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• US museums spent $5bn to expand as economy shrank

  03-04-2016 23:00
  
  US museums spent nearly $5bn on expansions between 2007 and 2014, according to research by The Art Newspaper. During the worst US recession since the Great Depression, $4.95bn was spent or pledged by 26 museums on projects such as the $305m Snøhetta-designed extension of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), which is due to open on 14 May. The US spent more on expansions than all of the other 37 countries we examined put together (for methodology, see below).While shiny new co
  
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• Pompidou to pop up in South Korea and China

  03-04-2016 23:00
  
  After exhibitions this spring in Singapore and Japan, the Centre Pompidou in Paris will open a temporary exhibition space in Seoul next year, and another in China in 2018.
  The new centres are being branded Centre Pompidou followed by the name of the host city (they were originally called Pop-Up Pompidou). The first of these new spaces, Centre Pompidou Malaga, attracted 200,000 visitors in its first year, fr om March 2015 to March 2016. According to a senior source at the Pompidou, Malaga &ldquo
  
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• Object lessons: from MoMA's Man Ray to a Ming moon flask

  03-04-2016 23:00
  
  Man Ray, Profile Study of a Woman (1928)Photographs, Phillips, New York, 4 April
  Est $25,000-$35,000
  Profile Study of a Woman (1928) by the Surrealist photographer Man Ray formerly belonged to James Thrall Soby, the American critic and curator who was also an avid collector of Modern art. The gelatine silver print was among more than 50 works of art that Soby bequeathed to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where he had served as director of paintings and sculpture in the 1940s and as a trus
  
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• Ibrahim Mahama countersues art dealers Stefan Simchowitz and Jonathan Ellis King

  03-04-2016 23:00
  
  The Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has filed a countersuit in his ongoing legal battle with the Los Angeles dealer and artist agent Stefan Simchowitz and the Dublin dealer Jonathan Ellis King. The case centres on six lots of jute sack material, which Mahama sold to Simchowitz and Ellis King for £90,000 in 2013. The artist repurposes the coarse brown sacks that are used to transport coal in Ghana, stitching them together to create tapestry-like installations.
  Mahama claims that Simchowitz
  
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• What ‘French Cinema’ Means In An Era Of Migrants And Refugees

  03-04-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I had this idea of people coming to France who had no connection with the old colonial empire, so had no reference points in terms of language or culture.”
  
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• The Most Overlooked Pop Art Icon In The U.S. Was A Peace-Loving Nun Forced Out Of Her Order By The Archdiocese

  03-04-2016 20:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Corita Kent, at the time Sister Mary Corita, “used the 1960s’ social and cultural revolutions as the catalyst for her messages about hope and love, drawing inspiration from scripture, pop culture and contemporary logos.”
  
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• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s French HQ: Monstrosity Or Building That Deserves Protection?

  03-04-2016 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘It was a failed project from the beginning,’ Lambert said. ‘I just can’t believe some people are trying to protect this tower,’ which the CBC would like to sell or see redeveloped.”
  
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• Producing A TV Show: Harder Than It Looks

  03-04-2016 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s much more emotional that I expected, making sure that people are happy and invested in the material. … It’s sort of like raising a child. That level of emotional investment surprised me.”
  
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• What Happens To An Arts Festival When Its Funder Dies And Her Foundation Leaves?

  03-04-2016 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When the third version of the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, or PIFA, breaks out around town beginning April 8, it will represent a more modest version of the arts extravaganza that ended with 200,000 people thronging a Broad Street fair in April 2011.”
  
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• An Artist, Looking At China’s Rapid Changes (And What Stays The Same)

  03-04-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cao Fei “grew up absorbing the various influences that flooded her hometown and focused on creating art that examined China’s economic boom. She gained attention early from prominent European curators before being seen at home, thus bypassing some of the obstacles usually encountered by female artists in China.”
  
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• Look, We Have Google; Why Would We Still Need Citations?

  03-04-2016 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Now that we live in a world in which no text need be an island, in which scholarly publications are increasingly delivered digitally and so can be literally interconnected via links and embeds, it is reasonable to ask whether citations are still necessary.”
  
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• A Short History Of Badass Black Men On Screen (Including Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis)

  03-04-2016 18:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Is there anybody out there who’s heroic and sexually compelling enough to qualify? The common consensus is yes: Idris Elba.”
  
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• If She Couldn’t Dance, Coca Crystal Didn’t Want Your Revolution

  03-04-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The caller’s name might not have been familiar to the Times reporter, but to New Yorkers south of 14th Street, Coca Crystal was a countercultural celebrity, a Holly Golightly for the Aquarian age.”
  
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• A Versatile Editor Explains How Publishing Can Do (A Lot) Better With Diversity

  03-04-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I went to a reading where a white author cracked a joke at the expense of Asians. Everyone laughed and I looked around and realized I was the only person of color in the audience. Last year I received a manuscript that was so racist I had to look at my calendar to make sure I didn’t accidentally time travel. There have been countless times that people have mistaken me for another Asian editor. I’m telling you this because these are ‘good’ people who ‘mean wel
  
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• A Portland Dance Company Invited Some Of The City’s Famous Non-Dancers To Make Dance

  03-04-2016 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘When you rocks are split up by the erosion, don’t look at each other like you’re anticipating it,’ she tells the company. ‘It’s about the awareness two tectonics plates would have.'”
  
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• Uganda Deeply Loves Country Music

  03-04-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The most requested song on Kampala’s Radio One station, from listeners of all ages, is Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colours.”
  
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• What If No One In The World Cares About America Anymore?

  03-04-2016 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One of the ways Hollywood argues for its own social significance is by suggesting that its products export an appealing vision of America and American ideals. If international audiences don’t find America and Americans to be appealing subjects anymore, that creates a strong economic incentive for Hollywood to make movies and television shows that are much more generic in every way.”
  
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• How The Dance Company Keeps Martha Graham Alive

  03-04-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘The dancers here love the work so much,’ said Lloyd Mayor, a member of the company. ‘It’s just like a beautiful precious crystal that we will keep polishing.'”
  
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• How Do Parents Talk To Teens About Consent? Young Adult Books Show The Way

  03-04-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a world where sex education is often basic, and porn is everywhere, author Christa Desir wants young adult fiction to be a place where kids can find answers and also questions about consensual sex. ‘What do you want? What’s pleasurable for you?’ she asks. ‘And what’s pleasurable for your partner? And how can you be intimate and it not be awkward?'”
  
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• China’s Box Office Finally Set To Over Take U.S. Numbers

  03-04-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “China’s mushrooming numbers are also credited to its booming local industry, with incentives in place for cinemas which show domestic rather than Hollywood films. Chinese movies accounted for 61.48% of ticket sales in 2015, with many of the biggest hits – such as The Mermaid, The Monkey King 2 and The Man From Macau 3 – falling into this category.”
  
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• Time For The U.S. Theatrical World To Claim Spanish And Mexican Playwrights In The Classical Canon

  03-04-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We have a largely undiluted diet of Shakespeare, Shakespeare, and more Shakespeare, with the occasional nod to the Greeks. Particularly given the US population today, could we not envision instead a turn to the vibrant tradition of Hispanic classical theatre? The lively comedia—the theatrical corpus developed on both sides of the Atlantic by playwrights such as Spaniards Félix Lope de Vega and Pedro Calderón de la Barca, or Mexicans Juan Ruiz de Alarcón and Sor
  
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• Afrofuturism Is A Thing You Should Know About (And It’s Not New)

  03-04-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This phenomenon has acquired a certain curatorial cachet for museums, conferences, festivals, listicles, and panels: the meme is mother to the making.”
  
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• How Did The Original ‘Shuffle Along’ Even Happen?

  03-04-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “How did Eubie Blake, whose parents were both slaves, end up having a deep, deep desire to write musicals? He could write rags. He could write pop tunes. What he really wanted to write were Broadway shows. It’s astonishing to me that the child of slaves said, ‘I want to write a Broadway musical.’ That’s an extraordinary thing. Why would he want to do that? Why would anybody want to write a musical?”
  
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• Here Are Some (Women) Architects Other Than Zaha Hadid Whom You Should Know

  03-04-2016 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The world-renowned designer was an inspiration to women in the field, which suffers from a severe gender imbalance. We’re highlighting the works of past and present female architects you should know.”
  
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• Christie’s staff become Dutch still-lifes for Old Masters charity race

  03-04-2016 13:19
  
  Visitors and tourists wandering around the St James’s area of central London on 6 April may well see figures and objects from Old Masters paintings running alongside. Christie’s specialists in the field have organised an “Old Masters run to beat cancer”, and have promised to pound the block dressed as Dutch still-lifes, a Dürer rhino and even a Stubbs horse. The Old Masters mini-marathon will set off from King Street at 11am. “The department has been affected
  
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• Richard Forster: Levittown review – little boxes remade with love

  03-04-2016 09:00
  
  De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-SeaIt took 17 minutes to erect a Levittown prefab: 70 years later, Richard Forster has spent months painstakingly resurrecting that American Dream in pencilYou know Levittown, you’ve seen it in the movies: thousands of neat little houses radiating out across the suburbs in the fresh morning dew. Pop leaves for work in his gleaming new Oldsmobile. Mom waves the kids off on the yellow school bus. A freckled boy cycles past, tossing newspapers on sprinkled lawn
  
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• Disabled artists use their skills to highlight ‘shoddy and cruel’ treatment over benefits

  03-04-2016 01:05
  
  Exhibition demands right ‘to live with dignity and without fear of harassment’Disabled artist “Mow”, 32, has literally taken the shirt off her back for her latest work: a laundry-cum-mailbag made from her own clothes, with shopping receipts appliqued on the cloth.Not Lost is Mow’s satirical response to the Department for Work and Pensions’ “shoddy” information-gathering process, inspired by her own experience of sending her financial details &ndash
  
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• Sicily at the British Museum: epic blockbusters of the ancient world

  03-04-2016 01:01
  
  Ancient Greek and other treasures in show reveal how public art told a story just as an action film does todayConfirmation that a severed head is a good match with an unidentified torso, and that a bent leg found on the Chatsworth Estate in Derbyshire actually belongs to a different body, sounds like the plot of a thriller, but this is the work of restorers preparing a star exhibit for a British Museum show on Sicily.One of the leading attractions of Sicily: Culture and Conquest, the first major
  
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