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• ‘Big Pieces of the Sky and Ocean': De Wain Valentine on His First New York Solo Show in 30 Years

  26-06-2015 23:25 via artnews.com
  In 1961, De Wain Valentine came to New York with slides of his work. When he showed them to gallery directors, the first response was always some variation on, “This is really interesting work. What is it?” So Valentine told them: … Read More
  
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• Discovery Of Long Lost Trove Of Art That Hitler Loved

  26-06-2015 21:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The discovery of the horses, and of several sculptures and reliefs created by another Hitler favorite, Arno Breker, stunned researchers who had long lamented their disappearance.”
  
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• The Relationship Between Music And Technology Hasn’t Always Been So Obvious

  26-06-2015 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One of the most sweeping changes wrought by audio recording and broadcasting technology was that, for the first time ever, music was no longer, by necessity, a visual as well as an aural experience. Music had always been only heard in live performance—which meant the listener was there, looking as well as hearing. (Even exceptions—Vivaldi’s […]
  
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• Twerking? That’s Sooo 1800s!

  26-06-2015 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Researchers found the word, one of 500 new dictionary entries, was first used in 1820, spelt twirk, to refer to a twisting or jerking movement or twitch. The verb is believed to have emerged later in 1848 and the twerk spelling was used by 1901, the dictionary says.”
  
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• PBS Withdraws Program Over “Undue Influence” By Ben Affleck

  26-06-2015 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Wednesday, PBS said that an investigation into the controversy showed that Mr. Affleck had exerted “improper influence” over the editorial process and that the producers of the show, Mr. Gates included, had erred by not informing the network of the actor’s “efforts to affect program content.” PBS said it would postpone the third season […]
  
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• Kennedy Center Gets An Artistic Planner (Its First)

  26-06-2015 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the newly-created role of Senior Vice President of Artistic Planning, Robert van Leer will coordinate the programming of the arts center and its resident companies, the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington National Opera. The managers who previously reported to the president will now report to him.”
  
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• Taylor Swift Versus The Concert Photographers – What’s Rights For The Singer Is Right For The Photographer?

  26-06-2015 19:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On the one hand, I know a band has to protect its image. The problem with that is that we are living in an age where everyone literally has a camera in their pocket at all times. You can’t control all the fans who are posting terrible photos that they took with their phones all […]
  
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• ‘There’s No Understanding of My Work': Michael Heizer on His Monumental Art, in 1977

  26-06-2015 19:54 via artnews.com
  Michael Heizer is known for a body of work that relies on the beauty of his natural materials (rocks, dirt, land itself) and that often verges on near-comical grandiosity with its size and themes. With his latest show, “Altars,” at … Read More
  
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• ISIS Posts Pictures Of Destroyed Historic Sites In Palmyra

  26-06-2015 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, also reported the destruction, releasing photographs online that showed fighters carrying explosives. The photos gave views of the sites before, during and after the detonation. The fate of the rest of Palmyra’s antiquities remains unclear.”
  
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• A “Golden Age” For University Presses?

  26-06-2015 19:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The mainstream may be getting dumber by the day, but we are living in what looks like a golden age of publishing for, of all people, the university presses.”
  
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• Plans For New Helsinki Guggenheim – Where’s The “Wow” Factor?

  26-06-2015 19:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is extraordinary that a design that triumphed over 1,700 competitors should turn out to be rather ordinary. It is respectful, yet teases out no identity unique to Helsinki. Moreau Kusunoki makes nothing of the waterfront site (in contrast to the much-loved Oslo Opera House, where the alluringly warped roof dips into the sea). The […]
  
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• The Difference Between Rating A Movie And Passing Critical Judgment

  26-06-2015 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “So much of what passes for critical thought these days puts numbers ahead of words, as consensus trumps individuality. Who are we to argue with a score on Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic, its main rival? (Jurassic World scored a so-so 59 per cent on Metacritic.) What you see happening are a lot of movies being […]
  
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• What Happens When Your Entire MFA Program Class Quits The School? USC Having Trouble Attracting Students For Next Year

  26-06-2015 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In an exclusive interview with The Times, Erica Muhl, dean of the Roski School, reveals that for the fall semester set to begin in less than two months, only one incoming student is enrolled in the studio art MFA program’s class of 2017.”
  
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• Building Collapses Under Weight Of Vinyl Record Collection

  26-06-2015 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Too many vinyl records stored on the second floor of a San Diego building caused a collapse that damaged a popular thrift store. (picture here)
  
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• Berklee and Boston Conservatory Merge

  26-06-2015 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The schools said Thursday that they have agreed to explore a merger, a union they say could create a national powerhouse in performing arts education, with rich programs in music, theater, and dance. Governing boards for the two schools have approved plans to pursue the potential merger, which could occur as soon as 2016.”
  
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• Andy Warhol painting of $1 bill set to be turned into $26m at London auction

  26-06-2015 17:39
  
  Sotheby’s contemporary art auction is most valuable held in city, featuring works worth up to £200m including Francis Bacon’s Study for a Pope IA painting of a one dollar bill can be bought in London next week. You will, however, need as much as $26m to buy it. The work by Andy Warhol, Silver Certificate, is part of the most valuable contemporary art auction that has been staged in the capital. Related: Gustav Klimt piece sells for almost £25m at Sotheby'sRelated: Is any painting real
  
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• Frieze London Taps Lutz Bacher, Rachel Rose, More for Projects

  26-06-2015 17:36 via artnews.com
  Today Frieze London announced that the annual Projects section at its October art fair will feature newly commissioned work by ÅYRBRB, Lutz Bacher, castillo/corrales, Thea Djordjadze, Jeremy Herbert, Asad Raza, and Rachel Rose. The LUMA Foundation, which is run by … Read More
  
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• ‘Janek Simon: People With the Heads of Dogs’ at Raster Gallery

  26-06-2015 16:55 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Janek Simon: People with the Heads of Dogs” is currently on view at Raster Gallery in Warsaw until August 1 and features recent work from the artist, including … Read More
  
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• Hitler, phone sex and David Shrigley's demented football mascot – the week in art

  26-06-2015 16:41
  
  The Fuhrer’s fairytale artworks sell for £280,000 as Shrigley unveils Kingsley, the new face of Partick Thistle. Plus Joseph Cornell’s dreamy collages, American outsiders and the secret lives of phone sex workers – in your weekly dispatchJoseph Cornell
  The romantic, ethereal, dream-sodden collages and assemblages of Joseph Cornell, magically caught in little boxes, are surrealist wonders and strange jewels of modern art. Continue reading...
  
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• Morning Links: Escaped Convicts Edition

  26-06-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  Volkswagen Group of America will be the lead sponsor of educational programming at MoMA for the next two years. During this time, it  will also support major exhibitions at both MoMA and MoMA PS1, including the latter’s forthcoming local artist … Read More
  
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• Jackson Pollock, Ben Rivers, John Waters: this week’s new exhibitions

  26-06-2015 14:00
  
  Jackson Pollock | Ben Rivers | Taking Flight | Phyllida Barlow | In Search Of The Miraculous | John Waters | Station To StationWhen the superstar abstract expressionist Jackson “Jack the Dripper” Pollock shifted to using more recognisable figurative pictures in the early 1950s, many thought it constituted a cop-out lack of nerve, perhaps occasioned by too much fame and too much well-lubricated fun. At last, this exhibition – the first in over three decades to survey his late paintings –
  
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• Andre Rieu: How the Waltz King's concerts have inspired a cult following

  26-06-2015 12:23
  
  For many music lovers, André Rieu, the Dutch violinist and so-called modern Waltz King, is an irresistible attraction. He and his orchestra, performing light, tuneful classics and crossover – are not only about music, but also showbiz. They often top the classical recording charts. And they’re loved, loved, loved.
  
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• Welcome To The Orgy! How The Sex Movie Got Its Groove Back

  26-06-2015 10:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The fact that Fifty Shades of Grey is a phenomenon at all ‘just shows how mainstream it is, and it’s blasted the door wide open, saying sex is back in a big, big way. Now, sex has moved to the internet, and it’s on Girls, and that’s where people are getting it now. They’re not […]
  
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• Amazon’s ‘Pay-Per-Page’ Plan Isn’t Just About Royalties – It Could Change The Way Writers Write

  26-06-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The retail giant’s new way of calculating payments for Kindle book loans has worrying implications for how literature is read – and how it’s written.”
  
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• Haruki Murakami: The Moment I Became A Novelist

  26-06-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It happened at a baseball game …
  
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• An Episode Of Diaeresis: Why ‘The New Yorker’ Always Spells ‘Coöperate’ With Those Two Dots

  26-06-2015 09:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Here we learn how to pronounce it and how to use it, as well as how to avoid it, if desired.” One of the magazine’s copy editors, Mary Norris, explains the diaeresis in the latest episode of the podcast Comma Queen.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.25.15

  26-06-2015 08:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Don’t Shoot the Player Piano AJBlog: PostClassic Published 2015-06-25 Hailing Harold Holzer: Retirement Bash Today for Metropolitan Museum’s Public Affairs VP AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-06-25 Greg Reitan: Recording Where He Lives AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-06-25 [ssba_hide]
  
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• The touring exhibition teaching Russians about Russia itself

  26-06-2015 08:00
  
  Mixing science, geology, anthropology and art, curators uses pictures of far-flung places to educate citizens of the world’s largest state about their own country. The Calvert Journal reportsFrom photographs to video, every-day items to modern artefacts, an exhibition touring Russia is blurring the lines between art, science and ethnography to educate the population about the cultural and geographical diversity of their own country. “Our people’s idea of geography is an absolute mess. When
  
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