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• Philippe de Montebello To Be Named New Board Chairman of Hispanic Society of America

  21-04-2015 22:10 via artnews.com
  Philippe de Montebello will be announced as the new board chairman of Washington Heights’s Hispanic Society of America, succeeding George B. Moore, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal. Though the museum houses one of the world’s best … Read More
  
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• Harvard Appoints New Associate Drawings Curator

  21-04-2015 21:49 via artnews.com
  Edouard Kopp, formerly associate curator of drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, is now the Maida and George Abrams Associate Curator of Drawings in the Harvard Art Museums’ division of European and American art. Kopp is expected to … Read More
  
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• Nicole Eisenman Joins Anton Kern Gallery

  21-04-2015 21:41 via artnews.com
  Nicole Eisenman has moved her New York representation over to Anton Kern, a gallery representative confirmed today. Back in March, Eisenman had announced on Twitter (through an account that no longer exists) that she was leaving Koenig & Clinton: “I … Read More
  
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• Heavy Artillery: At 83, Malcolm Morley Is Still Doing Battle

  21-04-2015 21:05 via artnews.com
  “I never look back,” the legendary 83-year-old British ex-pat artist Malcolm Morley said Thursday. Morley—who at different points in his distinguished career has been at the forefront of movements like Photorealism and Neo-Expressionism—was speaking to me on the afternoon of … Read More
  
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• Protocinema Is Bringing Hale Tenger’s Historic Installation to New York for Frieze Week

  21-04-2015 20:51 via artnews.com
  In 1995, Turkish multimedia artist Hale Tenger created We didn’t go outside; we were always on the outside/We didn’t go inside; we were always on the inside, an installation piece consisting of a dilapidated wooden guardhouse encircled by a fence … Read More
  
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• Creative Time and Airbnb Team Up for Central Park Project

  21-04-2015 19:18 via artnews.com
  It was announced today that the Web 2.0 accommodations provider Airbnb is to be the “official Community Partner” for all of arts organization Creative Time’s 2015 projects, including “Drifting in Daylight,” an exhibition in Central Park premiering Friday, May 15. … Read More
  
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• Karol Szymanowski's 'Król Roger': A forgotten classic set to rule again

  21-04-2015 19:05
  
  Back in 2000, Simon Rattle, then music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, brought out a recording of a rarely performed masterpiece: the opera Król Roger (King Roger) by the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937). Throwing his weight behind the rehabilitation of this neglected composer, he once remarked: "I cannot talk objectively about Szymanowski, for you cannot expect objectivity or reasonability from someone in love. And reasonability is out of place when this mu
  
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• Thoma Foundation Awards First-Ever ‘Digital Arts’ Writing Prize

  21-04-2015 19:05 via artnews.com
  The Thoma Foundation, a Santa Fe and Chicago foundation established by Carl and Marilynn Thoma, has announced the winners of a new prize, the Thoma Foundation Arts Writing Fellowship Award, for writers who concentrate on covering digital art. The Thomas, … Read More
  
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• A giant paper boat? Art’s response to migrant drownings should be way more aggressive

  21-04-2015 19:00
  
  Vik Muniz’s floating installation Lampedusa – made of newspaper articles about migrant deaths – will float equivocally beside the superyachts at this year’s Venice Biennale. With the death toll mounting, that’s simply not enoughThe death of perhaps as many as 900 people in the Mediterranean this week – murdered by the prevailing European, including British, attitude towards migrants as surely as they were killed by human traffickers – comes a few weeks before one of the Mediterrane
  
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• TV Critic Mary McNamara Wins Pulitizer For Criticism

  21-04-2015 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “McNamara was honored for 2014 columns on the death of Joan Rivers, Stephen Colbert’s departure from Comedy Central, the media circus attending the Sochi Olympics and myriad television shows. She often ranged beyond television to examine broader cultural trends and controversies, including the debate about the role on-screen sexism might play in real-world violence.”
  
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• Online Art Buying Increased Dramatically In 2014

  21-04-2015 18:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The majority of online transactions — 84 percent — were below $15,000, the report stated. It also found that social media were influential in the online market, with 24 percent of respondents saying that posts by museums, galleries and artist studios had a direct influence on their art-buying decisions.”
  
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• Claim: Hidden Funding Cuts Endanger The Health Of The Arts

  21-04-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is pointless having a top-down commitment to access and diversity from the government-supported institutions if considerable cuts to funding are forcing local authorities to narrow their cultural programmes and opportunities.”
  
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• Claim: There Are No Arguments That Aren’t Lame For Keeping Stolen Artifacts

  21-04-2015 18:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In many ways, the whole question of what role the British Museum had in preserving the Elgin Marbles is beside the point — as it is with the Indigenous Australian artifacts, many of which it did undoubtedly preserve for posterity. That museums have saved cultural artifacts is no reason for them to retain ownership of […]
  
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• What The New Yorker’s Comics Editor Looks For In Great Work

  21-04-2015 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Often, we separate intellectual discourse from emotional reaction. But I take such genuine pleasure in things that are intellectually well architected. It’s definitely an integrated experience for me. Much more than any kind of cheap, emotional pulls that you get in popular culture, when I read a sentence and it’s beautifully written, it can bring […]
  
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• ‘Liliana Porter: Reparar el piano y otros compromisos’ at Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte

  21-04-2015 18:30 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Liliana Porter: Reparar el piano y otros compromisos,” is currently on view at Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte in Buenos Aires until Friday, May 8. The … Read More
  
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• Cirque du Soleil Is Such A Singular Enterprise. Can Its Creative Spark Survive A Sale Of The Company?

  21-04-2015 18:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Cirque has already played to over 160 million people around the world and I firmly hope it will continue to dazzle us with sights and wonders. But you’ll have to prove to me that a financial group whose major achievement has been the “branding” of J. Crew and Nieman Marcus will understand the impulse that […]
  
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• Julia Wolfe Wins 2014 Pulitzer Prize For Music

  21-04-2015 18:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Pulitzer citation describes the work as “a powerful oratorio for chorus and sextet evoking Pennsylvania coal-mining life around the turn of the 20th Century.” The prize is for a “distinguished musical composition by an American that has had its first performance or recording in the United States” during the previous calendar year and comes […]
  
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• Epic Battle of Waterloo drawing restored for display to mark bicentenary

  21-04-2015 18:01
  
  The Waterloo Cartoon by the Irish artist Daniel Maclise is a preparatory drawing for a wall painting that survives in the House of LordsAn epic Victorian historical drawing, 13m long and 3m tall, which has been stored away for most of the last century, has been restored so that it can go on display again to mark the bicentenary of its subject, the meeting of the Duke of Wellington and his Prussian ally Field Marshal Blucher after the Battle of Waterloo. The enormous Waterloo Cartoon was a prepar
  
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• Epic Battle of Waterloo drawing restored for bicentenary exhibition

  21-04-2015 18:01
  
  The Waterloo Cartoon by Irish artist Daniel Maclise was preparatory drawing for wall painting that survives in House of LordsAn epic Victorian historical drawing measuring 13 x 3 metres has been restored so it can go on display to mark the bicentenary of its subject; the meeting of the Duke of Wellington and his Prussian ally, Field Marshal Blücher, after the Battle of Waterloo. The Waterloo cartoon was a preparatory drawing by the Irish artist Daniel Maclise for an equally monumental wall
  
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• LA Stage Actors Strongly Oppose Wage Increase

  21-04-2015 17:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The new wage could quadruple what actors earn from a typical production. But opponents say a change could backfire on actors by shutting down the most economically fragile theaters and putting the rest under pressures that would drain much of the flavor and adventure from L.A.’s small-theater menu.”
  
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• Hollywood Theatres See Possibilities Of Banner Box Office Year

  21-04-2015 17:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Fueled by such hits as “Furious 7″ and “Fifty Shades of Grey,” and a string of upcoming franchise movies, some analysts predict that ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada will climb 8% to $11.2 billion this year, a new high water mark for domestic box office revenue.”
  
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• The Dangers of Returning Artifacts

  21-04-2015 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For those of us who have worried about how to frame the loss of artifacts when multitudes are being raped, murdered or displaced, it is a message that is paradoxically comforting – or at least useful. The fate of living humans and the fate of ancient stones turn out to be intimately linked.”
  
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• Carol Bove's seductive sculptures force us to confront our inner animal

  21-04-2015 16:15
  
  Using everything from 30-million-year-old trees to white loop the loops, Bove’s easy-on-the-eye artworks could easily be plopped down in a corporate plaza. But they’re so much more intriguing than thatA 30-million-year-old petrified tree trunk is bolted to a vertical steel I-beam. It’s a brown thing climbing another brown thing, standing on the wooden floor at David Zwirner gallery in Mayfair. Nearby, a white steel tube does a loop the loop. This is called Noodle. My eye sucks it up like s
  
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• The Whitney Moves Downtown: Artists and Curators on the Museum’s History and Future

  21-04-2015 15:10 via artnews.com
  It’s not every day that an institution the size of the Whitney Museum moves to a different building. The Whitney began in 1914 as an informal salon founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Whitney had amassed a collection of hundreds of … Read More
  
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• Renzo Piano as Light and Space Artist

  21-04-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  With his new building for the Whitney Museum opening May 1, the architect's 2013 expansion of the Kimbell Art Museum offers insights into his approach Read More
  
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• Morning Links: ‘This Is Not An Error’ Edition

  21-04-2015 14:59 via artnews.com
  The net value of works in the Tiroche DeLeon Collection art fund, a fund which invests in contemporary art from developing countries, grew 5% in 2014, thanks to two works by Ai Weiwei: Forever (2003), bought in 2011 for $805,000 and … Read More
  
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• Worldwide, Universities Are Dying

  21-04-2015 14:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “From Cape Town to Reykjavik, Sydney to São Paulo, an event as momentous in its own way as the Cuban revolution or the invasion of Iraq is steadily under way: the slow death of the university as a center of humane critique. Universities, which in Britain have an 800-year history, have traditionally been derided as […]
  
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• Letter: Albert Irvin obituary

  21-04-2015 14:48
  
  From the early 1970s onwards, Albert Irvin celebrated the “birthday” of one of his heroes, the artist JMW Turner, on St George’s Day with a party in his studio attended by fellow painters and friends.Recently this had taken place in rooms over pubs or at the Chelsea Arts Club, but always it was presided over by a life-size silhouette of Turner himself, mounted on hardboard. The only drink offered for the toast was rum. Continue reading...
  
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• Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation review – a fabulous beast

  21-04-2015 08:00
  
  British Museum doesn’t shy from its ownership of many controversial artefacts in this wonderful exploration of Indigenous Australian tragedy and triumphWhat is civilisation? Westerners tend to think it has something to do with Greek statues and classical music. No wonder they failed to recognise it when they saw it in the great southern continent that Captain James Cook claimed as a British possession in 1770. The expressions of civilisation that could be clearly seen all over Australia were s
  
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• Pop, glamour and gangsters: Boris Yeltsin's new rave Russia

  21-04-2015 06:00
  
  As the Soviet Union dissipated its counter culture movement was replaced by a decade of free-market hedonism. The Calvert Journal talk us through the 1990s
  The 1980s were divided into two five-year periods in Russia, one black, one white. First there were the throes of Soviet power played out to the accompaniment of an extraordinary carnival of underground art: from the Necrorealist film genre, to Ilya Kabakov’s art works and Pyotr Mamonov’s hypnotic rock.This was followed by the era of pere
  
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• Indigenous Australia at the British Museum: It's time to give the Aboriginal art back

  21-04-2015 01:01
  
  In 1821, a teenager named Mary Palmer was convicted of tying up and robbing a gentleman in Whitechapel, London. She was my great-great-great-grandmother. While her gang was sentenced to death, Mary was saved by the fact that she was pregnant. She was deported as a convict to the penal colony of Australia, which was deemed terra nullius, nobody's land, by the British colonial authorities.
  
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