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• David Rubenstein Gives $25 M. for Arts Funding At Duke

  05-10-2015 23:37 via artnews.com
  The New York Times reported today that the businessman, philanthropist, and Carlyle Group co-founder David M. Rubenstein is giving a $25 million gift to support arts programming at his alama mater, Duke University.With the addition of this most recent gift, … Read More
  
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• Here Are the Artists Included in MoMA PS1’s 2015 Greater New York Show

  05-10-2015 22:56 via artnews.com
  MoMA PS1, the outpost of the Museum of Modern Art in Long Island City, Queens, has announced the participants in its Greater New York survey, which focuses on artists living and working in New York. The roster includes young, emerging … Read More
  
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• Phillips Collection and University of Maryland Partner, Will Launch New Gallery, Research Projects

  05-10-2015 20:22 via artnews.com
  Today Washington, D.C.’s Phillips Collection and the University of Maryland (UMD) announced a wide-ranging six-year partnership that will involve the development of new facilities, educational curricula, and curatorial programming.The two institutions plan to open a new gallery and open-storage facility in Prince George’s County to … Read More
  
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• Can art still shock in the age of the extreme selfie?

  05-10-2015 19:36
  
  Marina Abramović had a gun put to her head. Joseph Beuys shared a gallery with a coyote. But with social media full of shocking images, is it worth today’s artists putting their lives at risk?
  In 1974, standing expressionless beside a table in a gallery in Naples, Marina Abramović began her performance piece Rhythm 0. There was a page of instructions for the audience: “There are 72 objects on the table that one can use on me as desired … I am the object. During this
  
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• ‘Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979’ at Grey Art Gallery and Japan Society

  05-10-2015 17:52 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Aleatory Accumulation Anti/Ghazals II-III, II-IV

  05-10-2015 17:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  the past is a myth dreamed up by the present to account for itself
   
  this way leads to death
  “it used to be called The Barn”
   
  language is a blunt instrument in my hands
  that place of utter helplessness before your misery
   
  that dog is a purebred swinehound
  clean up that mess that just gets made a mess again
   
  row of lawnmowers covered in snow
  my hair is the hair of a 70s Dutch painter
   
  I’ve been too quick to declare my allegiances
  awoken by a skeletal
  
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• Lars Nittve Steps Down as Executive Director of M+

  05-10-2015 17:40 via artnews.com
  Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District Authority announced today that, in January, Lars Nittve will step down from his position as executive director at M+, the hotly anticipated museum slated to open officially in 2019. Nittve has been with M+ … Read More
  
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• Catherine Taft Joins LAXART as Deputy Director

  05-10-2015 17:33 via artnews.com
  Critic, curator, and freelance arts writer Catherine Taft has been named deputy director of Los Angeles arts nonprofit LAXART, Artforum has reported. Taft has most recently served as assistant curator at the Whitney Museum, where she helped to organize the … Read More
  
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• St. Ann’s Warehouse Gets A Permanent Home

  05-10-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The pliancy of the space was essential to Ms. Feldman — keeping the Civil War-era warehouse wide open, using curtains to adjust the stage into different shapes and sizes. ‘We wanted to recreate that same flexibility that seemed to be the thing that made St. Ann’s useful for the last 36 years in New York,’ Ms. Feldman said.”
  
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• Guys on the Edge: Ed Atkins’s Not-Quite-Human, Computer-Generated Men

  05-10-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  They cry, they smoke, they spout poetry Read More
  
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• Ai Weiwei Returns To China And His Studio, Where He Finds ‘Listening Devices’

  05-10-2015 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a video posted on Instagram, someone sets off firecrackers in a bin next to the device. The accompanying text reads: ‘Can you hear this?'”
  
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• Morning Links: Has Ai Weiwei’s Studio Been Bugged? Edition

  05-10-2015 15:03 via artnews.com
  Has Ai Weiwei’s Beijing studio been bugged? [The Independent]A Bulgarian artist has gifted the European Central Bank with a huge chunk of aluminum, promising to replace it with a real sculpture only when the Frankfurt-based institution has “fulfill[ed] all its goals … Read More
  
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• Rescuing William Butler Yeats’ Magic Tower House

  05-10-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Irish Republican Army arrived one day to announce that the bridge beside the tower was about to be blown up, and to suggest that Yeats’s wife take the children and maid upstairs for their safety.”
  
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• Paintings reveal what people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like

  05-10-2015 13:48
  
  Lots of the ideas involve mechanized devices and flying while others, strangely, involve people interacting with marine life
  
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• ISIS Has Destroyed Another Piece Of Ancient Architecture In Palmyra

  05-10-2015 13:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Arch of Triumph was one of the most recognizable sites in Palmyra, the central city affectionately known by Syrians as the “Bride of the Desert,” which the IS group seized in May. The monumental arch sat atop the famed colonnaded streets of the ancient city, which linked the Roman Empire to Persia and the East.”
  
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• The Bizarre, Decaying Postmodern Suburbs Of Eastern Paris

  05-10-2015 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  They’re one of the settings for the final installment of The Hunger Games for a reason.
  
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• How two journalists spent two hours with a wordless Brian Friel...

  05-10-2015 10:14
  
  The writer who spoke through his plays and disliked giving interviewsThe tributes to Brian Friel have rightly been handsome. I agree with Michael Billington that he was “the finest Irish dramatist of his generation.” His great achievement, as Fintan O’Toole wrote in the Irish Times, was “to give the confused their own nobility” and his gift was to “salvage human dignity from the wrecking ball of history.” Continue reading...
  
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• What In The Hell Is Going On At Carnegie Hall?

  05-10-2015 05:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. Perelman is stepping down this week as Carnegie’s chairman after just eight months; Mr. Gillinson remains in charge but under an internal investigation; and Carnegie, the most important concert hall in the nation, if not the world, finds itself facing an unusual public crisis in the midst of a $125 million fund-raising drive. It is not how the hall expected to be starting an anniversary season.”
  
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• Colonel Biggs paintings of ‘incalculable’ value discovered in unmarked envelope

  05-10-2015 02:56
  
  Unexpected discovery of four rare paintings by renowned 19 century artist depict picturesque South Australia sceneryFour paintings by the celebrated 19th century artist Colonel James Hesketh Biggs have been found in an unmarked envelope among a vast quantity of books and papers belonging to two Adelaide book sellers.The discovery was made when an Adelaide art dealer, Jim Elder, was charged with sorting through the collection of Arthur Chard and Lex Rabbits with the view to selling it off. Chard
  
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• The Digital Pipe Organ Revolution

  05-10-2015 02:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘The instrument I’m most interested in building is the one I hear in my head,’ said Marshall, a quiet man given to sturdy shoes and holstering his smartphone on a belt. ‘To be able to go in any direction — as far as the mind can dream.'”
  
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• Staging A Musical With Deaf Actors

  05-10-2015 02:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For this ‘Spring Awakening,’ the director Michael Arden, the choreographer Spencer Liff and the actors themselves have devised an array of silent cues: hidden lights, coded gestures, timed touches and prompting props.”
  
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• How Eileen Myles Became Such A Cult Favorite

  05-10-2015 01:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Somebody asked me for poems for an anthology of American female poets to be published in Italy. It was very easy to think about which poems of mine I would like to see translated into Italian. The kind of vernacular poetry I write, it’s like those candies that burst when you put them in your mouth, so I thought about which ones would burst well in Italian.”
  
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• Movies That Hit The Perfect Historical Note (At A Time Of Crisis And Upheaval)

  05-10-2015 00:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘We were surprised it wasn’t being talked about in the national media,’ Mr. Barber said. ‘And then, right when we thought we were done, the events in Ferguson unfolded. And it became talked about at a much higher level.'”
  
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• Why ‘Hamilton’ Has Caught Fire At This Historical Moment

  05-10-2015 00:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It takes only one listen to figure out that Donald Trump will not be one of the show’s numerous fawning audience members or backstage guests. In fact, I’m convinced that every time you listen to the cast recording straight through, one of Trump’s Horcruxes is destroyed.”
  
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