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• Here’s a Video of the Guerrilla Girls Celebrating Their 30th Anniversary

  05-08-2015 23:08 via artnews.com
  The New York Times has posted a video that features members of the anonymous feminist art collective the Guerrilla Girls wearing their trademark gorilla masks and eating cake while celebrating their 30th anniversary together.The Guerrilla Girls contributed to the June issue of ARTnews, which … Read More
  
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• Here’s a Video of the Guerilla Girls Celebrating Their 30th Anniversary

  05-08-2015 23:08 via artnews.com
  The New York Times has posted a video that features members of the anonymous feminist art collective the Guerrilla Girls wearing their trademark gorilla masks and eating cake while celebrating their 30th anniversary together.The Guerrilla Girls contributed to the June issue of ARTnews, which … Read More
  
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• Frick Collection’s Board of Trustees Elects Three New Members

  05-08-2015 22:41 via artnews.com
  Today, Margot Bogert, chair of the Frick Collection’s board of trustees, announced three new trustee-elects: banker Elizabeth “Betty” Eveillard, philanthropist Monika McLennan, and banker J. Fife Symington IV, who is a great-great-grandson of the Frick’s founder, Henry Clay Frick.Bogert publicly … Read More
  
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• Ai Weiwei: Authorities ‘Know That I Want to Make China Into a Better Country’

  05-08-2015 21:54 via artnews.com
  In an interview published today in Germany, Ai Weiwei provided some new details about the status of his relationship with the Chinese government and said that, when officials returned his passport last month, they assured him that he will be able to return to China … Read More
  
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• ICA Miami Names Ten Finalists Chosen For First Season Of Experimental Art Program

  05-08-2015 21:11 via artnews.com
  The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) has released the names of ten finalists chosen to participate in the inaugural season of Open Call, a new program that aims to discover and nurture experimental contemporary art around the world, … Read More
  
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• ‘André Santangelo: Stray Landscape’ at Referência Galeria de Arte, Brasilia

  05-08-2015 19:35 via artnews.com
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• Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum Acquires Pre-Raphaelite Letters

  05-08-2015 18:35 via artnews.com
  The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at Oxford University has acquired a trove of illustrated letters that artist and designer Sir Edward Burne-Jones wrote to his close friend Helen Mary (May) Gaskell for £200,000 (about $312,000). The acquisition represents … Read More
  
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• Bruce High Quality Foundation University To Stage Benefit Screening Tonight At Nitehawk Cinema In Brooklyn

  05-08-2015 18:29 via artnews.com
  Tonight at the Nitehawk Cinema in Brooklyn, The Bruce High Quality Foundation will present a benefit screening called “The Future Is Whatever,” the proceeds of which will directly go to the art collective’s free university in New York’s East Village.Curated by … Read More
  
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• Bruce High Quality Foundation University To Stage Benefit Screening Tonight At Nighthawk Cinema In Brooklyn

  05-08-2015 18:29 via artnews.com
  Tonight at the Nighthawk Cinema in Brooklyn, The Bruce High Quality Foundation will present a benefit screening called “The Future Is Whatever,” the proceeds of which will directly go to the art collective’s free university in New York’s East Village.Curated by … Read More
  
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• Former USC MFA Students Petition University To Fire Dean

  05-08-2015 18:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The petition received over 760 signatures, including quite a few from prominent artists and arts professionals, including Martha Rosler, Catherine Opie, and former Dean of the USC School of Fine Arts John S. Gordon. Their comments were included in a letter (reproduced below) that accompanied the petition.”
  
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• Ai Weiwei Gets Assuances From China That He Can Return

  05-08-2015 17:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ai traveled to Munich last week after having his passport returned, four years after it was confiscated, for a medical checkup and to see his young son. In an interview with the Munich-based daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung published on Wednesday, the dissident artist said Chinese authorities now have a more positive attitude toward him.”
  
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• Inaugural Event at Andrew Edlin’s Lower East Side Gallery Postponed Due to Wall Collapse

  05-08-2015 17:47 via artnews.com
  After a wall collapsed yesterday at a building on Bowery and Rivington next door to its new Lower East Side location, Andrew Edlin Gallery announced that it is postponing its inaugural event, a performance by Brent Green and a band. … Read More
  
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• Busted: Spain Refuses Export License For Picasso. Then France Finds It

  05-08-2015 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It was declared a “historical heritage asset of exceptional importance” by the Spanish National Court and refused an export permit. An attempt to export the painting to Switzerland on Thursday “drew the attention of French officials”.
  
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• This Year’s List Of Highest-Paid Actors

  05-08-2015 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  No women crack the Top Ten. And “for the first time, the list also includes actors who work outside the US movie industry, meaning the top 10 includes three Bollywood stars.”
  
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• Laurie Anderson Designed This Year’s New York Film Festival Poster

  05-08-2015 16:43 via artnews.com
  This year, Laurie Anderson joins a group of artists that include Laurie Simmons, James Rosenquist, John Baldessari, and Saul Bass, all of whom have designed posters for the New York Film Festival (NYFF). The Film Society of Lincoln Center revealed … Read More
  
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• The scars of America: why a nude artist is taking a stand at slavery sites

  05-08-2015 16:38
  
  Nona Faustine posing naked in the streets of New York is a chilling reminder of the vulnerability of the slaves sold there – and the violence against humanity that still troubles the nation todayThere are many ways to remember slavery. You can leave tributes, as pilgrims do, at the slavers’ forts in west Africa, or tell the stories of slaves’ lives in books and on screen. Or, like artist Nona Faustine, you can pose naked wearing nothing but a pair of white shoes at places around New York w
  
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• Controversial Play About ISIS Canceled In London

  05-08-2015 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Homegrown, a National Youth Theatre (NYT) production, was closed down last Thursday, with the creators saying they were given no prior warning. Director Nadia Latif and playwright Omar El-Khairy believe the production was cancelled due to external pressures, claiming both local authorities and police got involved during the development of the play.”
  
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• Why Calling Something “Children’s Theatre” Is Self-Limiting

  05-08-2015 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Identity-based representation practices that reinforce constructions of child/adult will generally limit the meanings of cultural codes, exploit children’s performative labors, promote ideological doctrines, exclude children from voice in production/representation, and reinforce acceptance of the idea that children are not fully people.”
  
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• Can Machines Help Us Understand How We Communicate?

  05-08-2015 15:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At its core, this enterprise is about using computers to understand how humans use language, including what that language means to people and how it persuades. Just down the road from Stanford is an enormous industry whose profitability depends on understanding this. Academia and Silicon Valley are converging in this territory: technology firms are eager […]
  
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• Morning Links: Underwater Cities Edition

  05-08-2015 15:11 via artnews.com
  Instagram is quickly becoming an indispensable tool for contemporary artists, galleries, auction houses, and art collectors. [The New York Times]It looks as though art loans could total $10 billion in 2015, up 200% from 2011, and the art lending business has … Read More
  
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• Prom 25, Royal Albert Hall, review: Monteverdi's Orfeo offers moments of magic

  05-08-2015 13:31
  
  Recent attempts by British directors to stage Monteverdi’s Orfeo have all ended in disaster: what a relief to get a concert performance – plus delicate hints of staging – by the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists under the direction of that veteran Monteverdian Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
  
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• Met Opera Abandons Blackface For Otello For First Time Since 1891

  05-08-2015 11:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Metropolitan Opera said on Tuesday that the new production of Verdi’s Otello that will open its season next month will not use blackface makeup on the white tenor singing the title role, breaking with a performance tradition of more than a century.”
  
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• As The Met Abandons Blackface, A Look At The Legacy Of African Americans In Opera

  05-08-2015 10:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Nineteenth-century Black singers like Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield and Sissieretta Jones sang opera but gave recitals, because the opera houses weren’t hiring them. Black churches were doing Verdi’s Requiem with all-Black casts and musicians.”
  
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• Alan Cheuse, Author And NPR Book Critic, Dead At 75

  05-08-2015 10:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[He] published his first short story just before his 40th birthday and went on to write two dozen books, but who became even better known as a longtime NPR book critic” on All Things Considered.
  
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• ‘We Rip The Band-Aid Off’ Ballet, Says Showrunner Of ‘Flesh And Bone’

  05-08-2015 10:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Moira Walley-Beckett: “This is the first time we’ve really seen the underbelly of a ballet company. And I feel like a lot of those movies have catered to the very glossy, ephemeral optical illusion that is ballet. And we rip the Band-Aid off.”
  
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• ‘Athlètes Et Artistes’ – CNN Admires The Men Of The Paris Opera Ballet

  05-08-2015 10:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They are ‘les danseurs,’ the professional male ballet dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet. They are the epitome of strength, their bodies acting as machines of poetry with each and every point of their toes.”
  
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• The Melancholy Pop Idol Who Haunts China

  05-08-2015 10:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s another popular saying: Wherever there are Chinese people, there is Teresa Teng’s music. I never appreciated her symbolism as a child, back when her music seemed soft and ubiquitous. But it’s not hard to imagine how Teng’s songs about love and distance spoke to the various migrations and political estrangements throughout the Chinese-speaking world. […]
  
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• G.I. Jane Is Missing In Action: Why Does Pop Culture Never Show Women At War?

  05-08-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In Afghanistan, women in uniform are widely seen in the airports and across bases heading to work. But watch a war movie and the roughly 300,000 women who have deployed in America’s post-9/11 wars are largely missing in action. These untold stories have consequences both for how America sees its women in uniform and how […]
  
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• ‘You May Know Me From Such Roles As Terrorist Number Four’ – Muslim-American Actors In Hollywood

  05-08-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You’ve heard of actors getting typecast. But there is no group more slighted, more narrowly cast, than the Muslim-American actors who earn virtually their entire livings pretending to hijack planes and slaughter infidels. Jon Ronson embarks on a soul-searching odyssey with the bad guys of Homeland, American Sniper, 24, and every other TV show and […]
  
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• The ISIS Book Club? These Volumes Could Help Trace Antiquities Looted From Iraq And Syria

  05-08-2015 09:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The stash of books about ancient coins and Egyptian pyramids seemed to belong more in a 1950s library in Germany than on the back of a truck filled with shoulder-fired missiles. Then again, if you’re an Islamic State fighter with plans to loot and sell antiquities to the West in order to fund your cause, […]
  
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• ‘Mother’s Delusions': Shirley Jackson On Writing

  05-08-2015 09:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The children around our house have a saying that everything is either true, not true, or one of Mother’s delusions. … The very nicest thing about being a writer is that you can afford to indulge yourself endlessly with oddness, and nobody can really do anything about it, as long as you keep writing and […]
  
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• Mind-Bending: The Psychology Of Awe

  05-08-2015 07:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Awe is not an everyday emotion. You don’t wake up awestruck. A satisfying lunch doesn’t leave you filled with awe. Even a great day is unlikely to leave you in a state of jaw-dropped, consciousness-opening fear and trembling. Perhaps that’s why, up until about ten years ago, psychology had surprisingly little to say about awe.” […]
  
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• Boredom – We Could Not Live Without It

  05-08-2015 07:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Andreas Elpidorou draws an analogy with pain: almost none of us enjoy it, but not being able to feel it at all is dangerous.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.04.15

  05-08-2015 06:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Music Unwound” – The NEH and the Music Education Crisis AJBlog: Unanswered Question Published 2015-08-04 Who’s “Unfair”? Guggenheim & Gulf Labor Coalition Exchange Barbs Over Delayed Abu Dhabi Project AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-08-04 Follow that Brook at your Peril! AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2015-08-04 [ssba_hide]
  
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• The Huguenot Exhibition: 'Heretics' who made Britain their home

  05-08-2015 04:45
  
  Visitors to Boughton House this month who expect to find a cosy "heritage" display of family treasures may be in for something of a shock. A room in one wing of this English answer to the palace of Versailles sets the scene for its summer exhibition. An explanatory panel has a photo of one of those familiar but still shocking signs from the boarding-houses of late-1950s London: "No Coloureds". Next to it stands a recent picture from the southern Mediterranean of a tiny boat crammed with desperat
  
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• Childish Is A British Bukowski

  05-08-2015 02:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  J looked like Audrey Hepburn. She had glitter on her face. I took off my glasses. It made it easier to see her bad skin and yellow messed up teeth that looked like someone had forced her to eat glass as a child. J’s vagina was shaved. Her chest looked undeveloped. What have you been ... Continue ReadingThe post Childish Is A British Bukowski appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Tate Sensorium: New exhibition at Tate Britain invites art lovers to taste, smell and hear art

  05-08-2015 01:15
  
  Tate Britain is to offer art lovers a feast for the senses, encouraging them to experience work by artists including Francis Bacon not just with their eyes, but their noses, mouths and ears as well.
  
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