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• Art Basel Hires Noah Horowitz, Armory Show Head, to Lead Miami Beach Fair

  14-07-2015 20:43 via artnews.com
  Today Art Basel announced that it has tapped Noah Horowitz, the director of the Armory Show fair in New York since 2011, to be its Director Americas, which will put him in charge of Art Basel’s annual December edition in Miami Beach, Florida. … Read More
  
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• How A Picasso Got To Be Worth $179 Million

  14-07-2015 20:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Les Femmes d’Alger (Version “O”) was born out of a rivalry between Picasso and Henri Matisse. But competition can evolve into adoration, and when Matisse died on November 3, 1954, Picasso embarked upon an ambitious form of mourning: He would make a series of 15 works in homage to Eugène Delacroix’s 1834 painting Les Femmes […]
  
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• Shepard Fairey Turns Himself in to Detroit Police Following Arrest Warrant

  14-07-2015 18:34 via artnews.com
  After a warrant was placed for his arrest following the illegal tagging of Detroit buildings, Shepard Fairey has turned himself in to Detroit authorities, the Detroit Free Press reported earlier today. Fairey flew in to Detroit, from Los Angeles, this … Read More
  
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• Artist Sarah Maple: 'I've had death threats'

  14-07-2015 18:23
  
  She’s smoked in a hijab, worn fetish nappies and menstruated with pride, so self-censorship isn’t the first thing you think of when you see Sarah Maple’s art. But will getting bricks through her window change that? Nell Frizzell finds outThe last time I spoke to Sarah Maple, her boyfriend was helping her into an adult-sized fetish nappy. This time round, the boyfriend is now her husband and, I discover, he was recently filmed slapping her round the face.This was for a video in which Maple
  
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• ‘To Know More, Strangely, Adds Mystery': Arlene Shechet on Her Elusive Ceramics and Her ICA Boston Show

  14-07-2015 18:05 via artnews.com
  When I met Arlene Shechet, she was in her studio in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood, preparing for a talk at Anderson Ranch arts center in Aspen, Colorado. She was looking at installation shots of “All at Once,” her show at the … Read More
  
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• Lisa Gold Named Director of Public Engagement at Hirshhorn

  14-07-2015 17:21 via artnews.com
  Lisa Gold has been named the director of public engagement at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Gold previously was the executive director of Washington Project for the Arts, a positions she’s held since 2009. Before that … Read More
  
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• ‘Reduce, Reuse, Repeat’ at Barbara Krakow Gallery

  14-07-2015 17:09 via artnews.com
  Today’s show: “Reduce, Repeat, Reuse” is currently on view at Barbara Krakow gallery in Boston. The exhibition presents works by Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Moskowitz, and Peter Downsbrough, all of which were created with black ink on paper. The show is on … Read More
  
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• The Smithsonian should be ashamed of showing Bill Cosby's art collection

  14-07-2015 16:52
  
  The Washington museum has released an extraordinary disclaimer about its current African and African American art show, as allegations against the comedian escalate – now why would it do that?The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art feels the need to explain something about its current exhibition, Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue. In an extraordinary disclaimer on its website, it tells the world:“The National Museum of African Art is aware of the rec
  
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• Exhibit of Michael Brown's death scene 'atrocious', activists say

  14-07-2015 15:42
  
  Ti-Rock Moore’s Chicago exhibition Confronting Truths: Wake Up! aims to start a conversation but some have accused her of profiting from her white privilegeIf you’re not careful as you walk into the Gallery Guichard on Chicago’s south side you could trip over police tape that surrounds a life-size mannequin of Michael Brown’s dead body while a video of Eartha Kitt looks over him singing Angelitos Negros.Nooses and other paraphernalia largely associated with racism in the south decorate t
  
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• Morning Links: Louvre Superstore Edition

  14-07-2015 14:42 via artnews.com
  After many protests from art historians, the Louvre will go through with its plan to move 250,000 works to a store in Liévin, France. [The Art Newspaper]Peter Schjeldahl on the “fearful frenzy” that is today’s art market. [The New Yorker]Shepard … Read More
  
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• Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle: 9 hours of 'challenging' art on film

  14-07-2015 14:00
  
  As New York baked in sunshine, two journalists were in the bowels of the Guggenheim for nine hours, watching a bizarre, nearly dialogue-free art filmAs part of Storylines, an ongoing exhibition of contemporary art associated with larger narratives, the Guggenheim museum in New York is offering a rare delight of cinematic maximalism – and masochism – with marathon screenings of artist Matthew Barney’s complete Cremaster Cycle. The five films, produced out of order between 1994 and 2002, mak
  
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• Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle: nine hours of 'challenging' art on film

  14-07-2015 14:00
  
  As New York baked in sunshine, two journalists were in the bowels of the Guggenheim for nine hours, watching a bizarre, nearly dialogue-free art filmAs part of Storylines, an ongoing exhibition of contemporary art associated with larger narratives, the Guggenheim museum in New York is offering a rare delight of cinematic maximalism – and masochism – with marathon screenings of artist Matthew Barney’s complete Cremaster Cycle. The five films, produced out of order between 1994 and 2002, mak
  
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• South Florida Is Losing Its Only Classical Radio Station

  14-07-2015 10:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Minnesota-based American Public Media is selling their Classical South Florida radio stations to Education Media Foundation, a California religious broadcaster for $21.7 million … There has been no announcement of the sale on the stations’s airwaves or on its Classical South Florida website.”
  
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• Greek National Opera Robbed At Gunpoint

  14-07-2015 10:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Police are seeking an armed robber who burst into the Greek National Opera box office in central Athens on Wednesday morning and forced the cashier to hand over 11,000 euros, the GNO said over the weekend.”
  
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• Ludovic Morlot Extends With Seattle Symphony

  14-07-2015 10:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Seattle Symphony has extended music director Ludovic Morlot’s contract for two additional years, through 2019 …. Morlot’s original agreement covered the time span of September 2011 through August 2017.”
  
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• Shepard Fairey To Turn Himself In On Detroit Arrest Warrant

  14-07-2015 10:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “World-renowned street artist Shepard Fairey is planning to turn himself in to Detroit authorities today on charges that he illegally tagged public and private property in the city.”
  
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• Ira Glass Takes Full Ownership Of ‘This American Life’

  14-07-2015 10:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Both [Chicago Public Media] and WBEZ will still benefit from This American Life, having agreed to kick over their shares in exchange for a portion of future profits from both TAL and Serial. In turn, all 22 employees of This American Life will become Glass’s employees.”
  
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• What Does It Mean To ‘Sound Gay’?

  14-07-2015 10:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I suspect many queer people will identify with being bullied not only for what they say, but how they say it. … Even though sexuality itself is interior, one’s behavior and mannerisms are used to infer with whom they like to go to bed.”
  
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• ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ Gets A Dark, Gritty Revamp (No More Staircase!)

  14-07-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Producer Cameron Mackintosh: “We wanted to get into the grit of the opera house and the lair and make it far more atmospheric, in a stylized realistic way. … It’s a much more visceral show … more a musical play – a gothic musical play.”
  
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• Guy Who Tried To Charge His Phone On A Broadway Set Gives Press Conference (With The Play’s Publicists)

  14-07-2015 09:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nick Silvestri, age 19, in a prepared statement: “I don’t go to plays very much, and I didn’t realize that the stage is considered off limits. I’ve learned a lot about the theater in the past few days – theater people are really passionate and have been very willing to educate me.” But the Hand […]
  
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• Who’s Really Been Making The Decisions About ‘Go Set A Watchman’, And Why?

  14-07-2015 09:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The enormously anticipated book is, after all, one that Harper Lee had refused for decades to publish (at least to the extent that she even remembered its existence as a distinct work). Claire Suddath traveled to Monroeville, Alabama to investigate, and to meet Lee’s attorney and de facto manager, Tonja Carter.
  
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• Harper Lee’s Lawyer Explains How She Found ‘Go Set A Watchman’

  14-07-2015 09:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tonja B. Carter: “Accidents of history sometimes place otherwise unknown people in historic spotlights. Such was my fate when last August curiosity got the best of me and I found a long-lost manuscript written by one of America’s most beloved authors.”
  
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• What Made Jon Vickers Great – And Terrifying

  14-07-2015 09:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The characters into whose mindsets Vickers wormed his way were mostly tragic figures: flawed leaders, social outcasts, sexual obsessives caught in the toils of Eros. The labour the roles involved was immense … Vickers could, indeed, open himself up to psychotic states.” (includes video of Vickers as Canio, Don Jose and Peter Grimes)
  
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• Henry Moore Sculpture Belongs To Local East London Council, Rules Court

  14-07-2015 09:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Tower 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. … The Old Flo ownership battle was fought by Tower Hamlets against Bromley council, which claimed rights to the sculpture in 2012.”
  
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• It’s True: Le Corbusier Was An Anti-Semitic Fascist

  14-07-2015 09:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[He] was involved from the 1920s until the mid-1940s with a series of far-right fascist publications that were anti-Semitic, often racist, and always totalitarian and ultra-nationalist. … [ He] attended fascist rallies in the 1920s, privately supported the Nazis, and sought work between 1940 and 1942 in Marshall Pétain’s Vichy. (Albeit Le Corbusier, intriguingly, also […]
  
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• The Brain’s Remarkable Sculpting Of Memories

  14-07-2015 08:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some memories persist for a lifetime, even if sometimes only at the level of uncertain contours, says commentator Marcelo Gleiser. How does the brain do that?”
  
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• We Need Puppets To Keep Making Fun Of Us, Say French Politicians

  14-07-2015 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When the owner of the television network Canal+ said that the satirical show Les Guignols de l’Info (roughly, “The News Puppets”) said that there was “a bit too much mockery” of politicians, and there were suggestions that the program would be canceled, it was the subjects of the mockery who leapt to the Guignols’ defense.
  
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• Giant Bust Of Nefertiti Taken Down After Relentless Mockery

  14-07-2015 08:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tweeted one wag, “I guess this is what she looked like four days after she died.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.13.15

  14-07-2015 07:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In Memoriam: Jon Vickers AJBlog: OperaSleuth Published 2015-07-13 Other Matters: The Universality Of Jon Vickers
  
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• Weis Center Production Mgr/Technical Director

  14-07-2015 03:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bucknell University seeks a new Production Manager/Technical Director for the Weis Center for the Performing Arts.
  
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• Part-time Customer Relations Representative

  14-07-2015 03:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  NY Philharmonic seeks one (1) part-time Customer Relations Representative
  
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• How Much Work Did Harper Lee’s Editor Do Between ‘Watchman’ And ‘Mockingbird’?

  14-07-2015 03:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “How big a role did she play in reconceiving the story from a dark tale of a young woman’s disillusionment with her father’s racist views, to a redemptive one of moral courage and human decency? And, for that matter, how would Ms. Hohoff have felt about the decision, more than a half-century later, to publish […]
  
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• Tania Bruguera to Be First Artist-in-Residence for New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs

  14-07-2015 03:05 via artnews.com
  Over the past week, Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera has been arrested in Havana and released hours later, and has become, once again, the rightful owner of her passport after the Cuban government confiscated six months ago. As if … Read More
  
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• Making The Contemporary Art World Less Hip, By Design

  14-07-2015 02:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘The language I use, the way I try to talk about things, is always with that in mind,’ the Vancouverite says during a phone interview. ‘It’s something my mom can enjoy, or people I grew up playing hockey with can enjoy.'”
  
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• Alexander Calder's mobile technology gets biggest ever retrospective at Tate

  14-07-2015 01:57
  
  The artist who devised moving sculptures that mesmerised Einstein celebrated in exhibition that also includes wire portraits of Josephine Baker and Joan MiroThe largest retrospective of Alexander Calder’s mobiles, slowly changing on every breath of moving air – which so enchanted Albert Einstein that the scientist stood gazing at one for 45 minutes – is coming to Tate Modern this autumn.The term “mobiles” was invented by Marcel Duchamp to describe the creations of his American friend,
  
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• Dreaming off the Spectrum

  14-07-2015 01:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  within the chambers of your heart open space constellations threading through interlaced fingers galaxies birthed between beats up above a rusty clockwork whirr thoughts halt restless eyelash flutter from watching footsteps of moonbeams upon the waves light casts itself velvet flower petals on your cheek sigh into the void your breath pure precious substance pumped ... Continue ReadingThe post Dreaming off the Spectrum appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Urban Dharma

  14-07-2015 01:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Grumpy Buddha lives up stairs at the end of the eight fold path suite #108 one part Conqueror of Mara, Exalted One and two parts Mr. Myagi. He knows why the circuit breaks if you use microwave and toaster at the same time. Studies scar moon’s face conversing with myriad stars freckling body of night ... Continue ReadingThe post Urban Dharma appeared first on Zouch.
  
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