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• Studio Museum in Harlem Announces 2015–16 Artists-in-Residence

  17-06-2015 23:12 via artnews.com
  The Studio Museum in Harlem announced today that Jordan Casteel, EJ Hill, and Jibade-Khalil Huffman will be its artists-in-residence for the upcoming 2015–16 season.Begun in 2009, the Studio Museum’s Artist-in-Residence program is designed to support emerging artists of African and … Read More
  
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• ‘El Anatsui: Five Decades’ at Jack Shainman: The School

  17-06-2015 21:44 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “El Anatsui: Five Decades” is currently on view at Jack Shainman: The School in Kinderhook, New York until September 26. The exhibit is a comprehensive survey from the … Read More
  
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• MoMA Employees Hand-Deliver Letter of Protest To Glenn Lowry’s Office Days Before Union Negotiation Deadline

  17-06-2015 20:57 via artnews.com
  Wednesday morning, approximately 100 members of the Museum of Modern Art’s local 2110 union–who previously staged a protest at the institution’s “Party in the Garden” gala over cuts to its benefits during contract negotiations–went to the office of MoMA’s director, Glenn Lowry, … Read More
  
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• What If You Printed All Of Wikipedia?

  17-06-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Everyone knows that Wikipedia is huge, but it takes the physical book — still a “cognitively useful” unit of measure, Mr. Mandiberg said — to grasp just how huge.
  
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• Locked up in Bedlam, artist Richard Dadd was set free by fairies

  17-06-2015 19:31
  
  We are transfixed by Dadd’s fantastical paintings not because he had a mental illness, but because they are nothing like the leaden Victorian art of the day The strange case of Richard Dadd, whose paintings and drawings are currently on view at the Watts Gallery in rural Surrey, offers a melancholy perspective on art, mental illness, and our obsession that they might be related. A recent study in Iceland seemed to show a link between creativity and mental illness. Dadd was undoubtedly very ill
  
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• Greek graffiti – in pictures

  17-06-2015 19:28
  
  The writing’s on the wall: graffiti in Athens reflect the anxiety felt by many Greeks amid the uncertainty over the country’s debt crisis Continue reading...
  
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• Round, and Round, and Round: Taking a Spin On Julius von Bismarck’s Much-Hyped Installation at Basel

  17-06-2015 19:27 via artnews.com
  When visitors to Art Basel walk into the fair’s Unlimited section, the first installation you see is Egocentric System, a work by the Berlin-based artist Julius von Bismarck presented by Marlborough. It’s the kind of installation that works so well … Read More
  
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• Banff Center Shelves Ambitious Expansion Plans To Build On Strengths

  17-06-2015 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Banff Centre is an internationally renowned arts incubator – and that is a reputation Price, on the job for about three months now, wants to cultivate and own. The centre also presents artistic programming, operates a conference centre and offers leadership-development programs.”
  
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• It’s A Hit – A Movie Theatre Where Seats Move With The Onscreen Action

  17-06-2015 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Since opening a year ago, Regal’s converted 4DX auditorium in downtown Los Angeles — whose seats move along with the action on the screen — has attracted 70,000 customers and generated $1.5 million in ticket sales, the location’s owners said on Tuesday.”
  
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• MoMA Acquires The Rainbow Flag

  17-06-2015 18:10 via artnews.com
  MoMA announced today via blog post that the museum has acquired the Rainbow Flag, the symbol of gay pride, as part of its design collection, which already houses the @ symbol, the Creative Commons logo, and the recycling symbol.Along with … Read More
  
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• ‘Artists, After All, Intervene in the Minds of the Audience': Luis Camnitzer on the Problems of Art Education

  17-06-2015 18:00 via artnews.com
  Most writing about Luis Camnitzer’s work is authored by none other than Camnitzer himself. There’s no question about it—the Germany-born, Uruguay-raised, and New York–based Conceptualist doesn’t keep quiet when it comes to himself. His visual art often involves text (critics … Read More
  
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• Why We Cling To The Culture Of Our Youth

  17-06-2015 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Baby boomers pursue perpetual youth into retirement. Gen-Xers hold fast to their skateboards, their Pixies T-shirts and their Beastie Boys CDs. Nobody wants to be an adult anymore, and every so often someone writes an article blaming Hollywood, attachment parenting, global capitalism or the welfare state for this catastrophe.”
  
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• Strange Situation: Tino Sehgal, Enemy of Purchasing Objects, Talks With Tina Brown at a Dinner for Credit Suisse in Basel

  17-06-2015 16:54 via artnews.com
  Tino Sehgal once claimed that he had not bought anything in over a year, and that was only because his girlfriend thought their apartment should have some curtains. His works exist only in his head and in their execution, they … Read More
  
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• Disney Theme Parks Have Priced Themselves Out Of The Middle Class

  17-06-2015 16:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For America’s middle-income vacationers, the Mickey Mouse club, long promoted as “made for you and me,” seems increasingly made for someone else. But far from easing back, the theme-park giant’s prices are expected to climb even more through a surge-pricing system that could value a summer’s day of rides and lines at $125.”
  
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• Photographer: Security State Making It Increasingly Difficult To Photograph In Public Places

  17-06-2015 16:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It seems to me, from a photographic point of view, that the public space has become privatised, with CCTV everywhere and the lone photographer increasingly unwelcome.”
  
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• Picabia Alert: A Little Bounty at Basel

  17-06-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  “Picabia Alert” takes note of shows that include work by the wily French artist Francis Picabia (1879–1953), aiming to sate Picabia appetites until a retrospective of the artist arrives at the Kunsthaus Zurich and New York’s Museum of Modern Art in … Read More
  
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• Picabia Alert #9: A Little Bounty at Basel

  17-06-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  “Picabia Alert” takes note of shows that include work by the wily French artist Francis Picabia (1879–1953), aiming to sate Picabia appetites until a retrospective of the artist arrives at the Kunsthaus Zurich and New York’s Museum of Modern Art in … Read More
  
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• Ask An Audience To Interact With Actors Differently And You Might Get More Than You Asked For

  17-06-2015 15:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What happens when you remove the typical social contract of the theatre seat? We invited the audience to walk in our oppressive world and they wanted to change it. The audience’s acts of touching and speaking, grabbing and yelling were both revelatory and deeply disturbing. Were they assholes or heroes?”
  
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• Public Radio Hasn’t Had Any Weekend Hits In A While. Here’s Why

  17-06-2015 15:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the retail world, mall managers who lose anchors and don’t replace them wind up tearing down the building and selling the land to Walmart. If we don’t tend to our anchors, stations’ weekend schedules will start to feel like half-empty shopping malls with a ragtag collection of specialty stores with no customers.”
  
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• Literal Cutting Edge Technology On View at Art Basel

  17-06-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  During the VIP opening of Art Basel yesterday afternoon, the booth of Zurich gallery RaebervonStenglin had a pretty solid crowd in it that was standing still—a fairly strange sight at an art fair, where one more typically sees people running from … Read More
  
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• Literal Cutting Edge Technology for Sale at Art Basel

  17-06-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  During the VIP opening of Art Basel yesterday afternoon, the booth of Zurich gallery RaebervonStenglin had a pretty solid crowd in it that was standing still—a fairly strange sight at an art fair, where one more typically sees people running from … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Dark Matter Edition

  17-06-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  Eric Veit, Dena Yago, and Jutta Zimmermann’s “Some Versions of Pastoral” at Tomorrow Gallery in New York. [Contemporary Art Daily]The Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art plans to acquire the complete archives of OK Harris Works of Art, the Soho Gallery … Read More
  
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• Hard In The Paint: Albert Oehlen's Born To Be Late places paint above pixels

  17-06-2015 13:17
  
  The German artist’s retrospective at New York’s New Museum is a bolshy, unflinching defence of painting that embraces it’s challenges rather than dercrying themOh, painting, you dear old beast. What role can painting play in a world saturated with billion-pixel screens? What more can painting offer when every turn these past two centuries, from the invention of photography to the rise of the readymade, has been cause to declare the medium’s death? Why paint, when the whole model of art h
  
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• Albert Oehlen's Born To Be Late places paint above pixels

  17-06-2015 13:17
  
  The German artist’s retrospective at New York’s New Museum is a bolshy, unflinching defence of painting that embraces its challenges rather than decrying themOh, painting, you dear old beast. What role can painting play in a world saturated with billion-pixel screens? What more can painting offer when every turn these past two centuries, from the invention of photography to the rise of the readymade, has been cause to declare the medium’s death? Why paint, when the whole model of art histo
  
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• Eyewitness: BP portrait awards

  17-06-2015 12:17
  
  Photographs from the Eyewitness series Continue reading...
  
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• Sad face: doom and gloom at the 2015 BP portrait award

  17-06-2015 11:37
  
  The best portrait painters capture emotion, but there aren’t any Rembrandts in this competition – just a lot of badly daubed tattoos and very serious expressionsCheer up, it can’t be that bad. This year’s sitters for the BP portrait award are a desperately serious bunch. Did I see a smile over there? Not quite. One painting is actually called Happy Melancholy. It is a grey and white portrait of an old lady clutching a bottle with a bleak-looking village behind her. I needed a drink too.R
  
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• What’s The Opposite Of Schadenfreude?

  17-06-2015 10:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And why didn’t anybody think of a word for it before now? And will this word catch on?
  
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• Culture’s Dying, Or It’s Already Dead (And It Always Has Been)

  17-06-2015 10:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This sentiment has a name: declinism. And it has a history, a scholarly one that amounts to much more than the perennial grousing of adults about kids these days. The notion of studying how things go to hell is almost exactly as old as the modern practice of historiography.” Laura Miller casts a gimlet eye […]
  
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• Destroyed Buddhas Of Bamiyan Are Reborn As 3D Projections

  17-06-2015 10:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With the clearance of both [Afghanistan’s] government and UNESCO, the temporary revival was the most recent consideration of how to honor the memory of the statues destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, while respecting the gaping void left by their demolition.”
  
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• Graffiti Artists Sue Developer Of New York Street-Art Mecca For Whitewashing Their Murals

  17-06-2015 10:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Nine artists are suing Jerry Wolkoff, the owner of the 5Pointz site in Long Island City, Queens, for destroying their murals when his company G&M Realty had the building whitewashed in November 2013.”
  
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• Is Heckling Ever Good For Stand-Up Comedy? Or The Comedian?

  17-06-2015 10:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Probably the closest thing you can compare it to is the fighting in ice hockey. Think about it: an activity somehow both integral and non-essential that many in the audience consider more entertaining than those parts of the performance that require actual talent. But here’s the difference between fighting in hockey and heckling in stand-up […]
  
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• Distraction – And Why We Drive Ourselves To It

  17-06-2015 10:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ever since the Enlightenment, Western societies have been obsessed with autonomy, and in the past few hundred years we have put autonomy at the center of our lives, economically, politically, and technologically … Unfortunately, we’ve taken things too far: we’re now addicted to liberation, and we regard any situation – a movie, a conversation, a […]
  
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• The Hardest Things About Making An Amy Winehouse Documentary

  17-06-2015 10:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Director Asif Kapadia] maintains that the documentary is a faithful depiction of the events that led to Winehouse’s death in 2011 at her home in London, and that his only agenda was to tell the truth. We spoke with him recently about the biggest challenges he faced in getting the film to theaters.”
  
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• A Museum Of Death (Two Of Them, Actually)

  17-06-2015 10:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Imagine cases of letters from Jeffrey Dahmer, funerary garments that clothe a corpse for casket viewing, ornate Tibetan kapala skulls, crime scene photographs, an autopsy video, and oddball items like underwear Aileen Wuornos wore on death row.” (Not to mention Dr. Kevorkian’s Thanatron.)
  
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• When James Joyce Met Sylvia Beach

  17-06-2015 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An encounter that changed literature for good.
  
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• Here Are Some *Other* Novels That Unfold Over A Single Day

  17-06-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In honor of Bloomsday – our annual and reverent celebration of James Joyce’s account of just another day in Dublin – we asked the staff at Kramerbooks in Washington, DC, to suggest some other fine books that take place over the course of a day.”
  
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• Snow White Rising 1: 3

  17-06-2015 09:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The post Snow White Rising 1: 3 appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.16.15

  17-06-2015 07:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  They Just Don’t Wanna? AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-06-16 Neoliberal Economics vs. Democracy AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-06-16 The Broad Museum Answers Back AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-06-16 [ssba_hide]
  
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