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• Music Has Become Too Disposable. Hence The Slow-Listening Movement

  11-05-2016 23:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Why vinyl? Commitment. In this mid-second decade of the 21st century, music is being taken for granted on a collective scale. An entire generation of music listeners will never pay for music, nor do they believe that they should. The long form music medium has taken a back seat to song culture, yet the average person only listens to a song for approximately 24 seconds before deciding if it’s worth their time to continue to listen.”
  
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• ‘SEX’ at Stevenson, Johannesburg

  11-05-2016 23:17 via artnews.com
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• 3D Printing Is About To Change The Art World (Or Is It?)

  11-05-2016 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It can do anything, but should it? There’s a lot of hype about this in the commercial sector, but this isn’t about a Star Trek notion of art — push a button, and the machine craps out a sculpture for you. Not at all. We’re asking questions about the nature of the medium — what does it mean to make a printed piece, or make one by hand? What’s the difference?”
  
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• Work of constant change: Orit Gat on Ed Atkins at The Kitchen

  11-05-2016 23:00
  
  On the day I went to see the artist Ed Atkins perform as part of Performance Capture, his current exhibition at The Kitchen in New York, he stepped onto a low, wooden stage in the exhibition space and began reading aloud from his book A Seer Reader, which was published by Koenig Books in 2015. He did not stop—not to recalibrate his pace, gather his thoughts, nor to take a sip of water from the unopened bottle in front of him, nor even to stumble over a word—until he finished the boo
  
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• Sotheby’s bounces back with steady contemporary art sale

  11-05-2016 23:00
  
  Last night, Sotheby’s made up for Monday’s dismal Impressionist and Modern evening sale (where 21 of the 62 lots went unsold) with a solid contemporary art sale that saw just two of the 44 lots fail to find buyers for a hammer total of $209.6m, squarely within the estimates of $201.4m and $257.5m.
  The sale’s total with premiums, $242.2m, was a far cry from last May’s total of $379.6m but these are different times. The evening saw no new records for artists and was led by
  
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• Paddle8 and Auctionata merge to create ‘dominant’ online auction platform

  11-05-2016 23:00
  
  Two major online auctioneers—New York-based Paddle8 and Auctionata in Berlin—say that they have joined forces in a “bid to grow the under served global mid-market”. The new joint company will have almost 800,000 registered users and will be “a dominant player for art and luxury collectibles”.
  Paddle8, which was founded in 2011, focuses mainly on contemporary art and design, while Auctionata, established a year later, is described as “the leading online
  
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• Helsinki welcomes time travellers—and offers a glimpse into the heartbreak of others

  11-05-2016 23:00
  
  Visitors can travel back in time at the new Helsinki City Museum, which opens on 13 May in the historic centre of the Finnish capital. The €13m development incorporates the oldest building in the city, Sederholm House.
  But stepping through this threshold will not be the only way to time travel. Visitors can wear virtual reality goggles to explore photographs taken by the documentary photographer Signe Brander (1869-1942) and see the city as it looked 100 years ago.
  The institution will als
  
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• Female artists—and sculpture—dominate Turner Prize shortlist

  11-05-2016 23:00
  
  The Tate has announced a shortlist for the 2016 Turner Prize that is led by female artists and sculptural installations with a sense of humour. Michael Dean, Anthea Hamilton, Helen Marten and Josephine Pryde are the four British artists in the running for the prestigious £40,000 annual award (£25,000 for the winner and £5,000 each for the other three), which was founded in 1984 and has come to be regarded as a barometer of contemporary art in the UK.
  After a 2015 edition won b
  
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• Can SFMoMA's $610m renovation boost the Bay Area’s art market?

  11-05-2016 23:00
  
  The newly renovated San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) could be a potential shot in the arm for the Bay Area art market. In March, Pace Gallery opened a new permanent space in Palo Alto and the Gagosian Gallery announced plans to open a new space this month right across the street from SFMoMA.However, the long-time local dealer John Berggruen, who is moving next door to Gagosian’s space, is quick to downplay the idea that the market there is booming. “There are some great t
  
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• Can a $610m renovation of San Francisco’s premier Modern art museum boost the Bay Area’s art market?

  11-05-2016 23:00
  
  The newly renovated San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) could be a potential shot in the arm for the Bay Area art market. In March, Pace Gallery opened a new permanent space in Palo Alto and the Gagosian Gallery announced plans to open a new space this month right across the street from SFMoMA.However, the long-time local dealer John Berggruen, who is moving next door to Gagosian’s space, is quick to downplay the idea that the market there is booming. “There are some great t
  
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• Michael Billington: Why Star Ratings Are A Very Bad Idea For Theatre

  11-05-2016 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For works of art it is extremely unhelpful as we all know works of arts are enigmatic, complicated things.” He went on to argue that stars did not leave much room for “ambiguity” with certain productions, where a “wonderful play has been given a poor production” or vice versa.
  
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• Where the Line Leads: John Houck at On Stellar Rays

  11-05-2016 22:20 via artnews.com
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• White Woman Sues Getty For Discrimination. Don’t Laugh, This Could Change Diversity Hiring Programs

  11-05-2016 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The discrimination lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court is no laughing matter. If the case were to be decided in court, it could be precedent-setting, affecting the ways that private foundations approach issues of diversity.”
  
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• Tate suffers blow in efforts to keep amount of BP funding secret

  11-05-2016 21:14
  
  Information commissioner withdraws support after Tate fails to prove disclosure would cause problems with sponsorsAttempts by Tate to keep secret the scale of its funding from BP suffered a setback when the information commissioner withdrew his support for the arts institution at a legal hearing in London. Related: A fossil fuels-arts world divorce is 'the way the world is moving'Continue reading...
  
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• Dark Cloud Hangs Over Opening Of This Year’s Cannes Festival

  11-05-2016 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With France remaining under the state of emergency that began after the November Paris attacks, the city of Cannes has hired a top Israeli consultant to beef up security, but people are still worried. “I’d be happy,” Sony Pictures Classics co-president Tom Bernard told the Hollywood Reporter, “to see dogs roaming the lobby of the Carlton.”
  
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• The Four Biggest Problems Facing The British Museum’s New Director

  11-05-2016 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hartwig Fischer has a big act to follow. But there are a host of urgent issues that need addressing.
  
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• Chicago’s Baroque Band To Cease Operations

  11-05-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Garry Clarke, the period-instrument ensemble’s founder and artistic director, had previously announced that he would leave his position at the end of the current season. In a statement posted on the Baroque Band website, board president Evan Trent said the board voted unanimously to shutter the group after Clarke’s departure.”
  
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• To Solve The Most Difficult Problems, Maybe Try Solving Something Else Instead? (It’s Called Lateral Innovation)

  11-05-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Watching what my colleagues do, and understanding why they do it, has convinced me that brute force alone will not innovate the technologies that will enable human civilisation to become an effective arbiter of this planet and her resources. The solution requires tapping into the same impractical, impatient, passionate drive that spurred the video-game-fuelled GPU revolution. And although that kind of lateral innovation cannot be instituted forcibly, it can be recognised and fostered.&rdq
  
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• The Weird, Brilliant Names Charles Dickens Invented For His Minor Characters

  11-05-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Allow me to introduce Mr Plornishmaroontigoonter. Lord Podsnap, Count Smorltork, and Sir Clupkins Clogwog. Not to mention the dowager Lady Snuphanuph. As for Serjeant Buzfuz, Miss Snevellicci, Mrs. Wrymug, and the Porkenhams … They are the best of names, they are the worst of names, from an age of onomastic wisdom and hypocoristic foolishness, an epoch of … well you get the picture.”
  
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• Holly Herndon, Colin Self and Mat Dryhurst To Support Radiohead On Upcoming Dates

  11-05-2016 18:43 via artnews.com
  Pitchfork reports today that Radiohead have selected the American electronic musician and sound artist Holly Herndon as their support act for an upcoming run of dates in England and Europe. For these shows, Herndon will be performing with the multidisciplinary … Read More
  
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• Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art review – sculptors who shaped the American wilderness

  11-05-2016 18:40
  
  From the Spiral Jetty to creations on the scale of Stonehenge, James Crumb’s fascinating documentary pays tribute to the real outsider art Related: Deserts and dynamite: my journey to the cosmic heart of land art James Crump’s engrossing documentary concerns the American pioneers of “land art” or “earth art” who in their 1960s heyday sought to escape the fiddly little world of art galleries with their fancy-price-tag objects and instead create gigantic site sp
  
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• The Digital Revolution Has Changed How We Think About Knowledge. Many Of Us Don’t Get That

  11-05-2016 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The net in fact exposes problems that have long lurked in our epistemology, problems that come into stark relief when knowledge is freed of paper, and we freely connect with it and through it across all boundaries of time and place. There’s something about how we’ve been thinking about knowledge — something inherent in traditional epistemology — that blinds Michael P. Lynch and many others to the knowledge-enhancing aspects of what’s happening on the screens
  
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• Record-breaking Christie's auction paints over art market still in decline

  11-05-2016 18:27
  
  Huge fees were paid for works by the likes of Mike Kelley and Jean-Michel Basquiat, but at Sotheby’s the night before almost half the lots went unsoldFears of a broad slump in the art market were eased at Christie’s last night where records were set for six postwar-contemporary artists, including Mike Kelley and Jean-Michel Basquiat.While the sale, which raised $318m, is a vertiginous drop from the billion-dollar auctions the market enjoyed last year, auctioneers and dealers breathed
  
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• The Diary of Mark Flood, Part One: Gone to Texas

  11-05-2016 18:09 via artnews.com
  Editor’s Note: This is the first installment in a multipart series about Mark Flood’s experience organizing his first museum survey. The diary is slightly backdated because, as mentioned, he was busy organizing his first museum survey. “Mark Flood: Gratest Hits” … Read More
  
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• Another Selfie Disaster: Tourist Climbs Onto And Destroys Statue At Historic Lisbon Train Station

  11-05-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[A] 24-year-old man climbed onto the pedestal of the stone figure of Dom Sebastião, which stood in a niche flanked by large, ornately decorated horseshoe-shaped arches at [Rossio] station’s Neo-Manueline-style façade.” Of course the statue couldn’t support the man’s weight; it toppled to the ground and shattered.
  
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• Reconsidering Robert Hughes As The Art Critic

  11-05-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As for his fellow art critics, it is not so much that they held him in low regard as that they ignored him completely, as though he inhabited a different universe from theirs. Furthermore, there was a weird tautology to their indifference.”
  
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• Indiana University Art Museum Receives $15 M. Gift and 100 Works on Paper, Renames Itself

  11-05-2016 17:30 via artnews.com
  The Indiana University Art Museum announced today that it has received a gift of $15 million and collection of 100 works on paper from philanthropists Sidney and Lois Eskenazi. The museum will henceforth adopt the names of its donors in … Read More
  
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• ‘Antiques Roadshow’ Punks Itself, Assessing 1970s High School Art Project As $50,000 1890s Jug

  11-05-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Owner Alvin Barr had bought the pot, decorated with six beast-like faces, at an estate sale in a barn in Eugene, Oregon, for $300. He was naturally short of breath when Antiques Roadshow’‘s bespectacled expert appraiser Stephen L. Fletcher (specializing in clocks, decorative arts, folk art, and furniture) revealed its alleged market value.”
  
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• Thunderbolts and time travel: my journey to the cosmic heart of land art

  11-05-2016 16:41
  
  As new film Troublemakers explores the extremes of land art, from lightning fields to satanic jetties, Alex Needham braves rattlesnakes to visit a desert observatory that lets you travel 26,000 years in time Related: Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art review – sculptors who shaped the American wilderness Somewhere in the deserts of New Mexico, a nail is embedded into a type of flat-topped mountain known as a mesa. The positioning of this nail, shielded from the elements by a tin can, too
  
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• Deserts and dynamite: my journey to the cosmic heart of land art

  11-05-2016 16:41
  
  As new film Troublemakers explores the extremes of land art, from lightning fields to satanic jetties, Alex Needham braves rattlesnakes to visit a desert observatory that lets you travel 26,000 years in time Related: Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art review – a story of artist superheroes Somewhere in the deserts of New Mexico, a nail is embedded into a type of flat-topped mountain known as a mesa. The positioning of this nail, shielded from the elements by a tin can, took days of
  
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• Yale School of Drama – Chair of Playwriting Department

  11-05-2016 16:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yale School of Drama seeks a senior professor to teach, oversee faculty and curriculum, recruit students, and serve in an administrative capacity for one of the nation’s leading three-year conservatory MFA playwriting programs. Applicants should have demonstrated leadership in the field with at least ten years combined experience of advanced professional theater work and teaching in the field. The appointment will be as an Associate Professor Adjunct or Professor Adjunct of Playwriting for
  
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• So many causes, so many heroes – why defame them with a statue?

  11-05-2016 15:43
  
  Monuments used to be the fetish of backward conservatives – now the left is at it too. We can admire the likes of Mary Seacole and Mary Wollstonecraft, but statues are a kitsch, ineffective way to remember them in the 21st centuryIt is the good cause that all politicians back: George Osborne recently allotted £240,000 from banking fines to pay for a statue of Mary Seacole next to the Thames. Campaigners announced Seacole will be unveiled as soon as June. The rival candidates for Lond
  
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• Members of Egyptian performance group arrested for mocking president

  11-05-2016 15:08
  
  Four members of a performance group aged between 19 and 25 have been arrested in Cairo over video clips posted online that mocked Egypt’s president and his supporters. It is the latest in a string of crackdowns on freedom of expression by president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi following anti-government protests last month.Mohammed Adel, Mohammed Dessouki, Mohammed Yahya and Mohammed Gabr are facing charges of inciting terror attacks and street protests as well as insulting state institutions, acc
  
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• Morning Links: New Museum Expansion Edition

  11-05-2016 14:45 via artnews.com
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• French artist François Morellet has died aged 90

  11-05-2016 13:41
  The French painter, sculptor and light artist François Morellet has died, aged 90. His Paris-based gallery Kamel Mennour, confirmed the news and paid tribute to his “lively, creative, mischievous, luminous spirit” on Twitter.Born in 1926 in Cholet, western France, Morellet taught himself to paint as a teenager, pursuing art alongside studying Russian and working in the family business (which he continued to manage until 1975). After a brief period of semi-figurative painting
  
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• Painting offshore: the art show inspired by the Panama Papers

  11-05-2016 10:57
  
  Echoing the duplicity revealed by the largest data leak ever, artist Philipp Ackermann’s ‘offshore painting’ show is full of works created on his behalfWhat are the Panama Papers? A guide to history’s biggest data leakAmong the Panama Papers – 11.5m documents that comprised the biggest data leak in history – were details of enough privately collected Monets, Picassos and Hirsts to fill a museum. But these were not the Panama Paintings exhibited at Neu West Ber
  
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• Visible Girls: London's subculture heroines then and now – in pictures

  11-05-2016 08:00
  
  In 1981, photographer Anita Corbin documented female subculture style; 35 years on, she’s catching up with her ‘girls’ as the series goes back on show Continue reading...
  
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• The Aboriginal Tent Embassy: 'We were all young, crazy, but we believed in justice'

  11-05-2016 05:56
  
  In 1972 a group of radical black power activists stuck an umbrella on the lawn outside Parliament House and changed Indigenous politics forever – and inspired an artwork by Richard Bell at the Sydney BiennaleGary Foley, in the words of artist Richard Bell, is “a rock star of the Aboriginal protest movement”.These days he is more likely to be found teaching history at Victoria University, but 40 years ago he was a long-haired whippersnapper with a microphone and a major figure b
  
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• Gary Foley and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy: 'We were all young, crazy, but we believed in justice'

  11-05-2016 05:56
  
  In 1972 a group of radical black power activists stuck an umbrella on the lawn outside Parliament House and changed Indigenous politics forever – and inspired an artwork by Richard Bell at the Sydney BiennaleGary Foley, in the words of artist Richard Bell, is “a rock star of the Aboriginal protest movement”.These days he is more likely to be found teaching history at Victoria University, but 40 years ago he was a long-haired whippersnapper with a microphone and a major figure b
  
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