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• Whitney Museum Board Elects New President, Co-Chairs

  29-06-2015 23:08 via artnews.com
  The Whitney Museum’s board of trustees has elected Laurie M. Tisch and Neil G. Bluhm as co-chairs and Richard M. DeMartini as president. All three will begin their new positions this week on July 1. Tisch and Bluhm will succeed … Read More
  
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• Principal Ballet Dancers, Aging Gracefully

  29-06-2015 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Retirement is there, it is going to happen. This is going to sound morbid and I don’t know if I should say it, but it’s a bit like dying. You know you’re going to die, everybody does, but you don’t stop what you are doing because of that. You don’t slow down because you know […]
  
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• Bookstores Are Planning For Harper Lee’s New Novel Like It’s A Harry Potter Sequel

  29-06-2015 20:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Because Ms. Lee, who is 89 and famously private, will not be doing any publicity or bookstore appearances, booksellers are finding creative ways to draw in customers and capitalize on the widespread anticipation, with read-a-thons, midnight openings, film screenings, Southern food and discussion groups.”
  
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• French Singer And Actress Magali Noël Was Muse To Fellini, And Much More

  29-06-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Her daughter described Ms. Noel as ‘the muse of Federico.’ “‘It was a great relationship,’ she said. ‘Platonic or not at the start, I do not know.'”
  
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• The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From The Next Giant Asteroid

  29-06-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Unfortunately for the future of the world, the recent 2005 Congressional mandate to find NEOs on the order of 140 meters or larger within the decade appears to be floundering due to organizational and funding challenges.”
  
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• ‘Noel McKenna: Concealing the Spot’ at Mother’s Tankstation

  29-06-2015 19:38 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Noel McKenna: Concealing the Spot” is on view at Mother’s Tankstation in Dublin until July 4. The exhibition features a selection of the Australian artist’s oil on plywood pieces.
  
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• William Pope.L Flag Makes an Appearance at Kendrick Lamar’s BET Awards Performance [Updated]

  29-06-2015 19:35 via artnews.com
  If you caught a glimpse of the BET Awards last night, you might have recognized the gigantic American flag which waved furiously behind Kendrick Lamar during his performance of “Alright.” Prior to last night, that same flag, which measures an … Read More
  
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• William Pope.L Flag Makes an Appearance at Kendrick Lamar’s BET Awards Performance

  29-06-2015 19:35 via artnews.com
  If you caught a glimpse of the BET awards last night, you might have recognized the gigantic American flag which waved furiously behind Kendrick Lamar during his performance of “Alright.” Prior to last night, that same flag, which measures an … Read More
  
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• Museums and looted art: the ethical dilemma of preserving world cultures

  29-06-2015 19:03
  
  How can western ‘universal’ museums acquire and display artefacts without stoking the illegal arts trade and reproducing colonialist narratives?Every month produces new cases of the “repatriation” of antiquities from American museums to their countries of origin. In late May, Italian authorities displayed 25 looted artefacts retrieved from the United States. They included some objects smuggled by the infamous dealer Giacomo Medici, convicted in 2004 for selling thousands of stolen pieces
  
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• Apple Music Starts Tuesday

  29-06-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What it is, what it does, what it means.
  
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• The Worst Act Of All Time – Perhaps By Design

  29-06-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Cherry Sisters’ “variety act included original music, bass drum thumping, poetry, mouth harp playing, inspirational recitations, essay reading, fake hypnosis and other artistic expressions. And the audience responded to the whole shebang by hurling vegetables, shouting interjections and behaving rudely.”
  
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• Why Theatre Basically Sucks (Except When An Actor Entirely Forgets The Lines)

  29-06-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The vast majority of plays are distinctly average. They are fairly well written, fairly well acted and fairly well staged. But they do not reflect how people actually speak because dialogue in most modern plays is generally produced to show how clever the writer is or how gifted the actor delivering it is. The tickets […]
  
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• Those Deeply Ugly Ebook Fonts Are Getting A Makeover

  29-06-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For typography fans, electronic books have long been the visual equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard. The fonts are uninviting. Jarring swaths of white space stretch between words. Absent are all the typesetting nuances of a fine print book.”
  
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• Station to Station at the Barbican – a self-congratulatory dude-fest

  29-06-2015 17:45
  
  Stuffed with artists, satanists and an 88-strong cymbal band, Doug Aitken’s month-long takeover of London’s leading cultural centre is still somehow grim. Adrian Searle can’t wait to leaveIn September 2013, the Los Angeles-based artist Doug Aitken filled a specially converted nine-car train with artists and musicians, and headed west across the United States from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. Illuminated by what Aitken called “a nomadic light sculpture”, that flared along the flan
  
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• Wait, What Actually *Is* The Most Banned Book In The United States?

  29-06-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The American Library Association’s list is not statistically supported, says FiveThirtyEight. Sooooo what’s the deal?
  
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• Making Waves: Tony Salamé’s Aïshti Goes Big in Beirut

  29-06-2015 17:00 via artnews.com
  Recently the Lebanese businessman Tony Salamé bought a large artwork by John Armleder, creating a problem for himself, or rather, for his curator. If the ten-meter-long painting were to go on view in the inaugural exhibition in Salamé’s new private … Read More
  
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• Retired Baby Boomers Become Docents Gone Wild

  29-06-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Managing a generation of volunteers who grew up as rebels isn’t always easy.”
  
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• Jackson Pollock review – this is art as nervous breakdown ... and it's majestic

  29-06-2015 15:28
  
  Tate Liverpool
  This revolutionary new exhibition is proof that Pollock’s life after 1950 was not, as has previously been painted, just one long alcoholic crisisThis is the saddest story you will ever see. In 1950, the great American painter Jackson Pollock stood at the peak of his achievement. His dripped and poured and flicked galaxies of colour attain a majestic beauty in such paintings from that year as Lavender Mist, One: Number 31, 1950 and Autumn Rhythm. Pollock was painting at this mome
  
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• Morning Links: Art Portal Edition

  29-06-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto will be moving into the first two and a half floors of the Tower Automotive Building, which will be renovated by late 2016 or early 2017. The move will cost the museum … Read More
  
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• As The Recent Met Show Proves, Museums Need To Step It Up Around Native Art

  29-06-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “That a show of that size and scope wouldn’t include Native American curatorial partners is indicative of a museum system that has for centuries seen Indigenous people as subjects. In the United States, where most of the large encyclopedic art museums were formed in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, legacies […]
  
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• John Busby obituary

  29-06-2015 14:43
  
  Wildlife artist and teacher best known for his book Drawing Birds“My work is rooted in landscape and in the living birds and animals as they are part of it. I aim to show how creatures move and to express the visual delight they bring. I try to combine accuracy with artistry.” So the wildlife artist John Busby, who has died aged 87, summed up his approach. As well as portraying the natural world in his inimitable style, Busby also inspired several generations of leading artists: not simply t
  
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• Remember That Photo Of The Nine-Year-Old Smoking?

  29-06-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When she came along and took those photos, I thought, ‘Well, hey, people will see me and this may get me the attention that I want; it may change things for me,’ ” Ellison says. She thought someone would see the images and come rescue her. “I had thought that that might have been the […]
  
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• What If The Only Shakespeare Play To Survive Had Been ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’?

  29-06-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The mystery of Midsummer Night gets bound up in the larger mystery of Shakespeare. Yet it is an anomaly, distinct from anything he wrote before or after, a world to itself with its own rules and its own moods.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 06.28.15

  29-06-2015 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
    Ornette Coleman, Traditionalist AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-06-26 The revolution continues AJBlog: SandowPublished 2015-06-26 Music as Thought AJBlog: Infinite CurvesPublished 2015-06-26 [ssba_hide]
  
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• Are Children’s Books The Next Frontier For High-Quality Nonfiction Illustration And Writing?

  29-06-2015 06:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For a long time it has been thought that publishers serve fiction well, while non-fiction has been dominated by glossy reference books. But we are currently seeing a boom in beautifully illustrated narrative non-fiction – and this Greenaway win marks a high point in the trend.”
  
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• Consultant, The Pricing Institute

  29-06-2015 04:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Pricing Institute seeks experienced arts marketing professional to support and consult with users of its industry-leading pricing and revenue management tool, the Revenue Management Application
  
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• The President’s ‘Amazing Grace’ And The Political Power Of Music

  29-06-2015 02:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When it comes to political leaders, it’s a fine line between human and unbecoming, and the line gets ever-thinner in a social-media age where moments can be highlighted, repeated and parsed ad infinitum. If the singing isn’t good, it can become a punchline; if it is, it can look glib or narcissistic.”
  
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• Why Is The Academy Suddenly Getting More International (Again)?

  29-06-2015 01:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Best Foreign Film category’s “apparent magnanimity was said to have emanated out of a desire to celebrate great international works, but many saw right through it: it was at least as much about giving Academy members a specific way of honoring foreign language films so that they wouldn’t necessarily feel compelled to honor them […]
  
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