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• Mangelos at Peter Freeman, New York

  16-05-2016 23:22 via artnews.com
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• Object Lessons: our pick of this week's photography auctions

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  Cecil Beaton, Francis Bacon in His Studio (1960)Photographs, Phillips, 19 May
  Estimate £25,000-£35,000“Photographs are not only points of reference; they’re often triggers of ideas,” said the British painter Francis Bacon. While he never painted in a photorealistic style, Bacon accumulated a rich hoard of printed images and often commissioned photographers to make portraits of his closest models. When the contents of the artist’s Reece Mews studio were transf
  
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• Christie’s storage facility still faces $23m worth of lawsuits for Superstorm Sandy damage

  16-05-2016 23:00
  
  Christie’s may still have to pay for a combined $23m worth of art that was damaged when Superstorm Sandy flooded its Brooklyn warehouse in 2012. Two decisions, one by the New York appellate court in March, and one by the lower court in February, are keeping all four existing cases against Christie’s Fine Art Storage Services (CFASS) alive. The lawsuits accuse CFASS of gross negligence in failing to protect the art.Three lawsuits were brought by insurance companies to recover the mon
  
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• British Museum dips its toes into world of underwater archaeology

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  Hundreds of objects swallowed up by the sea more than a millennium ago are going on show in the British Museum’s first exhibition on underwater archaeology. The London show, which opens this week, explores the rich history of interactions between the Egyptians and the Greeks. It presents 300 artefacts, around 200 of which were found off the coast of Egypt within the past 20 years by a team from the Institut Européen d’Archéologie Sous-Marine (IEASM) under the direction
  
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• Journey Through the Past: Stephen Kaltenbach, a Forgotten Conceptual Master, Makes a Comeback in New York

  16-05-2016 19:30 via artnews.com
  In the late 60s, the artist Stephen Kaltenbach spent three manic, productive years in New York City before decamping to California, where he still lives and operates as a “regional artist” of sorts. In his three New York years, Kaltenbach … Read More
  
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• Britflix And Chill

  16-05-2016 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s just a rumoured working title. It’ll be great. The government has given the go-ahead for the BBC to develop a subscription streaming service and it’s going to partner with ITV and loads of others to make it happen.”
  
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• Donna and Donald Baumgartner Donate $8 M. To Endow New Directorship At Milwaukee Art Museum

  16-05-2016 19:22 via artnews.com
  The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported today that Donna and Donald Baumgartner, longtime donors to the Milwaukee Art Museum, will be gifting the institution with $8 million for the purpose of supporting a new director position.In the past, the Baumgartners have made … Read More
  
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• Could Theatre Ever Unite Cities The Way Sports Do?

  16-05-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Just as we need to widen and diversify the stories we tell on stage and who is telling them, so we need to do the same about conversations around theatre. Otherwise we are only ever talking to ourselves. Why do some people go to the theatre and why do so many people never go, thinking that it’s some kind of exclusive club that’s not for them?”
  
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• Women Writers Swept Science Fiction’s Nebula Awards

  16-05-2016 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The science fiction world has had its share of drama with the Hugo Awards as various slates have worked aggressively to push against the growing numbers of women and people of color appearing on award ballots.”
  
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• Can The Ticket Resale Racket Be Stopped?

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  “Most ordinary fans simply don’t stand a chance. Within seconds of an event going on sale, the tickets are harvested in their thousands by a small but ruthlessly efficient army of touts, many using multiple credit cards to bypass the limit on the number of tickets that one person can purchase.”
  
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• This Museum Is About To Open Its Beautiful New Building, Without A Single Exhibit

  16-05-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The long-planned — and much-promoted — inaugural exhibit, ‘Never Part,’ highlighting artifacts of Palestinian refugees, has been suspended after a disagreement between the museum’s board and its director, which led to the director’s ouster.”
  
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• W.A.G.E. Issues Open Letter to New Museum About the Institution’s Planned Expansion

  16-05-2016 17:14 via artnews.com
  W.A.G.E., the New York organization devoted to ensuring sustainable labor practices at arts institutions, issued an open letter today about the New Museum’s expansion into a neighboring building. Citing concerns about the New Museum’s ability to pay for artists involved … Read More
  
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• May Auctions In New York Totaled $1.2 Billion, About Half of November Haul

  16-05-2016 17:11 via artnews.com
  The May sales of Impressionist, modern, and contemporary art in New York totaled just under $1.2 billion during what was hailed as a “gigaweek,” with all the auctions stuffed into a six-day period. But the total was a far cry from last November’s $2.33 … Read More
  
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• Northern Exposure: Steve Martin Resurrects Lawren Harris at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

  16-05-2016 17:03 via artnews.com
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• Stanley Kubrick’s Assistant Finally Starts Talking

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  “I didn’t have any interest in film, I was just interested in racing. After about two months of working for his company, I still didn’t know who Stanley Kubrick was. When [we were finally introduced], I saw this person who looked like Fidel Castro and didn’t realize who he was. I thought, ‘Oh dear, here we go.'”
  
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• What Do The Tate Modern’s Architects Say About Their New Expansion?

  16-05-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Their Tate extension, which is partly a new building and partly the adaptation of previously inaccessible parts of the old power station, enlarges the already-not-small institution’s floor area by 60%. At £260m and nine years in the making, it will have cost more in time, money and agony than the first version.”
  
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• Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s 87-Year-Old Bassist Collapses, Dies During Final Thirty Seconds Of Encore

  16-05-2016 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jane Little “debuted as a bassist in Atlanta on February 4, 1945, at the age of 16 and never stopped playing.” She was the world’s longest serving orchestra musician.
  
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• CBS Was Going To Get A Nancy Drew Show, But Then Too Many Women Liked It

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  “The reason for the nix? Apparently, ‘the pilot tested well but skewed too female for CBS’ schedule.'”
  
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• Could You Survive Without Your CDs?

  16-05-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Herculean task of searching through the rack, putting a disc in a machine, ejecting it to wipe the fingerprint that made it skip through track two and then putting it into the machine again felt so arduous in this new world that it may as well have predated the industrial revolution.”
  
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• Science Fiction Appears To Be Converging With, Well, Now

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  “The possibility that sci-fi could be breaking in favor of the near-future is especially surprising, given that prophetic boldness has often been seen as one of the genre’s signal features. If, as the critic Northrop Frye has argued, the job of science fiction has been ‘to imagine what life would be like on a plane as far above us as we are above savagery,’ what does it mean that so much recent sci-fi has been taking place on a plane that’s relatively proximate to o
  
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• Morning Links: Martin Friedman Edition

  16-05-2016 14:32 via artnews.com
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• National Gallery gains two striking 19th-century landscapes

  16-05-2016 14:24
  
  Alexandre Calame’s At Handeck and Johan Christian Dahl’s the Lower Falls of the Labrofoss have been donated by US lawyerTwo spectacular 19th-century landscapes by important artists not widely represented in British public collections have been gifted to the National Gallery.The gallery said it had been given At Handeck (c1860) by the Swiss artist Alexandre Calame and The Lower Falls of the Labrofoss (1827) by the Norwegian artist Johan Christian Dahl. Related: The National Gallery's
  
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• What’s The Meaning Of Photos Taken From Behind Their Subjects?

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  “One of my first photo teachers told me to avoid making this kind of portrait at all costs – their recommendation (or commandment!) was meant as an encouragement – to get to know people, explore something deeper, make a connection or challenge me to engage on a deeper level. But what can this sometimes frowned-upon approach disclose in gesture or body language?”
  
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• When Every Book Suddenly Had To Get Five Stars

  16-05-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I was shaking my pom-poms for books. However, I wasn’t doing so because I was an industry shill, shallow, or self-interested. I failed to provide meaningful criticism, information, or recommendations because I was, like so many of my colleagues, frightened about the future of books and publishing. In desperate times, the desperate tilt at windmills.”
  
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• Will – Or Should – People Buy Two Seasons Worth Of Theatre Tix In Order To See ‘Hamilton’?

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  “Is this price gouging, or the arts equivalent of blackmail? The problem is a by-product of the escalation of ticket prices for theatre everywhere. The result is that it now costs many hundreds of dollars for a single subscription to a Broadway touring series, let alone a pair for those who don’t like to see theatre alone.”
  
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• If Chicago Falls Through, George Lucas Might Take His Museum To Treasure Island (For Real)

  16-05-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “But San Francisco probably won’t be the only suitor if Lucas gives up on Chicago. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti reportedly has come up with a possible location for the museum in the city’s arts-rich downtown, and just days ago he issued a statement saying, ‘We would welcome it in Los Angeles.'”
  
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• If You Know The Marseillaise (And You’re Not French), It’s Probably Because Of This ‘Casablanca’ Actor

  16-05-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Madeleine LeBeau and her husband “left Paris just hours ahead of the invading German army; Dalio’s image had been used in Nazi posters to identify Jewish-looking features. They made their way to Lisbon and, using what turned out to be forged Chilean visas, booked passage on a Portuguese cargo ship.”
  
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• Robert Rauschenberg's art to make Beijing comeback after 31 years

  16-05-2016 12:39
  
  Thirty-one years after his groundbreaking exhibition in Beijing, Robert Rauschenberg’s work is returning to the Chinese capital. Opening in June at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Rauschenberg in China will include his 305-meter, 191-part work The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece (1981-98), exhibited for the first time since 2000.
  Organised by Susan Davidson and David White, the UCCA show also features some of Rauschenberg’s Studies for Chinese Summerhall (1983). These col
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 05.15.16

  16-05-2016 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Propwatch: the invisible chairs in Boy
  Our chat before Boy began was all about the travelator. The Almeida Theatre has been reconfigured for Leo Butler’s play to allow a moving walkway to snake around the space. Actors were already sitting,… … read more
  AJBlog: Performance MonkeyPublished 2016-05-15The Sleeping Beauty Wakes in a Brave New World
  Katy Pyle’s Ballez performs Sleeping Beauty and the Beast in the La MaMa Moves Festival. Act 1 Prologue ofSleeping Beauty and t
  
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