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• Misty Copland Promoted To Principal At ABT

  30-06-2015 23:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Her promotion — after more than 14 years with the company, nearly eight as a soloist — came as Ms. Copeland’s fame spread far beyond traditional dance circles. She made the cover of Time magazine this year, was profiled by “60 Minutes” and presented a Tony Award on this year’s telecast. She has written a […]
  
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• ‘Sorry You Guys Are Just Catching Up Now’: Jack Pierson on His Fast-Changing Career, and His New Show in New York

  30-06-2015 22:57 via artnews.com
  When Jack Pierson talks about his work, he speaks in several voices. One second he’s holding court like a world-famous artist giving an interview, the next he’s rattling off details about his process like a nervous painter, and the next … Read More
  
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• Odwalla88 Releases New Video Directed by Marisa Takal and Cali Thornhill Dewitt

  30-06-2015 22:38 via artnews.com
  Today, the band Odwalla88 (featured in the May 2015 issue of ARTnews) put out a video for their song “What The,” directed by the artists Marisa Takal and Cali Thornhill Dewitt.The song is off of the Odwalla88 album Lily 23, which … Read More
  
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• I created the Isis dildo flag at London Pride to start a dialogue, not get a laugh | Paul Coombs

  30-06-2015 20:38
  
  I flew the flag in London’s gay pride parade because Isis is deserving of mockery and disrespect. I never thought CNN would think it was realI spent the morning of London’s Pride parade hand-stitching dildos onto a flag.I’d been using the sex-toy motif in my work before I made a flag of Isis out of them and brought it to the march. Previously, I’ve attached dildos onto postcards from each country where homosexuality is still illegal to point out that the laws of these places regards its
  
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• John Waters: 'I want to be despised'

  30-06-2015 20:11
  
  John Waters has turned his hand to art. The ‘Pope of Trash’ takes us on a tour of his work – and explains why he performed plastic surgery on LassieI am looking at a disturbing self-portrait of John Waters. He’s wearing a tan uniform and, as if that weren’t bad enough, a matching baseball cap and a diabolical grin. In one hand, he’s holding a catching pole and, in the other, there’s a blameless mutt looking through the grille of its portable prison. The man they call the Pope of Tr
  
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• Chicago’s Queer Thoughts Gallery Heads to New York

  30-06-2015 20:07 via artnews.com
  Late last year, Luis Miguel Bendaña and Sam Lipp, the directors of Queer Thoughts, a venturesome gallery located in a modestly sized apartment in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, began making plans to relocate the space to New York. But before doing that, … Read More
  
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• PSA: Bill Clinton’s Saxophone Is On View at the Met

  30-06-2015 19:57 via artnews.com
  Just to give all of you an update on Bill Clinton’s saxophone, the former president’s Presidential Model tenor saxophone (number one in an edition of 150) is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as part of … Read More
  
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• Alfred Daniels obituary

  30-06-2015 18:49
  
  My friend Alfred Daniels, known as Danny, who has died aged 90, had a passion for painting. He was always able to draw out his subjects’ particular characters, whether he was painting buildings, people or animals. He had a whimsical touch and whether he painted Billingsgate Market, Tower Bridge or Brighton Beach, each was full of colour and detail. Danny was once described as a “Lowry for Londoners”.One of Danny’s early achievements was the completion in 1954 of a set of murals at Hammer
  
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• Did Adding More Best-Picture Nominations Devalue The Oscars?

  30-06-2015 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In opting for more pictures, the Academy has risked tarnishing the value of a nomination. “It’s hard to find 10 movies that should be nominated,” says producer and former studio chief Bill Mechanic. “Truth is, it’s hard to find even five right now.”
  
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• Crowdfunding To Recreate An Old TV Show As A Live Experience Smashes Its Funding Goals

  30-06-2015 17:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The live immersive project has now raised more than £600,000 from close to 4,500 people in just 16 days, after reaching its £500,000 target last week. Money from fans just keeps on coming on the Indiegogo page, meaning “two extra games will be added to each zone”.
  
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• ‘Michaël Borremans: As sweet as it gets’ at Dallas Museum of Art

  30-06-2015 17:14 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Michaël Borremans: As sweet as it gets” is currently on view at Dallas Museum of Art. The exhibition brings together a mix of the Belgian artist’s paintings, drawings, … Read More
  
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• Damien Hirst, Curator? (Shudder)

  30-06-2015 17:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Now Hirst, too, has reached an uncomfortable stage in his career, embedded in the establishment he once goaded. On past performance, he might be expected to try even harder to shock, to prove his relevance. Instead, by founding Newport Street, he is doing something far more likely to shore up his status and secure his […]
  
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• You Can’t Unread This Anecdote About Damien Hirst’s Foreskin

  30-06-2015 16:48 via artnews.com
  Here’s a thing that just happened. From the first paragraph of The Guardian‘s profile of Damien Hirst, published today: During the period he refers to as his “glory years”, Damien Hirst had a favourite gag. He would pull his foreskin through … Read More
  
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• The Hunt For The Last Few Missing Faberge Eggs

  30-06-2015 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Today seven imperial eggs are still missing, along with many of their “surprises”, but an impassioned group of experts and enthusiasts from Russia, the UK, the US, Switzerland and Finland are on their trail. Géza von Habsburg, one of the world’s leading Fabergé experts, has been on the egg hunt for more than 40 years.”
  
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• Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust review – like being lost in a wondrous Victorian attic

  30-06-2015 16:08
  
  Royal Academy of Arts, London
  Birds and baubles, sequins and sand … this superb survey of bric-a-brac marvels proves the New York eccentric is one of the 20th century’s most inspiring artists. Prepare to be entrancedTo enter the world of Joseph Cornell is to give yourself over to magic, poetry and secrets. It is like being lost in a Victorian attic. In among the cardboard parrots, cinematic toys, bottles of rare things, sealed boxes, photographs of ballerinas and astrological charts lingers
  
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• Morning Links: Condom Portrait Edition

  30-06-2015 14:54 via artnews.com
  Niki Johnson’s portrait of Pope Benedict XVI made of condoms is naturally sparking controversy. [TIME]Josef Helfenstein, the director of the Menil Collection, will leave his position at the Houston museum to become the director of the Kunstmuseum Basel. [The New … Read More
  
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• Guillaume Tell, Royal Opera House, review: Gang rape and stripping naked of female actor met with boos

  30-06-2015 09:30
  
  Some directors love to shock, but Damiano Michieletto got more than he bargained for when he staged a slaveringly-protracted stripping-naked of a female actor in a gang-rape chez the evil Gesler in Guillaume Tell: the auditorium was swept by a sudden hurricane of booing so loud, so angry, and so unanimous that the music was drowned and the scene brought to an embarrassed halt.
  
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• Damien Hirst: ‘What have I done? I’ve created a monster’ | Catherine Mayer

  30-06-2015 07:00
  
  His mass-produced art has lost its power to shock. Now, in an attempt to wrest control of his legacy, Hirst is opening his own gallery. Will curating restore his status in the art world?During the period he refers to as his “glory years”, Damien Hirst had a favourite gag. He would pull his foreskin through a hole in his pocket, then exclaim in mock alarm: “What’s that?” “People would go, ‘You’ve got some chewing gum on your trousers.’ They would touch it and go, ‘What the fuc
  
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• EL James Hosts A Twitter Chat About “Fifty Shades Of Grey” And Things Quickly Go South

  30-06-2015 06:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  alongside the serious queries came a deluge of questions that made fun of James’s much-criticised prose style, including jibes such as “Do you get paid per adjective?”, “Have you ever held a dictionary?” and “Did you ever consider using a thesaurus, or did that sound too much like hard work?”
  
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• Christian Thielemann Gets A New Job In Bayreuth

  30-06-2015 06:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The title of music director is essentially a new one at Bayreuth — officials there said it was given briefly in 1931 to Wilhelm Furtwängler — and the decision to bestow it upon Mr. Thielemann showed his growing influence at the festival.”
  
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• The Top-Earning Musician In The Past Year

  30-06-2015 06:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Katy Perry was the third highest-earning celebrity overall, behind boxers Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao who fought a highly anticipated match in May in Las Vegas.
  
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• Museum Quandry: In A World Of 3D Printers, What Happens To Originals?

  30-06-2015 04:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The proliferation of replicas does stand to diminish the value of the real thing. Susan Ades, who is in charge of the exhibit’s 3‑D-printing operation, told me that she believes the technology ought to be carefully deployed and fully disclosed in galleries. “For museums,” she said, “the real thing is what we have going. Authenticity.”
  
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• Former NYCity Ballet Principal Albert Evans, 46,

  30-06-2015 03:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. Evans joined City Ballet in 1988 and was named a soloist in 1991 and a principal four years later, becoming only the second black dancer in the company’s history to hold that position. The first, Arthur Mitchell, now 81, performed with City Ballet in the 1950s and ’60s and in 1969 helped found Dance […]
  
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• Two-Year Stalemate Between The Hartford Symphony And Its Musicians

  30-06-2015 03:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The orchestra says it’s “severely undercapitalized” and struggling with annual deficits of more than $1.3 million, a fully-drawn $2 million line of credit, falling subscriptions and ticket sales that are flat.
  
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• John Lassiter: Technology Is Changing The Vocabulary Of Film Storytelling

  30-06-2015 03:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What’s great about film is it constantly reinvents itself. It started as a sheer novelty, those images moving on the screen. Then it went and every step of the way a new technology started being added — sound, color. What happens is the film grammar of storytelling evolves and changes as well. The technology goes directly with […]
  
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• Tennis Anyone? A Surprising Amount Of Music Has Been Inspired By The Raquet Game

  30-06-2015 02:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With the rise in popularity of the sport in the late-19th century, tennis and music soon began to make a match.”
  
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• Those Awkward Animal Moments On Stage

  30-06-2015 02:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “During a four-week run of “Gypsy,” a baby lamb from Living History Farms grew almost too big for the star to hold in her lap. Mice in “Cinderella” gave birth to a squirmy pink litter in the Playhouse costume shop, and a goat in “Mister Roberts” ate a hole in the dressing-room wall.”
  
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• Pride of Place: Historians map out untold LGBT histories of locations throughout UK

  30-06-2015 02:17
  
  From The Shim Sham, a gay-friendly jazz club set up in Soho in 1935, to a popular 18th-century cruising spot dubbed Sodomites’ Walk in present-day Finsbury Square, historians have this year begun to chart the untold LGBT histories of buildings in London.
  
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• Here’s What Happened When One Foundation Consolidated Its Giving And Focused On The Arts

  30-06-2015 02:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Long a contributor to causes across the board, from homeless shelters to opera companies, the organization began steering all of its funding toward the arts. Culture needed the money, the thinking went, and by targeting one area, the foundation could set itself apart from its peers and become a real player in the community.”
  
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• Music Streaming Services Are Pretty Terrible At Discovering New Music

  30-06-2015 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Though I keep listening out of animal curiosity for what comes next, I am almost never surprised. I always feel as if I’m shopping somewhere, and the music reflects What Our Customers Like to Listen To. The experience can feel benignly inhuman.”
  
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• A New Shakespeare Play?! Computer Algorithm Says Yep

  30-06-2015 00:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The play does have all the hallmarks of a legitimate Shakespeare and Fletcher collaboration.”
  
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