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• Turkey’s answer to Burning Man takes shape in remote Cappadocia region

  15-02-2016 23:21
  
  The Turkish equivalent of the famous Burning Man festival in Nevada is due to run again this summer in the Cappadocia region of central Turkey. The fledging festival, entitled Cappadox (19-22 May), includes music concerts and food-related events, along with a large-scale, sprawling exhibition dedicated to site-specific works. The ticketed event, now in its second year, is organised by the Turkish concert promoter Pozitif Live.This year, Fulya Erdemci, the curator of the 2013 Istanbul Biennial,
  
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• The Man Who Wrote The Longest-Running (And Still On) Play In New York Has Died

  15-02-2016 23:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Attuned to his critics, Mr. Manzi rewrote the play, energetically and often, to make it more accessible. ‘He sometimes would give me a rewrite as I was trying to get onstage, and I would have to slap him,’ Ms. Russell said warmly. ‘I’ve learned how to learn lines quickly.'”
  
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• Fantasy and fancy-free portraits in Toulouse

  15-02-2016 22:48
  
  The Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, France has put on the first show to examine “fantasy figures” in European art from the early 16th through late 18th centuries with Ceci n’est pas un portrait: figures de fantaisie de Murillo, Fragonard, Tiepolo (This is not a portrait: fantasy figures by Murillo, Fragonard, Tiepolo), on through 6 March. Only four of the 82 portraits on view come from the museum’s own collection, so it is a chance to discover gems—sometime
  
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• New Technology Gives A New Look At Van Gogh’s Colors

  15-02-2016 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Natural chemical processes in the paint changed their colors over time, making them appear similar in the 127 years since the second was composed. ‘They’re light sensitive so it makes sense that the fading would progress from the outward in,’ Casadio said. The x-ray data helped researchers develop color maps of the paintings in their original forms, and she conceded that the maps may not be precisely what Van Gogh painted.”
  
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• The most beautiful palette in France: on Eugène Delacroix

  15-02-2016 22:00
  
  “Nous peignons tous en lui”. Paul Cézanne’s famous statement about the extraordinary influence of Eugène Delacroix on the development of Modern painting sums up the thesis of this catalogue of the exhibition Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art (at the National Gallery, London, 17 February-22 May). Patrick Noon and Christopher Riopelle seek to show that Delacroix was the creative and intellectual force that drove Modern painting, inspiring artists fr om Manet to
  
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• Fischli & Weiss are feline fine in New York

  15-02-2016 22:00
  Tapping into the craze for cat videos, Fischi & Weiss are screening Büssi (Kitty, 2001) on 54 screens across five blocks of New York's Times Square. Shown every day this month shortly before midnight, Büssi accompanies Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (until 27 April). Peter Fischli says: "To do something that's more spectacular than what's going on in Times Square would be impossible. We wanted to do something very simple and quiet:
  
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• A museum of many firsts in Muscat spans two million years of Omani history

  15-02-2016 22:00
  
  The National Museum of Oman, which is due to open in the Arab state’s capital of Muscat in April, is a museum of many firsts. Located opposite the royal Qasr al-Alam Palace, it houses a 7,000-strong collection of objects spanning two million years, most of which have never been shown. The project cost around OMR40m (€95m).The objects range from city maps and manuscripts to life-size replicas of ships, and from weaponry to models of castles and forts. Most come from the Ministry of He
  
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• Will Small, Used-Book Bookstores Be The Last Ones Standing?

  15-02-2016 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The not very glamorous economic answer is that it’s a lot easier to make money selling used books. … On the whole, the problem with new books is that there’s a list price set by the publisher and a discount price that’s also set by the publisher. So, as a new bookseller, you have no control over what the book sells for or what you pay for it. With used books, if you’re smart, you find ways to get them cheap, and you decide what you price them at.”
  
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• Ai Weiwei Keeps The Focus On Refugees

  15-02-2016 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ai Weiwei has covered the front of a Berlin landmark with 14,000 bright orange lifejackets found on the Greek island of Lesbos.”
  
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• Hieronymus Bosch retrospective: An apocalyptic prophet, an explorer of the unconscious, and a perverse fantasist

  15-02-2016 19:39
  
  An influence even now, ahead of a major retrospective of the artist's work, Boyd Tonkin asks if the real Hieronymus Bosch could please stand up
  
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• Composer Steven Stucky, 66

  15-02-2016 19:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Best known for his orchestral music, Stucky wrote for many of the US’s major ensembles, including the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland and, above all, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he was resident composer from 1988-2009.”
  
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• Beyoncé, Jay Z and sophisticated scratch-and-sniff at the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial

  15-02-2016 19:30
  
  Beyoncé and Jay Z were all about the Haas Sisters—a group of South Africa craftswomen who collaborated with the Haas Brothers on a series of beautiful beasties called Afreaks—during their visit to the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, which opened this weekend (through 21 August). But another unexpected commission reminds us that beauty is not for the eye alone: a Central Park scent designed by the Berlin-based artist Sissel Tolaas.
  The fragrance was created from molecules the
  
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• The Woman Who May Decide The Future Of CBS, MTV, Paramount And More

  15-02-2016 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Shari Redstone and her father have famously clashed over the years. Disputes have often centered on who would lead the companies after he was no longer able to do so.”
  
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• Philip Jones Griffiths: Photography prize to be created in honour of Vietnam photojournalist

  15-02-2016 18:47
  
  Jones Griffiths's daughter said the prize would honour independent photographers who embodied her father's philosophy
  
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• Performing for the Camera review – pain, passport photos and genital panic

  15-02-2016 18:34
  
  Tate Modern, LondonFrom a femmed-up Marcel Duchamp to Joseph Beuys in a fisherman’s vest, there is plenty of humour in this survey show of artists acting up for the lens – but it’s the theatre of ordinary life that moves the mostSome 17 years ago, I sat in a chair and watched the artist Jemima Stehli undress. There was a camera watching, and I held the shutter release. As Stehli stripped, I took photo after photo. The camera was on me, and Stehli could only be seen from behind.
  
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• Citing Misty Copeland As An Inspiration, Muslim Teen Hopes To Be First Hijab-Wearing Pro Ballerina

  15-02-2016 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With her crowdfunding effort going viral, “Stephanie Kurlow, from Australia, will have her school fees paid for her by Björn Borg, a company founded by the world-famous Swedish tennis player, after the brand was ‘really moved’ by the teen’s story.”
  
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• Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finding A Balance And Living In the Present

  15-02-2016 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As Salonen’s music becomes increasingly in demand, he keeps finding surprises. For instance, he had had long dreamed of being in the position where different conductors want to premiere his pieces. ‘Mostly that experience has been very good,’ he says. ‘But there is now a new category in my planning, which is hanging around doing nothing.'”
  
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• Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art review – the colours are still druggy, but it’s not the full hookah

  15-02-2016 16:42
  
  National Gallery, LondonThe Romantic artist’s sinful sensuality is dulled in this worthy exhibition that overplays his influence on the French avant-garde while showing too few of Delacroix’s own masterpiecesHero worship is a funny thing. It can inspire and liberate while often being grounded in fantasy. Did David Bowie influence modern culture quite as much as he is currently credited? Do artists really learn anything from other artists or do they just need to believe they do? Creat
  
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• Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art review – hero worship without a hero

  15-02-2016 16:42
  
  National Gallery, LondonThe Romantic artist’s sinful sensuality is dulled in this worthy exhibition that overplays his influence on the French avant-garde while showing too few of Delacroix’s own masterpiecesHero worship is a funny thing. It can inspire and liberate while often being grounded in fantasy. Did David Bowie influence modern culture quite as much as he is currently credited? Do artists really learn anything from other artists or do they just need to believe they do? Creat
  
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• Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art review – a show about hero worship without a hero

  15-02-2016 16:42
  
  National Gallery, LondonThe Romantic artist’s sinful sensuality is dulled in this worthy exhibition that overplays his influence on the French avant-garde while showing too few of Delacroix’s own masterpiecesHero worship is a funny thing. It can inspire and liberate while often being grounded in fantasy. Did David Bowie influence modern culture quite as much as he is currently credited? Do artists really learn anything from other artists or do they just need to believe they do? Creat
  
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• The R-Rated Deadpool Is So Wildly Successful Because It Knows Exactly What Its Fans Want

  15-02-2016 16:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The sizzle reel, the cheeky imagery, the online bandwagon, it all falls in line with the contemporary drift towards fan-inspired cinema, where movie studios feel safest spending money on films with their audience already guaranteed. But Deadpool doesn’t just offer up a hero it thinks the fanbase will love, it offers up an entire world.”
  
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• Science peers into Van Gogh's Bedroom to shine light on colors of artist's mind

  15-02-2016 15:46
  
  A technique called x-ray fluorescence has allowed a glimpse of the original hues of two versions of Van Gogh’s room in Arles that he painted in the 1880sNewly uncovered colors of two van Gogh paintings show how the artist’s darkening life cast a shadow over his work and change the way art experts see the late period of his life.Both paintings portray Vincent van Gogh’s bedroom in Arles, southern France, in the late 1880s, and are part of a new exhibition opening in Chicago. On
  
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• How A Small Site Used Crowdsourcing – And Money – To Become A Powerhouse Of Celebrity Information

  15-02-2016 15:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “TMZ resembles an intelligence agency as much as a news organization, and it has turned its domain, Los Angeles, into a city of stool pigeons. In an e-mail from last year, a photographer reported having four airport sources for the day, including ‘Harold at Delta, Leon at Baggage service, Fred at hudson news, Lyle at Fruit and nut stand.'”
  
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• The Precise Timing That Makes ‘Kinky Boots’ A Success On Broadway

  15-02-2016 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s a whole world underneath the stage. It’s called a ‘trap room,’ and at the Royal Alex, it’s a tight space for sound gear, change areas and a wig station. The musicians are in the orchestra pit, working to a “click track” rhythm and with in-ear monitors to keep in time with the actions on stage. The sound man and a mixing board are upstairs, at the back of the house, where the volume levels of the actors’ wireless microphones are manip
  
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• Baroque Unwrapped, Kings Place, London, review: Pulse of the dance lies at heart of them all

  15-02-2016 13:28
  
  Tepfer's account of Bach's theme had expressive warmth, but his first jazz variation jarred horribly
  
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• The Woman Who Cracked Radio Success By Listening To Her Audience

  15-02-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Those who don’t know the name almost always recognize the voice: a folksy, honeyed, sometimes firm, usually schmaltzy flow that can comfort without condescension and make you want to heed even the harshest advice. That voice is the essence of the show, and during my time in the studio, caller after caller told her how its tone alone has provided comfort at some of their lowest points.”
  
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• Melanie Clore to leave Sotheby’s at the end of February

  15-02-2016 12:45
  
  Melanie Clore, Sotheby’s hugely respected co-chairman of Impressionist and Modern art and chairman of its business in Europe, is leaving at the end of February after 35 years at the auction house.The decision surprised many who know and have worked with her. “She was a lifer there,” says Alexander Platon, now a senior director at Marlborough Fine Art gallery and previously head of private sales for Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern art department in Europe. “She w
  
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• Ai Weiwei wraps Berlin landmark in lifejackets in memory of drowned refugees

  15-02-2016 12:27
  
  In remembrance of the thousands of refugees who have drowned making the perilous journey to Europe, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has covered the front of a Berlin landmark with 14,000 bright orange lifejackets found on the Greek island of Lesbos.
  Members of Ai’s Berlin studio created the work on Saturday (13 February) by wrapping the vests around the six Ionic columns at the north entrance of the city’s Konzerthaus. The annual Cinema for Peace gala is being held at the venue today (
  
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• Engineers asked children to come up with useless inventions then actually made them

  15-02-2016 11:41
  
  'You insert the baby in the pouch and attach the paint splatter blanket onto the wall and your baby sleeps on the wall.'
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 02.14.16

  15-02-2016 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Editors’ Choice: Some ArtsJournal Stories You Shouldn’t Miss From The Past Week
  1. This week in What-Does-The-Audience-Want?Cheaper tickets, for sure. Or at least the opportunity to pay what they want.  One theatre converted its season to pay-as-you-want and saw a 50% increase in audience. But perhaps it’s… … read more
  AJBlog: DiacriticalPublished 2016-02-14
   
  Coming into land
  Shouldn’t ballet have previews? Wouldn’t it help dancers and chore
  
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• How Did This Group Shoot A Mindbendingly Great Music Video In Zero Gravity?

  15-02-2016 06:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The new video is but the latest reminder that OK Go is a band, yes, but also something more. Ross says the band sees itself a kind of freewheeling creative factory, where catchy songs exist alongside viral videos, and things like collaborations with airlines and experiments like OK Go working to encode its latest album, Hungry Ghosts—from which ‘Upside Down & Inside Out’ is taken—onto strands of DNA.”
  
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• Guess What Other Film Awards Aren’t Exactly Diverse? The BAFTAs

  15-02-2016 06:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ms. Berry told the Telegraph: ‘Not enough films are being made with diverse talent in front of the camera. Our industry isn’t diverse enough, so the pool of people to draw award winners from isn’t diverse enough. I want the awards to be as diverse as they possibly can be. But people can only vote on what they’ve seen.'”
  
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• The Woman Who Runs PR For Hollywood During Oscar Bait Season

  15-02-2016 05:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ms. Siegal, 68, has employed sharp elbows and inexhaustible energy reservoirs to claim a unique social position in New York and the Hamptons: as a host for hire for clubby, insider-only film screenings and dinners for the influential, she stands at the crossroads of Hollywood power and New York society (or what’s left of it), functioning as a spin doctor, salonista, celebrity confidante and, occasionally, bouncer.”
  
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• The Movies Used To Be An Escape From Work, And Now They’re All About Work

  15-02-2016 04:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The somber message of these movies — most of them contenders for best film or acting honors in this year’s Oscar race — is that we have become our jobs. ‘I think, therefore I am’ has been updated to ‘I work, therefore I exist.’ Not only has private life been squeezed out, but personal happiness, when it is captured, is also celebrated as a boon for productivity.”
  
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• The Sanders Campaign Has A House DJ? Yes It Does

  15-02-2016 03:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘The Internet went a little crazy last week,’ Mr. Sandico said, referring to the Iowa party. ‘I was just like, ‘I’m going to play Rob Base,’ and everyone was like ‘Oh, my God, I’m hearing Rob Base at a political event.’'”
  
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• What (The Hell) Went Wrong With St. Mark’s Bookshop, RIP?

  15-02-2016 03:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a neighborhood that is wearily familiar with the closing of local fixtures (two recent blows were Sounds record store and De Robertis pastry shop), the demise of St. Mark’s Bookshop stands out as painfully, publicly prolonged — one former employee I spoke to compared it to ‘watching a puddle evaporate.'”
  
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• Cuba Is Getting The Full Hollywood Treatment

  15-02-2016 02:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘It’s great that people from Hollywood want to come to Cuba, but it’s caught us at a bad moment,’ said Carlos Lechuga, a Cuban director. ‘We have stories to tell, and right now we don’t feel that we can do that.'”
  
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• ‘The Revenant’ Sweeps The BAFTAs As We Edge Toward The Oscars

  15-02-2016 00:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is the list of winners, but don’t miss the rather funny Guardian liveblog as well, linked here.
  
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• Is The Art Market Self-Correcting Right Now?

  15-02-2016 00:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The shakiness comes amid tumult in stock markets around the world. Sagging oil prices, weakness in global banking sectors, and slowing economies in China and emerging markets all contributed to the markets’ volatile start to 2016.”
  
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