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• Dealer Gavin Brown Will Open Gallery In Harlem

  18-06-2015 23:26 via artnews.com
  Gavin Brown, who has operated Gavin Brown’s Enterprise out of the West Village since 2003, will be moving his business uptown, to Harlem, at 461 West 126th Street. The new gallery will open in September and will have three floors … Read More
  
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• Thought Miffy was a cute kids' bunny? At 60, it seems, she's a Modernist masterpiece...

  18-06-2015 22:10
  
  A flat blue background, a thick black line, a simple orange triangle and a cross across her mouth: Dutchman Dick Bruna's original Miffy drawing is as silent, still and flat as an Amsterdam canal. She is a masterclass in minimalism and as enigmatic as Buster Keaton. And yet Dick Bruna's little white rabbit has adventured and endured for 60 years.
  
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• Anish Kapoor’s Versailles Sculpture Vandalized

  18-06-2015 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “According to Le Figaro, staff at Versailles is still trying to identify the vandals from security camera footage, and the palace’s director Catherine Pégard plans to lodge a formal complaint. The artist, meanwhile, sees the attack on his work as symptomatic of a particularly regressive tendency in French society.”
  
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• ‘Letting Go’ & ‘New Personal Best!’ at Zeitgeist Gallery

  18-06-2015 20:43 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “New Personal Best!” by John Donovan and “Letting Go” by Jessica Wohl  presented as a joint exhibition at Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville, TN. Donovan’s sculptures are inspired by pre-Columbian and … Read More
  
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• LACMA Announces New Board Co-Chairs

  18-06-2015 20:21 via artnews.com
  The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced two new chairs for its board of trustees–Anthony P. Ressler, who has served on the board since 2005, and Elaine P. Wynn, a trustee since 2011. The museum is currently planning out … Read More
  
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• New Theatre Launches To Feature Older Actors

  18-06-2015 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The company, Frontier Theatre, has been founded by James Roose-Evans, who set up the acclaimed Hampstead Theatre in 1959. “There is a huge bank of actors in their 60s, 70s and into their 80s who become invisible, particularly actresses. Their talent is being wasted. This set me thinking: ‘What can I do?’”
  
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• The Terms Of Apple’s New Music Streaming Service Dismay Recording Companies, Artists

  18-06-2015 18:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Apple has said that at least 71.5 percent of the revenue from the service will be paid out in royalties, but labels and music publishers will not be paid during a three-month trial — a deal that major record companies have apparently agreed to but one that has proved unpalatable to many smaller ones.”
  
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• Some Font Experiments (How Fonts Impact Us Emotionally)

  18-06-2015 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Can a font inspire empathy, or any emotion for that matter, in those who read it? Research around typography’s emotional impact has always tried to measure subjective responses. Psychologists, curious to know how a typeface makes people feel, will often ask questions like: Does Comic Sans make you feel a) happy b) sad c) enraged?”
  
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• Anish Kapoor condemns 'French intolerance' after sculpture vandalised

  18-06-2015 18:47
  
  British artist suggests spray painting of his work Dirty Corner, at Versailles, more likely reflects politics in France than any objection to artThe British artist Anish Kapoor, whose sculpture placed at the Palace of Versailles became known as the “queen’s vagina”, has lashed out at French “intolerance” after his work was vandalised. The work, entitled Dirty Corner was, on Wednesday, found sprayed with yellow paint and is now being cleaned by the palace authorities. Related: Vandals a
  
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• What It Takes To Get An Arts Grant

  18-06-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At this point I’d like to sincerely apologise for where this article has gone. I lured you in with some clickbait promising the dirt on arts bludgers and here we are talking about accounting. It’s boring, I know. But that’s the nasty truth about the arts. It’s a job. A valid job that contributes to […]
  
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• Vandals Spray-Paint Anish Kapoor Sculpture at Versailles

  18-06-2015 18:26 via artnews.com
  Yesterday, it was discovered that an Anish Kapoor sculpture was vandalized with yellow spray paint. Titled Dirty Corner, the steel sculpture is currently on view at Versailles, where it is installed in a part of the gardens known as the … Read More
  
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• How Music Got To Be Free (A Rollicking Tale)

  18-06-2015 18:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Partisans of “sharing” sometimes liked to say that they were hitting back against fat-cat music executives. In fact, all they were doing was hurting musicians. The bosses continued to do very nicely, thank you.”
  
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• Interested In Some Truly Disgusting Dirt-Flavored Ice Cream? Parcours In Basel Has You Covered

  18-06-2015 17:51 via artnews.com
  Perhaps the most understated section of Basel is Parcours, which is literally a walk in the park. After winding your way through small ancient streets that seem worlds away from the Messeplatz—the remains of the Roman embattlement built in 15 … Read More
  
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• China Has Hollywood-Sized Ambitions

  18-06-2015 17:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Cashed-up Chinese companies have grander ambitions than the domestic market, making investments in US studios, signing co-production deals with other countries and seeking global box office success. In the biggest deal of its kind to date, a unit of state-backed Hunan TV in March announced a $1.5 billion agreement to fund the movies of US […]
  
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• In Basel, a Closed Museum Opens Other Doors

  18-06-2015 17:34 via artnews.com
  'Future Present: The Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation Collection' at the Schaulager Read More
  
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• The Garage Opens its Door: Inside Russia’s new home for Contemporary Art

  18-06-2015 17:30 via artnews.com
  The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art’s opened its new home in Moscow last week, first to a large envoy of international press and VIPs, and then, come Friday, to the public, who waited calmly in a line that stretched around … Read More
  
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• New Music To Sleep By (8-Hour Piece To Be Listened To From Bed)

  18-06-2015 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sleep, an eight-hour piece which the the German-born British composer calls a “lullaby for a frenetic world,” will premier in Berlin this September. The overnight performance will go on from midnight to 8am, with audience members in beds rather than seats. It is set to be the longest single piece of classical yet written, and […]
  
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• HABITAT: Travess Smalley

  18-06-2015 17:15 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a new weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Travess Smalley, Sunset Park. “Have you ever seen Reddit battlestations? I love looking at computer setups,” Smalley said as he crouched over the computer in his Sunset Park studio. … Read More
  
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• In TV: A Built-In Fan Base Is Great, But They’re Pretty Demanding

  18-06-2015 16:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Genre properties dominate TV’s most popular adaptations, and genre audiences — typically science-fiction, fantasy and horror fans — are typically the most vocally devoted to their sources. “One is very aware of the devoted following to the books, and one wants to do right by that fan base while at the same time obviously taking […]
  
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• Off the Grid: A New Agnes Martin Biography Explores the Reclusive Artist’s Life

  18-06-2015 16:30 via artnews.com
  John Ashbery once described Agnes Martin’s watercolors as “almost distressingly powerful.” The same could be said about Nancy Princenthal’s new biography of Martin. Princenthal’s style in Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art is underplayed—she, like her subject, never lends herself … Read More
  
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• How Do You Merge Analog Theatre With Digital Attention? Goodman Theatre Experiments

  18-06-2015 16:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I want to find new ways to break down the walls of the theater and have conversations with audiences, to engage in conversations about change in Chicago.”
  
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• Dudamel Sidelined By Ailing Back

  18-06-2015 15:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The spokeswoman for Gustavo Dudamel said via mail that the cancellations were due to “intense lower back spasms which have not been alleviated by prescribed medical treatment. His doctors have now ordered him to temporarily cease all work, get immediate further treatment, and rest.”
  
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• The 50-Inch Gallery: New Startup Depict Wants to be the ‘iTunes for Art’

  18-06-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  The start-up world is all about contextual one-liners. A common pitch construction is for a new company to brand itself as “[successful internet company] for [field unrelated to said company]” and art-related entries into the start-up battlefield are no different. … Read More
  
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• Scottish heroism at Waterloo should not be forgotten

  18-06-2015 15:22
  
  Waterloo did much to create the British patriotism that is now disintegrating. Lady Butler’s epic painting showing the charge of the Scots Greys reminds us this was a battle fought – and won – together They are charging straight at you, their horses like cannonballs hurtling forward, the men a gallery of courage, sabres aloft, red coats flaming as they advance in reckless unison. This is a painting of the charge of the Scots Greys at the Battle of Waterloo 200 years ago, and one of the def
  
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• Jason Brooks, artist: 'I'm interested in the parochial but not in a negative way'

  18-06-2015 15:00
  
  The very stylish shaven-headed Jason Brooks greets me at the door of his studio in west London. He lives there with his wife and three-year-old child, evidence of whom can be found in the studio in the form of a mini chalkboard. There is little indication of painting, save some traces on the wall, as the canvases have been moved out for his current show. There is, however, a state-of-the-art compressor for his spray painter.
  
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• Morning Links: Rare Bernini Bust Edition

  18-06-2015 14:30 via artnews.com
  The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired a rare Gian Lorenzo Bernini bust. [New York Times]A skyrocketing Swiss franc has made budgeting difficult for buyers at Art Basel. [The Art Newspaper]How Los Angeles museums have been conserving water as the … Read More
  
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• Yes, androids do dream of electric sheep

  18-06-2015 13:57
  
  Google sets up feedback loop in its image recognition neural network - which looks for patterns in pictures - creating hallucinatory images of animals, buildings and landscapes which veer from beautiful to terrifyingWhat do machines dream of? New images released by Google give us one potential answer: hypnotic landscapes of buildings, fountains and bridges merging into one.The pictures, which veer from beautiful to terrifying, were created by the company’s image recognition neural network, whi
  
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• Kansas Has Eliminated One-Fourth Of Its School Librarians

  18-06-2015 10:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over the past decade, Kansas has cut 25 percent of its public school librarians. In many schools, librarians are being replaced by media clerks, who are paid hourly wages and may lack teaching credentials.”
  
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• Pianist Paul Lewis Injured In Seagull Attack (Yes, Really)

  18-06-2015 10:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He was leaving a rehearsal with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra when the angry bird swooped, causing Lewis to lose his balance, slip, and sprain a finger – reminding us that Scousers are not to be trifled with.
  
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• Bernini Sculpture Thought Lost Turns Up, Heads To L.A.

  18-06-2015 10:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The J. Paul Getty Museum has just acquired an important early sculpture by the Baroque master Bernini: a marble bust of Pope Paul V that many art historians did not believe still existed.”
  
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• U.S. Giving To Arts And Culture Up 9.2 Percent

  18-06-2015 10:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Americans’ donations to arts and culture rose 9.2% in 2014, the highest increase in nine categories tracked by Giving USA, an annual report on charitable contributions. Overall, however, arts and culture commanded a modest share of the philanthropic pie.”
  
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• It’s Not Fair That Playing Othello Is Now A ‘No-Go Zone’ Role For White Guys Like Me, Complains Leading UK Shakespearean

  18-06-2015 10:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Steven Berkoff: “Again, one suffers the bilge of a critic who in reviewing Othello warbles happily how fortunate we are, that actors no longer black up. As if that’s all there is to playing Othello: a bit of shoe polish on your chops. … To reserve, out of the hundreds of Shakespearean characters, the role […]
  
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• The Man Who Midwifed Impressionism (As Well As Some Of America’s Great Art Collections)

  18-06-2015 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Paul Durand-Ruel was the gallery owner who shepherded Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Manet, Morisot and their peers past the haughty skepticism of the Paris art establishment – and their works into the hands of U.S. collectors. “Do not think the Americans are savages,” he once wrote. “On the contrary, they are less ignorant, less close-minded than […]
  
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• Anish Kapoor 'queen's vagina' sculpture vandalised with paint at Palace of Versailles

  18-06-2015 09:47
  
  Vandals have sprayed yellow paint on a giant sculpture, wrongly labelled the "queen’s vagina", installed by the British artist Anish Kapoor at the Palace of Versailles.
  
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• Vandals attack 'queen's vagina' sculpture at Palace of Versailles

  18-06-2015 05:43
  
  It is ‘unacceptable that art, the compass of freedom, suffer because of the obscurantism of some people’, say local officials Vandals have sprayed yellow paint on a controversial sculpture known as the “queen’s vagina” which has just gone on display in the gardens of France’s Palace of Versailles.Related: Kapoor's vagina isn't shocking. French art has always been a hotbed of amourContinue reading...
  
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• Marina Abramovic: 'The planet is dying. We have to be warriors'

  18-06-2015 05:18
  
  In an exclusive interview in Tasmania, the performance artist explains why she stays out of the studio, resists nostalgia … and how she ate three raw onions• Video: Have you got what it takes to follow the Abramovic method?
  • Zoe Williams: How I became a convert to the cult of Marina AbramovicLet’s start with a quick quiz: what do Marina Abramović (Serbian performance artist) and Tony Abbott (Australian prime minister) have in common? Answer: they’ve both been filmed eating a raw onio
  
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• Marina Abramović: 'The planet is dying. We have to be warriors'

  18-06-2015 05:18
  
  In an exclusive interview in Tasmania, the performance artist explains why she stays out of the studio, resists nostalgia … and how she ate three raw onions• Video: Have you got what it takes to follow the Abramovic method?
  • Zoe Williams: How I became a convert to the cult of Marina AbramovicLet’s start with a quick quiz: what do Marina Abramović (Serbian performance artist) and Tony Abbott (Australian prime minister) have in common? Answer: they’ve both been filmed eating a raw onio
  
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