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• The Man Who Made Tanglewood Chorus Cool

  21-08-2015 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Before John Oliver arrived, choral pieces at Tanglewood were sung by whoever could be corralled among students in all branches of what was then called the Berkshire Music Center, plus anyone regularly at the Berkshires estate and concert venue—including maintenance and cafeteria workers. Auditioning was rudimentary: “Can you carry a tune? Do you have any free time?”
  
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• Bill Rauch: What It Takes To Be A Leader In The Theatre

  21-08-2015 20:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I think leadership is lonely and leadership is frightening, and just the nature of the nonprofit structure is hard, so there is going to be a lot of struggle. And I think that does make it difficult for leaders to be open and be generous. But I do think all art is rooted in love and if you’re not leading from a place of love and generosity than you’re not actually modeling in your process, and what we all need to model in the art.”
  
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• The Summer Reading List (R.I.P.)

  21-08-2015 19:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I may be one of the last people to be burdened by the self-imposed obligation to read certain books during the golden months of vacation. These days, the summer-reading list seems to have gone the way of the perfect tan.”
  
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• ‘Martin Soto Climent: Caramel Huymans’ at Proyectos Monclova

  21-08-2015 19:03 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Martin Soto Climent: Caramel Huymans” is currently on view at Proyectos Monclova in Mexico City. The press release describes the works in the solo show as “provoking a … Read More
  
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• Revealed: British Police Spied On Doris Lessing For 20 Years

  21-08-2015 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing was spied on by security services for more than 20 years over suspicions of her communist sympathies, newly declassified records show.”
  
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• Four Haiku for RedBall, Toledo’s Most Restless Public Art Installation

  21-08-2015 18:57 via artnews.com
  This week, a 250-pound inflatable red ball that has been installed at various locations across Toledo, Ohio—part of an exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art called “Play Time”—escaped from its static post at Roulet Jewlers on Madison Avenue in … Read More
  
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• Police Arrest Man Asking $17 M. for Fake Study of van Gogh’s ‘The Harvest’

  21-08-2015 18:16 via artnews.com
  The BBC reported that Dutch police have apprehended a man accused of attempting to sell a fake study of van Gogh’s The Harvest (1888). The suspect’s identity has not been revealed due to Dutch privacy laws, but the police said … Read More
  
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• Here’s the Video That Darren Bader Showed at Art Basel This Year

  21-08-2015 18:02 via artnews.com
  A big thank you to the colleague who just noted in a Facebook post that the Darren Bader video that appeared in Art Basel’s Art Unlimited section in June is now available to watch online. The very funny and deeply weird 13-minute … Read More
  
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• East Africa’s Largest Music Festival Canceled For Lack Of Funding

  21-08-2015 17:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Selling tickets wasn’t a problem. “The festival, whose name means ‘sounds of wisdom’, is held every February. For the past 12 years, it has attracted thousands of international visitors to the Tanzanian island. Festival promoter Yusuf Mahmoud said the target was to raise $200,000 (£130,000) before the dates for 2016 edition would be announced. But so far only $42,000 has been raised, he said.”
  
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• Danish museum releases CCTV photos of suspects in Rodin bust theft

  21-08-2015 17:14
  Two men posing as tourists believed to have stolen Man with the Broken Nose, a 25.5cm bronze bust worth around 2m kroner, in July
  A Rodin bronze bust has been stolen during opening hours from a museum in Copenhagen by two men posing as tourists, the museum said. Continue reading...
  
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• Banksy's Dismaland: fans express frustration over crashing website

  21-08-2015 17:05
  After street artist’s largest project to date opens in Weston-super-Mare, those attempting to obtain tickets ask if whole thing is a hoaxPeople wanting to buy tickets for Banksy’s new Dismaland show have been finding it impossible and the question being asked was: is the miserable frustration meant to be part of the experience?The artist has opened his biggest project to date in a crumbling former lido in Weston-super-Mare. Journalists were allowed in on Thursday and on Friday it was
  
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• Making the Ordinary Anything But: Mona Hatoum on Her Unnerving Sculptures, in 2005

  21-08-2015 17:01 via artnews.com
  With two Mona Hatoum shows happening this year (one currently on view at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, the second coming to the ICA Boston next week), we turn back to May 2005, when Pernilla Holmes profiled the Lebanese-born artist … Read More
  
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• Ballet Down On The Farm

  21-08-2015 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You’ve heard of farm-to-table, surely. Vermont is now one step ahead, with Farm to Ballet, a series of performances across the state this month. It’s the brainchild of Natch Pregger, a professional dancer who has performed with the Boston, Washington, D.C. and Houston ballets. As a native Vermonter, he wanted to create a performance piece around the state’s bucolic rhythms.”
  
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• Infamous Jesus painting restoration inspires opera about the woman who botched it

  21-08-2015 16:34
  
  Preparations are underway for a comic opera about a Spanish artist who tried, hugely unsuccessfully, to restore a faded 1930 oil painting of Jesus Christ.
  
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• Consumer Reports: Elizabeth Jaeger

  21-08-2015 16:32 via artnews.com
  Elizabeth Jaeger is a an artist working in Brooklyn. She has held solo exhibitions at Jack Hanley Gallery in New York and at And Now in Dallas, and has exhibited in group shows nationally and internationally. Additionally, she co-runs the publishing group Peradam, … Read More
  
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• Aleatory Accumulation Anti/Ghazals I-I and I-II

  21-08-2015 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  in this family, we go grey early
   
  I don’t even get out of bed for less than $35/hr.
  foreigners in his blood
   
  merrily throwing shit at the canvas.
  Buzzard presides over power outage.
   
  I’m a good liar & it’s hard to change
  me & Jaroslav Hasek burn it down
   
  a smell is something you live under
  there, I said it
   
  Sir Meltin’ John says
  the toxicology results came back
   
  coming down with an eye infection
  but I speak fluent laryngitis.
  &n
  
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• Dutch Police Arrest Man Trying To Sell Fake Van Gogh Painting

  21-08-2015 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Police said Friday the suspect wanted 15 million euros ($17 million) for the painting and was offering forged documents purporting to be from the Van Gogh Museum to vouch for the work’s authenticity.”
  
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• Consumer Behavior Is Changing. Here’s How

  21-08-2015 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Consumerism has shifted from a world of physical images and personal communication to a world of imagery and perception. Regardless of industry, product or service, vendors that enable instantaneous access and deliver on their digital promise will survive. Those who rely solely on their brick and mortar presence will not.”
  
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• Dutch police arrest man suspected of trying to sell fake Van Gogh painting

  21-08-2015 15:35
  Suspect arrested on suspicion of fraud for attempting to sell what he claimed was study for Dutch master’s painting The HarvestDutch police have arrested a man suspected of trying to sell a fake Vincent van Gogh painting with a multimillion-euro price tag.The 56-year-old, whose identity was not released – in line with Dutch privacy law – was arrested on suspicion of fraud for attempting to sell what he claimed was a study for the Dutch master’s painting The Harvest. Conti
  
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• Comics’ Long Struggle With Art Versus Commerce

  21-08-2015 15:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Today, ambitious cartoonists bypass newspapers altogether for more flexible and expressive mediums: graphic novels, comic books, and online comics sites. With few exceptions, syndicated comic strips now seem like artifacts from the last century. The proliferation of anthologies that reprint the entirety of terminated strips speaks to the ongoing museumification of the medium.”
  
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• Morning Links: Dismaland Edition

  21-08-2015 15:24 via artnews.com
  The late Congolese artist Kiripi Katembo, who died of malaria on August 5, will have a solo show of never-before-seen works at London’s 1:54 art fair  in October. [The Art Newspaper]Group show “Synecdoche” at Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco. [Contemporary Art … Read More
  
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• The Anyone-Can-Be-An-Artist Art School Sham

  21-08-2015 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The school will accept anyone who has a high school diploma and is willing to pay the $22,000 annual tuition (excluding room and board), no art portfolio required. It would be easy to accuse AAU of being a diploma mill, except the school doesn’t manufacture many diplomas. Just 32% of full-time students graduate in six years, versus 59% for colleges nationally, and that rate drops to 6% for online-only students and 3% for part-time students.”
  
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• Experience: I got stuck hanging naked from a tree

  21-08-2015 15:00
  ‘I became worried that the circulation in my right ankle, which was raised awkwardly at head height, was being cut off by the tightening knot and I might even end up losing my foot’I hadn’t planned to be naked in the woods for more than a minute or two. One year on from completing my master’s degree in fine art, I organised an Easter residency in my native Norway with four other artists. We were staying in the house my father grew up in, on a sparsely populated island, an
  
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• Dismaland: Banksy's 'bemusement park' is deeply unsettling... but bizarrely entertaining

  21-08-2015 14:46
  
  “You have to put a pound in, sir.” I step back from the steering wheel and almost apologetically feed a £1 coin into the slot. A light on the dashboard in front of me turns green and I push on the throttle.
  
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• The Art Fund charity launches a line of luxury holidays

  21-08-2015 14:17
  Secret doors will open, champagne will flow and VIP access to the art world will be afforded the wealthy. But it’s a curious departure for a charity that champions free museum admissionThere’s nothing particularly alluring about the back way into Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum: up a few dimly lit steps, past a staff noticeboard and through a scuffed white door. But that door delivers you straight into the spectacular central hall, under the soaring frescoed dome – and
  
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• Banksy: ‘I think a museum is a bad place to look at art’

  21-08-2015 13:00
  In an exclusive, rare interview the notorious artist tells us about his new theme park project, Dismaland, and shares his thoughts on the contemporary art worldBanksy’s Dismaland: ‘amusements and anarchism’ in artist’s biggest project yet
  Banksy’s Dismaland: ‘a theme park unsuitable for children’ – in picturesBuy the Guardian tomorrow for an exclusive, never seen before Banksy artworkWhat is this thing?In essence it’s a festival of art, amuse
  
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• HarperCollins Closes Peer-Review Site For Budding Authors

  21-08-2015 10:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Described as an ‘open slush pile’ by Cory Doctorow when it launched in 2008, Authonomy allowed users to submit their manuscripts for discussion, critique and ranking by fellow site members. The top five each month were read by HarperCollins editors, with 47 going on to be picked up for publication, including works by Miranda Dickinson, Steven Dunne and Kat French.”
  
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• Now Here’s An Unexpected Listicle For You: The Top Ten Conservative Novels

  21-08-2015 10:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While their politics may be unappealing, you’re missing out on some expert storytelling and brilliant characterisation if you ignore these books.”
  
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• The New TV Golden Age Is Letting Stars Break Out Of Their Typecasting Boxes

  21-08-2015 10:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Midcareer actors took note of Bryan Cranston’s transition from the goofy sitcom dad on Malcolm in the Middle to the megalomaniac drug lord in Breaking Bad (and the four Emmys it earned him).” Now, for instance, Katie “Dawson’s Creek” Holmes is playing a scheming sports agent, controversial comic Sarah Silverman a sad and struggling 1950s lesbian, Patrick “Capt. Picard” Stewart a skirt-chasing, coke-snorting TV pundit.
  
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• Russian Military Court Tries Ukrainian Filmmaker On Terrorism Charges He Says Are Made-Up

  21-08-2015 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Oleg Sentsov and his co-defendant Alexander Kolchenko, a leftwing activist, are accused of being part of a terrorist conspiracy in Crimea, setting fire to the offices of a political party and planning to blow up a statue of Vladimir Lenin in the capital, Simferopol.”
  
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• Joseph Scafidi, 94, Longtime Executive Director Of San Francisco Symphony

  21-08-2015 10:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over the course of his long career, the Symphony’s activities grew from an 18-week season to its current year-round schedule, and the annual budget grew from $200,000 to more than $4 million. [He]worked closely with no fewer than five music directors, beginning with the legendary French conductor Pierre Monteux in the 1940s and continuing with Enrique Jordá, Josef Krips, Seiji Ozawa and Edo de Waart.”
  
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• Ballet San Antonio’s Artistic And Executive Directors Suddenly Resign

  21-08-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[The company] on Thursday announced the resignation of its executive director, Courtney Mauro Barker, and the departure of its artistic director, Gabriel Zertuche. … A spokeswoman for the ballet said the organization would have no further comment beyond its announcement, which gives no reasons for the departures.”
  
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• How ‘Hamilton’ Recasts Thomas Jefferson As A Villain

  21-08-2015 09:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Which a show with Alexander Hamilton as its hero would do, of course. “If Hamilton is the 99 percent, Jefferson is, in the show at least, the one percent. If Hamilton is Barack Obama (who told Jon Stewart he thought the show was ‘phenomenal’), Jefferson is Mitt Romney.”
  
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• Visiting The Harlem Renaissance – Via Virtual Reality

  21-08-2015 09:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For instance, there’s “an avatar that could be programmed with biographical information on W. E. B. Du Bois, whmo users could ask questions to find out about his history. In the surrounding blocks Ethel Waters might be singing the debut performance of ‘Stormy Weather’ at the Cotton Club, and crowds are gathering at the Apollo Theater.”
  
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• Banksy Has Designed A Dystopian Theme Park – ‘Dismaland’

  21-08-2015 09:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Once you get past Dismaland’s eerily institutional security checkpoint, the castle looks like it’s one breeze away from collapsing. But wait, there’s more: A dead princess backdrop for prime photo ops, a whale jumping out of a toilet and through a hula hoop, and a sculpture of a woman getting viciously attacked by sea gulls. But at least the food at this park is affordable – free hot dogs, to whomever can guess what meat is in them. Welcome to Dismaland: Everything
  
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• Cirque Du Soleil Plans $25 Million Broadway Show

  21-08-2015 09:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The company, which has been acquired by a group of private equity investors, said that the production, to be called Paramour, represented one step in a broader effort to expand its presence in New York and in the world of theater. … [They also] said it would run indefinitely after opening next spring.”
  
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• How To Spot A Fake: Art Forgery Secrets Revealed!

  21-08-2015 09:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Art authenticity is all about perception. If the world thinks a work is authentic, then it is authentic. But forgers know that a convincing provenance is actually more important than an aesthetically perfect forgery or one that would fool forensic tests. … Provenance is the biography of an artwork, but provenance, like art, can be forged.”
  
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• Everything You’ve Heard About Chastity Belts Is A Lie

  21-08-2015 09:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Here is the truth: Chastity belts, made of metal and used to ensure female fidelity, never really existed. …Or, as the British Museum puts it: ‘It is probable that the great majority of examples now existing were made in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as curiosities for the prurient, or as jokes for the tasteless.'”
  
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• How To Wash A 17th-Century Tapestry In A 13-Foot Tub (Very Carefully)

  21-08-2015 09:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I love how gently the conservators sponge the surface like they’re bathing a gigantic wool, silk, gold and silver baby in a massive bassinet.” (includes video)
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.20.15

  21-08-2015 08:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  True-isms: Marion True, the Getty’s Sacrificial Ex-Curator, Vents Again
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-08-20Guest Review. Jan Lundgren: A Retrospective
  AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-08-20Desmond’s Later Years Revisited
  AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-08-19
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