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• Inside A Broadway Show Failure (Case Study)

  22-06-2016 23:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Four shows flopped this spring at a total loss to their investors. Here, based on interviews with a variety of Broadway figures, is an autopsy report of sorts for “American Psycho,” “Disaster!” and “Tuck Everlasting,” all of which closed in recent weeks, and “Bright Star,” which wraps up on Sunday.
  
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• Mark Leckey at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Rome

  22-06-2016 23:13 via artnews.com
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• Report From The Front: Is This The Future For Orchestras?

  22-06-2016 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The young musicians orchestras most need will not gravitate to orchestras. Instead, orchestras will get the blinkered conservatory graduates who don’t care about the institutional life of an orchestra – who will dutifully rehearse and perform. It therefore becomes more than ever incumbent upon orchestras to empower musicians to more fully participate in an expansive institutional mission.”
  
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• MIAMI CITY BALLET COSTUME SHOP

  22-06-2016 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MIAMI CITY BALLET COSTUME SHOP MANAGER
  Job Start date: July/August
  Job Title: Costume Shop/Wardrobe Manager
  Requirements:
  Excellent managerial skills, office and book keeping skills
  Excellent draping, patterning, cutting skills a plus
  Ability to oversee a costume shop/wardrobe staff of 4 to start
  Ability to create and maintain seasonal budgets
  Good sewing skills, machine and hand sewing
  Experience with ballet costumes and stretch fabric a plus
  At least 2 years professional costume shop managemen
  
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• South London Gallery in Peckham needs £1m more for its fire station

  22-06-2016 23:00
  
  The South London Gallery in Peckham is 1m shy of its 4m target to fund the restoration of what may be one of the last, if not the last, remaining purpose-built Victorian fire stations in London. The plan is to transform the Grade II-listed building, which is down the road from the gallery, into a satellite space for shows and events. The gallery hopes to start the work in January 2017, so that the space can open in 2018. The firm 6a Architects, which is behind the extension at the gallerys main
  
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• Russian art collection to get permanent display in UK country home

  22-06-2016 23:00
  
  Andrey Filatov, the Russian art collector who has been promoting Soviet-era art internationally, has signed a 12-year agreement to open a permanent exhibition of his Art Russe foundations holdings in the UK at Beaulieu Palace House, the Hampshire estate of Lord Montegu.
  I want the public to admire the masterpieces of Russian art, rather than keeping my collection in a dedicated warehouse, Filatov told The Art Newspaper by email. The gallery at Beaulieuwhich is also home to the National Motor Mu
  
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• Peggy Guggenheim’s Picasso goes a whiter shade of pale

  22-06-2016 23:00
  
  The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is restoring The Studio (1928), its large painting by Pablo Picasso, to its original brightness. The artist added a fresh layer of white to the canvas shortly after completing the work, to simplify the palette and composition.
  Acquired by Peggy Guggenheim from a New York-based dealer in 1942, the work was lined with wax and resin in the late 1960s to prevent cracking and flaking. But the white has yellowed as the wax has risen to the surface, while the
  
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• Modigliani the star as Christie’s auction disappoints on eve of EU referendum

  22-06-2016 23:00
  
  Christies may have felt the ramifications of the impending Brexit vote as its Impressionist and Modern art sale on the eve of Britains EU referendum failed to reach its lower estimate. The sale total of 21.8m hammer (25.6m with fees) came in well below the expected 32.8m-48.7m, with a sell-through rate of 64%. Twelve of the 33 lots failed to sell, and only four fetched hammer prices above their higher estimates.
  It was an uphill battle from the start, as three big lots were withdrawn at the las
  
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• How Christo's Floating Piers were made

  22-06-2016 23:00
  In this clip, workers assemble the cubes that undergird the artist Christo's latest project, The Floating Piers, which is open until 3 July on Italy's Lake Iseo.
  
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• Romania Tries Crowdfunding To Keep Brancusi Sculpture In Country

  22-06-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Wisdom of the Earth is a 50cm (20in) tall sculpture carved from limestone in a primitive modernist style. … Dating to 1907 or 1908, it is one of just a few Brâncuşi works remaining in his homeland. The government has pledged €5m towards the €11m price, much lower than its estimated value of €15m-20m, and is seeking the rest from private contributions by 30 September.”
  
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• Glastonbury 2016: Adele, Coldplay, Martin Creed

  22-06-2016 22:20
  
  Hauser & Wirths arts complex in Bruton, Somerset, is only ten miles from Glastonbury, home of the famed music festival which opened today (22 June) to revellers and rock fans. In a canny move, the gallery is backing two performances at the five-day music jamboree including an appearance by artist Martin Creed on the Avalon Caf Stage on 26 June. The Turner prizewinner, who is known for his musical acumen, will launch a new album on 8 July entitled Thoughts Lined Up (Creeds late
  
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• Is 2016 The Year Jazz Came Back?

  22-06-2016 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Welcome to the strange jazz resurgence of the new millennium. Jazz is definitely hot again … yet all of this is happening outside of the jazz world. This is a peculiar turn of events.”
  
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• This Is How The TV Show Business Model Is Changing

  22-06-2016 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Network television used to deficit-finance shows and then make those expenditures back through advertising money. The shows would then generate more revenue by getting lucrative syndication deals. But now, cable shows draw in ad revenues, carriage fees, and international sales to satellite, cable, and streaming or on-demand services. When those various revenue streams add up, a show can be profitable from the get-go.”
  
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• Here Is a Photograph of Daniel Craig Wearing Wolfgang Tillmans’s Anti-Brexit T-Shirt

  22-06-2016 18:42 via artnews.com
  Adding special agency to the campaign to keep Britain Stronger In Europe. Daniel Craig just sent this photograph. Don’t trust opinion polls. Every single vote matters. Please make time to go to the polls this Thursday. Those who can Vote … Read More
  
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• Remembering Bill Berkson, Poet, Critic, and Teacher, 1939–2016

  22-06-2016 18:05 via artnews.com
  Poet and critic Bill Berkson, who died of a heart attack on June 16 at the age of 76, left a long line of magazines, book publishers, and professional organizations bereft of a veteran talent deeply embedded in the literary … Read More
  
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• In Its New Bowery Home, the International Center of Photography Strives to Stay Relevant in the Digital Age, With Mixed Results

  22-06-2016 17:37 via artnews.com
  As it opens its doors again, after moving from Midtown Manhattan to the Bowery, the International Center of Photography should consider changing its name. Its first show is “Private, Public, Secret,” a frenetic exhibition that opens with videos by Doug Rickard, Martine … Read More
  
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• Is David Hockney right to say painting is an old man's art?

  22-06-2016 17:30
  
  At 78, the artist is working harder than ever as he prepared to exhibit 83 new works in London. But does experience make every artist better with the years?
  David Hockney among friends: a triumphant return to portraitureDavid Hockney says he’ll keep on painting into his 80s and may well have his greatest work ahead of him. “The Chinese have a saying,” the 78-year-old told the Radio Times. “Painting is an old man’s art. I told Lucian Freud that a long time ago. I thi
  
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• Njideka Akunyili Crosby Wins 2016 Prix Canson

  22-06-2016 16:04 via artnews.com
  Once a year, the Fonds Canson pour l’Art et le Papier gives its Prix Canson to one artist in honor of his or her work on paper. This year that artist is the superb Los Angeles–based Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who … Read More
  
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• Karaoke Court: let Craig David and the Carpenters settle your arguments

  22-06-2016 14:53
  
  Bored with your husband? Cross at a parental curfew? Artist Jack Tan can help solve your domestic disputes – but first you’ll have to sing a round of East 17 If there is a massive overlap between your love of karaoke and your penchant for Judge Judy, Jack Tan’s new show could be your perfect night out. Karaoke Court is a real-life arbitration process, in front of a bona fide circuit judge, where the audience gets to play jury. It’s an opportunity for anyone to battle out
  
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• Fromage not Farage: the best online referendum artwork

  22-06-2016 14:15
  
  Social media users have been getting creative in the run-up to Thursday’s EU vote. Here’s a selection of the best imagesIf you favour certain cheeses over Nigel Farage, this artist makes a good case for remaining Continue reading...
  
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• Morning Links: Noah’s Ark Edition

  22-06-2016 14:01 via artnews.com
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• Artist Liliane Lijn: 'It was William Burroughs who warned me off drugs'

  22-06-2016 11:58
  
  Long before Cards Against Humanity, Lijn was playing her Power Game with Derek Jarman and taking meetings at the Beat Hotel. As her clever word-art goes back on show in London and Paris, she talks politics, poetry and potIt was 1962 when the writer William Burroughs dropped in on Liliane Lijn’s first art exhibition at the English Bookshop in Paris. Her experimental work appealed to Burroughs. Lijn had delved into scientific research to make lenses that, combined with thick blocks of Perspe
  
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• The 'queering' of Hobart’s monuments: ridiculous pink condoms or important public art?

  22-06-2016 05:21
  
  In a process she calls ‘queering’, an artist reclaimed Hobart’s masculine public monuments by shrink-wrapping them in pink plastic. Not everyone’s a fanTaped to a wall at Long Gallery in Salamanca Place in Hobart is a 2005 essay by historian Marilyn Lake about Tasmanian monuments. Key sentences are marked in highlighter.“For God and Empire. King and Country.”“There are no statues of women in Tasmania.” Continue reading...
  
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