bethlehem-area church property

  10-04-2015 16:02
  
  Extension of separation barrier through Cremisan Valley has been blocked
  
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• Morning Links: First Amendment Art Edition

  10-04-2015 15:26 via artnews.com
  Work to renovate Auckland Castle in County Durham, England—historically the residence (but since 2010 just the office) of the Bishop of Durham—has begun, which will cost £17 million. It’s one of the most ambitious heritage regeneration projects in England in recent … Read More
  
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• Bronze zombies, Neil MacGregor and Prince Harry kills off the selfie – the week in art

  10-04-2015 14:16
  
  The brilliant British Museum director is standing down, as terrible statues are ruining art and the prince puts the final nail in the selfie coffin. Not to mention Jesus Christ, the family man and Facebook’s new HQ – it’s your weekly art dispatchOne of the great pioneers of abstract art electrifies Tate Modern with swirling painted light.
  • Tate Modern, London SE1, from 15 April until 9 August. Continue reading...
  
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• Painted Nudes show the king of street photography’s strange secret life

  10-04-2015 13:37
  
  For two ‘lost decades’, colour-photography pioneer Saul Leiter pretended he was working on nothing – when actually he was busy painting over decades’ worth of black-and-white nude photos. Sean O’Hagan celebrates the private pursuits of the quiet man of American photographyEven in his 80s, when he was belatedly acknowledged as a pioneer of colour photography, Saul Leiter – who died aged 89 in November 2013 – steadfastly refused to be canonised by the art world. “In order to build
  
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• Remembering Leo Vroman 1915-2014

  10-04-2015 10:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Today, 10th April 2015, in the Dutch city of Gouda, the life and achievements of poet Leo Vroman are being celebrated. The 10th of April would have been Leo’s 100th birthday. For those that do not know, Leo Vroman was a poet, artist, scientist, and owner of one of the more incredible biographies in literature. Leo passed away ... Continue ReadingThe post Remembering Leo Vroman 1915-2014 appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Pianist Who Was To Replace Lisitsa With Toronto Symphony Says Her Fans Bullied Him Into Withdrawing

  10-04-2015 10:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Stewart Goodyear: “Words of bile and hatred were hurled in my direction from all sides. Suddenly I was accused of supporting censorship, and bullied into declining this engagement. What started out as one of the happiest moments of my life turned into a shattering display of mob hysteria.”
  
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• There Is No Element Of Cinema That “Monty Python And The Holy Grail” Did Not Brilliantly Make Fun Of

  10-04-2015 10:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “You barely notice the subtitles at first, beyond chuckling at their pointless inclusion, then realize what’s going on – that the edges of reality are being blurred; that there’s no premise, not even a simple credit sequence, that this film won’t seek to subvert.”
  
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• Moving “Fun Home”: Alison Bechdel Watches Her Life Unfold On Broadway

  10-04-2015 10:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I can’t even use the word surreal anymore, it’s so trite; it’s weird … I do understand that there’s a difference between the play and my life, but it is a very strange and permeable boundary. It’s some kind of hall-of-mirrors thing. There’s been this strange feedback effect.”
  
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• Chita Rivera, Back (And Upside-Down) On Broadway At 82

  10-04-2015 10:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Two hours before any preview performance of The Visit, the Kander and Ebb musical that opens this month at the Lyceum Theater, you can find its star, Chita Rivera, in her dressing room. Upside down.”
  
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• Here’s Our Kind Of Video Game: It Lets You Wander Through De Chirico Paintings

  10-04-2015 10:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Brazilian designer Carlos Monteiro has developed SURREALISTa, a free computer game tribute to the Italian artist that simulates it in three dimensions. The goal is to find the secret gateways from one level to the next (there are five), each just a bit more eerie than the one preceding it.”
  
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• Three Top Choreographers Lambast British Contemporary Dance Training

  10-04-2015 10:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Akram Khan, Hofesh Schechter, and DV8 Physical Theatre’s Lloyd Newson say that dancers from elsewhere students are “fitter, stronger and more versatile”, while those trained in the UK “lack rigour, technique and performance skills.”
  
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• Even Five-Year-Olds Can Sense That It’s Sometimes Better To Tell White Lies To People

  10-04-2015 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “One of the best (and, sometimes, worst) things about being around young kids is how honest they are. A 3-year-old I know, for example, recently (and very sincerely) asked a visiting relative why he has such a fat belly. But at what age do kids start to realize that saying exactly what they think can […]
  
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• New York Attorney General Investigating Cooper Union’s Finances

  10-04-2015 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The inquiry will examine the handling of the school’s endowment, management of its largest asset (the Chrysler Building), the terms of the $175 million in debt the board took on for a new starchitect-designed building, and how things came to the point that a lavishly endowed insitution created to be tuition-free had to begin charging […]
  
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• London’s Royal Opera House Trying To Fend Off Backstage Strike

  10-04-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A last-ditch attempt to prevent strike action at the Royal Opera House has begun between the Covent Garden venue and backstage union BECTU. The union is seeking a 4% across the board pay increase for backstage staff who, in early March, rejected an offer from the Royal Opera House for a 2% rise.”
  
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• More Private Funding Of UK Arts Will Make London-vs-Regional Imbalance Even Worse, Says Labour’s Shadow Culture Secretary

  10-04-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For all the efforts that have been made, and for all the good donors outside of London, actually there is a massive imbalance. The truth is that even if you do have a proper strategy, you can’t just leave it to the market.”
  
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• Eddie Murphy Wins Kennedy Center’s 2015 Mark Twain Prize

  10-04-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Eddie Murphy let loose on the Kennedy Center stage – that should be quite some monologue at the gala on October 18.
  
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• An Interactive Map Of Shakespeare’s London

  10-04-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[It] pulls information from databases with names of locations, people, organizations in the city at the time, as well as reference material about the early modern period in London. These data are layered on to the ‘Agas’ base map [from 1561]. So if you click on the Middle Temple building, for example, the map will […]
  
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• Colombian Novel From 1983 Makes Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 Shortlist

  10-04-2015 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the Beginning Was the Sea by Tomás González, “published in 1983 – by the owner of the nightclub where its author was then a barman – has been shortlisted alongside the work of international stars Haruki Murakami and Daniel Kehlmann for the 2015 Independent foreign fiction prize.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.09.15

  10-04-2015 08:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Breaking Now: The MFA Names A New Director AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-04-09 For services rendered AJBlog: About Last Night ublished 2015-04-09
  
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• Artist wins case against neighbours he secretly photographed

  10-04-2015 08:33
  
  New York City Supreme Court upholds First Amendment rights but encourages stricter privacy laws in future
  
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• Brett Whiteley paintings: pair to stand trial accused of forging and selling works

  10-04-2015 08:19
  
  Police allege Mohamed Aman Siddique created the paintings and sold them for millions of dollars in an agreement with dealer Peter GantA Melbourne art conservator and an art dealer accused of forging Brett Whiteley paintings and selling them for millions of dollars have been ordered to stand trial.
  Police have alleged Mohamed Aman Siddique, 66, created the paintings Lavender Bay and Orange Lavender Bay and sold them as Whiteley originals for $2.5m and $1.1m in an agreement with Peter Stanley Gant
  
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• Book ahead, Australia: Anne Summers, Jungle Giants, Melbourne jazz festival

  10-04-2015 06:10
  
  In our weekly tout of the hottest new shows, book now to see Brisbane’s indie-rockers, boundary-blurring art and a celebration of all things Greek Continue reading...
  
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• National Library announce viewing of rare Rothschild prayerbook

  10-04-2015 04:07
  
  The Renaissance-era Rothschild Prayerbook was stolen by the Nazis in Vienna in 1938 but later recovered and sold at auction to businessman Kerry Stokes for $15.5m Australians will get their first look at one of the world’s most expensive illuminated manuscripts in May.The National Library of Australia announced on Friday morning that the early sixteenth-century Rothschild prayerbook, owned by Australian businessman Kerry Stokes, will go on display for the first time in the southern hemisphere
  
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• Executive Director – Vancouver Writers Fest

  10-04-2015 01:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Vancouver Writers Fest seeks an Executive Director with a passion for the arts and the written word to oversee the financial and administrative operations of one of North America's premier literary events.
  
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