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• Heck, Why Not Just Add A Third, Robotic Arm To Percussionists’ Shoulders?

  22-02-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘It’s a richer and more sophisticated rhythm because you can hit one more thing,’ said Gil Weinberg, director of the Center for Music Technology at Georgia Tech. The robotic arm is capable of hitting a drum up to 20 times per second, a rate that’s impossible for humans. And it never needs a break.”
  
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• Untitled(i see a generation that hasn’t said what is art, she said.

  22-02-2016 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i crossed sandy blvd. h was there in a black skirt. her thumb got bigger every time i saw it. it was like a culinary tool.my white sneakers were clumsy. i felt ugly not having made money. the pork sandwich i had made me nauseous. i felt like incest. the pork had had its shapeand texture and now it had no shape.b cared about me. i knew that she did. i could see her suffer for me unlike another woman i liked who didn’t care for me. i wanted to see the man she likes. she said that she had bee
  
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• ‘Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection’ at Yokohama Museum of Art

  22-02-2016 22:02 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection: From Shōhaku and Rosanjin to Anselm Kiefer” is on view at Yokohama Museum of Art in Yokohama, Japan, through Sunday, April 3. The … Read More
  
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• The Artist Recreating The Sistine Chapel – In Mexico

  22-02-2016 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Sistine Chapel has been partially reproduced around the world—in museums, as well as bars and restaurants. Mr. Macías says his work will be the only copy of all 33 panels that has been done in a church, which, by luck, has a ceiling nearly the same size and curvature of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.”
  
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• New York’s Laurel Gitlen Gallery Closes

  22-02-2016 21:54 via artnews.com
  While a new gallery seems to open on the Lower East Side just about every week these days, one of the neighborhood’s longtime residents, Laurel Gitlen, is closing. Gitlen, who opened up in the area seven years ago, announced her … Read More
  
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• Use This One Little Word In Your Thriller Title To Turn It Into A Bestseller

  22-02-2016 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s this sort of shorthand that if it has ‘girl’ in the title, then I know what to expect.”
  
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• Betty Tompkins at the FLAG Art Foundation

  22-02-2016 20:30 via artnews.com
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• The Secret Lives Of Tumblr Teens, Making Millions With Nary A Ducklips Selfie In Sight

  22-02-2016 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Teens are free to express their low self-esteem on Tumblr, but they have confidence in one thing: Everyone will steal their jokes. A study by Priceonomics found that Tumblr is the top source for BuzzFeed’s viral content. The site’s biggest story in 2015—a photo of a dress that looked blue-and-black or white-and-gold—was found on Tumblr.”
  
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• CAM St. Louis Chief Curator Jeffrey Uslip Named Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs

  22-02-2016 19:45 via artnews.com
  The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis announced today that its chief curator, Jeffrey Uslip, has been additionally appointed to the newly created post of deputy director for exhibitions and programs. In his expanded role, Uslip will be working with the … Read More
  
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• Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Names Steven Nash Board President

  22-02-2016 19:08 via artnews.com
  The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation has named Steven Nash as board president, filling the position left open by the death of Diebenkorn’s widow, Phyllis Diebenkorn, last year. Nash, a noted Diebenkorn scholar, served as co-curator and essayist for Diebenkorn’s much-lauded retrospective at … Read More
  
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• Ukraine Uses Eurovision Competition To Send Pointed Message To Russia

  22-02-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The lyrics begin: ‘They come to your house, they kill you all and say: ‘We’re not guilty’.'”
  
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• Richard Serra and Lawrence Weiner Sign Open Letter Against FBI Attempts to Crack iPhone

  22-02-2016 18:39 via artnews.com
  Today, the PEN American Center published an open letter to United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch calling for an end to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s attempts, in the aid of its investigation into the San Bernardino shootings, to force Apple … Read More
  
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• The Making-Up Oscar And Why It Matters

  22-02-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A win for DiCaprio would continue a long Oscar trad­ition: Right Person, Wrong Year. The Academy has a consistent pattern of giving the award — or at least a nomination — to someone who totally deserved it for a different film. Often this happens because voters who should know better favor conspicuous acting over subtlety. Sometimes Academy members are out of sync with the times because they’re making up for previous slights.”
  
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• Delacroix exhibition: A major new exhibition shows how the painter was vital to Impressionism

  22-02-2016 17:29
  
  Eugène Delacroix was wildly underappreciated in his own lifetime, but now is recognised for his supernatural voluptuousness
  
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• Kanye West’s Steve McQueen–Helmed Video Leaks

  22-02-2016 17:18 via artnews.com
  At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in July, the museum’s director, Michael Govan, sat down with Steve McQueen and Kanye West for a freewheeling conversation about art, race, music, and film. I was there, and even though they … Read More
  
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• Kanye West’s Steve McQueen–Helmed Video Is Finally Released

  22-02-2016 17:18 via artnews.com
  At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in July, the museum’s director, Michael Govan, sat down with Steve McQueen and Kanye West for a freewheeling conversation about art, race, music, and film. I was there, and even though they … Read More
  
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• Why Are So-Called Bad Words Actually Bad?

  22-02-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It might have little to do with the sound or force of the words: “Swearing is a form of dispreferred linguistic behaviour.”
  
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• The Cambridge cockerel is no Cecil Rhodes statue – it should be treated as a masterpiece

  22-02-2016 16:24
  
  Students are calling for the cockerel of Jesus College, looted from Benin in 1897, to be returned to Africa. But it could still find an appropriate home in the UKStudents are right to be unhappy about the sculpture from Benin that stands in the hall of Jesus College, Cambridge. It should either be repatriated, as students demand, or displayed in a totally different place and context.Related: Cambridge college's bronze cockerel must go back to Nigeria, students sayRelated: Looted artefacts, imper
  
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• Jeremy Mikolajczak Named CEO of Tucson Museum of Art

  22-02-2016 16:21 via artnews.com
  The Tucson Museum of Art board of trustees has announced the appointment of Jeremy M. Mikolajczak as chief executive officer, filling the position left vacant after the retirement of Dr. Robert Knight.Mikolajczak has served as executive director and chief curator … Read More
  
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• The Light Sculpture That Uses Space Data To Entertain French Drivers Stuck In Traffic

  22-02-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Grasso used data collected by the French Space Observatory to create an algorithm that translates real-time solar activity into a dynamic, constantly fluctuating color and light show.”
  
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• The 11 Most Shocking Things About New York, According To Robert Caro

  22-02-2016 15:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I started to realize, I was doing political reporting, and I came to realize almost by accident that this guy Robert Moses had so much power. He wanted to build this bridge across Long Island Sound, and Newsday had me look into it.”
  
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• Morning Links: Met Breuer Expectations Edition

  22-02-2016 14:41 via artnews.com
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• David Hockney to get retrospective at Tate Britain next year

  22-02-2016 12:53
  
  The California-based artist David Hockney is having his moment in the sun. After his triumphant exhibition of landscapes at the Royal Academy in 2012, which pulled in 600,000 visitors, the British artist is to have a major retrospective at Tate Britain. Opening in 2017, it will be one of the largest exhibitions Tate Britain has ever staged. A second show at the Royal Academy featuring 70 portraits by Hockney is due to open in July.The art market is also sitting up and taking notice. Last week t
  
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• Photos of porn sets after everybody's gone home

  22-02-2016 12:46
  
  'As a cleaner I saw the sets in the cold light of day and picking up and cleaning the mess was a bit like being in a crime scene.'
  
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• Umberto Eco, explorer of beauty, dies aged 84

  22-02-2016 11:41
  
  The Italian writer, philosopher and semiotician, Umberto Eco, who died on 19 February, is best known for his clever and shadowy historical thrillers such as The Name of the Rose (1980) and Foucault’s Pendulum (1988). 
  But during his tenure as professor of semiotics at Bologna University, Eco also wrote pivotal non-fiction works assessing the meaning and form of beauty. These include On Beauty: a History of a Western Idea, his 2004 treatise about the history of aesthetics in European
  
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• When Beltran Masses painted Joan and Douglas

  22-02-2016 08:25
  
  The Cuban-born, Spanish artist Federico Beltran Masses (1885-1949) is one of art history’s more colourful characters. Beltran Masses settled in Paris in 1916, and is best known for his dramatic portraits of seductive women, a selection of which can be seen in an exhibition of his works at London’s Stair Sainty gallery (until 24 March). The show features 16 paintings made between 1911 and 1934—highlights include his most scandalous work, Salome (1918). But Beltra
  
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• Concrete plan: building the Barbican in the 1970s– in pictures

  22-02-2016 08:00
  
  An urban utopia of concert halls, fountains and art galleries at the heart of a housing estate? Peter Bloomfield reveals his cache of photographs charting the construction of a British brutalist iconContinue reading...
  
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• Cairo gallery bemoans unprecedented censorship as it prepares to reopen

  22-02-2016 08:00
  
  Director of Townhouse gallery, which was shut by authorities in December, says it is being allowed to reopen under strict legal restrictionsThe director of one of Egypt’s most respected art galleries has warned it faces unprecedented censorship as it seeks to reopen to the public next month after being shut down by the authorities in December.William Wells, the director of Townhouse gallery, said staff were allowed to return last week, having been given two weeks to comply with new legal r
  
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• Cairo art gallery faces state censorship as it prepares to reopen following raid

  22-02-2016 08:00
  
  Director of Townhouse gallery, which was shut by authorities in December, says it is being allowed to reopen under strict legal restrictionsThe director of one of Egypt’s most respected art galleries has warned it faces unprecedented censorship as it seeks to reopen to the public next month after being shut down by the authorities in December.William Wells, the director of Townhouse gallery, said staff were allowed to return last week, having been given two weeks to comply with new legal r
  
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• Advice For The New Contemporary-Focused Met, From Contemporary New York Artists

  22-02-2016 07:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The half-hearted attempts at diversity, minor noodling with the canon, and ‘re-presentations’ of collections are not enough. New histories are needed, a major reboot, if these institutions want to be relevant to future audiences.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 02.21.16

  22-02-2016 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Met versus The Met–At Least People Care
  I am, of course, talking about the Metropolitan Museum* and the Metropolitan Opera. Since I last posted, on the Met Museum’s new logo, many people have weighed in both here and on other sites as… … read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2016-02-21
   
  Shakespeare Wisely Shaken Up
  John Scott and Valda Setterfield’s Lear. King Lear (Setterfield) besieged by a storm: Kevin Coquelard (L) and Marcus Bellamy. Photo: Mar
  
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• Can Chris Rock Do Anything To Save Oscars Ratings?

  22-02-2016 06:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The ratings numbers are of paramount concern to the academy, which derives the largest part of its income from the awards ceremony. Last year the audience fell 15 percent, to about 37.3 million viewers. At the same time, ABC has been raising prices for its ads; they now cost an average of $1.9 million to $2 million for a 30-second spot.”
  
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• David Hockney at 31 - exhibition review: archive, 22 Feb 1969

  22-02-2016 06:00
  
  22 February 1969: He paints water again and again, finding new signs and symbols for it, and it becomes a gameBehind him lie seven years of fame. I had heard of him earlier when he was still at Bradford School of Art, but it was in 1961 that he shot on to the art stage in that year’s Young Contemporaries show. His fame has spread since then. Exhibitions everywhere, high prices, prizes British and foreign, a personality to be filmed and interviewed, photogenic with his blond hair and innoce
  
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• The Writer Star Of Hamilton Uses His Social Media Powers To Help A Damaged Bookshop

  22-02-2016 05:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “According to a manager at [Manhattan’s] Drama Book Shop, online sales have spiked thanks to Manuel’s efforts. ‘After having an inundation through water, we had an inundation on Internet through orders.'”
  
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• Every Single Movie Studio And Most TV Makers Failed (Hard) In New Study

  22-02-2016 04:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When we start to step back to see this larger ecology, I think we see a picture of exclusion. … And it doesn’t match the norms of the population of the United States.”
  
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• How Voiceover Actors Make Drug Ads Less Scary

  22-02-2016 03:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘The challenge is saying all these really scary things, but in a way that people aren’t frightened,’ said Debbie Irwin, a New York-based voice actor who also does medical narration. Irwin has done voiceover work for hospitals, medical technology companies, and drugs like Surfaxin, a treatment for a respiratory condition. The tone Irwin tries to take? ‘Warm but factual,’ she said. ‘Absolutely I’m gonna sound like I know what the hell I’m talk
  
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• Teen Movies Used To Care About Working-Class Kids, But Now? Nope

  22-02-2016 03:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Documentaries will be the best record of this time in our country’s history. Documentaries aren’t as hopeful as movies. They’re not as pretty either, but they’ll give it to us straight. They’ll give us the cash-poor, or the crazy, or horrifyingly illegal practices of the filthy rich, or racially-infused violence. They’ll deliver subjects that filmmakers have otherwise been avoiding.”
  
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• Three New York artists share their advice for the Met Breuer

  22-02-2016 02:46
  
  We asked three New York-based artists—Deborah Kass, Natalie Frank and T.J. Wilcox—to tell us their hopes and dreams for the Met Breuer, which is due to open on Madison Avenue on 18 March. Here is their advice to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is leasing the space from the Whitney Museum for eight years.Natalie FrankThe Met has a comprehensive collection, unlike any other in the United States and one of the finest in the world. The ability to draw on this history and these obje
  
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• The Art Of An Anti-Capitalist Mini-Golf Course

  22-02-2016 02:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A sculpture by John Akomfrah forces you to putt into the face of a kneeling figure wearing a hoodie – an obstacle inspired by the deaths of African Americans killed by the police in the US.”
  
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• Met Breuer takes the long view of contemporary art

  22-02-2016 02:00
  
  There are more places to see Modern and contemporary art in New York right now than ever before. On 18 March, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will add yet another. With the opening of the Met Breuer, the museum will have 75% more space to devote to Modern and contemporary work, long considered an area of weakness for the encyclopaedic institution. How can it stand out amid unprecedented competition?
  
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• Knoedler courthouse sketches on show

  22-02-2016 01:54
  
  For those New Yorkers who weren’t able to attend the closely watched Knoedler trial in person, don’t fret. A pop-up exhibition of courtroom sketches (many of which were used to illustrate articles in The Art Newspaper) opens today at the World Trade Gallery in the Financial District, featuring the work of the two artists that covered the trial Elizabeth Williams and Victor Juhasz (22-27 February 2016). Highlights of the selling show include a rendering of the Italian businessman Dom
  
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• David Hockney show will be one of Tate Britain's biggest ever

  22-02-2016 01:31
  
  Extensive retrospective in 2017 will cover six decades of artist’s work from early homoerotic paintings to recent LA piecesTate Britain is to stage one of the biggest shows it has ever organised – an extensive retrospective of the work of David Hockney, one of the most recognisable and popular artists active today.Details of the show, which will cover six decades of Hockney’s work, will be announced on Monday. It will open in London in 2017 before travelling to the Centre Pompi
  
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• David Hockney: Tate Britain to chart 'unique' artist's six-decade career

  22-02-2016 01:17
  
  Major exhibition opening in February next year will be the world's most extensive retrospective of the British artist
  
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• The International Filmmakers Flipping Hollywood’s Scripts

  22-02-2016 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Increasingly films such as ‘Sivas’ and other foreign-language movies, including those nominated for this year’s Academy Awards, are chipping at the edges of American dominance. Talented directors and advances in digital filmmaking are helping countries rarely associated with movie production to gain acclaim for turning out intriguing counter-narratives to familiar themes.”
  
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• We Use Digital Technology To Store Our History, But That’s A Problem

  22-02-2016 00:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Centuries ago, people also felt overwhelmed by too much information. They thought it was terrible to print in books, and even people like Thomas Jefferson thought the downfall of the world would be all these people reading novels and entertaining themselves.”
  
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