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• Garry Shandling, Influential Comedian And TV Writer, Dies Suddenly At 66

  24-03-2016 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “His death is a tragically sudden end to a storied career that more than once redefined comedy: He was best known as the creator and star of the surreal 1986 sitcom It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, which ran for four seasons on Showtime, and the landmark HBO series The Larry Sanders Show, a spoof of late-night talk shows that pioneered an age of darker, more adult humor on television and inspired a new generation of comedians.”
  
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• English National Opera’s Dire Straits (Is This The End?)

  24-03-2016 23:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If ENO is to survive, it must do so in reduced circumstances. It is an understandable impulse for the company’s defenders to decry any cut or any change. But it must change. Its history is full of change. It moved to the Coliseum only in 1968, for example. At the same time the question of what ENO is – what it is in its bones and sinews – must be cherished and protected.”
  
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• Jian Ghomeshi Acquitted Of Sexual Assault Charges

  24-03-2016 22:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The former host of the popular CBC Radio program Q “has been acquitted on four counts of sexual assault and one count of choking by an Ontario Court judge who says the ‘deceptive and manipulative’ evidence of the complainants raised a reasonable doubt [about his] guilt.”
  
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• New Scans Suggest Shakespeare’s Skull May Be Missing From His Grave

  24-03-2016 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Researchers used ground-penetrating radar to explore the playwright’s tomb in Stratford-upon-Avon’s Holy Trinity Church. Staffordshire University archaeologist Kevin Colls, who led the study, said they found “an odd disturbance at the head end,” with evidence of repairs some time after the original burial.
  
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• Paris art handlers testify to taking ‘€220,000 in a plastic bag’ among other revelations

  24-03-2016 22:00
  
  The trial of the Drouot art handlers popularly known as the “cols rouges” after the red collars of their uniforms got off to a slow start last week with two days of procedural questioning. But as the first defendants took the stand, a pattern of alleged thefts has emerged, and so has the relative impunity within the handlers’ union.Three days of testimony from around a third of the 45 defendants produced similar stories: estates to be sold, often with the heirs not present; a
  
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• Frick Museum Abandons Expansion Plans That Would Have Replaced Gardens

  24-03-2016 21:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While the Frick abandoned its earlier renovation plan, designed by Davis Brody Bond — which called for a six-story addition that eliminated the gated garden on East 70th Street — its space constraints have remained the same, if not “become more pressing.”
  
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• P.P.O.W. Now Represents Betty Tompkins

  24-03-2016 21:12 via artnews.com
  P.P.O.W. announced today that it now represents Betty Tompkins, the feminist artist who, over the past few years, has seen a renewed critical interest in her work. The New York gallery notes, in a release, that Tompkins is a “natural … Read More
  
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• Don’t Blame “Reality” TV For Donald Trump

  24-03-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yet “reality TV star” is constantly attached to Trump as a label and his rise in popularity as politician, with all its reverberations, is regularly blamed on the existence of reality TV. This is nonsense. Coarse, rabble-rousing politicians existed and thrived before television existed, let alone what we now call reality TV.
  
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• ‘Tschabalala Self: The Function’ at T293, Naples

  24-03-2016 20:35 via artnews.com
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• Michelle Segre at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia

  24-03-2016 20:28 via artnews.com
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• Half-Naked ‘Pagan Librarians’ Burn Henry Miller’s Books In Russian Mardi Gras Bonfire

  24-03-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A group of young people in Krasnodar, southern Russia, burned several books written by American author Henry Miller and filmed the whole ‘ritual’ on camera. The group slammed Miller for promoting an ‘amoral’ western way of life.” (includes video)
  
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• Canadian Culture Shift: National Theatre To Add Indigenous Theatre Company

  24-03-2016 19:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 2019, the National Arts Center will launch a new Indigenous Theatre – a department devoted to indigenous performing arts that is intended to be an equal to the arts centre’s long-established English and French Theatre companies.”
  
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• Why Our Minds Wander (Does It Matter?)

  24-03-2016 19:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Many philosophical and religious traditions teach that happiness is to be found by living in the moment, and practitioners are trained to resist mind wandering and ‘to be here now.’ These traditions suggest that a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. Are they right?”
  
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• The Neglected Hodgepodge That Is Brussels (And Why It Doesn’t Work)

  24-03-2016 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Brussels, that magnificent repository of history, with its Renaissance guild houses and nineteenth-century palaces built on fortunes made in the Congo, is the capital of Belgium, but few Belgians take much pride in it, in the way the French are proud of Paris, or the British of London. To many Belgians, Brussels is a strange city of immigrants, refugees, and foreign grandees. It is still a capital in search of a nation. And if you include the EU, it is also a capital in search of an empir
  
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• Appeals Court Upholds Alberto Vilar’s Prison Term But Cancels Fines

  24-03-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ruled that a federal judge was justified in increasing the prison sentence of money manager and arts patron Alberto Vilar to 10 years in prison from nine for securities fraud. But the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York vacated the $10 million in fines imposed on Vilar and Gary Tanaka, his business partner at the now-defunct Amerindo Investment Advisers Inc.”
  
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• Why Our Cities Need Public Squares

  24-03-2016 18:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The public square has always been synonymous with a society that acknowledges public life and a life in public, which is to say a society distinguishing the individual from the state. There were, strictly speaking, no public squares in ancient Egypt or India or Mesopotamia. There were courts outside temples and royal houses, and some wide processional streets.”
  
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• We’re Losing Our Radio History. Can Anything Be Done?

  24-03-2016 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s no way to quantify how much of broadcasting history has been lost, except to say that most of American radio will never be heard again. That is, many scholars argue, in large part the fault of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which eliminated mandates for local ownership and led to major consolidations across the radio market. New ownership often meant the obliteration of recorded history.”
  
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• Nora Ephron, Who Took The T Out Of ‘TMI’, And The One Secret She Kept

  24-03-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Why did the “consummate over-sharer” tell almost no one about the illness that ultimately killed her? The key, suggests her son, may lie in one of her favorite quips: “When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh.”
  
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• Walker Art Center Names Adrienne Edwards and Vincenzo de Bellis Visual Art Curators

  24-03-2016 17:29 via artnews.com
  The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has announced the appointments of Adrienne Edwards as visual arts curator at large and Vincenzo de Bellis as visual arts curator.Edwards, who currently serves as a curator and head of programming at Performa and … Read More
  
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• Lynn Hershman Leeson Is Making a Documentary About Tania Bruguera

  24-03-2016 17:24 via artnews.com
  Lynn Hershman Leeson has recently enjoyed a late-career comeback. Over the past two years, the feminist video artist has had critically acclaimed solo shows at Modern Art Oxford, Bridget Donahue in New York, and the ZKM Center for Art in … Read More
  
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• Modern Painters Names New Editor-in-Chief, Executive Editor

  24-03-2016 17:14 via artnews.com
  Modern Painters, the nearly 30-year-old magazine that’s part of the Louise Blouin Media stable of art publications, announced today that executive editor Scott Indrisek will be taking over as editor-in-chief, replacing Daniel Kunitz. Joining him at the top of the masthead, … Read More
  
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• German collector Julia Stoschek to open satellite space in Berlin

  24-03-2016 17:08
  
  The German video art collector Julia Stoschek is to open a satellite exhibition space in Berlin in June. Housed in the former Czech cultural centre in Mitte, the new ga  llery will host temporary exhibitions drawn from Stoschek’s 700-strong collection and will complement the 3,000 sq. m space she already has in Düsseldorf.
  More than 15,000 people visit the Düsseldorf space every year, something Stoschek hopes to replicate in Berlin. “The plan is again to present the c
  
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• What Policymakers Could Learn About Artificial Intelligence From The Guy Who Played Go With Google’s Computer

  24-03-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the first three games, AlphaGo bludgeoned Lee with a calculating efficiency that mystified the 33-year–old Korean. Then in Game 4, Lee responded to the challenge of artificial intelligence with new tactics. He attacked AlphaGo, aggressively sought to hem it in, and in a transcendent moment of genius laid down a lone white pebble that one Go champion dramatically called the ‘hand of god.’ He won.”
  
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• Art Institute of Chicago Hires Ann Goldstein as Deputy Director and Chair of Modern and Contemporary art

  24-03-2016 16:38 via artnews.com
  Ever since Ann Goldstein stepped down as director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, at the end of 2013, after about four years on the job, people have whispered about where she might end up next, and her name has … Read More
  
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• Charles Kaufman, 87, Saved, Led Mannes School Of Music

  24-03-2016 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A gifted teacher and charismatic presence, Kaufman led a faculty and student revolt at the music conservatory in 1979 that saved it from a merger with the much larger Manhattan School of Music.
  
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• Artist makes Donald Trump portrait out of pig snout and sheep eyes – video

  24-03-2016 16:27
  
  Donald Trump is known for collecting art – of himself. But it’s unlikely you’ll see this piece around any of his palatial homes. Made up of a pig snout and sheep eyes, the unflattering portrait of The Donald was created by British artist James Ostrer, and is currently on display at Hong Kong Art Central. Ostrer says he wanted to create an icon for the ‘megalomania’ encompassing the Republican presidential race Continue reading...
  
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• How To Read Dante (Since So Few Of Us Really Have) In The 21st Century

  24-03-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Start by treating The Divine Comedy not as a book, with a coherent, beginning, middle, and end, but rather … treat the poem as Dante the character treated his journey, something to be undertaken step by step.”
  
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• With Dark Clouds Overhead, Art Basel Hong Kong Opens for Business

  24-03-2016 15:45 via artnews.com
  Hong Kong was born out of the drug trade. It was the result of the global trading explosion of the 19th century, and an early indication that the Western world, mostly Britain and the United States, would seek maximum profits … Read More
  
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• Malaysia Bans LGBT Rights Comedy For ‘Mocking National Security’

  24-03-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Namewee’s film Banglasia, which centers on a group of individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds who find themselves forced to accept each other’s differences, was banned from cinemas last year after 31 scenes were deemed inappropriate by local censors.”
  
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• Singing Bel Canto Requires ‘Living Like A Nun,’ Says Sondra Radvanovsky

  24-03-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I don’t want to cancel a show, because people have paid to come hear me sing the three queens. So … I wash my hands constantly; they’re raw from washing. I’m going to the gym and really taking care of myself and trying to stay fit, eating properly. Anything I can do.”
  
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• Heart Of Stone: Tracey Emin Has Married A Rock

  24-03-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[The artist] says the story may sound pretentious and stupid, but she recalls finding a small box and in it was a ring with an ant on it. ‘I put it on my finger and suddenly realised it’s superstitious to put a wedding ring on your finger unless you are getting married, otherwise you have to throw the ring away,’ she said. But because she liked the ring so much, she decided instead she needed to marry someone – and why not the rock?”
  
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• Morning Links: Artistic Censorship Edition

  24-03-2016 14:02 via artnews.com
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• She May Just Be The World’s Foremost Stage Designer

  24-03-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  She works on everything from West End plays and musicals to opera at the Met and Covent Garden to rock stars’ arena tours to the openingceremony of the Rio Olympics. Says one director, “[She] doesn’t design plays. Or, at least, she doesn’t design the locations in which they’re set. Instead, she designs the ideas, the thought structures, the systems in which the characters operate.”
  
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• The Sea Creatures That Inspired Art Nouveau

  24-03-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The drawings that biologist Ernst Haeckel made while aboard the HMS Challenger‘s round-the-world voyage in the 1870s had a surprisingly wide influence. (They’re also very cool.)
  
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• ‘Big Ego And High-Handed Obstinacy’: Maybe It’s A Good Thing That English National Opera’s Music Director Quit

  24-03-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rupert Christiansen: “Urbane and cultured, [Mark Wigglesworth] is a charming and intelligent person with exceptional musical talent, but his big ego and high-handed obstinacy are qualities that, in its current ’emergency measures’ position, ENO cannot accommodate. He’s long been well known to be a tricky customer with a short fierce temper, and his brilliant early career hasn’t fulfilled its promise because of it.”
  
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• ‘The Situation Looks Bleak, But It Need Not Be Terminal’ At English National Opera

  24-03-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Charlotte Higgins: “For many years now, ENO has been a paradoxical place. It has had a superb orchestra and chorus, the best technical team in Britain, and has produced artistically brilliant work. This is true even now, as everything seems in a state of disintegration, with its productions of The Magic Flute and Akhnaten.”
  
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• Theatre As Activism – Can It Really Have An Effect?

  24-03-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There is a long history of performance as activism, from the street interventions of Bread and Puppet Theater to the secret shows of Belarus Free Theatre … But can we really expect even the most urgent and rage-fuelled piece of theatre to have audiences rushing to man the barricades and topple governments? … Do such shows do anything but preach to the converted?” (Maybe.)
  
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• UK Government Publishes First Culture White Paper In 51 Years

  24-03-2016 12:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ed Vaizey, the UK culture minister, has published his White Paper. This is the first such governmental policy statement on culture since that of Jennie Lee, the Labour arts minister, in 1965. The Culture White Paper announces the establishment of detailed reviews of museums, arts and heritage.”
  
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• Cliburn Winner’s Wife Pleads Not Guilty To Murder Of Their Children

  24-03-2016 12:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Based on further details of the crime released by the police, Sofya Tsygankova – the estranged wife of pianist Vadym Kholodenko – will presumably use an insanity defense.
  
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• Smears, counterclaims and lawsuits—the tangled web surrounding Prince of Liechtenstein’s Cranach

  24-03-2016 12:00
  
  There has been a bizarre new twist in the case of the Prince of Liechtenstein’s painting of Venus, attributed to Cranach, which was seized on 1 March by a French judge. The Art Newspaper has learned that the painting is the subject of a lawsuit that has been ongoing since May 2014. The case was launched in Paris by an art dealer against two middlemen. The French dealer, who cannot currently be named, says he was the owner of the painting and was cheated of the true value of the work after
  
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• William Morris: a Victorian socialist dreaming of a life in symmetry

  24-03-2016 11:53
  
  The English craftsman’s birthday is celebrated by Google today, and his designs for fonts, wallpaper and textiles remain relevant today – as do his ideas about the ravages of capitalismWilliam Morris was a Marxist with a very spiritual passion for beauty – a paradoxical visionary who saw no contradiction between socialism and soft furnishings. Today’s Google doodle goes to the heart of his genius because it captures his joy in repetition, his love of the middle ages and h
  
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• William Morris: Who was the artist and textile designer in today's Google Doodle?

  24-03-2016 10:01
  
  'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful', said William Morris in 1880
  
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• William Morris: Who was the artist and textile designer?

  24-03-2016 10:01
  
  'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful', said William Morris in 1880
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.23.16

  24-03-2016 08:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Closer Look At Max Hollein, New Director in San Francisco
  Yesterday the trustees of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announced that they had selected Max Hollein, currently director of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, as their new chief. I’d say that was a good … read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2016-03-23Fine with Hollein: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Snare an International Standout as Director
  The last time I interviewed Max Hollein, 46, who
  
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• Mimi Mollica's best photograph: 'The haunted face of Sicily'

  24-03-2016 08:00
  
  ‘He was waiting anxiously for a bus in Palermo. His face was a battlefield’I’d just come back from shooting in a poor district of Palermo. I was waiting for the bus and I saw this guy. His face was a battlefield. The dark energy was all there. He’s not a mafioso. Mafiosi have a totally different body language. They stand tall, they are aggressive. I just saw this battered, haunted face of Sicily.I work with a Hasselblad 500cm so I hold the camera at waist level and look d
  
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• Artistic censorship is on the rise, advocacy group reports

  24-03-2016 05:57
  
  Attacks on artistic freedom are on the rise globally, according to a report issued by Freemuse, an independent organisation based in Copenhagen that advocates for and defends freedom of expression.
  A study the group conducted, based on media reports and other sources, found that there were 469 cases of attacks on artistic expression last year, almost double the count in 2014. Most of the cases were issues of censorship (292), though the total also includes incidents of artists being detained (23
  
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• 'Classic Sydney': council orders removal of two-storey nude Kim Kardashian mural

  24-03-2016 05:09
  
  Neighbour’s complaint prompts order for removal, but an adjacent mural of Kanye West kissing himself will remain untouched
  Amid the galleries, cafes and bars that dot Chippendale in Sydney, the newest large-scale artwork to adorn Zigi’s Art, Wine and Cheese bar is impossible to ignore. She arrived on Saturday and stands more than two stories tall on Teggs Lane: Kim Kardashian, nude and towering, covering her body with an arm and a hand as she brazenly stares down onlookers.But if you
  
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• The Museum at FIT profiles fashion’s female trifecta

  24-03-2016 03:17
  
  The Women of Harper’s Bazaar 1936-58 at The Museum at FIT in New York profiles the relationship of the three women behind the American fashion and lifestyle publication—the editor-in-chief Carmel Snow, the editor Diana Vreedland and the photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe. Through photographs, vintage publications, personal letters, apparel and a video installation, the exhibition (until 2 April 2016) candidly depicts how the trio “brewed the perfect storm that resulted in Harper&r
  
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• Controller Second Stage Theatre

  24-03-2016 01:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Reporting to the Director of Finance, this position will be responsible for all day-to-day accounting of the institution. This is a time of transition for one of New York’s leading off-Broadway theaters and this position needs someone with strong organizational and operational skills to help streamline the finance department’s procedures in advance of the opening of their Broadway theater.Level/Salary Range: Manager/ Commensurate with experiencePosition Type: Full-time position
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