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• Crystal Bridges Museum Acquires Record-Setting Work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres

  16-11-2015 23:01 via artnews.com
  Bentonville, Arkansas’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced today that it has acquired Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (L.A.), 1991, which sold last week at Christie’s postwar and contemporary evening sale for $7,669,000, a record for the late artist.The piece involves around 50 … Read More
  
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• National Portrait Gallery Hosts Inaugural Gala, Tempered by Tragedy

  16-11-2015 22:53 via artnews.com
  On Sunday night, Maya Lin was standing in the main hall of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., next to a sculpture of Maya Lin. It was not of her own design, nor did it look anything like her … Read More
  
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• Will Cotton Painted Martha Stewart’s Portrait

  16-11-2015 22:22 via artnews.com
  Well, look at that! Three of my favorite things came together really nicely for the 25th-anniversary cover of Martha Stewart Living: Will Cotton, sugar, and Martha Stewart.Cotton, who has painted Katy Perry, a cover for this magazine, and many beautiful ladies surrounded … Read More
  
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• (Not) Made in Hong Kong: Dreem Street Comes to Brooklyn

  16-11-2015 22:03 via artnews.com
  “The store is a temporary buildout that is supposed to look like our International headquarters in the top of a skyscraper in Hong Kong,” the artist Eric Mast told me over email as a way to explain the pop-up that … Read More
  
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• Lucian Freud archive acquired for the nation to settle £2.9m in inheritance tax

  16-11-2015 19:52
  
  Artist's sketches and letters will go on display at the National Portrait Gallery next year
  
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• November New York Auctions Totaled $2.33 Billion, Down From May Haul

  16-11-2015 19:46 via artnews.com
  The November sales of Impressionist, modern, and contemporary art in New York took in $2.33 billion over the course of a ten-day auction spree, down from the May sales in New York, which took in a record $2.7 billion.The sales … Read More
  
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• Saeed Jaffrey, Who Acted In Everything From ‘Gandhi’ To ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ To ‘Coronation Street,’ Dies At 85

  16-11-2015 19:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When Jaffrey arrived in Britain, non-white actors were still a rarity and the theatre world was at a loss as to how to deal with them. Slowly his quality became recognised, even though the stage parts he was offered often depended on his ethnicity rather than his considerable professional abilities. Colour-blind casting was still in its infancy, and it is not surprising that much of Jaffrey’s early British work was in the BBC World Service, where his splendid speaking voice and his
  
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• Interactive art: The new breed of art gallery directors who want visitors to make things, not just gaze at pictures

  16-11-2015 18:35
  
  ​A new breed of gallery directors want visitors to make things and not just gaze at pictures
  
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• Philip K Dick: king of the sci-fi adapted again

  16-11-2015 18:09
  
   'The Man In The High Castle' is a new Philip K Dick adaptation for TV which will develop a huge cult following of its own 
  
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• OK, So How Do Directors Who Practice Color-Conscious Casting Deal With The Audience?

  16-11-2015 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Since I first wrote about color-conscious casting, I’ve learned—by directing my own productions as well as casting plays that I did not direct—that color-conscious casting doesn’t guarantee a color-conscious production. Diverse casting is a cause; a more challenging and/or inclusive conversation is not inherently an effect.”
  
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• ‘Fields of Dream: The Surrealist Landscape’ at Di Donna Gallery, New York

  16-11-2015 17:59 via artnews.com
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• ‘Field of Dreams: The Surrealist Landscape’ at Di Donna Gallery, New York

  16-11-2015 17:59 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Field of Dreams: The Surrealist Landscape” is on view at Di Donna Gallery in New York. The exhibition features more than 70 artworks by 30 artists is on … Read More
  
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• The Last Living Member Of The Original Lindy Hop Troupe Is 95 – And Doing Stand-Up Comedy

  16-11-2015 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Before she became the Queen of Swing, Miller was just a poor black girl in Harlem who loved to dance. Even as she watched her mother struggle to make rent by cleaning houses, Miller dreamed of another path.”
  
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• What’s The Role Of Entertainment In The Wake Of The Attacks In Paris?

  16-11-2015 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Once again, those of us immersed in entertainment–as producers, as distributors, as chroniclers, or even just as devotees–are left to ask where it fits in. Cultures have been grappling for centuries with how much space to allow levity in the place of a tragedy. But the relevance, and even the defensibility, of entertainment has lately been thrust forward as never before.”
  
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• Lucian Freud archive given to nation in lieu of £2.9m in inheritance tax

  16-11-2015 16:23
  
  Extensive trove of sketchbooks, letters and drawings will be exhibited in National Portrait Gallery as family seek to reduce tax liabilityAn archive of the artist Lucian Freud’s sketchbooks, drawings and letters is heading to the National Portrait Gallery in London after being offered to the nation in lieu of £2.9m in inheritance tax.The trove includes 162 childhood drawings that Freud made before his family fled Nazi Germany in 1933, all lovingly annotated, dated and preserved by hi
  
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• The Metropolitan Opera Sings Its Support For France With The French National Anthem

  16-11-2015 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Inserts with the anthem’s lyrics were placed into the programs, and members of the audience rose to their feet, and some sang along, as the Met’s chorus, principal singers and some members of the company’s staff gathered together on stage and sang ‘La Marseillaise,’ with the Act I set of the church of Sant’Andrea della Valle in the background.”
  
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• This German Musician Drove Through The Night With His Portable Piano To Play Near Paris’ Bataclan Theatre

  16-11-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Martello described the scene as shocking and said there was blood on his piano from the previous night’s attack at the concert hall. ‘I got to the end of playing Imagine and just couldn’t carry on,’ he said. ‘Even if I wanted to it was just too emotional.'”
  
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• Ticket Masters: Takashi Murakami’s Designs Take to the Slopes

  16-11-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  The slope at Buttermilk, a ski park in Aspen, Colorado, is home to the extreme sports competition the Winter X Games and, on average, 300 inches of snow per year. In addition to intense weather and feats of athletic prowess, … Read More
  
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• The Paris Photo Art Fair Has Shut Down In The Wake Of The Attacks

  16-11-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We are located in the Grand Palais near the Palace of the President,” said Jean-Daniel Compain, a senior vice president at Reed Exhibitions, reached by telephone Sunday. “We were expecting another 20,000 people in those two days, and I cannot take the risk.
  
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• The Habits Of Highly Creative People

  16-11-2015 15:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Psychologically speaking, creative personality types are difficult to pin down, largely because they’re complex, paradoxical and tend to avoid habit or routine. And it’s not just a stereotype of the ‘tortured artist’ — artists really may be more complicated people. Research has suggested that creativity involves the coming together of a multitude of traits, behaviors and social influences in a single person.”
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Peace for Paris’ Edition

  16-11-2015 14:43 via artnews.com
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• Belarus Artists Stage A Secret Show In London [VIDEO]

  16-11-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Belarus Free Theatre is banned in Belarus, but Will Gompertz was invited to a performance at a secret London venue.”
  
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• Facebook Tries To Explain Why Only Paris – And Not Beirut – Merited The ‘Safety Check’

  16-11-2015 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Now that Facebook has set a precedent for using Safety Check for terrorism and other violent events, it will need to figure out when and where to use the feature. From Schultz’s comments, it’s not clear if the team would have enabled it for Beirut. He includes the Lebanese city among ‘other parts of the world, where violence is more common and terrible things happen with distressing frequency.'”
  
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• Peace for Paris symbol creator doesn’t want credit, he just wants to help stop the hurt

  16-11-2015 11:42
  
  'I can't feel pride or happiness because it is such a dark time. It's undesired exposure.'
  
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• Peace for Paris sign creator doesn’t want credit, he just wants to help stop the hurt

  16-11-2015 11:42
  
  'I can't feel pride or happiness because it is such a dark time. It's undesired exposure.'
  
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• Paris terror attacks spark powerful cartoons from around the world

  16-11-2015 11:27
  
  Images range from anti-terrorism reactions to those defending innocent Muslims from Islamphobia
  
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• Paris attacks: Powerful cartoons from around the world

  16-11-2015 11:27
  
  Images range from anti-terrorism reactions to those defending innocent Muslims from Islamophobia
  
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• Save 20% on Performing Civility by Lisa McCormick

  16-11-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Why do classical musicians take part in competitions? Why do audiences care about who wins? Explore the highlights and controversies by examining competitions’ history and their role in society.
  Cambridge University Press is pleased to offer ArtsJournal readers a special 20% discount on Lisa McCormick’s new book Performing Civility: International Competitions in Classical Music.
  About the bookAlthough competitions in classical music have a long history, the number of contests has ris
  
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• CBS Pulls Two ‘Terrorism-Themed’ Episodes From Lineup After Paris Attacks

  16-11-2015 07:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The network had originally slated the Supergirl episode ‘How Does She Do It?’ for Monday night. However, the plot for the hour revolves around ‘a series of bombings’ that strike National City. This will now be replaced with a Thanksgiving-pegged episode.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 11.15.15

  16-11-2015 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Carl Weissner: ‘Always These Nightmares . . .’
  Carl Weissner’s novel Death in Paris — first published onlinein 2009, then as a paperback in 2012, and finally as an ebook in 2014 — was about a different kind of death from the… … read more
  AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2015-11-15
   
  Herschel Day
  Today is the 277th birthday of William Herschel, a man who shows us just how vast the change has been in
  
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• Peggy Guggenheim Was Flamboyant, True, But Also A Real Art Patron

  16-11-2015 06:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The new documentary on her life, ably directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, is a reminder of what an engaged patron Guggenheim was. At one point in the film, an interviewer asks her what the role of her gallery was in the realm of American painting. ‘To give birth to it,’ replies Guggenheim. ‘I was the midwife.'”
  
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• How (& Why) Did ‘Law & Order’ Producer Dick Wolf Take His TV Empire To Chicago?

  16-11-2015 06:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Chicago embodies unapologetic, old-fashioned values of right and wrong and how you should act,’ he says. Or, in the language of NBC’s ads, it’s a ‘city of heroes’ defined by ‘the people who protect, serve and heal.’ Tales of the urban heartland are tailor-made for the broad audience of network television, a medium that itself can seem old-fashioned in the new world of niche dramas on cable and streaming TV.”
  
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• Was This Play Canceled ‘Because Of Race’ Or Because The Director Ignored The Playwright?

  16-11-2015 05:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I cast it without thinking what color people were at all. I would have cast a black Jesus if I had the right person for the role. I wasn’t thinking that this was a play about race. When I do plays about race, I try to be extraordinarily sensitive to those issues.”
  
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• Is Theatre Too Much In Love With Itself?

  16-11-2015 04:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The nervousness that theatre-about-theatre raises in critics and audiences is similar to the prejudice among literary critics towards novels that have novelists as their protagonists: a fear of professional special pleading and jokes that mean more to producers than consumers.”
  
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• Spike Lee Says Getting A Black President Has Been Easier Than Getting A Black Person In Charge Of A Film Studio

  16-11-2015 04:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The director told the industry audience gathered at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland, ‘We need to have some serious discussion about diversity’ and he thanked Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, saying ‘she’s trying to do something that needs to be done’ for raising the issue and making it part of the Academy’s current consciousness.”
  
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• In A Copyright Move, Anne Frank’s Father Is Added As ‘Co-Author’ To Her Diary

  16-11-2015 03:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The move has a practical effect: It extends the copyright from Jan. 1, when it is set to expire in most of Europe, to the end of 2050. Copyrights in Europe generally end 70 years after an author’s death. Anne Frank died 70 years ago at Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp, and Otto Frank died in 1980. Extending the copyright would block others from being able to publish the book without paying royalties or receiving permission.”
  
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• Untitled(we said he had been under a huge amount of stress because he was near completing his treatment)

  16-11-2015 02:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  the same deranged george stabbed me a second time, this time in the left shoulder. I happened to be at his grandmother’s home to look at george’s rock collection. i think he thought i coveted his quartz rock. i did want to take it home with me but i never would have taken it without asking.george’s psychiatrist, nurse, social worker, and myself vouched for him. we said he had been under a huge amount of stress because he was near completing his treatment.saturnine george had ch
  
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• How Long Does It Take To Become An Artist?

  16-11-2015 02:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The great Cuban-born painter Carmen Herrera, who turned 100 this year, and did not sell a work until she was 89, gets up every morning to paint. Her advice to the young is not to hurry through their 20s, and never to be intimidated by anything. ‘You don’t decide to be an artist,’ she has said, ‘art gets inside of you. It’s like falling in love.'”
  
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• Fukushima's radioactive wasteland turns into art gallery

  16-11-2015 01:49
  
  Twelve artists put together what might be the most inaccessible art exhibition in the worldWhen Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant went into meltdown on 11 March 2011, thousands of people jumped in their cars and fled north. Some had second thoughts. They stopped to check the direction of the wind, then drove in the opposite direction, away from the plume of radiation spreading from the stricken plant.
  “It was an everyday form of knowledge that can be extraordinarily important in times
  
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• Tate Liverpool's Matisse exhibition to feature LS Lowry letter

  16-11-2015 01:30
  
  Among other pieces, the exhibition will show four bronze abstracts and Lowry’s note offering a donation to buy themIn 1956, the Tate gallery launched a public appeal to buy a set of four abstract bronze sculptures of the backs of naked women, by the French artist Henri Matisse, and received in response a handwritten note in rather blotty blue ink, sent from the Elms, at Mottram in Longdendale, offering a donation.It was from LS Lowry, famous for his northern industrial landscapes and match
  
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• Tate Liverpool finds Lowry reply to Matisse sculpture appeal

  16-11-2015 01:30
  
  Lowry’s note offering a donation to buy four bronze sculptures discovered during research for Matisse exhibitionIn 1956, the Tate gallery launched a public appeal to buy a set of four abstract bronze sculptures of the backs of naked women, by the French artist Henri Matisse, and received in response a handwritten note in rather blotty blue ink, sent from the Elms, at Mottram in Longdendale, offering a donation.It was from LS Lowry, famous for his northern industrial landscapes and matchsti
  
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• Carlos Acosta Retires From The Royal Ballet – But What’s Next?

  16-11-2015 01:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 42-year-old dancer, who is heading back to Cuba to run a dance school there: “Allow yourself to make mistakes. There is no such thing as failure because life is a learning process. … Be curious and enjoy, enjoy enjoy because one day you will blink and realise that 70 years have gone by.”
  
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• When The Only Visibility For Actors Of Color Means Characters Who Suffer

  16-11-2015 01:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Actors of color who already have visibility in the mainstream want to maintain their platform. For Hollywood, these select few become representatives for diversity; they are able to play lead roles outside the usual tropes for people of color, while the rest as Viola Davis pointed out on Oprah’s Next Chapter, are on “crisis mode” competing over a “piece of cheese.” Competition is the implicit consequence of the narrow and reductive roles available. What choic
  
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• How To Keep Yourself Humble When You’re One Of The Greats Of Jazz

  16-11-2015 00:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Take off all your awards. Go on the stage naked. Or your pajamas. And go out there and do what you can do to inspire something greater than yourself.”
  
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• English As A Language Is Super Weird, And We Just Need To Accept That

  16-11-2015 00:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even in its spoken form, English is weird. It’s weird in ways that are easy to miss, especially since Anglophones in the United States and Britain are not exactly rabid to learn other languages. But our monolingual tendency leaves us like the proverbial fish not knowing that it is wet. Our language feels ‘normal’ only until you get a sense of what normal really is.”
  
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