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• With Ballet Dancers More Diverse Than Ever, The Audience Is Still Very White

  17-08-2015 23:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Next to the vivacity of hip-hop or jazz, ballet may seem an odd choice to back as dance that could represent the country well.”
  
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• Has Art Become Irrelevant To Museums?

  17-08-2015 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The art world can survive anything from the public — hostility, ignorance, even fanatical prudishness — but the art world cannot survive an indifferent public.”
  
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• Expo Chicago Announces Special Projects for 2015 Edition

  17-08-2015 22:11 via artnews.com
  Today, Chicago’s Expo Chicago fair announced the works in its In/Situ and Expo Projects sections for its fourth edition, which is set to open on September 17.This year’s In/Situ section, devoted to site-specific art, will feature work that hangs from … Read More
  
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• The Tiny, Magical Los Angeles Museum That’s Only Open Four Hours A Month

  17-08-2015 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On the northern edge of L.A.’s vast Griffith Park, tucked inside a bend of the 1/8th scale railroad track that carries visitors around a bucolic stretch of Southern California chaparral, stands a humble, saggy-roofed barn that contains a multitude of treasures.”
  
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• Turner Prize Show Will Travel Around Scotland in a Bus

  17-08-2015 21:44 via artnews.com
  Leading up to the announcement of this year’s Turner Prize winner on December 7, a travelling art exhibition featuring work by past nominees and winners will tour Scotland this fall, the New York Times reports. The show will be on … Read More
  
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• Will The Vatican’s New Restoration Donation App Ruin Everything?

  17-08-2015 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Patrum sounds lovely and philanthropic, but it is pandering to the culture of restoration that does as much harm as good. Italy is full of artistic marvels. They need careful protection and obviously, that includes restoring where restoring is essential. But it is a delicate balance. The problem with restoration is that it excites people – it becomes a story,”
  
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• Vatican Museums Introduces Crowdfunding App for Restoration Projects

  17-08-2015 20:39 via artnews.com
  The Vatican Museums have released a crowdfunding app called Patrum, with the intention of raising money for a series of upcoming restoration projects that include the restitching of an 18th-century French tapestry and the conservation of 13th- and 14th-century Chinese calligraphy scrolls.This … Read More
  
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• Here’s a Creepy Trailer for Trevor Paglen’s Upcoming Show at Metro Pictures

  17-08-2015 20:23 via artnews.com
  Trevor Paglen’s photographs often seem very peaceful—until you realize that what you are looking at are very aestheticized views of surveillance technology. With a new exhibition of Paglen’s work coming to Metro Pictures in September, the Chelsea gallery has released … Read More
  
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• As Another Mega-Bookstore Opens, The Refrain Continues: Print Books Are Doing OK

  17-08-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Waterstones managing director James Daunt, who built the eponymous Daunt Books chain, dubbed Amazon a ‘ruthless, money-making devil’ in 2011. A year later he signed a deal to sell its Kindle ebook reader, but Waterstones has struggled to sell the devices and has reduced the amount of space given over to them in its stores.”
  
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• ‘Roger Ballen: Asylum of the Birds’ at Galerie Karsten Greve

  17-08-2015 19:03 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Listen To John Cage And Morton Feldman In Conversation

  17-08-2015 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Unlike the more formal records of Feldman or Cage speaking or writing, you’re privy in these conversations to the two men working ideas out rather than presenting finely worked philosophies or arguments. It’s like being given access to their combined creative process at a key moment in both of their musical lives.”
  
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• Peter Lanyon exhibition lifts glider's works of art to new heights

  17-08-2015 18:19
  London gallery to unite 15 major works by the late Cornish landscape painter and gliding enthusiastFor five years the artist Peter Lanyon soared, getting a bird’s eye view of the Cornish coastal landscape he loved. Then, in 1964, he fell to earth and died in a glider crash, aged just 46. Related: The art of St Ives is no sideshowContinue reading...
  
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• The First Big Test For Apple Music

  17-08-2015 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “So far Apple’s new service has had a mixed reaction in the music and tech press, and its impact on the music charts over all has been minimal. In a comparison of Nielsen streaming data for a dozen popular albums, most had increases of 10 to 20 percent in the week that Apple Music’s numbers were first incorporated into the charts, but had flat results or even a loss the next week.”
  
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• Melva Bucksbaum, Art Patron and Collector, Dies at 82

  17-08-2015 17:34 via artnews.com
  Melva Bucksbaum, who passionately collected art and frequently gave money to museums and artists across America, died at 82. Her cause of death has not been announced, but she was suffering from cancer.Having been on the Whitney Museum’s board of trustees since … Read More
  
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• Elaine Wynn on $142.5 M. Bacon Triptych: ‘I Was Afraid I Wasn’t Going to Own It’

  17-08-2015 17:03 via artnews.com
  In the New York Times, Jori Finkel spoke to Elaine Wynn, the billionaire collector, philanthropist, former wife of casino mogul Stephen A. Wynn, and current co-chairperson of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Wynn spoke publicly for the first time … Read More
  
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• The Emptiness Of The Invented City

  17-08-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Pico Iyer on Pyongyang and Las Vegas: “Plato’s Cave can look much the same in East or West, whether its screens are projecting images of tumbling cheerleaders or brigades of goose-stepping soldiers.”
  
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• ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Wins Big At The Box Office Without Superheroes

  17-08-2015 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Summer movies have become so monolithic over the last decade that releasing the film at this time of year was brazen, and I think youth culture responds to brazen.”
  
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• Jeff Bezos Says Amazon Is Nothing Like The Damning NYT Article

  17-08-2015 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Bezos wrote that he ‘very much’ hoped workers did not recognize the workplace depicted in the article — ‘a soulless, dystopian workplace where no fun is had and no laughter heard.'”
  
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• She Sculpted New York’s Frederick Douglass, But She Can’t Afford Her Studio Anywhere In The City Anymore

  17-08-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The relentless tide of gentrification has made it impossible for her to stay. One by one, the craftsmen and artists have vanished from the red brick building on Jay Street where Ms. Koren worked. The cabinetmaker? Gone. The photographer? Gone. The lamp maker, the painter and the dealer of 1950s furniture? All gone.”
  
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• Can Anything Save Small Businesses In New York?

  17-08-2015 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When I say they’ve destroyed New York’s old stores, bars, restaurants, hangouts, I’m saying the real estate market has destroyed the sacred watering holes and gathering places of the 20th century.”
  
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• That 50-Cent Thrift Store Piece May Be An Original Worth Thousands Or More

  17-08-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Hurtado has made pictures of a dolphin, a dog, a deer and a sunset — but with contemporary artistic flourishes. That means bold, geometric swaths of primary colors, abstracted elements and quirky additions, such as a wrestling type mask on a young girl. Hurtado then takes this new work and slips it into the thrift-store frame.”
  
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• Morning Links: Polaroid Edition

  17-08-2015 14:34 via artnews.com
  Andy Warhol loved weightlifting, buying jewels, and sex, despite what we thought we knew. [The Guardian]Artists are behind a proposal to ban Confederate statues and monuments from New Orleans. [The Art Newspaper]Vice chairperson of the Whitney Museum, Melva Bucksbaum, has died. … Read More
  
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• The Vatican's new philanthropy app could ruin everything

  17-08-2015 14:29
  The last time wealthy art fans did a Vatican restoration, they nearly destroyed the Sistine Chapel. The new Vatican app is elitism 2.0 – and will only endanger more masterpiecesFrom the bankers and princely families of the Renaissance to Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III (well, OK, that was fiction), the Vatican has history with art patronage. It has a genius for getting money for art from the great and the good, not to mention the bad. Now it is pioneering new ways of attracting
  
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• Why Did Britain’s National Youth Theatre Scrap A Play About Radicalized Teenagers Just Before Opening Night?

  17-08-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In letter published on Saturday signatories, who also included Sir David Hare, Young Vic artistic director David Lan and Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti, said the cancellation ‘is a troubling moment for British theatre and freedom of expression.’ ‘We fear that government policy in response to extremism may be creating a culture of caution in the arts,’ they add.”
  
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• The Best Comedians Who Never Made It Big

  17-08-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  All of the reasons it never quite clicks for these men and women, according to their much more famous peers – including the table comic, “the genre of beloved comic who is funny in conversation with other comedians but not onstage.”
  
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• Cosmic Love Wonder Lust review: messy telling of Sydney's Imperial Slacks story

  17-08-2015 09:01
  Campbelltown arts centre and Sydney College of the Arts
  Were the Imperial Slacks artists any more special than hundreds of others working at the time? This show, split over two sites, fails to offer an answerIt’s hard to say what makes one set of artists more successful than another. A group brought together by little more than circumstance and luck attracts all the attention and accolades, while another, arguably just as worthy and talented, are largely ignored. Art fame is a fickle thing
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 08.16.15

  17-08-2015 07:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  WSJ Masterpiece: The Taj Mahal, As I Saw It
  AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2015-08-16For Those Who Haven’t Met Me in Person
  AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-08-16
  Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2015: What to See, How to Eat, Where to StayAJBlog: Lies Like TruthPublished 2015-08-14Frank Lloyd Wright’s guest bedroom
  AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-08-14
  The rest of the story
  AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-08-14
  Reading the Tea Leaves: What is Ai
  
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• John Chamberlain, Inverleith House, review: The man who mashed bangers to great effect

  17-08-2015 04:45
  
  American artist John Chamberlain’s triumphant show in Edinburgh, his first at a UK public gallery, casts a new light on a man most famous for his mashed, twisted and mangled sculptures made of car parts. Inverleith House’s Exhibition Director Paul Nesbitt has managed to assemble a range of works, many not seen for almost 30 years, which display this important career in a tightly curated mini retrospective.
  
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• For Government Arts Agencies, A Problem With Contracts And Staffing

  17-08-2015 01:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Every weekday for the past two and a half years, Ariel Wilson Cetrone showed up for work in the morning at a small District government agency, poring over grant applications and performance reviews for the arts projects she oversaw. Her name was listed on the staff directory on the agency’s Web site, she had a D.C. government e-mail address, cell phone, and business cards, and put in 40 hours just like everybody else. But she wasn’t like everyone else.”
  
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• The Brain Implant That Can Wirelessly Control Emotions

  17-08-2015 01:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What if we could, with the push of a button, make microscopic alterations of a few neurons, causing the happy chemicals to ring out in a jackpot celebration, with no side effects? Would we be ready to handle such complete control over our emotional reality?”
  
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• A Town Buys An Artist’s House And Vows To Restore It, And Then, Well, It’s Complicated

  17-08-2015 00:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Henry Varnum Poor, who died in 1970, was once among the country’s best-known painters and potters, and his work is owned by museums across the country, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper Hewitt and the Art Institute of Chicago. He built the main part of Crow House in 1920 and 1921, using chestnut tree trunks as beams and hauling rocks from a nearby sandstone quarry in a Ford Model T.”
  
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