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• How Do You Manage The Business Behemoth That Has Become “Hamilton”?

  05-04-2016 23:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ultimately, there may be as many as seven “Hamilton” companies, in addition to the one on Broadway, performing at the same time in multiple American and international cities. Ticket revenues, over time, could reach into the billions of dollars. If it hits sales of a mere $1 billion, which “Hamilton” could surpass in New York alone, the show will have generated roughly $300 million in profit on the $12.5 million put up by investors.”
  
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• Antonio Dias at Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo

  05-04-2016 23:22 via artnews.com
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• Steve McQueen’s racy but fragrant new film

  05-04-2016 22:40
  
  Turner prize-winner Steve McQueen has a CV that makes lesser mortals salivate, from representing the UK at the Venice Biennale in 2009 to bagging a Best Picture Oscar in 2014 for the epic Twelve Years a Slave. He can now add arty perfume ad to his list of achievements, having shot a steamy video for Burberry’s new scent for men called Mr Burberry. The raunchy film features Josh Whitehouse and Amber Anderson as lovers enjoying a dirty weekend (McQueen’s words, not ours) in London. Th
  
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• Columbia students oppose installation of 'hideous' Henry Moore sculpture

  05-04-2016 22:33
  
  The famous British artist’s Reclining Figure resembles a ‘poorly formed pterodactyl’ and would ruin aesthetics of library’s landscape, petitioners saidA historic six-day campus occupation at Columbia University in 1968 saw 700 people arrested and pushed the school to cut ties with institutions supporting the Vietnam war. More than four decades later, 1,200 Columbia students are fighting a different sort of battle: one against the placement of a “hideous” Henry
  
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• DC’s Brilliantly-Restored Howard Theatre Opened With Such Promise. Now That’s Gone

  05-04-2016 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Four years later, the promise of those ecstatic opening days has faded amid charges of mismanagement and mounting financial problems, according to a number of people closely associated with the Howard who were interviewed for this article.”
  
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• Altman Siegel to Relocate to San Francisco’s Dogpatch District

  05-04-2016 21:20 via artnews.com
  The news from San Francisco just doesn’t stop coming!Altman Siegel, a San Francisco mainstay since 2009, has now jumped on the craze and announced that it will move from the Financial District to the Dogpatch district. The gallery plans to … Read More
  
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• SOPHIE’s Choice: A Panel at the New Museum with Music, Performance, and Absolutely No Discussion

  05-04-2016 21:09 via artnews.com
  On Thursday evening, artist and music producer SOPHIE, wearing a short white robe, walked into the all-white basement of the New Museum in New York and settled comfortably into his seat at a long white table onstage, in front of … Read More
  
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• The Wrong Way To Teach Painting

  05-04-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Professors of my ilk see painting as a hands-on art form best learned through looking at great paintings and at painters in action, and by painting while being coached. The new pedagogy see[s] painting as best learned through critical thinking, a method borrowed from literature and the social sciences.” Laurie Fendrich explains why the latter is a dangerous approach.
  
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• Ben Cameron: The Business Of The Arts Is Radically Changing

  05-04-2016 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 501(c)(3) model is increasingly challenged and is increasingly limited. Frankly a lot of the most exciting work now—especially among young artists—is not happening in a nonprofit context. We prided ourselves on our “sector purity” when I was growing up, that we were “nonprofit artists.” Young artists want to get the work done, whether it is commercial or nonprofit.”
  
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• Ulay, Marina’s long-time collaborator, returns to New York

  05-04-2016 20:08
  
  Watch out, Marina: Ulay is coming back to New York. Next month, the German artist—who made his name collaborating with Marina Abramovic in the 1980s before their breakup and subsequent legal battle—is due to unveil his first performance in the Big Apple in 30 years.
  For the moment, details on the project are scarce. Ulay will collaborate with Jasa, a fellow performance artist who represented Slovenia at the 2015 Venice Biennale. The New York performance and installation will be &ldqu
  
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• Do We Care More About Palmyra’s Antiquities Than Its People? (It Sure Looks That Way)

  05-04-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What might not have been clear if you followed the news stories and photographs is that there is also a modern town of Palmyra (Arabic Tadmur) adjacent to the ancient site, with tens of thousands of inhabitants. And here in microcosm is an unsettling problem/trend of the entire war.”
  
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• Valusani Foundry, Known for Controversial ‘Authentic Copies’ of Degas Works, Ordered to Close to Pay Off Debts

  05-04-2016 19:42 via artnews.com
  Valusani, which, over the past three decades, has come under fire for making plaster casts of Edgar Degas’s sculptures, has been ordered to close by a French judge, the New York Times reports. The decision calls on the firm to … Read More
  
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• Valsuani Foundry, Known for Controversial ‘Authentic Copies’ of Degas Works, Ordered to Close to Pay Off Debts

  05-04-2016 19:42 via artnews.com
  Valsuani, which, over the past three decades, has come under fire for making plaster casts of Edgar Degas’s sculptures, has been ordered to close by a French judge, the New York Times reports. The decision calls on the firm to … Read More
  
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• Why We’re Drawn To Really Bad Art #Fail

  05-04-2016 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There are countless blogs devoted to poking fun at paintings and sculptures that otherwise would have been forgotten: The Ugly Renaissance Babies Tumblr is an addicting compendium of paintings featuring babies that look like old men, worms, creepy dolls, and Gollum. Other blogs like All This Shitty Art and The Weirdest, Worst Art pay homage to the myriad amateur artists publishing their work on the Internet (to Tumblr users’ amusement and dismay).”
  
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• In Hollywood Pay-To-Audition Has Become Part Of The Gig Economy

  05-04-2016 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The result is a gig economy in which temporary labor pays to be “taught” by independent contractors, who in many cases are staffing programming for media corporations. Cost-conscious networks and studios offload a burden once held by productions to cast their shows onto the labor market itself. Millions of dollars previously spent on casting have been cut from balance sheets, and tens of thousands of aspiring actors have been stuck with the bill.”
  
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• Liste Announces 2016 Exhibitor List

  05-04-2016 19:09 via artnews.com
  Liste, the smaller and more youthful satellite fair that runs alongside Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, has announced its slate of galleries that will exhibit this June.The slate names returning participants such as Mexico City’s House of Gaga, Los Angeles’s Overduin … Read More
  
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• A Revolution Onstage – How ‘1776’ And ‘Hamilton’ Make History Musical And Make Musical History

  05-04-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When in the course of human events – and musical-theater history, too – an idea gets repeated, it can still be revolutionary.”
  
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• Wikimedia Sweden found guilty of violating copyright with database of images of public art

  05-04-2016 18:42
  
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  The Swedish Supreme Court has ruled that Wikimedia Sweden’s free database of images of public works of art violates copyright laws. The Visual Copyright Society in Sweden (BUS) had sued Wikimedia, part of the non-profit foundation that oversees Wikipedia, for providing the public with a database of royalty-free images without the artists’ permission.Visitors to the open database, Offentlig Konst, which is owned by Wikimedia Sweden, can browse maps, descri
  
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• German and Swiss galleries to display Gurlitt's Nazi-era treasure trove

  05-04-2016 18:31
  
  Cornelius Gurlitt’s Nazi-era art hoard to be exhibited simultaneously this winter in Bern and BonnArt galleries in Germany and Switzerland are due to exhibit a priceless collection of paintings and sketches discovered two years ago in the home of a German recluse.Related: Is the Gurlitt collection so precious we forget its dubious heritage? | Nigel WarburtonRelated: Swiss museum accepts part of Nazi art trove with ‘sorrow’Continue reading...
  
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• Think Special Effects Are Just For Stunts? Now They Can make Actors Younger, More Beautiful

  05-04-2016 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Retouched, impossibly enhanced bodies are creating unrealistic new body-image standards — and the effects are so sophisticated and invisible that most audiences aren’t aware of how much they’ve been manipulated.”
  
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• Austria’s Essl Museum to shut its doors after 17 years

  05-04-2016 18:04
  
  The Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg, Austria, one of the world’s largest private museums, will stop staging exhibitions from 1 July.
  The museum has been “forced to cease exhibition activity” due to a lack of support from the central Austrian government, according to a statement posted on the museum’s website today, 5 April. The province of Lower Austria pledged  “an essential contribution” if the central government had guaranteed the same level of funding.
  
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• Tenor Gegam Grigorian Dead At 65

  05-04-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[He] was an Armenian tenor with a powerful and expressive voice whose career was disrupted by a failed attempt to defect to Italy at the height of the Cold War. … When he did eventually appear regularly in the West – under the patronage of the conductor Valery Gergiev – he thrilled audiences.”
  
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• Noodle-throwing, street-sweeping, shamanic healing: it's all happening in the name of art

  05-04-2016 17:54
  
  Forget standing in a gallery – today’s artists, from AA Bronson to Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, want you to turn on, tune in and drop all your inhibitions. Welcome to the weird world of art happeningsThe word “happening” conjures up images from 1960s artsploitation movies – models rolling around in paint, perhaps, to a soundtrack of hectic free jazz. But more than half a century after the term was coined, it’s an apt fit for a very current art-world tendency. Collabo
  
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• Why Latvia (Yes, Latvia) Is A Global Choral Superpower

  05-04-2016 17:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Latvia, with a population of 2m, has some ten youth choirs of international prizewinning calibre. In the 2014 World Choir Games in Riga (awarded to the city after another Latvian youth choir, Kamer, won the top prize in three categories), the host nation won more medals than any other country, followed by China, Russia, the United States and Indonesia.
  
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• 10 Ancient Statues Dressed In Modern Clothes

  05-04-2016 17:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  No news value here, just fun pictures that make you look at these Greek and Roman statues in a different way.
  
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• How Big Corporations Ruined American Radio

  05-04-2016 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Citadel, along with Cumulus, Entercom and Clear Channel (a.k.a. iHeart Radio) destroyed radio as we knew it. If you can’t stand to listen to radio anymore you can thank these companies. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed them to consolidate thousands of Mom-and-Pop radio stations into just a handful of owners. What was once a thriving marketplace of ideas and new music became a moribund feedback loop of homogeneity and satellite programs.”
  
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• Howard Cable, Beloved Canadian Conductor, Composer, And Radio Host, Dead At 95

  05-04-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Remarkably, Cable was still an active musician. On Tuesday, March 29, he worked a full day writing and proofreading the encore number for his Symphony Nova Scotia concert slated for November 2016.”
  
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• How Misogyny Works In The Theatre

  05-04-2016 16:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As we grow older the balance between men and women actors never changes, but the opportunities for men somehow far outnumber those for women. As a result of this imbalance, women have become disposable in the modern theatre.”
  
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• ‘Co-Veillance’, ‘Intelligence Amplification’, And ‘Mules’: 20 Terms Every Futurist Should Know

  05-04-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We live in an era of accelerating change, when scientific and technological advancements are arriving rapidly. As a result, we are developing a new language to describe our civilization as it evolves. Here are 20 terms and concepts that you’ll need to navigate our future.”
  
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• Why ‘[Weird Pause]’ Is The Most Common Stage Direction In Annie Baker’s Plays

  05-04-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I guess my experience of the real world is that there are a lot of strange moments in which people don’t know what to say. So that ends up in my plays. But it’s weird, I still find it confusing that I’m known for my pauses.”
  
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• Over 40 Years, Apple Has Changed Our Entire Culture

  05-04-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Although the story of Apple’s design success is often presented in purely aesthetic or technological terms, the company’s innovations in that area had political and cultural dimensions, too: they were, among other things, an attempt to pry computer technology out of the hands of a particular group of men.”
  
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• Court Orders Closure Of Foundry That Has Been Casting Degas Bronzes (Which Degas Would Have Hated)

  05-04-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Valsuani foundry, whose bronze sculptures by Edgar Degas have roiled the art market for more than a decade, is closing, by order of a French judge … Degas sculpted in wax and clay but only as an intellectual exercise. He hated the idea of casting his sculptures in bronze.”
  
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• Another Major Opera Company Makes The Move Into Chamber Opera

  05-04-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A combination of factors has fed the trend for smaller-scale productions: Many large houses are struggling to fill their seats, while some of the most creative work recently has been in chamber opera, which has attracted new composers and new audiences.”
  
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• Manifesta 11 Artist List Includes Stark, Cattelan, Syms, Houellebecq, More

  05-04-2016 14:55 via artnews.com
  Today Manifesta detailed its plans for Manifesta 11, which Christian Jankowski is organizing in Zurich, and let me tell you, it is a quite a production.The biennial’s title, the foundation revealed, will be “What People Do for Money: Some Joint Ventures,” … Read More
  
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• Archaeologists discover rare sacred script in Italy that could shed light on the Etruscans

  05-04-2016 14:50
  
  Archaeologists in Tuscany have discovered a sixth-century BC stele that could help unlock the mysterious language and culture of the Etruscans. The sandstone slab, which measures more than a metre long and weighs more than 200 kilos, was embedded in the foundations of an ancient temple at Poggio Colla, northeast of Florence. The stele bears an inscription containing at least 70 legible letters as well as punctuation marks, making it a rare document of a pre-Roman language that scholars have yet
  
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• Morning Links: Klaus Biesenbach Edition

  05-04-2016 14:47 via artnews.com
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• 16-Foot, 50-Pound Contrabassoon Stolen From Concert Hall

  05-04-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Buffalo Philharmonic musician Martha Malkiewicz returned from a weeklong break to find that her instrument had been taken from atop a row of lockers backstage at Kleinhans Music Hall.
  
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• Sotheby’s Names Oliver Barker and Mario Tavella European Cochairmen

  05-04-2016 14:43 via artnews.com
  As restructuring begins at Sotheby’s, following a string of high-profile defections, including, last week, contemporary art head Cheyenne Westphal, the company has looked within its ranks to rebuild the leadership. This morning Oliver Barker, the contemporary specialist and auctioneer, and Mario … Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s Names Oliver Barker and Mario Tavella European Co-Chairmen

  05-04-2016 14:43 via artnews.com
  As restructuring begins at Sotheby’s, following a string of high-profile defections, including, last week, contemporary art head Cheyenne Westphal, the company has looked within its ranks to rebuild the leadership. This morning Oliver Barker, the contemporary specialist and auctioneer, and Mario … Read More
  
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• Terry Gilliam Gets One More Try At Seemingly Cursed ‘Don Quixote’ Film

  05-04-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote will begin filming in September … The budget has been set at €16m (£12.8m), and the film will feature John Hurt and Unbroken‘s Jack O’Connell in roles originally occupied by Jean Rochefort and Johnny Depp.”
  
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• Julio Bocca Steps Down Temporarily From Helm Of National Ballet Of Uruguay

  05-04-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The former ABT star “has announced his decision to take ‘a temporary break as artistic director’ of the National Ballet of Uruguay, a post he has held since 2010.”
  
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• The Next Rembrandt: Data analysts 'bring artist back to life' to create one last painting

  05-04-2016 13:01
  
  'The idea was greeted with a lot of disbelief and scepticism'
  
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• Bonn and Bern team up to show controversial Gurlitt collection

  05-04-2016 11:27
  
  The Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn and the Kunstmuseum in Bern announced plans for a joint exhibition of Cornelius Gurlitt’s controversial art collection later this year—even before it is clear who will inherit the hoarder’s trove or how much of it was looted by the Nazis.When Cornelius Gurlitt died in 2014, he left his cache of around 1,500 works to the Bern museum in his will. His cousin Uta Werner challenged that bequest on the basis that he was not of sound enough mind to write
  
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• Call for Curators

  05-04-2016 10:34
  The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design is Norway’s largest museum, receiving around 650,000 visitors each year. We collect, preserve, exhibit, disseminate and research the nation’s largest collections of art, architecture and design. Our four museum buildings in Oslo run a varied programme of exhibitions, a number of which tour nationally and internationally. The National Museum currently has a staff of 150 with expertise in a wide range of fields.We are currently prepa
  
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• 'New Rembrandt' to be unveiled in Amsterdam

  05-04-2016 10:00
  
  Portrait is not a lost work by Dutch master but a 3D printed painting made by software that distilled the features of a RembrandtIf people think the portrait of a 17th-century thirtysomething man in black hat and white collar looks unmistakably like a Rembrandt, then Bas Korsten will be a happy man. The painting’s true creators are, however, data analysts and computers.On Tuesday in Amsterdam, an artwork called “the Next Rembrandt” will be unveiled for the first time.Related: R
  
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• New giant naked selfies by street artist Lushsux to be left alone by Geelong council

  05-04-2016 09:28
  
  The two full-frontal artworks by the Melbourne street artist were painted on the side of the Geelong Powerhouse building
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.04.16

  05-04-2016 07:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Monday Recommendation: A Duke Ellington Book
  Steven Brower & Mercedes Ellington: Duke Ellington: An American Composer and Icon (Rizzoli). 224 pages. $35.48 The scores of photos, illustrations and reproductions of documents make this book a valuable supplement to the growing stack … read more
  AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-04-04Local DC jazz apart from NEA Jazz Masters events
  In Washington DC for events surrounding the investiture of vibist Gary Burton, saxophonists Pharoah Sanders a
  
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• Rembrandt’s Portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet to go on view in Wales

  05-04-2016 06:54
  
  Rembrandt’s Portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet (1657), which has been at the centre of a storm over UK export rules, is going on loan to National Museum Cardiff for three years. The painting will go on public display later today, 5 April, in the Welsh museum’s Dutch gallery.
  The work had hung at Penrhyn Castle, in north Wales, since 1860. Last summer, it was sold privately through Sotheby’s to an unidentified foreign buyer for £35m. An application was made for an export licen
  
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• Naked selfie murals won't be censored, says Geelong council

  05-04-2016 05:07
  
  Work by controversial Melbourne street artist Lushsux, known for his Kim Kardashian nude selfie murals, appears on Geelong Powerhouse building A giant naked man and woman have been painted by a controversial street artist on a building in Geelong – but the council says it won’t censor the images. Related: 'Classic Sydney': council orders removal of two-storey nude Kim Kardashian muralContinue reading...
  
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• Wikimedia's free photo database of artworks violates copyright, court rules

  05-04-2016 03:14
  
  Wikimedia claims Swedish court decision means tourists who take selfies at famous landmarks and spread them online could be in violation of lawSweden’s highest court on Monday found Wikimedia Sweden guilty of violating copyright laws by providing free access to its database of artwork photographs without the artists’ consent.
  Wikimedia, part of the not-for-profit foundation which oversees Wikipedia among other online resources, has a database of royalty-free photographs that can be u
  
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