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• The Balthus Connection: What E.L. Doctorow, Jessica Chastain’s Film Debut, and a Painting Have in Common

  22-07-2015 23:54 via artnews.com
  In honor of E.L. Doctorow, who passed away at the age of 84 yesterday, we turn back to ARTnews’s May 2007 issue, in which Hilarie M. Sheets spoke with the writer about a film adaptation of his short story “Jolene: … Read More
  
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• Kitchen Bulletin Board Turns Out to Be a $1.5 M Work of Art With Links To Mandela

  22-07-2015 22:56 via artnews.com
  It was recently brought to the attention of a lucky, unnamed Sotheby’s client that what they thought was just their kitchen bulletin board is actually a painting by South African artist Irma Stern called Arab in Black that could be worth … Read More
  
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• Geoffrey Holder exhibition looks to capture 'absolute joy' of Trinidad's 'charisma bomb'

  22-07-2015 21:45
  
  He might be most famous for his turn as Baron Samedi in Live and Let Die, but Holder and his wife Carmen de Lavallade were black pioneers in Broadway and ballet who pushed boundaries throughout their careersWhile shooting his climactic scene as the menacing Bond villain/voodoo spirit Baron Samedi in Live and Let Die, Geoffrey Holder found himself in a situation that not even he could dance his way out of.“Geoffrey was an absolute joy, great fun, always very pleasant and happy on set. Though we
  
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• ‘China: Through the Looking Glass’ Is On Track to Become One of the Met’s Most Popular Shows Ever

  22-07-2015 21:22 via artnews.com
  “China: Through the Looking Glass,” the Costume Institute’s celebration of China’s influence on Western fashion, is on track to become one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s most-attended shows of all time, WWD reported. The Met recently extended the show’s … Read More
  
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• Ravinia Considering New Model For Music Director As Conlon Departs

  22-07-2015 21:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An alternate model? “A musical curator, someone who comes in for one year perhaps. Isn’t there something kind of exciting that someone could come in and talk about pop programming and jazz programming as well as chamber music recitals and what goes on at the CSO? For one summer? [They could] start working three years […]
  
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• ‘Colors Made Me Very Popular': The FT Profiles Albania’s Art-Loving Prime Minister

  22-07-2015 20:53 via artnews.com
  The Financial Times has a charming article about the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, his passion for contemporary art, and the ways in which he is incorporating that passion into his administration–namely the new free-to-the-public Centre for Openness and Dialogue in Tirana, which … Read More
  
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• Is Live Theatre At Odds With Our Immersive Always-Connected Culture?

  22-07-2015 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As Broadway faces off against pocket-size sound-and-light shows, performers and some patrons say a hyper-connected culture are shredding the immersive experience of live theatre.
  
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• Moore’s Law Has Predicted Tech Progress. But Now Moore’s Law Has Paused. So…

  22-07-2015 19:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “All the things that have been driving everything that I do, the kinds of technology that have emerged out of here that have changed the world, have ridden on the fact that the cost of computing doesn’t just fall, it falls at an accelerating rate. And guess what? In the last two years, the price […]
  
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• Chinese Curator Stole 140 Works, Replaced Them With His Own Fakes

  22-07-2015 19:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Xiao Yuan, 57, a curator at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in southern China, sold 125 of the exhibits for more than 34m yuan (£4m, $6m). In his defence, he told Guangzhou People’s Intermediate Court there were already fakes in the storeroom when he started work there.”
  
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• ‘THEM’ at Schinkel Pavillion

  22-07-2015 19:04 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “THEM” is currently on view at Schinkel Pavillion and features the work of seven artists—Alina Szapocznikow, Alisa Baremboym, Aleksandra Domanović, Sarah Lucas, Katja Novitskova, Carolee Schneemann, and Anicka … Read More
  
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• Last days of the slums: a portrait of Manchester by Shirley Baker

  22-07-2015 18:50
  
  From neighbours chatting between rubble-strewn terraces to kids playing cricket on cracked pavements, Shirley Baker’s photographs capture a rich street life on the brink of being bulldozed into historyFor 15 years from the early 1960s, Shirley Baker photographed the demolition of the tightly packed terraces which had become Manchester’s slums.
  Built in the 19th century to house the workers who powered the looms and engines during the industrial revolution, by the time the Salford-born Baker
  
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• Ai Weiwei Gets His Passport Back

  22-07-2015 18:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He said on Wednesday that the authorities had given him no indication of why he had received his passport now. “I only can say why not? They have promised for the past four years to give it back. Now finally they gave it to me,” he said in a telephone interview. “They always say it’s […]
  
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• The Problem With Children’s Theatre

  22-07-2015 18:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The most progressive theatres are not for children. They are for people. The most anti-oppressive theatre methodologies (benefitting children, youth, AND adults), will, quite simply, consider and include children as “persons;” members of civic society.
  
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• ICA Philadelphia Announces Three Curatorial Appointments

  22-07-2015 18:01 via artnews.com
  Today the ICA Philadelphia announced three curatorial appointments: Anthony Elms as chief curator, Alex Klein as the Dorothy and Stephen R. Weber (CHE ’60) curator, and Kate Kraczon as an associate curator. The three appointments, all effective immediately, were made … Read More
  
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• FCC Signals Approval Of AT&T/DirecTV Mega-Merger

  22-07-2015 17:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “AT&T’s desire to merge with DirecTV isn’t simply about finding more TV customers. Given DirecTV’s capability to deliver TV services nationwide, AT&T can sell more TV-Internet-phone packaged bundles after the merger, including possibly offering Internet services to rural customers using its wireless technology. AT&T is the nation’s second largest wireless carrier.”
  
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• Composer Oliver Knussen’s Performance At Tanglewood Canceled Because of Visa (Or Lack Of One)

  22-07-2015 17:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Visa problems have resulted in the cancellation of another artist’s visit to Tanglewood. Earlier this season it was tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones, who had been slated to perform in Act I of “Tosca.” Now, the composer and conductor Oliver Knussen has been forced to cancel his appearance at the Festival of Contemporary Music, where he […]
  
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• When Genius Becomes Banal – How We See Greatness

  22-07-2015 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We have a problem of seeing, just as we often have a problem hearing (or hearing clearly), say, a Beethoven symphony. It’s hard to get back to our first enraptured seeings and hearings, when Van Gogh and Beethoven struck our eyes and ears as nothing had before; and yet equally hard to break through to […]
  
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• China Returns Ai Weiwei’s Passport, Allows Him to Travel Again

  22-07-2015 17:19 via artnews.com
  Chinese authorities returned Ai Weiwei’s passport earlier today, after holding it four years. The Chinese artist’s repossession of his passport will allow him to leave China for the first time since 2011, when Beijing authorities refused to let Ai travel … Read More
  
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• A Composer Marrying Data Representation And Music

  22-07-2015 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You’re never really told how to feel when you look at a chart, even though it may have to do with something that is very human like income inequality or climate change. It ends up being just information that you don’t really internalize or contemplate. So I wanted to figure out how to take something […]
  
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• Glasgow School of Art fire: students exhibit their work a year after disaster

  22-07-2015 17:02
  
  Exhibition is culmination of six-month programme that provided studio space and expenses to students whose work was lost or damaged in blaze Just over a year after the fire that devastated Glasgow School of Art’s iconic Mackintosh building, robbing students of their degree show, 90 of the artists affected have unveiled an exhibition of new work.The Phoenix Bursary exhibition is the culmination of a six-month programme that provided studio space and living expenses to students whose work was lo
  
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• One-On-One Theatre (And Clean Dishes Too)

  22-07-2015 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The premise for Brian Feldman’s show, “Dishwasher,” is this: He will come to a person’s house, wash all of the dirty dishes, perform a monologue of the audience’s choosing and then conclude with a single question: “Am I a better actor or dishwasher?”
  
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• What Professional Sports Has To Teach The Performing Arts About Audiences

  22-07-2015 15:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For sure, the comparison between sports and performing arts is limited: Obviously, there’s no element of competition, no TV contracts, and much less private ownership of venues. Nevertheless, there are approaches that may have resonance, and reflect the way innovation is transferable; the way experiments and breakthroughs in one field may affirm and encourage breakthroughs […]
  
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• Morning Links: Wes Anderson Edition

  22-07-2015 14:58 via artnews.com
  SF-based arts writer Kevin Harman is bringing the sixth edition of his self-curated pop-up Wes Anderson-inspired art show to New York. You can see “Bad Dads” at Joseph Gross Gallery beginning in early August. [Vogue]Documenta 2017 will be held in … Read More
  
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• Marvel Is On An Epic Streak Of Top Blockbusters

  22-07-2015 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last weekend, “Ant-Man” became the 12th consecutive Marvel Cinematic Universe movie to open at No. 1 domestically. That stat was thrown around a lot, and it made me wonder how difficult the feat was. It’s pretty tough!
  
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• From the browser to the gallery: Petra Cortright's 'post-internet' art

  22-07-2015 13:00
  
  The artist is exhibiting gifs of wiggling strippers found online – and people are collecting her work. So what happens when the technology becomes obsoloete?Strippers are raining from the rafters at Depart Foundation on Los Angeles’s Sunset Strip. It’s not an adolescent fantasy; instead, it’s post-internet artist Petra Cortright’s Niki, Lucy, Lola, Viola, a series of massive screens seemingly infected with VirtuaGirl, a seedy computer programme that sends a cadre of strippers dancing a
  
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• Ai Weiwei free to travel overseas again after China returns his passport

  22-07-2015 12:14
  
  Artist who is outspoken critic of China’s leaders was banned from leaving country in 2011 during major crackdown on political activists
  More than four years after he was banned from leaving his native China, artist Ai Weiwei is free to travel again after Beijing authorities returned his passport. “When I got it back I felt my heart was at peace,” the artis an outpoken critic told the Guardian on Wednesday afternoon, just hours after police handed him back the travel document and informed h
  
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• The Most Unlikely Hedwig Yet Is About To Strut Onto Broadway

  22-07-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That’s Taye Diggs – yes, the guy who gave Stella her groove back. “Hold up, though – is this not madness? Black America’s most eligible bachelor is about to play a glammed-out Teutonic genderqueer mash-up of Nico and Axl Rose?”
  
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• Jennifer Homans Was Wrong: Ballet’s Not Dying, It’s Being Rejuvenated – And Here’s Why

  22-07-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s an exciting time for the art form, with new works and artists emerging: there is plenty to look forward to. It’s very different to the sense of gloom I remember when I started watching in the Nineties.” Zoë Anderson has a theory about why ballet was in a funk 20 years ago (like so […]
  
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• The Ten Most Beautiful Movies Of All Time (Not Best, Mind You; Most Beautiful)

  22-07-2015 09:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Well, really, it’s ten categories of beautiful movie (Chinese historical epic, classic Hollywood black-and-white, Terrence Malick movie, wordless montage of landscapes, Stanley Kubrick film, etc.) and the Cinefix guys’ favorite examples of each type. Plenty to argue about (e.g., Days of Heaven isn’t there, and neither are any of the Qatsi films). (video)
  
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• Ireland Gives Brian Friel His Own Theatre Festival

  22-07-2015 09:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Details will be announced on Monday for the Lughnasa International Friel Festival which will have, at its heart, a production of one of Friel’s plays presented on both sides of the border in Donegal and Belfast. … The festival will be directed by Séan Doran, who is also in charge of the Samuel Beckett festival, […]
  
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• Recreating The Weird Instruments For (Arguably) The World’s Weirdest Opera

  22-07-2015 09:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That would be Harry Partch’s Delusion of the Fury. “For many years there was essentially only one set of instruments” – the ones the composer built himself – “capable of playing Mr. Partch’s largest works, which meant the pieces were rarely performed. But a few years ago Ensemble Musikfabrik, the German contemporary music group, decided […]
  
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• World’s Largest Streaming Video Market Has Gone Mad For Korean TV

  22-07-2015 09:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “China’s obsession with a South Korean television show about a 400-year-old Harvard-educated alien who falls in love with an arrogant actress reached such a frenzy last year that online streaming companies here began racing to snap up licensing rights for other South Korean television programs, inflating their prices almost tenfold.”
  
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• Fragments Of Beautiful Roman Frescoes Uncovered In The South Of France

  22-07-2015 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the Bouches-du Rhône in Arles, archaeologists have uncovered a sumptuous ancient treasure in what remains of a Roman villa dating from the 1st century BCE … After spending more than 2,000 years largely underground, the colors are still shimmering.”
  
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• What Makes American English American? Stealing Words And Making Them Up, Mostly

  22-07-2015 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We have stolen words from other languages, massaged them into new words, turned nouns into verbs and verbs into nouns, and smushed two words together to make new ones.”
  
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• E.L. Doctorow, 84, ‘One Of Contemporary Fiction’s Most Restless Experimenters’

  22-07-2015 08:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Subtly subversive in his fiction – less so in his left-wing political writing – he consistently upended expectations with a cocktail of fiction and fact, remixed in book after book; with clever and substantive manipulations of popular genres like the Western and the detective story; and with his myriad storytelling strategies.”
  
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• Three Black Female Dance Legends Sitting Around Talking

  22-07-2015 08:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Why is [Misty Copeland’s] breakthrough possible now, and what does this civil rights triumph mean for the future of ballet’s performers and its audience? Copeland and … Raven Wilkinson and Carmen de Lavallade joined us live on stage for a conversation on July 17, moderated by writer and producer Susan Fales-Hill.” (video)
  
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• Theodore Bikel, Actor, Singer, And Social Activist, Dead At 91

  22-07-2015 08:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a protean acting career, he played King Lear and other Shakespearean roles and appeared in countless television shows, from The Twilight Zone to Gunsmoke to Dynasty” – to say nothing of giving more than 2,000 performances as Tevye and creating the role of Captain von Trapp. “[He] could speak nine languages and sing in […]
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.21.15

  22-07-2015 08:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Museum Innovation With Legs – And Twists AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-07-21 Lookback: the discovery of death AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-07-21 [ssba_hide]
  
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• Marketing Assistant

  22-07-2015 06:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The New York Philharmonic seeks a Marketing Assistant to provide administrative and marketing support to the Marketing Director and ad hoc assistance to the rest of the Marketing Team
  
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• Germaine Greer and Ian Thorpe to bare all in Canberra exhibition

  22-07-2015 05:49
  
  National Portrait Gallery show featuring nude portraits of Ian Thorpe, Billy Slater and Dame Edna will explores issues of identity and personality, says curatorThe National Portrait Gallery in Canberra has announced a revealing new exhibition Bare: Degrees of Undress, featuring Dame Edna Everage, Olympian Ian Thorpe and INXS frontman Michael Hutchence in various states of undress.Exhibition curator Penelope Grist has drawn together more than 90 portraits of well-known faces from the gallery’s
  
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