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• Sibelius And The Symphony That Never Was

  11-03-2016 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The gestation of the [8th] symphony may have been long and troubled, but Sibelius had, at various times, referred to his manuscript as ‘brilliant,’ ‘a great work in the making,’ a piece that would have been ‘the reckoning of [his] whole existence.’ For so long, he had had but one desire: to finish the piece before drifting off ‘to the final silence.’ Why, then, did Sibelius destroy such a highly anticipated and promising work? This remains o
  
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• Are These Actual Dancing Machines?

  11-03-2016 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A photographer, a dance company, and a strobe light got together in a studio – and these amazing images are the result.
  
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• Steve Lazarides interview: The man behind Banksy is bringing graffiti art to the gallery

  11-03-2016 22:29
  
  Call it street art, guerrilla art, or neo-graffiti, it's not the sort of stuff that should ever end up in a gallery, right? But that's exactly where Steve Lazarides has put it – to spectacular effect. And, as the man behind Banksy tells Susie Mesure, his critics can go hang
  
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• Sergio Larrain was on the cusp of photographic greatness but gave it all up for a spiritual life

  11-03-2016 22:29
  
  A new retrospective is a timely reminder of his extraordinary talent, says Simon Usborne
  
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• L.A. Habitat: Ed Ruscha

  11-03-2016 22:13 via artnews.com
  'When I first came out here, this place was like a scratchy black-and-white movie. Today it’s promising you a piece of fudge around every corner.' Read More
  
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• ‘Sex And The City’, West African-Style

  11-03-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Watching these women enumerate the times they’ve been called fat as a compliment parallels the series’ main strategy: each episode inventories and dramatizes the way the characters negotiate the difficulties they encounter in Accra.”
  
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• Louise Bourgeois explains how to peel a tangerine

  11-03-2016 22:00
  In this video, the sculptor Louise Bourgeois explains how her father peeled a tangerine—and how embarrassing it was for her. Her work is included in a new exhibition at Hauser and Wirth in Los Angeles. See our review of the show here.
  
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• ‘Re-Redicalizing Chekhov’

  11-03-2016 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As playwright Aaron Posner observes, “Since the last 100 years have seen Chekhov imitated by virtually every play, movie and TV show, what was once radical is now clichéd.” Here are seven different approaches to bringing Chekhov’s edge back.
  
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• Hauser Wirth & Schimmel transcends the big-box gallery model

  11-03-2016 21:11
  
  Big numbers kept coming up during the Thursday press preview for the show “Revolution in the Making, Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016,” which kicked off the much-anticipated opening week activities of the new space Hauser Wirth & Schimmel in downtown Los Angeles.
  The gallery, as everyone knows by now, occupies over 100,000 sq. ft. The inaugural show, according to co-curators Jenni Sorkin and Paul Schimmel, contains about 100 works of art.But my experience of the new show a
  
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• ‘She Was Piecing Together a New Kind of Expressionism’: Kim Levin on Eva Hesse, in 1973

  11-03-2016 20:40 via artnews.com
  This Sunday, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel inaugurates its new Los Angeles space with “Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947–2016.” The show runs the gamut, from Ruth Asawa to Sonia Gomes, creating what seems to be a historical … Read More
  
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• Theatre’s 18th-Century Thunder Machine Rumbles Once More

  11-03-2016 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The ‘thunder run’ in the British theater’s ceiling is a rare example of cutting-edge Georgian technology that involves balls rolling down a wooden chute to conjure the roar of a tempest.” (includes video)
  
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• Ruined ruins and monkey-faced messiahs: Five restorations that made the world laugh and cry

  11-03-2016 20:02
  
  Branded a 'heritage massacre', a ninth-century castle in Spain has recently joined a growing list of botched jobs
  
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• Ruined ruins and botched messiahs: Five restorations that made the world laugh and cry

  11-03-2016 20:02
  
  Branded a 'heritage massacre', a ninth-century castle in Spain has recently joined a growing list of startling restorations
  
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• Ruined ruins and botched messiahs: Five restoration jobs that made the world laugh and cry

  11-03-2016 20:02
  
  A recent castle restoration in Spain has been labelled a 'heritage massacre' and roundly mocked on the internet. It joins a growing list of recent failures to preserve artefacts around the world
  
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• Where The Tiny House Movement Got Started – 250 Years Ago

  11-03-2016 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They are hidden from the main street, accessible usually by a gate-covered break in the larger, more impressive townhouses that front the main street. Go through those gates and you’ll find yourself in a secret pocket of the city, in which there are tiny alleys with tiny houses and tiny courtyards.”
  
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• Sterling Ruby: making it big

  11-03-2016 19:15
  
  Paintings, flags, tapestries, ceramics, denim workwear … no wonder artist Sterling Ruby needs a two-acre studio. He talks about growing up on a farm, his manic drive, and being inspired by Henry Rollins’ gym shortsTen years ago, Sterling Ruby left art college without his final degree and almost $300,000 in debt. Since then he’s become an art world phenomenon exhibiting his monumental sculptures and diseased-looking ceramics with global powerhouse galleries like Gagosian and Ha
  
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• Binge-Watching Makes Us Depressed, Says (Depressing) Study

  11-03-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[The study] found that, of 408 participants, 35 percent qualified as binge-watchers, and those binge-watchers reported higher levels of stress, anxiety, and depression than their non-binge-watching counterparts.”
  
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• BP ends 26-year sponsorship deal with Tate

  11-03-2016 18:33
  
  At a time when climate change is high on the art world agenda, BP is to end its 26-year sponsorship of Tate next spring. But the oil company blamed an “extremely challenging business environment” for its decision, rather than years of protest against its financial backing of the museum.
  Some of the most recent protests against BP’s sponsorship include a sit-in at Tate Britain in November, in which activists tattooed each other with numbers representing CO2 concentrations, and
  
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• BP to continue arts sponsorship deals despite cutting ties with Tate

  11-03-2016 18:16
  
  Royal Opera House, British Museum, National Gallery and Royal Shakespeare Company express commitment to renewing BP agreements
  Some of the country’s biggest arts institutions have expressed a commitment to continue working with BP beyond their current sponsorship deals after the company announced it was ending its 27-year relationship with the Tate.
  BP said it was terminating its sponsorship of the Tate, blaming what it called the “extremely challenging business environment” fo
  
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• Thomas Adès On His New Partnership With Boston Symphony

  11-03-2016 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s the feeling that if you can focus these activities in one place, then instead of making just a little pile of sand that blows away, you can build something more. For five or six years I had the Aldeburgh Festival, and then it became time to close that chapter, and I’ve been affiliated with nobody since that time. Now there is a place where I can build something with bricks again, instead of with sand!”
  
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• ‘Olivia Erlanger: The Oily Actor’ at What Pipeline

  11-03-2016 18:11 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Olivia Erlanger: The Oily Actor” is on view at What Pipeline in Detroit through March 26.
  
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• Edifice Complex: Hungary’s Leader Wants To Restore Imperial Buildings To Their Old Glory – And Displace The Museums In Them

  11-03-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wants to return the seat of government to the old royal palace (tough luck for the National Gallery of Art), move the country’s highest court to its pre-war site across from Parliament, and turn Budapest’s largest park into a version of Berlin’s Museum Island.
  
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• Here’s the Artist List for the 2016 deCordova Biennial

  11-03-2016 17:10 via artnews.com
  The show will include Lois Dodd, Susan Howe, and Cary Smith Read More
  
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• My Lover, Robert Mapplethorpe

  11-03-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jack Fritscher: “We became bi-coastal lovers for more than two years and remained friends for ever. We fricated our edginess together. We were both re-quivering Catholics mixing the sacred and the profane. … It was sex, love, art, letters, phone calls and business. It was life.”
  
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• Data: The World’s Most Literate Country Is…

  11-03-2016 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The factors we examined present a complex and nuanced portrait of a nation’s cultural vitality”, and that “what the rankings strongly suggest … is that these kinds of literate behaviours are critical to the success of individuals and nations in the knowledge-based economics that define our global future”.
  
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• Documenta 14 Partners With Aegean Airlines for Direct Flights Between Kassel and Athens

  11-03-2016 16:11 via artnews.com
  Ever since the organizers of Documenta 14 announced that the quinquennial would be held in 2017 in both Kassel, Germany (its typical home base), and Athens, the big question has been: how will you schedule out your travels to see … Read More
  
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• Can’t Score A Ticket To ‘Hamilton’? Try The Audiobook

  11-03-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Hamilton fans looking for another way to feed their obsession, or simply hungry to read more about the musical’s origins, will be able to get their hands on Hamilton: The Revolution (or as creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda calls it, the ‘Hamiltome’) on April 12, in hardcover and audiobook.”
  
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• How To Spot A Plagiarized Crossword

  11-03-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As a professional crossword constructor, it is extremely hard for me to believe that what happened here is a mere coincidence.” (includes Crossword Suspicion Scale)
  
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• Focus On Society: the photographic competition which sees the world through the eyes of a young person

  11-03-2016 15:18
  
  The winner of this year's ESRC's 'Focus on Society' photographic competition focused on the transgender experience
  
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• Now Even J.K. Rowling Has Been Accused Of Cultural Appropriation

  11-03-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Harry Potter author … has been accused of appropriating the ‘living tradition of a marginalised people’ by writing about the Navajo legend of the skinwalker in a new story” on her Pottermore website.
  
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• Morning Links: New Rembrandt Edition

  11-03-2016 15:10 via artnews.com
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• The Naked Pharoah: Countertenor Buffs Up And Bares It All

  11-03-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anthony Roth Costanzo recounts how – from diets to workouts to (ouch!) full waxing – he prepared for the new production of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten at English National Opera. (includes video and audio)
  
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• Manager of Development Communications

  11-03-2016 14:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Non-profit fundraising is not just about “telling the story” of the organization, it’s also about creating a message that resonates with a community and invites response. The Cleveland Orchestra has a great story; come help us tell it in a new way.
  The Manager of Development Communications is responsible for the strategic creation and maintenance of fundraising campaign marketing communication materials, letters, presentations, and development-related content on The Cleveland O
  
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• Director of Education

  11-03-2016 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Harmony Program is seeking an experienced, full-time Director of Education to manage all programmatic aspects of the organization’s work.
  Organizational Background
  The Harmony Program is a not-for-profit organization that provides intensive after-school music instruction to children from economically disadvantaged communities. Harmony’s unique model taps the city’s college- and graduate-level music students as teachers, training them to develop the talents of young people w
  
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• Shrigley scrawl and the celebrated Botcher of Cádiz – the week in art

  11-03-2016 14:45
  
  The comic genius of Shrigley, the accidental genius of the restored Fortress of Matrera, and the forgotten genius of Giorgione – all in your weekly art dispatchDavid Shrigley
  One of the most incisive, original, comic and humane artists around reveals his latest dark drolleries.
  • Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, 18 March to 23 April. Continue reading...
  
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• A Black Dancer’s Frustrating Search For Ballet Shoes

  11-03-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Eric Underwood was on tour last summer in the south of Italy when he had finally had enough.” In store after store, he couldn’t find ballet shoes to match his skin, and he was tired of buying beige shoes and covering them with pancake makeup.
  
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• Musée d’Orsay’s Director Survives Staff Rebellion – For Now

  11-03-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Guy] Cogeval, who has led the museum since 2008, applied for a third term, but his ability to lead the museum, particularly after suffering a stroke in 2014, has been openly challenged by the museum’s staff.” But France’s brand-new culture minister convinced President Hollande to let Cogeval stay on for one more year.
  
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• Seven Rising Women Conductors To Whom Attention Must Be Paid

  11-03-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This isn’t a list for the likes of Marin Alsop, JoAnn Falletta, and Susanna Mälkki, who are already established. You’ve heard of some of these women; you will be hearing more of all of them. (They forgot Karina Canellakis, though.)
  
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• Harvard Art Museums Have A New Director

  11-03-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Martha] Tedeschi, who serves as deputy director for art and research at the Art Institute [of Chicago], comes to the Harvard post with deep curatorial roots – experience that she says will help her oversee museum programming that serves the university’s student population while also welcoming the public.”
  
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• A fossil fuels-arts world divorce is 'the way the world is moving'

  11-03-2016 13:56
  
  While BP say the decision to ends its Tate sponsorship is unrelated to climate protests, museum industry insiders say campaigners are having an effect as they turn the spotlight on the ethics of corporate fundingBP’s decision to pull the plug on their sponsorship of the Tate is a milestone in the campaign to make fossil fuels a toxic brand, and not the first.Last November, the Science Museum announced that it would not renew an agreement with Shell, after revelations that the firm had trie
  
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• Boston Symphony Names Composer As Its First Artistic Partner

  11-03-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In his new role, … [he] will conduct the BSO in his own music and other repertoire. He also will compose a new BSO-commissioned Piano Concerto, perform as a chamber musician, teach at the Tanglewood Music Center, and direct two upcoming editions of the TMC’s Festival of Contemporary Music (in 2018 and 2019).”
  
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• Jan Fabre, multi-disciplinary artist: 'I have a space for myself. No one comes in. No press, no curators, no gallerists'

  11-03-2016 13:38
  
  Karen Wright meets the artist in his studio in Antwerp
  
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• Most Popular Theories of Consciousness Are Worse Than Wrong

  11-03-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the modern age we can chuckle over medieval naiveté, but we often suffer from similar conceptual confusions. We have our share of phlegm theories, which flatter our intuitions while explaining nothing. They’re compelling, they often convince, but at a deeper level they’re empty.”
  
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• He was one of the greatest of all Venetian artists, but who was Giorgione?

  11-03-2016 13:00
  
  Like his sleeping Venus and stormy Arcadian landscapes, Giorgione’s life is shrouded in mystery. As a new exhibition of his work opens at the Royal Academy the jury is still out: how can we be sure of what he actually painted?Giorgio da Castelfranco, or Giorgione (“Big George”) was one of the great inventive painters of the Italian Renaissance. In his Lives of the Artists Vasari describes him as the northern counterpart to Leonardo da Vinci, and one of the greatest of all Venet
  
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• Royal Academy’s Giorgione exhibition is a circle without a centre

  11-03-2016 12:23
  
  The Royal Academy of Arts in London presents nearly 50 paintings and a handful of drawings in an exhibition that aims to be a snapshot of the state of Venetian painting in the decade 1500-10 (In the Age of Giorgione, until 5 June). By this time, Leonardo da Vinci had introduced important discoveries, particularly the sfumato technique to create moods and the importance of presenting accidente mentale or psychological insights in portraiture; Albrecht Dürer’s visits to the city introd
  
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