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• Marc Quinn: Making Waves review – an artfully made portrait of a provocative artist

  16-07-2015 22:30
  
  Quinn is articulate but not pretentious about his art in this pleasingly straightforward documentaryFilmed over a couple of years, this pleasingly straightforward documentary follows artist Marc Quinn (best known for making casts of his head out of his own frozen blood) as he goes about his travels, collaborating with various fabricators, attending parties and openings, meeting other artists and famous people (from Ai Weiwei to Kanye West and Kim Kardashian), but most of all making art. Articula
  
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• The Master List of Memories of a Catholic Upbringing

  16-07-2015 21:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I remember, when I was about eight years old, being highly impressed by an older child’s linguistic skills, when he taught me how to say “fish” in Australian. The charlatan explained there were some English words that just so happened to be the exact same in Jim Robinson’s native tongue. Neighbours was translated into English, for us ... Continue ReadingThe post The Master List of Memories of a Catholic Upbringing appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Graduating USC Roski MFA Class Calls For Termination of Current Dean

  16-07-2015 21:34 via artnews.com
  Earlier today, the 2015 graduating Masters of Fine Arts class of the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California published an open letter on their tumblr page calling for the resignation of their dean, Erica … Read More
  
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• Satanists Steal Skull Of “Nosferatu” Director

  16-07-2015 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A candle left at the scene led to speculation that Murnau’s corpse was part of a ceremony staged by “Satanists” or those practicing “black magic.”
  
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• Consumer Reports: Spencer Longo

  16-07-2015 20:04 via artnews.com
  Spencer Longo is an artist based in Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include the solo show “Premium Blend” at Brand New Gallery in Milan and group shows at LOYAL Gallery, Stockholm; Chez Valentin, Paris; and Future Gallery, Berlin. He will have … Read More
  
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• Habitat: Rachel Mason

  16-07-2015 19:15 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Rachel Mason, Long Island City, New York. “I often work in silence or I listen to dance music,” Rachel Mason said, describing her time in the studio. “I used … Read More
  
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• German artists threaten to 'flog off' their work in protest at national treasure law

  16-07-2015 19:14
  
  Germany’s art world is in uproar over plans by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to introduce a cultural protection law banning the sale of paintings and artworks deemed to be of “national importance” to private bidders, museums and galleries abroad.
  
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• Want To Make Great Art? Here’s The One Thing You Need At Minimum

  16-07-2015 19:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If you’re plugging away at your art, or haven’t quite made that scientific breakthrough you feel is close, don’t give up. Time and discipline won’t guarantee success — Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000-hours-of-practice rule has been effectively debunked — but they do seem to be an essential precursor to creating genuinely important work.”
  
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• ‘Bad Boys Bail Bonds Adopt a Highway’ at Team Gallery

  16-07-2015 19:01 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Bad Boys Bail Bonds Adopt a Highway” is a group exhibition currently on view at both Team Gallery spaces in New York. The show, curated by Amanda Ross-Ho, … Read More
  
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• Anthony Caro in Yorkshire review – sculpture that can take your breath away

  16-07-2015 18:41
  
  His monumental forms make you dance, his table-top works are in drag – and his shapes are so simple you can’t believe he dared. As a vast two-site retrospective proves, Caro’s best work remains audacious, alluring and disarmingA sculpture called Window stands by a real window. The sun slants in, making a wedge of light bright on the floor. Anthony Caro’s 1964-65 work leans toward the light, making way for it but also gesturing away. An olive-painted grille filters the view. Other, darker
  
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• Frieze Film 2015 Commissions Include a New Charles Atlas Film

  16-07-2015 18:27 via artnews.com
  Frieze London announced its 2015 film commissions today. Part of an initiative known as Frieze Film, which is part of Frieze Projects and curated by Nicola Lees, it includes a new work by Charles Atlas. All four films will air in England on … Read More
  
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• Las Vegas Casino To Build 5000-Seat Theatre To Attract More Artists

  16-07-2015 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “MGM Resorts International plans to build a $100 million, 5,300-seat theater at its Monte Carlo casino-hotel to attract top musicians for weeks at a time. The project will be built next to a larger, 20,000-seat arena now under construction.”
  
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• Director Takes An Ax To Theatre After Bad Reviews

  16-07-2015 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Turner Prize-winning artist hacked the wall of a theater where his play has opened to largely negative reviews. Douglas Gordon directs Charlotte Rampling in “Neck of the Woods,” a twist on the Red Riding Hood story running at the Manchester International Festival.
  
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• Neil Young Removes His Music From Streaming Services (But Not Because Of Money)

  16-07-2015 18:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Neil Young says he’s removing his music from all streaming services because his songs are being “devalued by the worst quality in the history of broadcasting.” In two Facebook posts, the Toronto-born 69-year-old denigrates streaming and notes his preference for the formats of yesteryear, including analog cassettes, eight tracks and AM radio.
  
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• UPDATED: Berry Campbell to Expand into Freight + Volume’s Space

  16-07-2015 18:04 via artnews.com
  Berry Campbell told ARTnews today that it will expand, filling the entire ground floor of 530 West 24th Street. Currently, the gallery has 1,200 square feet, but, with the new expansion, it will gain 800 more, bringing its total area to … Read More
  
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• Berry Campbell to Expand into Freight + Volume’s Space [Updated]

  16-07-2015 18:04 via artnews.com
  Berry Campbell told ARTnews today that it will expand, filling the entire ground floor of 530 West 24th Street. Currently, the gallery has 1,200 square feet, but, with the new expansion, it will gain 800 more, bringing its total area to … Read More
  
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• Berry Campbell to Expand into Freight + Volume’s Space

  16-07-2015 18:04 via artnews.com
  Berry Campbell told ARTnews today that it will expand, filling the entire ground floor of 530 West 24th Street. Currently, the gallery has 1,200 square feet, but, with the new expansion, it will gain 800 more, bringing its total area to … Read More
  
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• Size Matters

  16-07-2015 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For an artist, going big can be the most seductive of ego trips. But it can also offer an opportunity to disappear from view. Some large-scale works are boastful, whereas others are shaped by the lightest of touches; they are as likely to oppress as to inspire. But whatever the medium and whatever the message, […]
  
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• How To Build A Better (More Compelling) Digital Book

  16-07-2015 17:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Created by the British novelist Kate Pullinger and British-Canadian multimedia artist Chris Joseph, Alice is a book that blinks, buzzes, hums, sings, jitterbugs, plays games, and, on occasion, rains and snows. Using her laptop, Fleming projected the first Alice story onto a library whiteboard … and her fifth-graders went nuts. The story was immersive like […]
  
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• Dallas Museum Aims to Make Three Curatorial Hires

  16-07-2015 17:54 via artnews.com
  The Dallas Museum of Art announced today that it is looking to fill three curatorial positions, including one new one. Those positions are: Lillian Clark Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, Lupe Murchison Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art (which has been open … Read More
  
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• Here’s a Video of Niele Toroni Talking About His Swiss Institute Show

  16-07-2015 17:09 via artnews.com
  It’s hard to believe that it took five decades for Niele Toroni to get an institutional solo show in New York, yet the Swiss Institute has finally given him the recognition he deserves with a survey of his long career. … Read More
  
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• Leonardo DiCaprio Will Co-Host LACMA’s Art + Film Gala Honoring James Turrell

  16-07-2015 16:51 via artnews.com
  The Los Angeles County Museum today announced that its Art + Film gala, the institution’s annual buddy film starring Hollywood and its creepy yet mildly redeeming younger brother, the art world, will honor director Alejandro G. Iñárritu and artist James … Read More
  
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• Dance, Disability And Stretching The Limits Of Human Movement

  16-07-2015 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There still seems to be a distinction between companies interested in presenting diverse bodies and companies committed to a long-standing aesthetic norm. For now, the solution still exists in parallel structures rather than full-scale integration – not so different from what’s happening in ballet or, for that matter, sports. What’s fascinating about this debate between […]
  
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• Oh My, Your Smart Phone Can Tell When You’re Depressed

  16-07-2015 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Measuring behavioral markers for depression through GPS and usage sensors, researchers were able to predict with 86 percent accuracy whether or not the individual was depressed.”
  
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• Detroit – Art’s New Wild West Frontier

  16-07-2015 15:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Public art has long had a home in Detroit, with its expansive vacated spaces and ambitious class of D.I.Y. makers. But lately, the back-lot murals, pop-up sculpture parks and boundary-crossing performances are increasing, as old-guard artists find new outlets and resources, and younger artists arrive overflowing with ideas.”
  
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• In a New Book With an Unprintable Title, Seth Price Considers the Art World, Aesthetics, Murder

  16-07-2015 15:19 via artnews.com
  This week New Yorker critic Peter Schjeldahl offered some pretty sensible advice to all those who are maddened by the obscene action in today’s high-flying art market: chill out. “Sensing that people will one day look back on this era as … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Controversial German Art Law Edition

  16-07-2015 14:43 via artnews.com
  German culture minister Monika Grütters defended a law that allows Germany to regulate the international sale of artworks that are either over 50 years old or valued at more than €150,000. [Deutsche Welle]And in response to Grütters’ defense of the … Read More
  
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• David Hockney does LA again, but differently: 'I stay in, I smoke, I feel OK'

  16-07-2015 13:00
  
  The 78-year-old British artist is back in Los Angeles with an exhibit that explores the intersection of art and technology, but he says his fast-and-loose days are behind him: ‘I don’t go out much anymore because I’m too deaf, really’His Californian bohemia keeps changing but David Hockney tries to be philosophical about it: you win some, you lose some.
  “That’s the story of my life. It used to be you couldn’t be gay. Now you can be gay but you can’t smoke. There’s always someth
  
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• Brassed off: Samoan band mark century since end of German rule – in Sydney

  16-07-2015 10:20
  
  What are the Samoan traffic police doing performing Viennese marching songs in an Australian gallery? They only have prime ministerial approval to be thereMonday to Friday without fail, at 8.45am, the Royal Samoa Police Band march from the station to Government House in the capital Apia to raise the country’s flag. Sporting spotless white tropical uniforms, they play their own version of Viennese brass band music – a leftover tradition from colonial rule when the Germans governed Samoa from
  
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• ‘A Writer For Grown-Ups': Richard Ford On Anton Chekhov

  16-07-2015 10:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As is true of many American readers who encountered Chekhov first in college, my experience with his stories was both abrupt and brief, and came too early. … Chekhov seems to me a writer for adults, his work becoming useful and also beautiful by attracting attention to mature feelings, to complicated human responses and small […]
  
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• Every Nation Has A Chekhov – Who’s Whose?

  16-07-2015 10:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We took it upon ourselves to search the world for authors who have been called ‘the Chekhov’ of their country or, more endearingly in Cynthia Ozick’s characterization of Alice Munro, ‘our Chekhov.’ Chekhovs from Ireland, Canada, India, China, Mexico, The United States, Greece, Israel, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Japan have made the list so far, […]
  
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• The Stirling prize 2015 shortlist – in pictures

  16-07-2015 08:00
  
  A near-perfect social housing scheme, a luxury apartment block that looks like Meccano, a school that betters pupils’ behaviour and a cancer centre go head to head for the best building of the yearThe Stirling prize 2015 highlights the UK’s desperate housing crisis Continue reading...
  
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• Stirling prize 2015 shortlist highlights UK's desperate housing crisis

  16-07-2015 01:01
  
  There are no flashy baubles by famous names, as the contenders for the best building of the year reflect the chastened times in which they were designed
  Some of the most expensive luxury flats in London will go head to head with a social housing scheme in the same city, in the race to win the Stirling prize for best building of the year, on a shortlist that reflects the vivid extremes of the UK’s desperate housing crisis.The sharply sculpted glass towers of Neo Bankside, by Lord Richard Rogers
  
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