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• Using Dance To Teach Math (It Works)

  23-02-2016 23:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Teachers call such melding of art and traditional subjects “art integration,” and it’s a new and increasingly popular way of bringing the arts into the classroom. Instead of art as a stand-alone subject, teachers are using dance, drama and the visual arts to teach a variety of academic subjects in a more engaging way.
  
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• Glenn Gould’s Piano, A Love Affair

  23-02-2016 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Once he got it, he said, ‘It’s done, this is the instrument for the rest of my life’. Until one day it got dropped off the back of a truck.”
  
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• Armory Show: One of largest collections of African art to go on display in New York

  23-02-2016 22:26
  
  The Armory Show was started in 1994 and has become one of the most prestigious art shows in the city
  
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• The sophisticated sweep of Florentine Mannerism

  23-02-2016 22:00
  In 1512, after nearly two decades in exile, the Medici family returned to Florence. This event is the opening context for the exhibition Maniera: Pontormo, Bronzino and Medici Florence at the Städel Museum, Germany’s first show on the development of Tuscan Mannerism, the sophisticated, contrived and often strangely playful style that followed the High Renaissance.
  The show of 130 objects includes 120 loans and features paintings, drawings, tapestries, sculptures and examples of archit
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: Subodh Gupta cooks up a storm in Somerset, Soviet influence in Africa, and Albert Oehlen paints ‘all kinds of crazy shit’

  23-02-2016 22:00
  
  Subodh Gupta: Invisible Reality, Hauser & Wirth Somerset (until 2 May)Subodh Gupta’s trademark cooking pots are in abundance in his current show at Hauser & Wirth’s Somerset outpost. Gleaming steel vessels sprout like bizarre clusters of shiny fruit from a life-sized stainless steel tree that greets visitors in the farmyard, while inside a huge burnished brass pot dangles from the rafters of the ancient threshing barn. Rather less pristine are the grimy salvaged aluminium ut
  
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• Paris’s FIAC puts Officielle satellite fair on hold

  23-02-2016 22:00
  
  The organisers of the Paris Modern and contemporary art fair Fiac have postponed this year’s edition of the satellite fair Officielle, scheduled to open in October. Reed Exhibitions has not proposed a replacement to offer the 60 galleries that had already signed up for the event—but it has announced a new offering for its Fiac exhibitors at the Petit Palais.The candidate galleries for the 2016 edition of Officielle, a satellite fair dedicated to emerging art, are expected to receive
  
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• Every little thing Sting buys is auction magic

  23-02-2016 22:00
  
  Sting must be walking in fields of gold after his auction at Christie’s today, 24 February, soared above its high estimate of £1.9m to make £2.5m, or £3m with fees. The most expensive lot was an abstract painting by the British Modernist Ben Nicholson from 1955, which more than doubled its low estimate to sell for £850,000 (£1m with premium). The singer, who is clearing out his multi-million pound mansion ahead of a move to Battersea Power Station, also sold
  
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• A timeline of African American history, told through quilts

  23-02-2016 21:45
  
  And Still We Rise: Race, Culture and Visual Conversations, a travelling exhibition of quilts currently on show at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, is a “historical timeline… to talk about the history of the presence of African Americans in [the United States]”, says its curator, the artist and historian Carolyn Mazloomi. “Everybody’s familiar with quilts, so it’s an easy way to talk about and address difficult subject matter.” It’s als
  
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• The Numbers Are In: Hollywood (Lack Of) Diversity Detailed

  23-02-2016 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The top-line takeaways from USC’s Comprehensive Annenberg Report on Diversity in Entertainment, released today, paint a bleak picture of inclusivity in Hollywood, at a time when movements including #OscarsSoWhite and a campaign to reduce the gender gap seem to be constantly making headlines. The statistics also undercut the critics or viewers who claim that “political correctness” rules TV casting decisions.”
  
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• Marcelo Gomes On Being An Out Gay Ballet Star Whose Roles Are Always Hetero

  23-02-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He says he doesn’t ever wonder why all the roles for men in ballet are straight – ‘that’s where your acting ability comes in, and when I’m kissing Juliet, I’m not myself” – but it is a little odd that a discipline that outsiders so strongly associate with gay men is built entirely on a canon of straight love stories.”
  
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• The Winner Of The First Best Actor Oscar Was Robbed By Louis B. Mayer! (And Other Academy Lore)

  23-02-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This particular story was confirmed by Susan Orlean while she was researching a book. It seems Mr. Mayer was convinced that awarding the real winner of the first round of voting would set a bad precedent. (Grrrr.)
  
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• ‘Close-Up’ at Eye FilmMuseum, Amsterdam

  23-02-2016 19:59 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Habitat: Los Angeles

  23-02-2016 19:19 via artnews.com
  Visits to the studios of 16 artists over the next 16 weeks Read More
  
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• Why The Met Museum’s New Breuer Museum Could Change Art In New York

  23-02-2016 19:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Per the institution’s own recent messaging, the Met’s commitment to an historically and geographically expanded view of modern and contemporary art means the museum can contemplate doing the one thing New York museums have ignored for decades—namely, reconsider today’s market-driven contemporary canon.”
  
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• The Devil in the Details: Kenneth Anger, the Inventor of a Celluloid Avant-Garde, Nears 90

  23-02-2016 18:37 via artnews.com
  With his films moving from fringe theaters to MoMA, the director grants a rare interview at his old Hollywood haunts Read More
  
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• Five things to do in Vienna, the world’s most liveable city

  23-02-2016 18:14
  
  The Austrian capital officially offers the highest quality of life on the planet. Even if you don’t live there, here’s how to make the most of a visitIt’s no surprise that Vienna tops the Mercer Quality of Life index worldwide. Glorious history, access to mountains (take the cog railway up the Schneeberg, 90 minutes away), decent cafes and Franz Ferdinand’s bullet-riddled car: what more do you want? I first met Vienna on a five-hour train layover en route to Budapest and
  
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• We’re Addicted To TV. Can The Arts Compete?

  23-02-2016 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Given the tendency to be distrustful of television, we were curious: are people going to be worse off on average watching TV instead of engaging in other, potentially more enriching, activities? Is there an opportunity here to improve wellbeing through the arts?”
  
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• Seth Cardew obituary

  23-02-2016 18:10
  
  Sculptor and potter who took over his father’s pottery at Wenford Bridge, CornwallSeth Cardew, who has died aged 81, was a sculptor and potter who from the mid-1970s maintained a family tradition at Wenford Bridge in Cornwall. His magnificent platters, bowls and large jars had grace and balance, and he could paint freehand with breathtaking fluency on pots, developing and enriching designs pioneered by his father.An entertaining teacher, he would muse philosophically on the special qualiti
  
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• Traditional Newspapers Are Doomed. Now A Fight For Control Of Distribution

  23-02-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Having a legacy business configured around a website is now almost as much of a headache as the rumbling printing press, fuelled by paper and money. It is likely we will start to see studio or agency models emerge where publishing models once were, trying to create value around relationships and services rather than packages and products.”
  
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• Francis Bacon: final painting found in 'very private' collection

  23-02-2016 17:12
  
  Study of a Bull, 1991, has never been publicly seen, reproduced, discussed or written aboutIt could be a bull backing in to a burning, black void or one escaping it, moving hopefully into the heavenly light. What seems certain is that this final, extraordinary painting by Francis Bacon, unseen and undocumented until now, is by an artist who knows he is soon to die. Related: Francis Bacon biography researcher finds friend's unpublished diariesRelated: Debauchery and darkness: 30 years of drinking
  
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• Branford Marsalis Talks About The Differences Between Classical And Jazz

  23-02-2016 16:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Classical music makes me a much better saxophonist than jazz does. Because for saxophone technique, guys end up playing fast stuff. In classical music, you just have to develop a technique to execute melodies and ideas that are beyond the linear ways that we tend to think about music. And that’s the challenge of it for me.”
  
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• The Wooster Group’s Pinter Misfire (The Right To Go There?)

  23-02-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Pinter estate is under no obligation to explain its thinking, of course, regardless of how much theatregoers might disagree. But the premature closure of this production is a loss not only to the respective bodies of work of Harold Pinter and the Wooster Group, but to the theatre in general.”
  
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• The Artist’s Institute, Manhattan’s Indefinable Art Space, Heads Uptown

  23-02-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  Inaugurates Upper East Side branch with Hilton Als season Read More
  
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• How Cat Hair Busted A Pair Of Art Forgers

  23-02-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Felines and art crimes do not mix, people.
  
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• Francis Bacon’s first and last paintings to go on show in Monaco

  23-02-2016 16:00
  
  An exhibition on Francis Bacon in Monaco will include the artist’s first and last paintings. The show, opening in July at the Grimaldi Forum, is being organised with the recently established Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation, set up by the Lebanese-born businessman Majid Boustany. He is a Swiss national now resident in Monaco, where he owns a stake in the Hotel Metropole. In the past few years Boustany has acquired 2,500 Bacon items, mainly documentary material but also some important early
  
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• China: No More Weird Architecture!

  23-02-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A directive issued on Sunday by the State Council, China’s cabinet, and the Communist Party’s Central Committee says no to architecture that is “oversized, xenocentric, weird” and devoid of cultural tradition. Instead, buildings should be “suitable, economic, green and pleasing to the eye.”
  
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• Some Of Our Classics Are Racist. How Do We Deal With It?

  23-02-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Like many composers, I owe Richard Rodgers a lot. Pedestals do exist for a reason. But pedestals don’t excuse politics that can be said to be backwards, even by the measure of their own times.”
  
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• Here Is the Exhibitor List for the 2016 Dallas Art Fair

  23-02-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  The Dallas Art Fair will return for its eighth edition in 2016, running from April 14 through 17 at the Fashion Industry Gallery. In conjunction with the fair, there will be various events at institutions across Dallas, including the opening … Read More
  
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• Coping With Culture Shock Through Pictograms

  23-02-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When graphic designer Yang Liu moved from Beijing to Berlin at age 13, she found herself in culture shock.‘I discovered – almost on a daily basis – that things were quite the contrary of what I was used to, starting with social customs and extending all the way to fundamental ways of thinking.” (pictured: “Sunshine” and “Leisure Time”)
  
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• US academic takes the helm of London’s Soane museum

  23-02-2016 15:06
  
  Bruce Boucher is to take over as director of the Sir John Soane’s Museum in May. A US citizen, he taught art history at University College London for 24 years. Boucher later worked at the Art Institute of Chicago and since 2009 has been the director of the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. Abraham Thomas, the previous Soane director, left last October, after less than two years in the post.
  Boucher is a specialist in Italian art and architecture, from the Renaissance to
  
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• The new Vogue documentary raises five burning questions

  23-02-2016 15:06
  
  Andrew Rossi’s The First Monday in May, is a behind-the-scenes look at last year’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s China: Through the Looking Glass – AKA the fashion event of the year, the Met Ball. Here are the questions the trailer raises‘Fashion … it’s a kind of theatre.” You betcha, Anna Wintour. Which is why the trailer for the new behind-the-scenes Vogue film The First Monday in May is tantalisingly good. The documentary follows the team at Vog
  
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• ‘Nollywood’ – Nigeria Has Become Africa’s Moviemaking Powerhouse

  23-02-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Nollywood generates about 2,500 movies a year, making it the second-biggest producer after Bollywood in India, and its films have displaced American, Indian and Chinese ones on the televisions that are ubiquitous in bars, hair salons, airport lounges and homes across Africa.”
  
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• Morning Links: Message in a Bottle Edition

  23-02-2016 14:46 via artnews.com
  MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE Three years ago, American painter George Boorujy put a message in a bottle and launched it into the sea at New York Harbor. Recently, French painter Brigitte Barthelemy found it washed up on a shore 3,542 … Read More
  
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• ‘Hamilton’ Wins $100K Award For Historical Drama

  23-02-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The hit Broadway show, which uses hip-hop and other contemporary musical styles to chronicle the life and death of Alexander Hamilton, seems tailor-made for the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History, which, as its name suggests, seeks to honor ‘a new play or musical that enlists theater’s power to explore the past of the United States.””
  
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• The Risk Of New Story Ballets

  23-02-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This month, Christopher Wheeldon’s Strapless and Justin Peck’s The Most Incredible Thing got an unusually negative reception. “There’s a similar harshness in the takedowns of these two works (from both critics and audiences) that caught my attention. You don’t typically see such severe reactions to non-narrative works. Why are people so upset by these pieces?” Jennifer Stahl explains.
  
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• Revived New York City Opera Announces Rest Of Its First Season (And It’s Way More Interesting Than ‘Tosca’)

  23-02-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The reorganized company, which began its first, abbreviated season last month with a consciously old-fashioned production of Puccini’s Tosca as a nod to the first work City Opera performed in 1944, chose [Daniel Catán’s Florencia en las Amazonas] and two other contemporary pieces to round out the season.”
  
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• Google's portrait app is fun – but no robot will ever replace Rembrandt

  23-02-2016 14:06
  
  Google’s developed a machine that turns smartphone photos into portraits. Why do we think we can get art from something that couldn’t outwit a cat?Lo and behold, the art of portraiture has now been replaced by an app and a robotic arm. Just put a beret on your mobile and let it sketch you. No need to bother with artists ever again. That, in so many words, seems to be the message of the new tool from Google’s Creative Lab, just unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
  
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• A robot Rembrandt? I'll eat my beret!

  23-02-2016 14:06
  
  Google has invented a device that turns smartphone photos into portraits. Nice try, guys – but machines will never sketch like Van Gogh, Rembrandt and PicassoLo and behold, the art of portraiture has now been replaced by an app and a robotic arm. Just put a beret on your mobile and let it sketch you. No need to bother with artists ever again. That, in so many words, seems to be the message of the new tool from Google’s Creative Lab, just unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barce
  
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• Minnesota Orchestra’s Concertmaster On Doing Her Job While Married To The Maestro

  23-02-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Erin Keefe, who married Osmo Vänskä last April: “I haven’t felt any awkwardness. He’s here only 12 weeks a year; I’m here 28 weeks. When we are here together, we don’t bring anything inappropriate to rehearsal.”
  
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• The Leading Black Filmmaker Of The Silent Era (Yes, There Was One)

  23-02-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While Hollywood was the biggest player, there were independent film companies throughout the country. Chicago was the Hollywood of ‘race films’ – movies produced for an all-black audience – and black filmmakers owned production companies throughout the city.” The most prolific of them all was one Oscar Micheaux.
  
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• Top tips for early career artists

  23-02-2016 13:30
  
  From personal values to professional bios, Sky Academy arts scholars past and present share their steps to career successShare your insights and tips below the lineCreative blocks
  There will always be times when you have to deal with some sort of creative block (and it usually comes when there’s a looming deadline). Developing your own way to deal with it will become crucial to your career. Settle on a clear bio … having 300-, 150- and 50-word versions is ideal. Related: How should
  
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• Lots Of Folks Talk About Diversifying Museum Staffs; This Group Is Doing Something About It

  23-02-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Meet the founders of the organization Museum Hue.
  
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• Hong Kong gets first major view of Uli Sigg’s collection for the M+ museum

  23-02-2016 12:54
  
  Hong Kong’s culturati were out in full force last night (22 February) for the private view of the exhibition M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art, which opens to the public today.The VIP opening ceremony was held at Artistree, an exhibition space in an office tower in the Quarry Bay district. A large contingent flew in from mainland China for the occasion, including artists—among them the abstract painter Ding Yi—collectors such as Qiao Zhibing, and art
  
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• Skid Robot: the street artist drawing attention to LA's homeless residents

  23-02-2016 12:00
  
  The anonymous artist draws countryside, beaches and thrones around Skid Row in Los Angeles – raising awareness of a population that’s growing to crisis pointPast midnight, down by the LA River, a tagger puts the finishing touches on the image of a tiki hut surrounded by palms. The idyllic island scene stands in ironic contrast to the dry cement lakebed, chain link, trash and downtown skyline on the other side. When a homeless man approaches with a warning, “the police!” t
  
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• Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar faces down Donald Trump over immigration

  23-02-2016 11:00
  
  The Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar has installed a work in Juarez, Mexico, which he says is a “monument to the global issue of migration”. The Ramallah-based artist says the idea for the piece was prompted by the US Republican Party’s hardline stance on immigration—especially presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to build a wall on the US border with Mexico.
  Jarrar’s new work, christened Khaled’s Ladder by the local community, incorporates pa
  
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• Art of darkness: Frank Underwood portrait unveiled in Washington DC

  23-02-2016 10:48
  
  Life imitates art, and vice versa, in the strangest way with the unveiling of a portrait yesterday (22 February) at Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery of Frank Underwood, the dastardly protagonist of the hugely popular Netflix show, House of Cards. The London-based artist Jonathan Yeo has caught the villainous politician on canvas, who has schemed and plotted in the best Machiavellian tradition over three series to become US President. Underwood is played by Kevin Spacey who arrived
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.22.16

  23-02-2016 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pat Martino And Kenny Barron At The Portland Festival
  Pat Martino and Kenny Barron, two of the many Philadelphians appearing at the 2016 Portland Jazz Festival, led their groups in a concert at the Winningstad Theatre. First up, guitarist Martino’s trio with organist  … read more
  AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-02-23Misprision
  In performing Billy Strayhorn’s “Lush Life,” some singers deliver the subtle, and possibly difficult to pronounce word combinatio
  
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• Bruce Munro’s light installation to illuminate Ayers Rock

  23-02-2016 09:31
  
  A sprawling art installation is to light up the night sky in the desert surrounding Ayers Rock in Australia. The British artist Bruce Munro will unveil his Field of Light on 1 April around 10km from the monumental sandstone monolith, which is sacred to Aboriginal people and known by them as Uluru.
  Field of Light, which will remain in situ for a year, consists of 50,000 stems, each topped with a frosted bulb; these are connected to projectors powered by solar panels via fibre-optic cables. The l
  
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