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• Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming: The Whitney Toasts Its New Home

  27-04-2015 23:48 via artnews.com
  On Friday night the Whitney held an opening for its new building, ending a week of events that fêted the new Renzo Piano-designed space, which opens to the public this week. The turnout was robust, even though one had to … Read More
  
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• Christie’s London will Auction a WWII Fighter Plane in their ‘Exceptional Sale’

  27-04-2015 20:34 via artnews.com
  Christie’s “Exceptional Sale,” which began in London in 2008 and is devoted to weird, non-conforming, and particularly buzz-worthy objects, will feature a spitfire fighter plane this year, in the July 11th auction. In the past, objects included “The Rothschild Torah Ark: A Magnificent German … Read More
  
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• Here’s a First Look at the Israeli Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

  27-04-2015 20:25 via artnews.com
  The 2015 Venice Biennale opens next week, if you can wrap your head around such a thing. Here, we offer you a first look at the Israeli Pavilion, with work by Tel Aviv-based artist Tsibi Geva and curated by Hadas Maor. … Read More
  
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• The Woman Who Shaped The Las Vegas Skyline

  27-04-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Baron Haussmann was lucky enough to be hanging around Paris at the exact moment Napoleon III thought it could do with a refit. Christopher Wren had the good fortune to be alive at the time of Britain’s worst bakery fire. And Betty Willis happened to be working for a sign manufacturer in Las Vegas when […]
  
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• What’s So Great About Young Writers?

  27-04-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Youthful achievement is often linked to privilege. Not everyone can afford to write when young. Some are already working more than one job. Others are raising children, as I was for many years. Still others may not feel safe expressing themselves, for any number of reasons.”
  
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• ‘The City Lost and Found’ at the Princeton University Art Museum

  27-04-2015 18:15 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980” is currently on view at the Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton, New … Read More
  
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• Common Core Prioritizes The Arts In Standardized Test Prep

  27-04-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A growing number of big cities, including New York, are increasing money for their arts programs as they roll out Common Core.”
  
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• Why Museums Need To Partner With – Not Just Consult – Native Peoples For ‘Native American’ Exhibits

  27-04-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Asserting Native voice in the exhibition is represented by gigantic blow-up photographs of Native people in the exhibition, quotes, videos, interviews, representation in the gift shop, participation in the catalog, is inaccurate and disingenuous.”
  
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• Ellis Island Immigration Museum Is (Finally?) Getting An Update

  27-04-2015 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though it used to end the immigration story in 1954, “the museum will leap more than 60 years forward with the opening of two new galleries in what had once been the station’s kitchen and laundry. They pick up the narrative where it was left off.”
  
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• Six Novelists Withdraw From PEN Awards Gala Over ‘Charlie Hebdo’

  27-04-2015 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Australian novelist Peter Carey: “All this is complicated by PEN’s seeming blindness to the cultural arrogance of the French nation, which does not recognize its moral obligation to a large and disempowered segment of their population.”
  
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• A Slice Of Americana: The (Extremely Sweary) Deranged Sorority Girl Email Cantata

  27-04-2015 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While waiting for things to get going, composers near my chair were debating just how Calianno would manage to set ‘cunt punt’ anyway.”
  
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• We’re Obsessed With The Apocalypse

  27-04-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The postapocalyptic imagination depends on an attitude of disillusionment that presupposes that hope once sprang eternal in the human heart.”
  
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• What Happens When Dudes Have To Go On Point For A Ballet

  27-04-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The women in the company have given us a few tips. But mostly they find it very amusing.”
  
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• Artadia Names 10 Finalists for Inaugural New York Grants

  27-04-2015 16:33 via artnews.com
  Artadia, a nonprofit that has provided unrestricted grants to artists working in cities across the United States for the past 15 years, today announced the 10 finalists that have been selected for its first-ever New York round. (It has previously … Read More
  
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• Making Good Theatre, Political Or Not, For Actors With Disabilities

  27-04-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The £3m, three-year Unlimited initiative aims to give venues a choice of work and stop them from, as Verrent put it, ‘programming shit, and the first piece of work that they came across with a wheelchair and a guide dog in it.'”
  
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• Four Girls (And Their Director), Revolutionizing French Cinema

  27-04-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In opting for an all-black cast, Sciamma was deliberately rejecting what some might have seen as a politically correct approach. ‘That would have been more comfortable, wouldn’t it?’ she says. ‘But I didn’t want to get into that overworked logic of balance and diversity. In terms of fiction, it’s a blind alley.'”
  
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• Eddie Martinez Joins Mitchell-Innes & Nash

  27-04-2015 15:42 via artnews.com
  Brooklyn-based artist Eddie Martinez is now represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York. Martinez has been something of a roving talent in the last few years, having been in exhibitions at various spaces in New York including ZieherSmith, The … Read More
  
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• Steve Gianakos at Fredericks & Freiser

  27-04-2015 15:35 via artnews.com
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• Michael Landy at Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso

  27-04-2015 15:34 via artnews.com
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• Joanna Piotrowska at Southard Reid

  27-04-2015 15:31 via artnews.com
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• Tal R at Cheim & Read

  27-04-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• Antonio Berni at Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires

  27-04-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• Allora & Calzadilla at Philadelphia Museum of Art & Fabric Workshop and Museum

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• “Future Seasons Past” at Lehmann Maupin

  27-04-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• Mamma Andersson at David Zwirner

  27-04-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• Nancy Haynes at Regina Rex

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• Stephen Antonakos at Lori Bookstein Fine Art

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• ‘The Radiants’ at Bortolami

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• “Laugh-In” at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

  27-04-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• An Art Critic Skewers The MoMA Björk Show, In Verse Akin To The Vapid Audio Guide

  27-04-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The girl continues, step by step, the critic girl, girl critic listening to the audio guide, with its stories that are free, so free — free of context, free of facts, free even of the lava girl’s name, a lava girl, in the shadow of 50, still being described as a ‘girl.'”
  
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• Shakespeare’s Plays Show That His Attitudes Toward Women Evolved

  27-04-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Something happened, somewhere around Love’s Labour’s Lost and the early history plays and going into Romeo and Juliet. Either he fell in love or he just grew up, but something happened to him where he suddenly ‘got it’ about women and there was a profound shift in his writing.”
  
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• Morning Links: Earthquake in Nepal Edition

  27-04-2015 14:58 via artnews.com
  The earthquake that hit Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley on Saturday, killing an estimated more than 3,000 people, has damaged or destroyed monuments, temples and historic squares in the country’s capital, Kathmandu, and the cities of Patan and Bhaktapur.[The Art Newspaper] In celebration of the … Read More
  
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• Marvel And Disney Get Grief For Ignoring Black Widow In Merchandise Blitz For New Avengers Movie

  27-04-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Of the 60 items released on the Marvel and Disney websites on Monday, only three featured the female superhero. Unlike her male counterparts, Thor, The Hulk, Captain America and Iron Man, there are no Black Widow costumes, dolls or clothing. She only appears with the other Avengers on a tote bag, in one of the […]
  
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• Not Every Writer Can Afford To Just Donate Prize Money

  27-04-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With increasing pressure for writers to work for free – some of Australia’s largest books festivals offer writers a chance to donate back their small fee and work gratis – and the vast majority of authors struggling to earn a living at all, what is the knock-on effect of these individual actions? For future award […]
  
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• The Problem With Adam Sandler

  27-04-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Something has been bubbling beneath the surface of too many Sandler comedies in recent years, a cold, mean-spirited smugness reeking of unexamined white-male privilege.”
  
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• Unseen Francis Bacon self-portraits go on show for first time in London and New York

  27-04-2015 12:14
  
  Two rediscovered Francis Bacon self-portraits are to go on display for the first time.
  
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• The week in arts: Head on festival, Skipping Girl Vinegar, Luminous Flux

  27-04-2015 09:41
  
  An adventurer follows in Genghis Khan’s footsteps, Western Australian artists take the spotlight in Perth, and Sydney goes photo crazyWith more than 50 exhibitions, artist talks, workshops and masterclasses , Sydney’s Head On photo festival presents an international slate of photographers and subjects. Festivities kick off with the announcement of the Head on award winners on 1 May at the festival hub, before a month-long program provides glimpses into the lives of breastfeeding mothers, sha
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 04.26.15

  27-04-2015 07:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Almost invisible AJBlog: Performance MonkeyPublished 2015-04-26 Back At Ya AJBlog: Infinite CurvesPublished 2015-04-26 The Truth About Youth AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-04-25 Poem for the Cleaning Women: ‘We Are All Holy’ AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2015-04-25 Extinction Lesson of a Comical and Salutary Creature AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2015-04-25 How Rupert Brooke’s War Ended 100 Years Ago AJBlog: Plain EnglishPublished 2015-04-25 Rosolino And Mingus On Bethlehe
  
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• Artist John Wolseley: 'we allow such terrible things to happen to our world'

  27-04-2015 05:00
  
  The British-born landscape painter has turned his attention from the Australian desert to its wetlands, searching for a deeper human connection with nature – from Tasmania’s glacial pools to the mangrove swamps of Roebuck BayJohn Wolseley opens the door of his St Kilda home with a flourish of avuncular bonhomie. “I’m so very sorry, have you been ringing the bell for ages?” he asks in sonorous, very English tones as he ushers me into the art deco apartment he shares with his curator wif
  
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• Francis Bacon self-portraits expected to fetch £30m

  27-04-2015 01:01
  
  Two works by the British artist are going on public display for the first time 40 years after they were paintedTwo Francis Bacon self-portraits are going on public display for the first time after resurfacing in a private collection.Descendants of the original collector have decided to sell the paintings, which are expected to fetch £15m each at auction.We knew of the existence of the paintings but simply had no idea where they could be Related: Francis Bacon's painting of Lucian Freud is
  
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