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• Untitled(do you want to know when i killed her? it was a day when the day changes.)

  05-06-2016 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  it’s a hundred degrees out. tomorrow it’s supposed to get cooler according to this tall woman with tasteful glasses. this black woman is huge.my friend wasn’t who i thought he was. he was someone else. he changed.i don’t think anyone changes. he was changing when i met him. i thought he was the person he was before the change. i’m not sure i knew who that person was either. i have felt changes in myself but i’m not sure that i was another person after them.i s
  
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• Object lessons: from Scottish roses to a Danish cocktail bar cabinet

  05-06-2016 23:00
  
  Elizabeth Catlett, Seated Woman (date unknown)American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Sotheby’s, New York, 9 JuneEstimate $60,000-$80,000This determined-looking bronze figure by the African-American sculptor Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) has a solid monumentality that belies her 30cm stature. Catlett campaigned throughout her long career to improve the lives of working-class African-American and Mexican women. This work, which is one of Catlett’s smaller pieces in bronze, is typi
  
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• Edvard Munch docudrama by Peter Watkins to be re-released

  05-06-2016 23:00
  Edvard Munch (1974), originally made as a three-part series for Norwegian and Swedish television by the British director Peter Watkins, will be re-released on Blu-ray in the UK next week (13 June).
  The film documents the Norwegian artist’s formative years in Oslo (then called Christiana) and includes the development of his Expressionist style. Released by Eureka Entertainment, this clip depicts one of the artist’s own eureka moments while painting The Sick Child (1885-86)—the f
  
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• Five Highlights From This Week’s ArtsJournal, College Crisis Edition

  05-06-2016 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A new music director for the Met Opera, and what it means. A looming college crisis and what it means. How art is changing politics. Is art driving ISIS? And flooding threatened the Louvre, D’Orsay.
  
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• An SFMOMA Patron Trips, Falls Into $82M Warhol

  05-06-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The incident happened Thursday afternoon, and the museum doesn’t seem to want to talk about it, saying there will be no official press release.”
  
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• Special New X-Rays Reveal The Secrets Of Medieval Manuscripts

  05-06-2016 19:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Bookbinders used to cut up and recycle handwritten books from the middle ages, which had become old-fashioned following the invention of printing. These fragments, described by Kwakkel as ‘stowaways from a distant past’, are within as many as one in five early modern age printed books.”
  
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• This Week In Audience, Universal Translator Edition

  05-06-2016 19:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How will stories change when we have a universal translator? How will our relationships to things change when things respond to our voices? What is a live performance when the performer isn’t live? Why you increasingly can’t buy cheap tickets. And why crowdfunding is having a corrosive effect on art.
  
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• Does A New Art Space Inevitably Mean Gentrification Will Follow?

  05-06-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Despite its seemingly progressive mission, [new Los Angeles gallery] PSSST has recently received strong opposition from activists both within and outside the Boyle Heights community, some calling for increased dialogue with community groups, while others simply want the space gone.”
  
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• The Man Who Rewrote Art History

  05-06-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Hugh Honour, a self-taught art historian who produced indispensable works on Neo-Classicism and romanticism and who, with John Fleming, wrote the monumental survey ‘The Visual Arts: A History,’ one of the first to pay serious attention to non-Western art, died on May 19 at his home in Tofori, Italy. He was 88.”
  
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• What’s Up With Sony Pictures? (Hint: Not Revenues)

  05-06-2016 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sony executives disputed the perception of internal upheaval at the studio, maintaining that the close proximity of the changes is a coincidence. Though the moves were seen as surprises in much of Hollywood, Sony countered that both are strategic moves that have been in the works for months.”
  
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• Are Sung-Through Musicals (Yes, Like Hamilton) Just Concerts With Benefits?

  05-06-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Maybe we’re supposed to understand it as a theatrical depiction of a concert, although it’s hard to figure out the difference.”
  
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• The Louvre’s Flood Plan: Close, And Move Everything Up

  05-06-2016 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In some galleries, it looked as though a family was about to move in — or out. Boxes were subdivided by foam boards, creating spaces for vases and other precious objects. A seemingly abandoned ancient frieze sat on a wooden pallet on the floor of one gallery, half wrapped in plastic sheets.”
  
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• Kansas City Symphony Gets New Contract With No Drama

  05-06-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We were losing too many talented musicians to other orchestras, and while we will not be able to keep them from going to Chicago and Boston and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, maybe we could do more with salary and working conditions to keep them from going to Utah, Oregon, Nashville or even Cincinnati.”
  
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• Writers Need Better Ways To Talk About Africa’s Past And Present

  05-06-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Han Solo, Chewbacca and the Tynwald land tenure rebellion do not form any part of the popular narrative that informs discussion of Zimbabwe’s current predicament. And yet, it is memories such as these – of ordinary citizens standing up against the colour bar, of the euphoria in the first days of our hard-won independence – that have the potential to inspire the desire for change today.”
  
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• Can The Big Apple’s Biggest Circus Save Itself Through Crowdfunding?

  05-06-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Big Apple Circus, conceived when the two men were itinerant jugglers who drove cabs and picked grapes, was born of something almost antithetical to material interest, a raw creative anarchy coupled with a desire to provide children, whether they were from Park Avenue or the South Bronx, a shared sense of cultural experience.”
  
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• Are Hardcover Books The New Vinyl?

  05-06-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s a deeply satisfying experience to hold something in your hands that you actually went to look for. To know that few people will ever appreciate what you went through to get what you now have.”
  
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• Dear British Architect: Even The King Of Sweden Is Against Your Nobel Building Plan

  05-06-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The project’s many critics, including local residents’ groups, political parties and heritage organisations, have lodged multiple appeals, angry that the centre, to be built next to the National Museum on Blasieholmen peninsula, will replace a 140-year-old customs house and other historic harbourside buildings.”
  
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• The Years When Promoters Could Just Pluck Musicians From Anywhere And Pretend They Were A Famous Music Group

  05-06-2016 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Zombies, unaware of their stateside success — this was possible in 1969 — had already moved on to new musical projects or day jobs. This vacuum meant anyone could tour the United States pretending to be the Zombies, even a four-piece blues band from Dallas.”
  
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• Thirteen Top Images Of Stockholm’s Bizarrely Beautiful Subway Stations

  05-06-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “More than 90 of the 100 stations in the 110km tunnel system, sometimes referred to as “the world’s longest art gallery”, have been decorated with paintings, installations, mosaics and sculptures by 150 artists since the 1950s.”
  
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• Voice Interfaces Are Starting To Take Over Our Lives

  05-06-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mumbling ‘buy more paper towels’ into the air in your kitchen is about as frictionless as a user experience can get—compared to opening up Amazon on your computer or phone, searching for paper towels, adding them to your cart, and checking out. That makes Alexa—the machine-borne personality that lives inside Echo devices—the ultimate salesperson, and she’s just getting started.”
  
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• Does Ballet Have A Massive Sexism Problem?

  05-06-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The bodies that represent an art form are female, but the minds moving those bodies around on stage — for the last century and in the coming one — are mostly male. Dancers come and go. Choreographers can enjoy a kind of eternal life, and immortality shouldn’t be granted to one gender but withheld from another.”
  
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• What Can We Gain By Thinking Of The Present As If We’re Already In The Future?

  05-06-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What I tried to do was think about the present day using the criteria we use to think about, say, the 14th century because it doesn’t seem the same as the criteria we use for looking at the culture, you know, in a normal, sort of everyday way.”
  
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• Does This Holograph Represent The End Of Pop Music?

  05-06-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Japan’s Hatsune Miku, making her Canadian concert debut, incited the same unbridled glee among the sold-out crowd of 3,000 as a human would at the top of her game, despite the fact that Miku is a software program represented in concert by a hologram.”
  
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• Will ‘Hamilton’ Change The Supreme Court?

  05-06-2016 13:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “How judges imagine the original meaning of the Constitution depends on their intuitions—half historical, half mythical—about the Founding narrative. If you can change the myth, you can change the Constitution. And ‘Hamilton’ is changing the myth.”
  
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• Why Can’t The Great British Bake Off Translate Into A Successful American Spinoff?

  05-06-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The most damning thing one can say about [the American] ‘Bake Off’ is that it’s sweet TV, the television equivalent of a feel-good Upworthy post that would go viral on Facebook (‘This Show About Cakes Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity’).”
  
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• Banksy identity could be revealed with graffiti artist set to attend South Bank Sky Arts Awards

  05-06-2016 12:18
  
  The Britolian artist has been nominated in the visual arts category for his theme park Dismaland
  
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• Bhupen Khakhar: You Can’t Please All review – a sprawl through a life’s work

  05-06-2016 09:00
  
  Tate Modern, LondonThis poorly planned show does little to flatter the nebulous talents of India’s first pop artistThere is a painting of a barber’s shop by the Indian artist Bhupen Khakhar that shows a customer sitting before a mirror with an unreadable expression on his face. The barber stands alongside, impassive and stiff. The style is naive, the figures are awkward, the proportions outlandish, and tugging at the eye are the two words Good Luck crudely woven – or crudely pa
  
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