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• Did Malcolm Rogers Save Boston’s Museum Of Fine Arts Or Wreck It?

  04-09-2015 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Rogers opened the museum’s doors; made strides in diversifying its collection and audience, if not its board and staff; and oversaw 102 new or renovated galleries and a refurbished building. The campus now includes a spacious new Art of the Americas Wing, the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, a vast visitor center, and a high-ceilinged interior courtyard with a sleek café. He also leaves a community deeply divided over his legacy.”
  
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• The Tragedy Of Palmyra

  04-09-2015 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A second ancient temple at Palmyra has been razed, with a satellite image appearing to confirm the destruction of the Temple of Bel, previously one of the best-preserved parts of the ancient city. The revelation follows the release of images by Islamic State last week showing the Baalshamin temple had been blown up.”
  
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• Miami’s Perez Museum Chooses A New Director

  04-09-2015 21:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Franklin Sirmans has been at LACMA for five years; before that, he was curator of modern and contemporary art at the Menil Collection in Houston and curatorial advisor at the contemporary arts institution MoMA PS1. He was also a lecturer at Princeton University and Maryland Institute College of Art and was U.S. editor of the magazine Flash Art and editor-in-chief of ArtAsiaPacific, an English language magazine.”
  
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• How A Once Great School Was Run Aground

  04-09-2015 21:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The story here is narrowly about Cooper Union, and the way in which two presidents – George Campbell first, then Jamshed Bharucha – managed to bring a great institution to its knees, destroying its most precious and unique principle. More broadly, the report is an indictment of otiose trustees, egotistical technocrats, and a culture where university administrators gone wild can effectively railroad all stakeholders, including students, faculty, alumni, and even the attorney ge
  
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• Why Google’s New Logo Says All The Wrong Things (Typographically Speaking)

  04-09-2015 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Google took something we trusted and filed off its dignity. Now, in its place, we have an insipid “G,” an owl-eyed “oo,” a schoolroom “g,” a ho-hum “l,” and a demented, showboating “e.” I don’t want to think about that “e” ever again. But what choice do I have? Google—beneficent overlord, Big Brother, whatever you want to call it—is at the center of our lives. Now it has symbolically diluted our trus
  
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• Rules Of Engagement: The Line Between Audience Participation And Abuse

  04-09-2015 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The rules of engagement in theatre have changed, and now audience participation is everywhere. But artists have a responsibility to take care of those they pick on.”
  
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• La La La Human Dance Steps Shuts Down

  04-09-2015 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The last tour was a difficult one financially. Though the debt was reduced substantially due to the generosity of many of our creditors, the cuts that followed and the decision not to guarantee more than the current year of subsidy has made it impossible to continue.”
  
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• ECB risks renewed criticism with 'magic money tree' sculpture

  04-09-2015 19:40
  
  Work by Giuseppe Penone is part of a €1.25m art project at bank’s controversial billion-euro Frankfurt headquartersThe European Central Bank has installed a towering bronze and granite tree sculpture outside the bank’s Frankfurt headquarters as part of a €1.25m (£920,000) art project.The work by Italian artist Giuseppe Penone, instantly dubbed the magic money tree, is a slender trunk with a perfectly round ball of gilded leaves at its halfway point. Something that loo
  
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• Adolph Alfred Taubman: $500m private art collection of US tycoon to be sold at auction

  04-09-2015 19:22
  
  The late Adolph Alfred Taubman was a billionaire developer and philanthropist who was convicted of price-fixing when he served as the chairman of the Sotheby’s auction house.
  
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• ‘Dear Nemesis: Nicole Eisenman 1993-2013′ at MOCA San Diego

  04-09-2015 19:18 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Dear Nemesis: Nicole Eisenman 1993-2013” is currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. The exhibition is the largest mid-career survey of Eisenman’s work … Read More
  
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• ‘The Human Body Is Very Raw’: An Interview With Skin & Bone Magazine

  04-09-2015 19:10 via artnews.com
  In a new small-format (5½ by 8 inches) magazine called Skin & Bone, photographers Philip Campbell and Brandon Shade explore the male form—all of its nooks and crannies included. The volume, which has the polished feel of an artist book, includes images they each shot … Read More
  
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• How An Australian Dance Company Found A Big New Audience

  04-09-2015 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Queensland Ballet is probably experiencing one of the most noticeable periods of change in any arts company in the country. It is an ideal case study of how an organisation can embrace inevitable change and take calculated risks.”
  
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• Chicago’s DuSable Museum of African American History Names Perri Irmer President and CEO

  04-09-2015 18:55 via artnews.com
  The DuSable Museum of African American History has announced the appointment of Perri Irmer, an attorney, architect, and facilities management professional, as its new president and CEO, effective September 14, the Chicago Tribune reported.Irmer’s appointment will end a months-long absence … Read More
  
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• ‘A Museum Is Not Only A Place Unto Itself': Franklin Sirmans on Becoming the Director of Miami’s Pérez Art Museum

  04-09-2015 17:45 via artnews.com
  This week, Franklin Sirmans was named the director of the Pérez Art Museum in Miami. The museum, which opened in 1984, finished a massive renovation project in 2013, with a new building designed by Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron. … Read More
  
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• ‘A Museum Is Not Only A Place Unto Itself’: Franklin Sirmans on Becoming the Director of Miami’s Pérez Art Museum

  04-09-2015 17:45 via artnews.com
  This week, Franklin Sirmans was named the director of the Pérez Art Museum in Miami. The museum, which opened in 1984, finished a massive renovation project in 2013, with a new building designed by Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron. … Read More
  
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• Drawing With Paint: Douglas Crimp on Jack Tworkov, in 1971

  04-09-2015 17:06 via artnews.com
  With a show of works by Jack Tworkov having opened yesterday at Alexander Gray Associates, we turn back to our March 1971 issue, in which the art historian Douglas Crimp, who was then a curatorial assistant at the Guggenheim, reviewed … Read More
  
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• Aleatory Accumulation Anti/Ghazals I-V and I-VI

  04-09-2015 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I’m the guy drinking beer on the bus
   
  honey promotes health, coating your throat.
  The amazing Pud Bowell at Carnegie Hall
   
  fool me twice about it after all
  a finely oiled, well tuned, neatly pressed, carefully folded
   
  have I got a hell of a story to tell
  this is a prison break
   
  it seems both doors are never locked at once
  for this reason the text is what we know nothing outside of.
   
  Open the face of the library clock ticking off
  I’m invisible when the cr
  
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• Matt Saunders Wins the deCordova Sculpture Park’s Rappaport Prize

  04-09-2015 16:36 via artnews.com
  The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announced today that Matt Saunders has won its Rappaport Prize, which is given annually to a contemporary artist whose practice is somehow involved with New England. The Berlin– and Boston–based artist now joins such … Read More
  
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• Dismaland: Fatboy Slim confirmed to play Bansky's theme park alongside Run the Jewels

  04-09-2015 16:00
  
  Fatboy Slim has been announced last minute to play a DJ set at Banksy’s “bemusement park” Dismaland.
  
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• Beauty of people who don't conform to gender stereotypes captured by artist

  04-09-2015 15:46
  
  The beautiful faces in this series of arresting photographs belong to people who are neither male nor female.
  
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• This artist wants your menstrual blood for a performance piece de-stigmatising periods

  04-09-2015 15:26
  
  ‘Jackson stands motionless in the corner of the Television Lounge of a derelict Police Headquarters, where the TV-set was previously situated.
  
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• Morning Links: Menstrual Blood Edition

  04-09-2015 15:15 via artnews.com
  Olafur Eliasson has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a solar-powered cell phone charger, which he co-designed. [The Art Newspaper]A review of “Opus Hypnagogia: Sacred Spaces of Visionary and Vernacular Art” at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn. [The New York … Read More
  
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• Castro, cows and the Summer of Love: how pop art became political dynamite

  04-09-2015 12:30
  
  It hit its apex during the late 1960s and became the art movement that reflected the anxieties of the cold war era. Ahead of a major new exhibition, Sarah Wilson looks back at the tensions and traumas of pop art
  The year 1967 marked both the apex and turning point of pop’s international story. In the USSR and its satellite states, the 50th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution coincided with centenary celebrations of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital. China’s Cultural Revolution gat
  
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• Face value: Simon Schama on the power of portraits

  04-09-2015 12:00
  
  From his precious cigarette card collection, to first locking eyes with his baby daughter, to responding to the age of the selfie, the renowned historian has always been fascinated by faces and how they are depicted. But how to begin telling the story of Britain through its portraits?We come into the world wide-eyed, ready to stare. And after we are done crying, eyes scrunched tight against the raw light, we start looking, which is the precise moment we begin to live in the company of humans. No
  
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• Fear Of ‘Extremist Agenda’ Was Reason For Cancelling Play About Girls Who Joined ISIS

  04-09-2015 10:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a just-released email sent July 30, the UK National Youth Theatre’s artistic director wrote, “The creatives have failed to meet repeated requests for a complete chronological script to justify their extremist agenda and so it doesn’t look good for the future of Homegrown on National Youth Theatre turf.”
  
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• William Kentridge Plans Massive, Vanishing Mural On Roman Riverbank

  04-09-2015 10:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Triumphs and Laments, an 1,800-foot frieze along the Tiber River, will be created using the “reverse graffiti” technique.
  
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• Atlanta Ballet’s Longtime Artistic Director To Retire

  04-09-2015 10:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “John McFall, who has led Atlanta Ballet into what many consider a “golden era” during his 20 years as the troupe’s artistic director, announced yesterday that he will retire at the end of the upcoming season.”
  
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• Touring Theatre On A Long, Skinny Canal Boat

  04-09-2015 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Despite having to deal with endless locks, cabin fever and chemical toilet mishaps, the Mikron theatre company is flourishing, thanks to its passionate following.”
  
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• Denver-Area Arts Orgs Battle Over How To Divide $87M In Public Funding

  04-09-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “No one in the cultural community wanted to see a noisy fight erupt over the money. The theaters and history museums, dance companies, classical quartets and galleries all feared an ugly battle would leave a bad taste in the mouths of voters who they are counting on to reauthorize their funding for a third, 10-year period in 2016.”
  
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• Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Makes Peace With Bernard Haitink

  04-09-2015 09:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra has apologised to its former Chief Conductor, healing a rift that has existed for the last couple of years. Announcing the return of its Honorary Conductor, the RCO admitted that ‘strains in the relationship between the management of the RCO and [Haitink]’ had led to the conductor’s absence during the past 18 months.”
  
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• Fed-Up Myung Whun Chung Says He’s Leaving Seoul Phiharmonic; Musicians Campaign For Him To Stay

  04-09-2015 09:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After a horrendous year that saw the orchestra openely rebel against an abusive but politically connected CEO, who resigned with obvious reluctance and then had Chung investigated for embezzlement, the maestro announced he was stepping down as music director. Then the musicians held a press conference pleading for the city government to convince Chung not to quit.
  
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• The Worst Monarch In English History, Chosen By History Writers

  04-09-2015 09:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He was, said one voter, “a gross man-child, wilfully and capriciously dangerous to everything around him including the country … [who] with little more policy than petulant self-gratification.” And who was voted the best monarch? His child.
  
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• GLAAD Gives Up Its Annual Report Card Of LGBT Characters On TV

  04-09-2015 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The [Network Responsibility Index] has reflected tremendous change over the last decade – and has helped to convince networks of the validity and value of LGBT-inclusive programming. So why is GLAAD leaving it in the past?”
  
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• La Monnaie, In Brussels, Names New Music Director

  04-09-2015 09:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Alain] Altinoglu will take on his new role at La Monnaie, one of Europe’s most innovative opera companies, as the theater has been grappling with budget cuts and musical upheaval.”
  
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• The Sound’s The Thing: A Writing Lesson From Ursula K. LeGuin

  04-09-2015 09:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The sound of the language is where it all begins. The test of a sentence is, Does it sound right? The basic elements of language are physical: the noise words make, the sounds and silences that make the rhythms marking their relationships. … This is just as true of prose as it is of poetry, though the sound effects of prose are usually subtle and always irregular.”
  
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• Israel’s Favorite Palestinian – He’s Given Up And Emigrated

  04-09-2015 09:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the past decade, he has become the kind of writer whose column, in the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz, ‘people hang on their fridge,’ as a colleague put it. In 2007, a sitcom he wrote, titled Arab Labor (a Sabra idiom for second-rate work), had its début, introducing an Arab family to Israeli audiences for the first time. It made him a celebrity not just on the comfortable left,” but even among taxi drivers and soccer hooligans.
  
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• Arabic ‘Sesame Street’ Returns For First Time Since Gulf War

  04-09-2015 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Friday, a new production of Iftah Ya Simsim, the Arabic cousin of Sesame Street that ended in 1990, will have its premiere on nine channels across the Gulf Cooperation Council countries of the Persian Gulf.”
  
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• Which Humanities Majors Make The Most Money? Philosophy Majors

  04-09-2015 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Although philosophy majors rank 75th on PayScale’s overall list of majors at mid-career earnings, it’s the top humanities bachelors degree in their ranking – from early career all the way to later career.”
  
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• Garrison Keillor Explains Why He’s Leaving His Radio Show (He’s Not A Radio Guy)

  04-09-2015 09:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “No, no, I’m just a writer. I’m just a writer who looked to slip into radio as a way of supporting myself. … I’m at the end of a very long and pretty happy detour. … You invent a town with all these characters in it and story lines, and it’s been interesting, until you realize that you have created [wry laugh] an obligation to keep it going, for the listener. And it’s at that point that your inventiveness wanes. And you feel restless.”
  
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• Since No One Can Talk To Elena Ferrante, They’re Talking To Her Translator Instead

  04-09-2015 09:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Translated books, Goldstein says, ‘hardly ever get this much attention.’ And when they do, it’s unusual for much of that attention to be directed at the translator. But Ferrante, by insisting on preserving her own anonymity despite her international audience’s growing curiosity, has (perhaps unintentionally) managed to create an unlikely spotlight for her American translator.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.03.15

  04-09-2015 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
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• Super size me: giant street art around the world – in pictures

  04-09-2015 08:00
  
  German graffiti artist Claudia Walde, aka MadC, is famous for her giant murals. Her new book Mural XXL showcases the best large-scale graffiti around the globe, from a building-high portrait of architect Oscar Niemeyer in São Paulo to a huge upside-down alligator in Atlanta Continue reading...
  
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• Spielberg’s Dreamworks Splits From Disney

  04-09-2015 04:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A new deal could mean a fresh start for DreamWorks, which has faced struggles from the inception of the Disney relationship. Sources say the DreamWorks team felt something of a strain from the start because its deal was negotiated with Dick Cook, then chairman of the studio, with the understanding that Disney would invest in DreamWorks’ films and invite DreamWorks to participate in some of its projects. But soon after the deal was made, Cook was ousted and Disney CEO Bob Iger set a
  
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• Why Dreamworks Is Leaving Disney

  04-09-2015 04:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Although several studios are discussing the possibility of bringing DreamWorks into the fold, insiders say that Universal has the best shot at becoming DreamWorks’ new distribution partner when the previous deal runs its course next August.”
  
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• Chailly To Quit Leipzig Gewandhausorchester Four Years Early

  04-09-2015 04:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What prompted the change of plan is not clear, though a statement issued by the orchestra implies it didn’t want him to leave. The city’s mayor Burkhard Jung is quoted as saying he ‘has conceded’ to Chailly’s desire to leave ‘in recognition of the exceptional accomplishments of Riccardo Chailly in furthering the artistic and international reputation of the Gewandhausorchester.’
  
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• Report: Match Funding Is Ineffective At Spurring Donations

  04-09-2015 04:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Match funding schemes, often used by arts organisations to boost income, were tested in several field experiments as part of the survey, which also assessed how effective these were at encouraging donors to give more. The report said that the match funding experiments carried out found the method had “no significant effects… on donation behaviour”.
  
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• John Baldessari, Meredith Monk Will Receive National Medals of Arts at the White House

  04-09-2015 00:11 via artnews.com
  The White House announced today that President Barack Obama will present the 2014 National Medals of Arts to John Baldessari, Ann Hamilton, Meredith Monk, and more in a ceremony on September 10. The full list of recipients, who were selected by the National … Read More
  
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