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• Object-Lessons in Object-Love: A Review of MoMA’s First Picasso Sculpture Show, in 1967

  18-09-2015 23:31 via artnews.com
  Anyone who has paid any mind to the New York art world this week knows that MoMA has opened its much-hyped “Picasso Sculpture” show, the largest museum survey of sculptures by Pablo Picasso in nearly 50 years. In honor of … Read More
  
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• Former Detroit Institute of Arts Director Graham Beal to Join Michigan State University Faculty, Assist Broad Museum Director Search

  18-09-2015 23:03 via artnews.com
  Following yesterday’s news that Salvador Salort-Pons had been appointed director, president, and CEO of Detroit Institute of Arts, we learned today from MSU Today that DIA’s former director, Graham Beal, has been named Visiting Hannah Distinguished Professor at Michigan State … Read More
  
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• Expo Chicago Returns, With Big Ambitions, and Some Exhibitor Turnover

  18-09-2015 22:45 via artnews.com
  Since its phoenix-like arrival on Chicago’s Navy Pier four years ago under the direction of Tony Karman, Expo Chicago has sought to recover its city’s former reputation as one of the significant stops on the global art market circuit, a … Read More
  
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• Marin Alsop To Step Down From Cabrillo Festival

  18-09-2015 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Alsop first came to the Cabrillo Festival in the summer of 1992, following in the job famed composer John Adams who served on an interim basis for one year after the 17-year stint of Dennis Russell Davies. In her time at Cabrillo, the festival has become one of the most high-profile summer new music festivals in the world. She has brought a couple of generations of composers, musicians and conductors into Santa Cruz every summer that would have been her otherwise.”
  
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• You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Tote: The New York Art Book Fair Opens At MoMA PS1

  18-09-2015 21:22 via artnews.com
  In many ways, the annual New York Art Book Fair—which opened last night and runs all weekend at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City—can feel like the publishing version of the South by Southwest music festival, which is to say, … Read More
  
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• Can Science Of The Brain Explain How Our Music Works?

  18-09-2015 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The cerebellum helps to understand rhythm, while the center part of the brain knows the difference between a piano and a flute. There isn’t a simple science to the particular genre you like—pop, opera, classical or jazz. “It’s a combination of cultural background, and then looking at musical attributes, like melody, instrumentation, timbre, and text.”
  
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• Kongo: Power and Majesty review – African treasures inspire awe at the Met

  18-09-2015 20:43
  
  A formidably rigorous and erudite exhibition looks at Kongo civilisation across five centuries, unwinding any ‘primitivist’ stereotypes that still attend African artThey glower at you, little human that you are: fearsome, glorious spirits, more than a dozen of them, throbbing with electric power. Their heads jut forth and their torsos are thrust forward, asserting their dominance and incontrovertibility. And if that weren’t enough, they are armed – their chests studded wi
  
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• The Writer Who Would Be Thomas Pynchon (Is He, Under Pseudonym?)

  18-09-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The progenitor of this novel, its faux leather back cover attests in urine-yellow type (a hue and liquid one finds in the narrative as well), “is an independent author of idiosyncratic fiction. His work has been published under multiple pseudonyms. Including this one.” Adrian Jones Pearson. He is on Facebook, of course.
  
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• The 11 Longest-Running Shows On Broadway

  18-09-2015 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mama Mia closes this week after 14 years and more than 10,000 performances on Broadway. So which are the longest running shows?
  
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• Ellen Salpeter Appointed Director of ICA Miami

  18-09-2015 18:40 via artnews.com
  The board of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami announced that Ellen Salpeter has been named director of the museum, effective December 1. Salpeter currently holds the position of deputy director of external affairs at the Jewish Museum in New York.In … Read More
  
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• The Broad review – first exhibitions have plenty of big hitters but miss the mark

  18-09-2015 17:55
  
  LA’s new museum offers visitors a free glimpse at art heavyweights such as Jeff Koons and Yayoi Kusama, but its fuzzy concepts fail to connectThe Broad Museum in downtown Los Angeles exudes the art world equivalent of that new car smell. The building is stylish, sophisticated, and has the comforting aura of limitless financial resources. On a first walk around the place, designed by the minds behind the High Line, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, it’s easy to feel intoxicated by the natural
  
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• Metropolitan Opera Posts Budget Surplus, Year After Big Deficit, Strike

  18-09-2015 17:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The opera company, founded in 1883, on Wednesday said it closed its most recent season in the black, with a balanced budget and a $1 million surplus. The preliminary financial results, which haven’t been audited, are an improvement from the Met’s previous fiscal year. Last November, the company reported a $22 million shortfall for fiscal 2014 soon after it averted a potential lockout by striking a series of deals with unions representing its musicians, singers and stagehands.&
  
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• Want To Live Longer? Growing Evidence That The Arts Help

  18-09-2015 17:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While the issue of producing evidence of the impact is complex and much debated, researchers and practitioners have focussed energies on collecting information that gives a convincing picture of the relationship between good quality arts and cultural activity and outcomes for older people, in terms of quality of life, better health and wellbeing.”
  
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• Carnegie Hall Board Shocked By Turmoil, Chair Resignation

  18-09-2015 17:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One member of Carnegie’s board said Mr. Perelman might have decided to step aside next month because he was unlikely to be re-elected. The board member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the trustees had felt blindsided this summer when Mr. Perelman briefly suspended Mr. Gillinson. The board member added that while they would investigate the concerns he raised, they did not believe that Carnegie had governance or transparency problems, and denied that the board had been
  
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• Aleatory Accumulations I-X

  18-09-2015 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s just one of the books I have to read in order to write that
   
  He was the greatest __________ in the place.
  A stranger’s high, stupid laugh through the wall
   
  the community lets itself die because it doesn’t see itself as a self
  caught sight of a spot of ketchup resembling a ladybug
   
  she was disappearing into the mirror
  last gas for 99 miles
   
  & when I get to the beginning God can create me
  the Hinterland who’s who
   
  this tunnel has soft
  
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• ‘None of That Cartier-Bresson Stuff’: Hilton Als Addresses Diane Arbus at the New Museum

  18-09-2015 17:28 via artnews.com
  On Tuesday night, at the New Museum in New York, Hilton Als, the New Yorker’s esteemed theater critic, wore Ralph Lauren socks, shorts, clear-rimmed glasses, and a suit jacket as he read an unpublished essay about the photographer Diane Arbus.In … Read More
  
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• These visceral anatomy cross-sections are made out of old books

  18-09-2015 16:52
  
  “These pieces are made of Japanese mulberry paper and the gilded edges of old books,” artist Lisa Nilsson explains.
  
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• The Broad Museum – A Play For Greatness That…

  18-09-2015 16:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some of America’s greatest museums have been made when great collectors and great architects clicked, from the Frick Collection in New York to the Menil Collection in Houston. Though it is a pleasurable place to view extraordinary art, the Broad is not in the same class.”
  
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• Kazumi Nakamura at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

  18-09-2015 16:45 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Kazumi Nakamura currently has a solo show on view at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles. The exhibition marks the Japanese artist’s one-person debut in the United States and … Read More
  
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• A Franz West Catalogue Raisonné Is in the Works

  18-09-2015 16:40 via artnews.com
  The Franz West Privatstiftung announced today it is currently prepping a catalogue raisonné for Franz West, the Austrian artist best known for sculptural works that he made with materials like plaster and papier-mâché.Design-inspired sculptural work by West, who died at … Read More
  
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• Is This the First AIDS Artwork?

  18-09-2015 16:32 via artnews.com
  Early pieces in a new exhibition approach the disease metaphorically Read More
  
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• Consumer Reports: Cory Arcangel

  18-09-2015 16:25 via artnews.com
  Cory Arcangel is an artist based between Brooklyn, New York, and Stavanger, Norway. This weekend, he will be exhibiting at the 2015 Printed Matter Art Book Fair in a booth run by his merchandise and publishing imprint Arcangel Surfware. He … Read More
  
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• In 2016, All of SculptureCenter’s Solo Shows Will Be With Women Artists

  18-09-2015 16:07 via artnews.com
  The 2016 lineup of solo shows at SculptureCenter in Long Island City will feature projects exclusively by female artists—Rochelle Goldberg, Leslie Hewitt, Mika Tajima (doing a public commission in nearby Court Square), and Cosima von Bonin.“I would say it was … Read More
  
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• Photographer Liisa Luts decided to take her own wedding photos, with stunning results

  18-09-2015 15:22
  
  When a professional photographer gets married, who takes their wedding shots?
  
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• Morning Links: Dissident Selfie Edition

  18-09-2015 15:11 via artnews.com
  Getty Research Institute has acquired the archive of Maurice Tuchman, LACMA’s first full-time curator of modern art. [Artforum]Art dealer David Findlay Jr., owner of the 57th Street gallery of the same name, has died at the age of 82. [Artinfo]A … Read More
  
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• Teenage rampage: the photobook UK immigration tried to ban

  18-09-2015 13:56
  
  When photographer Valerie Phillips flew in her new muse Sara from the US, UK border control had other ideas. What resulted was a single night of manic creativity – and a series of jubilant images“They could have sent her home. I was on the phone to officials in the airport from noon until 8pm. In the end, they released her into my custody for 12 hours: I had to bring her back first thing the next morning.”
  Talking to photographer Valerie Phillips about her new book, You Left Yo
  
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• Cocaine paraphernalia ads in the 1970s didn’t mess around

  18-09-2015 10:57
  
  The arrival of Narcos, Netflix’s new drama series about infamous cocaine smuggler Pablo Escobar, led viewers to consider how different perceptions of the drug were in the 1970s this week, when use of it was rife in clubs and discos, and brought them to some stunningly brazen magazine ads.
  
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• Andrew Litton To Depart As Colorado Symphony Music Director

  18-09-2015 10:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He’ll conduct his usual eight concerts this season starting Friday night, then shift into a new role as artistic adviser and principal guest conductor next year. That means he’ll lead just four concerts a year during the following two seasons, leaving him more time to carry out his duties as the recently hired music director of the New York City Ballet.”
  
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• Now This Is Loyalty: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Signs For Five More Years With His First Orchestra In Montreal

  18-09-2015 10:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If all goes according to the plan announced Wednesday morning in the concourse of Place des Arts, Yannick Nézet-Séguin will become a 20-year man with his hometown Orchestre Métropolitain.”
  
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• 4,000-Year-Old, Eight-Foot-Long Egyptian Manuscript Rediscovered

  18-09-2015 10:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The oldest Egyptian leather manuscript has been found in the shelves of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, where it was stored and forgotten for more than 70 years. Dating from the late Old Kingdom to the early Middle Kingdom (2300-2000 B.C.), the roll measures about 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) and is filled with texts and colorful drawings of the finest quality.”
  
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• ‘War Horse’ To Close On West End After Seven-Year Run, Despite Ongoing Popularity

  18-09-2015 10:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Said Rufus Norris, director of Britain’s National Theatre (which originated the production), “We could keep it going for longer, we could put a new cast in and drag it out, but our subsidy is to make work here and to reach out to audiences around the country.”
  
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• ‘Brokeback Mountain’ To Be Made Into Stage Play

  18-09-2015 10:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It started as a short story, became an Oscar-winning film and then an opera, and now Brokeback Mountain is going to be adapted for the legitimate stage. Producer Tom O’Connell has acquired the rights to Annie Proulx’s short story … and the production is expected to premiere in London’s West End in 2016.”
  
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• More Personal, More Political, More Varied, More Viral – The Obituary Is Changing

  18-09-2015 10:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From a family-placed obituary in Maine that dealt openly with the deceased’s heroin addiction and the closure of the state clinic that was treating her (it was noticed nationwide), to the news obituaries (now less strait-laced) that run in big-city papers, the genre is getting multiple makeovers.
  
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• The Tolstoy of the Zulus. The Citizen Kane of Video Games. Subsumptive Analogies Are the Hitler of Figurative Speech!

  18-09-2015 10:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If garden-variety similes serve to equate two things, these lopsided comparisons force one term to exert twice the gravitational pull of the other. Call them subsumptive analogies. Condescension is usually baked right in.”
  
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• Enough With the Queer and Trans Films That Are Actually About Straight People

  18-09-2015 10:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kyle Buchanan: “Nor am I saying that just because a movie features a gay or trans character that that character deserves to be the undisputed lead … But if these movies are being made because the queer and trans characters are so fascinating, let’s keep those characters at the center, where they belong.”
  
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• Photographer zooms out to show the falsity of Instagram photos

  18-09-2015 10:16
  
  Instagram’s square parameters are ostensibly there to make everything fit nicely in the app, but they also serve to censor the real world, cropping out the mundane and appearing as windows into some unrecognisable, perfectly-tinted utopia.
  
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• After ‘Being John Malkovich’ And ‘Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind’, Charlie Kaufman Makes An All-Puppet Movie (And Wins Prizes For It)

  18-09-2015 10:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The fact that they’re puppets being manipulated becomes an existential issue as well. You know someone’s manipulating them – they don’t know it.”
  
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• David Willcocks, Who Led Choir Of King’s College, Cambridge To Worldwide Fame, Dead At 95

  18-09-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With dozens of recordings, the globally beloved Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols on Christmas Eve, his decades directing London’s Bach Choir (Britain’s most prominent large amateur chorus), and innumerable descants for church hymns, Willcocks was one of the most influential choral conductors of the 20th century.
  
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• The Late Claudio Abbado Gets A Final Honor: Gramophone Record Of The Year

  18-09-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Three years ago he was honoured with the lifetime achievement award, but this week conductor Claudio Abbado made a final posthumous appearance at the Gramophone Awards as his last recording – Bruckner’s symphony no 9, with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra – was awarded the prestigious recording of the year prize.”
  
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• London’s Oldest Music Hall Reopens After £4M Restoration

  18-09-2015 09:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The long-forgotten Wilton’s Music Hall first returned to our attention –still in a very derelict state – in 1997 with the celebrated Deborah Warner-Fiona Shaw staging of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. Other stagings in the venue followed over the years – as did a capital campaign. Now Wilton’s is ready for full-time use – still looking worn, but with up-to-date theatre infrastructure.
  
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• San Francisco’s Historic Curran Theater To Be Renovated And Reopened By Top Broadway Producer

  18-09-2015 09:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After parting ways with SHN, a producing firm that brought touring Broadway shows to the city, Carole Shorenstein Hays has taken over the Curran and begun restoration work. Work on the 1,650-seat house should be complete in 2017; meanwhile, Shorenstein Hays will present a series of non-traditional works in the building.
  
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• The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Isn’t Perfect, But Folks Seem To Love It

  18-09-2015 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Given all this controversy [among researchers], you might think people would treat the test as just a curiosity, or at least take it with a grain of salt. Instead, many people use types as a schema for understanding the world. There are blogs that sort Disney characters into MBTI types and YouTube sketch videos that compare types. According to CPP, a company that administrates the MBTI, college and universities worldwide use the test, as do 89 of the Fortune 100 companies.”
  
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• The Persuasive Power Of Repeated Falsehoods (Goebbels Was Right)

  18-09-2015 09:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Statements you’ve heard many times are easier to process, and this ease leads people ‘to the sometimes false conclusion that they are more truthful,’ the researchers write. Their key – and disheartening – revelation is that they found examples of this unfortunate dynamic ‘even when participants knew better.'”
  
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• Cleveland Ballet Comes Back To Stage After 15-Year Hiatus

  18-09-2015 08:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Should the new Cleveland Ballet now taking shape succeed and endure, it will mark not only the third official use of that name, but also the beginning of a potentially glorious age: the return of professional ballet to Northeast Ohio after a gap of nearly 15 years.”
  
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• Seven Decades Into His Career, George S. Irving Is Still Acting At 92

  18-09-2015 08:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The first of his 33 Broadway shows was the original Oklahoma!, he acted under directors Gower Champion and John Gielgud and opposite acting legends Vivien Leigh and Liv Ullmann, and he got a death threat for his performance as Richard Nixon in a Gore Vidal satire.
  
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• Frank D. Gilroy, 89, Playwright Of ‘The Subject Was Roses’

  18-09-2015 08:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 1964 Broadway hit won a Tony and a Pulitzer. “But for Mr. Gilroy, who wrote more than 30 other plays, Roses was his only major theatrical success. And while he wrote the screenplays for 10 feature films (some of which he also produced or directed); three novels; and scores of adventures, westerns and dramas in the golden age of television, none had the impact of his first and only Broadway hit.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.17.15

  18-09-2015 06:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  John Perreault, 78
  As many of you will now know, the author of this blog, John Perreault, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, September 6. I first got to know John in the late 1990s when he came to … read more
  AJBlog: Artopia Published 2015-09-17Images within Images within Images
  Wayne McGregor’s Tree of Codes turns the Park Avenue Armory into a 21st-century phantasmagoric playground.  read more
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