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• New Yorker Piece Details The ‘Love Triangle’ Between Barry McGee, Clare Rojas, and Margaret Kilgallen

  04-08-2015 21:12 via artnews.com
  In the August 10 issue of The New Yorker, there is an emotionally complex piece about of the life, work and relationships between the artists Barry McGee, Clare Rojas, and the late Margaret Kilgallen, which the magazine refers to as a … Read More
  
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• Times Gives Danny Meyer’s Untitled Restaurant at the Whitney Museum Two Stars

  04-08-2015 21:04 via artnews.com
  Pete Wells of the New York Times reviewed Untitled, Danny Meyer’s restaurant on the ground floor of the new Whitney Museum on Gansevoort Street, giving the restaurant two stars and beginning the piece with the following zinger: “If you can … Read More
  
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• The Tourism Problem (It’s Killing Travel, Killing Experience, And Killing Places)

  04-08-2015 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In an age of unprecedented foreign travel, tourists get quite a bad rap, not least from tourists themselves. Of course, many high-minded people would scoff at the notion that they are tourists, beholden to the same vulgar taste as the travelling masses, even though, as we shall see, that hierarchy is not a very convincing […]
  
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• How To You Contextualize Theatre To The Audience It Wants To Serve?

  04-08-2015 19:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What quickly became apparent is that the local authority officers share our ambition to find ways of increasing the perceived “usefulness” of the arts and asking: if the regular audience to theatre comprises only 8% of the population, what might the other 92% be interested in?”
  
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• Free “Happy Birthday!” (The Battle To Release An Iconic Song From Copyright)

  04-08-2015 19:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A federal lawsuit filed by a group of independent artists is trying to change that, and lawyers in the case, in a filing last week, said they had found evidence in the yellowed pages of a nearly century-old songbook that proves the song’s copyright — first issued in 1935 — is no longer valid.
  
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• Tang Teaching Museum Receives Gift of 40 Contemporary Works On Paper

  04-08-2015 19:00 via artnews.com
  Skidmore College’s Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery has announced the donation of 40 contemporary works on paper from renowned collectors Anne and Arthur Goldstein, including work from artists such as Stephen Balkenol, Huma Bhabha, Nicole Eisenman, Josephine … Read More
  
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• The Head of a Young Woman: French authorities seize £17.5m Pablo Picasso painting barred from leaving Spain from billionaire owners' yacht

  04-08-2015 18:59
  
  A painting by Pablo Picasso which is considered to be a Spanish national treasure has been found on a yacht linked to a billionaire scion of the Botín banking family in Corsica, just months after a court in Madrid upheld an earlier decision to block a sale overseas.
  
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• Kim Gordon Acts In And Provides Soundtrack To Forthcoming German ‘Techno Horror Film’

  04-08-2015 18:56 via artnews.com
  Today, in a Dazed interview with the director of the forthcoming German “Techno Horror Film” Der Nachtmahr, it was revealed that the artist and former Sonic Youth member Kim Gordon appears in the movie and contributes music to the film’s soundtrack.Dazed … Read More
  
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• Tate Britain Senior Curator to Join Serpentine Galleries

  04-08-2015 18:40 via artnews.com
  After serving as a curator of contemporary British art since 1999, Lizzie Carey-Smith, will leave her role as senior curator at Tate Britain to join Serpentine Galleries as head of programs. The shift comes shortly after the Tate announced that … Read More
  
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• ‘In The Box: Hank Willis Thomas’ Black Righteous Space’ at Chrysler Museum of Art

  04-08-2015 18:30 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “In The Box: Hank Willis Thomas’ Black Righteous Space” is currently on view at Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia until Sunday, October 4. The interactive … Read More
  
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• Lament Of The Anti-Social Writer (Does This Mean I Can’t Have A Career?)

  04-08-2015 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s my avoidance of readings, my fake enthusiasm as I swindle my own students out of their Friday nights to go to a lecture I won’t attend, my gag-triggering physical loathing of bookstores, my requirement that reading materials appear on my nightstand by benevolent conjury, without any consumer effort from me. There’s my acute failure […]
  
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• Who Is Disrupting The Art World – A List

  04-08-2015 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We at artnet News put our heads together, polled some art-world veterans for suggestions, and assembled this admittedly subjective, non-comprehensive list of colleagues who have changed the shape of the American art world.”
  
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• Modern hunting images are morally repugnant. Better to look away | Jonathan Jones

  04-08-2015 17:06
  
  The pursuit of online outrage about killing big game is a new bloodsport that attracts self-consciously unpleasant rich people who take pleasure in the tabooEveryone is complicit in a bloodsport when it comes to getting angry about images of hunters posing with slaughtered animals. That bloodsport is the pursuit of outrage, the greatest game of all in the digital age. It is so thrilling to close in on your first really horrifying image of wanton cruelty to animals, and after that you want anothe
  
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• Taking Stock Of The Arts In Kansas City

  04-08-2015 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The city has made big investments in its arts. But it’s a time of transition as prominent leaders move on and arts institutions try to figure out what next.
  
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• Casa de Kooning: An Afternoon at East Hampton’s New Artist Colony

  04-08-2015 17:00 via artnews.com
  In 1975, Elaine de Kooning bought a modest house at 55 Alewive Brook Road in East Hampton, New York. The town had long served as an artist colony; Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner produced some of their best-known works there … Read More
  
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• Thinking About Buying A Gallery? Here’s What Can Go Wrong If You Don’t Ask The Right Questions

  04-08-2015 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I inherited a gallery manager who was extremely upset at everything. The invoice demands were flowing in – totalling at least half a million pounds – from a lot of irate people. I feel like a naive fool now.”
  
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• Smuggled Picasso Painting Worth $27.4 M. Seized in Corsica

  04-08-2015 16:56 via artnews.com
  A Pablo Picasso painting worth $27.4 million was seized in Corsica on Friday, according to an Associated Press report. The painting, Head of a Young Woman (1906), illegally left Spain and was en route to Switzerland. El Mundo reports that … Read More
  
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• A First: Theatre Company Asks Taylor Swift For Song Rights Over Social Media And…

  04-08-2015 16:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Five days before opening, all conventional efforts exhausted, the company resorted to trying to reach Swift on social media and in what may be a first, she granted the rights via Twitter just hours ago. While I suspect there are some contractual details to be worked out beyond “Permission granted,” presumably the tweet from Swift […]
  
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• Edinburgh art festival review – a slight and silly sideshow

  04-08-2015 15:59
  
  When the festival’s most thought-provoking work is by an 18th-century pastel painter, you can be sure theatre has left our art scene in the shallowsIs modern British theatre making the art world look silly? It was a question that nagged at me on a train pulling into Waverley station at the start of the Edinburgh art festival, as I brooded on the extraordinary episode at Manchester International Festival this summer when the artist Douglas Gordon ran riot with an axe after getting bad reviews f
  
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• Grapes of Wrath: How a California Road Trip Made an Artist Out of Andy Warhol

  04-08-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  In 1963, Andy Warhol drove from New York to Los Angeles with his friends Wynn Chamberlain, Gerard Melanga, and Taylor Mead. Deborah Davis’s new book, The Trip (Simon & Schuster), an examination of this cross-country journey, argues that the brief … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Oreo Art Edition

  04-08-2015 14:49 via artnews.com
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• Writing gallery texts and wall panels: common mistakes to avoid

  04-08-2015 13:30
  
  Leave out artspeak and jargon, but don’t dumb things down or patronise audiences either, says Dany LouiseGalleries: let’s ditch the artspeak and artybollocksI’m a professional writer. I write about arts and culture for UK national broadsheets, magazines and websites. I undertake research projects that focus on aspects of the arts infrastructure and I’ve worked in the sector for 20 years. It’s fair to say that I know about the arts – and about writing. Over this time, I’ve read huge
  
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• €25m Picasso and superyacht collide with Spanish export ban

  04-08-2015 12:48
  
  Customs officials are tipped off about alleged attempt to take painting belonging to member of banking dynasty to SwitzerlandWhen French customs officers boarded a yacht docked off the town of Calvi in northern Corsica, they knew exactly what they were looking for: a €25m Picasso belonging to a Spanish banking tycoon, banned from export from Spain, allegedly en route for Switzerland.Island officials had been tipped off on Thursday that an attempt was being made to export the painting, Head of
  
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