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• Art in General, Lower Manhattan Stalwart, Will Move to Brooklyn’s Dumbo Neighborhood in January

  10-12-2015 23:06 via artnews.com
  Art in General, the nonprofit organization that has been located in downtown Manhattan district since 1981, will temporarily relocate to the Dumbo neighborhood in Brooklyn, beneath the Manhattan Bridge, in January 2016. “We’re just completely thrilled to be experiencing the community in Brooklyn … Read More
  
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• Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict review – Lisa Vreeland does justice to an extraordinary life

  10-12-2015 23:00
  
  The socialite collector’s eventful life – star-studded by the greatest artists of the 20th century – is told by art critics, historians and Guggenheim herself The career of socialite, collector, patron and salonnière Peggy Guggenheim must be the most mind-bogglingly eventful in the history of 20th-century art. Lisa Vreeland’s documentary does full justice to it, interviewing art critics and historians and rattling through her star-studded life story – the ter
  
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• The U.S. Government Is Looking to Hire Someone for Ansel Adams’s Old Job

  10-12-2015 22:20 via artnews.com
  Earlier this week the National Park Service of the Department of the Interior posted a job listing on USAJOBS looking for a photographer to take large format black-and-white documentary photographs of American National Parks for the Library of Congress.Yes, that is pretty much … Read More
  
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• Denver Art Museum Appoints Jorge Rivas Pérez Curator of Spanish Colonial Art Collection

  10-12-2015 21:04 via artnews.com
  The Denver Art Museum announced earlier today the appointment of Jorge Rivas Pérez as its new Frederick & Jan Mayer Curator of Spanish Colonial Art. Rivas will begin next February.Venezuelan-born Rivas joins DAM having spent 14 years as curator of Spanish … Read More
  
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• Dallas Museum of Art’s ‘Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots’ Show Receives $500,000 Grant

  10-12-2015 19:44 via artnews.com
  The Texas Commission on the Arts has announced the 20 recipients of its Arts Respond Cultural District Project grants for the 2016 fiscal year, and $500,000 of the $1.5 million available will go towards the Dallas Museum of Art’s Jackson Pollock: … Read More
  
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• Roger Partridge obituary

  10-12-2015 18:48
  
  My friend Roger Partridge, who has died aged 56 of cancer, was a sculptor who compared his experience of carving stone to “the joy of unwrapping a Christmas present as a child”. The pleasure he took in the process remained a constant throughout his career, as did his belief in what he called “the power of life” as expressed through sculpture.This was no casual position for him, as he had contracted cancer at the age of 16 and his illness had been a key factor in his decis
  
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• Here Is The Exhibitor List For Art Cologne 2016

  10-12-2015 18:20 via artnews.com
  Art Cologne has released the list of participating galleries for its 50th edition, which will be held next year from April 14 through April 17. A total of 219 galleries from 25 countries will show work. The fair will also … Read More
  
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• 'Restitution of a lost beauty': Caravaggio Nativity replica brought to Palermo

  10-12-2015 18:15
  
  Facsimile of 17th-century masterpiece to be brought to the oratory from which it was stolen in 1969, as fate of original work remains a mysteryThe theft of Caravaggio’s Nativity with St Francis and St Lawrence from an oratory in Palermo in 1969 is still considered one of the worst art crimes in history.The 17th-century masterpiece – a depiction of the newborn Christ on a bed of straw, painted in the chiaroscuro technique – was thought to have been painted by Caravaggio in Rome
  
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• ‘Perfectionism Is All Too Human’: Matthew Weinstein on Cary Smith and Jean Tinguely

  10-12-2015 18:09 via artnews.com
  It’s generally accepted that improvisation signifies humanness and, conversely, that perfectionism signifies its repression. But perfectionism is all too human. Perfectionism carries with it the inevitable defeat inherent in the striving for ideals. It can be an expression of humility … Read More
  
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• Olivier Mosset on Working for Jean Tinguely

  10-12-2015 18:08 via artnews.com
  Olivier Mosset worked for Jean Tinguely when he was very young. A longtime fan of Mosset, I e-mailed him to ask him why he gravitated toward Tinguely at such a young age. What did Tinguely represent to him at that … Read More
  
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• 'Knife angel' made from 100,000 seized blades divides opinion

  10-12-2015 18:08
  
  Sculpture highlighting the brutality of knife crime will tour UK when completed, but some victims’ families are against itThe creators of a 24ft-high angel statue made of knives collected from police amnesties have said they were overwhelmed by how many weapons they had gathered, but the sculpture has divided opinion among the families of knife crime victims.The sculpture, the work of artist Alfie Bradley, will be finished next autumn and will tour the country, including standing in Trafal
  
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• Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, film review: an unlikely sexual allure, an amateur collector and gallerist

  10-12-2015 17:45
  
  A documentary that celebrates one of the most influential art collectors of the 20th century
  
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• Study: Don’t Use Periods While You Text

  10-12-2015 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Researchers led by Binghamton University’s Celia Klin report that text messages ending with a period are perceived as being less sincere, probably because the people sending them are heartless.
  
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• Maybe The New Architecture Will Be Buildings That Change As We Change

  10-12-2015 17:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The idea of a self-repairing, pollutant-neutralising, climate-adapting ‘living’ architecture no longer seems the preserve of fiction.”
  
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• Shifting The Lines Between Fact And Fiction – A New Genre?

  10-12-2015 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sometimes, advances are made at the expense of already established forms; other times, the established forms are themselves challenged and reinvigorated by the resulting blowback. At this moment, it’s the shifting sands between fiction and nonfiction that compel attention.”
  
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• {Fiction} Confession is Good for the Soul

  10-12-2015 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  (Image courtesy of Freedigitalphotos.net / Keerati)
  The last time I went into a church, it was to confess. Father Albert asked me my sins, and I told him that I lusted for my neighbor’s wife; how I coveted her, imagining her eyes gleaming when she sees me, her bosom heaving and beckoning me from underneath her low-cut top.
  After cleansing my conscious, I asked the father of his sins, my curiosity getting the best of me. No, that’s not it. I didn’t feel comfortable exposing the
  
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• Why Business Schools Are Teaching The Study Of Literature

  10-12-2015 15:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Business schools, particularly elite ones, turned to the idea of grooming conscientious leaders instead of narrow-minded managers. At the same time, they turned to the narrative arts—the practice of “storytelling”—to help them chart this future anew.
  
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• Museum director walks into a bar: meet Neil MacGregor, standup comic

  10-12-2015 15:51
  
  The departing director of the British Museum had the crowd in stitches at his leaving do. Here are his best gags
  Neil MacGregor celebrated his triumphant directorship of the British Museum last night with a leaving party in the museum’s Great Court. He is well known for being multi-talented – not just an excellent curator but a presenter of great radio shows and an author of books that become instant classics. What can’t he do? Now, he’s revealed another side to himself &
  
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• Art/Media Arts Design Instructor

  10-12-2015 15:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Art/Media Arts Design Instructor at North Orange County Community College District
  North Orange County Community College District
  Position Number: CCF983
  Location: Cypress College
  Department: CC Fine Arts
  Percentage of Employment: 100%
  Months of Employment: 10 Months/Year
  Work Schedule: Full Time, Tenure Track
  Job Description:
  Teach a variety of courses in Media Arts Design (MAD ) including, but not limited to, digital imaging, electronic illustration, animation, video/film production, design, w
  
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• This Year’s Golden Globe Nominees

  10-12-2015 15:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Carol”, a lesbian romance about a 1950s housewife in New York who falls for a store clerk, led the Golden Globe nominations on Thursday with five nods, including for best drama film and its two star actresses.
  
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• Darcey Bussell: The Billy Elliot Effect Has Resulted In A Boom Of Male Dancers

  10-12-2015 14:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I was told by the director of the Royal Ballet School that they are getting more applications for boys than they are for girls – it’s amazing!”
  
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• Micro-agressions And Me In The Theatre

  10-12-2015 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Our collective institutions—artistic staff, marketing departments, etc.—are placating the older white audiences, and are afraid to challenge them, or even educate them. We take their donor money and put them on boards, and we brush their microaggressions off as our old grandma or grandpa who might be a little racist and elitist but are otherwise harmless.”
  
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• Morning Links: TIME Person of the Year Edition

  10-12-2015 14:35 via artnews.com
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• Serial season 2: Podcast returns and premieres new story

  10-12-2015 12:35
  
  The first episode is titled 'Dustwun'
  
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• Shia LaBeouf reveals why he ditched Hollywood for performance art as #TOUCHMYSOUL kicks off in Liverpool

  10-12-2015 10:59
  
  Members of the public can ring 0151 808 0771 from 11am today to 'connect' with LaBeouf
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.09.15

  10-12-2015 10:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  You Gotta Know Why
  Communities, funders and the environment all shift over time. Arts and culture organizations can get stuck in patterns of doing and being. How might we change so that we remain relevant when our communities change? … read more
  AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-12-09Skorton Meets the Press: Outreach, Public Input, “Trade Secrets”
  In his cautious comments yesterday during an hour-long appearance at the National Press Club, Washington, David Skorton, the
  
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• Opera Philly To The Rescue! Production From Defunct Gotham Chamber Opera Will Go Ahead In Harlem

  10-12-2015 10:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When Gotham Chamber Opera closed this fall, it looked like one of the casualties would be the New York premiere of Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, the ambitious new work it had co-commissioned with Opera Philadelphia …But thanks to fast work by Opera Philadelphia and the Apollo, which teamed up to save the production, New Yorkers will get to hear [the piece] after all.”
  
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• Cleveland Orchestra Gets Very Glad Tidings: More Audience, More Revenue, Bigger Endowment

  10-12-2015 10:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In fiscal 2015, its push to remain viable and relevant paid off in the forms of higher attendance, endowment growth, and record-setting levels of philanthropy. … The surplus came despite the release of thousands of free and steeply discounted tickets. … No longer are youthful crowds just a ‘Fridays@7’ or Family series phenomenon.”
  
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• Photographer Discovers ISIS Has Stolen His Artwork

  10-12-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Brian McCarty] was shocked to find an altered version of his photograph Cinderella photoshopped with the terrorist group’s flag. … The [altered] text reads, ‘Even if war destroys everything, the Islamic sign and state is protected and will never fall down.'”
  
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• North Korea Now Runs A Cheesy Museum At Cambodia’s Angkor Temples

  10-12-2015 09:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Dec. 4, North Korea’s government officially debuted its Angkor Panorama Museum in Cambodia, one of Kim Jong Un’s few foreign allies. The display was created by members of a 4,000-person ‘work unit’ devoted to deifying the Kim dynasty through statues, panoramas and other propaganda pieces. … But this exhibit instead glorifies Cambodia’s ancient Khmer kingdom.”
  
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• Where Frida Kahlo Got Her Sartorial Style

  10-12-2015 09:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Mi vestido soy yo,’ Frida Kahlo used to say – my clothing is me. … Kahlo’s look was inspired by the traditional clothes of the Tehuantepec region of southeast Mexico, where women often earn more money than their husbands and administer the family assets.” (photo journal)
  
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• Who is buying Iranian art?

  10-12-2015 09:17
  
  A new generation of super rich gather in Dubai to collect modern and contemporary art from Iran Interest in modern Iranian art began to take off, first in the Middle East and then globally, after Christie’s held its first Dubai auction of Middle Eastern art in 2006. Sussan Babaie, art historian at the Courtald Institute of Art in London, told Tehran Bureau the surge of interest in Iranian art resulted from the amount of art the country had been producing while isolated from international b
  
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• In Theatre, Necessity Really Can Be The Mother Of Invention

  10-12-2015 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lyn Gardner: “Complicite’s early shows evolved as much from a lack of resources as they did from a particular aesthetic, and it’s been the same with plenty of other companies, from Improbable and Kneehigh to Little Bulb and Action Hero. That’s not an argument for artists starving in garrets or being unable to access subsidy and investment … But it is a reminder that need can be a spur to creativity and make artists think about different ways of making theatre.&rdqu
  
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• And What Was This Year’s Drama At La Scala’s Opening Night?

  10-12-2015 08:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It looked like the first night of La Scala’s production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Joan of Arc had gone off without a hitch.” But no. On a backstage audio recording later broadcast on national radio, “‘I’m here, congratulations maestro, really congratulations,’ Leiser can be heard saying in English. After a pause, he then screams ‘asshole’.”
  
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• The Secrets of the Mona Lisa review – is this really the story of the century?

  10-12-2015 08:30
  
  Andrew Graham-Dixon’s documentary about Da Vinci’s masterpiece is full of big claims, but does prove to be revealing – literallyNo one can accuse Andrew Graham-Dixon of underselling his film The Secrets of the Mona Lisa (BBC2). He’s on the hunt for the truth about Leonardo’s masterpiece, embarking on an investigation that will take him on a trip around the world “with exclusive access and extraordinary encounters”. There will be revelations that “w
  
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• Director Of Royal Opera In London To Step Down

  10-12-2015 08:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Kasper Holten, the Royal Opera’s director of opera since 2011, has announced he will leave Covent Garden in 2017 in order to be closer to family in Denmark. … The departure appears to be entirely amicable.”
  
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• West End’s ‘Charlie And The Chocolate Factory’ Coming To Broadway Without Its Director

  10-12-2015 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sam Mendes – best known in the US as a film director (American Beauty and the James Bond films Spectre and Skyfall) – said, “I knew I couldn’t marry the time commitment to make a Broadway production with the development of my next projects.”
  
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• ‘Flesh And Bone’ Star Says Ballet Teachers Told Her To Get Breast Reduction

  10-12-2015 07:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sarah Hay, whose regular gig is with the ballet at the Semperoper Dresden, says that when she was studying in New York, “I had a lot of controversy about my figure.” One teacher even pulled her offstage, told her, “Your breasts are distracting me,” and gave her a sports bra to put on.
  
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• Ballet Hispanico Eliminates Its Executive Director

  10-12-2015 07:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 45-year-old company “announced Wednesday that Eduardo Vilaro, its artistic director since 2009, would become its chief executive officer as well. … [He] has experience running both the artistic and managerial sides of a company: he served in both roles for the Luna Negra Dance Theater in Chicago, which he founded in 1999.”
  
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• Margaret Atwood Takes Up Writing Superhero Comics

  10-12-2015 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From her announcement: “Due to some spilled genetic Super-Splicer, our hero got tangled up with both a cat and an owl; hence his fur and feathers, and his identity problems. … Angel Catbird is a humorous, action-driven, pulp-inspired story. And the only other thing I can tell you at this early date is to expect a lot of cat puns.”
  
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• The Movie Star, Her Gangster Boyfriend, Her Daughter With A Knife, And The Massive Hit Movies Based On Them

  10-12-2015 06:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is one matter when it comes to art imitating an adult woman’s life, even when that woman’s life encompassed a number of scandalous relationships; it would be another matter when the movies started to imitate Lana Turner’s daughter’s life. By the time Cheryl Crane was 14, and watching her unstable home life reflected back to her in one of her mother’s biggest hit movies, reality and fantasy must have seemed pretty confused.” (podcast plus text)
  
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• On The ‘Baby Hitler’ Question: Are Historical ‘What-Ifs’ Really A Waste Of Time?

  10-12-2015 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In order to truly answer this apparently silly hypothetical, you have to define your own beliefs about the nature of progress, the inherent contingency of events, and the influence of individuals – even very charismatic ones – on the flow of historical change. These are big, important questions. If well-done counterfactuals can help us think them through, shouldn’t we allow what-ifs some space at the history table?”
  
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• Make Others Trust You By Spilling Coffee All Over Yourself

  10-12-2015 05:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Highly competent people can make themselves appear more approachable by committing a pratfall. A small blunder makes them seem a little vulnerable, and this vulnerability makes them seem approachable and warm. The effectiveness of this strategy debunks the common assumption that trust is something that can only be built slowly over time. By making yourself vulnerable, it’s possible to build trust in less time than it takes to mop up a spilled latte.”
  
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• Are Films Of Shakespeare Too Faithful?

  10-12-2015 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Whereas filmmakers feel comfortable taking artistic license when adapting novels or the works of most other playwrights, there’s an unwritten rule that Shakespearean dialogue is so precious as to be locked in, that the stories cannot be tampered with in any significant way. Directors update the setting … but more often than not the core storyline and dialogue remain virtually untouched. … One has to wonder if film’s apparent reverence towards Shakespeare is too r
  
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• Royal Ballet Principal Bryony Brind, 55

  10-12-2015 04:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[She] made world headlines in 1982 when, aged just 22, she was picked out of the Royal Ballet’s junior ranks by Rudolf Nureyev to become his partner at Covent Garden. … But in the pressure of public glare her career faded in less than a decade. She then acquired a new celebrity when she stepped out (platonically) with Prince Michael of Kent and became the romantic novelist Dame Barbara Cartland’s daughter-in-law.”
  
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• Untitled( THE THERAPIST IS THE RAPIST!!!!!)

  10-12-2015 03:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  it’s a boys club, u said. there aren’t any women at adidas.yeah you need some more, f said.better to have a team, y said. that is what’s happening next year. i went in for one job.w’s the main project manager. things are falling in place.  alot of fun.u is very pretty and sexy. she has pink hair. i want to put my dick in her hair. she has a british accent, wide hips and wide breasts.u is dorky, and thin. he has curly black hair. he looks like mucous.have you worked i
  
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