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• The Whitney Opens With a Winner

  23-04-2015 23:42 via artnews.com
  Let’s cut to the chase: the Whitney Museum of American Art’s inaugural show in its new home in the Meatpacking District, “America Is Hard to See,” is great. With about 600 works by a little over 400 artists, it offers … Read More
  
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• Whitney Museum of American Art opens the doors of its new New York City home

  23-04-2015 22:17
  
  The museum that houses the world’s most important collection of American art has shown off its new home – a $422 glass and steel construction with stunning views of New York City and the Hudson River.
  
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• Whitney Museum of American Art opens doors of its new New York City home

  23-04-2015 22:17
  
  The museum that houses the world’s most important collection of American art has shown off its new home – a $422 glass and steel construction with stunning views of New York City and the Hudson River.
  
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• Trademark Office Rejects Katy Perry’s Attempt to Own Left Shark From Superbowl

  23-04-2015 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Lawyers for the Roar singer had applied to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to have the design registered to prevent others from making money from unlicensed depictions of the outfit, made famous by an out-of-step back-up dancer.”
  
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• The Ten Wealthiest Musicians In The UK

  23-04-2015 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Of the 1,000 richest people in the UK and the 250 wealthiest in Ireland, the list puts Irish band U2 at third place with £431m. Pop veteran Sir Elton John and Rolling Stones’ frontman Sir Mick Jagger follow with their fortunes, thought to be worth £270m and £225m respectively.”
  
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• ‘Crystal Galindo’ at Studio Grand, Oakland

  23-04-2015 19:30 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Fotos y Recuerdos: Works by Crystal Galindo,” is currently on view at Studio Grand in Oakland, California until the end of April. The exhibition offers large-scale … Read More
  
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• Should art respond to science? On this evidence, the answer is simple: no way

  23-04-2015 18:38
  
  Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda’s installation Supersymmetry is inspired by his residency at Cern – but signifies little more than that physics is weird. Isn’t it time we stopped expecting artists to understand the complexities of science?Physics – it really does your head in. That seems to be the less than enlightening message the Japanese visual artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda – creator of the massive light beam Spectra that took over the sky in London last year to commemorate the first
  
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• Literary Scholar M.H. Abrams, 102

  23-04-2015 17:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  With “The Mirror and the Lamp,” Professor Abrams almost single-handedly conferred legitimacy on the study of Romantic poetry, which had been held in low regard by the followers of New Criticism, then in its ascendancy.
  
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• Birmingham's Ikon gallery celebrates 50 years with greatest hits show

  23-04-2015 17:02
  
  Artists including Antony Gormley, Fiona Banner, Ryan Gander, Julian Opie, Martin Creed and Lee Bul donate works to be auctioned for endowment fundIt began 50 years ago in a glass-walled kiosk in Birmingham’s concrete Bullring shopping centre with an ambition to be the “antithesis to exclusive art establishments and galleries … formed because of the need for an accessible place where the exchange of visual ideas can become a familiar reality.”
  Today the internationally renowned Ikon galle
  
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• James Siena, In 3-D: The Artist On His New Exhibition at Pace Gallery

  23-04-2015 17:00 via artnews.com
  The genesis of James Siena’s current show at Pace dates all the way back to the 1980’s, when the artist first made small scale geometric sculptures out of toothpicks and grape stems, often to give away. “I don’t want to … Read More
  
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• YouTube Has Changed The World Of TV In 10 Years (Just Not How People Expected It To)

  23-04-2015 16:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  In one decade, YouTube has developed a culture of its own and is a threat to the conventional business model of television—but not in the way world expected.
  
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• The End Of the 500-Channel Cable Universe

  23-04-2015 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The days of the 500-channel universe are over,” Leslie Moonves, the chief executive of CBS, said at a corporate conference last month. “The days of the 150-channel universe in the home, while not necessarily over, are changing rapidly. There’s going to be people who are going to be slicing it and dicing it in different […]
  
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• Post-Apocalyptic Art – It WAS Fantasy (Now Prediction?)

  23-04-2015 16:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There is, of course, one great difference between earlier artistic impressions of the end of civilisation and these contemporary cataclysms. Today, the end of the world as we know is not a romantic fantasy, but a potential reality. Overwhelming scientific evidence minutely charts human-caused climate change. Sombre analyses carefully map the likely consequences of melting […]
  
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• English National Opera Makes Big Season Cuts (But What’s Left Is Pretty Good)

  23-04-2015 16:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The company’s 2015-16 programme represents a cut of around a third in terms of productions, the result of the withering financial crises, drastic Arts Council cuts, last-ditch bailouts and all-round air of impending doom that has engulfed the company for the umpteenth time in its history for the last few months.”
  
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• We’ve Set Up Exam Factories. That Doesn’t Work. What We Need Are Real Places Of Learning

  23-04-2015 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We are currently operating a Fordist model of mass education that is failing to prepare young people for the dramatic socioeconomic demands of the digital age. What is more worrying is that politicians, rather than supporting a schools system with the flexibility and innovation obviously needed, have fallen for a theology of standardised testing and […]
  
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• Dia Will Show Early Flavin Works at Its Hamptons Space

  23-04-2015 15:12 via artnews.com
  Dan Flavin’s icons–a series of transitional sculptures that led to the artist’s more famous fluorescent light installations–will go on view at Dia’s Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton, New York, at the end of the month. The works were last seen in … Read More
  
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• BBC Proms 2015: Ibiza club classics set to raise the roof (and eyebrows)

  23-04-2015 15:02
  
  Mozart’s piano concertos and Bach sonatas will surprise few Proms regulars in this year’s festival programme. Though eyebrows, and possibly hands, may be raised in the Royal Albert Hall over an orchestral celebration of Ibiza club classics.
  
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• Sarkis, painter: 'You can look at all these objects; like actors they will play a role somewhere'

  23-04-2015 15:00
  
  The artist Sarkis works in Villejuif, a quiet suburb in south-east Paris. He moved into this former printing factory from a smaller studio 15 years ago. Born in Turkey, in 1938, Sarkis was brought up the son of an Armenian. He tells the story of his first epiphany: helping his father in his butcher's shop on a Sunday, his job was to wrap the packages of meat in newspaper. One day as he wrapped a joint his eyes fastened on a reproduction of Munch's painting The Scream. "It changed my life. It wa
  
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• Sarkis, artist: 'You can look at all these objects; like actors they will play a role somewhere'

  23-04-2015 15:00
  
  The artist Sarkis works in Villejuif, a quiet suburb in south-east Paris. He moved into this former printing factory from a smaller studio 15 years ago. Born in Turkey, in 1938, Sarkis was brought up the son of an Armenian. He tells the story of his first epiphany: helping his father in his butcher's shop on a Sunday, his job was to wrap the packages of meat in newspaper. One day as he wrapped a joint his eyes fastened on a reproduction of Munch's painting The Scream. "It changed my life. It wa
  
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• Venice Biennale Awards Golden Lions to El Anatsui, Susanne Ghez, Names Jury

  23-04-2015 14:52 via artnews.com
  The Venice Biennale, which opens to the public in a little more than three weeks, announced today that it has awarded its highest honor, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, to artist El Anatsui, saying in a statement that the … Read More
  
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• Venice Biennale Awards Golden Lions to El Anatsui, Susanne Ghez, Names International Jury

  23-04-2015 14:52 via artnews.com
  The Venice Biennale, which opens to the public in a little more than three weeks, announced today that it has awarded its highest honor, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, to artist El Anatsui, saying in a statement that the … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Christo Edition

  23-04-2015 14:42 via artnews.com
  Christo will create 4.5 kilometers of paths on Lake Iseo in Italy made of yellow nylon that will connect two of its islands to the mainland for the first time, allowing the public to “walk on water.” The Floating Piers will be his first major … Read More
  
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• What Skills Will You Need To Thrive In The New “Maker” Economy?

  23-04-2015 14:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The consensus answer was that the emphasis should be on collaboration (learning with others, working with others—both keys to much of the advancement of the maker culture), learning how to think (specific subject matter is less important, with an important exception noted below), and being able to think in a systemic way (seeing how things […]
  
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• Vlodko Kostyrko – Gotta be hard

  23-04-2015 11:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Vlodko Kostyrko from Lviv sends you this message. Circa 1993.   It says: “Gotta be hard. Dick.”  The post Vlodko Kostyrko – Gotta be hard appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Australian artist Ildiko Kovacs wins $80,000 Bulgari art award

  23-04-2015 10:13
  
  Kovacs follows Daniel Boyd, Jon Cattapan and Michael Zavros as fourth winner of Australia’s richest art prize for her abstract painting Onda 2015Ildiko Kovacs has won the the $80,000 Bulgari art award, Australia’s richest art prize, for her abstract painting Onda 2015.Known for her expansive and colourful works, the New South Wales artist has exhibited at galleries across Australia for more than three decades, including a major survey show, Down the Line, at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery in 20
  
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• This Theater Company Makes House Calls

  23-04-2015 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The latest iteration of intimate, in-home performances – think home concerts – Salon Ariel hopes to fill a void in the theater world.”
  
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• Christo’s Next Project Will Let Us Walk On Water (Sort Of)

  23-04-2015 10:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  His first major work to be realized since The Gates in 2005 – and the first since the death of his wife and partner, Jeanne-Claude – The Floating Piers will be “three kilometres of shimmering yellow walkways on Lake Iseo in Italy that will link two of its islands to the mainland for the first […]
  
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• A Brief History Of Religion On The Stage

  23-04-2015 10:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Religious drama is one of the oldest forms of British theatre, with the incorporation of performance into worship recorded from the time when Christianity was only 500 or so years old.” Mark Lawson gives an overview of the 15 centuries since then, from medieval mystery plays through Murder in the Cathedral and Jesus Christ Superstar […]
  
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• Lars Von Trier: ‘I’ve Started Drinking Again, So I Can Work’ (Uh-Oh)

  23-04-2015 10:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  The all-too-irrepressible filmmaker, in one of the few interviews he’s given since his unfortunate Nazi joke got him banned from Cannes in 2011, talks about anxiety, AA, rebellion, Dogme, and why he puts so much sex in his movies (He comes from a nudist family).
  
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• All Missoula Is Worrying About The New Book, “Missoula”

  23-04-2015 10:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The local prosecutor wrote an urgent letter to its publishers trying to delay its release. Book sellers are taking orders for copies that wait in sealed boxes, ready to be opened on Tuesday. Some people are dreading its revelations about rape in their football-loving college town. Others are glad: Tell the story, they say, the […]
  
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• Historian And Author Frederic Morton Dead At 90

  23-04-2015 10:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “An Austrian-born Holocaust refugee who became a highly regarded chronicler of his abandoned homeland, capturing in works of history and fiction the Viennese society at the fin de siècle and on the eve of two world wars,” Morton was best known for A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888-1889 and Thunder at Twilight: Vienna, 1913-1914, as well […]
  
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• Gregory Pardlo’s Long Rise To Sudden Fame And The Pulitzer For Poetry

  23-04-2015 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Mr. Pardlo’s path to poetry was tortuous and unconventional, punctuated by long breaks and odd jobs. He struggled with alcoholism, which runs in his family. ‘My family’s a hot mess,’ he said.”
  
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• I paint dead people: passport-sized portraits of the departed – in pictures

  23-04-2015 08:00
  
  Sushant Chhabria collects photographs of dead strangers and turns them into tiny portraits that riff on the idea of reincarnation – he calls them ‘travellers’, as their souls move from one incarnation to anotherSee ‘In Loving Memory of ...’ at the 30th International Festival of Fashion and Photography in Hyères, France, until 27 April 2015 Continue reading...
  
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• Book ahead, Australia: tickets for Hozier, Don Giovanni, Ryan Trecartin at NGV

  23-04-2015 05:19
  
  In our weekly tout of the hottest new shows, book now to see a comedy cabaret about dolls, the legendary opera cad and everyone’s new favourite bluesmanFrom Barbies and Bratz to Cabbage Patch Kids, there’s something vaguely creepy about many of our favourite dolls. Popular Brisbane theatre group Babushka takes a look at the world through a doll’s eyes for their new comedy cabaret show The Doll, featuring an array of original songs blending opera, 80s pop, nursery rhymes and rock’n’roll
  
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