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• Young Minimalist – The Disappearing La Monte Young

  02-07-2015 23:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Yet none of his major compositions are in print, he rarely performs, and he places such extensive restrictions on performances of his music that it’s rarely heard. He has all but disappeared, by his own hand.”
  
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• Sotheby’s London Cleaners Barred From Work After Protest

  02-07-2015 22:00 via artnews.com
  The Independent reports today that cleaners at Sotheby’s London have been banned from work in the wake of a protest staged last night over better sick-pay terms.While million-dollar-art auctions raged inside of Sotheby’s, outside a group of workers and sympathizers staged … Read More
  
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• Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends review – invention, sex and sadness

  02-07-2015 21:50
  
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  A collection of portraits of artists, friends and patrons shows a less blinging and more intimate side to the artist, with just a whiff of scandalThe corset is not the only thing constricting her. Mrs George Batten – née Mabel Veronica Hatch, an Irish-Indian memsahib who became one of London’s more scandalous figures of the 1890s – is singing at a private concert, her left hand resting below her severely cinched waist. But the portrait by her acq
  
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• The Curious Remaking Of David Foster Wallace

  02-07-2015 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He has become a character, an icon, and in some circles a saint. A writer who courted contradiction and paradox, who could come on as a curmudgeon and a scold, who emerged from an avant-garde tradition and never retreated into conventional realism, he has been reduced to a wisdom-dispensing sage on the one hand and […]
  
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• What to do this Fourth of July: a complete cultural guide

  02-07-2015 21:02
  
  From TV-loving agoraphobes to those looking for brazen shirtless male strippers, this holiday weekend offers plenty for the culturally curious to exploreYoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971It goes a long way to revalorising one of the most misunderstood artists of the last 60 years. Her massive fame, and maybe her heal-the-world rhetoric too, has obscured the groundbreaking contributions she made to the art of the 1960s and beyond. At last, the art world has come round. This show is no guerrill
  
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• Our complete Fourth of July cultural guide

  02-07-2015 21:02
  
  From TV-loving agoraphobes to those looking for brazen shirtless male strippers, this holiday weekend offers plenty for the culturally curious to exploreYoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971It goes a long way to revalorising one of the most misunderstood artists of the last 60 years. Her massive fame, and maybe her heal-the-world rhetoric too, has obscured the groundbreaking contributions she made to the art of the 1960s and beyond. At last, the art world has come round. This show is no guerrill
  
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• Chelsea’s Anna Kustera Gallery Changes Name, Heads to Brooklyn

  02-07-2015 21:02 via artnews.com
  The gallery exodus from New York’s Chelsea neighborhood continues. Anna Kustera Gallery, which shuttered its longtime home on West 21st Street, near Gagosian Gallery, in 2013, announced that it will reopen in Red Hook in Brooklyn on July 18. Its new name will be Kustera … Read More
  
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• Readers recommend: minimalist songs | Peter Kimpton

  02-07-2015 21:00
  
  Stripped back, pared down, sparse or pure? Suggest music that in sound or lyrics expresses clarity or simplicity distilled down to its fighting weight
  “Less is more,” said the architect Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, minimalistic in his buildings, but certainly not his name. But how is minimalism made in song form? Be sparse, spare, pare, shear, prune, soften or shorten? The writer Nathan Morris summed it up: “Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all.”So thi
  
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• A Gallery Grows In the Galeries: The Grandest Shopping Center in Paris Turns to Contemporary Art

  02-07-2015 20:35 via artnews.com
  'Public financing is decreasing, budgets are low, so it’s our role to support art,' says the director of Galeries Lafayette's art space Read More
  
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• Did Smooth Jazz Die On The Radio Because Of Bad Ratings Data?

  02-07-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Smooth jazz was at the edge of a cliff. The Portable People Meter could have helped pull the format back or push it over. It turns out PPM gave it a swift kick right over the edge.”
  
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• Can A Theatre Critic Be A Good Playwright?

  02-07-2015 19:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Does writing regularly about theatre make you a stronger playwright? I feel I’ve benefited from soaking up others’ work for years; I’m in a constant state of inspiration. (Sometimes I have to tell my own characters to pipe down so I can focus on the show.) My defense has always been that I was an […]
  
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• Network Bans “Dukes Of Hazzard” Reruns. Why?

  02-07-2015 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The flag will remain charged whether publicly visible or not, and so TV Land banning The Dukes of Hazzard is a banal gesture of how little we are prepared to confront the horror of Charleston, the continuing gritty day-to-day horror of all kinds of hatred aimed at all kinds of minorities.”
  
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• ‘Fresh Prints: From Nineties to Now’ at Cleveland Museum of Art

  02-07-2015 18:05 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Fresh Prints: The Nineties to Now” is currently on view at Cleveland Museum of Art until July 26. The exhibition showcases printmaking techniques from a variety of contemporary artists … Read More
  
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• Habitat: Olek

  02-07-2015 17:50 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a new weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Olek; Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. “Crocheting is my only weapon,” Olek said as she lit up a hand-rolled cigarette in her studio. “I grew up in a place that was very stingy … Read More
  
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• The cardinal, the prostitute and the painter: the strange story of Titian's most erotic masterpiece

  02-07-2015 17:34
  
  It was considered a fake for a century, but now one of the UK’s greatest art treasures is back on show. So how did the Duke of Wellington get his hands on it?
  Britain’s sexiest art treasure is the centrepiece of a new exhibition at Apsley House, home of the Duke of Wellington and now in the care of English Heritage. This is a painting about love and money – and it is priceless. But until recently, it lay almost unnoticed among Wellington’s paintings. The story of this erotic masterpiece
  
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• Misty Copeland’s Promotion At ABT Signals New Era For Company

  02-07-2015 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Along with Ms. Copeland’s ascendance, the company’s other, less-heralded promotions announced Tuesday suggest a new era at Ballet Theatre—one with a stronger emphasis on promoting dancers who have made a commitment to the company, especially in the early stages of their training.”
  
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• Sotheby’s Just Had Its Biggest Ever Sale Of Contemporary Art

  02-07-2015 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Warhol’s ‘One Dollar Bill (Silver Certificate)’ fetched £20.9m, smashing its pre-sale estimate of £13-18m. This was Warhol’s first such work of a dollar, painted by hand in 1962. A bidding frenzy powered Lucien Freud’s 2002 work ‘Four Eggs on a Plate’, which was originally a gift to the late Duchess of Devonshire, to sell for […]
  
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• ‘Democratization, Not Monetization': Jeremy Kost on Selling His Instagram Nudes for $100 Each

  02-07-2015 16:56 via artnews.com
  Last fall, the artist Jeremy Kost released a book of photographs titled Fractured, which featured his signature multi-exposed Polaroids of impeccably chiseled male models wearing only briefs or even less. The regular version is priced at $60; a special artist’s edition (limited … Read More
  
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• ‘Democratization, Not Monetization’: Jeremy Kost on Selling His Instagram Male Models for $100 Each

  02-07-2015 16:56 via artnews.com
  Last fall, the artist Jeremy Kost released a book of photographs titled Fractured, which featured his signature multi-exposed Polaroids of impeccably chiseled male models wearing only briefs or even less. The regular version is priced at $60; a special artist’s edition (limited … Read More
  
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• Big Changes Ahead For American Public Media? (An Ominous Memo Leaks)

  02-07-2015 16:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some inside the public-radio walls are speculating that the reason for the siren has to do with the struggle to get institutional funding, a fairly common problem these days. An APM spokesperson denies that is the case. In fact, this person says, APM is growing and is working under a balanced budget.”
  
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• Greece Needs Money. Britain Wants The Parthenon Marbles. A Deal To Be Made?

  02-07-2015 15:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the last few years, amidst her financial crisis, Greece has flirted with the idea of selling off state historical assets. Since Greek independence, Graeco-British relations have been shadowed by the Elgin marbles: relief panels from the Parthenon, along with major pediment sculptures, which were purchased by the 7th Earl of Elgin in 1798.”
  
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• Paris Okays Its First Skyscraper In 40 Years – A Giant Pyramid

  02-07-2015 15:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A common sight in most major capitals, skyscrapers have faced deep opposition in Paris ever since the 300-metre high Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 Universal Exposition. Paris’s socialist mayor, Anne Hidalgo, diluted opposition to the new Tour Triangle last November after some of its planned office space was sacrificed for childcare and cultural […]
  
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• The Smithsonian’s Air And Space Museum Is Falling Apart (Here’s Why)

  02-07-2015 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Air and Space Museum, designed by Hellmuth Obata and Kassabaum Architects (HOK), is marked by its four marble-clad pavilions, separated by three recessed steel-and-glass atria. Construction started in 1972 and continued until the museum opened on July 1, 1976. It has undergone basic repairs since, but the systems and materials are running on borrowed […]
  
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• Morning Links: Ai Weiwei’s Cats Edition

  02-07-2015 14:53 via artnews.com
  The Whitworth has been named Museum of the Year by the Art Fund. [The Art Newspaper]The National Gallery of Victoria is planning a show of work by Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei. But more importantly, the museum will also do … Read More
  
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• So This Is The End Of iTunes

  02-07-2015 14:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Apple still makes billions per year on iTunes downloads. But Spotify, Pandora, and other startups have eroded that business, first with their free streaming services and more recently with a paid subscription model. It’s been clear for a while now that streaming is the music industry’s future: iTunes Store sales dropped an alarming 14 percent […]
  
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• 'I sounded like I was having the best sex': Juno Calypso's one-woman world tour of honeymoon hotels

  02-07-2015 13:30
  
  With their heart-shaped hot tubs and mirrors everywhere, Calypso has found that love hotels are the perfect place to explore what marriage means, why we feel ugly – and plan world dominationTwin Peaks, The Shining, Psycho: the pastel pink walls of out-of-town hotels often paper over a hotbed of sinister, sexualised weirdness. Which makes it no surprise that artist Juno Calypso is showing a new series of photographs made on her unlikely one-woman road trip to a honeymoon hotel. Calypso’s imag
  
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• Things fall apart: the beautiful Marxist bomb that's hit south London

  02-07-2015 13:26
  
  South London Gallery
  Artist Thomas Hirschhorn plays on our manic pleasure at seeing ruins by making a whole building collapse in on itselfThe South London Gallery is a ruin. The walls have collapsed, slabs of concrete have tumbled into heaps of fallen joists and slumped plasterboard, all festooned with exposed wiring and mangled pipes. Whole rooms have been undone, and the roof is shot full of holes. Rubble litters the floor, silver air-conditioning ducts flop from the walls, and various rooms �
  
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• Warhol's dollar bill sells for £20.9 million as Sotheby's celebrates most lucrative auction ever

  02-07-2015 10:27
  
  One of Andy Warhol’s dollar bills proved its value at Sotheby’s most lucrative ever sale last night, smashing its pre-sale estimate of up £13-18m to fetch a record £20.9m.
  
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• Russian Wins Tchaikovsky Piano Competition

  02-07-2015 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Russian Dmitry Masleyev on Wednesday won first prize for the piano at the prestigious Tchaikovsky international music competition in Moscow.”
  
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• Are The Arts Dying Because Of Indifference?

  02-07-2015 06:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For while the fine arts can survive a hostile or ignorant public, or even a fanatically prudish one, they cannot long survive an indifferent one. And that is the nature of the present Western response to art, visual and otherwise: indifference.”
  
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• Andy Warhol and Ai WeiWei come together in Melbourne – with cats

  02-07-2015 03:43
  
  Major new NGV show will bring together 300 works by the pop art poster boys of the American and Chinese centuries, plus a kids’ show about catsAndy Warhol epitomised the pop art of the 20th century, Ai Weiwei the Instagram generation and activism of the 21st. Now the two artists will be brought together in a major new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in December 2015.Developed by the NGV and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh (where it will show in June 2016), Andy Warhol | Ai
  
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• Book Subscription Service Stops Offering Romance And Erotica Titles Because Its Readers Read Them Too Much

  02-07-2015 03:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Scribd appears to have slightly underestimated just how much can be consumed at their all-you-can-eat literary buffet – especially by fans of romance. Because Scribd has to pay the authors of the books they make available on their site, it is now shelling out more money than it can make back in subscriptions, thanks to […]
  
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• The 12 Most Controversial Opera Productions

  02-07-2015 02:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Opera has never been a stranger to controversy. It’s part of its allure. Here are twelve opera productions that shocked…
  
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• Is It Time To get Rid Of Computers In Education?

  02-07-2015 02:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If we want schools to be democratizing, then we need to stop and consider how computers are likely to entrench the very opposite. Unless we stop them.”
  
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• Warhol's One Dollar Bill fetches £20.9m on record night for Sotheby's

  02-07-2015 02:29
  
  Sales of artworks by Warhol, Bacon, Freud and others combine to make highest total ever achieved for contemporary art at the renowned auction house
  An auction of contemporary art on Wednesday evening raised £130.4m at Sotheby’s with works from Andy Warhol, Lucien Freud and Gerhard Richter combining to make it the auction house’s most lucrative sale ever.
  Alex Branczik, Sotheby’s head of contemporary art said that the evening “affirmed the pivotal position of London within the inter
  
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• Most Expensive West End Theatre Ticket Tops £200 (A Complete List Of Ticket Prices)

  02-07-2015 02:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Top price seats for The Book of Mormon have reached a record-high of £202.25. This is an increase of a third on last year’s most expensive seat in the survey, which came in at £152.25 and was also The Book of Mormon.”
  
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• The Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto We All Know And Love? Turns Out It’s Not The Version The Composer Intended

  02-07-2015 01:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You can hear the differences immediately. Those massive chords we’re all so used to at the start of the piano part? They’re supposed to be arpeggiated as lyrical, harp-like consecrations of the harmony, not bashed out like military hammer-blows, and they were marked to be played at a lower dynamic than they are in the […]
  
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• Museum of the Year 2015: The Whitworth in Manchester takes top prize

  02-07-2015 00:57
  
  The Whitworth in Manchester has been named Museum of the Year, after the biggest overhaul in its 125-year history turned it into “a museum of the future”.
  
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• Remembering Gunther Schuller

  02-07-2015 00:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Although he coined the expression “third stream” in the late 1950s as a suitable epithet for his own amalgam of classical and jazz forms, his music was technically complex and demanding. Hence it never secured a wide and sympathetic audience in his lifetime.”
  
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• Sotheby’s Sells $203.6 M. of Contemporary Art in London, Led by a $32.8 M. Warhol Dollar Bill

  02-07-2015 00:05 via artnews.com
  Tonight in London Sotheby’s sold £130.4 million ($203.6 million) worth of art at its contemporary art auction, handily trumping the £95.6 million ($150.1 million) that its arch-rival, Christie’s, brought in at its own sale last night. About 85 percent of … Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s Sells $203.6 M. of Contemporary Art in London, Led by a $28.1 M. Warhol Dollar Bill

  02-07-2015 00:05 via artnews.com
  Tonight in London Sotheby’s sold £130.4 million ($203.6 million) worth of art at its contemporary art auction, handily trumping the £95.6 million ($150.1 million) that its arch-rival, Christie’s, brought in at its own sale last night. About 85 percent of … Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s Sells $203.6 M. of Contemporary Art in London, Led by a $150.1 M. Warhol Dollar Bill

  02-07-2015 00:05 via artnews.com
  Tonight in London Sotheby’s sold £130.4 million ($203.6 million) worth of art at its contemporary art auction, handily trumping the £95.6 million ($150.1 million) that its arch-rival, Christie’s, brought in at its own sale last night.The top lot of the … Read More
  
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