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• Collector Joel Greene Countersues Honolulu Art Museum in Provenance Feud

  17-09-2015 23:22 via artnews.com
  On July 31, we learned from Courthouse News that the Honolulu Art Museum had filed a lawsuit against collector and philanthropist Joel Alexander Greene for failing to prove that five Southeast Asian works he had donated to the museum in 2004 … Read More
  
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• Carnegie Hall Chairman To Step Down After Accusing CEO And Board Of Bad Governance

  17-09-2015 22:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Less than a day after the leak of an email in which board chair Ronald Perelman said that executive and artistic director Clive Gillinson had shown “a troubling lack of transparency” and that the Board of Directors was failing to provide “appropriate oversight,” Perelman told the board’s executive committee he would not stand for re-election next month.
  
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• Dance As Protest: Pretty Big Movement

  17-09-2015 22:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Pretty Big Movement, seven big women who seamlessly blend African dance with hip hop, plan to stage a protest dance for Black Lives Matter this month. They’ll perform in front of a police precinct down the street from where they rehearse at the Harlem YMCA.”
  
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• Study: There’s A Difference In The “Promiscuity” Of Audiences

  17-09-2015 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “New research drawn from Audience Finder, based mainly on performing arts data, shows that the most highly engaged attenders, those who made six or more bookings per year, account for less than 12% of all bookers in the last three years. This select group is, however, responsible for making more than half (52%) of all the bookings made in the last three years. At the same time, 54% all those who have attended the arts in the last three years have only booked once. At 17.3% these one-time b
  
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• Much-Anticipated Movie Pulled From Toronto Film Festival After Lawsuit

  17-09-2015 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Thursday, the film was withdrawn from the Toronto International Film Festival just one day before it was set to enjoy its world premiere after news emerged that the film’s director, Matthew Cullen, has moved to sue the producers for fraud. It’s a turnabout almost worthy of the novel’s unpredictable comic suspense.”
  
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• New Galleries Flock To LA’s Art District Attracted By Lots Of Space

  17-09-2015 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Of roughly two dozen galleries now in the district and its environs, half have opened in the last year, drawn in part by a glut of cheap space. A fistful came from New York or Europe, all vying for talent and clientele. And there will be more, like the blue-chip Hauser Wirth & Schimmel’s 100,000-square-foot complex coming next spring. Within a few minutes’ drive of one another, the galleries are beginning to give the area the urban cultural density that Los Angeles mostly lacks.
  
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• An Odd Opera Racial Tradition Now Coming To An End At The Met Opera

  17-09-2015 21:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That leading opera houses have continued to use blackface into the early 21st century, long after minstrel shows and similar performances have been rejected as racist, may be more surprising to many people than that the practice is now being ended by the Met, after 124 years, for the new production of “Otello” that will open its 2015-16 season on Monday, Sept. 21.
  
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• Artadia Announces Recipients of 2015 Chicago Awards

  17-09-2015 21:00 via artnews.com
  Artadia announced today that LaMont Hamilton, Cauleen Smith, Laura Davis, and Irena Haiduk are the winners of this year’s Chicago Artadia Awards. The four artists, all of whom are based in the Chicago area, were selected by Museum of Contemporary … Read More
  
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• Nichole Caruso, Former Wallspace Director, Joins Lisa Cooley

  17-09-2015 20:53 via artnews.com
  Nichole Caruso, a former director of the late Chelsea gallery Wallspace, which closed last month after 12 years in business, will be joining the Lower East Side gallery Lisa Cooley as a director, Cooley announced today.Wallspace closed permanently on August 7, choosing not … Read More
  
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• Urbexing – The Art Of Recording Unique Places Before They Disappear

  17-09-2015 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Places are hot one day and gone the next while others stand the test of time as they resist the developers and the demolition men. But however long the window of opportunity, the urbexers steal through it. They leave nothing but footprints, take nothing away except photographs.
  
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• The 20 Most-Produced Playwrights Of Last Season

  17-09-2015 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  American Theatre looked at 2,159 productions at 386 theatres. The gender breakdown on this list is 15 men, 4 women. Just 3 playwrights—Ayad Akhtar, August Wilson, and Dominique Morisseau—are non-white. Compared to last year’s Top 20 list—with 3 women to 17 men, and 4 playwrights of color—the trend lines are staying consistent, for better or worse).
  
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• Remake Of LA Car Museum Is Gaudy, Retro (Not In A Good Way), And…

  17-09-2015 20:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to the architects, the façade is meant to “evoke the imagery of speed and the organic curves of a coach-built automobile.” And this will no doubt attract attention from passing motorists. But we’re getting a Vegas-esque distillation of every bad architectural trend. Corrugated aluminum? Check. Steel cladding? Check. There is an old axiom in design, “If you can’t make it good, make it big. And if you can’t make it big, make it red.” The r
  
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• Why We Don’t Need A Unifying Theory For How Everything Works

  17-09-2015 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We don’t need an answer to the question of life’s meaning, just as we don’t need a theory of everything. What we need are multifarious descriptions of many things, further descriptions of phenomena that change the aspect under which they are seen, that light them up and let us see them anew.”
  
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• A Glut Of Indie Films (Why?)

  17-09-2015 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The super-abundance of TV programming can be traced to the basic laws of supply and demand — the network appetite keeps growing. The increase in indie film production is more idiosyncratic.
  
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• Habitat: Nick van Woert

  17-09-2015 19:59 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Nick van Woert in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. “What I’ve started to see and what has defined the subtext to much of the work I do is that the comfort that … Read More
  
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• Massachusetts College of Art and Design – Presidential Search

  17-09-2015 19:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) announces a search for President of the College. Founded in 1873, MassArt has a legacy of leadership as the nation’s first and only freestanding public college of art and design, as well as the first art college in the country to grant a degree. The next president joins MassArt at an opportune time in its history and will work with dedicated and engaged trustees, faculty, staff, and students to advance its public-private partnership and to
  
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• How the world caught up with Wolfgang Tillmans

  17-09-2015 19:04
  
  Tillmans may be criticised for photographing startlingly uninteresting moments – from weeds to watermelon stains – but in our age of image overload, we are all him now“Many artists try to predict what will look good forever,” Wolfgang Tillmans told the attentive audience at the preview for his show PCR, at the David Zwirner gallery in New York on Thursday. “It’s impossible. There is only the here and now.”
  What might be called the hereness and nowness of
  
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• Executive Director, Lyric Performing Arts Center

  17-09-2015 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Patricia & Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric invites applications and referrals for the position of Executive Director. We seek an industry professional who will be an articulate champion for the Lyric, a dynamic and entrepreneurial leader with a thorough grounding in performing arts facility management and a strong track record in change management, strategic thinking, diversified programming, community partnerships, branding, and fiscal responsibility. Some knowledge of
  
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• Detroit Institute of Arts Appoints Salvador Salort-Pons Director, President, and CEO

  17-09-2015 18:58 via artnews.com
  The Detroit Free Press reported that the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) has named Salvador Salort-Pons director, president, and CEO, effective October 15. Salort-Pons currently serves as the DIA’s executive director of collection strategies and information. The announcement comes three months … Read More
  
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• ‘Knifer, Mangelos, Vanista’ at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

  17-09-2015 18:30 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Knifer, Mangelos, Vaništa” is currently on view at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York. The group show features work from Julije Knifer, Mangelos, and Josip Vaništa—the three founding … Read More
  
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• Free and easy: how European drawing finally caught up with China

  17-09-2015 17:48
  
  This year’s Jerwood drawing prizewinners epitomise a welcome looser style, showing us a whole new generation of pencil pushers
  Recently I was looking at Renaissance drawings with a Chinese friend. The works we were looking at were vast and made with a complex mix of coloured media. She explained that it’s hard to describe drawings like this in Chinese because there is just one word for “drawing”, which simply suggests a flowing sketch. China’s art has always been ba
  
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• At the New York Art Book Fair This Weekend: Erotica by Badlands, Balzac by Powers, Arcangel by Arcangel

  17-09-2015 17:47 via artnews.com
  It’s hard to beat New York in September. The weather cools, the new art season begins, and the New York Art Book Fair arrives at MoMA PS1, the rare art bazaar where anyone with a little bit of money in … Read More
  
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• When Failing Better Leads to Better Sex: Paul Chan’s Antithetical Erotic Vision

  17-09-2015 17:00 via artnews.com
  Earlier this year, various members of the press gathered on the fifth floor of the Guggenheim Museum in New York for the opening of a solo show for Paul Chan, the most recent recipient of the biennial Hugo Boss Prize, … Read More
  
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• Robert Sheffield Hired as Associate Director of Dominique Lévy in London

  17-09-2015 16:40 via artnews.com
  Dominique Lévy announced today that Robert Sheffield will be joining the gallery’s London branch as associate director. Sheffield currently works at Christie’s, where he has been the associate director of the UK chairman’s office since 2010. He will start at … Read More
  
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• Maria Roosen, artist: 'I do textiles, knitting … all those things that are not the real things'

  17-09-2015 16:00
  
  Maria Roosen lives and works in a former military base on the outskirts of Arnhem, a small city in the Netherlands, near the German border. She bought the building that she, three friends and her partner Jan Broekstra, a ceramic artist, are currently restoring.
  
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• ‘If You Can’t Find Something Good Enough, You Have to Make It Yourself’: Flavin Judd On Curating His Father’s Work at 101 Spring Street and Beyond

  17-09-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Donald Judd, the key figure of Minimalism, even though he hated that term, purchased the five-story building at 101 Spring Street in New York in 1968, where he lived and worked until his death, refining his thoughts on the intersection … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Matthew Barney Edition

  17-09-2015 14:50 via artnews.com
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• Artes Mundi 7: Shortlist revealed for UK's largest contemporary art prize

  17-09-2015 11:41
  
  Two British artists have been shortlisted for the UK’s biggest contemporary art prize.
  
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• Battle Between Carnegie Hall’s New Chairman And Longtime CEO Over ‘Transparency’

  17-09-2015 10:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In an email sent to other board members, Ronald O. Perelman, the famously combative finance executive who became Carnegie’s chairman in February, said there was “a troubling lack of transparency and openness in the way [executive director] Clive Gillinson was interacting with me and the Board.”
  
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• Why Singapore Censored An All-Male ‘Importance Of Being Earnest’

  17-09-2015 10:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The company W!ld Rice was by no means the first to cast a man as Lady Bracknell, but Gwendolyn and Cicely were played by men, too – and not in drag. “The play was transformed into a homoromantic comedy – a love letter to same-sex marriage.” This fell afoul of section 377A of Singapore’s penal code – the same “gross indecency” law under which Oscar Wilde himself was sent to prison.
  
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• Instead Of Arrests, Subway Dancers Are Getting A Stage Above Ground

  17-09-2015 10:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As part of a pilot program aimed at curbing illicit performances on the rails, the de Blasio administration is urging dancers to take their act above ground, setting aside outdoor space for performances that can allow dancers to earn tips legally.”
  
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• On Creating A Company: Twyla Tharp Blogs The Final Rehearsals For Her 50th Anniversary Tour

  17-09-2015 10:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What makes a company? It is, like a good performance, greater than the sum of its parts. It brings together a wealth of experiences and commitments that create a single foundation. Tacitly expressed in the dancing is a guarantee to the audience that whatever goes down, there’s no need for panic because onstage we have your back.”
  
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• Private art goes public in trailblazing Sheffield show

  17-09-2015 10:00
  
  Organisers hope that convincing collectors to allow pieces to be displayed all over city will help art to flourish in futureA pioneering art project has begun in Sheffield, bringing works from the collections of four international private art collectors into the public galleries and spaces across the city.The city-wide exhibition, titled Going Public, has seen rarely displayed pieces by artists such as Marcel Duchamp, the Chapman brothers and Sol LeWitt, all belonging to European collectors, dis
  
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• ‘This Week, Hedda Gabler Will Die On Twitter’

  17-09-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There will be no further Tweets from @Heddathruaglass where, over the last two years, Katherine Tozer has been tweeting every day in character charting Hedda’s life, latterly on her extended honeymoon with her husband in Europe. Over the last few days, the daily tweet has brought Hedda closer and closer to home and the point where Ibsen’s play begins.”
  
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• New Music Gets Its Own Mini-Carnegie Hall – In Brooklyn, Of Course

  17-09-2015 09:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s nothing else quite like it in New York. Establishment venues like Zankel Hall have welcomed composers, the 28-year-old organization Bang on a Can has colonized virtually every concert space in the city, and (Le) Poisson Rouge has found a winning combination of eclectic programming, casual atmosphere, and poor acoustics. But new music has never had its own miniature Carnegie Hall, a space explicitly designed for musical experimentation.”
  
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• Walter Isaacson Turns Down Offer To Be Librarian Of Congress: Report

  17-09-2015 09:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A source told Politico that the 63-year-old Isaacson – former chairman and CEO of CNN, former managing editor of Time, currently president of the Aspen Institute, and author of admired biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Kissinger, and Steve Jobs – was approached by the White House about the job and declined.
  
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• Why Are Boston Accents So Wicked Awful In Movies?

  17-09-2015 09:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Boston native Seth Stevenson demonstrates the do’s and don’ts of non-rhoticity, the intrusive r, and the broad a. Soon enough, you’ll be pahking cahs, sawring wood, and taking a bahth.” (video)
  
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• The Secret To Self-Confidence (And Stardom) Is Simply Hard Work, Says Mindy Kaling

  17-09-2015 09:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “People talk about confidence without ever bringing up hard work. That’s a mistake. I know I sound like some dour older spinster on Downton Abbey who has never felt a man’s touch and whose heart has turned to stone, but I don’t understand how you could have self-confidence if you don’t do the work.”
  
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• Melvin Bernhardt, 84, Tony-Winning Director

  17-09-2015 09:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Known for his astute casting and skillful work with actors,” Bernhard directed two Pultizer-winning plays – Paul Zindel’s The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1970) and Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart (1980) – and picked up a Tony for his 1978 production of Hugh Leonard’s Da.
  
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• Ta-Nehisi Coates, Sally Mann Lead List Of National Book Award Nonfiction Nominees

  17-09-2015 08:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The nominated works, which were announced on Wednesday, tackle a diverse array of subjects, and include a book that explores the rich inner lives of octopuses; a deeply researched account of the outpouring of grief that followed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; and a natural and cultural history of rain that, according to one critic, ‘will make a rain fanatic out of anyone.'”
  
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• Now That He’s Won A Nobel, Author Patrick Modiano Is Finally Catching On

  17-09-2015 08:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Well, in America, we mean. “All told, 10 of his books have been published in the U.S. since the Nobel announcement last October. English translations of six more novels are due later this year and in 2016.” Here’s a Q&A with the 70-year-old French author.
  
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• Your art, our walls: the best artworks by Guardian readers – in pictures

  17-09-2015 08:00
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.16.15

  17-09-2015 06:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  How the old ways faded
  In my last post I said that I’m now not happy talking about the decline of classical music. That post was a striking anecdotal report about falling ticket sales at European music festivals, which … read more
  AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-09-16Flash: The Detroit Institute of Arts Names New Director
  They have replaced Graham Beal as director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, and it’s an inside job. Salvador Salort-Pons, the current curator of European
  
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• Detroit Institute Of Arts Picks A New Director

  17-09-2015 03:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Salvador Salort-Pons, 45, who is the DIA’s executive director of collection strategies and information and an authority on European art, will take the post effective Oct. 15.”
  
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• The Broad Museum – A History Of Collecting, Not Art

  17-09-2015 03:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s no artist or movement here that hasn’t already had abundant exposure in museums and galleries over the years, if not the decades. As a result, whatever the Broad collection may say about the art of the recent past, the real story it tells is about art collecting in our time.”
  
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• Seriously? The KFC Metropolitan Opera?

  17-09-2015 03:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We have to keep poking the tires and looking at new ways of approaching the art itself in the form of new productions and commissions, and also looking at the physical plant of the Met, and how we perform. We’re looking at everything.”
  
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• Here Are The Finalists For The 2015 Man Booker Prize

  17-09-2015 03:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Marlon James, Tom McCarthy, Chigozie Obioma, Sunjeev Sahota, Anne Tyler and Hanya Yanagihara are the six authors shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015.
  
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• Controversial Winner For The Leeds International Piano Competition

  17-09-2015 03:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anna Tcybuleva’s success certainly raised a few eyebrows after her performance of Brahms’s B flat Concerto – the last of the six concertos we heard – in which, for all the fluency of her playing, she often seemed incapable of seeing the overall shape of the work, and her role in projecting it, rather than the detail of each passing moment.
  
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• Cincinnati’s Music Hall Closes For $129 Million Renovation

  17-09-2015 03:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Officials announced Monday that the historic, 1878 landmark will completely shut down in June for what is now a $129 million construction project. Following an extensive and complex renovation, it will reopen in fall 2017.”
  
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• Ottawa’s New Music Director Was A Tough Choice

  17-09-2015 02:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The National Arts Centre’s search for a successor to veteran maestro Pinchas Zukerman was an epic story of its own It went on for 15 months, according to Peter Herrndorf, who is the CEO and known among arts leaders across the country as the godfather of Canadian culture.”
  
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