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• Habitat: Kari Cholnoky

  12-02-2016 22:43 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Kari Cholnoky; East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Kari Cholnoky is not a minimalist. “Conceptually, I believe that more is more,” she told me. With her colorful, boisterous paintings, Cholnoky aims to … Read More
  
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• Here Is the Trailer for the Upcoming Vinyl Release by New York Artist Band Haribo

  12-02-2016 22:21 via artnews.com
  Yesterday, the New York band Haribo, which consists of the artists Raul De Nieves, Jessie Stead, and Nathan Whipple, unveiled a trailer for their upcoming vinyl release. The record, judging by the band’s YouTube description, might just be called BRIGHT YOUNG … Read More
  
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• Artist enlists fictional biker gang for Rotterdam installation

  12-02-2016 22:00
  Nelson conceived the work after being inspired by Soviet science fiction novelists like Stanslaw Lem and Boris Strugatsky, whose books stand as allegories about the human condition. In Nelson's work, the fictitious Amnesiacs are a biker gang of Gulf War veterans who spend their time scavenging and deciphering debris encoded with a secret language. Through the artist, the gang "creates" ominous, interpretative installations.“I brought back the [gang] to help me build shrines,” the ar
  
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• A world away from the rest: David D'Arcy on Paula-Modersohn Becker at Galerie St. Etienne

  12-02-2016 22:00
  
  Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) is a painter whose work still falls short of recognition in the US, despite fame in Germany and a back-story that’s overloaded with drama.Her paintings and drawings, now on view at Galerie St. Etienne in New York, blend the austere landscape of northern Germany with the palette of Parisian post-Impressionism. Portraits by Modersohn-Becker are stark and bold, but with an improbable warmth. Her female nudes carry an additional element of surprise, since nu
  
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• Sofia Leiby at Clifton Benevento, Selected by Joshua Abelow

  12-02-2016 21:42 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. This week's shows are selected by Joshua Abelow Read More
  
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• To Take a Computer as an Apprentice: A Look at When Art Met Technology at LACMA, in 1971

  12-02-2016 21:38 via artnews.com
  With so many shows about art and the Internet lately, it’s hard to remember a time when it was unexpected that artists would ever rely on machinery and electronics, but, in 1971, when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opened … Read More
  
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• Facebook can be sued over censorship of nudes, Paris court rules

  12-02-2016 21:06
  
  Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Museum of Art ran afoul of Facebook's censors this month when it posted an image of Evelyne Axell's Ice Cream (1964) in an advertisement for it's forthcoming International Pop show, on tour from the Walker Art Center. The colourful painting showing a woman licking an ice cream cone was taken down by the site for “containing excessive amounts of skin or suggestive content”.
  The museum reposted the picture, saying that Axell's work "can be understood as a cr
  
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• The Pinacothèque de Paris shuts its doors

  12-02-2016 20:48
  
  Faced with economic difficulties and a 20-25% drop in attendance over the past two years the Pinacothèque de Paris has decided to close its sites on the place de la Madeleine. The for-profit private museum’s parent company Art Héritage France was put into receivership last November, so Marc Restellini, the Pinacothèque’s founder and president, may be anticipating a court-ordered liquidation in the decision to shut up shop.
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• Gentrifying Fishtanks, Indian Television, and ‘Dead’ Rappers: Ashok ‘Dapwell’ Kondabolu Presents ‘Yo Fight My Mans’ At Babycastles

  12-02-2016 20:43 via artnews.com
  Today marks the opening of “Yo Fight My Mans,” a multi-dimensional art and media event that for five weeks will take over the impossible-to-define Babycastles space near Manhattan’s Union Square. Ashok “Dapwell” Kondabolu, formally of the rap group Das Racist, … Read More
  
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• Back to the Future: 50 Years of Video Art at the Broad Art Museum, MSU

  12-02-2016 19:15 via artnews.com
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• The Perils Of Writing About Sex In Your Fiction

  12-02-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Should you use exotic euphemisms or anatomical detail? Should it be comical, tender or shocking? And what if your mum reads it? Three generations of writers reveal the pitfalls – and pleasures – of writing about erotic encounters.”
  
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• Great Art Should Belong To The World (But Then There Are The Collectors)

  12-02-2016 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The problem with collecting masterworks of great artists is that the act of ownership is in itself a kind of theft, stealing from the public commons of genius.”
  
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• Aaron Sorkin Adapting ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’? Bad Idea

  12-02-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Scott Timberg: “Velocity is Sorkin’s great gift, but this guy’s going to slip into the cadence of small-town Depression-era Alabama? … [And] despite the centrality of Atticus, … the novel’s narrating character is not him but Scout, a woman recalling a story of her girlhood. How many of Sorkin’s best characters have been girls or women?”
  
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• Music and masterpieces matched up at the Met

  12-02-2016 17:59
  
  The Metropolitan Museum has paired music and masterpieces for its concert series Sight & Sound, organised in partnership with The Orchestra Now (TON, pronounced “tone”), a new music training and master’s degree programme at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson New York. On 7 February, the orchestra and its conductor Leon Botstein presented Strauss, Watteau and Nostalgia, which examined Richard Strauss’s 1912 suite for Moliere’s Le bourgeois gentilhomme (The Midd
  
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• Theatre Converts Its Season To Pay-As-You-Want And Sees 50% Increase In Audience

  12-02-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A spokeswoman for the theatre said the production had made about the same amount of money as would normally be generated by a show such as this, but had double the audience. Bookings for other shows in the season have also “spiked”.
  
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• Is Diversity Really A Funding Issue?

  12-02-2016 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The emerging artists, audiences, and arts leaders of tomorrow do not reflect the majority of individuals who fund and lead the arts today – who, to be quite frank, are primarily wealthier white individuals (although arts leaders are not necessarily wealthy).”
  
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• Definitive Delacroix and five stars for Bosch out of hell – the week in art

  12-02-2016 17:09
  
  Liverpool stakes its claim on the pre-Raphaelite beat, there’s history, too, in selfies, and Hieronymus Bosch stages a dramatic 500th-anniversary homecoming – all in your weekly art dispatchDelacroix and the Rise of Modern Art
  For that drug-addicted bohemian art critic and poet Baudelaire, the definitive modern artist was Eugène Delacroix. Picasso agreed when he painted his own version of Delacroix’s Women of Algiers, which recently sold for an eye-watering price. Delacr
  
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• Why that flame still burns for Eugène Delacroix

  12-02-2016 17:00
  
  He took safe, 'respectable' subjects then electrified them with colours that take your breath away
  
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• Was Facebook’s Free Basics Program In India A Good Deed Or Colonialism Redux?

  12-02-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It tries to solve a problem it doesn’t understand, but it doesn’t need to understand the problem because it already knows the solution. … When Zuckerberg or Andreessen face criticism, they argue that their critics are being elitist and inhumane – after all, who could be against helping India develop? The rhetoric is rich with the White Man’s Burden.”
  
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• Two Artists Who Marry Science, Environment And Art

  12-02-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The problem is that science is by nature a non-emotional process,” Felix says. “You have to be dispassionate. The data has to speak for itself. But that’s not what humans are like. Emotion is what drives us. And emotion is the raw material that artists use.”
  
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• How People Learn To Become Resilient

  12-02-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One of the central elements of resilience … is perception: Do you conceptualize an event as traumatic, or as an opportunity to learn and grow? ‘Events are not traumatic until we experience them as traumatic.’ … The experience [of trauma] isn’t inherent in the event; it resides in the event’s psychological construal.”
  
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• How Do you Build A Critical Life As Part Of A Creative Life?

  12-02-2016 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He honors the heights but gladly descends from them, all the while wondering anxiously whether something a little less sublime, a more easeful ideal of the engagement with art, does not shrivel him into a fan or a consumer. The anxiety is fully warranted..”
  
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• Ailing Seattle Bookstore Turns To Fans For Help (And They Do)

  12-02-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Every time some mystery shop closes, people felt like they lost their shop and they wished their shop had said something. So we just decided to be the shop that asks for help.”
  
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• Hauser Wirth & Schimmel In L.A. Will Have Onsite Bookstore

  12-02-2016 16:05 via artnews.com
  ARTBOOK, a publisher with retail locations at MoMA PS1 in Queens, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Swiss Institute in SoHo, will have a new space inside Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, which opens next month in Los Angeles.The gallery is … Read More
  
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• Hauser Wirth & Schimmel In L.A. Will Have Its Own On-Site Bookstore

  12-02-2016 16:05 via artnews.com
  ARTBOOK, a publisher with retail locations at MoMA PS1 in Queens, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Swiss Institute in SoHo, will open a new location inside Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, which opens next month in Los Angeles.The … Read More
  
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• Joel Grey Comes Of Age, And Comes Out, At 83

  12-02-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Despite his successes on stage and screen – that rare Tony and Oscar for the same role, the M.C. in Cabaret – Mr. Grey has not always felt that luck was on his side. As his book reveals, the journey from child actor to teenage nightclub phenomenon (who knew?) to established Broadway name contained its share of bumps, and his personal life was no less rife with conflict and complication.”
  
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• Vigée Le Brun: artist to the aristocracy who played and changed the game

  12-02-2016 15:48
  
  A new exhibition of the French artist’s work reveal her flattering portraiture of Marie-Antoinette, but she also helped reshape the rules of representationiThey called her a spendthrift, a spy, a sexual deviant; they said she bathed in blood. But in the portraits painted by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun in the 1780s, the last queen of France appears warm, complex, even demure – someone who deserved better than the toxic slurs of Versailles’s anonymous pamphleteer
  
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• ‘Image Overload’ – It’s A Thing, And With Real Consequences

  12-02-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As we snap, store and communicate with thousands of images on our phones and computers, a number of researchers and theorists are already beginning to point to some of the unintended consequences of this ‘image overload,’ which range from heightened anxiety to memory impairment.”
  
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• France’s Culture Minister Replaced – Mid-Debate – In Surprise Cabinet Reshuffle

  12-02-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Audrey Azoulay, currently President François Hollande’s cultural advisor, is to replace Fleur Pellerin as France’s minister of culture. … Pellerin learned that she was no longer the minister of culture and communication in the middle of a senate debate over her proposed ‘creation, architecture and heritage’ law.”
  
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• ‘English Theatre Is Dead,’ Says Playwright Edward Bond

  12-02-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I think it serves no useful social, creative function. So I work mainly abroad. … What has happened to English theatre, English society, is it has become infantile. It is not dumbing down, it is actually becoming infantile. You turn on the television and it is infantile. You are patronised as if you are a little child.”
  
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• Roberto Alagna Learns New Role In Two Weeks, Saves The Met’s Bacon

  12-02-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Jonas Kaufmann, one of the biggest stars in opera, had just withdrawn from a coming new production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut. Would Mr. Alagna step in? ‘My first thought was to say no,’ [he said]. … And he would have just 16 days to nail it before opening night, which arrives this Friday.”
  
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• Roy Hodgson's owl resemblance, a Pam St Clement clock, Daddies brown sauce, some actual art: we review anything

  12-02-2016 14:46
  
  Every Friday we apply critical attention to things that don’t normally get it. This is an important function that might just hold civilisation together. Or, more likely, not. Drop your suggestions for reviews in the comments or tweet them to @guideguardian Continue reading...
  
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• Facebook Takes Down Philly Museum Of Art Image For ‘Suggestive Content’

  12-02-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s International Pop exhibition starts on February 24th. To promote it, an Art Museum staffer posted the image above – Belgian artist Evelyne Axell’s 1964 painting Ice Cream – on Facebook. … Per the Art Museum, it was removed from the site for ‘containing excessive amounts of skin or suggestive content.'”
  
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• Morning Links: ‘The Life of Pablo’ Edition

  12-02-2016 14:41 via artnews.com
  KANYE WESTWatch Yeezy Season 3, which features a new Vanessa Beecroft performance. [Tidal]CHANGES Katie Hollander, who has been deputy head of Creative Time for eight years, has been named executive director. She replaces the public-art organization’s longtime leader, Anne Pasternak, who … Read More
  
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• Publisher Mysteriously Pulls Book About The Church Of England Before Publication – Was It About The Secret Sex Lives Of Bishops?

  12-02-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bloomsbury withdrew That Was the Church That Was, a look at the post-war decline of England’s established church by Guardian journalist Andrew Brown and sociologist Linda Woodhead, following a “legal complaint” about which the house would say nothing more. So naturally journalists began investigating …
  
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• The Connection Between New Arts Organizations And Neighborhood Diversity

  12-02-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Richard Florida looks at a new study of New York City neighborhoods and organizations founded between 2000 and 2010: “Two thirds of new nonprofit arts organizations are located in neighborhoods with moderate to high levels of racial and income diversity.”
  
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• Misty Copeland And NYC Dance Project Recreate Degas’s Ballet Scenes

  12-02-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘It was interesting to be on a shoot and to not have the freedom to just create like I normally do with my body,’ she says. ‘Trying to re-create what Degas did was really difficult. It was amazing just to notice all of the small details but also how he still allows you to feel like there’s movement.'”
  
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• Like Misty Copeland’s Degas Photos? There Are Hard Truths Behind Them

  12-02-2016 13:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sebastian Smee: “It always makes me deeply uneasy to see [people] take to Edgar Degas’s ballet pictures as if they were some sort of grand affirmation of their art. They’re really not. … These poor girls were commonly known as ‘les petits rats,’ the little rats, and Degas, who also called them his ‘little monkey girls,’ was precisely interested in this sordid aspect.”
  
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• After Dark Season, Sacramento Philharmonic Makes A Comeback

  12-02-2016 13:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Said executive director Alice Sauro. ‘Two months after we sent out renewal forms, we got 876 subscribers. By October, we had over 1,000. … We never expected the response would be so positive.”
  
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• Lincoln Center Hall Of Fame Names First Inductees

  12-02-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There is no hall yet, but Lincoln Center’s nascent performing arts hall of fame now has the fame part down. It announced Thursday that its first class of inductees would include Louis Armstrong, Plácido Domingo, Yo-Yo Ma, Audra McDonald, Leontyne Price and Harold Prince.”
  
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• Manfred Mohr – the groovy German who taught computers to make art

  12-02-2016 12:13
  
  The art world pioneer spotted the creative possibilities of algorithms back in 1968. He talks about working nights for 11 years, invisible ‘hypercubes’, and why computers can go to places ‘I can’t go because I’m standing in the way’
  Pioneers of abstract art own their territory in perpetuity. Paint-drippers walk in the footsteps of Jackson Pollock, minimalists contend eternally with Donald Judd, light artists live in the shadow of Dan Flavin. The stakes are hig
  
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• Upping the dose: Hirst’s Pharmacy2 to open at last

  12-02-2016 10:26
  
  The art world has been on tenterhooks about the opening of Damien Hirst’s restaurant Pharmacy2, based at the artist’s Newport Street gallery in Vauxhall. Guests at the grand opening of the space last October were told in no uncertain terms that the flashy eaterie, which is a feast of retina-searing colours, would open soon (Hirst fans have been getting impatient at the delay). The restaurant, under the expert eye of the chef Mark Hix, is now scheduled to launch on 23 February. Diner
  
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• King of the dancehall: the reggae art of Wilfred Limonious – in pictures

  12-02-2016 08:00
  
  From randy prison guards to gossiping mothers, Jamaican artist Wilfred Limonious filled his LP covers with wit, colour and cartoonish characters, influencing generations of dancehall artists including Major Lazer Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.11.16

  12-02-2016 07:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Four rules of money
  Budgets and balance sheets and audited financials have a tendency to simultaneously over-simplify and over-complicate organizational life. The way they appear on a page suggests a linear, logical, orderly aggregation of resources in clean compartments, … read more
  AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2016-02-11
  Making art the focus
  I’m sure we’d all say that, if we’re musicians, or producing musical performances, that art is the focus. The music
  
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• Untitled( i thought golf courses and talk show hosts when she talked about her republican lawyer ex husband.)

  12-02-2016 04:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i had rum and steak on a tray. i looked at the mustaches of my forefathers. a portly man was painted in medieval blue. bourbon is sweeter than whiskey. my neck was stiffening. i took my pill and and three advil.do you want whiskey or bourbon, i said.bourbon, a said.you can spell whisky with an e or without an e. when i type whisky the grammarcheck disapproves.a middle aged man in his forties and an older man in his late fifties had a bourbon. they groomed each other.girls and their fathers is su
  
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• Boston Classical Orchestra To Close (New Orchestra Rises)

  12-02-2016 01:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Small ensembles like BCO face an uphill battle in Boston’s crowded musical ecosystem, especially as institutional funding falls far beneath the levels present in other cities. Still, as Boston loses one ensemble, it will be gaining another.”
  
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• Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary shows off his photographic chops at Art Wynwood

  12-02-2016 00:10
  
  Kevin O’Leary, the American television personality best known for his role on the reality tv show Shark Tank, has partnered with the Perry J. Cohen Foundation (PJCF) for a benefit photography show. Irreconcilable Images will be on view at the fifth edition of the Art Wynwood Fair in Miami opening Friday, 12 February.
  Although O’Leary is largely regarded as an archetypal businessman, he had his first stint behind the videocamera in the late 1980s, at a now-defunct television station.
  
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• Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary sharpens his photographic teeth the Art Wynwood

  12-02-2016 00:10
  
  Kevin O’Leary, the American television personality best known for his role on the reality tv show Shark Tank, has partnered with the Perry J. Cohen Foundation (PJCF) for a benefit photography show. Irreconcilable Images will be on view at the fifth edition of the Art Wynwood Fair in Miami opening Friday, 12 February.
  Although O’Leary is largely regarded as an archetypal businessman, he had his first stint behind the videocamera in the late 1980s, at a now-defunct television station.
  
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