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• Robert Irwin Catalogue Raisonné Is In The Works, With Marianne Stockebrand as Editor

  04-06-2015 23:26 via artnews.com
  It’s shaping up to be a very nice June for artist Robert Irwin, and lovers of his difficult-to-categorize work, which conjures sublime, subtle visual experiences with an impressive economy of materials. Dia:Beacon, the museum the artist helped design, just unveiled his … Read More
  
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• Amazon Data: America’s Most Well-Read Cities

  04-06-2015 23:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Seattle tops the list. “Not so surprising, really. Several factors help boost our reading status, including our highly educated population, bookish community that includes fantastic public libraries and local bookstores that support authors and events, and long, dark months of dreary weather that lend themselves to, well, reading. It also helps that we have one […]
  
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• How A New Music Group Started Giving Away Money And Found Its Business Thriving

  04-06-2015 21:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “By shining a spotlight not just on great art but on the problems that any community faces–and more importantly, on local service organizations that offer solutions to those problems–the ensemble quickly developed a stellar reputation city-wide, not just for its artistry, but for its citizenship. Local governmental agencies took note, as did individuals and private […]
  
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• What Kind Of Music Do You Listen To? (The Way You Answer Might Change Soon)

  04-06-2015 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Spotify has found that playlists designed for activities like running or partying are as popular as those that center on more traditional genres, and its new version will make recommendations accordingly.”
  
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• Head Of Boston Public Library Resigns After Distovery Of $600,000 In Missing Art

  04-06-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The library said last month it was bringing in an independent firm to review security protocols and that before any items were reported missing it was already working with an outside consultant to “organize, catalogue, inventory, and recommend processes to allow better security and control over” its more than 1.3 million Print Department holdings.”
  
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• Politically Correct? What’s Wrong With That?

  04-06-2015 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What has come to be called “political correctness” used to be known as “good manners” and was considered part of being a decent human being. The term is now employed to write off any speech that is uncomfortably socially conscious, culturally sensitive or just plain left-wing. The term is employed, too often, to shut down […]
  
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• Investing In Broadway – A Fun Way To Lose Money

  04-06-2015 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Broadway producers may use the Internet for all sorts of things, but rarely for raising money. Shows are financed pretty much the same way they were 50 years ago, face to face and on the phone.
  
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  04-06-2015 18:40
  
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• ‘Ian Wallace: Meta Masculin/Féminin’ at Jessica Silverman Gallery

  04-06-2015 18:18 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Ian Wallace:Meta Masculin/Féminin” is currently on view at Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco until June 20. The exhibition presents works from several series that, according to the … Read More
  
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• First Edition of ‘The Hobbit’ Sells for Record Price at Sotheby’s London

  04-06-2015 18:10 via artnews.com
  A 1937 first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit broke a new auction record today at Sotheby’s in London, fetching a world record price of £137,000, or about $210,500.Today’s result usurps the previous auction record for The Hobbit quite substantially; … Read More
  
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• Anish Kapoor’s Versailles 'vagina' causes controversy in France

  04-06-2015 17:32
  
  Artist behind Paris’s biggest cultural event of the year has described Dirty Corner as ‘the vagina of the queen’ taking powerFirst Paul McCarthy’s towering “butt-plug” sculpture in Paris was vandalised amid protests by conservative groups; now the celebrated artist Anish Kapoor’s giant “vagina” at the Palace of Versailles is causing handwringing debate in France before it even opens to the public.
  Kapoor is the latest in a line of high-profile modern artists invited to install
  
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• The Brooklyn Museum’s Dynamic New Director Has Big Plans

  04-06-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As visionary, ambitious, and successful as Anne Pasternak’s programming has been at Creative Time, it’s a leap, to say the least, for her to assume leadership of the encyclopedic Brooklyn Museum, which has a staff of more than three hundred and fifty and resides in a five-story McKim, Mead & White building, whose oldest bits […]
  
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• Previously unseen painting of the woman who broke Lucian Freud's heart

  04-06-2015 17:16
  
  An exhibition in tribute to the second wife of Lucian Freud, Caroline Blackwood, the only woman believed to have broken the lothario artist's heart, will include a portrait never exhibited in this country dating from the early days of their relationship.
  
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• Iraq’s National Museum Reopened In February. It’s Struggling

  04-06-2015 16:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Three months later, however, and the museum is struggling to attract visitors. Some Baghdad residents insist they aren’t aware of its existence, despite a much publicized ceremony to mark the occasion, while others have stayed away because of a recent uptick in terrorist attacks—one of which struck a nearby café—that has persuaded many to cut […]
  
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• This Just In: Arts Criticism Isn’t Dead

  04-06-2015 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Digital-age publishers are obsessed with the idea of community; of building it and/or finding it and/or representing it. There is no such thing as “community,” at least as far as it relates to how people consistently or predictably respond to the things you put in front of them. Therefore, don’t take any “community” for granted. […]
  
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• Klimt painting with sad history to be auctioned at Sotherby's

  04-06-2015 15:57
  
  Proceeds from sale of portrait of Gertrud Loew will be shared between descendants of artist and subjectA shimmering portrait by Gustav Klimt of his doctor’s teenage daughter is to be auctioned in London after the resolution of a dispute over its ownership between the descendants of the artist and the subject.The two sides have agreed to divide the proceeds from the sale of the painting, which is estimated to be worth up to £18m, though the exact terms of the settlement remain confidentia
  
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• Gustav Klimt painting with sad history to be auctioned at Sotherby's

  04-06-2015 15:57
  
  Proceeds from sale of Portrait of Gertrud Loew will be shared between descendants of artist and subjectA shimmering portrait by Gustav Klimt of his doctor’s teenage daughter is to be auctioned in London after the resolution of a dispute over its ownership between the descendants of the artist and the subject.The two sides have agreed to divide the proceeds from the sale of the painting, which is estimated to be worth up to £18m, though the exact terms of the settlement remain confidentia
  
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• Morning Links: YBA Edition

  04-06-2015 15:43 via artnews.com
  Due to public objection, the Frick Collection will not be renovating. [The New York Times]A former assistant of artist Dale Chihuly’s stole over $3 million in glass works from a warehouse in Tacoma, Washington over a year ago. The theft … Read More
  
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• The Songs We Listen To Have Been Defined By Technology. Now Streaming Is Changing Them Again

  04-06-2015 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Song length was affected by the amount a wax roll could hold. Song intros were a certain length so DJs could give call-out letters, traffic and weather. Song length has been a determining factor in radio airplay (too long = no play). The LP limited the amount of material that could be released; the CD […]
  
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• The New Whitney: “A Giddy, Irrational Space For Spectacle”

  04-06-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is said that museums have gone from “being about something” to “being for somebody,” racing to shed their old skins and remaking themselves in our image. So all museums must now become revisions, articulated interventions and reinterpretations of their former selves and their place in the cultural world—a compulsion now embraced by the new […]
  
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• Analysis Of Major Book Awards Shows Novels From Female Perspective Less Likely To Win

  04-06-2015 14:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After analysing the winning novels of six literary awards from the past 15 years, the British-American novelist Nicola Griffith concluded that books written by men about men or boys were far more successful than those written by either sex and offering the point of view of women or girls.”
  
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• Frick Museum Abandons Controversial Expansion Plan

  04-06-2015 14:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It just became clear to us that it wasn’t going to work,” said a museum official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the board had not yet made the decision final with a vote.
  
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• David Byrne: In A World Swimming In Choice – Algorithms Or Curation?

  04-06-2015 14:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Our past choices in all areas can be analysed to predict future choices. Our taste in music, movies, books, news articles and clothes can be analysed – but also our sexual proclivities, political alliances and moral decisions. Those can be deduced and used to make recommendations. Everything we think we are, it seems, can be […]
  
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• Banksy graffiti Silent Majority painted onto Glastonbury truck sells for £450k

  04-06-2015 14:37
  
  An early piece of street art by Banksy painted during Glastonbury festival in 1998 has sold for £450,000 at auction.
  
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• Music Critic Gets Fed Up, Snatches Cell Phone From Hand Of Oblivious Audience Member

  04-06-2015 10:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Patrick Stearns: “And just because the [Vienna] public is among the most cultured on the planet doesn’t mean the cellphones are under control. Despite a preconcert warning announcement, one woman pulled out her phone just as Lisa Batiashvili had begun the quiet, slow-burning opening movement of Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Only eight rows […]
  
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• New Twists In Battle To Revive New York City Opera

  04-06-2015 10:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Two bidders with competing proposals to buy the failed opera company’s name and intellectual property in hopes of reviving it are now in talks to try to resolve their differences. The opera’s board is also weighing a third option in a light of a bequest that could be worth millions of dollars. Instead of selling […]
  
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• Frick Collection Abandons Controversial Expansion Plan

  04-06-2015 10:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Facing a groundswell of opposition to a proposed renovation that would have eliminated a gated garden to make way for a six-story addition, the [Fifth Avenue] museum – long admired for its intimate scale – has decided to abandon those plans and start over from scratch.”
  
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• ISIS, Al-Qaeda, And Classical Arabic Poetry (They Write A Lot Of it)

  04-06-2015 10:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Unlike the videos of beheadings and burnings, which are made primarily for foreign consumption, poetry provides a window onto the movement talking to itself. It is in verse that militants most clearly articulate the fantasy life of jihad.”
  
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• The ‘Casting Couch’ Is Still A Problem – And It Seems To Be Getting Worse

  04-06-2015 10:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The exploitation of actresses – and actors – is not confined to Hollywood. Equity, the UK actors’ union, is receiving ever more complaints and has established a working party to investigate and draw up a set of industry guidelines.”
  
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• The Poet On His Island: The Final Interview With 2011 Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer

  04-06-2015 10:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The stroke Tranströmer suffered in 1990 paralyzed him on one side, stealing most of his speech. … Over the afternoon I ask questions that Monica translates into Swedish, and then he responds, to which she seeks greater clarification, and on it goes. In between, Tranströmer steers her questions and extrapolations with his face, his few […]
  
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• Surfer Sean Yoro's eerie waterside murals – in pictures

  04-06-2015 10:05
  O’ahu-born Sean Yoro is an artist who likes to ‘paints things on things’. The surfing enthusiast’s large hyperrealistic murals of women partially submerged in water are made with traditional oil paint, and each image can take up to four days to complete. Photographs by Aaron ASee more of Sean’s work at Hula Continue reading...
  
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• Book ahead, Australia: Supersense, Melbourne animation, Kakadu Man

  04-06-2015 08:59
  
  In our weekly tout of the hottest shows just announced, book now to see the festival of the ecstatic, the best of animation and refugee arts and cultureMickey Mouse, begone. This rapidly expanding festival celebrates the best current and retrospective animation films from around the world, along with hosting workshops and talks. While the Australian showcase selection is always popular, there’s also a student festival selection, the intriguing Late Night Bizarre, a music video program and plen
  
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• A brush with JMW Turner: museum fights to keep classic painting in Oxford

  04-06-2015 01:01
  
  Ashmolean Museum launches fundraising appeal to retain the High Street, Oxford, described as ‘the greatest painting of the city that has ever been made’Give or take a few road signs and the clumps of bicycles, the High Street in Oxford is startlingly unchanged from the view, sleepy in dusty golden afternoon light, painted by JMW Turner in 1810. More than two centuries later, the photographer David Fisher managed to capture the scene in a moment of tranquility, miraculously free of buses, bin
  
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