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• ‘Uniquely Privileged Access': Meet The Cultivist, the Art World’s New Members-Only Club

  01-06-2015 22:41 via artnews.com
  It’s not fair to call the entire art world a private club, but “clubby” is at least an accurate description of it, so much so that a sub-economy has sprung up in the last five years in order to provide … Read More
  
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• Punching Above Their Weight: Three South London Galleries to Watch

  01-06-2015 21:07 via artnews.com
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• ‘Sergio Camargo: Mármore’ at Lisson Gallery

  01-06-2015 20:06 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Sergio Camargo: Mármore” is currently on view at Lisson Gallery in London. This is the late Brazilian sculptor’s first solo show in London in over 30 years and focuses … Read More
  
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• Off the grid: the quiet, controlled paintings of Agnes Martin

  01-06-2015 19:51
  
  Although the American abstract painter suffered from debilitating psychosis, it is never explicit in her work. Yet her taut pencil lines, delicate colours and regimented grids speak subtly of both control and escapeChampionship swimmer, teacher, car nut, lesbian, writer, painter: in her long and sometimes troubled life Agnes Martin (1912-2004) was all these things. She also heard voices in her head and suffered debilitating periods of psychosis. Martin’s schizophrenia, though never entirely a
  
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• Agnes Martin at Tate Modern: A Zen-like quest for beauty

  01-06-2015 19:07
  
  It is not until the fifth room of the new Agnes Martin retrospective at Tate Modern, London, that the viewer discovers the artist struggled with schizophrenia throughout her adult life. This is a wise and sensitive choice on the part of the curators. By this point in the exhibition, the viewer has already looked at four rooms full of Martin's luminous, silent paintings. They are not portrayed from the outset as the products of a person compelled by mental illness, and so they are not viewed as
  
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• No, David Oyelowo Is Not Going To Play A White Man’s Black Friend

  01-06-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘Don’t send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend,’ he said. ‘I just won’t do that. You can feel when it’s literally an afterthought; you can feel when it’s like, “Oh quick, let’s get some colour in here.” That I won’t do.'”
  
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• Take us far away … share your artworks about travel

  01-06-2015 18:04
  
  If your travels have inspired you to be creative, or if the thought of journeys afar spark your imagination, then we would love you to share your artwork with usYour chance to be exhibited in London and New York: find out about our upcoming showCreations of the night: your art inspired by dreams – in pictures“See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream.” Wise words by writer Ray Bradbury, one of the countless artists inspired by travel. From Paul Gauguin’s evocative Polynesia to
  
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• Producing Queer Theatre In A High School In A Red State

  01-06-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This is a state that recently voted against adding LGBTQ people to a list of protected classes. You can be fired for being gay here. Or evicted. It happens all the time. People get married on the bridge between Fargo and Moorhead, Minnesota. Queer kids here, many of whom grow up without ever knowingly knowing […]
  
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• Creations of the night: your art inspired by dreams – in pictures

  01-06-2015 17:59
  
  Dreams provide an endless source of inspiration – from explosions of colour to fantastical creatures and landscapes. Here is a selection of your best workShare your artworks about travel for our June assignmentContinue reading...
  
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• Why Loki Has Been Popular For, Oh, 900 Years Or So

  01-06-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Of all the gods of Asgard, Loki is the subversive, the social and racial outsider; a gender-fluid character in a binary world. It seems appropriate, therefore, for Loki to subvert the epic tradition of prose just as he subverts everything else. It is a gesture of defiance – one of many – against authority, convention, […]
  
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• Should Composers Disrupt What A ‘Song’ Means?

  01-06-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For instance, Spotify, the clear leader in the streaming space, pays after 30 seconds, so an honest question is: A) Why write beyond that? And … B) Are you, in fact, screwing yourself six times over for writing a three-minute song (:30 x 6 = 3:00 song)?”
  
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• Hollywood’s Most Famous Monster-Making Guy To Retire Because, Well, CGI

  01-06-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “He said his work on recent fantasy Maleficent, starring Angelina Jolie, which was CGI-heavy, could have been done ‘in a garage’ and suggested studios are increasingly looking to use technology to replace handcrafted work.”
  
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• Subsidizing Internet Service For The Poor Makes Good Sense For Everyone

  01-06-2015 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When you introduce the subsidy to people living in poverty, you’re letting the private sector take a look at a whole new market that isn’t currently using their services. … The market will adapt to this new source of customers.”
  
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• Meet The First Black Woman To Play Yitzhak In ‘Hedwig’ On Broadway

  01-06-2015 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A lot of the verbally abusive stuff that Hedwig slings at Yitzhak has become, for lack of a better word — or perhaps it’s the best word to use — darker. It feels close to home in this sad but appropriate way.”
  
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• Daniel Barenboim, Royal Festival Hall, review: The soloist's new piano is perfect for Schubert

  01-06-2015 16:01
  
  When Daniel Barenboim gives a piano recital, the hall – no matter how big – is always sold out months in advance. This is because people flock to hear him not just for his artistry, but for the history he embodies, as a fearless preacher of tolerance in one of the most intolerant regions of the world. But the devotees cramming even the stage of the Royal Festival Hall were there for an additional reason: he was going to deliver his Schubert sonata cycle on a piano no-one in London had heard
  
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• Kill The Term ‘Chick Lit’ With Fire, Please

  01-06-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This is very much a patriarchal society. And I think one way of keeping women less well paid and having to do more work is to mock them and anything they love.”
  
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• An Artist, Retire? No Way

  01-06-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Most of the famous painters she knew and admired as a young woman — Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and others — are long gone. ‘I’m still here,’ she said wryly.”
  
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• The Popular Artist Who Painted ‘The Singing Butler’ Injured His Shoulder And May Quit Painting

  01-06-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The artist, who grew up in Methil, Fife, first found fame in 1989 when two of his canvases submitted to the Royal Scottish Academy sold on the first day. His work has since featured in exhibitions in Edinburgh, London and New York. He was made an OBE in 2003.”
  
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• Morning Links: French Edition

  01-06-2015 15:09 via artnews.com
  Today, Richard Serra will be receiving France’s highest government honor, les Insignes de Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur (insignia of Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour), at a ceremony at the French Embassy in New York. [The … Read More
  
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• A New York City Ballet Pair Gets Married, Then The Performance World Keeps Them Apart

  01-06-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Before we married, we had the perfect scenario — we did everything together. We could just look at one another across the room in ballet class, and that was enough to check in.’
  
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• Judy Blume’s New Novel Might Be Her Final Book

  01-06-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Blume’s career spans more than 40 years of writing groundbreaking YA novels that delved deep into the minds of women, tackling intimate subjects such as teenage sex, menstruation and masturbation. But with her new novel, In the Unlikely Event, Blume has tackled a new frontier – this is her first crack at historical fiction.”
  
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• Rigby Graham obituary

  01-06-2015 14:30
  
  Prolific landscape painter, printmaker and designer who represented man-made and natural beauty with striking directnessThe painter Rigby Graham, who has died aged 84, was a respected landscape artist with little time for the London art scene. At times he found it difficult to make a living, though, as he put it: “If it did not sell, then it must be all right,” and he never asked his dealer about the prices that his pictures fetched.Diplomacy was not his strong suit. His letters were so tren
  
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• Rigby Graham

  01-06-2015 14:30
  
  Prolific landscape painter, printmaker and designer who represented man-made and natural beauty with striking directnessThe painter Rigby Graham, who has died aged 84, was a respected landscape artist with little time for the London art scene. At times he found it difficult to make a living, though, as he put it: “If it did not sell, then it must be all right,” and he never asked his dealer about the prices that his pictures fetched.Diplomacy was not his strong suit. His letters were so tren
  
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• This artist has taken balloon animals to the next level

  01-06-2015 14:02
  
  The art of making animals out of balloons has finally transcended the children's party, with Japanese artist Masayoshi Matsumoto creating stunningly complex and lifelike creatures.
  
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• Reese Witherspoon And The Quest To Make Movies Starring And About Adult Women

  01-06-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘Women make up 50 percent of the population, so we should make up 50 percent of the [roles and stories] in movies,’ she added. ‘It’s not a crazy thought, it’s just a representation of reality.'”
  
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• Chicago Residents Have Mixed Feelings About Spike Lee And ‘Chiraq’

  01-06-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The film, Mr. Lee has said, is focused on gun violence on the South Side; some reports, unconfirmed by Mr. Lee, offer the intriguing possibility that the film is a comedic reimagining of ‘Lysistrata,’ the ancient Greek tale by Aristophanes in which women withhold sex to force the men to end the Peloponnesian War.”
  
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• If British Opera Is In A (Financial, Cultural) Hole, Is This The Way Out?

  01-06-2015 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With its efficiently managed “visitor experience”, OHP has hit on a winning formula, striking a nice balance between being posh and being fun. There’s no black-tie dress code, and the champagne party atmosphere doesn’t seem restricted to Lord Snooty and his toffee-nosed pals.”
  
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• Sculptural oasis: why the giants of art made for Jeddah

  01-06-2015 08:00
  
  From Joan Miró to Jean Arp and Henry Moore, the Saudi city was a magnet for big names in art in the 1970s, as fascinating new book Sculptures of Jeddah showsIn the 21st century art is moving eastwards – literally – as masterpiece after masterpiece is sold to the oil-rich state Qatar, and the Louvre Abu Dhabi nears completion in the neighbouring United Arab Emirates. Huge and imaginative investments are turning these small wealthy nations on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula into the
  
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• Street talk: graffiti slogans around the world – in pictures

  01-06-2015 08:00
  
  The street artist and photographer Nicholas Ganz made his name with his best-selling book Graffiti World, the first to chronicle street art from around the globe. This gallery features his new book Street Messages, documenting street-art slogans from Norway to Guatemala City• Ganz will be speaking on 2 June at the book launch, Graffiti Messages, at the Lazarides gallery in London Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 05.31.15

  01-06-2015 06:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  A New Literary Memoir Recalls Dylan Thomas AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2015-05-31 Paul Desmond: 38 Years AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-05-30 Should Public Media Leave Podcasting to Outsiders? AJBlog: Lies Like TruthPublished 2015-05-30 Moss Hart, on his own  AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-05-29
  
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