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• Move-In Day At The Broad Art Museum Is Taking Months

  06-07-2015 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “About half of the Broad’s 2,000 artworks have made their way from warehouses around the city, where they had been stored by museum founders Eli and Edythe Broad. Now all this postwar and contemporary art, by some of the most recognizable names of the last 40 years, is heading to a single place for the […]
  
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• Monet's water lilies: How the iconic paintings almost never made it to the canvas

  06-07-2015 21:41
  
  Monet’s paintings of water lilies hang in some of the world’s most prestigious institutions and are among the most expensive artworks in the world.
  
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• Monet and Matisse to feature in modern garden exhibition

  06-07-2015 21:37
  
  Painting the Modern Garden aims to be popular and scholarly, and will include some spectacular loans, says curator
  If French farmers had prevailed, the world may never have seen some of the most popular and revered paintings in the world: Monet’s waterlilies.“They were very suspicious of these strange aquatic plants that they heard Monet was going to plant,” said Ann Dumas, a curator at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. “They think they are going to poison the water and kill their cat
  
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• Why Childhood Memories Disappear

  06-07-2015 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the memory to remain accessible, my younger self had to remember those concepts in the same language-based way that my adult self remembers information. I formed earlier memories using more rudimentary, pre-verbal means, and that made those memories unreachable as the acquisition of language reshaped how my mind works, as it does for everyone.”
  
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• Studio Museum Of Harlem Unveils Plans To Expand

  06-07-2015 21:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “No more droning air-conditioners in the galleries. Or children sitting on the floor for educational programs. Or total shutdowns of the museum three times a year because the current process of changing exhibitions is so disruptive to its operations.”
  
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• A Print Publication About Net.Art: Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter On ‘Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century’

  06-07-2015 20:50 via artnews.com
  This November, The New Museum and MIT Press will kick off a new series of critical anthologies with Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, co-edited by The New Museum’s Lauren Cornell along with Ed Halter. The … Read More
  
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• A Print Publication About Art and The Internet: Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter On ‘Mass Effect’

  06-07-2015 20:50 via artnews.com
  This November, The New Museum and MIT Press will kick off a new series of critical anthologies with Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, co-edited by The New Museum’s Lauren Cornell along with Ed Halter. The … Read More
  
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• Surviving As An Artist Means Diversifying Your Art

  06-07-2015 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Here’s the old artist model: Sit in your studio and make paintings or sculptures and wait to be discovered. Jennie Jieun Lee represents the new artist model: designing clothing and accessories for Rachel Corney, vases and tableware sold at several New York stores, and creating fine art for shows at Martos Gallery downtown and galleries […]
  
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• Why Isn’t There A Lot More Booing At The Theatre? [VIDEO]

  06-07-2015 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s not as if actors can only work in respectful silence.”
  
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• The Most Quintessential American Fiction, According To The Rest Of The World

  06-07-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Japanese translator and editor: “Moby-Dick, Herman Melville; The American hunger to comprehend all, and the impossibility of it, permeated half by cheerful melancholy and half by demonic rage.”
  
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• Soundscapes at National Gallery review – Jamie xx pointless soundtracks for paintings

  06-07-2015 18:16
  
  National Gallery, London
  Desperate to be on trend, this daft sound-meets-art experiment shows a great institution making a fool of itselfThis is a terrifyingly insecure cultural cringe of an exhibition, a pitiful act of obeisance by the National Gallery to popular culture, contemporary art and anything else it hopes might pull in a few young people. It’s like watching Dirk Bogarde at the end of Visconti’s film Death in Venice as his black hair dye drips down his face and he loses his last sh
  
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• Soundscapes at National Gallery review – Jamie xx and friends make pointless soundtracks for paintings

  06-07-2015 18:16
  
  National Gallery, London
  Desperate to be down with the kids, this daft sound-meets-art experiment shows a great institution making a fool of itselfThis is a terrifyingly insecure cultural cringe of an exhibition, a pitiful act of obeisance by the National Gallery to popular culture, contemporary art and anything else it hopes might pull in a few young people. It’s like watching Dirk Bogarde at the end of Visconti’s film Death in Venice as his black hair dye drips down his face and he loses h
  
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• Soundscapes at National Gallery review – irrelevant cultural cringe courtesy of Jamie xx and friends

  06-07-2015 18:16
  
  National Gallery, London
  Desperate to be down with the kids, this daft sound-meets-art experiment shows a great institution making a fool of itselfThis is a terrifyingly insecure cultural cringe of an exhibition, a pitiful act of obeisance by the National Gallery to popular culture, contemporary art and anything else it hopes might pull in a few young people. It’s like watching Dirk Bogarde at the end of Visconti’s film Death in Venice as his black hair dye drips down his face and he loses h
  
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• New York's disappearing neon signs: the city flips the switch on its colorful history

  06-07-2015 17:39
  
  From the Times Square of old to a Queens diner made famous by Goodfellas, New York City was once synonymous with neon signs. Now they are nearly impossible to find: ‘It’s the New York way to tear it down and start over’The art deco sign stood watch for nearly 80 years over the bar two stories above the subway on the corner of 60th and Lexington. Then in an instant last fall, it was gone.Many people had complained about the Subway Inn: it had long attracted the wrong types so close to its u
  
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• World Bodypainting Festival 2015: Bizarre and brilliant photos celebrate 'the body as art'

  06-07-2015 17:08
  
  Any art fans eager to add more colour to their lives should book a ticket to next year's World Bodypainting Festival in Austria, judging by the stunning photos from the 2015 extravaganza.
  
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• Artist Milo Moire arrested in Paris for taking naked selfies with passers-by in front of the Eiffel Tower

  06-07-2015 17:08
  
  A Swiss artist has been arrested in Paris after she stripped down to her shoes and invited people to take selfies with her in front of the Eiffel Tower while she was completely naked.
  
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• ‘For a New World to Come’ at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

  06-07-2015 16:50 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography” is now on view at Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. The exhibition explores the role of … Read More
  
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• Classic Quadrophenia, Royal Albert Hall, review: Not as far-fetched as it seems

  06-07-2015 15:36
  
  Pete Townshend's second rock opera after Tommy, the archetypal tale of Jimmy, the hero of Quadrophenia, has become a cornerstone of British popular culture since The Who struggled to perform it live in 1973. The Franc Roddam film adaptation shaped the mod revival of the late '70s, while Townshend's oeuvre planted the seed for Britpop and resonated through subsequent stage versions by his band and assorted guests.
  
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• Morning Links: DIY Museum Edition

  06-07-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  Brooklynite Eric Edwards, owner of the largest private collection of African artifacts (2,500 works dating back 4,000 years), is going to build his own African art museum. [NBC]A project to restore 14 historic mausoleums destroyed in Timbuktu three years ago … Read More
  
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• The Monster in the Maze, Barbican London, review: Jonathan Dove's new Minotaur community opera brilliantly hits the mark

  06-07-2015 14:16
  
  With Simon Rattle at the helm, Jonathan Dove's new community opera The Monster in the Maze has German, British, and French co-commissioners, and is getting its premiere in three countries, and in three languages.
  
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• Rigoletto, Longborough Festival Opera, review: American 1920s setting works a treat

  06-07-2015 12:12
  Rigoletto has certainly been updated before, most notably in Jonathan Miller’s ENO production set among the New York mafia. Here, award-winning director Caroline Clegg does a smart riff on that idea, setting Verdi’s opera in the machismo environment of 1920s America, experiencing the birth pangs of the American dream.
  
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• Cause and effect: how human activity is altering the environment – in pictures

  06-07-2015 11:54
  
  Leading environmental photographers and artists exhibit their works on the effects of anthropogenic climate change at the Verve Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from 3 July to 5 SeptemberContinue reading...
  
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• Archibald prize entries depict different shades of Jacqui Lambie

  06-07-2015 10:10
  
  The independent senator for Tasmania – alternately draped in the Australian flag and dressed in khaki – is the subject of two entries in this year’s Archibald prizeImpressions of Jacqui Lambie by two artists have been submitted to the prestigious Archibald prize competition, each portraying different shades of the independent senator.Depicting Lambie draped in an Australian flag, painter Phillip McKay of Tasmania said his final piece is a little different to what the senator, whom McKay ha
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 07.05.15

  06-07-2015 07:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When Is A Sanction Not A Sanction? AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2015-07-05 Sunday Listening Tip: No Net Nonet AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-07-05 4th Of July Music—Lots Of It AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-07-04 An Annual Rifftides Independence Day Reminder AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-07-04 What color is Othello? AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-07-03 [ssba_hide]
  
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• Dorothy Bohm interview: 91-year-old photographer on portraying humanity and hope after escaping the Nazis as a teenager

  06-07-2015 06:45
  
  At 91 years old, Dorothy Bohm is tiny and elegant with thick white hair styled into a neat bob, around curious dark eyes that closely examine whoever enters her Hampstead home. She speaks clearly, with a soft accent that bears the trace of her childhood years in Germany and Lithuania, which she left aged 14, as the Nazis moved in.
  
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• The Flying Dutchman, Leeds Town Hall, review: A passionate, intense take on Wagner

  06-07-2015 05:15
  
  Between Opera North’s splendid semi-stagings of the four parts of Wagner’s Ring cycle over the past four years, and next year’s complete cycles, there was a Wagnerian gap. That has now been filled by a similar semi-staging of The Flying Dutchman, involving several of the same singers, and, of course, ON’s chorus and orchestra under the music director Richard Farnes.
  
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• The Church Of Scientology Allegedly Sent Threatening Letters To Distributors And Festivals

  06-07-2015 04:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Every step of the way, every distributor, every festival has received multiple threatening letters from the Church of Scientology. Some have come very close to buckling.”
  
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• Why Summer Isn’t For Reading

  06-07-2015 03:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s for re-reading instead: “I pull this or that beat-up, food-spattered volume off a shelf, whimsically hopeful that this time around it will be a different story: Anna Karenina will skip the train tracks and Sydney Carton will avoid the guillotine. Nothing has changed. But of course everything has changed.”
  
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• Maybe It’s A Good Thing That Amy Winehouse’s Label Destroyed Her Demos After Her Death

  06-07-2015 02:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s understandable why Joseph might have called the destruction of the demos the moral choice. Posthumous releases are a thorny subject in the music business. They can be seen as one final, exploitative attempt to wean money from an artist no longer around to cash the check — the musical equivalent of a creepy Tupac […]
  
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• Thanks To A Gang Rape Scene, This Opera Broadcast Has A Different Age Rating

  06-07-2015 01:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Director of Opera Kasper Holten defended the controversial scene saying it ‘puts the spotlight on the brutal reality of women being abused during war time, and sexual violence being a tragic fact of war.'”
  
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• Thank You, Robots, For Preserving Print Newspapers

  06-07-2015 00:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the dark void of the National Newspaper Building, the robots are afoot. Towering 20 metres high and stretching far into the distance is an imposing expanse of racks, heaving with trays bearing volume upon volume of newspapers, laid flat and strapped between metal sheets. Suddenly, an enormous autonomous crane zooms forwards, stops abruptly and, […]
  
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