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• Season Three of the Met’s ‘Artist Project’ Series Is Now Online

  16-09-2015 22:12 via artnews.com
  Earlier today, the Metropolitan Museum of Art posted the third season of its acclaimed online video series The Artist Project, in which artists from around the world are asked to pick an object from the Met’s collection and talk about … Read More
  
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• Omar Kholeif Named Senior Curator at MCA Chicago

  16-09-2015 21:43 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago shared news today that it has hired Omar Kholeif, a curator at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, as its new Manilow Senior Curator.Kholeif’s curatorial credits at Whitechapel include “Fiona Banner: Stamp out Photographie,” “James … Read More
  
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• What Are America’s Music Critics Most Looking Forward To At The Metropolitan Opera?

  16-09-2015 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A few critics found little reason for enthusiasm at all. Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times said in a telephone interview: “Looking over the schedule, I’m almost shocked … Only two operas from the last 100 years. … Nothing by an American composer. Nothing of our time. Sadly, this reflects what’s going on at major houses all over the country.”
  
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• Paul’s Pile Of Papers: Paul Bright On His Paper Rad Collection And Forthcoming Book

  16-09-2015 20:07 via artnews.com
  To see zoomable versions of the images in this post, please click on them.The East Coast art collective Paper Rad existed for less than a decade, from very roughly 2001 to 2008, but in that short amount of time it … Read More
  
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• The Broad Museum’s Big LA Statement

  16-09-2015 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When it opens on September 20, the Broad will become the city’s second richest museum behind the Getty—its endowment of $200 million is more than the endowments of the neighboring Museum of Contemporary Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art—as well as the latest edition to the developing downtown arts district. Commissioned by the billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad and his wife Edythe, the $140 million museum will showcase and store the couple’s more than
  
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• John Dougill obituary

  16-09-2015 19:30
  
  My friend the artist and teacher John Dougill, who has died aged 81, was a highly influential force in London art schools for nearly four decades.He grew up in Liverpool. As a child during the second world war he remembered watching the huge warships on the Mersey and collecting warm pieces of shrapnel after bombing raids on the docks. His mother, Ileene (nee Bridgwater), was a physiotherapist, and his father, Wesley, professor of architecture at Liverpool University, worked on the Abercrombie p
  
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• ‘Xavier Veilhan: Horizonte Verde’ at Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo

  16-09-2015 19:05 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Xavier Veilhan: Horizonte Verde” is on view at Galeria Nara Roesler in São Paulo. Featuring monochrome lithographs, mobiles, and sculptures created using 3D sculptures, Veilhan mixes elements of formal … Read More
  
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• And for my next trick! Art's master illusionist Alex Chinneck defies gravity – again

  16-09-2015 18:54
  
  He’s made bricks melt and flipped whole buildings upside down, but his new artwork trumps all that. Alex Chinneck reveals the secrets behind his new perilous pylon – and why all public artworks are doomed to failAlex Chinneck is not a man who makes life easy for himself. In fact, at any crossroads, the British sculptor admits he will always choose the path of most resistance, risk and challenge.
  This way of working may have deprived him of sleep for the past five years, but it has le
  
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• Our Relationship With Libraries Is Changing (Fast)

  16-09-2015 18:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Overall, perhaps people aren’t visiting libraries as much because their relationship to the printed word, still a library’s core offering, is dramatically changing.
  
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• Sound into light: the techno colour dreams of Double Vision

  16-09-2015 18:09
  
  Producer Atom TM once made salsa versions of Kraftwerk songs. Now with artist Robin Fox, he has created a spectacular laser dance show delivering noise straight to our ‘reptilian brains’The sight of a head bobbing slightly behind a laptop can’t really compare with the axe-wielding spectacle of rock, so electronic musicians have long paired themselves with flashy visuals. The best are unforgettable – Daft Punk’s disco pyramid, Kraftwerk’s 3D projections –
  
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• Bridget Riley review – pounding psychedelic art that will make you see the world differently

  16-09-2015 18:06
  
  Courtauld Gallery, London
  Britain’s most revolutionary painter joins the dots between Georges Seurat’s pointillist paintings and her own utopian explosions of joy in an exhibition of pure geniusLooking from Bridget Riley’s mind-boggling 1960s paintings to Georges Seurat’s calm river scene in The Bridge at Courbevoie, painted in 1886-7, is not only thought-provoking but puts your eyes to the test. After looking at her pounding psychedelic art, I could barely see the Seurat
  
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• Here’s the Exhibitor List for the 2015 Edition of the Untitled Fair in Miami Beach

  16-09-2015 17:40 via artnews.com
  The Untitled art fair has released the exhibitor list for its fourth edition, which will be held December 2–6 in Miami Beach, per usual. Coinciding with Miami Art Week, Untitled will feature 119 galleries, nonprofit exhibition spaces, and institutions from … Read More
  
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• The “Happy Birthday” Copyright Case Shows The Absurdity Of Current Copyright Law

  16-09-2015 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How can a song from the 19th century be protected by copyright? Don’t songs (and other works) enter the public domain after a reasonable amount of time? Even Irving Berlin, who died at age 101 in 1980, couldn’t outlive the rights to his songs. Welcome to the crazy world of copyright law—or, as I prefer to call it, “Intellectual Property Rights Gone Wild!”
  
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• Study: Participation In The Arts Driven By Education, Not Class

  16-09-2015 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sociologist Aaron Reeves of the University of Oxford reports most forms of arts participation are strongly correlated not with class, but rather with education. To his surprise, he found that in a large sample of the English population, those with higher incomes were actually less likely to be active participants in the arts.”
  
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• Proceeds From Sale of $60 M. Cy Twombly Will Benefit Wilshire Boulevard Temple

  16-09-2015 16:08 via artnews.com
  On November 11, Sotheby’s in New York will sell Cy Twombly’s Untitled, 1968 (New York City), with estimated price exceeding $60 million, according to the auction house. The painting comes from the collection of philanthropist Audrey Irmas, and the sale … Read More
  
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• Extraordinary outsiders: the makers who don't know they're artists

  16-09-2015 15:35
  
  They may not communicate in conventional ways, but the art in a provocative new exhibition made by people with neurological impairments gives a rare glimpse into their secret worldsSharif is wearing his Al Murray mask today (some days it’s Barack Obama, other days the Queen). He is busy cutting out an intricate floorplan of a hotel to stick into Continent City, a new map he’s making in his sketchbook. Continue reading...
  
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• Morning Links: Massage Parlor Gallery Edition

  16-09-2015 14:41 via artnews.com
  Archiv Franz West is suing Gagosian Gallery over its new exhibition of furniture designed by the Austrian sculptor, claiming the pieces are unauthorized imitations that will hurt the late artist’s reputation. [Hyperallergic]Bosnia’s National Museum has reopened after a three-year shutdown. … Read More
  
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• Most U.S. Authors Earn Less Than Poverty Level, Says Study

  16-09-2015 10:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In its first study on author income since 2009, the Authors Guild delivers some jarring, if unsurprising, data. The survey, which will be released next week, indicates, among other things, that the majority of authors would be living below the Federal Poverty Level if they relied solely on income from their writing.”
  
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• Paris Opera Introduces A Digital ‘Third Stage’

  16-09-2015 10:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  3e Scène, conceived by new Paris Opera Ballet director Benjamin Millepied, “includes 18 films in its first batch of offerings. The filmmakers include the French actor-director Mathieu Amalric, the director Rebecca Zlotowski, [etc.] … Mr. Millepied said that the website aimed to produce around 30 new works each season, and to extend to installations, readings and other events.”
  
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• The Man Booker Prize Shortlist Is Out (And Marilynne Robinson’s Not On It)

  16-09-2015 10:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The National Book Award winner Lila didn’t make the finals. But Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life is there, as are titles by fellow American Anne Tyler, Britons Tom McCarthy and Sunjeev Sahota, Jamaican Marlon James, and Nigerian Chigozie Obioma.”
  
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• Margaret Atwood On The Disappointments Of Being A Famous Writer

  16-09-2015 10:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[It’s] different to being a famous rock star. With a writer, people bond to the books. Nobody wants my shoelaces. … One of the few privileges of being older is people put my bags on the overhead racks for me. It’s too hair-raising for them to watch me climb up on to the seat.”
  
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• Isamu Noguchi Left A Lot Of Work Behind In Japan – What’s Going To Happen To It?

  16-09-2015 09:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Making a museum of the Japanese sculptor’s old studio on the island of Shikoku has proven to be a long, complicated matter, with challenging issues concerning the ownership of the artwork, the buildings and the land on which they sit.
  
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• ‘Theatre Is Never Going To Be Edgy In The Way I Want It To Be,’ Says Martin McDonagh

  16-09-2015 09:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s too expensive for a start. And, the audience seems to be complicit in the dullness. It’s like going to a fancy meal in a fancy restaurant with the attitude that, I’m here and I’ve paid the money so I’m going to enjoy it even though it tastes like shite. … To be honest, I have no desire to go out and see a play. The whole nature of that experience just puts me off.”
  
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• Andy Warhol Really Did Like Campbell’s Soup

  16-09-2015 09:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Host Alec Baldwin talks to Eric Shiner, director of The Andy Warhol Museum, about the hyper-inventive multimedia star, and learns about the surprisingly deep emotional basis for Warhol’s obsession with Campbell’s Soup.” (podcast)
  
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• As Old As Humanity Itself: The Birth Of The Creative Class

  16-09-2015 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Scott Timberg: “From the very beginning – perhaps since before the birth of Homo sapiens, in fact – we have craved the effects that art and music can have on us. Simultaneously, we have both worshipful and deeply suspicious feelings toward people who make art or who dwell in the realm of the aesthetic.”
  
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• Are Superfans Today’s Equivalent Of Cult Members?

  16-09-2015 08:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Trekkies. Deadheads. Beliebers. Red Sox Nation. The throngs at ComicCon. Are fan groups like these simply means of social cohesion, or do they eventually take over their members’ lives? Jared Keller gives a glimpse into the mindset of a superfan (he’s obsessed with the ’70s band Tower of Power) and looks at the evidence.
  
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• Benjamin Millepied On The Paris Opera Ballet’s New Digital ‘Third Stage’

  16-09-2015 08:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The idea of having a third stage that’s a digital platform was really to invite [non-dance] artists to come to the opera and get a sense that they can really create something here: work with the dancers, the music, the architecture, something. … It’ll be totally original content; so far we’ve had many people, from visual artists to directors. I want them to feel they have carte blanche.”
  
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• Joffrey Ballet’s Newest Dancers Have More To Think About Than Dancing

  16-09-2015 08:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[They] must contend with their own newly emerging public identities almost as readily as they practice their turnout. Last year, Valeriia Chaykina, a dancer from Russia, was cast in an ongoing series from Teen Vogue. In 2011, Colombian-born Joan Sebastián Zamora starred in the documentary First Position, which followed six young ballet dancers preparing for New York City’s Youth American Grand Prix, one of the world’s largest ballet competitions.”
  
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• Turning Combines Into Sculptures And Printmaking With Rhubarb Stalks: Minnesota Leads The Way In Rural Arts

  16-09-2015 08:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While some of the initiatives currently underway may benefit cultural tourism, most of the efforts seem to be based on an understanding of the intrinsic value of the arts in the life of any community and the sense of belonging that anchors people to a place.”
  
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• Fake Weddings Are The Hot New Party Fad In Argentina

  16-09-2015 08:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  #falsaboda (yes, it’s a hashtag) is “a fake wedding where the bride, groom, and officiant are actors and the guests are there to party rather than celebrate a new marriage. The party-goers, usually young and single, pay between $43 and $65 for tickets, which are in high demand. The faux-wedding-goers receive a video that tells the backstory of the ‘couple,’ and they’re usually in for some kind of drama.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.15.15

  16-09-2015 07:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Where did the creative class come from?
  Your humble blogger has been absolutely swamped with a cross-country move and writing about pop culture (mostly) for Salon. I hope to never leave CultureCrash fallow for nearly this long.  … read more
  AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-09-15The Broad Broadsided: Critics Take Aim
  No good deed goes unpunished. That adage seems sadly apt when it comes to collector/philanthropist Eli Broad, whose eponymous downtown Los Angeles museum, opening Sept
  
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