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• Why Does The Work Of Great Artists Get Destroyed?

  01-07-2015 23:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The motivation for destroying an artist’s work is often shadowy, and always riven with questions of ownership.
  
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• Nadine Johnson Flack Adam Abdalla Will Start His Own Firm

  01-07-2015 23:18 via artnews.com
  Adam Abdalla, the senior vice president of arts and culture at the powerhouse New York public relations firm Nadine Johnson, will be leaving that company to start his own firm, which will be focused predominantly on the arts and is … Read More
  
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• US customs officials recover bronze idol worth $1m looted from Indian temple

  01-07-2015 22:30
  
  11th or 12th century statue to be returned to IndiaAnonymous collector voluntarily handed over object US customs officials have recovered a bronze religious statue from the 11th or 12th century that they say was looted from a temple in India. The New York office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said on Wednesday that an anonymous collector voluntarily surrendered the idol.Continue reading...
  
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• There’s Almost Never A Good Reason To Include A Rape Scene In Art

  01-07-2015 20:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Because rape is widely acknowledged as a Very Serious Topic, there’s also a tendency to treat rape scenes as a means to be edgy or shocking. You know, as a way of creating really serious, mature content. Most of the time, however, this approach radiates nothing so much as ignorance and immaturity.”
  
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• Denim From a Drone’s-Eye View: Talking to Korakrit Arunanondchai about his New Show in Paris

  01-07-2015 20:37 via artnews.com
  Late June in Paris is Men’s Fashion Week, and many of the runway shows take place outside the Palais de Tokyo, which is also home to a nightclub called YOYO. There are catwalks at art institutions every now and then, … Read More
  
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• Denim From a Drone’s-Eye View: Korakrit Arunanondchai on His New Show at Palais de Tokyo

  01-07-2015 20:37 via artnews.com
  Late June in Paris is Men’s Fashion Week, and many of the runway shows take place outside the Palais de Tokyo, which is also home to a nightclub called YOYO. There are catwalks at art institutions every now and then, … Read More
  
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• Why Do Songwriters Use The Same Titles Over And Over Again?

  01-07-2015 20:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Copyright law doesn’t stop songwriters picking song titles that have already been used, unless that title has acquired a “secondary meaning”. So, if you decided to publish a song called “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”, a court would probably rule that you were trying to cause deliberate confusion.
  
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• Sean Scully's art helps complete 10-year restoration of Spanish monastery

  01-07-2015 19:57
  
  Santa Cecilia de Montserrat, a thousand-year-old monastery on the hills above Barcelona, hosts 22 works by Turner prize-nominated Irish artist
  In the thousand years that the Santa Cecilia de Montserrat monastery has stood on the hills overlooking Barcelona, set against jagged towering rocks that rise like giant’s fingers pointing to the sky, history has continually come knocking at its door. It was a sanctuary for early pilgrims, a symbol of resistance in the Napoleonic invasion, and a protect
  
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• James Patterson Gives Money For Books To 127 Schools

  01-07-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In March, Patterson invited librarians, teachers and principals to apply for $1,000 to $10,000 grants. Scholastic Reading Club, a division of children’s publisher Scholastic, pledged to match each grant with bonus points that can be used for books and classroom materials. More than 28,000 applications came pouring in.”
  
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• Jamian Juliano-Villani Gets the Art21 Video Treatment

  01-07-2015 19:09 via artnews.com
  Art21, the popular series of artist documentaries run by PBS, has just released a profile of Jamian Juliano-Villani. The piece, which was posted online yesterday, captures the 27-year-old painter in her Bedford-Stuyvesant studio talking about her art, smoking a few cigarettes, and working. “That one … Read More
  
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• Misty Copland Talks About Being Promoted To Principal At ABT

  01-07-2015 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ms. Copeland said she had been pleased to see more racially diverse audiences turn out at some of her performances in the past year. “From the day that I met my manager, Gilda Squire, she asked me, ‘What do you want to do?’ ” she recalled. “And I said, besides continue dancing at A.B.T., I […]
  
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• The Day Columbia Records Dumped Four Of The Jazz Greats

  01-07-2015 18:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There are different versions of how Ornette Coleman, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, and Charles Mingus were let go by Columbia, over the years tending to crystallize in a single-day narrative that’s sometimes been referred to as “Bad Day at Black Rock,” a nickname for Columbia’s midtown Manhattan headquarters that also evoked a noir film of […]
  
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• The Rolling Stones and Saatchi Gallery Team Up For All-Time Biggest Touring Rock Exhibition, Entry Prices Begin At £15

  01-07-2015 17:53 via artnews.com
  The Independent reports today that The Rolling Stones have teamed up with Saatchi Gallery to stage “Exhibitionism,” which has already been described as “the most comprehensive and immersive insight into the world’s Greatest Rock n’ Roll Band,” and also “ten … Read More
  
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• Netflix Isn’t Trying To Change TV, It’s Thinking Post-TV

  01-07-2015 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “That all-at-once drop of House of Cards, for example, illustrates part of what Netflix has that television doesn’t. “It was not meant to be the template” for how Netflix would release shows, Sarandos said. “It was just, Let’s see how people watch it.” They had the flexibility to try something that would never work on […]
  
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• A Havana Biennial Of Change And What Art Can Still Do

  01-07-2015 17:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There is much we can learn from the 12th Havana Biennial — a performed, dematerialized show — about what art can be, where it can exist and who it is for. From Tania Bruguera’s performance, we are learning what art can do — risky, truth-revealing things — for artist and audience alike. It may well […]
  
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• The World’s First “Metaphor Map”

  01-07-2015 17:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over the past 30 years, it has become clear that metaphor is not simply a literary phenomenon; metaphorical thinking underlies the way we make sense of the world conceptually. It governs how we think and how we talk about our day-to-day lives.”
  
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• Bernhard Lang's best photograph: the 'Sea of Plastic' greenhouses from the air

  01-07-2015 17:20
  
  ‘I think about this photo every time I go to the supermarket. It changed my shopping habits for good’I realised I wanted to be an aerial photographer when I looked out of a window while flying over Russia one day. I saw huge rivers, never-ending forests and geological formations – and I knew instantly that I had to capture that view of the Earth.I took this last year on the coast of Andalusia, southern Spain, over the Mar del Plastico, which means “sea of plastic”. It’s 350 square k
  
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• The New Helsinki Guggenheim – Where’s The Sizzle?

  01-07-2015 17:11 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. The design considers no new way to look at art that would make it a must-visit. (The Guggenheim Bilbao transformed yet belongs.) It does not look […]
  
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• ‘By the Book’ at Sean Kelly

  01-07-2015 16:25 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “By the Book” is currently on view at Sean Kelly gallery in New York until Friday, July 31. The group exhibition focuses on the influence that literature … Read More
  
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• What Tech Startups Can Learn From The Art Market

  01-07-2015 16:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The art of the startup and the business of art are flip sides of the same creative process. The Gagosian Gallery and Kleiner Perkins use the same method to spin creativity and value out of manmade volatility. The goals of this volatility are twofold: primarily to create disruptive innovation that generates the unique, the original, […]
  
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• A 60-Year-Old Infographic That Explains Disney’s Strategy Today

  01-07-2015 15:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Today, the network is larger, there are more platforms, and the path to success can get awfully messy, but the basic strategy is the same. Instead of following the model of other studios—releasing many films and hoping for a blockbuster—Disney is select. It releases about 10 films annually and builds out the franchising and revenue-generating […]
  
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• Fruit bowls at the ready! Share your still-life artworks now

  01-07-2015 15:20
  
  Bottles of ketchup, bunches of grapes? Or how about plain old flowers? Never forget the artistic potential of everyday objects ... send us your still-lifes nowYour chance to be exhibited in London and New York: find out about our upcoming showOne of art’s classic genres – the depiction of everyday objects – has been explored with fascinating results by contemporary artists, from Ori Gersht’s exploding floral arrangements to Peter Jones’s paintings of stuffed monkeys, Cindy Wright’s �
  
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• World class: your best travelling artworks – in pictures

  01-07-2015 15:20
  
  From Vegas to Mount Fuji, ocean liners to infinity pools, your holidays and backpacking adventures have inspired some remarkable art. Here is a selection of the bestFruit bowls at the ready! Send us your still-lifes now Continue reading...
  
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• Authors React To Amazon’s Plan To Pay By The Numbers

  01-07-2015 15:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A look at the numbers, though, recalls the joke that the difference between a writer and a pizza is that a pizza can feed a family. The average payout barely cracks $1 a book. Only the first reading of a page counts. Books that are reread, on this scheme, are of no greater value. And […]
  
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• The New Concert Companion Is An App

  01-07-2015 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Before the music begins, app users can read background information about the piece. When the music starts, a sequence of brief annotations begins, cued by an operator in the hall who follows the musical score. The annotations alert listeners to when an important theme in the work is coming up, for example, or describe important […]
  
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• Morning Links: Sunburn Art Edition

  01-07-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  The Delaware Art Museum has sold Andrew Wyeth’s Arthur Cleveland and Winslow Homer’s Milking Time in an effort to replace funds lost to construction debt. [USA Today]MoMA has hired Yasmil Raymond, a Dia Art Foundation curator since 2009, to serve as associate … Read More
  
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• Marina Abramovic reveals plans for her funeral and calls it 'the artist's last piece before leaving'

  01-07-2015 13:32
  
  Marina Abramovic has shared her belief that an artist's funeral should be their "last piece" and revealed plans for her own, very memorable send-off.
  
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• The Rolling Stones announce biggest ever touring rock exhibition with Saatchi Gallery

  01-07-2015 10:04
  
  The Rolling Stones should have been put in a museum years ago, according to some. But now the veteran rockers are to take over the Saatchi Gallery to stage the first ever major exhibition devoted to their storied career.
  
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• PROFESSOR OF DANCE – BARNARD COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NYC

  01-07-2015 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Department of Dance of Barnard College, Columbia University in New York City, invites applications for a full-time, renewable three-year appointment as an Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor of Professional Practice to begin July 1, 2016.
  
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• Guillaume Tell gang-rape scene causes uproar at the Royal Opera House

  01-07-2015 04:45
  
  The Royal Opera House at Covent Garden is used to passionate responses from its audiences at curtain calls.
  
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• Marina Abramović reveals plans for her funeral, 'the artist’s last piece'

  01-07-2015 04:41
  
  Performance artist, 67, wants three bodies – one real, two fake – buried in the cities she has lived in the longest, and singer Antony Hegarty to performMarina Abramović has already planned her own funeral, which will incorporate her final performance, live music, a colourful dress code and plenty of black comedy. In a keynote speech in Sydney during her 12-day residency for Kaldor Public Art Projects, Abramović – in good health at 67 – read out her manifesto, concluding that “an art
  
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• How Video Game Music Has Changed Our Pop Music

  01-07-2015 04:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We are accustomed to thinking about pop music in terms of its most familiar metadata: songs and albums, scenes and artists. But what about all the other, seemingly incidental music that gets lodged in our heads, from commercial jingles to sitcom soundtracks? Could it be that the largely unknown Kondo, Nintendo’s first dedicated sound designer, […]
  
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• Canadian Government Okays Sale Of Cirque Du Soleil To US, Chinese Investors

  01-07-2015 03:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Industry Minister James Moore said Tuesday the application to acquire the famed circus troupe was deemed an overall economic benefit for Canada. The buyers have committed to maintain the Cirque’s strategic decision-making and creative and artistic development at its Montreal headquarters.”
  
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• Talent Spotting: Which Would You Trust, The Data Or The Hunch?

  01-07-2015 03:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The gift for talent-spotting is mysterious, highly prized and celebrated. We like to believe that certain people—sometimes ourselves—can just sense when a person has something special. But there is another method of spotting talent which doesn’t rely on hunches. In place of intuition, it offers data and analysis. Rather than relying on the gut, it […]
  
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• Records Fall for Ofili, Quaytman, Morley, More at $150.1 M. Christie’s London Contemporary Sale

  01-07-2015 03:17 via artnews.com
  'The Holy Virgin Mary' sells for an above-estimate $4.5 M. Read More
  
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• Readers Versus Critics, Round 497: The New Fifty Shades Of ‘Grey’ Book

  01-07-2015 02:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Readers, as their buying patterns have suggested for some years, do not need a critical imprimatur to select their next read.”
  
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• China’s Movie Box Office Up 50% In First Half Of 2015

  01-07-2015 02:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “About $3.3 billion in tickets were sold in the first six months of the year, according to figures from film industry consulting firm Artisan Gateway. That’s a leap of 48.9% over the first half of 2014. Imported films accounted for 52.5% of ticket sales.”
  
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• Report: UK Creative Industries Employment Growing At Twice National Average

  01-07-2015 02:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Statistics released by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport found that jobs within the creative industries increased by 5.5% compared to the national 2.1% rise in employment between 2013 and 2014.”
  
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• This Year In New Museum Construction (A Chart)

  01-07-2015 01:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It has been a huge year for museum construction, with many institutions—public and private, established and upstart—spending, in total, hundreds of millions of dollars on new buildings, with even more on the way.”
  
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• Comedy Central Is (Kind Of) Booming, Except For The Money Part

  01-07-2015 01:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Comedy Central’s quandary is almost paradoxically acute: What does a television network do when its bread-and-butter demographic — young, piracy-fluent, glued to phones — stops watching television?”
  
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• Mysteries of metalpoint explored in British Museum exhibition

  01-07-2015 01:01
  
  First large-scale exhibition on technique used by artists including Leonardo, Dürer and Raphael arrives from Washington in SeptemberThey rank as some of the most admired drawings in the world yet many people will be blissfully unaware of how artists including Leonardo, Dürer and Raphael made them: with a metal stylus over an abrasive surface often made from carbonised bone.The mysteries of a technique called metalpoint are to be explored in an exhibition covering 600 years of art history,
  
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• Menil Collection Director To Step Down

  01-07-2015 00:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Under Josef Helfenstein, the Menil doubled its annual attendance, increased its endowment by almost 54 percent, and added more than 1,000 works to the collection, including pieces by Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra and Kara Walker.”
  
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• Why “Smart” Kids Often Don’t Turn Into Smart Adults

  01-07-2015 00:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When people perform well (academically or otherwise) at early ages and are labeled smart or gifted, they become less likely to challenge themselves. They become less likely to make mistakes, because they stay in their comfortable comfort zone and stop growing. And their fixed mindset persists through adulthood. The simple and innocent praising of a […]
  
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