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• You Complete Me (Why Art Critics Are Essential)

  16-03-2016 23:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There are no science critics… Science is not founded on a compact between maker and receiver. The art critic, however, formalizes and deliberately exemplifies the role of the spectator who realizes the artist’s work—not by leaving it just as it is, but by adding something to it, making a personal contribution.”
  
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• Hollywood Gives Cold Shoulder To Plan To Release Movies Simultaneously In Theatres And For Home

  16-03-2016 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “More sophisticated window modeling may be needed for the growing success of a modern movie industry. Those models should be developed by distributors and exhibitors in company-to-company discussions, not by a third party.”
  
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• ‘Me’ at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

  16-03-2016 22:41 via artnews.com
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• Beverly Semmes at Susan Inglett

  16-03-2016 22:35 via artnews.com
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• In The Conservatory, Male Opera Singers Have Disappeared. Why?

  16-03-2016 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Of the 72 applicants this year, 50 were women; 35 sopranos and 15 mezzo-sopranos. The conservatory decided that even though it would make for skewed student productions, it could not admit male singers on the grounds of gender alone.”
  
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• Women make their mark on Art Dubai

  16-03-2016 22:00
  
  Antonia Carver, the director of Art Dubai, announced an eye-opening statistic at the opening of the tenth edition of the fair (16-19 March, Madinat Jumeirah): according to her calculations, 45% of the around 500 artists represented at the fair this year are women, which is a “higher percentage than the majority of other international art fairs”, according to a press statement.
  The figures reflect how women seem to be powering ahead in the Emirate; Saeed al Nabouda, the acting direct
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: Tim Sayer bequeaths his art-filled house to the Hepworth Wakefield—and that includes the Calder in the loo too

  16-03-2016 22:00
  
  Institutions seeking benefactors, take note: first impressions count! The art collector Tim Sayer, who has agreed to give his entire collection of more than 400 works by the likes of David Hockney, Sol Lewitt, Anthony Caro, Henry Moore and Bridget Riley to the Hepworth Wakefield in Yorkshire, decided to do so after just one visit to the Hepworth last summer. “I went to the Hepworth Wakefield for the first time ever in July to see the Caro show and was so impressed by everything I saw that
  
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• Fourth object from Asia Week sales seized by federal agents

  16-03-2016 22:00
  
  Update: Federal agents seized a fourth sculpture that had been exhibited for sale during New York's Asia Week. An eighth-century Afghan marble sculpture of the Hindu deities Shiva and Parvati, seated on a tiger skin, was removed from a gallery on East 67th Street, the New York Times reports. It is the latest in a string seizures this week related to Operation Hidden Idol, an initiative run by Manhattan prosecutors and US customs authorities seeking to recover objects taken from Asia's temples a
  
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• Fourth edition of New Orleans’ Prospect triennial to focuses on colonialism in the ‘global south’

  16-03-2016 22:00
  
  The organisers of New Orleans’s international art exhibition Prospect have announced that the fourth edition of is due to open next year and will coincide with the city’s 300th anniversary in 2018. Prospect.4 (11 November 2017 – February 25 2018) will focus on the “global south”, specifically Latin America, the Caribbean, the southern states of the US—and the European colonisers of these regions.
  “The rich diversity of New Orleans has developed over a l
  
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• Fourth edition of New Orleans’ Prospect triennial to focus on colonialism in the ‘global south’

  16-03-2016 22:00
  
  The organisers of New Orleans’s international art exhibition Prospect have announced that the fourth edition of is due to open next year and will coincide with the city’s 300th anniversary in 2018. Prospect.4 (11 November 2017 – February 25 2018) will focus on the “global south”, specifically Latin America, the Caribbean, the southern states of the US—and the European colonisers of these regions.
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• Four Questions For The New Head Of The National Book Foundation

  16-03-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lisa Lucas: “I do think it matters that I come from outside of the publishing industry – it gives one a completely different perspective. It’s a boon to be able to learn from film, theater and publishing and to apply all these strengths to the task at hand. For instance, theater is incredible at audience development.”
  
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• Antonia Carver, director of Art Dubai, on the stand-out features of the fair

  16-03-2016 22:00
  In an interview with our editor-at-large Gareth Harris, Antonia Carver, the director of Art Dubai, discusses the stand-out features of the fair. Read our report from the fair here.
  
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• Spanish Town Loved The Tourists Attracted By Botched Fresco Restoration. How Do We Keep Them Coming?

  16-03-2016 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Borja Mayor Eduardo Arilla said 160,000 people had come to see the fresco since the story of Cecilia Gimenez’s restoration of a Christ fresco in a town sanctuary went viral in 2012. He said with the new center, the town hoped to keep attracting up to 30,000 visitors annually.”
  
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• Spanish Town Love The Tourists Attracted By Botched Fresco Restoration. How Do We Keep Them Coming?

  16-03-2016 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Borja Mayor Eduardo Arilla said 160,000 people had come to see the fresco since the story of Cecilia Gimenez’s restoration of a Christ fresco in a town sanctuary went viral in 2012. He said with the new center, the town hoped to keep attracting up to 30,000 visitors annually.”
  
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• Verbing Nouns: We All Do It, And Have Been Doing It For Centuries

  16-03-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some call it ‘verbing,’ which sounds like a new dance craze, while linguistic nerds call it denominalization. Benjamin Franklin preferred to call it ‘awkward and abominable’ … [but] Shakespeare was also quite the inveterate verber.” This very article, in fact, elbows its way through the controversy.
  
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• Qatari poet released from prison after royal pardon

  16-03-2016 20:33
  
  The Qatari poet Muhammad ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami, who was given a 15-year prison sentence in 2011 for reciting a poem in support of the Arab Spring uprisings on YouTube, was given a royals pardon and freed on Tuesday, 15 March. The surprise reversal comes after a storm of criticism from human rights groups and the UN about limits to free speech in the country, which has touted itself as a supporter of the arts. The poet’s release also comes at the end of a conference organised by the New Yo
  
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• Police Arrest 13 In Theft Of Tintoretto, Rubens and Mantegna Paintings From Verona Museum

  16-03-2016 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Newly released video shows the masked and armed thieves working their way through the museum, patiently removing the paintings from the walls and easels where they were mounted before escaping in two vehicles.”
  
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• They Think They’ve Figured Out The Fungus That’s Mottling Leonardo Da Vinci’s Self-Portrait

  16-03-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A red chalk sketch from around 1512 CE, long believed to be a self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, has a glowering, bearded man’s face emerging from a swarm of brown spots. … New research may have identified the fungal culprit, which could assist in [the artwork’s] protection.”
  
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• Where have all the art punks gone?

  16-03-2016 19:45
  
  Every generation of artists has defined itself by rebellion. So where are the Generation Y revolutionaries? Our writer enters a world of corporate hijacks, Instagram breakdowns and fake frat parties For more than 100 years, art has been defined by rebellion. From the surrealists’ rejection of the rational to the political paintings of Picasso, from the rage of the punks to the sly irony of the YBAs, the work that adorns the walls of our art institutions is overwhelmingly countercultural.So
  
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• Protesters Warn UK Arts Organizations Over Fossil Fuel Sponsorships

  16-03-2016 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Following news that Tate galleries will end their sponsorship with BP in 2017, one of the leading groups behind the campaign to end the deal has vowed to target other high-profile arts organisations in a bid to sever the relationship between fossil fuel companies and cultural institutions.”
  
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• Broadway’s ‘Wicked’ Breaks $1 Billion Barrier

  16-03-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The long-running musical imagining the Wicked Witch of the West’s back story has just passed the $1 billion mark at the Broadway box office. The musical is one of only three shows ever to reach that milestone.”
  
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• Luminato Festival Gets A New Artistic Director

  16-03-2016 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Wednesday, Luminato CEO Anthony Sargent and festival co-founder/chair Tony Gagliano announced they had hired Josephine Ridge, former creative director of the Melbourne Festival, to helm the Toronto showcase, starting with the 2017 edition.”
  
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• Research: Music Is Inherently A Social Experience (Even When You Listen On Earbuds, Alone)

  16-03-2016 18:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Recent looks at the evolution and neurology of music suggest we are not waltzing by ourselves. Musical experiences are inherently social, scientists tell us, even when they happen in private. When we listen alone, we feel together.”
  
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• A Sissy's Progress: the dangerous power of an effeminate man

  16-03-2016 18:12
  
  After being attacked on the street outside his home, Brazilian performance artist Nando Messias created a one-man carnival to take a stand for men like himA warm night in July, a week after the 7/7 bombings, and Londoners are trying to go about their lives as normal. Nando Messias has been to see some dance at Sadler’s Wells. Taking a taxi as far as Whitechapel High Street, he decides to walk the last leg back to his flat. Dressed in unassuming black, hair pulled into his customary bun, hi
  
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• European Museums Begin Turning To American-Style Philanthropy

  16-03-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Governments in Europe are cutting back their support of museums, and so these museums are adapting the American model and increasingly are turning to private citizens and corporations for donations. They are looking both to their own citizens, and to Americans who are fond of certain major European museums.”
  
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• Readers Don’t Care About The Literary Quality Of Translations (Do They?)

  16-03-2016 17:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Simply, many readers, many critics, don’t notice. Or if they do, don’t particularly care. They read for content. The clamor of idioms about us has become so loud that we hardly notice when a translation, or indeed any piece of prose, is cluttered with incongruities.”
  
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• Budget 2016 to see extra arts funding heading north

  16-03-2016 17:44
  
  In George Osborne’s eighth budget, which he revealed this morning, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer announced £5m for the V&A Museum of Design Dundee, an £81m project to create a Scottish satellite of the museum of design and decorative art. He invited cities in the north of England to bid to host a Great Exhibition of the North in 2018, which has already been allocated £20m. The city of Hull could be a contender; the 2017 City of Culture on the north-east coast wi
  
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• Karma, Beloved Art Bookseller, Is Moving to the Lower East Side

  16-03-2016 17:23 via artnews.com
  Karma, the New York–based bookseller and gallery that has run a shop on Great Jones Street since 2013, and another in the Long Island town of Amagansett since 2012, is moving its Manhattan location to a temporary storefront at 38 Orchard … Read More
  
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• Prospect 4 Announces Dates, Artistic Director’s Council Members

  16-03-2016 17:22 via artnews.com
  My goodness, 2017 is looking like a great year on the international exhibition front. Over in Europe the Grand Tour is on offer, with the Venice Biennale, Documenta (in both Kassel and Athens!), and Skulptur Projekte Muenster all arriving—a once-in-a-decade … Read More
  
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• US Agents Seize Antiquities En Route To New York’s Asian Art Fair

  16-03-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the second time in a matter of days, federal agents on Tuesday seized what they described as an illicit antiquity, valued at several hundred thousand dollars, and scheduled to be sold during New York’s Asia Week.”
  
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• Tech Transcends Hard/Soft-ware To Become A State Of Being

  16-03-2016 16:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This year SXSW, as the festival is known, feels like a story of how the tech ethos has escaped the bounds of hardware and software. Tech is turning into a culture and a style, one that has spread into new foods and clothing, and all other kinds of nonelectronic goods. Tech has become a lifestyle brand.”
  
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• Gideon Mendel Awarded Inaugural Pollock Prize for Creativity

  16-03-2016 16:28 via artnews.com
  Earlier today Charles C. Bergman, chairman and CEO of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, announced South African photographer Gideon Mendel as the recipient of the Foundation’s inaugural Pollock Prize for Creativity. This newly established annual $50,000 cash award will honor artists whose … Read More
  
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• The Theater Of Violence And The Violence Of Theater (And Sports)

  16-03-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The great virtue of ancient tragedy is that it allowed the Greeks to see their role in a history of violence and war that was to some extent of their own making. It also allowed them to imagine a suspension of that cycle of violence. … From the beginning to the end, Shakespeare’s drama is a meditation on political violence.”
  
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• Watching the watchers: Hajra Waheed turns the table on the spooks

  16-03-2016 15:43
  
  No one knows what Saudi Aramco is worth. Oil and gas experts estimate Saudi Arabia’s state-owned energy giant could be worth “trillions of dollars”, making it easily the world’s biggest company. But Montreal-based artist Hajra Waheed, who has solo shows in The Mosaic Room in London (Sea Change, until 21 May) as well as the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in the north of England (The Cyphers, until 30 May), knows more than most about the ultra secretive company. She gr
  
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• English National Opera Chorus Explains How They Came To The Point Of Striking

  16-03-2016 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It seemed fair enough to ask some members of the chorus I met – who have to remain anonymous for contractual reasons – exactly how this whole horrible if not totally unfamiliar episode in ENO’s beleaguered recent history began, and how it developed.”
  
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• Where Trucks Are Becoming Mobile Street Art

  16-03-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Truck Art Project features work from leading contemporary Spanish artists on Spanish transport company Palibex’s fleet of trucks, thanks to an initiative from Palibex CEO and art collector Jaime Colsa in collaboration with Madrid’s Iam Gallery.”
  
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• The Rise Of The Millennial Sitcom

  16-03-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “But in the last few years, a new kind of sitcom has emerged on cable and streaming networks, complete with its own tropes. We now have ‘the cell-phone emergency’, ‘the mid-afternoon brunch’, the ‘dating-app disaster’, the ‘wander-the-city walk-and-talk’. Classic network sitcoms traded in the ‘will they, won’t they’ sitcom staple; shows like Broad City and Girls have embraced the ‘are they or aren’t they’ [
  
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• New Kid in Town: Hauser Wirth & Schimmel Opens in Los Angeles

  16-03-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
  And the artist Henry Taylor inaugurates a space of his own Read More
  
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• ‘Irony Is Practically Unavoidable’: A Talk With Dike Blair

  16-03-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
  Bill Powers: Tell me about your new exhibition at Secession in Vienna.Dike Blair: The show is called “Floors/Doors/Windows/Walls.” It’s basically fifty paintings of those things segregated into separate rooms accompanied by three thematic sculptures. I’m in the basement and first … Read More
  
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• More Of A.O. Scott On Why Critics And Criticism Matter

  16-03-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We trivialise art. We venerate nonsense. We can’t see past our own bullshit. Enough of that! It’s the job of art to free our minds, and the task of criticism to figure out what to do with that freedom.”
  
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• Joseph Nahmad to Open Project Space in London’s Mayfair District

  16-03-2016 14:30 via artnews.com
  Over the past few years, Gagosian Gallery, David Zwirner, Pace Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, and Michael Werner have all set up outposts in London’s Mayfair district. This summer, Joseph Nahmad will join the trend with Nahmad Projects, which will open … Read More
  
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• ‘Makerspaces’ And ‘Fab Labs’ At Public Libraries Offer Tools, Materials, 3-D Printers

  16-03-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We saw the laser scanner and the laser cutter, which can etch metals, or cut cardboard, wood, paper, and even pumpkins, one of which Adam passed around. There was a wire bender, named Fender Bender Rodriguez. There was a milling machine that can make prototypes of wood or plastics or even soft aluminum.” Not to mention 3-D printers named Kevin Spacey, Johnny Pie, and Maria the Metropolis.
  
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• What Research Psychologists Have Learned About Fighting Writer’s Block

  16-03-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In real life, having your poetry criticized by T.S. Eliot could cause you to doubt your poetic gifts. But imagining it in a dream has the opposite effect.”
  
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• Anita Brookner, 87, Booker Prize-Winning Novelist And Art Historian

  16-03-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Curiously enough, though Brookner’s art histories bubble with the delight of discovery and joyful exposition, her novels tend to describe a grey milieu of enervated, stranded and tentatively hopeless women.”
  
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• Italian police arrest 13 over €15m Verona museum theft

  16-03-2016 13:44
  
  Italian police have arrested 13 people yesterday, 15 March, for the theft of 17 Old Master paintings from the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona last November, including the museum security guard.
  Three masked, armed men entered the museum around 7.30pm on 19 November, when it was due to close but before the alarm system had been enabled. They attacked the two museum employees present, the guard and a cashier, before stealing the works worth an estimated €10m-€15m, including six pieces
  
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• Morning Links: Environmentally Sustainable Museums Edition

  16-03-2016 13:39 via artnews.com
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• Asian-American Academy Members Formally Protest Offensive Skits At Oscars Ceremony

  16-03-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Twenty-five members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who are of Asian descent – among them two-time best director Oscar winner Ang Lee and former members of the board of governors Arthur Dong, Don Hall and Freida Lee Mock – have sent a letter to the organization protesting ‘tasteless and offensive skits’ about Asians that were featured on the 88th Academy Awards on Feb. 28.”
  
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• World Go Champion Loses Tournament To Computer; Ken Jennings Welcomes Him To The Club

  16-03-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Like [Garry] Kasparov before me, I now make a reasonable living as a professional human loser. Have rueful sense of own inevitable obsolescence, will travel.”
  
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• Venice is Europe’s most endangered heritage site, watchdog warns

  16-03-2016 13:14
  
  The Venice Lagoon is the most endangered heritage site in Europe, declared the pan-European heritage organisation Europa Nostra at an event today, 16 March, in Venice. Fifty years after the great floods in Florence and Venice mobilised the international community into action, the group, in collaboration with the European Investment Bank Institute, appealed to European, Italian and Venetian governments as well as political and business leaders to once again come together and act before it is too
  
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• Ballet Dancers And Oakland Turfers Groove Together On PBS NewsHour

  16-03-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What started out as a culture clash of dance styles evolved into a close collaboration among 12 dancers and the launch of The Mud Water Project. The project aims to create opportunities for turfers to showcase their art in concert-style settings and to audiences often beyond their reach.” (includes video)
  
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