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• Studio Museum’s Naima J. Keith Named Deputy Director of California African American Museum

  04-02-2016 23:37 via artnews.com
  The Los Angeles Times reports that Naima J. Keith will leave the Studio Museum in Harlem to become the deputy director of the California African American Museum, in Los Angeles.In her five years as associate curator at the Studio Museum, … Read More
  
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• Wooster Group Press Fail – Can You Really Ban Critics?

  04-02-2016 23:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jeremy Gerard of Deadline noted, “There’s no other kind of journalism where the journalist says, ‘Is it OK if I report this kind of story?’” That said, the allowance for theatrical productions to be developed and previewed in front of paying audiences has become generally standard practice and important to countless creative artists, the result of a détente between the natural instincts of the press and the creative process of artists.
  
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• ‘I Want Women to Look Like They Can’t Get Thrown Away’: Marilyn Minter on Her Retrospective, ‘Pretty/Dirty’

  04-02-2016 23:07 via artnews.com
  When I walked into Marilyn Minter’s studio late one afternoon last fall, she and her assistants had just completed a painting—a foggy, steamy image streaming with water droplets, behind which you could see the misty blur of pink lips seemingly … Read More
  
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• Neuroscience And Free Will Seem To Be Rethinking Their Divorce

  04-02-2016 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Three decades of studies seemed to “point in the same, troubling direction: We don’t really have free will. In fact, until recently, many neuroscientists would have said any decision you made was not truly free but actually determined by neural processes outside of your conscious control. Luckily, for those who find this state of affairs philosophically (or existentially) perplexing, things are starting to look up.”
  
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• When You’ve Got It, You’ve Got It – Birmingham Orchestra’s Shrewd Judge Of Conducting Talent

  04-02-2016 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over the past four decades, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has established a reputation for selecting the right conductors to become its music directors at exactly the right moment in their careers, a record that any orchestra in the world would envy.”
  
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• Judge’s Ruling Endangers $400 Million Lucas Museum For Chicago

  04-02-2016 22:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Judge John Darrah’s ruling Thursday means construction will at least be delayed and the legal proceedings could end up killing the project in Chicago.
  
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• Yemen battles to save ancient heritage from destruction

  04-02-2016 22:00
  
  Air strikes by a Saudi Arabia-led coalition and attacks by fundamentalist groups linked to Al Qaeda and Isil have caused widespread destruction to Yemen’s heritage, losses that have been under-reported compared with the destruction wreaked by extremists in Syria and northern Iraq.
  The latest casualty is the National Museum in the city of Taiz, which was badly damaged when shelled by Houthis militants on Sunday, the Associated Press reports.The coalition’s bombing campaign, which beg
  
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• Why An Outback Village Of Two Dozen People Needs A 350-Seat Arts Venue (For Opera, Of Course!)

  04-02-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The official population of Morundah in NSW is 76 but Councillor David Fahey says only 24 people ‘actually live in the village’. … But the first time the local Morundah Bush Entertainment Committee put on an opera in 2006, it sold 1100 tickets in three hours. … Since then the tiny Riverina town has become a regional cultural hub serving not only the Urana Shire population of about 1200 but also drawing regular tourists from around Australia.”
  
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• Where do you draw the line when it is 3.7km long?

  04-02-2016 22:00
  A time-lapse video of Monika Grzymala installing Raumzeichnung (outside/inside) (2016) at Lisson Gallery, London. The installation is made of 3.7km of black and clear tape, and is part of the group show Line (until 12 March), which has been organised in collaboration with the Drawing Room.
  • For more on this exhibition, see The Buck Stopped Here: set sail from London to Bristol for this week’s top shows including Elizabeth Peyton and John Akomfrah
  
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• The Ramones head home to Queens for retrospective

  04-02-2016 22:00
  
  This spring will see a homecoming for the Ramones, the 1980s punk group that formed in Forest Hills, Queens, with the retrospective Hey! Hey! Let's Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk opening at the Queens Museum (10 April-31 July). Co-organised with the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, to where it travels in September, the show features more than 350 items of memorabilia by artists including Arturo Vega, the designer of the band’s logo, Sergio Aragones, a cartoonist for MAD magazine and John
  
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• Not illustrious: Matthew Collings on Spanish Masters at the Hermitage Amsterdam

  04-02-2016 22:00
  
  Spanish Masters fr om the Hermitage: the World of El Greco, Ribera, Zurbarán, Velázquez, Murillo and Goya at the Hermitage Amsterdam is a show of historic Spanish art organised by the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. The rationale is that there are few Spanish paintings in Holland. Here’s a chance to see, in the words of the director of the St Petersburg Hermitage, Mikhail Piotrovsky, “all the great names known to so many, as well as a large number of works by
  
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• Forget Shoreditch: it’s all about Wood Green

  04-02-2016 22:00
  
  A new kind of hotel, aimed specifically at arty types, is launching in north London next month. Green Rooms, in Wood Green, will house artists who are visiting and working in the capital for organisations such as Somerset House, the British Council and the Royal Court Theatre. “All of these organisations will be housing artists at the hotel and using it for performances, exhibitions, screenings and rehearsals too,” a spokesman says. Prices for double rooms start at £45 a night
  
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• Fischli and Weiss brew their alchemy in New York

  04-02-2016 22:00
  Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better, which opens this month at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, is the first comprehensive survey in a New York museum of the Swiss duo, who worked together for 33 years before Weiss’s death in 2012. This exhibition, which entered planning stages before Weiss died, was organised by Nancy Spector and Nat Trotman, who worked closely with Fischli. The Art Newspaper spoke to the curatorial duo about the show, which is sponsored by the Laurenz Foundati
  
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• Heritage lost: how two art and design exhibitions frame southern China’s transformation

  04-02-2016 21:58
  
  Next to the Guangdong Museum of Art on Er-Sha Island sits the Museum of Overseas Chinese, a tribute to the diaspora that has left the country, largely fr om southern ports like Guangzhou. Perhaps in response, a work that questions this presumed portability and durability of Chinese identity and heritage has been installed in the plaza between the fifth Guangzhou Triennial and first Asia Biennale (until 10 April)—Yuan Gong’s Traces: Collecting Soil of Zhougong Temple (2015), inflatab
  
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• Why Innovation Needs To Be Anchored In The Familiar To Be Embraced

  04-02-2016 21:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To generate creative ideas, it’s important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar. That’s why so many startups are introducing themselves as the “Uber for X.”
  
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• ‘The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman’ at Kunstsaele, Berlin

  04-02-2016 21:15 via artnews.com
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• ‘Red flags were flying’ around Knoedler fakes, experts testify

  04-02-2016 21:14
  
  Dealers “run like hell” when someone offers them an unknown stash of works below market price, said Martha Parrish, a dealer in Palm Beach and New York who helped draft the ADAA code of ethics, during her testimony in the Knoedler fakes trial on Wednesday.The Long Island dealer Glafira Rosales brought some 40 paintings to Knoedler below market price, their provenance was unknown, they were undocumented, and they had never been seen before. Given those circumstances, Parrish said, &l
  
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• ‘Jon Stewart Of Egypt’ To Get Series On U.S. Elections

  04-02-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The satirist Bassem Youssef, now in exile after one too many visits from Egyptian security forces, “will host The Democracy Handbook for F Comedy, Fusion’s new digital platform,” as part of the network’s 2016 election coverage. “The series … follows Youssef as he comes to America to learn the lessons of democracy.”
  
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• BOARD LIAISON AND TRAVEL COORDINATOR

  04-02-2016 20:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Joyce Theater Foundation is seeking a new member for it’s Development Department
  POSITION SUMMARY:The Board Liaison and Travel Coordinator is responsible for managing The Joyce Theater Foundation’s relationships with its Board of Trustees, and to plan and cultivate the Joyce Theater’s Travel Program. Working in close collaboration with the Executive and Development Directors, this position manages Board, Committee, and Travel Program administration as well as The Joyce&rsqu
  
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• Artificial Intelligence Is Revolutionizing How Google Searches. Tomorrow The World!

  04-02-2016 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The truth is that even the experts don’t completely understand how neural nets work. But they do work. If you feed enough photos of a platypus into a neural net, it can learn to identify a platypus. If you show it enough computer malware code, it can learn to recognize a virus. If you give it enough raw language—words or phrases that people might type into a search engine—it can learn to understand search queries and help respond to them. In some cases, it can handle que
  
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• ‘Spiral Jetty’ May Become Utah’s Official State Work of Art

  04-02-2016 20:16 via artnews.com
  The Salt Lake City Tribune reports that Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty may become Utah’s official state work of art. Becky Edwards, a Republican representative for Utah, has been spearheading the effort. After a 7-1 vote (one representative voted down the … Read More
  
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• America’s Fastest (And Slowest) Talkers, Ranked By State

  04-02-2016 20:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To arrive at those state-by-state breakdowns, the analytics firm Marchex used what it calls Call DNA technology—software that analyzes call recordings to determine things like rate of speech, density of speech, hold times, and silences—on a set of calls recorded between 2013 and 2015. (These are the recordings that result when a pleasant robo-voice informs you that “this call may be recorded.” Marchex’s analysis includes more than 4 million such calls.)&rdquo
  
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• How To Measure A TV “Hit”? Right Now, It’s Anybody’s Guess

  04-02-2016 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ah, passion – the elusive element of TV that networks are still trying to turn into a profit. Research departments try: They can look at tweets, or Facebook posts, or measure exactly how many minutes someone watches a program.” But still…
  
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• ‘Parasite’ Homes On Rooftops Could Be Paris’s Next Affordable Housing

  04-02-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An NGO called les Toits du Monde is the developer behind the scheme, which uses prefabricated metal-and-glass boxes bolted into steel supports. on top of existing buildings.
  
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• Raleigh, NC Gets A Ten-Year Plan For The Arts

  04-02-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After engaging more than 4,000 citizens for input over the course of 10 months, the 34-member arts plan steering committee announced in January that a draft of the plan is ready, with eight overarching goals, both short- and long-term, and 63 strategies designed to help achieve these goals.” (The plan was approved by the City Council that day.)
  
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• Eugene, Oregon’s Gallery Scene Collapses

  04-02-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Artists and arts writers can list many galleries that have closed or moved towns during the last decade. With few major spots left, artists were shocked when the board of The Jacobs Gallery, located in the city’s performing arts center, announced that it would close at the end of January.”
  
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• Seven Myths Of The Starving Artist

  04-02-2016 18:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The starving artist myth is a limiting belief that’s been passed on from generation to generation and it’s about time we put an end to it. Not only is it disempowering to artists trying to promote themselves and their work, it’s also a barrier for many talented teenagers and young adults who will not pursue a career in the arts from fear of not being able to support themselves and later on in life, their families.”
  
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• Brooklyn Academy’s New President Talks About The Brooklyn Buzz

  04-02-2016 18:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There are 60 cultural organizations now in the Brooklyn Cultural District, and there’s been a 149% increase in the number of Brooklyn cultural nonprofits since 2005. Local cultural institutions attracted $300 million in economic activity and 4.5 million visitors in 2013. So we are big business.”
  
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• That Stolen Picasso Seized In Turkey Last Week? It’s A Fake

  04-02-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Picasso Administration, charged with managing the artist’s estate, … said the canvas is a copy of a 1940 work by the great Spanish artist, Woman Dressing Her Hair – and the original is in the hands of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).”
  
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• Bruegel in Black and White review – a brief but harrowing encounter

  04-02-2016 17:59
  
  Courtauld Gallery, London
  While the best-loved paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder overflow with life, there are no cakes and ale in these images drawn from his darker sideIt will soon be Fat Tuesday. Eggy batter will sizzle heartily in pans across the land. One of modern Britain’s last lovely echoes of pre-industrial life, our pancake festival on the last Tuesday before Lent is a homely relic of the great carnivals that once rocked every village in Europe, releasing laughter and communa
  
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• Caroline Achaintre, artist: 'It's the first time I am in a studio and it's warmer inside than outdoors'

  04-02-2016 17:31
  
  Karen Wright meets the artist in her modest studio in Homerton, east London
  
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• Pina Bausch’s Old Company Has A New Director

  04-02-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Adolphe Binder, currently artistic director of the dance company at the Gothenburg Opera in Sweden, “will be the fourth person to run the Tanztheater Wuppertal since Bausch’s sudden death in 2009. “Unlike Dominique Mercy and Robert Sturm, who ran the company just after Ms. Bausch’s death, and Lutz Förster, who succeeded them in 2013, Ms. Binder has no direct relationship with Wuppertal.”
  
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• Bridget Riley’s art helps put spin into Louisiana’s Op art show

  04-02-2016 16:59
  
  The British artist Bridget Riley visited the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art this week to preview Eye Attack, an exhibition of Op art and kinetic art that opens to the public today, 3 February, in the Humlebaek gallery, north of Copenhagen (until 5 June).
  Although no fan of the term Op art, Riley was pleased to see many of her paintings on show, including her 1964 classic Current, which has been lent by New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The British artist has also sent several works
  
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• Inside Playboy's first non-nude issue: 'The idea was to look from a boyfriend's perspective'

  04-02-2016 16:24
  
  It includes an essay by Bret Easton Ellis and fiction from Knausgaard.
  
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• Tools of the Trade: Denver Art Museum Examines the Unusual Studies of Architect Brad Cloepfil

  04-02-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  When Brad Cloepfil, principal of Allied Works Architecture, won the competition to design the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver in 2006, he found in its director, Dean Sobel, a client who was uncommonly receptive to his creative process. “It would … Read More
  
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• Soprano Collapses Onstage As She Finishes Her Death Aria; Audience Thinks It’s Planned, But It’s Not

  04-02-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Véronique Gens, 49, was singing Béatrice in a concert revival of Benjamin Godard’s 1889 opera Dante at the old Royal Opera in Versailles. As she reached her final phrase – “Where the angels gather human tears to change them into stars” – she lost control of her voice and collapsed, first into the arms of the mezzo and then to the floor, her head lolling on her chest. The mezzo signaled to stop the music and an ambulance was called. The cause was eviden
  
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• Stan Douglas: The Secret Agent review – the spy who came in from the heat

  04-02-2016 15:57
  
  Victoria Miro gallery, London
  A multiscreen rendering of Joseph Conrad’s novel plays with cold war spy thriller conventions in an elaborately constructed conceptual art film“I consider photos to be like films without moving images,” Stan Douglas said recently. His images are cinematic, often nodding towards film noir or Alfred Hitchcock’s elaborate thrillers, but their complexity rests on their often oblique sociopolitical subtexts as much as their elaborate construction.
  
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• El Anatsui unveils new bottle-top works in London

  04-02-2016 15:41
  
  The Ghanaian artist El Anatsui is to unveil a new body of bottle-top works to UK audiences today (4 February). His shimmering metal tapestries made from flattened bottle tops propelled him to international fame in the early 2000s; one such work was hung outside the Arsenale at the 2007 Venice Biennale to great acclaim. Last year Anatsui won the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Biennale.
  But the new sculptures, which are on show at the October Gallery in London (until 2 April), mark a
  
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• Filmmaker Jacques Rivette Dead At 87

  04-02-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[He was]was the pre-eminent theoretician of the French ‘New Wave’ and the film-maker who, with Jean-Luc Godard, came closest in his own work to realising the movement’s aims and aspirations.” Yet he ultimately came to believe that there is no such thing as an “auteur” – “that ‘A film by Jacques Rivette’, for example, was a contradiction in terms.”
  
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• Earth Mothers and Shapeshifters: Matthew Weinstein on Robert Smithson and ‘Transparent’

  04-02-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  Since his death, a cult has grown up around the figure of Robert Smithson (1938–73), one that surrounds the artist and his work with an aura of purism. This is too bad, because what is most vital about Smithson is … Read More
  
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• Riccardo Muti Has Hip Surgery After Fall

  04-02-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti has withdrawn from his Feb. 11-20 residency here so he can recover from a hip operation following a minor accident, an orchestra spokeswoman announced Tuesday night.”
  
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• Is This Why The Pinter Estate Clamped Down On The Wooster Group?

  04-02-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Samuel French chief Bruce Lazarus “maintains that the Pinter estate had not been prepared to grant any subsequent license [for The Room] because the British agent had lined up a ‘first-class’ production in the UK, which had an option for a U.S. transfer. Lazarus points out that French could have simply said no but said his company persuaded the U.K. agent to allow the L.A. production, with restrictions.”
  
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• Saudi Arabia Commutes Artist’s Sentence From Beheading To Eight Years And 800 Lashes

  04-02-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A court upheld the conviction of Palestinian poet, artist, and curator Ashraf Fayadh for apostasy – a charge that originally came out of an argument Fayadh had with another man in a cafe.
  
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• Ai Weiwei’s Latest Controversy: He Poses For Photo As Drowned Refugee Child

  04-02-2016 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On the pro side: “powerful tribute”; “iconic image”.On the con side: “egotistical victim porn”; “an opportunist move to hitchhike onto a current tragedy”.
  
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• Morning Links: Fake American Masters Edition

  04-02-2016 14:31 via artnews.com
  FAKE AMERICAN MASTERSA Michigan art dealer, Eric Spoutz, has been arrested and charged with selling dozens of fake American masters. [NBC]PHOTOSEngland’s National Media Museum has announced plans to transfer more than 400,000 objects from the Royal Photography Society’s collection to the … Read More
  
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• Benjamin Millepied Tells Why He’s Leaving Paris Opera Ballet

  04-02-2016 14:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘I want to regain my freedom and I want to create,’ he said. ‘I’ve been honored to be given the opportunity to work at the Opera and with the dancers, but this job, as it exists today, is not something I want.’ Mr. Millepied declined to speak about other factors that might have contributed to his decision, but his discontent with various aspects of his role has been well documented over the past few months.”
  
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• Destination Bangladesh: art world decamps to third Dhaka Art Summit

  04-02-2016 14:24
  
  A key art-historical exhibition throwing new light on historic post-war works by South Asian artists forms part of the third Dhaka Art Summit in Bangladesh, which opens tomorrow (5-8 February). The show, entitled Rewind, features 12 artists including the late Bangladeshi practitioner Rashid Choudhury and Indian-born Monika Correa. The Indian art collector Amrita Jhaveri is sponsoring the exhibition, which is part of a programme encompassing solo art projects, group shows, panel discussions, and
  
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• Harper’s Editor Fired After Three Months On The Job

  04-02-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A person familiar with the dispute said that tensions flared during a recent meeting, when [editor Christopher] Cox presented his plans to redesign the magazine’s cover. [Publisher John R.] MacArthur opposed the change. … Harper’s, published monthly, is a nonprofit publication that is supported in large part by Mr. MacArthur’s personal wealth.”
  
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• Renée Fleming: Next Season Will See ‘My Last Mainstream Opera Appearances’

  04-02-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I don’t want anyone saying that I sang such-and-such a thing better five years ago. So I’ve decided that Rosenkavalier at Covent Garden and the Met next season will be my last mainstream opera appearances. It’s not retirement – I might be tempted by something newly written, but I’m not going to cling on. There’s plenty else I want to do.”
  
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• Milan’s Palazzo Reale eyes up the Symbolists

  04-02-2016 13:45
  
  European art between the late 19th and early 20th centuries was not all about Impressionism and Modernism. The latest exhibition at Milan’s Palazzo Reale, Symbolism: European art from the Belle Epoque to the Great War (until 5 June), invites audiences into murkier territory, to meet artists who retreated from reality into the “abyss” of the unconscious mind.With 150 paintings, sculptures and prints drawn from public and private collections across Europe, the show presents Symb
  
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