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• The Sun Never Sets On The Gagosian Art Empire

  28-10-2015 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With 15 galleries stretching around the world and a host of former employees also making their marks, his influence is large.
  
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• English National Opera: We’ve Turned The Page

  28-10-2015 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cressida Pollock, the former McKinsey consultant who last month was appointed chief executive on a three-year contract, said they were in process of searching for an “artistic leader” to replace Berry, but there was no schedule for the appointment, nor any decision as to what this person’s title or exact role will be.
  
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• Why Are Boston Audiences Laughing Inappropriately During Serious Plays?

  28-10-2015 22:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Rogue laughter,” as Boston-area actress Marianna Bassham calls it, has become an occupational hazard for actors, an annoyance for audiences, and an increasingly common phenomenon on stages from Boston to Broadway and from “A Streetcar Named Desire” to last year’s New York revival of “A Raisin in the Sun,” starring Denzel Washington.
  
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• The ADD Arts Philanthropist

  28-10-2015 21:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Perhaps no one has given more money to Northwest arts organizations. But Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s arts philanthropy is changing in a big way. And the region is wondering what is in store.
  
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• Study: Streaming Isn’t Killing Recording Industry Revenues

  28-10-2015 21:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When looking the top songs each week and calculating how much rights holders were paid, researchers find that streaming usage increases music-industry revenue thanks to the ability to convert those who were either downloading illegally or not listening to tracks at all. But those gains are pretty much offset by streaming’s displacement of permanent track purchases or downloads.”
  
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• Does Richard Prince Own the Mythical Last Letter Sylvia Plath Wrote Before Her Death?

  28-10-2015 20:59 via artnews.com
  It appears Richard Prince, the provocative artist whose work draws on topics such as sexy nurses, Marlboro ads, and Instagram, may have in his possession a letter essential to understanding one of the most beloved poets of the last century.Some back … Read More
  
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• Rockefeller Foundation Buys $1.46 Million Of “Hamilton” Tickets

  28-10-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Under the initiative starting next spring, the producers of “Hamilton” will make tickets to select Wednesday matinees available for $70 for students attending New York City public high schools. The Rockefeller Foundation will subsidize $60 of each ticket, and students will pay just $10.
  
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• ‘You Develop a Sixth Sense’: Richard Polsky on His New Warhol Authentication Service

  28-10-2015 18:52 via artnews.com
  In 2011, when the Warhol Foundation decided to shutter its Art Authentication Board, the reigning authority on Warhol authenticity, to focus on its grant-making activities, it said the move was in part motivated by a desire to avoid lawsuits from collectors who disagreed with … Read More
  
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• Here is a CBS Evening News Piece From 50 Years Ago About ‘Underground Film’

  28-10-2015 18:36 via artnews.com
  On Monday, the A.V. Club posted a YouTube video of an Andy Dugan-reported CBS Evening News story from December 31, 1965 about the emerging “underground film” movement in New York City, which of course dovetails heavily with what was happening … Read More
  
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• ‘Jessica Stockholder: Door Hinges’ at Kavi Gupta, Chicago

  28-10-2015 18:34 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Jessica Stockholder: Door Hinges” is on view at Kavi Gupta’s Elizabeth Street location in Chicago. The exhibition, which features painting and sculpture alongside an installation that tethers the … Read More
  
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• Magic Numbers: ‘Pictures’ Artist Paul McMahon, ‘The Troubadour King of Woodstock,’ Sets Up in Brooklyn

  28-10-2015 18:29 via artnews.com
  Last Thursday, the artist Paul McMahon staged a performance inside of a retrospective show of his work currently on view at 321 Gallery in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. The exhibition is titled “44” and contains 44 works spread over 44 years … Read More
  
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• Guy Vanderhaeghe Wins Canada’s Governor General Lit Award For Third Time

  28-10-2015 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Since the first-ever Governor-General’s Literary Award was handed out in 1936, only three writers have won the prize for English-language fiction three times: Hugh MacLennan, Alice Munro and Michael Ondaatje.
  
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• Marianne Boesky Now Represents Björn Braun

  28-10-2015 17:49 via artnews.com
  Last week, New York’s Marianne Boesky Gallery announced representation of Thornton Dial. This week brings news that the gallery now represents Berlin-based artist Björn Braun, whose first solo exhibition, titled “New Towns,” will open on November 1 at Boesky East (20 Clinton Street) and … Read More
  
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• Christie’s Is Selling Sting’s Art Collection

  28-10-2015 17:35 via artnews.com
  On February 24, Christie’s King Street location will auction works from the collection of musician Sting and his wife Trudie Styler. Works for sale include Ben Nicholson’s March 55 (amethyst), estimated at £300,000-500,000 ($459,510-765,850); Henri Matisse’s 1947 Jazz portfolio, estimated … Read More
  
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• Museum Says It Will Collect Legos For Ai Weiwei

  28-10-2015 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We have received many offers of donations of Lego in the past days. People have shown their generosity, creative spirit and enthusiasm to become engaged in this project, and we are pleased to be the first international collection point.
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner Vanity Fair photographer Annie Leibovitz says 'retouching' means magazine covers are not photographs

  28-10-2015 17:18
  
  The celebrity snapper is behind iconic cover shoots of Demi Moore, John Lennon and Yoko Ono
  
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• The Link Between Ticket Prices And The Community Around You

  28-10-2015 17:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “My fellow arts leaders, the next time you find yourselves asking, “Why don’t our audiences include younger people? Why is our neighborhood gentrifying? Why aren’t we staging more innovative shows and developing young talent?”—rethink your admission prices and your outreach strategy.”
  
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• Islamic State's latest attack on Palmyra is a picture of the end of civilisation

  28-10-2015 16:43
  
  When Isis blew up three captives tied to the Temple of Baalshamin’s columns, it proved the inseparability of violence against art and violence against humans
  It is, in a monstrous way, the picture of the year. This week the latest atrocity reported to have been carried out by Islamic State was illustrated in news reports with a photograph of a mushroom cloud of smoke and dust rising above the ruins of ancient Palmyra. This brutal conjunction of beauty and violence – the remaining col
  
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• Obamas Bring More Contemporary Art Into The White House

  28-10-2015 16:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There was discussion about the president and first lady liking more abstract art,” said William Allman, the longtime curator of the White House art collection, who has arranged loans of the more modern paintings from museums. “Our collection doesn’t really have any of that.”
  
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• Here’s the Initial Artist List for the 2016 Biennale of Sydney

  28-10-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  Sound the alarm! The Biennale of Sydney has released the initial artist list for its 20th edition, which runs March 18 through June 5, 2016. It is titled “The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed,” organized by … Read More
  
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• David Zwirner, Rolf Sachs Among Third Round of Investors in Paddle8

  28-10-2015 15:51 via artnews.com
  Online art-auction service Paddle8 announced today that it has raised $34 million in Series C funding, the third round of investments raised during the early stages of a company. With the new round of investments, Paddle8 has now raised a total … Read More
  
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• Retrospective: The Satisfactions of Robert Motherwell

  28-10-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  And other excerpts from our coverage 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago Read More
  
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• Of Course You Can Ban Cellphones In The Theatre. But That’s Kinda Stupid (With All Due Respect)

  28-10-2015 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The bad news for theatre is that we live in a world full of hand-held technology, where word travels fast. And if the word travelling about our industry is that we bully newcomers who don’t know any better, those newcomers have more than enough alternative forms of entertainment to choose from.”
  
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• Ibragimova/Tiberghien, Wigmore Hall, London, review: Respective strengths complement each other perfectly

  28-10-2015 14:40
  
  The pianist and violinist demonstrate their experience as a double-act as they excel at Mozart
  
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• Why Are We Still Fascinated By Sherlock Holmes?

  28-10-2015 14:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What keeps Sherlock Holmes alive? As is customarily the case with serial literature, the most important element of the appeal of the Holmes stories is the personality of their principal character, closely followed by his relationship with his amanuensis.”
  
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• Morning Links: Guerrilla Girls Mug Edition

  28-10-2015 13:13 via artnews.com
  The Guerrilla Girls are introducing a product line that “question the role of the cultural souvenir in today’s art world.” You can purchase them at MoMA. [Fortune]Glenn O’Brien on the fundamental differences between art and fashion. [Details]The Green family, the owners of … Read More
  
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• Horrorgami: the dark side of paper cutouts – in pictures

  28-10-2015 13:00
  
  Murder, skulls and mayhem – the art of kirigami turns gruesome. Marc Hagan-Guirey uses the traditional Japanese art of folding and cutting a single sheet of paper to produce spooky 3D scenes. Referencing cult horror movies and popular culture, Paper Dandy’s Horrorgami includes 20 scenes to make and is published by Laurence King on 29 OctoberPass the scalpel: lessons in horrorgamiContinue reading...
  
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• When Bar(n)-Storming Cellist Matt Haimovitz Colonized Columbia University Campus

  28-10-2015 10:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Students eating at Columbia University’s John Jay Dining Hall, an airy den reverberating with undergraduate chatter, were in for a surprise last Wednesday. When they walked in for dinner, they found Matt Haimovitz – the cellist who helped to start a trend by performing in places like an East Village punk club and a pizzeria in Jackson, Miss. – playing Bach.”
  
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• Bolshoi Ballet Gets New Director, Replacing Acid Atttack Victim Sergei Filin

  28-10-2015 10:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Bolshoi Theatre general director Vladimir Urin appointed Makhar Vaziev, who has led La Scala Ballet for seven years and, before that, spent 13 years at the helm of the Mariinsky Ballet. Many Russians are relieved that the choice is a former dancer with leadership experience and good taste. But questions surround this appointment.”
  
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• The Thorny Situation That The Bolshoi Ballet’s New Director Is Dancing Into

  28-10-2015 10:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s by no means only the drama surrounding the acid attack on outgoing director Sergei Filin, as bad as that was. Ismene Brown explains.
  
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• More Female Producers And Directors Mean More Female Crew Members, Study Finds

  28-10-2015 10:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Data crunched by researchers … at San Diego State University found that on films with female directors, women accounted for slightly more than half of the films’ writers. On films with male directors, by contrast, women made up 8 percent of writers. The ripple effect extends to other jobs: across the board, having a female director greatly increased the number of women in editing and cinematographer positions.”
  
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• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Selects New Director

  28-10-2015 10:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Peggy] Fogelman, who currently serves as the director of collections at New York’s Morgan Library & Museum, has broad experience on both the curatorial and educational sides of museums – knowledge that could well position her to expand the Gardner’s audience and further its multidisciplinary programming.”
  
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• Beirut’s Art Scene Remains Lively Despite The City’s Never-Ending Tumult

  28-10-2015 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The creative ferment is happening even as unrest in the region and domestic political instability have ground the economy and tourism to a near halt and threaten to embroil Lebanon in new conflicts. Beirut is also a city where luxury towers are redrawing the skyline while the arrival in recent years of an estimated 1.5 million refugees from neighboring Syria has strained the infrastructure of a country of 4 million. A crisis over garbage collection recently plagued the city, but seems to
  
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• What’s Up With The Lowline, The World’s First Underground Park

  28-10-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Meant in part as a counterpoint to New York’s wildly popular High Line, and conceived by architect and “urban archaeologist” James Ramsey, the Lowline (if it really does get built) will be a landscaped public space reclaimed out of a derelict three-block-long underground trolley terminal on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
  
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• What Libraries Can Still Do, Even As The World Becomes Digitalized

  28-10-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The library has no future as yet another Internet node, but neither will it relax into retirement as an antiquarian warehouse. Until our digital souls depart our bodies for good and float away into the cloud, we retain part citizenship in the physical world … In the midst of an information explosion, librarians are still the most versatile information specialists we have. And the purest.”
  
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• The Birth Of ‘The New Yorker Story’ As A Genre

  28-10-2015 09:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jonathan Franzen: “What made a story New Yorker was its carefully wrought, many-comma’d prose; its long passages of physical description, the precision and the sobriety of which created a kind of negative emotional space, a suggestion of feeling without the naming of it; its well-educated white characters, who could be found experiencing the melancholies of affluence, the doldrums of suburban marriage, or the thrill or the desolation of adultery; and, above all, its signature style o
  
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• Pianist’s Blasphemy Conviction Annulled By Turkish High Court

  28-10-2015 09:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 8th Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals ruled by a majority vote that [Fazil] Say’s Twitter posts, which had led to his sentence on grounds of ‘insulting religious beliefs held by a section of society,’ should be regarded as freedom of thought and expression and thus should not be punished.”
  
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• ISIS Has Found A Way To Make Its Destruction Of Ancient Sites And Artifacts Even Worse

  28-10-2015 09:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “According to reports from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the extremist militant group tied at least three prisoners to Roman pillars in the Syrian desert city of Palmyra, rigged the structures with dynamite, and blew them up Monday afternoon.”
  
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• The Complex Reasons We Comply With Authority (Stanley Milgram is Back)

  28-10-2015 09:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The controversial psychologist, whose famous 1960s experiments concluded that most people will obey unethical orders, is the subject of a critically acclaimed new movie. … Not surprisingly, Milgram’s name is prominently mentioned in a recent study that takes a new look at an old question: What does it take to get us to comply with instructions, even when we know doing so could harm others?The study’s conclusion: A gentle nudge will generally do it.”
  
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• Why Video-Game Culture Is Stuck Between Leftism And Libertarians

  28-10-2015 09:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s a hypocrisy of claiming to do both, creating meaningful work worthy of the protection of free speech, ignoring the fact that there are very few efforts working to push discourse on any subject in a direction that would be uncomfortable … That’s when you know you’re saying something that matters, when people start getting bothered by it. … You don’t see furniture-makers talk about how they need free speech to protect the integrity of their appl
  
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• Where Does All Our Time Go? This Lab Knows

  28-10-2015 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The holdings of the Centre for Time Use Research at the University of Oxford “have been gathered from nearly 30 countries, span more than 50 years and cover some 850,000 person-days in total. They offer the most detailed portrait ever created of when people work, sleep, play and socialize – and of how those patterns have changed over time.”
  
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• Jazz Vocalist Mark Murphy, 83

  28-10-2015 09:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Celebrated for his interpretations of songs by Cole Porter, Antônio Carlos Jobim and other great songwriters, … he ranged from bebop to ballads, torch songs to scat singing, from vocalizing Kerouac’s poetry to experimenting with rhythms inspired by the whistle that summoned his neighbors in upstate New York to the local wool mill.”
  
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• Pass the scalpel: lessons in horrorgami

  28-10-2015 09:00
  
  Freddie Krueger, Frankenstein, the Addams Family … Mark Hagan-Guirey has taken a blade to them all. The dark king of kirigami gives Stuart Jeffries a crash course in the Japanese paper art. Will there be blood? At the end of his short story The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe describes a blood-red moon shining through a fissure that jags across the facade of an ancestral mansion – just before the whole thing collapses. As a little boy growing up in Newry, Northern Irelan
  
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• Lunar conspiracy: the people who stole the moon – in pictures

  28-10-2015 08:00
  
  After the Apollo missions, Richard Nixon donated 270 moon rocks to the world. Now, only 180 are accounted for – the rest are missing. There’s a market in fakes, plus an undercover operation called Lunar Eclipse to track down the forgers. Photographer Annabel Elgar has trooped all over the world to track down the remaining rocks for her series Cheating the Moon. But which are real and which are fakes? Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.27.15

  28-10-2015 06:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Walid Raad’s Blurred Lines at MoMA: Does Truth Matter?
  The Museum of Modern Art’s bewildering Walid Raad exhibition (to Jan. 31) “investigates distinctions between fact and fiction,” according to its press release. In truth, it blurs those distinctions in a ways that sometimes feel … read more
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-10-27Pat Graney and Colleen Thomas Explore Difference (Differently)
  The 1960s weren’t all about Beatles, sit-ins, marches,
  
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• Moran portrait prize: the 2015 winner and finalists – in pictures

  28-10-2015 02:01
  
  Melbourne artist and illustrator Warren Crossett has won Australia’s highest value art prize for his Self-portrait after St Jerome Flanders. Here are the artworks of all 30 finalists shortlisted for the $150,000 award Continue reading...
  
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