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• Marina Abramović Institute apologises to Jay Z

  20-05-2015 23:37
  
  Performance art centre confirms rapper made donation to Abramović’s institute but that the artist was not told, after she alleged that her collaboration with Jay Z had been a ‘one-way transaction’The Marina Abramović Institute, the body in charge of building a performance art centre in Hudson, New York, has issued an apology to both Jay Z and Abramović herself after it failed to inform the Serbian performance artist about a donation the rapper made to her proposed art institute. Abramov
  
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• Jay Z made 'substantial donation' to Abramović's project, claims gallerist

  20-05-2015 22:38
  
  Dispute between performance artist and rapper takes a twist as the video producer for Picasso Baby contradicts Abramović’s allegations that she was ‘used’Marina Abramović’s claims that her collaboration with Jay Z was a “one-way transaction” have been called into question after an art dealer and producer who worked with the rapper said he made a large donation to the artist’s proposed institute.Abramović complained that she reprised her performance art piece The Artist is Presen
  
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• The New York Times Releases a Short Documentary On The Man Who Shot Chris Burden

  20-05-2015 21:49 via artnews.com
  The New York Times released a four-and-a-half minute documentary on the late Chris Burden’s famous 1971 performance piece, Shoot, in which his friend and fellow art student Bruce Dunlap shot Burden in the left arm with a .22 long rifle … Read More
  
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• Climate-change sceptic Viscount Monckton of Brenchley claims tombstone artwork critical of his position is a ‘death threat’

  20-05-2015 21:06
  
  The prominent climate change sceptic Viscount Monckton of Brenchley has complained to police after a tombstone engraved with his name was exhibited at Anglia Ruskin University.
  
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• ‘Rosy Keyser: The Hell Bitch’ at Maccarone Gallery

  20-05-2015 21:02 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Rosy Keyser: The Hell Bitch” is on view at Maccarone until June 6. This is Keyser’s first solo show at the gallery and features pieces created from materials such as … Read More
  
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• Fox Talbot hedgerow shot to go on sale at UK's largest ever photographic fair

  20-05-2015 20:27
  
  Made in 1840, Veronica in Bloom is ‘photographic equivalent to a Picasso’ and a bargain at £300,000, says one of the gallerists at inaugural Photo London event A 175-year-old image of a hedgerow plant by the pioneering William Henry Fox Talbot is expected to become one of the most expensive British photographs ever sold. But with an asking price of £300,0000 it is a bargain, the gallerist James Hyman said on Wednesday.Continue reading...
  
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• Sculptor Wins $2.2 M In Hoover Dam Café Case

  20-05-2015 19:01 via artnews.com
  On Monday in Las Vegas, the U.S. District Judge George Foley Jr. ordered that Bert Hansen–the owner of the High Scaler Cafe, which used to be called, awesomely, the Hoover Dam Snacketeria–pay out the artist Steven Liguori (along with his … Read More
  
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• Toronto’s Luminato Festival Gets Anthony Sargent As New CEO

  20-05-2015 18:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sargent, 65, recently stepped down after his latest triumph: leading the team of Sage Gateshead in creating an internationally acclaimed new venue for music in northeast England. Previously Sargent worked for the BBC as concerts planning manager, including the work of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and helped create the BBC Millennium Music Live project.
  
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• Who Was It Who Declared That This Is The Year Of The REALLY Long Novels?

  20-05-2015 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I don’t fear the long novel as much as pine for good editors. A book can be any length, if the words earn their keep on the page. I rarely see the point in huge chunks of prose that don’t serve the story: writing has to be mesmerisingly good before that doesn’t feel self-indulgent to […]
  
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• Landmarks Commission Rules Against Altering Modernist NYC Classic

  20-05-2015 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The interior of the Four Seasons restaurant, a vision of Modernist elegance with its French walnut paneling and white marble pool of bubbling water, should not be changed, New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission decided on Tuesday.”
  
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• Artist: We Should Prescribe Drugs For Creativity

  20-05-2015 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Basically what I’m proposing is the idea of using performance-enhancing drugs in education,” Leon Ewing told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Wednesday. “We already prescribe amphetamine-like medication for focus and docility. What if we medicated for creativity?”
  
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• Pandora Buys Music Data Service To Track Popularity

  20-05-2015 18:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Next Big Sound has quickly become a standard part of the analytical sphere of the music industry, digesting the ebbs and flows of artists’ popularity through activity on YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia and elsewhere. It sells its analyses to record companies and other outlets, and its reports on music consumption are frequently cited by the music […]
  
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• How Pandora Can Make A Success In The Music Streaming Business

  20-05-2015 18:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As is the case for most digital-media content providers, growth increasingly depends on maximizing the reams of data compiled about users — totalling some 79.2 million for Pandora as of March 31. For Pandora, advertising is especially important because the great majority of its users choose to listen to ads rather than pay for a […]
  
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• Update: Georg Baselitz Still Thinks Women Can’t Paint

  20-05-2015 18:08 via artnews.com
  If you’ll recall, all the way back in 2013, in an interview with Der Spiegel, the artist Georg Baselitz told a reporter, “Women don’t paint very well.” In an interview in The Guardian this week, Baselitz was slightly less blunt in … Read More
  
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• Digital Companies Make Big Inroads At Tradition-Bound Cannes

  20-05-2015 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Presentations by companies such as Netflix and virtual-reality outfit Oculus have been priorities for attendees. Agents who once never gave a second thought to nontraditional platforms are now courting them. Beefed-up teams from digital entities such as Amazon and Vimeo are pursuing rights with the zeal once reserved for studios like Universal Studios and Warner […]
  
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• Jay Z v Marina Abramović: they both used each other

  20-05-2015 17:57
  
  The rapper enveloped himself in the art world for credibility, the artist embraced pop culture and found global fame. So why is she so cross with him?Marina Abramović has taken art into a dangerous new marriage with pop culture. Once just a name in art-history textbooks as one of the founders of performance art, she has in recent years used pop collaborations to beam her charisma to the masses and whip up a frenzy of adulation. Where previous artists such as Richard Hamilton or Andy Warhol were
  
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• New Model: Corporate Relationships Between Bands And Sponsors

  20-05-2015 17:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In cities such as Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, a growing number of concerts are popping up that are either free or dirt-cheap for fans. The catch? They’re sponsored by the likes of Mountain Dew, Red Bull or Converse. Corporate sponsorship has infiltrated almost every corner of music culture, from mega-sized festivals such as South by […]
  
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• Stewart Copeland On The Differences Between Pop And Classical Music

  20-05-2015 17:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Composing music for readers is all about homework. You have to get it right in the quiet in front of your score. You put it on the page, flop it out on the stands and count them in. With bands, you don’t have any score – you think on your feet. It’s not about homework. […]
  
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• Could The Arts Be Funded With User Taxes?

  20-05-2015 17:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When I was Director of the California Arts Council, I floated the idea of adding 25 cents to the price of a movie ticket (in California), the money to come to the Arts Council and support Arts Education (a bit of an easier sell than general arts organization funding). Again, I didn’t think an extra […]
  
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• What If Everyone Had A Basic Liveable Income That Wasn’t Tied To Work?

  20-05-2015 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Those skeptical of basic income might ask: If you give people enough to live on, won’t they stop working? Won’t they get lazy? Evidence from pilot studies by Guy Standing, a professor of development studies at the University of London and a co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network, points the other way.“When people stop […]
  
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• Where Artists Live Versus Where Scientists Live

  20-05-2015 17:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Basically, the science-based firms and industries are out in the suburbs, along highway interchanges, and in newer, low density suburban campuses. The creative industry locations are much more urban, dense, closer to the core of the city, walkable, mixed-use and often served by public transit.”
  
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• Morning Links: Rijksmuseum Edition

  20-05-2015 15:48 via artnews.com
  Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has been named European Museum of the Year. [The Art Newspaper]Tomorrow, two days before the 12th Havana Biennial opens, Tania Bruguera will perform a 100-hour-reading of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. Five months ago, Bruguera was arrested for … Read More
  
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• The Shakespeare code: why the Bard portrait ‘discovery’ is provable guff

  20-05-2015 15:48
  
  The story of how William Shakespeare’s face was revealed through symbols in a 1597 gardening manual is a concoction worthy of Dan Brown
  Has the only authentic portrait of Shakespeare been recognised, hidden in plain sight, in a 16th-century garden book? That’s the story that has swept the media this week, with huge excitement about the cracking of the “Shakepeare code”.It might be wise to pause at that hyperbolic image of cracking a code. “How one man cracked the Tudor code”, the cov
  
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• Back From Triumphant Visit To Cuba, Minnesota Orchestra Signs New Contracts With Osmo Vänskä And Musicians

  20-05-2015 10:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just 17 months ago, as the lockout dragged on and Osmo resigned as music director, it seemed just possible that the MinnOrch could shut down entirely. Now Osmo is signed through 2018-29 and the musicians through 2019-20, donors have pledged $6.5 million in new money to fund it all, and – get this – negotiations […]
  
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• László Krasznahorkai Wins Man Booker International Prize

  20-05-2015 10:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Hungarian author, whose sentences roll out over paragraphs in what his translator George Szirtes has called a ‘slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type’, has won the Man Booker International prize for his ‘achievement in fiction on the world stage’.”
  
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• John Luther Adams Is Crowdsourcing A Sound Installation For the Met Museum’s New Building (The Old Whitney)

  20-05-2015 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Soundwalk 9:09 … will ask NYC wanderers to email field recordings from the blocks separating what Adams calls the ‘Big Met’ and the new building. When the collection period ends on July 31, Adams will begin molding the recordings into a piece that will last exactly as long as its title, nine minutes and nine […]
  
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• Which Large World City Has The Most Bookstores Per Capita? (It’s Not Paris, London, New York, Or Moscow)

  20-05-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With a population of 2.8 million people within the city limits, there are 25 bookstores for every 100,000 people … The closest [competitor] is Hong Kong, which has 22 bookstores per 100,000 people.” Says one bookstore manager, “Books represent us like [big hint redacted]. We have a culture very rooted in print.”
  
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• When A Wacky Fringe Theater Company Starts Granting Real MFAs

  20-05-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the fall, the four-year-old Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training” – operated by Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theatre Company – “and the University of the Arts’ Ira Brind School of Theater Arts will launch one of the country’s only accredited graduate degrees in devised performance, which is created collaboratively by performers rather than written […]
  
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• Eight True Things About The Way People Lie

  20-05-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  For a start, almost of us tell little lies, but few tell major whoppers. We lie to ourselves a lot, too. Even animals lie. But there’s a good way – an embarrassingly obvious one – to get people to lie less.
  
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• How A Trinidad Indian-Puerto Rican Kid From The Bronx Became A New York City Ballet Prince

  20-05-2015 09:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  For a start, the first dance he saw that made him fall for ballet was one of the spiky Balanchine-Stravinsky abstract works, not La Bayadère.
  
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• ‘Turn To The Pigs For Inspiration': How I Became A Countryside Choreographer

  20-05-2015 09:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ben Duke: “I am currently working on a solo version of Paradise Lost. I am playing God. I haven’t seen him around here any more than I did in London, but such a self-obsessed bit of casting is easier down here where there are far fewer people to tell me it is a stupid idea. […]
  
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• Why So Many Of Us Are So Bad At Remembering Names

  20-05-2015 09:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There is a very simple reason why it’s so easy for the names of new acquaintances to slip right out of your head within moments of being introduced: Names are kind of meaningless.”
  
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• Calls To Boycott ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ From Furious Men’s Rights Advocates (Wait, What?)

  20-05-2015 09:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  One anti-feminist blogger calls the action film starring Charlize Theron a “Trojan Horse [that] feminists and Hollywood leftists will use to insist on the trope women are equal to men in all things. … If you were like me, the explosions, fire tornadoes, even the symphonic score surrounding Fury Road‘s first trailer made your attendance […]
  
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• New York’s New Pop-Up Theatre Built For An Audience Of One

  20-05-2015 09:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Many theater owners like to say they offer an intimate show but only one really means it. That would be Theatre for One – a 4-foot-by-8 foot portable theater that allows one audience member at a time to see one short play performed by a single actor. … This year, new plays were commissioned from […]
  
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• Is This The Year Of The Very Long Novel? Or Does It Only Seem Like It?

  20-05-2015 09:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Maybe it was ever thus? ‘I don’t think the long novel ever went away,’ says Jennifer Brehl, who edited Neal Stephenson’s forthcoming 880-page sci-fi story Seveneves. … But the notable thing about these books isn’t that their heft is unprecedented; it’s that all the forces Hallberg alluded to in 2010″ – basically, culture-wide gadget-induced ADD […]
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.19.15

  20-05-2015 06:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pro Bono Ono: Yoko Sees Her MoMA Show as Encouragement for Those Long Overlooked (with video) AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-05-19 An Amazing Composer in Seattle AJBlog: OperaSleuth Published 2015-05-19 Tweets in search of a context: a visit to flyover country AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-05-19
  
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• Anne Pasternak Named Director of the Brooklyn Museum

  20-05-2015 00:55 via artnews.com
  Anne Pasternak, current president and artistic director of the New York-based arts nonprofit Creative Time, will take the helm of the Brooklyn Museum, succeeding Arnold Lehman, who has held the post since 1997. “Anne is one of the most dynamic … Read More
  
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• Brooklyn Museum Appoints Anne Pasternak As New Director

  20-05-2015 00:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The choice of Ms. Pasternak is unusual because she has never held a job in a museum. After a brief period working for a commercial art gallery, her career has unfolded entirely within the nonprofit world of up-by-your-bootstraps alternative spaces and nomadic arts groups. But at Creative Time, where she assumed the directorship in 1994, […]
  
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