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• Walker Art Center Announces 200 Recent Acquisitions

  25-09-2015 23:24 via artnews.com
  The Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis, announced today it has acquired 200 new works, through donation and purchase over the past year. The acquisitions include pieces by artists such as Trisha Brown, Beauford Delaney, Chuck Close, Joseph Kosuth, Liz Larner, Allen … Read More
  
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• How To Fix The BBC? Put More Artists In Charge

  25-09-2015 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s notable in theatre… at the National Theatre a brilliant director like Nick Hytner is also capable of running the organisation. And I would like to see more creatives as part of the decision making going forward at the BBC.”
  
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• Darren Bader Needs People Named Stephanie, Lisa, Candy, or Caroline in London for an Artwork

  25-09-2015 22:24 via artnews.com
  The dependably adventurous Darren Bader, whose sculptures have ranged from two delicious-looking burritos to a person sitting in the passenger seat of a car to a French horn stuffed with guacamole, has a one-week show beginning Monday, September 28, at … Read More
  
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• Where Did The Audience Go? Fall TV Premiere Week Ratings Collapse

  25-09-2015 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to Nielsen fast national data, every returning Tuesday night drama suffered double-digit ratings declines, while the three new series were a mixed bag.
  
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• Matthew Darbyshire Is Now Represented By Lisa Cooley

  25-09-2015 21:20 via artnews.com
  Matthew Darbyshire, who makes figurative sculptures using technically sophisticated means, is now represented by Lisa Cooley, the Lower East Side gallery announced today. The news comes on the first day of Darbyshire’s Manchester Art Gallery survey, “An Exhibition for Modern … Read More
  
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• Pussy Riot rehearse for Dismaland concert finale – in pictures

  25-09-2015 21:03
  
  The Russian group rehearse their performance to mark the closure of Banksy’s ‘bemusement’ park in Weston-super-Mare. The practice, which choreographs 25 actors and martial arts fighters in full police riot gear, took place at The LaundryContinue reading...
  
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• ‘Homosexuality_ies’ at Deutsches Historisches Museum and Schwules Museum, Berlin

  25-09-2015 21:00 via artnews.com
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• Annotation Nation – More And More We Feel The Need To Explain (In The Margins)

  25-09-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In recent years, more and more of us are reading annotated editions of our favorite books—The Annotated Wuthering Heights, The Annotated Lolita, The Annotated Anne of Green Gables—as well as posting on sites like Genius.com, which claims to host more than a million annotated texts, and sharing notes and highlights on Kindle. Never before has there been so much activity in the margins of culture.”
  
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• Habitat: Fab 5 Freddy

  25-09-2015 20:31 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces Read More
  
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• Steve Martin, Art Curator

  25-09-2015 20:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Yes, this multifaceted actor, comedian, New Yorker writer, novelist, semiprofessional magician and Grammy-winning banjo player, who has long been a serious collector of modern American painting, is adding a new role to his repertoire: art curator.”
  
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• The Cube Root of Dreams: John Ashbery on Joseph Cornell, in 1967

  25-09-2015 19:45 via artnews.com
  In honor of the Royal Academy of Arts’s Joseph Cornell survey, “Wanderlust,” which finishes its run this weekend, we turn back to the Summer 1967 issue of ARTnews, in which John Ashbery reviewed a major Cornell retrospective at the Guggenheim. (“Wanderlust” … Read More
  
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• British National Museum Set To Appoint New Director

  25-09-2015 19:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Hartwig Fischer, whose appointment has yet to be officially confirmed, would be the first non-British head of the institution since the 1860s. Dr Fischer is currently director general of the Dresden State Art Collections and was formerly director of the Folkwang Museum in Essen.”
  
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• British Museum: German art historian Hartwig Fischer becomes new director

  25-09-2015 19:32
  
  The British Museum’s surprise choice of Hartwig Fischer to become its new director has been praised by former colleagues and cultural grandees in his native Germany as a stellar appointment.
  
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• New English National Opera Boss: We’ve Lost Our Way

  25-09-2015 19:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mark Wigglesworth: “If you get the work right and you get your promoting of it right, then filling this building shouldn’t be a problem, but I completely agree that we have lost our way a little bit — in terms of people coming, frankly. You can’t deny that the work [at ENO] is good and you can’t deny that the box office has become more challenging. And that’s not a price worth paying.”
  
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• What’s Wrong With The Music Business: 178 Million Streams For “All About The Bass” Earned What???

  25-09-2015 18:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “That was the real issue for us, like 1 million streams equals $90. For a song like ‘All About That Bass,’ that I wrote, which had 178 million streams. I mean $5,679? That’s my share. That’s as big a song as a songwriter can have in their career and No. 1 in 78 countries. But you’re making $5,600. How do you feed your family?”
  
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• USA Today, Times-Picayune And New York Daily News Get Rid Of The Music Critics

  25-09-2015 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “These cuts mark the latest acknowledgment that readers have shifted online (and, more recently) to the mobile space as ad revenue has fallen. And the new landscape affects not only those soon-to-be-out-of-work journalists, but also touring bands that rely on local coverage to boost ticket sales.”
  
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• State Lawmaker Leans On Thomas Hart Benton Mural To Take Notes

  25-09-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There are many things one might do while inside a room whose walls are lined with a historic Thomas Hart Benton mural: admire the artwork, contemplate it, take selfies with it. One should not use it as a surface to lean on while writing. Especially if you’re a state lawmaker.
  
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• How Does Creativity Spread? Networks, Connections, Influence

  25-09-2015 18:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The truth is life is not fair. For creative work to spread, you need more than talent. You have to get exposure to the right networks. And as unfair as that may seem, it’s the way the world has always worked.
  
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• Vancouver Symphony Picks Kelly Tweeddale As Its Executive Director

  25-09-2015 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kelly Tweeddale, who has been the executive director of Seattle Opera for the past 13 years, takes over her new role on Nov. 16, the orchestra announced Thursday.
  
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• Ai Weiwei the star attraction at Helsinki Art Museum reopening

  25-09-2015 17:47
  
  Following a 14-month redevelopment, Helsinki Art Museum reopens with an exhibition by the Chinese artist – part of a wider plan to make the city a design destinationThe Helsinki Art Museum has reopened with an exhibition by influential Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, following a year of renovation that has seen gallery space more than double.Inside the 1930s Tennis Palace, a culture and shopping space in the city’s downtown area, the museum holds over 9,000 works of art and is one of the m
  
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• Zaha Hadid's walkout and a throne of weapons – the week in art

  25-09-2015 17:44
  
  Glasgow gets ready for the Turner prize. Plus, Damien Hirst’s new exhibition space opens, and Zaha Hadid has a tense interview with the BBC – in your weekly dispatchTurner prize
  Is the prize that once had the nation arguing about winners like Rachel Whiteread and Damien Hirst still an important event? Last year was bad enough to revive arguments from some that it has had its day. Yet often when the Turner is in trouble, it suddenly produces a vintage year. This year’s shortlist
  
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• Here’s the Artist List for Performa 15

  25-09-2015 17:31 via artnews.com
  Today Performa, New York’s performance art biennial, released the artist list for its upcoming sixth, Renaissance-inspired edition, Performa 15, which runs November 1 through 22. Performances will take place at venues throughout the city, including Times Square. Some of these names … Read More
  
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• Hartwig Fischer: the German helping the British Museum change the world

  25-09-2015 17:01
  
  He is the perfect choice to continue Neil MacGregor’s bold global vision for a museum that is British only in nameRelated: German art historian to become first foreign director of British Museum It somehow seems fitting that Neil MacGregor’s successor as director of the British Museum has been found in Germany. One of MacGregor’s most personal and – in the petty context of British national prejudice – courageous campaigns has been to reverse a century of Germanophob
  
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• Aleatory Accumulation Anti/Ghazals II-I and II-II

  25-09-2015 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  death-stoned on poison death
   
  PRESENCE IS
  six bottles of beer lined up like pistons
   
  see it through (see through it)
  tape reels spin in eternity
   
  the holes in your jeans are made to be seen
  sweeping up the hair
   
  Neil Young’s long hair streaming in the wind
  have watered the seeds w/ black bile
   
  to resolve every difficulty before the final chapter
  Nothing Doing: A Critical Autobiography
   
  my new band: Mutton for Punishment
  last night dreamed of Queensway
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• Russian billionaire in art dealer feud hands over Picassos

  25-09-2015 16:31
  
  Dmitry Rybolovlev has given two watercolours to French authorities investigating whether they were stolenA billionaire Russian art collector has handed over two Picasso watercolours to French authorities investigating whether they were stolen, in the latest twist of a feud with his Swiss art dealer that has gripped the high-end art world.Dmitry Rybolovlev, who owns Monaco football club, paid €27m (£20m) in 2013 to buy Woman Arranging Her Hair and Spanish Woman with a Fan from art merc
  
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• Gifts Sent to Mayor de Blasio During First Year in Office Include Jar of Mayonnaise From Former Brooklyn Museum Director

  25-09-2015 14:47 via artnews.com
  Among the hundreds of gifts that New York mayor Bill de Blasio and his family received during his first year in office—which were disclosed by DNAinfo through the Freedom of Information Act—were two separate offerings from Dr. Arnold L. Lehman, … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Foreign British Museum Director Edition

  25-09-2015 14:42 via artnews.com
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• Art Dealers Association Elects Adam Sheffer Board President

  25-09-2015 14:00 via artnews.com
  The Art Dealers Association of America has announced that Cheim & Read’s Adam Sheffer, the vice president of the organization since 2013 and chairman of its annual fair since 2009, was elected president at an annual board meeting yesterday.Additionally, the board … Read More
  
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• Ebola, mumps and old age inspire doctor's artwork – in pictures

  25-09-2015 11:54
  
  Measles, mumps and rubella, Ebola and conditions associated with old age have been – and still are – huge challenges to society. Dr Katy Shorttle, 29, swapped the emergency room for an art gallery to put together an exhibition on the dangers of health issues for her MA in illustration and book arts. Selected work can be seen at Anglia Ruskin University until 3 OctoberContinue reading...
  
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• British Museum set to name German art historian Hartwig Fischer as successor to Neil MacGregor

  25-09-2015 11:50
  
  The German art historian is yet to be officially confirmed as museum head
  
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• British Museum set to name Geman art historian Hartwig Fischer as successor to Neil MacGregor

  25-09-2015 11:50
  
  The British Museum has chosen German art historian Hartwig Fischer to succeed Neil MacGregor, the first foreign director in over 150 years.
  
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• Should A Monkey Own Copyright For A Selfie It Took? PETA Says Yes, And Sues On The Monkey’s Behalf

  25-09-2015 11:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The suit was filed Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. It seeks a court order allowing PETA to administer all proceeds from the photos for the benefit of the monkey, which it identified as 6-year-old Naruto, and other crested macaques living in a reserve on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.”
  
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• Gore Vidal, The Citizen Kane Of Literature

  25-09-2015 11:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Blake Bailey: “Vidal’s life was a tragedy whose great themes put one in mind of Citizen Kane: the story of an insatiable egoist who had everything and lost it. Standing on his balcony in Ravello, overlooking the gorgeous coast, a friend asked him what more he could possibly want out of life: ‘I want to make 200 million people change their minds,’ Vidal replied.”
  
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• Has The Louvre Pulled Out Of The Rijksmuseum’ S €160M Rembrandt Deal?

  25-09-2015 11:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Dutch government has pledged to help the Rijksmuseum acquire a pair of rare, full-length Rembrandt portraits from the French businessman Éric de Rothschild for €160m, a record price for a Western museum. … The news follows speculation that the Rijksmuseum would jointly acquire the works with the Musée du Louvre in Paris.” But mention of the Louvre seems to have disappeared from recent reports.
  
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• The Kinshasa Symphony Is Gaining Fans Around The World, But Back In The Congo, They All Still Have Day Jobs

  25-09-2015 10:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The largest – and until recently, only – orchestra in Central Africa has played on three continents, to standing ovations, and graced some of the philharmonic world’s most prestigious stages in recent years. But at home, it remains a modest affair. The first trumpeter still spends his days working construction sites. The double bass player is a nurse, and the tubist a pharmacist. One violinist, who is also the repairman tasked with mending instruments warped by the Congo
  
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• When Lupita Nyong’o Was Given Her Choice Of A Play To Star In, This Is The One She Chose

  25-09-2015 10:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A few days after arriving at the Yale School of Drama from Kenya in 2009, Lupita Nyong’o found herself understudying in a professional production of Eclipsed, Danai Gurira’s harrowing play about women in the second Liberian civil war.” So when, following her Oscar for 12 Years a Slave, the Public Theater offered her a chance to return to the stage, she had no doubt about the script she wanted.
  
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• Ernest Hemingway Was A Total Pack Rat

  25-09-2015 10:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He saved even his old passports and used bullfight tickets, leaving behind one of the longest paper trails of any author. So how is it possible that ‘Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars,’ which opens on Friday at the Morgan Library & Museum, is the first major museum exhibition devoted to Hemingway and his work? It could be simply that no one thought of it before.”
  
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• The ‘Queer Tango’ Movement Comes Into Its Own

  25-09-2015 10:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Marina Harss: “For many people, including me, the word tango conjures the image of a pantherlike milonguero, hair slicked back, in a breathless embrace with a lithe, rapt partner, skirt slit to her thigh, trembling at his every touch. … But, no surprise, this image has very little to do with the reality of the tango as it is experienced by those who dance it. … Men are dancing with men, women with women; women are leading and men are learning to follow. Often, these roles shi
  
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• ‘Stonewall’ Isn’t Just A Bad Movie, It’s A Rorschach Test

  25-09-2015 10:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With Roland Emmerich’s new film, as with the 1969 protest/uprising/riots that sparked the modern gay rights movement, “we see in it what we need to see.” J. Bryan Lowder looks at what the (very) many different criticisms of the movie say about the people making them and about the queer community in America today.
  
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• Laurie Anderson On Bringing Guantánamo To Park Avenue

  25-09-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’ve been trying to describe an upcoming project called Habeas Corpus, and it’s much harder than I thought. There are just too many angles. ‘Why are you doing this?’ my friends keep asking. Sometimes I no longer know myself.”
  
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• Kurt Schwitters' Merz Barn wall moves on

  25-09-2015 08:00
  
  German artist Kurt Schwitters’ final masterpiece is transported from a remote Lakeland valley to an art gallery in September 1965 Kurt Schwitters: the modernist master in exileSublime snippets: Kurt Schwitters at Tate Britain Fifty years ago, a wall of art consisting of stone, cement and found objects was removed from a small barn in the English Lake District and transported 120 miles away to Newcastle. The installation, Kurt Schwitters’ Merz Barn wall, can now be viewed at the city&
  
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• A Crowd of One Hundred Thousand Reenact Every Year In The Museum’s Courtyard The Story He Wrote About The Devil

  25-09-2015 07:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Y is the director of a rock museum in Vienna. It is the largest collection of rocks in the country. They have a rock that floats. Y’s brother is a famous soldier who shot an infamous local tyrant in the head. He was happy for his brother’s fame even though he felt superior to him. His obese wife bosses him and calls him Director when he neglectsher. She gets jealous when he spends too much time with the industrialists’ wives. They sleep in separate rooms.
  A crowd of one hundred
  
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• Matthys Gerber review – iconoclast dispenses with bourgeois good taste

  25-09-2015 05:45
  
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
  Incorporating lounge room kitsch, prize fighter portraits and corporate-style logos, Gerber’s art has long been a champion of Sydney postmodernismThe career survey exhibition of artist Matthys Gerber at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, ticks most boxes in the contemporary art exhibition experience. The show is presented as an immersive, all-in walkthrough, a catalogue of Gerber’s paintings arranged out of chronological order, through which
  
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