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• Palmyra’s Antiquities Have Been In Danger Long Before ISIS Showed Up

  22-05-2015 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  UNESCO warnings about Palmyra go back as far as 2013, predating the rise of ISIS. Historian Eleanor Robson said that throughout the four-year Syrian civil war, the city’s antiquities have been imperiled by “members of the Assad regime, rebels, criminals, and opportunists.” She added, “It’s been chaos for years.”
  
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• Has Toronto’s Luminato Failed To Make An Impact As An International Festival?

  22-05-2015 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When Toronto was at a particular low point in the 2000s, Luminato was conceived by business leaders as the kind of high-level, multiarts smorgasbord that would attract international cultural tourists while also providing enough free, fun and family events to entertain the city. It was planned without sufficient consultation with Canadian arts groups and has […]
  
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• Eric Fischl Ends 30-Year Relationship with Mary Boone Gallery

  22-05-2015 20:43 via artnews.com
  The Art Newspaper reports that Eric Fischl, the painter known for his surreal images of suburbia, is leaving Mary Boone Gallery after more than 30 years. The news comes as a surprise, considering an interview between Mary Boone and Fischl, … Read More
  
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• Perhaps The Most Audacious (And Ridiculous) Art Heist Ever (And How It Shook The British Government)

  22-05-2015 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The resulting image shows the young Irish art student, the belt of his tweed overcoat flapping as he moves at speed, grappling with the heavy gilt frame containing Berthe Morisot’s Jour d’Eté and two large pieces of card attempting to cover the image of two French ladies on a boating lake. After jumping into a […]
  
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• ‘Few Artists Have The Potential To Become Meta': At The Kitchen’s Spring Gala Honoring Kim Gordon and Dan Graham

  22-05-2015 20:22 via artnews.com
  “We’re still discovering some of her properties: shape-shifter, beautiful cipher, charmed, glamorous California girl bouncing back and forth between coasts, shifting valances between art, poetry, installation, and painting,” began Tony Oursler last night at Cipriani Wall Street, where The Kitchen … Read More
  
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• The artist who paints Barack Obama every day

  22-05-2015 20:00
  
  Each day since 2009, Rob Pruitt has painted whatever the president happened to be doing. Now, the pictures have been combined and put on display in DetroitEver since Barack Obama was inaugurated on 20 January 2009, American pop art artist Rob Pruitt has combed through the president’s day and painted his own rendition of it. Now, more than 2,000 paintings surveying Obama’s time in office have been plastered across the walls of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, rendered in red, white and
  
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• What We Look At: Big Data Suggests That Applying Filters To Pictures Increases Our Interest In Them

  22-05-2015 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Overall, controlling for things like a user’s follower count and the popularity of the larger stream in which a given photo sits, “filtered photos are 21% more likely to be viewed and 45% more likely to be commented on” than unfiltered ones. As for which filters have which effects, the authors examined five.”
  
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• Swann Will Auction Works from Maya Angelou’s Art Collection

  22-05-2015 19:03 via artnews.com
  Swann Auction Galleries in New York will hold a sale of work from the art collection of Maya Angelou, the celebrated poet who passed away last year. The sale, which will be held September 15, includes 43 works from Angelou’s … Read More
  
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• Marina Abramović, Jay-Z and the world's largest hotel – the week in art

  22-05-2015 18:53
  
  A £2.3bn city in the sky is set to open in Mecca, as the performance artist says working with the rapper was ‘cruel’. Plus Grayson Perry’s pottery, Photo London and potty-mouthed robots – all in your weekly dispatch
  Small Worlds
  What’s it like living in a city today? This exhibition offers images of 21st-century urban experience from artists including Rita Donagh, Richard Forster, Andreas Gefeller, Naiza Khan and Lucy McLauchlan.
  • New Art Gallery, Walsall, until 6 September. Contin
  
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• Police Shut Down Controversial Venice Biennale Project

  22-05-2015 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The provocative project, created inside a long-unused Catholic church, serves as Iceland’s national pavilion for the 56th Venice Biennale and was intended in part to highlight the absence of a mosque in the historic heart of Venice, a city whose art and architecture were deeply influenced by Islamic trade and culture.”
  
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• Chicago Theaters Want Your Help When You Die

  22-05-2015 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The subject is sensitive, awkward and uncomfortable but also, a growing priority for even the most established theater companies in Chicago, many of which are still relatively new at what museums and universities have been doing for decades: discretely shimmying up to cherished, aging supporters and gently wondering if they might leave the theater a […]
  
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• Why Doesn’t Hollywood Cater More To Older Audiences? (They’re Growing)

  22-05-2015 18:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “According to a 2014 study of theatrical market statistics by the Motion Picture Association of America, the number of “frequent moviegoers” in the 60-plus demographic (that is, those who attend the cinema at least once a month) jumped almost 30 percent last year from 2013, to 5.3 million viewers. That is the highest level for […]
  
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• Tom Stoppard: Here’s Where Science’s Explanations Of How The World Works Stop

  22-05-2015 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  When I said: “could you relate cultural evolution to biological evolution”, that’s where I think there’s a fudge or a missing rung. I don’t understand what you mean, because your starting point is that there is no you and me outside our brains.”
  
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• Have Big Book Festivals Become Too Big To Actually Appreciate Books?

  22-05-2015 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  This year’s Hay festival, which kicked off on Thursday night, calls itself “a party that is first and foremost a party”. Twenty-seven years old now and with stars including Jude Law appearing alongside many excellent writers, Hay sits at the showbiz end of the spectrum.
  
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• Who Owns What? Artist Takes Instagram Pix, Hangs Them In Gallery And Sells Them For A Fortune

  22-05-2015 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Right now, at the Gagosian Gallery in New York, you can purchase someone’s Instagram photo for around $100,000. The money won’t go to the photographer, however, it will go to “artist” Richard Prince, who has blown up and made prints of other people’s Instagram photos for his exhibit, “New Portraits.”
  
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• 'We didn't really think we'd get away with it': The astonishing story of how two young Irish men completed an audacious £7m art heist

  22-05-2015 17:01
  
  As Paul Hogan came dashing down the steps of London’s Tate Gallery in 1956 with a £7m Impressionist masterpiece under his arm after coolly unhooking it from its hanging place moments earlier, his picture was taken by a press photographer who happened to be waiting outside.
  
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• The Quotable Alex Katz

  22-05-2015 16:58 via artnews.com
  There are parts of Alex Katz’s studio that appear to be relics from another era. Its location, for one thing, on West Broadway in Soho—for so long the land of high-end retail and fashion pop-up stores, it’s difficult to even … Read More
  
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• MoMA Will Do a Donald Judd Retrospective In 2017

  22-05-2015 16:40 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Modern Art in New York will organize the first museum survey in America since 1988 of the minimalist sculptor Donald Judd. Randy Kennedy broke the news in the New York Times yesterday, and spoke with the show’s … Read More
  
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• Grayson Perry review – 'Like being trapped in a room full of trendy folk talking bollocks'

  22-05-2015 16:16
  
  Turner Contemporary, Margate
  Provincial Punk – a showcase of Grayson Perry’s prints, pots and tapestries – shows that his artworks are as meaningless and annoying as his silly filmsGrayson Perry would be a very good artist if he never made any art. As a performer on a public stage, he is brilliant. His prickly persona is a work of art in itself. At pure conceptualism, he is great. What a shame that he insists on making stuff.At pure conceptualism, he is great. What a shame that he insists
  
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• Nina Simone Heirs Allege Sony Music Operates A Piracy Ring

  22-05-2015 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  According to his legal papers, “By operating a subsidiary that massively pirates Nina Simone recordings, at price points generally lower than those at which Sony sells her RCA recordings, [this] has the natural tendency to displace Sony’s sales, thereby depriving Claimants of the full royalties they would otherwise earn under the New Artist Agreement.”
  
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• Why UNESCO Is Freaking Out About The Safety Of Palmyra Treasures As ISIS Invades

  22-05-2015 15:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  The city contains the ruins of what, according to UNESCO, “was one of the most important cultural centers of the ancient world” — an important Silk Road hub where East met West more 2,000 years ago. A World Heritage Site, Palmyra is heralded by experts as having some of the finest Roman-era ruins in existence.
  
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• English National Ballet Announces An Ambitious New Home

  22-05-2015 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “English National Ballet (ENB) is to move to a new “state of the art” home in east London, its artistic director Tamara Rojo has announced. The company will share the building – on the new London City Island development, close to the Canning Town railway interchange – with the English National Ballet School.”
  
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• Our Culture Is Based On The Enlightenment. Now Those Ideas Need Defending

  22-05-2015 15:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Immanuel Kant defined the Enlightenment as the “progress of mankind toward improvement” through the “freedom to make public use of one’s reason on every point,” and Vincenzo Ferrone claims it is this critical process that has driven public opinion and politics, giving us the language of human rights, tolerance, and individual liberty.
  
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• Morning Links: Christoph Büchel’s Mosque Edition

  22-05-2015 14:59 via artnews.com
  Christoph Büchel’s Venice Biennale mosque is officially closed to the public, due to safety risks. [The Art Newspaper]Artist Eric Fishl is leaving Mary Boone Gallery after 30 years. [The Art Newspaper]Christopher P. Heuer has been named associate director of the Clark … Read More
  
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• “Hard To Overstate His Significance In Italian Culture” Dante Turns 750

  22-05-2015 14:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I teach Dante to American undergraduates, and I struggle to convey to them his place in Italian culture. The obvious comparison is to Shakespeare, but this is like trying to make sense of Mozart by means of Coltrane: the number of centuries that divide Dante from Shakespeare is practically as large as the number that […]
  
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• Sydney lights up for Vivid festival – in pictures

  22-05-2015 14:28
  
  The best pictures from the opening night of Vivid festival 2015 in Sydney, where buildings around the CBD have been transformed by spectacular light shows Continue reading...
  
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• When Picasso met Lee Miller

  22-05-2015 11:53
  
  It should come as no surprise to learn that sparks flew when Pablo Picasso met Lee Miller: he was arguably the greatest painter of the 20th century, while she had an equally extraordinary life as an American model turned Surrealist photographer turned war correspondent. And their friendship is now the subject of a new show at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
  
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• Agnes Martin: the artist mystic who disappeared into the desert

  22-05-2015 11:00
  
  In the summer of 1967, Martin left New York and went off-grid before reappearing in New Mexico. The art she made there – with its buoyant bands of colour – offer no clues to the turbulent life of an artist who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Ahead of a major retrospective, Olivia Laing celebrates her visions of pure joyArt must derive from inspiration, Agnes Martin said, and yet for decades she painted what seems at first glance to be the same thing over and over again, the same c
  
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• Poliuto, Glyndebourne, review: Where the production fails as a drama it triumphs musically

  22-05-2015 10:35
  
  It was a bold move for Glyndebourne to launch its new season with the British premiere of a Donizetti opera written 167 years ago, though, as director Mariame Clement rightly observes, Poliuto does have potential contemporary resonance.
  
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• “Pirates Of Penzance” Has Just Broken UK Moviecast Box Office Records

  22-05-2015 06:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It has so far taken more than £600,000 at the UK box office, from a single screening on May 19, with around 400,000 people watching it. The previous record for an opera was the Metropolitan Opera’s broadcast of Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow earlier this year, which took £504,000 in total.”
  
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• PJ Paparelli, 40-Year-Old Director Of Chicago’s American Theater Co. Dies On Vacation

  22-05-2015 05:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Both Paparelli and his theater company — the two were inseparable — were at their creative peak. During Paparelli’s seven-year tenure, ATC produced a slew of highly regarded world premieres, including that of Ayad Akhtar’s “Disgraced” which moved to Broadway and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama.”
  
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• Vivid 2015 festival of light, music and ideas will be 'biggest yet' – video

  22-05-2015 05:08
  
  The day before the opening of Vivid 2015 in Sydney, two key behind-the-scenes people express their hopes and excitement for the festival. The New South Wales minister for trade, tourism and events says this year's Vivid will be the biggest yet and encourages visitors to make use of the 3,500 additional public transport services being laid on.
  Vivid festival of light, music and ideas opens tonight and run until 8 June Continue reading...
  
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• Study: Innovators Have Easier Time Justifying Bad Behavior

  22-05-2015 04:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Refining earlier research, a newly published study finds innovative people are indeed more likely than most to cross ethical boundaries—but only after they have been engaged in creative work. According to a research team led by Ke Michael Mai, a creative frame of mind enables one to come up with compelling justifications for bad behavior.”
  
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• Rich Universities Get Richer – But Are Poor Students Being Left Behind?

  22-05-2015 04:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The gap between wealthy colleges and the rest of the pack is clearly wide, and getting wider each year, leading some to question if these rich universities need much of the public aid they receive. And if they are receiving public money, should they be doing more to enroll a higher percentage of low-income students?”
  
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• Iconic Dance Teacher Maggie Black, 85

  22-05-2015 04:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “From the 1960s to the ’90s, Ms. Black’s classes were studded with star dancers and choreographers from American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet, the Joffrey, Dance Theater of Harlem, the Paul Taylor Dance Company and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Among them were Twyla Tharp, Trisha Brown, Eliot Feld, William Forsythe, Gelsey Kirkland, Tina […]
  
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• Broadway About To Hit Record Box Office For 2014/15 Season

  22-05-2015 04:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Thanks in part to the box-office drawing power of Hugh Jackman, Bradley Cooper, Helen Mirren, Larry David, Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick and other celebrated performers, Broadway’s on-track to report that grosses and attendance rose by about 8 percent from 2013-14. After 51 weeks, Broadway’s sales of $1.33 billion are already a record. Given that attendance […]
  
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• Our Audience As Community? Not Necessarily

  22-05-2015 03:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Community requires connection. Without interpersonal relationships, a community is just a group. Community requires generosity. Without an element of giving, it is hard to imagine members being invested in the collective and future well-being of the group. Community requires space. Without a place (virtual, physical) in which people can connect and contribute, it will be […]
  
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• How 19th Century Newspapers Were Like Today’s Internet

  22-05-2015 02:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Many 19th-century newspapers are comprised primarily of content from other newspapers,” he said. “They were more aggregators than producers of original content. And often they were created by very small staffs, and scholars such as Ellen Gruber Garvey have shown that this aggregation is what allowed newspapers to spread as rapidly as they did in […]
  
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• The New York Times Has Always Reviewed Every Hollywood Movie In General Release. Until Now…

  22-05-2015 02:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Because of the increasing volume of new films released each year, the Times is no longer able to guarantee reviews of all New York theatrical releases,” A.O. Scott, the Times’ chief film critic, wrote companies in an email obtained by Variety.
  
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• Marketing Manager, Washington National Opera, Theater, International Programming

  22-05-2015 01:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  This position manages and coordinates marketing services for the Kennedy Center through affinity relationship marketing activities, planning, data use analysis, reporting, distribution, and other means.
  
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• Marketing Manager (National Symphony Orchestra, Fortas, Performing Arts for Everyone)

  22-05-2015 01:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  This position manages and coordinates marketing services for the Kennedy Center. Focuses on overall marketing strategy for National Symphony Orchestra, Fortas, Performing Arts for Everyone. Supervises Assistant Marketing Manager (Jazz, Comedy, and Special Programming). You have 200 characters to tease your ad. 
  
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• Director of Development – Great Lakes Center for the Arts

  22-05-2015 01:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  LOIS L. LINDAUER SEARCHES is proud to partner with the Great Lakes Center for the Arts (GLCFA) in its search for the position of Director of Development.
  
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• Fraternities Once Were Paragons Of Accomplishment and Excellence. But Then…

  22-05-2015 01:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  These organizations, which were literary and social societies, were founded very much in the same spirit as Phi Beta Kappa. They fashioned themselves with the model of ancient Greece in mind. They were named after Greek letters during a period in American history when “Greece eclipsed Rome as the model for virtuous citizenship in the […]
  
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• Los Angeles Master Chorale Hires New Director

  22-05-2015 00:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The group chose Jean Davidson after a national search because of her work with top artists such as Yo-Yo Ma and Laurie Anderson as well as her track record at New York Live Arts since 2011. Davidson was instrumental in the creation of the group, formed through a merger of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane […]
  
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• Time For Lit Magazines To Rethink How They Choose What To Publish?

  22-05-2015 00:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Let’s be honest about the situation at lit mags: most are funded out of the editors’ pockets or else given a small budget from a university, most have unpaid editors (often MFA students getting a year’s experience), and most receive far more submissions than the editors could ever read. And if we are being really, […]
  
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