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• MoMA’s Thomas J. Lax Wins the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement

  30-04-2015 22:52 via artnews.com
  Thomas J. Lax, an associate curator in MoMA’s department of media and performance art, has won the seventh Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. The award, which is conferred every two years, comes with a stipend of $20,000, and asks … Read More
  
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• I'm Here But You've Gone exhibition smells of pandas, pop stars - and an awful lot of sex

  30-04-2015 21:50
  
  However accessible art galleries may have become, I'm Here But You've Gone is an exhibition where visitors are expected to be sniffy. Eight up-and-coming London-based artists were invited by Fiorucci Art Trust to utilise the 5,000 fragrances in the "oil library" of Creative Perfumers, a workshop that creates bespoke fragrances.
  
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• ICA Receives $10 M. Gift From Daniel W. Dietrich II, Doubling Its Endowment

  30-04-2015 21:35 via artnews.com
  The director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Amy Sadao, announced today that Daniel W. Dietrich II has donated $10 million to the ICA’s curatorial program. His gift is the largest in the museum’s history, … Read More
  
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• United States Artists seeks Director of Development

  30-04-2015 20:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reporting to the CEO of USA, the Director of Development serves as the partner with the CEO and the Board of Trustees in positioning the mission and work of USA through all communications and development functions.
  
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• How The Sacramento Symphony Is Being Reborn

  30-04-2015 20:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Against all odds, the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera is coming back with a series of small, free concerts beginning on May 5. The schedule includes 10 to 20 “arts invasion” concerts held in bars, coffee houses, schools, streetscapes, museums, and possibly the airport.”
  
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• ‘Bravo Renzo! Che Bella Piazza!’ At the Whitney Dedication Ceremony

  30-04-2015 19:54 via artnews.com
  To cap off a two-week press blitz leading up to the opening of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s new building in the Meatpacking District on May 1, First Lady Michelle Obama, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Whitney director Adam Weinberg, and … Read More
  
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• Where have all the people gone? The eerie photographs of Thomas Struth

  30-04-2015 19:30
  
  Marian Goodman Gallery, London
  Struth captures high-tech labs in California and places of significance in Israel – from the site of the Prime Minister’s assassination to a staggering desert townscape – and leaves us feeling unnerved and full of questions
  Under a blue sky smeared with cloud, a woman rounds a bend in the road carrying her shopping bags. The photographer has been awaiting her arrival. She’s just passing through on her way somewhere. Beyond her, blocky white buildings climb
  
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• Social Media Is Driving New Interest In Vintage TV Shows

  30-04-2015 19:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “You know that if you re-release a cult show like the X-Files that the big fans of those shows are going to tweet that … And all of a sudden you’re getting all this kind of free publicity that’s aimed at exactly the audience you need.”
  
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• In Syria, A Cynical Ploy To Rebuild Ancient Sites

  30-04-2015 18:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Though the war is still raging, the government has already established a Ministry of Reconstruction in Damascus that has allegedly begun selling property. It has also burned land registry offices and deleted title entries, presumably to keep people from reclaiming their houses and businesses after the war ends (more than half of Syria’s citizens have […]
  
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• How Did The “Happiness Industry” Get To Be A Thing?

  30-04-2015 18:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Children may soon be taught “happiness” in schools. Being miserable is no longer socially acceptable. There are now computer programmes designed to influence the way we feel. Face-reading software will soon be able to identify moods. Global firms have “chief happiness” officers.”
  
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• The rise and fall of the codpiece - in pictures

  30-04-2015 18:21
  
  Did the codpiece – highlight of male fashion in the Renaissance – gradually succumb to the ‘peascod’ belly? As a Cambridge conference is convened to debate the subject, follow the pouch’s rise and fall through European portraiture Continue reading...
  
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• Here’s the 2015 Volta Exhibitor List

  30-04-2015 18:17 via artnews.com
  Volta announced today the exhibitors for its 2015 edition, which returns the fair to the Markthalle, Basel’s iconic cupola located in the city’s center, from June 15 to 20 during Art Basel. For the fair’s eleventh edition this year, exhibitors … Read More
  
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• John Giorno Will Perform Next Friday, May 8, at Elizabeth Dee

  30-04-2015 17:45 via artnews.com
  A quick public service announcement: the great John Giorno—the poet, painter, and star of Warhol’s film Sleep (1963)—will be performing at his New York gallery, Elizabeth Dee, next Friday, May 8, the day before his first exhibition there closes. Giorno told … Read More
  
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• Does The Tate Museum Have A Structural Problem?

  30-04-2015 17:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The relationship between Tate Britain and Modern, then, is really about what importance we give to old art and the concept of a national culture; and as it turns out, most people are more interested these days in the concept of internationalism and the culture of the contemporary, than what appears to be the stuffy, […]
  
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• Swiss Artist Christoph Büchel, Repping Iceland in Venice, Will Stage Artwork Called ‘The Mosque’ at Disused Church

  30-04-2015 16:30 via artnews.com
  Christoph Büchel, the irrepressible, inexhaustible Swiss provocateur, whose projects have ranged from staging a sex club at Secession in Vienna to allegedly showing the belongings of homeless people at the Frieze New York fair as sculptures to turning his London … Read More
  
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• How Did Storytelling Become So Devalued In “Good” Writing?

  30-04-2015 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Valuing the importance of the story is still considered unambitious, as though anyone could do it. I suspect the opposite: it is because writing a good story is so hard that it is such a tempting target, to be dismissed as a lower, populist skill. In the absence of a capacity, posit a principle.”
  
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• The Trip: What happens when a motel-owner tests psychedelic drugs on unsuspecting guests

  30-04-2015 16:27
  
  Couples Hank and Betty, and Stacey and Troy, check into a roadside desert motel/diner, unaware that the owner 'Acid' James is hell-bent on testing his latest psychedelic concoctions on his unsuspecting guests.
  
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• All Or Nothing: The Economic Reality Of Today’s Music Business

  30-04-2015 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The point is that while music is as lucrative as ever for those at the top, what’s diminished, as in so many jobs, is the comfortable middle, where once upon a time musicians who never quite hit the big time could nonetheless make their living: not super-rich, but doing fine and enjoying a certain stability. […]
  
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• LA’s Music Center Struggles As Dissention Mounts

  30-04-2015 16:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The … relationship the Music Center has with its resident companies is arm’s-length, remote, not collaborative. Each resident company is in its own little private world; collaboration is not encouraged.”
  
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• Morning Links: Cortlandt Street Station

  30-04-2015 15:39 via artnews.com
  Willem de Rooij’s “Character Is Fate” at Witte de With Gallery in Rotterdam. [Contemporary Art Daily] Ruins of ancient temples and palaces in Nepal have been left unguarded after the disastrous earthquake, which lessens the chance of rebuilding one of the world’s … Read More
  
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• French Pavilion Artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot Teaches the World to Sing

  30-04-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  In late February, while in the throes of preparing his project for the 56th Venice Biennale, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot was just as purposefully going about daily life at his home in the South of France. As we spoke via hiccuping cellphones, … Read More
  
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• How The The Internet Has Changed The Practice Of Art

  30-04-2015 15:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Before the internet, we all thought of art as a one-way phenomenon: there were creators and there were consumers. True or not, that’s what we thought. Now, though, the means of cultural production have been democratized, and art is becoming, in all genres, a many-to-many phenomenon. Anyone can make it—and everyone does—and we all still […]
  
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• Morning Links: Cortlandt Street Station Edition

  30-04-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  Willem de Rooij’s “Character Is Fate” at Witte de With Gallery in Rotterdam. [Contemporary Art Daily] Ruins of ancient temples and palaces in Nepal have been left unguarded after the disastrous earthquake, which lessens the chance of rebuilding one of the world’s … Read More
  
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• Simon Denny, artist: 'At art school I discovered I liked the managerial bit and meeting people'

  30-04-2015 15:00
  
  Simon Denny works in a studio in Berlin's Wedding neighbourhood. The information I receive in advance from the studio specifies how hard it is to find – through two courtyards and past a sign – but in the end I get there easily enough. It is also surprisingly empty. There is a small team working on laptops and another room where Denny is being photographed and where I will eventually speak to him, but few clues as to what his work is about.
  
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• The Rules For Being In A Public Space Together Are Changing

  30-04-2015 14:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Perhaps we are entering a new age of radicalism individualism, in which the very idea of enjoying public space together is giving way to something more anarchic and carnivalesque.”
  
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• Do Dance Audiences Concentrate Harder?

  30-04-2015 14:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I’ll venture to say dance audiences are better behaved than other crowds because they’re more immersed in the show. They’re not as distractible. That feeling you have, when a dancer leaps lightly across the stage and you’re carried along with her — that’s your brain, your whole sensorimotor system, responding sympathetically to another human body […]
  
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• Jack Knox obituary

  30-04-2015 14:33
  
  Painter who characterised an artistic style particular to ScotlandIn the mid-1970s, the Scottish artist Jack Knox began a series of paintings based on still lifes he had seen on a trip to Holland. These works did not hide their provenance: one, dated 1977 and now in the collection of the Royal Scottish Academy, was called Snack in a Dutch Museum; another, from the following year, was Buffet in a Dutch Museum.As you might expect, the second is on a more ambitious scale than the first. In the cent
  
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• Painting the town: Los Angeles artist whitewashes motel with sordid history

  30-04-2015 13:00
  
  Vincent Lamouroux has put his brush to a building nicknamed the Bates Motel – and the surrounding palm trees – turning it into a kind of anti-attractionJust east of Hollywood, along Sunset Boulevard, lies Silver Lake, a gentrified arts community where the movie business once thrived. There’s the old Mack Sennett Studio a few blocks south of the Vista Theatre, a Spanish revival movie palace. And a short distance north is where DW Griffith built towering Babylonian movie sets for his 1916 fi
  
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• Painting the town: artist whitewashes Los Angeles motel with sordid history

  30-04-2015 13:00
  
  Vincent Lamouroux has put his brush to a building nicknamed the Bates Motel – and the surrounding palm trees – turning it into a kind of anti-attractionJust east of Hollywood, along Sunset Boulevard, lies Silver Lake, a gentrified arts community where the movie business once thrived. There’s the old Mack Sennett Studio a few blocks south of the Vista Theatre, a Spanish revival movie palace. And a short distance north is where DW Griffith built towering Babylonian movie sets for his 1916 fi
  
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• Authors Protesting Charlie Hebdo’s PEN Award Are Missing The Point: It’s Not About Islam, It’s About Courage

  30-04-2015 10:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Laura Miller: “You can defend the right to speak without admiring the content of the speech. However, … it is the act of continuing to speak in the face of a [literally] murderous effort to silence them that the award commemorates, not the particular content of that speech.”
  
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• Read The Exchange Between PEN’s Chief Exec And A Writer Outraged At The Award To Charlie Hebdo

  30-04-2015 10:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Glenn Greenwald has posted “the key documents giving rise to the controversy that has erupted inside PEN America over the award the group is bestowing on Charlie Hebdo” – most notably, correspondence between writer Deborah Eisenberg (who withdrew from the awards gala) and PEN Executive Director Suzanne Nossel.
  
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• Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist Says He Will No Longer Draw The Prophet Muhammad

  30-04-2015 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Muhammad ‘no longer interests me,’ Rénald Luzier, who works under the name Luz, said in an interview with the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles … ‘I’ve gotten tired of it, just as I got tired of drawing Sarkozy.'”
  
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• ‘Embarrassing And Unprofessional': Critic Says Wall Text At New Whitney Museum Willfully Misrepresents Him

  30-04-2015 10:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  An angry Christopher Knight: “Being misquoted is one thing, but being completely misrepresented in an art museum wall text is quite another – especially when something I wrote more than 20 years ago is used as a slur concocted from the direct opposite of my critical opinion.”
  
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• How Hollywood Keeps Women Out Of Directors’ And Producers’ Chairs

  30-04-2015 10:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “At top U.S. film schools, women and men are almost equally represented. … Yet between the day these women graduate and the day, a few years later, that their male college peers begin showing up in film credits, most women filmmakers vanish into obscurity.” Here’s a look at the ways it happens.
  
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• Sussing Out The Tony Nominations With Charles McNulty

  30-04-2015 10:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If an overarching narrative exists, it’s willfully postmodern. … Stare long enough into the chaos, however, and a few patterns, can be divined.”
  
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• Hahaha, Heehee, Heh – How We Spell Laughter In Texts And Emails

  30-04-2015 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sarah Larson: “The terms of e-laughter – ‘ha ha,’ ‘ho ho,’ ‘hee hee,’ ‘heh’ – are implicitly understood by just about everybody. But, in recent years, there’s been an increasingly popular newcomer: ‘hehe.’ Not surprisingly, it’s being foisted upon us by youth. What does it mean?”
  
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• David Letterman On 33 Years In Late-Night Television

  30-04-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Q: Did you think people were surprised to hear you talk about these matters [i.e., his sex scandal] so candidly? A: I didn’t know what else to do. I couldn’t think of a really good lie.”
  
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• Betsy Von Furstenberg, 83, Baroness And Actress

  30-04-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A glamorous German-born baroness who made her debut in the movies and on the Broadway stage in the early 1950s as a teenager and later reinvented herself as a television actress, writer and philanthropist.”
  
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• Seeing ‘Hamilton’ At Public Theater Becomes New York Celebs’ Number-One Status Symbol

  30-04-2015 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Over the last four months, the boldface names have come, one after another, to this cozy downtown theater to see the show’s creator and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda, rap and sing and love and cheat and rise and fall and fight and die.”
  
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• Goya’s Fantastical Drawings Of Witches And Old Women

  30-04-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Over thirty-five years, from around 1794, when Goya, still in Madrid, was recovering from the devastating illness that left him permanently deaf and forced him to abandon grand court painting, to his death in Bordeaux in 1828, aged 82, he put together a sequence of eight ‘albums’ of brush and ink drawings. Often he added […]
  
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• Why Trollope Is Trending: He’s Still The Novelist For The Way We Live Now

  30-04-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Adam Gopnik: “Words change meaning over time, and the quality of irony that we value today is omnipresent in Trollope – and that is the habit of turning objects and values upside down, of seeing big and little inverted.”
  
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• Why Play Is Valuable In Itself, And Not Just For Practical Benefits It May Provide

  30-04-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[Behavioral science] suggests that play is also a crucial part of the full life of the human animal, and yet philosophers have said very little about it. Usually, if we see an appreciation of play, it’s an attempt to show its secret utility value – ‘See, it’s pragmatic after all!’ … All this is true […]
  
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• Wait – You Can Get An Earworm Out Of Your Head By Chewing Gum? Really?

  30-04-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  That’s what the science appears to say (so far).
  
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• Le Corbusier, the man, the modernist legend – in pictures

  30-04-2015 08:00
  
  He redefined architecture for the 20th century, pioneered modernity, made radical urban utopias for the masses – and spent his last years nearly nude in a cabin inspired by human physiology
  Le Corbusier: The Measures of Man is at the Pompidou Centre, Paris, until 3 August 2015 Continue reading...
  
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• Jackson Pollock's secret recipe for prize-winning apple pie uncovered

  30-04-2015 06:59
  
  Alcoholic, adulterer ... and foodie? As a stash of the painter’s personal recipes are published, an old friend spills the beans on dinner chez Pollock and KrasnJackson Pollock’s alcoholism and adultery are well documented. Less well known is that the celebrated modern artist was a massive foodie – before the term even came to prominence. That we know more about Pollock’s wild nights at the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village than we do about his prize-winning apple pie says something about
  
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• Jackson Pollock's secret prize-winning recipe for apple pie discovered

  30-04-2015 06:59
  
  Alcoholic, adulterer ... and foodie? As a stash of the painter’s personal recipes are published, an old friend spills the beans on dinner chez Pollock and KrasnJackson Pollock’s alcoholism and adultery are well documented. Less well known is that the celebrated modern artist was a massive foodie – before the term even came to prominence. That we know more about Pollock’s wild nights at the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village than we do about his prize-winning apple pie says something about
  
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• Jackson Pollock: master painter and prize-winning baker of apple-pie

  30-04-2015 06:59
  
  Alcoholic, adulterer ... and foodie? As a stash of the painter’s personal recipes are published, an old friend spills the beans on dinner chez Pollock and KrasnJackson Pollock’s alcoholism and adultery are well documented. Less well known is that the celebrated modern artist was a massive foodie – before the term even came to prominence. That we know more about Pollock’s wild nights at the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village than we do about his prize-winning apple pie says something about
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.29.15

  30-04-2015 06:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Approaching Justice & Democracy (in Beauty Class) AJBlog: Jumper Published 2015-04-29 Can’t Buy Me Love AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-04-29 GPS Lady AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-04-29 Tralalalala AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2015-04-29 The Frank Strazzeri Film AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-04-28 Handel for hipsters: Revolution or red herring? AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2015-04-27
  
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