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• Smithsonian on Cosby: “The museum in no way condones this behavior”

  07-07-2015 23:39 via artnews.com
  The Smithsonian was criticized when their National Museum of African Art opened a show last November entitled “Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue,” due to the participation of Bill Cosby, who donated many artworks from his personal collection for the … Read More
  
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• Zmijewski’s Video of a Game of Tag in a Nazi Gas Chamber Sparks Protests in Poland, Abroad

  07-07-2015 23:20 via artnews.com
  The work of Polish artist Artur Zmijewski is once again stoking controversy. The Associated Press has reported that a variety of Jewish groups and various officials have called on the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland, to remove from view his 1999 video … Read More
  
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• Printed Matter Names Max Schumann Executive Director

  07-07-2015 22:35 via artnews.com
  Printed Matter, the New York nonprofit specializing in artists’ books and publications, has appointed Max Schumann as executive director. Schumann started working at Printed Matter in 1989 as a book packer, then served as manager, associate director, and acting director … Read More
  
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• ‘What Nerve!': Matthew Marks Ventures Beyond New York for Summer Group Show

  07-07-2015 22:19 via artnews.com
  Tonight, Matthew Marks Gallery opens the New York edition of “What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to Present” simultaneously at its three 22nd Street Gallery locations. Curated by Dan Nadel, the show focuses on four groups of artists–Hairy Who, … Read More
  
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• ‘What Nerve!': Matthew Marks Looks Beyond New York for Summer Show

  07-07-2015 22:19 via artnews.com
  Tonight, Matthew Marks Gallery opens the New York edition of “What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to Present” simultaneously at its three 22nd Street Gallery locations. Curated by Dan Nadel, the show focuses on four groups of artists–Hairy Who, … Read More
  
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• Consumer Reports: Bjorn Copeland

  07-07-2015 21:25 via artnews.com
  Bjorn Copeland is a Los Angeles-based artist and a member of the seminal shape-shifting experimental band Black Dice. As a visual artist, he has mounted solo shows at China Art Objects, Los Angeles; Jack Hanley Gallery, New York; and the … Read More
  
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• Ugly Statue of Nefertiti Removed After Public Outcry

  07-07-2015 21:09 via artnews.com
  It’s been a bad time for ancient art in the Middle East. On one hand, terrorist groups are gleefully “bulldozing” ancient archeological sites in Iraq and Syria on a weekly basis; on the other, the “ugly Nefertiti Bust,” a piece … Read More
  
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• Quincy Jones: The Music Industry Doesn’t Exist Anymore

  07-07-2015 20:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Honey, we have no music industry. There’s 90% piracy everywhere in the world. They take everything. At the recent South by Southwest [an annual music festival in Austin], they had over 1,900 musicians, but fans didn’t know where to go. You can’t get an album out because nobody buys an album anymore.”
  
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• How Did Art Auctions Become “Curated Shows?”

  07-07-2015 19:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a market where getting the best material for a sale is essential, the formula has obvious attractions: it is a new story to tell clients, and the inclusion of some masterpieces in a sale can persuade other consignors to give up their treasures.”
  
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• Classic Hollywood Producer Jerry Weintraub, 77

  07-07-2015 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Brooklyn-born son of a Bronx jeweler, Weintraub rose from the mailroom of a talent agency to become a top concert promoter before shifting into a decades-long career as a top Hollywood producer. Along the way, Weintraub worked with the most famous of stars — Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, George Clooney, Brad Pitt — and […]
  
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• Is It Okay (Even Moral) For Your Search Engine To Lie To You?

  07-07-2015 19:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “So when should a search engine act like an expert? When should it direct searchers as neutrally as possible to the Web pages that they’re seeking? And to what degree should it consider the interests of people other than the person searching?”
  
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• Anatomy Of A Critically-Acclaimed Broadway “Failure”

  07-07-2015 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The size of the venue may be a part of the problem in how we perceive the success or struggles of the On the Town revivals, but it cannot be the only reason why revivals of this musical struggle financially.”
  
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• Part-time Group Sales Representatives

  07-07-2015 18:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC, a leading Cultural Institution in New York City, United States and the World is seeking Part-time Group Sales Representatives.
  
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• Dustin Hoffman: The Movie Business Right Now Is The Worst I’ve Seen

  07-07-2015 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Most films today, away from the comic strip or robot adaptations, are made in around 20 days. Part of the reason is that digital technology enables filmmakers to shoot more scenes in a day than they used to, but mostly it’s to do with the downsizing of budgets as more and more films get made. […]
  
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• ‘American Moments’ at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

  07-07-2015 17:58 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “American Moments: Photographs from the Phillips Collection” is currently on view at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., until September 13. The exhibition features more then 130 photographs … Read More
  
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• Computer Breaks So Musician Finishes His Album At Computer In An Apple Store

  07-07-2015 17:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After a second computer failure left him without a means to record his album and no money to buy a replacement, Prince finished recording the vocals and backing instrumental tracks for his new album entirely in that one Apple Store. Prince Harvey sang, hummed, and rapped into a display computer at the SoHo Apple Store […]
  
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• What Defines Our Cultural Literacy When Who We Are Is Changing Rapidly?

  07-07-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The question then arises: What? What is the story of “us” when “us” is no longer by default “white”? The answer, of course, will depend on how aware Americans are of what they are, of what their culture already (and always) has been. And that awareness demands a new kind of mirror.
  
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• There is no such thing as too much Monet | Jonathan Jones

  07-07-2015 17:22
  
  Ignore the melancholic simpers of art snobs. Monet may be accessible but he is also a modernist who invented utterly new ways of seeing the worldPoor Richard Shone. You can almost see the editor of the Burlington Magazine adjust his overtight cravat as he moans to the Times that “I think there is some fatigue with Monet”.Yes, fatigue, rather like the fatigue one feels when one’s butler expects one to bring one’s own copy of the collected art criticism of Roger Fry from the library. Relat
  
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• Why Do We Insist That Composers Succeed While Young Or We Give Up On Them?

  07-07-2015 16:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With respect to composers, said expectation goes something like this: child prodigy enters school already a mature genius; impresses all of his/her professors; then sets the world on fire with his/her youthful vigor, technical wizardry, and creative talent while winning all sorts of competitions; and proceeds to redefine an art form for the betterment of […]
  
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• Fears About Investment In Canadian Literature After Mega-Merger

  07-07-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Laments about neoliberalism, globalization, Americanization and the need for the great revolution that will destroy “late capitalism” itself are lazy and unproductive, for they provide no practical way forward. “It’s society’s fault, man,” is no coherent cultural plan. It actually would be very bad for all of us if any one of these giant publishers […]
  
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• Artists (And Arts Organizations) Are Getting Priced Out Of Some Cities (What To Do?)

  07-07-2015 16:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The increasing difficulty in living and working in some major cities affects not just the artists, but the newer and the smaller and the mid-sized arts organizations housed in these cities. Increasingly they too are being priced out. Some of these organizations are finding it difficult to continue to stay in the very cities they […]
  
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• How A Public Radio Station Not Only Survived But Learned How To Thrive

  07-07-2015 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “KPCC’s total audience has grown 27 percent, and Latino listenership has nearly doubled since 2009. At the end of 2014, the station was the highest-rated public radio station in Los Angeles. Its listener-sensitive revenue grew accordingly. The paper reports that KPCC’s listener support nearly doubled, from $6.5 million to $11.4 million; corporate underwriting revenue increased […]
  
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• Morning Links: The Broad Edition

  07-07-2015 15:01 via artnews.com
  Installing the 2,000 works of art that will be shown in the new Broad museum is no easy-task. A five-panel Takashi Murakami painting, for example, came in five crates, each of which was unloaded, vacuumed, pushed onto dollies, and then … Read More
  
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• The case of the Frankenstein Nefertiti: it's time to revolt against ugly public art

  07-07-2015 14:11
  
  As Egyptian protesters get a colossal – and colossally awful – sculpture of the ancient queen pulled down, we need to topple all the other art that’s an insult to our public spacesEgypt has had a revolution, and we should emulate it. We need a revolution against bad public art.Ugly sculpture is a global phenomenon. From a daft statue of Peter Falk in Budapest to the colossally kitsch couple at St Pancras Station in London, clumsily executed excuses for figurative art are insulting public s
  
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• ISIS Is Selling Looted Antiquities On The Internet

  07-07-2015 10:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The world went into shock earlier this year after Islamic State released videos of its bearded operatives smashing ancient artworks with sledgehammers and drills. But after U.S.-led airstrikes on refineries and tankers reduced the group’s $1 million daily oil revenue by nearly two-thirds, the razing gave way to looting for sale via eBay, Facebook and […]
  
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• The Making Of An Alt-Classical Prodigy

  07-07-2015 10:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At the premiere two weeks prior, at the Kaufman Music Center, the grown-ups had shot down some of Paris [Lavidis’s] most rascally ideas: using firecrackers as percussion, smoking a hookah onstage. So he’d improvised, substituting a whip for the fireworks and handing out kazoos instead of pipes. But the compromise had stolen some of his […]
  
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• How You Lie – And Whether You Think You’re Lying – Depends On Your Culture

  07-07-2015 10:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some aspects of lie detection, especially those elements measured by lie detector tests, might be cultural. For instance, what if the person who might be lying is speaking a second language? What if she grew up in a different place than you, with different social norms? How difficult is it to spot a liar then? […]
  
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• Junot Díaz Remembers The First Time He Got Beaten Up

  07-07-2015 10:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As these things go, it wasn’t too bad. I didn’t actually lose any teeth or break any limbs or misplace an eye. … I was furious and ashamed, but above all else I was afraid. Afraid of my assailants. Afraid they would corner me again. Afraid of a second beat-down. Afraid and afraid and afraid. […]
  
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• Ridding ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ Of ‘Taming Of The Shrew’ Misogyny

  07-07-2015 10:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Darko Tresnjak: “Taming of the Shrew is designed to give uproarious pleasure over the subjugation of a woman. In Kiss Me, Kate, she is an equal-opportunity offender. We made sure that she slugs him 10 times as much as he spanks her.”
  
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• Classical Critic Edward Greenfield, 86

  07-07-2015 10:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He began his journalistic career in 1953 as a political writer for the Manchester Guardian, taking up reviewing recordings for the paper in 1955 (he was later appointed the Guardian‘s chief music critic in 1977, retiring in 1993).” He also spent 55 years as a contributing critic for Gramophone.
  
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• It Seems There Are Four Kinds of Introversion

  07-07-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As more regular, non-scientist types started to talk about introversion, psychologist Jonathan Cheek began to notice something: The way many introverts defined the trait was different from the way he and most of his academic colleagues did.”
  
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• “The Necessary, Inevitable Thing” – Adam Gopnik On Love Lyrics, From Shakespeare To Taylor Swift

  07-07-2015 09:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The love song, whether from Shakespeare or his lessers, is to the currency of our feelings what the dollar bill is to our economy, the dining-room table to our family life – the necessary, inevitable thing. Exactly because everything is a love song, we sigh at another one, even as we prepare to sing it.”
  
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• Ten Great Writers Nobody Reads

  07-07-2015 09:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stephen Sparks: “I haven’t come closer to understanding the vicissitudes of literary fortune (the moment I do, I’ll open my own publishing house), but in studying these writers, I’ve come up with a set of categories into which many fall.”
  
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• She Calls Her Dancers ‘Action Heroes’ (And She’s Probably Right)

  07-07-2015 09:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Elizabeth Streb: “I am a criminal, and we are a blunt instrument charging forward.” Says one of her company members, “You’d better be able to look fear in the face and not run.”
  
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• Watch Elizabeth Streb’s Action-Hero Choreography

  07-07-2015 09:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Her death-defying dancers rehearse Ascension. (video)
  
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• Even Dadaism Had A Racial Subtext

  07-07-2015 09:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tzara composed what he termed “African poems,” and his girlfirend led a danse nègre at the Cabaret Voltaire. Grosz danced jigs while wearing a straw hat and blackface. Picabia painted two canvases he titled Negro Song. Clément Pansaers published a pamphlet titled Le Pan Pan au Cul du Nu Nègre. “Clearly, Norman Mailer did not […]
  
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• ‘I’m The Most Influential Composer In The Last 50 Years,’ Says La Monte Young

  07-07-2015 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What’s more, when I die, people will say, ‘He was the most important composer since the beginning of music.’ It’s not just a work of genius – I did things no one ever dreamed of and I set up an approach to sound that parallels universal structure.”
  
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• There’s No American Sitcom Harder To Translate Into Other Languages Than This One

  07-07-2015 09:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Two decades after it went off the air, Seinfeld remains relevant to American audiences … but in much of Europe it is considered a cult hit, and commonly relegated to deep-late-night time slots. Its humor, it seems, is just too complicated, too cultural and word-based, to make for easy translation.”
  
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• Dumb Criminals, Precocious Animals, And The Entire State Of Florida: How Oddball Items Came To Dominate The News Business

  07-07-2015 09:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The rise of clickbait has made weirdness ubiquitous, but it has also selected for those memes that are just weird enough to glide smoothly through social media: things that are unexpected in the most expected kind of way.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.06.15

  07-07-2015 07:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Valuable data, questionable field recommendations (a response to Irvine’s latest report on arts participation) AJBlog: Jumper Published 2015-07-06 Li Po Refills His Cup: A Little Song for All Seasons AJBlog: Straight|Up Published 2015-07-06 Weather in my head AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-07-06 [ssba_hide]
  
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• I Don’t Want To Work I Want To Forget

  07-07-2015 06:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I’m here at Crush on Morrison and 14th street. There’s a dubious bald man with glasses going over his papers, possibly he is a writer or an accountant. The bartender calls me brother. There is nothing going on here. It is six thirty Monday. A young man with black jeans walks in. He is the ... Continue ReadingThe post I Don’t Want To Work I Want To Forget appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• The ARTnews 200 Top Collectors: An Introduction

  07-07-2015 06:01 via artnews.com
  We go to press on the 25th anniversary edition of our “200 Top Collectors” feature at a historic moment in the art market, marked by the unprecedented sale of Picasso’s 1955 painting Les Femmes d’Alger for $179 million in Christie’s … Read More
  
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• The ARTnews 200 Top Collectors

  07-07-2015 06:01 via artnews.com
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• Inside the 2015 List

  07-07-2015 06:01 via artnews.com
  The following article is part of ARTnews’ annual coverage of collecting practices in the art market, anchored by the 200 Top Collectors list. A version of this infographic originally appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of ARTnews on page 48 … Read More
  
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• Australian icons: Blinky Bill, the waratah and Sydney Opera House – in pictures

  07-07-2015 04:22
  
  Australia’s unique flora, fauna and culture have shaped national identity. A new exhibition at the State Library of New South Wales showcases some of the country’s icons in illustrations and photographs from the late 1880s until todayAustralian Inspiration runs at the State Library of NSW from 8 July – 27 September, alongside the V&A touring show, Inspiration by DesignContinue reading...
  
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• How political is the new generation of Chinese artists?

  07-07-2015 03:15
  
  Manchester's Whitworth gallery, recently named as the Art Fund's Museum of the Year 2015, is the last European venue to host the M+ Sigg Collection before it departs for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. The collection will be installed in the M+ museum (due to open in 2019) with its own new Herzog and de Meuron-designed building.
  
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• Björk shines in achingly personal, stripped down performance

  07-07-2015 01:41
  
  Icelandic superstar, sporting a DayGlo butterfly outfit, performs the intense Vulnicura, chronicling her break up with artist Matthew Barney Björk’s appearance at the Manchester international festival has a hint of deja vu. It’s only four years since she was a stone’s throw from this very venue, showcasing Biophilia, an avant garde experimental app-based dance album that explored the links between nature, music a nd technology. However, the two shows could hardly be more different. In
  
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• Björk review – singer shines in achingly personal, stripped down performance

  07-07-2015 01:41
  Castlefield Bowl, Manchester
  Icelandic superstar, sporting a DayGlo butterfly outfit, performs the intense Vulnicura, chronicling her break up with artist Matthew BarneyBjörk’s appearance at the Manchester international festival has a hint of deja vu. It’s only four years since she was a stone’s throw from this very venue, showcasing Biophilia, an avant garde experimental app-based dance album that explored the links between nature, music and technology. However, the two shows could h
  
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• Turner painting to remain in Oxford after fundraising campaign

  07-07-2015 01:01
  
  Public and visitor donations help Ashmolean Museum raise final £60,000 needed to buy The High Street, Oxford, worth £3.5m A JMW Turner street scene described as the greatest painting of Oxford will remain in the city after the Ashmolean Museum raised the money to buy it in just four weeks.The High Street, Oxford, by Turner, was left to the British nation in lieu of inheritance tax, but its value of £3.5m was more than the tax due. That led to a fundraising campaign by the Ashmolean, wher
  
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