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• Michelle Grabner Announced As Portland 2016 Biennial Curator

  15-06-2015 20:25 via artnews.com
  Artforum reports that Portland’s Disjecta Contemporary Art Center has named Michelle Grabner curator of the Portland 2016 Biennial of Contemporary Art, which will open July 9, 2016 and run through September 18 of the same year. The fair’s sixth edition will … Read More
  
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• Ai Weiwei: Artist's monumental sculpture Straight to be exhibited at the Royal Academy

  15-06-2015 19:33
  
  When Ai Weiwei returned to his studio for the first time after 81 days of detention by the Chinese government, he heard the “incredibly powerful” sound of his assistants hammering away at his 150-ton sculpture Straight, as they had done in defiance throughout his incarceration.
  
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• A Look Around Liste

  15-06-2015 19:30 via artnews.com
  Liste, Basel’s fair for emerging galleries and artists, opened its 20th anniversary edition this morning in the rain, but that did not keep away the crowds, which came to see work from 79 galleries hailing from 31 countries. The quality is high and there … Read More
  
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• ‘I Can Entertain the Idea That My Moral Compass Is a Little Off’: A Talk With Piotr Uklanski

  15-06-2015 19:00 via artnews.com
  A survey of Piotr Uklański’s work runs through August 16 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A concurrent show he curated from the Met’s collection closed June 14.Bill Powers: Eastman Kodak’s The Joy of Photography was published … Read More
  
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• ‘Mira Dancy: Y E S’ at Chapter NY

  15-06-2015 18:30 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Mira Dancy: Y E S” is currently on view at Chapter NY in New York until July 10. It features a wall painting, a neon relief, and a series … Read More
  
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• The Guy Who Makes Netflix’ House Of Cards Has No Clue How Many People Have Watched It

  15-06-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They have never given me any data whatsoever. All they say is, ‘Well, we’re doing well and we’d like another season.’ And that’s really all I need to know.”
  
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• Houston Ballet Cancels Performance When Crews Discover Serious Rain Damage

  15-06-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Someone left open the exhaust flues at the very top of the Wortham stage, which let in all the rain. The wood stage floor buckled, the stage lamps were full of water, and the legs and some of the scenery got soaked.”
  
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• Tenure Is Going Down In Flames. Does It Matter?

  15-06-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What I wonder is whether justice and tenure can exist side-by-side in discussions of academic labor. At best, they rest next to one another uneasily. At worst, tenure is now reliant upon the stratified academic workplace to exist.”
  
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• Cigarette, Anyone? Trend Spotting at Liste, Art Basel’s Little Brother

  15-06-2015 17:49 via artnews.com
  The opening reception for Liste, where younger galleries exhibit work a day before Art Basel opens its doors, had much in common with an ashtray. Apparently, the trend among the world’s hipper galleries is selling cigarette butts that artists have … Read More
  
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• The History, In Pictures, Of The NYPhil’s Summer Concerts In The Parks

  15-06-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 1979, the Times investigated picnic habits among Central Park concertgoers, discovering cream of plum soup, pork loin à l’orange, lobster claws, and vichyssoise.”
  
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• Combat Gender And Racial Bias In Publishing By Reorganizing The Bookstop

  15-06-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Since reading McDougall’s article, I have changed the way I approach my job, as have several of my colleagues at Foyles. I am reading more books in translation, more books by writers from different racial or cultural backgrounds to my own and vastly more books by women. As a result I have included more books […]
  
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• Responding To The UK Election Results With Urgent Devised Theatre

  15-06-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We’ve been looking at other models for making political theatre. We’ve found that devised theatre, collaboratively made over an intense period of four to five weeks, gives us a chance to react immediately to the changing tensions in the world around us.”
  
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• Art Basel’s Powerful Jury Controls The Market

  15-06-2015 17:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The jurors, who separately operate German, Swiss, Italian and American galleries, begin their work about 11 months before the fair. In a series of gatherings, they and their advisers discuss their selections, vote, consider appeals and ponder larger questions: Should they include contemporary Chinese artists? Yes. Art by artists coming of age in the digital […]
  
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• Something Rotten! Capitalizes On Its Loser Status

  15-06-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If by ‘loser’ you’re referring to a man who is greeted eight times a week by a thousand people who stand as one, applauding until their hands are raw, cheering until their voices are spent, whispering, ‘He’s so much better looking in person!,’ and laughing until their faces are contorted in an anguished mask that […]
  
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• Curry on the Messeplatz: Rirkrit Tiravanija on his Much-Hyped Installation in Basel

  15-06-2015 17:00 via artnews.com
  A new project by Rirkrit Tiravanija, “Do We Dream Under the Same Sky,” is set to be one of the most visible and talked-about works at Art Basel, simply because it’s right there: spread out across the messeplatz, directly adjacent … Read More
  
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• Nek Chand obituary

  15-06-2015 16:56
  
  Indian artist who created the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, a visionary landscape of sculpture and architectureNek Chand, who has died aged 90, was the creator of the extraordinary Rock Garden of Chandigarh, a 25-acre environment in northern India that contains more than 2,000 statues. A combination of sculpture, architecture and visionary landscape, the garden takes the form of a series of chambers and courtyards, with winding walkways suddenly opening out to large vistas and high waterfalls.Havin
  
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• Book Reviews Have Gotten Way, Way Nicer Than They Used To Be

  15-06-2015 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The magazines competed for the cruellest contributors but, as everyone knew, the most fearless wrote for Blackwood’s.”
  
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• A Pre-War European Orchestra, Brought Back To Life

  15-06-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Most powerful for me was the depth of meaning to recreate something like this. Most all the original members went to Treblinka extermination camp. It just carries this weight.”
  
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• China’s E-Commerce Giant Alibaba Will Soon Launch ‘Netflix-Like’ Streaming Service

  15-06-2015 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As an online marketplace, Alibaba is more profitable than Amazon, but the move falls in line with Amazon’s ambitions to make Amazon Prime Instant a popular destination for video streaming.”
  
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• Basel or Bust: The Art World Catches the Early Train Out of Zurich for Busy Art Fair Sunday

  15-06-2015 16:15 via artnews.com
  “Was that a…gunshot?” said the young director of a prominent London gallery.We were sitting on the terrace of one of the nicer hotels in town for the occasion of Zurich Contemporary Art Weekend, with collectors coming in and out of … Read More
  
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• How Hollywood Sets Up Women Superheroes To Fail

  15-06-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “That’s our double standard. Poorly penned scripts. Rom-com female superheroes. A lack of female writers. A lack of understanding female audiences. Unknown directors. Significantly lower budgets. Little, if any, merchandising.”
  
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• Unforgettable: Anicka Yi at Kunsthalle Basel

  15-06-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  For the past few years Anicka Yi has been making preternaturally original and intriguing sculptures that she conjures from materials like bacteria, snails, honey, and tempera-fried flowers. They can be variously inviting, silly, and monstrous (sometimes all those things at … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Mykki Blanco Edition

  15-06-2015 15:15 via artnews.com
  Tauba Auerbach and Charlotte Posenenske’s “Reciprocal Score” at Independenza in Rome.  [Contemporary Art Daily]“Old Car City, USA…is no longer a junkyard.” [The New York Times]“What else can art do?” A profile on Mark Bradford. [The New Yorker]Comparing and contrasting the … Read More
  
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• The Man Who Stole History From The Nazis And Just Couldn’t Stop

  15-06-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. Szajkowski (pronounced shy-KOV-skee) took home disturbing memorabilia, too, like Hitler’s stationery and antlers from Hermann Göring’s hunting lodge. He sometimes tore apart books to cram them into shipping containers. ‘I’m doing my barbaric work with a clean conscience,’ he wrote to a friend in 1945.”
  
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• LSO/Ibragimova/Haitink, Barbican, review: Alina Ibragimova excels with Bernard Haitink

  15-06-2015 13:56
  
  It’s always a special occasion when Bernard Haitink picks up his baton with the London Symphony Orchestra, and this concert was doubly so because the soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No 3 was Alina Ibragimova. This Russian-born, Gnessin-trained player has blossomed superbly over the last few years on both modern and period instruments, both as soloist and chamber player. She has Anne Sophie Mutter’s precision, but infinitely more warmth in her sound.
  
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• How Did Pixar’s Newest Movie Get Emotions So Right In Image And Word?

  15-06-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As the filmmakers were working, they would fire off emails to Keltner and to Paul Ekman, a pioneer in the study of emotions. The process helped create a movie that’s true to the underlying science when it shows things like how emotions tend to color Riley’s perception of the world.”
  
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• 'I prefer art to fast cars': fund manager helps British Museum buy Picasso works

  15-06-2015 11:48
  
  Hamish Parker, the modest benefactor with a discerning eye, has donated millions to enable the Bloomsbury institution to acquire prints by Spanish artistAs a child, Hamish Parker had to be dragged round the British Museum by his father. Now, decades later, he can’t keep away, making regular visits and extraordinary financial gifts to enable the acquisition of important treasures.Parker is a British fund manager who has become one of the museum’s most generous benefactors. He is also one of i
  
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• Sculpture at Runnymede celebrates Magna Carta's blow against injustice

  15-06-2015 09:00
  
  Artist Hew Locke says his permanent work, the Jurors, refers to ongoing struggle for freedoms set out in 800-year-old document There is little to suggest, when you walk across the water meadow of Runnymede, just a few miles from Windsor, that this field, usually awash with wildflowers, is the place where modern democracy and human rights were born. It is here, 800 years ago on Monday, that Magna Carta was sealed by King John, forming the foundations of the freedom of the individual, justice and
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 06.14.15

  15-06-2015 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rethinking Multimovement Form AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-06-14 The Eternal Argument AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-06-13 Bayreuth in Your Own Backyard AJBlog: Plain EnglishPublished 2015-06-13 BAD BREAKFAST AJBlog: OperaSleuthPublished 2015-06-12 Hot Passion in the summertime AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-06-12 [ssba_hide]
  
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• Teena's Bathtime review – one man and his dog warm the art world's heart

  15-06-2015 06:48
  
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
  Artist David Capra often works with hard to reach communities, but his new installation brings them right into the MCA to meet his sausage dog, Teena
  There is still room for firsts in art. For Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, director of Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, that first was opening a collaboration between an artist and his dog. The work in question is Teena’s Bathtime , an installation video by Sydney-based artist David Capra, commissioned for the mu
  
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• Using Oral Histories To Write For Justice

  15-06-2015 02:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mimi Lok: “If you only see someone as a case study then it normally hones in on that instance or instances of where they had their human rights violated. It’s reducing that person to that moment of injustice. You are reducing that person’s whole experience. We want to do the opposite.”
  
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• Legendary Conductor Manager Ronald Wilford, 87

  15-06-2015 02:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “By managing many of the leading maestros of his era — over the years his clients included Herbert von Karajan, James Levine, Claudio Abbado, Seiji Ozawa, Riccardo Muti, Kurt Masur and Colin Davis — Mr. Wilford was able to wield enormous influence in many of the world’s top concert halls and opera houses, often simultaneously, […]
  
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