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• Artistic Director – Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal

  12-09-2015 18:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal is one of North America’s leading contemporary ballet companies. Its reputation has been reinforced by many international touring successes: North America, Europe (Madrid, Berlin, Munich Paris, Venice and Milan).and the Middle East. A leader among Montreal’s cultural institutions, the company now presents works by up-and-coming artists—Christian Spuck, Stephan Thoss, Stijn Celis, Shen Wei, Didy Veldman—and renowned choreogra
  
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• A Look at the Met’s Top 10 Most Visited Exhibitions of All Time

  12-09-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  'China: Through the Looking Glass' comes in at number five Read More
  
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• Matthew Darbyshire surveys the way we live - and curate - our lives in An Exhibition for Modern Living

  12-09-2015 13:00
  
  In his recent book Curationism, the Canadian critic David Balzer notes the recent migration of the word “curated” from the artworld out across the sock drawers, playlists, and sandwich fillings of mainstream culture. It’s a tendency that can be seen to reflect the fight to find difference, soul, or personality amidst the proliferation of rapidly replaceable mass-produced consumer goods. It’s a tension within contemporary culture that also finds strong echoes in the work o
  
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• Ai Weiwei – from criminal to art-world superstar

  12-09-2015 10:00
  
  The Chinese artist talks about how his incarceration helped his career, and why he’s embarrassed about his early work – ahead of his first major UK exhibitionFor a man who in 2011 spent 81 days incarcerated without charge at the pleasure of the government of the People’s Republic of China, Ai Weiwei’s choice of Berlin studio is a curious one. Rather than an airy white room full of light, he has gone for the opposite: an extraordinary maze of underground cellars that were
  
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• When The Art Is Sarcastic…

  12-09-2015 03:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If you love art, you must be glad that thousands of people are supporting it by going to “Dismaland.” If you love cultural expression generally, you must be glad millions of people are participating in it on the Internet. But when you see bad expression praised as good — when your Facebook friends share a sarcastic news report, or a millionaire street artist puts mouse ears on an actress and tells her to frown — you must also feel some injustice has been done.&rdqu
  
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• Aleatory Accumulation Anti/Ghazals I-VII, I-VIII, & I-IX

  12-09-2015 02:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  what will you do with these last few weeks?
   
  Moon-shaped alien beetles in the wood chips
  it’s like playing chess against yourself with all literature looking over each player’s shoulders
   
  I got nothing inside me.
  The act of cutting is this work’s spiritual unity
   
  thinking it & feeling it are totally immediate
  the Boston strangler must’ve had huge hands
   
  his unabashed fascist
  I want what’s not inside there.
   
  Dreams that suffer second
  
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• Banksy: Mural painted by street artist to go on public display after charity gains ownership

  12-09-2015 01:30
  
  A mural thought to have been painted by street artist Banksy is set to go on public display after a charity won a court fight over its ownership.
  
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