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• ‘What Is Matter?’ at Intelligentsia Gallery

  25-06-2015 20:56 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “What is Matter?” is currently on view at Intelligentsia Gallery in Beijing. The group exhibition features work by Wang Guangle, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Ada Sokol, Jeff Miller, and … Read More
  
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• Shepard Fairey: Detroit police issue arrest warrant for artist

  25-06-2015 20:12
  
  The street artist, who became world-famous for his Obama poster, has been accused of causing $9,000 worth of damage in Detroit Related: Hope dashed: Obama poster artist says president is a disappointment One of the world’s most celebrated street artists, whose Hope poster of Barack Obama became one of the defining images of the 2008 US election, has a warrant out for his arrest on two counts of malicious destruction of property. Continue reading...
  
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• Kounellis Horses Have First U.S. Showing at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise

  25-06-2015 19:56 via artnews.com
  In 1969, shortly after Rome’s Galleria l’Attico moved into a new location in the city, a former garage on Via Beccaria, the Greek artist Jannis Kounellis ushered in 12 horses and tethered them to the walls, helping to inaugurate the space. But now that storied hallmark of … Read More
  
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• Helsinki’s Winning Guggenheim Design Highlights Museum’s Challenges

  25-06-2015 19:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hailed as “a wake-up call to architecture” that champions the idea of public space, the design by Paris-based architects Moreau Kusunoki was revealed in the Finnish capital, where the museum is intended to transform the city’s waterfront and become the third Guggenheim in Europe, after Venice and Bilbao.
  
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• Univision Cancels Relationship With Donald Trump’s Miss Universe Org Over Trump Remarks About Immigrants

  25-06-2015 19:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The network said Thursday it would pull the plug on the July 12 Miss USA telecast and has severed its business relationship with the Miss Universe Organization, which produces the Miss USA pageant, due to what it called “insulting remarks about Mexican immigrants” by Trump, a part owner of Miss Universe.”
  
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• US museums increasingly avoid returning Nazi-looted art, report says

  25-06-2015 19:38
  
  The World Jewish Restitution Organization recommends that museums become less resistant toward claimants rather than creating expensive legal barriers A new report says US museums are increasingly evading the restitution of Nazi-looted art by using legal tactics to avoid resolving the cases on their merits.The World Jewish Restitution Organization says in a report released on Thursday that it is a tactic that has grown in recent years.Continue reading...
  
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• US museums increasingly avoid returning Nazi-looted art – report

  25-06-2015 19:38
  
  The World Jewish Restitution Organization recommends that museums become less resistant toward claimants rather than creating expensive legal barriers A new report says US museums are increasingly evading the restitution of Nazi-looted art by using legal tactics to avoid resolving the cases on their merits.The World Jewish Restitution Organization says in a report released Thursday that it’s a tactic that has grown in recent years.Continue reading...
  
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• For The First Time In His 50-Year Career James Taylor Has A #1 Album

  25-06-2015 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For the first time in his nearly half-century career, James Taylor topped the Billboard 200 Wednesday with his latest record, “Before This World.” The singer-songwriter’s first set of new songs since 2002’s “October Road” (which opened at No. 4), “Before This World” sold 96,000 copies during the week that ended Sunday, according to Nielsen Music.
  
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• Norman Rockwell Museum Honors UN’s 70th Anniversary With Exhibition

  25-06-2015 19:02 via artnews.com
  In 1952—at the peak of the Cold War, and two years into the Korean War—Norman Rockwell drafted an image of the United Nations, intending to portray the young organization and its Security Council members as a global symbol of hope. … Read More
  
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• After 67 Years Japan To Repeal No-Dancing Law

  25-06-2015 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The law was officially introduced after World War II, aiming to put an end to prostitution usually thought to have been taking place at venues where dancing occurred. It prohibits dancing anywhere without a special license – and even at a place that has one, you can only dance until midnight.”
  
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• Sony (And Other Major Recording Labels) Own A Piece Of Spotify. Is This A Conflict Of Interest That Hurts Artists?

  25-06-2015 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Having equity in Spotify might be smart, but if the money doesn’t trickle down from labels to profit participants, is it legal? The amended suit states that Sony has motive in making Spotify a more valuable company by giving it favorable royalty arrangement. By doing so, Sony’s own investment position is bigger, and any cash-outs […]
  
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• Alex Nemerov Named Chair of Stanford Art & Art History Department

  25-06-2015 18:20 via artnews.com
  Stanford announced today that art historian Alexander Nemerov has been named the new chair of its Art & Art History Department. His tenure begins this fall.Nemerov has been a part of Stanford’s faculty since 2012, most recently serving under the … Read More
  
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• Thousands Of Small Indie Music Labels Capitulate, Sign On With Apple Music

  25-06-2015 17:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The standoff with Apple illustrates the unusual position of independents in the digital age. They may have some of the biggest artists in the world — Ms. Swift and Adele are both signed to indies — but small companies struggle to secure licensing deals on the same terms as the big labels.”
  
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• Warrant Issued for Shepard Fairey’s Arrest in Detroit

  25-06-2015 17:18 via artnews.com
  The Detroit Free Press reports that a warrant has been issued for the arrest of street artist Shepard Fairey, whose work has mysteriously appeared, without authorization, at 14 locations around Detroit. The Detroit police have accused Fairey of $9,000 worth of … Read More
  
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• Blue Note Jazz To Expand To China

  25-06-2015 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Jazz has long had a substantial consumer base in Asia, especially Japan. Blue Note Tokyo opened more than 25 years ago, joined later by Blue Note clubs in Osaka and Nagoya. But given the potential development of a new audience in China, this expansion could radically change the picture for jazz in the region — […]
  
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• Africa's ancient art to be saved, with your help

  25-06-2015 16:43
  
  Thousands of examples of millennial old art carved into rocks and on the walls of caves are under threat as their location is often unknown and unprotected from artefact thieves.
  
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• Detroit Police Issue Arrest Warrant For Shepard Fairey

  25-06-2015 16:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Fairey is charged with two counts of malicious destruction of property after an arrest warrant was filed in Detroit’s 36th District Court on Friday. The crime carries a maximum sentence of five years in jail and fines of up to $10,000.”
  
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• Habitat: Federico Castelluccio

  25-06-2015 16:40 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a new weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Federico Castelluccio, Morris County, NJ.“As a child growing up I built car models. There was a brief moment where the Italian macho thing came out in me and I … Read More
  
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• America’s Embrace Of Anti-Intellectualism Is Killing Us

  25-06-2015 16:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a country where a sitting congressman told a crowd that evolution and the Big Bang are “lies straight from the pit of hell,” (link is external) where the chairman of a Senate environmental panel brought a snowball (link is external) into the chamber as evidence that climate change is a hoax, where almost one […]
  
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• Royalty Escalation: New App Puts Streamed Music On Endless Plays To Boost Royalties

  25-06-2015 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Eternify app puts any artist’s songs on endless repeat, playing just 30 seconds at a time – the minimum required to be considered a “listen”. Spotify said it was looking into whether it broke the service’s rules. Eternify was devised by New York-based act Ohm & Sport, who said streaming was “virtually worthless” for […]
  
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• How Did The New York Public Library Lose Its Way?

  25-06-2015 15:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What went wrong at one of the world’s eminent research libraries? NYPL, as it is often known, has been under intermittent financial pressure for most of its history, but in the last few years it has been enveloped by a controversy that has exposed the institution to unprecedented public scrutiny. What stands revealed is a […]
  
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• June Could Be Hollywood’s Biggest Month Ever At The Box Office

  25-06-2015 15:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even if the month falls short, it will still have been an impressive run considering analysts were initially worried ticket sales were lagging when big movies like “Tomorrowland” and “Spy” disappointed. But the big summer blockbuster season got back on track as “Jurassic World” smashed records when it debuted three weeks ago.”
  
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• How Much Should A Theatre Worry About Offending An Audience?

  25-06-2015 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Instead of censoring or sanitizing content that “might offend,” theatres should look at such works as opportunities to engage their audiences in critical public discourse about important issues in the play, because if we approach theatre as something that should be feared or approached cautiously, then we’ve robbed it of it’s power before the actors […]
  
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• Laura Ford, sculptor: 'Some sculptures' clothing is made - and I stole some from my children'

  25-06-2015 15:00
  
  Laura Ford greets me at her studio in north-west London. On a dead-end street, off a main road, it could be in the countryside with its beautiful garden. Tending it is a therapeutic hobby, Ford tells me.
  
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• Morning Links: Misogynistic Appropriation Edition

  25-06-2015 14:56 via artnews.com
  Zak Antander appropriated a photograph by Arabelle Sicardi and Tayler Smith, and his version ended up in The New Yorker. Sicardi and Smith strike back. [Jezebel]Billionaire collector Adrian Cheng is supporting a series of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Misogynist Appropriation Edition

  25-06-2015 14:56 via artnews.com
  Zak Antander appropriated a photograph by Arabelle Sicardi and Tayler Smith, and his version ended up in The New Yorker. Sicardi and Smith strike back. [Jezebel]Billionaire collector Adrian Cheng is supporting a series of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary … Read More
  
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• Shepard Fairey dismisses Detroit warrant for his arrest as ‘hilarious’

  25-06-2015 14:35
  
  World famous street artist Shepard Fairey - the man whose “Hope” poster massively boosted Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign – has described an attempt to arrest him by Detroit police as “hilarious” after he was commissioned to do a mural in the city.
  
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• Shepard Fairey calls Detroit warrant for his arrest ‘hilarious’

  25-06-2015 14:35
  
  World famous street artist Shepard Fairey - the man whose “Hope” poster massively boosted Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign – has described an attempt to arrest him by Detroit police as “hilarious” after he was commissioned to do a mural in the city.
  
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• The Future Of America’s Orchestras? Norman Lebrecht Suggests Looking At Cleveland

  25-06-2015 14:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Rather than grooming social leaders for big donations, Cleveland asks them to meet young professionals who join its under-40s circle. You want to get ahead in Cleveland? Go to a concert. The orchestra has reinvented itself as a high-achieving social network. Its president, Gary Hanson, who retires this summer, has highlighted several routes out of […]
  
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• Docents Gone Wild

  25-06-2015 10:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “More arts-loving baby boomers – educated, experienced and recently retired – are hustling to become museum tour guides. … [Yet] behind closed doors some museum staffers are growing impatient with docents flouting their supervisors, misstating facts, touching the art, and other infractions.”
  
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• What Should We Do With The US’s Many Confederate Monuments?

  25-06-2015 10:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Memorials are how we recount and publicly value our history (although how we tell that history is often distorted by political correctness and who can afford to build them). Dismantling all of these Confederate monuments and simply pretending nothing ever happened – continues to happen 1 would serve no one.”
  
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• Does Too Much Porn Really Numb Us To Sexual Pleasure?

  25-06-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In many ways, pornography is no different to a scary movie or a bungee jump. We just view it differently because it happens to involve sex. … [One researcher] likened pornography addiction – the notion that, like a drug, the more you watch, the more, and higher doses, you crave – to the emperor who […]
  
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• Book Publishers Are Finally Starting To Invest In Real Fact-Checking

  25-06-2015 09:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “By tradition and by default, books aren’t verified to anything near the standard of a magazine piece. Publishers don’t even consider verification their business. … In fact, the practice of checking books is fairly common, though it’s also expensive. This fall, for the first time, one publisher is even promising to pay for it. Which […]
  
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• What We’ve Learned From 30 Years Of NYC’s Percent For Art Program

  25-06-2015 09:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  More particularly, what we’ve learned from the (relatively few) serious dust-ups over particular projects: “each example reveals the hazards of placing confidence in the outstanding reputation of an artist, and in the notion that all it takes for the public to accept assertions by the avant-garde is time and patience. … It is as if […]
  
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• So What Exactly Was Dada, Anyway? (Hey, What Wasn’t Dada?)

  25-06-2015 09:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The metaphor-stretcher might say Dada was The Velvet Underground of its time; in its short life, few experienced Dada – yet it changed everything.”
  
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• Another Architectural Treasure Destroyed By ISIS

  25-06-2015 09:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While the destruction of medieval sites has received far less media attention than attacks on better known ancient sites such as Nimrud or Hatra, the loss of Iraq’s medieval sites is perhaps even more tragic due to the relative lack of scholarly documentation.”
  
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• What It Takes To Put On A Concert Of Female Singers In Iran

  25-06-2015 09:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[The producer’s] goal is worthwhile and her cadres of singers and musicians, winningly charismatic, which makes the seemingly insurmountable obstacles she faces in producing just one performance all the more dismaying. Sara needs government approval to stage her event, but the central premise of the performance – female soloists – is illegal.”
  
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• Dancing The Refugee Experience

  25-06-2015 09:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Would you know the moment when you must flee your homeland? Where do you think is the safest place to go? What do you do once you find it isn’t a welcoming haven? How do you navigate the roadblocks of immigration, citizenship, language?” How do you navigate all of these issues in an artform that, […]
  
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• What It’s Like To Have An Opera Written About You

  25-06-2015 09:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Who has an opera made of their life? Roman gods, doomed lovers, Nixon, and now, to our great surprise, my wife Jessie and I. … In popular usage, the words ‘operatic’ and ‘tragic’ are roughly synonymous, the required minimum bet of misery much greater for opera than memoir. So how should you take it if […]
  
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• The Couple Who Are Finally Bringing Us The Real Dostoevsky (Eat Your Heart Out, Constance Garnett)

  25-06-2015 09:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When we first told [this old Russian émigré lady] we were translating The Brothers Karamazov, she said, Oh, Dostoevsky, I hope you correct his awful style. I said, No, that is precisely what we’re going to keep.” A conversation with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.24.15

  25-06-2015 09:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Of” the Community AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-06-24 Cash-Cow Art Loans in Abu Dhabi: What “Commercial Interests” of British Museum Would Be Harmed by Disclosure? AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-06-24 Reemerging AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-06-24 Tweets in search of a context: saying farewell to the Confederate battle flag AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-06-24 [ssba_hide]
  
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• I say this with trepidation – it is surprisingly easy to get used to a butler | Charlotte Higgins

  25-06-2015 08:00
  
  Having to open an exhibition was a challenge. Appreciating the hospitality and gardens at Lismore Castle was notAt the weekend I opened an exhibition. I’ve never opened anything like an exhibition before, and struggle even to open everyday objects (jars, tins, doors) satisfactorily, so this was a challenge. Before the ceremony the delightful director of the gallery told me that last year’s speech had been frightfully good, and only 10 minutes long.Nevertheless, this was a spur to my mak
  
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• Gustav Klimt piece sells for almost £25m at Sotheby's

  25-06-2015 00:27
  
  Portrait of Gertrud Loew was subject of a 15-minute bidding war at the London auctioneers, as star lot by Kazimir Malevich went for £21.4mA Gustav Klimt portrait of a beautiful young woman wrapped in folds of white gossamer sold for £24.8m on Wednesday night, one of the highlights of the big-money London auctions.Portrait of Gertrud Loew, who was the 19-year-old daughter of the artist’s physician, had been described as the finest Klimt portrait to come to auction in 20 years. It arrived
  
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• Sotheby’s Sells $280.5 M. of Imp-Mod in London, Led by Klimt, Malevich, Manet

  25-06-2015 00:14 via artnews.com
  School is out and vacations for many are finally beginning in earnest, but the art market just keeps chugging! Tonight in London Sotheby’s sold £178.6 million ($280.5 million) at its annual June Impressionist and modern evening sale, absolutely trouncing its … Read More
  
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