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• Amazon Beats Movie Companies In Bidding War At Sundance

  25-01-2016 23:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Amazon will bring on a theatrical distributor and many suitors are circling. The move follows a trend this Sundance of streamers stepping up with huge offers and outbidding traditional theatrical distributors.”
  
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• Top Sydney gallerist launches blistering attack on the art world

  25-01-2016 22:00
  
  When Tate Modern’s director Chris Dercon visited Australia in 2013, he challenged the country’s museums to recognise the achievements of Sydney gallery owner Ray Hughes. “If no one will organise a show about Hughes here”, Dercon told the audience at a lecture in Sydney, “then I’ll do one at the Tate.” It would be a fitting tribute for a man who has championed Australian, Chinese and African artists for nearly 50 years and closed his final show at his ga
  
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• Contemporary art market cools, but Modern sector heats up at Christie’s in 2015

  25-01-2016 22:00
  
  Furthering the argument that the post-war and contemporary art market might have peaked, Christie’s revealed today (26 January) that sales in that department totalled £1.5 billion in 2015, down 14% on the previous year. “There has been huge growth in the post-war and contemporary market over the past few years; I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some sort of correction,” says Stephen Brooks, Christie’s chief financial officer.Collectors, it seems, are turni
  
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• Art Loss Register faces competition complaint from Art Recovery Group

  25-01-2016 22:00
  
  The privilege of running a commercial database of the world’s stolen art is proving as intriguing and complex as some of the crimes committed.For the past 25 years, the task of keeping track of the millions of stolen or looted objects around the world has been taken on by the Art Loss Register (ALR). It provides a due diligence service to the art trade, insurers and—increasingly—private individuals.
  The latest twist in the tale is that Chris Marinello, who founded Art Recovery
  
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• Oxford Dictionaries Calls Women ‘Shrill’ And ‘Grating’ And ‘Rabid’ – And Will Now Review Its Examples

  25-01-2016 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The dictionary publisher, part of Oxford University Press, was taken to task by the Canadian anthropologist Michael Oman-Reagan, after he noticed that the word ‘rabid’, defined by the dictionary as ‘having or proceeding from an extreme or fanatical support of or belief in something’, used the example phrase ‘rabid feminist’. Oman-Reagan tweeted about it to the publisher, suggesting they change it.”
  
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• Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse review – thrillingly cosmic

  25-01-2016 20:30
  
  Royal Academy, London
  This exhibition of psychedelic modernist pastoral art is a ravishing joy and takes Monet out of the chocolate box, revealing one of art’s great humanists
  I am falling. I am drowning in beauty. Perhaps this is what it feels like to teeter on the edge of a black hole. Except it’s art that is pulling me into the void. Claude Monet’s Agapanthus Triptych (1916-19) reaches out to embrace the viewer in a shimmering world where soft reflections move on a bankless
  
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• Why The Director Of ‘Selma’ Hates The Word ‘Diversity’

  25-01-2016 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘There’s a belonging problem in Hollywood,’ Ms. DuVernay said, ‘Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.'”
  
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• Studio of 'England's Michelangelo' is recreated in Surrey

  25-01-2016 19:34
  
  Victorian artist George Frederic Watts’s restored workspace also celebrates the life of his wife, Mary Seton Fraser TytlerIn his day, he was revered by one art critic as “England’s Michelangelo” – now George Frederic Watts’s studio in the Surrey village of Compton has been restored and opened to the public with some of his works on show.The beautiful, tall, red-walled space, with light flooding in through a south-facing window, is complete with his mahogany ea
  
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• Los Angeles Nomadic Division to Host Ninth Edition of Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market

  25-01-2016 19:26 via artnews.com
  The nonprofit art organization LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) announced today that it will be hosting the ninth Rob Pruitt Flea Market from February 13 to 14 in Downtown Los Angeles. The flea market will bring together “top artists and … Read More
  
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• ‘I Needed to Figure Out Something I Could Make Myself’: A Talk With Eddie Martinez

  25-01-2016 19:08 via artnews.com
  Bill Powers: Your drawings were featured in “The Avant Garde Won’t Give Up: Cobra and its Legacy” at Blum & Poe Los Angeles. How were you first introduced to the movement?Eddie Martinez: In 2009, I was going to Europe a … Read More
  
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• Over Dinner, Artist Sells Photo Of A Potato For £750,000

  25-01-2016 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We had two glasses of wine and he [the businessman] said, ‘I really like that.’ Two more glasses of wine and he said: ‘I really want that,'” [artist Kevin] Abosch said.”
  
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• What’s Up With The Philadelphia Orchestra And Yannick Nézet-Séguin?

  25-01-2016 18:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What I’m most convinced about is that we need to do things more than once to create new traditions, new expectations, new habits, and we can’t backtrack if something isn’t on the box office level we want. Our composer festival sold well, but it didn’t sell out. That doesn’t mean we stop doing it.”
  
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• A mosque-shaped cage goes on show in London gallery

  25-01-2016 18:17
  
  Mathematician by day, artist by night—it seems that double lives run in the Gharem family. Works by Ajlan Gharem, the brother of the internationally renowned artist Abdulnasser Gharem who was once a lieutenant colonel in the Saudi Arabian army, have been included in two exhibitions in London since October 2015. The latest, In Search of Lost Time (until 19 March) at the School of Oriental and African Studies’ Brunei Gallery, is a show that examines the rapid growth and development of
  
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• John Akomfrah's Vertigo Sea: human and natural history meet at the abyss

  25-01-2016 18:16
  
  Recurring images of historical horrors – from slave killings to drowning migrants – are cut with nature in Akomfrah’s new video installations in Bristol and London. Past and present dissolve, leaving us stranded, waiting for the futureJohn Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea keeps coming at you. Panoramic, oceanic even, this three-screen mix of archive film, BBC Natural History Unit footage and scenes staged by the artist is ravishing and awful, sublime and depressing. The ecological
  
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• Broadway Went Dark, But (The First) BroadwayCon Kept Rolling Along

  25-01-2016 18:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Despite the massive storm that shut down Broadway on Saturday and forced the cancellations of appearances by several high-profile celebrities at BroadwayCon, including the actors Darren Criss and Jeremy Jordan, the show went on, with panel discussions, singalongs and a Saturday night cabaret that turned a ballroom into a theater camp-style slumber party.”
  
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• ‘Brian Belott: Puuuuuuuuuuffs’ at Moran Bondaroff

  25-01-2016 18:07 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Indonesia to Get its First Modern and Contemporary Art Museum in 2017

  25-01-2016 17:43 via artnews.com
  A new institution in Jakarta, Indonesia will be the country’s first museum focused on international modern and contemporary art. Set to open in early 2017, Museum MACAN, which stands for Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara, will take over a … Read More
  
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• The Experience Of Being Featured On ‘Humans Of New York’

  25-01-2016 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He was super nice, full of energy, and took two to three pictures of us before handing us his card. It all took less than five minutes. We thanked him and continued on our walk as if nothing happened. (This was, after all, New York!)”
  
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• What ‘Maverick’ Architects Do (And Why We Don’t Have More Of Them)

  25-01-2016 16:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Is there no architecture that can bare its soul without simultaneously crushing you with its ego, that stirs, moves, troubles, provokes, inspires? And is there no way of being controlled and passionate at the same time? Is there no other choice but blancmange or dry biscuits?”
  
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• Lebanese authorities backtrack over high-profile curator's passport renewal

  25-01-2016 15:28
  
  The Directorate of General Security, a Lebanese intelligence agency, has renewed the passport of the Beirut-based curator Christine Tohmé after stalling her application for four days. Tohmé had said that she was targeted due to her influential role in the Lebanese culture sector; she is the founding director of Ashkal Alwan, the non-profit Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, which was established in 1993.
   
  Tohmé said on Facebook last week that when she applied to t
  
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• Banksy’s refugee piece shows us how to protest – and grieve | Suzanne Moore

  25-01-2016 14:45
  
  Stik and Stewy are other street artists addressing issues such as housing and the migration crisis. This isn’t antisocial – it’s deeply socialTo see interesting art you don’t have to go to a gallery, you just have to walk the streets. One of the most reproduced images of the past couple of weeks is a mural, commissioned in Brixton, of David Bowie, by the Australian street artist Jimmy C (James Cochran) which now acts as an unofficial shrine. There are critics who exist si
  
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• How art is keeping alive the memory of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

  25-01-2016 14:33
  
  The Day of Anger on 25 January 2011 signalled the start of the Egyptian Revolution. After the Tunisian uprisings, protests in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, and across the country paved the way for the so-called Arab Spring, which swept across the region. Today, five years on, many who witnessed or took part in the protests consider it a failed revolution. Although the uprising, in which more than two million people took to the streets across Egypt, ended in the overthrow of then-president Hosni
  
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• Can This Theatre Be Saved?

  25-01-2016 14:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If the idealistic side can come up with $5 million in the next few days, maybe.
  
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• Morning Links: King Tut’s Beard Edition

  25-01-2016 14:15 via artnews.com
  KING TUT’S BROKEN BEARDEight museum workers are to be charged with negligence for breaking King Tut’s beard during a conservation attempt, which they purportedly glued on after it fell off during a cleaning. Initially, museum representatives denied the claim when … Read More
  
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• The Subversive Awesomeness Of ‘Fancasting’ Movies And TV Shows

  25-01-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In fancasting, imagination is alive and well. In fact, that’s all it is: fans imagine their dream cast for the movie version of some media they love—think comics, books, video games, etc.—on social media to share with their fellow fans.”
  
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• Exquisite Corpse: Cologne art exhibition confronts sexist attitudes in wake of NYE sex attacks

  25-01-2016 12:08
  
  Poppy Jackson and Rupi Kaur both feature in the multimedia exhibition
  
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• Eyewitness: Nikolai Astrup

  25-01-2016 11:51
  
  Photographs from the Eyewitness series Continue reading...
  
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• Walking the line with LeWitt at Lisson Gallery

  25-01-2016 11:48
  
  London’s Lisson Gallery is turning back the clock with its latest show, Line (until 12 March), which includes works by 15 international artists such as Susan Hiller, Julian Opie, Fred Sandback and Richard Long dating from the late 1960s to today. “Drawing could be regarded as much an intellectual proposition as it is a descriptive exercise, and in Line we find each artist employing line to articulate an idea or a concept,” say the curators Mary Doyle and Kate Macfarlane, the d
  
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• Banksy reveals new artwork criticising teargas use in Calais refugee camps

  25-01-2016 11:01
  
  The image links to a video showing French police firing water cannon at refugee families
  
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• Banksy reveals new artwork criticising teargas in Calais refugee camps

  25-01-2016 11:01
  
  The image links to a video showing French police firing water cannon at refugee families
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 01.24.16

  25-01-2016 07:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  FIVE PICKS: Stories From This Week’s ArtsJournal
  Welcome to our weekly “best of” ArtsJournal. These aren’t necessarily the most important of the 156 stories we found, these particularly caught our eye. Your #AllWhiteOscars Controversy Primer The biggest flurries of stories this week… … read more
  AJBlog: DiacriticalPublished 2016-01-24
   
  Kapusta!
  [Or Polish cabbage soup from a Ukrainian Jew] I haven’t posted for a while,&nb
  
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• For People With Parkinson’s Disease, Dance Can Bring Back Joy In Movement

  25-01-2016 05:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some small, short-term studies that suggest dance might improve some of those symptoms, especially ease of walking. But Leventhal says the class was never intended as just physical therapy. ‘There’s also an artistic quality,” he says, “where we’re hoping people are able to say something with those gestures.’ This is particularly relevant to people with Parkinson’s, who start to lose their expressive ability.”
  
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• A Video Game Program Where Women Outnumber Men

  25-01-2016 03:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Female characters, while still not the norm, are becoming more prevalent in top-shelf video games. And at USC, there’s been a dramatic rise in the acceptance of women into the game design program. In 2011, USC admitted 15 men into its graduate track and five women. In 2015, those numbers were nearly reversed with 12 women and seven men.”
  
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• British Orchestras Are Also #SoWhite, But They Have To Change

  25-01-2016 02:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “British orchestras must make ‘a real step change’ to allow a wider diversity of backgrounds into their ranks, according to culture minister, Ed Vaizey. In a strongly worded appeal to a group of musicians and orchestral managers in Birmingham on Friday night, the minister put pressure on leaders in the music world to do more.”
  
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