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• Trumpeter Rolf Smedvig, 62

  29-04-2015 21:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Perhaps best known as one of the founding members of the widely acclaimed Empire Brass Quintet, Smedvig enjoyed a busy career as a soloist with major orchestras, including those in Boston, Chicago and Cincinnati. In 1973, the 19-year-old Smedvig was hired as assistant principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony by music director Seiji Ozawa. Smedvig, […]
  
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• A Buried Maurizio Cattelan Sculpture Gets Moved to the Whitney

  29-04-2015 20:49 via artnews.com
  This week’s New Yorker has a Talk of the Town piece by Emma Allen about moving a block of concrete from the Whitney’s former Upper East Side location to its brand-new Renzo Piano–designed building in Chelsea. Naturally that block of concrete is … Read More
  
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• 'Queer saint' Peter Watson left his mark on British culture by bankrolling artworld giants

  29-04-2015 20:45
  
  Look over the shoulders of the headline figures of the mid-20th-century British cultural world – from Cecil Beaton and Stephen Spender to Cyril Connolly and Lucian Freud – and you will find, standing behind them, a languorous, attenuated man with deep-set eyes and a feminine mouth. This man, Peter Watson, is now largely a footnote to the lives of others – a bright young thing who gradually sloughed off some of his sparkle to become an artistic patron and who died in mysterious circumstanc
  
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• Little Hope Of Saving Nepal’s Treasures

  29-04-2015 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In many places, the detritus of centuries-old temples and palaces has been left unguarded, diminishing chances to eventually rebuild one of the world’s largest clusters of cultural heritage sites.”
  
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• Preview Paris Photo Los Angeles 2015

  29-04-2015 20:00 via artnews.com
  Back for a second year, Paris Photo L.A. brings together 80 international galleries at the Paramount Pictures Studios selling work that spans the history photography. Some of the major exhibitors include M+B, OHWOW, and Aperture. Some highlights include Ronan Guillou … Read More
  
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• Does Piano Music Help Patients In Medical Waiting Rooms?

  29-04-2015 19:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the journal Musicae Scientiae, Michael Silverman and Jon Hallberg of the University of Minnesota describe a small program they created and implemented in which music students—specifically, classical pianists and guitarists—spent time performing in a primary care clinic waiting area. Subsequent interviews with staff members of the clinic found their reaction was overwhelmingly positive.”
  
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• Even The Best Reporters Are Leaving Journalism. But There Are PR Jobs Everywhere

  29-04-2015 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Of the four reporters who won the public service Pulitzer for the Oregonian in 2001, two have left journalism – one for a government communications job, one to teach journalism to college students. It’s hard to count how many of the other reporters who were doing high-value work back then at the paper – which […]
  
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• Seattle PBS Affiliate KCTS Lays Off Most Of Its Production Staff

  29-04-2015 19:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Seattle public TV station KCTS-9 has laid off most of its production staff, including employees who have spent 30-plus years with the station, as part of a plan to shove locally produced series off the television screen and onto digital media.”
  
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• Why Musicians Will Play For Free

  29-04-2015 19:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Venue owners ask musicians to play for free. And many performers, desperate for an opportunity to showcase their skills, agree to do just that. I don’t blame the musicians. In most instances, they struggle to survive and have to grasp at any opportunity, however meager. But the owners are a different matter. Is it ethical […]
  
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• In Defense Of Collecting Physical Books

  29-04-2015 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What does it mean when what you own is essential to who you are? In our everyday grasp of owning things, we tag it materialism, consumerism, consumption. But I trust you’ll agree that the possession of books is not identical to the possession of shoes: Someone with a thousand books is someone you want to […]
  
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• And Here’s A College-Level Course In Wasting Time On The Internet (It’s An Art, You Know)

  29-04-2015 19:33 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. And the seminar courts a drifting boredom that is seductive in its challenge to the cult of mindfulness.”
  
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• ‘The Wire,’ The Burning Of Baltimore And The Limits Of Art

  29-04-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The conflagration in Baltimore is a reminder that art’s power can work both in service of change and against it. Watching a fictional story is not precisely the same thing as bearing witness. And when consuming that story becomes a substitute for action or an argument that action is futile, fiction can paralyze us just […]
  
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• A List Of The World’s Top Art Collectors

  29-04-2015 19:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Our roster of collectors features those who have been most active within the past 12 months and have shown a remarkable commitment to collecting.”
  
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• Five Myths About Copyright

  29-04-2015 19:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Anti-copyright crusaders love to shout about remix culture and how copyright aims to stop it. Real artists understand. Remix culture was not invented by the Internet.”
  
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• The Bible Has Gone From (Super) Hot To Not In The Western Art World

  29-04-2015 19:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There seems to be no end to the creativity the Bible engenders – which makes it a crying shame the Museum of Biblical Art has to close, and a tragedy if we cannot acknowledge one of the great sources of modern culture.”
  
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• Weinstein Gallery Will Host First Major Kurt Seligmann Survey in America in 55 Years

  29-04-2015 19:01 via artnews.com
  San Francisco’s Weinstein Gallery will host a large survey for Surrealist artist Kurt Seligmann, his first in America in 55 years. The show, titled “Kurt Seligmann: First Message from the Spirit world of the Object,” will run from May 9 … Read More
  
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• The Guerrilla Girls: 30 years of punking art world sexism

  29-04-2015 18:57
  
  Emma Brockes meets the feminist art-punk pioneers behind the iconic protest posters. The Clark Kents of the art world explain why billionaires are their new target – and why it’s so hard to find a decent monkey mask these daysIt is 30 years since the Guerrilla Girls – a shifting collective of activists committed to exposing inequality in the art world – came into being, during which time a lot has changed, and a lot hasn’t. As they point out in their latest campaign, galleries that onc
  
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• Myfanwy Macleod at Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver

  29-04-2015 18:55 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Myfanwy Macleod: TELL HER NOTHING SHE TELLS ALL,” is currently on view at Catriona Jeffries in Vancouver, BC. She employs materials such as recycled foam yoga blocks, … Read More
  
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• Katherine de Vos Devine Named Inaugural Executive Director of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center

  29-04-2015 18:10 via artnews.com
  Katherine de Vos Devine will be the first executive director of Asheville, North Carolina’s Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC), as museum board chair Dr. J. Richard Gruber announced today. As executive director, Devine will provide “strategic and … Read More
  
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• The truth about adverts: selling the White Woman™

  29-04-2015 17:50
  
  Artist Hank Willis Thomas’s latest show in New York strips the copy from advertisements to expose what the images are actually selling – a very white, highly controlled ideal of femininityHank Willis Thomas’s work examines the ways in which advertising has fabricated notions of gender and race, and then convinced us all to buy into them. “I always talk about racism as the most successful advertising campaign of all time,” Thomas says. His work serves as a sort of counter-campaign; one
  
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• Stephen Hough, Soutbank, review: Ferociously brilliant Debussy and Chopin programme

  29-04-2015 16:55
  
  Whatever Stephen Hough plays, he either distils its essence or finds something strikingly new to say about it, and so it was with his Debussy and Chopin programme.
  
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• Has the Bible gone from hot to not in the art world?

  29-04-2015 15:35
  
  New York’s Museum of Biblical Art is about to close down. What a shame: religious art may not attract wealthy donors, but the Bible has always been – and remains – a powerful trigger for artistic expressionIs the Bible hot? It is not – at least in the art world.New York’s Museum of Biblical Art has announced that it is closing, despite a big success with its latest – its last – exhibition about the great Florentine artist Donatello. Continue reading...
  
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• Poland’s Venice Pavilion Explores Haiti’s Polish Connection

  29-04-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  C. T. Jasper and Joanna Malinowska create a cross-cultural universe inspired by 'Fitzcarraldo' Read More
  
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• Morning Links: John Cage Edition

  29-04-2015 14:33 via artnews.com
  “Muse of Art Criticism Reportedly Hospitalized for ‘Nervous Exhaustion.'” This story was not originally reported by Reuters. [The Huffington Post] Creator of the world’s most difficult maze, Kazuo Nomura, has drawn up a new maze (version 2.0) after a 30-year break. … Read More
  
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• Visual artists see red as Silicon Valley rental service accused of losing artwork

  29-04-2015 13:00
  
  Artists say GetArtUp, which allows businesses and wealthy individuals to rent pieces, has mistreated pieces and some have never been returned Some visual artists are seeing a vibrant shade of crimson over the behavior of a San Francisco startup called GetArtUp that they have accused of mislaying and mishandling their work while renting it out to Silicon Valley royalty.Continue reading...
  
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• BP portrait award: artists from UK, Israel and Spain shortlisted for portrait prize

  29-04-2015 12:58
  
  Total of 2,748 portraits from record 92 countries submitted - the highest number of entries in the prize’s 36-year historyThree artists from the UK, Israel and Spain have been shortlisted for the 2015 BP portrait award from what was the biggest ever year for entries.A total of 2,748 portraits from a record 92 countries were submitted – a striking increase on the 2,377 from 71 countries last year and the most that have been received in the prize’s 36-year history. Continue reading...
  
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• BP Portrait award 2015: Three-time runner-up Michael Gaskell makes final shortlist (again)

  29-04-2015 12:50
  
  An artist who has been a runner-up to the prestigious BP Portrait Award three times has yet again been named among this year’s trio of finalists.
  
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• Baltimore riots: Artist hangs 'lynched' black dolls from tree in protest at deaths of Walter Scott, Eric Garner and Michael Brown

  29-04-2015 11:15
  
  It’s a hard-hitting sight that will leave many in contemplation:  black dolls hanging from the branches of a tree in Baltimore, Maryland.
  
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• You Won’t Learn Everything You Need To Know About Baltimore From ‘The Wire,’ But It’s A Start

  29-04-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scott Timberg: “[David] Simon’s show, and his point of view, clarifies the smoky, intensely sad scene better than anything else I know.”
  
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• MoMA Director Glenn Lowry Responds To Criticism Of Museum’s Pop-Culture Focus

  29-04-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I was actually happy that nobody challenged us on doing Björk – that artists like her, who cross disciplines, have a place in a museum like ours … We just didn’t do the show we should have done. Fair enough. We just need to find a way to do those shows better.”
  
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• The End Times Are At Hand For New York’s Museum Of Biblical Art

  29-04-2015 09:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The small, secular museum, which is dedicated to exploring the Bible’s influence on Western art, is a casualty of Manhattan’s astronomical rents. For the past decade, the museum had been renting space inside the American Bible Society (ABS) building near Lincoln Center for $1 a year. In February, ARS announced it had sold the building […]
  
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• The Perils Of Writing About Your Own Family

  29-04-2015 09:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  George Hodgman, author of Bettyville: “You kind of have to face the fact if you write a memoir that you are a somewhat aggressive person, that you are appropriating lives, in a way, that aren’t yours. And you put yourself out there and you try to be really generous, and you do what you can […]
  
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• How Eduardo Galeano Changed Writing (It Wasn’t With His Leftism)

  29-04-2015 09:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  The great Uruguayan author is best known for his 1971 anti-capitalist manifesto Open Veins of Latin America – a work he repudiated last year. (He calls the prose unreadable.) But his later “technique is difficult to precisely describe, but it is easy enough to read. The word most often applied is ‘fragmentary,’ though the fragments […]
  
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• A Little Dose Of Nastiness Can Be A Creative Thing (Wait, What?)

  29-04-2015 09:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A spate of research published over the past couple of years reveals something surprising and new: measured amounts of dark-side traits, expressed at lower levels – too little to be considered a diagnosable personality disorder – open the doors of perception, helping us see the world through an edgier, more on-the-bias creative lens.”
  
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• How I Survived A Public Shaming Over A Silly Mistake

  29-04-2015 09:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When a Web site broke the news on April 3 that, instead of posting an Internet link to an article about writing legal briefs, I had inadvertently sent my law school students a link to a porn site, I thought I could never recover. (And if you’re hoping to find out here how that happened, […]
  
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• The best alternative election posters – in pictures

  29-04-2015 08:01
  
  Could art students capture the real Britain in the run-up to the 2015 general election? We invited them to have a go, and come up with a new slogan for a political party or their own alternative political message. Here are the best entries, which riff on everything from Nirvana to Beyoncé and rave postersContinue reading...
  
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• Art students’ election posters: a landscape of alienation and distrust

  29-04-2015 08:00
  
  In a collaboration with Guardian Witness, we asked students to design alternative election posters. Their work is a striking insight into what younger voters think, as well as a dead-accurate view of this election and its probable outcomeArt has a way of revealing the truth. When art students responded to an invitation by the Guardian to design election posters, they did not so much produce great political art as give a voice to some of the young voters, potential voters and non-voters whose fut
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.28.15

  29-04-2015 07:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Come Spring! AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2015-04-28 And the Buffalo Roam AJBlog: Plain English Published 2015-04-28 Burroughs Makes Inroads, But What About Algren? AJBlog: Straight|Up Published 2015-04-28
  
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