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• Bartok – The 20th Century’s Loneliest Composer?

  27-05-2015 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Two careers, as composer and ethnomusicologist, would be more than enough for most, but Bartók managed a third, as travelling concert pianist. Finances were always tight, his relationships with women were complicated, and looming over it all were the tumultuous political upheavals of the first half of the 20th century.”
  
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• Here’s The 2015 Expo Chicago Exhibitor List

  27-05-2015 23:46 via artnews.com
  Expo Chicago is returning for its fourth edition this year, running from September 17 to 20 at Navy Pier’s Festival Hall. The contemporary and modern art fair will feature 140 leading international galleries from 15 countries and 40 cities, a … Read More
  
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• Senior Director, Public & Media Relations

  27-05-2015 23:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  New Jersey Performing Arts Center is seeking a strategic senior public relations and communications professional to oversee the continued development and active management of the company’s public relations and communications efforts.
  
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• Director, Corporate Relations and Sponsorship at New Jersey Performing Arts Center

  27-05-2015 23:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since its opening season in 1997, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark has attracted nearly 9 million patrons. The Arts Center's array of 400 unique events each season serves more than a dozen nationalities and ethnicities.
  
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• Copland House: Development Director

  27-05-2015 23:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Copland House, the award-winning creative center for American music at Aaron Copland’s National Historic Landmark home one hour north of Manhattan in Westchester County, NY, offers a rewarding opportunity for a galvanizing, imaginative fund-raising leader. Our Development Director will play a central role in a vibrant, nationally-recognized arts organization that is poised for transformational expansion. […]
  
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• Rethinking The Museum Building So It Protects The Art From Natural Disaster

  27-05-2015 22:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Buildings now have to be designed like submarines. Do we have to completely rethink our infrastructure? Do we have to completely rethink everything?”
  
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• $90 vs. $90,000: SuicideGirls Are Selling Their Richard Prince-Appropriated Instagram Photos

  27-05-2015 22:19 via artnews.com
  It was only a matter of time before Richard Prince mined Instagram, a free and open source of everyone’s personal images, for material.First presented at the Gagosian in New York last September, Prince’s blown-up screenshots of Instagram photos—to which he has … Read More
  
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• ‘Portraits From the École des Beaux-Arts Paris’ at The Drawing Center

  27-05-2015 21:56 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Portraits from the École des Beaux-Arts Paris” is currently on view at The Drawing Center in New York until June 28. Forty works have been chosen from the … Read More
  
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• Havana Biennial Opens, But Cuba Arrests, Detains Artist For Doing Her Work

  27-05-2015 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tania Bruguera was once again detained by the authorities on Sunday afternoon after staging a performance at her Havana home, in which she and others read passages from Hannah Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism.”
  
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• Reopen Christoph Büchel’s Mosque Project in Venice

  27-05-2015 21:07 via artnews.com
  Last Friday, Venetian authorities closed Christoph Büchel’s functioning mosque in a disused church in the city, the Swiss artist’s project for the Icelandic pavilion at the Venice Biennale, saying that it had did not have the proper permits and was … Read More
  
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• How Hollywood Is Helping To Make Virtual Reality Interesting

  27-05-2015 19:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Shooting a movie or TV show is incredibly tough under the best of circumstances. [With VR], the basic things you learned from your experience no longer apply from a technical perspective, and there’s not a body of work you can point to saying, ‘We want it to be like that or like that.’”
  
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• Museum Visitor, Falling, Grabs Ancient Greek Urn, Smashing It

  27-05-2015 19:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A ministry statement says the prehistoric, Minoan-era vase, which had been broken in antiquity and restored after excavation, is being repaired and should be back on display on Friday.”
  
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• America’s Oldest Performing Arts Group Turns 200

  27-05-2015 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Handel and Haydn Society, which claims to be America’s oldest continuously performing arts organization, turns 200 this year. Once an amateur oratorio society dedicated to performing new music — the American premieres of Verdi’s Requiem (in 1878) and Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” (1879), among much else — alongside the old, its orchestra and chorus […]
  
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• When Mark Zuckerberg Met Frank Gehry, This Is The Building That Resulted

  27-05-2015 18:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is in fact an appealing throwback to the unfussy, ad hoc, quickly made experiments of Gehry’s early career. At the same time, there’s something plainly absurd about the idea that architecture could turn Facebook, whose market capitalization is now in the neighborhood of $225 billion, into a low-key outfit without airs, or even allow […]
  
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• SuicideGirls respond to Richard Prince selling their Instagram posts as art

  27-05-2015 18:44
  
  Founder Missy Suicide offers prints of Instagram posts for $90 after discovering versions by Richard Prince for sale at Frieze art fair for $90,000He’s appropriated images of American icons ranging from the Malboro man to Brooke Shields – and even once published The Catcher in the Rye with his name on the jacket instead of JD Salinger’s.But 40 years into his career, Richard Prince’s practice of taking images from other sources without permission, changing them minimally (if at all), pres
  
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• Craig Robins: Meet Miami's Mr Gentrification - the man behind controversial $2bn art and fashion development

  27-05-2015 18:29
  
  If Craig Robins carries himself with something of a swagger, it is perhaps understandable.
  
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• The Hardy Boys And Nancy Drew Industry – Keep Costs Down, Use Freelancers And Formularize Creativity

  27-05-2015 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The secret behind the longevity of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys is simple. They’re still here because their creators found a way to minimize cost, maximize output, and standardize creativity. The solution was an assembly line that made millions by turning writers into anonymous freelancers—a business model that is central to the Internet age.”
  
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• Reunion with looted painting is 'second victory against the Nazis'

  27-05-2015 17:08
  
  David Toren remembers staring at Max Liebermann’s Two Riders on a Beach as his great-uncle signed over his estate to a Nazi general. Now his family has it backMost of David Toren’s family died in the Holocaust and he, then a teenager, only survived because his father got him to safety via the Kindertransport. Now Toren has spoken of the emotion of being reunited with a painting the Nazis seized more than 75 years ago. “I felt the sense of victory – the second victory against the Nazis,�
  
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• A Major New Arts Center For San Francisco’s Palace Of Fine Arts?

  27-05-2015 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The WAW proposal, which would give the palace the pseudonym, the Center for Global Arts and Cultures, calls for capital improvements totaling $150 million. By contrast, recent improvements to the Herbst Theater ran to $156 million.”
  
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• Netflix Believes It Can Create New Audiences For Documentaries

  27-05-2015 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Traditionally, documentaries have targeted niche audiences, defiantly unconcerned with commercial success. They don’t attract nearly as many viewers on the big or small screen as their commercial-minded Hollywood counterparts. Netflix thinks it can change that dynamic, drawing big audiences to nonfiction fare using the same algorithms and data it’s relied on to engineer hits like […]
  
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• Academy Of Motion Pictures Faces Challenges, Contemplates Changes

  27-05-2015 15:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Behind closed doors — where leaders of the 6,000-member film Academy do most of their deliberating — paid staff, elected governors and committee members have been looking to shore up the annual awards show, which saw a drop in TV viewers of almost 15 percent to 36.6 million in the last year. As that happens, […]
  
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• Morning Links: Algorithms Edition

  27-05-2015 15:44 via artnews.com
  Boston has been named the most inspiring city for young artists. [Hyperallergic]Group show, “Die Marmory Show II: Impoverishment,” curated by Nikola Dietrich and featuring Leidy Churchman, Shannon Ebner, Judith Hopf, Tobias Madison, Park McArthur, Manfred Pernice & Martin Städeli, Christoph Schäfer, … Read More
  
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• More Audience Engagement? Audiences Need To Reassert Themselves

  27-05-2015 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Aside from the artist’s responsibility, Don Roth has come to believe that audiences need to do a better job of reasserting themselves. They need to spend more time preparing for a concert, discovering or rediscovering the music, as well as finding out about the musicians. Audience members also need to disconnect themselves, literally and figuratively, […]
  
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• Into the woods: Margaret Atwood reveals her Future Library book, Scribbler Moon

  27-05-2015 15:36
  
  We follow Atwood through a wet forest in Norway as she hands over the manuscript for a book that won’t be read for 100 years. Plus: David Mitchell is named as the project’s next writerSodden with rain and standing amid the calf-high shoots of 1,000 newly planted pine trees in Oslo’s Nordmarka forest, Margaret Atwood is revealing the title of her latest work. “It’s Scribbler Moon,” she says. “And that’s the only part of it you will know for 100 years.”The Booker prize-winning Ca
  
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• Ranked: America’s Most “Inspirational” Cities For Artists?

  27-05-2015 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The educational website WorldWideLearn recently culled data from the American Community Survey and the Local Arts Index to rank the 15 most creatively inspiring cities in the United States for aspiring young artists and art students. “
  
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• Photographer Mary Ellen Mark, 75

  27-05-2015 14:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Her portraits of celebrities, street people, and prom-goers are familiar to many Americans who saw her work in Life, National Geographic, Vogue, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, or one of her 18 published photo collections.”
  
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• Art among the ruins: can a sculpture show in Athens offer Greece new hope?

  27-05-2015 08:00
  
  Sculptures by Sarah Lucas, Yayoi Kusama and Richard Long sit alongside work by contemporary Athenian artists, bringing a new perspective to a city struggling to emerge from the shadow of austerityA group of artists stand chatting on the terrace of a grand mansion in the centre of Athens. In the distance lie the ruins of the Acropolis. The view towards it, across the sprawl of the grand gardens, is interrupted by a series of large sculptures. A contorted bronze statue by Sarah Lucas sits over the
  
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• Zaha Hadid’s Library Design For Oxford Shocks Planners

  27-05-2015 04:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Hadid’s building is the most radically designed modern college building in Oxford since the love-it-or-hate-it cliff face of James Stirling’s Florey building at Queen’s College. This is undoubtedly Hadid’s most intriguing small building, one that she originally described as “a soft bridge”.”
  
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• More On The “Radical” New Barenboim Piano Design

  27-05-2015 04:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Designed by the Belgian instrument maker Chris Maene, the Barenboim has straight parallel strings instead of the diagonal-crossed ones of a contemporary piano. The wooden soundboard veins go in different directions. The bridges, ribs and bracings are specially-designed and the hammers and strings (yellow brass rather than red brass) have been repositioned.”
  
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• Choice Of New Director For The Proms Is A Surprise

  27-05-2015 03:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Pickard is “bound to face challenges. The BBC licence fee is due for a rethink next year; any changes to the funding model can scarcely not affect the Proms. At Glyndebourne, he presided over an institution that receives public funding only for educationwork and touring – the opera festival relies entirely on private money. […]
  
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• USC Dean Refuses To Accept MFA Class’s Withdrawal From Program

  27-05-2015 03:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Most notably, the Dean refused to acknowledge that the students were even dropping out, saying “we have not recorded your withdrawal. Instead, we have granted each of you a two-year leave of absence.” Given the clear sense of betrayal felt by the USC7, it seems unlikely that they would choose to return to the program.”
  
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• London’s National Gallery Suggests Priceless Paintings Might Belong To Ireland

  27-05-2015 03:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The 39 paintings, including some of the most celebrated works of the French artists Renoir, Monet and Manet, were left to the gallery by the art collector Sir Hugh Lane, who was killed on the Lusitania when it was hit by a German torpedo 100 years ago this month. In a codicil to his will, […]
  
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• Can The ACLU Prove Hollywood Discriminates In Hiring Women? (Doubtful)

  27-05-2015 02:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Attacks on industry-wide practices are harder than on a single, outlier company, since an outlier exists against a backdrop that shows its possible to do better. In industry-wide cases, it becomes more challenging to prove that there is an adequate supply of qualified and interested candidates to begin with.”
  
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• Why There Are So Few Women Rock Critics

  27-05-2015 01:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The problem for women is that our role in popular music was codified long ago. And it was codified, in part, by the early music press. In the effort to prove the burgeoning rock scene of the sixties a worthy subject of critical inquiry, rock needed to be established as both serious and authentic. One […]
  
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• Playwright Sam Shepard Arrested In New Mexico

  27-05-2015 01:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Shepard was arrested on a charge of aggravated driving while intoxicated outside La Choza restaurant in downtown. The restaurant’s security called police about 7:45 p.m. Monday concerned about an intoxicated driver, Dobyns said. The man was trying to leave in the pickup, but the vehicle’s emergency brake was engaged.”
  
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• Numbers Are In: Broadway Had A Great Year At The Box Office

  27-05-2015 01:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Broadway League said Tuesday that box offices reported a record total gross of $1.36 billion — up from $1.27 billion from the previous season. The trade association for theater owners, operators and producers said attendance was up 7.3 percent to 13.1 million.”
  
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• Sexism In The Art World: Here Are The Numbers

  27-05-2015 00:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The more closely one examines art-world statistics, the more glaringly obvious it becomes that, despite decades of postcolonial, feminist, anti-racist, and queer activism and theorizing, the majority continues to be defined as white, Euro-American, heterosexual, privileged, and, above all, male. Sexism is still so insidiously woven into the institutional fabric, language, and logic of the […]
  
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• Feminism In Art – We Were Making Progress And Then…

  27-05-2015 00:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We are now once again hard put to find at the big institutions feminist shows or exhibitions of works addressing gender, sexual, and other interrelated social inequities.”
  
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• Listing And Ranking Women Artists Doesn’t Help The Cause Of Women Artists

  27-05-2015 00:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Where notions of gender and success are concerned, the list, by virtue of its very format, embodies the crux of the problem: a litany of names and capsule bios, peppered with personal anecdotes and external endorsements, in lieu of analysis of enduring inequities and systemic biases.”
  
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