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• ‘Unorthodox’ at the Jewish Museum, New York

  08-12-2015 23:45 via artnews.com
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• Pantone Wanted to Celebrate Gender Fluidity With Its Color of the Year – So It Picked Pink *And* Blue

  08-12-2015 23:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Everyone hated Marsala, Pantone’s 2015 color of the year, a dark red that critics widely slandered with comparisons to blood, rust, and meatloaf. This year, the company … made an unprecedented move by nominating not one bold color but ‘the blending of two shades’ – Rose Quartz (baby pink) and Serenity (baby blue).”
  
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• Opera Critic Rodney Milnes Dead At 79

  08-12-2015 22:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “An influential and entertaining opera critic who amused, informed and infuriated his readers and editors in almost equal measure … He was the editor of Opera magazine from 1986 to 1999, and, at various times, opera critic of Harpers & Queen, The Spectator and The Times; he also contributed regularly to the Building a Library slot on BBC Radio 3, among many other programmes.”
  
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• Secrets of the Mona Lisa: French scientist Pascal Cotte claims to know secret behind world's most famous smile

  08-12-2015 21:04
  
  Mr Cotte claims to have found the image of another woman beneath layers of pigment
  
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• Christmas cards painted by artists using just their mouths and feet

  08-12-2015 20:18
  
  This is how a talented group of artists make their living. Genevieve Roberts reports
  
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• Assemble represent 10th art form to win Turner prize

  08-12-2015 19:53
  
  Collective, who won the UK’s top art prize for their work in an urban regeneration project, are the first ‘non-artists’ to win When a collective called Assemble won the 2015 Turner prize winner on Monday, its work became the first “non-artists” to scoop the UK’s most prestigious art prize.The architecture and design project was the first of its kind to have been nominated for the Turner prize since its creation three decades ago and, in winning, has become the
  
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• Turner prize winners Assemble: 'Art? We're more interested in plumbing'

  08-12-2015 19:28
  
  It’s been declared the death of the Turner prize: a bunch of radical young architects winning instead of an artist. Are Assemble bothered? No – they’re too busy working out how to change the world over a few pints
  Well, that threw a hand grenade into the Turner prize. In his third week as director of Tate Britain, and therefore as the new chairman of the Turner jury, Alex Farquharson has presided over a group of judges who have handed the prize to a collective of young architec
  
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• ‘The Only Thing I’m an Expert on Is My Own Work’: Jordan Wolfson and Laura Owens in Conversation in Los Angeles

  08-12-2015 19:22 via artnews.com
  Jordan Wolfson was explaining that he is not gay, and that it’s a misreading of his work to assume that he is.“But you do say, ‘I am gay,’ ” the painter Laura Owens pointed out, wryly. She sat beside Wolfson in … Read More
  
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• Paddle8 Hires Stefany Morris as Head of Fine Art Auctions

  08-12-2015 18:59 via artnews.com
  Online auction house Paddle8 has hired Stefany Morris as head of fine art auctions. Morris will oversee all of Paddle8’s for-profit auctions of modern art, contemporary art, photography, prints, and editions.Morris was most recently a director at Waterhouse & Dodd’s … Read More
  
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• There's only one Mona Lisa! Why a 10-year study got it all wrong

  08-12-2015 17:48
  
  After a decade of research, a scientist claims to have found the portrait of another woman under Leonardo’s greatest work. Here’s why he’s so mistakenWho is the Mona Lisa, really? There are two answers – and French scientist Pascal Cotte has got both of them wrong.Cotte has told a BBC documentary about his 10-year study of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting using the Layer Amplification Method (LAM). When you look down through the layers of Leonardo’s pa
  
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• Rumpus Room: Devin Troy Strother Throws a Rager in South Beach

  08-12-2015 17:44 via artnews.com
  Saturday night in the basement of the Miami Beach Edition hotel—that one place with the ice skating rink and the bowling alley inside of the club (I pathetically recognized it from my Instagram feed)—the artist Devin Troy Strother threw a … Read More
  
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• Annette Kelm Wins 2015 Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography

  08-12-2015 17:43 via artnews.com
  The 2015 Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography will go to the Stuttgart, Germany-based artist Annette Kelm, the photo-magazine Camera Austria International announced today. The award is given biennially to an artist who has published work in the periodical and made … Read More
  
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• Got The Binge-Watching Blues?

  08-12-2015 17:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some have wondered whether there is a term for this post-binge separation. Allow me to suggest one: We have, to tweak a term from the glum in winter, Unseasonal Affective Disorder: post-binge malaise.”
  
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• The Cool School And Its Hollowed-Out Values

  08-12-2015 16:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I believe that the progressive fervor of the humanities, while it reenergized inquiry in the 1980s and has since inspired countless valid lines of inquiry, masks a second-order complex that is all about the thrill of destruction. In the name of critique, anything except critique can be invaded or denatured. This is the game of academic cool that flourished in the era of high theory.”
  
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• ‘I’m Always Trying to Create The Illusion of Chaos’: Ryan McGinley On His ‘Winter’ and ‘Fall’ Shows at Team Gallery

  08-12-2015 16:21 via artnews.com
  Is there a photographer alive today whose work is more totemic than Ryan McGinley’s? The perennially young photographer—he’s only 38, and looks about ten years younger than that—has spent the past fifteen years building one of the most influential careers … Read More
  
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• Here’s the First List of Artists for the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo

  08-12-2015 16:18 via artnews.com
  Today the organizers of the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo released a list of 54 artists who will appear in the show, which will run at the city’s Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion from September 10 to December 12, 2016. In keeping with current curatorial style, this is only … Read More
  
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• The Marble Statues Of Great Men (Isn’t There A Better Way To Commemorate Achievement?)

  08-12-2015 15:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Call it the Age of Marble: an epoch, at its height in the first half of the 20th century, in which idealized images of politicians served as focal points for a narrative of American national unity and progress.”
  
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• Writing: Career Or Art

  08-12-2015 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The work required now to have and develop a career as a writer is a full-time occupation. That is different (and requires different skills) from the art of writing itself. Is this such a bad thing?
  
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• Precarious Immortality: William S. Burroughs on Film

  08-12-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Few humans maintained a courtship with death as intimate and prolonged as that of William S. Burroughs. Despite a decades-long addiction to heroin, numerous run-ins with the law, and an unabashed love of gunplay, the author of Naked Lunch (1959) … Read More
  
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• Mills College Changes Its Mind, Won’t Kill Dance Program

  08-12-2015 14:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Redesigning the dance major is an example of how Mills can retain a contemporary liberal arts education in a competitive environment that demands continuous innovation,” President Alecia DeCoudreaux said.
  
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• Morning Links: Burnt Painting Edition

  08-12-2015 14:44 via artnews.com
  Prices for art are rising, but can it last? The leader of the Blue Rider Group, a part of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, warns, “[Art] valuations right now are very high. We are going to see a cooling-off period.” [Nasdaq]Peter … Read More
  
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• Architecture Collective Wins Turner Prize

  08-12-2015 14:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Assemble’s win signifies a larger move away from the gallery into public space that is becoming ever more privatised. It shows a revulsion for the excesses of the art market, and a turn away from the creation of objects for that market.”
  
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• Turner Prize winners: regeneration collective Assemble ask, 'what is an artist?'

  08-12-2015 14:17
  
  Now here's a controversy actually worth talking about.
  
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• Plan To Lift A Broadway Theatre 29 Feet – A Sign Of Things To Come?

  08-12-2015 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As Broadway theatres have begun to pass the 100-year mark, it’s impossible not to wonder how these tourist draws will fare over the long term. As ticket prices continue to rise and make Broadway into an increasingly luxury brand, the beloved but antique interiors may seem increasingly problematic to patrons: steep staircases, small lobbies and tight bathrooms come quickly to mind.”
  
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• 2016 Classical Music Grammy Nominations

  08-12-2015 14:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This year’s Pulitzer winner, Julia Wolfe’s “Anthracite Fields,” is a predictable nominee for contemporary classical composition, as is the ubiquitous Andrew Norman’s “Play,” yet a possible dark-horse is Gerald Barry’s uproarious setting of “The Importance of Being Earnest.”
  
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• Frank Oteri: Grammy Nominations Don’t Reflect How We Listen To Music

  08-12-2015 14:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It might take Taylor Swift recording an album with John Luther Adams or (an even greater probability) Caroline Shaw recording with Kanye West for the folks in charge of the Grammy Awards to catch up with the breadth of music that people are now listening to and how they are listening to it. Once that happens, hopefully the various categories in which musical achievement are acknowledged by the Recording Academy won’t feel quite as straitjacketed.”
  
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• Why Are So Many Philadelphia Galleries Closing?

  08-12-2015 13:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Galleries are closing left and right across the country,” he said. “Something’s been afoot for a year, a year and a half. It feels like the ’90s, when everything died. There was nothing after the ’80s boom. The question is: Is it cyclical or is it a paradigm shift?”
  
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• The Wiz Was A Hit On TV – 11.5 Million Viewers

  08-12-2015 13:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 3.4 demo rating is 42% above that earned by last year’s live musical presentation of “Peter Pan” (2.4/7 in 18-49, 9.21 million viewers overall). It wasn’t quite up to the level of “Sound of Music,” which averaged a 4.6/13 in the demo and 18.32 million viewers.
  
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• Assemble's Turner prize win: a sign of our deeply embedded housing crisis

  08-12-2015 12:57
  
  That a housing project has won such a prestigious art prize should serve as a wake-up call to most other regeneration schemes, which neglect local peopleFor the first, though hopefully not the last time, I’m stood on a Turner prize winning art work. Tucked behind a main road leading to Toxteth, south Liverpool, a plot of just over 200 houses stands. Until 2011, the houses were mostly derelict and empty. The residents, dismayed by plans to demolish the terraces, set up a community land trus
  
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• Heavenly visions in earth colours

  08-12-2015 11:07
  
  Hardham, West Sussex The walls are covered with figures – some very faint, some clear – like a faded Bayeux tapestryA dunnock is singing from the scaffolding on the bell tower of St Botolph’s, the small square Saxon church. I walk inside, out of the wind and rain, and open the heavy inner door.Automated lights illuminate the walls, which glow with faded red and brown paintings. The walls are covered with figures – some very faint, some clear, part-Saxon, part-Norman in st
  
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• Five of the best art exhibitions for Christmas 2015

  08-12-2015 11:00
  
  Wonder at Botticini’s Paradise, see Turner’s bracing vistas in Edinburgh, and explore the roots of the European winter festival at the V&AIt is the season to put nativity scenes on postcards, but the story of religious art goes so much deeper than we tend to notice. This exhibition focuses on one of the most spectacular Renaissance paintings in the National Gallery, a detailed vision of Paradise that contains heretical details. Ideal if you want to see how all the cribs and stars
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.07.15

  08-12-2015 10:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Innovation Imperative (But Will It Get Us An Audience?)
  Recently, an orchestra manager told me that his orchestra was going to be “the most innovative orchestra in the world.” I asked what he was doing that was so innovative, and he rattled off  …read more
  AJBlog: diacritical Published 2015-12-07BID’s Skid: Sotheby’s Poaches Christie’s Marc Porter, While Stock Hits a 52-Week Low
  Could Marc Porter be the turnaround artist that Sotheby’s urgently
  
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• Old Dutch Paintings, Stolen In 2005, Now For Sale By Ukrainian Militia

  08-12-2015 10:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Westfries Museum in Hoorn, 50km north of Amsterdam, said on Monday it suspected members of the Ukrainian state security service, SBU, the far-right Svoboda (Freedom) party, and ‘art criminals with contacts … at the highest political level’ might also be involved in the attempt to sell the canvases.
  
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• Understanding ISIS’s Sideline In Selling Looted Antiquities

  08-12-2015 10:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “ISIS manages oil and antiquities under the same bureaucratic umbrella, the ‘Diwan al-Rikaz,’ an archaic phrase that literally translates to ‘Department of Precious Things That Come Out of the Ground.'”
  
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• Marina Abramović Turns Sitting Still And Listening To A Classical Concert Into An Art Installation

  08-12-2015 10:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Upon entering the Armory, ticket-holders will be presented with numbered keys, which will lead to individual lockers [for cell phones, watches, etc.] … And for 30 minutes, listeners will be required to wait, in silence and near-darkness. … When the centimeter-by-centimeter approach of the musician and his instrument is complete, listeners will remove their headphones” and listen to the Goldberg Variations.”
  
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• Paris Theatre To Offer English Translations Via Google Glass-Type Device

  08-12-2015 09:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The team at Theatre in Paris has announced that it is rolling out special glasses for non-French speakers that send perfectly synchronized translations into the air by the stage.” Says company co-founder Carl de Poncins, “It’s very similar to Google glasses, except the screen is larger and the words are positioned closer to where you’re looking.”
  
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• Hidden portrait 'found under the Mona Lisa', could lead to it being renamed

  08-12-2015 09:31
  
  'This is not the same woman'
  
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• Memes, Dreams And Themes: A Taxonomy Of Ideas

  08-12-2015 09:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We have ideas, many of them, every day. We have them, but we don’t often reflect on them. Mostly they just come and go. How many ideas did you have today? What was their character? Some you might describe as big or small, simple or complex. Is it possible to gain a better understanding of ideas, their types and value to us? Is it possible to establish a taxonomy of ideas?”
  
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• ‘Cultural Corridor’ Proposed For Northern Berkshires

  08-12-2015 08:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The project, intended to draw more visitors to the northern Berkshires and to help the economy of North Adams in particular, would include a new contemporary art museum, the renovation of a 1938 movie palace and the building of what Mr. Krens calls a museum for ‘extreme model railroading and contemporary architecture,’ all in or near North Adams.”
  
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• The Man Who Acted With Orson Welles, Produced Alfred Hitchcock, Played Tennis With Arnold Schoenberg’s Son, And Watched Hanns Eisler Pass Out

  08-12-2015 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alex Ross: “One morning last May, I walked up a driveway in Mandeville Canyon, on the west side of Los Angeles, and stepped back nearly eight decades in time. I had entered the home of the actor and director Norman Lloyd, who turned a hundred and one on November 8th.” (includes audio interview)
  
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• Former Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn Dead At 69

  08-12-2015 07:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘I was very happy when I gradually became a Warhol superstar. I felt like Elizabeth Taylor! Little did I realize that not only would there be no money, but that your star would flicker for two seconds and that was it. … You live in a hovel, walk up five flights, scraping the rent. And then at night you go to Max’s Kansas City where Mick Jagger and Fellini and everyone’s there in the back room. And when you walked in that room, you were a STAR!”
  
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• The Linguistics Of ‘YouTube Voice’

  08-12-2015 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One linguist calls it “‘intellectual used-car-salesman voice.’ You get the same kind of thing in other high-energy sales pitches. I guess the purest form of this style is the carnival barker.”
  
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• Knoedler Gallery Settles Lawsuit Over Fake Willem De Kooning

  08-12-2015 05:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With a trial looming, the Knoedler Gallery, its former director Ann Freedman, and Knoedler’s owner 8-31 Holdings have reached a settlement with the New York collector John Howard. Howard had bought a fake work by Willem de Kooning from the gallery for $4m.”
  
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• For All The Fuss About Trigger Warnings At Colleges, Are They Really Such A Big Problem?

  08-12-2015 04:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “No one really knows whether the few anecdotal reports about truly ridiculous trigger-warning requests … are indicative of a bigger problem, or merely isolated instances that shouldn’t be spun into grand arguments about the decline of higher education, or the fragility of millennials, or whatever else.
  
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• Teaching Kids To Choreograph – Even Five-Year-Olds

  08-12-2015 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Ellen Robbins] has been teaching modern dance to children as young as 5 since the 1970s. She has a knack for tapping into the creativity of her students while painlessly introducing the rudiments of music theory and compositional structure … Even the 5-year-olds are given a chance to make up their own dances. By the time they are teenagers, they’re composing multipart group works.”
  
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• ‘Carol’ Cinematographer On Creating Specific Styles – And Providing A Foil To ‘Far From Heaven’

  08-12-2015 02:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Yes, we actually looked at mid-century photographers who were photojournalists. A large part of them happened to be women, people like Ruth Orkin, Esther Bubley, Helen Levitt and then later Vivian Maier. These were photographers who were starting to experiment in color. So that gave me the idea of trying to reference a visualization of, let’s say, early Ektachrome, rather than Kodachrome, rather than color negative. And that’s why the colors have this kind of coolness/warm mix
  
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• The Pattern Of Classical Grammy Nominations

  08-12-2015 01:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One development in the classical-music Grammys during the last several years has been the inclusion of more diverse corners of this vast field. For many, that is a good thing — better than having Georg Solti (still the all-time Grammys champ), Vladimir Horowitz or the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra dominate year after year, as in the past. Yet patterns sometimes persist.”
  
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• Is Moss The Future Of Architecture?

  08-12-2015 00:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Building materials are designed specifically to resist growth, and much research has been done to develop paint treatments and biocides that make sure the concrete and wood and bricks that sheath a building aren’t colonized by living things. But a new group is trying to change all that. Instead of developing surfaces resistant to moss and lichen, the BiotA lab wants to build facades that are ‘bioreceptive.'”
  
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