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• John Waters at RISD Commencement: ‘Contemporary Art’s Job Is to Wreck What Came Before’

  08-06-2015 23:29 via artnews.com
  John Waters received an honorary doctorate and spoke at the Rhode Island School of Design’s commencement late last month, and as you can probably imagine, it was filled with plenty of fine moments. “Not being around assholes should be the goal … Read More
  
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• No More Sex: Asher Penn on the End of His Online Magazine

  08-06-2015 22:19 via artnews.com
  For the past three years, each new issue of the online quarterly Sex Magazine has delivered a diverse, and often thrilling, mixture of dispatches from across the more outré sections of the cultural landscape, with in-depth interviews, essays, photos, and the … Read More
  
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• Before the Museum of Modern (F)art: On Yoko Ono’s First New York Show, in 1961

  08-06-2015 21:38 via artnews.com
  In honor of the Museum of Modern Art’s “Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971,” we turn back to Ono’s first exhibition ever, held at AG Gallery, which was run by George Maciunas and Almus Salcius, in New York, in July … Read More
  
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• 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen to have his 'Lynching Tree' artwork displayed in the UK for the first time

  08-06-2015 21:20
  
  The first exhibition celebrating British history painting will include the haunting image of a tree once used to hang slaves in the US, taken by artist and director Steve McQueen when scouting locations for his Oscar-winning film 12 Years a Slave.
  
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• ‘As Is Is’ at Altman Siegel

  08-06-2015 20:58 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “As Is Is” is on view at Altman Siegel in San Francisco through June 27, 2015. It features work by George Condo, Saul Levine, John Currin, and many more, … Read More
  
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• Hell on wheels: touring Carsten Höller's new show in a runaway bed

  08-06-2015 19:55
  
  Hayward Gallery, LondonForget armchair critics: this one was tucked up in bed to tour Carsten Höller’s new exhibition of magic mushrooms, giant dice and monster spiders. So what happened when the lights went down?It might have been the pills and it could have been the trick toothpaste. Whatever it was, I didn’t sleep. The array of flashing discs that blinked on and off across the walls all night long might have had something to do with it, or maybe the giant model of an aphid, giving birth
  
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• Steven A. Cohen Revealed as Buyer of $141.3 M. Giacometti Sculpture

  08-06-2015 19:11 via artnews.com
  Hedge fund billionaire Steven A. Cohen was the secret buyer who purchased Alberto Giacometti’s L’Homme au doigt (1947) for $141.3 million at Christie’s, Page Six reported earlier today. The six-foot-tall bronze sculpture, which now holds the record for the most … Read More
  
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• Boeing 737 jet to be buried just outside Birmingham - all in the name of art

  08-06-2015 19:02
  
  A Turner Prize-nominated artist will bury a Boeing 737 jet under derelict land outside Birmingham in a large-scale installation which requires a £250,000 grant from Arts Council England to stage.
  
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• Muslim Fiction: Not Just For Fans Of Literary Realism Anymore

  08-06-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Genre is ‘a way of exploring a rich religious tradition that looks beyond the mundane and tries to relate the spiritual to the mundane.'”
  
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• Risha Lee Joins Rubin Museum of Art as Exhibitions Curator

  08-06-2015 17:49 via artnews.com
  The Rubin Museum of Art announced today that Risha Lee has been hired as curator of exhibitions. Currently the assistant curator of South and Southeast Asian art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Lee is known for her research on … Read More
  
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• Showtime Launches Standalone Streaming App

  08-06-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With the OTT strategy, Showtime — which has nearly 24 million pay-TV subs — is looking to reach so-called cord-nevers and cord-cutters, who don’t have an interest in traditional cable or satellite plans.”
  
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• A brush with history: Tate Britain explores how art confronts the past

  08-06-2015 17:45
  
  From slave lynchings to the poll tax riots, the Tate’s Fighting History exhibition examines how art forces us to reflect on our own place in historyAt first glance it seems a rather benign, pretty photograph of a pastoral scene and out of place in a new show on British history painting. The work’s title and the artist responsible reveal more. It is called Lynching Tree and it was taken by Steve McQueen in 2013 when he was scouting locations for his film 12 Years a Slave.Previously used as a
  
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• The First Civilian Artist In Space

  08-06-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Najjar was inspired to reach space after climbing Mount Aconcagua, the world’s second-highest peak. ‘I was looking out over the whole sweeping range of the Andes, when suddenly a Swiss Air Boeing 747 from Santiago passed just over my head and moved on its way through the deep blue sky,’ Najjar writes in his photo […]
  
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• Here Are the Participants for Frieze London 2015

  08-06-2015 17:13 via artnews.com
  Art fairs, massive clusters of art-selling businesses gathered in a unified setting, all paying a lot of money to be present in this particular milieu in the hopes of recouping that investment and making a profit, are–like cancer or kidney stones–things … Read More
  
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• Closing A Tax Loophole For Amazon Accidentally Hits Self-Published Authors Hardest

  08-06-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “All fair and square? Not really. For microbusinesses faced with the job of calculating myriad tax rates, the new regime is an administrative nightmare.”
  
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• FIFA’s Bad Week Continues As Its Puff Film Flops – Seriously – In The U.S.

  08-06-2015 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Frédéric Auburtin’s film, funded by the football governing body and starring Tim Roth as Sepp Blatter, scored $607 from its 10-cinema limited run, according to the Hollywood Reporter. One cinema, the FilmBar in Phoenix, Arizona, reported one ticket sold, a site take of $9.”
  
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• Sony Confirms That Apple Is About To Debut A Music Streaming Service

  08-06-2015 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘What does Apple bring to this?’ Morris said. ‘Well, they’ve got $178 billion dollars in the bank. And they have 800 million credit cards in iTunes. … I think that will have a halo effect on the streaming business.”
  
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• The Tragedy Of The Digital Commons – And What People Are Doing About It

  08-06-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The designers of Turkopticon and its cousins draw attention to common problems, hoping to influence longer-term change on a complex issue. In time, the idea goes, requesters on Mechanical Turk might change their treatment of workers, Amazon might change its policies and software, or regulators might set new rules for digital labor. This is an […]
  
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• Virginia Symphony Loses So Much Funding, It Won’t Play At Colonial Williamsburg On The Fourth Of July

  08-06-2015 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They approached the Williamsburg City Council, which indicated it would kick in about $23,000 to pay for the orchestra. And they launched an online Kickstarter campaign to raise another $31,000 to pay for the staging, audio set-up and large video screen. But this year’s efforts weren’t successful.”
  
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• London Mayor Guarantees Public Monies For Garden Bridge

  08-06-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The London mayor had promised that no more public money would be used on the project, following a £30m injection of cash by Transport for London. But Johnson has decided that the capital’s taxpayers will guarantee the future maintenance of the bridge – a decision that could mean considerable extra funding in future years.”
  
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• 10 Contemporary Italian Filmmakers You Should Know

  08-06-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  They make films about sex, society, violence, the city, the country, gender … and so much more.
  
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• Morning Links: North Korean Art Edition

  08-06-2015 15:12 via artnews.com
  Fluxus artist Robin Page has died. [Artforum]A painting stolen from English Kills Art Gallery in Bushwick turned up in Roosevelt Island over the weekend. [Hyperallergic]Gauguin’s Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When will you Marry?) (1892) may have really sold for $300 million to … Read More
  
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• The Literary Force Who Started And Still Runs One Of The Oldest Black Publishing Houses In The U.S.

  08-06-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He writes energetically and reads voraciously, has a personal collection of ‘some 50,000 books and growing’ and cannot recall ever reading a book that he did not like. He can, however, easily and vividly remember the book that started it all.”
  
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• Tony-Winning ‘Fun Home’ Playwright Lisa Kron On Primal Desire And The American Musical

  08-06-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Anyone who makes things knows — you always go into it naive. You wouldn’t do it if you knew what was going to happen to you; you are transformed by it. In that deep imagining, in that deep imaginative identification, you lose yourself. You lose control.”
  
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• City Ballet Has Two New Principals

  08-06-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Lauren Lovette and Anthony Huxley, who had been soloists with the company, were promoted on Sunday afternoon by Peter Martins, its ballet master in chief.”
  
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• Artists have done vaginas to death – will someone please tell Anish Kapoor

  08-06-2015 13:40
  
  The sculptor has produced a brutish, gaping funnel sculpture called Dirty Corner for the Versailles gardens. Oh dear, is this how men still see women?Anish Kapoor has made another whacking great sculpture for the Versailles gardens, called Dirty Corner. And it’s meant to be Marie Antoinette’s vagina. I know the queen had her faults, but it’s a very odd vagina – a vast, brutish, metal, grubby-looking, gaping funnel into a black hole. I must say I’m a bit fed up with this sort of idea of
  
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• The Man Who Has Collected More Than 2500 Paintings From North Korea

  08-06-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. Broersen was also astounded by the quality of paintings available in the closed-off country, with brush work and moods reminiscent of the Impressionists. He was so moved by some stylized depictions of traditional Korean houses and residential laneways that he told the artist they reminded him of Vincent van Gogh.”
  
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• Britain Won’t Grant Visa To Actors From The Republic Of Georgia

  08-06-2015 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They are young, single, without dependents and have very little in their bank accounts, so cannot prove satisfactorily that they are ‘genuine’ visitors to the UK and would leave following their performances. Clearly, those who issue these visas have not peeked at the bank accounts of young British artists and seen how very little they […]
  
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• Wheels on fire: London's daredevil bike riders - in pictures

  08-06-2015 10:51
  A new generation of rebels are burning rubber through London’s industrial estates – on one wheel – sharing their stunts on social media with the hashtag BikeLife. Cian Oba-Smith, who has been photographing this dangerous phenomenon since 2013, says: “They risk their lives everyday for the thrill and freedom of riding on one wheel. To them it’s not just a passion, it’s not just a hobby, it’s a lifestyle.”Continue reading...
  
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• {Interview} Artist Audrey Marielle

  08-06-2015 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Zouch contributor A. Jarrell Hayes interviews visual artist Audrey Marielle as she prepares for the June 11th Merge Arts showcase in New York, New York. A. Jarrell Hayes: Tell us about yourself and when you began your art career. Audrey Marielle: I’ve been drawing and loving art since I was a little girl. My mother, my ... Continue ReadingThe post {Interview} Artist Audrey Marielle appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Our No-Spoiler Headline: What Won At The Tonys?

  08-06-2015 07:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The victory came at the end of Broadway’s biggest night, and suggested Tony voters were in an artistic mood this year, choosing ambitious, sophisticated productions over more conventional and commercial fare.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 06.07.15

  08-06-2015 07:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Weekend Extra: Art Ensemble Of Chicago AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-06-06 The Beautiful Complications of Simplicity AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-06-06 Reflections on Glass AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-06-05 See me, hear me (cont’d) AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-06-05 The long shadow of Doubt AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-06-05 [ssba_hide]
  
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• The Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, review: Has 'co-ordinator' Michael Craig-Martin made it a coherent show?

  08-06-2015 03:15
  
  The Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition fills a fallow summer period in the art calendar, while the social season of Wimbledon, Henley and big hats are imminent. I always visit and leave depressed from the sheer amount of art and the attempt that never works to put apples and pears along with tinned fruits together in the fruit salad, so that ultimately everything suffers. Has implementing a new strategy of making Michael Craig-Martin “co-ordinator” this year managed to make a coherent show
  
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