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• The Road Less Traveled: A Few Reviews From Slightly Out-of-the-Way Galleries

  11-12-2015 21:35 via artnews.com
  Matthew Langan-Peck at Svetlana, Sven Loven at Jeffrey Stark, ‘The Home Show,’ ‘NO DICE (1)’ at Kimberly-Klark, U.S. Blues Read More
  
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• Russian Mona Lisa could be genuine, says art expert

  11-12-2015 21:03
  
  There are many indications suggesting the genius of Leonardo
  
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• Billy Elliot Musical To Close London Run After 11 Years

  11-12-2015 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The musical has been seen by more than 5.25 million people in London and nearly 11 million people around the globe in worldwide productions.
  
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• Most-Watched TV Shows Aren’t Necessarily Most-Shared On Social Media

  11-12-2015 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Twitter, you’re not likely to see #NCIS in the trending topics on Tuesday nights. Instead, shows that are much lower in the ratings, such as The Flash, iZombie and Scream Queens, are regularly represented there.”
  
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• ‘Jenine Marsh: feminine marvelous and tough’ at Lulu, Mexico City

  11-12-2015 20:49 via artnews.com
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• Do Happier People Live Longer? The Study Says…

  11-12-2015 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There have been numerous studies in recent years suggesting that happier people may live longer and that happiness could even help protect against some health problems, like heart disease. According to a massive new study published in The Lancet, happiness has no such power.”
  
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• Regional museums given chance to buy renowned British art

  11-12-2015 19:48
  
  Great Works, a Contemporary Art Society scheme, lets galleries pitch for six-figure sums to buy work by art world namesRegional museums are being invited to pitch for some seriously expensive contemporary art, beyond the wildest dreams of their curators’ budgets, but now available through a new philanthropy project.Under the scheme launched by the Contemporary Art Society (CAS), six-figure sums will be available to purchase works by internationally renowned British artists such as Rachel W
  
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• Happy Birthday Is Finally Free

  11-12-2015 19:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Terms of the deal were not disclosed in court papers announcing the settlement, but it puts an end to the class-action lawsuit filed in 2013 by a group of artists and filmmakers who had sought a return of the millions of dollars in fees the company had collected over the years for use of the song.”
  
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• The Guardian view on the Turner prize: a step too far? | Editorial

  11-12-2015 19:10
  
  By awarding the Turner to architects, the award’s jury has given artists a vote of no confidence. It’s time for the Tate to rethink the prizeThe Turner prize is not something to get too solemn about. It is, after all, a giant marketing exercise for the Tate, and the institution has benefited rather than otherwise from the barrage of indignation it has engendered over animals in formaldehyde, lights switching on and off, and elephant-dung paintings. But since its invention in 1984 it
  
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• What Happened After Patricia Arquette Made Her Speech At The Oscars About Gender Pay Disparity

  11-12-2015 18:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A woman came up to me the day after I won an Oscar to thank me for my speech. She told me that her boss called her in to his office that Monday morning and gave her a raise. There was no reason she was getting paid less, and she deserved the raise. She started crying, and I started crying.”
  
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• Geoffrey Farmer Will Represent Canada at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  11-12-2015 18:00 via artnews.com
  What a time to be Canadian. Just a few weeks ago the nation elected the handsome, young leader of its Liberal Party, Justin Trudeau, to be its prime minister, and late last night he welcomed newly arrived Syrian refugees in … Read More
  
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• Cincinnati International Piano Competition Canceled For 2016

  11-12-2015 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The piano competition is undergoing a “a top to bottom evaluation” of its operations and is temporarily putting on hold all activities, even outreach programs such as“Hammers, Strings & Keys.” The reason, is to “have time to seriously consider the most appropriate sustainable artistic and economic model going forward.”
  
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• Phillip March Jones Tapped as New Director of Andrew Edlin Gallery

  11-12-2015 17:10 via artnews.com
  Andrew Edlin Gallery announced today that Phillip March Jones will be its new director. Newly relocated to the Lower East Side, the New York–based gallery was previously overseen by Becca Hoffman, who will continue to direct the Outsider Art Fair.Jones … Read More
  
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• Small Business: Ellie Rines On Her New Tiny Gallery, 56 Henry

  11-12-2015 17:09 via artnews.com
  Ellie Rines, whose walk-in-closet-size gallery 55 Gansevoort closed abruptly last summer, is opening a new space, this time in Chinatown, at 56 Henry Street. Gansevoort, which opened in a pre-Whitney Museum Meatpacking District in the fall of 2013, had about … Read More
  
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• George Foster obituary

  11-12-2015 16:24
  
  My father, George Foster, who has died aged 64 from cirrhosis of the liver, was an artist and teacher who built assemblages – works that merge sculpture with painting.Born in Liverpool, George was the eldest of five children. His mother, Dolores (nee Walton), was a priest’s housekeeper from Ireland, and his father, also George, was an antiques dealer. After attending St Mary’s college in Crosby, in the late 1960s George attended Southport art school; among his contemporaries th
  
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• Banksy in Calais jungle: Steve Jobs graffiti reminds people Apple founder was son of Syrian migrants

  11-12-2015 15:24
  
  The painting shows Jobs carrying an early Apple computer with a sack of belongings on his back
  
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• Morning Links: Mass Incarceration Edition

  11-12-2015 15:12 via artnews.com
  Creative think tank Tactical Aesthetics aims to use performance art to help end mass incarceration. [New Yorker]MoMA has an Adrian Piper retrospective in the works, the Whitney plans an open-floor exhibition, and Mnuchin has a David Hammons survey on tap. … Read More
  
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• Jonathan Biss, Wigmore Hall, review: Pianist fascinates with Mozart, Schoenberg and Schumann

  11-12-2015 15:01
  
  It was not an obvious combination, but one which allowed their very different styles to set each other off brilliantly
  
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• Scandals, sales and starchitects: 25 years of the Art Newspaper

  11-12-2015 15:00
  
  From the fall of the Berlin Wall to internet auctions – the founding editor of the Art Newspaper picks the 10 stories that have had the greatest impact on the art world since it was launched 25 years agoThe Art Newspaper’s first issue led on the reunification of Berlin. The museums and their world class collections had been divided in 1945 according to which allied zone they happened to be located in. The 1990 treaty on good neighbourliness, partnership and cooperation between German
  
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• The Firework-maker's Daughter, Linbury Theatre, London, review: A charming children's Christmas show

  11-12-2015 14:53
  
  David Bruce's instrumentation, dominated by marimbas and strings, creates a welcoming musical world
  
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• Shia LaBeouf, Quentin Blake and a grenade in the Turner prize – the week in art

  11-12-2015 12:53
  
  Uproar as the first ever ‘non-artists’ win Britain’s biggest art award. Plus the Hollywood star-cum-performance artist launches a hotline and beloved illustrators come over all Christmassy – all in your weekly art dispatchMasters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer
  Dutch art of the 17th century has a cool allure for modern eyes. The reality of it is so absorbing, the apparent use of optical instruments so precocious. But perhaps most of all, we recognise
  
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• In the Studio with Susan Hiller

  11-12-2015 10:51
  
  'I would never regret the fact that I studied anthropology... it gave me an insight into art'
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.10.15

  11-12-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Place, process and making your own reservation
  When we asked Chief Executive Program: Community and Culture leaders what they saw as the most pressing issues in their field, many told us that they’d like to address the siloization of arts in communities … read more
  AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-12-10Beyond Financials
  How might we, as leaders in the cultural sector, be critical, formative drivers of building the vision for a new economy? … read more
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• Mattiwilda Dobbs, 90, Pathbreaking African-American Opera Star

  11-12-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Like many African American opera singers … she was first fully recognized for her talent not in the United States, but rather in Europe – an ocean away from the Jim Crow South where she had grown up.” In 1953, she became the first black singer in a principal role at La Scala; in 1956, she was the first African-American cast as a romantic lead – Gilda in Rigoletto, which she sang in whiteface – at the Met.
  
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• A Pop-Up Ballet On Denver Airport’s Moving Walkways

  11-12-2015 09:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The State Street Ballet, from Santa Barbara, California, was traveling from Spokane, Washington to Durango for their performance of The Nutcracker when they found themselves with a five-hour layover with nothing to do.” When they posted the video on Facebook, it got 1.8 million views in under an hour.”
  
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• The work of young disabled artists – in pictures

  11-12-2015 09:30
  
  A quarter of disabled people have found that others have expected less of them because of their disability, and 36% of people think disabled people are not as productive as others. Beyond, an art exhibition curated by charity Create, is tackling these negative assumptions by giving young disabled artists a platform to share their work with the public and celebrate their achievements. The exhibition at KPMG’s headquarters in Canary Wharf, London, features sculptures, photography, collages,
  
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• New York’s Latest Hip Classical Venue? A Crypt In Harlem

  11-12-2015 09:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If Le Poisson Rouge is cool and Roulette is edgy among New York’s alternative venues, where does that put the crypt at the Church of the Intercession at 155th Street and Broadway? Slightly underground, with a performance area framed by discreet stained glass, dramatically vaulted ceiling and intimate seating capacity for 100, in the inaugural season of The Crypt Sessions.”
  
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• Here Are The Opera News Award Winners For 2016

  11-12-2015 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The honorees include three singers now at the peak of their careers – Anna Netrebko, Joseph Calleja, Elīna Garanča – and two revered veterans, Waltraud Meier and José van Dam.
  
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• A Revitalized ‘South Park’ Is Nailing Our Era Of Outrage

  11-12-2015 08:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This season is sketching something like a grand – if messy – unified theory of anger, inequality and disillusionment in 2015 America. … South Park, Colo., [has been] taken over by a new school principal … and his crew of like-minded, jacked-up frat bros, who believe that being p.c. ‘means you love nothing more than beer, working out and the feeling that you get when you rhetorically defend a marginalized community from systems of oppression!'”
  
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• Teens Are Getting Famous On A Video Social Network You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

  11-12-2015 08:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “YouNow says it records 150,000 broadcasts a day and 100 million user logins a month. According to its own internal stats, … 74 percent of its users are under 24 and 56 percent of them are female.” With 510,000 followers, YouNow star Zach Clayton “can launch a broadcast with no warning and coax tens of thousands of people to check in on him within the space of an hour.”
  
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• The Sex-Obsessed, Egomaniacal Poet Who Invented Fascism

  11-12-2015 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Gabriele d’Annunzio “was a thrill-seeking megalomaniac best described as a cross between the Marquis de Sade, Aaron Burr, Ayn Rand, and Madonna. He was wildly popular … and he essentially invented Fascism as an art project because he felt representative democracy was bourgeois and lacked a romantic dramatic arc.”
  
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• Harlem on my mind: civil rights-era New York – in pictures

  11-12-2015 08:00
  
  Louis Draper played his part in the US civil rights struggle by portraying the everyday lives and little dignities of African-American New Yorkers. Here are his pictures – which he called works of ‘engaged resistance’ – taken where he lived in Harlem and further afield from the 1950s onLouis Draper’s retrospective will be on display at Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, 14 January to 20 February 2016
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• How Karl Ove Knausgaard Writes Like A Woman

  11-12-2015 07:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We, all of us, men and women, encode masculinity and femininity in implicit metaphorical schemas that divide the world in half. Science and mathematics are hard, rational, real, serious, and masculine. Literature and art are soft, emotional, unreal, frivolous, and feminine.” Siri Hustvedt, who is both a novelist and a science writer, looks at that division, the ways Knausgaard’s My Struggle crosses it, and how that affects the way he is seen as a writer.
  
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• When ‘Candid Camera’ Went To Moscow At The Height Of The Cold War

  11-12-2015 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Host Allen] Funt, himself the son of a Russian immigrant, didn’t buy into the antagonism and distrust. … Without telling his bosses at CBS, not to mention the authorities of either the United States or Russia, Funt took it upon himself to pull back the Iron Curtain and shoot a special Moscow episode of Candid Camera.”
  
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• Helvetica Man: How The Universal Symbols For Escalators, Restrooms, And Airports Were Designed

  11-12-2015 06:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Today, travelers rushing through an airport or pausing at a roadside rest stop barely notice the standard symbols that direct the flow of human traffic. The little rounded man indicating the restroom and his female partner with her triangular dress are too familiar to think twice about. The same goes for the ubiquitous No Smoking logo and the knife and fork symbol that point towards dinner.” Their origin goes back to the U.S. Bicentennial celebrations in 1976.
  
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• Museum Sues Wikimedia For Hosting Copyrighted Photos Of Its Public-Domain Artworks

  11-12-2015 06:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On October 28 the Reiss Engelhorn Museum (REM) in Mannheim, Germany, filed a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation for making high-resolution images of public domain artworks from its collection available for download. … The institution is seeking the removal of 17 specific images of artworks that it commissioned from its in-house photographer, Jean Christen.”
  
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• Grayson Perry: My Pretty Little Art Career review – a suffocating dose of Little England

  11-12-2015 06:12
  
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
  Viewed in an Australian art gallery in the wake of Perry’s comments about Indigenous artists, this show is heavy on ego and faux seriousnessIn a move to preempt controversy and calm things down at the media launch of his Museum of Contemporary Art show in Sydney, Grayson Perry offered an apology to Indigenous Australian artists. Back in October, the Turner prize-winning artist had said he didn’t believe Australian Aboriginal art was contemporary art
  
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• Isabella Stewart Gardner Collected Men And Scandals Like She Collected Art

  11-12-2015 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Henry James, a member of her coterie, once remarked that Isabella ‘is not a woman, she is a locomotive – with a Pullman car attached.’ … She obsessively saved newspaper clippings of her exploits and once remarked, in response to gossip about her, ‘Don’t spoil a good story by telling the truth.'” (Is that why she burned all her letters?)
  
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• How Are England’s Theatres Doing After Years Of Funding Cuts? Here’s A Dig Into The Data (And An Amazing Surprise)

  11-12-2015 05:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Comparing Arts Council England data from the seasons 2009-10 and 2014-15, the drop in government funding, especially from local authorities, has been even worse than you think – and the way theatres have coped is even better than you think.
  
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• Ai Weiwei donates Lego human rights artwork to National Gallery of Victoria

  11-12-2015 05:16
  
  The centrepiece of new Warhol-Weiwei show features quotes and portraits of Australians including Rosie Batty, Peter Greste, Gary Foley and Julian AssangeAi Weiwei drew on the words of prominent Australian human rights campaigners to create his newest art installation, the centrepiece of Andy Warhol–Ai Weiwei, a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. And at the show’s official opening on Thursday, the Chinese artist returned the favour, announcing he will g
  
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• Shakespeare’s Globe World Tour Blocked From North Korea Because Of Nation’s Artistic Standards

  11-12-2015 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The theatre is, of course, halfway through a world tour of Hamlet, which it hopes will visit every country on the planet … [The DPRK government] apparently contacted Shakespeare’s Globe to say its production could go ahead, but only if the play involved music, dancing and acrobatics.” Says artistic director Dominic Dromgoole, “There is a limited amount of music, dancing and acrobatics in Hamlet.”
  
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• Peter Sellars To Direct 2016 Ojai Festival

  11-12-2015 04:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kaija Saariaho will be the featured composer: Sellars will stage Only the Sound Remains, her setting of Ezra Pound’s adaptation of two Noh plays, and the chamber version of La Passion de Simone. Also planned are works by Caroline Shaw and Tania León, Tyshawn Sorey’s new Josephine Baker: A Personal Portrait, performances by Egyptian and South Indian classical vocalists, and – for the first time at Ojai – free concerts for families.
  
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• Rijksmuseum Removing Racially Charged Terms From Artworks’ Titles And Descriptions

  11-12-2015 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Words that Europeans once routinely used to describe other cultures or peoples, like ‘negro,’ ‘Indian’ or ‘dwarf’ will be replaced with less racially charged terminology.” Says the Amsterdam museum’s director of history, “We Dutch are called kaas kops, or cheeseheads, sometimes, and we wouldn’t like it if we went to a museum in another country and saw descriptions of images of us as kaas kop woman with kaas kop child’.&rdqu
  
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• Beware Of Sticklers Who (Noisily) Follow All The Rules

  11-12-2015 03:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A new Harvard Business School study on ‘toxic workers’ finds that the people who say they love following the rules are also the ones who are most likely to be fired for breaking them.” (Maybe this is why nobody trusts people who end their texts with periods.)
  
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• Vast Collection of Second Empire Art to Be Sold by Christopher Forbes

  11-12-2015 03:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The collection was begun by Mr. Forbes’s father, Malcolm Forbes, and put together over 40 years. ‘This is the biggest and most important Second Empire collection in the world,’ [the auctioneer] said. Major works from the collection have circulated in the United States as an itinerant exhibition over the past dozen years.”
  
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• Architect Chosen To Redesign NY Philharmonic’s Lincoln Center Home

  11-12-2015 00:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Thomas Heatherwick, 45, is a British designer of sculpture, furniture and architecture who is best known for fanciful, often experimental projects including the British pavilion for Shanghai’s 2010 World Expo; a flaming caldron for the 2012 Olympic Games; and the new hybrid double-decker bus for London. But he has limited experience in major public buildings.”
  
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• Decline In UK Public Libraries Last Year Corresponds With Funding Cuts

  11-12-2015 00:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Wales saw the biggest loss in the last year, with a fall from 308 to 274. In England, the number of libraries fell from 3,142 to 3,076, while Scotland saw a drop from 573 to 567. The closures coincide with government funding cuts of £50m to UK library services in the past year.”
  
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• The Big Golden Globes Story? Streaming

  11-12-2015 00:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Overall, Netflix dominated the TV network list with eight nominations, surpassing HBO and Starz, thanks to series “Narcos” and “Orange is the New Black.”  That’s a significant elevation in rank from last year, when Netflix came in fourth with seven nominations.
  
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• ‘Oliver Payne: Everything On All At Once Forever’ at Nanzuka, Tokyo and AishoNanzuka, Hong Kong

  11-12-2015 00:05 via artnews.com
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