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• Here’s a 7.5 Minute ‘Kaleidoscope’ Film by Doug Aitken

  11-08-2015 21:56 via artnews.com
  Multimedia artist Doug Aitken has just released, via Wired, a new video created from edited footage of 15-second videos captured over thirty days during the summer. You might recall Aitken’s project, Station to Station in which he transported a trainful … Read More
  
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• Annette Michelson Donates Archive to the Getty

  11-08-2015 21:34 via artnews.com
  The critic Annette Michelson has donated her papers to the Getty Research Institute, the Getty announced today. The GRI has also purchased Michelson’s film library and the drawing Blind Time (1982), as well as a 1969 suite of ten lithographs, … Read More
  
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• Patti Smith’s ‘Just Kids’ Will Become a Limited TV Series on Showtime

  11-08-2015 20:24 via artnews.com
  Since its release in 2010, Patti Smith’s memoir Just Kids has been considered one of the best artist memoirs of the past decade. Now, Smith’s book is headed to TV as a limited series for Showtime, the premium-cable network announced … Read More
  
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• Patti Smith’s ‘Just Kids’ Memoir Will Become a Limited TV Series on Showtime

  11-08-2015 20:24 via artnews.com
  Since its release in 2010, Patti Smith’s memoir Just Kids has been considered one of the best artist memoirs of the past decade. Now, Smith’s book is headed to TV as a limited series for Showtime, the premium-cable network announced … Read More
  
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• Knoedler Gallery Settles Three Lawsuits From Forgery Scandal

  11-08-2015 20:13 via artnews.com
  The Art Newspaper reports that Knoedler Gallery, in conjunction with former director Ann Friedman, gallery owner Michael Hammer, and Hammer’s company 8-31 Holdings, have “quietly” settled three outstanding lawsuits pertaining to claims that they wittingly sold $60 million in fake … Read More
  
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• Workers Strike at London’s National Gallery, Shuttering Parts of the Museum

  11-08-2015 19:57 via artnews.com
  Picket lines have appeared today outside of the National Gallery in London’s Trafalgar Square as part of an indefinite strike by about 200 members of the museum’s Public and Commercial Services union, the Associated Press reports. The museum has closed some of … Read More
  
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• Cultural Appropriation Is Wrong? Then How Does Art Evolve?

  11-08-2015 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Throughout human history, different groups coming together, for whatever reason – even in war – and catching a glimpse of the other, have ended up influencing each other. Mostly it’s for the better; sometimes it’s for the worse. If we did not eye each other up, listening in and looking at what the other is […]
  
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• NPR Has An Amazing Opportunity To Remake Radio. Will It Take It?

  11-08-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  People, for instance, who believe NPR is well positioned to grab the reins and figure out a way to package the entire podcast universe in a way like Spotify has for music or Amazon for streaming TV. Those people shouldn’t hold their breaths.
  
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• Street artist Stik: ‘I felt invisible and it was my way of showing I’m here’

  11-08-2015 18:55
  Stik’s simple two-tone figures have brought people-power to cities around the world, from Britain to Jordan‘This piece is called Art Thief,” says the street artist known as Stik. It’s a searingly hot day in Shoreditch, east London, and we’re standing outside his old studio on Pitfield Street. Painted on the door, one of his distinctive black-and-white figures carries another under its arm. “In a way, that’s me carrying off the artwork,” Stik explains. “I had a policy that
  
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• Theaster Gates’s Ambitious New Chicago Arts Center Will Open in October

  11-08-2015 18:47 via artnews.com
  In October 2012, Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates bought a 70,000-square-foot building from the City of Chicago. Constructed in 1923, the building was previously Stony Island Trust & Savings Bank, located between Chicago’s Greater Grand Crossing and South Shore neighborhoods. The city … Read More
  
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• Here’s Why It Isn’t Fair To Review Cumberbatch’s Hamlet While It’s In Previews

  11-08-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s not unusual for a journalist to completely redraft an article or review, so why should it be strange to do the same to a play? Theatre is a living organism. You only know if your show is working when you see it with an audience. You can also tell when it isn’t working – […]
  
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• The Hot Degree In Silicon Valley? Liberal Arts?

  11-08-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Throughout the major U.S. tech hubs, whether Silicon Valley or Seattle, Boston or Austin, Tex., software companies are discovering that liberal arts thinking makes them stronger. Engineers may still command the biggest salaries, but at disruptive juggernauts such as Facebook and Uber, the war for talent has moved to nontechnical jobs, particularly sales and marketing.”
  
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• Museums Are Rebranding. Friendlier Names, Anyone?

  11-08-2015 17:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On Monday, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts unveiled its new identity. In addition to a new logo designed by Pentagram, the museum announced a name change: from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (plural) to the Minneapolis Institute of Art (singular), and from MIA, an acronym, to Mia, a … nickname?
  
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• Prince Compares Traditional Recording Contracts To Slavery

  11-08-2015 17:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “His pitch to the group was simple: Typical record company contracts turn artists into indentured servants with little control over how their music is used, particularly when it comes to revenue from streaming services playing their music online — and he wants to change that.”
  
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• Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Acquisitions Fund for Art by Women

  11-08-2015 17:39 via artnews.com
  The Nasher Sculpture Center announced yesterday that, following a gift of $750,000 from the Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation, the museum will form an acquisitions fund for work by women artists.“It is the Nasher Sculpture Center’s great fortune to be granted … Read More
  
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• Fantastic Cities: the most intricate all-ages colouring book yet

  11-08-2015 17:35
  Canadian artist Steve McDonald’s colouring book – Fantastic Cities: A Colouring Book of Amazing Places Real and Imagined – is full of painstakingly accurate perspectives of urban landscapes from Rio to Jodhpur to a mind-bogglingly detailed San Francisco. Click to enlarge, get colouring ... and share your results in the comments or on Twitter. All ages welcome! Continue reading...
  
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• Dr. Dre Is Donating All Of The Royalties From His New Album To Fund An Arts Center In Compton

  11-08-2015 17:34 via artnews.com
  Today, Artforum reports from an August 6 Rolling Stone article that the producer and rapper Dr. Dre will be donating all of the royalties from his newest record Compton to help fund a performing arts space in that titular city in … Read More
  
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• ‘Nocturnal Friendships’ at Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong

  11-08-2015 17:29 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Nocturnal Friendships” is currently on view at Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong. The exhibition, curated by Liu Wen and Bowen Li, examines various forms of friendship in relation to desire, the … Read More
  
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• How Instagram Is Influencing The Visual Art Market

  11-08-2015 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the past few years, it has emerged as the social media platform of choice for many contemporary artists, galleries, auction houses and collectors, who use it to promote art — especially works by emerging artists — and to offer an early peek into studios, auction houses and art fairs. How much that actually translates […]
  
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• Think Online Stories Are Getting Shorter? Research Shows We’re Craving Long

  11-08-2015 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Contrary to mainstream thought that content is shrinking, the tide is actually moving away from 140 characters and ephemeral photos, and toward long-form specialty content. According to a report from BuzzSumo, long-form articles are shared more than short-form articles — based on the company’s analysis of more than 100 million articles over eight months. The […]
  
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• The Orchestra Light Show That Ate Cincinnati

  11-08-2015 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tens of thousands flock to the Cincinnati Symphony’s now-annual light show extravaganza lighting up the outside of the Music Hall. Last year 42,000 tickets to the free event were claimed in a matter of minutes. This year, the orchestra charged for tickets and cut down the number, making for a different experience…
  
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• Prom 34, Royal Albert Hall, review: A search to articulate grand truths which never quite succeeds

  11-08-2015 16:17
  
  Prom 34 juxtaposed three works all composed during the last twelve months of the Second World War: Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’, Korngold’s Violin Concerto, and Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, and the contrasts could not have been greater.
  
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• All Together—At Least for Now: Jerusalem’s Season of Culture

  11-08-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  “Jerusalem is so loaded,” said Itay Mautner, artistic director of the Jerusalem Season of Culture, a multidisciplinary program of events spanning visual arts, music, performance, new media, and food that unfolds across the city each summer—this year from July 27 … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Emotional Art Edition

  11-08-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
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• National Gallery staff strike shuts down most exhibitions

  11-08-2015 14:56
  Art lovers disappointed but many support workers on indefinite strike over fears they will be replaced by security guards ‘who know nothing about paintings’Striking workers have shut down most of London’s National Gallery, as a long-running dispute over the privatisation of their jobs escalated into an indefinite walkout.The gallery’s main doors in Trafalgar Square were closed on Tuesday and visitors were instead directed to the Sainsbury wing, where a private security company manned the
  
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• Review: Richard Long: Time and Space, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

  11-08-2015 13:54
  
  Richard Long, land artist, has been walking and walking, ceaselessly, for more than half a century. Walking is the basis of his practice as an artist. He takes long walks – in Bolivia, Egypt or Peru, for example – or relatively short walks. Some terrains he has walked again and again: Dartmoor, for example. Much of his art is impermanent. He makes stone circles or lines, and nature blows them away. We know that they once existed because Long photographs them. He uses materials local
  
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• Tenor Fractures Spine After Stage Collapses Underneath Him

  11-08-2015 10:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  During a performance of Turandot at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Italy on Friday, tenor Marco Voleri, playing the Emperor Altoum, was sitting on his throne when a cable snapped and the platform fell in, causing him to tumble more than six feet.
  
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• L.A. Phil Has An Exciting New – And Female – Associate Conductor

  11-08-2015 10:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla – increasingly known as simply “Mirga” after rapturously received concerts at the Hollywood Bowl and Disney Hall this past season – was a Dudamel Fellow and assistant conductor at the Los Angeles Philharmonic; she’s now being promoted to associate conductor, effective next summer.
  
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• Where They’re Turning Old Railroad Tunnels Into A Permanent Performance Space

  11-08-2015 10:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Railway tunnels in Bristol that date back 175 years are to be transformed into a new performance space. The underground venue, which will be called the Lo-co Klub, is located in the arches beneath Bristol’s Temple Meads station, built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in the 1840s.”
  
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• What We Do When Our Icons Tumble Or Crumble: A Field Guide

  11-08-2015 09:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For as long as humans have lived with symbols we have created strategies for effacing or revaluing them. Destruction is the most dramatic. But statues can also be reinstalled in less symbolically fraught places … Forgetting is a powerful force, as well … Iconoclasm can be accidental or purposeful, an act of liberation or oppression, […]
  
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• David Foster Wallace Took Book Blurbs Way More Seriously Than He Let On

  11-08-2015 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 2004, he coined the word blurbspeak, defined as “a very special subdialect of English that’s partly hyperbole, but it’s also phrases that sound really good and are very compelling in an advertorial sense, but if you think about them, they’re literally meaningless.” On the other hand, he wrote about two dozen of them over […]
  
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• What Do We Mean When We Ask What Something Is Like?

  11-08-2015 09:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk with lexicographer Anne Seaton about the strange history of this strange expression. (podcast)
  
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• Born To Riot: Why Sports Fans Love To Brawl, Smash And Set Things On Fire (And Not Just In Philadelphia)

  11-08-2015 09:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Steve Almond talks to author Justine Gubar (Fanaticus: Mischief and Madness in the Modern Sports Fan), whose thesis is that “just about anyone can turn into a rioter.” (Even Vancouverites.)
  
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• A Blockbuster Show Of Art From The Biggest Corporate Fraud In Brazil’s History

  11-08-2015 08:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Operation Car Wash” has rocked Brazil with its revelations of executives and politicians helping themselves to money from Petrobras, the country’s nationalized oil company. An exhibit of works confiscated from the alleged culprits has become a huge hit.
  
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• ‘One Of The Strange Originals Of American Ballet,’ Alastair Macaulay Called This Man

  11-08-2015 08:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Who but Matthew Neenan, co-founder of Philadelphia’s BalletX and resident choreographer of the Pennsylvania Ballet, could pull off a classical dance work about a key event in the history of airmail?
  
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• Who’s Ruling Hip-Hop Dance These Days? Koreans, Kiwis, And Filipinos

  11-08-2015 08:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At the hip-hop dancing world championships, U.S. crews weren’t completely shut out, but their moves have been, as the tournament’s spokesman put it, “exported and perfected elsewhere.”
  
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• My Dear BB… : The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark review

  11-08-2015 07:30
  The high-octane correspondence between 20th-century art world doyen Bernard Berenson and the young pretender Kenneth Clarke is enthrallingThank God for the survival of the university press. In the last century, when Lord Clark of Civilisation and Bernard Berenson, the garrulous scholar-prince of I Tatti, that fabled villa outside Settignano, were both at the peak of their fame and influence, many publishers would have stampeded like wildebeest to cash in on the commercial potential of such world
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.10.15

  11-08-2015 07:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ai Weiwei Watch: International Travel Plans, Sympathy for His Tormentors AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-08-10 The Reign of the Director AJBlog: OperaSleuth Published 2015-08-10 Just because: Miles Davis improvises a film score AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-08-10 [ssba_hide]
  
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• New York City Center seeks Director of Education and Community Engagement

  11-08-2015 05:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  City Center’s Education and Community Engagement initiatives provide innovative, accessible programming to schools and communities across New York City that supplement the work presented on our mainstage.
  
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• General Manager, Opera Lafayette

  11-08-2015 05:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Opera Lafayette, seeks a General Manager to help build on the momentum and excitement of its recently concluded 20th season and to inspire and instill enthusiasm for the company's work among an expanded audience.
  
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• Issa Rae Killed It On YouTube, But TV Isn’t Working Out As Well (Yet?)

  11-08-2015 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A number of networks and production companies expressed interest in adapting ‘Awkward Black Girl’ for prime-time TV. To Rae’s disappointment, most wanted to completely rework the show. Rae recalls a phone conversation with a network executive who wanted to make it into a pan-racial franchise operation, starting with ‘Awkward Indian Boy.’ Another suggested Rae recast […]
  
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