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• ‘No. 6’ at Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles

  19-04-2016 23:55 via artnews.com
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• YouTube And Musicians – Marriage From Hell?

  19-04-2016 23:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We should think of YouTube and the music industry as being locked in a marriage that is equal parts mutual dependency and mutual hatred. It’s less angels and devils, more George and Mildred.”
  
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• Helen Johnson discusses her new paintings at Glasgow International

  19-04-2016 23:00
  Australian artist Helen Johnson discusses her new series of paintings, Barron Field, on show at Kelvin Hall for Glasgow International (until 25 April)• For more on Glasgow International, see Glasgow International festival tackles demise of UK's once-great, heavy industries and A forgotten Modernist, a female flâneur, the QE2 art school and much more in a special Glasgow International exhibition round-up
  
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• Cornelia Parker's Psycho-inspired Roof Garden Commission

  19-04-2016 23:00
  In Transitional Object (PsychoBarn), the fourth annual commission for the roof garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cornelia Parker has raised a symbol of rural America over the New York skyline. In this video the British sculptor explains how, under the influence of Edward Hopper’s paintings and Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller Psycho, she turned salvaged materials from an all-American red barn into something more “sinister”. The work will be on show until 31 Octobe
  
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• How Is the Art World Spending Its Money This Presidential Election Season? A Breakdown of Campaign Contributions

  19-04-2016 22:14 via artnews.com
  The art world has never shied away from politics, and this particularly absurd campaign season is no exception. Below is a list that looks at the financial contributions that people at the high end of the art market are making toward the … Read More
  
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• Replica Of Palmyra Arch Created In London’s Trafalgar Square

  19-04-2016 22:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The scale model of the Arch of Triumph has been made from Egyptian marble by the Institute of Digital Archaeology (IDA) using 3D technology, based on photographs of the original arch.”
  
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• Salvador Dalí diary up for sale in auction of surrealist artefacts

  19-04-2016 21:35
  
  Sotheby’s in Paris to sell private collection covering intertwined lives of some of most famous dada and surrealist artistsAn unpublished diary of Salvador Dalí, its pages swarming with images of contorted nude figures and naked women being carried off by galloping horses – and columns of expenses calculations – covering the period when he fell in love with, seduced and eventually married the wife of one of his best friends and fellow artists, is to be auctioned as part
  
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• Salvador Dalí diary up for sale in auction of surreal artefacts

  19-04-2016 21:35
  
  Sotheby’s in Paris to sell private collection covering intertwined lives of some of most famous dada and surrealist artistsAn unpublished diary of Salvador Dalí, its pages swarming with images of contorted nude figures and naked women being carried off by galloping horses – and columns of expenses calculations – covering the period when he fell in love with, seduced and eventually married the wife of one of his best friends and fellow artists, is to be auctioned as part
  
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• Study: University Creative Arts Graduates Are Lowest Paid

  19-04-2016 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Those graduating with creative arts degrees were found to be the lowest earners after 10 years of working, out of 21 university degree subjects.”
  
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• Atlanta Makeover: A City Refreshes Its Arts Leadership

  19-04-2016 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Not only the High Museum, the Atlanta Symphony, Atlanta Ballet but also the Cobb Energy Centre just lost its managing director and is looking for a new person. That’s a major, major change. From 2008 to 2012, the arts took a huge hit. And in the past three years, there has been a renaissance or reinvention of the arts. People in Atlanta are coming back, but they want to see something new and different.”
  
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• Yes, Yes, Diversity. But Are We Devaluing The Idea?

  19-04-2016 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Are race, poverty, and Asian-Americanhood equally diverse? What about language spoken, religion, age, sexual orientation, income, and appearance? A danger exists that diversity loses all meaning as it balloons; the term becomes so lax that everything and anything signifies diversity.”
  
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• Vincent van Bot: the robots turning their hand to art

  19-04-2016 19:54
  
  Twenty-six robots designed by students across the US will compete in an art contest that offers a glimpse into the creative potentials of artificial intelligenceA painter dips a small paintbrush into a cup of black paint, creating an impressionist portrait of a smiling old woman. With the skill of an old master, e-David is a one-armrobot powered by a PC, five paintbrushes and a palette of 24 colors. He takes photos as he paints, calculating where to lighten or darken his masterpiece, showing tha
  
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• Here’s The Problem When We Turn Science Into Religion

  19-04-2016 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At the same time as an ever more bloated scientific bureaucracy churns out masses of research results, the majority of which are likely outright false, scientists themselves are lauded as heroes and science is upheld as the only legitimate basis for policy-making. There’s reason to believe that these phenomena are linked.”
  
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• The Smog In Medellín Is So Bad, Even The Botero Scupltures Can’t Breathe

  19-04-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Activists protesting severe pollution levels in Medellín, Colombia, aired their concerns last week with a striking public gesture: they strapped giant face masks onto a number of Fernando Botero sculptures in the famous Botero Plaza.”
  
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• L.A. Habitat: Jim Shaw

  19-04-2016 18:42 via artnews.com
  As an artist, Jim Shaw is difficult to classify. Shaw’s practice includes painting, drawing, and sculpture as well as showing his prolific and ever-growing collection of found objects. (His 1991 show, “Thrift Store Paintings,” was recently restaged for his recent New Museum … Read More
  
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• Suzan-Lori Parks Talks About Race, Writing And Fame

  19-04-2016 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Hollywood is only as interesting as the rest of the country. Hollywood thinks, ‘We’re separate, we’re cool, we’re gorgeous, we’re glamorous, we walk on red carpets all day.’ Guess what? You’re all just as kookaburra as the rest of us.”
  
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• Pompeii: is this the best they can do with €105m?

  19-04-2016 18:23
  
  The emergency restoration – begun in 2013 – seems to have ground to a halt, with many of the lost city’s wonders hidden behind ugly fences. Call this a rescue?What’s the point of loving Pompeii if we let it fall? The ancient Roman city preserved in ash by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79 has never been more popular. The Neoclassical imitations and fashion for “Pompeiian red” that its beautiful art inspired when Pompeii first captured imaginations in the 1
  
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• Jenůfa, South Bank, opera review: 'Music of surpassing beauty'

  19-04-2016 18:08
  
  Finnish soprano Karita Mattila is a powerfully haunted Kostelnička
  
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• ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Play Is Back In Monroeville – Under New Management

  19-04-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Harper Lee, the author who first gave life to the story and became this town’s most famous resident, died in February. The play, which is an adaptation of her novel, is being produced this spring for the first time by a nonprofit she” – and her controversial attorney, Tonja Carter – “created, not the local museum that had relied on it for revenue.”
  
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• Elias Quartet, classical review: 'Superb players given licence to dazzle'

  19-04-2016 17:58
  
  The chemistry between Sara and Marie Bitlloch turned London's Wigmore Hall into a magnetic force-field
  
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• United States Artists Announces $20 Million Operations Endowment

  19-04-2016 17:35 via artnews.com
  United States Artists, an organization that awards grants to American artists, has announced a new $20 million operations endowment campaign. The Ford Foundation has given United States Artists a five-year $10 million challenge grant, while the Rockefeller Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and … Read More
  
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• Researchers Identify 35 Living Descendents Of Leonardo (Including Someone We All Know)

  19-04-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Art historians Alessandro Vezzosi and Agnese Sabato, from the Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci, have been putting the pieces together for the past 40 years. The museum, in Leonardo’s hometown, Vinci in Tuscany, was founded by scholars and artists to study the complexity of Da Vinci as artist, scientist, inventor and designer.”
  
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• Javier Pes appointed new editor of The Art Newspaper

  19-04-2016 17:19
  
  After almost eight years as editor of The Art Newspaper, Jane Morris is stepping down at the beginning of June. She joined The Art Newspaper in 2005, becoming co-editor of its art fair daily editions and working on the art market, museums and comment sections of the main paper, before becoming editor in 2008.Under Morris's editorship, the publication has grown in size by almost 50% to include regular special reports, including the comprehensive annual survey of global museum attendance. The dai
  
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• Paintings stolen by Nazis in Second World War found by police in Italian homes

  19-04-2016 17:07
  
  Investigation launched into how the 15th century works were acquired
  
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• NPR’s ‘On The Media’ Asks Public Radio Station Execs About The Network’s Looming Challenges

  19-04-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There are myriad issues – the shift toward digital streaming, an aging listenership, the rise of commercial podcasting – plaguing public radio, and more specifically, NPR. Bob [Garfield] takes a hard look at how NPR member stations and the mothership are dealing with this tangled web of challenges, and considers what the future might hold for the public media institution.” (audio)
  
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• US Supreme Court Rules Google Books Project Covered By “Fair Use”

  19-04-2016 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Supreme Court let stand the lower court opinion that rejected the writers’ claims. That decision today means Google Books won’t have to close up shop or ask book publishers for permission to scan. In the long run, the ruling could inspire other large-scale digitization projects.”
  
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• 20 Ways For Nonprofits To Be Nicer To Job Applicants And Stop Treating Them Like Crap

  19-04-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There are tons of tips out there for job applicants about how to stand out and improve their chances of securing that dream job. Today, let’s bring some balance. We in the nonprofit sector pride ourselves on equity, community, and social justice. And yet we still have some terrible habits that we need to break.”
  
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• The Web Of Attention: How The Social Internet Is Devouring Itself In Its Pursuit Of Our Time And ‘Mindshare’

  19-04-2016 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s the Faustian bargain we’ve all struck. In exchange for a ‘free’ web, we give you our time. Unfortunately, this structure is unsustainable and is compromising both our experience of the web and the quality of the things we consume.”
  
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• Court Orders La Scala To Rehire Ballerina Fired In Anorexia Controversy

  19-04-2016 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mariafrancesca Garritano was sacked unfairly in 2012, the Court of Cassation concluded in a definitive ruling on a case that turned the spotlight on eating disorders in the high-pressure world of professional ballet.”
  
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• Dance In D.C. At A Crossroads – Several Of Them, In Fact

  19-04-2016 15:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s beginning to look like 2016 will be a year of big transitions for the Washington, DC dance community. … How will DC fare within all these changes? Here’s the deal on how the next year looks for the capital’s dance scene.”
  
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• Countertenor Brian Asawa Dead At 49

  19-04-2016 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One of the most explosive talents ever to come out of San Francisco Opera’s Merola and Adler programs, countertenor Brian Asawa had an illustrious – if at times troubled– career in opera and recitals around the world. He died on Monday after a long, unidentified illness”
  
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• Jonas Kaufmann Got An Encore, So Angela Gheorghiu Skipped Her Entrance And Left Him To Vamp Onstage

  19-04-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Non abbiamo il soprano,’ or, ‘We don’t have a soprano,’ [sic] Mr. Kaufmann sang in Puccini-like strains before the opera ground to halt and he broke character and asked the audience to excuse them … Was it a stunning diva moment or an innocent mishap?” (includes video)
  
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• Mark Bradford Will Rep the United States at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  19-04-2016 14:50 via artnews.com
  The United States of America has tapped Mark Bradford to represent it at the 2017 Venice Biennale, which runs next year from May 13 through November 26. He will create a site-specific installation for the U.S. Pavilion in the Giardini … Read More
  
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• Old Dutch Masters Paintings Stolen Ten Years Ago Turn Up In Ukraine

  19-04-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The [four] ‘most appealing and most missed’ of 24 artworks looted from Westfries Museum in Hoorn in 2005, were revealed at a press conference by the Ukrainian secret service in Kiev on Thursday. According toreports, the 16th and 17th century paintings had been held to ransom for €50 million by a far-right Ukrainian militia.”
  
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• U.S. Congress Passes Law Banning Import Of Antiquities From Syria

  19-04-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The US Senate unanimously passed a bill intended to stem the perceived flow of illicitly removed artefacts from Syria on Wednesday, 13 April. The Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act had already passed Congress’s lower chamber, the House of Representatives, and is headed to President Obama to be signed into law.”
  
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• Morning Links: Barbara Bush Edition

  19-04-2016 14:28 via artnews.com
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• Pinault Foundation celebrates ten years in Venice

  19-04-2016 14:18
  
  The French billionaire and art collector François Pinault was in Venice on Sunday 17 April, for the opening of major exhibitions at his two venues in the city—the Palazzo Grassi and the Punta della Dogana—ten years after his arrival in the city.
  The Palazzo Grassi is staging the largest-ever survey show of Sigmar Polke’s work in Italy, marking 30 years since he was awarded the Golden Lion Grand Prize for Painting for Athanor, his project for the German pavilion at the V
  
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• Henry Threadgill’s ‘In For A Penny, In For A Pound’ Takes Music Pulitzer

  19-04-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If you do call him a jazz composer, he is the third to be awarded a Pulitzer in the history of the awards; Wynton Marsalis was awarded for his oratorio Blood on the Fields in 1997 and Ornette Coleman was awarded for his album Sound Grammar in 2007.”
  
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• The New Yorker Becomes The First Magazine To Win A Pulitzer (Two Of Them, In Fact)

  19-04-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Feature Writing prize went to Kathryn Schulz for “The Really Big One,” about the potential for a massive earthquake in California; the magazine’s television critic, Emily Nussaum, took the award for criticism.
  
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• New Yorker TV Critic Emily Nussbaum Wins Pulitzer; Twittersphere Jumps For Joy

  19-04-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As it happens, Nussbaum is the second female television critic in a row to take the prize, which went to The Los Angeles Times’s Mary McNamara last year.
  
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• Queer British Art show leads Tate 2017 programme

  19-04-2016 13:42
  
  Works by Duncan Grant and David Hockney feature in show marking 50 years since male homosexuality decriminalisedTate is to mark the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of male homosexuality in Britain with Queer British Art, the first major exhibition on the genre.The 2017 show will feature works by artists including John Singer Sargent, Duncan Grant, Dora Carrington, David Hockney and Francis Bacon, and will span the period from 1861, when the death penalty for buggery was abolished, to d
  
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• Literary Pulitzers Go To Books That Had Been Overlooked (Until Now)

  19-04-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For instance, “literary types spent most of the fall arguing about A Little Life in the pages of various literary reviews [while] neither the London Review of Books nor the New York Review of Books has touched” this year’s fiction winner. (They will now.)
  
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• Yes, Of Course ‘Hamilton’ Won The Pulitzer For Drama

  19-04-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The other two finalists were Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Stephen Karam’s The Humans.
  
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• Palmyra's Arch of Triumph recreated in Trafalgar Square

  19-04-2016 12:21
  
  Faithful copy of ancient Syrian monument destroyed by Isis will stand in central London for three daysA monumental recreation of the destroyed Arch of Triumph in Palmyra, Syria, is being installed in London’s Trafalgar Square.The 2,000-year-old arch was destroyed by Islamic State militants last October and the 6-metre (20ft) model, made in Italy from Egyptian marble, is intended as an act of defiance: to show that restoration of the ancient site is possible if the will is there. Continue r
  
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• Online art market defies global slowdown with 24% growth last year

  19-04-2016 11:00
  
  Bucking the downward trend in the wider art market, which last year saw a decline in reported sales, the online art market grew by 24% to $3.27bn, according to a study released by Hiscox fine art insurers on 19 April. Given that the majority of online art transactions still take place at $10,000 or less, the report suggests the lower end of the art market has been less affected by the global slowdown than the top and middle tiers.“Online art buyers are currently most comfortable at the bo
  
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• Appy medium: could Instagram start an artistic revolution?

  19-04-2016 10:00
  
  In this exclusive essay, broadcaster and cultural critic Jonathan Meades ponders what if social media could inspire great art? And what if they’re the same thing?The precept that there is nothing so trivial that it ought not to be taken seriously has suffered a bottling from social media, which gives licence to the inane to go public and express post-literate banalities and torrents of greetings card treacle, thus revealing an arid void where their brain should be. This is without taking i
  
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• Unauthenticated Francis Bacon works go on sale in London

  19-04-2016 09:30
  A London gallery is selling drawings said to be by Francis Bacon from a group rejected as fakes by the author of the new catalogue raisonné. The Herrick Gallery, in Piccadilly, is marketing ten works. Two large pastels are on sale for £795,000 each and eight drawings for a total of £1.2m. The London show runs until 21 May.
  Anna Herrick, the owner of the gallery, believes the works are “by Bacon”, although she “cannot guarantee the authenticity of the drawing
  
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• Palmyra arch destroyed by Isil rises over Trafalgar Square

  19-04-2016 09:00
  
  A near-perfect replica of a Roman triumphal arch from the ancient city Palmyra that was destroyed by Isil militants in Syria last year will go on display for three days in Trafalgar Square, London, from today, 19 April.The 15m-tall structure has been cut from marble by computer-controlled drills. By superimposing multiple photographs of the now vanished arch onto the marble, specialists were able to create a 3D model of the monument to guide the machine reconstruction, a process known as 3D mac
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.18.16

  19-04-2016 08:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cultural strategies, structures, and subtexts
  Theater journal has just published my book review of Peter Frumkin and Ana Kolendo’s book on cultural construction projects: Building for the Arts: The Strategic Design of Cultural Facilities (Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 2014). … read more
  AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2016-04-18Threadgill wins Pulitzer for Zooid and cheers for his career
  The Pulitzer Prize for Music has been earned by Henry Threadgill, composer, ba
  
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• Russian avant-garde works from the provinces return to Moscow for first time

  19-04-2016 08:00
  
  Russian avant-garde works that were displayed in early Soviet collections established by Wassily Kandinsky and Alexander Rodchenko are on show in a groundbreaking exhibition at Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center. The works were hidden from view for decades as degenerate art.
  In 1918, Kandinsky initiated a plan to spread avant-garde art to the masses by sending works to regional museums. Continued by Rodchenko, the initiative was “in tune with the utopian ideas of the early
  
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