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• Sharjah show looks at immigration in a land of migrants

  23-06-2016 23:00
  
  As the world grapples with waves of migrants and the resulting refugee crisis, a sharp-spirited non-profit art space in Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, has curated a thoughtful show on immigration from the vantage point of a nation with more than 75 resident nationalities. Al Haraka Baraka, literally translated as in movement there is blessing, examines foreign populations that settle in a land in perpetual flux.
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• Québec City museum doubles space for local artists with $103m expansion

  23-06-2016 23:00
  
  Qubec City has a very special gift to celebrate this years Fte nationale (national holiday) on 24 June: the opening of the new Pierre Lassonde pavilion of the Muse nationale des beaux-arts de Qubec, an art museum in the centre of the Francophone city that focusses on collecting historic and contemporary works by Qubcois artists. The world heritage site that is Qubec City has just added a new emblem, Line Ouellet, the museums executive director and chief curator, said in a statement.
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• More museums turn to focus groups, but do they help or hinder?

  23-06-2016 23:00
  
  Focus groups are not just for makeup and snack food any more. Museums are increasingly using the popular market research tool to gather input from the public and refine exhibitions and programmes. Originally developed to gauge the effectiveness of propaganda during the Second World War, focus groups are a new trend among art institutions, says Louise Mirrer, the president of the New-York Historical Society.Before its exhibition Martin Luther: Art and the Reformation (30 October 2016-15 January
  
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• Hepworth Wakefield surveys Stanley Spencer

  23-06-2016 23:00
  The first major survey in 15 years of the British artist Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) opens at the Hepworth Wakefield this month. Of Angels and Dirt (24 June-5 October) marks the 125th anniversary of Spencers birth and includes a number of his excruciatingly honest self-portraits, his monumental Shipbuilding on the Clyde series made during the Second World War and reunites, for the first time in 35 years, four of the five Empire Marketing Board (1929) works. It also includes a sketchbook of the
  
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• ‘Maxwell Street’s Last Hope’ at Uri-Eichen Gallery, Chicago

  23-06-2016 22:54 via artnews.com
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• American Charities Are Being Undermined (And It’s A Growing Problem)

  23-06-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Donor-advised funds have been a bad deal for American society. They have produced too many private benefits for the financial services industry, at too great a cost to the taxpaying public, and they have provided too few benefits for society at large. When we consider their overall effect, we see that rather than supporting working charities and the beneficiaries they serve, they have undermined them.”
  
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• MoMA Plans Louise Lawler Retrospective For 2017

  23-06-2016 22:29 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Modern Art announced today that next spring they will present “Why Pictures Now,” the first major New York survey of work by the American artist Louise Lawler.The exhibition—organized by MoMA senior curator Roxana Marcoci with curatorial assistant … Read More
  
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• Hollywood’s Sequels Barely Even Bother With The Story, They’re About Milking The Brand

  23-06-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sequels have always been a financially driven proposition, and it’s not a revelation that some of them are churned out like sausage … But for the 15 years or so of the post-Star Wars blockbuster era, the bottom-line pragmatism behind sequels did not erase another priority: narrative.” But that was then: “This summer’s sequels are not, for the most part, story continuations but brand extensions.”
  
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• Gal Weistein to Represent Israel, Egill Sæbjörnsson to Represent Iceland at 2017 Venice Biennale

  23-06-2016 21:38 via artnews.com
  Israel and Iceland have both announced their plans for their 2017 Venice Biennale pavilions this week. Haaretz reports that Gal Weistein will represent Israel at the coming Biennale, while the Icelandic Art Center announced that Egill Sæbjörnsson will represent Iceland.Known … Read More
  
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• A Place Where Typewriters Still Hang On

  23-06-2016 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The manufacture of typewriters in India might have come to a halt, but in Goa, as in the rest of the country, there are plenty of machines still going clackety-clack. Government-run offices, village schools, and other rural administrative offices still use typewriters for work such as drawing up contracts or bills.”
  
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• Water and sewage leaks close basement displays at Rotterdam’s Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum

  23-06-2016 21:10
  
  Displays and rare books were urgently evacuated from the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam overnight as unusually high rainfall caused water and sewage to seep into the basement. The threat of flooding to the museum early this morning was very serious, the deputy director, Ina Klaassen, told The Art Newspaper. Klaassen asked the fire brigade to pump water out of an overflowing pool in the museums garden, which abuts the building, but this proved impossible because the surrounding groun
  
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• What Hollywood Can Learn About Disability From ‘Finding Dory’

  23-06-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alyssa Rosenberg: “Part of what’s great about a movie like Finding Dory is that there are so many characters with disabilities in it that no single character has to carry the weight of an entire community, or act as an exemplar for it.” And the expectations for the disabled characters aren’t low: “Dory and Nemo have wild, ocean-spanning, out-of-water adventures that most fish never dream of.”
  
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• Technology Will Make The World Better, Right? Not Always! (We’ve Gotta Change The Way We Think About This)

  23-06-2016 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Is it possible to get beyond both a naïve belief that the latest technology will solve social problems—and a reaction that rubbishes any attempt to offer novel technical solutions as inappropriate, insensitive, and misguided? Can we find a synthesis in which technologists look at their work critically and work closely with the people they’re trying to help in order to build sociotechnical systems that address hard problems?”
  
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• Police In Spain Seize 10,000 Stolen Artworks And Antiquities

  23-06-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Guardia Civil has arrested an antiques collector in the town of Bullas and impounded an enormous cache: 4,000 archaeological artifacts, some dating to the Bronze Age; 5,000 rare coins; 150 relics, included a supposed piece of the True Cross once certified by the Vatican; 40 paintings; and 30 manuscripts, including a late medieval Book of Psalms.
  
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• Luminato Festival Finds A Striking Venue And An Organizing Idea

  23-06-2016 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In its 10-year run, Toronto’s Luminato Festival has had lots of Whats – celebrated events such as last year’s Apocalypsis, the Joni Mitchell tribute of a few years past, shows by performance artist Marina Abramovic and many other first-rate attractions. But it’s always lacked a Why – a central idea or theme that has been able to knit together its varied and heterodox concerts, art installations, theatrical works and all-around happenings.”
  
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• Adapting ‘The Lion King’ For China

  23-06-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Broadway, Timon and Pumbaa have entertained audiences for years with their Brooklyn accents. But in China, the famous meerkat-warthog duo not only speak Chinese, but they also do so with a distinct beifang, or northern, twang.”
  
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• Henry VIII actor Keith Michell's art goes on show

  23-06-2016 18:56
  
  Daughter completed exhibition after her father’s death last November and it opens at Menier Gallery this weekA russet and gold self-portrait by the late Keith Michell, on display in a new exhibition in London, shows the actor in his most famous role, the definitive Henry VIII to a generation of television viewers who remember his towering performance in the 1970s drama series The Six Wives of Henry VIII.The Australian-born actor, a star in the National, Old Vic and Royal Shakespeare compan
  
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• Banff Center Reinvents Itself

  23-06-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The name change is part of a rebranding endeavour that includes a new look (a monochrome colour spectrum inspired by snow and accented by red; the capital “A” in Banff resembling a mountain peak) and strategic plan. Among other things, the plan will see a heightened emphasis on public access, indigenous programs and training for cultural leaders.”
  
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• Life Is a Highway: Greg Drasler on his new show at Betty Cuningham Gallery

  23-06-2016 18:21 via artnews.com
  Back in 1980, Greg Drasler received an arts fellowship from the University of Illinois to spend a year in Japan. He returned home a changed man. “My emersion in this ancient civilization increased my interests in how location and context built … Read More
  
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• William The Conqueror And Winston Churchill, Singin’ And Dancin’ Through British History

  23-06-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  City of London financier Johathan Ruffer “is the main backer of something called Kynren, an all-singing, all-dancing history of Britain from the Romans to the second world war, which will be put on by about 1,000 volunteers in the investor’s rolling backyard” near Durham. “Billed as the biggest live event in the UK since the 2012 Olympics, it features a Viking longboat levitating out of a lake, horses charging into battle, a volley of flaming arrows and and plenty of pyro
  
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• Into Orbit: my dizzying drop down the world's biggest slide

  23-06-2016 17:47
  
  Carsten Höller has turned Anish Kapoor’s ‘zombie pylon’ into a 178m corkscrew thrill-ride – our architecture critic pulls on a helmet and takes the plungeNever has an attraction promised so much yet delivered so little. It was the roller coaster without a ride, the helter skelter without a slide, a £20m mountain of steel leering above London’s lean Olympic stadium as a mocking monument to the vanity of the city’s former mayor, Boris Johnson, and its
  
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• How NPR Unlocked A Ton Of Data About How Its Listeners Listen

  23-06-2016 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The largest age group listening to NPR One is 25- to 34-year-olds, according to NPR, with 40 percent of listeners under 35. More than a third of users who answered NPR surveys said they never or only occasionally listen to broadcast radio.”
  
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• What’s Truly *New* About The Internet

  23-06-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Virginia Heffernan: “Speed and expansiveness, to start. On expanse: The population of our ether – users of cell tech and wifi – is now just about coextensive with the population of the earth. This is fathomless by most minds. And speed: The illusion of near-absolute compression of time and space on the Internet is an illusion so beguiling we are virtually powerless to refuse it as real, except for short periods and with great mental or spiritual focus.”
  
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• L.A. MOCA Elects Hard Rock Café Founder Peter Morton as Trustee

  23-06-2016 16:42 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles announced today that Peter Morton will now be a member of its board of trustees. The board is currently co-chaired by Maurice Marciano and Lilly Tartikoff Karatz.Morton is the co-founder of the restaurant … Read More
  
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• Artist's beautiful 'walk on water' project suffers closures following classic case of 'too many humans'

  23-06-2016 16:34
  
  Idyllic creation became 'hellish' when 70,000 people turned up
  
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• First quiz

  23-06-2016 16:33
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• Think You’ll Enjoy Some Schadenfreude If Barnes And Noble Closes? Don’t – It’ll Be A Calamity

  23-06-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s more than a little irony to the impending collapse of Barnes & Noble. The mega-retailer that drove many small, independent booksellers out of business is now being done in by the rise of Amazon. But while many book lovers may be tempted to gloat, the death of Barnes & Noble would be catastrophic – not just for publishing houses and the writers they publish, but for American culture as a whole.”
  
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• German collector warns he will end loans to English institutions in event of Brexit

  23-06-2016 16:11
  
  The leading German art collector Heiner Pietzsch has said he will make new loans to Scotland rather than England in the event of a Brexit vote in the latest signal of the art worlds strong opposition to Britains leaving the European Union.Heiner and Ulla Pietzsch have lent nearly 60 works from their Modern art collection to the Scottish National Gallery of Art for its summer exhibition Surreal Encounters, staged in collaboration with museums in Rotterdam and Hamburg.Speaking at the opening of t
  
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• ‘We Are Not 30 Under 30, Nothing to Say Here, Move Along’: An Interview With Body By Body About Their Current Los Angeles Show

  23-06-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  The New York–based artist duo Body By Body’s newest exhibition “Virgin America” contains a large amount of quick works made mostly on paper with a variety of materials. The show also contains a junkyard-like installation room lit in a way … Read More
  
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• Janet Malcolm Takes Down The Current Stars Of Russian Literary Translation

  23-06-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A sort of asteroid has hit the safe world of Russian literature in English translation. A couple named Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have established an industry of taking everything they can get their hands on written in Russian and putting it into flat, awkward English.” (includes side-by-side excerpts from Anna Karenina in P&V’s translation and Constance Garnett’s)
  
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• How The Smithsonian’s Next Museum Is Going To Extend America’s ‘National Conversation On Race’

  23-06-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture: “We felt it was really important to take on things that might be deemed controversial or difficult. And the challenge for us was to find the right tension between those moments of pain and those moments of resiliency. … This is not the Holocaust Museum. This is not a community simply defined by victimization. But rather, it’s a community that has, in many ways, helped America live u
  
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• Pakistan’s Leading Sufi Singer Shot Dead By Taliban

  23-06-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One of Pakistan’s most famous and respected musicians, celebrated for devotional songs from [the] centuries-old mystic tradition [of qawwali], has been shot dead by Taliban gunmen in Karachi.”
  
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• Scholar Who Announced ‘Jesus’s Wife’ Papyrus Acknowledges It’s Probably Fake

  23-06-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Harvard professor Karen L. King, following an exposé by The Atlantic on the provenance of the papyrus fragment and the man who presented it to King, said, “It appears now that all the material Fritz gave to me concerning the provenance of the papyrus … were fabrications.”
  
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• Morning Links: British Auctions in the Time of Brexit Edition

  23-06-2016 14:48 via artnews.com
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• There Was One Student Left In USC’s Art MFA Program, And She Just Dropped Out

  23-06-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s been a year since the entire incoming MFA class at USC’s Roski School of Art decided to drop out en masse, leaving the program with only one student this year, HaeAhn Kwon. In an open letter to Provost Michael Quick, Kwon announced today that she too would be leaving the program, citing ‘the devastating trajectory this school has taken.'”
  
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• The Most Expensive Cubist Painting Ever Sold Just Went For $63.7 Million

  23-06-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Picasso’s Femme Assise, painted in the summer of 1909 – when the artist traveled to the remote Spanish village of Horta de Ebro, which could only be reached by mule – sold for $63.7 million at Sotheby’s in London on Tuesday, making it the most expensive Cubist painting ever sold at auction.”
  
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• Carnegie Hall Gets $25 Million And Renames Its First Tier Of Boxes

  23-06-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Carnegie Hall announced on Wednesday that it was renaming its first level of boxes the Blavatnik Family First Tier in recognition of a $25 million gift from Len Blavatnik, a trustee there since 2014, and his family foundation.”
  
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• Dishing The Dirt On Nureyev, MacMillan, And Ashton

  23-06-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sir Peter Wright, the leading producer-choreographer, … now aged 90 and still working, … is publishing a memoir that will reveal the extreme tensions and rivalries between some of the most brilliant but often highly strung artists.” For instance, he remembers Rudolf Nureyev being “unbearably rude” to Margot Fonteyn, who “would just shrug her shoulders.”
  
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• The Hot New Bolshoi Star Who Played Rudolf Nureyev On BBC

  23-06-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Artem Ovcharenko: “I was very keen, not just to play him correctly, but also to dance like him, but without making it a caricature. If you look at the way he was dancing in his younger days, people were already saying that he was a genius on stage – but technically bad. But I feared that if I simply emphasised that, it would be too obvious.”
  
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• Remember When You Could Call For The Correct Time? You Still Can, And People Do

  23-06-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The U.S. Naval Observatory still offers a time-by-phone service. (Call 202-762-1401 today, and you’ll hear a pleasant ticking sound followed by the announcement of the exact time, delivered in an old-timey-broadcasting voice.) Not only does it still exist, but people still use it.” Adrienne LaFrance looks at why.
  
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• Stubbs and the Wild review – a radical world vision seen through animal eyes

  23-06-2016 11:24
  
  Terrified horses, playful leopards, anxious lemurs … the 18th-century painter’s acute observation and compassion are vividly present in this impactful showA white horse trembles in terror, veins throbbing in its flanks, its mane thrust forward as if galvanised by electricity, its mouth open in shock. Every muscle of its tremulous body is a beacon of distress. As Horace Walpole, author of the Gothic horror story The Castle of Otranto, observed when Horse Frightened by a Lion was firs
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.22.16

  23-06-2016 11:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Commercial in Confidence”: National Gallery of Victoria Upholds MoMA’s Secrecy on Loan
  In my post last week spotlighting the lack of transparency about the financial terms (collegial loan or money-making rental?) of the Museum of Modern Art’s planned dispatch of some 150 masterworks for temporary display at …read more
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-06-22Snapshot: Alexander Calder “performs” his miniature circus
  Le Grand Cirque Calder 1927, a 1
  
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• Stanley Spencer's art: ‘what is rubbish to some people is not to me’ – video

  23-06-2016 09:00
  
  As a child, Stanley Spencer was always rummaging in dustbins – a broken tea pot, jam tin and cabbage stalk seemed to him a wondrous holy trinity. In this short film, made for the opening of the Hepworth Wakefield’s new exhibition of his art, Spencer’s paintings are brought to life with words from the artist’s notebooksStanley Spencer: Of Angels and Dust is at Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire until 2 October
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• Great art under the big skies of Montana – in pictures

  23-06-2016 07:30
  
  The Tippet Rise Art Center, on an 11,500-acre working ranch near Yellowstone, Montana, has just opened to the public. It celebrates land and architecture, as well as music during its classical concert season Continue reading...
  
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• Huge fabric bridge in Italy closes for a stretch as visitors wear it out

  23-06-2016 03:56
  
  Free art installation on northern Italian lake to close at night after becoming too popular for its own good A giant floating walkway made out of fabric on an Italian lake has had to be closed at night after tens of thousands of visitors began to wear it out.The 1.9-mile (3km) walkway of 200,000 floating cubes covered in orange fabric was created by artist Christo and has proved a major attraction since it opened on Saturday on Lake Iseo. Related: Walking on water: The Floating Piers –&nbs
  
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• David Gockley – An Opera Pioneer Reflects On The State Of The Art

  23-06-2016 01:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While his substantial contributions are being lauded widely — with an all-star “Celebrating David!” gala earlier this month at the War Memorial Opera House here, the publication of a coffee-table book about his career, and numerous articles and accolades — Mr. Gockley was in an introspective mood during a recent lunch in which he discussed the significant challenges ahead for opera.”
  
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• Untitled(it was his nature to sacrifice ten men to save the lives of a hundred men)

  23-06-2016 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i’m doubting my hair and my extra large salmon t-shirt. i make a thousand on line monthly payment to a card  that i have to shut down, someone set it up and has had access to my online banking. there is only one person who has access to my on line banking.  i changed my password but it isn’t enough.i remember having taken my medication because i washed it down with stale pelligrino water. the woman at the bank isn’t available to help me. i want to deal with her. she k
  
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