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• Black Marks: In Venice, Jenny Holzer Examines the War on Terror

  06-05-2015 23:35 via artnews.com
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• Harvard Business School Warns of Picassos Flooding the Market

  06-05-2015 21:46 via artnews.com
  Adding to the other upheavals the art market is currently faced with—the possible repeal of the tax code darling known as the “1031 Exchange,” the amendment of the California Resale Royalties Act—an article published today on Harvard Business School’s Working … Read More
  
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• Ronald McDonald the muse? Why Banksy, Ron English and Keith Coventry are lovin' Maccy D's

  06-05-2015 21:45
  
  Next time you chow down on a burger, take a moment to consider the aesthetics of what it is wrapped in. Keith Coventry, an artist propelled to success as one of the Young British Artists, has just unveiled nine new artworks and his muse of choice is the burger brand, McDonald's. The American fast-food chain caught his attention nearly 15 years ago when Coventry noticed that most of the rubbish being trodden into the pavement across the road from his Camberwell studio was emblazoned with those u
  
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• Ronald McDonald the muse? Why artists like Banksy, Ron English and Keith Coventry are lovin' it

  06-05-2015 21:45
  
  Next time you chow down on a burger, take a moment to consider the aesthetics of what it is wrapped in. Keith Coventry, an artist propelled to success as one of the Young British Artists, has just unveiled nine new artworks and his muse of choice is the burger brand, McDonald's. The American fast-food chain caught his attention nearly 15 years ago when Coventry noticed that most of the rubbish being trodden into the pavement across the road from his Camberwell studio was emblazoned with those u
  
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• Judging a Book By Its Cover: Designing Knausgaard’s ‘Struggle’

  06-05-2015 20:24 via artnews.com
  Much has been written about Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle series, perhaps too much. But amidst the rave reviews, the one area that hasn’t quite been pointed out enough is how fantastic the cover art on them is, especially in … Read More
  
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• An Airport in the Arsenale

  06-05-2015 20:04 via artnews.com
  Walking through the Arsenale portion of Okwui Enwezor’s central show for the Venice Biennale, “All the World’s Futures,” you reach an empty section that is cordoned off, with a long row of desks holding various tools and unplaceable objects off … Read More
  
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• Berlin Philharmonic Ready To Vote On New Leader

  06-05-2015 19:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “No, there will be no white smoke, and these are not cardinals in the Sistine Chapel. These voters are the tenured musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic, and they are set to meet at 10 a.m. on Monday at an undisclosed location in Berlin to make one of the most prestigious appointments in classical music: a […]
  
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• “Repairs” Ruin Priceless Roman Mosaics

  06-05-2015 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Before and after photos taken by Daskapan show the extent of the damage. Some of the mosaic stones have been replaced with stones of different shapes and colors. Consequently, the facial expressions now appear awry and skewed.”
  
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• Portable Neuroscience For The Masses?

  06-05-2015 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The device uses a technique called neurofeedback. This has been around since the 1960s, but traditionally, the EEG equipment needed to practice neurofeedback was limited to research centers and specialized clinics. Now, devices like the Versus are bringing the technique into the homes of corporate executives, elite athletes like Walsh, and others.”
  
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• A look around the Venice Biennale: Day 2

  06-05-2015 19:00 via artnews.com
  The second day of the Venice Biennale preview opened today to what felt like double the headcount. Here’s a brief look around the Giardini and the surrounding areas on the second day of the Biennale including National Pavilion openings, performance art … Read More
  
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• ‘Mark Grotjahn: Fifteen Paintings’ at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

  06-05-2015 18:30 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Mark Grotjahn: Fifteen Paintings” is on view at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, until Saturday, June 20. The show features fifteen of Grotjahn’s non-representational paintings of “Face” paintings … Read More
  
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• A Golden Age For Tap

  06-05-2015 18:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The dance historian Constance Valis Hill claims that tap dance is the most cutting-edge dance form currently to be seen in the United States. What makes tap stand out for Hill is the intense innovation going on in the form, coupled with an attention to emotional and political content.”
  
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• Report: Only 10% Of UK Actors Are Working Class

  06-05-2015 17:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Even when someone from working class origins is in the profession we are finding that they are about £10,000 less well off than other people, in theory for doing the same jobs.”
  
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• Consumer Reports: Matthew Higgs

  06-05-2015 17:42 via artnews.com
  
  
  Matthew Higgs is an artist, curator and the director of White Columns, New York City’s oldest alternative non-profit space. He recently co-curated, with Catherine Morris, the Judith Scott retrospective “Bound & Unbound” at the Sackler Center for Feminist Art at … Read More
  
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• Why The Closing Of The Tiny Museum Of Biblical Art Matters

  06-05-2015 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The absence of religious context for religious art in American museums was not, as one might assume, a product of the culture wars or a precocious expression of the new atheism. It was actually the result of several hundred years of aesthetic politics.”
  
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• The New Whitney: Thinking About The Future

  06-05-2015 17:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Finances permitting, the Whitney should one day revert to its original intention to operate in both its old and new buildings. This could occur after the Metropolitan Museum’s eight-year lease on the Whitney’s former home runs out. Historic art was seen to better advantage in architect Marcel Breuer’s more structured confines.”
  
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• What “The Hollywood Model” Tells Us About How To Work Creatively

  06-05-2015 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This approach to business is sometimes called the “Hollywood model.” A project is identified; a team is assembled; it works together for precisely as long as is needed to complete the task; then the team disbands. This short-­term, project-­based business structure is an alternative to the corporate model, in which capital is spent up front […]
  
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• YouTube’s Copyright Problems Point To Bigger Issues For Artists

  06-05-2015 16:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Here’s the thing: under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), YouTube is not legally obligated to have a mechanism for policing its content for infringement at all. The site is charged with taking content down when it receives notices to do so, but that’s the extent of it. Nevertheless, YouTube takes an overly active role […]
  
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• Rem Koolhaas: Why Do We Destroy Buildings We Could Still Use?

  06-05-2015 16:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It would be madness for an entire period of architectural history — that had a major influence on cities around the world — to disappear simply because we suddenly find the style ugly. This brings up a fundamental question: Are we preserving architecture or history?”
  
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• Is Pop Music Still Evolving? Here’s What The Research Says

  06-05-2015 16:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  A multifaceted examination of the musical properties of hit songs from 1960 to 2010 concludes that pop is, in fact, continually evolving. This process occurred “with particular rapidity during three stylistic ‘revolutions’ around 1964, 1983, and 1991.”
  
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• The Tug Of War Between Talent And Practice

  06-05-2015 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Talent is a destructive myth. To call someone talented is to imply that their abilities are intrinsic. Having written and taught for decades now, I’ve satisfied myself that the improvement of a person’s art isn’t drawn from the mystical well of their soul: it’s generated by practice.”
  
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• Artist Wins $25K Prize, Uses It To Buy Other Artists’ Work For Seattle Art Museum

  06-05-2015 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We don’t like it at all when people say, ‘You’re so generous. The intention of it wasn’t to be generous, really… I’d like it to be understood as an art project that was trying to start conversations and have symbolic value in the community around how artists and artworks are valued, how museums make value.”
  
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• Fried eggs and spam: behind the scenes at the Venice Biennale with Sarah Lucas – exclusive video

  06-05-2015 16:22
  
  Sarah Lucas gives a private tour of I Scream Daddio, her British pavilion show at Venice Biennale 2015. She talks about toplessness, the appeal of eggs, the seductiveness of toilets, how to name nude sculptures – and then has a Spam picnic• Sarah Lucas's British Council commission is at la Biennale di Venezia from 9 May until 22 November 2015 Continue reading...
  
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• Sarah Lucas: ‘I have several penises, actually’

  06-05-2015 16:22
  
  Bawdy, boozy British artist Sarah Lucas has settled into a new life of tea, pyjamas and non-stop plastercasting of genitalia. She tells Charlotte Higgins about the pressure of representing her country at Venice Biennale – and why if she hadn’t quit her hard-partying YBA life she wouldn’t be around today
  We are sitting on the back terrace of the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Beyond us, trees coming into leaf descend to the bank of the lagoon, and the chug-chug of vaporetti is jus
  
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• Stolen LS Lowry paintings traded as 'currency' and 'collateral' by criminal gangs

  06-05-2015 16:05
  
  Stolen paintings by Salford artist LS Lowry are being used as “currency” by criminal gangs, a gallery owner has claimed.
  
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• Morning Links: Guggenheim Edit-a-thon Edition

  06-05-2015 15:32 via artnews.com
  Timothy Rodgers, director of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, will be stepping down this month after a six-year tenure. [Artforum] Police searched Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and questioned staff members about a scheme to transfer Russian art abroad illegally. [The Guardian] What is … Read More
  
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• Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery searched in art-smuggling investigation

  06-05-2015 14:37
  
  Police question staff at gallery, which holds a world-renowned collection of Russian art, over alleged scheme to transfer masterpieces abroadPolice have swept through Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery as part of an investigation into contraband art smuggling.Officers arrived at the gallery, which houses a world-renowned collection of Russian art, on Tuesday without warning and questioned a number of employees.Continue reading...
  
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• The 2015 Venice Biennale’s Central Show, Focused on Strife, Is Uneasy, Uneven

  06-05-2015 14:07 via artnews.com
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• The 2015 Venice Biennale’s Central Show, Fixated on Strife, Is Uneasy, Uneven

  06-05-2015 14:07 via artnews.com
  Okwui Enwezor's 'All the World's Futures,' through November 22, 2015 Read More
  
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• Venice Diary: A Look Inside the Giardini’s National Pavilions

  06-05-2015 14:02 via artnews.com
  Weather-wise, Tuesday could hardly have been a more idyllic day for the national pavilions clustered in Venice’s Giardini, its public gardens, to open to select visitors as part of the 56th Venice Biennale. It was sunny, the temperature hovered around … Read More
  
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• Five more years of the Conservatives will reduce the arts to a national joke

  06-05-2015 13:23
  
  National Gallery strikes are only the start: another term of ruthless pressure from Cameron and co would demolish Britain’s cultural sector. Is that what we want?Labour and the SNP would “tear our nation apart”, warns former Conservative prime minister John Major in the last hours of the 2015 General Election campaign. It’s typical of Tory rhetoric about the “chaos” an Ed Miliband victory might bring.But the chaos is already here, in microcosm. There is a small part of Britain that h
  
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• Van Gogh work painted a month before artist chopped ear off sells for $66 million at Sotheby's

  06-05-2015 10:52
  
  A van Gogh painting of an avenue of tombs lined by towering poplars in vibrant autumnal colours was the star of last night’s Sotheby’s spring auction which reaped a whopping $368 million (£242 million) overall.
  
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• Charlie Hebdo Staffers Get Standing Ovation At PEN Gala, Despite Controversy Over Honoring Them

  06-05-2015 10:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Two members of Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine, took the stage to a thundering standing ovation at PEN American Center’s literary gala on Tuesday night, capping a 10-day debate over free speech, blasphemy and Islamophobia that started in the cozy heart of the New York literary world and spread to social media and op-ed […]
  
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• Tax Break On Selling And Then Buying Land Is Being (Ab)Used By Art Collectors Flipping Paintings

  06-05-2015 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Now, this little-known provision in the tax code, known as a like-kind exchange, has become a popular tactic for a new niche of investors: buyers of high-end art who want to put off – and sometimes completely avoid – federal taxes when upgrading their Diebenkorns for Rothkos.”
  
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• Alessandra Ferri is Still Dancing Lead Roles At 52

  06-05-2015 10:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Only a handful of ballerinas have danced into their 50s, and … Ferri said she hoped to blaze a trail for older dancers but suggested that the over-40s face age discrimination in the ballet world. Younger choreographers ‘are unable to see that you are unique and to enjoy that fact. Some of them hardly even […]
  
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• The Onion Is Turning Into A Digital Media Empire – And Doing It Better Than The Media It Makes Fun Of

  06-05-2015 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Now, The Onion is not just a comedy website. Onion Inc. cannot be described, simply, as a publisher. It has been transformed into a bonafide digital media company – with a profitable, in-house advertising agency in tow – that wants to succeed where the targets of its barbs have not.
  
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• How A Game-Show Champion Became The Embattled Conscience Of American Male Geekdom

  06-05-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jeopardy! champion Arthur Chu “leveraged his 15 minutes of game-show fame into, of all things, a national platform for his opinions about nerds: What America gets wrong about nerds; what nerds – especially male nerds – get wrong about themselves; and why it matters. … Chu wants to make nerd culture better – and to […]
  
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• To Beam Or Not To Beam? How Live Broadcasts Are Changing Regional And Touring Theatre

  06-05-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Do screenings of stage productions from London steal audiences from local theatre or expand them? Nobody can agree on the answer. (Yet.)
  
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• How Virginia Woolf Brought Her Mother Back To Life

  06-05-2015 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Christopher Frizzelle looks at the miracle(s) the author worked in To the Lighthouse.
  
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• 25 Years Of Playing Mayor LaGuardia Onstage

  06-05-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Tony LoBianco starred in a one-man show about New York City’s 99th mayor on Broadway in 1989, the production closed after 12 performances. Then the actor started rewriting the script, kept at it, and now has spent a quarter-century taking the piece, now titled The Little Flower, everywhere from Manhattan to Moscow to Milan.
  
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• ‘Cryptomnesia’ – How We Come Up With Ideas Or Songs Or Paragraphs That Other People Already Had

  06-05-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  The term, which means “hidden memory,” describes the cause of what’s often described as “unconscious plagiarism” – and it’s a phenomenon that can be replicated in the lab.
  
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• How The Hell Do You Install A 40-Ton Richard Serra Sculpture?

  06-05-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The artist’s latest work, Equal, a series of paired 40-ton stacked steel cubes now on display at David Zwirner’s West 20th Street gallery, required master riggers, hydraulic gantries, and a custom runway just to be installed in a building itself expressly designed to accommodate artists’ big ideas. Now, if you were to buy one, just […]
  
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• Dancers, Know What You’re Getting Into When You Join This Guy’s Company

  06-05-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Says one member of Diavolo, Architecture in Motion about founder/artistic director Jacques Heim, “He often puts on a show. He lives to get a rise out of you. And by really nit-picking at what we don’t do so well, he knows he’s going to get something great out of us.” Says another, “On an artistic […]
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.05.15

  06-05-2015 08:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Uncompromising positions AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-05-05 Theatre in London and New York AJBlog: OperaSleuth Published 2015-05-05 Thoughts On New Orleans And Jazz AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-05-04 Another Take On New Orleans AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-05-05
  
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• Sotheby’s Opens Spring Auctions With $368.3 M. Impressionist and Modern Sale

  06-05-2015 06:24 via artnews.com
  Earlier tonight, and amid most of the art world’s late spring break to the opening of the Venice Biennale, Sotheby’s kicked off New York’s auction season with a strong sale that saw impressive results for Vincent van Gogh and Claude … Read More
  
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• Female street artists take to Dubai's walls

  06-05-2015 06:00
  
  Colourful murals are popping across the city, but with strict laws governing street art it is often business that has created the platform for expressionGraffiti is not the first thing you think of when you think of Dubai. When you stroll among the desert city’s skyscrapers or drive along its ever-changing roads, there is little street art to be seen, aside from the occasional hastily scrawled musing.But, if you meander down the alleyways of the beachside suburb of Jumeirah, visit the warehous
  
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• Venice Biennale: Cate Blanchett and George Brandis open $7.5m Australian pavilion

  06-05-2015 04:01
  
  Black box part-funded by Australia Council houses Fiona Hall’s ‘cabinet of curiosities’ and nods to the arrival of European settlers on Indigenous landNothing could stop the sea of people barging into the new Australian pavilion minutes after it opened on Tuesday in Venice. “Seven out? Seven in!” said a door woman, managing the herd with her bare arms at the 56th Venice Biennale.The public lined up impatiently only to saunter through the pavilion, which was partly funded by 82 private
  
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• ARTnews at the Biennale: Day 1

  06-05-2015 03:18 via artnews.com
  The National Pavilions opened their doors to the press today, and ARTnews took a microcosmic trip around the world to gear up before tomorrow’s press preview for “All The World’s Futures,” the 2015 Venice Biennale’s 56th international art exhibition. As over 70 countries … Read More
  
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• A Look Around the Venice Biennale: Day 1

  06-05-2015 03:18 via artnews.com
  The Venice Biennale opened to invited guests today. Below, a brief look at some of the 70 national pavilions that are participating and the scene in the city right now. Among the offerings: an indigenous Australian smoking ceremony, Irina Nakhova’s dystopian-sized gas mask at the … Read More
  
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