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• Michael Heizer: 'I’m a quiet man. I just make art'

  18-05-2015 22:23
  
  The creator of the magisterial City is back in New York with a new exhibition. He tells Jason Farago how he went about making his latest giant rock worksTo meet Michael Heizer, the sculptor and pioneer of Land Art, usually entails an arduous trek through the desert. I only have to take the subway. Heizer has been creating large-scale artworks in Garden Valley, Nevada out of stone, earth – and one in particular, the magisterial City, has occupied him for decades. Yet this May, for the first tim
  
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• ‘Shirin Neshat: Facing History’ at The Hirshhorn

  18-05-2015 20:45 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Shirin Neshat: Facing History” is on view at the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden opened today and runs through Sunday, September 20. The solo exhibition sheds some light on the … Read More
  
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• ‘Shirin Neshat: Facing History’ at The Hirschhorn

  18-05-2015 20:45 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Shirin Neshat: Facing History” is on view at the Hirschhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden opened today and runs through Sunday, September 20. The solo exhibition sheds some light on the … Read More
  
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• Shirin Neshat: Facing History at The Hirschhorn

  18-05-2015 20:45 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Shirin Neshat: Facing History” is on view at the Hirschhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden starting today and running until September. The solo exhibition sheds some light on the cultural and … Read More
  
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• Just Why *Did* USC’s Entire First-Year MFA Student Cohort Quit?

  18-05-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I had a dreamy first semester — it had a tone of rigor. But we’ve lost that this semester.”
  
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• Facebook’s ‘Instant’ Goes Live, And Media Immediately Post The Longest Form Longform Articles Possible

  18-05-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the beginning, having access to Instant will provide a huge advantage over publications that don’t. Eventually, publishers’ numbers will even out as competition increases. Easy traffic will be harder to come by, and certain tricks — as on the web — will wear out and become useless. This will be good in that it […]
  
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• Canada Finds A Woman Guilty Of Harassment For Instagramming Street Art

  18-05-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jennifer Pawluck “was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and 18 months probation. Her community service must be completed within a year. The 22-year-old college student has also been forbidden from posting any public messages on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, and must restrict her use of the social media platforms to private communications for […]
  
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• Peggy Guggenheim's grandsons launch legal battle over Venice art collection

  18-05-2015 18:59
  
  The Venice Guggenheim Museum is at the centre of a dispute as descendants of the institution’s founder, Peggy Guggenheim, turn to the courts to decide how her priceless collection is managed.
  
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• The New Republic Seriously Loves The New Whitney

  18-05-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In an age when museums have overtaken churches as the apex of architectural aspiration, Piano is our Brunelleschi.”
  
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• Sara Shamma's 'World Civil War Portraits': Painting a nation's nightmare

  18-05-2015 18:16
  
  Hanging in the private office in Damascus of Asma al-Assad, the wife of the President of Syria, is a portrait of her commissioned in 2011 from one of her country's leading young painters. "I will never paint a picture like that again," says the artist, Sara Shamma. "That Syria will never exist again, and I am a different painter now".
  
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• Who Should Be In Control Of Peggy Guggenheim’s Legacy?

  18-05-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “On Tuesday, one of Guggenheim’s grandsons will launch a court appeal to have the Italian collection restored to its original state, claiming it has been ‘diluted’ by art from other sources. Sandro Rumney, who was born in Venice but lives in France, his half brother Nicolas Hélion and their five children, also want ‘protection’ in […]
  
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• Christie’s Also Served a Ridiculous Amount of Coffee Last Week

  18-05-2015 18:14 via artnews.com
  In this Pax Romana of auction house records–Christie’s made $1.72 billion in sales last week, and sold the most expensive painting ever to appear at auction–let’s not forget the little details, which Christie’s recapped in a press release alongside other … Read More
  
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• Johnny Flynn on composing for 'As You Like It', Shakespeare's genius, and the charm of the nyckelharpa

  18-05-2015 18:12
  
  It's night-time and there are strangely beautiful noises emanating from the back rooms of Shakespeare's Globe in London. Through a stage door, down a winding passage far beyond the pomp and glamour of the main stage, in a round rehearsal room that by day is one of the stops on the theatre's guided tours, is a group of musicians who have dedicated themselves to learning the idiosyncratic ways of Elizabethan musical instruments.
  
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• Why buy a Picasso if you can’t show it off?

  18-05-2015 18:00
  
  Les Femmes d’Alger was a silly purchase anyway, for that money, this being one of Picasso’s poorer effortsWhat an odd business over that Picasso, Les Femmes d’Alger, which sold last week for $179m (£115m). Why buy something like that and keep it a secret? Whoever it was can’t even show off about it. And I thought that was the whole point. He can’t even show his friends, because they might blab. Which means no one can see it, except&nbs
  
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• What Happened When A Male Astronomer Said Scientists Were ‘Boys With Toys’

  18-05-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scientists who happen to be women didn’t take kindly to that statement … and started #girlswithtoys.
  
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• Two Virginia Shakespeare-Focused Theatres Merge

  18-05-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This was so fraught with emotion. There was so much investment in all of the work that had gone into both companies. The name needed to reflect what was mutually fertile.”
  
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• 10,000 revolutions: meet Mary Kelly, the mother of all feminist artists

  18-05-2015 17:38
  
  In the 1970s, she pinned dirty nappies to a gallery wall. Today, Mary Kelly spins war memorials from mountains of tumble-dryer lint. At her home in Bel Air, the feminist pioneer reveals 40 years of shock tactics“It’s good to have a vision. Even if it’s flawed, or turns out to be not what you expected.” Mary Kelly would know. As one of the world’s foremost feminist artists, she has pursued hers relentlessly for 45 years. It gives her a long view of the feminist movement that is refreshi
  
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• BuzzFeed Makes A Flowchart To Help You Decide If You Should Give Someone A Book

  18-05-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Is your home so filled with books that you use them as furniture/best friends/lovers?”
  
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• Frieze Week Postscript: Collective Design Ups the Ante

  18-05-2015 17:28 via artnews.com
  Maurizio Cattelan, Sofia Coppola, art dealer Paul Kasmin, Calvin Klein designer Francis Costa. Sound like a rundown of some of the visitors to the opening day of Frieze? Guess again. These were some of the attendees on the opening day … Read More
  
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• Arnold Lehman Talks Tenure With Thelma Golden, Plans Book on ‘Sensation’ Show

  18-05-2015 17:15 via artnews.com
   When Arnold Lehman cedes the helm of the Brooklyn Museum next month, he’ll use his newfound freedom to pen a book on “Sensation,” the legendary exhibition that defined his turbulent tenure. Lehman broke the news at Frieze New York last … Read More
  
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• The Vermont Symphony’s Executive Director Steps Down

  18-05-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alan Jordan in a news release from late on Friday: “It is time for me to seek out new challenges with another orchestra, and for the VSO to find someone with new perspectives and ideas to continue the VSO’s progress.”
  
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• An insider's cultural guide to Detroit: the Motor City moves on

  18-05-2015 16:31
  
  Free houses for writers, dapper fashions, top-shelf blues and R&B ... Anna Clark looks past the ruin porn into Detroit’s cultural soulLive music, literary hustle, Afrofuturism Continue reading...
  
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• Serving The Country On A Jury Is Patriotic And Great And All, Except For The PTSD Part

  18-05-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The greatest difficulty often lies in homicide and death penalty trials, in which jurors not only share the burden of imposing guilt (or even death), but are necessarily confronted with the loss of life that led to the case. Some jurors even report physical ailments, including headaches, nightmares, and symptoms consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder.”
  
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• Digital Art Marketplace Daata Editions Makes Real-Life Debut

  18-05-2015 16:30 via artnews.com
  Daata Editions debuted its online gallery and marketplace at NADA New York, operating out of a large, moderately popular booth in the middle of an open space. Its tables were equipped with iPads, with which visitors could explore the website … Read More
  
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• Stop Condescending To Agatha Christie – She Was A Damn Genius

  18-05-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Without plot, there is no reliable access to character; Christie understood this. Her characters are properly, realistically three-dimensional – which doesn’t mean what many seem to think.”
  
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• Picasso Stage Curtain Exiled From Four Seasons Gets A New Home

  18-05-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “On Sunday morning it was hanging, rolled up in a 23-foot tube, over West 77th Street. At the ready were about two dozen people, on the street and inside the museum on Central Park West, prepared for the final hours of an operation that had been planned for months and rehearsed repeatedly.”
  
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• Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Franz Wright, Son Of A Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet, Dies A 62

  18-05-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In his poetry, he explored “the competing imperatives of self-annihilation and self-preservation; his yearning for his father, who abandoned the family early; his labyrinthine struggles with alcoholism, drug addiction and manic depression; and his eventual, cautiously hopeful passage out.”
  
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• On Porn and Poodles: Casey Jane Ellison, Grace Dunham and Company Talk Sex, Gender, Art

  18-05-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  “How fat do you feel today?” asked Casey Jane Ellison, the artist and comedian.The question opened the bidding at “‘Aesthetics’ of ‘Female’ ‘Attractiveness,’” a talks held Friday at the Frieze Art Fair on Randall’s Island. Wearing head-to-toe denim and black lipstick, un-brushed blond hair … Read More
  
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• Are Women (Finally) Dominating The Box Office?

  18-05-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  At Cannes, yes: “Historically, film markets have been a breeding ground for macho-infused action fare, but increasingly the other gender is the focus.”
  
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• Morning Links: National Museum of African American History and Culture Edition

  18-05-2015 14:38 via artnews.com
  Hong Kong museum M+ has rescheduled its opening for 2019, 2 years after its original opening date. [Artforum]5 questions with the MFA students who dropped out of USC last week. [Blouin Artinfo]Descendants of Peggy Guggenheim are battling each other in … Read More
  
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• Sylvie Guillem Has Been A Prima Ballerina For Decades, But Now She’s Stepping Away

  18-05-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What others found difficult, she found easy, coming top in every exam. She was, quite simply, built to dance, in perfect proportion, with strong, arched feet, long legs, flexible ligaments, and great strength. But she also began to see dance differently, to feel that she was capable of expressing steps in new ways by extending […]
  
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• The Great War Writer Whom America Just Plain Forgot

  18-05-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Wouk never lets the reader forget that the Second World War was the biggest collective undertaking in the history of the human race. No movie could ever depict it, because no movie could ever have the budget.”
  
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• The New York Times Book Review Hires Friends Of Writers To Review Books Sometimes, But Is That OK?

  18-05-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A personal connection with the author, or well-known strong feelings on the book’s subject, may actually be considered a positive, or at least not a disqualifier, Ms. Paul told me. … Landing an accomplished reviewer who will write a provocative, well-informed piece ‘is what gets us excited,’ she said.”
  
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• Guggenheim descendants in French court battle over art treasures

  18-05-2015 12:46
  
  Peggy Guggenheim’s relatives have challenged the management of her collection housed in a Venetian palazzo and will launch a court appeal on TuesdayShe was one of the most celebrated collectors of contemporary masters, whose art was displayed in a magnificent 18th-century palace on Venice’s Grand Canal.But since the death 36 years ago of heiress Peggy Guggenheim, her family have been engaged in an epic and bitter legal battle over how her priceless legacy – including works by Picasso, Miro
  
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• #JusticeforLB: campaign to improve care for people with learning disabilities – in pictures

  18-05-2015 12:40
  
  Connor Sparrowhawk, also known as Laughing Boy (LB), was an 18-year-old with autism and epilepsy who loved red London buses. In 2013 he was admitted to a short-term assessment and treatment unit in Oxford. After 107 days there, he drowned in the bath, in what an independent review found to be a “preventable” death. Sara Ryan, Connor’s mother, and social care consultant George Julian have led a campaign #JusticeforLB to improve care for people with learning disabilities. In 2014 they also r
  
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• Destination morgue: James Ellroy spills LA's crime scene secrets – in pictures

  18-05-2015 08:00
  
  James Ellroy had spent years plundering the LAPD’s photography archive when he noticed a glut of great crime scene shots from 1953, so he decided to make a book of them. Here are the staggering stories behind some truly oddball crimes – as told by the noir master himself. ‘This is a pot pourri of crime,’ he says. ‘It’s pathetic, it’s transgressive, it’s vile, it’s human’LAPD ’53 by James Ellroy and Glynn Martin for the Los Angeles Police Museum is released on 19 MayContinue
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 05.17.15

  18-05-2015 06:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Consumed with Architecture Envy AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-05-17 Sleeping with Strangers AJBlog: Infinite CurvesPublished 2015-05-17 That Old East Coast-West Coast Thing AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-05-16 Keeping a Heritage Alive AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-05-16 Give Yoko Ono a Chance: Pioneering Conceptual Artist Belatedly Gets Her MoMA Show AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2015-05-15
  
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• Guggenheim descendants in French court over priceless art treasures

  18-05-2015 05:56
  
  Peggy Guggenheim’s relatives have challenged the management of her collection housed in a Venetian palazzo and will launch a court appeal on TuesdayThe descendants of the famous heiress and art collector Peggy Guggenheim will on Tuesday launch a court appeal over her sumptuous collection of works housed in an 18th-century palace on Venice’s Grand Canal.
  At the tender age of 13, Guggenheim inherited unimaginable wealth when her metal magnate father, Benjamin, went down on the Titanic. She use
  
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