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• Here and Now: Philippe Parreno’s ‘H{N)YPN(Y}OSIS’ Takes Over the Park Avenue Armory

  10-06-2015 23:43 via artnews.com
  Philippe Parreno’s H {N)Y P N(Y} OSIS (pronounced “hypnosis,” just to confuse us all) is bewildering. Staged in the Park Avenue Armory’s massive drill hall, it’s an installation that involves film, sculpture, music, and performance. It takes at least two … Read More
  
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• Giant memorial will honour thousands of workers who perished at Ravenscraig steel mill

  10-06-2015 22:00
  
  As an industrial landscape, it was unparalleled – the biggest hot-strip steel mill in Europe; a living, breathing Dante's Inferno. And for the thousands who lost their lives in the British Steel industry over the last century, it became their Great War.
  
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• Study: Admittance To UK Performing Arts Conservatories Favors The Rich

  10-06-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Young people aged 18 from the most advantaged fifth of the UK were 6.2 times more likely to be accepted through UCAS Conservatoires by the time they reach 19 than those from the most disadvantaged areas.
  
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• Ratmansky Strips The Varnish Off “Sleeping Beauty”

  10-06-2015 19:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the twentieth century there was a strong anti-narrative trend in some quarters of the ballet world: storytelling was seen as corny. Consequently, a great deal of the mime, or hand-talk, in the nineteenth-century ballets was dropped. According to Alexei Ratmansky, this was definitely the case with “The Sleeping Beauty.” In the movement score he […]
  
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• Reena Spaulings Names New Director

  10-06-2015 19:54 via artnews.com
  Reena Spaulings Fine Art, the Lower East Side gallery, has appointed Christopher Schwartz as its new director.Named for the main character in an eponymous novel collectively authored by the Bernadette Corporation, Reena Spaulings works with artists like Merlin Carpenter, Seth Price, Juliana Huxtable, … Read More
  
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• ‘Erik Frydenborg: Nebula Winners’ at Andrew Rafacz Gallery

  10-06-2015 19:34 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Erik Frydenborg: Nebula Winners” is currently on view at Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago until June 13. The exhibition features a mix of new hybrid objects with a series … Read More
  
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• ‘Eric Frydenborg: Nebula Winners’ at Andrew Rafacz Gallery

  10-06-2015 19:34 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Erik Frydenborg: Nebula Winners” is currently on view at Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago until June 13. The exhibition features a mix of new hybrid objects with a series … Read More
  
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• CBC Fires TV Host Over Secret Art Deals

  10-06-2015 18:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Star found Solomon had been brokering the sale of paintings and masks owned by a flamboyant Toronto-area art collector to rich and famous buyers. Solomon, in at least one case, took commissions in excess of $300,000 for several pieces of art and did not disclose to the buyer that he was being paid fees […]
  
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• In The Year 2020: DIS Magazine Predicts The Future For e-flux’s Venice Biennale Journal

  10-06-2015 18:31 via artnews.com
  For the 26th day of e flux‘s journal for the 56th Venice Biennale, DIS magazine took a look into the near future, crowdsourcing material submitted from their extended network in an attempt to predict the styles and customs of the … Read More
  
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• Artist reveals what people would look like if faces were symmetrical – and the results aren't pretty

  10-06-2015 17:54
  
  An artist has set about photographing what people would look like if their faces were perfectly symmetrical – and found that people really don’t like the results.
  
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• Artist reveals what people look like if faces were symmetrical – and the results aren't pretty

  10-06-2015 17:54
  
  An artist has set about photographing what people would look like if their faces were perfectly symmetrical – and found that people really don’t like the results.
  
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• Report: Music Streaming Is Diminishing Our Engagement With Music (And Musicians)

  10-06-2015 17:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Total listening volumes are up but the depth of engagement with the majority of those listeners is low. So choice abundance is leading to casual fan relationships. This wide rather than deep approach is great value for music fans and for labels and publishers it translates into revenue diversified across their rosters, often with strong […]
  
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• Researcher: Gossiping Is Good For Your Health

  10-06-2015 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The best predictor of good health was the quality of the social contact they had with others. The only thing that came close was giving up smoking. It came way above body weight, whether they were obese or not, what medication they were on or treatments they had had, whatever therapy they had had, the […]
  
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• The Alain De Botton Problem (We Don’t Like Our Philosophers To Be Entrepreneurial)

  10-06-2015 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “De Botton’s growing cultural presence, especially his recent forays into museum curation with his Art as Therapy project, has inflamed long-standing antipathy toward him from critics, both in the U.K. and in the U.S. Critics on the right attack him for diluting the purity of his sources, while those on the left accuse him of […]
  
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• Five Members of Cooper Union’s Board of Trustees Resign

  10-06-2015 17:10 via artnews.com
  Five of Cooper Union’s trustees resigned yesterday, including Mark Epstein, the school’s chairman emeritus. This is according to CSCUFCSCU (The Committee to Save Cooper Union from the Committee to Save Cooper Union), which published three of the letters of resignation … Read More
  
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• Brigitte Bardot to sue St Tropez artist for using likeness on candles and watches

  10-06-2015 17:07
  
  French screen icon claims her image is being used on unauthorised merchandise in town synonymous with 1956’s And God Created WomanBrigitte Bardot has threatened legal action against a St Tropez boutique which sells watches, towels and champagne bottles featuring images of the iconic 50s star, reports the Daily Telegraph.Bernard d’Ormale, husband of the French actor turned animal rights activist, accused the store in question of selling “BB”-branded products without proper authorisation.
  
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• Street Names – So Much More Than Labels For A Map

  10-06-2015 16:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Street names are the lyrics to accompany the symphonies that all cities perform, day-in day-out, and their integrity ought to be respected. Maybe they do have more of a function after all than to simply help people tell one street from another.”
  
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• In The Age Of Curators New Music Could Use Some Curation

  10-06-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While, historically, the curator was the person at a museum in charge of caring for that museum’s collection of artwork, this has only been a partial description of part of the profession for some time. Now, art curators are often at the forefront of enabling creative innovation and audience interaction. In the world of new […]
  
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• Poland’s Government Made A Huge Investment In New Concert Halls, Museums (So What About Audiences?)

  10-06-2015 15:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The investments have generated a remarkable audience boom. Between 2004 and 2013, the number of museum visitors rose from 17.5m to 29.0m, visitors to art galleries from 3.0m to 4.5m and audiences for theatres and concerts from 9.3m to 11.5m.”
  
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• Morning Links: Two World Trade Center Edition

  10-06-2015 15:40 via artnews.com
  The National Academy Museum has named Dr. Maura Reilly as its new chief curator. [Artforum]Paris’s Pont des Arts bridge has replaced its famous collection of “love locks” with “love graffiti.” [ABC News]San Francisco’s De Young Museum is organizing a 2016 show … Read More
  
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• VP for Marketing position available at the St. Louis Symphony

  10-06-2015 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Founded in 1880, the STL Symphony is recognized internationally as an ensemble of the highest caliber, performing a broad musical repertoire with skill and spirit. The St. Louis Symphony continues to build upon its reputation for musical excellence.
  
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• Edgar Degas ballerina takes centre stage at Sotheby's impressionist auction

  10-06-2015 13:25
  
  One of the great sculptures of the modern age, Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans depicts a defiant 14-year-old dancer – and comes with a £10m-£15m estimate In its day, audiences were astounded and shocked by the hyper-realism of Edgar Degas’s sculpture of a defiant 14-year-old girl ballet dancing.More than a century later and Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans is one of the most celebrated sculptures of the modern age – and it will again be in the spotlight as one of the highlights of Sotheby
  
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• James Conlon Is Next Chief Conductor Of Italy’s Top Radio Orchestra

  10-06-2015 10:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The American conductor, currently music director of Los Angeles Opera, has been named the new principal conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Turin, beginning in 2016.
  
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• First It Was A Rembrandt, Then It Wasn’t. Now It’s A Rembrandt Again

  10-06-2015 10:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The painting was sliced down the middle and straight through its center in the 19th century, probably to be sold as two Rembrandt portraits. At some point in the next 40 years, it was sutured back together with pieces of an entirely different canvas, and layered with paint to cover up its scars.”
  
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• Meet The New U.S. Poet Laureate, The First Hispanic In The Post

  10-06-2015 10:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As a child, Juan Felipe Herrera learned to love poetry by singing about the Mexican Revolution with his mother, a migrant farmworker in California. Inspired by her spirit, he has spent his life crossing borders, erasing boundaries and expanding the American chorus.”
  
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• A Poet Laureate Whose Work Is Meant To Be Said Out Loud

  10-06-2015 10:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dwight Garner: “[Juan Felipe Herrera’s appointment] makes you wish the job still entailed writing ceremonial verse, commissioned in bygone days for events like the openings of bridges or the deaths of fine old soldiers. Mr. Herrera is a poet you’d like to hear declaim from the National Mall.”
  
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• It’s Another Simple, Abstract, Perfectly Shaped Anish Kapoor Sculpture – Why Is All France Arguing About It?

  10-06-2015 10:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Because Kapoor is cheerfully describing it – Dirty Corner – as “the vagina of the queen” taking power, and it’s installed at Versailles.
  
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• ‘Bibliotherapy’ – Can Reading A Book Prescription Really Make You More Mentally Healthy?

  10-06-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Our correspondent relates a session with a bibliotherapist at Alain de Botton’s School of Life (it worked) – and explains that the practice (if not the term) is very old indeed.
  
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• Hermann Zapf, 96, Designer Whose Fonts You See Everywhere

  10-06-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the world of type design – an exacting, arcane craft that is underappreciated for its impact on how people communicate and receive communication – Mr. Zapf was a giant.” Among the more than 200 typefaces he created (in several alphabets) are Palatino, Optima, Melior, and the befuddling, beloved Dingbats.
  
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• What If They Gave Major Dance Awards And (Almost) Nobody Came?

  10-06-2015 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This year’s Benois de la Danse, which took place over two days at the end of May in its traditional home, the Bolshoi Theater, was particularly marked by the absence of award winners.”
  
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• Here’s Who Bought The Most Expensive Sculpture Ever Auctioned

  10-06-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Shortly after Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger distracted us all by selling for $179 million, an anonymous bidder paid $141.3 million for Giacometti’s L’homme au doigts (Pointing Man). Who was he? One of the likeliest suspects, as it happens.
  
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• The Onion’s Newest Spinoff ‘Is Producing Some Of The Best Video Art On The Internet’

  10-06-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Recently, Clickhole ventured into self-reflexive territory pioneered by Douglas Gordon in his installation 24 Hour Psycho with the maddeningly jumpy Sorry, We Slowed Down This Video Of A Hummingbird Too Much. There are even nods to Andy Warhol’s appropriations of advertising and mass-produced packaging in Clickhole videos like Don’t Believe The Hype: This Can Has […]
  
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• North Korea Releases An Instructional Dance Video

  10-06-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It shows how to perform a variety of moves for the country’s traditional mass dance events, like this one, that took place on May 1 in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.09.15

  10-06-2015 07:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Met’s Coming Rebranding: A Puzzlement AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-06-09 Eifman Ballet’s ‘Psychiatric’ Problem AJBlog: Fresh Pencil Published 2015-06-09 Alternative to Despair AJBlog: PostClassic Published 2015-06-09 Act of worship AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2015-06-09 [ssba_hide]
  
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