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• ‘8 Femmes’ at Office Baroque, Brussels

  20-04-2016 23:52 via artnews.com
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• The One Person From The “Hamilton” Team Sure To NOT Win A Tony

  20-04-2016 23:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If the tea leaves prove correct, the Tony Awards could wind up feeling like one big infomercial for Hamilton. Which is pretty awesome! Except for the one person from Hamilton’s creative team getting screwed out of a nomination, if not a win. Say hello to the show’s sound designer, 49-year-old Nevin Steinberg.”
  
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• Philharmonia Manager

  20-04-2016 23:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Philharmonia Manager manages and implements all administrative functions necessary for the effective operation of the Yale School of Music Philharmonia and New Music New Haven programs. This includes managing production logistics, financial operations, and serving as production & business liason with external production companies, venue management and guest artists.
  The responsibilities of the position include:
  Serving as a professional orchestra manager with responsibility for coordinat
  
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• Who gets what when artists and galleries split up?

  20-04-2016 23:00
  
  White Cube, the gallery that made its name promoting the work of the Young British Artists, has taken the unusual step of confirming that it severed ties with Marc Quinn, the first artist to collaborate with Jay Jopling, the gallery’s founder, nearly 30 years ago. A spokeswoman for White Cube told The Art Newspaper it had “terminated its relationship” with the artist in February, ending speculation that it was Quinn who chose to leave. The reasons for the split are not known.
  
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• Biennale des Antiquaires moves ahead despite rumours of a rift between the co-organisers

  20-04-2016 23:00
  
  The co-organisers of Paris’s historic jewellery, art and antiques fair, the prestigious Biennale des Antiquaires, say that progress on the 28th edition (10-18 September) is picking up speed, and deny a reported rift.
  French press reports say that both the Syndicat National des Antiquaires (SNA, the French association of antiques dealers) and Reed Exhibitions, which also runs the Modern and contemporary art fair Fiac and Paris Photo, have clashed over the size of the Biennale.The SNA found
  
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• This Is What Happened When NPR Tried To Make Audio Go Viral

  20-04-2016 22:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The fundamental challenges remain: It’s hard to multitask with spoken-word audio when you’re browsing other things. We still don’t have a true “BuzzFeed for audio” to elevate clips with viral potential. And now silent autoplay videos on Facebook and Twitter are training users to expect an entirely different engagement experience.”
  
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• Data: Why Donors Stop Giving To Arts Organizations

  20-04-2016 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Not being thanked for a previous gift, not being asked to donate again, and lack of communication about the impact of one’s donation all represent massive communication fails. Advances in relationship management technologies are supposed to make communication fails increasingly rare – but, the data suggest that many of us remain our own worst enemies when it comes to retaining donors.”
  
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• Vezzoli’s divine shrine to Dietrich in a Monaco villa

  20-04-2016 21:12
  
  The Italian maverick artist Francesco Vezzoli is creating a shrine to the late movie star Marlene Dietrich in Monaco later this month. Vezzoli, known for his star-studded 2005 film, Trailer for the Remake of Gore Vidal’s Caligula, will fill the Belle Epoque residence, the Villa Sauber, with posters, pictures and sculptures of the German screen siren famous for her femme fatale roles of the 1930s (Villa Marlene, 29 April-11 September). “It would seem that Marlene Dietrich w
  
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• Art Worlders With Money: Here’s Who They’re Giving Money To For President

  20-04-2016 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The list is not comprehensive, but it is a representative sample of the people in power on the commercial side of the art world.”
  
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• Executive & Artistic Director, Galleries System

  20-04-2016 20:55
  OCAD University (OCAD U), Canada’s university of the imagination and Canada’s largest specialized university for art, design, and media, invites nominations and applications for the position of Executive & Artistic Director, Galleries System. Located on a twelve-building campus in the heart of downtown Toronto, OCAD University offers a vibrant and stimulating work environment for over 600 faculty and academic staff, more than 4360 undergraduate students, and over 250 graduat
  
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• “Hamilton’s” Pulitzer Win – Musicals Have Rarely Ever Won

  20-04-2016 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It was another landmark for the show—since only nine musicals have won the award in the last hundred years.”
  
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• A Decade Of Dances Gone Viral

  20-04-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Thanks to social media, short videos of these dances – sometimes incidentally – spread quickly and inspire a rash of copycats. At once silly and profound, these dance phenomena demonstrate the speed at which something can unexpectedly go from being an inside joke among friends (often teen-agers in cities) to a universal dog whistle for joy.” (video)
  
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• When All Music Is Just Music You Get… Big Ears

  20-04-2016 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Many attendees had the happily disoriented look of people who are accustomed to being considered freaks and suddenly find themselves part of the gang. None were more blissed-out than the contemporary-composition types, who endure scornful dismissal within the classical field and outside it. At Big Ears, composers serve as a center of gravity, a point of reference.”
  
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• George Condo goes from Kanye West's dark fantasy to painting his own demons

  20-04-2016 19:21
  
  A brush with cancer inspired the artist’s latest show, in a career which has seen him work for ‘slave wages’ at Andy Warhol’s Factory and paint West’s album coverIt seems as though there have always been monsters lurking in George Condo’s artwork, whether it be the psychological cubist portraits depicting various emotional states, or the white demon that graces the cover of Kanye West’s 2010 album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. But in his latest sho
  
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• Mariah Garnett at Ltd, Los Angeles

  20-04-2016 19:04 via artnews.com
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• Witches Are Back In Popular Culture – And This Could Be Why

  20-04-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Crucible on Broadway, the film The Witch, the TV series Salem and The Devil You Know — “Just as Arthur Miller pulled McCarthyism from Early Modern American witch obsessions, the applications of witchcraft narratives to the current day are manifold. … So what’s the most globally pervasive contemporary witch hunt you can think of? What forms of radicalism has it helped catalyze?” (The questions are not just rhetorical.)
  
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• Harmony Korine Directed Rihanna’s New Video

  20-04-2016 18:03 via artnews.com
  Not sure if MoMA’s acquiring this Harmony Korine work for its permanent collection, but go ahead, watch below.
  
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• Are Humans Really Smarter Than Chimps? Not On Everything, And That Drives Some Humans Bananas

  20-04-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Frans de Waal: “We have trouble looking at animal intelligence by itself, always asking, ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the smartest of them all?’ Since there is only one answer that satisfies us, people watching [the chimp] Ayumu’s videotaped performance on the internet couldn’t believe it, saying it must be a hoax. … [Some] American scientists felt they had to go into special training to beat the chimp.” (They failed.)
  
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• How Word Processers Changed How (And What) Writers Write

  20-04-2016 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What made word-processing devices much more than just souped-up typewriters was not only that they gave you the ability to edit at the same time that you wrote, or that they eliminated or seriously curtailed the effort of correcting from typewritten pages. Seeing text revealed on a screen, even in the technologically costive form offered by the earliest word processors, provided an unprecedented opportunity to picture the manuscript as a whole and with an immediacy that typewriting didn&r
  
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• Javier Pes Named Editor of The Art Newspaper, as Jane Morris Steps Down

  20-04-2016 17:18 via artnews.com
  Javier Pes, the deputy editor of The Art Newspaper, has been named its new editor, and will be taking over editorial operations at the monthly newsprint publication starting in June. Jane Morris, who has served as editor since 2008, will be stepping … Read More
  
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• The Invisible Artist: Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Multiple Personalities

  20-04-2016 17:00 via artnews.com
  In 1968, the artist Lynn Hershman Leeson (then known as Lynn Hershman) began publishing art criticism under the guise of three invented personas: Gay Abandon, Herbert Goode, and Prudence Juris. Each “critic” had his or her own style, aesthetic preferences, … Read More
  
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• Gauguin’s ‘Readymade’ Brooch Rediscovered

  20-04-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “An extraordinary brooch made by Paul Gauguin for his wife Mette has gone on display at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. … This bizarre creation [is] crafted from a piece of stovepipe scrap metal, a glass watch-dial case and a lock of hair. Arguably, this piece of jewellery is among the earliest ‘readymades” in art history.
  
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• Remember Black Light Posters?

  20-04-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For a magical time in the 1960s and ’70s, your wood-paneled basement hideaway wasn’t worth its weight in cheap weed and questionable acid without a collection of psychedelic blacklight posters. Combining Art Nouveau, Surrealism, Pop Art, and countless other artistic styles with the relatively new (commercially anyway) phenomenon of fluorescence, these glow-in-the-dark posters became an icon of the Summer of Love and its youth culture. Here’s where they came from and how
  
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• Shakespeare Did Not Sound Like Lawrence Olivier (For One Thing, The Rhymes Worked)

  20-04-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “David and Ben Crystal, a father and son team, have recreated what they say is Shakespeare’s original pronunciation, or OP, as they call it – how Shakespeare’s plays would have been sounded around 1600. … The OP accent that emerges from the Crystals’ research sounds closer to the Northern English or even some American accents.” (audio)
  
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• The Guggenheim's monstrous golden toilet sums up the obscene art world

  20-04-2016 15:57
  
  Maurizio Cattelan’s working gold loo at the New York museum is a pungent symbol of the extreme price of art objects, and our love of looking at themWhile the poor get poorer, the rich even get to do their crap on a golden toilet. No, this is not the latest speech by Bernie Sanders, driven to Swiftian scatology by his defeat in the New York primary. It is a trenchant comment on wealth and luxury on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Or Upper East Backside.Related: How offshore firm helped b
  
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• François Morellet, 90-year-old mischief-maker, celebrated in joint London gallery shows

  20-04-2016 15:53
  
  Audiences in London can delve deeper into the practice of one of France’s most influential artists—90-year-old François Morellet—who is the subject of two major concurrent shows at Annely Juda Fine Art (until 24 June) and the Mayor Gallery (until 27 May). 
  Morellet, who has been making art for more than 70 years, is known for his works exploring geometric abstraction that draw on rigorous mathematical systems. But the artist’s sense of mischief means that cha
  
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• Sleep furiously: step inside artist Tom de Freston's nightmarish bedroom – video

  20-04-2016 15:45
  
  Battersea Arts Centre commissioned Tom de Freston to create a bedroom for its resident artists – he responded by covering himself in body stockings and paint to evoke a blend of King Lear and wild storms. Follow his process in this short documentary filmWin a three-night stay in one of the artist’s bedrooms at Battersea Arts Centre – our competition ends 23 April
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• How Shakespeare’s Work Changed (A Lot) After Elizabeth I Died

  20-04-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Becoming a Jacobean playwright was so much more than a change in terminology.
  
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• Americans Say They Love Their Libraries – So Why Are They Using Them Less?

  20-04-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “According to a new Pew Research study, 76 percent of Americans say that libraries well serve the needs of their community. … Yet on the other hand, fewer and fewer Americans are using the institutions every year.” Why? Investment.
  
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• What It’s Like To Work As A New York Times Obit Writer

  20-04-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “All the writers start from scratch with their sources, calling friends and family caught in the midst of funeral planning, scanning yellowed clippings from the paper’s ‘morgue’ archives, and acting as their own fact checkers in the race against the evening’s deadline.”
  
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• James Franco Convinces Jerry Saltz He’s A Real Artist

  20-04-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In almost four hours of conversation in Los Angeles this winter, the artist and critic met and talked honestly about why the art world has been so hostile to Franco and other celebrities who try to enter it – and what drives Franco to continue, hostility be damned.”
  
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• Violinist Breaks Her Foot, Plays Concerto Anyway – Standing Up

  20-04-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘It happened at like two o’clock,” she said. ‘I had a soundcheck at four.’ There wasn’t time to go to the doctor, and besides, she was pretty sure what a doctor would say: ‘You need to ice it, and elevate, and medicate: three things I couldn’t do at that moment.'”
  
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• Mirga Doesn’t Quite Get The Fuss About Her Being A Woman Conductor

  20-04-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “But I accept I must still be a cheerleader. Mothers come up to me and thank me for setting an example to their daughters. And I am happy to take that responsibility. I grew up without imagining any problems.” (In the Baltics, after all, maestras aren’t all that unusual.) “I hope those who come after me will think it quite normal.”
  
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• Ronit Elkabetz, Leading Actress Of Israeli Film Cinema, Dead At 51

  20-04-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The actress and filmmaker was known equally for her striking dark looks and immense emotional vulnerability onscreen. Her life ended just as her career flourished at an all-time high.”
  
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• From ‘Roseanne’ To ‘The Office’ To ‘The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ – How Did The Dark Humor In Sitcoms Get *This* Dark?

  20-04-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some years ago TV comedies found grim humour in ordinary domestic life. Now even sitcoms about murder and sex slavery are bright and bubbly. … What happened?”
  
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• Morning Links: Solid Gold Edition

  20-04-2016 13:56 via artnews.com
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• Damien Hirst Tate exhibition found to have leaked cancer-causing fumes

  20-04-2016 13:49
  
  Tate insists that it 'always puts safety first' but Hirst's pickled animal installations were potentially hazardous
  
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• A Hard-Hitting Radio Soap Opera For War-Torn Syria

  20-04-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If the soap was about anywhere other than Syria, you might call the storylines melodramatic, but as the scriptwriter Mahmoud points out, all his plots resonate with Syrians because they’re just hearing their own story.”
  
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• Classical Raves Aren’t Good For Classical Or Dance Music, And They Need To Stop (Says Nightclub Critic)

  20-04-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  John Thorp: “The current trend for high-concept classical ‘raves’ in prestigious venues feels at odds with dance music’s forward-thinking worldview. … Getting an orchestra to play dance anthems may come off as a gilded seal of prestige or legacy but it drains them of their naive simplicity and euphoria.”
  
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• Gauguin’s unknown 'readymade' brooch is revealed

  20-04-2016 13:20
  
  An extraordinary brooch made by Paul Gauguin for his wife Mette has gone on display at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. The Art Newspaper is presenting the first photograph of this bizarre creation—crafted from a piece of stovepipe scrap metal, a glass watch-dial case and a lock of hair. Arguably, this piece of jewellery is among the earliest “readymades” in art history. (Gauguin later incorporated found objects in some of his sculptures.)According to family tradition
  
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• Straight to the point: Tate to stage first major show on queer British art

  20-04-2016 12:42
  
  The first major show dedicated to queer British art will open next year at Tate Britain to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act of 1967, which decriminalised male homosexuality in England and Wales. Queer British Art (5 April-1 October 2017) will explore “how seismic shifts in gender and sexuality found expression in the arts” according to a statement released yesterday, 19 April, announcing the Tate’s exhibitions programme for 2017.The show will inclu
  
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• Straight to the point: Tate to stage first-ever show on queer British art

  20-04-2016 12:42
  
  The first major show dedicated to queer British art will open next year at Tate Britain to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act of 1967, which decriminalised male homosexuality in England and Wales. Queer British Art (5 April-1 October 2017) will explore “how seismic shifts in gender and sexuality found expression in the arts” according to a statement released yesterday, 19 April, announcing the Tate’s exhibitions programme for 2017.The show will inclu
  
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• Ground-breaking Cranach show sheds light on Soviet ‘trophy art’

  20-04-2016 12:20
  
  An exhibition that reunites for the first time several Soviet-seized works by the 16th-century German court painter Lucas Cranach with those from the Friedenstein Castle in Gotha, Germany—from where they were confiscated following the Second World War—runs at Moscow’s State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts through 15 May.The exhibition brings together 48 paintings and more than 50 graphic works by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his son from Gotha’s Friedenstein Castle and the Pu
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.19.16

  20-04-2016 10:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pricing for the sensible arts consumer
  At flux[x] Tom Whitwell has a very interesting read on pricing, and the psychology behind how we make choices when confronted with varying sets of prices. I highly recommend it. He uses examples ranging from … read more
  AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2016-04-19Pulitzer winner Threadgill: “What is harmony?”
  My profile of Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Threadgill, commissioned by and published in DownBeat in 2010: H
  
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• Maria Sibylla Merian: a fascination for metamorphosis

  20-04-2016 10:00
  
  Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was a remarkable woman by the measure of any era, whose life and work were eclipsed by scientific advances and then recovered by art history and feminism in the last quarter of the 20th century and today.
  Born in Frankfurt where her family were publishers, Merian was introduced to art by her stepfather, Jacob Marrel, a still-life painter. As a child she developed a passion for insects, an interest that set the course for the rest of her life. She married and liv
  
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• Model behaviour: the surreal human sculptures of Manon Wertenbroek – in pictures

  20-04-2016 08:00
  
  The Swiss artist recruited her brother for her photo series Tandem – and placed him into these bizarre tableaux full of cartoonish energy Continue reading...
  
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• Dry times: Tehran gallery show draws attention to national drought

  20-04-2016 04:50
  
  Nuclear deals aside, a Tehran gallery exhibition will take on one of the biggest issues now facing modern Iran: a drought dating back at least seven years, with water tables falling perilously in parched regions and fabled rivers running dry.  The curators Vida Zaim and Leila Varasteh—who also organised the Belgian artist Wim Delvoye’s current show at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art—put out an open call last year seeking artists’ responses to a problem that has
  
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• Academy Of Motion Pictures Finds It’s Difficult To Redefine Membership

  20-04-2016 00:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In our initial resolution, we tried, but failed to come up with a ‘one-size-fits-all’ definition of activity,” the governors told members in the letter, which was sent on Monday.
  
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