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• A ‘Walrusy’ Aby Rosen Is in This Week’s New Yorker

  22-06-2015 21:53 via artnews.com
  This week’s New Yorker has a brief story about Aby Rosen, the real-estate investor, art collector, and landlord known for battling with some well-known tenants. This week, Emma Allen has a story about roaming the Bowery with Rosen, whom she describes as … Read More
  
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• The Met Posts the Second Season of Its Online Video Series ‘The Artist Project’

  22-06-2015 21:01 via artnews.com
  Earlier today, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York posted the second season of The Artist Project on its website. As with its first season, the online video series features 20 contemporary artists discussing works in the Met’s encyclopedic … Read More
  
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• ‘Alex Rathbone: break the thread’ at Frutta

  22-06-2015 20:02 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Alex Rathbone: break the thread” is currently on view at Frutta Gallery in Rome. The solo exhibition, which will be on view until July 4, showcases recent works … Read More
  
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• The Confederate flag in pop culture: harmless Americana or racist symbol?

  22-06-2015 19:56
  
  For a long time the flag was a touchstone for everyone from Primal Scream to the Dukes of Hazzard, but the Charleston murders have brought the American south’s iconic symbol under new scrutiny
  In the pop artist Larry Rivers’s haunting 1959 painting The Last Civil War Veteran, a man lies on his death bed under the flags of both the Confederacy and the Union. It is one of a series of works in which Rivers depicts the Confederate flag as a piece of Americana, a totem of history, a pop icon. He
  
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• Beating stage fright: Pianist Sara Solovich on tackling her phobia by arranging a solo concert

  22-06-2015 19:55
  
  For most of my adult life, virtually no one – not even my closest friends – knew that I played the piano. And that was how I wanted it. Playing the piano had once defined me, but so, too, had my stage fright. I was the kind of pianist who played well when there was nothing at stake: in my parents' house, at my lesson, behind closed doors. But put me in front of an audience and my hands would ice over while my palms and fingers would be soaked with sweat. When I quit at 19, my parents protes
  
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• Serpentine pavilion 2015: a beguiling, colour-changing maze - video

  22-06-2015 19:46
  
  Selgas Cano are never shy about experimenting with wild colours, and their summer structure for the Serpentine is no exception. This strange rainbow cocoon looks like a childish scribble that has been enlarged, changes colour as you wander through it – and is a perfect party pavilion for the annual Serpentine commission's 15th birthday. Step into London's psychedelic new maze now• Serpentine pavilion 2015: a rainbow wormhole ready to suck you into another dimension Continue reading...
  
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• Cézanne landscape of Mediterranean in danger of export unless £13.5m raised

  22-06-2015 18:36
  
  Government places temporary export bar on Cézanne painting, on display in Cambridge for 30 years, in bid to find UK buyerAn important Cézanne landscape view of the Mediterranean, which has been on public view in Cambridge for nearly 30 years, is in danger of leaving the UK unless more than £13.5m can be raised. Continue reading...
  
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• Nina Simone’s Moment Has Come (Again)

  22-06-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Simone is striking posthumous gold as the inspiration for three films and a star-studded tribute album, and she was name-dropped in John Legend’s Oscar acceptance speech for best song. This flurry comes on the heels of a decade-long resurgence: two biographies, a poetry collection, several plays, and the sampling of her signature haunting contralto by […]
  
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• Bookstores Will Not Go The Way Of Video Stores (Really!)

  22-06-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Why is everyone so quick to write bookstores’ obituary? What is this cultural obsession with obsoletism? Perhaps it’s just in our bones—that technology always wins.”
  
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• How To Support Your Creative Friends When You Have A Mildly Boring And Stable Life

  22-06-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Do you sympathize when they encounter adversity and cheer them on when they overcome it? Can you share in the bitter, bursting fruits of their outrage even when you find it mystifying? Then you are being a Good Friend. Really, I promise. You are exemplary.”
  
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• New Museum Names Lauren Cornell Curator and Associate Director of Technology Initiatives

  22-06-2015 18:10 via artnews.com
  Lauren Cornell, the New Museum curator who co-organized its toothsome 2015 triennial, has been tapped for a newly created position there: Curator and Associate Director, Technology Initiatives. The job will have her contributing to “the New Museum’s curatorial program through … Read More
  
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• Barbara Hepworth at Tate Britain review – the sculptor's open-air spirit gets locked away

  22-06-2015 18:04
  
  At its best, Hepworth’s work is like an invigorating walk by the sea. What a shame, then, that Tate has trapped her sculptures in airless vitrinesThere are so many vitrines in Tate Britain’s Barbara Hepworth exhibition that for a moment I thought I had wandered into a conceptual art exhibit by mistake. “Boxed Hepworth” – what an ironic statement about our relationship with this 20th-century British modernist, to put most of her sculptures inside transparent boxes, as if there were a gl
  
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• New Photo Shows Van Gogh, Gauguin And Other Artists Drinking Together

  22-06-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The photograph was identified through discovering the names of the other figures in the picture (who include artists Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard, no small discovery in themselves), fixing it in a place and time, and analyzing the photographic process.”
  
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• What Misty Copeland’s Promotion To Principal Dancer Would Mean

  22-06-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ms. Copeland, who has more than 500,000 Instagram followers plus TV and film deals in hand, is having a moment. … All that publicity, though, has no bearing on what happens onstage.”
  
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• Watching Your Brilliant Social Housing Get Threatened By The Very Offices That Commissioned It

  22-06-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What really disgusts Macintosh is the complicity of Labour-run Lambeth in wrecking the legacy that they once created, ‘their eager cooperation with central government in the process of the privatisation of public assets,’ their ‘sham consultations with residents, which are really exercises in hard-sell and bullying,’ their ‘heartless eviction operations.'”
  
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• Serpentine pavilion 2015: a rainbow wormhole ready to suck you into another dimension

  22-06-2015 16:50
  
  A psychedelic pupa has landed in London, and its twisting tunnels were specially designed to be an Instagram paradise“The most important colour here is white,” says Jose Selgas, the Spanish architect of this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, standing inside the psychedelic cocoon he has built with his partner Lucia Cano, which now shimmers in Kensington Gardens. He’s dressed in green trousers, a blue blazer and red and yellow high-top boots; she’s clutching a neon orange handbag, which could
  
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• The Kremlin Is Not Cool With A Play About Oscar Wilde

  22-06-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A plan to stage an American theater company’s gay-themed play in Moscow, with support from the United States government, has stalled amid tensions between the two nations and at a time of Kremlin hostility toward homosexuality.”
  
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• The Berlin Phil Has Chosen Its New Conductor

  22-06-2015 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kiril Petrenko “is best-known for his work in the opera pit; he spent five years at the helm of the Berlin Komische Oper, and has been general music director of the Bavarian State Opera since 2013.”
  
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• Do Open Auditions Ever Truly Work, For The Actors Or The Films?

  22-06-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Film producer Kathleen Kennedy said they decided to have open auditions because of the film’s tradition of casting unknown actors in the past such as Mark Hamill, albeit through the traditional casting process.”
  
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• Charles Correa Fused Modernism And India’s History To Create A New Architecture

  22-06-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He created striking museums and university buildings in India and abroad — including one at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his alma mater — as well as housing for a country with an ever-growing population.”
  
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• Taylor Swift Tells Apple To Pay Musicians For All The Weeks Of That New Streaming Service

  22-06-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Three months is a long time to go unpaid, and it is unfair to ask anyone to work for nothing.”
  
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• Morning Links: The Abramovic Method Edition

  22-06-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  In response to the destruction of antiquities in Syria and Iraq, the UK’s new Conservative government has committed to ratifying the Hague Convention. [The Art Newspaper]An iconic beachfront house in Malibu, California, “one of most important remaining modern houses in … Read More
  
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• And Boom, Taylor Swift Forces Apple To Pay Its Artists

  22-06-2015 14:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Apple says it’s bowing to concerns raised by pop superstar Taylor Swift. The giant tech company now plans to pay royalties to artists and record labels during a free, three-month trial of its new streaming music service.”
  
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• Littered with fakes: why the Hitler art trade is such a sick joke

  22-06-2015 14:44
  
  A batch of the Führer’s watercolours has just been sold at a controversial auction. But as well as having zero artistic value, most ‘Hitlers’ are probably fake – so why do we continue to collude in this grotesque deception?A sale of Adolf Hitler’s paintings in Germany is rightly controversial. Who are these collectors that fork out considerable sums for the art of a man who caused murder and cruelty beyond imagining? The trade in Hitler’s paintings is repulsive and sick. But that’
  
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• The Well-Tempered Clavier, Only In Fluorescent Lights

  22-06-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Hundreds of fluorescent light bulbs are hung in a gallery and parking garage, each one a physical representation of a single music note’s length and pitch. When a note is struck, its light, shadows, glows and reflections are rendered, creating a surprisingly life-like experience.”
  
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• Is Death Actually Different From Life? [VIDEO]

  22-06-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some of our greatest thinkers have explored the question, and the more we learn, the harder it is to conclude there’s anything special or distinct about ‘life.'”
  
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• Making Art Out Of California’s Great Drought

  22-06-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over the past 18 months, the photographer has documented most of San Luis Obispo County’s bodies of water, ranging from the small — Atascadero Lake and Laguna Lake in San Luis Obispo — to the sizable, such as Santa Margarita Lake, Lopez Lake east of Arroyo Grande, Nacimiento Lake northwest of Paso Robles and Whale […]
  
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• Gunther Schuller, A Composer Who Synthesized Classical And Jazz

  22-06-2015 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In addition to being fiercely proud of his self-taught status, he had an iconoclastic streak, and had a busy sideline delivering jeremiads in which he railed against either his listeners’ approach to music making or the musical world in general.”
  
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• An insider's cultural guide to Sofia: Tsars, trams and plays about Tupac

  22-06-2015 11:27
  
  With rooftop pools housing contemporary art and playwrights imagining office culture in purgatory, there’s more to Sofia than socialist facadesSocial behind a socialist facade Continue reading...
  
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• Twisted logic: the enigmatic world of MC Escher – in pictures

  22-06-2015 08:00
  
  His drawings have adorned T-shirts, table mats and bedroom walls, but this month they receive high-brow recognition at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, in a major retrospective. The Dutch artist’s visual tricks and teases continue to delight and infuriate us – here is some of his best workThe impossible world of MC Escher Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 06.21.15

  22-06-2015 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Farewell To Gunther Schuller AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-06-21 Tangy’s Priapic Drawings on Display at Art Basel, 2015 AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2015-06-21 Audiencing: The End of a Road AJBlog: We The AudiencePublished 2015-06-21 It’s creative; but is it beautiful? (My talk at the Pave Symposium on Entrepreneurship and the Art… AJBlog: JumperPublished 2015-06-21 Tom Stoppard expects more of you AJBlog: About Last NightPublished […]
  
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• BP Portrait Award: How today's painters concentrate on depicting loved ones rather than famous faces

  22-06-2015 03:15
  
  The BP Portrait Award, the most important contest worldwide solely for portraits, carries a first prize of £30,000 and has been a fixture in the National Portrait Gallery schedule since its inception 36 years ago. What emerged this year is an overview of contemporary portraiture, its myriad subject matter and motivations. Unlike many of the portraits in the NPG, the majority of sitters here are anonymous, family or friends. The only exception is an instantly familiar grizzled Bob Geldof painte
  
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• Conductor Gunther Schuller, 89

  22-06-2015 02:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Schuller began his career in the 1940s as a horn player with the Cincinnati Symphony and Metropolitan Opera, but his love of jazz led him to also become involved in New York’s bebop scene. He played on trumpeter Miles Davis’ seminal “Birth of the Cool” 1949-50 recording session.”
  
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• How Pixar Got Its Animated Groove Back

  22-06-2015 00:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While Inside Out has a personal connection, it also reflects the science-geek sensibility that runs through much of Pixar’s history.”
  
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