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• When Audience Accessibility Is Part Of The Art

  26-02-2016 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Theatres are increasingly making their work accessible for deaf and disabled audiences in a more creative, integrated fashion and are placing issues of access right at the heart of their design.”
  
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• English National Opera chorus to conduct silent protest during performance of Philip Glass's Akhnaten over contract dispute

  26-02-2016 23:29
  
  Officials from Equity vote unanimously to strike after failing to agree new terms with ENO management
  
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• L.A. Habitat: David Hockney

  26-02-2016 23:18 via artnews.com
  A visit with the artist as he paints new portraits. ‘I wasn’t planning on doing this many at first,’ he says, ‘but when I got to about 15 I realized I could probably going on forever.’ Read More
  
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• Il Trittico, Royal Opera House, review: Revival directors did an excellent job

  26-02-2016 22:30
  
  What makes this evening unique is the way it allows three brilliant designers each to create a world
  
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• Mapping How Antiquity Sounded

  26-02-2016 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What was truly surprising for me was going into a space that was ancient, and to crawl around the ceiling and look at the walls and realize that they were looking at things acoustically. It wasn’t just about the architecture. They had these big jugs that were put up there to sip certain frequencies out of the air … They built diffusion, a way to break up the sound waves by putting striations in the walls. They were actively trying to tune the space.”
  
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• Cambodian warrior comes home: Denver Art Museum to return Khmer statue

  26-02-2016 22:20
  
  The Denver Art Museum will soon return a tenth-century statue of the warrior god Rama to its native Cambodia, where it was probably removed from the Koh Ker temple complex 30 years ago, during the civil war there.
  Although an official agreement has yet to be reached, “the Denver Art Museum is currently in the process of returning the tenth century Khmer sandstone sculpture to the Kingdom of Cambodia,” the museum’s director Christoph Heinrich told the Phnom Penh Post. “Du
  
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• The high price of a logo

  26-02-2016 22:00
  
  Love it, loath it or bemused at the brouhaha? Whichever way you lean, the‎ Met’s new logo, which replaces a Da Vinci-inspired letter “M”, won’t have come cheap. The fruit of a comprehensive rebranding by the London-based agency Wolff Olins, which helped Tate in London drop its definite article back in the day, the new look has drawn some flack for its upper case, joined-up typography. “The whole ensemble looks like a red double-decker bus that has stopped short
  
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• Richard Prince and Gagosian move to dismiss photographer's copyright lawsuit

  26-02-2016 22:00
  
  The artist Richard Prince and his dealer Larry Gagosian filed a motion on Friday to dismiss a lawsuit brought against them by the Los Angeles photographer Donald Graham. Graham alleges his copyright was infringe when Prince enlarged an Instagram-styled screenprint of the photograph Rastafarian Smoking a Joint and showed it at Gagosian Gallery in 2014, it in the exhibition New Portraits.  The same defendants were also sued by Patrick Cariou, when his photographs were used in Prince’s
  
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• Opera-loving artist Raqib Shaw to show new paintings at Glyndebourne

  26-02-2016 22:00
  
  Fittingly for an artist who loves opera, Raqib Shaw has been chosen to show in White Cube’s pop-up gallery at the Glyndebourne Festival this year. The London-based Kashmiri-born artist is creating three new paintings based on Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which both form part of the 2016 music programme.
  Shaw, who first visited Glyndebourne in Lewes, East Sussex as a student in 1994 when he felt moved liste
  
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• Check Out These Unpublished Pics Of Picasso In His Studio

  26-02-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The black-and-white photographs, taken in the 1940s and ’50s by different photographers, are being exhibited by Cahiers d’Art, the gallery of the eponymous art magazine.”
  
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• Cambodian warrior comes home: Denver Art Museum returns Khmer statue

  26-02-2016 21:20
  
  The Denver Art Museum has returned a tenth-century statue of the warrior god Rama to its native Cambodia, where it was removed from the Prasat Chen temple complex in Koh Ker, the capital of the Khmer kingdom, more than 40 years ago during the civil war there.
  A spokeswoman for the museum confirmed on Friday, 26 February, that the work had arrived in Cambodia. “As part of our own collections research, the Denver Art Museum contacted our museum colleagues in Cambodia to gather more facts on
  
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• Why Michael Flatley Is Excited About Retiring From The Dance

  26-02-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This type of dance is particularly brutal. I was the first person to do it for an extended period of time. … I have a lot of friends who are professional athletes, and we like to get together and have a couple of beers and exchange horror stories. I always win.”
  
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• Elizabeth Murray at Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich

  26-02-2016 21:00 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Opera’s Gender Problem

  26-02-2016 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “According to Operabase, an online opera database, in the years 2009 to 2014 there are only 3 women amongst the 60 most performed living opera composers in the world. Saariaho comes in highest at number 33. In all opera composers performed in that period, living or dead, women fare far worse with not a single female composer in the top 30. And in the most performed 50 operas worldwide in that same period, there is not a single work by a woman.”
  
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• Indie Music World Is Rife With Sexual Harrassment

  26-02-2016 20:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Despite its outward appearance as being more female-friendly, despite there being less puppeteering than in pop music, despite the seeming prevalence of “male feminists” in the scene, women in the indie music scene say that sexual harassment is rampant and just as much a reality for them.”
  
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• Met clarifies ‘pay what you wish’ entry after legal settlement

  26-02-2016 20:11
  
  Visitors to the Metropolitan Museum in New York have always been able to “pay what you wish” to enter. But some have complained that the signs at its ticket counters do not make that clear. As part of a settlement of a three-year-old class action lawsuit brought against the museum over its $25 “recommended admission”, which the plaintiffs argued misled the public, the Met will change all its signage to read “suggested admission”. The changes are due to go int
  
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• Liam Gillick at Casey Kaplan

  26-02-2016 20:10 via artnews.com
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• The Most Politicized Pencil In History

  26-02-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Mongol 482 may be just a ‘middle-range, everyday’ pencil. But it’s also one of the most famous pencils in history … Because the Mongol 482 has written its autobiography” – with the “as told to” services of a libertarian economist. Thus, like so many autobiographies, this one had an agenda – and, also like so many autobiographies, it isn’t entirely accurate. (podcast with transcription)
  
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• The Met Will Amend Its Admission Policy To Settle Class Action Lawsuit

  26-02-2016 19:57 via artnews.com
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that it will be amending its “pay what you wish” admission policy as part of their settlement agreement in the three-year-old class action lawsuit, Saska v. Metropolitan Museum. The museum will be “refining” … Read More
  
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• Sotheby's announces $11.2m loss in fourth quarter and staff resignations

  26-02-2016 19:37
  
  Art auctioneer’s commissions dropped 8% amid global market slowdown
  Defections over last two years continue as more executives leave company The world-famous art auctioneer Sotheby’s suffered an $11.2m (£8.1m) loss in the fourth quarter of last year, warning on Friday of difficult months to come as the art market enters a slowdown.Related: Art market in 'mania phase' and risks bursting of the bubble, report saysRelated: 'Fake Rothko' trial reduces tragic art to farceContinue re
  
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• Record Profits As Concert Business Booms

  26-02-2016 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Live Nation Entertainment, the world’s largest concert promoter whose holdings include Ticketmaster, on Thursday reported revenue of $7.6 billion in 2015, up 11 percent from the previous calendar year on a constant currency basis.”
  
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• Trevor Nunn Directs An American Cast For The First Time

  26-02-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When he introduced himself to the actors on the first day, he said that he found beginning work with an American cast both exciting and ‘paralyzingly terrifying – maybe I will find that it’s a whole new ballgame.’ By the time a reporter could observe him in rehearsal, though, he seemed to have learned the rules.”
  
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• Advertisers’ Awkward Oscars Dilemma

  26-02-2016 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Advertisers, who are paying record prices for air time, find themselves in an awkward position. They want to attach themselves to the glamour of Hollywood without having their brands tarnished by the controversy over the all-white slate of acting nominees.”
  
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• The Demographics Of The Academy Of Motion Pictures, By The Numbers

  26-02-2016 18:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 2012, The Times reported that Oscar voters were 94% white and 77% male. Four years later, the academy has made scant progress: Oscar voters are 91% white and 76% male, according to a new Times study. Blacks are about 3% of the academy, up from 2%; Asians and Latinos are each just over 2%, with both groups up slightly.”
  
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• A ‘Bizarre, Noble Experiment’ – When They Tried To Put Magazines On CD-ROM

  26-02-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A handful of magazines saw the potential of the CD-ROM and saw dollar signs. Problem was, this was an idea without an audience at first, and there was no clue if creating multimedia content in lieu of a mag would actually work. (It didn’t.) Today’s Tedium into the world of the magazine-on-disc – the publishing world’s bizarre, noble experiment in multimedia.”
  
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• Looking For Creativity In Movies? Short Films Are Where It’s At

  26-02-2016 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some of the most creative and engaging stories today are being told through short films, even as the genre remains marginalized in the cultural mainstream.”
  
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• Inside Oskar Eustis, The Public Theatre’s Creative Impressario

  26-02-2016 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Despite his ebullience, an aura of sorrow hovers over Eustis these days. The last eighteen months have been the most artistically and commercially successful of his ten years at the helm of the Public; but personally, it has been a time of terrible loss, including the deaths of his mother and stepfather.”
  
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• Sotheby’s Fourth-Quarter Loss Comes to $11 M. Amid High-Profile Buyouts

  26-02-2016 17:22 via artnews.com
  After a tumultuous year that saw high-profile auctions sputter and longtime specialists take buyouts, Sotheby’s confirmed today that it would post a loss of $11 million for the fourth quarter of 2015. Last month, in an unusual teleconference it deemed a “pre-announcement,” the … Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s Fourth-Quarter Loss Come to $11 M. Amid High-Profile Buyouts

  26-02-2016 17:22 via artnews.com
  After a tumultuous year that saw high-profile auctions sputter and longtime specialists take buyouts, Sotheby’s confirmed today that it would post a lost of $11 million for the fourth quarter of 2015. Last month, in an unusual teleconference it deemed a “pre-announcement,” the … Read More
  
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• What Google Learned Trying To Build The Perfect Team

  26-02-2016 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Five years ago, Google — one of the most public proselytizers of how studying workers can transform productivity — became focused on building the perfect team.”
  
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• Flagging market and ‘deeper’ dip in business cycle blamed for Sotheby’s grim fourth-quarter earnings

  26-02-2016 17:00
  
  Sotheby’s CEO Tad Smith painted a bleak picture for the company on its 2015 fourth quarter earnings call to shareholders early Friday, 26 February, pinning much of the responsibility on an art market he described as flagging. Sotheby’s shares opened today on the New York Stock Exchange at $24.81; last year’s share price for the same date was $42.95.
  “The most recent sales of the company confirm that we have in recent months been experiencing a period of lower sales in th
  
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• Can Saigon’s Unique Historic Architecture Be Saved?

  26-02-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When Ho Chi Minh City’s property market perked up after a slump that followed the 2008 financial crisis, dozens of prewar buildings – spanning the colonial to modernist eras – were razed to make room for new ones. As the city’s modest skyline grows, residents are watching with a mixture of awe and trepidation.”
  
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• JFK to Evelyn Waugh: the Duchess of Devonshire's friendships unveiled

  26-02-2016 16:58
  
  She was the youngest of the six aristocratic Mitford sisters who later became the Duchess of Devonshire, presiding over the stately pile of Chatsworth for half a century. But a forthcoming auction at Sotheby’s of more than 450 lots fr om the personal collection of Deborah Cavendish (née Freeman-Mitford), or Debo, is less valuable “in market terms” than for the insight it offers into the life of “an extraordinary woman”, says Harry Dalmeny, Sotheby’s UK
  
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• Subjective, Dynamic, and Religious: On the ‘Practically Unknown’ Artist Edvard Munch and German Expressionism, From 1950

  26-02-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  In honor of “Munch and Expressionism,” which just opened at the Neue Galerie in New York, we turn back to the May 1950 issue of ARTnews, which featured an article that, coincidentally, has the same title. Written on the occasion … Read More
  
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• #JeSuisCirconflexe – Why The Protests Against French Spelling Changes Are So Passionate

  26-02-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The people who are angry about the loss of a diacritical mark are upset about the abandonment of history – but, even if they don’t realize it, it’s not really linguistic history that worries them.
  
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• Botticelli goes pop and Yoko tells the time – the week in art

  26-02-2016 15:51
  
  The V&A’s Botticelli Reimagined show opens alongside his drawings over at the Courtauld, while Oxford hosts a starry group show with Douglas Gordon and Elizabeth Price – all in your weekly art dispatchBotticelli Reimagined
  This provocative look at the afterlife of an artist shows how the Renaissance genius of Sandro Botticelli was rediscovered by the Victorian age and has fascinated art ever since. With poptastic versions of Botticelli by everyone from Andy Warhol to Dolce &
  
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• Chris Rock’s Oscar-Hosting Gig Is ‘The Moment That [His] Entire Career Has Pointed Toward’

  26-02-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Andrew O’Hehir: “At this point, if Rock doesn’t open the show with a slam-bang musical number, featuring Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump and Bill Cosby in KKK robes, half of Twitter will announce that he sucks. (And if he does, the other half will profess undying outrage.) But he’s the right man for the job; I honestly can’t think of anyone who is better positioned to tackle the #OscarsSoWhite moment with humor and anger and just a little cerebral detachment.”
  
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• 2016 Armory Week Art Fair Cheat Sheet

  26-02-2016 15:26 via artnews.com
  It’s Armory Week—again. Below, a succinct guide to its fairs. The Armory Show March 3–6 Tried and true, the Armory Show once again ranks as the largest event in this week’s program, featuring 200-plus galleries across Pier 92 and Pier 94 along … Read More
  
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• Arco names Argentina as next year’s guest country

  26-02-2016 15:20
  
  Argentina will feature as the guest country at Arco Madrid next year, the art fair announced today (26 February). Since 1994, Arco aims to promote the art of a selected country by offering its galleries sponsored stands. The fair, which opened to VIPs on Wednesday, recently hosted Colombia, Mexico and Brazil.This year, the guest country initiative was replaced by a curated section celebrating the fair’s 35th anniversary. Titled Imagining Other Futures, the 33 galleries in the section are
  
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• How Charlotte Rampling Handled Her Last Pre-Oscars Interview (Very Rampling-ly)

  26-02-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Under the vigilant eye of her publicist Lauren Schwartz, who never left her side, Ms. Rampling replied stoically to a question about the slim chance, in the wake of her lapse, that she would make off with an Oscar. She had held out the hope, it seemed, that the highly charged matter would never come up. A stony silence followed the question.”
  
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• Teens Have Not Stopped Reading, And David Denby’s New Yorker Jeremiad Is ‘You Kids Get Off My Lawn’ Journalism

  26-02-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ah, it appears that, fleeing human connection, lost to their reductive gender-specific pastimes of sports and, um, friends, teen hyphen agers (The teen hyphen ager! In the pizza parlor! With the smart phone!) have murdered reading. But soft – no one is dead yet, not even you, geriatric Cassandra. Nor are the teen hyphen agers brain-dead.”
  
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• V&A promises a Pink Floyd trip with exhibition devoted to 1960s psychedelic rebellion

  26-02-2016 14:57
  
  Exhibition will explore how a counterculture of rebellion challenged existing power structures in the late 60s
  
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• ‘Transformational’ Gift To Philadelphia Museum Of Art

  26-02-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The gift of more than 50 artworks, as well as endowment funds, announced by the museum Thursday includes contemporary works by Cy Twombly, Philip Guston, Agnes Martin, Eva Hesse, and Paul Thek” as well as a major Edward Hopper painting and works by both Eakinses.
  
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• Morning Links: Republican Presidential Candidates Edition

  26-02-2016 14:43 via artnews.com
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• English National Opera Chorus Votes Unanimously To Strike

  26-02-2016 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Their union, Equity, announced that action short of a strike would start next Friday. … The action is in protest at plans to cut pay by 25% and axe four jobs.”
  
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• English National Opera? Just Shut It Down Already, Says Director Of The Tallis Scholars

  26-02-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Peter Phillips: “Spending millions on desperate experiments has become a habit of mind. It is the last of the patrician gestures in which our system of public sponsorship will allow an educated (sort of) elite to impose its preferences on everyone else. … [Why is] this whopping imposition on our pockets tolerable in the first place?”
  
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• Atlanta Ballet Chooses New Artistic Director

  26-02-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Gennadi Nedvigin, principal dancer with San Francisco Ballet, traveled halfway around the world and spent half a lifetime preparing for his next major debut – in a role he might not have taken, if it hadn’t been for a remarkable experience with dancers of Atlanta Ballet.”
  
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• Picasso’s Daughter Loses In Court Battle Over Bust Of Marie-Thérèse

  26-02-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The court on Wednesday ordered Maya Widmaier-Picasso, who is 80 and a Paris resident, to pay 25,000 euros, about $28,000, in court costs to the Qatari [royal] family’s representative.” The Al-Thanis are in an ownership dispute with dealer Larry Gagosian over the sculpture, which was evidently sold twice.
  
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• Contactless cards, a small dinosaur, bonsai trees, a bread horse: we review anything

  26-02-2016 13:58
  
  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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• We’re Using A Totally Bogus Standard To Judge The Success Of Musicals

  26-02-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Where once a musical running one or two years would have been a great success, that achievement has now been devalued. The 1989 production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love was the first time I heard the expression ‘West End failure’ applied to a show that had, in fact, run a very credible 1,325 performances but was being compared to Lloyd Webber’s previous musical, The Phantom of the Opera.”
  
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