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• Andy Meerow at And Now, Dallas

  28-06-2016 23:48 via artnews.com
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• Sotheby’s Quells Fear of Brexit Slump With $69.6 M. Contemporary Sale in London, Sets Record With $9.1 M. Jenny Saville

  28-06-2016 23:07 via artnews.com
  With the markets in London in turmoil after the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union, a glimmer of hope arrived at the Sotheby’s Mayfair salesroom Tuesday evening. The contemporary art evening auction in London—a sale that some thought could collapse amidst … Read More
  
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• Masterpiece London turns away from luxury roots

  28-06-2016 23:00
  
  Nazy Vassegh, the chief executive of Masterpiece London, says she has sought to recalibrate the UK capitals unashamedly lavish, cross-disciplinary fair since her appointment in 2013.
  While the fair maintains its premise of mixing older art with new, a previous emphasis on luxury goodsunpopular with some who, ironically, felt it cheapened the tonehas been scaled back. Vassegh says that a focus on the three pillars of art, antiques and design will give the fair a stronger identity. With stricter
  
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• ‘British exports still desirable’: UK artist Jenny Saville smashes record at Sotheby’s

  28-06-2016 23:00
  
  For those sitting in the saleroom of Sothebys last night, the turmoil on the financial markets following the UKs decision to leave the European Union (EU) seemed a distant memory.
  Records tumbled for Keith Haring and Jenny Saville, whose monumental body pile painting, Shift, last seen at the Royal Academy Sensation exhibition in 1997, was bought by Liu Yiqians Long Museum for 6m (6.6m with fees; est 1.5m-2m). The Chinese billionaire beat four other bidders including the US mega dealer Larry Gag
  
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• Artangel unveils latex cast of the past at Westminster as anti-Brexit marchers protest the present

  28-06-2016 23:00
  
  The snaking line of art-worlders waiting in the rain to be cleared by House of Commons security to view Artangels latest commissionThe Ethics of Dust by Jorge Otero-Pailos in Westminster Hallwere treated to a more direct engagement with contemporary history as several thousand London Remain marchers poured past from what was supposed to be a cancelled rally in Trafalgar Square. The stream of protestors, who included a posse of Royal College of Art students distinguished by their rather well-exe
  
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• Why Doesn’t Canada Have A National Theatre?

  28-06-2016 22:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At a time when many in the arts bemoan shrinking audiences, wonder whether live performance is losing social relevance and even predict the death of theatre, here is a new institution vigorously engaging local and global audiences through national drama. It’s enough to make you ask, why doesn’t Canada have a national theatre?”
  
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• Steve Martin—comic, collector and now curator—helps launch Lawren Harris show in Toronto

  28-06-2016 22:30
  Steve Martin the curator and art enthusiast occasionally gave way to Steve Martin the comic and film star at the media preview of The Idea Of North: the Paintings of Lawren Harris at Torontos Art Gallery of Ontario on Tuesday, 28 June. The show spans the long career of the Canadian artist, whose work ranged from cityscapes to landscapes to abstraction. It opens to the public on Canada Day, 1 July.A stripped-down version of the comprehensive survey was on view last year the Hammer Museum in Los
  
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• Isil rampage continues with destruction of the Temple of Nabu in northern Iraq

  28-06-2016 22:08
  The destruction of the Temple of Nabu in the Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq by the Islamic State (Isil) has been condemned by Unesco and a leading UK archaeologist. As part of its propaganda campaign, the jihadist group issued video footage earlier this month that appeared to show part of the ancient archaeological site being blown up. 
  The United Nations training and research agency, Unitar, released satellite images taken on 3 June confirming the damage to the temple, which was
  
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• Philosophy’s Diversity Problem (Not What You Think)

  28-06-2016 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Philosophy must become more diverse in order to make progress on its fundamental questions. But cultural diversity means something different in philosophy, compared with other humanities disciplines.”
  
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• Fiona Tan Named Artist in Residence at Getty Research Institute

  28-06-2016 21:33 via artnews.com
  The Getty Research Institute announced today that Fiona Tan will be the artist in residence for its 2016–2017 Scholars Program. Operating under the broad theme of “Art and Anthropology,” the Institute’s annual research program will host 46 scholars alongside Tan at the … Read More
  
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• Problem: Artificial Intelligence Starts With The Biases Of Its Programmers

  28-06-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sexism, racism and other forms of discrimination are being built into the machine-learning algorithms that underlie the technology behind many “intelligent” systems that shape how we are categorized and advertised to.”
  
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• Tempting As It Is To Think That Hard Work Matters More Than Talent…

  28-06-2016 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Far from undervaluing effort, Americans seems to overestimate the potential of their own endeavour. A 2014 study by Pew Research found that 73 per cent of Americans believe that hard work is very important to success, the highest out of all the countries surveyed. Only 49 per cent of Germans agreed. We know, from a growing pile of evidence from many different sources, that while innate ability is far from the only contributor to success, it is probably the best predictor of it.”
  
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• National Organization for Women Names Emma Sulkowicz Its 2016 Woman of Courage

  28-06-2016 20:55 via artnews.com
  The National Organization for Women has announced that Emma Sulkowicz will be the recipient of its 2016 Woman of Courage Award, in honor of her now-famous piece Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight), 2014–15. The performance was developed as Sulkowicz’s senior thesis project … Read More
  
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• A Hostile University Revolution That’s Disrupting Education

  28-06-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For, whomever or whatever you might blame for the current state of affairs, the recent hostilities have been distinctly unfriendly to the creating and sustaining of intellectual energy. Universities need to get beyond these disputes, at least to some degree, if they are going to retain any meaningful chance to fulfill their social missions.”
  
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• Ground control to Major Longly

  28-06-2016 20:17
  
  Red Bull Studios in New York presents We All Love Your LifeLondon-based artist George Henry Longlys first solo presentation in the US (until 31 July) comprising a dizzying two-storey installation of living environments inspired by Henry S. F. Coopers 1976 book A House in Space about daily life at NASAs first space station, Skylab (Longly cannily pegs the astronauts, observed on round-the-clock video feed, as the first reality TV stars). On 21 July, Longly
  
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• Why Even Skilled People Make Big Mistakes In Chess (Or Anything Else)

  28-06-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The fact that mistakes have more to do with the problem itself, as opposed to skill or time, raises questions well beyond the domain of chess.”
  
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• Edward Snowden’s Busy International Social Life – As A Robot

  28-06-2016 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Snowden’s body might be confined to Moscow, but the former NSA computer specialist has hacked a work-around: a robot. If he wants to make his physical presence felt in the United States, he can connect to a wheeled contraption called a BeamPro, a flat-screen monitor that stands atop a pair of legs, five-foot-two in all, with a camera that acts as a swiveling Cyclops eye.”
  
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• Artist Pension Trust Makes Its First Financial Distributions to Artists in New York and Los Angeles

  28-06-2016 19:26 via artnews.com
  The Artist Pension Trust, a collection of contemporary art that doubles as a mutual fund, has announced that it has made its first dividends to more than 400 artists participating in its New York and Los Angeles trusts “after a … Read More
  
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• Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Playboy Interview

  28-06-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Q: “You’ve said that when you look at yourself in the mirror you see a guy who got fired three times. Do you think there will ever be a point when you’ll look in the mirror and see the dude who changed the game with Between the World and Me?”A: “No, because that remains to be seen. And the game could get changed back.”
  
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• Benign Neglect – Why Are America’s Great Symphonists Ignored?

  28-06-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A British colleague observed that American works, highly celebrated in their own time among musicians, contrast in their current obscurity with comparable works by UK composers that are increasingly celebrated in the UK. This got me wondering: have US musicians and presenters unjustly ignored their own symphonists, or have audiences voted against them?”
  
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• Chris Siefert Named Deputy Director of Parrish Art Museum

  28-06-2016 18:22 via artnews.com
  The Parrish Art Museum announced today that Chris Siefert will be its deputy director. He starts his new position at the Water Mill, New York museum on July 1.Siefert comes from the Children’s Museum in Pittsburgh, where he was its … Read More
  
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• Hive Mind: Terence Koh Transmits Names of Orlando Victims Into Space

  28-06-2016 18:04 via artnews.com
  At around 6 p.m. last Thursday evening, visitors swarmed in and around Andrew Edlin Gallery, sipping on homemade flower tea from compostable cups. They were chatting with each other enthusiastically in the building’s cramped front space, their heads brushing against human … Read More
  
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• Nearly Half Of English Public Against More Arts Funding: Survey

  28-06-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Only 9% of English adults think Government spending on the arts should be increased, compared with 45% who think it should be decreased, according to new research by consultants ComRes. It also found that more than half know ‘nothing at all’ about Arts Council England (ACE), and the vast majority (89%) don’t think that it is good at communicating the value of arts and culture.”
  
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• Local School Board Votes To Charge Students $100 Each To Participate In School Plays

  28-06-2016 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With strapped school budgets, the school board is looking to close its budget by making families “pay to play”.
  
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• This Week in Audience: The Latest Fronts On Understanding Who’s Paying Attention

  28-06-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Is social media communication, marketing, art, or all three?… The perils of market research when it drives your art… The latest front on artists’ war on cell phone use… How NPR discovered a ton of information about its listeners… How the internet is changing our perceptions of the world.
  
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• 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London Announces Exhibitor List

  28-06-2016 17:27 via artnews.com
  The 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair has announced the 40 galleries from 18 countries that will be exhibiting at the fair’s fourth London edition, to be held at Somerset House from October 6 to 9, during Frieze Week. As usual, … Read More
  
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• A great European painting has just been unveiled in Britain. It feels like forbidden fruit

  28-06-2016 17:24
  
  For Brexiters, divorce from Europe’s cultural glories is just good riddance to foreign muck. Now we’re isolated, feasting on the art of Georges de la Tour feels like a subversive act against nationalismA great masterpiece of European art has just gone on view at the National Gallery in London. Georges de la Tour’s painting The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs (1630-34) has been loaned by the Kimbell Art Museum in Texas and can be seen, for free, in the French galleries. Under normal
  
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• Now *This* Is A Theater Company That Knows How To Make Do On A Tiny Budget

  28-06-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It sounded like your typical aspirational, ‘I want’ musical-theater song. Except for the part where a jaguar, played by Jennifer Lim, roared into the scene and pounced on [Celia] Keenan-Bolger. Also, the horses were cardboard heads on sticks, and the ensemble a team of cardboard cacti (with sad faces drawn in black Sharpie).”
  
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• Duke Riley: the pigeon fancier whose 'avian ballet' enchanted New York

  28-06-2016 16:53
  
  The Brooklyn artist used to live in a pigeon coop, now he’s turned his love of the birds into one of New York’s most talked about art worksDuke Riley is sitting on the Baylander, a Vietnam-era navy vessel anchored in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Around us, gently cooing, sit his prized birds that performed in his free Fly By Night show, which saw 2,000 homing pigeons carrying lightweight LED lights sent into the night sky. The show was a spring phenomenon in New York, with 45,000 people o
  
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• ‘Game Of Thrones’ And The Politics Of 2016

  28-06-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Emily Nussbaum: “Season 6 … felt perversely relevant in this election year. It was dominated by debates about purity versus pragmatism; the struggles of female candidates in a male-run world; family dynasties with ugly histories; and assorted deals with various devils. George R. R. Martin surely didn’t intend his blockbuster series of fantasy books … to be an allegorical text for U.S. voters in 2016. But that’s what you get with modern water-cooler dramas, which s
  
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• Wrestling With Art History: ‘Women of Abstract Expressionism’ at the Denver Art Museum

  28-06-2016 16:24 via artnews.com
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• Turning An Auto-Body Shop Into A Center For Dance And Dancers

  28-06-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Renovations began last week on the Performance Garage, which former Martha Graham dancer Jeanne Ruddy and her husband bought back when it was an actual garage for repairing cars. The plan is to make it a comfortable, affordable performance and rehearsal center for many companies; BalletX already rehearses there.
  
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• Female Cinematographers Talk About Making Their Way In A Very Male Profession

  28-06-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Vulture spoke to [Natasha] Braier (The Neon Demon) and two other prominent female DPs, Maryse Alberti (The Wrestler, Creed) and Rachel Morrison (Fruitvale Station, Cake, Dope), about the challenges, opportunities, and absurdity of being a woman in cinematography.”
  
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• Models Claim Artist Pressured Them To Penetrate Themselves With Rope; Artist Says She Clearly Informed Models And Required Nothing

  28-06-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In Brazilian artist Laura Lima’s exhibition The Inverse, ‘the participant’s body achieves uncanny abstraction, presence, and suspense,’ according to a description. But two models say Lima went way too far in trying to achieve this effect.”
  
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• Death, volcanoes and Nazis in the family: Ragnar Kjartansson, wild man of Icelandic art

  28-06-2016 15:18
  
  He makes art in the bath, thinks Nigel Farage has a punchable face and gets together with his Mum every five years to be spat on. Meet the unstoppable force that is Ragnar KjartanssonThe daffodils are out in Reykjavik. It must be summer. Walking into Ragnar Kjartansson’s studio, one of a long terrace of low concrete units lining the harbour, there’s an upright piano by the door, a guitar against the wall, and a drumkit and amplifiers set-up on a patch of carpet. Originally built for
  
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• This Bookstore Will Serve You An Espresso While You Wait Five Minutes For Your Printed-To-Order Book

  28-06-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The pronounced stock shortage inside the Librairie des Puf” – that’s for Presses universitaires de France – “is not the result of an ordering mistake, but the heart of the shop’s business model.”
  
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• Edoardo Müller, Longtime Conductor At San Diego Opera, Dead At 78

  28-06-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Müller was recognized as an ‘old school’ conductor who worked with two generations of opera artists around the world. He was also known for his scholarly study of singing and at least once stepped in to perform a major tenor role in La Traviata at a San Diego Opera dress rehearsal.” He conducted 45 productions at the company over 31 years.
  
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• British Museum In Court Disputing Nearly $1M Tax Bill

  28-06-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The museum is contesting a tax bill from the local council of the London borough of Camden for £720,000. The council maintains that revenues from the museum’s two restaurants and gift shop should be taxed at for-profit rates.
  
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• Morning Links: Christie’s Future Edition

  28-06-2016 14:43 via artnews.com
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• Gargantuan Statue Of Columbus, Rejected By At Least Six Cities, Finds Home In Puerto Rico

  28-06-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At 350 ft, Birth of a New World is not the tallest sculpture in existence. … But [Zurab] Tsereteli’s work is enormous, 45ft taller than the Statue of Liberty from pedestal to torch. In 1993, Columbus, Ohio, turned it down. Other cities followed suit, including New York, Boston, Cleveland, Fort Lauderdale and Miami. Finally the statue was offered a home in Puerto Rico, where Columbus arrived in 1493.”
  
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• A Final Count Of The Departures From Pennsylvania Ballet

  28-06-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Today, the ballet’s website shows 25 dancers: five principals, four soloists, 11 corps dancers, and six apprentices. That makes 18 dancers or 42 percent of this season’s company who will not be on stage at the Academy of Music or Merriam Theater next season.”
  
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• Reading Conrad With Convicts: Leading A Book Club In A Maximum-Security Prison

  28-06-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’ve always believed that, to remain open to the surprises and contingencies offered by literature, you have to value ignorance more than self-confidence. … The prisoners, however, see my openness as wishy-washy. If this is what you get from literature, they tell me, maybe it’s better to leave it alone. Who wants to be uncertain and indecisive? At least they know where they stand. That may very well be true, I reply, but look where it’s got you.”
  
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• Backstage Drama Bursts Into Public View At Legendary Berlin Theatre

  28-06-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Monday, 180 directors, actors and stage designers associated with the Volksbühne published an open letter in which they expressed ‘deep concerns’ about plans for the future of the legendary avant garde theatre, which is due to be headed by Tate Modern’s outgoing director Chris Dercon from early 2017. ‘This is not a friendly takeover,’ they write.”
  
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• Hollywood’s Original ‘It’ Girl (And How Hollywood Froze Her Out)

  28-06-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As fellow actor Lina Basquette said: ‘She wasn’t well liked amongst other women in the film colony. Her social presence was taboo, and it was rather silly, because God knows Marion Davies and Mary Pickford had plenty to hide. It’s just that they hid it, and Clara didn’t.'”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.27.16

  28-06-2016 09:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Monday Recommendation: Charlie Parker
  Charlie Parker, Unheard Bird: The Unissued Takes (Verve) Charlie Parker has never disappeared from the consciousness of serious jazz listeners. This two-CD collection, due out on Friday, could go a long way toward helping new generations discover the stunning purity and power of Parker’s creativity. … read more
  AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-06-27True confession
  Max Beerbohm’s The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men, written
  
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• The Australian Ballet takes on Degas' dancers – in pictures

  28-06-2016 08:46
  
  In its world premiere at the National Gallery of Victoria, Degas: A New Vision is one of the most comprehensive Edgar Degas retrospectives in decades, and makes up the largest collection of his work to ever come to Australia. The exhibition, curated by the former Louvre director Henri Loyrette, comprises more than 200 paintings, sculptures, drawings, pastels and photographs, including the portraits of ballet dancers and Parisian life for which Degas is most well-known. At the media preview on Th
  
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• Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera review – romance, heartbreak and a must-see exhibition

  28-06-2016 04:22
  
  Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
  Breaking a 10-year absence from Australian galleries, the paintings, photos and letters of the two Mexican lovers is illuminating and tragic Frida Kahlo was 18 years old when the bus she was travelling on crashed in Mexico City. The teenager was impaled, breaking her spinal column, pelvis, collarbone and ribs. The force of the collision ripped off her clothes, leaving her bleeding and naked. And, in a twist somehow prescient of Kahlo’s colourful, trag
  
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• Untitled(they thought i was looking into how the water supply was in the small valley oregon town)

  28-06-2016 00:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  the red beard was laconic. i had a feeling he was on lithium. he shaved his beard. he was more handsome that i thought he was. he got a clean haircut. he didn’t look as old. he said he was growing the beard back. his girlfriend liked it better, he said. i thought he shouldn’t grow it. i was feeling murky and self pity. amanda complained about how busy she was. she doubted being able to build a relationship with me. what she didn’t know was that anything grand involved a great d
  
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