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• Report: Al Pacino’s New Broadway Show Is A F****** Disaster

  30-10-2015 23:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Friends of the actor say they’ve never seen him so despondent. He sits in his dressing room after the show “totally lost,” one says. And sources say he’s getting no help from Mamet, who saw two dress rehearsals and the first preview and then vamoosed to California.”
  
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• Chicago Needs Money. So Where To Get It? Classical Music Of Course!

  30-10-2015 23:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the run-up to the City Council’s budget vote this week, the Progressive Caucus came up with a list of revenue-generating amendments including one intended to add a 9 percent tax to the cost of tickets for two of the city’s major cultural engines—Lyric Opera and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It would be so easy. All the council would have to do is delete a paragraph of the Municipal Code.”
  
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• How To Make Ballet More Diverse

  30-10-2015 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On the stages of American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet black, Asian, Latino and multiracial dancers are beginning to change the face of ballet where it matters most: Lincoln Center, home base to both companies.
  
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• Canada’s National Ballet Posts Its Sixth Straight Surplus

  30-10-2015 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Binet, Board Chair of The National Ballet of Canada, today reported that company revenues were $30,851,000 with expenses at $30,806,000 resulting in an operating surplus for the year of $45,000 and accumulated surplus of $65,000.
  
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• Is Analog Photography Making A Comeback?

  30-10-2015 22:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Using film makes people think about what they are photographing. You only get one go, you can’t take 50 pictures and delete them all.”
  
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• ‘Kara Walker: Go to Hell or Atlanta, Whichever Comes First’ at Victoria Miro, London

  30-10-2015 22:15 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Kara Walker: Go to Hell or Atlanta, Whichever Comes First” is on view at Victoria Miro in London. The show is on view through November 7.
  
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• SXSW Says It Erred In Canceling Panels And Adds Anti-Harrasment Programming

  30-10-2015 22:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “By canceling two sessions we sent an unintended message that SXSW not only tolerates online harassment but condones it, and for that we are truly sorry,” said Hugh Forrest, director of SXSW Interactive, in a statement.
  
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• Habitat: John Dante Bianchi

  30-10-2015 21:31 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: John Dante Bianchi, New York. “Greenwick, Brooklyn’s newest up and coming neighborhood,” John Dante Bianchi joked when asked precisely where his Brooklyn studio was. Bianchi is currently working on a few pieces from … Read More
  
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• Jeb Bush Plans ‘Pop Art’ Fundraiser at ‘Trendy’ Art Basel Miami Beach

  30-10-2015 21:20 via artnews.com
  The race for the White House just gets better every day. U.S. News and World Report has published a story about a 112-page internal Jeb Bush campaign document that reveals that the former Florida governor is planning an event during Art Basel Miami Beach. … Read More
  
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• Serpentine Galleries director Julia Peyton-Jones to step down after nearly 25 years

  30-10-2015 20:47
  
  She will leave the Kensington Gardens venue in west London next July with 'the whole art community in her debt' 
  
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• ‘His Ability to Change Has Been Amazing’: A Review of MoMA’s Frank Stella Survey, From 1970

  30-10-2015 20:45 via artnews.com
  Earlier this year, at the Armory Show in New York, a group of stainless steel and 3-D-printed thermoplastic sculptures were on view at Marianne Boesky’s booth. “Who is this new, hot, young artist?” dealers could be heard asking. The answer: … Read More
  
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• LACMA’s Michael Govan, A Different Kind Of Museum Director

  30-10-2015 19:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The good thing about being the museum director is that you’ll eventually be forgotten. You can take risks. So if you succeed, if you fail, it’s not really a big deal in history. It’s the artists who are going to be remembered.”
  
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• Serpentine co-drector Julia Peyton-Jones to step down after 25 years

  30-10-2015 18:42
  
  Peyton-Jones to leave London art gallery next summer having overseen an expansion of its size and influence Julia Peyton-Jones, the prestigious co-director who raised visitor numbers to the Serpentine gallery by hundreds of thousands and famously hosted Tilda Swinton asleep in Cornelia Parker’s glass box, is to step down from the organisation after 25 years.“There is never a good time to leave – however, I wanted to go when the Serpentine was firing on all cylinders and our maj
  
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• Serpentine co-director Julia Peyton-Jones to step down after 25 years

  30-10-2015 18:42
  
  Peyton-Jones to leave London art gallery next summer having overseen an expansion of its size and influence Julia Peyton-Jones, the prestigious co-director who raised visitor numbers to the Serpentine gallery by hundreds of thousands and famously hosted Tilda Swinton asleep in Cornelia Parker’s glass box, is to step down from the organisation after 25 years.“There is never a good time to leave – however, I wanted to go when the Serpentine was firing on all cylinders and our maj
  
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• Ai Weiwei v Lego – the week in art

  30-10-2015 18:21
  
  The world sticks a primary-coloured middle finger up at the Danish toy company in solidarity with the Chinese artist. Plus Audrey Hepburn, a violent model village and Gilbert & George’s obsession with David Cameron – in your weekly dispatchToshiba Gallery of Japanese Art
  The V&A reopens its gallery of art from all periods of Japan’s history: a refurbished and reinvented showcase for one of the most fertile of all artistic traditions.
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• Why Not Apply to Be in a Xavier Cha Performance in New York?

  30-10-2015 18:11 via artnews.com
  Xavier Cha needs your help. A posting on the New York Foundation for the Arts’ jobs board says that the artist is seeking “[a]ctors, performers, artists, comedians, singers, or anyone interested in being in an ongoing group performance for a … Read More
  
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• Tomorrow Is the Last Day to Apply to Be in a Xavier Cha Performance in New York

  30-10-2015 18:11 via artnews.com
  Xavier Cha needs your help. A posting on the New York Foundation for the Arts’ jobs board says that the artist is seeking “[a]ctors, performers, artists, comedians, singers, or anyone interested in being in an ongoing group performance for a … Read More
  
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• UK Arts Pay Survey Shows Gender, Age Equity Gaps

  30-10-2015 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The overall profile of respondents gives an indication of the fragmented nature of the arts workforce as a whole. Just a third (720) of the 2,183 who completed the survey earned their entire income by working in a full-time salaried position on a permanent contract for a single employer, with the rest working either part-time for one or more employers, on temporary or casual contracts, or as freelance workers.”
  
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• Scottish Arts Funding Row Sparks Debate On Definitions For What Gets Funded

  30-10-2015 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ironically, arts funding remains one area of government that is especially closed to any suggestions of change. It remains wedded to a post-war conception of elite decision making where those that know make the choices about what the rest of the population will most benefit from having subsidised.”
  
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• A Brief History of the New York Times’ Coverage of Selling Art Online

  30-10-2015 16:25 via artnews.com
  This week, the New York Times published a trend story about buying art online by Vindu Goel, a technology reporter for the paper. In the piece, which focused primarily on the online art retailer Artsy, Goel wrote: Since the dawn … Read More
  
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• WQXR Music Editor Fired For Plagiarism

  30-10-2015 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The stories in question were found to contain descriptions, phrases and sentences that duplicate or closely resemble work that was previously published elsewhere. An NPR.org copy editor uncovered the connections last week while working on one of Brian Wise’s stories.”
  
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• John Adams and London Symphony Orchestra, Barbican, review: Leila Josefowicz redeems Adams's patchy Sheherazade.2

  30-10-2015 16:04
  
  Josefowicz is a virtuoso of the old school, and the sheer beauty of her concluding flight cast a redeeming aura over all that had gone before
  
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• Research: A Link Between Creativity And Dishonest Behavior?

  30-10-2015 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We suggest that creative identity derives its value, specifically, from a sense of rarity, specialness, and uniqueness, which causes a sense of entitlement (among creative people),” they write in the Academy of Management Journal. “This sense of entitlement, in turn, can cause individuals to engage in dishonest behaviors.”
  
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• The Broadway Ticket Lottery: How To (Try To) Get Cheap Seats

  30-10-2015 15:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Broadway lotteries that offer deeply discounted tickets have blossomed since 1996, when “Rent” made some $20 seats at the Nederlander Theater available for every performance. (It started as a first-come, first-served offer but evolved into a lottery.)”
  
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• ‘Wild Noise’ at El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes

  30-10-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Wael Shawky at MoMA PS1

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• Sarah Sze at Tanya Bonakdar

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• Mona Hatoum at Centre Pompidou

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• Marley Freeman at Cleopatra’s

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• Mark Grotjahn at Anton Kern

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• Mark Bradford at Hammer Museum

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• Idris Khan at Sean Kelly

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• Chuck Close at Pace

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• ‘Carl Andre in His Time’ at Mnuchin

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• Cameron at Jeffrey Deitch

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• Andrew Frieder at Good Luck

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• Agnes Martin at Tate Modern

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• Morning Links: Halloween Edition

  30-10-2015 14:13 via artnews.com
  Russian art gallery owner Marat Guelman has been evicted from his Moscow building for allegedly not paying his rent. Guelman says that this is untrue, and that his eviction is due to the fact that he had hosted a charity … Read More
  
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• Dasha Zhukova Gives MIT $1 M. for ‘Distinguished Visiting Artist’ Position

  30-10-2015 14:00 via artnews.com
  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced today that Russian American philanthropist, collector, and Garage Museum founder Dasha Zhukova has donated $1 million for the purpose of creating a distinguished visiting artist position. The first appointment will be made for the 2016–17 … Read More
  
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• George Best: Football As Never Before re-release – video extract

  30-10-2015 13:15
  
  Watch extracts from the 1971 German film by Hellmuth Costard, Fußball, Wie Noch Nie (Football As Never Before), soon to be re-released with a new score. The avant garde film, in which a camera follows George Best for the duration of a single match at Old Trafford in 1970, has been resurrected by Irish composer, Matthew Nolan, who has created a new score for its re-release. It will be launched at the Visual Arts Centre, Carlow Town, Ireland, on 25 NovemberRead: long-lost George Best art fil
  
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• What ancient Egypt tells us about a world without religious conflict

  30-10-2015 13:00
  
  Neil MacGregor’s final triumph at the British Museum is a show that tells the story of the shared lives and deities of Jews, Christians and Muslims in Egypt’s diverse past – proof that we don’t have to be divided in the presentHigh above the atrium of the British Museum, in the Hotung Gallery that curves around the dome of the old Reading Room, you can – for the next four months – walk through 1,200 years of Egypt’s history: from Alexander’s conque
  
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• Gillian Wearing: 'Having to talk to a group makes me very uncomfortable’

  30-10-2015 11:34
  
  Gillian Wearing says that it is being shy that has made her such a bold artist. Now she is helping others to  overcome their social anxiety, through karaoke and poetry
  
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• Well-known actors and their dogs are immortalised in portraits

  30-10-2015 10:26
  
  The artist David Remfry has painted stars and their dogs including Ethan Hawke and Susan Sarandon
  
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• Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia In Barcelona Begins Final Phase Of Construction

  30-10-2015 10:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Remaining work on the great basilica, for which Antoni Gaudí laid the first stone in 1882, includes the west sacristy, the six central spires, and the Tower of Jesus. When complete, Sagrada Familia will be the tallest house of worship in Europe. (photos)
  
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• Big Changes At Once-Floundering, Now Thriving Oregon Ballet Theatre

  30-10-2015 10:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Over the next two years, the company will be moving to new studios, selling its old building to retire all of its $1.8 million debt, expansion into the suburbs, and a summer outdoor series dedicated entirely to women choreographers – and, of course, the ballet-and-beer initiative.
  
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• How The New York Public Library Is Reinventing Itself

  30-10-2015 10:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “These days, digitization of the NYPL collections falls under the aegis of NYPL Labs – which began as a catchall name for a range of digital experiments, then became an in-house, prototype-building research and development group, and now is a full-fledged department that’s broadly responsible for both the digital and experimental sides of the library and its branches.”
  
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• ‘Soup’ Is An Anagram Of ‘Opus’: Thoughts On Warhol’s Campbell’s Paintings

  30-10-2015 10:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “4. What do they look like? They aren’t pictures of anything really. They’re certainly not paintings of actual soup cans. Nor are they really paintings of the label. He worked not from actual cans with actual labels, but from promotional materials that Campbell’s sent out. In other words, these aren’t so much pictures of either cans or labels, as they are reproductions or copies of commercial graphics, blending design and text. What kind of objects are these? These
  
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• ‘The Moth In The Flame’ – An Unpublished Short Story By Truman Capote

  30-10-2015 10:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Written for his high school newspaper, The Green Witch, in the early 1940s, … ‘The Moth in the Flame’ captures in a very short space the vast range of tumultuous emotions that spring from a distressing encounter.”
  
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• The Most Anticipated New Restaurant In Providence Turned Out To Be An Art Project Satirizing Foodie Culture

  30-10-2015 09:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lura Cafe “would be a refuge for diners in the know, serving modern takes on cafe classics – all local, all organic, all certified GMO-free. It was upscale and casual, timeless and avant-garde. … It announced itself – as all similarly accoutred restaurants must – with a social media blitz, featuring sans serif lettering, sunny high-angle shots of brunch dishes, even a breathless write-up in the New York Times. It was also totally fake.”
  
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• Four Centuries Of Cat Art Go Up For Auction

  30-10-2015 09:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The sale …is one of the largest of its kind to occur in the UK, featuring 244 works – and the trove is really delightful, bringing to public eye many rare and original illustrations that depict cats in a variety of ways, from straightforward portraits to bizarre or humorous caricatures.”
  
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