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• Orpheum Theatre (Memphis Development Foundation) – President & CEO

  15-05-2015 21:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Active IPN presenter of major touring Broadway, performing arts and pop entertainment. New education center/black box theater opens fall '15, complementing programming and increasing $15MM budget.
  
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• Jo Baer at Camden Arts Centre, London

  15-05-2015 21:08 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Jo Baer: Towards the Land of the Giants” is currently on view at Camden Arts Centre in London until Sunday, June 21. This exhibition, the Amsterdam-based … Read More
  
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• Grayson Perry: Doors open to Turner Prize-winning artist's House for Essex

  15-05-2015 21:04
  
  Most works of art are to be admired from a safe distance. Thanks to the Turner Prize- winning artist Grayson Perry, there is now one that art lovers can stay in.
  
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• One Large: art project gives black-owned business a boost – $10 at a time

  15-05-2015 20:52
  
  Prompted by gentrification in Pittsburgh, Joy Katz and Cynthia Croot gave 100 artists $10 each – then tracked where the bills were spent across the USWhen artist and poet Joy Katz learned that Ace Hotel was opening in the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh, a historically black neighborhood, she wondered whether developers of the trendy chain were employing black designers and craftspeople on their team. “I was familiar with their design aesthetic, which I find to be very white,” Katz said
  
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• Entire Class of First-Year MFA Students Dropping Out of USC

  15-05-2015 20:49 via artnews.com
  All seven first-year MFA students at the University of Southern California’s Roski School of Art and Design have released a statement detailing the multiple grievances that led to their collective decision to drop out in protest. “We seven students lost … Read More
  
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• How A Blighted Urban Street Got Shortlisted For This Year’s Turner Prize

  15-05-2015 19:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Most locals might still be in a state of baffled amusement that the DIY handiwork of a young London-based architecture collective, Assemble, in doing up some of the area’s empty homes has been shortlisted for the country’s most prestigious art award.”
  
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• Report: Musicals Account For 60 Percent Of UK Box Office

  15-05-2015 19:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Musical theatre accounts for more than half of all box office income despite comprising just 15% of all productions staged, a report has suggested.
  
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• For Grayson Perry's Essex house, the only way was 'bonkers as possible'

  15-05-2015 19:24
  
  With deadly scooters, hovering pregnant women and thousands of ceramic nipples, the artist has created a Taj Mahal near WrabnessAt the end of a dirt track in Wrabness, where Essex dissolves into the muddy flats of the river Stour, a silvery pregnant woman hovers above a field, gleaming in the afternoon sunshine. Next to her floats a wheel, a big ceramic egg and a mysterious crystalline beacon, like an odd assortment of lucky charms emptied from a cracker and scaled up into rooftop ornaments. The
  
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• Minnesota Orchestra Leads An Expected New Wave Of Cultural Ambassadors To Cuba

  15-05-2015 19:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Minnesotans are at the vanguard of what is expected to be a flurry of cultural cross-pollination now that there are signs of a diplomatic thaw. The relationship has been a fraught one for more than a century.
  
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• Public Radio Is Membership-Supported. But That “Membership” Is Changing

  15-05-2015 19:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Though membership has always been a core part of public media, over the past several years, public radio has been grappling with new questions concerning membership and listener loyalty. The traditional form of building membership and leveraging organizational loyalty — the pledge drive — has declined in effectiveness, and new conversations are beginning about how […]
  
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• Design for a changing world - in pictures

  15-05-2015 19:07
  Design Oracles at the Gaîté Lyrique theatre in Paris uses 10 themes of contemporary design to make sense of our changing lives Continue reading...
  
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• Bait And Switch? Entire First-Year MFA Class Quits University Of Southern California

  15-05-2015 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[F]aculty voices are silenced and adjunct faculty expands, affecting their overall ability to advocate for students. We seven students lost time, money, and trust in a classic bait-­and-­switch, and the larger community lost an exemplary funding model that attempted to rectify at least some of these economic disparities. What we experienced is the true ‘disruption’ […]
  
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• Jackie Saccoccio Wins 2015 Artadia NADA Award

  15-05-2015 18:46 via artnews.com
  Together, Arcadia and New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) have announced Jackie Saccoccio as the winner of the Artadia NADA award, a $4,000 cash prize in conjunction with the NADA New York art fair. Artadia, a national visual arts non-profit, seeks … Read More
  
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• Who Will Be The Next Director Of The Brooklyn Museum?

  15-05-2015 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Whoever is selected will inherit an institution whose endowment roughly tripled during Mr. Lehman’s tenure, to $123 million. The museum’s annual operating budget has more than doubled, to $35 million, and its audience is both young—with a median age of 34—and diverse.”
  
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• The street that might win the Turner prize: how Assemble are transforming Toxteth

  15-05-2015 18:22
  
  It’s not quite a pickled calf – but the rebirth of a troubled Toxteth community might be art. The story of the street and the young architects succeeding where every official plan has failed has caught the art world’s attentionAt the end of Granby Street in Liverpool’s Toxteth, past relentless rows of tinned-up houses punctuated by half-demolished corner shops, the mood is unusually festive. Television crews have been here for the past few days, camping out amid the jungle of pavement pl
  
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• Watch live: Tate Modern is transformed into Musée de la Danse

  15-05-2015 18:03
  
  The French dancer and choreographer Boris Charmatz has turned Tate Modern into a dancing museum with the help of 90 dancers. There will be performances around the building and alongside the collections of paintings, with major works staged in the Turbine Hall. Watch a live-stream of the event from 12pm-9.15pm BST on Saturday 16 May. Once the event is over, the player will display a playlist of short videos edited from the live stream.
  Boris Charmatz’s Tate Modern takeover gets tourists dancing
  
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• Menashe Kadishman obituary

  15-05-2015 17:50
  
  Sculptor and painter with a shepherd’s eye for natureThe many works produced by the Israeli sculptor and painter Menashe Kadishman, who has died aged 82, often surprised and provoked, blurring the boundaries between art and non-art. At the 1978 Venice Biennale, he displayed a live flock of sheep stained blue (a “moving painting”, he called it). He took care of the sheep through drawing on his experience as a shepherd on a kibbutz in his youth.Sheep became a major motif in his art, especial
  
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• The Man Who Has Painted A Picture Of Obama Every Day Of His Presidency

  15-05-2015 17:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “On the day that Obama was inaugurated in 2009, Pruitt made a 2-foot-by-2-foot painting of the president, based on a photographic image taken from the news and rendered in a subdued palette of washed-out red, blue and white. The next day he painted a second. The next day he painted a third. The next … […]
  
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• It Was The 1950s. Soviet Russia. We Made Jazz Bootlegs In The Back Of The Store

  15-05-2015 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What the printing press was to the samizdat publishers, this little hunk of metal became to a burgeoning scene of jazz fiends. It wasn’t long before a small community of music lovers began haunting his shop, snapping up record after record and lining Philo’s pockets with dirty money.”
  
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• Christopher Knight: The Whitney Museum Misrepresented My Criticism

  15-05-2015 17:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I can certainly understand why the Whitney Museum might be embarrassed by a review critical of its institutional failure with the 1993 Biennial. But posting a fallacious sign 22 years later merely indicates that the institutional failure continues.”
  
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• Regarding Peeping Toms and Security Cameras: SEVEN Ponders ‘Post-Surveillance Art’

  15-05-2015 17:00 via artnews.com
  Art fair previews are all about seeing and being seen. Come for the art, stay for people-watching. How fitting it is that SEVEN, a collaborative seven-gallery show at Williamsburg’s The Boiler, is an anti-fair in the truest sense. Like yesterday’s … Read More
  
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• We’re Losing Our Words For Outdoors Things As We Use More Words For Indoors Things

  15-05-2015 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Children are now (and valuably) adept ecologists of the technoscape, with numerous terms for file types but few for differ-ent trees and creatures. A basic literacy of landscape is falling away up and down the ages. And what is lost along with this literacy is something precious.”
  
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• Price Check: Frieze New York 2015

  15-05-2015 16:30 via artnews.com
  What has sold at Frieze New York? Below, some numbers. Special thanks to the press representatives who conscientiously supplied 100% of this information via email. (Hence the variation in pronoun, format, and supplementary detail.)Skarstedt Gallery -Cady Noland, Untitled (Walker), 1989 sold for $1,500,000 m -Richard … Read More
  
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• Photo fair mania in London and Picasso breaks the bank – the week in art

  15-05-2015 16:14
  
  Somerset House gears up for Photo London, Picasso’s Women of Algiers (Version O) sells for $179m – and makes Fox News blush – and Greece rules out legal action in the Parthenon marbles battle – in your weekly dispatchLee Miller and Picasso
  This exhibition explores the friendship between photographer and model Lee Miller and Pablo Picasso, the greatest painter of the 20th century. Picasso portrayed Miller six times, and she photographed him 1,000 times. The third character in the story is
  
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• NADA New York Opens With Gambling, Canine Artists, and at Least One Slurpee

  15-05-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Sometimes going to an art fair can feel like being in a casino, minus the free drinks and soothing extra oxygen those places pump in. Pro tip for future art fairs: pump some more oxygen in there! People will probably … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Best Cities For Young Creatives Edition

  15-05-2015 15:19 via artnews.com
  Rio De Janeiro’s cultural center, Casa Daros, will close. [Artforum]Marlene Dumas’ contribution to “All the World’s Futures” at the 2015 Venice Biennale. [Contemporary Art Daily]Slate considers what other historical works of art would look like if Fox News were given the … Read More
  
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• Lucian Freud's 'Fat Sue' sells for £35m at Christie's auction, setting record for the artist

  15-05-2015 14:41
  
  In a week made up of record breaking sales - including Picasso’s Les femmes d’Alger (Version O) selling for $179 million - it comes as no surprise that Benefits Supervisor Resting by Lucian Freud has set a new record for the late British artist.
  
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• Lucian Freud's 'Fat Sue' sells £35m at Christie's auction seting record for the artist

  15-05-2015 14:41
  
  In a week made up of record breaking sales - including Picasso’s Les femmes d’Alger (Version O) selling for $179 million - it comes as no surprise that Benefits Supervisor Resting by Lucian Freud has set a new record for the late British artist.
  
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• A day at Frieze New York: 'There were six slightly overweight gentlemen in gold lamé hot pants' – video

  15-05-2015 13:49
  
  Guardian US art critic Jason Farago spends a whirlwind day at Frieze New York, the American cousin of Britain's most important art fair, which is taking place this year on Randall's Island in the East river.Jason speaks to some of the featured artists and gets interactive with some challenging works of art Continue reading...
  
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• Snow White Rising 1: 2

  15-05-2015 12:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The post Snow White Rising 1: 2 appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• What Difference Does It Make Who The Next Berlin Philharmonic Conductor Is? Not That Much, Says Alex Ross

  15-05-2015 10:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Berlin Philharmonic is unquestionably a magnificent organism … but the idea that its chief conductor is the Pope of classical music is a relic of the Karajan cult. … Not the least of the challenges that classical music faces is the increasingly unworkable celebrity-maestro model – a twentieth-century mutation.”
  
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• Scientists Figure Out Why You Saw That Dress As White-And-Gold Or Blue-And-Black

  15-05-2015 10:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We make assumptions about the world that guide the interpretation of sensory data, and these assumptions can be quite different for different individuals.”
  
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• David Letterman, Great American Broadcaster

  15-05-2015 10:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Nobody would have been shocked if, as Letterman aged, he simply tried to cling to his younger irreverence, flinging his 68-year-old self to Velcro walls, like in the old days. That’s what TV does to people who want to stay on TV, and it’s usually a cringefest. Instead, Letterman began a quiet but noticeable transformation […]
  
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• Gregor Samsa Metamorphoses Into Different Creatures In Different Translations

  15-05-2015 10:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Did he awake from troubled dreams to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect, a giant verminous bug, a gigantic cockroach, or an enormous bedbug?
  
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• Australian Gov’t Moves $100M From Independent Arts Funding Body To Its Own Arts Ministry

  15-05-2015 10:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  The conservative-leaning governing coalition is reallocating half of the Australia Council for the Arts’ budget to a new “national program for excellence in the arts” directly controlled by the arts minister, George Brandis (who is also the attorney general).
  
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• B.B. King, 89

  15-05-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The singer and guitarist … put the blues in a three-piece suit and took the musical genre from the barrooms and back porches of the Mississippi Delta to Carnegie Hall and the world’s toniest concert stages with a signature style emulated by generations of blues and rock musicians.”
  
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• Glamour And An Iron Grip: Kevin Spacey’s Tenure At London’s Old Vic

  15-05-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michael Billington: “In fact, Spacey … has done everything possible to restore the fortunes of the Old Vic. He has given the theatre stability and, through his presence as an actor, glamour. He has tirelessly raised funds to ensure its future. He has also done a lot of unheralded work to encourage young people through […]
  
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• What Do American Dancers Get Out Of Training At The Bolshoi Ballet School?

  15-05-2015 09:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Moscow is at least eight times zones away from any city in the contiguous United States. The Russian language has a different alphabet. The floors are raked. The tuition costs more than $20,000 a year. And, well, it’s cold in Moscow. But none of those obstacles stand in the way of American students hell-bent on […]
  
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• After Apartheid Fell, Athol Fugard Found (To His Surprise) That He Was Still Relevant

  15-05-2015 09:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I sincerely believed that I was going to be South Africa’s first literary redundancy. But as it is, South Africa caught me by surprise again and just said, ‘No, you’ve got to keep writing, man. There are still stories to tell.’ And, possibly, at this moment in our history, the stories that need telling are […]
  
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• William Zinsser, Author Of The Classic Guide ‘On Writing Well,’ Dead At 92

  15-05-2015 09:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[The] perennially popular book … became an indispensable classroom and newsroom guide, making its author one of the most influential writing teachers of the past half century.”
  
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• In Rehearsal With ABT Boss Kevin McKenzie

  15-05-2015 09:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Watch as the American Ballet Theatre artistic director directs Julie Kent and Ethan Stiefel in a duet and leads dancers in a group rehearsal. (video)
  
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• Rachel Rosenthal, 88, Doyenne Of L.A. Performance Artists

  15-05-2015 09:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “She had hot wax poured over her shaved head, buried herself in artificial snow, read alternately from the ancient Kabbalah and car magazines, and shared the stage with more than 40 animals, including her beloved pet rat, who could often be found perched on her shoulder when she was off-stage.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.14.15

  15-05-2015 07:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Catching Up With Bobby Shew AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-05-14 From Denmark to New York AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2015-05-14 So you want to see a show? AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-05-14
  
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• Phillips Closes Spring Auctions With Fainting Spell and Respectable $97.1 M. Contemporary Sale, But No Records

  15-05-2015 04:56 via artnews.com
  The New York Spring auctions ended earlier this evening with a modest sale at Phillips that saw the house bring in $97.1 million, a relatively small sum compared to those seen at the other houses earlier in the week but … Read More
  
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• Phillips Closes Spring Auctions With Fainting Spell and Respectable $97.1 M. Contemporary Sale

  15-05-2015 04:56 via artnews.com
  The New York Spring auctions ended earlier this evening with a modest sale at Phillips that saw the house bring in $97.1 million, a relatively small sum compared to those seen at the other houses earlier in the week but … Read More
  
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• Mondrian Sells for $50.6 M., a New Record, at Christie’s $202.6 M. Impressionist-Modern Sale

  15-05-2015 04:46 via artnews.com
  Tonight Christie’s hosted a strong Impressionist and modern sale in New York that brought in $202 million, adding to the $1.7 billion dollars of art it has already sold at various auctions during this record-setting week for the house. The sale featured works from … Read More
  
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