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• James Cohan Gallery Will Open A Third Location On The Lower East Side

  30-07-2015 23:30 via artnews.com
  The New York Times reports that James Cohan Gallery will open a third space—in addition to its Chelsea and Shanghai locations—in what used to be a fish market on the Lower East Side at 291 Grand Street, not far from … Read More
  
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• La Monte Young: 'I'm only interested in putting out masterpieces'

  30-07-2015 22:46
  
  The godfather of minimal music is still performing at 79, and since few recordings exist of his work, his live performances are more essential than everLike many fans of minimalist-music godfather La Monte Young, I have often wished he’d put out more recordings. Long out-of-print CD copies of his multi-hour masterwork The Well-Tuned Piano occasionally fetch over $1,000 on the secondhand marketplace. A pair of other albums released by the now-defunct Gramavision label are occasionally easier to
  
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• Habitat: Ursula von Rydingsvard

  30-07-2015 22:14 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Ursula von Rydingsvard; East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. “I started painting in the 1960s,” Ursula von Rydingsvard recalled, as we talked in the second floor of her studio. “I would put … Read More
  
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• Behind The Merger Of ArtNews and Art In America

  30-07-2015 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Whatever happens with the merged magazines, it looks bad. You can read it as another chapter in the sad decline of print. But scrutinizing the tea leaves, you can also see it as another augury that the discourse of art is more and more subordinate to fashion-obsessed celebrity and short-term finance.”
  
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• Property developer criticised for establishing sculpture prize to honour 'local creativity' as it pushes ahead to demolish art studios

  30-07-2015 20:24
  
  A property developer has been criticised for establishing a sculpture prize to honour “local creativity” in East London – as it pushes ahead with plans to demolish a block containing 100 art studios.
  
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• The Broad MSU Announces a 50-Year Survey of Video Art, One of Michael Rush’s Final Shows

  30-07-2015 19:08 via artnews.com
  The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University announced today that, in October, it will present “Moving Time: Video Art at 50, 1965-2015,” one of founding director Michael Rush’s final shows before his death in March. The … Read More
  
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• ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?’ at Richard Taittinger Gallery

  30-07-2015 18:42 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” is currently on view at Richard Taittinger Gallery in New York until Saturday, August 22. The group exhibition, using the Sidney Poitier … Read More
  
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• Boeing Donates $20M To The Kennedy Center’s $100M Expansion Project

  30-07-2015 18:32 via artnews.com
  Boeing has announced that it will be donating $20 million to the Kennedy Center in support of its $100 million expansion project, continuing the company’s longstanding patronage of the performing arts center. The Washington Post reports that Boeing chairman W. … Read More
  
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• Why Are So Many Companies Giving Away Their Intellectual Property? (Hint: It’s Not Charity)

  30-07-2015 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s not happening for altruistic reasons. In his keynote at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland, Oregon last week, Cloud Foundry Foundation CEO Sam Ramji argued that the shift is being driven by economics.”
  
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• Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond’s ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower to Become a Slide [UPDATED]

  30-07-2015 18:21 via artnews.com
  The number of works of art that double as amusement-park slides is fairly low, and surely many of those works are by Carsten Höller, whose corkscrewing Isometric Slides are currently on view at the Hayward Gallery, in London. Today, The … Read More
  
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• Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond’s ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower to Become a Slide

  30-07-2015 18:21 via artnews.com
  The number of works of art that double as amusement-park slides is fairly low, and surely many of those works are by Carsten Höller, whose corkscrewing Isometric Slides are currently on view at the Hayward Gallery, in London. Today, The … Read More
  
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• Atlanta’s High Museum Gets A New Director

  30-07-2015 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At the Philbrook, Randall Suffolk boosted attendance by 63 percent and almost tripled participation in educational programs. “We’ve tried to reinvent our relationship with our community,” he said. Suffolk spearheaded the planning for Philbrook Downtown, a 30,000-square-foot satellite facility that opened in 2013.
  
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• Our Culture Is Dead. (No, Really)

  30-07-2015 17:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Thanks to the “massification” or “democratization” of culture, we can all claim to be cultured even if we have never read a book, listened to a symphony, or attended an art gallery. Eliot said that “higher culture” is the domain of an elite. Vargas Llosa is in favor of putting an end to “morally repugnant” […]
  
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• What’s The Job Of Philosophy? To Make You Happy? Or…

  30-07-2015 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is an oft-repeated idea that philosophy in its modern, professional form has become detached from what was, in ancient times, a founding ideal: to teach people how to live well. In today’s university, the emphasis is on the search for the truth about whichever subject lies at hand, regardless of how, if at all, […]
  
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• Miracle art: could there be a priceless masterpiece lurking in your home?

  30-07-2015 17:33
  
  Many people fantasise about finding a priceless work in a car boot sale or dusty loft. But what really happens when you find a Ming vase on a shelf, a Pollock in a thrift store or a Michelangelo behind the sofa? Hannah O’Leary knew right away that she was looking at something very special. The art specialist had been called to a flat in London to take a look at a painting. If its owners thought it was valuable, they had a funny way of showing it – they were using it as their kitchen noticebo
  
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• Violette Verdy On What Makes A Great Dancer

  30-07-2015 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A musical dancer helps you to see and feel the music in your own body; a dancer with a superior musicality goes even further, playing against the music, entering into a conversation with it, bending it to her own wishes. This is the kind of dancer Verdy was. Such musicality is innate.
  
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• Music So Intense You Get “Skin Orgasms”?

  30-07-2015 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We normally only respond like this to experiences that might ensure or endanger our survival – food, reproduction, or the terrifying plummet of a rollercoaster. How can music – hardly a life-or-death pursuit – move the mind and the body as powerfully as sex?”
  
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• Disabled Characters And The Theatre – Some Considerations

  30-07-2015 17:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Why is one considered a beacon of acting talent for playing a disabled character convincingly? Why is it a common expectation that these actors will transform into characters whose experiences they can never truly understand? And, perhaps the most important question: if able-bodied actors continue to be cast in these roles, what opportunities are left […]
  
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• Why Charging Admission Might Be A Good Idea For UK Museums

  30-07-2015 17:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sometimes you have to think the unthinkable. If we want museums to prosper and thrive in a harsh economic climate with central government talking about 40% cuts, an entrance fee may be the best way forward. And it may have a good side.”
  
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• Preview Seattle Art Fair 2015

  30-07-2015 17:00 via artnews.com
  The inaugural Seattle Art Fair opens Thursday, July 30, with an evening preview for invited guests. The fair will bring together 62 galleries from across the country to the lively art scene of the Pacific Northwest. Attracting some of the … Read More
  
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• Charred remains of Eastbourne pier rise again as artistic tribute

  30-07-2015 16:43
  
  A year on from the fire that devastated the south coast town’s treasured pier a local artist has created a eulogy in salvaged materials to the attraction’s gaietyThere are reports of visitors smelling the huge, heavy artwork on display at Eastbourne’s Towner art gallery and the artist is delighted. “I like the sound of that,” said Wycliffe Stutchbury, “it does have that bitter, musky scent of fire.”The reason is because the two-metre square wall-hung artwork is made from the charre
  
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• Billionaire Starts International Art Fair In Seattle, Gets Top Galleries To Come

  30-07-2015 16:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’ve been going to the Venice Biennale for at least a decade and always enjoy the stimulation of seeing the work of new and up-and-coming artists,” Allen, who co-founded Microsoft Corp. with Bill Gates, said in a telephone interview. “In 2013 I started thinking, ‘what’s keeping us from doing this in Seattle?’”
  
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• Visa Restrictions Prevent Ai Weiwei from Six-Month Stay in England

  30-07-2015 16:07 via artnews.com
  Despite having finally gotten his passport back after Chinese authorities held it for four years, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is still facing travel restrictions.Today, Ai Instagrammed a letter from British Embassy in Beijing telling him that he would be able … Read More
  
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• Why Do People Dress Like Slobs To Go To The Theatre?

  30-07-2015 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When people were invited onstage at a recent performance of “Penn & Teller on Broadway,” many women looked as if they had stepped out of a jazzercise class, while men ambled around in hideous cargo shorts.”
  
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• Basquiat and the Collecting of History

  30-07-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Why is one of the 20th century’s most celebrated artists underrepresented in museum collections? Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Nicolas Cage Edition

  30-07-2015 14:54 via artnews.com
  This year’s edition of Splendour in the Grass, a British music festival, features a number of wacky art installations, notably an inflatable version of Nicolas Cage’s head in a cage. [The Guardian]Robert Wilson on the state of performance art today: … Read More
  
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• Ai Weiwei refused six month visa by UK over undeclared 'criminal conviction,' claims Britain is denying his 'rights as a citizen'

  30-07-2015 13:55
  
  Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been denied a six-month visa by the British government amid claims he failed to declare a “criminal conviction”.
  
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• Prom 14, Royal Albert Hall, review: Valery Gergiev's Prokofiev splurge has highs and lows

  30-07-2015 13:41
  
  Valery Gergiev loves the flashy gesture, and it was certainly flashy to programme all five of Prokofiev’s piano concertos in one evening, with three hot-shot Russian-school pianists doing the solo honours supported by the London Symphony Orchestra. Gergiev’s protégé Daniil Trifonov played the first concerto with the airy brilliance we now expect from him, and Gergiev, on the podium, let his interpretation of this youthful, ardent, nose-thumbing work flower as it needed
  
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• Galleries: let's ditch the artspeak and artybollocks

  30-07-2015 13:32
  
  If public galleries really want to be more accessible, they should listen to George Orwell and never use a long word where a short one will doAs an art student eager to know about the latest arts discourse and reviews, I thought nothing of spending hours poring over the library’s copy of contemporary art journal Studio International. With dictionary to hand, I would assiduously look up the unfamiliar words and decipher all the specialist concepts and terms. I was there to study. I had time and
  
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• Prom, 15, review: Qigang Chen's Iris devoilee shows an interesting way forward

  30-07-2015 13:21
  
  Composed in 2001, Qigang Chen’s Iris devoilee has now made it to the Proms, and it still comes over with marvellous freshness. Chen’s back-story is typical of his generation: born into a cultured family in 1951, he saw his parents sent to a labour camp in the Cultural Revolution, and he himself underwent ‘re-education’; he was one of the first students admitted when the Beijing Conservatory was reopened; then he went West, studied under Messiaen, and settled in France.
  
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• Stage Fright – What Exactly Is It, And What’s Behind It?

  30-07-2015 10:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Stage fright has been aptly described as ‘self-poisoning by adrenaline'” – the fight-or-flight response. “But what Cro-Magnon man needed upon finding a bear in his cave is not what a modern person needs in order to play King Lear. Without the release of abrupt action, the hyperactivation becomes, basically, a panic attack.”
  
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• How A Stolen Rodin Was Tracked Down And Recovered After 24 Years

  30-07-2015 10:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The bronze cast of Young Girl with Serpent was taken from a Beverly Hills home in 1991. The story of its discovery and restitution features an ace investigator, a sharp-eyed Rodin scholar, a recalcitrant dealer, and a filing mistake.
  
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• The 100 Best Movies Of All Time, As Chosen By Actors

  30-07-2015 10:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The number-one film may come as something of a surprise …
  
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• Now That Americans Are Eligible For The Booker Prize, There Are Five Of Them On This Year’s Longlist

  30-07-2015 10:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That’s five out of 13 in total. (The Brits only got three.) One of those five is a literary agent, and another – possibly the least famous of the group – is the bookmakers’ early favorite to win.
  
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• Dramatizing Egypt’s Political And Social Issues With A Bedroom Farce

  30-07-2015 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Threesome, by Yussef El Guindi, “begins as a bawdy bedroom comedy whose main characters, a heterosexual Egyptian-American couple, invite a white American man into their bed. Over two acts it transforms into something darker, as all three grapple with the fallout of sexual assault, infidelity, war and the pain of lost hope, both political and […]
  
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• Can Arabic Literature Ever Be Fully Understood In English?

  30-07-2015 09:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In some ways, reading all this Arabic literature in English has been like listening in on a foreign-language recording when one understands the words’ meanings, but not the allusions, nor the jokes, nor the underlying rhythms. Some of this woodenness can be blamed on inadequate translations. But some of it falls to our historical blind […]
  
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• ‘I Would Have Jumped Off A Roof For Mao': Li Cunxin, ‘Mao’s Last Dancer’, From The Cultural Revolution To The 21st-Century West

  30-07-2015 09:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Forced into ballet as a child in Mao’s China, Li Cunxin defected to the US and had to work as a stockbroker to support his family back home. But he never quit dancing. As he brings the Queensland Ballet to Britain, he talks about his traumas and triumphs – and shock at seeing people take […]
  
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• Harper Lee’s Attorney Takes Over Another Piece Of The ‘Mockingbird’ Brand: The Annual Play In Monroeville

  30-07-2015 08:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tonja Carter, who rediscovered the manuscript of Go Set a Watchman and sued the local museum over its gift shop’s Mockingbird-themed merchandise, has formed a company to produce the stage adaptation of the novel in the town’s historic courthouse – taking the rights away from the museum, which had presented the play for years.
  
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• Shigeko Kubota, Pioneering Video Artist And Fluxus Member, Dead At 77

  30-07-2015 08:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Today, Kubota … [is] better remembered for her 1965 performance Vagina Painting, in which Kubota attached a paintbrush to her skirt, squatted, and moved around over a canvas.” More notable was her work, by herself and with husband Nam June Paik, developing the genre of video art in general and combining video and sculpture in […]
  
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• Philadelphia’s Other Opera Company Reinvents Itself (Again)

  30-07-2015 08:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After a two-year hiatus, the erstwhile Center City Opera has re-emerged with a new name (that doesn’t include the word opera) and mission, a four-shows-in-18-days summer festival format, a new home (the Prince Music Theater, itself recently brought back from the dead), a world premiere, two local premieres, and the musical version of Heathers.
  
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• Vic Firth, 85, The ‘Stradivari Of Drumsticks’

  30-07-2015 08:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Besides spending four decades as the Boston Symphony’s principal tympanist (Seiji Ozawa called him “the single greatest percussionist anywhere in the world”), he decided in the 1960s to design and build his own sticks, feeling that what was on the market was inadequate for the subtleties of serious symphonic and ensemble music. Little did he […]
  
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• ‘The Book Of Mormon’ Is Finally Playing Utah – Where They Seem To Love It

  30-07-2015 08:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The biting satirical musical that mocks Mormons has finally come to the heart of Mormonlandia, starting a sold-out, two-week run Tuesday at a Salt Lake City theater two blocks from the church’s flagship temple and headquarters.”
  
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• More Football Players Are Trying Ballet – And Liking It

  30-07-2015 08:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Today’s exhibit: the Fighting Gamecocks of the University of South Carolina. (includes video)
  
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• Bridges 2015: a meeting of maths and art - in pictures

  30-07-2015 08:04
  The Bridges Conference is an annual event that explores the connections between art and mathematics. Here is a selection of the work being exhibited this year, from a Pi pie which vibrates the number pi onto your hand to delicate paper structures demonstrating number sequences. This year’s conference runs until Sunday in Baltimore. Continue reading...
  
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• The ludicrous foodie handbags that fooled the fashion world – in pictures

  30-07-2015 08:00
  
  After a fashionista debuted the Bagel No 5 bread bag at a Chanel dinner, artist Chloe Wise tricked the world into thinking her design was bona fide. Here are her best bread-based sculptures, from a rasta Dior brioche to a Prada challah and a Moschino belgian waffle Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.29.15

  30-07-2015 07:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AftA Thoughts 2015: Self-Perpetuating Boards AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-07-29 Now This, For A Big Museum, Would Be Experimental AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-07-29 Philbrook Museum Director Randall Suffolk Gets High (Museum, that is) AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-07-29 An Oxymoronically Postminimalist Improviser AJBlog: PostClassic Published 2015-07-29 An indefatigable operagoer AJBlog: OperaSleuth Published 2015-07-29< [ssba_hide]
  
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