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• Christie’s Imp-Mod Auction in London Nets $113 M., With Monet on Top

  23-06-2015 23:58 via artnews.com
  Christie’s London today offered 52 lots in its annual June evening sale of Impressionist and modern art, and netted £71.4 million, or about $113 million. Eighty-four percent of those lots sold, a solid figure. The house trumpeted in a release that … Read More
  
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• Outsider Art Fair Releases Exhibitor List for Expanded Paris Edition

  23-06-2015 22:55 via artnews.com
  Today the Outsider Art Fair announced the dealers that will appear in its third annual edition in Paris, at the Hôtel Du Duc, a chateau once owned by the Duke de Morny (a new location), from October 22 to 25. The fair, … Read More
  
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• ‘Mark Dion, Judy Pfaff, Fred Wilson: The Order of Things’ at The Barnes Foundation

  23-06-2015 22:01 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Mark Dion, Judy Pfaff, Fred Wilson: The Order of Things” is currently on view at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. It presents large-scale installations commissioned from each artist, as well as … Read More
  
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• How You Perceive The World – Have We Been Thinking About This The Wrong Way?

  23-06-2015 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There is an external world, and it is full of things: tables, crocodiles, textures, etc. These things and this world exist whether I like it or not: their existence is independent of my beliefs, opinions, or preferences, and hence we say that such an existence — or, to use the technical term, such an ontology […]
  
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• MoMA Announces Artist List for ‘New Photography 2015′

  23-06-2015 21:22 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Modern Art announced today that, for the 30th anniversary of “New Photography,” it will expand to 19 artists from 14 countries. The exhibition is a biennial showcase for emerging photographers, and has helped launch the careers of artists … Read More
  
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• London’s Royal Opera House Has Record Year At The Box Office

  23-06-2015 21:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Double-digit increases in income from ticket sales – which grew 19% to £44.2 million – and fundraising (a 10% lift to £26.5 million) accounted for more than half (56%) of all earnings. Funding of £29 million from Arts Council England saw its contribution to overall income decreasing 1% to 23% of the total.”
  
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• Director of the Met Thanks LG Electronics for Lowering Height of New Headquarters

  23-06-2015 21:09 via artnews.com
  Thomas P. Campbell, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, released a statement today thanking LG Electronics for its decision to lower the height of its proposed new headquarters in Englewood Cliffs. An earlier plan had drawn the … Read More
  
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• Ben Rivers installation to take over former BBC Television Centre

  23-06-2015 21:02
  
  Artist and film-maker fills building set for demolition with mix of films and events inspired by writer Paul BowlesThere is avant-garde film-making, Moroccan literature and Berber storytelling in a new art installation opening in the BBC’s soon-to-be demolished Television Centre. Doctor Who’s Tardis, Daleks and Jan Leeming also feature.The unlikely mix can be found in a vast work by the artist and film-maker Ben Rivers, who this summer is taking over the now empty drama block at the BBC’s
  
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• Latest “Jurassic Park” Reaches $1 Billion Box Office In Only 13 Days

  23-06-2015 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The dinosaur film has collected $402.8 million domestically in 10 days and $584.4 million overseas since its international rollout began on June 10, according to studio estimates. Internationally, the latest installment will pass the $640-million lifetime box office total of “Jurassic Park” (which includes the first run, reissues and 3-D) and become the highest-grossing film […]
  
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• Report: IVAM, Valencia’s Modern Art Museum, Juiced Attendance Numbers, Overpaid for Art

  23-06-2015 20:57 via artnews.com
  According to an audit by the regional government of Valencia, Spain, the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM) has been less than virtuous on a number of fronts in recent years, inflating its annual attendance by more than a million people and overpaying … Read More
  
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• Film Composer James Horner Dies In Plane Crash

  23-06-2015 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One of Hollywood’s most highly regarded and prolific film composers, Horner wrote the music for well over 100 movies in the course of his career, touching on every conceivable genre. His credits include some of the most successful films of the last three decades, and he collaborated with many of the industry’s top directors, including […]
  
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• Everything About Canadian TV Is Changing

  23-06-2015 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “All the change is symbolized, illuminated, in CBC actually firing a well-connected person of privileged background on a heap-of-cash issue. It’s still a racket, the Canadian TV business, but the old version is dead. And some people dance on its grave.”
  
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• French-Japanese Architects Chosen For Helsinki Guggenheim

  23-06-2015 20:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The design was the popular choice in an exhibition of the six shortlisted scheme, which closed in May. Winning support from the citizens of Helsinki—and its politicians—is crucial, if the design is to be built. Backed by Helsinki’s mayor Jussi Pajunen, the project still needs to receive a green light from the city authorities.”
  
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• Eugenio Valdés Figueroa Named Director and Chief Curator of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation

  23-06-2015 20:12 via artnews.com
  Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, the founder and president of Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), has named curator and critic Eugenio Valdés Figueroa as the foundation’s new director and chief curator, succeeding Jesús Fuenmayor.Fontanals-Cisneros said in a statement: Eugenio Valdés Figueroa’s depth of knowledge in … Read More
  
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• Adrián Villar Rojas Wins the Prix Canson for Works on Paper

  23-06-2015 19:02 via artnews.com
  Last night, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Fonds Canson pour l’Art et le Papier announced that Argentine artist Adrián Villar Rojas has won its 2015 Prix Canson for his work on paper. This year’s other finalists were Mithu … Read More
  
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• Wikipedia Is Dying. Can It Be Saved?

  23-06-2015 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 2005, during Wikipedia’s peak years, there were months when more than 60 editors were made administrator — a position with special privileges in editing the English-language edition. For the past year, it has sometimes struggled to promote even one per month. The pool of potential Wikipedia editors could dry up as the number of […]
  
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• Advertising & Promotions Manager

  23-06-2015 18:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The world-renowned Cleveland Orchestra is looking for an enterprising, creative individual for our new Advertising and Promotions Manager.
  
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• The Rock ‘n Roll Hall Of Fame Just Ditched Half Its Nominating Committee. Why?

  23-06-2015 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They just got rid of the guys who have all the histories of thousands of artists in their heads. That’s like letting go the intent of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.”
  
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• Auctionata Bets Monet Seller That It Can Outperform Amazon, With Proceeds Going to Charity

  23-06-2015 18:29 via artnews.com
  Auctionata’s “Fine Arts Week” online art auctions, which offer Old Master and 19th-century paintings as well as Impressionist, modern, and contemporary works, seem to off to a fine start. On June 20, the company set a new record for its sales, moving an enamel, ivory-mounted, … Read More
  
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• A Star Retires: Julie Kent’s Last Night At ABT

  23-06-2015 17:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After the curtain went down on the last act, she received a 23-minute ovation and enough bouquets to stock a small flower shop. They were tributes to Julie Kent, who danced her farewell performance with American Ballet Theater on Saturday night after 29 years with the company — a final “Romeo and Juliet” — and […]
  
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• Miriam Schapiro, Pioneering Feminist Artist, Dies at 91

  23-06-2015 17:38 via artnews.com
  Painter, sculptor, and printmaker Miriam Schapiro, who helped spearhead the feminist art movement in the 1970s, inspiring generations of artists, died on June 20 at age 91 after a long illness.Schapiro, who sometimes went by the nickname “Mimi,” was born in Toronto, … Read More
  
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• Miriam Schapiro, a Leader of the Feminist Art Movement, Dies at 91

  23-06-2015 17:38 via artnews.com
  Painter, sculptor, and printmaker Miriam Schapiro, who helped spearhead the feminist art movement in the 1970s, inspiring generations of artists, died on June 20 at age 91 after a long illness.Schapiro, who sometimes went by the nickname “Mimi,” was born in Toronto, … Read More
  
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• Before they were famous: art stars on their final degree shows

  23-06-2015 17:27
  
  Tracey Emin made £2,500, Gillian Wearing met her future husband – and the tutors gave David Shrigley’s giant walnut whip a 2:2. As this year’s students hang their work and cross their fingers, British artists relive their last days at art school Continue reading...
  
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• Amazon Will Pay Writers Based On How Many Pages Readers Read. Is This Fair?

  23-06-2015 17:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The move has dismayed some authors, who believe it sets a dangerous precedent and could spread across the industry. It has also raised concerns about the amount of data Amazon is able to mine from its customers. “We’re making this switch in response to great feedback we received from authors who asked us to better […]
  
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• Bloomberg Philanthropies Announce Winners of Public Art Challenge Grant; Theaster Gates Among the Artists

  23-06-2015 17:17 via artnews.com
  Today, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced the four American cities chosen as the winners of its first-ever Public Art Challenge grant: Los Angeles; Spartanburg, South Carolina; Gary, Indiana; and a collaborative made up of Albany, Schenectady and Troy in New York. Each will receive … Read More
  
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• ‘Completely Obsessive': Dennis Zanone on His Sprawling Collection of Memphis Design

  23-06-2015 17:05 via artnews.com
  Dennis Zanone’s phone connection is slightly fuzzy because he speaks on a 1986 Ettore-Sottssas–designed telephone. Zanone’s bed is the “Tawaraya” boxing ring, a Memphis prototype for a conversation pit, that quintessential piece of 20th-century furniture that never took off. They are … Read More
  
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• How Do Musicians Remember So Many Notes From Memory?

  23-06-2015 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Soloists are capable of remembering a tremendous amount of information based on several, mostly inexplicable and un-researched, mnemonic applications. Concert pianists, for example, can perform a 45 minute piece with 30,000 individual notes, that have to be performed in an absolutely particular order, with rhythmical and dynamic variability, passionately creating an emotional and formal narrative, […]
  
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• Chinese Want Their (Older) Art Back

  23-06-2015 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Chinese art has become a prized liquid asset for superrich collectors, who, instead of putting their treasures on display, often deposit them in carefully guarded, climate-controlled warehouses. But the media’s emphasis on the white-hot market for contemporary Chinese works overlooks a more interesting story: the effort by the Chinese government, state-run companies, private collectors and […]
  
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• Morbid monsters and the Ku Klux Klan: the crude cartoonish genius of Philip Guston

  23-06-2015 15:54
  
  Guston, who would have been 102 this week, lives on in artwork so gruesome and squalid it makes every painter today look flimsy and effeteI feel as if my eyes are wading through murk. Dragging myself through clumps of daubed and dirtied paint in black, greys and filthy reds, forms start to reveal themselves. Staring into Philip Guston’s mid-period 1959 painting Traveller III, it seems that there are images buried there, almost as a secret.Born in Montreal in 1913, to a family who had emigrated
  
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• Was It Really Taylor Swift Who Got Apple To Pay Musicians?

  23-06-2015 15:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Many small and mid-sized labels had protested Apple’s free trial. “Collectively, the protesting labels – which included Beggars Group, home to Adele and Britain’s largest indie – represented about a quarter of the global market. Not to have Swift’s album 1989 on Apple Music, when it launches at the end of the month, is one […]
  
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• Architectural Record Magazine Sold (But Will It Survive?)

  23-06-2015 15:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Record’s influence extends well beyond its core readership of professionals. Corporate executives, facilities managers, related professionals, and others who work with architects scout talent and note trends via Record. The magazine publishes emerging talents before they become household names—a very important function, given the few paths firms have to garner attention if they aren’t supported […]
  
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• Morning Links: David Shrigley–Designed Soccer Mascot Edition

  23-06-2015 14:55 via artnews.com
  Jonathan Jones on why the new David Shrigley–designed mascot for the Scottish soccer team Partick Thistle is “art at its best.” [The Guardian]The Guggenheim Helsinki has officially unveiled its design, by Moreau Kusunoki Architectes. [The New York Times]Protests at MoMA … Read More
  
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• Death in Venice, Garsington Opera, review: Musical splendour of a duff production

  23-06-2015 13:40
  
  Based on Thomas Mann’s novella about the impossible love which springs in the breast of a blocked middle-aged writer as he watches a beautiful boy cavorting on the beach, Britten’s final opera is burdened with prissily over-literary monologues.
  
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• Partick Thistle’s grotesque new mascot is art at its best | Jonathan Jones

  23-06-2015 12:48
  
  Good artists do not do cuddly and, with its demonic features and gaping maw, David Shrigley’s Kingsley expresses the essence of sporting aggression. For fans to object is pure hypocrisyIf you want proof that populism and good art are incompatible, look no further than the sorry tale of Kingsley, the mascot nobody loved.When the Scottish football team Partick Thistle revealed its new mascot this week, presumably it was expecting plaudits for originality, style and good taste. This spiky-headed
  
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• Eyewitness: Serpentine pavilion, London

  23-06-2015 11:39
  
  Photographs from the Eyewitness series Continue reading...
  
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• The New Cardiff Singer Of The World Is –

  23-06-2015 10:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  – a 32-year-old soprano from Belarus. The Audience Prize went to a 29-year-old Mongolian. Obscure? Not for long.
  
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• Oscar-Winning Composer Killed In Plane Crash

  23-06-2015 10:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  James Horner wrote the scores for a host of successful movies, among them Titanic, Braveheart, Field of Dreams, Aliens, Apollo 13, Avatar, and Star Trek II and III.
  
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• Memoir Of A Teenage Serial Killer (A Real One) Has Japan In An Uproar

  23-06-2015 10:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Brushing aside mounting criticism, a Tokyo publisher has defended its decision to release a controversial autobiography penned by a former teenage serial killer, billing it as helpful to elucidate – and even deter – heinous juvenile crimes in society. Since the release of the autobiography last week, Ota Publishing Co. has faced a ‘massive’ backlash […]
  
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• The Decline Of The American Leading Man?

  23-06-2015 10:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Terrence Rafferty: “The phenomenon may have reached its unignorable peak in last year’s docudrama Selma: the parts of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Governor George Wallace, and President Lyndon B. Johnson were all played by Brits. … Crisis or not, this is getting embarrassing.”
  
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• North Carolina Teacher Resigns Over Gay-Themed Fable Read To Third-Graders

  23-06-2015 10:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Currie had said he would resign because he felt administrators did not support him after he read King & King, in which two princes fall in love and get married. He has said he read the book after a boy in his class was called gay in a derogatory way and told he was acting […]
  
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• Can An Algorithm Really Tell Us If A Play Is Authentic Shakespeare?

  23-06-2015 10:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The case of Double Falsehood and the search for “function words.”
  
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• The Last Living Bohemian At The Chelsea Hotel Tells All

  23-06-2015 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Paramount among them is Gerald Busby, composer, pianist, author of one of the great modern dance scores (Paul Taylor’s Runes), H.I.V. survivor, and also, at one time, as he confides openly, a crack addict. In his tiny studio apartment, complete with piano, at the hotel … on a good morning you can still find him […]
  
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• If The Internet Was Once An Egalitarian Utopia, Have Corporations Paved Paradise?

  23-06-2015 10:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the early days of the web, much more of what we encountered was home-made by people who shared those values and that vision. … But then Facebook happened. … Blogs were ours. Facebook is not ours.” Nevertheless, argues David Weinberger, if they’ve turned paradise into a parking lot, there’s still a lot of grass […]
  
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• James Horner dies: Composer's most popular film scores from Titanic to Star Trek

  23-06-2015 10:01
  
  The film industry has lost one of its biggest talents with the passing of composer James Horner, who died in a plane crash in California aged 61. 
  
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• The Marvelous Manhole Covers Of Minneapolis

  23-06-2015 09:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Most visitors to new cities don’t come home raving about the location’s manhole covers, but the city of Minneapolis has made its underfoot sewer covers a point of artistic pride, with designs that celebrate the area’s art, history, and wildlife.”
  
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• The Pollyanna Hypothesis: All Languages Have A Positivity Bias

  23-06-2015 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  All of them? That’s what the research says. Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield explain. (podcast)
  
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• Gravity Illusions: San Francisco’s Hills Are So Painfully Steep That We’re Going To Dance About It

  23-06-2015 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Karen X.] Cheng, a former Microsoft Excel employee turned dancer, ‘viral video consult,’ and Queen Latifah guest, collaborated with filmmaker Ross Ching for the trick-heavy homage to slopes. … the project was inspired by Dan Ng’s photos that ‘correct’ San Francisco’s awful angles.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.22.15

  23-06-2015 08:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Artless” In America: Why, Oh Why? AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-06-22 Commercial, Not Collegial: British Museum’s Major Loans to Abu Dhabi’s Zayed National Museum AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-06-22 Visit from a gaggle of fractious critics AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-06-22 Twitter, in four sentences AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-06-22 Chamber Ballet in […]
  
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• Pretty as a pixel: can you guess the artwork?

  23-06-2015 08:00
  
  Think you know your art? Alexis Poles makes maddening pixelated masterpieces that will test you to your limits. See how well you do!Continue reading...
  
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• Tate Britain recreates Dutch pavilion for Barbara Hepworth exhibition

  23-06-2015 05:45
  
  Half a century ago Barbara Hepworth, one of Britain’s most important sculptors, praised a Dutch pavilion displaying her bronzes as the ideal setting for her work.
  
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