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• Noah Purifoy: dystopian dadaism from riot-torn LA to Joshua Tree still resonates

  29-05-2015 22:10
  
  The artist, who died when a cigarette burned down his trailer, made art from the detritus of the city and, in later life, the Mojave desert – and now the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will reintroduce his unique assemblages to the art worldWay out on a lonely stretch of dirt road outside the town of Joshua Tree in California’s Mojave Desert stands one of the West’s most bizarre outdoor art collections. Towers of lunch trays. A railroad set made of bicycle wheels and beer kegs. Bowling b
  
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• ‘Alpin Arda Bagcık: Ambivalence’ at Galeri Zilberman

  29-05-2015 21:51 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Alpin Arda Bağcık: Ambivalence” is currently on view at Galeri Zilberman in Istanbul. It is Bağcık’s first solo exhibition and explores the notion of reality that photography presents. All the works were executed … Read More
  
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• ‘Alpin Arda Bağcık: Ambivalence’ at Galeri Zilberman

  29-05-2015 21:51 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Alpin Arda Bağcık: Ambivalence” is currently on view at Galeri Zilberman in Istanbul. It is Bağcık’s first solo exhibition and explores the notion of reality that photography presents. All the works were executed … Read More
  
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• Last Year The Baltimore Symphony Hired An Embedded Journalist To Cover The Orchestra (Here’s How It Turned Out)

  29-05-2015 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  I have a whole lot of editorial control as far as picking stories out. I would say probably 75 percent of what I do is unrelated to the orchestra; it’s just generally about classical music. Twenty-five percent relates the orchestra. But I don’t see it as a direct “try to sell this concert.”
  
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• Kennedy Center Announces New American Orchestra Festival

  29-05-2015 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s an ambitious project, and a challenge for the box office. Undaunted by the idea that the original Spring for Music festival, at Carnegie Hall, had trouble attracting audiences to unfamiliar ensembles playing unfamiliar work, Shift’s presenters have opted for programs focusing almost exclusively on living American composers, with a healthy dose of multimedia for […]
  
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• Boris Eifman: What’s Missing In Today’s Ballet

  29-05-2015 21:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Eifman is unwavering in his belief in dance as theater and spectacle and not shy about expressing his disdain of most prevailing contemporary approaches to choreography. “There is one problem in the modern arts scene, that many younger choreographers are really creating some movements just to the music. For me, ballet theater is not just […]
  
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• Venezuela Is In Trouble – And Its Two Best-Known Musicians Don’t Agree On A Solution

  29-05-2015 21:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This Venezuelan revolution is the music story thus far of the 21st century. But now Venezuela is in trouble. The price to save El Sistema may turn out to be high, politically and morally. The answers are not clear, and the country’s two best-known classical musicians, pianist Gabriela Montero and Dudamel, once friends, are, as […]
  
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• ‘Salt Is Ever More Important': Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev on Her Plans for ‘The Most Dispersed Istanbul Biennial in History’

  29-05-2015 21:02 via artnews.com
  'You’re going to get to know the Bosphorus really well, and not only that—the islands.' Read More
  
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• New SEC Rules Could Revolutionize Crowdfunding For Movies

  29-05-2015 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Until now, the public has been giving away millions of dollars to startup companies on sites like Kickstarter, and some of these startup companies have gone on to sell for billions, with no reward to the initial public funders. It had been difficult for the startup companies to issue equity in exchange for this funding […]
  
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• Jack Vettriano hangs up paintbrush due to shoulder injury

  29-05-2015 20:23
  
  Scots painter, who had popular retrospective in Glasgow, signs up to physiotherapy course and ‘long recovery’ after dislocating right shoulder Jack Vettriano, the Scots painter, said he would be unable to paint for the foreseeable future after dislocating his right shoulder.The 63-year-old, who said he believed he was facing a long recovery, released a statement after a “substantial number of inquiries” regarding new paintings following his retrospective exhibition at Kelvingrove Art Gal
  
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• Report: Writers’ Incomes Are Falling (Precipitously)

  29-05-2015 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Over all, the writers’ incomes from writing have dropped 27 per cent since the last time they were surveyed, in 1998. Their average annual income from writing is now less than $13,000 and half report they are working harder than before to make the money. American and British surveys have reported similar drops.”
  
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• After 150 Years, Lewis Carroll’s “Alice In Wonderland” Is Still Influencing Children’s Literature

  29-05-2015 19:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Lewis Carroll finally got his story down on paper 150 years ago and published it under its now familiar title, Wonderland—a shape-shifting tale that is both a love letter to the English language and an extended metaphor for childhood—changed children’s literature forever.”
  
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• So Now Taking Instagram Images And Turning Them Into Art Is Art. A Discussion Well Worth Having

  29-05-2015 18:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Here, you’ve got an appropriation artist whose whole reputation is from taking images that he finds interesting and turning them into art,” Ian Ballon, an Internet copyright litigator with Greenberg Traurig, LLP told The Daily Beast. “But courts evaluate ‘fair use’ based on a multi-part balancing test and, if you change the facts just a […]
  
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• That old story: Artangel theatre piece puts men's ageing in the shop window

  29-05-2015 17:58
  
  The adventurous art group is using a closed-down London store to explore the unglamorous chores and difficulties of the later years of life“When you get white hair people patronise you, treat you as if you are a congenital idiot, start calling you we,” rails the 82-year-old actor Dudley Sutton before sipping his Red Bull and making a start on a packet of digestives.Soon he will be on set for rehearsals which involve him taking his shirt off, removing his dentures, cutting his toenails – al
  
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• Jeff Koons Will Move Studio to Hell’s Kitchen

  29-05-2015 17:57 via artnews.com
  The Real Deal reports that Jeff Koons’s studio will be relocating to 620 West 52nd Street. The move to Hell’s Kitchen follows November’s news that Koons’s studio would be evicted from its current Chelsea address, at 601 West 29th Street, … Read More
  
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• In 1992 Richard Woodward Wrote A NYT Mag Cover Piece On Sally Mann That Caused A Firestorm. Now He Reflects On Mann’s New Book

  29-05-2015 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What’s clear from Mann’s not always coherent defense of her actions in the book is that she, too, is uncertain about the answers to her questions I asked—a confusion that, I believe, only increases her stature by adding a complicating layer to her motives. No one likes a smug, self-satisfied artist and Mann’s intelligence attractively […]
  
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• St. Paul’s Ordway Center Leader To Retire After Rebuilding And Bringing Peace

  29-05-2015 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Patricia Mitchell “leaves a legacy both as peacemaker and builder. In February, the Ordway opened a 1,100-seat, $42 million concert hall that was greeted with plaudits for Tim Carl’s elegant, simple architecture and its exquisite acoustics. Serving as principal home of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, it complements an adjoining 1,900-seat theater where operas, musicals […]
  
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• ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE CURATOR -Drawings and Prints

  29-05-2015 16:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Oversees every aspect of the department's comprehensive collection of European 19th-century drawings, prints, and illustrated books. Resumes by July 17th to [email protected].
  
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• Duane Hanson's hyperreal sculptures, $90k Instagram photos and the winners of the Deutsche Börse – the week in art

  29-05-2015 16:36
  
  Hanson’s overweight Americans descend on the Serpentine, a South African estate bags a top photography prize, and the Suicide Girls battle Richard Prince for ownership of their Instagram photos – all in your weekly dispatchAgnes Martin
  One of the greats, an abstract artist of minimalist rigour and ethereal craft whose vision is as pure as prairie rain.• Tate Modern, London, 3 June until 11 October. Continue reading...
  
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• Pro Sports Has Discovered: Broadcasting Their Games Free and Live On TV Increases Their Business

  29-05-2015 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Research actually shows that TV broadcasts can increase game attendance. And while blackout policies are meant to increase revenues, as Forbes pointed out, the policy has done little to boost ticket prices for the Indy 500.”
  
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• Morning Links: Salvation Mountain Edition

  29-05-2015 15:36 via artnews.com
  Studio Museum in Harlem is opening a solo Stanley Whitney show in July. [The New York Times]A second 20-square foot Mmuseum will open in TriBeCa, displaying the closet of Sara Berman. [The New York Times]New York architectural historians and husband … Read More
  
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• A New Animal-inspired Algorithm Is Letting Machines Learn (Much) Faster

  29-05-2015 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “An injured animal doesn’t diagnose its sprained ankle; it finds a limp that allows it to keep moving. Similarly, the team’s robots didn’t pinpoint the damage; they just noticed a drop in speed or a change in course, and selected a new movement to resume their actions.”
  
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• Our World Is Becoming More Globalized. So Why Are American Universities Becoming Less Global?

  29-05-2015 15:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A 2012 report by the American Council on Education said that American colleges have actually taken a step backward in certain key areas of campus internationalization: Fewer colleges today require students to take courses that emphasize global perspectives as part of their general education, and the number with mandatory study of a foreign language continues […]
  
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• How Our Comedians Became Our Social Critics

  29-05-2015 15:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The stuff of late-night LOLs used to be quippy monologues, vapid celebrity interviews, Stupid Human Tricks both official and less so. It still is, to some extent. More often, though, TV comedy that self-consciously defines itself as “comedy”—the stuff that originally airs on Comedy Central and FXX and HBO, the stuff that is firmly rooted […]
  
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• Agnes Martin, Albert Adams, Roni Horn: this week’s new exhibitions

  29-05-2015 14:38
  
  Agnes Martin | Albert Adams | Roni Horn | Beatriz Olabarrieta | Lynette Yiadom-Boakye; Duane Hanson | Lynn Hershman Leeson | Craig Murray-OrrAgnes Martin thought art should be felt, not intellectualised. It should pursue beauty, nature and innocence. For this recluse who ditched the 1960s New York art world for the wide-open spaces of New Mexico, it was a spiritual endeavour. This rationale might come as a surprise when you look at her paintings. At first sight, they’re a long way from the hig
  
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• 91 Percent Of Wikipedia’s Editors Are Male. Is That A Problem?

  29-05-2015 14:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When it comes to how it is made, Wikipedia is a colossal failure. Only a tiny proportion of users now edit articles and the overwhelming majority of those editors are male. The most recent survey by the Wikimedia Foundation, the charity that supports but does not control Wikipedia, found that 91 per cent of the […]
  
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• Fighting History – Antony Beevor on patriotic paintings

  29-05-2015 12:48
  
  The death of Captain Cook, Amelia Earhart’s aeroplane, the miners’ strike … the new Tate Britain show ranges widely in its exploration of conflict and catastrophe in history paintingA painting at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1771 caused a sensation. Benjamin West’s The Death of General Wolfe, which depicted the moment of victory in the battle of Quebec 12 years earlier, helped break the convention that soldiers in historical scenes should be shown wearing classical costume.West, from
  
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• Fighting History – Antony Beevor on paintings of conflict and catastrophe

  29-05-2015 12:48
  
  The death of Captain Cook, Amelia Earhart’s aeroplane, the miners’ strike … the new Tate Britain show ranges widely in its exploration of disputes, patriotism and martyrdom in history paintingA painting at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1771 caused a sensation. Benjamin West’s The Death of General Wolfe, which depicted the moment of victory in the battle of Quebec 12 years earlier, helped break the convention that soldiers in historical scenes should be shown wearing classical costume.W
  
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• Grayson Perry: Provincial Punk loses his edge

  29-05-2015 10:57
  
  In the wake of his acclaimed Reith Lecture series, British Museum show, recent tapestries, and Channel 4 TV series Who are You?, Grayson Perry has been embraced as one of the most articulate observers of the contemporary arts scene, an inspired curator and champion of the overlooked, and one of the most amiable dissectors of our prejudices, fashions and foibles.
  
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• Grayson Perry loses his edge

  29-05-2015 10:57
  
  In the wake of his acclaimed Reith Lecture series, British Museum show, recent tapestries, and Channel 4 TV series Who are You?, Grayson Perry has been embraced as one of the most articulate observers of the contemporary arts scene, an inspired curator and champion of the overlooked, and one of the most amiable dissectors of our prejudices, fashions and foibles.
  
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• Prepare to be dazzled! A history of nautical camouflage - in pictures

  29-05-2015 08:00
  
  Dazzle painting was created during the first world war to protect British naval vessels from German attack. The jagged, almost psychedelic designs were inspired by the work of the vorticists, and have influenced modern artists such as Peter Blake, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Tobias Rehberger – each of whom has created their own tribute to this extraordinary artistic movementDazzle Dazzle at Tate Liverpool, 6 June Continue reading...
  
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• Bone-Breaking – The Dance Craze That’s Exploding On Instagram

  29-05-2015 06:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Bone-breakers are known for dislocating their shoulders to create fluid movements that are spectacular to watch — but also might make you a bit squeamish. Instagram users are loving it, though. Dancers have uploaded more than 7,000 posts under the hashtag #bonebreaking, with 4,000 more under #bonebreak.”
  
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• American Publishers Look To China But Authors Fret About Censorship

  29-05-2015 04:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Organizers of the event say China deserves a seat at the table because it is such a big and potentially lucrative market. But some authors and free speech advocates have seen this as an opportunity to shine light on censorship in China.”
  
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• Joe Dowling Leaves A Reinvented Guthrie Theatre After 20 Years

  29-05-2015 03:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Not since Tyrone Guthrie founded the company that would bear his name has someone become more associated with the Guthrie Theater, one of the nation’s acclaimed regional theaters. The journey Dowling took to become its 20-year leader, reinventing the theater in the process, was unlikely and unexpected.”
  
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• Want To Know How The Brain Processes Creativity? We’ll Have To Devise More Creative Tests

  29-05-2015 03:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Interdisciplinary collaborations are often a good thing, especially between science and the arts. It makes sense that a design scholar would want to know how creativity works—in this case, a person who teaches a creativity course at Stanford’s d-school actually suggested the study. But creativity is, in the end, a human construct. That lack of […]
  
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• Is The Top Of The High-End Art Auction Market Softening?

  29-05-2015 03:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  The percentage of guaranteed contemporary works at Christie’s evening auctions increased to 52 percent in May from 44 percent in November, according to ArtTactic. Meanwhile, average prices decreased 15.8 percent.
  
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• Repressive Middle East Governments Hiding Behind Shiny International Art Buildings

  29-05-2015 03:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In this context of repression, it’s clear that whatever the Louvre, the Guggenheim and New York University might say, the reality is that they provide a sheen of high-end respectability to an autocratic state.”
  
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• Want To Make Art About Superheroes? It’s Not Easy (As These Leaked Sony Emails Show)

  29-05-2015 03:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Gagosian Gallery worked for months to license images of Batman, Superman, Iron Man and Spider-Man for a series by the German photographer Andreas Gursky. More than six prominent Hollywood executives were involved in the negotiations, including Robert Iger, the chairman of the Walt Disney Company, Kevin Tsujihara, the chairman of Warner Brothers, the producer Charles […]
  
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• Musical Theatre For The Deaf

  29-05-2015 02:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Musicals may seem like a counterintuitive choice for a deaf theater company, but they aren’t uncommon for Deaf West, one of the few theater groups in the country led by a deaf artistic director, in its case DJ Kurs.
  
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• Study: Possible To Reduce Prejudice While You Sleep

  29-05-2015 02:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  A research team led by psychologists Ken Paller of Northwestern University and Xiaoqing Hu of the University of Texas-Austin reports it was able to able to reduce prejudice through a combination of conscious brain training and subliminal reinforcement as the study participants napped.
  
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• Want To Exercise Better? Listen To Music (Duh!) (But Here’s The Science)

  29-05-2015 01:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Computer scientist Shahriar Nirjon, working with a team at the University of Virginia, found that the tempo of songs played a role in producing a certain heart rate in study participants. They found that people who listened to calming music reported lower anxiety and heart rate; similarly, they could increase a person’s heart rate by […]
  
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• The Product Placements That Are Controlling Your Favorite Music

  29-05-2015 01:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The trick is that as with a lot of what’s taking place in the music industry these days – witness the backroom deals between the major labels and the streaming services, most of which leave the musicians out of the equation – the financial relationships are mostly opaque.”
  
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• Artist-Friendly Portland Rents Are Pricing Out Artists

  29-05-2015 00:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Portland has long been an incubator for artists looking for a vibrant and supportive community—minus the high cost of living in larger cities like Seattle and San Francisco. But a perfect storm of decreased development during the recession, and increased in-migration in the years following, has transformed Portland into a place where artists like Abernathy […]
  
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