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• Habitat: Jesse Greenberg

  08-10-2015 23:43 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Jesse Greenberg, South Slope, Brooklyn. “I’m always trying to find new ways to make mistakes,” Jesse Greenberg said in his basement studio, surrounded by a number of the psychedelically colored resin sculptures … Read More
  
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• The Cover of Rihanna’s New Album Is a Painting by Roy Nachum

  08-10-2015 22:31 via artnews.com
  Last night at a party at Los Angeles’s Mama Gallery, Rihanna debuted the cover art for her long-anticipated next album, Anti. Taking the form of an oil painting by Israeli-born artist Roy Nachum, the red-splashed image depicts Rihanna as a child … Read More
  
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• Adrian Turner, Serra Pradhan, and Ricky Manne Are Now Partners at Marianne Boesky

  08-10-2015 22:25 via artnews.com
  Marianne Boesky Gallery announced today that Adrian Turner, Serra Pradhan, and Ricky Manne are now partners at the New York gallery, which has branches in Chelsea and the Upper and Lower East Sides. All three new partners have been directors … Read More
  
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• Performa 15 Picks Australia as Focus Country

  08-10-2015 21:08 via artnews.com
  Australia has been selected as the country of focus for Performa 15’s Pavilion Without Walls, the performance art biennial announced today. Performa opens November 1 and runs for three weeks in New York.Performances and installations by Agatha Gothe-Snape, Brian Fuata, Richard … Read More
  
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• Independent Brussels Announces Dates, Exhibitors for First Edition

  08-10-2015 19:22 via artnews.com
  Independent Brussels, the inaugural Belgian edition of Independent, which also organizes two art fairs in New York, has announced a preliminary exhibitor list. The fair will take place April 20–23 at the 50,000-square-foot Vanderborght Building. It will be designed by … Read More
  
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• Chantal Akerman obituary

  08-10-2015 19:02
  
  Radical film-maker and artist who was a pioneer of modern feminist cinemaChantal Akerman was commonly described as a Belgian film-maker, but this label hardly does justice to the breadth of her identity as an artist, nor to her nomadic nature. As well as filming in her native country, Akerman, who has died aged 65, apparently after taking her own life, worked extensively in the US, as well as in eastern Europe, Israel, Mexico, China and elsewhere, making fiction, documentary, experimental and es
  
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• Federico Uribe: making animal sculptures with bullets – in pictures

  08-10-2015 19:01
  
  Symbols of violence take on a whimsical nature in the hands of Federico Uribe. ‘At Peace’ creates sculptures from ammunition, his work informed both by his homeland Colombia, where violence is part of daily life, and the epidemic of gun crime in the US where he has lived for 15 years. The exhibition opens at the Adelson Galleries in Boston on 16 October and runs to 20 December. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Cut N’ Mix: Contemporary Collage’ at El Museo Del Barrio

  08-10-2015 18:19 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Cut N’ Mix: Contemporary Collage” is on view at El Museo del Barrio. The exhibition features collages from 26 artists, which range from more traditional paper collages to more “extreme” materials … Read More
  
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• Bonhams Sale of Middle Eastern Modern and Contemporary Art Breaks Records, With Manoucher Yektai as Top Lot

  08-10-2015 18:13 via artnews.com
  Yesterday, in London, a sale of Middle Eastern modern and contemporary art at Bonhams broke records for five artists. The second in a series called A Century of Iraqi Art, the sale was particularly notable for one lot—Manoucher Yektai’s 1960 … Read More
  
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• Cy Twombly makes me want to plan the art heist of the century

  08-10-2015 17:45
  
  Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, LondonThe last great masterpieces of abstract expressionism have descended on Mayfair – but this exhibition feels too market-led to let such colossal works shineYou can’t fault art dealer Larry Gagosian’s taste. Not only has he commissioned a spacious and elegant new art gallery in London’s Mayfair, but it opens with a Cy Twombly exhibition. By the time Twombly died in 2011, he had become a figure of unique mystery and authority in modern art &nda
  
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• A Lost Frank Lloyd Wright House Is Found

  08-10-2015 17:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The house Linda McQuillen bought for $100,000 was part of Wright’s effort to develop and market well-designed homes at a more affordable level — his first effort to reach a broader audience. Only 16 were ever built, and only 14 still standing.
  
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• He Was The Only Man To Win The Pillsbury Bake-Off. So They Produced A Play About Him But Forgot To Tell Him

  08-10-2015 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Imagine taking a call that goes something like this: Hello, sir. Did you know that here on the other side of the country, a theater is staging an entire musical based loosely on one particularly exciting day in your life that happened nearly 20 years ago?
  
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• Pressure’s On: Boston’s MFA Expecting Very Big Things From Its New Director

  08-10-2015 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The MFA expects Matthew Teitelbaum to lead the charge in ambitious programming, acquisition, preservation, scholarship, and fundraising. And, after meeting him at a community breakfast in September and listening to his list of priorities — compiled after he had spent less than 100 days on the job — it is clear that the governing MFA board also expects him to shake the place up a bit, too.
  
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• Future Imperfect: Robert Zemeckis in Retrospective

  08-10-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  Two thousand fifteen was destined to be the year of Robert Zemeckis since at least 1989, the same year a frizzy-haired scientist and his baby-faced protégé set the clock forward to October 21, 2015, defying the space-time continuum for the … Read More
  
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• Chicago Art Institute Director To Step Down

  08-10-2015 15:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Douglas Druick, who first joined the Art Institute as a curator in 1984, was serving as acting president when he was appointed to succeed James Cuno as director of the institution in 2011.Artnet
  
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• Editor’s Letter: ARTnews October 2015

  08-10-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  The Trick Brain, a video by the British artist Ed Atkins, has haunted me since I first saw it at the 2013 Venice Biennale. In it, the camera pans a room packed to the gills with tribal artifacts. It’s the … Read More
  
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• Barbican art show unleashes naked dancers and rollerskaters in onesies

  08-10-2015 15:22
  
  Eddie Peake is the latest artist to take over the centre’s Curve gallery, with a three-month installation exploring ‘unrequited desire, jealousy, love’ A roster of 11 naked dancers and six rollerskaters in sheer onesies will form part of a three-month, 10-hour-a-day art installation at the Barbican in London exploring sexual identity, unrequited desire and how we all become what we are.Eddie Peake, who once staged a 30-minute naked five-a-side football match at the Royal Academ
  
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• Morning Links: Airport Art Edition

  08-10-2015 14:44 via artnews.com
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• Meet This Year’s Nobel Literature Prize Winner

  08-10-2015 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Svetlana Alexievich’s works often blend literature and journalism. She is best known for giving voice to women and men who lived through World War II, the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan that lasted from 1979 to 1989, and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986.
  
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• ‘It’s Long Past Time’ For James Levine To Retire From Met Opera, Says New York Times Classical Editor

  08-10-2015 12:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Zachary Woolfe: “It’s time – long past time – for Mr. Levine to make a transition to an emeritus role. Maybe then, with a fresh perspective to set alongside that of Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, the company can reverse the ‘artistic retrenchment’ that Alex Ross rightly observes this season.”
  
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• World Homeless Day 2015: John Dolan on his journey from rough-sleeping addict to successful artist and author

  08-10-2015 12:25
  
  East Londoner’s work now sells for thousands and he’s anxious to help others out of poverty
  
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• A bored Russian school janitor is turning snow days into art

  08-10-2015 12:13
  
  'This janitor should not be a janitor'
  
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• Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery is a grown-up gem that shows he's sobered with age

  08-10-2015 12:01
  
  Caruso St John architects have conjured an immaculate new home for the art prankster’s collection in an unlikely south London setting – and there’s not a diamond skull or formaldehyde animal in sight
  Wandering around the backstreets of Vauxhall, between the rumbling railway viaduct and council housing blocks, you might not realise Damien Hirst’s £25m new gallery had landed. For an artist who used to chop up cows and ambush people with his foreskin, his new south Lon
  
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• Streaming And Classical Music – Even More Dangers Than For Pop?

  08-10-2015 11:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “However, whilst metadata and audio quality have been the burning issues for classical journalists and listeners, it’s the economics of streaming that has been alarming certain independent specialist classical record companies. In fact, as far as they are concerned, streaming poses unique and far greater problems for the classical industry than it does for the pop world.”
  
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• Promising Woman Conductor Dead At 27 After Cerebral Hemorrhage During Rehearsal

  08-10-2015 11:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Zaeth Ritter Arenas, music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Sinaloa de las Artes in Culiacán, was rushed to a hospital for emergency surgery on Sept. 27 but died a week later. (in Spanish; Google-translated version here)
  
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• What’s ‘Super Thursday’? Sort Of Like ‘Black Friday’ For The Book Industry?

  08-10-2015 11:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Super Thursday is the day when publishers release many of the big titles expected to greet eager readers, and elderly relatives, on 25 December. In 2015 there are 404 of them: that, remarkably, represents something of a record, last year we counted 315. In other words: it is a big moment for a book business still highly reliant on gift purchases, and a time of extreme activity for booksellers. And excitement, too, of course. This is fun.”
  
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• There’s A Man Scattering Fake Books, Signs And Pamphlets Around L.A.

  08-10-2015 11:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When he’s on a job, leaving fake signs and objects in his gym, at IKEA, in book stores, in chain stores, on the street or at a museum, he tries to be sneaky. Once the deed is done, ‘I run away as fast as possible,’ he says. Since January, Wysaski, a Los Angeles comedy writer who runs the website Pleated Jeans, has been planting jokes in the real world. “
  
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• The Beautiful People Are The Hardest To Draw: Interview With A Courtroom Artist

  08-10-2015 11:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Chicago courtroom sketch artist Lou ‘L.D.’ Chukman has drawn some of the biggest names to ever pass through Chicago’s unfathomably large court system. He’s been working as an artist since 1975, in courtrooms and doing caricatures and commissions.”
  
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• Visions Of France In The Year 2000 – By Artists In 1900

  08-10-2015 11:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “En L’An 2000 (In the Year 2000) is a series of visionary cigarette cards and postcards by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists.First produced for the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris – the cards were distributed in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910 – the world of the future in 2000 was plain to see.”
  
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• Ernest Hemingway In Love

  08-10-2015 11:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An excerpt from A.E. Hotchner’s memoir of how Hemingway’s affair with Pauline Pfeiffer changed his life and his writing.
  
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• Olga Hirshhorn, 95, Art Collector And Wife Of Museum Founder

  08-10-2015 10:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The widow of the founder of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden … was well known as an exuberant, energetic and enthusiastic art patron, philanthropist and collector in her own right.”
  
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• Dennis Russell Davies Injured On Podium Half An Hour Before Concert

  08-10-2015 10:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “According to a statement by the [Bruckner Orchestra Linz in Austria], the 71-year-old conductor was rushed to the hospital after making an awkward turn on the podium, tearing his patellar tendon, which connects the kneecap to the shinbone. He underwent successful surgery.”
  
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• Why These Sitcom Kisses Were Revolutionary Acts

  08-10-2015 10:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sitcom parents have engaged in public displays of affection on primetime for as long as there have been family sitcoms, after all. But for those of us who grew up with parents born and raised in Asia – and, based on a 2012 Pew survey, that’s a growing number of us – these [particular] lip-lock moments are mind-blowing. Because not only have we rarely seen Asian American parents kiss on TV, many of us have never seen them do it in real life either.”
  
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• Brain Eno Talks About The “Ecology Of Culture”

  08-10-2015 10:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For BBC Radio 6’s annual John Peel Lecture, “Eno will seek to demonstrate how the whole complex of individuals and institutions engaged in culture – artists, broadcasters, gallerists, promoters, DJs, managers, lawyers, fans – are symbiotically connected parts of a single huge organism which we call Culture.” (audio)
  
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• When The Creative Class First Came Into Its Own

  08-10-2015 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Scott Timberg: “It was during the Archaic Period when the notion of an artist’s intellectual property emerged. … By the time the Golden Age dawned, Athens and other Ionian towns and cities had gone through a revolution that may be the most profound change in the history of art: the beginning of art for art’s sake.”
  
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• Neuroscience Alone Can’t Explain What Art Is And Why Humans Make It

  08-10-2015 09:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alva Noë: “The problem is that neuroscience has yet to frame an adequate conception of our nature. You look in vain in the writings of neuroscientists for satisfying accounts of experience or consciousness. For this reason, I believe, we can’t use neuroscience to explain art and its place in our lives. Indeed, if I am right, the order of explanation may go in the other direction: Art can help us frame a better picture of our human nature.”
  
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• If Astronomers Ever Do Pick Up Signals From A Civilization On Another Planet, What Happens Next?

  08-10-2015 09:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  First of all, they have to make sure they’re not getting pranked by some mischievous techies. If they decide the signals are real, there is an agreed-upon set of protocols – which may not actually work when the time comes.
  
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• Progress: GQ (!) Refers To A Ballet Star A Professional Athlete – And Tells Us What He Eats To Stay In Shape

  08-10-2015 09:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In this series, GQ takes a look at what pro athletes in different sports eat on a daily basis to perform at their best. Here’s a look at the daily diet of [ABT principal] Marcelo Gomes.”
  
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• English National Ballet Executive Director To Step Down

  08-10-2015 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Caroline Thomson, who was a deputy director general and chief operating officer at the BBC before coming to ENB in 2013, will depart next April “to focus on her non-executive work with other organisations.”
  
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• Rihanna unveils album cover that 'changes the history of album art'

  08-10-2015 08:27
  
  The artwork for her eighth album, Anti, explores the idea that ‘people who have sight are sometimes the people who are blindest’, singer says
  Rihanna’s much-delayed new album – her first since 2012’s Unapologetic – now has a title, Anti.The title was revealed by Rihanna herself at the Mama gallery in downtown Los Angeles – invitations to the event billed it as “a private viewing of artwork by Roy Nachum her her 8th studio album”. Rihanna said
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.07.15

  08-10-2015 07:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Inside Out vs. Outside In
  There are two schools of thought when it comes to eating a cinnamon roll. … These differing styles are a fair comparison to how organizations approach arts marketing. …read more
  AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-10-06Identifying Skills
  Trying to determine what your strengths and weakness are as you assess the next step or new step in your career? When making a change to this degree, we can often take for granted our most powerful skills. &h
  
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