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• Lucas Samaras at Pace Gallery

  14-05-2015 23:21 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Lucas Samaras: Album 2” is currently on view at Pace Gallery in New York until Saturday, June 20. All 720 works that comprise “Album 2″ are considered to be part … Read More
  
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• Fox News affiliate censors breasts of $179m Picasso painting on air

  14-05-2015 23:05
  
  New York magazine art critic tweets in mockery of ‘sexually sick’ news networkWomen of Algiers (Version O) depicts nude women in cubist styleA Fox news station has censored the breasts on a cubist painting by Pablo Picasso, prompting bemusement and ridicule from art critics and audiences.Reporting on the record-setting, $179m auction of Picasso’s Women of Algiers (Version O), the New York affiliate of Fox blurred the breasts of three women in the painting, despite the stylized and distinct
  
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• Fox affiliate censors breasts of $179m Picasso painting on air

  14-05-2015 23:05
  
  New York magazine art critic tweets in mockery of ‘sexually sick’ news networkWomen of Algiers (Version O) depicts nude women in cubist styleA local Fox news station has censored the breasts on a cubist painting by Pablo Picasso, prompting bemusement and ridicule from art critics and audiences.Reporting on the record-setting, $179m auction of Picasso’s Women of Algiers (Version O), Fox 5, the New York affiliate of Fox, blurred the breasts of three women in the painting, despite the stylize
  
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• Rachel Rose, Tony Oursler Talk to Hans Ulrich Obrist and Tom Eccles at Frieze

  14-05-2015 22:22 via artnews.com
  This afternoon in the Frieze auditorium, Bard’s Tom Eccles introduced a new project by the LUMA foundation, a studio, residency, and Frank Gehry designed center, which will be accompanied by a summer festival in Arles, France. One of the aims … Read More
  
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• Ha – TV News Broadcast Blurred Out Abstract Breasts In Picasso Painting While Reporting Its Sale

  14-05-2015 20:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  When a Fox news station reported on the record-breaking $179 million sale of Picasso’s Women of Algiers (Version O) at a Christie’s auction, it outdid itself by blurring out the abstract breasts in the painting.
  
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• Research and Data Manager, League of American Orchestras

  14-05-2015 19:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Seeking a research specialist with a strong customer service orientation. Must excel in analyzing and synthesizing non-profit financial & operational data; in finding...
  
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• ‘This is not Trash': Eric Wesley’s Tribute To Miscellany at Frieze

  14-05-2015 19:55 via artnews.com
  On an outward-facing wall at the Bortolami booth, two works by Eric Wesley—DPS #36 North American Center (Notes from my Mother) and DPS #34 This is not Trash…well you know what I mean—hang, boasting a modest but wonderfully mundane appeal. … Read More
  
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• Claim: Altering A New York Cultural Landmark Is Sure To Ruin It

  14-05-2015 19:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is our obligation to preserve for future generations the essential experience of the Four Seasons that its creators originally intended. Simply put, our obligation and that of the Landmarks Preservation Commission is to treat the Four Seasons like the world-class landmark it most certainly is.”
  
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• ‘Where Can You Go With Abstract Painting at This Point?': Marcia Hafif on Her Monochromes at Frieze

  14-05-2015 19:35 via artnews.com
  Yesterday, at the opening for Frieze New York, New York–based painter Marcia Hafif could be seen chatting with a steady stream of friends and admirers near her monochromes, currently on view at Fergus McCaffrey’s booth. At 86, Hafif is more … Read More
  
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• The Art World’s First Billion-Dollar Auction Week

  14-05-2015 18:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “On Wednesday, Christie’s said it sold $658.5 million worth of work at its postwar and contemporary art auction, added to the $705.9 million for 20th-century works auctioned off on Monday. The billion-dollar threshold was a symbolic coup for Christie’s and seemed to widen the divide with its rival Sotheby’s, even if actual profits were unclear.”
  
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• A Brief Guide to Sightseeing Along the East River While Riding the Ferry to Frieze

  14-05-2015 18:12 via artnews.com
  All sorts of wonders await at Frieze New York this year: a labyrinth, a maze, free ponchos, walruses, and art from nearly 200 exhibitors from around the world. But if you’re taking the ferry to the fair from East 34th … Read More
  
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• Software Startup Brings Big Data Analysis To Theatre

  14-05-2015 18:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “PatronLink360, offered on a software-as-a-service licensing model, aims to help theaters and producers boil down complex patron data into easily comprehensible nuggets of information, steering them toward customers with similar purchase patterns or toward a promising crossover demographic.”
  
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• How Our Use Of The Internet Is Increasingly Contributing To Global Warming

  14-05-2015 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Instead of buying a few videos and watching them again and again, we’re now binge-watching entire seasons of shows in a sitting, which ends up creating a bigger carbon footprint overall. This trend extends to other industries as well. For example, according to the report, publishers now consume more energy as a result of their […]
  
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• A Big Step Forward In Mapping The Brain

  14-05-2015 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Allen Cell Types Database, on its surface, doesn’t look like much. The first release includes information on just 240 neurons out of hundreds of thousands in the mouse visual cortex, with a focus on the electrophysiology of those individual cells: the electrical pulses that tell a neuron to fire, initiating a pattern of neural […]
  
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• Parthenon marbles: Greece's claim is nationalist rhetoric that deserves to fail

  14-05-2015 18:01
  
  The Greek restitution case is romantic, sure, but doomed – and false. Imagine the chaos if all countries, from Italy to Turkey, started demanding treasures back“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” wrote Tolstoy in Anna Karenina. It’s the same with the relationships between museums and the treasures they hold. Works of art in museums all belong to a single category of disinterested universal value, until someone asks for them back. Then suddenly t
  
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• Selfie-stick aerobics classes and Kindle hacks: what to see at Photo London

  14-05-2015 17:54
  
  It wants to be ‘the best photography fair in the world – bar none’. But can it possibly live up to the hype? Prepare to be amazed and probably overwhelmed as Photo London hits the capitalBack in 2011, I wrote a piece about London’s belated embrace of photography. Citing the Tate’s 2009 appointment of Simon Baker, its first curator of photography, as a tipping point, I noted the abundance of new independent photography galleries in the capital, the relocation of the Photographers’ Gal
  
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• Selfie-stick aerobics classes and photography tattoos: what to see at Photo London

  14-05-2015 17:54
  
  It’s designed to be ‘the best photography fair in the world – bar none’. But can it possibly live up to the hype? Prepare to be amazed and overwhelmed as Photo London takes over the capitalBack in 2011, I wrote a piece about London’s belated embrace of photography. Citing the Tate’s 2009 appointment of Simon Baker, its first curator of photography, as a tipping point, I noted the abundance of new independent photography galleries in the capital, the relocation of the Photographers’
  
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• National Theatre Wales Founder Leaving To Direct Manchester International Festival

  14-05-2015 17:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The biennial event specialises in staging premieres by international cultural figures. This year’s festival, which takes place in July, will feature the likes of singer Bjork, artist Gerhard Richter and children’s TV star Justin Fletcher. Mr McGrath will take over from the festival’s founding artistic director Alex Poots, who is leaving to run New York’s […]
  
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• Greece Says It Won’t Sue To Get Back Parthenon Marbles

  14-05-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Greek Culture Minister Nikos Xydakis on Wednesday said Athens would not seek court action against the museum but preferred a “diplomatic route.”
  
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• Lost and Found: Frieze New York Visitors Wander Into Aki Sasamoto’s Maze

  14-05-2015 17:20 via artnews.com
  Aki Sasamoto’s Coffee/Tea, a maze-like structure that is part of this year’s Frieze Projects at Frieze New York, had a constant stream of people on the first day of the fair. Queued up in a snaking line at the entrance, many, … Read More
  
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• Jewish art dealer's family to recover Matisse painting looted by Nazis

  14-05-2015 17:19
  
  Seated Woman, painted in 1921, was taken from Paul Rosenberg as he fled Germany, but was discovered in Cornelius Gurlitt’s Munich flatThe descendants of a Jewish art dealer who had works from his collection looted by the Nazis are to be reunited with a Matisse painting after a decades-long search. The 1921 painting Seated Woman, also known as Woman with a Fan, originally belonged to Paul Rosenberg, but was looted as he fled from Germany to France in the 40s. It was discovered in 2012 among a t
  
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• Jewish art dealer's family recover Matisse painting looted by Nazis

  14-05-2015 17:19
  
  Seated Woman, painted in 1921, was taken from Paul Rosenberg as he fled Germany, but was discovered in Cornelius Gurlitt’s Munich flatThe descendants of a Jewish art dealer who had works from his collection looted by the Nazis are to be reunited with a Matisse painting after a decades-long search. The 1921 painting Seated Woman, also known as Woman with a Fan, originally belonged to Paul Rosenberg, but was looted as he fled from Germany to France in the 40s. It was discovered in 2012 among a t
  
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• Last Of The Rock Stars (And What Does That Mean, Anyway?)

  14-05-2015 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What defines a rock star in 2015? We could very well be at the point where genre transcends the very term. Do rappers count as rock stars? Kanye West and Jay-Z have a rock swagger, to some, as do both Drake and Kendrick Lamar. Most modern country acts like you would see at RodeoHouston are […]
  
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• David Hockney unveils new works on perspective created in Los Angeles

  14-05-2015 17:06
  
  ‘Artists don’t retire,’ says 77-year-old at opening of London exhibition showcasing lifelong interest in perspective “I just go on and I’m going to go on until I fall over,” said an indefatigable David Hockney as he opened a show of new work in London on Thursday. “I’ve always got something to do and I’m going to do it. Artists don’t retire ... I like working, what else is there to do?”Hockney was speaking at the first view of a new exhibition showcasing his most recent pai
  
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• Opening day of Frieze New York 2015 - in pictures

  14-05-2015 17:04
  
  Now in its third year, the art fair has arrived at Randall’s Island in New York City, with the world’s most eminent artists showing their wares in a giant tent Continue reading...
  
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• How America’s Librarians Are Fighting For Our Privacy

  14-05-2015 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s very difficult to talk about surveillance until something happens like the Edward Snowden revelations,” said Barbara Jones, director of the ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom. “A lot of people had not thought about these things, but librarians tend to be thoughtful people. People assume we’re protecting their privacy, and we have to tell them […]
  
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• A Different Way To Think About Museum Deaccessioning

  14-05-2015 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As old fashioned as it sounds, and with as many mistakes as have already been made over the past half century or so, it may well be that art museum collections should only be assigned dollar values for insurance purposes and with the understanding that the loss of the collection is the loss of the […]
  
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• Frieze New York review – navigating the maze of art fair's eccentric fun

  14-05-2015 16:39
  
  There are massage chairs and the opportunity to stick to the wall in a Velcro suit – but the real thrill is discovering great artists beyond the blue-chip namesThere was a new ingredient on the first day of this year’s Frieze New York: the sun came out. Three years in a row it rained at the opening of the American cousin of Britain’s most important art fair, and I’d grown used to the very English grey sky over the art fair’s custom tent, a cunningly sinuous thing designed by the Brookl
  
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• How Marvel Is Killing The Popcorn Movie

  14-05-2015 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The human mission has been lost: these are faceless Stormtrooper movies, unleashed in waves upon the presumed-to-be-faceless Stormtrooper audience. Stories are an affirmation of our human value; they teach us what life means, make and keep us human. Marvel, by removing the human from its storytelling, may be bringing about the end of story altogether.”
  
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• When Will It End? Opening Day at Frieze

  14-05-2015 16:30 via artnews.com
  The thing I like least about art fairs is the way they distort time so that life feels very long and also could end at any moment. In other words, two contradictory thoughts echo simultaneously in my mind and both of them are accurate: I … Read More
  
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• Greece drops legal case to reclaim the Elgin Marbles from the British Museum, minister says

  14-05-2015 16:07
  
  Greece has ruled out making a legal challenge to reclaim the Elgin Marbles from the British Museum, rejected the advice of a team of lawyers that included Amal Clooney.
  
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• Jaume Plensa, sculptor: 'A stone can represent the universe. A boulder that nature has created'

  14-05-2015 16:00
  
  Jaume Plensa works on an unprepossessing industrial estate in Baix Llobregat, a suburb west of Barcelona, the city where he was born in 1955. He has lived abroad in Paris, Berlin and New York, but has now returned to the city. He has been in this space for 20 years, moving from his previous central studio. He prefers the anonymity of this location, close to the airport and "a little apart from Barcelona's cultural life".
  
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• Morning Links: Detroit Institute of Arts to Sell Work

  14-05-2015 15:55 via artnews.com
  “Night Lights at Wave Hill,” a $250,000 show celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Hudson River estate in Riverdale, features work by Chris Doyle and runs through May 24. [The New York Times]A just-released letter from Prince Charles to UK government ministers … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Detroit Institute of Arts ‘Tiptoes Into Art Auction Market’ Edition

  14-05-2015 15:55 via artnews.com
  “Night Lights at Wave Hill,” a $250,000 show celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Hudson River estate in Riverdale, features work by Chris Doyle and runs through May 24. [The New York Times]A just-released letter from Prince Charles to UK government ministers … Read More
  
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• {Fiction} Why I Never Met My Grandpa

  14-05-2015 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I never met my grandpa. Grandma said he was tall and hearty, like how one would expect a grandpa to be. He had a big laugh and was quick with a joke or smile. She said he loved to make people laugh. Grandma said Grandpa would eat so much candy that his sweat smelled of ... Continue ReadingThe post {Fiction} Why I Never Met My Grandpa appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Chris Burden obituary

  14-05-2015 14:55
  
  Performance artist whose work attracted celebration and notoriety equallyThe American artist Chris Burden, who has died aged 69 from melanoma, outflanked the minimalism he encountered as a student by operating at an even more elementary level: using his own body as a metaphor for the social and political landscape. Among the ordeals he presented in his early performances were shooting, crucifixion, drowning, electrocution and kidnapping. In the era of emerging civil rights and opposition to the
  
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• 'Sexually sick' Fox News covers up breasts and genitals in Pablo Picasso's Women of Algiers

  14-05-2015 13:45
  
  Art experts have become the latest group to be offended by Fox News, after the US broadcaster covered up the depiction of women’s breasts and genitals in a report on the sale of a Pablo Picasso masterpiece.
  
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• Betrayal: A Polyphonic Crime Drama, Village Underground, review: I Fagiolini's Gesualdo is gloriously sung but dramatically half-baked

  14-05-2015 13:13
  
  People love to slaver over the sex-life of Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa (1560-1613): murdering his wife and her lover when he found them in flagrantio, joyfully ending his days stripped naked and birched by young boys.
  
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• Christie's auction house sells a record breaking $1b worth of art in three days

  14-05-2015 11:48
  
  Christie’s in New York has been known to make ridiculous amounts of money, but never quite like this. In just three days they have sold in access of $1 billion worth of art, and in the process broken numerous world records.
  
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• Christie's auction house sells a record-breaking $1 billion worth of art in three days

  14-05-2015 11:48
  
  Christie’s in New York has been known to make ridiculous amounts of money, but never quite like this. In just three days they have sold in access of $1 billion worth of art, and in the process broken numerous world records.
  
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• Ira Glass Says ‘Public Radio Is Ready For Capitalism’ – On Podcasts, Advertisers, And Content

  14-05-2015 10:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A couple of weeks ago, NPR and two of its most influential member stations, WNYC and WBEZ, invited a large group of media and marketing people to Le Poisson Rouge, a nightclub in Greenwich Village, for an event called ‘Hearing is Believing.’ … Ira Glass, the host of This American Life and producer of Serial, […]
  
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• Juilliard String Quartet’s New Cellist Is An African-American Woman

  14-05-2015 10:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Joel Krosnick is retiring at the end of next season after 42 years with the group. His successor is Astrid Schween, who performed for 20 years with the Lark Quartet.
  
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• ‘Why Is The Timpani Player Smelling His Drums?’ And Seven Other Awesome Questions From Newcomers In The Audience

  14-05-2015 10:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What is obvious to musicians and regular classical music connoisseurs is definitely not obvious to others,” writes Chattanooga Symphony concertmaster Holly Mulcahy. “Over the past couple years I’ve collected some really awesome questions from audience members that offer a fresh and unique perception or perspective. Here are some that caught my attention.”
  
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• Can The Guggenheim Win Over Reluctant Finns? (And Why The Answer Matters)

  14-05-2015 10:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the art and design world, the fate of the prospective museum has become a matter of global import: with everyone from the Louvre to the Hermitage looking to set up outposts abroad, Helsinki has become the latest battleground in an ongoing conflict over how – and whether – small cities and emerging countries should […]
  
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• Yoko Ono And The Myth That Deserves To Die

  14-05-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Why is it such a perennial youthful rite of passage to misunderstand, to underestimate, even to hate Yoko Ono? What is this strange power she continues to wield? … Beginning to love Yoko Ono is a dangerous experience, because then you wonder: If Yoko Ono was something more than the woman who broke up the […]
  
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• Crowdfunded Novel Wins The Bookseller’s First Book Of The Year Award

  14-05-2015 09:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The prize is intended to recognise the publisher as well as the book, and goes to both [Paul] Kingsnorth and Unbound, the crowdfunding publisher which released The Wake last year … The novel is set in 1066, and tells the story of guerrilla fighters who take up arms against the Norman invaders in the Lincolnshire […]
  
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• American Ballet Theatre At 75

  14-05-2015 09:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In France, and later in Russia, ballet had to reinvent itself alongside political revolution. In America, ballet was reinvented again, and American Ballet Theatre is a main character in the story of ballet in this country.”
  
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• How Oakland Ballet Rescued (And Made) Dance History

  14-05-2015 09:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For decades, [company founder Ronn] Guidi had been fascinated by the repertoire of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. … He engaged the original choreographers, or their appointed emissaries, and he reproduced the decor and costuming of the original productions, some of which were originally signed by museum names – Picasso, Derain, Chanel, Bakst, Benois and Goncharova. […]
  
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• ‘I Was Born Homosexual; I Chose To Be Gay': On Sensibility And (Or Versus) Same-Sex Attraction

  14-05-2015 09:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Implicit in the notion that an apartment like mine can ‘be gay’ – and that you, despite any politically correct training against saying so, could easily recognize it as such – is an understanding of gayness as something more than a basic sexual orientation. … Gayness may be found not just in whom you sleep […]
  
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• Do Gay Men And Lesbians Share A Sensibility? And How Do Their Sensibilities Differ?

  14-05-2015 09:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  A dialogue between the two editors of Slate‘s LGBT blog, Outward: June Thomas and J. Bryan Lowder.
  
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