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• Carlyle Group Macher David M. Rubenstein Joins NGA Board

  24-06-2015 23:48 via artnews.com
  Changes are afoot in the governance of the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, D.C., with David M. Rubenstein, the philanthropist and CEO of the asset-management firm the Carlyle Group, joining its board of trustees for a 10-year term.Meanwhile, Victoria Sant … Read More
  
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• Bureau Gallery to Stage 20-Day Video Series Starting June 26

  24-06-2015 23:31 via artnews.com
  Between June 26 and July 31, the downtown New York gallery Bureau will stage a daily durational video screening called, naturally enough, “The Daily Show.” Each day, a guest will provide eight hours of moving-image programming, screening whatever they feel like. This … Read More
  
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• Nicholas Buffon Teams With Gobby on Music Video

  24-06-2015 23:18 via artnews.com
  Harlem-based drummer/producer Gobby has once again collaborated with contemporary artist Nicholas Buffon to create a karaoke-style music video, this time for “Quickie,” a track off of 2014’s Beats by Gobby.This video maintains the same DIY feel of their last video … Read More
  
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• Untitled(you’re a Marxist…

  24-06-2015 22:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I’m blaming Y’s condition on bad weather. I know I can be changed by it. My mother used to get headaches before storms. I don’t know if Y is still mediating our talks with the weather. It’s an unexpected 74 degrees in March. We didn’t pray for it. It came of its own accord, the ... Continue ReadingThe post Untitled(you’re a Marxist… appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Do Our Theatre Reviews Have A Racial Bias Problem?

  24-06-2015 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Reading these reviews just after following reports from the Americans in the Arts and Theatre Communications Group conferences, which demonstrated a genuine desire on the part of arts institutions to address diversity and inclusion, I worry that if the arbiters of art continue to judge work based on retrograde social views, it will only slow […]
  
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• Slow Art: Making Art That No One In Your Lifetime Will See (It’s A Thing)

  24-06-2015 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some contemporary artists reacting against the idea that art should be accessible and shareable have turned to ephemerality: The popular German-British artist Tino Sehgal, for instance, makes art from fleeting interactions such as kisses and refuses to allow his “constructed situations” to be documented. Century art goes the other way, seeking solidity in the accumulation […]
  
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• Remembering Philosopher Martin Heidegger 40 Years Later

  24-06-2015 19:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of his death. Yet he will not be commemorated in the way many of his disciples, such as Hannah Arendt, Richard Rorty, and Jacques Derrida, have been. Evidence that Heidegger at one time was a member of the Nazi party has led to a chilling effect on the […]
  
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• Vatican hires tattoo remover – to clean its sculptures

  24-06-2015 19:39
  
  Cheshire firm steps in to clean up papal household’s dirt-encrusted art-works with machines designed to remove tattoo ink from skinWhen a senior Vatican official made a call to a tattoo removal specialist, it was not a red-faced cardinal hoping to erase an anchor on his bicep. The Vatican Museum had requested the use of tattoo removal equipment for the delicate removal of dirt particles covering some of its most priceless works.Reached through through one of its Italian associates, Lyntons Las
  
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• Panned By Critics, “50 Shades Of Grey” Sequel Sells Million Copies In UK In First Week, Breaks Sales Records

  24-06-2015 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Released last Thursday, Grey tells the story of the S&M-focused relationship between businessman Christian Grey and shy student Anastasia Steele from the perspective of Christian – something its British author James writes in her dedication that fans had “asked … and asked … and asked … and asked” for.”
  
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• Rhizome Now Accepting Proposals for 2015 Net Art Microgrants

  24-06-2015 19:19 via artnews.com
  The nonprofit new-media arts organization Rhizome announced today that it is accepting proposals for the 2015 edition of their series of $500 microgrants centered around browser-based internet art.“The $500 is kind of meant to buy domain names, get you a few … Read More
  
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• Cleveland To Turn A Traffic Island Into A Destination Public Space

  24-06-2015 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s a stage set,” James Corner says of his designs. “You’re trying to set up situations where it’s not just about having nice places to sit in the sun. It’s also the whole theatricality of people-watching, and you being seen, or you being not seen.”
  
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• Art dealer admits selling fake paintings

  24-06-2015 18:46
  
  David Carter has been told he faces jail for passing off imitations as masterpieces by Alfred Wallis and John Brett
  An art dealer who passed off cheap, modern imitations as genuine masterpieces by two renowned painters has been told he faces jail for the scam. Continue reading...
  
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• Who’s Making Money In The Music Business (Job-By-Job Analysis)

  24-06-2015 18:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Billboard followed the money to determine who’s pulling in the largest (and smallest) paychecks in the industry: from the tens of millions in equity awards reaped by Apple executives to a radio-station mascot’s minimum wage.”
  
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• Claim: Is UK’s Creative Writing Program Actually Making Students’ Writing Worse?

  24-06-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The authors, a growing group that already numbers 35, say that national curriculum assessment criteria have become a “prescription for how to teach children to write (to pass the tests), with quite adverse effects on their writing skills”. This means, they say, that children are taught “not to use simple words such as ‘good’, ‘bad’, […]
  
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• Are Festivals The Future Of Opera?

  24-06-2015 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Most of our opera companies have lost mainstage paid attendance in the last 10 years and Vancouver Opera is not excepted,” explained Opera America president and CEO Marc Scorca in an interview from New York last week. “The companies that have lost least audience or none at all are the festivals.”
  
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• Tang Teaching Museum Receives $100,000 Challenge Grant From the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation

  24-06-2015 18:00 via artnews.com
  Skidmore College’s interdisciplinary Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, in Saratoga Springs, New York, has received a $100,000 challenge grant from the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation for the purpose of supporting the conservation and care of its 7,000-plus-work collection. … Read More
  
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• As Our Machines Get Smarter, Are We Nearing The End Of Work As We Know It?

  24-06-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What does the ‘end of work’ mean, exactly? It does not mean the imminence of total unemployment, nor is the United States remotely likely to face, say, 30 or 50 percent unemployment within the next decade. Rather, technology could exert a slow but continual downward pressure on the value and availability of work—that is, on […]
  
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• ‘Khaldoun Chichakli: Damascenes’ at Green Art Gallery, Dubai

  24-06-2015 17:15 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Khaldoun Chichakli: Damascenes” is currently on view at Green Art Gallery in Dubai and showcases a variety of woodcuts and drawings from the Syrian artist. The exhibition provides … Read More
  
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• Here’s Your New (Young!) Spider-Man (Cue The Fan Backlash)

  24-06-2015 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Marvel and Sony announced Tuesday that 19 year-old Tom Holland will be taking over the role of Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the upcoming reboot of the character, this time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And while fans might be excited to finally see Spidey swinging alongside Iron Man and Captain America, some are not happy about […]
  
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• Why Can’t We Just Let Favorite Book Series Die? (Five Franchises That Need To End)

  24-06-2015 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It seems like we’ve never been so overwhelmed with reboots, prequels, neverending series, and what Slate has called “famfic” — continuations of a series by the late author’s own family.”
  
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• Free At Last – The Magic Of Ornette Coleman

  24-06-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Tomorrow is the question, Ornette declared. But his answers contained big chunks of yesterday. His most famous composition, “Lonely Woman,” is a dirge so mournful it seems to lament its own existence—in a succession of increasingly exuberant proclamations.”
  
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• Jeremy Theophilus obituary

  24-06-2015 16:29
  
  My friend and former colleague, Jeremy Theophilus, who has died aged 66 of cancer, possessed a rare open sensibility for the arts. His modesty masked passionate curiosity and a wide range of achievements. A theatre designer and artist, he became a gallery director, an independent curator and an internationally regarded writer. When I think of him, I see generosity, and white and blue: his whiter-than-white hair, his blue cotton jackets. And red boots. Self-effacing as he was, you could not miss
  
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• From Aaaaa! to ZZZap!: Michael Mandiberg on His Plan to Print Wikipedia

  24-06-2015 16:20 via artnews.com
  'I'm trying to figure out the smallest move I can make in order to transform something' Read More
  
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• San Jose Ballet Chief Steps Down After Only A Year

  24-06-2015 15:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “News of Alan Hineline’s departure came shortly after the company announced that it had weathered yet another of many financial crises, raising $680,000 in 10 days to avoid a shutdown last March. Today, the company is on the road to fulfilling its “Bridge to the Future” campaign, having raised $1.5 million of its $2.5 million […]
  
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• La Traviata, Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn, review: OperaUpClose create a viable pocket-sized Verdi

  24-06-2015 15:15
  
  The story of La traviata could hardly be simpler, yet, as evidenced by the false trails in Peter Konwitschny’s wayward production for ENO, it’s still possible to get things profoundly wrong.
  
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• Morning Links: 3D Rice Paddy Art Edition

  24-06-2015 15:05 via artnews.com
  The Morgan Library and Museum has named Roger S. Wieck, an expert in medieval books of Hours, as head of its department of medieval and renaissance manuscripts. [Artforum]Kerstin Bräsch at Kunstverein Arnsberg. [Contemporary Art Daily]Guggenheim Helsinki’s winning design, titled “Art in the City,” was announced at … Read More
  
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• A Tate gallery in Glasgow could save the union

  24-06-2015 14:43
  
  Tate Liverpool is a great modern British institution, far warmer and more imaginative than either of its London sisters. Tate should keep expanding northCriticism is all about being critical. If it’s honest, it’s often upsetting. So it’s nice sometimes to just be able to praise. Tate Liverpool, for instance, is simply terrific. It is currently my favourite Tate. It is warmer and more likable than either of the London Tates and is doing an excellent job at bringing outstanding art to the no
  
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• Non-stop art: why Doug Aitken is a man on a mission

  24-06-2015 13:44
  
  He’s blown up his house, recorded the Earth’s tectonic plates, and worked with everyone from Tilda Swinton to Giorgio Moroder. Now the multimedia artist is taking over London’s Barbican. How does he find the time?I am standing in a crowded gallery in London, looking up at a sculpture on the wall. It is a simple enough piece, three ostentatiously large 3D letters made from bluish glass, but the word they spell out – NOW – seems to drown out everything in the vicinity. The pretentious ch
  
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• How The Talmud Became A Bestseller In South Korea

  24-06-2015 09:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Each Korean family has at least one copy of the Talmud. Korean mothers want to know how so many Jewish people became geniuses. Twenty-three per cent of Nobel Prize winners are Jewish people. Korean women want to know the secret. They found the secret in this book.”
  
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• MoMA Averts Strike As Employees Approve New Contract

  24-06-2015 09:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The three-year labor agreement “was ratified by 95% of the roughly 280 MoMA employees who are members of Local 2110.”
  
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• Uprooting The Confederate Flag From American Pop Culture Ain’t Gonna Be Easy

  24-06-2015 09:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s not just all the bumper stickers and belt buckles and shower curtains and other merch: it’s motorcycle clubs and Lynyrd Skynyrd albums and Dukes of Hazzard reruns. “How do you deal with a symbol that means so many different things, to so many different people? How do you ‘take down’ a flag that has […]
  
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• Cause And Effect: The Way The Universe Works, Or Naïve Illusion? (Yes, It’s A Real Question)

  24-06-2015 09:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In short, a working knowledge of the way in which causes and effects relate to one another seems indispensible to our ability to make our way in the world. Yet there is a long and venerable tradition in philosophy, dating back at least to David Hume in the 18th century, that finds the notions of […]
  
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• Bill T. Jones Grapples With The Holocaust In Dance

  24-06-2015 08:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Taking testimony from a Holocaust survivor and turning it into a dance is an intriguing but risky proposition, especially if you’re not a Jew. How do you do justice to the words and the truths they contain while still creating something new from them? How do art and life, imagination and reality, coexist?”
  
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• A Liberal Arts Education? Not Worth A Dime (And That’s Okay)

  24-06-2015 08:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even the shrinking pool of champions of liberal education try to argue for its workplace utility, pointing out that employers actually do want their employees to ‘write clearly,’ ‘argue persuasively,’ and ‘possess critical thinking skills,’ … It has not compelled anyone. … This tactic may win some battles, but it will ultimately lose the war.”
  
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• What’s Happening In Your Brain When You Keep Nodding Off And Can’t Stay Awake

  24-06-2015 08:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s all about the thalamus and the group of cerebral regions sometimes nicknamed “the oh shit circuit.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.23.15

  24-06-2015 08:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Fragmented Exhibition Spaces”: Guggenheim Picks Architects for Helsinki AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-06-23 Entry from an unkept diary AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-06-23 Lookback: on discovering the joys of shuffle play AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-06-23 [ssba_hide]
  
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• British art dealer discovers unknown Monet pastel taped to another work

  24-06-2015 08:00
  
  Art gallery director Jonathan Green found depiction of jetty at Le Havre hidden after he purchased two of Impressionist’s works at auction
  Bargains always go down well with consumers, but a British art dealer was all the more excited to discover that he had unknowingly bought three pastels by Claude Monet for the price of two. Jonathan Green, a director of the Richard Green Gallery in London, found a radiant, completely unknown third pastel by the French painter hidden behind the two others th
  
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• Dark Mofo 2015 review – the deep, dark night of the festival's final weekend

  24-06-2015 05:43
  
  A truly egalitarian winter solstice experience alternatively provoked our critic into paroxysms of delighted laughter and moved her almost to tearsDark Mofo festival: the newcomer’s takeHobart winter solstice skinny dip – in picturesAll our Dark Mofo coverage in one placeWhat brings a person to the edge of the world to “celebrate the dark” in temperatures that wouldn’t be out of place in your vegetable crisper? If, like me, you are as committed a fan of thermal underwear as you are of
  
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• Gabriel Prokofiev on the BBC's Ten Pieces, Nonclassical, and a new Carnival of the Animals

  24-06-2015 04:15
  
  Gabriel Prokofiev is pondering, over a Turkish lunch near his Bethnal Green studio in London, an unexpected development in his career as composer: the BBC has just picked a movement from his Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra for its new Ten Pieces list for schoolchildren aged 11 to 14. This concerto's mingling of classical format and very contemporary idiom – the scratching and sampling of a DJ on turntables – should be an ideal way in to the sometimes mysterious spheres of contemporary
  
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