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• Report Debunks Some of The “Benefits” We Claim For The Arts

  02-05-2016 23:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Although the report doesn’t pull its punches in exposing how few of the assumptions we make about the wider benefits of the arts are backed up by empirical evidence or the way policymakers have attempted to place a “cash value” on culture, it is far from being negative or cynical.
  
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• Baltimore Museum of Art Names Christopher Bedford New Director

  02-05-2016 23:30 via artnews.com
  The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) has named Christopher Bedford its new director, effective August 15. Bedford, who currently serves as the Henry and Lois Foster director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, will succeed Doreen Bolger as the BMA’s … Read More
  
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• Baltimore Museum of Art Names Christopher Bedford Director

  02-05-2016 23:30 via artnews.com
  The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) has named Christopher Bedford its new director, effective August 15. Bedford, who currently serves as the Henry and Lois Foster director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, will succeed Doreen Bolger as the BMA’s … Read More
  
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• Alternate Realities: Five Notable Stories From Last Week’s ArtsJournal

  02-05-2016 23:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When an arts center stumbles over its definition of inclusivity. Arts as a bridge between cultures? Lessons from mega-culture projects. The mega-gallery mogul. And a dogged poet who spent decades trying to get her work in The New Yorker.
  
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• Swan Lake meets Flashdance

  02-05-2016 23:00
  
  On Monday night, the Guggenheim debuted its three-night run of Ryan McNamara's latest performance, Battleground, in the museum's theatre, which McNamara described in notes for the show as "prophetically designed for the sci-fi cosplay house-music ballet-battle that fell into my mind the moment I saw the space." There is no more concise description for the performance, in which three trios of dancers dressed in red, green and blue fought for control of the museum's theater, their movements equal
  
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• OFAs (old French artists) are the new YBAs

  02-05-2016 23:00
  
  Exhibitions devoted to work by François Morellet are taking place in three galleries to mark the French artist’s 90th birthday. Abstract geometric canvases from the 1960s and 1970s are on display at the Mayor Gallery in London and at Dan Galeria in São Paulo (until 27 May), while new and recent neon installations and paintings are at Annely Juda Fine Art in London (until 24 June).Morellet, whose career spans more than six decades, is increasingly recognised for his contribut
  
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• Object lessons: from a Naïve townscape to Sub-Saharan sculpture

  02-05-2016 23:00
  
  British Naïve school, The Market Street, Haddington (around 1850)Exhibition of Antique Folk Art, Robert Young Antiques, London, 5-14 May
  Priced at £20,000As testified by an old label on the back, this 19th-century townscape depicting the Market Street in Haddington, in East Lothian, Scotland, passed through London’s Rutland Gallery in the 1970s. Its director, Christopher Bibby, was a great champion of humble British Naïve art. The oil on canvas is the largest and most sign
  
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• Istanbul’s Moving Image fair is called off

  02-05-2016 23:00
  
  The Istanbul art scene has suffered another blow with the announcement that the video art fair, Moving Image, will not go ahead this year. The third edition was due to open this autumn (22-25 September) at the city’s Haliç Congress Centre on the banks of the Golden Horn.
   
  The move follows the decision by the organisers of Art International to postpone this year’s edition, saying that security issues had played a part. The contemporary art fair was scheduled to coincide
  
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• Fashion meets tech at the Met Gala

  02-05-2016 23:00
  
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art rolled out its red carpet for fashion A-listers and other assorted bigwigs who arrived styled to within an inch of their lives for the famous annual Gala Benefit on Monday night. Celebrity highlights included Beyonce in latex by Givenchy, and Kim Kardashian and Kanye West both in fetching outfits by Balmain. Under Vogue editor Anna Wintour's leadership, the ultra-glitzy gala event has become the Met Costume Institute's most visible and lucrative fundraising event.
  
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• Barbara Hepworth’s former school to auction two of her sculptures at Sotheby's

  02-05-2016 23:00
  
  Barbara Hepworth’s former school in Wakefield, Yorkshire is selling two sculptures by the British artist in a bid to raise more than £1m. One work was bought for the opening of a new gym in 1959 and the other was created especially for a head teacher with whom Hepworth became friends upon her retirement in 1973.
  Hepworth, who attended Wakefield Girls High School from the age of six, leaving aged 17 in 1920, was encouraged to pursue her artistic talents by her teachers there, famousl
  
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• Buck A National Trend, Boston Arts Audiences Are Getting Younger, More Engaged. Why?

  02-05-2016 22:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At a time when orchestra audiences nationwide are growing smaller and grayer, nearly 30 percent of BSO concertgoers this season have been under the age of 40. And while ticket sales at nonprofit and regional theaters across the country have been falling for a decade, the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) and the Huntington Theatre Company have posted record single-ticket and subscription sales the past two seasons.”
  
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• Artist's neon sign calls for understanding in New York – and around the world

  02-05-2016 22:14
  
  Martin Creed has planted a revolving neon sign on the East river in Brooklyn inspired by the state of the world – and it all started with a secret handshakeFive years ago, the Turner prize-winning British artist Martin Creed had an idea – a secret handshake. It wasn’t for just anyone; it was for his stepdaughter, who was 10 at the time.
  “We’d go ‘peace, love and understanding’ with these hand signals when we were saying goodbye,” says Creed over th
  
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• Preview Frieze New York 2016

  02-05-2016 21:17 via artnews.com
  The fifth edition of Frieze New York opens to the public on Thursday, May 5, with a preview day on Wednesday, May 4. The fair, which is divided into five sections including a public works section, will bring together 202 … Read More
  
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• I Feel Like This Is What’s Wrong With How People Speak Today

  02-05-2016 21:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Listen for this phrase and you’ll hear it everywhere, inside and outside politics. This reflex to hedge every statement as a feeling or a hunch is most common among millennials. But I hear it almost as often among Generation Xers and my own colleagues in academia. As in so many things, the young are early carriers of a broad cultural contagion.”
  
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• Fore! Mike Kelley Foundation Grant Brings Mini Golf to L.A.’s Skid Row

  02-05-2016 20:50 via artnews.com
  A few weeks back, The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts announced the recipients of its inaugural Artist Project Grants. Among the winners, one project stood out from the pack: a playable miniature golf course, to be created in the … Read More
  
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• In The History Of The World, Here’s How Many People Who Have Lived

  02-05-2016 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Coming up with how many people were born after that is certainly based on informed speculation. Plagued by low life expectancy (up to 10 years during the Iron Age) thanks to lack of medicine, food supply issues, climate changes, killing each other and other problems, human population grew at a slow rate. Early infant mortality was as high as 500 infant deaths per 1,000 births or higher.”
  
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• Mr. K-Tel Records, The Guy Who Invented The Compilation Album, Has Died

  02-05-2016 19:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The marketing and sales techniques pioneered in the 1960s by Philip Kives, who died on Thursday at the age of 87, might seem crude and simplistic viewed from a half-century’s distance. But they remain part of the DNA of record label marketing departments today.”
  
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• Reality bites at the Hangzhou Museum

  02-05-2016 18:09
  
  The Hangzhou Museum, founded in 2001, is home to over 10,000 cultural relics tracing East China’s rich history. It also hosted recently an episode of the reality show Running Man, a move that attracted online outrage for possibly putting the artefacts at risk. Running Man—or Benpaoba, Xiongdi in Mandarin—is a popular variety show on Zhejiang Television based on a Korean programme of the same name. An episode aired earlier this month featured celebrities and tabloid f
  
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• The Artisans Who Make, And Repair, The Instruments Of India’s Classical Music

  02-05-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With preferences substantially tilting towards electronic instruments such as keyboards, electric guitars and recorded sounds at processions and devotional functions, Suresh says its future is bleak. ‘Nobody likes to work in this field now. From about 12 shops in 1940 of dhol-tasha makers in Lalbaug, just three or four remain.'”
  
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• ‘Mystery and Benevolence’ at American Folk Art Museum, Selected by Mark Dion

  02-05-2016 18:00 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. This week's shows are selected by Mark Dion Read More
  
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• Mark Dion Selects ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’

  02-05-2016 18:00 via artnews.com
  It’s been about six months since we first started inviting artists to select a week’s work of shows and performances for our daily slideshow “Pictures at an Exhibition,” highlighting notable museum and gallery exhibitions from around the world. So far, … Read More
  
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• Frieze Week 2016 Art Fair Cheat Sheet

  02-05-2016 18:00 via artnews.com
  FRIEZE NEW YORK: MAY 5-8Frieze, which turns 25 this year, will return to Randall’s Island Park for its fifth New York edition in a celebratory fashion. Along with the usual Frame, Focus and Spotlight sections—which highlight emerging galleries, solo shows, and … Read More
  
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• Who Won The Big Off-Broadway Awards?

  02-05-2016 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Unlike last year, when ‘Hamilton’ took home 10 awards for its production at the Public Theater, this year’s prizes were more evenly divided.”
  
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• 10 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week

  02-05-2016 17:34 via artnews.com
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• Latinx Artists Find Common Ground – In Frustration

  02-05-2016 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We’re in an age where there’s a lot of fire, there’s a lot of confrontation around identity. … We’re looking at what we’re putting (on) the table and looking at who’s accepting it and who’s not, so I think this conversation is really timely.”
  
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• The Guy Who Makes Such Amazing Noises With His Mouth And Nose That People Consider Him A Spiritual Guru

  02-05-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. Tkachenko-Papizh, for his part, allows that ‘angels speak to me’ while he is performing. Still, he is very much human, he said, and is thus now dealing with the aftereffects of becoming an overnight web sensation.”
  
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• Hollywood Has The So White Issue, But Also The So Hetero Issue

  02-05-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Last year saw a resurgence of outright offensive images of LGBT people; more films relied on gay panic and defamatory stereotypes for giggles.”
  
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• Why People Are Turning Once More To James Baldwin

  02-05-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Like sixty years ago, much of the public rhetoric about race is devoted to explaining to an incurious white public, in rudimentary terms, the contours of institutional racism.”
  
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• Hulu May Become Your ‘Skinny Cable’ Provider

  02-05-2016 16:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The move would give Hulu another leg up in courting cost-conscious consumers and others who live in the 10 million homes in the U.S. without a pay-TV subscription.”
  
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• This Poet’s Words Are All Over Beyoncé’s New Album

  02-05-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the days after her work was proclaimed by one of the world’s most influential black female artists, Ms. [Warsan] Shire laid low. She did not promote ‘Lemonade’ or even tease its existence on social media.”
  
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• The Unlikely Rise Of The Novella

  02-05-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When I suggest that we may soon see the end of even defining whether a work is a short story, novella or novel, Earls says for writers the distinction can still be meaningful.”
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Warhol Uncanned’ Edition

  02-05-2016 14:39 via artnews.com
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• Our Everyday Game And Screen Immersion Experiences Are Reshaping Museums

  02-05-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some people like to just observe. Some people prefer to read. Some people prefer to be told a story in a movie. So, in the department of exhibitions, we have people that think in all these different ways and we have to balance it out between all of us to get an exhibition that is attractive to everybody, and tells each one of these stories in the most compelling way.”
  
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• Hamilton’s Assured Tony Dominance Makes Other Musicals Change Their Usual Award Season Strategies

  02-05-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Barely once each Broadway generation — ‘A Chorus Line’ in 1975, ‘The Producers’ in 2001 — a juggernaut so powerful comes along that it causes competitors a brief moment of despair. And then, just as quickly, it sets off a round of tactical maneuvering.”
  
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• Kate’s Vogue shots shouldn’t be in a gallery. They’re not art | Jonathan Jones

  02-05-2016 14:10
  
  Either the royals are hoarding art or they’re sanitising it. The showing given to the Duchess of Cambridge’s portraits is part of the latterA Vogue cover shot is not a serious portrait. Who would expect it to be? I’ve nothing against the romantic rural pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge that decorate the June issue of Vogue. Nice face, nice clothes. But is a glossy picture of Kate Middleton in any way a serious work of art?The National Portrait Gallery claims it is. This roya
  
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• Producing Radio Has Dramatically Changed These Imprisoned Women’s Lives

  02-05-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Palabra Libre — translated it means ‘free word’ — began as a way to humanize those in the nation’s penal system and nurture inmates’ life skills. The program is a collaboration between Ecuador’s Ministry of Justice and provincial government of Pichincha to help ‘personas privadas de libertad’ — people deprived of physical liberty — to reintegrate into society by participating in the arts.”
  
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• The SF Chronicle Hires A Young, Local Theatre Writer To Be Its New Full-Time Critic

  02-05-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “All of us theatre people start just enthralled to this art form and wanting to participate in any way we can. The most visible way to do that is acting, and most of us try that first and are terrible at it. Not a few of us drop out and just become lifelong audience members, but others keep trying to hang on and do something around the theatre. I’ve always been a writer, and at first I thought playwriting would be it. But I guess I’m only good at writing in my own voice.”
  
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• Big Data Shows Us The Gap Between Foodie America And Everyone Else In The Country

  02-05-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In an era of celebrity chefs and recipe-kit delivery services developed by experts, a pasta dish by a Dallas dad who describes his heritage as ‘entirely Anglo-Saxon’ is quite possibly America’s most-cooked meal.”
  
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• What Ballet Does For Dancers In Lagos

  02-05-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The troupe at Span may have started out as a group of fun loving impromptu dancers in the boroughs of Lagos but they have grown to become award-winning internationally recognized artists.”
  
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• Big in Berlin: four trends spotted at Gallery Weekend

  02-05-2016 12:29
  
  Sandwiched between Art Brussels and Frieze New York, Berlin Gallery Weekend, which ended yesterday, 1 May, has always worked hard to attract international collectors to the German capital. The three-day event where more than 50 galleries coordinate their exhibition openings already struggles with a narrow local collector base. Now it will have to stave off competition from the prestigious Art Cologne fair, which is due to run on overlapping dates next year. But a recent slew of private museum o
  
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• Barbara Hepworth sculptures could fetch £1m for her old school

  02-05-2016 12:00
  
  Sculptures by British artist bought by school will be sold through Sotheby’s in bid to raise £1mTwo Barbara Hepworth sculptures are to be sold by her old school in the hope they will raise more than £1m. Related: Barbara Hepworth finally gets her dueRelated: Barbara Hepworth… back in focusContinue reading...
  
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• Barabara Hepworth sculptures could fetch £1m for her old school

  02-05-2016 12:00
  
  Sculptures by British artist bought by school will be sold through Sotheby’s in bid to raise £1mTwo Barbara Hepworth sculptures are to be sold by her old school in the hope they will raise more than £1m. Related: Barbara Hepworth finally gets her dueRelated: Barbara Hepworth… back in focusContinue reading...
  
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• Works donated by Barbara Hepworth to be sold by her old school

  02-05-2016 07:00
  
  Sculptures given by British artist to Wakefield school in 1959 and 1973 will be sold through Sotheby’s in bid to raise £1mTwo Barbara Hepworth sculptures are to be sold by her old school in the hope they will raise more than £1m. Related: Barbara Hepworth finally gets her dueRelated: Barbara Hepworth… back in focusContinue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 04.20.16 And 05.01.16

  02-05-2016 05:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  MoMA to Mount Tzara’s Magnum Opus
  Samy Rosenstock’s idea for a great big book is getting a great big show nearly 100 years later.Dadaglobe Reconstructed (June 12–September 18, 2016)Dadaglobe Reconstructedreunites over 100 works created for Dadaglobe, Tristan Tzara’s planned but… … read more
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  This Is What May Sounds Like
  Take it to the Bridge: From the Boston Phoenix, Graffiti Bridge review, 1990   …read more
  
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• untitled(she wanted to think about light and angels and to look at the white rose in the garden.)

  02-05-2016 03:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  he was a monster. he was my monster. he raped a boy we ignored and broke his finger. the raped boy had a brother. they used to pull out their limp dicks and compared them. they came together. i feared and i admired my monster. he played chess with the black and spanish kids in the bronx. he read history. he didn’t want to repeat history. he said he was responsible for the holocaust. he said he was named after a german nazi general to remind him that he too was a nazi. he said that he would
  
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