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• Former Banker Donates $2 M. to Nevada Museum of Art

  24-08-2015 23:18 via artnews.com
  The Nevada Museum of Art received a $2 million gift from retired investment banker John La Gatta, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported today. Located in Reno, the museum has received few donations larger than La Gatta’s. (Thank you to Artforum for … Read More
  
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• Netflix Goes Off-Device And Into The Venice Film Festival

  24-08-2015 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Netflix’s move into the film — and film festival — business has proved controversial. At Cannes in May, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos was lambasted by French reporters. One accused him and his company of destroying Europe’s ‘film ecosystem’ by drawing audiences away from theaters.”
  
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• Guarding Machu Picchu, With Drones

  24-08-2015 21:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Peru’s drone archaeology team has quickly become one of the most active in the world, working to accurately survey and preserve the South American nation’s thousands of valuable archaeological sites.”
  
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• Television Isn’t Actually That Diverse Right Now

  24-08-2015 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Diversity isn’t one thing; it’s a lot of things. It’s in front of the camera and behind it, in writers’ rooms and executive offices. It’s not exclusively about race and gender and sexuality, but about other things as well. It’s about the bland and unremarked-upon affluence of almost all television families, and the fact that TV doesn’t incorporate very many people who go to church, and all the other ways that it historically looks at the populatio
  
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• Photographer Helen Muspratt a much overlooked talent | Letters

  24-08-2015 20:19
  In his survey of “overlooked” women photographers, William Boyd (Review, 22 August) overlooked Helen Muspratt (1905-2001), a most notable British photographer in the interwar years, whose work encompassed innovative boldness with solarisation and multiple exposure, exquisite formal simplicity, and documentary reportage from the Soviet Union and Welsh coalfields. This omission will hopefully be rectified with the forthcoming publication (from Manchester University Press) of Face: Shap
  
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• ‘Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth’ at the Hammer Museum

  24-08-2015 19:58 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth” is currently on view at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. The show features new paintings, a multimedia installation as well as a major work … Read More
  
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• How Edye Broad Got Eli Interested In Art – And Changed Los Angeles

  24-08-2015 19:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Their collaboration, notably in the early years, was marked by Edye’s eclectic inclinations and Eli’s desire to shape one of the world’s leading collections of contemporary art. He could appear passionate, if brusque, sweeping into a gallery, making assessments and departing. Edye was a slower touch, lingering, studying the work, chatting with the artist. She is, as those who know them say, the antidote to his sting.”
  
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• Wedding couple cancel honeymoon to Cuba to go to Banksy's Dismaland

  24-08-2015 19:20
  
  Banksy's Dismaland “bemusement park” has hosted its first newly married couple.
  
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• Why do we hear the work of so few female classical composers?

  24-08-2015 19:14
  
  "I once thought that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose – not one has been able to do it, and why should I expect to?"
  
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• Dean, College of Fine Arts

  24-08-2015 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) seeks nominations and applications for the position of Dean of the College of Fine Arts. The Dean will report to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and be responsible for setting strategic, operational, and financial directions for the College of Fine Arts.
  The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) was created by the Texas Legislature in 2013 in a historic move that brings together the resources and assets of UT Brownsvil
  
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• ‘Humans Will Have the Last Word’: A Talk With Albert Oehlen

  24-08-2015 18:45 via artnews.com
  A retrospective of Albert Oehlen’s work runs through September 13 at the New Museum in New York.Bill Powers: I understand that in high school you papered your bedroom walls with cheap supermarket advertising. Albert Oehlen: That’s right. When I was … Read More
  
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• Lawyer Controlling Harper Lee’s Estate Makes Yet More Waves In Alabama

  24-08-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ms. Carter’s control of Ms. Lee’s affairs has become a polarizing issue that hangs over this town of about 6,300 residents. Praised by some as the dutiful protector of an aging friend, she is derided by others as a spiteful person who wields too much influence over a vulnerable client.”
  
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• National Museum Of Scotland Staff Start Seven Days Of Strike Actions

  24-08-2015 18:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The action comes as the city is at its busiest for the Edinburgh Festival. The Public and Commercial Services union said about 120 members were on strike following the collapse of talks with National Museums Scotland (NMS). The action was caused disruption to both the National Museum of Scotland and the National War Museum.”
  
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• ‘He Saved Every Scrap': Barbara Gladstone on Acquiring Jack Smith’s Archive

  24-08-2015 18:17 via artnews.com
  In this week’s Talk of the Town, The New Yorker’s Emma Allen speaks with New York and Brussels gallerist Barbara Gladstone regarding her purchase of the late Jack Smith’s entire archive. The “only true underground filmmaker,” according to John Waters, … Read More
  
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• ‘He Saved Every Scrap’: Barbara Gladstone on Acquiring Jack Smith’s Archive

  24-08-2015 18:17 via artnews.com
  In this week’s Talk of the Town, The New Yorker’s Emma Allen speaks with New York and Brussels gallerist Barbara Gladstone regarding her purchase of the late Jack Smith’s entire archive. The “only true underground filmmaker,” according to John Waters, … Read More
  
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• Minnesota Media Dinged For Coverage Of Orchestra’s Raises

  24-08-2015 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some commentators are questioning and even damning the integrity of that coverage. Indeed, the article does seem to be more than a bit sloppy—or as one critic charged, ‘dreck.'”
  
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• The Story Of War Orphan Turned Ballet Prodigy Michaela DePrince Will Become A Movie

  24-08-2015 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Veteran film and music video director Sanaa Hamri (Something New, Just Wright) has been tapped to direct MGM’s Taking Flight, an adaptation of the book Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela DePrince and her mother, Elaine DePrince.”
  
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• Texas Wins The Literary Archives Of Yet Another Author

  24-08-2015 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kazuo Ishiguro, author of Remains of the Day: “I’ve been in the habit of keeping a large cardboard box under my desk into which I throw, more or less indiscriminately, all papers produced during my writing that I don’t want to file neatly and take into the next stage of composition: earlier drafts of chapters, rejected pages, scraps of paper with scribbled thoughts, repeated attempts at the same paragraph. etc.”
  
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• It’s Past Time To Get Beyond Theatre’s ‘Black Slot’

  24-08-2015 16:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lynn Nottage: “I’ve always been told that there’s only room for one black play. If the black slot’s full, they won’t put in another.”
  
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• Tails of the unexpected: the craziest cat quiz ever

  24-08-2015 08:00
  Can you tell your Meowna Lisa from your Girl With the Purr Earring? Test your knowledge of famous films and paintings in our moggnificent quiz Cats Galore: A Compendium of Cultured Cats is published by Thames & Hudson
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• Great art forger continues to ridicule experts from beyond the grave

  24-08-2015 08:00
  In unpublished drawing manual, Eric Hebborn mocks ‘threadbare terminology’ of art connoisseurs and dismisses them as unequippedEric Hebborn, the great forger who 20 years ago met a brutal end, duped art experts worldwide with his brilliant, fake old masters. Now, from beyond the grave, he has taken yet another swipe at those same experts.In an unpublished drawing manual that has come to light, Hebborn ridicules the “threadbare terminology of traditional connoisseurship” a
  
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• A Quarter Of A Century With L.A.’s Fountain Theatre

  24-08-2015 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Located between Western and Vermont avenues, the Fountain is at a crossroads of multiculturalism. ‘We’re right in the heart of Little Armenia, so it feels very natural for us to be commissioning playwrights to go out into the community and bring back the stories of the shop owners and apartment residents, as we did in ‘Little Armenia.’ Our process for choosing projects for a season is about what community haven’t we served and what issues are they wrestling w
  
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• C'mon Aussie C'mon: the new poster boys for Australian marriage equality

  24-08-2015 07:35
  Adelaide artists Jake Holmes and Peter Drew of the Real Australians Say Welcome campaign repurpose the classic 1970s cricket cry for marriage equalityA classic Australian cricket catch cry has been converted into a call for marriage equality by Adelaide artist Jake Holmes because he believes his two mums should have the choice to wed.Inspired by the legalisation of same-sex marriage in the US in June but frustrated by Australia’s continued inaction on the issue, Holmes is hand printing hun
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 08.23.15

  24-08-2015 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
   
  Tibet Comes to Taos at ‘Enchanted Mountain’ Salon
  AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2015-08-23Truly Music of the Spheres
  AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-08-22CT, Zoot And Friends In New Orleans, 1969
  AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-08-21
  Common Sense From Gary Vikan
  AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2015-08-21
  Almanac: Henri Matisse on the secret of staying young
  AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2015-08-21
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• And The Ancient Palmyran Temple Falls To ISIS

  24-08-2015 06:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Palmyra, one of the Middle East’s most spectacular archaeological sites and a UNESCO World Heritage site, sits near the modern Syrian city of the same name. Activists said the militants used explosives to blow up the Baalshamin Temple on its grounds, the blast so powerful it also damaged some of the Roman columns around it.”
  
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• Sorting All The Numbers In The World

  24-08-2015 06:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What’s the greatest number of cake slices that can be made with n cuts? Look up sequence A000125 in the OEIS. How many chess positions can be created in n moves? That’s sequence A048987.”
  
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• Prom 42, Royal Albert Hall, review: An evocative sound portrait of Sibelius

  24-08-2015 05:45
  
  In the second of their three Sibelius Proms, Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony began with Janne, a piece in homage to the Finnish composer by the British composer Michael Finnissy. Finnissy himself describes it as “an imaginary portrait of Sibelius or, more exactly, a portrait of his music and its sources”, and the bassoon melody backed by violas with which it opened was indeed evocative both of the composer and his sound-world.
  
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• Silent Tears: disability and violence through the eyes of female victims

  24-08-2015 03:21
  Silent Tears, a multi-media artistic installation by Belinda Mason, examines the stories of 12 women, some of whom became disabled as a result of violence and others who were the victims of violence while disabled. The show is part of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale in Victoria, Australia, a month-long festival of contemporary Australian and international photography, which opened at the weekend and runs until 20 September. Continue reading...
  
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