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• After Ten Years, HD Opera Movie-Casts Still Prove Controversial

  19-07-2016 23:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Like so much new media in this era of rapid technological change, the HD broadcasts haven’t actually fulfilled the rosy expectations that once surrounded them. It is far from clear that they are the wave of the future.”
  
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• Cosima von Bonin at Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow

  19-07-2016 23:33 via artnews.com
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• What – From An Academic Perspective – Constitutes Plagiarism?

  19-07-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Scholars tend to disagree on what plagiarism is and how to distinguish it from paraphrasing. Many scholars say plagiarism is defined as five or more words used directly from another source without attribution. Sometimes plagiarism is an obvious copy-and-paste job, while other times it’s more subtle.”
  
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• Teresa Margolles builds monument to 100 people who died in the streets of Los Angeles

  19-07-2016 23:00
  
  How can we stop the relentless flow of gun violence in American cities, where a persons death grabs headlines for a nanosecond only to be washed away, at least digitally, by more recent victims?
  The Mexican artist Teresa Margolles, who has made work steeped in the violence in her home country and beyond, has taken the time to research, visit, photograph and videotape the murder sites of 100 homicide victims in Los Angeles who died on public streets since 1 January 2015, ultimately transforming
  
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• Teresa Margolles builds monument in Los Angeles honouring 100 victims of gun crime

  19-07-2016 23:00
  
  How can we stop the relentless flow of gun violence in American cities, where a persons death grabs headlines for a nanosecond only to be washed away, at least digitally, by more recent victims?
  The Mexican artist Teresa Margolles, who has made work steeped in the violence in her home country and beyond, has taken the time to research, visit, photograph and videotape the murder sites of 100 homicide victims in Los Angeles who died on public streets since 1 January 2015, ultimately transforming
  
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• Teresa Margolles builds a monument in Los Angeles honouring 100 victims of gun crime

  19-07-2016 23:00
  
  How can we stop the relentless flow of gun violence in American cities, where a persons death grabs headlines for a nanosecond only to be washed away, at least digitally, by more recent victims?
  The Mexican artist Teresa Margolles, who has made work steeped in the violence in her home country and beyond, has taken the time to research, visit, photograph and videotape the murder sites of 100 homicide victims in Los Angeles who died on public streets since 1 January 2015, ultimately transforming
  
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• Suhanya Raffel appointed executive director of Hong Kong's M+ museum

  19-07-2016 23:00
  
  Suhanya Raffel, the deputy director and director of collections at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, has been appointed the executive director of the M+ museum in Hong Kong, the much-delayed flagship project of the West Kowloon Cultural District. She takes up the post in November, replacing Lars Nittve, who stepped down in January.
  The M+, a vast new museum of 20th- and 21st-century culture, is expected to open by 2019, two years later than planned.
   
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• Name of mystery woman who received Van Gogh's ear revealed for first time

  19-07-2016 23:00
  
  The young woman in the brothel who was given Van Goghs ear can be revealed for the first time by The Art Newspaper as Gabrielle Berlatier, a farmers daughter. This solves a mystery that has remained unsolved for nearly 130 years.Although not named, the woman was referred to in Bernadette Murphys book, Van Goghs Ear: The True Story, published by Chatto & Windus last week. Murphy wrote that she made a promise to Gabrielles descendants: Until I am given permission by the family to reveal her s
  
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• History of indigenous American people takes centre stage at Site Santa Fe Biennial

  19-07-2016 23:00
  
  The Pueblo Revolt of 1680, in which the Pueblo people of present-day New Mexico drove out Spanish colonisers, is the subject of a project by the artist Pablo Helguera at this year's edition of the Site Santa Fe Biennial, which opened last week. The work is among several that examine the history and legacy of indigenous American people.Helguera's work, which is an extension of his 2014 Site Santa Fe work, fictionalises the revolt and the revenge of the Spanish in 1692, who returned to reclaim th
  
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• Dwindling supply cuts Christie’s half-year results by 27%

  19-07-2016 23:00
  Slimmer auctions and a lack of masterpieces worth more than 20m contributed to a 27% dive in the value of sales at Christies in the first half of 2016. The appetite to buy continues to be very high, but supply is less than demand, says Jussi Pylkkanen, Christies president of Europe and the Middle East.In total the privately owned auction house made 2.1 billion ($3 billion) compared with 2.9 billion ($4.5 billion) in the same period last year. The number of lots selling for more than 5m fell fro
  
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• Mladen Stilinovic, Croatian Conceptual Artist Who Slept as Performance Art, Dies at 69

  19-07-2016 22:27 via artnews.com
  Mladen Stilinović, the Croatian conceptual artist whose work critiqued power structures and examined the relationship between art and labor, often with a tongue-in-cheek incisiveness, died last night at age 69 of what is being called “a serious illness.” The news, … Read More
  
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• How Diversity Is Forging A New Flowering Of Science Fiction

  19-07-2016 22:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the last 15 years, women and women of color have come into the field in unprecedented numbers. But what this means is that we’re in a full flowering of potential for science fiction because we’re getting science fiction from so many different kinds of voices. So what this era will be remembered for is that.”
  
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• The Rauschenberg Foundation Is Looking for a Chef-in-Residence for Captiva Island

  19-07-2016 22:17 via artnews.com
  Very soon chefs will be able to join artists in savoring the joys of Robert Rauschenberg’s onetime redoubt on Captiva Island, Florida thanks to a program from the Rauschenberg Foundation that aims “to integrate the culinary arts as a creative … Read More
  
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• The 12th-Century Author-Composer-Herbalist-Sex Advisor-Abbess Who Fought The Patriarchy And Won

  19-07-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  St. Hildegard of Bingen was even cooler than you knew.
  
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• The Peculiar Case Of The Five Stolen Francis Bacon Paintings

  19-07-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The case seems to have baffled both local police and international investigators. But that’s because every element of the story is baffling.”
  
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• David Parsons Is Choreographing For Drones

  19-07-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘The drones also become personalities,’ he explained. ‘They become alive. They make decisions in front of your eyes, and so do the [human] performers onstage. So you get the feeling that they have artificial intelligence, that they are thinking. It’s spooky.'”
  
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• J. Paul Getty Museum Appoints Julian Brooks Senior Curator of Drawing and Head of the Department

  19-07-2016 20:40 via artnews.com
  The J. Paul Getty Museum’s director, Timothy Potts, announced earlier today that the museum’s drawings curator Julian Brooks has been appointed senior curator and head of that department. Brooks succeeds retiring head Lee Hendrix, who capped off his 32-year career … Read More
  
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• The Strand Bookstore’s Famous Quiz For Job Applicants (So Just How Smart Are You?)

  19-07-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There are tests for driver’s licenses and citizenship, for New York City landmarks preservationists and sanitation workers. But a quiz for an entry-level retail job at a bookstore?”
  
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• Feminist art activists the Guerrilla Girls get first dedicated UK show

  19-07-2016 20:00
  
  Whitechapel Gallery has commissioned the anonymous group to scrutinise gender diversity at hundreds of European galleriesThree decades after they first began exposing inequality in the art world, a group of anonymous mask-wearing feminist activists called the Guerrilla Girls are to get their first dedicated UK show.The group will this summer survey more than 400 European galleries to explore whether museums are reflecting the full diversity of art and art history. Related: The 10 most subversive
  
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• Dante Was A Great Poet – And A Hot-Tempered, Self-Aggrandizing Social Climber

  19-07-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He was ambitious, had the highest possible opinion of himself and aspired to the life of a noble, or at least to a noble life, a life dedicated to writing. … Dante’s self-image … dominated his writings and conditioned his every move.”
  
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• Why Are So Many Artists Choosing To Be Anonymous?

  19-07-2016 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Welcome to the strange world of modern-day fame, when it helps to be a nobody if you want to be a somebody! In some ways, we are returning to the rules of the medieval world, when major works of art and technology were created by anonymous innovators. But there’s a difference nowadays: Today’s mystery artists cultivate their aura of secrecy. They prefer obscurity over the perks of celebrity status.”
  
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• Is The Word ‘Queer’ Expanding Its Meaning, Or Losing It? When Everyone Can Be ‘Queer’, Is Anyone?

  19-07-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jenna Wortham: “Facebook, which can be seen as a kind of social census, now offers nearly 60 different gender options … Plainly, we are in the midst of a profoundly exhilarating revolution. And ‘queer’ has come to serve as a linguistic catchall for this broadening spectrum of identities, so much so that people who consider themselves straight, but reject heteronormativity, might even call themselves queer. But when everyone can be queer, is anyone?”
  
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• KW Institute for Contemporary Art Names New Artistic Team

  19-07-2016 18:49 via artnews.com
  The KW Institute for Contemporary Art announced a new artistic team today, with Anna Gritz, Leaver-Yap, Tirdad Zohlgadr, Maurin Dietrich, Cathrin Mayer, and Marc Hollenstein joining the Berlin museum’s staff. The news comes a few months after Krist Gruijthuijsen was … Read More
  
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• Records: Art Looted By Nazis Sold Back To Nazis

  19-07-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It turns out, the archives show, that hundreds of works were actually sold back at discounted prices in the 1950s and the 1960s to the very Nazis who had taken possession of them, including the widow of Hermann Goering, a senior aide to Hitler who pillaged art to amass a collection of more than a thousand works.”
  
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• There’s A New $100,000 Art Prize Coming Out Of Austin

  19-07-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The [museum] Contemporary Austin announced Thursday that it will be host to the Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize, a $100,000 unrestricted biennial award given to an artist of any age, any nationality and working in any medium. In addition, the Booth Prize will finance a solo exhibit for the winning artist that will be accompanied by a major publication.”
  
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• Outsider Art Fair in Paris Names Exhibitors for 2016 Edition

  19-07-2016 18:00 via artnews.com
  The 2016 Outsider Art Fair in Paris, which will run from October 20 through 23 this year, has announced its roster of exhibitors. It features 38 galleries, including 15 newcomers, and follows below, organized by country and then city. This is the fourth edition of the fair … Read More
  
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• Why The Classics Are Holding Their Own In Colleges While Other Humanities Are On The Decline

  19-07-2016 17:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A recent statistical analysis of professorial job openings by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences shows declines in all humanities disciplines since the Great Recession of 2008, including classics. However, classics suffered least in the downturn. The field has kept its small market share, while the number of job postings fell precipitously in other humanities fields.”
  
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• Björk virtual reality exhibition to go on show at Somerset House

  19-07-2016 17:30
  
  Björk Digital will showcase how the Icelandic singer has pushed boundaries, culminating in Royal Albert Hall gigAn exhibition celebrating the vast and experimental visual repertoire of the Icelandic singer Björk is to be held at Somerset House this autumn.Björk Digital will showcase the works created by the avant garde musician that have accompanied her music over the past two decades, celebrating how she has pushed the boundaries of art and technology. Related: Björk: 'It&rs
  
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• The Trump ‘Make America Great Again’ Hat Is Actually An Effective Piece Of Design

  19-07-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Design“It’s infuriatingly good,” says famous New York ad man George Lois. “And at this point,” writes Carolina Miranda, “it’s unforgettable. The hat has become the ‘I Like Ike’ button and Obama ‘Hope’ poster of our time– the official objet d’art of an election that has turned into one long, bad-hair-dayepisode of reality TV.”
  
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• ‘Round 57th Street: New York’s First Gallery District Continues (for Now) to Weather Endless Changes in the Art World

  19-07-2016 16:59 via artnews.com
  Once described as “the street of Carnegie Hall debuts and Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” 57th Street exudes an old New York kind of charm. It has been home to Theodore Roosevelt, Marilyn Monroe, Béla Bartók, and Holly Golightly, but perhaps the … Read More
  
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• What Every Presidential Campaign Ad Ever Really Says

  19-07-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This Is A Generic Presidential Campaign Ad,” assembled entirely from stock footage by the stock-footage company Dissolve, lays out all the messaging elements for (the generic) Candidate (slogan: “For an American America”). (video)
  
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• A human skin handbag is not fashion – it's a crime

  19-07-2016 16:15
  
  Fashion student Tina Gorjanc plans to make clothes using Alexander McQueen’s cloned skin. Is this a macabre joke or an ethical minefield?Should art ever be made from human skin? It used to be serial killers like Ed Gein, the real life model for Alfred Hitchcock’s Norman Bates, who made themselves skin trophies. Today, there are more legitimate ways of getting hold of human skin to make art. Instead of murdering and skinning people, you can grow an epidermis in a lab. But is the resul
  
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• ‘Barry Lyndon’ – Stanley Kubrick’s Period Piece May Not Be Action-Packed, But ‘It Puts A Spell On People’

  19-07-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The director’s 18th-century epic is legendary for the hardships imposed upon its cast, with 150 takes for a single shot not uncommon. But, four decades on, the film’s stars remain united in praise of this beautiful, slow-burning masterpiece.”
  
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• Arizona Theatre Company Saved In Last-Minute Fundraising Rally

  19-07-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Arizona Theatre Company has raised the $2 million necessary to keep the organization on stage, the group announced Monday. … Last week, the board decided to give notices to employees on Monday. Soon after, many donors began to open pocketbooks rather than just give verbal support.”
  
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• Morning Links: Kimberly Drew Edition

  19-07-2016 14:47 via artnews.com
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• Artist’s friends rally round for charity auction

  19-07-2016 11:37
  
  The artist Enoc Perez is hosting an online charity auction to benefit the Sandy Hook Promise, a non-profit aimed at curbing gun violence which is named after the tragic 2012 shooting in the Connecticut elementary school. Perez asked his artist friends Richard Dupont, Carlos Roln/Dzine, Rashid Johnson, BP Laval, Angel Otero, Ryan McGinness, and Marcel Dzamato donate works (nine pieces in total have been consigned). Sandy Hook Promises mission is to prevent gun-related deaths due to crime, s
  
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• Me, myself and I: the Polaroid self-portraits of Lucas Samaras – in pictures

  19-07-2016 08:00
  
  With an obsessive, even narcissistic gaze, artist Lucas Samaras turned a Polaroid camera on himself, then manipulated the photos into blazes of colour Continue reading...
  
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• Untitled(the grants have to be written by brandy to make the non profit legitimate and to pay for the staff.)

  19-07-2016 06:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  brandy has a short nose. she spends her day going from meeting to meeting.sometimes there is a voice in her head that talks about cleaning products and cancer. other times there is nothing and she gets tired. she feels weak from low blood sugar. she wants to love someone like herself.i dream a white sky and a sea side golf course. a white french man with my father’s long dutch nose is masturbating and shooting children with a rifle to see how they bleed to death. i feel the blood bang in m
  
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