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• Sole Copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s New Album Sets Auction Record, Selling for ‘Undisclosed Figure in the Millions’

  24-11-2015 22:28 via artnews.com
  The Wu-Tang Clan has sold the sole copy of its conceptual album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin…, through online auctioneer Paddle8 for an “undisclosed figure in the millions.” The album was purchased by an anonymous “American buyer.”Once Upon a … Read More
  
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• ‘Sculpture: Muñoz, Schütte, Trockel, and Warren’ at Skarstedt Chelsea

  24-11-2015 21:56 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Sculpture: Muñoz, Schütte, Trockel, and Warren” is currently on view at Skarstedt Gallery in New York. The group exhibition is on view until December 19.
  
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• Xavier Cha Wants ‘Actors Able to Express Conflicting Emotions’ for Upcoming MoCA Cleveland Performances

  24-11-2015 21:38 via artnews.com
  Early this year, for a performance at 47 Canal, Xavier Cha put out a casting call for performers. No experience was necessary, but you had to be able to act—by which Cha meant, as it turned out, that you had … Read More
  
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• Danish Composer Wins This Year’s $100,000 Grawemeyer Prize

  24-11-2015 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The song cycle “let me tell you” by Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen has earned the 2016 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, according to the University of Louisville, which distributes the prize each year. The prize includes $100,000.
  
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• Why So Many New Christmas Movies On Cable TV?

  24-11-2015 19:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Simple. “These holiday movies are proliferating because they’re cheap to produce, generate strong ratings and lots of advertising revenue for the television networks. Hallmark parent Crown Media Holdings credited its holiday programming for helping to spur an 11% increase in advertising revenue last year to $328 million.”
  
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• Ticket Fraud Widespread As Online Re-selling Sites Proliferate

  24-11-2015 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Nearly 3,000 cases were reported between May and October, with the Rugby World Cup, Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift particular targets, said Action Fraud. On average, customers who bought fake tickets lost £444 per transaction.”
  
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• Singapore Opens New National Museum

  24-11-2015 19:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The project is part of the city-state’s wish to become a centre of culture and the arts and to overcome its traditional reputation as a money-driven, and somewhat sterile, environment.”
  
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• Found: New Home For The 2016 Tony Awards

  24-11-2015 18:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 6,000-seat Radio City Music Hall has long been the preferred home for the awards because of its size and proximity to Broadway. But Radio City will be booked this summer with the new “Rockettes New York Spectacular.”
  
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• Adele’s New Album Sets New Record For First Week Sales

  24-11-2015 18:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On Tuesday, Nielsen Music said that in just four days the British singer broke the record previously set by ‘N Sync in 2000. The boy band’s “No Strings Attached” sold 2.416 million albums in its first week.
  
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• Tod Machover’s Sprawling Symphony Of Detroit Spills Off The Stage

  24-11-2015 18:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The result was less a purely musical work than a sprawling, ceremonial communion. As an exercise in sincere civic engagement and community building, the project was unimpeachable.”
  
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• One Year After Crisis: Detroit Institute Of Arts Still Figuring Out Its Future

  24-11-2015 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One year after the city emerged from bankruptcy, the DIA still finds itself at a crossroads.
  
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• Toronto Symphony Reports 57 Percent Increase In Fundraising

  24-11-2015 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The symphony ended the 2014-15 season with a small surplus of $135,781, its second in a row, on total operating expenses of $27,952,748. This positive report follows earlier surpluses reported for the National Ballet of Canada, the Canadian Opera Company and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.”
  
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• Judas painting survived Reformation by being turned around

  24-11-2015 18:17
  
  Vibrant medieval panel discovered by Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge hidden under varnish, bat faeces and cobwebsA rare medieval panel showing Judas Iscariot’s betrayal of Christ survived the Reformation due to a remarkable instance of 16th-century recycling, researchers in Cambridge have discovered.The brightly painted wooden panel of The Kiss of Judas escaped the systematic destruction of thousands of church paintings because someone turned it around and used the back for another purpose
  
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• To Be Frank: How Old-School Artist Jan Frank Became New Again

  24-11-2015 18:00 via artnews.com
  The painter Jan Frank has a reputation as a hard-drinking, if not hard-fighting, downtown playboy. He is known for his sharp suits and smoky drawl, his alpaca coat, and his fondness for the racetrack (he names his paintings after favorite … Read More
  
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• Opera Colorado Comes Back From Austerity With A New Plan For Audiences

  24-11-2015 17:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Anything we’re doing outside the opera house is to engage a different audience. It’s not about bringing this audience we have out into the community.”
  
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• Mystery, Eccentricity, and Gallows Humor: Matthew Weinstein on Mark Manders and H.C. Westermann

  24-11-2015 17:30 via artnews.com
  Mark Manders’s work makes a good argument for banishing the term “contemporary.” It’s a silly term. Unlike “modern,” which projected futures for a range of now-­failed ideologies and left its own archaeology, “contemporary” has no historic potentiality. I admire Manders’s indifference … Read More
  
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• Michael Craig-Martin review – a malevolent graveyard of tech

  24-11-2015 17:09
  
  Serpentine gallery, London
  Whether he’s painting tape cassettes, Xbox controllers or iPhones, Craig-Martin’s odd, lurid objects don’t just show us the days we’ve lost – they glower back at usTakeaway cups with plastic lids; headphones and iPhones and memory sticks; a lightbulb, an Adidas trainer and a serving of fries: they all cascade around the walls of the Serpentine’s South Gallery in a nonchalant dance of ordinary things.
  This repeated lexicon of objects
  
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• Consumer Reports: John Olson

  24-11-2015 17:00 via artnews.com
  John Olson is one-third of the seminal American new music trio Wolf Eyes and the creator of American Tapes, a boutique label specializing in limited-edition objects that often blur the line between fine art and music. He is 115% Trip … Read More
  
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• William Kentridge: Slow Music for Fast Action, and Other Conundrums

  24-11-2015 16:25 via artnews.com
  The South African giant at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, and the Metropolitan Opera Read More
  
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• Inaugural Winners of Pierre Daix Art Book Prize Announced

  24-11-2015 15:06 via artnews.com
  The winners of the Pierre Daix Prize, a new award given to an art history book covering modern or contemporary art, was announced in a ceremony at the Musée Picasso in Paris, earlier today. The inaugural prize was awarded to two … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: 3-D Printed Mona Lisa Edition

  24-11-2015 14:52 via artnews.com
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• This 'office desk of the future' will make working a lot more zen

  24-11-2015 14:12
  
  It will 'eliminate the need for desktop technology altogether'
  
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• Scholl/ Davies/ English Concert/Bicket, Wigmore Hall, review: Marveling at the artistry of two great countertenors

  24-11-2015 13:42
  
  Andreas Scholl and Iestyn Davies provided a flawless evening
  
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• Museum in Amsterdam 'bans' cameras, asks visitors to sketch artwork instead

  24-11-2015 12:46
  
  Rijksmuseum is hoping people will “discover and appreciate the beauty of art and history through drawing.”
  
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• Untitled(he had only wanted to get a hold of her, to calm her down so that he could have his fun).

  24-11-2015 02:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i had a whisky and a coffee.the lumber sexual had a black beard a plaid shirt and a knife.we were in the montana wilderness. i saw a bear. he said that the bear was an evil spirit. it was a cannibal that feasted on humans. i thought he was lying to me. i had a hard time trusting the lumber sexual or he had a hard time trusting me. he didn’t understand how i didn’t need a friend. i said he had to understand that he didn’t understand me if he wanted to love me. i had another whis
  
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