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• Bernie Sanders, The Arts President?

  01-10-2015 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the video, produced by the Arts Action Fund, Sanders reflects on his time as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, explaining that in 1981, he helped establish the Burlington Arts Council. “At that time, way back when, it was almost unheard of to have a municipally funded and supported effort to promote the arts,” he says. The goal was to “unleash the creativity of our residents and harness the untold benefits that investments in the arts bring to communities.” He calls the cr
  
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• London’s National Gallery Workers Strike Drags On…

  01-10-2015 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In August, about 200 members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union began an indefinite strike, which has led to “limited public access” to some areas of gallery. “I’m very hopeful that the strikes will come to an end quite quickly,” director Gabriele Finaldi said at his first press conference on Tuesday. “I think that would be good for the public and our staff and for the gallery’s image too. Above all we want to return to our normal operatio
  
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• A Dance Company That Has Thrived Log After Its Founder Died

  01-10-2015 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What happens when the founding genius, the original voice, is gone? Martha Graham died in 1991, but her troupe survives, thanks to “contextual” presentations and new works by living choreographers; Paul Taylor, still actively producing work, is 85. His company, too, is making moves to widen its repertory. But the dance world often overlooks another company that has quietly gone about its business for decades in the absence of its founding choreographer, José Limó
  
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• Iconic Builder Of Children’s Theatre To Retire

  01-10-2015 20:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For years it was a struggle just to be taken seriously for doing professional work for young people. I wanted to prove you don’t have to do pratfalls and butt jokes to get children’s attention.” But her most visible achievement is the spacious Seattle Center playhouse, which opened in 1995. Linda Hartzell says it’s the first building in the U.S. built expressly to house a professional children’s theater.
  
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• Why Aren’t Artists Making Money Streaming Music? Blame The Music Labels

  01-10-2015 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Since the advent of recorded music, labels have exploited artists. And though they’ve certainly taken their licks, the big three (Universal, Sony, and Warner Bros.) have also begun to learn from some of their mistakes, and may have positioned themselves to regain their stranglehold on the industry.”
  
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• Kansas City Symphony Signs Music Director Michael Stern For Another Five Years

  01-10-2015 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Our symphony audiences have never been larger, and our financial position has never been stronger. The Kansas City community has embraced Michael, and he has returned the affection with energetic and entertaining performances of the highest quality.”
  
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• National Gallery strike: Director Gabriele Finaldi hopeful disruptive action will end soon

  01-10-2015 19:33
  
  Since the strike became continuous there has been a significant fall in the number of people visiting the gallery
  
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• Roland Collins obituary

  01-10-2015 19:26
  
  Painter with a feeling for the unusual and overlooked detail of the British landscapeThe artist Roland Collins, who has died aged 97, was a fine painter of places in the realistic tradition of the English watercolourists. For years he worked away in relative obscurity, though his pictures were shown in the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition and at art fairs, but then in 2012 came his apotheosis: a major exhibition at Mascalls Gallery in Paddock Wood, Kent, which turned out to be a huge popu
  
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• ‘Science Is in a Constant Struggle Against Intellectual Bigotry’: Tom Sachs on Finding Water on Mars

  01-10-2015 19:22 via artnews.com
  Earlier this week, NASA confirmed evidence that there is liquid water flowing on Mars. With this exciting news in mind, ARTnews reached out to the artist Tom Sachs—who in 2012 staged an exhibition at the Park Avenue Armory titled “SPACE … Read More
  
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• Dia Taps James Meyer to Be Deputy Director and Chief Curator

  01-10-2015 19:05 via artnews.com
  The Dia Art Foundation announced today that it has hired James Meyer, an associate curator at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., who is an expert in Minimalism, to be its new deputy director and chief curator. Charged with working … Read More
  
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• Omer Fast, film-maker: 'I stare at the screen, drink coffee, go and pee...'

  01-10-2015 18:55
  
  Karen Wright meets the film-maker in his peaceful studio in the Mitte area of Berlin
  
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• Art is universal – no country should claim a masterpiece for their own

  01-10-2015 17:37
  
  Two Rembrandt portraits have been jointly bought by France and the Netherlands. Why not, when art belongs to us all?There was a weighty meeting between two international leaders at the UN this week. But it did not involve war. It was about art. François Hollande and Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte shook hands on an extraordinary deal that means a pair of portraits by Rembrandt will be bought jointly from a member of the Rothschild family by the Netherlands and France, and shown alternatel
  
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• What Makes Lin-Manuel Miranda A Genius?

  01-10-2015 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Now 35, Miranda began working on Hamilton in 2008, shortly after he read the Ron Chernow biography Alexander Hamilton. A lot of people read that same biography around then, but it’s hard to imagine that anybody else was hit by the thought—whew, this would make a great hip-hop musical with a multi-racial cast playing the Founding Fathers!
  
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• Prison Break: Laurie Anderson on Projecting a Former Guantanamo Detainee Into the Park Avenue Armory

  01-10-2015 17:17 via artnews.com
  'Habeas Corpus' is the closest former Guantanamo detainee Mohamed el-Gharani will ever get to visiting America Read More
  
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• ‘Nobuaki Takekawa: After Hours’ at Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

  01-10-2015 16:44 via artnews.com
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• Two New York Times Critics Debate Race In Casting

  01-10-2015 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What “political correctness,” in its most positive sense, means for me is correcting, or rectifying, past abuses of stereotypes. It’s a balancing process that calls out for some extremes in making those corrections. It is the time we live in. We may — oh, may it happen — reach a moment where such abuses are so long behind us, that we’ll feel a bit more comfortable when something like “The Mikado” is staged.
  
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• After 30 Years, Major Restoration Of The Acropolis Is Almost Done

  01-10-2015 16:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The overhaul is far from merely cosmetic. An earlier restoration misguidedly used iron clamps to strengthen the marble on the edifices. These are rusting at a rate of knots and being replaced with titanium rods, all of which are removable, in case future generations want to fiddle further. Chunks of broken marble are being shored up with new stone and columns rebuilt. It is also a cataloguing project: every stone has been noted and listed.”
  
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• What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?: ‘Art Breakers’ and the Art World’s Reality TV Problem

  01-10-2015 16:15 via artnews.com
  There have been two former attempts to translate the art world into a successful reality television series. Work of Art, which debuted in 2010 and ran for two seasons on Bravo, had up-and-coming artists compete for a solo exhibition at … Read More
  
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• Grand Rapids’ Art Prize, In Its Seventh Year, Is Finding Its Voice

  01-10-2015 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The targeted investments, impressive lineup of jurors and new curatorial initiatives are attracting higher-level artists and creating more trenchant thematic exhibitions that exist like self-contained planets within the ArtPrize universe.
  
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• Doris Salcedo Named the First Winner of the Nasher Prize

  01-10-2015 15:34 via artnews.com
  Dallas’s Nasher Sculpture Center announced today that the Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo has won the Texas museum’s first Nasher Prize. She will now receive $100,000 and an award designed by Renzo Piano at a gala held in April.Salcedo, whose Guggenheim … Read More
  
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• Sage Sohier at Foley

  01-10-2015 15:31 via artnews.com
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• William Kentridge at EYE Filmmuseum

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• Sarah Charlesworth at New Museum

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• Raymond Roussel at Galerie Buchholz

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• Keren Cytter at Museum of Contemporary Art

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• Karla Black at Irish Museum of Modern Art

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• John Singer Sargent at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Jimmie Durham at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein

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• Jackson Pollock at Tate Liverpool

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• Fung Ming Chip at 70John

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• Doris Salcedo at Guggenheim Museum

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• Arlene Shechet at Institute of Contemporary Art

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• Alex Katz at High Museum of Art

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• Study: Watching Quality TV Can Improve Emotional Intelligence

  01-10-2015 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Two years ago, groundbreaking research revealed that reading literary fiction can help us understand the inner lives of others. Now, a newly published paper finds watching quality television drama can do the same thing.
  
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• Morning Links: Snapped Dale Chihuly Sculpture Edition

  01-10-2015 14:51 via artnews.com
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• Salome, The Lighthouse, Poole, review: Subtle direction allows the cast's superb voices to be the focus

  01-10-2015 13:52
  
  Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra proved that Strauss's opera can make more sense in concert-hall than opera house
  
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• Salome, The Lighthouse, Poole, review: Direction allows the cast's superb voices to be the focus

  01-10-2015 13:52
  
  Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra proved that Strauss's opera can make more sense in concert-hall than opera house
  
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• Nut-free crop forces rethink of TreeSong installation

  01-10-2015 13:47
  
  100-year-old beech tree in Bristol wired up to create soundscape based on falling nuts will instead activate with movements from wind and animalsA £37,000 arts project to make music from the sound of nuts falling from a tree has hit a bit of a snag: the chosen tree is nut-free this year.A professional orchestra was awarded a grant to create TreeSong, an art installation involving a handsome 100-year-old beech tree in Bristol. Sensors were strung up under the branches in Durdham Down, which
  
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• B is for body: share your artworks about the human form

  01-10-2015 13:00
  
  Tate curator Flavia Frigeri introduces us to the many different ways artists have represented the body, from the traditional male depictions of the female form to other overlooked approaches. Now it’s your chance to share yoursThe A to Z of Readers’ Art: our new project for you
  Gallery: the best of your A is for Art submissionsThe body is among the greatest subjects in art, and one of the most varied. They can come in all shapes and sizes, from Jacob Epstein’s weighty Jacob and
  
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• A is for art: your artworks, chosen by Jonathan Jones – in pictures

  01-10-2015 13:00
  
  In September, we started our A to Z of Art project with critic Jonathan Jones, inviting you to share your pieces about art – and you rose to the very meta challenge. Here are his 10 favouritesB is for Body: share your art in our new challengeContinue reading...
  
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• Catherine Coulson, Log Lady Of ‘Twin Peaks’, Dead At 71

  01-10-2015 11:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[She] became a classically trained actor – and, as a burgeoning special-effects technician, assistant director and still photographer, a force behind the camera as well. A collaborator at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, where Coulson lived from 1994 until her death, said she was once a camerawoman for 60 Minutes.”
  
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• Yang Yongliang's best photograph: misty Chinese mountains succumb to the city

  01-10-2015 08:30
  
  ‘I am in despair at the rate of urbanisation in China – it’s like witnessing someone dying’I used to paint traditional landscapes, but I felt the Chinese style had reached an apex – there was no way to progress. I wanted to find a new medium, a more contemporary one that could still capture the spirit of landscape painting. Digital photography seemed to be the answer.In China, landscape painting is less about describing the real physical world, and more about illust
  
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• The Face of Britain by Simon Schama review – a fine look at ego, satire and power from art history’s Mr Bombastic

  01-10-2015 08:30
  
  First episode in the seductive historian’s six-part exploration of portraiture is a rollicking good watch ‘When we become human, when our eyes adjust to the raw light of the world, the first thing we see is a face,” says Simon Schama at the start of The Face of Britain by Simon Schama (BBC2), accompanied by a picture of a back-lit baby that looks a little bit like Schama. Babies learn to become readers of faces: “We scan the world for connections and make snap judgments:
  
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• Melbourne mural depicting sex and a giant hamburger will be 'edited'

  01-10-2015 07:38
  
  Moreland council wants to keep ‘the public artwork intact’ but feels ‘a couple of parts might have crossed the line’, says mayorA Melbourne council will “edit” a mural on a building that depicts people having sex in a giant hamburger.The mural, commissioned by a Brunswick business owner, contains bodies in various sexual positions, entangled with lettuce, cheese and tomato in a sesame seed bun. Continue reading...
  
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• Untitled ( father’s second blowzy wife liked to stand)

  01-10-2015 00:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  father would go to his study when he wanted to be by himself.when he was angry he got confused. he dreaded feeling emptyand sad and he had to save face. he read the data he collected for his book. he had sheets of information only he understood. rarely did he write long winded paragraphs like he used to when he was a young man in his thirties. we saw graphs, lists, and probabilities.
  we went to see where father went. we saw him on the hillside.he had a fishing rod with him. he was going to the s
  
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