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• Chris Burden Has Died at 69

  10-05-2015 23:03 via artnews.com
  The Los Angeles Times reported this afternoon that Chris Burden, an important Los Angeles artist, has died at age 69. Art dealer and former MOCA Los Angeles curator Paul Schimmel has told The LA Times’ Christopher Knight that the cause … Read More
  
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• Artist Chris Burden Has Died at 69

  10-05-2015 23:03 via artnews.com
  The Los Angeles Times reported this afternoon that Chris Burden, an important Los Angeles artist, has died at age 69. Art dealer and former MOCA Los Angeles curator Paul Schimmel told The LA Times‘ Christopher Knight that the cause was … Read More
  
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• Artist Chris Burden Has Died

  10-05-2015 22:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Paul Schimmel, a close friend of the artist and the former chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art who had organized Burden’s first retrospective exhibition in 1988, said the cause was malignant melanoma. Burden had been diagnosed with the illness 18 months ago, Schimmel said, but kept the information private.”
  
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• Houston Symphony Adds Four String Players Primarily For Bilingual Outreach

  10-05-2015 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The four new musicians will concentrate on community engagement and music education in area schools, neighborhood centers and health-care facilities. They also will perform about 25 concerts a year with the symphony.”
  
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• The Turbulent Emotional State Of Being A Writer

  10-05-2015 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Euphoria is probably the best word to describe how an author feels when the writing goes well. Most of the time, however, the writing is hard, sometimes impossible. The terrifying sense that the creative process is always out of your control — or perhaps that it actually isn’t, in which case the hard-to-impossible stretches are […]
  
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• When Will U.S. Museum Directors Reflect America’s Demographics?

  10-05-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The impending influx of new blood at the top offers museums an opportunity to rethink the job and question many of the assumptions that underlie traditional museum operations: the emphasis on splendid buildings, the primacy of curatorial authority and the balance between rich donors, for whom museums are often personal vanity projects, and the public, […]
  
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• The Artist Representing Britain At The Venice Biennale With Giant Yellow Phalluses

  10-05-2015 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I have a hefty streak of indifference to things but I was chuffed to be asked. It’s special, a big deal internationally and so glamorous to be in Venice.”
  
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• The Ex-Con Forger Whose Own Work Is Now Worth Millions [VIDEO]

  10-05-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A German forger who conned the art world out of millions of dollars is holding his first exhibition since becoming a free man.”
  
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• One Way To Get People Interested In Your Museum: Create Game Of Thrones Recaps From The Art

  10-05-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Getty Media producer Sarah Waldorf and manuscripts curator Bryan Keene have been rolling out recaps of Season Five on the museum’s Tumblr, telling each week’s narrative through items and imagery from its collection of medieval art. The result is a brilliantly fun tour of art and a unique analysis of the real historical inspirations for […]
  
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• To Combat Any Decline In Print Books, You Just Need Pop Stars And Video Games

  10-05-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Sales of children’s books rose 11 per cent to £349 million, making 2014 the most successful year for the genre since 2007, when JK Rowling’s final Harry Potter book was released.”
  
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• Berlin Philharmonic musicians vote in secret on Simon Rattle's replacement

  10-05-2015 18:56
  
  The classical music world’s equivalent of a papal election takes place this Monday, as the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra go into their secret conclave to elect a successor to their British artistic director, Sir Simon Rattle.
  
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• Spoiled For Choice: 15 Different European Opera Houses Start Streaming Productions … For Free

  10-05-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The operas — from 15 presenters including the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House in London and the Aix-en-Provence Festival — will be streamed live on the website of the Opera Platform, at www.theoperaplatform.eu. The site said that subtitles in six languages would be available, and each opera would remain available on demand for […]
  
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• As The ‘Billy Elliott’ Musical Turns 10, Where Are The Original Dancing Billys?

  10-05-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, one of them is playing young King Tommen on Game of Thrones – and the others are doing pretty well too.
  
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• Who Will Miss Dave Letterman Most?

  10-05-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Americana musicians: “‘Dave was celebrating Americana artists before we knew what we were called,’ says Emmylou Harris, one of the scene’s matriarchs, who first performed on Mr. Letterman’s program in 1989.”
  
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• An Art Critic And An Architecture Critic Discuss What MoMA Got Right In – And What It Left Out Of – The Latin American Architecture Show

  10-05-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I was weirdly moved to see the original model for Brasilia by Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa. In our day and age of fancy digital fly-throughs and massive 3-D printed models, there is something touchingly small and hand-made about this model: the Cathedral looks as if it could have been rendered out of toothpicks and […]
  
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• The Artistic Power Of Those On The Margins

  10-05-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Away from the fierce logic of power that creates the center, the margins remain conspicuously dispersed, unfocused, chaotic. Life takes other forms here; it has its own rhythms and priorities, and unfolds in ways both uncontrollable and difficult to predict.”
  
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• Tate Modern at 15: still delivering the shock of the new

  10-05-2015 17:00
  
  The Bankside museum has transformed modern art from an elite cult into mass entertainment, but is it time to get down to some proper studying?Its dark Satanic hulk rising out of nondescript land on the wrong side of the Thames was the shock of the new set down in brick. It was 1999, and I was taking a hard-hat tour of the nearly completed conversion of Bankside power station into Tate Modern. In my mind I visualised Jackson Pollock paintings in the as-yet empty galleries and a heavy metal Richar
  
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• Cable TV Execs Don’t Really Know What To Do With This Streaming Thing That’s Eating Their Lunch

  10-05-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘We didn’t have to sell the value of television for a long time,’ said one top sales executive for a large cable network group who was not authorized to speak publicly. ‘Now you’re seeing the industry on the defensive because clients are enamored with toys under the Christmas tree.'”
  
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• That Time An Artist Who Wanted To Photograph And Challenge Queer Identities Got A Little Overwhelmed

  10-05-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I honestly thought that the project would be a small collection of 50 or so photographs, but the response to the project was so profound that I decided to expand it and travel to several US cities like New York City, Portland, Chicago and soon Austin to photograph more people. I imagine that this will […]
  
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• Sarah Lucas: ‘It gets a bit ridiculous being called YBAs now we are in our 50s’

  10-05-2015 08:00
  
  The artist representing Britain at the Venice Biennale on being an ex-bovver girl and party animal, making money and frying eggsArtist Sarah Lucas shot to fame in the late 1980s with her in-yer-face sculptures that assembled objects and vegetables to depict body parts. Her new show at the Venice Biennale, complete with giant yellow phalluses and topless plaster casts, is just as funny and unabashed.Did you ever imagine you would represent Britain at the Biennale?
  I have a hefty streak of indiffe
  
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• On my radar: Thea Gilmore’s cultural highlights

  10-05-2015 08:00
  
  The singer-songwriter on the return of Blur, the loneliness in Edward Hopper’s paintings, BBC TV satire W1A and the inspirational atmosphere of LiverpoolSinger-songwriter Thea Gilmore grew up in Oxford before leaving home in her teens to work in a recording studio, where she was discovered by producer Nigel Stonier (whom she later married). She released her first album, Burning Dorothy, at 18 and broke into the album charts with Avalanche at 23. Gilmore performed in a Bob Dylan tribute concert
  
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• 56th Venice Biennale review – more of a glum trudge than an exhilarating adventure

  10-05-2015 08:00
  
  There’s an awful lot of fretting about the state of the world in the Biennale’s 88 national pavilions, but little power, wit or bravadoThere is a Rolls-Royce pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale – a gorgeous palazzo on the Grand Canal with a garden full of scented roses. Inside, British artist Isaac Julien is showing his equally fetching views of sparkling glacier caves in outermost Iceland. Visions of diamond-bright ice and cascading blue water flow across five film screens to the br
  
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• Armenia, Adrian Piper Win Venice Biennale’s Golden Lions

  10-05-2015 02:54 via artnews.com
  This afternoon, at a ceremony in the Most Serene Republic, the organizers of the Venice Biennale announced the full slate of winners for this, the 56th edition of the exhibition. Adrian Piper and Armenia took home Golden Lions, the top … Read More
  
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• Common People: Jarvis Cocker’s song is not all about the girl | Barbara Ellen

  10-05-2015 01:05
  
  Whether Jarvis Cocker was singing about Danae Stratou is completely not the pointIt’s become a matter of speculation that the rich female student patronising Jarvis Cocker in Pulp’s Common People might be Danae Stratou, wife of Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. Stratou ticks the boxes – she comes from Greece, from a wealthy background, and studied at Central St Martin’s School of Art around the same time that Jarvis Cocker was there. So is it Stratou, or is it an urban myth? Who c
  
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• Stephen Walter, the artist mapping London's shifts, stories and secrets – in pictures

  10-05-2015 01:05
  Stephen Walter’s highly detailed, hand-drawn plans of the metropolis record long-forgotten histories and recent developments with a native Londoner’s critical eye. Here we show some of his remarkable maps from his book The Island, published by PrestelStephen Walter: ‘Any map is always a projection of the opinions of its maker’Continue reading...
  
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• Artist Stephen Walter: ‘My maps are all about human residues and traces’

  10-05-2015 01:05
  
  The Londoner’s huge, highly detailed hand-drawn plans of the metropolis record long-forgotten histories and recent redevelopments with a critical eye, and echo Iain Sinclair’s psychogeography• Stephen Walter, the artist mapping London’s shifts, stories and secrets – in picturesI meet Stephen Walter outside the Aquatics Centre at the Olympic Park in east London, in order to walk back to his studio near Fish Island on the River Lea just beyond the perimeter fence. Walter is London’s co
  
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• Photographer Hajdu Tamas captures the quirkier side of life in Romania

  10-05-2015 01:00
  
  Hajdu Tamas's photographs offer hints about his full-time career; he has been a veterinarian for almost 15 years, and, though not in every picture, his work carries a certain preoccupation with the animal world.
  
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