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• Illumination Artists Sue NYPD Over Arrests In Museum Protest

  23-05-2015 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “They were charged with unlawful posting of advertisements for projecting images critical of Koch and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Even someone who’s not a lawyer can tell that there are two problems with that charge. The statute defines ‘posting’ as sticking to something. Images and projections don’t stick, and no advertisements were involved.”
  
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• So You Think Dance Emigrated Out Of The Old Soviet Union? Here Are The Treasures That Stayed

  23-05-2015 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For the past decade or so, the Russians have been rehabilitating works from the Stalinist era that brilliantly debunk the notion that Soviet ballet slept out the 20th century. And Yakobson is the ideal figure on whom to focus a corrected and expanded ballet history.”
  
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• Last Week Berlin Philharmonic Musicians Deadlocked On A New Music Director. Here’s How It Happened

  23-05-2015 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is hard to see how enough players can be swayed from Thielemann to Nelsons or vice versa in order for the orchestra to bury its differences and rally around a new music director. That leaves three options, none of them easy.”
  
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• Which Artworks Earned the Best Returns at the May Auctions?

  23-05-2015 17:55 via artnews.com
  The annual May Impressionist-modern and postwar-contemporary auctions in New York this month made huge numbers, with a new record set for the most expensive artwork ever sold, among quite a few other new high marks. Many works had hit the … Read More
  
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• Elephant dung, chewing gum and human hair: the life of a contemporary art restorer

  23-05-2015 16:47
  
  Christian Scheidemann owns the only conservation studio in the US that deals solely with contemporary art made from unconventional materials ranigng from pound cake to petroleum jellyThis is the first article in a new series on the most unique US businessesChristian Scheidemann’s New York City studio looks more like a high-ceilinged gallery space than an art conservation workshop. Contemporary pieces dot the pristine space. A block of concrete embedded with a wooden chair by Doris Salcedo sits
  
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• Grayson Perry, Eileen Agar, Lee Miller And Picasso: this week’s new exhibitions

  23-05-2015 10:00
  
  Grayson Perry | Lee Miller And Picasso | Eileen Agar | George Shaw | Mika Rottenberg: Edwin Burdis | Henry/Bragg | Jo McGonigalIt’s fitting that Provincial Punk, the title of Grayson Perry’s survey show, refers as much to his work as himself. Since he won the Turner prize in 2003 the artist’s public persona has been inseparable from his artistic output. In fact, he’s such a fixture in the media you’d be forgiven for being hazy on what Perry has produced. As this career survey shows, hi
  
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• Council to pay for murals in Manchester: from the archive, 23 May 1975

  23-05-2015 06:30
  
  Gable-end artists in Manchester will be funded by the council, despite oppositionGable-end artists are to get grants from the Greater Manchester Council, in spite of claims that official patronage would destroy the spontaneity of their work.
  The art form has spread through the country largely from the towns around Manchester, where it is seen on the end of terraced houses. Now a group of Rochdale sculptors, led by Walter Kershaw and Eric Keen, has asked the GMC to help in providing murals in dra
  
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