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• Art Critics Association Gives 2014 Awards to Kara Walker, Ragnar Kjartansson, More

  28-04-2015 23:26 via artnews.com
  The American section of the International Association of Art Critics—AICA, as it’s more popularly known—has released the winners of its 2014 awards, which were selected by a popular vote of its 400 members from a roster of nominees that was released in February. (Disclosure: … Read More
  
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• Robert Storr on Tax-Free Art Deals: The Rich ‘Don’t Need More Mechanisms to Protect Their Wealth’

  28-04-2015 22:49 via artnews.com
  Hot on the heels of The New York Times‘ look at how collectors are avoiding capital gains taxes on art sales through the like-kind exchange in the tax code, Bloomberg’s Katya Kazakina has a great story that delves into how people in the art … Read More
  
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• Collector Stefan Edlis Talks Tax-Free Art Deals, Collecting: ‘I’m Over-Invested’

  28-04-2015 22:49 via artnews.com
  Hot on the heels of The New York Times’s look at how collectors are avoiding capital gains taxes on art sales through the like-kind exchange in the tax code, Bloomberg’s Katya Kazakina has a great story that delves into how people in the art … Read More
  
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• Collector Stefan Edlis on Tax-Free Art Deals: ‘I’m Over-Invested’

  28-04-2015 22:49 via artnews.com
  Hot on the heels of The New York Times’s look at how collectors are avoiding capital gains taxes on art sales through the like-kind exchange in the tax code, Bloomberg’s Katya Kazakina has a great story that delves into how people in the art … Read More
  
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• Collector Stefan Edlis on Tax-Free Art Deals

  28-04-2015 22:49 via artnews.com
  Hot on the heels of The New York Times’s look at how collectors are avoiding capital gains taxes on art sales through the like-kind exchange in the tax code, Bloomberg’s Katya Kazakina has a great story that delves into how people in the art … Read More
  
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• New York’s Museum of Biblical Art Will Close in June

  28-04-2015 22:14 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Biblical Art, located near Columbus Circle in New York, will close after the final day of its “Sculpture in the Age of Donatello” exhibition on June 14. The museum began as a gallery inside the American Bible … Read More
  
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• The Met Appoints Clyde B. Jones III as Its First-Ever Senior Vice President for Institutional Advancement

  28-04-2015 21:46 via artnews.com
  Thomas P. Campbell, the director and CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced the appointment of Clyde B. Jones III to the newly created position of senior vice president for institutional advancement. Jones currently serves as president of the … Read More
  
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• Picabia Alert #8: A Blazing Sun Visits Madrid

  28-04-2015 21:21 via artnews.com
  “Picabia Alert” takes note of shows that feature work by the wily French artist Francis Picabia (1879–1953), aiming to sate Picabia appetites until the Picabia retrospective arrives at the Kunsthaus Zurich and New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2016. … Read More
  
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• Eugenio Cuttica at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires

  28-04-2015 21:20 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Eugenio Cuttica: La mirada interior” is currently on view at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires until Sunday, May 31. The exhibition presents … Read More
  
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• Michelle Obama Will Take Part In Whitney Museum Dedication

  28-04-2015 20:26 via artnews.com
  First Lady Michelle Obama will travel to New York this Thursday, April 30, for the dedication of the new Whitney Museum on Gansevoort Street. According to a release from the White House Press Office, “At the event, the First Lady will … Read More
  
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• Dulwich gallery reveals fake painting among collection of Old Masters

  28-04-2015 19:22
  
  After a three-month challenge to the public to spot the replica, Dulwich picture gallery reveals the work that was ordered for £70 over the internet The visitors came in their thousands, staring intently at the Rembrandts, Rubens and Murillos in the hope that they would be able to spot the imposter hidden among the masters. Now, three months since Dulwich picture gallery challenged the public to “spot the fake” after replacing one of their collection masterpieces with a Chinese replica, the
  
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• Spot the difference: How public identified a fake painting at the Dulwich Picture Gallery

  28-04-2015 19:21
  
  Britain remains a nation of “art connoisseurs”, according to the chief curator of a London gallery after a fake old master slipped into a collection of works on permanent display was the one most frequently identified as a copy.
  
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• Nuts, bolts and art: the man who turned a hardware store into hard cash

  28-04-2015 18:18
  
  Theaster Gates wants to make the world a better place, so he transforms everyday objects – from old basketball courts to the entire contents of the shop he just bought – into art to raise funds for his community projects in rundown ChicagoWhen Theaster Gates won the £40,000 Artes Mundi prize in Cardiff earlier this year, he yelled, “Let’s split this motherfucker!”, and shared the money with the other shortlisted artists. It was a magnificent gesture on the part of the Chicago art
  
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• Rachel Rose Wins Frieze Art Award

  28-04-2015 17:55 via artnews.com
  New York-based Rachel Rose is the winner of the Frieze Art Award, which was founded last year and offers an emerging artist a site-specific installation at the London fair. Rose’s project will be on view at the 2015 iteration of … Read More
  
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• Dead appealing: how photographer Christopher Williams’ shiny shots advertise emptiness

  28-04-2015 17:51
  
  Fake smiles, glass flowers and redder than red apples … Williams’ peculiar images seduce even as they hint at the corruption of photography by advertisingIn his new exhibition at the Whitechapel gallery in east London, Christopher Williams breaks all the rules. For a start, some of the walls have been flown in from his recent show in Germany – and the captions on the works are from the Whitechapel’s previous exhibition, Adventures of the Black Square. The confusion these random captions
  
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• Chandos Founder Brian Couzens Changed Classical Music Recording In Britain

  28-04-2015 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “He steered the label through some of the recording industry’s most turbulent times, in the process championing neglected British composers, and regularly winning international awards for audio quality as well as musical excellence.”
  
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• In A Decade, The Percentage Of Female Playwrights In Britain Has Changed By … One Percent

  28-04-2015 17:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What the latest research demonstrates is how little progress has been made in the last 10 years on gender and play production. A decade ago, 30% of new plays produced in UK theatres were written by women. In 2013, it was 31%.”
  
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• The Oscar-Winning Cinematographer For Lord Of The Rings Dies At 59

  28-04-2015 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Words cannot express the absolute feeling of loss, particularly for his immediate family. Andrew gave us many personal cinema moments, moments that will live with us forever, and yet he has been taken from us way too early.”
  
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• These Musicians Are Memorizing Entire Symphonies

  28-04-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Neuroscientists are still trying to discover why music can be resistant to memory problems. One possibility is that music, like smell, taps into primitive emotional centres in the brain that have widespread connections to other brain areas.”
  
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• The Director Of The National Museum of African American History Decides How To Curate #BlackLivesMatter

  28-04-2015 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘It’s our job to give people voice that have been voiceless and make visible those that have been invisible,’ said [Lonnie] Bunch, addressing why the NMAAHC decided to host a symposium on such a controversial topic. ‘This must be a museum that helps America remember its past to better understand its present.'”
  
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• Making A Movie For $750

  28-04-2015 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Getting everything on-point before going to camera was in line with the keep-it-cheap mantra. Tight scripts make prep easier, faster and less expensive. And it would also help us win over the best cast we could find.”
  
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• Opera Changed The World Of The Arts (And It’s Still Alive And Evolving For The Digital Age)

  28-04-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As we become increasingly distracted, encouraged as we are in all aspects of life to contribute to the glut the Internet offers, opera and its cycle of reforms take on new importance. It is an art form inspired by the past that has proved essential to the future.”
  
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• Christianity Is Dying In European Countries. What Happens Now? [VIDEO]

  28-04-2015 16:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “That’s not necessarily a problem. But it’s worth thinking about why people made up religion in the first place.”
  
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• What Does The First New Steppenwolf Artistic Director In 20 Years Plan To Do With The Company?

  28-04-2015 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘It will make some anxious,’ Shapiro said. ‘It will make some excited. We’ve had the same leadership for 20 years. There are people who are in prisons they think other people built.'”
  
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• Harper Lee Starts A Nonprofit To Save ‘Mockingbird’ Play For Her Hometown

  28-04-2015 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Licensing firm Dramatic Publishing had not extended the performance rights for the production, so Lee stepped in with Mockingbird Company. It will produce the play from 2016, giving proceeds to local communities.”
  
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• The Dance World: So Many Ballerinas, So Few Women Choreographers

  28-04-2015 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Virginia B. Toulmin Fellowship for Women Choreographers, to be offered to three candidates over a three-year period, will provide fellows a stipend of $35,000, along with office and studio space, access to housing in New York and close contact with other artists and scholars.”
  
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• Drawing Kids Into The Arts Beyond Acting, And , If Need Be, Against Their Parents’ Fears

  28-04-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Berry was also concerned that girls whose families did not consider careers in the arts or the media as ‘proper jobs’ should not give up their dreams of working in the industry.”
  
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• West Coast Art Critic: The New Whitney Shows How Parochial New York Really Is

  28-04-2015 15:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “America is a big country. Naturally, vast swaths of its often marvelous art history have always been missing in action in New York.”
  
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• How Philip Glass Got His Education In World Music

  28-04-2015 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There were no books that would prepare me for those kinds of things. I was really on my own. Finding my way into other people’s music was a way of learning about music. And of course it had an impact on the way I compose music. It became the engine of change for me.”
  
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• Musicals Dominate Tony Nominations

  28-04-2015 15:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Three wildly different new musicals, ‘An American in Paris,’ ‘Fun Home’ and ‘Something Rotten!’ were showered with Tony nominations Tuesday morning, setting up one of the toughest choices for Tony voters in years.”
  
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• His Future Looks Bright: Okwui Enwezor on the 2015 Venice Biennale

  28-04-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  What can you say about a Venice Biennale that features a public reading of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital? Nigerian-born Okwui Enwezor, who organized the exhibition, has referred to Marx’s work as “our holy book,” which gives some insight into the … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Eventually they introduced me’ Edition

  28-04-2015 14:55 via artnews.com
  One Hyperallergic writer’s experience following Luke Willis Thompson out of the New Museum as part of his twice-daily performance piece Eventually they introduced me to the people I immediately recognised as those who would take me out anyway for the New … Read More
  
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• Myuran Sukumaran’s death-row paintings cry out against a monstrous inhumanity

  28-04-2015 13:28
  
  The prison paintings signed by Sukumaran and the Bali Nine, who are facing death by firing squad in Indonesia, show the moral evil of the death penaltyArt can howl from the abyss and give a face to the judicially murdered. Remember me, say Myuran Sukumaran’s paintings done while the 34-year-old has been on death row.Sukumaran learned to paint as part of his rehabilitation in prison in Indonesia, while fighting a death sentence for drug smuggling. As he and the others known as the Bali Nine fac
  
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• Nepali Architectural Treasures Destroyed In Earthquake

  28-04-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some of the country’s most important – and beloved – buildings sustained terrible damage (and a few were relatively lucky under the circumstances). Here are some of the badly-affected sites, with before and after photos.
  
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• Ai Weiwei’s In Alcatraz (Well, His Art Is, At Least)

  28-04-2015 09:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  The trickster artist and Chinese dissident is actually imprisoned in his house in Beijing – so who better for a show at the island prison? “To a site often flattened into a caricature as the onetime home of mobster Al Capone, Ai has layered on a contemporary meditation on political imprisonment, freedom of speech and […]
  
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• Can L.A.’s Small Theaters Afford To Pay Their Actors Better? Can They Afford Not To?

  28-04-2015 09:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Charles McNulty: “Producers have built flourishing shoestring operations on the backs of virtually unpaid actors. If the majority of performers aren’t complaining, why should their union interfere? … That’s not the way I see it. I believe that the union is concerned about the future of Los Angeles theater, recognizing that institutional growth over the […]
  
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• Detroit Symphony Staffers Help Bring Sacramento Philharmonic Back From The Dead

  28-04-2015 09:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After a year in the dark, the Sacramento Philharmonic has announced an aggressive return to performing, with a seven-concert season for 2015-16. The return of the 18-year-old orchestra to the concert stage has been largely engineered by a consultancy team composed mostly of staffers from the Detroit Symphony.”
  
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• Sitting In On UPenn’s Notorious ‘Wasting Time On The Internet’ Seminar

  28-04-2015 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There’s something wonderful about this dogged insistence on having nothing whatsoever to show for your time in class, especially given the cultural rage for productivity. … But: With the approval of the UPenn English Department, Goldsmith’s crafted a creative writing course that fails to generate any writing, one that to some extent paints basic college […]
  
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• Off-Broadway’s Very-Long-Running ‘The Fantasticks’ Saved By Anonymous Donors

  28-04-2015 09:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The producers of the long-running Off-Broadway staple, who announced last month that they would close the show in early May, said on Saturday that two unnamed fans had contributed enough money to keep it open indefinitely.”
  
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• Mezzo Jamie Barton Adds Another Prize To Her List: $50K Richard Tucker Award

  28-04-2015 09:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “She previously won both the main prize and the song prize at the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, and was a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2007 – a lively competition that was featured in Susan Froemke’s film The Audition.”
  
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• Why People Keep Reading Work Emails After Work And On Vacation (They Sorta Like It)

  28-04-2015 09:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Email pruning doesn’t enact work so much as it simulates work: It’s a ritual – like a secular, corporate rosary – which we perform in the hopes that it will somehow help us leave the domain of ineffectual work and re-enter the domain of gratifying productivity,”
  
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• How To Get Boys To Take Up Ballet

  28-04-2015 08:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ángel Corella, artistic director of Pennsylvania Ballet and a former star at American Ballet Theater, talks frankly about the bullying and paternal disapproval he suffered while studying ballet as a boy in Spain, the strength and athleticism ballet requires, and the importance of the boys-only classes he has started in Philadelphia.
  
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• Hofesh Schechter Gets A Month-Long Festival In London This Fall

  28-04-2015 08:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Okay, they’re describing it as a “London season” rather than a festival, but they’re calling it “Hofest,” and it “will encompass everything from Shechter’s opera debut to bringing his critically-acclaimed piece Political Mother into the rock concert atmosphere of Brixton Academy.” (And, of course, performances at Sadler’s Wells.)
  
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• Actress Jayne Meadows, Wife/Business Partner/Co-Star To Steve Allen, Dead At 95

  28-04-2015 08:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[She] was never as well known as her younger sister, Audrey, who played Alice Kramden on the now-classic Jackie Gleason sitcom The Honeymooners. But she was a versatile and accomplished actress in her own right and a familiar presence on television for years, in dramatic productions, prime-time series and game shows.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.27.15

  28-04-2015 07:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Handel for hipsters: Revolution or red herring? AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2015-04-27 First Thoughts On the New Whitney AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-04-27 Musical bits and pieces, mostly uninspiring AJBlog: Lies Like Truth Published 2015-04-27
  
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