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• ICA Boston Receives $42 M. Gift of Work by Female Artists From Barbara Lee

  09-12-2015 23:53 via artnews.com
  Philanthropist, political activist, and collector Barbara Lee has donated 20 works by 12 female artists to the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the New York Times reported today.The works, by Eva Hesse, Kara Walker, and others, are estimated at $42 million altogether, … Read More
  
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• East Hampton’s Harper’s Books Is Opening a Space on the Upper East Side

  09-12-2015 23:09 via artnews.com
  The East Hampton rare bookseller Harper’s Books is opening a shop in a residential space on the Upper East Side. The space, called Harper’s Apartment, is located on East 74th Street between Madison and Park and will be open by … Read More
  
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• ‘Sylvia Bataille’ at Joan, Los Angeles

  09-12-2015 21:48 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Consumer Reports: Puppies Puppies

  09-12-2015 21:14 via artnews.com
  Puppies Puppies is a Los Angeles-based artist who in the past has been called “Harry Potter-obsessed.” A recent show at Queer Thoughts in New York is centered around the artist dressed as Gollum. Additionally, Puppies Puppies staged a show this … Read More
  
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• So There’s This Way That People On YouTube Talk…

  09-12-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It wasn’t a matter of their accents, or the sound of their voices, it was the way they were talking. The only word that came to mind was … bouncy.”
  
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• London Dealer Rod Barton Expands to Brussels

  09-12-2015 19:22 via artnews.com
  Dealer Rod Barton, who has run a London gallery since 2009, doing shows with artists like Chris Succo, Brad Troemel, and Chris Hood, will open a new space in Brussels next year. “It’s a little bit nerve-wracking,” Barton told me, … Read More
  
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• Survival Strategy: The “Click-Bait” Novel?

  09-12-2015 19:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You have to get the reader on the first page of a short story, you have to convince them of a world inside page one. As writers try to capture the scattered attention of readers, I think the novel is moving towards that degree of compression.”
  
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• Tehran Symphony Cancels Concert When Authorities Object To Women Musicians

  09-12-2015 19:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I said all of us will perform together or we will leave the hall. Some tried to resolve the problem but eventually they said the women cannot be allowed to perform, so I said we will not perform.”
  
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• Pasadena’s Boston Court Confounds Definitions For The 99-Seat Rule

  09-12-2015 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The perception of wealth has made the theatre Exhibit A for what Equity apparently thought was wrong with small L.A. theatre: an immaculate venue with acclaimed world-premiere plays that didn’t pay its actors minimum wage.”
  
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• Los Angeles’ Hot New Arts District Creates Problems For Artists

  09-12-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 2013, Mayor Garcetti posted a photo of himself to Twitter holding a sign that read #ArtsMatter, with the statement: “Let’s make sure L.A. is the creative capital of the world for years to come.” Good idea. Let’s start by finding a way to keep the artists in town.
  
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• That Garish New Peterson Museum? I Like It!

  09-12-2015 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Petersen looks less like mobility-in-motion and more like an ambiguously unspooled Diet Coke can. What is obvious is that the Petersen wanted to make a splash.”
  
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• Contention Attention – This Year’s Best Books Sparked Backlash

  09-12-2015 18:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The most important consequence of a wave of adoring reviews, followed by a backlash of negative opinion is that it suddenly matters whether you’re the kind of person who loved A Little Life or just didn’t.”
  
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• After 60 Years Of Growing TV Audience, Five Years Of Decline

  09-12-2015 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nielsen says that traditional TV viewing by all age groups peaked in the 2009-2010 season, and has been on the decline ever since. Until that point, the audience for TV had grown every year since 1949.
  
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• This Is The Guy Who Bought Wu Tang Clan’s Single Copy Album For $2 Million (You Know Him)

  09-12-2015 18:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Initially, the Clan wanted to forbid the buyer from publicly releasing the album for 88 years, but over time decided to grant the buyer total freedom as long as the album wasn’t sold commercially.”
  
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• Victoria Sobel and Casey Gollan Named Vera List Center’s 2015–17 Fellows

  09-12-2015 17:46 via artnews.com
  Victoria Sobel and Casey Gollan have been awarded the 2015–17 fellowships at the New School’s Vera List Center for Art and Politics, which are part of the New York–based organization’s Post Democracy program.The Cooper Union graduates are among the many co-founders of … Read More
  
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• National Endowment for the Arts Releases List of 2016 Grantees

  09-12-2015 17:41 via artnews.com
  Yesterday, the National Endowment for the Arts released its annual list of grantees. A total of 1,126 American museums, arts funds, foundations, alternative spaces, and institutions will receive funding from the NEA this year. The grants add up to $27.7 million.“These projects, … Read More
  
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• Geeks Under The Microscope – Just Who Are They?

  09-12-2015 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Among their findings is that, contrary to the stereotype of the isolated, obsessed fan, geeks—while largely apolitical—report above-average levels of civic engagement. Many comfortably have one foot in the real world, and another in the fantasy realm.”
  
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• Cartoons for Christmas: share your festive illustrations now

  09-12-2015 17:24
  
  To coincide with a series of beloved illustrators sharing their festive scenes, we’d like to see your Christmas drawings In the run-up to Christmas we have a series of top illustrators drawing new festive scenes. So far Axel Scheffler has shared Stick Man delivering presents, Quentin Blake has presented a Christmas on the go and Judith Kerr has put the three wise men on an elephant. To coincide with the series, we’d like to see your very own festive illustrations. Whether it’s
  
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• Does your nuclear shelter have a bar? Michael Smith on 40 years of mocking America

  09-12-2015 16:09
  
  Scared at airport security? Anxious about ageing? Fearful your fallout shelter doesn’t quite cut it? The artist Michael Smith has been reliving the horrors of modern life since the 70s – as a dance-cum-comedy actThe man closes his office door for what seems like the last time. Around him are a gang of fresh-faced twentysomething co-workers, like a particularly vexatious Gap advert. He stands patiently as they present him with a giant gold watch; seconds later, they are gone. His shou
  
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• A Weather-Controlled Synthesizer, Courtesy Robert Rauschenberg

  09-12-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  As the sun went down one evening this past autumn, the New Orleans musician Quintron performed an improvisational set inside of Secret Project Robot in Brooklyn alongside a number of other musicians. The jam was centered around an unlikely bandleader: … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Art Fair Footwear Edition

  09-12-2015 15:15 via artnews.com
  An investigation into the sensible but cool footwear worn by gallerists at art fairs. [T Magazine]Read this profile with Studio Museum director Thelma Golden on her tenth anniversary at the position. [Artsy]A French court has overturned the decision to convict Werner … Read More
  
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• Nadia Chomyn obituary

  09-12-2015 13:57
  
  Autistic artist who had an extraordinary ability at a very young age to draw realistic depictions of animals and horsemenNadia Chomyn, who has died aged 48 after a short illness, was autistic with severe learning difficulties. At a very young age, and breaking all the accepted rules of the development of graphic representation in children, Nadia had an extraordinary ability to draw in perspective realistic depictions of animals and horsemen. Her remarkable drawings, produced mainly when she was
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.08.15

  09-12-2015 10:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Ideation Summit: Transforming Stakeholders into Collaborators
  Conversations about critical issues happen all the time. Conferences, blogs and community meetings offer any number of opportunities to raise and share experiences with these issues. And yet, we experience seemingly endless discussion with little discernible progress towards shared solutions. … read more
  AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-12-08Driving While …
  An October article in the New York Times presented researc
  
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• Is Using Classical Music To Fall Asleep Disrespectful To The Art Form?

  09-12-2015 10:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  J. Bryan Lowder: “The same music that you’d be chastised for dozing off to during a concert is available for precisely that purpose when you get home. Why does the taboo apply in one place and not the other? …I’m happily using a Cy Twombly piece as my iPhone background right now; should using a Beethoven sonata as nightcap really feel any different?”
  
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• NPR’s Diane Rehm Announces Retirement

  09-12-2015 10:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “My thinking is that I’ll stay on the air until the election because I really want to see how this will go. My feeling is, I have a number of ideas and I’m perfectly happy doing something different … where I’m not forced to get up at 5 a.m. every morning to prepare for a show. I’ve been doing that for 37 years. Maybe I’ll get to sleep until 7 or 7:30 a.m., like other people do.”
  
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• Man Sues Met Museum For Having ‘Racist’ Paintings Of An ‘Aryan’ Jesus

  09-12-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The plaintiff described such paintings as The Resurrection by Perugino and The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes by Tintoretto as “offensive aesthetic whitewashing” because the real Jesus of Nazareth had “black hair like wool and skin of bronze color” like he does. The suit claims the museum and the city of New York are violating his rights under the First Amendment and the Civil Rights Act.
  
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• To The Man Suing The Met For ‘Aesthetic Whitewashing,’ Here Are Some Of The Museum’s Non-Aryan Jesuses

  09-12-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What did the guy expect if he didn’t venture beyond the European galleries? He ought to have visited the Byzantine, Ethiopian, and Armenian collections. (He even missed Gauguin’s Ia Orana Maria [Hail Mary].)
  
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• Why Is Theatre Casting So White? Laziness, Says British Equity Head

  09-12-2015 09:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Malcolm Sinclair: “‘The default position if you see a part that has no particular ethnic characteristic, is to presume it is white. Why should you? There are maybe more parts [specifically] for black, asian, south east Asian actors now, but why can’t they be playing all the other parts? … You have to call the people that actually make the decisions to account, which is the producers and directors.”
  
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• The Complex Psychology of the Geek

  09-12-2015 09:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “And while this may provoke many to reach for their light sabers, among the qualities [these researchers] consistently find in this population are narcissism, neuroticism, and depression. … [Yet they’re] not linking geek culture with mental illness or antisocial behavior. Among their findings is that, contrary to the stereotype of the isolated, obsessed fan, geeks – while largely apolitical – report above-average levels of civic engagement.”
  
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• Suddenly, Philanthropists Are Getting Grief For Giving Mega-Donations

  09-12-2015 08:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In recent months, a hedge fund billionaire was denounced for his $400 million gift to the already wealthy Harvard University, David Geffen took flak for gifts that plaster his name on a Manhattan concert hall and a Los Angeles school, and the wife of a Wall Street banker was roasted for trying to put her name on a small Adirondacks college. Even Bill Gates, who has given billions to battle diseases, is taking lumps.”
  
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• Barnes & Noble Tries To Morph From Bookstore Chain To ‘Lifestyle Brand’

  09-12-2015 08:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  New CEO Ron Boire wants to turn around the company – reeling from both the relentless rise of Amazon and continuing losses on the Nook e-reader – by offering toys and games, electronics, and even LPs and turntables. “Everything we do around learning, personal growth and development fits our brand,” he said.
  
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• Nicotine teens: hanging out with the young smokers – in pictures

  09-12-2015 08:00
  
  When Ed Templeton was a young skateboarder in California, he took Polaroids of his friends smoking at their local park. Those pictures in 1994 were the start of a lifelong habit – Templeton has been capturing youngsters all over the world experimenting with cigarettes ever since. His latest selection has now been published as Teenage Smokers 2, published by Super Labo Continue reading...
  
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• Confessions Of A Nielsen Ratings Junkie

  09-12-2015 07:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[I] never developed much of a rooting interest in big-league sports. Instead, I fell in love with the ratings game – the sport – of network television. ABC, CBS, and NBC were my teams; their dozens of shows my players; the Nielsen chart the playing field.”
  
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• Why Some Poorly-Rated Shows Keep Getting Renewed

  09-12-2015 06:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The rapid destabilization of live ratings and the sheer volume of mediocre results throws any conversation about relative success right out the window; even so, at least a handful of these shows are all but assured a return engagement next season.” It’s all anout time-shifting and reruns the secondary market now.
  
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• What Became Of Candy, Little Joe, And The Other Characters In Lou Reed’s ‘Walk On The Wild Side’?

  09-12-2015 05:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Withthe passing of Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn, The Guardian reviews – verse by verse – the fates of her cohorts.
  
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• The 100 Best British Novels, As Picked By A Panel Of Foreigners

  09-12-2015 04:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What does the rest of the world see as the greatest British novels? In search of a collective critical assessment, BBC Culture contributor Jane Ciabattari polled 82 book critics, from Australia to Zimbabwe – but none from the UK. This list includes no nonfiction, no plays, no narrative or epic poems (no Paradise Lost or Beowulf), no short story collections (no Morte D’Arthur) – novels only, by British authors (which means no James Joyce).”
  
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• What Makes A ‘Great British Novel’?

  09-12-2015 04:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The book that fits the title of ‘Great American Novel’ is often debated, with contenders including Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom. Yet what elements would make up its equivalent across the Atlantic – the ‘Great British Novel’? This video attempts to answer that question – through the words of a few authors who made the top 25.”
  
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• Cate Blanchett in Julian Rosefeldt's Manifesto: exclusive trailer – video

  09-12-2015 03:07
  
  Watch a teaser for the world premiere of Berlin artist Julian Rosefeldt’s new work, Manifesto. The piece stars Australian actor Cate Blanchett in a series of 13 monologues drawing on the written manifestos of artists, architects, dancers and filmmakers. It is at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne from 9 December to 14 March before travelling to Sydney, Hamburg, Berlin and Hanover Continue reading...
  
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• Are Britain’s Best Authors Women? They’re Certainly Rockin’ BBC’s Top 100 British Novels List

  09-12-2015 03:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Female novelists wrote six of the top ten titles on the list, including the top three, and make up 40% of the total. The UK certainly has a long tradition of great women authors, from Jane Austen to Hilary Mantel, but previous lists haven’t been quite so equitable. What made the difference here? (Actually, it’s those bloody foreigners.)
  
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• How I Got Over My Fear Of Running Out Of Ideas And Became A Dancer-Choreographer

  09-12-2015 02:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Louise Lecavalier, longtime member of La La La Human Steps: “A choreographer once told me, we all have our tricks in our pockets. I thought: I have nothing in my pockets. … But then I worked with Benoît Lachambre, who encouraged me to create choreography. He would arrive at the studio and find me already dancing my guts out, and helped me feel that movement was pouring out of me, and I didn’t need anyone to tell me what to do.”
  
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• Film Actor Robert Loggia, 85

  09-12-2015 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Strongly built, balding and with a rasping delivery, Loggia suffered from typecasting during the 1970s, obliged to specialise in sharp-suited ‘heavies’ … But in 1982 he took on the role of Richard Gere’s feckless father in the hit film An Officer and a Gentleman …High-profile roles followed – as mobsters in Brian De Palma’s Scarface (1983) and John Huston’s Prizzi’s Honor (1985), and as … the avuncular toy company owner in the
  
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• Julian Rosefeldt's Manifesto review – 13 Cate Blanchetts in search of a meaning

  09-12-2015 00:31
  
  Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
  The words of Futurists, Dadaists and Communists are stolen from the page and given new life by Blanchett playing a teacher, homeless man, mourner and mother in the Berlin-based artist’s latest multi-screen installationThere’s a clinking of champagne glasses, and Cate Blanchett moves to address an affluent crowd. Reading from cue cards in her hand, she praises the great art vortex and describes the poor as detestable animals. “Th
  
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• Was Stonehenge First Erected In Wales And Them Dragged To England Later?

  09-12-2015 00:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It has long been known that the bluestones that form Stonehenge’s inner horseshoe came from the Preseli hills in Pembrokeshire, around 140 miles from Salisbury Plain. Now archaeologists have discovered a series of recesses in the rocky outcrops of Carn Goedog and Craig Rhos-y-felin, to the north of those hills, that match Stonehenge’s bluestones in size and shape.”
  
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