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• ‘Barbara Kasten: Stages’ at ICA at the University of Pennsylvania

  19-06-2015 21:38 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Barbara Kasten: Stages” is currently on view at ICA in Philadelphia and is the first major survey of Kasten’s work. The exhibition features photographs, her earliest fiber sculptures, … Read More
  
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• Did You Know The Librarian Of Congress Oversees Copyright? (The Plot Thickens)

  19-06-2015 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In theory, the Librarian could do whatever he or she wants,” in terms of granting exemptions, says Jonathan Band, a lawyer in Washington, D.C. who specializes in technology and intellectual property law. “They could be more aggressive and grant more exemptions and broader exemptions.”
  
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• Maintenance Worker Mistakenly Trashed A Public Sculpture

  19-06-2015 20:32 via artnews.com
  The postmodern art joke has come true—last Sunday, a maintenance worker in Madison, Connecticut  unwittingly trashed a public wood, tile, and Astroturf bench on view for the town’s 15th annual Sculpture Mile contemporary art show.The piece was created by New … Read More
  
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• Coming: Facial Recognition Software For All (Now Anyone Will Be Able To ID You The Street)

  19-06-2015 20:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The lack of consensus means face recognition is moving into creepy territory. One example is California-based company Face First, which is rolling out a system for retailers that it says will “boost sales by recognising high-value customers each time they shop” and send “alerts when known litigious individuals enter any of your locations”.
  
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• Richard Long goes for a walk through boyhood haunts with latest sculpture

  19-06-2015 19:59
  
  Boyhood Line follows informal path on Bristol Downs and marks return to scene of early works by the artist, who is subject of major solo show at Arnolfini GalleryThe Turner prize-winning artist Richard Long has made works of art in some of the most inaccessible places on earth including Antarctica, Mongolia, the Atlas mountains in Morocco, and the Sahara desert.“This is not my natural habitat, this semi-urbanised parkland,” he said, looking slightly bemused and even with a hint of disapprova
  
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• Music Streaming Is The Future. So Who Will Win The Streaming Wars?

  19-06-2015 19:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “More than 40m people currently pay to subscribe to a music-streaming service, and this number is increasing by 50 per cent each year. Outstanding questions about low royalty payments to artists persist, but for the customer, at least, the value proposition is obvious—for $120 a year, you get everything. Streaming services are pricey, but once […]
  
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• As Challenges Pile Up, The American Arts Model Is In Jeopardy

  19-06-2015 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Regardless of the enormity of future challenges, Michael Kaiser insists that “one simply cannot save one’s way to health in the arts.” Survival in the universe he foresees will depend on creating exciting, ambitious work that distinguishes itself from online competition.”
  
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• Tongues Untied: rarely seen works chart a city's response to the Aids crisis

  19-06-2015 19:19
  
  A new exhibition charts the fight West Hollywood’s LGBT community went through, from Aids to wanton discrimination, and its warts-and-all approach shows the links between art and activismThirty years ago, LGBT activists, renters and seniors formed a coalition to establish the City of West Hollywood out of what was formerly an unincorporated section of Los Angeles. Chief among their concerns were renters’ rights and progressive laws catering to the area’s LGBT community, comprising 40% of r
  
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• Crowdsourced: The World’s Ten Best Bookstores

  19-06-2015 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Wherever you are in the world, visiting a bookshop is always a treat – but with their numbers dwindling, independent stores that offer something unique are increasingly becoming a destination in themselves.”
  
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• My artwork has been vandalised. How should I respond?

  19-06-2015 19:02
  
  The vandals who threw paint on my Versailles sculpture wanted to destroy it because they think it is obscene. My best revenge could be to transform their violence into artWorks of art are sometimes a focus for the wider discomforts of society. My Dirty Corner at Versailles has been reviled in the press as the “Queen’s vagina” or the “vagina on the lawn”, and has given offence to certain people of the extreme political right wing in France.The vicious voice of the few has commanded too
  
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• Anish Kapoor: My artwork has been vandalised. How should I respond?

  19-06-2015 19:02
  
  The vandals who threw paint on my Versailles sculpture wanted to destroy it because they think it is obscene. My best revenge could be to transform their violence into artWorks of art are sometimes a focus for the wider discomforts of society. My Dirty Corner at Versailles has been reviled in the press as the “Queen’s vagina” or the “vagina on the lawn”, and has given offence to certain people of the extreme political right wing in France.The vicious voice of the few has commanded too
  
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• Converting Painting into Sculpture: William Rubin on Ellsworth Kelly’s Signature Style, in 1963

  19-06-2015 19:00 via artnews.com
  With four shows at Matthew Marks Gallery, Ellsworth Kelly is having one of the most exciting moments in his career at age 92. These shows find Kelly continuing his interest in blurring the line between painting and sculpture. His colorful … Read More
  
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• The Harsh Reality Of America’s Higher Education System

  19-06-2015 18:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In our current system the relation between vulnerability and support is an inverse one. One result is that graduation rates are the same for low-income students with high test scores as for high-income students with low scores.7 In the United States today, three of every five children from families in the top income quartile earn […]
  
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• Eileen Gray: New biopic and restoration project set to put the mother of modernity back on the map

  19-06-2015 18:18
  
  Perched on a slab of French Riviera rock above the Mediterranean, like a salamander ready to pounce, sits a white house with a special story. Its enigmatic name is E1027 and its designer was Eileen Gray. Just how important “the mother of Modernism” was to 20th-century architecture, art and design is frequently overlooked but, as her painstakingly-restored E1027 opens to the public next week, and a new biopic is released this summer, that neglect is set to morph into a celebration of all sha
  
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• Ballet And And An Improv Experiment

  19-06-2015 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Wednesday, seven ballet dancers will invent a new dance based on audience suggestions. This may not seem crazy to anyone familiar with improv comedy shows like “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” But it’s edgy for the ballet world.”
  
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• USC MFA Alumni Sign Letter of Support for MFA Students Who Dropped Out

  19-06-2015 17:43 via artnews.com
  Yesterday, 73 University of South California MFA alumni signed a letter of support for the seven first-year MFA students who dropped out of USC’s Roski School of Art and Design a month ago. The letter was published on MFA No … Read More
  
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• Art installation for outdoor sculpture event dismantled and thrown in trash

  19-06-2015 17:09
  
  New York City artist Jim Osman’s wood and tile bench for Madison’s Sculpture Mile was destroyed by maintenance worker who ‘didn’t think it was art’It was not the kind of public engagement that organisers of a contemporary art show had in mind: a wood and tile bench displayed in the shoreline town of Madison was removed, torn apart and put in a dumpster by a maintenance worker.The piece, by New York City artist Jim Osman, was installed as part of the town’s annual Sculpture Mile event
  
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• MoMA Staffers Will Vote on New Union Contract Next Week

  19-06-2015 17:01 via artnews.com
    Friday morning, representatives from the Local 2110 negotiating committee announced to staff members at the Museum of Modern Art that belong to the union that a “tentative agreement” has been reached with the institution in the staff’s ongoing negotiations with … Read More
  
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• A Manhattan Subway Station Was Just Named “Building Of The Year” By Architecture Magazine

  19-06-2015 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Grimshaw Architects’ means of directing light deep into the bowels of the huge transport interchange is the first of its kind: a six-storey funnel lined with a suspended mesh of 952 precisely positioned, diamond-shaped aluminium reflectors – and it is about to show off its star feature in the brightest of ways.
  
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• Price Check: Kelly at Matthew Marks, Katz at Mary Ryan and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise

  19-06-2015 16:30 via artnews.com
  Price Check is a recurring column that looks into the price of works currently on view at commercial galleries. Have they sold? For how much? Are either or both of these answers shocking compared to the amount the works sold for … Read More
  
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• Anish Kapoor: French Political Intolerance Is A Big Problem

  19-06-2015 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If this act of vandalism means anything, it speaks more to a certain intolerance in France than to art itself,” Kapoor said in an interview with Le Figaro on Thursday. “The problem seems more political than anything else.”
  
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• Out of the Convention Center and Into the City: In Basel’s Parcours Section

  19-06-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  On Wednesday night, Art Basel’s Parcours section, which places artworks throughout a different part of the city every year, opened to the public. On Thursday afternoon, it rained steadily, as it did for much of the fair’s run, and most of … Read More
  
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• Heritage Wars – London’s Important Buildings That Need Saving

  19-06-2015 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “London, in particular, is in the throes of a heritage war. This is partly because the city is at the sharp end of the development wedge. There simply isn’t enough space for all the luxury apartments, skyscrapers with huge trading floors and “public” lookout points that you have to pay to access. Small buildings that […]
  
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• Morning Links: Liberate Tate Edition

  19-06-2015 14:41 via artnews.com
  Read the biographies of older works on view at Art Basel this year. [The Art Newspaper]Merce Cunningham’s long-lost performance piece, “Changeling,” will be performed at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art this fall. [The New York Times]A new phenomenon: galleries are … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Arab Museum of Contemporary Art and Heritage Edition

  19-06-2015 14:41 via artnews.com
  Read the biographies of older works on view at Art Basel this year. [The Art Newspaper]Merce Cunningham’s long-lost performance piece, “Changeling,” will be performed at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art this fall. [The New York Times]A new phenomenon: galleries are … Read More
  
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• Colin Davidson's Silent Testimony: Stunning portraits of victims of the Troubles capture what words fail to

  19-06-2015 14:30
  
  County Down-based artist Colin Davidson is probably best known for having taught Brad Pitt to paint and whose intimate portrait of the Hollywood actor was unveiled at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington last month.
  
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• The mind-boggling art of MC Escher, Jackson Pollock unleashed in Liverpool and China's last 'lotus feet'

  19-06-2015 14:22
  
  Plenty of art to mess with your mind this week, from Jackson Pollock’s abstract splashing, to MC Escher’s impossible staircases. We were also gripped by Jo Farrell’s portraits of the last women in China with bound feet – all in your weekly art dispatchJackson Pollock
  Most of this great American painter’s life was wrecked by alcohol, until he broke free with the aid of a sensitive doctor into his glorious era of free abstract splashing and pouring. Then it all went wrong again. This exh
  
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• Pro-feminist Pussy Riot member Nadya Tolokonnikova poses for alleged sexual abuser Terry Richardson

  19-06-2015 13:29
  
  In an unusual collaboration, a member of Pussy Riot, proponents of feminism and LGBT rights, has posed for photographer Terry Richardson, proponent of sticking semi-erect penises in the faces of models.
  
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• Feminist Pussy Riot member Nadya Tolokonnikova poses for alleged sexual abuser Terry Richardson

  19-06-2015 13:29
  
  In an unusual collaboration, a member of Pussy Riot, proponents of feminism and LGBT rights, has posed for photographer Terry Richardson, alleged proponent of sticking semi-erect penises in the faces of models.
  
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• The 10 best things to do this week

  19-06-2015 13:28
  
  From an authoritative Barbara Hepworth retrospective to the return of True Detective and a certain festival in Somerset, here are some of the most interesting cultural activities over the next seven daysLIVE MUSICGlastonbury festival
  (Wednesday to Sunday, Worthy Farm, nr Shepton Mallet) Continue reading...
  
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• Barbara Hepworth, Laura Ford, Sean Scully: this week’s new exhibtions

  19-06-2015 12:47
  
  The Peristence Of Type | Sean Scully | Laura Ford | Barbara Hepworth | Stuart Edmundson | Terry Frost | Rivane NeuenschwanderThere’s a distinctly retro look to The Persistence Of Type. It’s as if the 1968 Situationist International has transferred its graphic subversions to 21st-century Glasgow with a display of reworked posters at the Tramway. Artist Fiona Jardine has taken up with designers Sophie Dyer and Maeve Redmond to interrogate images of women in corporate advertising. They raid and
  
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• Vancouver Opera To Abandon Regular Season, Become Spring Festival

  19-06-2015 10:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 55-year-old institution, the second-biggest opera company in the country, will no longer run a full season. Instead it will concentrate three of its four productions over three weeks in late-April and early May.”
  
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• Historic Church In Nantes, France Wrecked By Fire

  19-06-2015 10:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A huge fire has destroyed part of the 19th Century basilica of Saint-Donatien in the French city of Nantes. The blaze broke out on Monday after morning Mass, with worshippers evacuated from the building.”
  
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• Publisher Strips Hergé’s Heirs Of Millions Of Dollars In Rights To Tintin Drawings

  19-06-2015 10:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The heirs of Hergé, the creator of the popular Tintin comics, were dealt a crushing blow in Dutch court this week. In a shocking decision, the court ruled that they do not have the rights to the iconic boy reporter character.”
  
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• These print editions of Wikipedia show the futility of big data and are available for purchase

  19-06-2015 10:28
  
  The internet is a desert of data on which more sand is poured every day. It's exhaustiveness is both wonderful and a triumph of humanity, but also slightly terrifying and futile.
  
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• Jack Rollins, Manager And Mentor To Generations Of Comedy Legends, Dead At 100

  19-06-2015 10:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[He was] a sharp judge of talent who saw more than a shy gag-writer in Woody Allen and believed that the manic improvisations of Robin Williams would crack up audiences … To his clients – who also included Billy Crystal, David Letterman, Lenny Bruce and the team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May, an American […]
  
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• Genteel Old Savannah Is Developing A Hip Art District

  19-06-2015 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The idea of a vanguard arts district may seem counterintuitive in this slow-paced city of courtly manners and stately architecture, but after almost two decades, an emerging area called the Starland District may finally be hitting its stride.”
  
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• Why Do People Commit Violence? Not Depravity, But Morality

  19-06-2015 10:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Across practices, across cultures, and throughout historical periods, when people support and engage in violence, their primary motivations are moral. By ‘moral’, I mean that people are violent because they feel they must be; because they feel that their violence is obligatory. They know that they are harming fully human beings. Nonetheless, they believe they […]
  
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• Long-Lost Merce Cunningham Work Is Reconstructed In Boston

  19-06-2015 10:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Merce Cunningham used chance to choreograph his legendary solo dance Changeling. Now chance has given new life to this long-lost work.”
  
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• How Rachel Moore Saved ABT

  19-06-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In brainstorming out-of-the-box ways to promote and fund her company, American Ballet Theatre, arts executive Rachel Moore came up with the idea of putting it on a box. A shoe box, that is.”
  
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• Do Corporations Have Minds?

  19-06-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Not really. But we often think and talk about them as though they do, and that is cause for concern.”
  
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• Exploring Pornography On Stage

  19-06-2015 09:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  No, we don’t mean live sex shows. This is all about a spate of recent plays about the effects that widely available porn is having on our society.
  
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• Nek Chand, 90, Creator Of India’s Most Beloved Sculpture Garden

  19-06-2015 09:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Having embarked on a mission to turn waste into beauty, Chand used broken crockery, iron foundry clinker, electric plug moulds, fluorescent tubes, bicycle frames, bottles, glass bangles, shells, cooking pots and smashed up bathroom fittings to create his wonderland” – the Rock Garden of Chandigarh.
  
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• BBC Radio Chooses Choreographer As Artist-In-Residence (Wait, What?)

  19-06-2015 09:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Thomas Small, a choreographer from Dundee, was selected from 750 applicants including poets, sculptors and multi-media artists. Although his role is for a radio station, listeners will not be able to hear his work on the airwaves – instead, his performance pieces will appear on the Radio 2 website.”
  
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• Steely eyed: Sheffield sets its sights on private art for public spaces

  19-06-2015 09:00
  
  A bloodied Chapman Brothers sculpture will hang in Sheffield Cathedral, loaned to the city by a private collector. In a world without government funding, is this the future of public art?It seems unlikely that Jake and Dinos Chapman would have thought Cyber Iconic Man – their sculpture depicting a naked figure upside down, its blood splashing into a bucket – might ever be exhibited in an ecclesiastical setting. Yet, come September, visitors and parishioners visiting Sheffield Cathedral for a
  
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• The art of George Brandis – in pictures

  19-06-2015 08:30
  
  Australian artists, unable to schedule a meeting with George Brandis to discuss his changes to arts funding, have framed the arts minister in some of the world’s most famous artworks instead. The George Brandis Live Art Experience has grown from a self-styled ‘guerilla protest’ to a social media campaign with more than 100 contributors. As a public exhibition opens in Melbourne – with shows in Sydney and Canberra to follow – we pick the best of the Brandis bunchThe George Brandis Live
  
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• George Brandis in art – in pictures

  19-06-2015 08:30
  
  Australian artists, unable to schedule a meeting with George Brandis to discuss his changes to arts funding, have framed the arts minister in some of the world’s most famous artworks instead. The George Brandis Live Art Experience has grown from a self-styled ‘guerilla protest’ to a social media campaign with more than 100 contributors. As a public exhibition opens in Melbourne – with shows in Sydney and Canberra to follow – we pick the best of the Brandis bunchThe George Brandis Live
  
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• Russian politicians mocked with guerrilla pothole portraits

  19-06-2015 08:30
  
  In protest at the dismal state of the country’s roads, activists are using caricatures to shame authorities into taking action. RFE/RL reportRussian activists have taken to showing their anger about the poor state of the country’s roads by painting mocking caricatures of local officials over gaping potholes, transforming them into comically grotesque mouths.One such image recently discovered in the city of Saratov has drawn significant attention – and even complaints from the politician in
  
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• 10 minutes with the artist behind the 'grown up colouring book'

  19-06-2015 08:22
  
  Mel Elliot discusses gender stereotyping, the virtues of impatience and why she wants to live inside a magazineWhy do you think ‘grown-up’ colouring books have become such a big hit?When I started making them back in 2008, it was simply a way of me getting some drawings out there into the big, wide world: my now-husband was a printer, so it made complete sense.Continue reading...
  
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• Antony Hegarty from Antony and the Johnsons with Parrngurr Yarrkalpa - video

  19-06-2015 08:21
  
  The band's frontman sings and works with Martu artists in this short video. Hegarty visited Australia in late 2013, spending time with the Indigenous Martu people of the Western Desert. The artwork featured is Always Walking Country by Parrngurr Yarrkalpa Continue reading...
  
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