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• The First-Ever $100,000 Chamber Music Prize Has A Winner

  20-05-2016 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The grand prize at the inaugural M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition, held at the University of Michigan, was won by the Calidore String Quartet of New York. The competition, created by Sphinx Competition founder Aaron Dworkin, has divisions for strings and winds as well as an open category which covers percussion groups, mixed ensembles, and other combinations.
  
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• The Most Exciting New Music In East Asia Is Written For Chinese Instruments

  20-05-2016 23:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In most cases, these instruments’ histories are even older than most contemporary Western instruments.For example, the ‘xiao’ (a vertical end-blown flute) and ‘dizi’ (a traverse—e.g. horizontal—side-blown flute) both have histories and performance practices that date back thousands of years.”
  
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• When Glenn met Vincent: Arles exhibition compares ‘obsessive’ artists

  20-05-2016 23:00
  
  A 30-piece retrospective dedicated to Glenn Brown, which opened earlier this week at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh in Arles, southern France (14 May-11 September), examines how the leading UK artist draws upon the themes and techniques used by Vincent van Gogh. We asked Bice Curiger, the exhibition curator and artistic director of the Fondation Vincent van Gogh, about the significance of the comparative analysis.
  The parallel show, Van Gogh in Provence: Modernising Tradition (until 11 Septembe
  
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• What Separates Film From TV, Really?

  20-05-2016 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The nature of visual storytelling has changed and the lines that once clearly divided film from television or, for that matter, broadcast television from cable, cable from streaming, streaming from Internet, are fading, often to nonexistence.”
  
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• ‘A Plain Steal’: The Theft and Recovery of the ‘Mona Lisa,’ in 1911 and 1913

  20-05-2016 21:00 via artnews.com
  The Mona Lisa has been the subject of many art crimes, but none have been as major as when Vincenzo Peruggia stole it in 1911. Below is ARTnews coverage of the theft from 1911, when the painting was stolen, and … Read More
  
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• Is Translation, As It Wins Literary Prize Money, Finally Being Recognized As An Art?

  20-05-2016 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Something skewed does occur during the translation process, at least when you are translating a good book: as a translator, while you pick away at the prose and twist the kaleidoscope of possible meanings to create the most subjective and vital translation you can, you become closer to the book than the author, who is often usually already onto the next project. You become the book’s guardian.”
  
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• Tea With Satire: Tom Sachs at Noguchi Museum, New York

  20-05-2016 20:42 via artnews.com
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• What This Founder Of The Tribeca Film Festival Wants

  20-05-2016 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You have to create a safe environment for everybody — both on the set and in the office — to come together and do their best work. You want them to emit that spark of light, like a firefly, but they may have to go back and forth and back and forth, changing their mind before they do.”
  
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• Why Lindy West Feeds The Trolls

  20-05-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I don’t care about ‘feed the trolls’ versus ‘don’t feed the trolls.’ I care about me, and what makes me feel better. And sometimes what makes me feel better is just making fun of some jackass. … And it’s important to me that these people know that harassing me online is not a consequence-free hobby.”
  
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• The Art World Is Still Sorting Out WWII As Looted Antiquities Are Found In Moscow

  20-05-2016 19:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They were among some 2 million works that Russian soldiers took as ‘reparations,’ from Germany near the end of the war. Following two fires at the Bode, where the works were ironically stowed for their own protection, Germany presumed many of the works were destroyed.”
  
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• Jon Pestoni at Transformer Station, Cleveland

  20-05-2016 19:31 via artnews.com
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• The Filmmaker Who Casts Only Cardboard Actors

  20-05-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Guy] Brunet makes his own actors and builds his film sets from found cardboard boxes that he cuts and paints. He paints film posters on old architectural plans and other large paper scraps that he tapes together. He also writes his own screenplays, lends his voice to all the characters in his movies, and even draws the DVD covers for his films.”
  
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• Musicians Make More Off Of Vinyl Sales Than Off Of YouTube

  20-05-2016 18:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Something is fundamentally broken in the music market, so that artists and the labels that invest in them no longer benefit fairly from growing demand.”
  
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• Silicon Valley Hates Music, Or At Least Hates Paying Musicians And Producers

  20-05-2016 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “New services and platforms are great for consumers, but our weak laws have allowed them to siphon revenue away from the underlying music, leaving songwriters, performers and the whole industry choking on their dust.”
  
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• Audio-Video Producer

  20-05-2016 18:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Yale School of Music seeks an Audio-Visual Producer for its Media Production Department. The full time position will be responsible for all video production at the school: including website, social media, live stream and advertising.
  Candidate must have strong skills in video production and knowledge of classical music is strongly desired.
  For more information and immediate consideration, please apply online at www.yale.edu/jobs – the STARS req ID for this position is 37731BR. Please b
  
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• What Makes Bad Writing So Darn Bad?

  20-05-2016 18:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s possible that you’ve never had to read 80,000 words of bad writing. The friend of a friend’s novel. I have. On numerous occasions. If you ask around, I’m sure you’ll be able to find a really bad novel easily enough. I mean a novel by someone who has spent isolated years writing a book they are convinced is a great work of literature. And when you’re reading it you’ll know it’s bad, and you’ll know what bad truly is.”
  
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• ‘It’s Cheap Words I Hate, And I Hate Adverbs’

  20-05-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Christian Lorentzen: “Let’s begin with the big problem. The adverb is an incoherent lexical category, a catchall. How are ‘there,’ ‘yesterday,’ ‘quite,’ ‘assiduously,’ and ‘indeed’ all members of the same family?”
  
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• A Requiem For A Dancer Who Died Too Young Returns To The Stage

  20-05-2016 17:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Just before he turned 19, he tested positive for HIV, and his dance, ‘Lacrymosa,’ became a reaction to the 1980s AIDS crisis. Many dancers and artists around Stierle were dying from the disease, and as he worked on the ballet, he knew he would become sick too.”
  
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• Renaissance Society Receives $1.5 M. Through Three Large Gifts, Largest in Museum’s History

  20-05-2016 17:48 via artnews.com
  Solveig Øvstebø, the executive director and chief curator of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, announced today that the Renaissance Society has received three major gifts, from the Edlis Neeson Foundation, the Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation, and the Zell Family … Read More
  
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• Renaissance Society Receives $1.5 M. Through Three Gifts, Largest in Museum’s History

  20-05-2016 17:48 via artnews.com
  Solveig Øvstebø, the executive director and chief curator of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, announced today that the Renaissance Society has received three major gifts, from the Edlis Neeson Foundation, the Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation, and the Zell Family … Read More
  
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• Jeff Koons, Creed cheese and Grayson Perry's phallus – the week in art

  20-05-2016 17:33
  
  Cory Arcangel swaps canvas for clickbait, Ai Weiwei gives his verdict on the EU and the weird world of Victorian medical models – all in your weekly art dispatchFound
  Cornelia Parker curates artists including Jeremy Deller, Tacita Dean and Christian Marclay in a contemporary response to Captain Coram’s Foundling hospital, a progressive creation of the 18th century Enlightenment strongly supported in its early days by William Hogarth.
  • Foundling Museum, London, 27 May-4 Septembe
  
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• NADA Announces Inaugural International Exhibitor Prize

  20-05-2016 17:26 via artnews.com
  The New Art Dealers Alliance said today that it is now accepting applications for its first-ever International Exhibitor Prize. The winner will be provided with a sponsored booth at NADA Miami Beach 2016 in December in which to exhibit work. The … Read More
  
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• You Know Portland People Like Tattoos, But Check Out These Temporary Tattoo Artists Of Social Change

  20-05-2016 17:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Tattoos can heal people and offer a release, both mentally and physically, for pain and processing for whatever ails ya. They can be very healing.”
  
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• Wendelien van Oldenborgh Will Represent the Netherlands at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  20-05-2016 17:07 via artnews.com
  The Mondriaan Foundation announced today that Wendelien van Oldenborgh will represent the Netherlands at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Lucy Cotter will curate the pavilion.Although the Biennale is still about a year away, van Oldenborgh’s pavilion already has a name: “Cinema … Read More
  
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• Colorism – Why America Still Has Trouble Talking About It

  20-05-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a 1983 essay, the writer Alice Walker coined the word to explain ‘prejudicial or preferential treatment of same-race people based solely on their color.’ Simply: lighter is better. … Yet even as terms like ‘yellowface’ and ‘whitewash’ sink into our cultural vocabulary, there remains confusion on basic matters of colorism.”
  
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• Itzhak Perlman Cancels A North Carolina Appearance Because Of The State’s New Bigotry Laws

  20-05-2016 16:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is discriminatory — and it’s not just about bathrooms. It’s about dignity, like [U.S. Attorney General] Loretta Lynch said. I’ve been an advocate of equality for the disabled, and this is just another situation in which this is the subject. We are dealing with the equality and dignity of citizens.”
  
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• They’ve Found A Prop From The Original Production Of ‘Romeo And Juliet’

  20-05-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Archaeologists excavating the playhouse where Romeo and Juliet was first staged have found artefacts that could have been used during the iconic play’s original production.”
  
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• ‘I Don’t Want to Be Part of a Conglomerate’: Julian Schnabel Discusses Leaving Gagosian for Pace at Bruce High Quality Benefit

  20-05-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  Earlier this year, the Bruce High Quality Foundation University, the free art school run by members of the semi-anonymous collective, moved its operations completely out of Manhattan, settling in Industry City after three years at a second-floor space on Avenue A. But … Read More
  
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• Kittens, Kanye and kiss-and-tells: the artist who swapped canvas for clickbait

  20-05-2016 15:49
  
  For 15 years, hack-happy Cory Arcangel has captured and caricatured the digital world. His new show puts Instagram in the gallery, converts art into clickbait and sells pool sliders to surfers who never leave their sofaCory Arcangel wants to know what makes you click. Kittens? A candid picture of Leonardo DiCaprio strolling along the beach with his girlfriend? A fuzzy long-lens shot of Victoria Beckham? Images like these are framed on the walls of his new exhibition at the Lisson Gallery, London
  
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• Kittens, Kanye and kiss-and-tells: the artist swapping canvas for clickbait

  20-05-2016 15:49
  
  For 15 years, Cory Arcangel has captured and caricatured the digital world. His new show not only puts Instagram in the gallery, it converts art into online adsCory Arcangel wants to know what makes you click. Kittens? A candid picture of Leonardo DiCaprio strolling along the beach with his girlfriend? A fuzzy long-lens shot of Victoria Beckham? Images like these are framed on the walls of his new exhibition at the Lisson Gallery, London. Many have also been released into the online world of &ld
  
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• The Diary of Mark Flood, Part Two: Home Alone

  20-05-2016 15:45 via artnews.com
  Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a multipart series about Mark Flood’s experience organizing his first museum survey. You can read the first part here. The diary is slightly backdated because, as mentioned, he was busy organizing his … Read More
  
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• How A Ballerina Gets Back Into Shape After Maternity Leave

  20-05-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the ballet world, pregnancy is no longer the secret that a dancer has to hide from the boss. It’s no longer a potential career-ender. But the question remains: How hard is it for a new mother to turn back into a ballerina? The experience is different for every dancer, but in the case of Maria Kowroski, the statuesque New York City Ballet principal, it’s been humbling.”
  
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• London's best alternative photography events to zoom in on this weekend

  20-05-2016 15:36
  
  London is going through a photography boom this spring, with major surveys Performing for the Camera (until 12 June) at Tate Modern and Strange and Familiar at the Barbican (until 19 June), as well as smaller critically-acclaimed shows such as Paul Strand (until 3 July) at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Double Take (until 12 June) at the Drawing Room and of course the Deutsche Börse prize (until 3 July) at the Photographers’ Gallery.
  Visitors to the capital for the photography fair
  
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• What ‘The Good Wife’ Was Really About

  20-05-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Joshua Rothman: “The Good Wife has never just been a show about power; it has also been about knowledge and the ways it can change an argument, a court case, a life. … Alicia’s insistence upon the truth (for, it must be said, her own practical ends) was part of a larger debate, staged in the final episode, about the question ‘How much do you want to know?'”
  
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• ‘The Word Gallery Is No Longer Elastic Enough’: Gavin Brown on His New York Reopening

  20-05-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  Like many of New York’s noteworthy gallerists—think Leo Castelli, or Larry Gagosian—Gavin Brown is a transplant to the city. Brown, who has shown such artists as Piotr Uklański, Urs Fischer, Elizabeth Peyton, and Peter Doig, moved to New York from the … Read More
  
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• ‘Unethical Amnesia’ – How We Conveniently Forget The Times We’ve Behaved Badly

  20-05-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We hold ourselves to be moral agents in the world, so evidence of wrongdoing creates all sorts of dissonance between our ideas about ourselves and our actual behavior. The unethical amnesia acts like an ‘adaptive defensive behavior,’ helping our egos sidestep unpleasant truths.”
  
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• Morning Links: Greenpeace Edition

  20-05-2016 15:04 via artnews.com
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• Miró Etchings Auctioned By Grandson To Benefit Syrian Refugees

  20-05-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Joan Punyet Miró: “My grandfather would have done the same thing. He always wanted to help the most disadvantaged, the refugees and those in exile, and would be aware that what is happening today in Syria could happen tomorrow in Spain.”
  
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• Pranksters Jailed For Staging Bogus Art Heists For YouTube

  20-05-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Four men have been jailed for pranks filmed for YouTube channel Trollstation, including a ‘terrifying’ fake art heist in the National Portrait Gallery. … Later that day, the pranksters, who have 718,000 subscribers, staged another fake robbery … [at] the Tate Britain gallery.”
  
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• ‘Jazz Shouldn’t Be Something People Do As A Painful Process Of Cultural Education’

  20-05-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ted Gioia talks to Scott Timberg: “Jazz shouldn’t be a kind of nutritional supplement. … This music is exciting. … In every step of its evolution jazz shook up things, and not just the music world, it shook up the culture.”
  
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• Are Cultural Organizations Really Reaching Low-Income Visitors? A Look At The Numbers

  20-05-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Colleen Dilenschneider: “Data suggest that some types of cultural organizations are perceived as more welcoming than others. Here’s how we could do better.”
  
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• Female artist films herself having sex with a stranger to challenge way people view assault

  20-05-2016 14:07
  
  The 31-year-old Australian describes her latest work as 'conceptually challenging'
  
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• Five of the best… exhibitions this week

  20-05-2016 14:00
  
  Found | Martin Creed | Ori Gersht | Maria Merian | Pablo BronsteinLondon’s Foundling Hospital is a great institution of the Enlightenment. It was started by the 18th-century sea captain Thomas Coram to care for abandoned children, and luminaries such as Handel and Hogarth contributed art to its cause. Coram’s project still inspires creativity today, as this exhibition curated by Cornelia Parker demonstrates. Among the Hogarths here are Tacita Dean, Jarvis Cocker and Jeremy Deller. Co
  
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• Artists In Brazil Protest New President’s Dissolution Of Culture Ministry

  20-05-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There have been demonstrations this week at several cultural landmarks in Rio de Janeiro, and “thousands of others have congregated at cultural institutions in the past week, most directly associated with the Ministry of Culture, in Brasília, Curitiba, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Fortaleza, and other cities.”
  
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• Anatomy of an artwork: Hidden Structures

  20-05-2016 14:00
  
  Dissecting the conceptual work by Hungarian artist Dóra MaurerThe work featured in the illustration above is a frottage drawing on paper, and is a single element of a series of six pencil rubbings. Each element traces a different set of folds in the paper, creating individual, geometrically abstract patterns. Continue reading...
  
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• An Email Conversation With Elena Ferrante

  20-05-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The idea that every ‘I’ is largely made up of others and by the others wasn’t theoretical [in Naples]; it was a reality. To be alive meant to collide continually with the existence of others and to be collided with … The dead were brought into quarrels; people weren’t content to attack and insult the living – they naturally abused aunts, cousins, grandparents, and great-grandparents who were no longer in the world.”
  
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• Damien Hirst’s cracking homage to Jeff Koons

  20-05-2016 12:18
  Leave your cynicism at the door. Damien Hirst’s homage to Jeff Koons comes from the heart. An optimistic disposition feels de rigueur for the solo show of the US artist’s work, Now, which opened this week (until 16 October).
  Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery, a £25m project, seems designed for Koon’s Balloon Monkey (Blue) (2006-13). It probably was: you can picture the architect Caruso St John’s model with a maquette of the mirror-polished monumental sculpture.
  
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• Curator, International Art

  20-05-2016 11:05
  Post: Curator, International ArtRef: TG1406 Department: Curatorial, Tate Modern Contract: PermanentHours: Full-timeResponsible for: Assistant Curator(s) Salary: £30,000 per annum plus £3,000 per annum Market Rate Allowance This role provides an excellent opportunity to be involved in everything from contributing to the acquisition of artworks for Tate’s collection with particular focus on Latin America, leading and managing project teams, supervising exhibition a
  
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• Glasgow gangster turned writer Jimmy Boyle: ‘I would be dead now without books'

  20-05-2016 11:00
  
  The convicted murderer set the standard for prison writing with A Sense of Freedom in 1977. As it is republished, he talks about honour, violence and redemption as a novelist and sculptor When the Gorbals hard man sat down in Barlinnie jail in 1976 and wrote the story of his life, he can little have imagined that it would become a bestseller, a film and, 40 years later, be reprinted as a classic of prison literature. Even less could he have dreamed that, by then, he would be a world-renowne
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.19.16

  20-05-2016 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  My concert, at last online
  I’ll interrupt my posts about the DC Ring, and some of its implications for the future of classical music. Because I want to tell you something special for me — that video of my April … read more
  AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-05-19So you want to see a show?
  Here’s my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The
  
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