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• Dana Miller Named Director of the Collection at the Whitney

  08-07-2015 23:44 via artnews.com
  The Whitney Museum announced a number of staff promotions today, including Dana Miller, who was appointed as the Richard DeMartini Family Curator and Director of the Collection, a newly endowed position named for the president of the Whitney’s board of trustees.The … Read More
  
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• Louisiana Retreats On Film Tax Credits And Studios Weigh Shooting Elsewhere

  08-07-2015 23:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Proponents said the cuts were necessary to help Louisiana balance its budget and avert steep cuts to education and other needed services. The state faces a projected budget shortfall of at least $1 billion in the current fiscal year. Many fear the new law, however, will encourage major studios to take big budget movies to […]
  
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• ‘All Terrain Vehicle’ at James Gallery, Pittsburgh

  08-07-2015 23:17 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “All Terrain Vehicle” is a group exhibition currently on view at James Gallery in Pittsburgh until July 18. The exhibition looks at contemporary landscapes, ranging from the photography … Read More
  
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• This Year’s ARTnews Top 200 Art Collectors

  08-07-2015 23:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A surge in demand has pushed the art market into uncharted territory. Chinese collectors are increasingly formidable, with Wang Zhongjun (a new addition to the Top 200) picking up a Picasso for $30 million and Wang Jianlin (also on the list) buying a Monet for $20.4 million. But there are also plenty of new players […]
  
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• How Digital Analysis Is Changing The Study Of Literature

  08-07-2015 23:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the past decade, digital scholarship has gone from being a quirky corner of the humanities to a mainstream phenomenon, restructuring funding landscapes and pushing tenure committees to develop new protocols for accrediting digital projects. As the stakes have grown, so has an expectation about the role that the “digital turn” might play in revivifying […]
  
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• Sumi Ink Club to Stage Drawing Parties This Month at Rawson Projects in New York

  08-07-2015 22:29 via artnews.com
  New York’s Rawson Projects is teaming up with the Los Angeles–based Sumi Ink Club this month to stage a trilogy of drawing parties, to be held on three concurrent Saturdays starting July 11 and wrapping up July 25. The events … Read More
  
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• Art As A Job – Why It Shouldn’t Be Free

  08-07-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  These days more and more artists are challenging the bohemian stance that artists should shun economic capital in favor of pursuing art for art’s sake. Artists and creative workers increasingly lick their low-income wounds publicly and vent about the elaborate dance of self-reinvention in the digital age. It’s become trendy to discuss and even quantify […]
  
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• Henry Moore's 'Old Flo' statue declared property of Tower Hamlets council

  08-07-2015 19:32
  
  Legal battle over sculpture, officially called Draped Seated Woman, against Bromley council ends, with winning borough’s mayor saying it’s not for saleTower Hamlets council has been declared the legal owner of the Henry Moore sculpture Draped Seated Woman – more popularly known as Old Flo – following a protracted legal dispute. After the high court ruling, John Biggs, mayor of the east London borough, said he was reversing a decision of his disgraced predecessor, Lutfur Rahman, to sell t
  
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• ISIS Is Brutal And Barbaric. But It Appeals To An Old Mythology

  08-07-2015 19:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Tolkien’s mythology, unlike that of ISIS, is steadfastly un-apocalyptic. But many readers, it seems, thrill to the notion of finding a king to whom they can pledge their swords without scruple or hesitation. Indeed, it is sometimes claimed that the patently adolescent politics of Tolkien’s Middle Earth represent a true and valid model for real-world […]
  
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• Getty Museum Acquires Rare Collection of 19th-Century Photographs

  08-07-2015 19:06 via artnews.com
  The J. Paul Getty Museum announced the acquisition of 39 early French and British architecture and landscape photographs dating between the 1840s through the 1860s, some of the most impressive prints and negatives of their time. The works were previously … Read More
  
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• Remembering Louis Armstrong’s Influence On Music (Not Just Jazz)

  08-07-2015 18:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Except for true jazz believers in his own country and throughout the world, this concept of Louis Armstrong as a most serious, stunningly innovative artist is unfamiliar. He was often seen in the movies and on prime-time television variety shows, and he had a number of hit records, but he was by no means held […]
  
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• Only Two In Ten Spaniards Have Read Spain’s Most Important Writer

  08-07-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Don Quixote is the most important Spanish literary work; its author, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is one of the four main writers of world literature, along with Homer, Shakespeare and Dante; the plot and the various episodes of the novel are known by almost everyone, and everyone talks of Don Quixote and Sancho or have […]
  
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• Justin Bieber naked: would Michelangelo have approved?

  08-07-2015 16:28
  
  The Instagram from Bora Bora that stopped the hearts of Beliebers worldwide has a grace and poise that evokes some of the great male nudes of art historyThe nude, observed Kenneth Clark, the great art historian who wrote and presented the famous BBC television series Civilisation, is the one artistic genre that connects us directly with ancient Greece. “Even Picasso”, he noted with some amazement, refers back to classical archetypes of the nude. What would Clark have made of the selfie age,
  
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• What Librarians Thought Of The Future Of Their Profession In 1946

  08-07-2015 16:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some quotes: “We need an improved type of professional personnel, a conception of administration which would make use of all the thinking, all the ideas and potential planning of the entire professional body in an institution, not just of departmental heads.”
  
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• Boston’s Museum Of Fine Arts Cancels “Kimono Wednesdays” After Protests

  08-07-2015 15:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The museum said it had hoped to create an “interactive experience,” helping museum goers appreciate the rich details, embroidery and fine materials of the garments. It said similar events took place when the painting, depicting a woman in a kimono, travelled throughout Japan for an exhibition. But protesters have held signs at the Boston museum’s […]
  
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• Both a Buyer and Lender Be: Eli Broad on His Personal Collection and New Museum

  08-07-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• It Takes One to Know One: Why Artists Make Ideal Collectors

  08-07-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Those who follow the art world and the art market tend to have a set picture of a collector: he or she is someone established in his or her career, with enough interest in the plastic arts (or their performance … Read More
  
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• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Acquires A Dozen New Works

  08-07-2015 15:15 via artnews.com
  Coinciding with the release of a quasi-confession from Bill Cosby, whose art collection is on view until early 2016 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African art, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced Tuesday the acquisition of new works … Read More
  
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• Why Steven Soderbergh Quit Making Movies

  08-07-2015 15:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The bottom line when people talk about all the reasons, you know the biggest reason? It stopped being fun. It just stopped being fun. It really wasn’t. That’s a big deal to me. It may sound like “Why do you have to have fun to go to work?” I don’t know. I like to be […]
  
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• Why Do We Mythologize Our 20s When Life Is Hard? Studies Show We’re Happier Later, But…

  08-07-2015 15:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “By telling young people they should savour the best years of their lives, we are telling them that everything afterwards will be worse; and the real message is that they should not expect or demand very much from life itself.”
  
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• Morning Links: L.A. Is Not A Creative Paradise Edition

  08-07-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  In 2017, the Met will open a Lucio Fontana retrospective in the Marcel Breuer building that formally housed the old Whitney. This will only mark Fontana’s second-ever retrospective in the U.S. [The Art Newspaper]Philippe Decrauzat and Mathieu Copeland’s “A Personal Sonic … Read More
  
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• Samuel Leuenberger Tapped as New Curator for Parcours Section of Art Basel

  08-07-2015 13:00 via artnews.com
  Art Basel has named independent Swiss curator Samuel Leuenberger as the curator of its Parcours section, which is devoted to site-specific works that engage with the city of Basel. Florence Derieux had previously held Leuenberger’s position for the past three … Read More
  
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• Almost A Third Of The Great Wall Of China Has Disappeared – So Far

  08-07-2015 10:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “About 2,000 kilometers, or 30%, of the ancient fortification built in the Ming Dynasty era has disappeared due to natural erosion and human damage … And the situation could worsen, experts are warning, as not enough is being done to preserve what remains.”
  
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• Alex Ross Checks Out Apple Music

  08-07-2015 10:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “No heads will roll in Cupertino on account of these grumblings. The majority of the population that ignores classical music will shrug and go back to the new Jamie xx record. (I’m enjoying his track ‘The Rest Is Noise.’) Yet Apple’s unwillingness to accommodate – in this first iteration, at least – defining features of […]
  
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• L.A. Is Not The Creative Shangri-La That The East-Coast Press Suddenly Thinks It Is

  08-07-2015 10:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Carolina Miranda: “I feel as if we, in the cultural classes, have been perfectly happy to get caught up in the mythology that L.A. is somehow a Xanadu of art-making. Certainly, there are worse places to be an artist. (Brooklyn comes to mind.) But let’s get real about the situation here in Los Angeles.”
  
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• One Creative-Class Angeleno Explains Why He Just Can’t Stay

  08-07-2015 10:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Scott Timberg: “Remember that bittersweet feeling, halfway between queasy and liberating, when you’ve decided you’re going to break up with someone but don’t know when, where, or how you’ll pull the trigger? Someone, that is, with whom you still share a connection but can no longer abide? I’ve lived with this weird ambiguity for almost […]
  
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• Why Is It Getting Harder And Harder To Fall Asleep?

  08-07-2015 09:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We are, as a population, sleeping less now than we ever have. The problem, on the whole, isn’t that we’re waking up earlier. Much of the change has to do with when we choose to go to bed – and with how we decide to do so.”
  
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• The Mindfulness Guru For The iPhone Age

  08-07-2015 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He is bald, with blue eyes and a deep tan, and he looks as much like a personal trainer as like a personal guru. … He speaks with the kind of Estuary English accent that you might encounter in a London pub.” Andy Puddicombe “trained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk before creating an iPhone app […]
  
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• Aeschylus Addresses Europe’s Boat-People Crisis

  08-07-2015 08:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As desperate refugees fleeing African and Middle Eastern war zones drown in the Mediterranean and flood Italy, Greece, and Malta, a director uses Syracuse’s ancient Greek amphitheater to stage The Suppliants, about a much earlier group of Egyptians seeking asylum.
  
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• Suddenly, Ai Weiwei’s Art Is All Over Beijing – Is His Pariah Status Over?

  08-07-2015 08:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Since his notorious 2011 arrest, China’s most internationally famous artist couldn’t show his work at home and couldn’t travel abroad. Galkleries and the press weren’t even supposed to mention his name. Now he has four solo shows going in the capital. Is the government rehabilitating him?
  
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• Rare Book Theft Is A Big Problem, And Booksellers Are Complicit

  08-07-2015 07:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Spectacular recent heists from European libraries have exposed something rotten at the heart of the international rare book trade. … What has stunned the book world is not just the scale of the thefts, but how easily the stolen goods were fenced and resold.”
  
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• Why Even Julie Taymor (Who Filmed It) Says ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Is Unfilmable

  08-07-2015 07:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Taymor’s film reveals more of the spectacle than any one spectator at the theater could have seen. Nonetheless a filmed version of a stage production cannot quite capture the sense of being there, even if the wizards currently developing the science of virtual reality no doubt are conceiving ways to eliminate the distinction.”
  
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• Wendy Whelan And Alessandra Ferri Explain How They Keep Dancing Well Into Middle Age

  08-07-2015 07:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Whelan (48): “Contemporary dance is a completely different way of thinking and moving. I’m already smitten by it.” Ferri (52): “It took courage to dive back in … [But] it didn’t feel like a job this time. The passion was so pure it gave me the strength to work through the physical difficulties and the […]
  
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• Delaware Art Museum’s Deaccession Gambit Didn’t Pay Off So Well

  08-07-2015 07:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The plan was to sell four works – including a Calder, a Wyeth, and a Winslow Homer – for $30 million or so, using the money to retire the debt from a 2005 expansion and add $10 million to the endowment. But that isn’t quite how it worked out.
  
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• Argentine Writer Faces Prosecution For Doing Borgesian Things To A Borges Story

  08-07-2015 06:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Pablo Katchadjian decided in 2009 to remix one of Borges’s most renowned short stories, ‘The Aleph’, keeping the original text but adding a considerable amount of his own writing. The result was the short experimental book called El Aleph engordado (The Fattened Aleph) … Katchadjian has now been formally charged with the un-literary sounding crime […]
  
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• Four Ways Women Get A Raw Deal In Hollywood: A Female Producer Explains

  08-07-2015 06:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mynette Louie: “I spoke to some of those filmmakers to get a better sense of the forms of discrimination they typically face; these four examples were the ones most commonly cited.”
  
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• Watching Male Strippers With Sociologists

  08-07-2015 06:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “And, as it turns out, there’s been lots of [sociological study] done on male strippers who dance for women. With the opening of Magic Mike XXL yesterday, we thought this would be a good time to review the research.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.07.15

  08-07-2015 06:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Values and What We Do AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-07-07 Milking Time Milked: Delaware Museum’s Failed Deaccession Gambit AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-07-07 Monday Recommendation: Sam Most AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-07-06 Lookback: on the solitude of the out-of-town singleton AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-07-07 [ssba_hide]
  
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