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• Tracey Moffatt Will Represent Australia At The 2017 Venice Biennale

  14-12-2015 23:51 via artnews.com
  The Australia Council for the Arts has announced that Tracey Moffatt will be representing Australia at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Natalie King will be curating her work, which will be shown at the Australian Pavilion in the Giardini.In a statement, … Read More
  
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• Catherine Opie Is Now on the Board of the Andy Warhol Foundation

  14-12-2015 22:53 via artnews.com
  The Andy Warhol Foundation announced today that photographer Catherine Opie has been elected to its board, which also includes Deborah Kass, Carrie Mae Weems, and Adam Weinberg.The news comes as Opie, who is also on the board of MOCA Los … Read More
  
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• ‘Lucy Dodd: Wuv Shop’ at David Lewis, Selected by Dawn Kasper

  14-12-2015 21:15 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. This week's shows are selected by Dawn Kasper Read More
  
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• Dawn Kasper Selects ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’

  14-12-2015 21:15 via artnews.com
  Earlier this year, Hank Willis Thomas selected a week’s worth of exhibitions for “Pictures at an Exhibition,” a daily feature on the ARTnews site that highlights noteworthy shows around the world. This week, Dawn Kasper, currently based in Kingston, New York, is taking on the … Read More
  
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• ‘Scenes From the Studio’: Robin and Wilson Cameron on Their New Video Series

  14-12-2015 20:48 via artnews.com
  The next time you have a few minutes for a little video watching, I recommend hopping on over to the website Scenes from the Studio, which has a number of great, bite-size videos of studio visits with artists in New York. … Read More
  
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• It's time to liberate arts education

  14-12-2015 18:33
  
  By excluding people who can’t pay the fees, university art courses are undermining culture and democracyI recently became an art student again. It marks my third stretch in higher education since 2003, following art-related stints at Swindon College and a London art school. I’m completing a PhD, which I need so that I can teach at a higher education level.
  I need to teach so I can eat. For every period of study I’ve had to borrow progressively larger amounts of money: a student
  
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• ‘Art Without Permission’: Tania Bruguera and Dread Scott Discuss Art and Activism at the Brooklyn Museum

  14-12-2015 18:18 via artnews.com
  Dread Scott has the distinction of being one of the few artists to have had his work denounced by a United States president. In 1989, when he was an undergraduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, … Read More
  
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• Christmas comes early! Ed Ruscha gifts a piece of LA to the UK

  14-12-2015 17:37
  
  The king of apocalyptic pop art has given an early Christmas present to Tate: a copy of every single print he makes for the rest of his lifeEd Ruscha lives in Los Angeles, a city so vast its edges are unimaginable when you’re inside it, a place of space, signage, gas stations and fast food – a wonderland he has made his own.Related: US pop artist Ed Ruscha donates collection of prints to Tate The earthquake, the aliens​, whatever is coming, has sent out advance clues in Ruscha&
  
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• In An Unlikely Move, Tony Winner Recoups Its Investment On Broadway

  14-12-2015 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘The American public continues to impress with how much they’re willing to embrace the new — every time we thought we had reached the limit for the audience base, it turned out we hadn’t,’ said Oskar Eustis, artistic director of the Public Theater, where ‘Fun Home’ began off Broadway.”
  
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• Why people used to look so serious in photos but now have big smiles

  14-12-2015 15:43
  
  How did we learn to smile in front of the lens?
  
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• The Living Dead: Why Are Curators Putting Deceased Artists in Contemporary Art Shows?

  14-12-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  The peculiar appearance of Forrest Bess, the “pseudo-hermaphrodite” painter, at the 2012 Whitney Biennial still stands out in my memory. The eleven paintings were vivid and haunting, and his story of genital self-surgery, with accompanying photo-documentation, was even harder to … Read More
  
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• A Map To Point The Way In Motown

  14-12-2015 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Motown’s finest talent came from nearby neighborhoods at a time when Detroit was booming in population and prosperity due to its now defunct car industry.”
  
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• Morning Links: David Hammons Edition

  14-12-2015 14:35 via artnews.com
  LIVESThomas J. Lax, associate curator of media and performance art at MoMA, interviews Tom Finkelpearl on his time spent with David Hammons during the curation of Hammons’ 1988 “Outside Insight” show. [Triple Canopy]DEATHSFormer Sotheby’s vice chairman Charles Moffett dies at … Read More
  
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• The Woman Who Helped Nureyev Defect Speaks About It After 50 Years

  14-12-2015 14:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘I said to him, ‘You see these two men, French police, you have to go to them,’ ‘ says Ms Saint in a program to be aired by the BBC. ‘It’s like in a ballet. He jumped. The French policemen took him, and then there was a fight between one of the policemen and one of the bodyguards. The French policeman said to the Russian: ‘Don’t touch me’, screaming ‘Vous etes en France ici.’ ‘”
  
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• The Best Thing On Broadway Is Hamilton’s Free Preshow Lottery

  14-12-2015 14:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is, as far as anyone can remember, unique. Nobody else has tried to offer the equivalent of a DVD extra, live, on a Manhattan side street, twice a week.”
  
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• Museum to rename any artworks with offensive titles

  14-12-2015 13:59
  
  References to 'negros', 'Indians' and 'dwarves' are all going
  
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• US pop artist Ed Ruscha donates collection of prints to Tate

  14-12-2015 12:32
  
  Tate director Nicholas Serota calls 18 print editions and impression of all future prints a ‘wonderful Christmas present’ to nationThe celebrated American pop artist Ed Ruscha is donating a collection of prints to Tate in what its director, Nicholas Serota, called “a wonderful Christmas present to the whole nation”.Ruscha will donate 18 recent print editions and has also promised to give one impression of all future prints he creates in his lifetime. Continue reading...
  
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• Top AJBlogs Posts For 12.13.15

  14-12-2015 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pound Has Been Sung
  I’ve built up quite a backlog of unheard music, and now after a long dry spell it’s beginning to flow public-ward again. On December 7 Michelle McIntire sang a pre-premiere of most of my Ezra… … read more
  AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-12-13
   
  Brion Gysin: ‘Poets Don’t Own No Words’
  Ian Sommerville programmed software to generate [Gysin’s] computer poems, which was reenacted by Joseph Moore as the “Perm
  
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• Euro Film Awards Love Michael Caine And Charlotte Rampling – And Politics

  14-12-2015 06:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Oscar-nominated Polish director Agnieszka Holland presented a selection of awards with president Wim Wenders and expressed her ‘deep concern about Europe’ in an emotive speech. ‘We must not forget that the films we make cannot be separated from the world that we live in,’ she said. ‘I made several movies about the second world war, a time when Europe was riddled with hate and I don’t want it to return.'”
  
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• Edgar Degas and his pictures: archive, 14 December 1912

  14-12-2015 06:30
  
  14 December 1912: Art critic George Moore on Degas, Manet, Monet and the impressionist movementLONDON, FRIDAY.
  There is one man in England to-day who when he read of the sale of M. Degas’s picture “Les Danseuses à la Barre” for £17,400 at the Rouart sale in Paris on Wednesday, had a right to say - although he was the least likely person to say it - “I told you so.” Mr George Moore for more than 20 years has preached the greatness of Degas, Manet, and Mo
  
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• You Think Photo Manipulation Is Bad? Think Again

  14-12-2015 05:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We need to sometimes break with reality, but it’s always most fun when some element of the here and now lingers in that escapism.”
  
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• Wood, That New Architectural Material

  14-12-2015 04:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mass timber could prove to be a viable alternative to concrete and steel for mid-to-high rise buildings. … Moreover, the USDA is looking to these projects to mitigate climate change and support jobs in rural America.”
  
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• Propaganda Is Here To Stay, But What Museum Will Take It On?

  14-12-2015 03:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Few people have the guts to say that art and propaganda are the same thing,’ George Orwell famously wrote in 1936. He later tempered that caustic view, which was typical of his pugilistic style in standing up on behalf of the little guy. But there is truth to it. Certainly art and propaganda have a long history together in various trenches.”
  
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• Grayson Perry: 'I’m no longer the anonymous pervert walking down the street'

  14-12-2015 03:29
  
  Britain’s most famous transvestite reflects on his three-decade career and those recent comments about Aboriginal art – ‘I just projected my own prejudices’Early on in their relationship, Grayson Perry’s wife, Philippa, turned up at his London home to find a smartly dressed businesswoman open the door. Confused, Philippa asked for Grayson. “Who wants him?” retorted Perry playfully. The woman was, of course, Perry himself.He whisked Philippa to a transves
  
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• Grayson Perry interview: 'I’m no longer the anonymous pervert walking down the street'

  14-12-2015 03:29
  
  As he launches his blockbuster show in Sydney, the Turner prize winner reflects on fame and the controversy over his comments on Aboriginal art Early on in their relationship, Grayson Perry’s wife, Philippa, turned up at his London home to find a smartly dressed businesswoman open the door. Confused, Philippa asked for Grayson. “Who wants him?” retorted Perry playfully. The woman was, of course, Perry himself.He whisked Philippa to a transvestite club, noting now, with a big, s
  
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• Real Talk From Viola Davis And Edie Falco

  14-12-2015 02:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Davis: “I stumbled onto the best profession to heal my childhood. The only one that lets you release and express whatever is ugly and messy and beautiful about your life. We’re in the business of creating human beings. The more we spew, and the more honestly we do it, the better. Try that on Wall Street. It’s why they throw all the kids with bad behavior into drama. We don’t care how screwed up you are. We actors love it.”
  
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• What Do We Expect From Women And Men Onstage?

  14-12-2015 01:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In short, audiences overall displayed a protective streak towards the female characters, and reacted very negatively to scenarios in which they seemed to be bullied by men.”
  
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• Libraries Like This One In Toronto Are Vinyl Goldmines

  14-12-2015 01:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the eighth straight year since Nielsen began tracking music sales in 1991, more vinyl albums were sold than in any previous year. What’s even more interesting than the steady vinyl growth is that young consumers might be the strongest demographic.”
  
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• Shostakovich Day, classical review: Total immersion event revels in intelligence and virtuosity

  14-12-2015 00:43
  
  Shostakovich Day, Milton Court, London
  
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• Is Facebook (Or Instagram) Censoring Your Photos Of Nude Art? Report ‘Em

  14-12-2015 00:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The social media site has deleted pics of artworks by people like Kate Durbin and Erika Ordosgoitto. It has blocked users like Frédéric Durand-Baïssas for sharing paintings including Gustave Courbet’s ‘L’Origine du Monde.’ And though some people have protested by creating Facebook groups like Artists Against Art Censorship, recording every instance of censorship — let alone fighting back — is next to impossible.”
  
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