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• The Pittsburgh Symphony Is Fighting A Pretty Darn Scary Drop In Attendance

  13-07-2015 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After raising ticket prices for two consecutive seasons, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has seen its 2014-15 sales for Mellon Grand Classics drop from 61 percent of Heinz Hall capacity to 50 percent. The Pops series dropped from 62 to 56 percent.”
  
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• A Weekend in the Hamptons: The Parrish Midsummer Party, Art Southampton, and Market Art+Design in Photos

  13-07-2015 22:12 via artnews.com
  A woman in a sparkly top glared disapprovingly as I pulled a Hyundai Elantra rental car into a space between a Maserati and an Escalade at the Art Southampton fair late Saturday afternoon. In front of the entrance was a … Read More
  
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• Now They’re Gonna Make A Musical About The Woman Who Said, ‘Where’s The Beef?’

  13-07-2015 21:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Says Necheles, ‘This is a musical based on the exploration of what it means to be famous and how people react to that fame.’ Says Shell: ‘In essence it focuses on a person I believe to have been the first reality TV star, a regular person who became famous basically by being herself.'”
  
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• Google Started Mapping Networks, And Ended Up With Gorgeous, Bizarre Pop-Flavored Art

  13-07-2015 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Two weeks ago we blogged about a visualization tool designed to help us understand how neural networks work and what each layer has learned,’ Google writes. ‘In addition to gaining some insight on how these networks carry out classification tasks, we found that this process also generated some beautiful art.'”
  
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• ‘Double Eye Poke’ at Kamel Mennour

  13-07-2015 19:57 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Double Eye Poke” is currently on view at Kamel Mennour gallery in Paris. The exhibition, curated by Béatrice Gross, features works by Dan Flavin, Lynda Benglis, Sol LeWitt, and … Read More
  
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• Chouette! Fantastisch! Bravo! Translators Now Eligible For Man Booker Prize

  13-07-2015 19:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘A poor translation will kill even the most beautifully written, imaginative book,’ said Fiammetta Rocco, administrator of the prize.”
  
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• Report: Smithsonian Hid $716,000 Gift From the Cosbys

  13-07-2015 19:17 via artnews.com
  Following last week’s news that the Smithsonian would stand by its much-criticized exhibition “Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue,” which features a number of works from Bill and Camille Cosby’s personal collection, the Associated Press is now reporting … Read More
  
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• Here’s a Photo of President Obama, Michael Heizer, Harry Reid, and Michael Govan Celebrating the Protection of Heizer’s ’City’

  13-07-2015 18:55 via artnews.com
  It just doesn’t get better than this. On Friday, as you may have read, President Obama signed a proclamation establishing the Basin and Range National Monument, some 704,000 acres of land in Nevada that includes all sorts of fossils as … Read More
  
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• Web 2.0 Doesn’t Work, And Here’s A Demonstration Of Why

  13-07-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Web 2.0 dream has always been to outsource all of the hard jobs to your users—that unpaid enthusiasts will do all the work of creating your content, curating your content, and promoting your content out of love, and all you have to do is pay some techies to keep the lights on.”
  
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• After 40 Years Of Fame, An Artist Finally Gets A Solo Show At Home

  13-07-2015 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Marcia Hafif, now 86, “speaks softly and moves gracefully. But the unassuming manner belies a bold adventurousness. A discussion about painting might segue nonchalantly to talk about ‘a little affair’ in Mexico, her journeys through Iran or her larger-than-life Circassian great-grandfather, who fought against the French in Mexico in the late 19th century.”
  
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• Sotheby’s Auctioning ‘Alice in Wonderland’s Silver Buttons’

  13-07-2015 17:58 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s in London is selling a pair of “cherub-shaped art nouveau buttons” that belonged to Alice Pleasance Liddell, Lewis Carroll’s inspiration for Alice In Wonderland. Liddell wore the buttons “from childhood to the date of her death,” according to an … Read More
  
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• Daniel Buchholz Opens in New York, Celebrating the Elusive Raymond Roussel

  13-07-2015 17:35 via artnews.com
  One afternoon in early July, just hours before the opening of his new gallery in Manhattan, the German art dealer Daniel Buchholz—tan, in a crisp white shirt and jeans—could be found in the ground-floor space on the Upper East Side … Read More
  
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• Here and Queer: ‘Queer Fantasy’ Opens at OHWOW Gallery

  13-07-2015 17:30 via artnews.com
  On a recent unseasonably warm morning, William J. Simmons, an eager graduate student at City University of New York, was sweating and talking about art theory. It was one of the first humid days of the year, and Simmons was … Read More
  
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• Why There’s So Much Nostalgia For The Lost TV Of One’s Youth (And Why It’s Better To Let Those Shows Go)

  13-07-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Our nostalgia is greedy. It’s not enough to look back fondly on the past; now we are rebooting it. Our nostalgia compels us to go beyond rewatching dusty old VCR tapes, to actually wanting fleeting childhood obsessions to be revived and re-enacted to fit our own times.”
  
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• Marc Quinn review – he sells sea shells

  13-07-2015 17:24
  
  White Cube Bermondsey, London
  For his first solo show in a decade, Quinn comments on the destruction of nature using graffiti-lite wall hangings and heavy metal shells. But is there anything interesting about his bad-taste art? Marc Quinn operates in a realm beyond good taste, which is a potentially interesting place to be. After all, Jeff Koons has made a life’s work of revealing the beauty and humour of despised or banal stuff. But Quinn has never shown Koons’s self-consciousness or wit. H
  
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• It’s OK To Write What You Don’t Know, As Long As You Ask For Help

  13-07-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Weeks of work followed. I emailed questions and studied the answers. The key wasn’t simply to load in science. My average reader would be as confused as I by long passages about RNA and antigenic drift. But fiction demands a certain specificity. Cliches – like a virus ‘going airborne’ – had to go.”
  
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• Giant Nicolas Cage bouncy castle to tour the world

  13-07-2015 15:57
  
  The memeification of Nicolas Cage is to be celebrated with 'Nicolas Cage in Cage', an enormous bounce house featuring the looming face of Our Glorious Leader.
  
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• So What Happens When Everyone Gets A Nice Basic Income?

  13-07-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Will this be a boon to artists? “The experiment seeks to challenge the notion that people who receive public money need to be patrolled and punished, said Horst. The traditional criticism of basic income is that it does not incentivize people to work, and thereby damages the economy.”
  
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• Morning Links: Living Mona Lisa Edition

  13-07-2015 14:44 via artnews.com
  A group of French technicians and artists created a really creepy “Living Mona Lisa” that can respond to her surroundings and emote, because this is exactly what you asked for. [artnet News]Despite controversy, Bill Cosby’s art collection will remain on … Read More
  
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• Jenny Holzer: Softer Targets at Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, review: Combining bones, CIA reports and torture diaries in a peaceful setting

  13-07-2015 03:15
  
  “Protect me from what I want,” was writ large in lights high above Times Square in 1982, competing with the ads for the attention of the people below. The installation was the work of the American artist Jenny Holzer – a plea to be rescued from our own desires, which had been so poisoned by capitalism and patriarchy that they had turned against us. The message was a departure from the feminist movement of  a decade previous, which fought for a woman’s right to choose. Here the message
  
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