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• New York Film Festival Announces Contemporary Art-Heavy ‘Projections’ Program

  19-08-2015 23:49 via artnews.com
  Artforum reported today that the Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the lineup for the 53rd New York Film Festival’s “Projections” series, to take place on the weekend of October 2.The series is put together by a trio of … Read More
  
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• ‘¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York’ at the Bronx Museum of the Arts

  19-08-2015 22:51 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York” is currently on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. The multi-venue exhibition (it continues at El Museo del Barrio and … Read More
  
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• Argument: The Creative Economy Is Dying. (But It’s Not, And The Reasons Are Complex)

  19-08-2015 22:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The thrust of this argument is simple and bleak: that the digital economy creates a kind of structural impossibility that art will make money in the future. The world of professional creativity, the critics fear, will soon be swallowed by the profusion of amateurs, or the collapse of prices in an age of infinite and instant reproduction will cheapen art so that no one will be able to quit their day jobs to make it — or both.”
  
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• 15 Artists to Watch: London Edition

  19-08-2015 22:06 via artnews.com
  London Art Pitch is a monthly column by Jamie Sterns, a New York curator and writer attending school in the British capital.We all know these lists—the top, the best, the ones to watch, so on and so on. The word … Read More
  
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• FBI Reveals Reality Show Connections To Theft Of Wyeth Paintings

  19-08-2015 19:48 via artnews.com
  Details of the investigation into the 2013 theft of six works by New England artist N. C. Wyeth (father of the more-famous Andrew Wyeth), two of which have still not been recovered, were released at a press conference in Los Angeles … Read More
  
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• James Wood – A Harsh Critic Mellows?

  19-08-2015 19:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For me, there’s no competition between pleasure and analysis. And there never was. That might be the self-selecting answer as to why I became a critic. At exactly the moment that I wanted really to write, and started writing poems and then trying to write bad fiction, I was reading with a view to learning stuff.”
  
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• Appointment of foreign museum directors labelled a 'slap in the face for Italy' by curators and art critics

  19-08-2015 18:59
  
  The Italian government has provoked a backlash from curators and art critics by sacking the head of the country’s most prestigious gallery, the Uffizi in Florence, and giving his job to a German, with one pundit describing it as “a slap in the face for Italy”.
  
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• Three Things That Are Not Art, According To John Baldessari

  19-08-2015 18:12 via artnews.com
  For the second installment of Vogue’s Gallery, a monthly online series of artworks, its curator, Vogue contributing editor Dodie Kazanjian, was inspired by John Baldessari’s double-page response to Michael Kors’ fall collection in the magazine’s September issue. It’s pretty standard Baldessari—he … Read More
  
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• New Director For The Uffizi

  19-08-2015 18:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Schmidt, a 47-year-old art historian who is currently a curator for decorative arts at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, said he would first focus on the visitor experience at Uffizi and on developing programs for children and teenagers. “If someone from America and China comes to the Uffizi and starts the visit by standing in line for two to three hours, that is not the ideal way to begin,” Schmidt told The Associated Press over the telephone.
  
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• Export bar placed on first eyewitness painting of Niagara Falls

  19-08-2015 17:59
  Culture secretary Ed Vaizey moves to prevent Capt Thomas Davies’s 1762 watercolour from leaving UK in hope British buyer can be foundAn 18th-century watercolour which is the first known eyewitness painting of Niagara Falls has been temporarily prevented from leaving the UK.The culture minister, Ed Vaizey, has placed an export bar on the 1762 topographical study by the British military artist Capt Thomas Davies in the hope that a UK buyer with £151,800 can be found. Continue reading..
  
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• Phoenix Art Museum: New Director, New Direction, Big Staff Turnover

  19-08-2015 17:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In recent months, more than a dozen employees have left the museum, which currently has 58 administrative workers with another 79 in customer-service positions ranging from retail to security guards.
  
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• Taking To Kickstarter, A Major Architect Wants To Fund Activist Public Art

  19-08-2015 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Kickstarter campaign is as much about activism as it is about funding—an increasingly popular tactic in the architecture world. “You could say the whole idea of the project is an exercise in radical transparency. What the project does is make blatantly legible a carbon footprint that is invisible, and only exists in the form of numbers and specifics and news.” The point of the tower is to raise environmental awareness. By asking the public to contribute, the firm is putting
  
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• Mario Vargas Llosa: We Live In A Time Of No Culture

  19-08-2015 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We must be grateful to him for describing in a relatively orderly manner the chaos of hypocrisy and emptiness into which our globalised culture has plunged and to which we seem to have little option but to subscribe.”
  
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• Philippe Pirotte Will Curate the 2016 Biennale de Montreal

  19-08-2015 17:02 via artnews.com
  The Biennale de Montreal announced yesterday that Philippe Pirotte will curate its 2016 edition. Pirotte is currently the director of the Staatliche Hochschule für Künste Städelschule and Portikus, both of which are located in Frankfurt.The Belgium-born curator will head up … Read More
  
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• Party on! Chilcot inquiry inspires the UK's newest festival

  19-08-2015 17:00
  It may not be the most likely festival theme, but the long-delayed report on the UK’s invasion of Iraq is being turned into a three-day bonanza featuring Jeremy Deller, Simon Munnery – and a choral riff on Tony Blair’s testimonyRabab Ghazoul freely admits that an inquiry into the UK’s involvement in the invasion of a foreign country may not be most people’s dream festival theme. But, after a brief wobble that made her wonder “what could be more tedious”,
  
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• Back From The Brink? Atlanta Symphony Makes A Turnaround

  19-08-2015 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Today, the ASO is showing signs of financial health not seen in more than a decade, a condition which musicians and management agree bodes well for restoring the musical standards that had previously elevated the orchestra to critical acclaim, international prominence and a seemingly endless string of Grammy Awards.”
  
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• An All-White Cast For Shakespeare? What Is Trevor Nunn Thinking?

  19-08-2015 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Perhaps an all-white cast will one day seem as absurd as Donald Sinden blacking up to play Othello in 1979, but fidelity to 16th-century staging has long served as an excuse for a lack of diversity in theatre.”
  
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• Actors Union Condemns Major Production Of Shakespeare In London For Its All-White Cast

  19-08-2015 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To present this benchmark of British heritage in a way that effectively locks minorities out of the cultural picture [literally] flies in the face of the huge conversation taking place in British media at present, of the very real progress made in recent years to increase diversity in our industry.”
  
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• Prom 44, Royal Albert Hall, review: Brass brilliance, woodwind eloquence and muscular pianissimo pizzicatos

  19-08-2015 16:42
  
  Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra has come a long way since he and Edward Said created it in 1999. The original idea was nothing so grand as an orchestra for peace, despite its being labelled as that: ‘it’s not a love story’, Barenboim insisted, nor even a peace story, ‘because it’s not going to bring peace, however well it plays’. It was, he said, ‘a project against ignorance.’ He wanted to create ‘a platform where the tw
  
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• Choice Of LACMA Architect Has Critics Wondering About The Place Of Quality Architecture In LA

  19-08-2015 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Many have challenged the logic of a Swiss building in Los Angeles, asking whether his revered precision will translate given the economics of American construction. Others ask whether his monastic aesthetic will make sense in the image-driven landscape of Los Angeles and, more specifically, whether his architectural language of sublime asceticism will respond to the city’s very diverse urban context. Even more inflammatory critics have suggested that he lacks adequate experience in
  
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• Why Are Major Canadian Theatres Hiring Outsiders Over Home-Grown Talent?

  19-08-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They have reinforced a message to young Canadian directors that the best way to get ahead at home is to move abroad, and that what audiences think of you in New York matters more to boards than what audiences think of you here. Even minor experience in your field outside this country will trump major experience at home.”
  
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• Morning Links: Steven Spielberg Edition

  19-08-2015 14:56 via artnews.com
  Khaled al-Asaad, a Syrian archeologist who protected the ancient ruins of Palmyra for over 40 years, has been killed by the Islamic State. [BBC]Kansas City Art Institute has received a $25 million from an anonymous donor. [The New York Times]The … Read More
  
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• Twyla Tharp Writes About First-Day Rehearsal For Her 50th Anniversary Tour

  19-08-2015 10:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This day has been in the planning for two years and we want it to run with no surprises, please. Like an athlete in training, you want to be ready, but not overtrain, leaving your race at the gate. The cosmetics are about showing control – at least to myself.”
  
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• ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ Sets Broadway Closing Date

  19-08-2015 10:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The producers of the Tony-winning revival announced on Thursday that the show, now starring Taye Diggs in the title role, will finish its Broadway run on Sept. 13 at the Belasco Theater. At that time it will have played 22 previews and 506 regular performances.”
  
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• The Problems With Cellphones In Theaters Aren’t Just In The Audience – They’re Everywhere

  19-08-2015 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Performing artists across genres say the situation can be just as bad offstage, where cellphones are increasingly intruding on rehearsals, auditions and backstage culture. ‘I’ve had to scream at dancers in rehearsal,’ said choreographer Anthony Rue II … ‘The moment they have a second to breathe, they run to their phone. It takes them four or five minutes to mentally get back.'”
  
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• UBS Commissions Annie Leibovitz to Photograph Notable Women for Portrait Series

  19-08-2015 09:30 via artnews.com
  The Swiss bank UBS announced today that it will commission the photographer Annie Leibovitz to do portraits of notable women. The new works will be a continuation of her 1999 series “Women,” shown first at the Corcoran Gallery of Art … Read More
  
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• Australian painter Tom Roberts to be celebrated in National Gallery exhibition

  19-08-2015 07:58
  Show will feature ‘our cultural warrior’, says NGA director, and include work George Brandis says has been hanging ‘a little obscurely’ in Parliament HouseGone are the massive James Turrell lightscapes and naked art tours that grabbed headlines for the National Gallery of Australia earlier this year. Canberra’s next blockbuster summer show, opening in December, will focus on a homegrown heritage artist: Tom Roberts.Variously known as an Australian expressionist, one
  
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• Leunig's anti-vaccination stance reveals the fantasy world he lives in | Eleanor Robertson

  19-08-2015 07:33
  There’s a reason Leunig’s cartoons are pinned up where people are desperately unhappy: the cartoonist has been encouraging a retreat from reality for yearsThe enduring popularity of the cartoonist Michael Leunig is something I’ve been baffled by since childhood. His cartoons were stuck on my grandmother’s fridge, and I recall looking at the wobbly drawings of a man with a duck on his head with confusion and, as I got older, irritation. Leunig goes there (again) on vaccina
  
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