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• Untitled(Make It Your Bitch)

  05-05-2015 23:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Make it your bitch, S said. Yeah, I said. S made a friend in prison. They were similar and not similar. S refused to shave in prison. She didn’t care what the guards saw when she cleaned herself. S’s body is different from other women’s bodies, there is an unusual strength and elegance in her ... Continue ReadingThe post Untitled(Make It Your Bitch) appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Untitled(The Trees Looked Like Basalt Lava)

  05-05-2015 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Y can’t see this woman’s face. She talks and talks. She talks like a man who is a woman. Ordinarily Y likes to overhear but he wants to shut the voice off like a television set. She talks over at and under. We don’t know her name. Only when the police find her will we ... Continue ReadingThe post Untitled(The Trees Looked Like Basalt Lava) appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Santiago Calatrava Sculptures Will Line The Park Avenue Meridian

  05-05-2015 22:35 via artnews.com
  In addition to his stegosaurus of a World Trade Center Transportation Hub, due to open later this year, neofuturist architect/sculptor/painter Santiago Calatrava will drop seven spiky sculptures along the Park Avenue meridian—three red, two black, and two silver—amongst the usual hedges … Read More
  
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• UK Lottery Generates Record Amount For The Arts

  05-05-2015 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “£1.8 billion was shared between the Lottery Good Causes, of which the arts receive a 20% share – £359 million – alongside other areas such as sports, heritage, health and education. It represents a 2.6% increase on the previous year, which saw Lottery Good Causes benefit from £1.7 billion.”
  
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• Director Joss Whedon Quits Twitter After Criticism

  05-05-2015 20:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Many called him sexist and misogynistic and said he had done a “hatchet job” on Black Widow, also known as Natasha Romanoff. Whedon had been a high-profile user of Twitter, calling it “enormous work – very fun”.
  
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• Rare Garcia Marquez Book Stolen From Colombian Book Fair

  05-05-2015 20:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The first edition is one of only 8,000 copies published in 1967 by an Argentine editorial house, Sudamericana, and a signed copy like the one stolen in Bogota can command as much as $23,000 online.”
  
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• Hollywood’s Native American Problem

  05-05-2015 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There’s a paucity of roles for Native Americans — according to the Screen Actors Guild in 2008 they accounted for 0.3 percent of all on-screen parts (those figures have yet to be updated), compared to about 2 percent of the general population — and Native American actors are often perceived in a narrow way.”
  
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• Cooper Hewitt Announces 2015 National Design Award Winners

  05-05-2015 20:32 via artnews.com
  Cooper Hewitt director Caroline Baumann has announced the winners of the 2015 National Design Awards, which were selected by jury members Lindsey Adelman, Waris Ahluwalia, Amale Andraos, Maurice Cox, Doreen Lorenzo, Todd Oldham, Casey Reas, Margie Ruddick, and Rick Valicenti. … Read More
  
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• The New Influencers Hollywood Craves? Bloggers

  05-05-2015 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Major Hollywood studios such as Disney-owned Marvel are anxious to win over superfans, especially those who help build excitement online among other youngsters ahead of a movie’s debut.”
  
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• Antony Gormley: 'I am beginning to learn how to make sculpture'

  05-05-2015 19:10
  
  For his latest series, Antony Gormley has installed an iron giant at each point of the compass in the UK. When Hannah Ellis-Petersen joined the artist for a whirlwind tour of his work on Lundy, she wasn’t expecting to build fires, break chocolate and contemplate humanity from a deckchair in a howling gale
  Standing on a granite precipice, with the churning Bristol Channel stretching out endlessly before him, Antony Gormley throws his arms wide. “Isn’t it utterly magical?” he roars into a
  
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• UT Austin Receives Significant Collection of Works By WPA Artist Charles White

  05-05-2015 18:58 via artnews.com
  Today brought word that Drs. Susan G. and Edmund W. Gordon of Pomona, New York have donated their collection of works by draftsman, printmaker, and painter Charles White to the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin. White … Read More
  
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• UT Austin Receives Significant Collection of Works By Harlem Renaissance Artist Charles White

  05-05-2015 18:58 via artnews.com
  Today brought word that Drs. Susan G. and Edmund W. Gordon of Pomona, New York have donated their collection of works by draftsman, printmaker, and painter Charles White to the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin. Along … Read More
  
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• ‘(Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity’ at Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

  05-05-2015 18:30 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity,” is currently on view at Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College in Chicago until Sunday, July 12. The exhibition … Read More
  
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• Sarah Lucas sticks a cigarette up her bum (sculpture) to represent Britain at Venice Biennale 2015

  05-05-2015 17:53
  
  Sarah Lucas seemed a strange choice for this year’s British Pavilion in Venice. In the past there have been accolades for long-term service with artists like Leon Kossoff or Howard Hodgkin; last time the job fell to bouncy young thing Jeremy Deller. Lucas is smack bang in the middle, one of the generation labeled YBA who despite being in her 50s still can’t seem to shed the title. Can she manage to surprise and titillate us again, or will it just look like a near-OAP talking dirty whilst sm
  
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• Sarah Lucas sticks a cigarette up her bum (sculpture) to represent Britain at Venice Biennale

  05-05-2015 17:53
  
  Sarah Lucas seemed a strange choice for this year’s British Pavilion in Venice. In the past there have been accolades for long-term service with artists like Leon Kossoff or Howard Hodgkin; last time the job fell to bouncy young thing Jeremy Deller. Lucas is smack bang in the middle, one of the generation labeled YBA who despite being in her 50s still can’t seem to shed the title. Can she manage to surprise and titillate us again, or will it just look like a near-OAP talking dirty whilst sm
  
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• Sarah Lucas is the perfect artist to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale

  05-05-2015 17:53
  
  Sarah Lucas seemed a strange choice for this year’s British Pavilion in Venice. In the past there have been accolades for long-term service with artists like Leon Kossoff or Howard Hodgkin; last time the job fell to bouncy young thing Jeremy Deller. Lucas is smack bang in the middle, one of the generation labeled YBA who despite being in her 50s still can’t seem to shed the title. Can she manage to surprise and titillate us again, or will it just look like a near-OAP talking dirty whilst sm
  
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• Sarah Lucas at the Venice Biennale – in pictures

  05-05-2015 17:30
  Edith’s stooped over a toilet seat, Margot’s draped on a fridge and Sarah’s bent over a bar stool ... strewn about custard-yellow rooms, Sarah Lucas’s muses have taken over the British pavilion. Her British Council commission, I Scream Daddio, is at the Venice Biennale from 9 May to 22 November 2015Pervery and pleasure in a sea of custard: Adrian Searle’s 4-star review‘No one’s told me off about the fannies yet’: Charlotte Higgins talks to LucasContinue reading...
  
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• Rude bits and custard: Sarah Lucas at the Venice Biennale – in pictures

  05-05-2015 17:30
  
  Edith’s stooped over a toilet seat, Margot’s draped on a fridge and Sarah’s bent over a bar stool ... strewn about custard-yellow rooms, Sarah Lucas’s muses have taken over the British pavilion. Her British Council commission, I Scream Daddio, is at the Venice Biennale from 9 May to 22 November 2015Pervery and pleasure in a sea of custard: Adrian Searle’s 4-star review‘No one’s told me off about the fannies yet’: Charlotte Higgins talks to LucasContinue reading...
  
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• Into the Woods: Natalie Frank’s Fairy Tales

  05-05-2015 16:30 via artnews.com
  This May D.A.P. will publish Natalie Frank’s Tales of the Brothers Grimm, which features the texts of the stories alongside Frank’s dysmorphic, therianthropic characters, currently on view in an exhibition at The Drawing Center. In all, the book includes 79 … Read More
  
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• Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner, Wigmore Hall, review: Good in parts

  05-05-2015 16:12
  
  Returning to the Wigmore half a century since he and they had made their professional debut there, John Eliot Gardiner and his Monteverdi Choir started with a Monteverdi madrigal, Hor che’l ciel e la terra, which few of us had heard before.
  
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• Retrospective: Philip Guston on Piero della Francesca

  05-05-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  And other excerpts from our coverage 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Prado vs. Museum of Royal Collections Edition

  05-05-2015 15:20 via artnews.com
  Microbes—and the way they colonize us—are the subject of an exhibition at the Eden Project in Cornwall. [The Guardian] Sellers of art estimated to bring in $2.3 billion at the May auctions include billionaire money manager Steven A. Cohen and New … Read More
  
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• Sarah Lucas at Venice Biennale review – pervery and pleasure in a sea of custard

  05-05-2015 15:00
  
  Welcomed by a handless but erect Maradona, Lucas’s sculptural army of friends and muses are all pleasuring themselves – and they’ll make you feel good tooOut under the portico and in the big first room of the British pavilion stand two identical yellow sculptures. Arch-backed and bums raised, as though in some difficult Pilates position, arms behind head and huge of erection, they look as if they are about to orgasm. Hrrryghhhh. If Jeff Koons’s balloon dog mated with a Franz West sausage
  
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• ‘No one’s told me off about the fannies yet’: Sarah Lucas at the Venice Biennale

  05-05-2015 14:59
  
  True to form, Lucas’s British pavilion has a real naughty streak, with vaginas smoking cigarettes, spot paintings of tabloid breasts and a ‘lickable’ MaradonaSarah Lucas – the YBA who, as a young woman, photographed herself with a pair of fried eggs slapped on her breasts – has turned down a Turner prize nomination twice; she has, in her time, been better known for rabble-rousing in the Groucho club than being officially clubbable. Related: Sarah Lucas at Venice Biennale review – per
  
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• Out of the frame: artist Gordon Shrigley abandons dream of being an MP

  05-05-2015 14:24
  
  As the election looms, the arty candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch has thrown in the towel, sneering at the cynicism of politicians. But is he missing the point?As the political parties make their final push for the general election while already testing out arguments for who can form a government in the anticipated hung parliament, at least one candidate has the honesty to throw in the towel.Artist Gordon Shrigley has not pulled out of the ballot in Hackney South and Shoreditch where he
  
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• The Conductorless Orchestra That Plays In Soup Kitchens And Crumbling Churches

  05-05-2015 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Violinist Vena Johnson of the Prometheus Chamber Orchestra: “There’s this disconnect between what the art means to us and how that translates into the community. Many people just aren’t reached. It’s not necessarily economic – if the art isn’t speaking to a society for what we’re going through, then it won’t translate.” (Philip Glass’s String […]
  
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• More Former Students Allege Ballet Instructor Took Nude Photos Of Them

  05-05-2015 10:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is strange how we all sorta knew what was happening – and knew it was not right – but did not understand how wrong it was.”
  
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• Did Modernism Ever Even Happen In American Art? (Jerry Saltz And His Editor At The New Whitney)

  05-05-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The real revelation in ‘America Is Hard to See’ comes in the works from before World War II – how not-European, not-modernism modern, not-programmatic, not-pure it looks. … At the same moment in the early 20th century when Europe and Russia, especially, were trying to make art dealing with the modern condition, Americans were actually […]
  
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• ‘The Game Done Changed': Reconsidering ‘The Wire’ Amidst The Baltimore Uprising

  05-05-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I am now seeing what the The Wire was missing, despite its much lauded, painstaking verisimilitude: the voices of people organizing together for change. Everyone on The Wire seeks individual solutions for social problems: the lone cop, the lone criminal, the lone teacher, the lone newspaper reporter. Yes, it is certainly true that when entrenched […]
  
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• The Media Needs A History Lesson When Addressing Civic Unrest, Says The Director Of The African-American History Museum

  05-05-2015 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lonnie Bunch, the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture: “In some ways as I watch the media coverage of Baltimore, Ferguson and other things, I’m amazed at how ahistorical the coverage is. How people do not understand that in some ways this is part of a long tradition where […]
  
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• Finally, A Step In The Right Direction! This Ballet Company Is Returning To Live Music For All Performances

  05-05-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s the news that dance and music fans have awaited for decades: For the first time in more than 20 years, every major Orlando Ballet performance next season will be accompanied by a live orchestra.”
  
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• Cable’s Dreaded Bundle Comes To Internet TV

  05-05-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This may come as a surprise to those who expected the television of the future to resemble, say, a smartphone screen, where every channel would be roughly like an app that you subscribe to à la carte. But overestimating change in the television industry is a rookie mistake.”
  
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• Jorge Luis Borges’s ‘Library of Babel’ Is Now a Real Website

  05-05-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Library, subject of a 1941 Borges story by the same name, contains all possible combinations of letters, and is tended to by melancholy Librarians trying in vain to locate meaning within the nonsense. … If that sounds like a less-than-appealing place to spend your time – not to mention a logically impossible one – […]
  
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• The Cat-Painting Renaissance Of The 19th Century

  05-05-2015 09:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Bourgeois collectors, interested in enhancing plush domestic interiors, bought the cat canvases. It became a good market for artists, some of whom became well known in the genre.” (slideshow)
  
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• ‘The Bieber Of Buddhism’

  05-05-2015 09:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Except imagine if Justin Bieber had been pronounced, from age seven, the most perfectly compassionate and wise being.” His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, visits Princeton.
  
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• 25 Years After They Were Executed, The Ceausescus Have Become One Of Romania’s Biggest Tourist Draws

  05-05-2015 09:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  See their lavish living quarters! See the People’s Palace, their enormous, garish pile of a public building that can be seen from space! See the spot where they were shot to death!
  
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• Sneak Peek at “Proportio” in Palazzo Fortuny

  05-05-2015 09:02 via artnews.com
  Every Venice Biennale since 2007, the dealer Axel Vervoordt has been putting on a sprawling, always intriguing, sometimes brilliant exhibition in the Palazzo Fortuny, a Gothic building in Campo San Beneto that was the former home of Spanish designer Mariano Fortuny … Read More
  
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• Faecal transplants and bio-art … Eden Project’s latest exhibition explore the science of microbes

  05-05-2015 08:00
  
  Eden Project in Cornwall opens Invisible You: The Human Microbiome, which reveals how and why we are colonised by bacteria and other microbesMicrobes. They are around you, on you and in you – outnumbering your body’s own cells and influencing your health in ways scientists are only just beginning to tease apart. Now this motley crew of microbes has taken over a new exhibition set to open this month at the Eden Project in Cornwall.Invisible You: The Human Microbiome will reveal how we become
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.04.15

  05-05-2015 06:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Dangers Of Audience Gimmicks AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-05-04 Fight and flight AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2015-05-04 A Union of Four Unalikes AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2015-05-03 Weekend Extra: Whitfield And Greensill AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-05-03
  
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