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• Phillips Hires Former Brooklyn Museum Director Arnold Lehman as a Senior Advisor

  27-07-2015 23:57 via artnews.com
  Last September, Arnold Lehman announced that he was retiring from his post as director of the Brooklyn Museum, a job he has held since 1997. Today, however, it became clear that his retirement won’t last very long, with Phillips announcing that he has … Read More
  
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• How Old Should A Young Adult Author Be?

  27-07-2015 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Malorie Blackman left her own teen experiences behind a longish time ago but it doesn’t stop her understanding the overwhelming emotions of adolescence and their bravery in standing up for themselves and others when they see unfair things happening.”
  
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• A Year After Fire, Glasgow School of Art Students Present New Work

  27-07-2015 22:57 via artnews.com
  Art students at the Glasgow School of Art who were affected by the devastating fire which blazed through the Mackintosh building last year are now presenting new work in the school’s Reid Building. The modern wing is just across the street … Read More
  
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• How ‘Hamilton’ Found Its Groove

  27-07-2015 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A lot of times in the past when you’ve seen hip-hop used in musical theatre, it has quotes around it. ‘How crazy! We’re making hip-hop musical theatre!’ We don’t comment on it. We just take as a given that it’s the best way to tell Hamilton’s story, but like any other musical score, Hamilton has […]
  
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• From a Giant White Bear to a Dead Fish: A Look Around the Watermill Benefit

  27-07-2015 21:13 via artnews.com
  This year’s Watermill Center Benefit, titled “Circus of Stillness: The Power over Wild Beasts,” offered performance art and installations from 24 artists around the institution’s wooden campus and a wide mix of celebrity guests such as Rufus Wainwright, Brooke Shields, and Roger … Read More
  
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• The 70 Longlist Nominees Are In For The Guardian’s ‘Not the Booker’ Prize

  27-07-2015 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Now to crowdsource the shortlist (that’s right – you can help books move on).
  
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• ‘Look at Me Now’ at Monique Meloche Gallery

  27-07-2015 20:18 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Look at Me Now” is currently on view at Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago. The group exhibition features a mix of international artists who are presenting various perspectives … Read More
  
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• Reopening Your Musical Mind By Listening To Whatever The Kids Like

  27-07-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I rediscovered my love for writing music. The young campers offered up creativity in its purest form. They were interested in making their own music without consideration for genre, marketability, or careerism, but rather with the intent of simply writing the music that they wanted to write. There was little angst associated with their writing […]
  
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• Alice Anderson's 'Memory Movement Memory Objects': Everyday objects wrapped in copper wire

  27-07-2015 18:56
  
  "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair," calls the prince in the Grimm fairy tale. "Rapunzel was at first terribly afraid for she had never laid eyes on a man before." The image of a woman with hair so long that it can function as a kind of ladder is one of the most surreal of the Grimm fairy tales.
  
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• What Even Is Los Angeles? (To Find Out, Ask The Writers)

  27-07-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Nature has done everything for it and man very little,’ wrote one correspondent of Los Angeles in 1867. ‘Beneath the wide verandas the people sit, and about two-thirds of the population seem to spend the day smoking in front of the hotel and going in for drinks.’ That same author then went on to catalog […]
  
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• What Does TV’s Creep Of The Freudian Uncanny Tell Us About Ourselves?

  27-07-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Why are viewers so compelled by the weird and inexplicable? Why the increasing glut of uncanny television shows that try to take the world and turn it upside down? Why the clamor to see dead classics resurrected for a second life?”
  
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• Foes Of Frick Extension Have An Alternate Plan To Offer

  27-07-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Instead of building up and out, the alternative plan, developed by New York architect David Helpern, would largely reconfigure the museum’s existing space. Much of the expansion would take place below grade, an approach employed at London’s British Museum, the Morgan Library & Museum and others.”
  
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• All-Male Licensing Board Gives British Film About A Teen Girl’s Sexual Awakening A Rating That Means Teens Can’t See It

  27-07-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If you’re a teenage girl that wants to have sex, there’s still this thing of feeling like a freak because everything you’ve ever read or seen tells you – you shouldn’t want it.”
  
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• What Happens When You Get An MFA In Your 60s

  27-07-2015 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Going back for this M.F.A. felt like a matter of life and death for me, the only means by which I could hope to survive to be the writer I wanted to be and to live long enough to enjoy my granddaughters. The truth is that I hadn’t expected to get into the program at […]
  
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• Former BAM Leader Karen Brooks Hopkins Named Senior Fellow In Residence at Mellon Foundation

  27-07-2015 18:02 via artnews.com
  Karen Brooks Hopkins, the former President of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, will join the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as a senior fellow in residence, the Foundation announced this morning.According to its mission statement, the foundation seeks to “strengthen, promote, … Read More
  
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• Your Geographical History, In Books

  27-07-2015 17:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When I think of Angela’s Ashes, what I remember most is the way Hong Kong sounded and smelled. The air was muggy, winey, and fishy by late afternoon. Salt blew off the sea. My hostel smelled like cigarette smoke and old newspapers, and the curtains were always closed so that the place sat in a […]
  
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• Is It Time For Great Britain To Embrace Outdoor Theatre?

  27-07-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is the most democratic of art forms, generally free at the point of delivery and with an audience who can walk away at any time.”
  
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• Google Is Saving An Architecturally Daring Library In The UK

  27-07-2015 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  But “the extended hours will involve self-service for book lending from a limited stock, and the core library service will continue to open for just 40 hours a week. The building will remain closed on Sundays.”
  
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• Retrospective: Francis Bacon’s Body Language

  27-07-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  And other excerpts from our coverage 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago Read More
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Game House’ Edition

  27-07-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  At the opening of his video collaboration with Steve McQueen at LACMA, Kanye West said that he “would trade two Grammies to be seen in an art context.” [W Magazine]David Attenborough is very excited about “Missionaries and Idols of Polynesia” … Read More
  
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• What’s Going To Happen To South Carolina State’s Warhols, Jacob Lawrences, And Much More Art?

  27-07-2015 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Amid the turmoil at S.C. State University, which is scrambling to put its financial house in order, another drama is playing out on the Orangeburg campus of the historically black school. It’s a controversy within a controversy, and a significant collection of art is caught in the middle.”
  
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• Kanye West Would Trade His Grammys to Be in An Art Context: The Rapper Discusses His New Steve McQueen-Directed Video at LACMA

  27-07-2015 14:41 via artnews.com
  On Friday night, Kanye West and his wife, Kim Kardashian West, walked into a blocked-off wing at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, both wearing white. West was greeted by the artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen, and the greeting … Read More
  
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• A Celebrated Director Of The Stratford (Canada) Shakespeare Festival Has Died

  27-07-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Robin Phillips “served as artistic director of the festival from 1975 to 1980, where his imaginative scope and meticulous attention to detail inspired a next generation of actors and lured big names like Maggie Smith to the Canadian stage.”
  
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• Labour should win the Turner prize – it's a disastrous piece of performance art

  27-07-2015 13:59
  
  The Labour party’s got controversy, provocation – and a remarkable ability to alienate people. If a housing estate can make the shortlist for the prestigious art prize, why not a political party? The Labour Party may well be in line to win the Turner prize. If it goes on like this and descends into factions, it will have everything – bloody verbal violence, sensational controversy and most of all a stunning ability to alienate middle England. It could take the Turner out of its recent dold
  
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• Falling Back In Love With City Ballet

  27-07-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “These extraordinary dancers have breathed new life into Balanchine’s legacy. And suddenly, once again, as in the old days, I want to follow what they’re up to.”
  
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• Upfest 2015: Europe’s largest street art and graffiti festival – in pictures

  27-07-2015 13:21
  
  Three-day event draws more than 250 artists from 25 countries to paint live on 30,000 sq ft of surfaces in Bedminster and Southville areas of Bristol Continue reading...
  
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• Stoners in stitches: embroidery goes grunge – in pictures

  27-07-2015 08:00
  
  Born into a family ‘of weirdos and storytellers’, Alaina Varrone taught herself to embroider and now makes provocative pictures with string. Here are her strangest and grungiest offeringsContinue reading...
  
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• Top Posts On AJBlogs For 07.26.15

  27-07-2015 07:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I Can Compose Catholic AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-07-26 And Now for a Different Kind of Music AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2015-07-26 The Dancers You Need to Love AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-07-24 China, Dave Koz learns, is hot for sax AJBlog: Jazz Beyond JazzPublished 2015-07-24 [ssba_hide]
  
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• In Praise Of The Unlinked Story Collection

  27-07-2015 04:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I do not need a collection to feel ‘cohesive,’ nor do I spend too much time considering the order. Rather, what I adore is precisely the opposite: a rattling journey from plot to plot, from character to character, from idea to idea.”
  
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• Robert Rauschenberg: Tate Modern to host first UK exhibition of painter's work for 35 years

  27-07-2015 04:45
  
  The first posthumous retrospective of work by the American painter Robert Rauschenberg will feature in Tate Modern’s 2016 programme. It will be the first comprehensive show of his art in the UK for almost 35 years.
  
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• The Campaign To Keep Ballet Going

  27-07-2015 02:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After Ms. Homans’s book was published, her assessment burned through the industry, sparking arguments and some resentment. It also caught the attention of the Mellon Foundation, which began a series of conversations with Ms. Homans about what could be done to change things. The idea of actively drawing in new thinkers won because ballet, in […]
  
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• How To Review Philip Glass’ Autobiography Without Being Snarky

  27-07-2015 02:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When I told a snarky friend I was writing about the new Philip Glass autobiography, Words Without Music, she asked, ‘Does it go like this: I, I, I, I, I, I, was, was, was, was, was, born, born, born, born?’ Snarky.”
  
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• There Is No ‘Correct Actor’s Body,’ Despite Years Of Theatre Mythos

  27-07-2015 01:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The actor’s body, or rather its ideal form, is a lie. It is an imaginary by-product of a culture that tries to value certain bodies over others.”
  
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• Tate Modern announces O’Keeffe and Rauschenberg shows for 2016

  27-07-2015 01:01
  
  Next year’s programme also includes works of Francis Bacon on display at Tate Liverpool and a Paul Nash retrospective at Tate BritainTate Modern will next year present shows devoted to two giants of 20th-century art, the American artists Georgia O’Keeffe and Robert Rauschenberg.Announcing its 2016 programme, Tate also revealed that the works of Francis Bacon will be on display at its outpost in Liverpool, Paul Nash at Tate Britain, and a solo show by the young British artist Jessica Warboys
  
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• The Career Path Of A Canadian Actress

  27-07-2015 00:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rachel McAdams: Being a movie star “wasn’t something I really meditated on or planned for in any way. I really thought I’d be doing theater in Canada. I’d grown up doing children’s theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children’s theater company.”
  
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