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• 3-for-1 Arts Marketing Conference Registration by August 15

  23-07-2015 21:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  National Arts Marketing, Development & Ticketing Conference, San Francisco, Oct. 22-24. Hear from experts on what is working to find, retain, and upgrade audiences and donors.
  
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• Joan Mitchell Center In New Orleans Launches Artists-in-Residence Program

  23-07-2015 20:27 via artnews.com
  Today, the Joan Mitchell Center–part of the Joan Mitchell Foundation in New Orleans–announced the recipients of their first ever artist-in-residence program. Twenty artists from throughout the country were selected for the inaugural year, with residencies starting this fall at the … Read More
  
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• Winners of Competition To Make Over Detroit’s ‘Scary’ Viaducts Announced

  23-07-2015 20:08 via artnews.com
  Today Detroit’s Midtown Viaducts Public Art + Light Project (funded by the New Economy Initiative and the Knight Foundation) announced the winners chosen to give three “scary” viaducts on Cass, Second, and Third Avenues a makeover.An article in The Detroit … Read More
  
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• Rirkrit Tiravanija’s First Commercial Kitchen Just Passed Its Health Inspection

  23-07-2015 20:01 via artnews.com
  The last time we heard from conceptual artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, about a month ago, he was cooking up Thai food on the Messeplatz, the large public square outside Art Basel, in a collaborative project with German architects Nikolaus Hirsch and … Read More
  
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• Pieces of a Quran Possibly As Old As Islam Itself Discovered At The University of Birmingham

  23-07-2015 19:39 via artnews.com
  A researcher and doctoral candidate at the University of Birmingham recently discovered an ancient goat- or sheep-skin manuscript in the university library, which researchers yesterday confirmed contains pieces of what may be the world’s oldest copy of the Quran.According to an … Read More
  
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• Museums and galleries across UK planning to charge entry fees amid funding cuts

  23-07-2015 19:36
  
  Free council-backed museums and galleries across Britain are quietly drawing up plans to charge entry fees as they struggle to cope with funding cuts.
  
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• Why Do So Many Pop Stars Make Jazz Albums?

  23-07-2015 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  So why do so many artists take this route? Well, it allows them to reassert their musical bona fides, and even when critics find said bona fides wanting, these efforts tend to net tremendous commercial success. These albums tend to fall into three basic categories: Legitimate, Enh … Passable, and — how to put it? […]
  
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• BBC Faces Its Toughest Political Fight Yet

  23-07-2015 18:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There are two fundamental grounds for this assault on the BBC. One is connected to neoliberal dogma. Right-wingers ask why a publicly funded body should be asked to produce mass entertainment, when the private sector is capable of carrying out the same function just as well if not better… The second argument is about political […]
  
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• That Is the Back of Klaus Biesenbach’s Head on the Cover of James Franco’s Book About Lana Del Rey

  23-07-2015 18:48 via artnews.com
  Penguin announced today that it is publishing a new book by James Franco, written with David Shields, called Flip-Side: Real and Imaginary Conversations with Lana Del Rey. At first look, it seems like just another Franco love letter to Lana … Read More
  
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• ‘Source Amnesia’ at Klowden Mann

  23-07-2015 18:30 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Source Amnesia” is currently on view at Klowden Mann gallery in Culver City, CA. The group exhibition is named for its theme, and touches upon the past, present, … Read More
  
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• Study: A Link Between The Kind Of Music You Like And The Way You Think?

  23-07-2015 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Published in Plos One, their study found empathetic people preferred more mellow, low-energy music. While those who were “systemisers” – people who seek to analyse patterns in the world – enjoyed punk, heavy metal and more complex music overall.
  
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• Grayson Perry wants to install 800,000 ceramic puppies in the Tower of London's moat

  23-07-2015 17:56
  
  Grayson Perry might be joking when he claims the Tower of London turned down a proposal to install 800,000 ceramic puppies (yes, puppies) in its grounds– but we firmly suspect he isn’t.
  
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• HABITAT: Chitra Ganesh

  23-07-2015 17:52 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Chitra Ganesh; Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. “I try to spend as much studio time as possible doing what visual artists would like to be doing all of the time–making preparatory sketches, … Read More
  
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• Monster Box Office: “Jurassic World” Becomes Third-Highest Grossing Movie Of All Time

  23-07-2015 17:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The dinosaur reboot, which has taken $1.52 billion in ticket sales, now stands behind only Avatar and Titanic’s impressive box office haul.
  
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• UK Museums Consider Scrapping Free Admissions As Government Threatens Major Funding Cuts

  23-07-2015 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Museums Association president David Fleming said charging for entry was now on the agenda at many other venues that face local council funding cuts.
  
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• Funding cuts could spell end of free museums and galleries

  23-07-2015 16:55
  
  Museums Association warns that entrance fees could be introduced as York Art Gallery considers £7.50 charge when it reopens after £8m redevelopmentWidespread charging to visit regional museums and galleries is on the horizon as local authorities cope with continued funding cuts, the Museums Association has warned.
  The association’s president, David Fleming, said charging for entry was on the agenda of many councils across the UK. “I’m absolutely certain that museums all over the country
  
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• Vera Stern, 88, Helped Save Carnegie Hall

  23-07-2015 16:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When Carnegie Hall was threatened with demolition, to make way for an office tower, Isaac Stern served as the public face of the campaign to save it, but his wife worked furiously behind the scenes, proselytizing and persuading. Eventually, the city agreed to buy the hall for $5 million and spend another $100,000 to improve […]
  
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• Why We Really Need To Be Bored

  23-07-2015 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The need for art, film, and literature to entertain becomes disturbingly pressing: that is its purpose. It’s the reason why we bother with it, and without a reason, who would bother? Art that entertains less readily, that might demand real effort and persistence and in so doing illuminate some aspect of how we live — such […]
  
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• Horton Hears A (New Dr. Seuss Book)

  23-07-2015 15:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Through painstaking work and a meticulous, almost forensic reconstruction of Mr. Geisel’s creative process, those abandoned pages have yielded an unexpected new Dr. Seuss book, now called “What Pet Should I Get?” When Random House publishes it on Tuesday, with a first printing of one million copies, it will add a surprising coda to Dr. […]
  
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• Average Movie Ticket Prices Hit Record In US

  23-07-2015 15:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Going to the movies in the U.S. cost an average of $8.61 during the second quarter of 2015, according to exhibition industry trade group the National Association of Theatre Owners. That surpasses the previous high-water mark of $8.38 from the second quarter of 2013. It’s also a 3.4% increase from the year-ago average of $8.33 […]
  
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• Conductor Paul Freeman, 79

  23-07-2015 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The December 2000 issue of Fanfare magazine proclaimed Maestro Freeman “one of the finest conductors our nation has produced.” Freeman led several recordings by both the Chicago Sinfonietta and Czech National Symphony, including his landmark three volume African Heritage Symphonic Series for Cedille Records.
  
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• Why Does The Theatre Keep Cranking Out Tribute Musicals?

  23-07-2015 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Whether or not this boom is directly due to the rise of jukebox musicals is uncertain. What is certain, though, is the relative security of jukebox musicals in the industry.”
  
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• ‘I Joke That Art Comes From That Place When You Touch Your Belly Button’: A Talk With Margaret Lee

  23-07-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Margaret Lee runs, with Oliver Newton, the gallery 47 Canal in New York.Bill Powers: We are looking at a wall in your studio covered with tear sheets of artwork by Sarah Lucas, Louise Bourgeois, Richard Artschwager, Georgia O’Keeffe, Cady Noland, … Read More
  
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• Alessandro Diaz de Santillana, glass artist: 'I first considered being a painter, but glass has a smell'

  23-07-2015 15:30
  
  When I arrive at the Zaterre in Venice in a water taxi, Alessandro Diaz de Santillana's wife, Victoria, meets me to walk the short distance to their home. Perched on the top floor of a building, it is defended by an ageing labrador and a cat – mad Micchio.
  
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• Morning Links: Contemporary Art Daily Edition

  23-07-2015 14:43 via artnews.com
  Forrest Nash on founding Contemporary Art Daily and his website’s new directions. [Art F City]People are sending emails and comments to the Smithsonian in protest of “Conversations,” an exhibition with loans and support from the Cosbys. [U.S. News]A mobster from … Read More
  
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• Violinist Sets UK Record For Live Music In Movie Theatres

  23-07-2015 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With box office takings of £1.1m from 460 cinemas, the annual event has set a record for a music concert concert at UK cinemas. And that doesn’t mean just classical concerts: André Rieu’s army of fans turned him into a Take That- and One Direction-beating draw at the nation’s picture-houses, and, indeed, Picture Houses.
  
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• The 16-year-old who infiltrated the art world – in pictures

  23-07-2015 13:21
  
  When he was 16, Josh C Wright went on a mission to photograph all of Britain’s art stars in their studios – and they welcomed him with open arms. From Hockney to Whiteread and the Chapmans, here’s the best of his series A Portrait of the Artist by a Young Man Continue reading...
  
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• Police Pull ‘American Psycho’ From Shelves In Australia

  23-07-2015 10:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An Adelaide bookstore was raided following a complaint that the notorious Bret Easton Ellis novel didn’t have the sealed plastic cover required for all “restricted classification” titles (meaning for 18-and-older individuals only).
  
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• California Arts Council Bumps Up Community Grants By $1 Million

  23-07-2015 10:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The round of grants issued this week … gives boosts to ‘Local Impact’ projects that are aimed at helping small arts organizations work in poor and rural communities that lack cultural resources. Another category is Creative California Communities, in which nonprofit arts organizations use grant money to connect with neighborhoods in ways aimed at helping […]
  
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• National Library Of France Employee Arrested For Thefts Of Engravings

  23-07-2015 10:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The French police have detained a low-level employee of the National Library of France in connection with the disappearance of a collection of 43 engravings by 16th-century artists valued at up to $4.4 million. It was the second theft uncovered at the library this year.”
  
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• What Will Restored U.S.-Cuba Relations Mean For Ballet?

  23-07-2015 10:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Cuban dancers and the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, founded by Alicia Alonso, are known all over the world. … Here & Now’‘s Meghna Chakrabarti spoke with José Manuel Carreño, a Cuban-born former principal dancer with the American Ballet Theater, who is now artistic director of Silicon Valley Ballet.” (audio)
  
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• NY City Ballet Principal Who First Danced With The Company At Age 9 Is Retiring

  23-07-2015 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jennie Somogyi, now 37, made her debut as Marie in Nutcracker and went on to spend 21 years as a grown-up company member – despite several major injuries that sidelined her for months at a time.
  
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• Untitled(The Millennials behave like they are entitled, L said.)

  23-07-2015 05:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I had the ac on. It was in the nineties in Portland. I didn’t have a personality nor did I have friends.I stayed quiet not to say anything offensive. I couldn’t stand the pressure and I said something that doesn’t make sense which was equally offensive. What is your vice, I said. My vice is ... Continue ReadingThe post Untitled(The Millennials behave like they are entitled, L said.) appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Untitled(I’m not scared of the American dream, a grey middle aged man said.)

  23-07-2015 05:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The young man is in his early twenties. He has dirty blond hair. He’s talking to a young good looking woman. He has on a navy sweatshirt. He is talking about someone who made it in publishing. The young woman is impressed. Anyone who gets a paying gig for writing means you have made it, ... Continue ReadingThe post Untitled(I’m not scared of the American dream, a grey middle aged man said.) appeared first on Zouch.
  
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