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• EL Doctorow And The Difficulties Of Historical Fiction

  24-07-2015 21:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Fiction, unlike history, explores what might have happened, not what actually has happened. “Doctorow’s way with historical characters is in line with this idea. He gets to know Henry Ford or Emma Goldman through their recorded actions and then wonders what those characters might have done in a fictional situation.”
  
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• Peter Schjeldahl: How I look At Art

  24-07-2015 21:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One thing I say in my sometime talk with regular folks who say they hate some art is that that’s good, it’s an authentic response. But maybe linger a little. Have another response. You might hate it even more, but you’ll have learned something about yourself. Resisting a new experience is really a sign of […]
  
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• Aby Rosen Will Re-Name Four Seasons, Signs Contract With Carbone Chefs

  24-07-2015 19:17 via artnews.com
  Having gotten rid of that finicky ol’ Picasso tapestry in his renovations of the Philip Johnson-designed Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram Building in New York (yeah! fuck you, Picasso!), developer Aby Rosen now plans to re-name the restaurant, according … Read More
  
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• Ferran Barenblit Named Director of MACBA

  24-07-2015 18:46 via artnews.com
  Argentina-born curator Ferran Barenblit has been named the director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), the museum announced today. The news means that Barenblit will be leaving his post at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, in … Read More
  
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• ‘The West Coast Avant-Garde: 1950-Present’ at Kohn Gallery

  24-07-2015 18:25 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “The West Coast Avant-Garde: 1950-Present” is currently on view at Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles. The group exhibition is a survey of art made in California starting in the … Read More
  
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• You're so vain: Facing History is the perfect exhibition for our selfie-obsessed world

  24-07-2015 17:36
  
  Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  We will never tire of portraits because they are an art of infinite possibility. A fascinating new exhibition shows how today’s artists are reinventing the genre – and proves that Rembrandt’s grimace and our selfie gurn are one and the sameDoes portraiture belong to the past? Surely not. We like looking at people’s faces as much as ever. We all fancy ourselves as self-portraitists, gurning for a phone as Rembrandt once gurned in his selfie-like etchings
  
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• New York Foundation for the Arts Announces 2015 Artists’ Fellowships

  24-07-2015 17:32 via artnews.com
  The New York Foundation for the Arts announced the 2015 finalists and recipients of its Artists’ Fellowship Program yesterday. Recipients of the fellowships, which are awarded annually to New York State artists, are given $7,000, while the finalists do not … Read More
  
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• The American Futurist Nightmare: How Roger Brown Scared and Confounded Critics in the ’70s

  24-07-2015 16:57 via artnews.com
  Roger Brown has long been considered an important figure in the Chicago art scene, but it wasn’t until the past few years—nearly two decades after his death, at age 56, of AIDS–related causes—that his work became well-known in New York. … Read More
  
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• Ethel Smyth, A Larger-Than-Life Activist Victorian Composer

  24-07-2015 16:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The score is fearless. Maybe that’s what they thought was masculine about it. And maybe that’s why Ethel Smyth, with all of her in-your-face attitude, ran afoul of the group she called the ‘Male Machine’.”
  
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• Farewell, Donut District: Miles Huston On Knowmoregames, His Current Group Show And His Move To Detroit

  24-07-2015 15:58 via artnews.com
  Since 2011, the artist Miles Huston, along with Jacques Louis Vidal and Brian Faucette, has run the Knowmoregames gallery on the tip of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. In that time, the gallery has staged an exciting list of shows and events. Alongside … Read More
  
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• Tilda Swinton: collaborative chameleon who doesn't court Hollywood

  24-07-2015 15:29
  
  She feels like a tourist in Hollywood and apologises for not being ‘a proper actor’, but that doesn’t stop her landing big roles and winning Oscars
  It tells you a lot about Tilda Swinton that the transformation which has rendered her unrecognisable is the one in which she appears most conventional. In the forthcoming comedy Trainwreck, Swinton plays a monstrous magazine editor, Dianna, and pictures released this week show her looking far from the Swinton – all shorn hair, pale scrubbed f
  
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• Morning Links: Subhash Kapoor Edition

  24-07-2015 14:51 via artnews.com
  The budget for the proposed Ground Zero Arts Center continues to shrink, now down to approximately half of its original cost at $200 million. [The New York Times]Artists from around the world, including Taryn Simon, Kota Takeuchi, and Trevor Paglen, have … Read More
  
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• Saul, Glyndebourne, opera review: A brilliant, landmark production

  24-07-2015 14:34
  
  Director Barrie Kosky may not have worked much in Britain, but he does have form: for his ENO debut he turned Rameau’s exquisitely refined Castor et Pollux into a cross between a fight-club spectacular and a voyeuristic soft-porn romp. For his Glyndebourne debut he has chosen Saul, one of the magnificent oratorios which Handel wrote in the years preceding the Messiah.
  
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• Charles Avery, Lauren Gault & Allison Gibbs, John Walter: this week’s new exhibitions

  24-07-2015 13:41
  
  Charles Avery | Lauren Gault & Allison Gibbs | John Walter| Tony Swain | Jeffrey Dennis | Richard Long| Arabel Rosillo De BlasThe title of Charles Avery’s show – The People And Things Of Onomatopoeia – refers to the port town of his very own make-believe island. At Edinburgh’s nearby Waverley Station he has installed a bronze tree from the Jadindagadendar, which, according to the artist, is the municipal park of Onomatopoeia. You get the picture: Avery deals in worlds within worlds,
  
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• Gustavo Dudamel Explains Why He’s Staying With El Sistema And Away From Politics, Despite Venezuela’s Crisis

  24-07-2015 10:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Now that I’m an adult, now that I’m a father, I understand the world a little better. And I understand sometimes more than people think I understand. You know when you are in a turbulent situation, you have to see beyond the turbulence instead of putting more things in the turbulence. That is Maestro Abreu’s […]
  
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• The Truth: Most Performing Artists Will Have To Work For Little Or No Pay – Here’s How To Deal With That (By Anonymous)

  24-07-2015 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’m writing this, somewhat shamefacedly, under a pseudonym, because I’ve seen many examples of the threatening emails and online trolling that would immediately target me … [and] I understand that anger … But artists will work for very low pay for as long as there are more people wanting to make art than there are […]
  
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• Dancers In Wheelchairs Appear On Bolshoi Stage For First Time

  24-07-2015 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When the Bolshoi unveiled its take on a Russian literature classic this week, among the dancers was a Paralympian who lost his leg to frostbite while serving in the Russian army, swirling on stage in his wheelchair.”
  
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• Pole Dancing Is Becoming A Serious Art Form (If These Folks Have Anything To Say About It)

  24-07-2015 09:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A pole, like most props on a dance stage, doesn’t mean much on its own. It stands ready and waiting for the bounds of a choreographer’s imagination, a means to provide a vertical space and fresh vocabulary for a story spelled out in movements. In this capacity, pole dance as an abstract art form is […]
  
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• Operation Hidden Idol: The Pursuit Of The Most Ambitious Antiquities Smuggler In American History

  24-07-2015 09:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How Subhash Kapoor allegedly got stolen treasures out of India and (for hefty prices) into collections all over the globe – and how U.S. and Indian authorities finally caught him.
  
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• The Contraband Circuit: How A 1,000-Year-Old Statue Traveled From A Small Tamil Temple To A Park Avenue Penthouse

  24-07-2015 09:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An infographic traces the route, complete with decoy statues, fake documents and money transfers.
  
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• Yes, The Hush-Hush Sale Of South Florida’s Classical Radio Stations Was Appalling. But What Now?

  24-07-2015 08:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Classical radio is a business like everything else, and the American Public Media Group has the right to sell a station to any entity they like and for any price they deem acceptable. But the manner in which the company went about doing so was wrong, unconscionable and, frankly, despicable. … But what are the […]
  
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• Why The Push To Require Paying Actors In Fringe And Showcase Productions Is A Terrible Idea

  24-07-2015 08:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s been horrible to watch our otherwise splendid union’s desperate attempt to boost membership by pretending there was enough money to be made in 50-seat fringe venues to convert [unpaid] productions into paying jobs. And so many of us swallowed it, seduced by the absurd idea that closing down voluntary fringe collaborations in tiny makeshift […]
  
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• Requests For Personal Advice, Gifts Of Cookies, Empty Chairs, And Someone Begging For David Sedaris’s Phone Number: Authors Tells Tales Of Book Tours

  24-07-2015 08:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Junot Díaz, Gary Shteyngart, Nell Zink, Sloane Crosley, Tayari Jones, and John Scalzi recount memorable encounters.
  
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• The Nine Types Of People You’ll Date: Simone de Beauvoir Solves Your Tinder Problems

  24-07-2015 08:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In part two of The Ethics of Ambiguity, Beauvoir details a series of common responses people have to the loss of childhood. … The truth is, most people you meet are struggling with that horrifying mix of freedom and lack of freedom that comes with adulthood. But they’re all grieving in different ways. Beauvoir is […]
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.23.15

  24-07-2015 08:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Harry Partch’s sonic cathedral – and what others have built around it. AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2015-07-23 Conover And The VOA: A Response AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-07-23 FAILE Fail: Brooklyn Museum as Gaming Arcade (with video) AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-07-23 [ssba_hide]
  
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