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• Tanya Bonakdar Gallery Is on the Hunt for Paid Volunteers to ‘Help Collect Grocery Lists’

  15-07-2015 23:48 via artnews.com
  Today Chelsea’s Tanya Bonakdar Gallery posted a job listing on the New York Foundation for the Arts’ website seeking part-time paid volunteers “to help collect grocery lists from shoppers at farmers markets around.” Intriguing! A quick call to the gallery … Read More
  
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• Takashi Murakami’s Debut Film, ‘Jellyfish Eyes,’ Suffers From a Lack of Imagination

  15-07-2015 22:16 via artnews.com
  Takashi Murakami will have to make nearly 90 more films before he can truly earn that bland and often-repeated “Japanese Andy Warhol” comparison, but as a start, he’s made Jellyfish Eyes, which opened today in New York. You may be … Read More
  
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• Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’ – A Masterpiece Or A Mess? And Is It Just A Guy Thing?

  15-07-2015 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Jonathon Menjivar read On the Road as a teenager and, like so many American teens, was completely infatuated by it. His wife, fellow radio producer Hillary Frank, had never read it. They decided to read it together … Menjivar desperately wants her to see what he saw in it as a kid.” She doesn’t. (audio)
  
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• Smithsonian Posts Disclaimer Outside Show Featuring Works From the Cosbys’ Collection

  15-07-2015 21:35 via artnews.com
  NPR reported that the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art will post a disclaimer to inform visitors that its “Conversations” exhibition, which contains pieces owned by Bill Cosby and his wife, Camille, is “fundamentally about the artworks and the artists … Read More
  
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• BBC goes pop for celebration of art movement in August

  15-07-2015 18:52
  
  Legacy of pop art, and figures including Warhol and Lichtenstein, to be explored across BBC4, Radios 3, 4 and 6 Music and iPlayerThe BBC is to explore the enduring legacy of pop art in August, in a week-long celebration that runs across BBC4, Radios 3, 4 and 6 Music and the iPlayer.Soup Cans & Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World, features Alastair Sooke tracing the lines between artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. The centrepiece documentary will also look at pop art’s
  
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• Why These Famous Artists Destroyed Their Own Work

  15-07-2015 18:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There are countless instances of artists destroying their own work. If Louise Bourgeois disliked a small sculpture she’d been working on, she would simply shove it off the end of her kitchen table and watch it smash to smithereens.”
  
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• Movie Analysts Say Hollywood On Track For A Record Year At The Box Office

  15-07-2015 18:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The most optimistic box-office prognosticators say the industry will notch $11.2 billion in ticket sales in 2015, beating last year by 9% and setting a record for North America, not adjusted for inflation. Piper Jaffray analyst James Marsh this week increased his full-year estimate to $10.9 billion from $10.8 billion. Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter […]
  
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• ‘Robin Rhode: Borne Frieze’ at Lehmann Maupin

  15-07-2015 18:09 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Borne Frieze: Robin Rhode” is currently on view at Lehmann Maupin in New York. The title of the show is a riff off of the term “born frees,” which is … Read More
  
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• Bank robbery as performance art? Why a thief may have made a masterpiece

  15-07-2015 18:04
  
  In stealing $1,000 and calling it artwork, Joe Gibbons assaulted reality like a Dadaist poet – or The King of Comedy’s Rupert PupkinPerformance art is a kind of madness. Its greatest exponents in their greatest works often seem on the edge of some psychotic meltdown in which reality itself is exposed as a cosmic lunacy. Think of Chris Burden getting himself shot in the arm, or Vito Acconci masturbating under an art gallery floor. Or go right back to the origins of performance at the Cabaret
  
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• Fringe Actors Lose Case Over Minimum Wage Pay

  15-07-2015 17:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The tribunal centred on whether the actors could be classed as “workers” under law – and therefore entitled to the minimum wage. But the judge decided they should be regarded as self-employed professionals.”
  
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• Sudarshan Shetty Will Organize 2016 Kochi-Muziris Biennale

  15-07-2015 17:38 via artnews.com
  An Artistic Advisory Committee appointed by the Kochi Biennale Foundation has picked Sudarshan Shetty to be the artistic director and curator of India’s third Kochi-Muziris Biennale, which will occur in 2016. The news was announced by State Minister of Culture K.C. Joseph at the capital … Read More
  
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• Shock Of The New – Why We Have To Re-Read To Really Appreciate And Enjoy Art

  15-07-2015 17:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When we perceive something new for the first time we cannot really perceive it because we lack the appropriate structure that allows us to perceive it. Our brain is like a lock maker that makes a lock whenever a key is deemed interesting enough. But when a key—for example, a new poem, or a new […]
  
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• Why Did Detroit File Felony Charges Against Celebrity Street Artist Shepard Fairey

  15-07-2015 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is exactly what he wants. He wears his warrants on his sleeve like badges of honor. He’s using the judicial system and the media to market himself. It’s a minor investment and in return his name stays relevant. He’s been doing this for years, and he’s great at it.”
  
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• Data’s In: The Most Popular Music Genre In The World

  15-07-2015 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Spotify has created a live ‘musical map of the world’, analysing nearly 20 billion tracks to show localized listening trends for over 1000 cities.”
  
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• Meet the 'art terrorist' AK47 who stole Banksy's The Drinker to expose 'faeces' of modern art

  15-07-2015 17:01
  
  “Art terrorist” AK47, the so-called leader of an “underground global network of arto-politkal activists” calling themselves Art Kieda, is the interviewee equivalent of being slapped in the face repeatedly with a wet fish.
  
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• Meet 'art terrorist' AK47: The Art Kieda leader on exposing the 'faeces' of conceptual art

  15-07-2015 17:01
  
  “Art terrorist” AK47, the so-called leader of an “underground global network of arto-politkal activists” calling themselves Art Kieda, is the interviewee equivalent of being slapped in the face repeatedly with a wet fish.
  
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• Is Streaming Helping Or Hurting The Music Business?

  15-07-2015 16:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I was interested in the number of streams I got on Spotify and I think it was around five million plays of the entire album from start to finish, in America, which for me was really exciting. But at the same time I didn’t see any money from that… so I don’t think it’s actually […]
  
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• Artist Imi Knoebel: 'If you want to stay alive, you have to do something radical'

  15-07-2015 16:26
  
  He kickstarted German punk, went on a mission to rescue Joseph Beuys and escaped the eastern bloc pursued by guard dogs. In a rare interview, one of Germany’s leading artists relives his extraordinary adventures
  Imi Knoebel is surrounded by so many colours he has lost count. “I have 600, maybe 700,” he says. They hang like the keys of a xylophone in swatches from the walls of his Düsseldorf studio, arranged by tone so he can locate them easily.This is a man who once refused to work in
  
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• New Thing: Dance Parties Early In The Morning

  15-07-2015 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The concept for Daybreaker came about in 2013 inside a Brooklyn falafel shop. Founders Radha Agrawal and Matthew Brimer were musing over their night of dancing when they had the idea to take the energy and inclusiveness of the nightclub scene and infuse it into the weekday morning routine.”
  
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• Here’s How The Collecting Of High-End Art Has Changed In The Past 25 Years

  15-07-2015 15:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  More contemporary art. Fewer Americans and more Asian collectors…
  
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• Gabriel Figueroa at Museo del Barrio

  15-07-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• Judith Bernstein at Mary Boone

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• Rosy Keyser at Maccarone

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• Channa Horwitz at KW Institute for Contemporary Art

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• Carlo Ferraris at Lynch Tham

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• Joan Mitchell at Folkwang Museum

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• ‘International Pop’ at Walker Art Center

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• Horace Pippin at Brandywine River Museum of Art

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• Joan Semmel at Alexander Gray Associates

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• Valérie Blass at Daniel Faria

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• Report: Did Smithsonian Fail To Disclose Major Gift From Cosbys?

  15-07-2015 14:52 via feedproxy.google.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 that the Cosbys also gave the museum $716,000. As the report notes, that gift “virtually […]
  
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• Morning Links: Axe-Wielding Douglas Gordon Edition

  15-07-2015 14:41 via artnews.com
  Critics didn’t really like Douglas Gordon’s new play, so the Turner Prize–winning artist axed the walls of the theater where it’s having its run. [Manchester Evening News]A Lego artist has recreated Justin Bieber’s nude Instagram photo using the artist’s preferred … Read More
  
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• Down with Kickstarter! Where art is concerned, the crowd is an idiot

  15-07-2015 14:40
  
  The Royal Academy’s crowdfunding campaign to install an Ai Weiwei artwork seems a good idea, right? Wrong. Crowds simply do not appreciate artCrowdfunding is typical of our time, in that it is a universally acclaimed good thing that actually reveals many problems if you pause to think about it for a second or two. Related: Royal Academy turns to crowdfunding to bring Ai Weiwei's trees to London All the evidence of history tells us crowds are dangerous, irrational and colossally unwise Continue
  
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• A Language That Has Only 123 Words (And You Can Say All You Want With It)

  15-07-2015 14:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While the Oxford English Dictionary contains a quarter of a million entries, and even Koko the gorilla communicates with over 1,000 gestures in American Sign Language, the total vocabulary of Toki Pona is a mere 123 words.”
  
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• Plan To Sell Off NY City Opera Assets Is Withdrawn

  15-07-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The opera’s board has recently been weighing another option: reorganizing the company through the bankruptcy process, with one of the bidders serving as a plan sponsor. That course could make it easier for NYCO to retain a bequest estimated to be worth $5.5 million.”
  
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• Untitled(I saw four faces of M:the lovers face, the reasonable face, the face of a man I used to know and the face of the lover.)

  15-07-2015 10:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  M has a contract with a publisher and an editor to work with. I have my thoughts. M has been given the red light to rewrite it in the first person not in the third person. I met M a month ago. She arrived in my life seemingly out of nowhere but clearly she knew ... Continue ReadingThe post Untitled(I saw four faces of M:the lovers face, the reasonable face, the face of a man I used to know and the face of the lover.) appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• A Bubble That Can’t Burst (And That’s Okay): Peter Schjeldahl On Today’s Art Market

  15-07-2015 10:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Today’s art craze is baked into the global economy – not a local cyclone but a climate change caused by belching emissions of excess money that won’t stop while the carbon of present mega-wealth holds out. That is, art prices can crash only as one piddling consequence of a planetary catastrophe. … Sensing that people […]
  
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• Mikhail Baryshnikov: Why I Finally Agreed To Play Nijinsky

  15-07-2015 10:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is a sign of Baryshnikov’s confidence in his director” – Robert Wilson – “that he has agreed to play Nijinsky, a role that has been suggested to him ‘at least 15 times’ in his life and which he had always turned down.” (One f those invitations came from no less than Ingmar Bergman.)
  
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• Tempest In A British Teapot: Complaints About Clenched Buttocks In ‘Mr. Turner’

  15-07-2015 10:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Timothy Spall’s clenched buttocks” – clothed, no less – “in Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner were the subject of 19 letters of complaint to the British Board of Film Classification.”
  
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• Actor Roger Rees Dead At 71

  15-07-2015 10:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He made his name in the RSC’s marathon production of Nicholas Nickleby in 1980, became known to millions through roles in the series Cheers and The West Wing, and (between the occasional major film) maintained a long and successful career as a stage actor and director on both sides of the Atlantic.
  
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• A Street Artist Spends A Year Inside Philly’s Giant Mural Machine

  15-07-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  RJ Rushmore: “A year inside of ‘Philadelphia’s community-engagement juggernaut'” – that’s the city’s famous Mural Arts Program – “has taught me a lot. It’s made me fall deeper in love with street art than ever before, and it’s also helped me to better understand the medium’s shortcomings. Here are a few observations.”
  
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• Reviewing The Reviews Of “Go Set A Watchman”

  15-07-2015 09:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jane Ciabattari finds that early assessments of the “new” Harper Lee novel fall into five categories.
  
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• Forget ‘Go Set A Watchman’ – ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Is Overrated, If Not Dishonest

  15-07-2015 09:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stephen Goodwin: “One reviewer called To Kill a Mockingbird ‘that rare literary phenomenon, a Southern novel with no mildew on its magnolia leaves. Funny, happy, and written with unspectacular precision.’ In my eyes, that was exactly what was wrong with it.”
  
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• Why Did Mendelssohn Never Write An Opera?

  15-07-2015 09:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  His music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream seems so promising. Yet “spend any time in the company of Mendelssohn’s letters, and it becomes clear that here is a man of prodigious talent, shining intellect and bubbling enthusiasm who, when it came to opera, pretty much pressed self-destruct on any project that was suggested to him.”
  
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• Playing Rosalind: Two Actors (One Female, One Male) Explain How They Did It

  15-07-2015 09:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michelle Terry (currently playing Rosalind at Shakespeare’s Globe): “Going into the forest of Arden, disguised as a man, means she gets to explore every possible version of herself.” Ronald Pickup (played Rosalind in Olivier’s all-male production at the Old Vic in 1967): “I was watching a rehearsal in the Old Vic when John Dexter … […]
  
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• Why ‘The Act Of Killing’ Director Made A Second Documentary – With A Survivor Of The Mass Murders Confronting The Murderers

  15-07-2015 09:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Joshua Oppenheimer (The Look of Silence): “Imagine you have to go to weddings and funerals and socialize politely with people who murdered your children because you’re too afraid to actually speak out and confront them. That takes a tremendous toll on our humanity.” (video interview and film clip)
  
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• The Man Who Dared Create A Flamenco Dance About The Holocaust

  15-07-2015 09:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Israel Galván’s Lo Real/Le Réel/The Real “is tipped to be a highlight of the Edinburgh international festival this summer. Yet back in Madrid, something about its subject matter or discordant style so outraged the audience that they began chanting insults and calling for the performers to leave the stage.”
  
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• There’s No Such Thing As A Psychopath

  15-07-2015 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Unlike discrete psychological disorders such as schizophrenia or depression, psychopathy is a disorder sustained by rhetoric rather than by science – ‘psychopath’ is just a strong word for a deviant, in the same way that ‘jerk’ describes someone you don’t like but reveals little about that person’s psychology.”
  
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• The Key To Rereading A Text (Metaphorical Pun Alert!)

  15-07-2015 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Philosopher and psychologist Riccardo Manzotti suggests that “our brain is like a lock maker that makes a lock whenever a key is deemed interesting enough. But when a key – for example, a new poem, or a new species of animal – is first met, there is no lock yet ready for such a key. […]
  
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• How The World’s Most Popular Tarot Deck Was Designed (In 1909) And Came To Market (In 1970)

  15-07-2015 09:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  No, the set of cards most of us know doesn’t come from the Middle Ages. It’s “is a product of the intuitive thoughtfulness of an American-born occult scholar in late 19th century London, a British-born creative visual genius who studied art in New York City and lived in Jamaica, and a businessman whose first book […]
  
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