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• Dance Died In The 1980s? Get Real

  06-08-2015 23:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It was a decade that saw the loss of major dance figures. But it was also a decade in which dance renewed and reinvented itself…
  
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• Executive Director

  06-08-2015 22:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Louisiana State University Museum of Art is searching for a charismatic, energetic leader who is passionate about the arts and has applicable experience in an art museum setting.
  
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• Charles Atlas Shot Two Films for Calvin Klein

  06-08-2015 22:18 via artnews.com
  Forty-seven years ago, Charles Atlas was an avant-garde cult figure working with Merce Cunningham on Walkaround Time, a dance work that led to many of the video works Atlas has produced over the past few decades. Now, Atlas is no less … Read More
  
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• Consumer Reports: Michael Bell-Smith

  06-08-2015 21:33 via artnews.com
  Michael Bell-Smith is an artist based in Brooklyn. His work has been exhibited and screened at venues including PS1, Queens, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the New Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum, New York; the San Francisco … Read More
  
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• Charles Goldstein, Counsel Who Helped Recover $160 M. in Stolen Art, Dies at 78

  06-08-2015 21:19 via artnews.com
  Charles Goldstein, known as one of the greatest legal minds working in New York real estate and, later, for the recovery of artwork looted from Holocaust victims, died on July 30 in Manhattan at the age of 78.Born in 1936, … Read More
  
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• Charles Goldstein, Counsel Behind Recovery of $160 M. in Stolen Art, Dies at 78

  06-08-2015 21:19 via artnews.com
  Charles Goldstein, known as one of the greatest legal minds working in New York real estate and, later, for the recovery of artwork looted from Holocaust victims, died on July 30 in Manhattan at the age of 78. Born in … Read More
  
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• FBI Releases Intriguing Isabella Stewart Gardner Security Footage From the Night Before the Big Art Heist

  06-08-2015 19:26 via artnews.com
  The Isabella Stewart Garnder Museum art heist remains one of history’s most mysterious art thefts. Clues about how paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas, and Manet vanished remain sparse. In the past year, though, the FBI has begun investigating new leads, … Read More
  
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• Habitat: Thaddeus Wolfe

  06-08-2015 19:14 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Thaddeus Wolfe; East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. “Sometimes people call them illuminated sculptures but I call them lamps. I don’t want to make it pretentious,” Thaddeus Wolfe said, holding one of his pieces. … Read More
  
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• ‘Recesses’ at Park View Gallery

  06-08-2015 19:01 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Recesses” is currently on view at Park View in Los Angeles. The group exhibition features work by Edie Fake, Ellen Schafer, George Egerton-Warburton, Julie Beaufils, Lauren Davis Fisher, … Read More
  
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• ‘One Discovers the Avant-Garde in the Pockets of Undefined Spaces’: Robin Rhode on ‘Drawing Waves’ at The Drawing Center

  06-08-2015 18:00 via artnews.com
  Though it may appear archetypically modern—with unambiguous Duchamp references, no less—Robin Rhode’s public art, as depicted in photographic stop-action series, is a far more primordial thing, closely aligned with cave paintings and the outsider surrealism of early memories. Incorporating design … Read More
  
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• Samara Scott, artist: 'There is a Disneyland quality, a relentless toxic positivity to my work'

  06-08-2015 18:00
  
  I have visited a wide variety of studios while writing this column, but few have been as modest as that of Samara Scott in Brixton, south London. Scott is exhausted from travelling and has sent me the wrong address, so I have already inadvertently explored the streets off Brixton Hill by the time I find her, standing resplendent in red. She takes me down a narrow passage into the back garden of a house where she and five fellow artists have transformed a former garage into workable studio spaces
  
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• USC Roski MFA Students Deliver Petition Demanding Dean’s Resignation

  06-08-2015 17:48 via artnews.com
  Two days ago, USC’s Roski MFA Class of 2015 delivered a letter and the results of a Change.org petition demanding the resignation of the program’s dean, Erica Muhl, to university administration. Previous formal grievances regarding unmet expectations about the MFA curriculum and poor … Read More
  
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• Dubliners: Eamonn Doyle's palpable portraits of a city lost in thought

  06-08-2015 17:42
  
  The Irish street photographer – who made the best street photobook of the past decade – is revitalising the tired tradition with his astonishing cast of grotesque, wiry and lonely figuresWhen Eamonn Doyle self-published his debut, i, last year, Martin Parr declared it “the best street photobook in a decade.” Doyle’s subjects were the elderly residents of working-class north Dublin. He shot them from above, as if looming over them while they went about their daily business.These lone fi
  
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• Pages of a Humument: Tom Phillips on His Show at Flowers Gallery

  06-08-2015 17:23 via artnews.com
  On a recent Saturday evening, the 78-year-old artist Tom Phillips was casually perched on a stoop on West 20th Street in Chelsea. He was instantly recognizable from several yards away by his burly beard.“I didn’t choose a very good hiding place,” he said … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Continuing “Conversations” Controversy Edition

  06-08-2015 14:55 via artnews.com
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• Fake pisstake? Scientists re-examine Belgium's celebrated Manneken Pis

  06-08-2015 14:17
  
  Statue with long and colourful history was missing for years before being discovered broken in two pieces in a Brussels canal in 1966. Or was it?To Belgians, the celebrated Manneken Pis - the “peeing boy” in Dutch - is a symbol of Brussels’ capacity for self-mockery. Today this ability of the city’s inhabitants to laugh at themselves is being put to the test as scientists attempt to discover whether the famous bronze statue is, in fact, a fake.City officials make no secret that the 61cm
  
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• Garma: art and politics come together for a moving Arnhem Land festival

  06-08-2015 09:02
  
  In the historic clan-gathering place, people of all nations enjoy the bunggul sunset dances, clan stories, bark painting and deep soul musicHeld on an escarpment in north-east Arnhem Land, the Garma festival site is called Gulkula in Yolngu language. Traditionally owned by the Gumatj clan, it overlooks a pandanus and stringybark forest that ends at the Arafura sea. It has long been a place for clans to gather and talk.Related: Galarrwuy Yunupingu presented with honorary doctorate at Garma festiv
  
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• Disney Stock Plunges, Other Media Companies Follow As Analysts Worry About Future Of TV

  06-08-2015 04:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Not only has subscriber and distribution revenue come under pressure as viewers choose not to pay for traditional cable and satellite service, but so, too, has ad revenue in the face of huge declines in TV ratings.”
  
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• Why Keep Exhibition Of Bill Cosby’s Art Open? Director Explains

  06-08-2015 03:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Why do I continue to take the position that the museum’s “Conversations” exhibition, containing works of art owned by Bill and Camille Cosby, must remain open? The answer is that this exhibition is not about the life and career of Bill Cosby. It is about the interplay of artistic creativity in remarkable works of African […]
  
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