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• Untitled(Dear Nanny 1 thank you for not killing our babies even though they will grow up to be tyrants and wage war and torture for peace in far away lands and make movies about it. )

  16-06-2015 23:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I write Nanny 1 a love letter: Dear Nanny 1 thank you for not killing our babies even though they will grow up to be tyrants and wage war and torture for peace in far away lands and make movies about it. I’m falling in love with you Nanny 1 said. A writer I respect ... Continue ReadingThe post Untitled(Dear Nanny 1 thank you for not killing our babies even though they will grow up to be tyrants and wage war and torture for peace in far away lands and make movies about it. ) appeared first on
  
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• Magazine Covers Are Thriving In The Digital Age

  16-06-2015 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the ethereal world of digital media, printed magazines continue to offer something concrete, a tangible representation of a collaboration between editors, artists, designers and writers. And nothing embodies this collaboration like the magazine cover, which remains one of the modern age’s most widely consumed pieces of public art.”
  
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• Winners of 2015 Swiss Art Awards Announced At Art Basel

  16-06-2015 21:22 via artnews.com
  The recipients of 2015’s Swiss Art Awards were announced yesterday at Art Basel. Artinfo reports that the Swiss Grand Award for Art/Prix Meret Oppenheim went to artists Christoph Büchel and Olivier Mosset, curator Urs Stahel, and architect duo Staufer/Hasler.The eleven … Read More
  
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• Best in Show: Highlights at Art Basel

  16-06-2015 21:02 via artnews.com
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• Israeli artist Matan Ben Cnaan wins BP portrait award

  16-06-2015 21:00
  
  Top prize of £30,000 awarded for painting that struck judges with its ‘engaging filmic narrative’ inspired by biblical story of JephthahA neorealist allegorical painting inspired by the bible story of Jephthah and his daughter has won the Israeli artist Matan Ben Cnaan one of the world’s most prestigious portrait awards.Ben Cnaan was named the first Israeli winner of the £30,000 BP portrait award at a ceremony on Tuesday evening at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London. Cont
  
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• Hannah Rothschild on 'The Improbability of Love', London's art scene, and using a painting as a narrator

  16-06-2015 20:42
  
  Hannah Rothschild, the incoming chair of the National Gallery, remembers the moment she first saw the artwork that changed her life. During her gap year before university, doing a "desperately dull job" in the Louvre in Paris, she stumbled upon Pierrot by the 18th-century painter Jean-Antoine Watteau.
  
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• Why Are So Many Libraries Bad At Keeping Track Of What They Have?

  16-06-2015 20:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Across the country, in city art collections and special collections of public libraries, one-of-a-kind items are routinely misfiled, misplaced, lost or stolen. And sometimes, routine mistakes and slipshod documentation grow into a much more intractable problem, with large portions of public collections being managed by institutions who have no idea what’s in them and no […]
  
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• Matt Bangser Named Partner At Blum & Poe

  16-06-2015 20:27 via artnews.com
  Today, Blum & Poe announced that it has appointed Matt Bangser as a partner at the gallery. Bangser started with Blum & Poe in 2009 as a director for the Los Angeles location of the gallery, which additionally has outposts in New … Read More
  
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• ‘Georg Baselitz: Drinkers and Orange Eaters’ at Skarstedt Gallery

  16-06-2015 20:21 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Georg Baselitz: Drinkers and Orange Eaters” is currently on view at Skarskedt Gallery in New York. The comprehensive exhibition brings together paintings from both public and private collections and runs until … Read More
  
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• ‘Georg Baselitz: Drinkers and Orange Eaters’ at Skarskedt Gallery

  16-06-2015 20:21 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Georg Baselitz: Drinkers and Orange Eaters” is currently on view at Skarskedt Gallery in New York. The comprehensive exhibition brings together paintings from both public and private collections and runs until … Read More
  
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• This Is How To Create A (Really Good) Opera Festival In Your Backyard

  16-06-2015 19:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Martin Graham is quietly spoken and not easily fazed, but he has a countryman’s beady eye for detail and disdain of needless extravagance. He knows every inch of the barn theatre and proudly strokes the fine joinery executed by his old friend George from the village. Framed pictures on the walls show blown-up pages taken […]
  
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• The Joke Is On Us: Larry Gagosian’s $6 M. Piece of Self-Mockery at Basel

  16-06-2015 19:39 via artnews.com
  The star piece at the Gagosian Gallery booth at Basel would have to be Jeff Koons’s Cat on a Clothesline (Orange) (1994–2001), as it kind of dwarfs everything in its sphere. But nearly as prominently displayed is a work by … Read More
  
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• Cold Truth? Most People No Longer Care About The Fine Arts

  16-06-2015 19:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What happened? How is it that, in only a generation or two, educated Americans went from at least pretending to know and care about the fine arts to paying no attention at all?”
  
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• Helly Nahmad, Fresh Out of House Arrest, Is Selling a $50 M. Rothko at Basel

  16-06-2015 19:15 via artnews.com
  Just weeks after serving out house arrest following a stint in the big house, Helly Nahmad has returned to the family business here in Basel, and it’s no quiet re-entry. His gallery’s booth features a smattering of Calders on the … Read More
  
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• Gimme shelter: afterlives of the Serpentine Gallery pavilions – in pictures

  16-06-2015 19:12
  
  What happens to the Serpentine pavilions after they’re taken down and packed away? From a billionaire’s garden, to a beach in Nice, via Flambards theme park in Cornwall, we’ve tracked down five of these iconic structures in retirementOliver Wainwright on the second lives of Serpentine pavilions Continue reading...
  
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• Mysterious Geishas Grace Basel Preview

  16-06-2015 19:11 via artnews.com
  Is there a better self-marketer than Takashi Murakami? The artist’s grandest gesture to date is probably his appearance—smiling and waving from his float, and wearing a flower costume—at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York in 2010. At Basel, he’s being a … Read More
  
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• Garden state: Constable's paintings of home reveal his emotional side

  16-06-2015 19:04
  
  A new exhibition features two highly personal paintings of the artist’s family garden, painted at the time of his parents’ death
  Long evening shadows almost blot out the colours of the flower garden, planted by John Constable’s mother. Painted in 1815, it is one of two paintings that remain the artist’s most personal works, and which he kept with him all his life. “I’m sure the artist intended us to read into those shadows and that great bank of heavy cloud hanging over the scene,”
  
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• A Cheek-Pinching DiCaprio and a $4.5 M. John Currin Painting: It’s the Opening of Art Basel 2015

  16-06-2015 19:00 via artnews.com
  It has been a rainy and cloudy couple of days in Basel, Switzerland, but that did not seem to keep away the crowds this morning who arrived bright and early, at 9:30 a.m., for the Champagne breakfast that opens the Art Basel … Read More
  
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• Beach cafe, billionaire's retreat, wedding marquee: second lives of the Serpentine pavilions

  16-06-2015 18:59
  
  Everyone from Ai Weiwei and Frank Gehry to Zaha Hadid has designed a folly for the Serpentine gallery, but what happens to these starchitect baubles after their summer in the sun?As the Serpentine Gallery prepares to open its annual summer pavilion, dusting off the champagne flutes for its glitzy VIP receptions next week, the first ever pavilion in the 15-year-old programme is playing host to a parallel summer party of a rather different kind. Three hundred miles south-west, in a far-flung corne
  
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• Broad Foundation Acquires Robert Longo’s Drawing of Ferguson Police

  16-06-2015 18:43 via artnews.com
  Eli Broad’s Broad Art Foundation has acquired Robert Longo’s diptych, Untitled (Ferguson Police, August 13. 2014), a charcoal drawing depicting police in riot gear in Ferguson, MO during protests there over the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager. … Read More
  
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• Jake Chapman on themes behind Hell - video

  16-06-2015 18:26
  
  In a 2008 interview with the White Cube gallery, artist Jake Chapman discusses the themes and ideas behind the work 'Fucking Hell'. The piece by brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman is an update of 'Hell', originally created in 2000, which was lost in a storage factory fire in 2004 Continue reading...
  
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• Jake Chapman on themes behind 'Hell' and its successor - video

  16-06-2015 18:26
  
  In a 2008 interview with the White Cube gallery, artist Jake Chapman discusses the themes and ideas behind the work 'Fucking Hell'. The piece by brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman is an update of 'Hell', originally created in 2000, which was lost in a storage factory fire in 2004 Continue reading...
  
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• Preservationists Worry About Plans To Open A Theme Park Around Ancient Chinese Caves

  16-06-2015 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Officials in Gansu Province, which includes Dunhuang, and a company in Beijing have drawn up plans for a theme park connecting the caves with a separate area of sand dunes that already exists as a tourist playground (think dune buggies and camel rides). The connecting strip of desert would be filled with faux temples, folk […]
  
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• Opera Grand Rapids Reinvents Itself

  16-06-2015 17:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Opera Grand Rapids has changed its mission, said executive director Anne Berquist. “It’s a different approach, but it gives a new, fresh look at what opera should be in the 21st century. We’re still going to produce fully staged opera. That’s what we are. But we need to do other things to build our audience.”
  
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• A New $6 Million “Sleeping Beauty”? But Why?

  16-06-2015 17:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I agree that the dancing is stamped with the spirit of the times. ABT has given us a piece of history, and there is value in that. Ballet historians are soaking this moment up. But for some of us, it’s like seeing lithographs of dainty ballerinas come to life. In this Sleeping Beauty I missed […]
  
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• Harper Lee Letters Failed To Sell At Christie’s New York Auction

  16-06-2015 17:15 via artnews.com
  Letters written by Harper Lee around the time she drafted To Kill a Mockingbird, that cornerstone of 9th grade English classes from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon, proved to be a flop at Christie’s New York auction on June 12.The … Read More
  
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• Bizarre Arrest For Attempted Murder Results In Dispute Between String Quartet And Concert Venue

  16-06-2015 16:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “An extraordinary row has erupted between one of Europe’s most respected string quartets and London’s premier chamber music venue over the cancellation of a forthcoming concert. It has left the relationship between two major names in classical music in tatters.”
  
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• Los Angeles Website Asks Theatres To Buy Reviews. A Good Idea?

  16-06-2015 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Bitter Lemons founder Colin Mitchell says he’s responding to the dwindling number of reviews by professional critics amid upheaval in the media industry. Many traditional outlets have retrenched in the face of falling advertising revenues they’d relied on to fund coverage, including arts reviews. He’s asking theater companies themselves to help fill the void.”
  
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• Dances With Robots

  16-06-2015 15:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Seven such humanoid robots, of the model NAO, are the stars of “ROBOT,” a dance-theater work by the Spanish-born choreographer Blanca Li that had its American debut at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House on Tuesday. There are also eight human dancers, but the 90-minute production perks up when the robots arrive, […]
  
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• How Podcasts Are Saving National Public Radio

  16-06-2015 15:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While the nonprofit’s stations are primarily dependent on federal funding, corporate sponsorship, and individual donations to stay on the air, the company has suffered from deficits and leadership changes in the past few years, leading to cutbacks and layoffs of its talented staff. But not this year. Along with some steps to reduce costs and […]
  
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• How Did Music On The Radio Get To Be So Homogenized?

  16-06-2015 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I can’t find one that’s widely available and ventures outside of the tightly programmed, not-so-distinct-sounding formats that its corporate overlords have decreed from the home office somewhere in not-Chicago. Indeed, I like to lump all those formats together into one uber format I’ll call “obvious music,” the songs you’ve heard before and expect to hear […]
  
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• Black Magic: Tony Oursler On His Upcoming LUMA Exhibition

  16-06-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  “He was into a lot of stuff,” said Tony Oursler one recent afternoon. He was referring to infamous British occultist Aleister Crowley, but he was also standing in the middle of his own stuff-filled Lower East Side studio. In addition … Read More
  
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• A natural fit: Margaret Howell on her fashion tribute to Barbara Hepworth

  16-06-2015 14:58
  
  The fashion designer reveals how the first major Barbara Hepworth exhibition in London for almost 50 years at Tate Modern inspired a range of clothesFor Margaret Howell, designing a collection in homage to Barbara Hepworth felt like the most natural thing in the world. “I was always inspired by what she wore anyway,” says the designer. “The short duffel coat, the dungarees, the things people wear when they’re at art school.” Related: Barbara Hepworth finally gets her dueRelated: Barbar
  
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• Morning Links: Hidden Turner Painting Edition

  16-06-2015 14:57 via artnews.com
  Art collective Liberate Tate held a performance in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in response to the museum’s partnership with BP. [Hyperallergic]Jake and Dinos Chapman on the making of Hell, which featured 60,000 Nazi toy soldiers. [The Guardian] An art … Read More
  
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• Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Glyndebourne review: A brilliant production

  16-06-2015 12:35
  
  Mozart’s Turkish opera filters an imagined East through Western sensibilities, and it presents tricky problems in how the Ottoman court and its ruler Pasha Selim and bloodthirsty gaoler Osmin should be portrayed; moreover, its violent references have now become chillingly topical.
  
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• ARTnews’ Complete 2015 Art Basel Coverage

  16-06-2015 11:02 via artnews.com
  Below, a continuously updated list of ARTnews’ reports from Art Basel. Art Basel The Unlimited Sector, by the Numbers Curry With Rirkrit Tiravanija on the Messeplatz Liste A Photo Tour Cigarette Works Everywhere, and More In the Museums Anicka Yi … Read More
  
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• Five Of World’s Most August Orchestras Put Recent Concert Recordings On Google Play

  16-06-2015 10:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam joined the initiative, called Classical Live, which offers downloads for sale or streams music to subscribers.”
  
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• Living (And Reading And Writing) In A True Surveillance State

  16-06-2015 10:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran): “It transforms your perspective, your manners, your relationships with friends, colleagues, students, with every waiter and cabdriver you meet. It changes your relationship with yourself.”
  
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• For The First Time, Pina Bausch’s Old Company Commissions New Works From Other Choreographers

  16-06-2015 10:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 2009 death of the choreographer Pina Bausch plunged the future of her company, the Tanztheater Wuppertal, into doubt. … Now the [company] has announced that for the first time in its history, choreographers will be invited to create new pieces.”
  
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• Can You Consciously Design A Metaphor To Change Someone’s Mind?

  16-06-2015 10:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’m here to tell you that they can, and are. … They aren’t supposed to make someone remark: ‘That’s beautiful.’ They’re meant to make someone realise that they’ve only been looking at one side of a thing.” Michael Erard (“For five years I worked full-time as a metaphor designer at the FrameWorks Institute, a think […]
  
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• At 96, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Isn’t Done Yet

  16-06-2015 10:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sixty years ago, Ferlinghetti … was the principal publisher of an iconoclastic band of writers and poets known as the Beat Generation. Today, he’s still co-owner of City Lights, one of the most celebrated independent book stores in America. These are quieter days for the internationally acclaimed poet and painter. His eyes are going, but […]
  
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• How God Turned His Twitter Account Into A Broadway Show

  16-06-2015 10:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the beginning, there was Twitter. David Javerbaum – a seasoned comedy writer for The Daily Show and The Colbert Report who has won Peabodys, Emmys, and a Grammy – started the account @TheTweetofGod in 2010. Like God Himself, he quickly gained millions of followers.” (includes audio)
  
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• What John Waters Told Graduating Art Students

  16-06-2015 10:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Today may be the last day of your juvenile delinquency, but it should also be the first day of your new adult disobedience. … Think about it: I didn’t change. Society did. Who would’ve ever thought a top college like RISD would’ve invited a filthy elder to set an example to its students?”
  
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• ‘The Most Famous, Most Enigmatic, And Most Frightening Painting Known To Man': Tatyana Tolstaya On Malevich’s ‘The Black Square’

  16-06-2015 10:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With an easy flick of the wrist, he once and for all drew an uncrossable line that demarcated the chasm between old art and new art … In his own words, he reduced everything to the ‘zero of form.’ Zero, for some reason, turned out to be a square, and this simple discovery is one […]
  
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• James Joyce Fascinates The Chinese

  16-06-2015 10:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “These days, if you ask about James Joyce – or ‘Zhanmusi Qiaoyisi’, as his name is transliterated in Chinese pinyin – in a Chinese bookshop you will be led to shelves lined with relevant volumes. The vast five-floor Xinhua bookshop on Wangfujing, a crowded shopping avenue just round the corner from Tiananmen Square, currently stocks […]
  
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• ‘An Argument Ends': What We Lose When A Bookstore Closes

  16-06-2015 10:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Adam Gopnik: “It is rarely the book you came to seek, but the book next to that book, which changes your mind and heart.” But, more than that, “restaurants, bookstores, cafés – on a grander scale railway stations, on a lesser one chessboards near park benches – are the sinews of civil society.”
  
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• Remember The Notorious ‘Stanford Prison Experiment’? It Didn’t Necessarily Tell Us What Everyone Thought It Did

  16-06-2015 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Back in 1971, a group of Stanford students participated in a role-playing experiment, with some taking the role of guards in a make-believe prison and others playing inmates. The latter became so passive, and the former so abusive, that the experiment was called off halfway through. Most people concluded that the project demonstrated the darker […]
  
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• Nobody Bought Harper Lee’s Letters At Auction

  16-06-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Christie’s had estimated a sale price of between $150,000 and $250,000, but bidding started at $80,000 and ended at $90,000, far short of the reserve price.”
  
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• Unlimited, Art Basel’s Section for Gargantuan Artworks, By the Numbers

  16-06-2015 09:49 via artnews.com
  Yesterday afternoon, Art Basel’s Unlimited section, which is devoted predominantly to works that are too large or cumbersome for typical art fair booths, opened to the public. The conceit is both awesome and a little sad: “Here’s a bunch of huge work!” The quality, of course, varies dramatically, … Read More
  
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• Jake and Dinos Chapman: how we made Hell

  16-06-2015 09:00
  
  ‘When it caught fire, we just laughed. Two years to make, two minutes to burn’Jake Chapman
  A lot of people seem to think Hell is about the Holocaust – but it’s the absolute inverse of that. It’s the Nazis who are being subjected to industrial genocide. Which means people aren’t actually looking at it.
  It's not about the Holocaust. It’s the Nazis who are being subjected to industrial genocideI’m quite glad the original burnt because it wasn’t very well made. It was clumsy and in
  
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