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• Artist finally puts a face to the name of Mrs Judas Iscariot

  11-06-2015 23:50
  
  She goes unmentioned in the Bible, but Mrs Judas Iscariot is finally getting recognition thanks to her first-ever portrait, which is the star attraction at a new exhibition of paintings set to tour cathedrals.
  
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• Pregnant With Meaning: Keith Edmier on Aphrodite, Handbags, and Al Gore

  11-06-2015 23:37 via artnews.com
  While visiting a temple dedicated to Minerva Medica in Rome a couple of years ago, the artist Keith Edmier spotted a beehive, and decided to have a closer look. “This is so stupid,” he told me recently, “but I was … Read More
  
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• Habitat: Tali Lennox

  11-06-2015 23:24 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a new weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Tali Lennox’s, near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. “Intense Classical music… and the There Will Be Blood soundtrack by Jonny Greenwood…and Beach House,” Lennox responded, when asked what she’s been … Read More
  
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• MoMA Announces Marcel Broodthaers Retrospective for 2016

  11-06-2015 22:31 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Modern Art announced today that it will host New York’s first-ever Marcel Broodthaers museum retrospective, set to open on February 14, 2016. After it closes on May 15, 2016, the show will travel to the Reina Sofia … Read More
  
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• ‘A tremendous snapshot of more than four decades of work': Getty Curator Talks Recent Acquisition of Margo Leavin Gallery Archives

  11-06-2015 21:59 via artnews.com
  Earlier this week, it was announced that Margo Leavin, owner of the eponymous L.A. gallery (1970-2013), had sold her archives to Getty Research Institute (GRI). During its reign, Margo Leavin Gallery was known as a bastion of cutting-edge contemporary art (Pop, Minimalist, … Read More
  
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• ‘A Tremendous Snapshot of More Than Four Decades of Work': Curator Glenn R. Phillips on the Getty’s Acquisition of Margo Leavin Gallery Archives

  11-06-2015 21:59 via artnews.com
  Earlier this week, it was announced that Margo Leavin, the owner of the eponymous L.A. gallery (1970-2013), had sold her archives to Getty Research Institute (GRI). During its reign, Margo Leavin Gallery was known as a bastion of cutting-edge contemporary art (Pop, … Read More
  
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• Valeria Napoleone XX to Bring Work by Female Artists to SculptureCenter, UK Museums

  11-06-2015 21:19 via artnews.com
  Collector and patron Valeria Napoleone announced today that she is launching Valeria Napoleone XX, which will bring work by female artists to museums in England and America. Begun as an effort to equalize the representation of male and female artists … Read More
  
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• TV’s “Smash” Musical Opens On Broadway (Biggest Theatre Kickstarter Ever)

  11-06-2015 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Bombshell” did arrive on Broadway this week to a rapturous reception at the 1,700-seat Minskoff Theatre — but only as a one-night charity event in which members of the original cast reunited to sing and dance their way through the songbook created by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman. Tickets to the Monday night show had […]
  
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• How Artists Are Trying To Fix Baltimore

  11-06-2015 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The spirit of rebirth reveals itself in many ways. But nobody is talking about returning the area to the tailored elegance of a century ago. Baltimore is to Washington what Bologna once was to Rome. Affordable. And uninhibited by pretensions that stifle innovation.
  
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• Dirty Looks Film Festival Returns to New York in July

  11-06-2015 19:45 via artnews.com
  Dirty Looks, the itinerant monthly film series devoted to queer cinema, will stage the third edition of its On Location festival in New York this summer, once again hosting screenings of a wide array of films in historic LGBTQ spaces … Read More
  
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• Ford Foundation Re-prioritizes – Will Make All Its Grants To Fight Inequality

  11-06-2015 19:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ford joins a growing number of foundations pouring more money into programs that fight inequality. But its plans to look at every grant to ask how it reduces inequality is a more stringent approach than other foundations have taken. That said, the foundation is taking a broad interpretation of inequality — looking not just at […]
  
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• Dallas Museum of Art Names New Board Chair, Officers, Trustees

  11-06-2015 18:52 via artnews.com
  In recent elections held by the Dallas Museum of Art’s board of trustees, Melissa Fetter was named chairman. She will succeed Margot B. Perot Fetter, who has served on the board since 2006.The nominating committee was chaired by Deedie Rose … Read More
  
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• Ben Cameron Leaves Doris Duke Foundation To Head Jerome

  11-06-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For the past 17 years Cameron, 61, lived and worked in New York City. He was program director for the arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation since 2006 and executive director of the Theatre Communications Group, a professional organization, for eight years before that.
  
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• Just How Do You Dance To Jazz? (Once It was Common)

  11-06-2015 18:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Yes, the musicians have to keep an underlying dance pulse going if they want listeners to get out of their chairs and shake their hips. But the venue also has to provide an open space where that can happen without blocking the view of others. And the audience has to be able to identify the […]
  
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• Ornette Coleman’s Jackson Pollock Connection

  11-06-2015 18:31 via artnews.com
  The pioneering jazz saxophone player Ornette Coleman passed away today at the age of 85. For Coleman’s genre-establishing 1960 LP Free Jazz, he used as the cover image a reproduction of White Light by Jackson Pollock—an artist whose untethered abstraction … Read More
  
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• Actor Christopher Lee, 93

  11-06-2015 18:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. Lee was 35 when his breakthrough film, Terence Fisher’s British horror movie “The Curse of Frankenstein,” was released in 1957. He played the creature. But it was a year later, when he played the title role in Fisher’s “Dracula,” that his cinematic identity became forever associated with Bram Stoker’s noble, ravenous vampire, who in […]
  
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• Leading your brain on a crazy pirouette: Bridget Riley at the De La Warr Pavilion

  11-06-2015 18:15
  
  A Bexhill-on-Sea retrospective of mind-bending curve paintings shows why Riley is Britain’s most significant modern artistBridget Riley is the most important British painter of the modern age. Bacon? Freud? Hockney? None of those famous men took hold of the language of painting and remade it as she has. Most of the artists we are nationally proud of are sideshow performers who dallied with figuration long after it was blown apart by Jackson Pollock. Abstraction is the true destiny of modern pa
  
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• Leading your brain into a crazy pirouette: Bridget Riley at the De La Warr Pavilion

  11-06-2015 18:15
  
  A Bexhill-on-Sea retrospective of mind-bending curve paintings shows why Riley is Britain’s most significant modern artistBridget Riley is the most important British painter of the modern age. Bacon? Freud? Hockney? None of those famous men took hold of the language of painting and remade it as she has. Most of the artists we are nationally proud of are sideshow performers who dallied with figuration long after it was blown apart by Jackson Pollock. Abstraction is the true destiny of modern pa
  
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• Jazz Great Ornette Coleman, 85

  11-06-2015 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. Coleman widened the options in jazz and helped change its course. Partly through his example in the late 1950s and early ’60s, jazz became less beholden to the rules of harmony and rhythm, and gained more distance from the American songbook repertoire. His own music, then and later, became a new form of highly […]
  
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• Kohn Gallery Now Represents the Estate of John Altoon

  11-06-2015 18:02 via artnews.com
  The estate of John Altoon, a core member of the Los Angeles art scene of the late 1950s and ’60s, is now represented by Los Angeles’s Kohn Gallery. Altoon showed at the influential Ferus Gallery, which ran from 1957 to … Read More
  
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• Gender Breakdown Of Designers In American Regional Theatres (In One Chart)

  11-06-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As a person of color, I strongly believe in self-identification. Unfortunately, I couldn’t figure out how to gather enough self-identified demographic information to be statistically representative. So this report looks only at gender, which I generally figured out from artist bios.
  
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• ‘Man Ray: Human Equations’ at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

  11-06-2015 17:58 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Man Ray: Human Equations” opens today and is on view until September 20 at NY Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. The exhibition features around 130 works from the prolific artist, including photographs, … Read More
  
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• Maybe We’re Supposed To Hate Poetry? (But That Might Just Be The Point)

  11-06-2015 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What if we dislike or despise or hate poems because they are – every single one of them – failures? The poet and critic Allen Grossman tells a story (there are many versions of the story) that goes like this: you’re moved to write a poem because of some transcendent impulse to get beyond the […]
  
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• Time To Take Another Look At Nazi Artists?

  11-06-2015 16:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Few regimes in history devoted as much thought to the arts as the Third Reich. With a failed painter at the helm and several other ministers who felt they knew what was what, the Third Reich encouraged conformist painters, offering them huge prizes and incentives, and discouraged any who took liberties with their canon. During […]
  
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• Cooper Union President And Five Trustees Quit In Bitter Dispute

  11-06-2015 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Recent controversial decisions — including the board’s announcement last year that Cooper Union would abandon its tuition-free model — and the dismissal of Jamshred Bharucha, who is deeply unpopular with many student and alumni groups and the New York State attorney general, have led to contention and unrest at the New York City college, especially […]
  
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• How The Detroit Symphony Is Building On A Stream-Everything Strategy

  11-06-2015 15:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I think the digital world makes us hungrier for the real world. The digital strategy has been very important in communicating the health of our organization, which is important to people making decisions to attend and to invest.”
  
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• The Queen of Spades, Coliseum, London, review: David Alden's brilliant new production of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece

  11-06-2015 15:48
  
  Another hit from ENO: David Alden’s production of Tchaikovsky’s enigmatic masterpiece has a sure touch and extreme boldness of conception.
  
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• The Queen of Spades, Coliseum, London, review: David Alden's brilliant new production of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece

  11-06-2015 15:48
  
  Another hit from ENO: David Alden’s production of Tchaikovsky’s enigmatic masterpiece has a sure touch and extreme boldness of conception.
  
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• How Do You Build A Workable Streaming Business For Classical Music? (A Primer)

  11-06-2015 15:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Medici.tv is in a comfortable place in the online universe: on the one hand, classical music is a niche interest unlikely to attract crushing competition from the giants such as Google and Apple, on the other, its audience is passionate, loyal, and affluent.”
  
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• Intermezzo, Garsington Opera, Wormsley, Bucks: Serenely accomplished

  11-06-2015 15:42
  
  Richard Strauss’s Intermezzo may be at one level about a marital tiff, while at another – with words and music written by one of the partners – being a queasy exercise in narcissism. But it’s also a probingly intimate portrait of a marriage, and this is the spirit in which director Bruno Ravella and his cast have approached it.
  
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• Retrospective: The Unveiling of the Sistine Chapel Restoration

  11-06-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  And other excerpts from our coverage 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Aboriginal Art Edition

  11-06-2015 15:25 via artnews.com
  “MoMA’s union members are using Instagram to emphasize the human dimension of the often murky business of contract bargaining.” [Hyperallergic]An Aboriginal art collection sold for over $2 million in a historic Sotheby’s auction in London. [ABC News Australia]The British Museum has reopened the Waddesdon … Read More
  
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• Former Orchestra Music Director Sentenced To Nine Years

  11-06-2015 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When Stephen Jay Carlton, director of the Peninsula Symphony in California was hired in 2009 “at an annual salary of $75,000 plus full medical benefits, the balance sheet for the Symphony at the fiscal year ending June 2009 showed about $500,000 in endowment funds with close to $10,000 in the checking account. On Sept. 20, […]
  
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• Former Orchestra Exec Director Sentenced To Nine Years

  11-06-2015 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When Stephen Jay Carlton, director of the Peninsula Symphony in California was hired in 2009 “at an annual salary of $75,000 plus full medical benefits, the balance sheet for the Symphony at the fiscal year ending June 2009 showed about $500,000 in endowment funds with close to $10,000 in the checking account. On Sept. 20, […]
  
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• Why this giant statue of Vladimir has sparked a public outcry in Moscow

  11-06-2015 13:09
  
  Tens of thousands of Muscovites have signed a petition against the planned location of a 24-metre-tall monument to Vladimir the Great. And that’s only the beginning of the argument …Rising 24 metres from the ground, the planned monument to Vladimir the Great will have a superlative view over all of Moscow. The problem for many Muscovites, however, is that much of the Russian capital will also have a compulsory view of Vladimir the Great.The statue commemorating the first Christian ruler of t
  
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• Why Moscow’s planned giant Vladimir statue has sparked public outcry

  11-06-2015 13:09
  
  Tens of thousands of Muscovites have signed a petition against the planned location of a 24-metre-tall monument to Vladimir the Great. And that’s only the beginning of the argument …Rising 24 metres from the ground, the planned monument to Vladimir the Great will have a superlative view over all of Moscow. The problem for many Muscovites, however, is that much of the Russian capital will also have a compulsory view of Vladimir the Great.The statue commemorating the first Christian ruler of t
  
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• Why Moscow’s planned giant Vladimir statue has sparked a public outcry

  11-06-2015 13:09
  
  Tens of thousands of Muscovites have signed a petition against the planned location of a 24-metre-tall monument to Vladimir the Great. And that’s only the beginning of the argument …Rising 24 metres from the ground, the planned monument to Vladimir the Great will have a superlative view over all of Moscow. The problem for many Muscovites, however, is that much of the Russian capital will also have a compulsory view of Vladimir the Great.The statue commemorating the first Christian ruler of t
  
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• Why a giant statue of Vladimir is causing a public outcry in Moscow

  11-06-2015 13:09
  
  Tens of thousands of Muscovites have signed a petition against the planned location of a 24-metre-tall monument to Vladimir the Great. And that’s only the beginning of the argument …Rising 24 metres from the ground, the planned monument to Vladimir the Great will have a superlative view over all of Moscow. The problem for many Muscovites, however, is that much of the Russian capital will also have a compulsory view of Vladimir the Great.The statue commemorating the first Christian ruler of t
  
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• The richness and diversity of disability arts – in pictures

  11-06-2015 12:30
  From sex comedies and recycled self portraits to inclusive dance groups and ground-breaking theatre, here are some of our favourite programmes and piecesMore from the Disability arts seriesSend us your pictures of disability arts in action Continue reading...
  
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• Ludvik Vaculik, Influential Czech Writer And Dissident, Dies At 88

  11-06-2015 10:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. Vaculik was a key figure in the Czechoslovak underground publishing world in the 1970s and ’80s, helping to give voice to other dissident writers in the country who were banned by the government. He himself was censored for more than two decades, but still managed to write a series of influential articles, books and […]
  
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• Judge Rejects Claim For A Pissarro By Heirs In Nazi Art Case

  11-06-2015 10:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The ruling came after a decade-long dispute over ownership of the 1897 canvas, Saint-Honoré, Après-midi, Effet de Pluie, a Paris street scene by Pissarro, which is in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.” In 1939, the work’s owner, a Jewish woman, was forced to sell it to a Nazi art appraiser for the equivalent of $360.
  
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• Egypt’s New History Museum Isn’t Even Open Yet, And Already Staffers Have Been Caught Stealing Objects

  11-06-2015 10:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Two curators at the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation “were arrested while replacing a pharaonic statue of (fourth dynasty) King Menkaure, discovered in Luxor’s Karnak temple, and an ancient Islamic lantern with fake ones.”
  
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• How Disney Saved Itself: Buying Other Studios

  11-06-2015 09:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On his second day on the job as chief executive, Robert Iger steeled himself for a crucial presentation to the Walt Disney Co. board of directors. … At the Oct. 2, 2005, board meeting, Iger floated an idea that would become a hallmark of his tenure. He made a risky, even audacious, proposal: What if […]
  
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• England’s Arts Funder Sees Budget Cut By £1.2 Million, Says “Oh, Thank God!”

  11-06-2015 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Upon receiving word, Arts Council England chair Peter Bazalgette tweeted that it’s “good news for arts and culture for this year at least.”
  
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• If ‘Ulysses’ Were Published Today, What Would Folks Make Of It?

  11-06-2015 09:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Charles McGrath: “By the standards of today’s dirty books, Ulysses seems pretty tame, and it’s hard to put yourself back in the mind-set of those who took such strenuous offense in the 20s.”Rivka Galchen: “I can report that in my research I did not come across a single contemporary reviewer describing the book as obscene. […]
  
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• Dancing ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ (Choreographer Wayne McGregor Is Not Afraid Of Virginia Woolf)

  11-06-2015 09:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “His new ballet, Woolf Works, which is derived from, or based on – the verbs being precisely the problem – three novels by Virginia Woolf, recently premiered at Covent Garden in London. It is a brilliant, uneven, tender piece – and it offers one way of thinking about [a] constant conundrum for the art of […]
  
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• That Weird Early 20th-Century Announcer-Voice Accent: Where It Came From And Why It Went Away

  11-06-2015 09:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  James Fallows asked his readers “why the stentorian, phony-British Announcer Voice that dominated newsreel narration, stage and movie acting, and public discourse in the United States during the first half of the 20th century had completely disappeared. The responses fall into interesting categories.”
  
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• What’s The Key To A Happy, Fulfilling Life? Don’t Ask An Intellectual

  11-06-2015 09:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In this sense, a philosopher, academic, or any kind of writer is the worst person to ask about how to live a fulfilling life. Their obligation to themselves is not to resolve their own problems, but to plumb the depths of their own discontent, seeking after a truth in unhappiness. It is not likely that […]
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.10.15

  11-06-2015 08:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cooking, peaches and tasting the arts AJBlog: Field NotesPublished 2015-06-10 “Community” AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-06-09 The Prison Memoir That Caught Algren’s Attention AJBlog: Straight|Up Published 2015-06-10 A Tech Hiatus AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-06-10 [ssba_hide]
  
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• Indigenous art centre in West Arnhem Land gets $1m in government funding

  11-06-2015 03:56
  
  Organisers hope Gunbalanya community will benefit from huge stimulus in jobs and tourismAn Indigenous art centre in West Arnhem Land hopes government funding of almost $1m will provide a major economic boost to the Gunbalanya community and attract tourists who come to visit nearby Kakadu.The Northern Territory government hopes the centre and its products will also help boost tourism to the territory, as part of its economic development in the aftermath of major projects winding down. Continue re
  
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