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• Autumn Statement: Department for Culture, Media and Sport's funding cut by over £1bn

  25-11-2015 23:02
  
  Culture in London is safe – but what about elsewhere?
  
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• First Lady: Channeling Jackie Kennedy, Karen Finley Inaugurates Broad Museum’s Performance Program

  25-11-2015 20:51 via artnews.com
  Karen Finley wore a black wig and a black jacket over slightly flared white pants when she took the stage at the Broad Museum in Downtown Los Angeles this weekend. She also wore big orange-rimmed sunglasses, a key part of … Read More
  
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• Feuer and Mesler Double Down on Grand Street, Closing Orchard Street Gallery

  25-11-2015 20:14 via artnews.com
  Last March, dealers Joel Mesler and Zach Feuer partnered up to create the bipartite Lower East Side gallery operation Feuer/Mesler and Mesler/Feuer: one space at 30 Orchard Street, where Mesler previously ran a gallery called Untitled, and one space at … Read More
  
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• Arts leaders relieved at better-than-expected funding agreement

  25-11-2015 20:03
  
  Arts Council England, museums and galleries to get same amount in cash terms in 2019-20 following autumn statementArts leaders and museum chiefs have welcomed an unexpectedly good settlement for the sector after George Osborne acknowledged that deep budget cuts would be “a false economy”.The chancellor pledged that Arts Council England and national museums and galleries would get the same amount of funding in cash terms in 2019-20 as they do today. Related: Autumn statement and spend
  
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• Christine Sun Kim: 'I'm not trying to be a freak show'

  25-11-2015 19:09
  
  Why would someone born deaf fight to become a sound artist? Christine Sun Kim talks about breaking the rules – and making art like Bart SimpsonAcross the ceiling in the opening room of Christine Sun Kim’s first London exhibition, just above head height, hangs a strip of white tape containing an electrical wire. I am walking along below it, holding a clunky remote-control-like contraption that could have been made by Doc from Back to the Future, trying to keep its antennae in contact
  
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• Heimo Zobernig Awarded the 2016 Roswitha Haftmann Prize

  25-11-2015 18:14 via artnews.com
  The board of the Roswitha Haftmann Foundation has named Austrianartist Heimo Zobernig the winner of the 2016 Roswitha Haftmann Prize “in recognition of his sustained and diverse production and compelling body of work,” according to a press release. The prize, … Read More
  
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• Heimo Zobernig Awarded the 2015 Roswitha Haftmann Prize

  25-11-2015 18:14 via artnews.com
  The board of the Roswitha Haftmann Foundation has named Austrianartist Heimo Zobernig the winner of the 2015 Roswitha Haftmann Prize “in recognition of his sustained and diverse production and compelling body of work,” according to a press release. The prize, … Read More
  
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• ‘Zineb Sedira: Present Tense’ at Taymour Grahne Gallery

  25-11-2015 18:05 via artnews.com
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• New Complaint Filed Against Nahmads Over Modigliani Portrait

  25-11-2015 17:49 via artnews.com
  The estate of a Paris dealer has sued the Nahmad Gallery in New York once again over a Amedeo Modigliani portrait, alleging that it had been seized by the Nazis and is now owned by the Nahmads. The painting, Seated Man With … Read More
  
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• The dinosaur that proves the madness of the art market

  25-11-2015 17:24
  
  Today’s dino sale (yes, you can buy them at auction) for a predicted £500,000 proves that we’re criminally underpaying for our ancient wonders – and even more criminally overpaying for modern artIf you want proof the art market is mad, consider the difference in price between dinosaurs and the most expensive contemporary art.That’s right, dinosaurs – they can actually be bought at auction.Continue reading...
  
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• Here’s the Exhibitor List for Mexico City’s 2016 Material Art Fair, Which Has Grown by 50 Percent for Its Third Edition

  25-11-2015 17:00 via artnews.com
  The ambitions of Mexico City’s Material Art Fair are quickly growing. In its first two editions, which were held in 2014 and earlier this year, Material, which focuses on emerging galleries and  runs concurrently with the well-established Zona Maco fair, … Read More
  
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• Basketball Star Stephan Curry Draws Oohs From Dancers

  25-11-2015 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Curry’s aesthetic appeal is rooted in what ballet dancers seek most: to make their art look effortless.
  
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• Could Tap Dance Disappear Forever?

  25-11-2015 16:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It could die. Other genres that were once central to Western art have dropped off the shelf—epic poetry, commedia dell’arte, verse drama, the masque—and, if this list were expanded to include Asia, it would be much longer.”
  
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• Frieze Names Raphael Gygax Curator of 2016 Frieze Projects

  25-11-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  Frieze announced today that it has tapped Raphael Gygax to be the new curator of Frieze Projects. Gygax, who is curator at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich, will choose artists to create new works for the 2016 Frieze Projects, which will appear … Read More
  
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• Executive Director, The Choral Arts Society of Washington

  25-11-2015 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Board of Directors of The Choral Arts Society of Washington seeks an Executive Director to collaborate with full time Artistic Director Scott Tucker to lead this nationally prominent choral organization to the next levels of growth and success.
  Established in 1965 by Maestro Norman Scribner, Choral Arts is recognized as one of the nation’s premier symphonic choruses, performing primarily major choral/orchestral works, in an annual season at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
  
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• Why The Art Of Criticism Is In Such Bad Shape

  25-11-2015 15:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Inexperience and a lack of dialogue are exacerbated by our culture’s collective failure to bestow any overt value on the critical conversation. Where are the MFA programs for critics? Where are the review workshops, or writing groups?”
  
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• Diversity Check: The Politics Are Changing

  25-11-2015 15:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With growing public awareness and news stories about transgender people, an online petition to boycott the film had gathered 10,000 signatures by Tuesday morning, saying the “cartoonish mockery… was the modern equivalent of using blackface” – white people blacking up to mock black people.”
  
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• Gilbert and George Banners review – art as undeniable as a punch in the face

  25-11-2015 15:21
  
  White Cube, London
  For their eight-millionth exhibition, the naughty boys of art are showing Banners that could be slight and trite – but actually turn out to be nasty prophecies for our dreadful ageFor their eight-millionth exhibition, Gilbert and George have chosen to exhibit their shopping lists. Or not even that: their small but perfectly publicised installation in one room at the White Cube gallery is a collection of hangover rants, raw remarks delivered over a bacon butty in their lo
  
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• Billionaire Paul Allen’s New Seattle Arts Space: Closing Before It Even Opens?

  25-11-2015 15:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What “a concept space” means, maybe only Paul Allen knows. But it looks like he’s cut off his dedicated arts and culture center before even launching it. I feel bad for the staffers. And dumb for hoping for better.
  
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• Morning Links: #hierteekenen Edition

  25-11-2015 15:01 via artnews.com
   The Rijksmuseum is requesting that visitors stop taking pictures and instead start drawing the art with the hashtag #hierteekenen (#startdrawing). [Hyperallergic]The Tehran Museum of Contemporary art will host a solo show for Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. [Artforum]Beatriz Milhazes at James … Read More
  
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• ‘Carol’, ‘Beasts Of No Nation’, ‘Spotlight’ Lead Independent Spirit Award Nominations

  25-11-2015 11:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Todd Haynes’ period drama Carol led the nominations for the 31st Independent Spirit awards, which were prematurely announced before the news conference to unveil them – then taken down – on Tuesday.”
  
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• Drawn In Blood: The Syrian Cartoonists Who Live And Die By Their Pens

  25-11-2015 11:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is in many ways the role of a cartoonist to bring emotive weight to events as enormous as the Syrian civil war. They publish their work for a global audience, but many cannot sign their art for safety reasons.”
  
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• ‘He Lived In Daily Fear Of Humiliation’: Adam Gopnik On Frank Sinatra

  25-11-2015 11:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sinatra’s character flaw isn’t hard to name. He lived in daily fear of humiliation, and in its (often imagined) presence his temper tipped over in an instant. This was followed, usually, by remorse, once he had sobered up and stopped seeing red. But, in the interim, real damage was done to real people.”
  
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• Cultural figures and rights groups call for release of poet facing execution

  25-11-2015 11:39
  
  Individuals and creative organisations join Amnesty International to demand Saudi Arabia overturn Ashraf Fayadh’s conviction for renouncing Islam
  Leading international cultural figures have joined human rights campaigners in calling for the release of Ashraf Fayadh, the Palestinian poet and artist facing execution in Saudi Arabia. Chris Dercon, the director of Tate Modern, British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, historian Simon Schama, playwright David Hare, and Egyptian novelist and commen
  
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• ‘I Think It Is All Storytelling’: Taylor Mac On ‘Theatre’ Versus ‘Performance Art’

  25-11-2015 11:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In my experience, the art world has a disdain for theater. When I present my work to theater people, they call it performance art. When I present it to the art world, they call it theater.”
  
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• Using Murder Mystery And Role-Playing To Teach English Grammar

  25-11-2015 11:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Peake then has each student create a grid marking everyone’s name and guessing the motives of potential perpetrators. The students start to interrogate one another, flexing their past-tense prowess as they pick over alibis. Portuguese is banned from the classroom; if anyone veers into speaking in their native tongue, Peake employs the element of surprise, sneaking up on students to tell them their English sounds somewhat suspect.”
  
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• ‘They Don’t Quite Take Place On Planet Earth’: Wallace Shawn On His Plays

  25-11-2015 11:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I don’t really write about the real world. Or let me put it in a different way. Pretty much everything I’ve written doesn’t take place in any real country. It’s always a made-up country. My plays are more like dreams that are dreamed by someone from planet Earth but they don’t quite take place on planet Earth.”
  
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• Ethical Dispute Or Cultural Difference? Figuring Out ‘Moral Relativism’

  25-11-2015 10:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Because the term ‘moral relativism’ is closely associated with this subjectivist picture of morality, it elicits understandable hostility. How can we earnestly hold our moral commitments if we give up on the aspiration to objectivity regarding morals, to getting them right rather than wrong? I think there is another way to understand what moral relativism involves, which does not require us to give up our aspiration to objectivity. Let me use an example.”
  
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• Choreographer And MacArthur Genius Kyle Abraham In Near-Perpetual Motion

  25-11-2015 10:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Does the 38-year-old choreographer thrive on chaos? ‘No,’ he said emphatically. ‘If you catch the light right, you’ll see my hives coming in.'”
  
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• If Internet Addiction Is Real, Why Don’t We Regulate The Web The Way We Do Gambling?

  25-11-2015 10:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “So should individuals be blamed for having poor self-control? To a point, yes. Personal responsibility matters. But it’s important to realise that many websites and other digital tools have been engineered specifically to elicit compulsive behaviour.”
  
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• The Man Whose Bad Handwriting Gave Us The Dollar Sign

  25-11-2015 10:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He was, it turns out, a wealthy Irish businessman in New Orleans who went broke financing the American Revolution.
  
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• The Seuss Effect: Why Nonsense Words Make People Laugh

  25-11-2015 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While administering a language-based experiment, psychology researcher Chris Westbury “noticed that people always laughed when they saw the non-word ‘snunkoople.’ That got them wondering – was there something in particular about nonsense words that made them funny? If so, could it be measured? Turns out there is and it can.”
  
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• HBO’s Documentary ‘Bolshoi Babylon’ Says Sergei Filin Wasn’t Simply Blameless Victim Of Acid Attack

  25-11-2015 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The film “avoids presenting Filin as a martyr. Instead it gives voice to dancers who describe him as biased and imperious, and highlights Filin’s tense rapport with the Bolshoi’s general director Vladimir Urin, appointed by the Kremlin in September 2013 to put the house in order.
  
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• Balanchine Is Getting A Hollywood Biopic

  25-11-2015 09:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “David K. Israel is adapting Elizabeth Kendall’s acclaimed book Balanchine & the Lost Muse: Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer [for] Gulfstream Pictures … Set against the backdrop of the Russian revolution, the film tells the coming-of-age story of Balanchine, during his tenure at Mariinsky Theater and school where he met his muse, Leda Ivanova.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.24.15

  25-11-2015 07:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Making Lulu musical
  How to tell if a Lulu performance is going to be musical: Listen carefully to the orchestra in the prologue, the scene with the animal trainer that begins the opera. … read more
  AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-11-24Leaked Release: National Academy’s Feel-Good Statement on Carmine Branagan’s Departure
  The chaotic, unprofessional rollout of the National Academy’s leadership transition (which I chronicled in the above-linked posts) continues with today&rsq
  
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• Cultural figures and human rights groups call for release of poet facing execution

  25-11-2015 06:30
  
  Individuals and creative organisations join Amnesty International to demand Saudi Arabia overturn Ashraf Fayadh’s conviction for renouncing Islam
  Leading international cultural figures have joined human rights campaigners in calling for the release of Ashraf Fayadh, the Palestinian poet and artist facing execution in Saudi Arabia. Chris Dercon, the director of Tate Modern, British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, historian Simon Schama, playwright David Hare, and Egyptian novelist and commen
  
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