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• The right kind of Classicism: Joachim Whaley on Goethe's criticism

  22-04-2016 23:00
  
  Dropylaea (Die Propyläen) is generally held to have contained the most precise statement of the principles of Weimar Classicism. The very title of this journal, edited by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which appeared in six parts between 1798 and 1800, was programmatic. It referred to the monumental gatehouse to the Acropolis and, as the introduction explained in a playful tone, it should be understood as “threshold, gate, entrance, antechamber” to a consideration of the arts, in
  
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• The right kind of Classicism: Joachim Whaley on Geothe's criticism

  22-04-2016 23:00
  
  Dropylaea (Die Propyläen) is generally held to have contained the most precise statement of the principles of Weimar Classicism. The very title of this journal, edited by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which appeared in six parts between 1798 and 1800, was programmatic. It referred to the monumental gatehouse to the Acropolis and, as the introduction explained in a playful tone, it should be understood as “threshold, gate, entrance, antechamber” to a consideration of the arts, in
  
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• Like day and night: Joseph Wright works go back on display in Derby after restoration

  22-04-2016 23:00
  Colosseum by Daylight and Colosseum by Moonlight, the last two surviving paintings of the ancient Roman amphitheatre by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97) will go on show for the first time in 56 years on Saturday 23 April, following their recent restoration funded by the Pilgrim Trust.
  An earlier, poor intervention that masked much of the artist’s hand had made the pair unfit for display at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery in Derbyshire, which boasts the world’s largest public collec
  
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• Forgotten history: Bernhard Schulz on contemporary art museum in Berlin after the war

  22-04-2016 23:00
  
  In 1945, as the war ended, Berlin’s former Preussische Museen (Prussian museums), once so magnificent before the Nazi era, lay in ruins. Works of art retrieved by the Western allies were being kept in storage at central collecting points in West Germany, their future unclear. Those treasures that fell into the hands of the Red Army in the areas it occupied had been transported to the Soviet Union.In this depressing situation, the Magistrat—Berlin’s municipal authority, then st
  
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• When Algorithms Choose Your Music For You, Something Is Being Lost

  22-04-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I do feel that if the great push of the smartest minds in this business is moving towards efficiency in curating for you, in delivering you what it knows you will like from the great abundance, well, something’s being lost, isn’t it? Isn’t the thing that’s being lost you and your efforts to figure out what you like and you respond to?”
  
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• L.A. Habitat: Amanda Ross-Ho

  22-04-2016 22:24 via artnews.com
  L.A. Habitat is a weekly series that visits with 16 artists in their workspaces around the city.This week’s studio: Amanda Ross-Ho; Skid Row, Los Angeles.“L.A. is one of the most fraught, anxious places that I’ve ever spent time in,” Amanda Ross-Ho told me … Read More
  
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• The World Is Being Organized Into Giant Mega-Cities

  22-04-2016 22:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Today the world’s top 20 richest cities have forged a super-circuit driven by capital, talent, and services: they are home to more than 75% of the largest companies, which in turn invest in expanding across those cities and adding more to expand the intercity network. Indeed, global cities have forged a league of their own, in many ways as denationalized as Formula One racing teams, drawing talent from around the world and amassing capital to spend on themselves while they compete o
  
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• Chiming Cuckoos: Chadwick Rantanen at Essex Street

  22-04-2016 22:13 via artnews.com
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• ‘Can Computers Be Programmed to Appreciate Art?’: The Machine as Viewer, in 1977

  22-04-2016 21:52 via artnews.com
  With Magnus, an app that can recognize artworks using visual data, being released to the public recently, we turn back to the Summer 1977 issue of ARTnews, in which the editors wondered if it was possible for a computer to appreciate art. … Read More
  
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• Art-Focused 21c Museum Hotels Releases Statement About North Carolina Law Restricting LGBTQ Rights

  22-04-2016 21:46 via artnews.com
  21c Museum Hotels, the art-centric North Carolina–based chain, spoke out today against House Bill 2, a law that requires North Carolinians to use bathrooms that correspond to their “biological sex.” And they’re not the only people in the art world to … Read More
  
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• Lucien Freud’s Estate Settles Tax Bill With A Self-Portrait

  22-04-2016 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The unfinished oil on canvas, thought to date from the mid-1980s, will settle £559,773 of tax. Arts Council England, which administers the acceptance in lieu scheme, said the portrait fragment had only been discovered recently.”
  
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• Castles in the Sky: Adam McEwen on ‘Harvest,’ His Show at Petzel Gallery

  22-04-2016 21:02 via artnews.com
  For the past few years I have had a poster in my living room of Kate Moss’s New York Times obituary. It begins, “Kate Moss, the model who died aged 33, was the most celebrated and iconic beauty of her … Read More
  
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• Why Shakespeare’s A Star And Cervantes Is… Not So Much

  22-04-2016 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The English have managed to sell Shakespeare as one of the pillars of their language, because theirs is a more pragmatic country than ours. Spain is not a place that knows how to acknowledge its culture.”
  
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• Prince Was A Big Ballet Fan. He Had A Major Impact On The Joffrey

  22-04-2016 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Today, the great success of “Billboards” remains a cautionary tale. A ballet company needs to approach a radical new direction with care, and a view to the future. But what also remains is the generosity and inspiration of a singular musical artist, who saw new possibilities for classical ballet. Prince knew that ballet could tell a lot of stories, and he helped spin them in new directions.
  
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• Boycott Of South Korea’s Largest Film Festival Threatened

  22-04-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Nine South Korean film organizations said this week that they would boycott the Busan International Film Festival, one of the top events in Asia, if organizers did not address their concerns about government interference in the festival.”
  
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• Graffiti artist to settle legal case against Moschino

  22-04-2016 19:46
  A bitter legal battle between the graffiti artist Joseph Tierney, also known as Rime, and the Italian fashion designer Moschino and its creative director Jeremy Scott looks as if it will be settled out of court. Both parties have reached an agreement in principle and expect to file a dismissal within ten days, according to court papers filed on 19 April.The Californian court was notified of the settlement one day after Moschino and Scott filed to have the Brooklyn-based artist’s case dism
  
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• Prince, Technologist, Luddite (But Always In Control)

  22-04-2016 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sometimes he hated technology; sometimes he loved it. But more than that, at his best Prince was technology, a musician who realized that making music was not his only responsibility, that his innovation had to extend to representation, distribution, transmission and pure system invention.”
  
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• Art-Dealer-To-The-Celebs Arrested In Los Angeles

  22-04-2016 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Perry Rubenstein, 62, was arrested late Thursday in Santa Monica, more than a month after prosecutors filed charges alleging three felony counts of grand theft by embezzlement. The complaint requested that he be held on $1-million bail.”
  
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• Dolphins Caught Plotting Together (Yes, Really)

  22-04-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Bottlenose dolphins have been observed chattering while cooperating to solve a tricky puzzle – a feat that suggests they have a type of vocalisation dedicated to cooperating on problem solving. … Importantly, the researchers were able to show that the increase in chatter was directly related to the canister-opening task as opposed to social interactions between the dolphins.”
  
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• Turner and The Fighting Temeraire chosen for new £20 note

  22-04-2016 18:48
  
  J. M. W. Turner will be the new face of the £20 banknote, the Bank of England Governor Mark Carney announced today, 22 April, at the Turner Contemporary in Margate. Carney called Turner, who is the first artist to feature on a British banknote, “perhaps the single most influential British artist of all time”.
  Tracey Emin, who grew up in Margate which Turner often visited and painted, was also present at the announcement. She said: “It’s so amazing that an artist ha
  
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• Research: Men Who Are Good Storytellers Are More Attractive Mates

  22-04-2016 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Storytelling ability appears to increase (a man’s) perceived status, and thus helps men attract long-term partners.”
  
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• JMW Turner may be a safe choice for new £20 note – but it's deserved

  22-04-2016 18:04
  
  Yes, the artist is white, male and dead. But the Bank of England has honoured a radical visionary whose creativity is still inspiring
  Joseph Mallord William Turner knew he’d be on a banknote one day. You can see it in his eyes in the visionary, assured self-portrait he painted in about 1799, gazing through the time vortex at his own future fame in justifiable confidence that he will always be acknowledged as the best of British artists.The Bank of England’s choice of this white male
  
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• Playing The Queen: The Tricks To Portraying Elizabeth II On Stage And Screen

  22-04-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What is it like to play one of the most famous faces in the world – and what makes so many want to do so? … Two who have done exactly that on stage say there is one crucial element for getting into character …”
  
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• Britain Receives Lucian Freud Self-Portrait In Lieu Of Inheritance Tax

  22-04-2016 17:55 via artnews.com
  The Guardian reports today that “an intense” and never-before-seen self-portrait by Lucian Freud is set to be shown at London’s National Portrait Gallery, the artist’s estate having bequeathed it to the nation in place of inheritance tax. The portrait, which … Read More
  
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• Richard Prince at Sadie Coles HQ, London

  22-04-2016 17:18 via artnews.com
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• These artists are putting fictional characters into real settings

  22-04-2016 17:05
  
  Collective project '2D Among Us' is combining characters from film, television, and gaming with Russian landscapes
  
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• JMW Turner to be face of next £20 note

  22-04-2016 17:05
  
  Painter to become first artist to appear on a British banknote after public is asked to nominate deceased cultural figuresJMW Turner, one of Britain’s greatest painters, is to be the face of the new £20 note, following a nationwide vote.It will be the first time an artist has appeared on a British banknote, after the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, asked the public to nominate a deceased cultural figure they felt deserved the high honour. Related: JMW Turner may be a sa
  
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• SFMOMA's reopening: a 'game-changer for San Francisco' – and contemporary art

  22-04-2016 17:00
  
  With its newly acquired collection of Richters and Warhols and a multi-million dollar renovation, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is aiming to join the top rank of galleries. Ahead of its reopening, Paul Laity takes a tourFor years, workers at the San Francisco HQ of the clothing chain Gap walked past an enormous piece of fruit. At the entrance to the company cafeteria sat the 8ft-high Geometric Apple Core by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen – the “Gapple”, a class
  
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• SFMOMA’s reopening: a bonanza of contemporary art

  22-04-2016 17:00
  
  With its newly acquired collection of Richters and Warhols and a multi-million dollar renovation, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is aiming to join the top rank of galleries. Ahead of its reopening, Paul Laity takes a tourFor years, workers at the San Francisco HQ of the clothing chain Gap walked past an enormous piece of fruit. At the entrance to the company cafeteria sat the 8ft-high Geometric Apple Core by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen – the “Gapple”, a&
  
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• Scenes From Antony Sher’s Falstaff Diaries

  22-04-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Tuesday 10 September – ‘How do you learn all those lines?’ This question is the one that the public most frequently ask of actors. We laugh about it, laugh at them for being so shallow – as though learning lines were the great mystery in acting. Well, I’ve stopped laughing. It’s an age thing.”
  
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• William Kentridge unveils 550-metre frieze along Rome's River Tiber

  22-04-2016 16:57
  
  William Kentridge gave the city of Rome a birthday present to remember yesterday, 21 April, at the inauguration of his monumental mural along the right bank of the river Tiber, Triumphs and Laments. The date marked the Natale di Roma, the anniversary of the capital’s legendary founding in 753BC. The 550m-long frieze depicting a procession of more than 80 figures from Roman mythology to the present is the South African artist’s largest public work to date. To celebrate its launch, Ke
  
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• Qatar Museums shortlists architects for Art Mill project

  22-04-2016 16:04
  
  Qatar Museums has announced an eight-strong shortlist of architects to covert former grain silos on the Doha waterfront into a vast gallery. The architect Renzo Piano is still a contender as is Elemental, the practice of the 2016 Prizker Prize-winning architect Alejandro Aravena. But David Chipperfield did not make the finalists chosen by a jury that includes Sheikha Mayassa, the head of Qatar Museums who is sister of the emir, and the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto.
   
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• Bret Easton Ellis Sees ‘American Psycho’ On Broadway

  22-04-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “My first impression is that it’s strange that something I wrote 30 years ago is a musical on Broadway. To witness its tortured history, from this thing that was a quasi-victim of censorship to a mainstream Broadway musical, makes me feel very, very old.”
  
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• There Are Secret Rooms Hidden In The Abandoned Manholes Of Milan

  22-04-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Throughout the Lodi district of Milan, Italy, artist Biancoshock has transformed abandoned manholes into miniature subterranean rooms. Beneath the pavement, in vacant maintenance vaults, a cupid painting in a gaudy frame hangs in a tiny pink living room; a boxy kitchen is stocked with pots and pans; and a blue-tiled bathroom is complete with shower and towel.”
  
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• Golden loos at the Guggenheim and Dalí's diary – the week in art

  22-04-2016 15:33
  
  McDonalds mixes with Soviet-style art, Damien Hirst’s leaky vitrines, and Pompeii’s bungled facelift – all in your weekly art dispatchGeorg Baselitz
  The brutal physical facts of ageing are among the themes of this exhibition by one of the masters of contemporary art. Baselitz reworks images of himself and his wife when they were younger and reinterprets the harsh realism of the German modernist Otto Dix. Yet more proof of Germany’s artistic preeminence.
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• Parisians Greet New Les Halles Canopy In Parisian Style – With A Shrug

  22-04-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Three weeks after the anxious official unveiling … and five years after construction began, the appraisal of skeptical Parisians, it seems, is like the face the city presents to the world: reserved and critical, but not unwelcoming. At least, they are learning to live with it, if only because it is going nowhere.”
  
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• Library Anxiety (Yes, It’s A Thing)

  22-04-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “That term is hardly a household name among students, but say it to a college librarian, and he or she will know exactly what you’re talking about. It’s the feeling that one’s research skills are inadequate and that those shortcomings should be hidden. In some students it’s manifested as an outright fear of libraries and the librarians who work there. … ‘Why would anyone think we are intimidating?’ writes Michel C. Atlas. ‘What is intimidati
  
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• Morning Links: Prince Edition

  22-04-2016 15:09 via artnews.com
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• While All Britain Fetes Shakespeare, Spain’s Cervantes Celebrations Fall Short

  22-04-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Spanish officials have been accused of not doing enough to promote Cervantes, … [and] the criticism has taken on a distinctly political flavor. … Spanish officials insist that such criticism is misplaced, saying the government never sought to take full control over how Cervantes should be honored, nor foot the entire bill for the celebration.”
  
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• Bach With Beer: Two Critics Assess A Bar Concert

  22-04-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Peter Dobrin: The Baroque cello, with its sheep and cow gut strings, is a pretty quiet instrument. Did it come across for you? And was this your first non-vegan cello experience?Samantha Melamed: It was my first, ahem, visceral cello experience.”
  
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• Is this a Shakespeare portrait I see before me? Well, no | William Leahy

  22-04-2016 14:44
  
  An attractive portrait of the bard has featured heavily in his 400th anniversary celebrations. There’s just one tiny problem with itJust in case we were in danger of forgetting, the latest edition of the BBC History magazine kindly reminds us that this month marks the 400th anniversary of the death of perhaps the world’s greatest ever author, William Shakespeare. The magazine commemorates this festive occasion by claiming to reveal “The great mysteries of the playwright’s
  
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• Italy retrieves three works looted from Tuscan villa by the Nazis

  22-04-2016 14:38
  
  Italian authorities have recovered three 15th-century paintings looted by Nazi troops from a Tuscan villa during the Second World War. The works—a Madonna with Child attributed to Cima da Conegliano, the Trinity by Alessio Baldovinetti and the Presentation of Jesus to the Temple by Girolamo dai Libri—were unveiled on 18 April at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, where they have been temporarily assigned for safekeeping.
  In 1939, a year after Italy introduced its anti-Jewish racial l
  
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• Tower of London poppies bloom at Britain's most northerly cathedral

  22-04-2016 14:35
  
  Ceramic poppy installation that wowed crowds in 2014 used to mark centenary of battle of Jutland in Kirkwall, OrkneyThousands of ceramic poppies spill dramatically from a tiny window in Britain’s most northerly cathedral to mark thecentenary of a first world war naval battle in which more than 8,500 sailors died.If the poppies look familiar, it’s probably because you saw the vast Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red installation at the Tower of London in 2014, for which 888,246 poppies
  
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• Met’s Money Woes And MoMA’s Millions: Today’s Art World In Microcosm

  22-04-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Modern and contemporary art dominate the action these days – in auction houses and galleries, as well as museums. Everyone wants in, including a revered institution like the Met, which is striving to play catch-up even as it is struggling to pay the bills.”
  
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• Maurice Sendak’s Only Known Mural Gets A New Home

  22-04-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Painted originally in 1961 in the bedroom of New York City’s Chertoff children – Nina and Larry – and moved to the Rosenbach several years ago, the mural now promises to catch the eyes of borrowers at the … Free Library of Philadelphia’s new branch, opening soon at Broad and Morris Streets in South Philadelphia.”
  
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• V&A museum bans sketching in select temporary exhibitions

  22-04-2016 14:12
  
  The ban has been enacted for exhibition Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear
  
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• Prince Was So Ferocious About His Intellectual Property, He Got A ‘Lifetime Aggrievement Award’

  22-04-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 2013, the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave Prince … the Raspberry Beret Lifetime Aggrievement Award, in honor of his groundbreaking use of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to prevent fans of his music from publishing his tunes or image anywhere he didn’t want them to be. … For all the groundbreaking work he created as a musician in the 20th century, his approach to the internet and copyright was shockingly old-school, and one that should be studied for centur
  
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• Anatomy of an artwork: War

  22-04-2016 14:00
  
  Dissecting the 1917 work by American painter Louis Michel EilshemiusWere it not for the falling man, tumbling head over heels from a cliff, this would have been reminiscent of one of those 18th-century landscapes by the likes of Turner or Caspar David Friedrich. Instead the romantic scene is undercut by the slapstick absurdity of the death. Continue reading...
  
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• Why Katy Pyle Created A Queer ‘Ballez’ Company

  22-04-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I just don’t believe in neutral. I want to use this form to show that people are still carrying these subconscious judgments and ideas about how we should behave in relation to each other, how we should look and move, and what’s possible and what’s allowed.”
  
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• UK’s Oldest Contemporary Dance Company Launches Choreography Fellowships

  22-04-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over the next three years, the Leverhulme Choreography Fellowship will support three professional dancers in making the transition from dancing to full-time choreography. The fellows will each spend a year with Rambert as part of the programme, which will run alongside the company’s existing music fellowship and choreographic development programme.”
  
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