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• Hope Muir Names Artistic Director Of Charlotte Ballet

  06-04-2016 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Muir thus becomes the third woman in her 40s to be named director of a ballet company in the last two months. (Aurélie Dupont will take over Paris Opera Ballet, and Julie Kent will lead Washington Ballet.)
  
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• What We Can Learn From Our Weirdest Dreams

  06-04-2016 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Dreaming is a kind of play in a set apart from space where ordinary rules of reality are suspended temporarily and we try out different strategies, we rehearse different kinds of behavior.”
  
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• The lessons of Palmyra: Islamic state and iconoclasm in the era of clickbait

  06-04-2016 23:00
  
  As Syrian troops drove the Islamic State out the ruins of Palmyra on Sunday, the world held its collective breath to see what was left of the World Heritage Site.Detailed damage assessments are on-going, and early indications are mixed. The Palmyra Museum appears to have been hit by both artillery shells and acts of vandalism, with the faces or heads of some 20 statues hacked off in attacks that may have been motivated by the Quranic sin of idolatry, known as shirk. It also appears that five pr
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: industry and labour underpin this year’s Glasgow International while a Guardian critic suffers for art

  06-04-2016 23:00
  
  One of main themes of this year’s Glasgow International festival is the legacy of the city’s industrial past and the way in which art now inhabits, and is often shaped by, the spaces of this former wealthy industry. This notion is given a full airing in the exhibition curated by the festival’s director Sarah McCrory at Tramway gallery—itself a former tram factory and depot—and especially in Lawrence Lek’s computer generated film and sculpture. The work propos
  
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• SP-Arte doubles down to beat the recession

  06-04-2016 23:00
  
  The organisers of the SP-Arte fair in São Paulo faced an interesting dilemma this year: how do you stage what is Latin America’s largest art fair during the depths of one of the region’s worst recessions?The answer, it seems, is to double down. The fair’s 12th edition will feature 140 exhibitors from 17 countries, up from 120 last year, as well as the launch of a design section aimed at drawing in new crowds.SP-Arte’s director Fernanda Feitosa, who co-founded the
  
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• Revealed: how Gauguin longed for European sunflowers in Polynesia

  06-04-2016 23:00
  
  The Art Newspaper has discovered a receipt for seeds ordered by Paul Gauguin to be posted fr om Paris to Polynesia. He needed them to grow European flowers that he could paint on his remote island home.The seeds probably included sunflowers—in homage to Van Gogh, whom he had once visited in the Yellow House in Arles. The seeds had to be paid for by Gauguin’s Parisian dealer, Ambroise Vollard, who was notorious for his tardy payments. Gauguin had earlier complained to his Parisian ar
  
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• Making a new Rembrandt using data analysis and 3D printing

  06-04-2016 23:00
  What does a “typical” Rembrandt painting look like? In consultation with museum experts, a team of data scientists, computer developers and engineers in the Netherlands analysed 346 paintings by the Dutch master to identify the quintessential Rembrandt subject: Caucasian, male, between 30 and 40 years old, with facial hair, dark clothing, a collar and a hat. They used the data to design the Next Rembrandt, a 3D-printed “painting” containing more than 148 million pixels wh
  
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• Guns at auction

  06-04-2016 23:00
  
  The Americana, Paintings and Marine Art sale to be held 8-9 April at Eldred’s Auctions in Dennis, Massachusetts, has a lot of variety: furniture, Oriental rugs, silver tea sets, paintings, carvings, jewellery—and a number of pistols and rifles. They range from a 1870 Vetterli bolt action rifle, estimated at $150-250, to a rare .42 calibre Lemat revolved from around 1865, estimated at $15,000-$18,000. But antiques collectors should beware: buying a gun is not the same as buying an en
  
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• An interview with Connie Butler: curator and advocate for the overlooked and under-known

  06-04-2016 23:00
  
  The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, an institution not known for its photography holdings, will soon house the city’s largest collection of works by the Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama. The local collectors Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser have donated 75 photographs by the father of Japanese street photography. The images, which include Moriyama’s famous shot of a stray dog as well as colour photographs fr om the 1980s and 90s, span four decades of his career. The couple ga
  
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• Industrial Art Biennial 2016, Labin, Croatia

  06-04-2016 22:44 via artnews.com
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• David Altmejd at Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

  06-04-2016 22:44 via artnews.com
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• Otello: Why is a white tenor leading the Royal Opera House's new production?

  06-04-2016 22:41
  
  The end of blackface make-up promised a new dawn for singers of colour, writes Alison Kinney
  
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• Is My Family’s Painting Nazi-Looted Art? Because We Can’t Tell, It Hangs In Limbo

  06-04-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Nazis were superb record keepers. But not good enough to help me settle whether this work came out of Europe via theft or honest transaction. Instead, it has joined the growing ranks of paintings in provenance limbo.”
  
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• ‘Car Talk”s Ray Magliozzi Checks Out The Famous Old Cars Of Cuba

  06-04-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What we saw were beautiful cars. The 1957 Chevy taxi we rode in was beautifully maintained. But it was not original by any means. A lot of cars had Hyundai diesel engines. … That’s part of their ingenuity – to rip out [original] engines and create something more reliable and newer and something you can get parts for.”
  
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• Mississippi’s Anti-LGBTQ Law Has New Opponents: the Neuberger Museum, the Museum Directors Association, and the American Federation of Arts

  06-04-2016 21:38 via artnews.com
  Tomorrow morning the Mississippi Museum of Art will host a press preview for an exhibition of works from the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York, titled “When Modern Was Contemporary: Selections from the Roy R. Neuberger Collection.” According … Read More
  
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• Why The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Should Be Closed

  06-04-2016 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Throughout all the talk, all the arguments, I’ve never heard anyone voice what I think is the root cause of all the problems: the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is, essentially, anti-rock’n’roll.”
  
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• Another Country Faces Steep Arts Funding Cuts – Because Lottery Money Is Falling Short

  06-04-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Creative New Zealand, the island nation’s arts funding body, has warned arts organizations to prepare for 10% reductions in grants. “Creative New Zealand receives two-thirds of its annual revenue from Lotto NZ profits, and is set to receive NZ$11 million less this financial year than in 2013-14.”
  
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• Counter-Intuitive Data: Box Office Results For Movies With African-American Leads

  06-04-2016 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Inside the data, the researchers found something: “significant evidence that movies featuring black actors not only keep up with films at the box office and among the critics, but blow away films with no black actors at all.”
  
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• Preserving Disappearing Languages By Setting Them As Music

  06-04-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A growing number of [composers] are turning their attention to languages that are extinct, endangered or particular to tiny groups of speakers in far-flung places with the aim of weaving these enigmatic utterances into musical works that celebrate, memorialize or mourn the languages and the cultures that gave birth to them.”
  
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• Open all hours: Art Night to give Londoners their own nuit blanche

  06-04-2016 20:00
  
  Inspired by the popular Paris events, audiences will be able to explore art in venues from tube stations to luxury flats for one entire night this summerFor one long rapturous night, artists will wrest Westminster from the clutches of politicians, creating art from dusk till dawn in public spaces and very private ones, including a disused tube platform and a luxury apartment for millionaires. Related: Noodle-throwing, street-sweeping, shamanic healing: it's all happening in the name of artRelate
  
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• What’s The Point Of Book Critics? No Really…

  06-04-2016 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If all we are doing as book critics is pretending there is such a thing as objective assessment of literature, we are failing at our jobs.”
  
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• Louisiana Legislators Target State’s ‘One Percent For Art’ Law

  06-04-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A Louisiana House bill that seeks to limit public funds spent on art for state buildings is getting a lot of attention, but would be unlikely save Louisiana much money for priorities like education and health care.”
  
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• Stolen Edvard Munch artwork recovered after seven years

  06-04-2016 18:49
  
  Historien lithograph retrieved undamaged as Norwegian police arrest two men on suspicion of handling stolen goodsNorwegian police have recovered a valuable lithograph by Edvard Munch that was stolen in 2009.The artwork, named Historien, shows a bearded man speaking to a young boy, and was retrieved undamaged. It was valued at the time of its theft at €240,000, but art experts said it was too well-known to be put on the market. Related: Norway police arrest two in connection with Edvard Munc
  
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• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Elects Two New Trustees

  06-04-2016 18:47 via artnews.com
  The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., has announced the election of two new trustees: Stephanie Foster, a New York-based philanthropist and retired banking executive, and Adam S. Metz, a Washington, D.C.-based managing director and head of international … Read More
  
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• Hit Hungarian Reality Show About Young Classical Musicians Goes Global

  06-04-2016 18:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dick Clark Productions said there’s interest in the show from China and Japan and the company is working on a deal with U.S. networks.
  
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• Why Zaha Hadid’s Gender Was Figured So Prominently In Her Obits Last Week

  06-04-2016 18:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A report published by the San Francisco Chapter of the American Institute of Architects last year revealed that though women make up 42% of graduates from programs accredited by the National Architecture Accrediting Board, they make up only 28% of architectural staff in AIA-member-owned firms, and only 17% of principals and partners.”
  
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• The Paris Venue That Became A Musical Theatre Powerhouse – What Will Happen To It Now?

  06-04-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Over his 11 years as general director of the Théâtre du Châtelet, Jean-Luc Choplin made the American comédie musicale the heart of his programming, producing one critically praised hit after another, even exporting productions to Broadway and winning Tonys. Next January, Choplin steps down and the Châtelet closes for a 2½-year renovation. What then?
  
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• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Announces 2016 Fellowships

  06-04-2016 17:54 via artnews.com
  The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced its 2016 fellowships today. A total of 175 fellowships have been awarded this year to 178 individuals in various fields. Among the fellows in the creative arts field are Sue de Beer, Judith … Read More
  
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• Chinese artist's image of dying grandmother vies for BP portrait award

  06-04-2016 17:48
  
  Bo Wang is only second Chinese entrant to make National Portrait Gallery shortlist, where he is up against two UK artistsA haunting portrait by a Chinese artist of his grandmother lying in her hospital bed in the last stages of cancer, almost beyond speech but gazing at the artist and the viewer, has made the shortlist of three for the National Portrait Gallery’s (NPG) annual prize.While two of the three artists, Clara Drummond and Benjamin Sullivan, are competition veterans who have made
  
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• Could Theatre Be The Cure For Ailments Of The Digital World?

  06-04-2016 17:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In acting classes, students grapple with the effects of technology on their brains, bodies, and social selves. Cellphones must be turned off and put away. The goal is to disconnect with technology and to connect with one another and themselves.”
  
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• “Creativity” Is Being Packaged Up As A Path To Success. We Should Be Dubious

  06-04-2016 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When so much of the academy is given over to the study of creative minds; when revolutionary movements are so easily transformed into management lessons; and when liberals abase themselves before “innovators” and the “creative class”, one starts to understand why inequality is increasing at a gallop and why our leftish party seems uninterested in doing anything about it.
  
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• The digital Rembrandt: a new way to mock art, made by fools | Jonathan Jones

  06-04-2016 17:11
  
  So an app has come up with a ‘Rembrandt’ portrait – and it’s a travesty of surface trickery. No computer art could match the emotional heft of a human originalI’ve been away for a few days and missed the April Fool stories in Friday’s papers – until I spotted the one about a team of Dutch “data analysts, developers, engineers and art historians” creating a new painting using digital technology: a virtual Rembrandt painted by a Rembrandt app.
  
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• When The Movies Were Full Of Female Action Stars (Back Before Talkies)

  06-04-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “More than a century ago, before women had even won the right to vote in many countries, actresses headed up some of the U.S’s most popular and successful action movies – even if they performed stunts in skirts that ended only a few inches above their ankles.”
  
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• If Art Has Become A Currency Of The Super-Rich, Do We Need To Regulate It As Such?

  06-04-2016 16:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Art has become an instrument for generating wealth and political influence in the interests of an audacious plutocracy. In this sense, we are indeed being ruled by art in a way we have not been before, and its price now comes at a direct social cost. Its commodification has ceased to be a matter merely of cultural debate, as it was for Fry, and should now be subject to political scrutiny in the name of the public interest.”
  
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• Study: Singing In a Choir Boosts Your Health

  06-04-2016 16:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We have been building a body of evidence over the past six years to show that singing in a choir can have a range of social, emotional, and psychological benefits,” says co-author Dr. Ian Lewis, director of research and policy at Tenovus Cancer Care. “Now we can see it has biological effects too.”
  
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• Vienna Festival Fires Director Of Flagship Opera Production, Two Months Before Opening Night

  06-04-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Charging that he had not provided the production and set designs on time, the management of the Wiener Festwochen dismissed Dmitri Tcherniakov, a 45-year-old Russian known for inventive and sometimes controversial stagings, from a high-profile period-instrument production of Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Theater an der Wien. (in German; Google Translate version here)
  
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• One Year On, emerging designers showcase their work – in pictures

  06-04-2016 16:00
  
  From illustration to innovation, more than 60 of the design world’s rising stars have been picked to present their work in One Year On, an exhibition for designers and artists in their first year of business Continue reading...
  
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• Why is the RCA the best art and design school in the world?

  06-04-2016 15:51
  
  The Royal College of Art has been named the world's best art and design school for a second year in a row
  
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• How Reality TV Is Like Greek Tragedy (No, Really)

  06-04-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In fact, by shaming their characters, these shows are trafficking in a very old, very deep aesthetic pleasure. Aristotle called it ‘catharsis’.” Only in this case, the emotions involved aren’t pity and terror.
  
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• A ‘Hamilton’ Skeptic Explains Why The Show Isn’t Really So Revolutionary

  06-04-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lyra Monteiro: “My argument is basically that the play does a lot of this thing that we call ‘Founders Chic’ … It’s still white history. And no amount of casting people of color disguises the fact that they’re erasing people of color from the actual narrative.”
  
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• Ai Weiwei’s first show in Greece will aid refugees

  06-04-2016 15:17
  
  The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is to have his first exhibition in Greece, where he has spent the past few months documenting the plight of refugees. The Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens will present a mini-survey of Ai’s career in May, including a new marble sculpture inspired by the museum’s archaeological collection as well as works made in response to the refugee crisis.The show, titled Ai at Cycladic (20 May-30 October), reflects the artist’s fascination with ancient materia
  
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• How The False Story Of Kitty Genovese’s Murder Spread All Over The World

  06-04-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The murder had a major impact on people’s basic ideas about human nature – but it was based mostly on misconceptions and misreporting about Genovese’s murder … The soul-searching went on for decades, long after the original errors were debunked, evolving into more parable than fact.”
  
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• Athens And Epidaurus Festival Director Forced To Resign When His Programming Turns Out To Be Belgian And Not Greek

  06-04-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Belgian artist Jan Fabre has resigned as artistic director after local artists rebelled against his plan to turn Greece’s major arts festival into ‘a tribute to Belgium’ and devote eight of the festival’s 10productions to those from his homeland.”
  
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• Morning Links: Leonard A. Lauder Building Edition

  06-04-2016 14:57 via artnews.com
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• Norway police arrest two in connection with Edvard Munch theft

  06-04-2016 14:48
  
  Police say the lithograph Historien, stolen from an Oslo art dealer in 2009, has been recoveredTwo men have been arrested in connection with the 2009 theft of a valuable work by Edvard Munch from an Oslo art dealer.Police spokeswoman Unni Groendal said the men were suspected of handling stolen goods and face a pre-trial detention hearing on Wednesday. She said they were arrested on Monday and Tuesday in Oslo but were not suspected of carrying out the theft itself. Related: Robbers carrying pisto
  
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• ‘New’ Rembrandt Created By A Computer

  06-04-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The painting, which is being billed as ‘The Next Rembrandt,’ was created using data from more than 168,000 fragments of Rembrandt’s work. Over the course of 18 months, a group of engineers, Rembrandt experts and data scientists analyzed 346 of Rembrandt’s works, then trained a deep learning engine to ‘paint’ in the master’s signature style.” (includes video)
  
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• ‘Pieces Of The Ceiling Are Falling Onto The Stage’: Concert Cancelled At Very Last Minute

  06-04-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Patrons were already arriving for the performance by the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra on Tuesday evening when the management of the Salle Métropole in the Swiss city closed the venue for safety reasons. (in French; Google Translate version here)
  
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• Johan Kobborg Suddenly Finds He’s No Longer Artistic Director Of His Ballet Company; Dancers Threaten Walkout

  06-04-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In his two years at the helm of Romania’s national ballet company, Kobborg is universally acknowledged to have raised standards and reinvigorated the troupe. But this week, one day after a new interim director took over the Bucharest National Opera, Kobborg found his name missing from the ballet’s artistic director slot and listed instead among the corps. The new boss says it’s a misunderstanding: he wants Kobborg to stay, but there’s not supposed to be a “ballet ar
  
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• Will an ivory ban criminalize indigenous artists' work in Alaska?

  06-04-2016 14:00
  
  As more states ban the sale of ivory, indigenous artists in Alaska fear legal consequences despite federal laws exempting their traditional craft
  Indigenous artists in Alaska are beginning to organize amid concerns that a growing number of statewide bans on the sale of ivory will negatively affect their livelihood.New York, New Jersey and California are among the states that have passed some form of ivory ban in recent years, hoping to curb poaching and trafficking of elephants and other species
  
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• Hollywood Composer Found Bludgeoned To Death In His Florida Home

  06-04-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Deputies in Citrus County, Forida say Don Terryl ‘Terry’ Plumeri, 71, was found dead due to extensive upper body trauma on April 1. Plumeri had rented the home in tiny Dunellon, about 80 miles northwest of Orlando, for many years.”
  
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