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• ‘All The Light We Cannot See’ Wins Pulitzer For Fiction (And The Complete List … )

  20-04-2015 22:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Anthony Doerr wins for “an imaginative and intricate novel inspired by the horrors of World War II and written in short, elegant chapters that explore human nature and the contradictory power of technology.” Another notable win: “Anthracite Fields,” by Julia Wolfe, which premiered on April 26, 2014, in Philadelphia by the Bang on a Can […]
  
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• Blum & Poe Plans to Go Carbon Neutral by 2016

  20-04-2015 21:49 via artnews.com
  Blum & Poe announced today in an email that it aims to become carbon neutral by the end of 2016, and that it has been “green-certified” by the Los Angeles-based nonprofit Arts: Earth Partnership. The gallery, which has branches in … Read More
  
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• Kara Walker Didn’t Like Toni Morrison’s New Book, ‘God Help The Child’

  20-04-2015 21:02 via artnews.com
  The New York Times solicited artist Kara Walker (creator of last year’s now-iconic Domino Sugar Factory sugar sphinx) to review Toni Morrison’s latest work of fiction, God Help The Child—in Walker’s words, “a brisk modern-day fairy tale with shades of … Read More
  
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• Why art works for us at the Folkestone Triennial | Letter from Alastair Upton, Creative Foundation

  20-04-2015 20:58
  
  Your article (Why the digging has never stopped in England’s gold-rush town, April 17) focused on only one out of 21 artworks the Folkestone Triennial commissioned for the town last summer. Your interpretation of the work is not one shared by many of the hundreds of people who enjoyed getting involved in a good old-fashioned seaside treasure hunt. In your eagerness to tell a story of deprivation and unemployment you failed to mention that the Triennial has created 27 permanent artworks for the
  
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• ‘Patrick Martinez: Forbidden Fruit’ at New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles

  20-04-2015 20:38 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Patrick Martinez: Forbidden Fruit” is currently on view at New Image Art Gallery in West Hollywood, California, until May 9. The show features a range of new paintings and … Read More
  
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• Outsider Art Fair Moves to New Locations in Paris and New York

  20-04-2015 19:00 via artnews.com
  The Outsider Art Fair, which will be held in Paris this fall and in New York next winter, has settled on new locations for both of its forthcoming iterations. In Paris, the fair will move to the Hôtel du Duc, … Read More
  
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• Norway Will Be The First Of Many Countries To Turn Off FM Radio

  20-04-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Frequency modulation, or FM, radio was patented in 1933 and has been recording and sharing the human story for nearly a century. But its days are clearly waning.”
  
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• The American-Born Ballerina Dancing For $8 A Day At The Kremlin

  20-04-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When she left the Bolshoi in 2013, [Joy] Womack joined the Kremlin Ballet Theatre where she still works, aged 20, as a principal ballerina; dancing close to the Russian president’s office, next to the cathedrals inside the red walls of the Kremlin.”
  
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• Longtime Frieze PR Belinda Bowring Heads to Christie’s

  20-04-2015 17:47 via artnews.com
  Belinda Bowring, who has been head of communications for the Frieze Art Fair for nearly ten years, is moving to Christie’s, where she starts this week as head of public relations for postwar and contemporary art. She will be based in London. … Read More
  
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• Talking About ‘Resilience’ In Theatre Can Lead To Bad Ends

  20-04-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We are so reliant on the resilience narrative that it has become our intuitive response to every event, from audience development to fundraising to how we generate our creative work. This is a terrifying trend for the practice and production of contemporary theatre.”
  
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• A Fabled British Bookstore That Was About To Fall Down Gets A Happy Crowd-Sourced Response

  20-04-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Four steel columns were required at Scarthin Books, in Cromford, Derbyshire, to support the weight of about 100,000 books. Thousands of pounds were raised within days of the appeal starting and it is now close to hitting a £10,000 target.”
  
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• Warhol Museum Names Keny Marshall Director of Exhibitions

  20-04-2015 16:48 via artnews.com
  Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum announced today that it has tapped Keny Marshall to be its director of exhibitions. Marshall, “a consultant working with artists and museums to design, fabricate, and install interactive artworks and complex installation projects,” according to the … Read More
  
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• How Do Nice Downtowns Get That Way?

  20-04-2015 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In every place we’ve been, every one we’ve talked with about downtown recovery stresses the crucial importance of getting people to live there.”
  
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• A New Tate Museum Is Open – In Minecraft

  20-04-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Tate’s initiative, known as ‘Tate Worlds,’ is the result of a collaboration with a group of Minecraft artists and builders known as ‘The Common People’ in order to refashion artworks from their collection into Minecraft’s virtual universe.”
  
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• Did The Internet Make Book Culture Explode?

  20-04-2015 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For centuries, if what you had written was going to be shown to others, it would have to be placed in a library, usually a church library. And since the only way anyone would know that a new piece of literature had been written was if the writer personally put the word around, there would […]
  
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• Tina Fey Is The Anti-David Mamet

  20-04-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Despite masculinity’s lingering and damaging presence, the women are the victors here.”
  
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• City Slicker: Cowboy Fanatic Dylan Brant Curates Show at Venus Over Manhattan

  20-04-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  On a recent afternoon, Dylan Brant, stepson of media mogul and art collector Peter Brant, whom he refers to as “Dad,” was in the office at Venus Over Manhattan, Adam Lindemann’s gallery on the Upper East Side. Brant was preparing … Read More
  
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• Univision Ends 53-Year Run Of Popular Program ‘Sabado Gigante’

  20-04-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Miami-based weekly variety show has long been an institution for Latino immigrants and their children. Over its run, the show has established itself as an important part of the network’s history and identity, as well as Spanish-language television in the U.S.”
  
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• Things we found in the fire: Glasgow School of Art’s restoration brings surprises

  20-04-2015 15:02
  
  From weird relics to oak columns made of cheap pine, the rebuilding of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s library has unearthed some secrets. But will the replica leave it looking like a cheap kitchen?
  A Roman sentry stands watch with a look of panic, as fireballs crash down around him and bodies lie strewn among the rubble in the last moments of Pompeii. The scene, depicted in Edward Poynter’s painting, Faithful unto Death, is still legible on a scorched postcard pulled from behind the charred rem
  
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• 10 Fun Facts About The Whitney Museum

  20-04-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Whitney likes to treat their artists right. If you have a piece in the collection, you’ll never pay a dime to access the museum for the rest of your life.”
  
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• Even PBS Knuckles Under To Celebrity, Sony Emails Show

  20-04-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[Ben] Affleck’s family used to own slaves, a fact that he sought to cover up before his episode aired, according to e-mails from the Sony hack, uploaded last week and cataloged into a searchable database on the WikiLeaks site.”
  
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• American Classical Musicians To Visit Tehran Will Be The First Since The Iranian Revolution

  20-04-2015 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘Opening up the cultural interaction between two nations whose governments have been at odds for so long can be a window to hope and peace,’ said Iranian-born composer Reza Vali, a Carnegie Mellon University music professor.”
  
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• Actor Who Played Gilbert In ‘Anne Of Green Gables’ Series Dies At 48

  20-04-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Crombie became a heartthrob to multiple generations after he won the role of Gilbert Blythe, played opposite Megan Follows as Anne Shirley, in the 1985 award-winning CBC production of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s famous novel.”
  
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• Morning Links: Great Wall of China Edition

  20-04-2015 13:52 via artnews.com
  Chinese archeologists have found an additional six-mile stretch of the Great Wall on the border of the Gansu province and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. [The Art Newspaper] Anri Sala was once again named France’s leading artist in a survey taken … Read More
  
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• A Writer On A Meteoric Rise Amid Her Main Character’s Grief And Isolatin

  20-04-2015 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We are made separate by the things we do or do not do. Responsibilities of all types curb us. Desire betrays us. No wound is ever truly petty. And there are so many ways to be locked apart from the rest of the world.”
  
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• Why Is Western Orientalist Art Making A Comeback?

  20-04-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The rise of modernism rendered the Orientalists old-fashioned; later on, the fall of the European empires and the rise of cultural criticism made them politically incorrect. But now Orientalist art is having something of a comeback.”
  
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• Kevin Frayer wins the Chris Hondros Fund award – in pictures

  20-04-2015 10:36
  
  As the Canadian photographer wins the $20,000 Getty Images and Chris Hondros Fund award, we show some of his best images. Formerly with Associated Press, Frayer is now a freelance based in China, where he will use the award to continue his documentary workContinue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 04.19.15

  20-04-2015 06:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Algren for Real: ‘The End Is Nothing. The Road Is All’ AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2015-04-19 Audiencing: Am I Worth Being Nice To? AJBlog: We The AudiencePublished 2015-04-19 Aaron Posner’s Chekhov update destroys the fourth wall AJBlog: Lies Like TruthPublished 2015-04-18 Canon to the Left of Me, and Now the Right AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-04-18 Big money for campus buildings for music […]
  
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• Week in arts: Climate art festival, Ocean films and Mojo Juju

  20-04-2015 02:31
  
  Comedian Daniel Kitson trusts Adelaide audiences to press play on his show Polyphony and Ayers Rock celebrates the Tjungu festivalArt+Climate=Change 2015Curated by artist Søren Dahlgaard, the Maldives exodus caravan will roam the Melbourne streets with an exhibition of video, performance, music and games exploring the political tension and environmental issues of the Pacific islands that bear the brunt of climate change. It’s part of Art+Climate=Change 2015, which features keynote lectu
  
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• Week in arts: Climarte festival, Ocean films and Mojo Juju

  20-04-2015 02:31
  
  Comedian Daniel Kitson trusts Adelaide audiences to press play on his show Polyphony and Ayers Rock celebrates the Tjungu festivalCurated by artist Søren Dahlgaard, the Maldives exodus caravan will roam the Melbourne streets with an exhibition of video, performance, music and games exploring the political tension and environmental issues of the Pacific islands that bear the brunt of climate change. It’s part of the 2015 Climarte festival, which features keynote lectures, public forums,
  
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• Meryl Streep Funds Screenwriting Lab For Women Over 40

  20-04-2015 00:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Called the Writers Lab, the screenplay development program aims to increase opportunities for female screenwriters over the age of 40. This year the initiative will accept submissions May 1-June 1, with eight winning scribes named Aug. 1.”
  
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