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• ‘We Didn’t Call It Soho, It Was Just ‘Downtown’': Bill Beckley Gives a Tour of His Apartment of 43 Years

  03-08-2015 21:51 via artnews.com
  Bill Beckley’s 3,000-square foot Soho loft is the subject of Curbed’s most recent “House Calls” feature, though, at the time the Conceptual artist moved into the space in 1972, there was no Soho—the Wooster Street apartment was located within the … Read More
  
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• “We didn’t call it Soho, it was just ‘Downtown'”: Bill Beckley Gives A Tour of His Apartment of 43 Years

  03-08-2015 21:51 via artnews.com
  Bill Beckley’s 3,000-square foot Soho loft is the subject of Curbed’s most recent “House Calls” feature, though, at the time the Conceptual artist moved into the space in 1972, there was no Soho—the Wooster Street apartment was located within the … Read More
  
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• Mexico's largest mural brightens up town – in pictures

  03-08-2015 19:43
  
  Hundreds of houses in Pachuca, Mexico, have been painted in bright colours by the German Crew artists’ collective in what organisers claim is the country’s largest mural Continue reading...
  
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• Prom 22, Royal Albert Hall, review: The Aurora Orchestra plays from memory and Francesco Piemontesi excels in Mozart

  03-08-2015 19:31
  
  Talk about memory is currently much in the air – getting it, improving it, losing it – and Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra entered this debate with their bold decision to join those musicians who play without the assistance of sheet music, by delivering Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony without that support.
  
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• Chelsea Gallery Mixed Greens to Close in December [UPDATED]

  03-08-2015 19:07 via artnews.com
  In a blog post last week, Chelsea gallery Mixed Greens announced that it will close at the end of this year. The gallery, which has been open since 1999, is devoted to contemporary art by emerging and mid-career artists. Its … Read More
  
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• Chelsea Gallery Mixed Greens to Close in December

  03-08-2015 19:07 via artnews.com
  In a blog post last week, Chelsea gallery Mixed Greens announced that it will close at the end of this year. The gallery, which has been open since 1999, is devoted to contemporary art by emerging and mid-career artists. Its … Read More
  
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• 8 Art Events To Attend In New York City This Week

  03-08-2015 18:35 via artnews.com
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• There Are Plenty Of Reasons I Don’t Need The Theatre. And One Reason I Do That Trumps Them All

  03-08-2015 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I am a reporter on The One Show on BBC One, where we get audiences of up to six million. At Edinburgh, the space I play seats 350 people. I am 67, I have six grandchildren, I have been an MP and a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, I have books currently in print in […]
  
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• How the arts can help change attitudes to blindness

  03-08-2015 18:30
  
  Thinking creatively about formats such as Braille and audio description can help improve accessibility and perceptions about blindnessWhen non-blind people think of blindness, they tend to think of a tragic, life-limiting condition that reduces people’s interactions with and appreciation of the world. But for me, as for many blind or partially blind people, blindness is not a tragedy; it’s simply a different way of being in the world. Sure, it can be inconvenient at times, but it’s certain
  
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• Edinburgh Art Festival: Young female artists are leading the pack

  03-08-2015 17:55
  
  Now in its 12th year, the Edinburgh Art Festival is the youngest of Edinburgh's festivals, but it has grown in stature to become the largest visual arts festival in Great Britain. Work by more than 100 artists is spread across 30 venues, and it had 300,000 visitors last year. The current director, Sorcha Carey,was appointed five years ago, and it now has an ambitious commissioning programme.
  
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• ‘Soler Santos: Abandoned’ at Artinformal, Manila

  03-08-2015 17:35 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Soler Santos: Abandoned” is currently on view at Artinformal in Manila until Saturday, August 8. The solo exhibition presents recent works, both paintings and photographic prints, that … Read More
  
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• Cate Blanchett to Be Honored at MoMA’s Film Benefit

  03-08-2015 17:20 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Modern Art announced today that its eighth annual film benefit will be held in honor of Cate Blanchett, who recently starred in two films that have garnered serious awards attention—Todd Haynes’ Carol, which was met with critical acclaim upon … Read More
  
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• Cate Blanchett to Be Honored at MoMA’s Eighth Annual Film Benefit

  03-08-2015 17:20 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Modern Art announced today that its eighth annual film benefit will be held in honor of Cate Blanchett, who recently starred in two films that have garnered serious awards attention—Todd Haynes’ Carol, which was met with critical acclaim upon … Read More
  
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• A New National Center For Choreography (But You Can’t See It)

  03-08-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The importance of the center – a project spearheaded by DanceCleveland and funded by a five-year, $5 million pledge from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation – is difficult to convey, given that it’s essentially an abstraction. Even when it’s fully up and running, the center, a standalone nonprofit, will basically amount to […]
  
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• From sex pot to the story of the stars: your best still lives – in pictures

  03-08-2015 16:45
  A puffin on a watermelon, a bunch of juicy physalis, a tangle of wires and a can of Coke – here is a selection of your lovely still livesThe heat is on: share your artworks about summer Continue reading...
  
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• From sex pot to the story of the stars: your best still lifes – in pictures

  03-08-2015 16:45
  
  A puffin on a watermelon, a bunch of juicy physalis, a tangle of wires and a can of Coke – here is a selection of your lovely still lifesThe heat is on: share your artworks about summer Continue reading...
  
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• The heat is on: share your artworks about summer

  03-08-2015 16:45
  
  Whether it’s hot hot hot where you are, or underwhelmingly dismal, share your art about what summer means to youFrom sex pot to the story of the stars: your best still lives – in picturesThere’s the summer you look at longingly from the depths of winter, perfectly portrayed in the impressionists’ poppy fields and picnics; there’s also David Hockney’s high summer, “a day so hot the only escape is to plunge into a cool pool”; or the darker, lonelier side of the season, as reflected
  
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• Cleveland Orchestra Picks A New Executive Director

  03-08-2015 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Andre Gremillet comes to Northeast Ohio by way of Australia, where he has served as managing director of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra since November 2012. The distance notwithstanding, the administrator brings from there experience doing much of what the Cleveland Orchestra is still in the midst of doing here: connecting more deeply with its hometown […]
  
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• A Battle To Buy Up All The Music Festivals

  03-08-2015 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “AEG and Live Nation [are] trying to buy every festival out there that can be bought. What you’re seeing now is a race to control the content of festivals. The competition shows how much the $6 billion North American concert industry—long focused on arenas, amphitheaters, and stadiums—is tilting toward music festivals, which offer dozens of […]
  
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• Derek Eller Gallery Is Opening A Pop-Up Space in L.A.

  03-08-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  The art world is going west—or at least, bicoastal. Mainstays of the New York art world—the patently titled Venus Over Manhattan, Team Gallery, Maccarone—have (or soon will, in the latter case) put down roots in Los Angeles’ seemingly ever-growing art scene. … Read More
  
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• An Old Guy Rant About The Anti-Intellectualism Of Youth

  03-08-2015 15:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We’re creating a world of dummies. Angry dummies who feel they have the right, the authority and the need not only to comment on everything, but to make sure their voice is heard above the rest, and to drag down any opposing views through personal attacks, loud repetition and confrontation.”
  
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• Morning Links: North Korean Propaganda Edition

  03-08-2015 14:56 via artnews.com
  “Warhol Underground,” on view at the Centre Pompidou-Metz until November 23, shows more than 150 photos of the Pop artist and his Factory friends. [Flavorwire]Nothing has really improved for migrant workers building outposts of the Guggenheim, Louvre, and the Zayed National Museum on … Read More
  
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• What You Going To Do When The Machines Take Over Your Job?

  03-08-2015 14:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Adapting to this change is going to require us to understand how man-machine partnerships are going to evolve. This is tricky, but not impossible. We know that machine learning is going to be used to automate many, if not most, low-level cognitive tasks. Our goal is to use our high-level cognitive ability to anticipate what […]
  
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• Piemontesi/ BBC PYE/ Aurora/ Collon, review: Aurora Orchestra plays from memory, and Francesco Piemontesi excels in Mozart

  03-08-2015 11:45
  
  Talk about memory is currently much in the air – getting it, improving it, losing it – and Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra entered this debate with their bold decision to join those musicians who play without the assistance of sheet music, by delivering Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony without that support.
  
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• Banksy: 2 huge murals by the graffiti artist expected to make $1 million at auction

  03-08-2015 10:43
  
  While Banksy may not put his own work up for auction, that hasn’t stopped others controversially selling his graffiti for huge profits.
  
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• The life artistic: Wes Anderson fan art – in pictures

  03-08-2015 08:00
  
  Nostalgic colours, oddball characters, symmetrical framing – the Wes Anderson stamp is as recognisable as Margot Tenenbaum’s bob. Bad Dads, an exhibition in New York, brings together 70 artists obsessed with his filmsBad Dads runs from 7-9 August at the Joseph Gross Gallery, New YorkContinue reading...
  
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• Banksy Mural To Go To Auction

  03-08-2015 04:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “News of the Banksy heading to auction arrives in Detroit once again in the middle of another major debate about graffiti and street art, this time centered around the explosion of murals in Detroit, the role of street art in beautifying the city and the high-profile local arrest of Shepard Fairey, a rock star of […]
  
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• Once-Despised British National Library Gets Top Heritage Honor

  03-08-2015 04:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The institution, on Euston Road, London, now a victim of its own success with scholars and researchers complaining of students and tourists crowding the reading rooms and cafes, was opened by the Queen in June 1998 – more than 20 years after it was first approved and at £350m over the original budget, to a […]
  
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• NEA Appoints New Director Of Theatre Program

  03-08-2015 03:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Until spring, Greg Reiner was managing director of New York’s Classic Stage Company. He also served for four years as executive director of the Tectonic Theater Project and for seven years as managing director of the Actors’ Gang in Culver City, Calif.”
  
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• Misty Copeland On What It Took To Get Where She Is

  03-08-2015 02:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I didn’t know if another black woman would be coming behind me and be given the same opportunities… That’s why I danced through a severe injury with ‘Firebird’ because I felt, had I not done that role and not done a really good job, that I would be given the opportunity again,” she said, recalling […]
  
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• Inaugural Seattle Art Fair (Yes People Came. And Bought)

  03-08-2015 02:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You do something like this, and I had no idea whether it was going to be 100 people, 1,000, or 10,000 people,” Paul Allen said. “But we’re well over that.” Through Sunday, when the fair ended, more than 11,000 attended, organizers said. A host of satellite fairs, events and open studios were scheduled to coincide […]
  
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• Chris Leslie: Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity agenda will harm the poor, says Labour shadow Chancellor

  03-08-2015 02:00
  
  Chris Leslie, the shadow Chancellor, has launched a scathing attack on “Corbynomics”, the anti-austerity agenda of the Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn, warning it would hurt poor people the most.
  
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• Why British Politicians Don’t Go To The Opera (Or Theatre) (Or Dance)

  03-08-2015 01:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With the exception of Edward Heath, it is difficult to think of a British prime minister of my lifetime who has had a deep interest in high culture or who even felt any responsibility for associating the office with the arts.”
  
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