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• Untitled(she can get a license. she’s scared she is going to be charged with vehicular manslaughter. )

  05-07-2016 23:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  the tall thin woman, v, is from virginia. she has been wanting to read jefferson’s writing. she has been reading translations. she wants to read american writers even though they have been edited. she read joan didion. she thinks her novels read like a screen play.
  v has a sister. the sister is angry. she stutters and blinks. she was detained for stalking her.
  v can go forward. she can do a chore. the anxiety is less when she does them. she can get a license. she’s scared she is goin
  
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• Orhan Pamuk’s manifesto for museums

  05-07-2016 23:00
  
  Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author, who founded the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul, was a keynote speaker at the International Council of Museums (ICOM) conference in Milan this week. He delivered the following message, first published by the Italian newspaper La Stampa, by video link. He stressed that in the future we need "small and economical museums that address our humanity". Pamuk said: "All museums are genuine treasures of humankind, but I am against these precious
  
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• Buck beats Searle to win the night at Intelligence Squared debate

  05-07-2016 23:00
  
  Your correspondent is not usually prone to horn blowing, but it is difficult not to feel a small triumphant glow after rather achieving a rather significant victory opposing the motion that contemporary art has sold out to the market in last nights (5 July) Intelligence Squared debate, hosted by Investec at Phillips. Decrying the evils of the art market and its corrupting effect on artists was the Guardians chief art critic Adrian Searle. Before the debate commencedmoderated by the BBC arts edi
  
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• Brexit: what it could mean for the arts

  05-07-2016 23:00
  
  The UK is on course to leave the European Union, after a narrow vote in favour of divorce in a referendum held two weeks ago on 23 June. How long the process known as Brexit will take, and its consequences for the arts and for artists, remain largely unknown. The referendum resultLondon and Scotlands voters were among the dissenterswas greeted with shock by many in the arts, and the fall-out from the subsequent political and economic turmoil has caused widespread concern internationally.
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• Lessons Learned Running My Little Free Library

  05-07-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Not only was I not a librarian, I wasn’t even really dealing in reading material. That the objects in our Little Free Library happened to be books was beside the point. The salient fact was that the items were free. We may as well, I suspected, have been offering plastic spoons, Allen wrenches and facial tissue. I tested this hypothesis by mixing in non-book items including an instructional DVD on how to use an exercise ball, and a few packets of echinacea seeds.”
  
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• America’s “Gatekeeper” Problem In Spreading Big Ideas

  05-07-2016 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s a very narrow doorway through which big ideas get to audiences,” said Chris Jackson, the editor-in-chief of Random House’s One World imprint. But as mainstream culture looks increasingly unlike America, there’s reason to hope cultural gatekeepers will soon be forced to expand their horizons.
  
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• Labor Gallery Now Represents Yuri Pattison

  05-07-2016 20:33 via artnews.com
  Mexico City’s Labor gallery announced today that it now represents Yuri Pattison, the Irish-born, London-based artist who won this year’s Frieze Artist Award.Pattison has become known for his multimedia work that loosely focuses on production and consumption on the Internet. … Read More
  
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• Some Aesthetic Misgivings About Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Floating Saffron Piers

  05-07-2016 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is undeniable that “Floating Piers” has tapped into the public imagination, drawing 270,000 visitors within the first three days of opening and over 500,000 to date. But if we are to take the work as a purely artistic statement (and a very popular one), it is nonetheless one that connects the private villa of an arms manufacturer to the mainland, drawing the parched masses to the Beretta family’s closed doors. I came, I saw, and I left feeling that a beautiful lake ha
  
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• Report Reveals Legal Dispute Over Giacometti Sketches

  05-07-2016 20:27 via artnews.com
  Reuters reports that a legal battle is quietly raging over the ownership of 16 sketches by the late Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti, as well as more than 100 photographs of the renowned sculptor. The works have been embargoed in a Swiss museum for … Read More
  
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• Ronald Lockett at the American Folk Art Museum and Sargent’s Daughters, New York

  05-07-2016 20:08 via artnews.com
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• What’s Ailing The Met Opera? We Need To Change The Way We Talk About It

  05-07-2016 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The arts world has to let go of these popular, though incorrect clichés.First, paid capacity is a terrible way to gauge success—it does not provide real numbers that are actually tied to the budget.That four-year old study from the NEA needs to be put to rest, and we need a more updated, nuanced study of arts attendance in this country.And “Baumol’s cost disease” is an idea that has been vastly overplayed when talking about the arts… to the degree tha
  
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• New Museum and K11 Art Foundation Partner for Chinese Artists Residency in New York

  05-07-2016 20:00 via artnews.com
  Cheng Ran was named the first recipient of the honor Read More
  
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• That Time Igor Stravinsky And The Boston Symphony Caused A National Scandal

  05-07-2016 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He did compose a weird arrangement of the national anthem, and the Boston police really did ban him from performing it — sparking a national uproar and a tense showdown that played out live on the radio. Depending on how you read it, it’s a story of ego and hubris, or patriotism and generosity.”
  
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• Why Some Bad Ideas, Like Zombies And Kudzu, Just Won’t Die (There Are Still Flat-Earthers, For Pete’s Sake)

  05-07-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, “the belief that the best ideas will always succeed is rather like the faith that unregulated financial markets will always produce the best economic outcomes. … But in the marketplace of ideas, zombies can actually be useful. Or if not, they can at least make us feel better. That, paradoxically, is what I think the flat-Earthers of today are really offering – comfort.”
  
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• Joshua Kosman Asses David Gockley’s Ten Years Running San Francisco Opera

  05-07-2016 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Gockley has stayed true to that maxim throughout his career, making sure never to let one aspect of the art form outshine another. But at the same time, Gockley’s omnivorous stance, along with the compromises it entails, has made it that much trickier for him to stake a claim to overarching excellence in any single arena.”
  
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• Beach House: Katharina Grosse Brings a Masterpiece to the Sands of New York

  05-07-2016 18:31 via artnews.com
  Donning a spacesuit-like outfit, complete with a breathing apparatus, the German artist Katharina Grosse blasts vivid, florescent-hued paint over huge chunks of architecture, dirt piles, sheets, jagged sculptural forms, plastic, and, sure, canvas. The results are exhilarating—hallucinogenic fields of colors that melt … Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s Gallery Project S|2 Flees East For the Summer With Show at The Surf Lodge in Montauk

  05-07-2016 18:24 via artnews.com
  With the London sales wrapped up—and with results better than expected, given the effect of Brexit on the British markets—Sotheby’s is heading out east for the summer. S|2, the auction house’s gallery component that has routinely hosted themed exhibitions in its space … Read More
  
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• There Is No Such Thing As A Distinct Scientific Method

  05-07-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  James Blachowicz argues that what we think of as the scientific method is basically the same as the process by which one edits a poem or hones a philosophical argument.
  
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• London Art Week: our top five picks

  05-07-2016 17:49
  Following the largely successful round of post-war and contemporary auctions last week, which appeared  unaffected by the surrounding political chaos in the UK post-Brexit, Londons art world now turns its eye to Old Masters and classical art in one final burst of market activity before many dealers shut up shop for the summer.The fourth edition of London Art Week, an amalgamation of Master Drawings and Sculpture Week (founded in 2001) and Master Paintings Week (founded in 2009),
  
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• NPR’s Podcast Strategy To Grow Its Audience

  05-07-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The demographic that went up the most in the first quarter of 2016 was the 18 to 24 year-olds [average quarter hour listening was up 20% according to Nielsen]. To be fair, it’s not a huge audience. But I point it out because it’s the direction we want to go. It didn’t come at the expense of any of our journalism either.”
  
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• Seven Ways To Find Meaning At Work (Actual Good Ideas From David Brooks)

  05-07-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Two professional conservatives, the New York Times Op-Ed columnist and Arthur Brooks (no relation), president of the American Enterprise Institute, offer some ideas convincing enough that the leftish Atlantic is willing to post them.
  
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• The Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, Islam’s second holiest site, attacked

  05-07-2016 16:35
  
  A bomb was detonated late yesterday (4 July) near the Prophets Mosque in Medina in western Saudi Arabia, Islams second holiest site. The mosque, which was founded in the seventh century, houses Muhammads tomb as well as those of the first two caliphs, Abu Bakr and Omar. 
  Images posted on the Al Jazeera website show a fire outside the mosque where the explosion took place; officials at the Saudi embassy in London were unavailable to comment on whether the mosque, which was filled with worsh
  
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• Ukrainian Opera Star Killed By Sniper In Separatist War

  05-07-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Baritone Vasyl Slipak, 41, “had left his native Ukraine in the 1990s to settle in France, where he regularly sang at the Paris Opera. But after war erupted in 2014, he decided to return home and join a volunteer battalion to fight Russian-backed separatists on the country’s eastern front.”
  
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• 'We took on the Tories and won!' … why Liverpool's striking schoolkids are back

  05-07-2016 16:17
  
  Thirty years ago, 10,000 children walked out of class to protest against the Tories. As the strike is restaged at Liverpool Biennial, we meet its original teen rebels“Neil Kinnock called us dafties,” says Rachel Harrison, rolling her eyes. Thirty years on, the former Labour leader’s belittling description of the schoolchildren who went on strike one spring day in Liverpool clearly still rankles. “There was nothing daft about us. We were doing what the Labour opposition sh
  
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• Iranian Cartoonist Who Drew Government Ministers As Goats And Monkeys Is Finally Released From Evin Prison

  05-07-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When a cartoon in which [Atena Farghadani] depicted government officials as farm animals appeared on [Facebook] in 2014, it led to her receiving a prison sentence of more than 12 years. During her ordeal Farghadani was beaten, strip-searched, went on hunger strike and – despite being only 29 – suffered a heart attack.”
  
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• Gay Talese Disowns His Creepy New Book – Kinda Sorta

  05-07-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’m not going to promote this book. How dare I promote it when its credibility is down the toilet?” said the author of his soon-to-be-released The Voyeur’s Motel after being confronted with evidence that his source and subject had lied to him. Liam O’Brien observes, “Talese neatly distances himself from his own work, which defuses any pressure on him to defend his choices – except not really, because, you know, he wrote the damn thing.”
  
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• What’s Behind The Disaster At USC’s Art School?

  05-07-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The departure of HaeAhn Kwon, this year’s only enrolled MFA student, “a year after an entire class of seven studio art MFA students withdrew from Roski to protest curriculum changes and staff defections, is prompting new questions about USC’s commitment to the fine arts and renewed accusations that the university cares more about buzzy programs.” Carolina Miranda reports.
  
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• Norton Museum Of Art In Palm Beach Drops Admission Charges For Next Two-And-A-Half Years

  05-07-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The museum was closed [for one month] while staff prepares for a $100 million renovation which will enlarge the building and transform its facade along South Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach. Admission will continue to be free until what’s being called The New Norton is completed in late 2018.”
  
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• Boston Ballet Just Smashed Its Previous Box Office Record – Thanks To Some Smart Data-Crunching

  05-07-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Crediting a host of new techniques that include variable pricing, alternating repertoire, and an enhanced social media presence, Boston Ballet is reporting that last season marked the company’s highest attendance levels in more than a decade and its best ticket revenues in the company’s 53-year history.”
  
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• Dispute Over Minimum Wage For L.A.’S 99-Seat Theaters Goes To Court As Talks Collapse

  05-07-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Negotiations to resolve a minimum wage dispute between Actors’ Equity Assn. and members of the theater community have failed and the parties are headed to court … At the center of the lawsuit is Equity’s 99-seat theater plan, which calls for owners of theaters with fewer than 100 seats to pay Equity actors minimum wage for rehearsal and performance time.”
  
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• Morning Links: Peter Schjeldahl’s Fireworks Edition

  05-07-2016 14:36 via artnews.com
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• Baltimore Symphony Receives $1.2M Gift To Bring Poorest Students To Concerts

  05-07-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[The donation from Mark and Patricia Joseph] will more than triple the number of financially disadvantaged students who attend the orchestra’s popular midweek concert series for local schools … Officials explained that many children couldn’t afford the $10 ticket price, let alone the often-prohibitive cost of renting a bus.”
  
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• John Luther Adams Writes A Soundtrack For A Stroll Between Met Museums

  05-07-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Cooper: “It was with some trepidation that I set out last week to try Soundwalk 9:09, a piece the Metropolitan Museum of Art commissioned from … the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer. Composed of sounds recorded in the area, the work is intended for people to listen to on their smartphones as they make the eight-block walk between the museum’s mother ship, on Fifth Avenue, and its new outpost, the Met Breuer, in the old Whitney building on Madison Avenue. What if I did i
  
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• Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, 76, Leader Of Iranian New Wave

  05-07-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Kiarostami, whose subtly enigmatic films” – among them A Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, Certified Copy – “play brilliantly with audiences’ preconceptions, was considered one of the greatest directors in contemporary world cinema.”
  
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• The Best Film Festival You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of

  05-07-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At the 30th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna’s annual celebration of restored and rediscovered cinema, the bonus addition to the bill was not a film-maker, or a movie, but a projector. The machine in question was a British model, made in 1899, but now once again in perfect working order.”
  
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• We Three Khans: This Trio Of Superstars Has Bollywood’s Release Schedule In A Headlock

  05-07-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Each dominates a different annual holiday. Shah Rukh Khan, a favourite of the middle classes, is the hero of the Diwali weekend. Aamir Khan, more highbrow, dominates Christmas.” And Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking the end of Ramadan, is the territory of Salman Khan.
  
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• Katharina Grosse's splash of colour for New York beachside building

  05-07-2016 12:53
  
  This summer at Fort Tilden, a disused military outpost in Queens, MoMA PS1 presents Rockaway!, a new work by the German painter Katharina Grosse in which she covers an abandoned beachside building with methodical splatters of neon red, orange and pink paint. We spoke to Grosse about her project.Your work often seems like it is done by someone hovering in the sky. Do you see a narrative there? Is it your eye there, or is it a more objective view?It has to do with a certain kind of absurd scale,
  
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• Sydney Biennale turns 21

  05-07-2016 10:59
  
  The 21st Biennale of Sydney may be two years away but the organisers have already put in place a curator for the established Oz event. Mami Kataoka, the chief curator at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, takes the reins in 2018, saying: As artistic director, I am interested to ask how we can test the biennales significance given the growing understanding of multiple modernities; the many socio-political contexts and accelerated complexities in the world today. Kataokas CV is extensive, from organis
  
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• Body painting festival in Austria – in pictures

  05-07-2016 10:30
  
  Body paint artists from all over the world descended on Poertschach am Woerthersee in Austria for the 2016 bodypainting festival, showing off their creations with living displays Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.04.16

  05-07-2016 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Future of Orchestras (Cont’d): Would the Philharmonic Sing Palestrina?
  Frankly, the consolidated thread of considered comments elicited by my mega-blog on the future of orchestras has taken me by surprise. These are informed comments from inside the orchestra world. I have also been deluged with emails whose content must remain private. They, too, register the thoughts, frustrations, and anxieties of musicians, educators, and administrators. … read more
  AJBlog: Unanswered Questi
  
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• 'It's an important moment': Sydney Biennale's first Asian curator on the role of Asian art in Australia

  05-07-2016 04:17
  
  Art community hails appointment of Japanese curator Mami Kataoka as a recognition of Australia’s changing demographics and ‘a clear signal that we are now looking north rather than to our colonial past’On 23 April 2016, Taiwanese artist Lee Mingwei invited the public to destroy his own art. Channeling Buddhist notions of impermanence, audience members were asked to stride over a painstakingly rendered sandpainting on the floor of Sydney’s Carriageworks before the work was
  
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• Five Highlights From Last Week’s AJ You Shouldn’t Miss

  05-07-2016 01:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This week: Alas, hard work probably doesn’t trump innate ability… It’s tempting to believe extravagant claims for technology, but there are limits… Yes, by all means let’s talk about equity, but be sure you know what it means… A real-world experiment in ticket pricing (and some surprising results)… The death of the mid-budget Hollywood movie.
  
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• The Art Critic’s Mythic Longrunning July 4th Party, Killed Off By Social Media

  05-07-2016 00:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the 1980s, Peter Schjeldahl and his wife purchased many acres of mountainous land in the town of Bovina, a little more than three hours north of Midtown Manhattan. For more than a quarter-century, the property served as the site of a Fourth of July celebration that has maintained a singular place in New York’s social history, drawing friends, and friends of friends, from the city — artists, writers, musicians, academics, gallery owners, movie stars — and a considerabl
  
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