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• Neïl Beloufa at Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles

  21-07-2016 23:33 via artnews.com
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• What Do America’s Opera Directors Think About The Impact Of HD Opera In Movie Theatres?

  21-07-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Devan, Opera Philadelphia: “I think it’s raised the game in terms of people’s aesthetic and performance expectations. If you can go to a movie theater and hear a great singer with a great orchestra with a gazillion-dollar set, that raises the bar for everybody. It did help me raise money to improve the quality of what we put on in the Academy [of Music]. This isn’t about my ego; this is about the necessity of doing work that people will come to. That means there&rsq
  
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• Times are a-changing for Italian museums

  21-07-2016 23:00
  Wanted: a fresh crop of dynamic directors for Italys state museums and archaeological sites, preferably with management expertise, fundraising chops and an international outlook. An ad taken by the Italian culture ministry in the Economist magazine seeking candidates to lead nine institutions, including the ancient site of Herculaneum and the Unesco-protected DEste and Adriana Villas at Tivoli, closed on 20 July.
  The initiative comes a year after the Italian culture ministry appointed 20 new di
  
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• Robert Irwin plays with light and dark in Marfa

  21-07-2016 23:00
  
  At the end of June, Robert Irwin put the finishing touches to his project at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, the art complex founded by the artist Donald Judd on a former army base in western Texas. The first new permanent single-artist installation at the site in 16 years, Irwins project is due to be publicly unveiled on 23 July.
  The 87-year-old California artist has been having something of a revival in recent years, with major exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC and Dia: Bea
  
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• Nanjing finds its cultural voice with third international art festival

  21-07-2016 23:00
  
  The Nanjing International Art Festival announced last week the details for its third iteration, which will be held from November 12 (through February 12, 2017) at the new Baijia Lake Museum. Headed by prolific Chinese curator Lv Peng, the festival will explore the theme of Historicode: Scarcity and Supply, with a focus on contemporary art made since 1990.
  Lv and co-curator Letizia Ragaglia, the director of Museion, Bolzano's museum of Modern and contemporary art, plan to show more than 800 work
  
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• Experts shed light on Modigliani's murky market with new research project

  21-07-2016 23:00
  As demand for works by Amedeo Modigliani heats up, a group of respected experts has founded a research project and a long-promised catalogue raisonn is on the cards.On 21 June at Sothebys in London, the artists Jeanne Hbuterne (au foulard) (1919) sold for a strong 34.4m hammer (38.5m with fees) at Sothebyswell over its 28m-plus estimate.In 2015, works by Modigliani sold for a total $251m, according to Artprice. Prices were driven up by Reclining Nude (1917-18), which sold for $170.4m to the Chi
  
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• What Happened To Great Composers (Do We Have Any Today?)

  21-07-2016 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The truth is, it’s over. The confident forward march in British music that handed us a lineage of great composers – Britten, Tippett, Maxwell Davies, Birtwistle – has shattered. Given that all the obvious “isms” have been exhausted, composers now face an existential crisis over where music might head next; and, anyway, our culture has decided to privilege ephemeral celebrity over anyone who cares enough about the future to utter anything difficult or challeng
  
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• Former L.E.S. Gallery Directors Team Up for New Venture, Yours Mine & Ours, on Eldridge Street

  21-07-2016 21:26 via artnews.com
  Former directors of Lower East Side galleries Louis B. James, On Stellar Rays and Dodge Gallery have teamed up to start Yours Mine & Ours, a gallery that will open its doors at 54 Eldridge Street on September 11. The new … Read More
  
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• The Vinyl Edge: Rodney McMillian Delivers a Show Filled With Drama and Surprises at Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

  21-07-2016 21:18 via artnews.com
  The Institute of Contemporary Art’s ground-floor gallery in Philadelphia has been considered a “difficult” space since the building made its debut in 1991. Its looming ceilings aren’t kind to small or delicate artworks, and the kinds of stand-alone works that … Read More
  
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• The Vinyl Edge: Rodney McMillian Delivers a Show Filled With Drama and Surprises at ICA, Philadelphia

  21-07-2016 21:18 via artnews.com
  The Institute of Contemporary Art’s ground-floor gallery in Philadelphia has been considered a “difficult” space since the building made its debut in 1991. Its looming ceilings aren’t kind to small or delicate artworks, and the kinds of stand-alone works that … Read More
  
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• Vice President for Finance and Administration, American Academy in Rome

  21-07-2016 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The American Academy in Rome (AAR) seeks a Vice President for Finance and Administration (VPFA). This is a compelling opportunity to contribute to the strategic growth of the AAR, a unique hybrid academic and cultural nonprofit organization with 70 full time staff in New York City and Rome.
  The American Academy in Rome (AAR), founded in 1894 and one of the oldest overseas centers for advanced independent work in the humanities and the arts, seeks a Vice President for Finance and Administration (
  
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• Turkey Bans All Travel By Academics After Coup Attempt

  21-07-2016 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As you surely know, universities have always been crucial for military juntas in Turkey, and certain individuals are believed to be in contact with cells within the military.”
  
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• Google Rolls Out New Museum App That Lets You Explore The World’s Great Museums

  21-07-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Click “Visit” on a museum’s page to get opening times, find out what’s on that day and navigate there in one click. We’ve also been experimenting with a new feature. The Art Recognizer is now available in London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery, Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Just pull up the app, point your phone’s camera to a painting on display and find all the information you want to know abou
  
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• US’s Largest Collection Of Mexican Art Gets A Long-Awaited Home

  21-07-2016 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is the single largest collection of Mexican, Latino, and Chicano art in the U.S., with 17,000 pieces. Those include about 800 pieces of Mexican folk art donated by the family of Nelson Rockefeller and work by Mexican artist Diego Rivera.”
  
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• Neuroscientists And Philosophers Debate: Does The World Actually Exist?

  21-07-2016 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Where philosophers have long debated how much we should trust our perception of the external world, neuroscientists operate on the assumption that we shouldn’t trust it much at all. According to neuroscience, it’s pretty much all in your head. Your world, through neuroscience’s empirical lens, is a construct you’ve built from patterns your brain has identified in sensory experiences.
  
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• Some Happy News From Turkey: Antiquities Traffickers Arrested With 2,000-Year-Old Statue Of Aphrodite

  21-07-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Istanbul anti-smuggling police units contacted two suspects who were trying to sell historical artifacts obtained from illegal excavations upon received intelligence. The two suspects, identified as A.Ş. and Y.Z., demanded 1 million Turkish Liras for the 13 artifacts, which included the Roman period statue of Aphrodite, seven bottles, two wine cups, two cubes and a piece of sheet glass sent as a gift to a princess.”
  
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• If Writers Billed For Their Time And Had To Account For Their Hours…

  21-07-2016 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Here’s what the ledger might look like. Christopher D. Legras investigates.
  
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• How early picture postcards were the Edwardian equivalent of Instagram

  21-07-2016 18:02
  
  How social networking actually dates back to much earlier than initially thought, to more than a hundred years ago
  
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• Fur Will Be Flying: ‘Cats’ Is Back On Broadway, And, Well, Not Everyone Is Happy About It

  21-07-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Who wants Cats again? I posed the question to people of all stripes and have come to realize that the question is itself a theatrical acid test: It gives way to passionate replies on both sides. No one seems indifferent.”
  
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• UK artists limber up for Rio Olympics

  21-07-2016 17:56
  
  UK artists are getting ready for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro next month with a set of exclusive prints made to mark the sporting jamboree. The limited edition works, produced by the London-based Counter Editions company, are by eight artists including Tracey Emin, David Shrigley, Howard Hodgkin and Eddie Peake. The spirit of Team GB was the inspiration for the prints which will be available from 2 August. Emins work is touchingly entitled True Love Always W
  
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• Reading jail to host two-month Oscar Wilde project

  21-07-2016 17:51
  
  Ai Weiwei, Steve McQueen and Maxine Peake to feature in Artangel exhibition at site of writer’s imprisonmentVisitors to Reading jail this autumn might encounter Patti Smith reading the four-and-a-half-hour entirety of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, or see new artworks by Steve McQueen, Nan Goldin or Marlene Dumas dotted around echoing corridors and empty cells.Artangel announced on Thursday that it was taking over one of the most notorious prisons in the UK, the place where Wilde spent
  
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• Artangel to host two-month Oscar Wilde project in Reading jail

  21-07-2016 17:51
  
  Exhibition at site of Wilde imprisonment to include work and performances by Ai Weiwei, Steve McQueen and Maxine PeakeVisitors to Reading jail this autumn might encounter Patti Smith reading the four-and-a-half-hour entirety of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, or see new artworks by Steve McQueen, Nan Goldin or Marlene Dumas dotted around echoing corridors and empty cells.Artangel on Thursday announced it was taking over one of the most notorious prisons in the UK, the place where Wilde spent a
  
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• Detroit Institute Of Arts Embarks On Plan To Become Leader In Showing African-American Art

  21-07-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The new direction represents the first major shift in programming and collecting priorities since the Spanish-born Salort-Pons, the 46-year-old former DIA curator of European art, succeeded Graham Beal as director last fall. The commitment could transform the DIA into a true national power when it comes to collecting, exhibiting, studying and interpreting African-American art.”
  
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• Where The Stars Who Just Left ‘Hamilton’ Are Headed Next

  21-07-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For Leslie Odom Jr., Philippa Soo, and Daveed Diggs, there are films, television shows, a new musical, and a cabaret show. For Lin-Manuel Miranda, there’s probably world domination. (Don’t smirk – it’s just possible his father could be working in the White House next year.)
  
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• P.P.O.W. Will Expand in September, Adding Sixth-Floor Project Space

  21-07-2016 16:31 via artnews.com
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• Crime In Most Of The US Is Way Down – Here’s Why So Many Americans Are Still So Fearful Of It

  21-07-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “According to a 2014 Gallup poll, 70 percent of Americans think that the crime rate is increasing, up from 63 percent in 2013. But the reality is that America is getting safer. The national crime rate is about half of what it was at the peak in 1991. … Nnow that crime rates are so low, people have ‘very little direct experience of crime,’ so their perceptions are mainly shaped by news media and entertainment.”
  
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• Too Cute: The Rise And Fall, Or At Least Leveling, Of Kawaii In Japan

  21-07-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Neil Steinberg looks at how the concept of kawaii arose in Japanese culture, why it works, how it became so prevalent that Japanese cities have officially promoted cute mascots, and what happens when some parts of the culture have had enough of the likes of Hello Kitty.
  
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• Pokémon Go Goes Global, And Governments Combat The Pikachu Peril

  21-07-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In Saudi Arabia, clerics renewed an existing fatwa against Pokémon, calling it ‘un-Islamic.’ Bosnia has warned players to avoid chasing the creatures onto land mines left over from the 1990s. … Russian websites published articles claiming the game is a C.I.A. plot, while religious figures denounced it. ‘It smacks of Satanism,’ a Cossack leader told local media.”
  
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• A Reel CIA Plot: Hollywood Has Been An Agency ‘Asset’ For Decades

  21-07-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ever since its inception in 1947, the CIA has been covertly working with Hollywood. But it wasn’t until the mid-1990s that the agency formally hired an entertainment industry liaison and began openly courting favorable treatment in films and television. … Especially after 9/11, American screenwriters, directors, and producers have traded positive portrayal of the spy profession in film or television projects for special access and favors at CIA headquarters.”
  
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• Much-Recorded Organist André Isoir Dies On His 81st Birthday

  21-07-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With shelves full of awards, a discography of more than 60 titles, and more than 40 years as titular organist of the famous Saint-Germain des Près church in Paris, he was one of France’s most admired organists, known especially for his improvisation and his Bach. (in French; Google Translate version here)
  
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• Morning Links: Bad Trump Art Edition

  21-07-2016 14:56 via artnews.com
  Art Market“Art sales suffer global slump.” [Wall Street Journal]What does a $20,000 Trump baby doll, $25,000 Trump clown painting, and $900 silicon Trump mask have in common? They’re all amateur art for sale on eBay. [Gizmodo]Exhibitions Liverpool Biennial director Sally … Read More
  
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• Lead Troll Who Harassed Female ‘Ghostbusters’ Star Permanently Banned From Twitter

  21-07-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Milo Yiannopoulos, the technology editor for Breitbart.com, tweeted as @Nero. … [He’s] been suspended from Twitter several times in the past for violating its terms of service … but claims that he had fanned the flames of the harassment of Ghostbusters actor Leslie Jones on Twitter led to a ‘permanent suspension’ from Twitter on Wednesday.”
  
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• Iran Drops ‘Disturbing The Public Peace’ Charge Against Sculptor

  21-07-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The leading Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli, who was detained by officials earlier this month at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport, has been allowed to leave the country. … Tanavoli told us: ‘I am accused by the police. The accusations are that my art is based on ‘spreading the falsehood’ and ‘creating public anxiety’.'”
  
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• San Francisco Symphony Cuts Back On Community Outreach Projects

  21-07-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The SFS Board of Directors is said to have voted to discontinue the Community of Music Makers (CoMM) at least temporarily, and make a deep cut in the Instrument Training and Support (IT&S) program for middle and high schools in San Francisco.”
  
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• World view: Waterfall, Palace of Versailles, France

  21-07-2016 14:04
  
  Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson is the artist behind this year’s exhibition at Versailles. His works, on show in the gardens and inside the chateau, include this Waterfall installation – a cascade that seems to fall from midair into the canal Continue reading...
  
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• A Singers’ Rebellion At Georgia’s National Opera House

  21-07-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Alleging] absence of repertoire, corruption, nepotism and threats of unfair dismissal, world-famous Georgian opera singers such as Mzia Nioradze, Tamar Iveri, Nana Kavtarashvili, Anita Rachvelishvili, and Lado Ataneli, with members of the Tbilisi opera choir, are up in arms at the current situation in [the company] and have named their artistic director Davit Kintsurashvili ‘unprofessional’ for having only staged three operas in the two years of his leadership at [the Georgia
  
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• Is It Time To Establish Quotas For Female Choreographers?

  21-07-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A debate and forum in London earlier this month came to close to recommending just that: one of the action points was “Implement strategic equality quotas with Boards, funders, Associate Artists and artistic programmes.” The conclusion was that “‘strategic quotas’ could be beneficial if, and only if, they created a trickledown effect. But how effective can quotas be?” And would it help or hurt if government funders required them?
  
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• Raising The Standard Of Choreography In Pop Music

  21-07-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Singer-songwriter Sia and choreographer Ryan Heffington “believe that dance is underused in pop music – more that it is abused much of the time by adhering to an easy formula. ‘We established the artist and backup dancers, I believe, in the early ’80s,’ he said. ‘There has to be evolution, and there is. We’re doing it.'”
  
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• Reading Prison and its most famous inmate inspire major new project

  21-07-2016 12:10
  
  Artists including Wolfgang Tillmans, Steve McQueen, Marlene Dumas, and Robert Gober will show new works in Reading Prison as part of a project inspired by its most famous inmate, Oscar Wilde. The Irish playwright was imprisoned in Reading prison, formerly known as Reading Gaol, from 1895 to 1897 for committing acts of gross indecency with male persons.The initiative InsideArtists and Writers in Reading Prison (4 September-30 October), organised by the non-profit art commissioning body Artangel,
  
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• Ink different: Donald Trump gets drawn and quartered for Comic-Con

  21-07-2016 12:00
  
  With the Republican National Convention and the world famous Comic-Con taking place the same week, we asked artists to turn their pens on the election Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.20.16

  21-07-2016 10:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Keeper” Sleeper: The New Museum Displays the Harrowing “Sketchbook from Auschwitz”
  “Start on the fourth floor, but make sure not to miss the second floor,” New Museum director Lisa Phillips advised me when I arrived with only an hour to spare … read more
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-07-20Chicago’s free summer music cornucopia – Deutsch, PoKempner photos
  It’s hard to find a comparable wealth of beautiful sounds available to a
  
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• Tate Modern has finally won me over – with art

  21-07-2016 10:11
  
  The Switch House opening raised an old worry: would the building eclipse its contents? Not any more. Tate Modern is now a world-class modern art museumGreat art museums need great art. That should go without saying, but the new Tate Modern is so architecturally exhilarating that I started to wonder: perhaps you really can have a museum where it doesn’t matter much what’s in it because the experience of walking around is so enjoyable and cool.Related: First look: inside the Switch Hou
  
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• Greek island of Samos hosts show that offers new perspectives on the refugee crisis

  21-07-2016 08:30
  
  An exhibition focusing on the refugee crisis is due open next month on the island of Samos, a Greek island near the Turkish coast that has been at the heart of the humanitarian tragedy engulfing Europe. The show, A World Not Ours (5 August-15 October), is backed by the Schwarz Foundation, a private organisation founded by the German doctor Kurt Schwarz. The show will be held in a venue operated by the foundation called Art Space Pythagorion, which is based in the ancient harbour town of Sa
  
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• Exhibition on Greek island of Samos offers new perspectives on the refugee crisis

  21-07-2016 08:30
  
  An exhibition focusing on the refugee crisis is due to open next month on the island of Samos, a Greek island near the Turkish coast that has been at the heart of the humanitarian tragedy engulfing Europe. The show, A World Not Ours (4 August-15 October), is backed by the Schwarz Foundation, a private organisation founded by the German doctor Kurt Schwarz. The show will be held in a venue operated by the foundation called Art Space Pythagorion, which is based in the ancient harbour to
  
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• Snakes and Nanas: the voluptuous art of Niki de Saint Phalle – in pictures

  21-07-2016 08:00
  
  A ravishing new show brings together unseen works by Niki de Saint Phalle, the French sculptor who turned childhood trauma into explosions of shape and colour Continue reading...
  
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• New exhibition marks 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London

  21-07-2016 08:00
  
  Scorched remains of a tomb, wine jars and goblets, and charred floor tiles from where the fire started to go displayOn 3 September 1666 the London Gazette just found room to add one paragraph of breaking news: a “sudden lamentable fire” was blazing in London, having broken out in the small hours of Sunday morning. The edition went to the printers early on the Monday morning, and that afternoon the Great Fire of London reached the newspaper offices and burnt them to the ground.A new e
  
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