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• ‘Colby Bird: Hope Goes with Man to the Foot of the Gallows’ at Lora Reynolds Gallery

  09-06-2015 23:58 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Colby Bird: Hope Goes with Man to the Foot of the Gallows” is on view at Lora Reynolds Gallery in Austin, Texas, through July 18, 2015. It features a variety … Read More
  
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• Why We Need Our Writers To Be Audacious

  09-06-2015 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is therefore necessary that writers everywhere should see it as their ultimate duty to preserve artfulness of language by couching audacious prose. Our prose should be the Noah’s ark that preserves language in a world that is being apocalyptically flooded with trite and weightless words.”
  
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• Mike Kelley Foundation Announces Artist-Grant Program

  09-06-2015 21:34 via artnews.com
  The Mike Kelley Foundation announced today that it is accepting applications for its “first formal funding initiative,” the 2016 Artist Project Grants. The foundation plans to announce the first grants, totaling “around $250,000,” according to a release, in March 2016 … Read More
  
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• The Great Understanding: Solving The Universal Translation Puzzle

  09-06-2015 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Human translators, today, have virtually nothing to do with the work being done in machine translation. A majority of the leading figures in machine translation have little to no background in linguistics, much less in foreign languages or literatures. Instead, virtually all of them are computer scientists. Their relationship with language is mediated via arm’s-length […]
  
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• Tony TV Ratings Slip Again

  09-06-2015 21:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The ratings for the live ceremony hosted by Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth are close to the all-time low for the Tonys, which was 6 million in 2012. Final numbers will be issued Tuesday. Among viewers ages 18 to 49, the demographic preferred by advertisers, the telecast earned a .9 rating.”
  
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• Are We Tuning Our Musical Instruments Wrong? (At The Risk Of Being Inflammatory, Blame The Nazis)

  09-06-2015 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Musicians don’t agree on much, but they tend to concur that the note A in the middle of the treble staff should be tuned to 440 Hz. The International Standards Organization even issued guidelines to this effect back in the ’50s. But the conspiracy theorists will tell you that this pernicious tuning was promoted by […]
  
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• The Tonys Seem To Be Afraid Of Its Own History (Fear Over Ratings?)

  09-06-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Recognizing history is something the Tonys, in recent years, have become not just indifferent to but openly fearful about. The thinking is all terror-based: Ratings have fallen from decades past; the telecast skews old; young people must be entertained at all costs.”
  
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• TV Execs Talk About The Difficulties Of Reaching And Keeping Audiences

  09-06-2015 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If you make a show for a certain audience, you want to make sure you get that audience,” he says, going on to explain that this is pointedly different from the old model of trying to pull in as many viewers as possible.
  
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• USC’s MFA Class Quit Their School. The Reasons They Quit Are Present At Arts Schools Across America

  09-06-2015 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In fine art, innovation means pushing oneself beyond aesthetic tropes and posing what are often extremely uncomfortable questions. It has nothing to do with innovating the way corporations can use metrics and data to monetize the social behaviors of everyday people. Sure, there are plenty of artists who are cash-hungry, capitalist pigs. But…”
  
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• Curiator Launches First For-Sale Digital Exhibition

  09-06-2015 19:03 via artnews.com
  The online art site Curiator has introduced its first art sale, a digital exhibition titled “Scroll Down Hang Up,” which features work by five emerging artists: Yung Jake, Michael Assif, Yamini Nayar, Tom Holmes, and T. Kelly Mason. It is curated by New … Read More
  
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• Bayreuth Music Festival 2015: Musical differences see Wagner's great-granddaughter removed from board and banned from the event

  09-06-2015 18:58
  
  An uneasy seven-year peace at Germany’s famously unruly Bayreuth Music Festival has come to a dramatic end worthy of a Wagner opera amid revelations that one of the composer’s great granddaughters had been secretly forbidden to direct the event, and banned forthwith from its premises.
  
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• Truth Based On Facts Is Losing In Our Modern Culture. It’s A Slippery Slope From Here

  09-06-2015 18:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is sad that the modern attack on truth started in the academy — in the humanities, where the stakes may have initially seemed low in holding that there are multiple ways to read a text or that one cannot understand a book without taking account of the political beliefs of its author. That disrespect, […]
  
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• Why Do Elite Arts Organization Pay Their CEO’s So Much?

  09-06-2015 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The art museum director pool of qualified leaders is very small and the demand very high. This fact causes museum directors to be among the highest compensated among nonprofit professionals (higher than college presidents, theater managing directors, social service executives, etc.). And boards are eager to hold onto their director, by offering deferred compensation and […]
  
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• Study: Turns Out There’s Big Correlation Between Education And Musical Taste

  09-06-2015 18:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Of all the highbrow tastes, all but jazz are disliked by lower class people, and of the lowbrow tastes, country, easy listening, and golden oldies are concurrently disliked by higher class people.”
  
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• Lucian Freud's teenage love letters reveal his complex sexuality

  09-06-2015 18:04
  
  The media is in a tizzy over news that Freud had a gay relationship with the poet Stephen Spender. But look closely at his paintings, and you can see the artist’s lifelong passion was for the human body – male or female Lucian Freud had a gay relationship with the poet Stephen Spender, it appears from youthful love letters that are going under the hammer at Sotheby’s. If you base your views of artists on gossip and news snippets this may seem surprising. Since Freud’s death in 2011 more
  
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• Tom Finkelpearl: ‘We Have to Figure Out Together How New York City Doesn’t Lose the Art World’

  09-06-2015 18:01 via artnews.com
  Last night, the American section of the International Association of Art Critics—or AICA (“EYE-cah”), as its styled—held its annual awards dinner, at Izhar Patkin’s sprawling studio in the East Village. Quite a few artists and curators were on hand to … Read More
  
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• Rhizome and New Museum Release Online Doc of Weiwei-Appelbaum Collaboration

  09-06-2015 17:49 via artnews.com
  Today, Rhizome and the New Museum jointly released the online premiere of The Art of Dissent–a new film by Laura Poitra documenting a 72-hour collaboration in Beijing between Ai Weiwei and WikiLeaks/Tor Project activist Jacob Applebaum–as part of the New … Read More
  
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• Piotr Piotrowski obituary

  09-06-2015 17:38
  
  My friend and colleague Piotr Piotrowski, who has died aged 53 after suffering from leukaemia, was a leading Polish art historian and scholar of 20th-century art. His many provocative texts, including his most recent books In the Shadow of Yalta; Art and Avant-garde in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989 (2009), and Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe (2012), made modern art in east central Europe the subject of international research.Piotr was also a model engaged intellectual, who not only resist
  
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• Recalling The Impact Of America’s Longest-Serving Theatre Director

  09-06-2015 17:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Actor, stage director, set designer, architect, coach, mentor, educator, community-builder, inspirational visionary, teller of amazing tales and the longest-serving continuous executive producer/director of a professional theatre in the United States. Jac Alder oversaw at least 378 main stage shows during his 54-year tenure.”
  
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• Athletes And Singers Have Coaches. Do You?

  09-06-2015 16:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The concept of a coach is slippery. Coaches are not teachers, but they teach. They’re not your boss—in professional tennis, golf, and skating, the athlete hires and fires the coach—but they can be bossy. They don’t even have to be good at the sport. The famous Olympic gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi couldn’t do a split […]
  
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• This Year’s Tonys Suggest A New Maturity Has Taken Over Broadway

  09-06-2015 15:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a year of record Broadway grosses ($1.36 billion), it’s heartening to see commercial imperatives take a back seat. But then perhaps Broadway is beginning to recognize how reliant it is on nonprofit theater in the U.S. and nationally subsidized theater in Britain.”
  
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• Morning Links: Artenol Edition

  09-06-2015 15:43 via artnews.com
  The painting Saul and David has been reattributed to Rembrandt. It was thought to be his work until 1969, when it was dismissed as the work of a follower. [The Art Newspaper]The Chrysler Museum of Art’s chief curator, Jeff Harrison, … Read More
  
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• Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook at SculptureCenter and Tyler Rollins Fine Art

  09-06-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• William Pope.L at Museum of Contemporary Art

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• Betty Parsons at David Findlay Jr.

  09-06-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  She is most famous for her New York gallery that—from the 1940s through the ’70s—showcased the Abstract Expressionists, but Betty Parsons (1900–1982) was also a painter and sculptor. This appealingly intimate show featured 19 of her works, among them painted-driftwood … Read More
  
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• Hito Steyerl at Artists Space Exhibitions & Artists Space Books and Talks

  09-06-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• Yuken Teruya at Josée Bienvenu

  09-06-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• “6 Artists 6 Projects” at Israel Museum

  09-06-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• “Adventures of the Black Square” at Whitechapel

  09-06-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• Nancy Graves at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

  09-06-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• “Royals and Regalia” & “My Rock Stars” at Newark Museum

  09-06-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• Wang Gongxin at OCAT

  09-06-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• True Confessions of a Justified Art Dealer Part Six: The Metaphor Delivered

  09-06-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  In the summer of 2009, in the middle of a global recession, I opened a show at Rental, my gallery on New York’s Lower East Side, called “Don’t Panic I’m Selling My Collection.” As it turned out, the recession would … Read More
  
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• Falling Down A Rabbit Hole? Uh-Oh. We’re Not In Kansas Anymore

  09-06-2015 15:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “These days when we say that we fell down the rabbit hole, we seldom mean that we wound up somewhere psychedelically strange. We mean that we got interested in something to the point of distraction—usually by accident, and usually to a degree that the subject in question might not seem to merit.”
  
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• Ice and fire and felt tip pens: Game of Thrones colouring book coming soon

  09-06-2015 12:46
  
  George RR Martin is overseeing illustrations for an official book of 45 ‘iconic images’ from his fantasy series for adults to colour inIf intricate images of flowers and seascapes aren’t the kind of thing you’re looking for in an adult colouring book, then fear not: George RR Martin is currently overseeing publication of a Game of Thrones book to exercise your drawing muscles.American publisher Bantam announced yesterday that George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones Coloring Book would be pu
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner And The Duggars Aren’t Distractions From ‘Real News’, They ARE The Real News

  09-06-2015 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Andrew O’Hehir: “When you observe the intense and unfeigned public response to those stories, and the symbolic media warfare they provoke, it becomes not just meaningless but dangerous to insist that such things are inherently trivial, or serve only to distract the citizenry from Serious Issues and Real News.”
  
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• How Big Is The Tony Effect? ‘Fun Home’ Quadruples Sales

  09-06-2015 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Tony Award for best new musical … is likely to be a major turning point, allowing the production to reach new markets, and new audiences, that might have been initially put off by its searing exploration of sexuality and suicide.”
  
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• How Big Is The No-Tonys Effect? ‘The Visit’ Closes This Weekend

  09-06-2015 10:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The show, which began previews on March 26 and opened April 23, has been a box office disappointment but a passion project for its producers and investors, who worked for more than a decade to bring it to Broadway.”
  
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• Why Would A Museum With A $1 Billion Endowment Cut Staff Health-Care Benefits? Inside The Ongoing MoMA Labor Dispute

  09-06-2015 10:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Management is saying that health-care costs are going up in the double digits. Management also said something really crazy; they told us, ‘You really like that health care,’ like, you use it, like, are we supposed to not use it? And they want us to share the burden; however MoMA’s endowment topped a billion dollars […]
  
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• Actor Richard Johnson, 87

  09-06-2015 10:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[He] was an MGM contract star and an associate artist at the Royal Shakespeare Company from its inception in 1960. In a career of astonishing range and variety, he was a handsome leading man … an action hero in wartime movies, a character actor, a producer, writer, lecturer and hotelier. He also turned down the […]
  
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• Is Costa Rica’s Most Beloved Children’s Book A Racist Caricature?

  09-06-2015 10:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The book has long been compulsory reading in the Central American nation’s schools and has even given its name to various businesses, including the tourism website cocori.com. But now it is coming under scrutiny as never before. Members of Costa Rica’s black community – about 8 percent of the 4.9 million population – increasingly view […]
  
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• ‘A Cross Between The New Criterion And Mad Magazine': Half Of Komar And Melamid Launches New Art Mag

  09-06-2015 10:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As the artist-provocateur Alexander Melamid sees it, modern art is deathly ill, but he thinks he has the cure. It is Artenol, his new quarterly magazine, described on its website as ‘a purgative for an ailing art world, a palliative for afflicted aesthetes.'”
  
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• Are Machines Becoming More Like Us, Or Are We Becoming More Like Them?

  09-06-2015 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As machines become more humanlike, aren’t we humans meeting them halfway? Are computers not simply an extension of our brains? Our inventions may better resemble humans, but we are becoming more machine-like in the process. Are we no longer a natural species, or are we simply a part of nature that has evolved to become […]
  
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• The Literary Crowdfunding Boom

  09-06-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Authors, publishers and literary journals are all finding new ways of connecting directly to their readers – and their wallets – on online platforms such as Kickstarter. Marta Bausells examines the books industry’s new wave of social financing and picks 10 of the best literary crowdfunding projects.”
  
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• What’s Ángel Corella Going To Do With Pennsylvania Ballet? Here’s What

  09-06-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If you want to know what next year will look like, he said, look no further than this week’s program … New works from highly sought-after choreographers are ‘all going to define the future of the company and what kind of rep we will do,’ he says.”
  
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• Louise Bourgeois Peels A Tangerine

  09-06-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For ‘peeling’ a tangerine isn’t the lesson at hand. ‘You have to understand that in a tangerine there are two important points,’ she says. These points guide the human figure that she proceeds to draw on the tangerine, and that brings to mind some of her drawings of bald, large-breasted figures.”
  
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• Jerry Saltz Says This Artist Is ‘Like A Badger Of Painting’

  09-06-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Albert] Oehlen is like a badger of painting, a cross between a weasel and a small bear, fearlessly scouring painting’s possibilities, implications, and metaprograms, scavenging for sweet spots, weaknesses, ways to decode, remap, and break down the medium … I love his work, but I am not even sure that I actually like it.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.08.15

  09-06-2015 07:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cedar Lake’s Last Stand AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2015-06-08 Honey AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-06-08 Monday Recommendation: Andy Brown AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-06-08 More Andy Brown AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-06-08 [ssba_hide]
  
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• Want to relax? Listen to Verdi, scientists say

  09-06-2015 05:45
  
  If you want to relax and feel calm then the scientific tip is to listen to the music of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, which is more likely to lower blood pressure than pop, rock or jazz.
  
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