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• Tanya Bonakdar Gallery Now Represents Slavs and Tatars

  11-09-2015 22:37 via artnews.com
  New York’s Tanya Bonakdar Gallery announced today that it represents the collective Slavs and Tatars, which is known for its work that deals with politics and cultural identity in Eurasia. Slavs and Tatars is currently nominated for this year’s Preis … Read More
  
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• Plaster Caste: John Perreault on George Segal, in 1968

  11-09-2015 22:02 via artnews.com
  With famed art critic John Perreault having recently died at age 78, we turn back to November 1968, when he wrote a review of a George Segal show at New York’s Sidney Janis Gallery for ARTnews. At the time, Perreault … Read More
  
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• MoMA’s ‘Picasso Sculpture’ Retrospective Is a Revelatory, Witty Triumph

  11-09-2015 21:32 via artnews.com
  “Picasso Sculpture,” now at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, is by turns staggering, intimate, revelatory, radiant, witty, and leisurely paced. Spanning a 60-year period, the show features 140 works, both large and small, reed thin and exaggeratedly … Read More
  
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• Why Troll-Impostor and his collection of colour videos matter?

  11-09-2015 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Weird story happened recently. During my usual surf – i’ve found another channel of Kyle Kallgren. And I’m a big fan of his works and it was really strange to find a another channel full of nonsensical monotonous videos. And i wrote a post about it. And then i received a comment from the real Kyle Kallgren – and it turned out that this channel  is not his – but a troll-impostor as he called him. And it’s fascinating in many ways. You may wonder
  
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• Picasso Sculpture review – a dumbfounding triumph

  11-09-2015 21:09
  
  With its pornographic plasters and bad-mannered bronzes, this thrilling exhibition resets Picasso for a new era. In three dimensions, the artist shocksModern art – like Theseus, like Jesus Christ – has two fathers. Dad No 1, arrogant and priapic, is Pablo Picasso: the Spaniard who (with his buddy Braque) violently broke the rules of representation and left 500 years’ worth of western artistic convention in his wake. Dad No 2, understated and suave, is Marcel Duchamp: the French
  
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• Sherman Alexie’s Racial Bias Examined

  11-09-2015 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In response to the controversy over his decision to include “Yi-Fen Chou’s” poem in the Best American Poetry anthology even after discovering that Yi-Fen Chou was actually a pen name that a white poet named Michael Derrick Hudson used in order to get published, Alexie admitted that, to him, dumping the poem would have undermined his decision to use racial bias in his selection process. Excluding the poem, he said, “would have cast doubt on every poem I have chosen for BAP
  
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• Banksy artwork set to return to Folkestone after lengthy legal battle

  11-09-2015 20:32
  
  Piece entitled Art Buff, torn from amusement arcade wall and shipped to US gallery, will return to seaside townA Banksy artwork ripped from a wall in Folkestone and shipped to the US is to be returned to the seaside town after a lengthy legal battle, in the first example of a Banksy being returned to public ownership.A British judge ruled on Friday morning that the mural, titled Art Buff, was to be returned to the place where it was originally daubed by the elusive graffiti artist during the Fol
  
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• This Dancing Robot Just Applied For A SAG Actors’ Union Card

  11-09-2015 20:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ABB’s IRB 2400, is taking steps to prevent unjust treatment of other bots by filing for membership in the Screen Actors Guild after appearing in Tuesday’s episode of America’s Got Talent.
  
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• This Year’s Giller Prize List: Some Awfully Pleasant Surprises

  11-09-2015 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 12 books they’ve chosen comprise the most intriguing and wonderfully unexpected list in the prize’s 22-year-history, an enticing mix of established names and emerging talent, and clear affirmation for the work being done by this country’s independent publishers.”
  
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• Unusual Fight Over Long-Dead Author’s Property

  11-09-2015 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Pascal Dufour, a lawyer whose family business goes back five generations, is being prosecuted for trying to sell the original manuscript of one of France’s best-known books, the Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb by Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand (1768-1848).”
  
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• Fringe Festivals Are Cool. But What Should They Really Be?

  11-09-2015 19:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ideas of what fringe theatre should be are as diverse as the acts in the largest festivals. The phrase comes from “fringe of another festival,” and the website worldfringe.com points out they “come in all different shapes and sizes; some are open access, first come first served, created by lottery, juried, part programmed or a mix of them all.” But can the ideals of a fringe—daring, a bit anti-establishment, fresh new voices—be realized if a fringe fest
  
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• Prom 74, Royal Albert Hall review: Jarvis Cocker explores the human subconscious in an immersive night

  11-09-2015 19:19
  
  Billed as an “underwater odyssey of music and story-telling”, Jarvis Cocker’s Wireless Night at the Proms brings the imagination of his Radio 4 programme to the Royal Albert Hall, which is bathed in a watery blue light.
  
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• Allen Ginsberg and a vandalised vagina – the week in art

  11-09-2015 19:19
  
  Ai Weiwei opens up about Chinese censorship and his friend the beat poet, as we reveal the hottest shows of the autumn. Plus Anish Kapoor’s ‘queen’s vagina’ sculpture has been vandalised – and he’s being taken to court for it
  Drawing in Silver and Gold: The art of silverpoint drawing has something alchemical about it that results in drawings of ethereal beauty. This is a seductive and satisfying encounter with truly great art, from Leonardo da Vinci’s he
  
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• Remembering The Boozy, Wild Beginnings Of The Toronto Film Festival

  11-09-2015 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The first was a success, but not the way I thought it would be: It was a very duct-taped situation. Before this, Toronto was a dull black-and-white town. You went out to the opera, had a glass of punch, then went home. But we were partying as hard as we could into the small hours of the morning. We brought out the rock-and-roll side of Toronto.”
  
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• Is Political Correctness Cutting Off Necessary Debate?

  11-09-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Argument and debate, however heated, outrageous, offensive, hurtful and, profane is the price we pay for the privilege of speaking freely.We are currently going through a period where speech is being severely restricted and goalposts of tolerance are moving closer to allegedly protect people from discomfort of any kind.”
  
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• What Artificial Intelligence Could Be

  11-09-2015 18:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Nowadays, robots work alongside humans in hotels and factories, while driverless cars are being test driven on the roads. Behind the scenes, AI engines in the form of smart algorithms “work” on stock exchanges, offer up suggestions for books and films on Amazon and Netflix and even write the odd article. But AI does not have the greatest public image – often due to sci-fi films that display dystopian visions of robots taking over the world.”
  
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• Think A Robot Can’t Replace Your Job? Here Are The Odds

  11-09-2015 18:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “About 35% of current jobs in the UK are at high risk of computerisation over the following 20 years, according to a study by researchers at Oxford University and Deloitte.”
  
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• ‘Tarik Kiswanson: No Hard Feelings’ at Almine Rech, Paris

  11-09-2015 17:53 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Tarik Kiswanson: No Hard Feelings” is on view at Almine Rech in Paris through October 3. The Palestinian-born, Swedish-based artist blurs the line between art and design in … Read More
  
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• Can Musicians Stop Donald Trump From Playing Their Music If They Don’t Want Him To?

  11-09-2015 17:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s not surprising that musicians would be upset at their work being appropriated this way. But do they have any rights to songs that they have released to the public? How are these messes likely to resolve?”
  
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• In Season-Starting Sales, Auctionata Aims for ‘Broader Audience’

  11-09-2015 16:20 via artnews.com
  This week, Kenny Schachter brought us up to speed on the sales to watch this season. Here’s another to add to the list, from the online world: the web-based auction house Auctionata is opening the season with a two-session sale on September … Read More
  
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• Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? Mike Kelley’s Final, Superman-Inspired Works Land In Chelsea

  11-09-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  One unexpected thing I witnessed during the opening of the New York art world’s fall season this week was Paul Schimmel—whom the Los Angeles Times once described as having “a more impressive record of exhibitions and acquisitions in the field … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Dr. Brandt Edition

  11-09-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  Update: Anish Kapoor is now being sued by a Versailles politician for choosing not to remove the anti-Semitic epithets left on his Versailles sculpture, Dirty Corner, by vandals. [The Guardian]Eloise Hawser’s “Lives on Wire” at the Institute of Contemporary Art London. [Contemporary … Read More
  
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• A bongo player, Ainsley Harriott, Banksy's true self - REVIEWED

  11-09-2015 14:51
  
  Every Friday, we review things that desperately need appraising but seldom receive the critical treatment they deserve. We also review things that really don’t need appraising at all. In any way. We’ll review your suggestions too, suggest in the comments or @guideguardianThe Mail’s Banksy exposé - REVIEWED Continue reading...
  
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• Ai Weiwei webchat – as it happened

  11-09-2015 14:02
  
  The controversial Chinese artist joined us to answer your questions in a live webchat – catch up with his answers here, from China’s censorship to why he loves Twitter, via how he became friends with Allen Ginsberg in New York 1.17pm BSTThanks to Ai Weiwei for his time and his brilliant answers, and to everyone who submitted questions. Until next time!12.56pm BSTID9191105 asks:I teach in a High School in Nanjing China. Not one of my 16-17 year old students know who you are. How do yo
  
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• Ai Weiwei webchat – live now

  11-09-2015 13:07
  
  The controversial Chinese artist is with us now to answer your questions in a live webchat – post yours in the comments below 12.07pm BSTAnd he is exposing himself to your questions.9.58am BSTFrom his vast sea of sunflower seeds in Tate Modern, to his vision for the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, Ai Weiwei’s art is arresting in its scale, moving in its humanity, witty in its iconoclasm – and strident in its politics.His art and campaigns – including the naming of s
  
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• Zen Foxes: A photographer is capturing nature's 'masters of mindfulness'

  11-09-2015 12:58
  
  “The most beautiful animals are happy animals,” says Roeselien Raimond, a Dutch nature photographer who specialises in capturing foxes at rest.
  
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• ‘How One Of America’s Last Free Colleges Screwed Its Students And Betrayed Its Legacy’ – Felix Salmon On Cooper Union

  11-09-2015 10:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Cooper Union would have been better governed by a stinking pile of rotting horseflesh. Horses, dead or alive, don’t happily sign away the very thing they are being charged with protecting.
  
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• Female cartoonist on indecency charge for shaking man's hand: Thousands petition to free Atena Farghadani

  11-09-2015 10:50
  
  A petition calling for the release of an imprisoned Iranian artist whose sentence looks set to be increased because she shook her lawyer’s hand has reached nearly 10,000 signatures.
  
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• Israel Recovers Ancient Sarcophagus Hidden By Contractors

  11-09-2015 10:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The limestone coffin [is] estimated at 1,800 years old and discovered last week during work on a new neighbourhood in coastal city Ashkelon … The contractors who encountered the find opted to extract it themselves with a tractor, damaging it before hiding it beneath a stack of metal sheets and boards.”
  
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• Ancient Native American Rock Art Defaced With Graffiti – By Geology Students

  11-09-2015 10:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Fortunately (if that’s the word), the taggers included their names and the university they attend. (includes video)
  
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• When White Poets Pretend To Be Asian

  11-09-2015 10:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hua Hsu on the Yi-Fen Chou/Best American Poetry affair (which he calls “Orientalist profiteering”): “It makes a mockery of whatever ‘life story of a Chinese American poet’ the name Chou might have stood in for. It ridicules the ambient self-doubt that trails most people from the margins who enter into spaces where they were never encouraged to belong. As though it were all just a game, meant to be gamed.”
  
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• All Scientists Should Be ‘Militant Atheists’

  11-09-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lawrence M. Krauss: “Astronomers have no problem ridiculing the claims of astrologists, even though a significant fraction of the public believes these claims. Doctors have no problem condemning the actions of anti-vaccine activists who endanger children. And yet, for reasons of decorum, many scientists worry that ridiculing certain religious claims alienates the public from science. When they do so, they are being condescending at best and hypocritical at worst.”
  
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• Playing A Violin, From The Violin’s Perspective

  11-09-2015 09:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Pavel Frumin hit the streets of Kiev, Ukraine, with a GoPro at either end of his violin. The cameras reveal his fingers racing up and down the instrument’s fingerboard as if in some crazy finger tap dance.” (video)
  
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• Billie Holiday To Sing At The Apollo This Fall – As A Hologram

  11-09-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Apollo has partnered with Hologram USA to bring extended, permanent hologram technology to the theater. Ms. Holiday, who performed at the Apollo in the flesh nearly 30 times, will be the first, and is scheduled to debut around Thanksgiving.”
  
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• Don’t Make Fun Of Luddites – They Have A Point

  11-09-2015 09:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We shouldn’t automatically dismiss [the Luddite impulse] as one that scapegoats technology for society’s ills or pines for a simpler past free of irritating gadgets. Rather, today’s Luddites are scared that technology will reveal that humans are no different from technology – that it will eliminate what it means to be human. And frankly, I don’t blame them.”
  
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• Hollywood’s Elephant Theatre Co. Closes Up Shop, At Least For Now

  11-09-2015 09:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The award-winning company, which has built a reputation for championing new American plays, is the latest casualty on Hollywood’s Theatre Row, which has seen an exodus of companies in recent years due to rising rents and other real-estate woes.”
  
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• Mitsuko Uchida, Sylvie Guillem, Dominique Perrault, Tadanori Yokoo, Wolfgang Laib Win Japan’s $124,000 Praemium Imperiale

  11-09-2015 09:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Established in 1989, the Praemium Imperiale recognizes achievements in five cultural categories: architecture, painting, sculpture, music and theater/film.”
  
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• Bard College Starts Up New World Symphony-Style Postgrad Orchestra

  11-09-2015 09:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The ensemble, called The Orchestra Now, provides free tuition, health benefits, and a $24,000 annual stipend. This year TON will be performing at Bard, Carnegie Hall, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and plans to give free concerts in New York City’s outer boroughs and East Village.
  
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• Trisha Brown Dance Company Partners With Bard College

  11-09-2015 09:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As part of the relationship, which begins this month, Bard will have rights to rehearse and perform selections from Ms. Brown’s repertory. … Artists from the troupe will embed in the faculty, teaching classes and shaping the school’s course offerings to reflect … not so much Ms. Brown’s technique as her way of thinking.”
  
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• When Did Crying Become Unmanly? It Didn’t Use To Be …

  11-09-2015 09:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Historical and literary evidence suggests that, in the past, not only did men cry in public, but no one saw it as feminine or shameful. In fact, male weeping was regarded as normal in almost every part of the world for most of recorded history. … So where did all the male tears go? The truth is, we don’t know for certain. There was no anti-crying movement.”
  
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• Four Bolshoi Stars Discuss The Most Romantic Ballet Of All

  11-09-2015 08:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Evgenia Obraztsova: “Many people think that Giselle just dies and her ghost is a shell. I personally think it is a soul.” Anastasia Stashkevich: “I opened my eyes when the curtain closed and I just didn’t understand. I died with my heroine and couldn’t imagine how I could compose myself and perform the second act.” (video)
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.10.15

  11-09-2015 07:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whopping Risk for Sotheby’s: Some $500 Million Guaranteed to Taubman Estate
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-09-10Public Art Highlights from first week in September
  AJBlog: Aesthetic Grounds Published 2015-09-10From Fleet Street to Biafra … and to MI6
  AJBlog: Straight|Up Published 2015-09-10So you want to see a show?
  AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-09-10
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• Arthur Streeton to be first Australian artist to feature in London's National Gallery

  11-09-2015 03:09
  
  Curator says Streeton demonstrated in his 1890 Blue Pacific how impressionism addressed the ‘awesome landscape unique to Australia’London’s National Gallery is for the first time featuring a painting by an Australian artist.
  Arthur Streeton’s Blue Pacific, depicting cliffs and the sea at Coogee in Sydney, has been lent to the gallery by a private Australian collector for the next two years.Continue reading...
  
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• Minnesota School District Returns Books Because Of Cultural Stereotypes

  11-09-2015 02:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The district paid Reading Horizons $1.2 million for a new reading curriculum for kindergarten through third grade. When teachers got the books, they found an illustration of an American Indian girl titled “Nieko the Hunting Girl,” and another with a black girl called “Lazy Lucy.” The books also referenced Christopher Columbus’ discovery of America, a historical milestone no longer taught in many schools.
  
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• Why Americans Give To What They Give To (A Debate)

  11-09-2015 00:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A 2010 survey by Hope Consulting found that only 16% of American donors give according to calculations of impact. For most, giving is guided by seemingly irrational ties to the communities in which they live. They give to organizationsthat are recommended by friends; that reflect their religious beliefs; that have had an impact on them or their loved ones; or that provide visible evidence of change within their local community. Yet according to the effective altruist philosophy, thesereas
  
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• Theft of nine Warhol prints in Los Angeles went undetected for years

  11-09-2015 00:29
  
  An estimated $350,000 worth of silk screen prints hanging in movie business were discovered to be replaced with fakes after one was taken to be reframed Nine original Andy Warhol prints were quietly stolen from a Los Angeles movie business and replaced with fakes in an art heist that went undetected for years, police and court documents showed on Thursday. The silk screen prints worth an estimated $350,000 are from the artist’s 1983 series Endangered Species and his 1980 Ten Portraits of J
  
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