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• How SFMoMA Is Changing San Francisco

  07-06-2016 23:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In many ways, the unveiling of the new SFMOMA caps a period of transformation that speaks to forces at play in many U.S. cities — the rehabilitation of what had once been dilapidated urban cores. But the museum is also indicative of the role that high culture can play in that process. With its very presence, a museum can help shift the dynamics of a neighborhood.
  
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• Young Gaza artist Malak Mattar shows in Jerusalem

  07-06-2016 23:00
  
  The US consulate in Jerusalem arranged Israeli permission for 13 Gaza artists and artisans to exhibit at a Palestinian cultural fair in East Jerusalem. Publicity for the event did not use the word “Palestinian”.
  Malak Mattar, 16, was probably the youngest visual artist from Gaza ever to get a coveted Israeli travel permit. She taught herself to paint in 2014 during Israel’s 50-day Gaza invasion. Painting became on outlet for her grief. Her 14-year-old best friend died in the c
  
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• The Latest Theory On How Consciousness Evolved: TMI (Literally)

  07-06-2016 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The theory suggests that consciousness arises as a solution to one of the most fundamental problems facing any nervous system: Too much information constantly flows in to be fully processed. The brain evolved increasingly sophisticated mechanisms for deeply processing a few select signals at the expense of others, and … consciousness is the ultimate result of that evolutionary sequence.”
  
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• Heilmann show marks 50 years of ceramics, road trips and psychedelia

  07-06-2016 23:00
  The Whitechapel Gallery is due to stage a survey next month that will celebrate the 50-year career of the American painter Mary Heilmann with a selection of 45 paintings as well as ceramics, works on paper and chairs, which she first made so that people would feel welcome to sit and consider her art.
  It is the first show organised by the Whitechapels new chief curator, Lydia Yee. She thinks in many ways like a sculptor, Yee says. Her background is in ceramics and if you look at her paintings, th
  
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• Drawing from the Western Front: pastel of First World War soldiers comes to market after 100 years

  07-06-2016 23:00
  
  Troops Resting (1916) by C.R.W. Nevinson was last seen 100 years ago, when it was exhibited in the British painter’s acclaimed exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in London. The pastel was snapped up for eight guineas by the artist Vera Waddington, and is now being sold at Sotheby’s on 13 June with an estimate of £150,000-£250,000.
   
  The work depicts the “poilu” (hairy one), a term of endearment for French soldiers, considered to be Nevinson’s mos
  
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• Centre Pompidou’s chief US fundraiser awarded France’s top honour for boosting acquisitions of American art

  07-06-2016 23:00
  
  The French government has bestowed its highest honour on Steven Guttman, the chair of the Centre Pompidou Foundation, the US philanthropic and fundraising arm of the Paris museum. Guttman, the founder and chairman of UOVO, a fine art storage and collection management services, has been head of the non-profit organisation since 2012.He was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur (Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour) for his instrumental role &ldqu
  
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• Bronx Museum postpones show after Cuba halts loans to US

  07-06-2016 23:00
  
  The Bronx Museum of the Arts has postponed an exhibition of contemporary art from Cuba that was to be loaned by the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana.The decision follows Cuba’s delay in finalising arrangements to send its art to the US amid fears that loaned works of art could be seized to satisfy claims from Americans whose property in Cuba was confiscated after Fidel Castro seized power in 1959.
  The postponement sheds light on the many issues still to be resolved between the two c
  
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• How To Get Better At Witty Comebacks And Bons Mots

  07-06-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The secret, as it turns out, comes from improv.
  
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• Helen Mirren testifies in support of Holocaust art restitution bill

  07-06-2016 22:00
  
  The British actress Helen Mirren, who portrayed Maria Altmann in the Hollywood film Woman in Gold, about the late Austrian-American collector’s fight to recover her family’s Nazi-confiscated art, testified on Capitol Hill today in support of a bill to make restitution in the US easier for heirs of Holocaust era victims.
  “The very act of Nazi expropriation was not only unjust but it was inhumane,” Mirren told two Senate judiciary subcommittees in a joint hearing on the Ho
  
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• Using Astronomy To Date A Sappho Poem

  07-06-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In one of her rare surviving works, “Sappho describes a night when the moon, and the star cluster Pleiades, set before midnight on the island of Lesbos. Now, in the tradition of trying to paint a biographical portrait of Sappho from her work, a group of astronomers and a physicist at the University of Texas, Arlington have attempted to seasonally date ‘Midnight Poem’ using these bits of data.”
  
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• What Walter Benjamin Read

  07-06-2016 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The small black notebook catalogues Benjamin’s reading from the age of 22 in 1917 until 1939, shortly before he left Paris fleeing from the Nazis. It begins with number 462—earlier entries are lost—and ends with number 1712, Robert Hichens’ Le Toque noire. Putting to shame the more leisurely reader, Benjamin was averaging more than one book a week.”
  
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• Here’s a Photo of Ellsworth Kelly and Muhammad Ali

  07-06-2016 19:55 via artnews.com
  A photo posted by Matthew Marks (@matthewmarksgallery) on Jun 6, 2016 at 9:51am PDT The photo was taken by Jack Shear at the White House Millennial Party on New Year’s Eve in 2000.
  
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• Pakistani artist Ghulam Mohammad wins Jameel Art Prize

  07-06-2016 19:53
  
  Ghulam Mohammad is the winner of the Jameel Art Prize 4, the biennial c award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition. The young Pakistan-based artist’s submissions was five intricate paper collage works, made by cutting individual words in Urdu and reconstructing them to create a new image, adding gold and silver leaf and ink. His process often sees him working up to 20 hours a day, seven days a week, in a room with no air conditioning under a single light bulb.
  
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• Claim: It’s Not Museums’ Role To Play Social Worker

  07-06-2016 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tiffany Jenkins is “unconvinced that museums have any real power either to atone for past sins or to address social ills. She notes, quite rightly, that the experiences we have in museums are personal, emotional, and unruly.”
  
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• Tunga, One of Brazil’s Most Important Contemporary Artists, Dies at 64

  07-06-2016 19:20 via artnews.com
  Tunga, the Brazilian artist known for his work about the body and its relationship to its surroundings, died yesterday afternoon of cancer-related causes. He was 64.Though Tunga has been working since the ’70s, it wasn’t until the past few years … Read More
  
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• Why Algorithms Can’t Replace People In Coming Up With Successful Television

  07-06-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In some ways, it’s a counter-intuitive argument: Regardless of what you think of Netflix or Amazon’s core business, their studios have produced some of the best television in recent years.”
  
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• The Hamilton Algorithm (Or How Does He Make All Those Words Work?)

  07-06-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Here’s a word-by-word analysis plus a nifty playback tool that shows you how the “Hamilton” rap works.
  
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• Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2016: Bjarke Ingels' summer house unveiled

  07-06-2016 18:02
  
  The architect described the pavilion as 'both transparent and opaque, both solid box and blob'
  
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• Amsterdam To Tourists: Go Visit The Hague For A Change, We’re Drowning Here!

  07-06-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Dutch capital’s huge success as a vacation destination “has spawned eye-poppingly long queues outside the biggest attractions … so much so that Amsterdam officials recently decided to ‘make some savings’ in its marketing budget … [and] Mayor Eberhard van der Laan has appealed directly to visitors to seek accommodation in other often overlooked cities such as Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht.”
  
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• Serpentine pavilion 2016: Bjarke Ingels' pyramid for the Minecraft generation

  07-06-2016 17:39
  
  Is it a wall? Is it a cave? Actually, this year’s pavilion started life as shelves – but it has gawp-factor by the bucketload. And for those who like follies, there are four satellite summer houses to explore tooA teetering stack of fibreglass blocks has landed in Kensington Gardens, rising above the Serpentine Gallery in a stepped wall, before billowing out to form a cave-like space within. “We’ve taken the most fundamental element of architecture,” says Danish arc
  
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• Bill T. Jones At 64 (Not Just Any 64-Year-Old)

  07-06-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It occurred to me, watching Jones move, that, like all great attempts at artistic expression, his art manages to model compassion for the spectator — to make us feel what it’s like to be dealing with an intense feeling not our own, but one that becomes ours to deal with. When we add in the way in which Jones’s mind and body are changing, the dances themselves take on a new sort of vulnerability, a new riskiness far from the formalism of the ’70s.”
  
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• Brazilian artist Tunga has died aged 64

  07-06-2016 17:24
  
  The Brazilian artist Tunga—the first contemporary artist to exhibit works at the Louvre in Paris—died yesterday (6 June) in Rio de Janeiro, aged 64.“The news came in last night and it was devastating,” says Irina Stark, the sales director at Pilar Corrias gallery, who represented the artist in London from 2008 until last year. Tunga, who was suffering from cancer, had “been in intensive care for the past couple of days. We are all in mourning”.  Art worl
  
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• The Best Intentions: Inside the Wild World of Charity Auctions

  07-06-2016 17:04 via artnews.com
  Benefit auctions, popping up every spring like Park Avenue tulips, have become about as ubiquitous as art fairs and openings. Charity sales are the primary means by which artists can pack a philanthropic punch, but they can be an exasperating … Read More
  
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• Thais And Cambodians Start Social Media War Over Traditional Dance

  07-06-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a drama of epic proportions, Thailand and Cambodia are feuding once again after simultaneously claiming ownership of the traditional elaborate masked dance known as Khon in Thailand and Khol in Cambodia.”
  
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• La Voix humaine, Beachcliffe Apartments, opera review: 'Handled with thought-provoking skill'

  07-06-2016 16:54
  
  An intimate living room presentation of Poulenc's 1958 operatic monologue by the inaugural Cardiff Festival of Voice
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda: Ticket Bots Are Ruining Broadway

  07-06-2016 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The markup on resale tickets is so lucrative, earning brokers millions of dollars per year, that they happily risk prosecution and treat civil penalties as the cost of business.”
  
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• 14,000-Year-Old Cave Paintings Discovered In Spain

  07-06-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Archaeologists in Spain have come across an extraordinary series of Paleolithic-era paintings in Basque Country’s Atxurra cave that they estimate date as far back as 14,000 years. The 70 or so animal drawings lie nearly 1,000 feet underground, which made access difficult when archaeologists first found the site in 1929 and during excavations carried out by José Miguel de Barandiarán five years later.”
  
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• Solange Knowles to create and compose dance show for Tate Modern reopening

  07-06-2016 15:44
  
  The singer teased a mysterious collaboration with the Tate Modern, set to open a brand new gallery space for diverse and international works
  
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• Nine Questions About Ramadan You Were Afraid To (Or Didn’t Know To) Ask

  07-06-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How Muslims handle the all-day fast, why there are arguments every year over when exactly the holy month begins and ends, how to be respectful of your Muslim friends and acquaintances, and what the whole Ramadan thing is really about, anyway.
  
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• Brian Sewell's art collection is up for grabs – what does it reveal?

  07-06-2016 15:29
  
  We know what he didn’t like, but a Christie’s auction of Sewell’s personal hoard of paintings sets his ferocious critical judgments against some muddled tastesBrian Sewell, the art critic, was never shy about condemning the tastes of others. Many remember Sewell for his dismissals of contemporary art, but he was equally ready to chastise the National Gallery for what he saw as badly conceived exhibitions of the greats. So we knew what he did not like. But what did he love?Relat
  
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• ‘David Maljkovic: All Day All Year’ at T293

  07-06-2016 15:16 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “David Maljković: All Day All Year” is on view at T293 in Rome through July 16.
  
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• So What’s Yannick Going To Do At The Metropolitan Opera??

  07-06-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “So it finally happened: After years of speculation, the Metropolitan Opera appointed Yannick Nézet-Séguin to replace James Levine as music director. Naturally, the opera world wants to know what that will look like. And they want to know now.” David Patrick Stearns, who dislikes trying to predict the future but knows YNS’s work well, makes some educated guesses.
  
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• Women Make Progress – Slowly But Steadily – In Stand-Up Comedy

  07-06-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s a lot more work to be done before the comedy world reaches real gender parity, but as more paths to recognition have opened for stand-ups around the country, there have already been heartening results.”
  
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• The Real Concerns Of Women Conductors

  07-06-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dallas Opera CEO Keith Cerny shares some excerpts from the personal statements of the current round of applicants to his company’s Hart Institute for Women Conductors.”
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Seven Magic Mountains’ Edition

  07-06-2016 14:34 via artnews.com
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda Gets The Full Rolling Stone Treatment

  07-06-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I get it 50 times a day: ‘Please film [Hamilton]! Please film it so we can watch it!’ And I understand it’s hard to get to New York and it’s hard to get a Broadway ticket. At the same time, filming is an act of translation. It is not being in the room with us. It’s different. You will get the forest, you will not get the trees.”
  
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• Using Graphic Design To Guide Concertgoers Who Don’t Read Music Through An Orchestral Work

  07-06-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s ‘listening guides’ make use of symbols and Morse code-like notation to aid the experience of a live performance. We talked to their creator, Hannah Chan-Hartley, about how she is helping the TSO to visualise its repertoire.”
  
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• BBC’s The Space Moves Away From New Digital Art, Back to Live Events

  07-06-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Following political controversy over some of its original projects last year, “The Space – the Arts Council England and BBC joint digital art venture-– is reverting to its original brief … [of] projects that capture and distribute live art events and those using technology to enhance artworks.”
  
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• A Multi-Colored Drone Ballet At Mount Fuji

  07-06-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In Sky Magic, from Japanese advertising company MicroAd, 20 drones with LED lights attached to them dance in a choreographed light show against the backdrop of Mount Fuji. Shamisen players serve as their orchestra.” (video)
  
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• Ten Of The World’s Absolutely Coolest Elevators

  07-06-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Whether it’s the gothic ironwork of Brazil’s Santa Justa Lift or the futuristic pods of the Mercedes-Benz Museum or the Aquadom lift that carries riders straight through a massive aquarium, some elevators are so amazing, they become destinations in and of themselves.” (Not to mention the elevator that’s a moving cocktail bar.)
  
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• Martin Creed: Can an artist manage to remain angry in the landscaped beauty of Somerset?

  07-06-2016 12:14
  
  The Turner Prize winner's new exhibition, which reflects his often angry reaction to politics, is set in the carefully manicured gallery Hauser and Wirth, in Somerset
  
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• Wigmore Hall's 115th anniversary with Elisabeth Leonskaja - classical review: an evening of the music of their patron saint, Franz Schubert

  07-06-2016 12:05
  
  Never was private wealth better employed in the service of public culture
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.06.16

  07-06-2016 10:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sorry – A (Respectful) Dissent On A Well-Meaning Statement On Arts Equity
  I would say based on the thousands of stories we sift through every day at ArtsJournal, diversity and cultural equity (along with funding) are right now probably the biggest issues being talked about in the … read more
  AJBlog: diacritical/Douglas McLennan Published 2016-06-06The Ax Falls At The Met, Again…More to Come
  Today the Metropolitan Museum announced a significant layoff: Cynthia Round, the senio
  
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• The truth about Tehran, by artist Nazgol Ansarinia: 'It's building a fantasy future' – video

  07-06-2016 08:30
  
  The Tehran municipality’s ‘bureau of beautification’ has painted hundreds of murals across the city, showing blue skies and idealised countryside images – even as the capital bulldozes its traditional buildings. Award-winning artist Nazgol Ansarinia takes us into modern Tehran to show how her work responds to this irony, and to the layers of memory at risk Continue reading...
  
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• The truth about Tehran, by artist Nazgol Ansarinia: 'It's building a fantasy future'

  07-06-2016 08:30
  
  The Tehran municipality’s ‘bureau of beautification’ has painted hundreds of murals across the city, showing blue skies and idealised countryside images – even as the capital bulldozes its traditional buildings. Award-winning Tate artist Nazgol Ansarinia takes us into modern Tehran to show how her work responds to this irony, and to the layers of memory at risk Continue reading...
  
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• Ask me another: Shanghai Biennale aims to pose life’s big questions

  07-06-2016 04:10
  
  To mark its 20th year and 11th incarnation, this autumn’s Shanghai Biennale will delve into science fiction and the questions behind questions. Preliminary details were announced at a press conference last week at Shanghai’s Power Station of Art, which will host the exhibition from 11 November until 12 March 2017.
  Organised by the Delhi-based artist and curator group Raqs Media Collective—Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta—the biennale takes the the
  
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• Gilbert & George to convert East End house into non-profit gallery

  07-06-2016 03:45
  Gilbert & George are planning to convert an East End house into a non-profit gallery and foundation for contemporary art. The artists have lived and worked in Spitalfields since 1969 and often draw inspiration for their work from the local multi-faith community. They rescued their current house on Fournier Street from dereliction and restored it themselves, creating a huge studio on the ground floor.The site for the proposed gallery, called The Gilbert & George Centre, is a house on nea
  
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• Five offbeat art spaces to seek out in Istanbul

  07-06-2016 03:39
  
  CollectorspaceIt’s a difficult reality that galleries around the globe have to deal with: prime locations in the city centre come at a premium. Istanbul’s Collectorspace, just a few metres away from Istanbul’s central Taksim Square has found a resourceful solution to this issue. The former residential building hosts exhibitions in a space not larger than 20 sq. m—once the living room—that are proportional to its size. A single work of art is usually on display, fro
  
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