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• David Rubenstein Donates $10 M. to Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

  20-01-2016 23:23 via artnews.com
  The Smithsonian announced that philanthropist David Rubenstein, cofounder of the Carlyle Group private equity firm, has given $10 million to the institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s capital campaign. With this donation, the museum will have already … Read More
  
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• Have We Reached PeakTV Yet?

  20-01-2016 23:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Counting television series is like counting lemmings. Hopefully they won’t all run off a cliff and plunge to their deaths in the ocean.”
  
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• Lecturer Position, Arts Administration

  20-01-2016 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  University of Kentucky seeks dynamic and passionate lecturer to join the Arts Administration team. The program offers BA and MA degrees. It values innovation in pedagogical models and the advancement of research in the field.
  Lecturer, Arts Administration
  The University of Kentucky seeks a dynamic and passionate faculty member to join the Arts Administration Program team. The program offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees to over 150 students annually. The Program values innovation in pe
  
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• A Meet-And-Greet With The Elusive Banksy! Who Could Resist?

  20-01-2016 22:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It all started late last year, when a Facebook event surfaced promising that Banksy would show up for a “meet and greet” at the Waldorf Astoria — with the first hundred guests receiving “a free face painting from the scoundrel himself!!”
  
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• McCarthy’s Tree to rise again in LA

  20-01-2016 22:41
  
  Paul McCarthy’s green inflatable butt plug—or “Tree”, as the artist calls it—so offended right-wing Parisians in 2014 that a group of vandals deflated the 80-foot-tall work soon after it was installed in the Place Vendôme. Later, a man even attacked McCarthy himself. At the time, McCarthy told Agence France-Presse, “I don’t want to be mixed up in this type of controversy and physical violence, or even to keep taking the risks associated with this
  
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• Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg To Step Down As Music Director Of Bay Area’s New Century Chamber Orchestra

  20-01-2016 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Since she joined NCCO in 2008, Salerno-Sonnenberg led the orchestra over a robust period of growth, including a Featured Composer program, commissioning eight new works and expanding the string orchestra repertoire, going on three extensive national tours, publishing three live recordings on her own NSS music label.”
  
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• A Josh Kline Sculpture Is Featured on the Cover of the Forthcoming Fatima Al Qadiri Album

  20-01-2016 22:26 via artnews.com
  The Quietus reported today that the musician and artist Fatima Al Qadiri has announced details of her new full-length album, Brute, to be released March 4 on the British label Hyperdub. The record’s cover features a sculpture by the artist … Read More
  
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• The show must go on at Brussels Art Fair

  20-01-2016 22:00
  
  The Brussels Art Fair (Brafa) is the dowager duchess of the European fair circuit. Now in its 61st edition, it is the continent’s oldest art fair, but one that still maintains a refreshingly friendly atmosphere.
  This grande dame among fairs is also quietly serious, attracting a learned crowd who, as one longstanding exhibitor says, sometimes know more than the dealers. Belgium’s strong tradition of academic collecting shows through at Brafa: there is a loyal contingent of domes
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: Too much nostalgia on Sir Norman’s watch

  20-01-2016 22:00
  
  There was considerable disappointment among the packed crowd at last night’s conversation (20 January) between the artist Allen Jones and Norman Rosenthal at London's Marlborough Gallery, when Sir Norman spent so much time discussing the earliest years of Jones's career and ruminating on his own personal responses to the artist’s work that there was virtually no time to cover Jones's most recent “sexy abstracts” (as Rosenthal dubbed them), which were on show downstairs&m
  
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• Taubman’s final gift to the DIA will be cash not art

  20-01-2016 22:00
  
  Later this month, Sotheby’s is selling the remaining lots fr om the A. Alfred Taubman collection, a group of Old Master works. To some, the sale may seem strange given that in life Taubman was a strong supporter of the Detroit Institute of Arts, wh ere a wing named for him contains a gallery dedicated to European Old Masters. Several of the works in the sale were on long-term loan to the museum until recently.
  This was, however, in keeping with Taubman’s “wish that the entire
  
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• TV Execs Goad Netflix About Releasing Viewership Numbers (Which Netflix Doesn’t Do)

  20-01-2016 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If Ted doesn’t give ratings, he shouldn’t then be saying, ‘This is the biggest hit in the history of blah blah blah.’ He shouldn’t say something is successful in quantitative terms unless you’re willing to provide data and a methodology behind those statements. You can’t have it both ways.”
  
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• New Lower East Side Arthouse Theater to Open with Films by Warhol, Documentaries on Hockney and Tom Sachs

  20-01-2016 21:27 via artnews.com
  Metrograph, a new hub for independent cinema, will soon open its doors in the heart of the Lower East Side gallery district, and the initial lineup looks pretty fantastic. Announced today, the first slate of films includes selections from what it … Read More
  
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• Should Philosophy Help People Live A More Satisfying Life? Or Is It Strictly A Search For Truth?

  20-01-2016 21:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nigel Warburton: “In my view philosophy is primarily the attempt to understand, and as such is an activity of enquiry. There’s no guarantee that discovering how things are will benefit us psychologically: it might in fact make things much worse.”Jules Evans: “I’m not arguing that all philosophy is therapy, but rather that ancient Greeks and Romans viewed philosophy that way, as did many Indian philosophers. … Ancient philosophy really can help people overcome
  
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• ‘Fact or Fiction’ at Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong

  20-01-2016 21:17 via artnews.com
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• Size Matters (In Orchestras, At Least)

  20-01-2016 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Chamber orchestras too often cede the limelight to their larger cousins. Composers today tend to want to go large, ruling out smaller groups like ours approaching their work. That’s a critical mistake, not only in terms of possibilities of performance but also in the development of the composer.”
  
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• Jonathan Lasker at Cheim & Read, New York

  20-01-2016 21:03 via artnews.com
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• Prado acquires Fra Angelico works from Spanish duke in €18m ‘gentleman’s agreement’

  20-01-2016 20:47
  
  Madrid’s Museo del Prado has acquired Fra Angelico’s The Virgin of the Pomegranate for €18m from the Spanish Alba ducal collection. The deal was negotiated between Carlos Fitz-James Stuart y Martínez de Irujo, the 19th Duke of Alba de Tormes, and the museum’s royal board of trustees. The early 15th-century Florentine masterpiece also comes with the Duke’s personal donation of a small panel depicting Saint Anthony Abbot’s death, recently attributed to Fr
  
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• London Art Fair organisers seemingly duped by 'Lord Byron's opium pipe' on sale for more than £1m

  20-01-2016 20:38
  
  'We never declare what is truth and what is fiction and what does it matter anyway?'
  
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• When Philosophy Lost Its Way

  20-01-2016 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  These two professors pin it on “the locating of philosophy within a modern institution (the research university) in the late 19th century. This institutionalization of philosophy made it into a discipline that could be seriously pursued only in an academic setting. This fact represents one of the enduring failures of contemporary philosophy.”
  
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• ‘Detrimental to the Field’: Art Center at SMU Takes DeVos Institute to Task for Study on Funding

  20-01-2016 20:06 via artnews.com
  In a fairly damning white paper, the National Center for Art Research at Southern Methodist University offered a stark dismissal of the lengthy study on funding models for minority arts organizations that was released by the DeVos Institute of Arts … Read More
  
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• 100 Years Ago, American Women Competed In Venus De Milo Lookalike Contests

  20-01-2016 19:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Wellesley and Swarthmore Colleges had a serious rivalry over it. A Harvard professor collected measurements from female students all over the Northeast. Every few years a big-city newspaper announced a new Venus. There was even a full competitive event at Madison Square Garden.
  
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• Netflix Keeps Growing Like Crazy

  20-01-2016 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Netflix said it finished the year with nearly 75 million members, for a net gain of 17 million new members. That level was even higher than the 74 million Netflix had projected for the year back in October, bolstering its image as a growing power in entertainment. The growth in subscribers — a key metric for investors — fueled a 23% jump in revenue to $1.82 billion in the fourth quarter of 2015.”
  
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• Are You Ready For The “Age Of Autonomy”?

  20-01-2016 19:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “However quietly it begins to arrive, The Age of Autonomy marks a giant step beyond the world of connected devices and the Internet of Things. With 50 billion devices and a trillion sensors coming on line, simple practicality would suggest autonomy will become a necessity.”
  
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• ‘They Were A Model To Me’: Patti Smith On Frida Kahlo And Diego Rivera

  20-01-2016 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They helped me really prepare for my life with Robert [Mapplethorpe]. These were two artists who believed in one another, and each trusted the other as a shepherd of their art. And that was worth fighting for through their love affairs and fights and disappointments and arguments. They always came back to each other through work. They were lost without each other.”
  
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• French museum reunites head with decapitated Khmer statue

  20-01-2016 18:57
  
  After almost 130 years apart, the head and body of a seventh-century Khmer statue are to be reunited at the National Museum of Cambodia thanks to an exchange agreement with the Musée Guimet in Paris, France’s national museum of Asian art. The restored sculpture of Harihara, a fusion of the Hindu gods Vishnu (Hari) and Shiva (Hara), will be inaugurated at the Phnom Penh museum tomorrow (21 January).
  The head, which has been in the Musée Guimet’s collection since 1889, w
  
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• We Need A New Name For Classical Music. Is This It?

  20-01-2016 18:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I actually think there is a great new word for Classical Music, one that’s been hiding in plain sight, as they say. So with a bow of gratitude to Leonard The Great, who helped me and millions of others experience great music on its own terms and in all its wonder, I hereby propose it.”
  
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• Love, sex and the female-male dynamic in 50 photographs at London Art Fair

  20-01-2016 18:47
  
  Tired of endless photographic studies of gender and identity, curator Federica Chiocchetti decided to play with more everyday notions of romance• Balloons, beds and shagpile carpet: empty porn sets – in picturesThe photography floor at this year’s London Art Fair offers welcome respite from the clamour of the dealers and collectors in the gallery booths below. And for that, curator Federica Chiocchetti can take much of the credit. The co-founder of The Photocaptionist, a website
  
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• Isil extremists destroy Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery

  20-01-2016 18:46
  
  Iraq’s earliest Christian monastery has been destroyed by Isil extremists. Satellite imagery recorded by DigitalGlobe for the US-based Associated Press apparently shows the complete destruction of Mar Elia (St Elijah) monastery. This seems to have occurred in September 2014, three months after the site on the southern outskirts of Mosul was seized by Isil forces.The monastery is believed to have been founded by Mar Elia in 595. It was severely damaged by Persian invaders in 1743 when the
  
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• The Problem With Oscar Diversity Isn’t The Oscars, It’s The Movie Industry

  20-01-2016 18:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Decades from now, maybe it’ll be easier to discuss the Oscars without breaking everything down by ethnicity and gender. We’ll only need to change the entire makeup of the academy membership, not to mention the power structure of the film industry, for that to happen.”
  
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• Artists sign up for Great War commemoration

  20-01-2016 18:21
  
  Contemporary artists are doing their bit to remember the First World War during 2016, the centenary year of the bloody battles of the Somme and Verdun. In the UK, the official arts programme 14-18 Now announced its latest co-commissions today (20 January). Visual artists including Rebecca Warren, Ciara Phillips, Yinka Shonibare and Imran Qureshi will be creating new works, along with leading poets, musicians, choreographers, film-makers and the fashion designer Vivienne Westwood.
  They will be l
  
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• Oscars So White? Or Oscars So Dumb? NY Times Critics Discuss

  20-01-2016 18:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A.O. Scott: “The nominations are a numbers game, and in each case you can offer a nonracial explanation for the oversight. Other movies and actors just had a few more votes.”Wesley Morris: “But I also don’t think any voter wants to be told that he or she has to vote for a predominantly black film or: racism!”Manohla Dargis: “The lived, embodied experiences of the membership greatly matter and that sometimes even the most well-intentioned white people just don&
  
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• Elmgreen & Dragset create a fictional art fair in Beijing

  20-01-2016 17:43
  
  The maverick Scandinavian artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset focus on an art world staple—art fairs and their enduring popularity—in their latest show, The Well Fair, which opens at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing on Sunday (24 January-17 April).
  The artists have transformed the main hall of UCCA into a fictional fair by building multiple rows of rectangular booths, mimicking the generic architecture of art fairs worldwide.
  Works created by Elmgreen & Dra
  
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• What Do We Love About ‘War and Peace’?

  20-01-2016 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Tolstoy’s huge novel about Russia during the Napoleonic Wars has been adapted many times, despite the difficulty of catching the essence of a work whose essence has a lot to do with sheer scale. When the book was published, in 1869, people wondered … Was this a history or a novel? And why was it so big? It’s big because it’s both.”
  
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• Ryan Lee Now Represents Emma Amos

  20-01-2016 17:28 via artnews.com
  Ryan Lee will now represent Emma Amos, the painter known for being the only woman in the short-lived collective Spiral. The Chelsea gallery will have its first solo show of Amos’s work—and the 77-year-old artist’s first New York solo show … Read More
  
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• Bankable: Loney Abrams and Johnny Stanish Throw an Art Show Inside of an ATM Lobby in Queens

  20-01-2016 17:28 via artnews.com
  On Wednesday afternoon I met up with the artists Loney Abrams and Johnny Stanish—the creators and curators of the ongoing Hotel Art project, which stages and documents extremely temporary art shows in unorthodox spaces for the ultimate purpose of an … Read More
  
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• Couplets Off The Cuff: Meet The Improvised Shakespeare Company

  20-01-2016 16:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What distinguishes [its] intricate, erudite brand of improvisation is not that every show is new (which it is), but how the plots, themes and language are deeply rooted in a specific aesthetic. It makes the shows meatier than most improvisation, if less wildly unpredictable.”
  
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• ‘We’re Screaming And Crying And Laughing’ – What It’s Like To Dance For Pina Bausch

  20-01-2016 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The work is very theatrical, but we don’t have any acting classes – we never did. We’re not actors. Pina put us in situations where people might feel we were acting, but we’re not. We might have been talking about something that happened to us, and she put it on stage.”
  
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• Here’s the Succinct Artist List for ‘Made in L.A.’ 2016

  20-01-2016 15:20 via artnews.com
  The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles released the artist list today for the 2016 edition of its biennial, “Made in L.A.,” and it is an intriguing one. It includes just 26 names, from promising young upstarts like Dena Yago and Martine Syms to … Read More
  
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• Ai Weiwei Does Department Store Windows

  20-01-2016 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is better than MoMA,” said Ai about the Bon Marché Rive Gauche in Paris, site of his latest installation. He found “that working in a department store had been liberating. It allowed him to go beyond the white cube of most galleries and use the atrium and window displays in an interesting way, he said, and he liked that passers-by could see his work.”
  
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• Morning Links: Morgan Stanley Art Loan Edition

  20-01-2016 14:54 via artnews.com
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• Olafur Eliasson Will Receive a Crystal Award in Davos This Week

  20-01-2016 14:50 via artnews.com
  The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, a multi-day conference where some of the most privileged and insulated people on the entire planet gather together to convince one another that they are “committed to improving the state of … Read More
  
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• Orlando’s Opera Company Is Back, Eight Years After Shutting Down

  20-01-2016 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Opera Orlando, formerly Florida Opera Theatre, “will announce this week that two professionals with national reputations will take the helm full-time – a level of commitment to the genre not seen since the collapse of Orlando Opera in 2009. After that company went bankrupt, a small but fiercely devoted group of volunteers formed Florida Opera Theatre to stage small-scale productions and recitals.”
  
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• Museum Selfie day 2016 highlights – in pictures

  20-01-2016 14:04
  
  Museum fans, gallery-goers and staff share their top shots for #MuseumSelfie day, a global Twitter event to showcase the world’s great art and cultureThis gallery will be updated throughout the daySend your selfies to [email protected]
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• Hulett/Alder/Classical Opera/Page, Wigmore Hall, classical review: A secure mastery of form and effect

  20-01-2016 13:32
  
  The Mozart recitatives could almost have been products of his maturity
  
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• Stranger than fiction? Did Byron’s bong sell at art fair for £1.1m?

  20-01-2016 11:40
  
  Visitors to London Art Fair (20-24 January) might feel like they've stepped into a drug-induced haze at the stand of Pertwee, Anderson and Gold, where a bong said to have once belonged to Lord Byron appears to have sold for £1.1m, possibly the highest price for any item at the fair. The glass smoking apparatus (around 1807, according to the accompanying text) was found under the floorboards of the English Romantic poet’s room at Trinity College, Cambridge during a routine refurbishm
  
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• Leila Alaoui, a talent cut short by terrorists in Burkina Faso

  20-01-2016 11:13
  
  On 11 January, Leila Alaoui posted “Off to Burkina Faso” on Facebook and got 497 Likes. On the 18th, she died of wounds inflicted three days earlier by the jihadist group Al Mourabitoun while she sat in the café Cappuccino in the capital Ouagadougou. Thirty others died in the massacre.
  The Franco-Moroccan photographer was there on a project about child marriage as part of Amnesty International’s “My Body: My Rights” programme. “She had already sent bac
  
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• An ashtray for President Tito: after the fall, the staying power of Yugoslav art

  20-01-2016 09:00
  
  From semi-rebellious ‘Black Wave’ films to a flag made of razor blades, the UK’s largest-ever show of art from communist Yugoslavia has plenty to say about the purpose and political usefulness of culture today“An artist must be good-looking,” says Marina Abramović, staring into the camera and furiously brushing her hair. “Art,” she says, “must be beautiful.” Beauty is in short supply in Monuments Should Not Be Trusted, the largest exhibi
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.19.16

  20-01-2016 08:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  If Dance Can’t Pay Its Dancers, What Does It Mean To Be A Professional Dancer?
  A survey of dancers in the UK  last summer reported that “more than half of professional dancers earn less than £5,000 a year from their performance work.” That’s professional dancers. … read more
  AJBlog: Diacritical Published 2016-01-19AfAS Follow Up
  “Art for art’s sake” is a concept that always generates discussion and passion. My last post (Art for Ar
  
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• Islamic Art Specialist

  20-01-2016 04:22
  Islamic Art Specialist
  S/He will:·         Advise on consignments and other matters falling within his or her expertise·         Catalogue works for sale in the Islamic Art Auctions·         Maintain the gallery displays of Islamic art for sale at auction and arrange occasional temporary exhibitions ·         I
  
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• Public Domain-As-Moral-Issue

  20-01-2016 01:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The public domain is robust because people on the Internet—in this case, Project Gutenberg’s volunteer corps, led by the late Hart—willed this freedom into being.
  
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