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• Hundreds Of Thousands Flock To India’s Book Festivals

  24-02-2016 23:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As the festivals have blossomed, they have also turned into something more than strictly literary: a mixture of the public square and the television studio, or forums where India talks to itself.”
  
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• John Killacky: What I Learned From My Week On Twitter

  24-02-2016 23:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “My tweets got 102,700 impressions over the week, averaging 14,700 per day. However, the engagement rate was only 1.6%, which is pretty typical for the site. On Twitter, everyone has a megaphone, but few take incoming calls.”
  
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• Website Intends To Put Every Public-Owned Piece Of Art Online

  24-02-2016 23:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Although the public owns the art, about 80% is in storage, on the walls of council offices, fire stations hospitals and other civic buildings, or in the Palace of Westminster, where portraits line the walls of the Speaker’s magnificent reception rooms where the project was launched.”
  
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• ‘The Eccentrics’ at SculptureCenter

  24-02-2016 22:34 via artnews.com
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• AIPAD Photography Show Will Move From Park Avenue Armory to Pier 94 in 2017

  24-02-2016 22:32 via artnews.com
  The Association of International Photography Art Dealers, or AIPAD, as it’s more commonly known, has announced that its annual photography show will be moving to Pier 94 in 2017. The 2016 Photography Show will be the last edition held at the … Read More
  
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• Welcome home: Anish Kapoor’s work comes to auction in India for the first time

  24-02-2016 22:00
  
  The British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor’s had his first work ever to come up at auction in India on Wednesday, 24 February. The 1.4m-tall stainless steel concave sculpture, Untitled (2005), achieved 40m rupees/$588,240 or $705,882 including buyer’s premium (est $588,240-$882,355) at Saffronart auction house’s Modern and contemporary art evening sale in Mumbai—the artist’s hometown.
  A similar concave piece in gold-plated steel sold at Christie’s post-war and co
  
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• The Reich’s romance with the Renaissance

  24-02-2016 22:00
  
  For Germans, as for others, the late 19th and early 20th centuries marked the high era of nation-building. Most obviously, this manifested itself in increasingly strident, and sometimes thoroughly intolerant, attempts to define a canon of national culture—not only in the visual and plastic arts, but also in music, literature and architecture. But the formation of national identity also took place in dialogue with the culture of others: arguments about the history of others were simultaneo
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: Tori Wrånes submerges Shoreditch in a Norwegian underworld

  24-02-2016 22:00
  
  Expectations were high at last night’s (24 February) special performance to mark the UK debut of Norwegian artist Tori Wrånes at Carl Freedman Gallery. In the past she has staged a surreal concert whilst dangling from a tree by her hair, for Performa 13 she was suspended upside-down with an extra pair of legs, while at the last Biennale of Sydney she donned prosthetically-enhanced eyes to sing beneath a giant swinging rock using a microphone that doubled up as a phallic tail. Everyo
  
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• Not a heretic after all: on on Francesco Botticini’s heavenly vision

  24-02-2016 22:00
  
  This exemplary study accompanies a small exhibition on the subject at London’s National Gallery (until 28 March) and has been written by its curator in art and religion, Jennifer Sliwka. Its focus is Assumption of the Virgin (1475-76) by Francesco Botticini, which is more than 2m high and almost 4m wide. This panel was acquired by the National Gallery in 1882 as the work of Botticelli.
  At the heart of the handsome, well-written Visions of Paradise, and informing its first chapter, is Matt
  
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• Not a heretic after all: on Francesco Botticini’s heavenly vision

  24-02-2016 22:00
  
  This exemplary study accompanies a small exhibition on the subject at London’s National Gallery (until 28 March) and has been written by its curator in art and religion, Jennifer Sliwka. Its focus is Assumption of the Virgin (1475-76) by Francesco Botticini, which is more than 2m high and almost 4m wide. This panel was acquired by the National Gallery in 1882 as the work of Botticelli.
  At the heart of the handsome, well-written Visions of Paradise, and informing its first chapter, is Matt
  
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• Leading Art Fair In Australia Canceled One Day Before Program Is Announced

  24-02-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After three major galleries pulled out just before deadline, the board’s decision to cancel was unanimous.
  
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• Bad enough to be good: Kenneth Goldsmith on Fischli and Weiss's Guggenheim retrospective

  24-02-2016 22:00
  
  In the mid-1970s, bad art became all the rage. Fr om John Waters’s “bad” B-grade movies to punk rock’s “bad” musicianship to the New Museum’s 1978 show "Bad" Painting, bad was the new good. In 1980, when bad was peaking, Andy Warhol wrote, “I wanted to do a ‘bad book,’ just the way I'd done ‘bad movies’ and ‘bad art,’ because when you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something.” Enter into th
  
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• ArtPrize Partners With Independent Curators International for Emerging Curators Fellowship

  24-02-2016 21:19 via artnews.com
  ArtPrize, the Grand Rapids, Michigan–based art competition, announced today that it will partner with Independent Curators International for its 2016 edition. The New York–based nonprofit will now collaborate on ArtPrize’s Emerging Curators program, which debuted at last year’s competition.The four … Read More
  
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• Tate Britain commissions Pablo Bronstein to fill Duveen Galleries with ‘deliciously jarring’ performances

  24-02-2016 21:18
  
  The artist Pablo Bronstein will create this year’s high-profile Tate Britain Commission, which takes over the London museum’s Duveen Galleries.
  The Buenos Aires-born, London-based Bronstein is best known for his performances and classically styled architectural drawings, usually done in ink and gouache. His Plaza Minuet for the Tate Triennial in 2006 used the galleries' space as a stage for a dance project that combined baroque choreography with a more minimalist strain from the 196
  
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• ‘Noir’ at J. Paul Getty Museum

  24-02-2016 21:02 via artnews.com
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• What The World’s Most Epic Sleep-Talker Said As He Dreamed

  24-02-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Do you know Edwina didn’t even cry when that crocodile popped off her leg? She didn’t even cry, Edwina. She was fascinated, just fascinated. Her mother fainted dead away, and her father fainted dead away. … And Edwina just stood there and watched him chew up her leg. You know what? She said she always wanted to be Long John Silver!”
  
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• Fashion designer Erdem collaborates with Sotheby’s on first ‘curated’ sale in London

  24-02-2016 21:00
  
  The worlds of fashion and art are “equally complex”, says the designer Erdem Moralioglu, who is collaborating with Sotheby’s on its first ‘Contemporary Curated’ sale in London (11-14 March) which was previewed to the press on 24 February.
  London-based Moralioglu has a foot in both camps; he started his fashion label ten years ago and began collecting art seven years ago. He is a regular at Frieze art fair and works with the interior designer Robin Brown, who create
  
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• Sure Publishing Has Changed. But Not Editors, Really

  24-02-2016 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For all the wrenching changes in trade publishing in the past decades, I know that my colleagues and I pretty much go about the thing in a fashion very similar to the way the editors I watched and learned from were doing it in the ’70s, and they were doing in a fashion very similar to the editors they learned from. Sometimes I think we’re like blacksmiths or bespoke cobblers — how many ways are there, really, to shoe a horse or a human?”
  
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• Could Google Search Results Really Change Minds And Flip Elections?

  24-02-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Research psychologist Robert Epstein finds, and worries about, just how much effect a small change in the order of search results can have.
  
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• Why Netflix Doesn’t Care About Ratings

  24-02-2016 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One reason is because the streaming service doesn’t want to reveal proprietary information about its products. But another is that Netflix simply doesn’t care about ratings—at least not in the way other television providers do.”
  
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• What It’s Really Like To Work In Hollywood If You’re Not A Straight White Guy, In The Words Of Those Who Do It

  24-02-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Here, 27 industry players reveal the stories behind the numbers – their personal experiences of not feeling seen, heard or accepted, and how they pushed forward. In Hollywood, exclusion goes far beyond #OscarsSoWhite.”
  
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• Yasufumi Nakamori Named Curator of Photography and New Media at Minneapolis Institute of Art

  24-02-2016 18:40 via artnews.com
  The Minneapolis Institute of Art announced today that Yasufumi Nakamori will be the museum’s curator of photography and new media. Nakamori will start at the museum at the end of May.Nakamori is currently an associate curator at the Museum of … Read More
  
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• Nothing “Efficient” About Arts And Humanities (And Isn’t That The Point?)

  24-02-2016 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At a time when the price of a degree from elite institutions is well over six figures, fields such as literature and the arts may seem like a luxury item. But we may have it backwards. They are, to cite Hemingway’s title for his Paris memoir, “a moveable feast,” and they offer us a kind of reach into time and space that we can find nowhere else.
  
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• What We Can Learn From Comparing Translations Of The Bible

  24-02-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When a book is viewed by so many as holy, and when millions of people consider it the word of God, the stakes are much higher. Acknowledging that there is a translation issue, and that an alternative reading is possible, or that you may be reading a mistranslation, means the reader has to think deeply about what he or she actually believes.”
  
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• Consumer Reports: Kari Altmann

  24-02-2016 17:49 via artnews.com
  Kari Altmann is a semi-nomadic American artist, producer, director, performer, photographer, filmmaker, DJ, and musician with a home base in New York. She is focused on the survival tropes and hybrid ecologies of communal fantasy images, selves, and lexicons, as … Read More
  
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• What’s Wrong With “Hamilton” (And Why It’s Important To Say)

  24-02-2016 17:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I and others who have risked critiquing Hamilton in public forums have often been dismissed or denigrated for doing so. Hamilton has received rave reviews almost categorically. I agree with much of this praise; the book, the score, the choreography, the direction, the lighting: it’s all genius artistry. I also yield that a Broadway production that puts so many performers of color to work does constitute a victory. This should be celebrated, but this is not enough.”
  
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• Carrie Mae Weems, Domenico and Eleanore De Sole Will Be Honored at Anderson Ranch Gala

  24-02-2016 17:40 via artnews.com
  Aspen’s Anderson Ranch Arts Center, which is celebrating 50 years this year, will honor Carrie Mae Weems and collectors Domenico and Eleanore De Sole at its anniversary gala in July. Weems will receive its National Artist Award, which recognizes artists “whose … Read More
  
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• Why Musical Theatre Succeeds

  24-02-2016 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Audiences really do like to be told a definite story in a compelling way. It has to have captivating characters, an exciting challenge for them to solve, and a solution that’s worthy of the time we’ve taken to watch it.”
  
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• Pop Art blooms in a Garden City

  24-02-2016 16:52
  
  The Pop art pioneer Richard Smith returns to his roots with a show of works at Broadway Gallery, a new space which opens today (24 February) in his hometown of Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire. The new gallery is housed in a 1920s shopping arcade in the heart of the leafy town, which is run on the century-old principles of Ebenezer Howard—the mastermind who came up with the Utopian concept of Garden Cities. Profits from commercial rents are invested in Letchworth’s cultural f
  
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• Fleurs du mal: how artist Taryn Simon constructs political bouquets

  24-02-2016 16:44
  
  Known for her ability to evoke symbolism of mundane objects, Simon’s staged, emotionless photos of floral arrangements lay bare the politics within the petalsAt New York City’s Gagosian gallery on Thursday afternoon, Taryn Simon has just finished installing her new show Paperwork and the Will of Capital, an exhibition of 36 large-scale photographs of floral bouquets, alongside a dozen sculptures of concrete plinths with flower pressings. On until 26 March, the show is Simon’s A
  
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• Astonishing: What Movie Studios Spend Trying To Win Oscars

  24-02-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Estimates for the total amount Hollywood spends on Oscar campaigns range from $100m right up to $500m in a single year. It’s not the kind of figure studio bosses like to talk about. But the film producer and blogger Stephen Follows has crunched anonymous data provided by some of his industry colleagues.”
  
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• Website aims to offer images of all publicly owned art in Britain

  24-02-2016 16:14
  
  Artist Bob and Roberta Smith launches Art UK, which already covers more than 200,000 paintings, many of them hidden from public view in civic buildings or storageA huge project has been launched that aims to include every publicly owned painting, drawing, sculpture and print in Britain in one website, creating the most comprehensive access to one country’s art in the world.The artist Bob and Roberta Smith – who is one man, Patrick Brill – celebrated the creation of Art UK by pr
  
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• Anthropomorphizing Animals – Even Scientists Are Getting More Comfortable With It

  24-02-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Now some prominent scientists are arguing that, though the impulse was well-intentioned, decades of knee-jerk avoidance of all things anthropomorphic may have mostly served to hold this field back.” Says one researcher, “It’s ruined the field. It prevented people from even asking those questions for about 40 years.”
  
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• Nasa is going to put a pop-up art gallery on an asteroid

  24-02-2016 15:58
  
  And your work could hang in it.
  
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• Madison Ballet Cancels Remainder Of Season

  24-02-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is the second time in recent years that the Overture [Center] resident company has announced shows only to cancel them. Despite a solid showing for Nutcracker in December, the organization has struggled with cash flow, lower than expected ticket sales for Dracula and flagging fundraising.”
  
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• How Sotherby's and Erdem are changing the art scene

  24-02-2016 15:33
  
  Fashion and commerce meet in the London auction house’s first guest-curated auctionFashion designer Erdem Moralıoğlu has been announced as the first guest curator of a new contemporary art auction at London’s Sotherby’s, in attempt to make the auction house accessible beyond the art world.His Contemporary Curated collection will feature 205 largely contemporary works, including selections from Jake and Dinos Chapman, Grayson Perry and Damien Hirst. “Art is not m
  
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• How Sotheby's and Erdem are changing the art scene

  24-02-2016 15:33
  
  Fashion and commerce meet in the London auction house’s first guest-curated auctionFashion designer Erdem Moralıoğlu has been announced as the first guest curator of a new contemporary art auction at London’s Sotheby’s, in attempt to make the auction house accessible beyond the art world.His Contemporary Curated collection will feature 205 largely contemporary works, including selections from Jake and Dinos Chapman, Grayson Perry and Damien Hirst. “Art is not my
  
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• Performa Makes Changes to Board of Directors, Adding Shirin Neshat and Promoting Rashid Johnson

  24-02-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
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• Last-Minute Ticket App Is Moving On Broadway – And Theater Owners Aren’t Happy

  24-02-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “TodayTix, which 26 months ago introduced a mobile app for selling discounted and full-price last-minute tickets, has already become a visible presence on Broadway … [But] the tight-knit world of Broadway theater owners has not welcomed TodayTix.”
  
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• We Are Hopelessly Hooked On Our Smartphones

  24-02-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jacob Weisberg: “Our transformation into device people has happened with unprecedented suddenness. The first touchscreen-operated iPhones went on sale in June 2007, followed by the first Android-powered phones the following year. Smartphones went from 10 percent to 40 percent market penetration faster than any other consumer technology in history.”
  
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• Why Should ‘American Psycho’ Be A Musical? Let The Composer And Director Tell You

  24-02-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rupert Goold: “You’re in a public environment with [Patrick Bateman] when youire in a theater, you’re all in one room with his very sexually present energy. It’s like Phillip Glass or Depeche Mode in that it moves heavily and intensely, with a chill, but the emotional payload at the end is incredibly powerful, because we haven’t been belting our hearts out at each other throughout the whole thing.”
  
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• Morning Links: Emerging Artists Edition

  24-02-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
  EMERGING ARTISTS Emma Sulkowicz’s first solo art show is opening at Coagula Curatorial in Chinatown on February 27. [LAist]W talks to Hayden Dunham about her show at Red Bull Studios with Nicolas Lobo. [W]ESTABLISHED ARTISTPeter Schjeldahl on Edvard Munch. [New Yorker]REVIEWSHere’s … Read More
  
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• Leading Composer (Joined By His Wife) Actually Tells New York Times About His Kinky Sex Life

  24-02-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[He] said that he felt liberated after what he described as a lifetime’s and three divorces’ worth of suppressing what he once considered ‘devilish’ desires. The change has altered his music in ways both quantifiable and more ineffable.”
  
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• Newly Discovered Handel Cantata Turns Up In Conductor’s Own Library

  24-02-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The piece, just authenticated by a musicologist from Berkeley, shares a title and one aria with one of the composer’s better-known Italian works for solo soprano. The work’s other three arias are entirely different.
  
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• Serpentine pavilion 'unzipped': first look at Bjarke Ingels' design

  24-02-2016 14:21
  
  The Danish architect offers a sculptural space ‘like a mountain of ice cubes’ stretching across the London gallery’s lawn, to be complemented by four radical summer housesThe humble brick wall, that most London of architectural elements, is the inspiration for this year’s Serpentine Gallery pavilion, according to designs unveiled today. But in the hands of the Danish architectural conjuror Bjarke Ingels and his firm BIG, it won’t be any old brick wall. It’s a
  
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• Iranian Media Have Pooled Funds To Increase The Bounty On Salman Rushdie’s Head

  24-02-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Forty state-run media outlets in Iran have pooled together to raise $600,000 to add to the fatwa on writer Salman Rushdie, 27 years after Iran’s first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, called for Rushdie’s assassination following the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses.”
  
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• Literary Festivals Are Booming In India

  24-02-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Close to 100 populate the land; not long ago, the concept was virtually unknown here. … As the festivals have blossomed, they have also turned into something more than strictly literary: a mixture of the public square and the television studio, or forums where India talks to itself. … [And] increasingly, [these events] are being thrust into wider culture wars.”
  
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• Robert Baustian, Longtime Conductor At Santa Fe Opera, Dead At 94

  24-02-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He worked at the company for 23 years, from its first season, 1957, until 1980, conducting music from Mozart to Rossini to Stravinsky to Douglas Moore.
  
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• National Symphony’s Incoming Music Director Gets Another Plum Position

  24-02-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The London Symphony Orchestra announced today that as of the 2016-17 season, [Gianandrea] Noseda will become one of its two principal guest conductors – a full year before he officially takes over as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra.”
  
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