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• ‘Athanasios Argianas: Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers +)’ at Aanant & Zoo

  02-10-2015 22:42 via artnews.com
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• Michael E. Smith Is Now Represented by Andrew Kreps Gallery

  02-10-2015 22:29 via artnews.com
  New York’s Andrew Kreps Gallery announced today that it represents the New Hampshire–based sculptor Michael E. Smith. The Chelsea gallery also represents such noted artists as Darren Bader, Roe Ethridge, and Erika Verzutti.Smith has become known for lo-fi sculptures he … Read More
  
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• Worcester Art Museum Receives $4 M. to Endow Director Position

  02-10-2015 22:00 via artnews.com
  The Worcester Art Museum announced today that it has obtained a gift of $4 million to endow its director position, which is currently held by Matthias Waschek. The gift, which the museum is touting as the largest award for a staff position in WAM history, came from the … Read More
  
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• Union Votes To Suspend London’s National Gallery Strike

  02-10-2015 21:30 via artnews.com
  The Independent reports today that after over 100 days of a striking, the National Gallery has come to terms with its staff over the privatization of some of the institution’s services, centered around a contract with the security group Securitas.Although … Read More
  
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• The Death Of Language In The Global Age Of English

  02-10-2015 21:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Much has been said recently about the growth of world literature in the age of globalization, but this has overwhelmingly come from those writing in English and/or dealing with literatures in the Romance languages.”
  
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• Unbreakable: Lena Henke, Ben Schumacher, and More Make Locks for Paris Show

  02-10-2015 21:02 via artnews.com
  Securing an artwork against theft can require screwing a frame to a wall, installing a security system, or even hiring a guard. However, a new series of multiples from Vienna’s Saxpublishers publication group actually secure themselves: they’re classic brass padlocks, engraved with images … Read More
  
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• New Research: Shakespeare’s Dad Was Rich

  02-10-2015 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It has long been assumed that Shakespeare’s father was a small-town glover and dealer in hides and wool, who went from riches to rags. The new research suggests that, far from going bust, John Shakespeare was reinvesting in wool and making even more money than ever, some of it via shady deals. It was also wool, not the theatre, that prompted William to leave Stratford-upon-Avon for London in 1585, where he could act as the family’s business representative.
  
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• ‘The Body Is Present in Its Absence’: Clifford Owens on His New Work at Invisible-Exports

  02-10-2015 20:48 via artnews.com
  In early September, Clifford Owens’s new show was being installed at the Lower East Side gallery Invisible-Exports, where Owens had just finished a residency. He had been at the gallery since August 1, making works on paper featuring Vaseline and … Read More
  
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• So Hollywood Is Politically Liberal? Not So Fast

  02-10-2015 20:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The film and television industry is far from an Edenic paradise of equality where diversity reigns supreme, Ruby Rose plays the harpsichord, and Shonda Rhimes lectures biracial hunks on the perils of toxic masculinity. In fact—and someone should probably give Breitbart a heads up on this one—Hollywood is as amorally capitalistic and irritatingly anachronistic as America itself.
  
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• National Gallery strike: Members vote to suspend industrial action after agreement with management

  02-10-2015 20:08
  
  The continuous strike from August 11 had seen visitors drop 35 per cent over a year earlier
  
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• Brian Sewell spoke timely truth to power | Letters

  02-10-2015 19:58
  
  Susan Loppert’s entirely one-sided letter (28 September) attacks Brian Sewell. The whole point about his writing was that he quite frequently intensely disliked an exhibition of “traditional” art – often on the grounds of (ineptly) non-traditional curating, of which we’ve certainly had our fair share and then some – and that he also quite frequently liked more modern art, often completely unexpectedly. Who could possibly have foreseen his liking for Sarah Luca
  
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• A New Concert Hall For New Music Opens In Brooklyn

  02-10-2015 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  National Sawdust, which opens this week in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, aims to be a trendsetting launchpad for new talent in contemporary music, its organizers said, with a focus on emerging artists, commissions and collaborative projects that cross-pollinate genres and styles.
  
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• Artistic Administrator for The Cleveland Orchestra

  02-10-2015 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Cleveland Orchestra is looking for an energetic, creative individual to fill the role of Artistic Administrator. The Artistic Administrator is responsible for the artistic planning and implementation of various Cleveland Orchestra, Blossom Music Festival and Severance Hall concerts and events, in collaboration with the artistic and operational staff. In addition, he/she will be responsible for collaborating on a variety of exciting artistic initiatives, guest artist appearances, and have bud
  
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• South African government condemns satirical painting of Jacob Zuma's penis

  02-10-2015 19:47
  
  R is for Respect by Anton Kannemeyer refers to controversy over The Spear, another painting depicting president’s genitalia, which led to 2012 protests A satirical artwork apparently depicting “the president’s penis” has been condemned as racist by the South African government.Anton Kannemeyer’s cartoon, R is for Respect, shows a giant black penis and scrotum hovering above a group of angry black demonstrators carrying a banner that demands: “Respect for the p
  
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• How Broadway Transformed Itself Out Of The 1970s

  02-10-2015 19:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Broadway and Times Square today would not be recognizable to those who last saw it in the mid-’70s or, for that matter, in the late ’20s. Broadway musicals are as popular as ever, but much of the grit and seediness has been washed clean, and the area is now more akin to a family-friendly theme park than a bawdy vaudeville enclave.
  
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• Switch: Playwright Urges People Not To See His Play

  02-10-2015 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I literally have had my play stolen from me,” Tommy Smith said in an email sent to colleagues and the press this week.
  
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• How Discrimination Works In Publishing

  02-10-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Here is the thing about how discrimination works: No one ever comes right out and says, “We don’t want you.” In the publishing world, they don’t say, “We just don’t want your story.” They say, “We’re not sure you’re relatable” and “You don’t want to exclude anyone with your work.” They say, “We’re not sure who your audience is.”
  
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• La Frances Hui Named Associate Curator in MoMA Film Department

  02-10-2015 17:19 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Modern Art in New York has hired La Frances Hui as an associate curator in its film department. Hui has worked for the last 15 years at Asia Society, where she was the film curator and director … Read More
  
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• Who Borrows Against Art? Galleries, Individuals, and Foundations Do—Track With Skate’s Art Loans Database

  02-10-2015 17:15 via artnews.com
  Skate’s is the art business intelligence unit of ARTnews S.A.Skate’s has recently completed an extensive database of all the public UCC (Uniform Commercial Code) filings that are practiced in the United States and even some international lending transactions to secure … Read More
  
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• ‘It Is a Revolutionary Idea That Beauty Should Be Available to All’: Sam Durant on ‘Labyrinth,’ His New Public Artwork in Philadelphia About Mass Incarceration

  02-10-2015 17:13 via artnews.com
  For the month of October, the artwork of inmates from Greaterford State prison will hang beside items contributed by the general public along a chain-link fence installation set up in front of Philadelphia’s City Hall. The work, created by Los Angeles–based artist … Read More
  
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• Habitat: Joan Semmel

  02-10-2015 16:24 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Joan Semmel, SoHo, New York. “Painting uses all your faculties as a human being, because its physical, it’s tactile, and it’s intellectual all at once,” Semmel told me, as she … Read More
  
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• Look out below! 3D pavement art around the world – in pictures

  02-10-2015 16:11
  
  London commuters were startled by the Death Star trench beneath their feet this morning – just the latest example of a mind-bending trend for roadside illusion Continue reading...
  
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• Pelleas et Melisande, Britten Theatre, opera review: This show’s one remediable weakness lies in the pit

  02-10-2015 16:01
  
  Jonathan Berman’s conducting is a rather coarse-grained affair: he has yet to unlock the beauties latent in Debussy’s exquisitely calibrated score
  
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• Morning Links: Art Thief Murder Edition

  02-10-2015 14:25 via artnews.com
  Basquiat’s estate lawyer has demanded that Animal New York remove nude photos of the late artist, which were taken by Basquiat’s ex-girlfriend Paige Powell and published in 2014. [DNAInfo]Eli Broad has donated his personal papers—including records of all of his business, philanthropic, … Read More
  
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• Auerbach astonishes and Indian textiles delight – the week in art

  02-10-2015 13:46
  
  Two great painters battle it out in London, while the fabulous colours and textures of India come to the V&A – in your weekly dispatchFrank Auerbach
  One of Britain’s great painters gets a long overdue retrospective that is bound to astonish, impress and move. Continue reading...
  
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• Another England: how David Inshaw changed the landscape of art

  02-10-2015 12:00
  
  Myth, symbols and a mysterious sense of place define the works of the West Country’s pastoral visionaryAt the age of 72, the painter David Inshaw is finally beginning to achieve the kind of widespread recognition he deserves. He is a great pastoral painter and visionary, that rare kind of artist who appears perhaps once or twice in a generation and illumines the world in a new way – for those who are prepared to look. William Blake, Samuel Palmer, Paul Nash and Stanley Spencer are am
  
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• World’s Clumsiest Art Thief Found Dead In London Canal

  02-10-2015 11:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sebastiano Magnanini, 46, was convicted in 1998 of stealing an altarpiece by Tiepolo from a church in Venice. “[He] was 24 at the time, and the theft – characterized as an operatic farce by the Italian news media – alarmed some in the country and fanned debate about how to protect treasured artwork.”
  
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• First-Ever Nasher Prize For Sculpture – Worth $100,000 – Goes To Doris Salcedo

  02-10-2015 10:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A seven-member international jury made up of artists, curators, and museum directors selected Salcedo, a [Colombian] sculptor and installation artist whose politically charged work, in her words, aims to ‘connect worlds that normally are unconnected, like art and politics.'”
  
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• Laura Poitras Creates A Magnum For Online Documentaries

  02-10-2015 10:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The project, called Field of Vision, “sees independent documentarians around the world investigating concerns close to Poitras’s own practice: surveillance as well as political boundaries, hidden social conflicts, and the layers of urban space. … Field of Vision will produce about 50 short-form or episodic nonfiction films a year. Its first season debuted online September 29.”
  
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• ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ Has Become A Text For Academics

  02-10-2015 10:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Hundreds of scholarly books and articles have been written about Buffy‘s deeper themes, and an entire academic journal and conference series – appropriately called Slayage – is devoted to using the show and other [Joss] Whedon works to discuss subjects such as philosophy and cultural theory.”
  
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• Museum Directors Release Plan to Help Provide Safe Havens for Endangered Antiquities

  02-10-2015 10:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Under the protocols outlined by the Association of Art Museum Directors, owners whose works are endangered because of terrorism, violent conflict or natural disasters could request that the items be held by a member museum until conditions improved enough for their safe return. Once transferred, these works would be treated as loans, an arrangement that would assuage those concerns that the pieces would never be repatriated.”
  
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• Handicapping This Year’s Nobel Prize For Literature

  02-10-2015 10:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Journal‘s Speakeasy blog looks at the six contenders currently topping Ladbrokes’s list, five of whom have been mentioned for years and one – the current leader, as it happens – whose name will be unfamiliar to many of us.
  
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• The Misty Copeland Effect: Has She Already Helped Change Professional Ballet?

  02-10-2015 10:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Says Washington Ballet artistic director Septime Webre, “It’s really taken some time for directors to feel comfortable talking about this subject, but now the topic is out in the ether. Misty is a big part of that. And people aren’t just talking now, they’re really trying to find ways to do something about it.”
  
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• ‘No Satisfaction Whatever At Any Time’ – When Agnes De Mille Met Martha Graham Over A Soda

  02-10-2015 10:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Feeling that critics and the public had long ignored work into which she had poured her heart and soul, De Mille found herself dispirited by the sense that something she considered ‘only fairly good'” – her choreography for Oklahoma! – “was suddenly hailed as a ‘flamboyant success.’ Shortly after the premiere, she met Graham ‘in a Schrafft’s restaurant over a soda’ for a conversation that put into perspective her gnawing grievanc
  
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• Henri Cartier-Bresson - I knew him well

  02-10-2015 10:09
  
  Fifty photographs taken by Cartier-Bresson are on loan to The Fine Art Society from his friend and dealer, Peter Fetterman
  
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• Twitter Mulls Expanding Size of Tweets Past 140 Characters

  02-10-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There has been ongoing debate at the company about what to do about the limit, a feature unique to Twitter that has created its own lingo and quirky style of brevity but has had its obvious constraints. Users have come up with workarounds to the character limitation by attaching screenshots of longer text or by linking tweets together in a so-called ‘tweetstorm.'”
  
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• 140 Characters Are More Than Enough

  02-10-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Twitter’s character limit is more than a pragmatic concern – it’s an aesthetic and cultural one, too, and it defines the tone and nature of the platform itself. Twitter is a thing constantly in motion, and changing the nature of the tweet will correspondingly change the nature of the tweetstream for the worse.”
  
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• Nein – Deconstructing The Aphorisms Of The Twitterverse’s Favorite Depressive Philosopher

  02-10-2015 09:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For more than three years, Jarosinski’s followers (currently numbering over 117,000) have enjoyed his steady stream of extremely witty tweets. Sometimes light and playful, sometimes tortured or paradoxical, each is accompanied by his avatar, a cartoon drawing of what appears to be Theodor W. Adorno sporting a monocle.”
  
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• The Desires Driving Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

  02-10-2015 09:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Nothing in the world is more exciting than a moment of sudden discovery or invention, and many more people are capable of experiencing such moments than is sometimes thought.”
  
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• Philip Pullman: how drawing helped me to see the world differently

  02-10-2015 09:30
  
  Taking part in this year’s Big Draw festival reminded the author how drawing offers tremendous insight and pleasure Related: Chris Riddell and friends launch The Big Draw 2015 The best sort of activity is one that combines mental effort with sensuous delight. That’s why I love drawing. The sheer physical pleasure of making a line with a good pencil on paper with enough tooth, or roughness, to put up a little resistance is inexhaustible; and the challenge of making the line resemble (
  
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• San Francisco Really Is Pricing Out Its Artists

  02-10-2015 09:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While it’s hard to know exactly how many artists have left San Francisco in the last several years, there’s a consensus that the city is facing an emergency. In September, the arts commission released the results of its first ‘artist eviction survey’” Of nearly 600 local artists, 70% had been or were being displaced from their studio space, their home, or both.”
  
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• Is It Ever Okay For An Interviewee To Walk Out Of An Interview?

  02-10-2015 09:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Robert De Niro and Zaha Hadid are just the most recent examples of high-profile artists to angrily end a session when (rightly or wrongly) they don’t like the drift of the questions. Observer writer Barbara Ellen and Channel Four presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy discuss the question (their answer won’t be a surprise) and their own experiences with walkouts.
  
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• Tony-Winning Director John Doyle Takes Reins Of Off-Broadway Company

  02-10-2015 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Known for his slimmed-down productions of Sweeney Todd and Company in which the actors doubled as instrumentalists, Doyle will become artistic director of Classic Stage Company next July.
  
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• Why I Gave Up E-Books After Four All-Digital Years

  02-10-2015 08:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For Craig Mod, it isn’t just the tactility of print books that matters (though he loves that quality): “The pile of unread books we have on our bedside tables is often referred to as a graveyard of good intentions. The list of unread books on our Kindles is more of a black hole of fleeting intentions.”
  
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• Surreal estate: art house in Chelsea – in pictures

  02-10-2015 08:00
  
  Hiding behind a staid Chelsea exterior is a bright, modern gallery and living space for you and your art (if you can afford the £14m price tag) Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.01.15

  02-10-2015 06:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Music theory for a new century
  So now – continuing about changes in the conservatory curriculum – some thoughts about how to teach music history and theory. And remember that I’m offering free consulting sessions to anyone who’d like to … read more
  AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-10-01My kind of person
  Apropos of this really embarrassing piece, my kind of person …• … prefers hot dogs to hamburgers.• … prefers trains to pl
  
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• Shock: Another NY Opera Company Shuts Down

  02-10-2015 00:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The rapid demise of Gotham was stunning — the operatic equivalent of the sudden death of an outwardly healthy person. The troupe had seemed to offer a new model for opera in the 21st century: It gave critically acclaimed performances of small-scale works, often sharing the costs with other presenters, in locales as varied as the Hayden Planetarium, a louche downtown nightclub and the Arms and Armor Court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  
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