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• ‘Do You, Ms. Jones?’ at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia

  25-07-2016 23:58 via artnews.com
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• The Greatest Literary Fraudster In Our Time (So What Is Fiction Anyway?)

  25-07-2016 23:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Literature is full of impostors and noms de plume, from George Eliot to “Robert Galbraith” (aka JK Rowling), but JT LeRoy is something else. George Eliot never did high-end fashion shoots, or received backstage passes to U2 gigs, or was sent Kabbalah books by Madonna.
  
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• Former Judd curator launches fellowship for ‘radical thinking’ at Edinburgh University

  25-07-2016 23:12
  
  Peter Ballantine, who fabricated around 250 of Donald Judds works over a 25-year period, is launching a university programme informed by the philosophies of the Missouri-born artist, as well as those of the Scottish Enlightenment thinker David Hume.Starting in March 2017, one fellow a year will take up a research post at Edinburgh University, where Hume studied from 1723. The programme will focus on the crossover between the visual arts and philosophy and neglected topics in the existing schola
  
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• Walter Sickert: the Richard Prince of the 1930s

  25-07-2016 23:00
  
  It is good to see that recent photography plagiarism controversiesmost notably involving Luc Tuymans and Richard Princeare nothing new. A recently opened display at Londons Tate Britain, Sickert and Photography (until 17 April 2017), looks at the influence of the burgeoning medium on the work of the painter Walter Sickert. Among the archival material on display is a (very civilised) public spat between Sickert and a newspaper photographer called Harold Clements, played out in The Express newspa
  
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• Undermined by silence: lack of provenance is devastating flaw of al-Sabah collection catalogue

  25-07-2016 23:00
  
  It is exhausting merely to follow the conquests of Alexander the Great on a map: through the collapsing empire of Achaemenid Iran, along the northern outskirts of Parthia, up into Bactria and Sogdia, then down to the Indus Valley and back around to Egypt. Dotted all along are places which were Hellenised, and it is the task of the art historian to sort out how far Greek influence spread and who clung on to it longest.The al-Sabah collection in Kuwait consists mainly of superb silver and gold ve
  
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• Marie Antoinette’s personal china among Versailles treasures to travel to Australia

  25-07-2016 23:00
  
  The Chateau of Versailles is lending more than 100 artworks to the National Gallery of Australia, in Canberra later this year for the largest loan show from its collection ever organised outside France.
  Versailles, the former French royal palace 20km outside Paris, gets more than 7.5 million visitors a year, and most of them come from other countries. If the world comes to Versailles, we must show that Versailles is going out to the world, said Catherine Pgard, the president of the historic sit
  
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• Hydra-therapy: above and below the shoreline

  25-07-2016 23:00
  
  By far the best private view invitation (to my mind at least) is to the annual exhibition of contemporary art at Hydra Workshop, the Karpidas familys exhibition space on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra. Here, for the past 17 years, a new show is unveiled at the beginning of every summer in this modest but generously proportioned former boat builders workshop. A sybaritic long weekend then ensues, with the art world clan gathering, presided over with legendary generosity by Pauline Karpidas an
  
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• Bortolami creates US-wide mini-Marfas

  25-07-2016 23:00
  
  As the art market continues to move beyond traditional bricks-and-mortar and embrace fair- and jpeg-centric business plans, New Yorks Bortolami Gallery has begun a novel experiment in how to keep its artists visible and happy. The gallerys Artist/City programme, run by its associate director Emma Fernberger, pays to rent non-traditional exhibition spaces for artists not based in New York. These mini-Marfas, the Texas home of the Judd Foundation, allow artists to show their work throughout the y
  
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• After Caravaggio: Michael Fried on the painter's enormous influence

  25-07-2016 23:00
  
  The art historian Michael Fried's new book, After Caravaggio, which has just been published by Yale University Press, looks at the painter's followers and the long shadow he cast over the 17th century.It follows Fried's 2010 publication The Moment of Caravaggio, where he focused on how the Italian Baroque artist propelled the emergence of the "gallery picture" as a distinct genre that moved away from traditional altarpieces and religious commissions."Part of the larger argument of both After Ca
  
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• A thesis undermined by silence

  25-07-2016 23:00
  
  It is exhausting merely to follow the conquests of Alexander the Great on a map: through the collapsing empire of Achaemenid Iran, along the northern outskirts of Parthia, up into Bactria and Sogdia, then down to the Indus Valley and back around to Egypt. Dotted all along are places which were Hellenised, and it is the task of the art historian to sort out how far Greek influence spread and who clung on to it longest.The al-Sabah collection in Kuwait consists mainly of superb silver and gold ve
  
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• What Will The Internet Of Things Mean For Theatre?

  25-07-2016 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Performers, audiences, and spaces can influence and manipulate each other, and the input-output system. In the classic theatre—the technician over there is sitting in the dark and is not supposed to be seen. But they’re there and they’re everywhere. The interesting thing is the whole theatre space is rigged in a very hierarchical way. But the Internet of Things is modular, so the idea is that everybody in the room can potentially become the operator or performer of a giv
  
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• We Have A Complicated Attitude Towards Poetry. Why?

  25-07-2016 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Somehow saying something is like a poem serves as a better advertisement than identifying something as a poem. Aren’t we supposed to prefer the actual to the resembling?”
  
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• We Live In A Public Time. So What Is The Role Of Public Intellectuals?

  25-07-2016 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The real interest in the term “public intellectual” lies in what its usage can tell us about ourselves: how we imagine the links between politics and prose, thought and action, individual contemplation and social congregation. Why, for example, has the notion of publicness itself become such a high value for some, practically synonymous with benevolence, as if to attach “public” to the name of a discipline grants it a special dignity?
  
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• This Startup Says It Can Help Artists Painlessly Protect Their Copyrights

  25-07-2016 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Using the same technology that verifies the world’s bitcoin transactions (the blockchain), Blockai wants to assist artists by making it easy to timestamp your protected works all while attempting to spot those infringing on your intellectual property by scouring the Web for offenders.”
  
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• Three Ballerinas Talk About The Reality Of Dancer Wellness

  25-07-2016 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Wellness among women in the ballet world is a complex and evolving subject. There’s the constant threat of injury ending an already short career, the mental pressure to excel within an elite company, the physical demands of ten-hour rehearsal days and evening performances — all being juggled by dancers who are in many cases still teenagers.”
  
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• What Moves You? My Scion Gallery Is a Project Space in a Compact Car

  25-07-2016 18:46 via artnews.com
  In a contemporary art landscape littered with obscure and sometimes obtuse project spaces, one remains smaller (and more mobile) than most. My Scion Gallery (MSG)—the brainchild of Taylor Hurley and Kathryn Knowlton—resides not in an abandoned warehouse or a tiny … Read More
  
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• The great art cover-up: Renaissance nudity still has power to shock

  25-07-2016 18:31
  
  Sistine Chapel buttocks are veiled, while Leonardo’s Leda was so saucy she was destroyed. But prudish censorship only confirms the pulling power of artYou never know what will offend people. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered that a skirt was crudely painted over the naked Eve in a Renaissance manuscript soon to go on view at the city’s Fitzwilliam Museum. Some time between the 16th and 18th centuries a particularly prudish owner had this image bowdlerised, ev
  
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• Why Did Google Delete A Literary Critic’s Blog? (And What Does It Mean For The Rest Of Us?)

  25-07-2016 18:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In his attempts to answer these questions, Dennis Cooper has submitted numerous requests for information via the channels that Google has put in place, but all of them have been ignored. He has worked with a Google employee, who attempted to launch an internal investigation on the writer’s behalf, but found herself stonewalled and unable to help.”
  
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• The Troubled Relationship Between Creators And Fans

  25-07-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Author Neil Gaiman: “Fans are still creators. Fans demand and make things happen. Mostly, that’s great. But it can tip, and when it tips, it goes into strange places where people feel that by having watched a TV show or bought a book, they feel that you owe them something huge for having done that. Watching the level of crazy that can sometimes happen is hard.”
  
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• The Startup For Warehoused Hollywood Scripts

  25-07-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Adaptive controls the intellectual property across all media, and uses the books to promote the films, which it hopes in turn will help book sales. The novels also offer a relatively inexpensive way to market-test high-concept stories — those with a simple, basic hook — and build an audience for a new franchise, Adaptive’s executives say.”
  
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• How’s It Going With The New Times Square Rules For Characters?

  25-07-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Nobody is happy in this spot,’ explained Josh Barillas, a former costumed character who had dropped by to visit his buddies. Mr. Barillas recalled the halcyon era, several months back, when he said could make $200 a day.”
  
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• 15th-century Flemish masterpiece to stay in UK with lottery help

  25-07-2016 16:14
  
  Bowes Museum in Durham secures £2.3m funding to acquire Dieric Bouts the Elder’s St Luke Drawing the Virgin and ChildAn important 15th-century devotional painting that ministers last year temporarily barred from being sold abroad is to remain in the UK.The Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle, County Durham, announced it had secured sufficient funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), the Art Fund and private donors to acquire St Luke Drawing the Virgin and Child, attributed to the wor
  
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• OK, So Maybe Damien Hirst’s Work *Didn’t* Release Harmful Fumes

  25-07-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Righetti apologised for ‘any alarm or concern the paper may have caused’ and requested that his research be formally retracted.”
  
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• The Struggle Is Real: Theatre Artists With Disabilities Want To Find More Of A Place Onstage

  25-07-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I think my community has been really excited. The response has been like, ‘It’s time!’ It’s 2016 and it’s time for us to be represented onstage and to be given these kinds of opportunities. I’ve received a lot of messages and letters from younger people with disabilities and they’re saying, ‘I never thought that Broadway is possible, but now it is.’ And that’s really exciting.”
  
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• Soprano Marni Nixon Was The Voice Behind So Many Actresses (Who Couldn’t Quite Reach The Notes)

  25-07-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Before her Hollywood days and long afterward, Ms. Nixon was an acclaimed concert singer, a specialist in contemporary music who appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic; a recitalist at Carnegie, Alice Tully and Town Halls in New York; and a featured singer on one of Leonard Bernstein’s televised young people’s concerts.”
  
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• Have Priceless Cultural Artifacts Disappeared From A Honolulu Museum?

  25-07-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Following a scandal over the alleged misuse of funds by its former director, the institution’s finances remain perilous and researchers claim that much of the collection is inaccessible, leading to fears that some pieces might have disappeared.”
  
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• The Dancer Turned Broadway Star Turned ‘Chorus Line’ Member

  25-07-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I always thought, as soon as my ballet career is over, I would love to do Broadway. … Once nobody wants to see me in white tights anymore, I still would want to be a performer. And Broadway was my first passion. I didn’t realize that this opportunity was going to come around, right in the very middle of my ballet career.”
  
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• Morning Links: M&M’s Edition

  25-07-2016 14:50 via artnews.com
  MUSEUMSThe net artist Guthrie Lonergan, who created the controversial M&M-centric widget that takes up part of The Hammer’s “Made In L.A.” website, responds to criticism related to the piece. [The Hammer Blog]The Lourve-Lens museum is to restore a work by … Read More
  
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• The Man Who Quietly Made Art Happen In The 1960s

  25-07-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dick Bellamy was a “blithe spirit content to disappear into the shadows while shining a light on the leading experimental artists of his generation.”
  
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• The BBC Reveals Its Detailed Plans For Broadcasting If The Cold War Had Turned Nuclear

  25-07-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The War Book reveals a world of meticulous BBC planning. The Wartime Broadcasting System (WTBS) – referred to in the book as ‘Deferred Facilities’ – would have operated from 11 protected bunkers spread across the UK.”
  
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• Moving From Stage Crew To On Stage At Tanglewood

  25-07-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “His story is partly about persistence and partly about the hypercompetitive world of classical music, where conservatories produce far more talented players each year than there are spots for at top festivals or orchestras.”
  
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• Scientist retracts claim that Damien Hirst works leaked cancerous fumes

  25-07-2016 14:11
  
  Prof Pier Giorgio Righetti says his allegation that artist’s preserved carcasses emitted formaldehyde gas was inaccurate The scientist who claimed that Damien Hirst’s formaldehyde artworks were leaking fumes dangerous to the public has retracted his findings as “inaccurate”.A recent paper said Hirst’s famed pieces involving animals preserved in tanks, which were displayed at Tate Modern, were releasing well above acceptable levels of carcinogenic fumes. Related: Jef
  
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• In Publishing, One Format Is Growing Much Faster Than All Others

  25-07-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Carrying around a pocket-size entertainment center stuffed with games, news, music, videos and books has conditioned people to seek out constant entertainment, whether walking to a meeting or sitting in a doctor’s office. For more multitasking book-lovers, audiobooks are the answer.”
  
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• How Muybridge Captured Time

  25-07-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Stanford had funded Muybridge’s work for years, and this was their most meaningful trial yet, so when Stanford’s horse trotted down the track at 40 feet per second, Muybridge was ready with his camera.”
  
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• The Art Dealer Who Sold To George Lucas And Then Morphed Into A Museum Mogul

  25-07-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Close to 18 years ago she transferred ownership of thousands of works from the gallery to the museum, and none of those works are on offer. Clearly, her heart is more in being a museum owner than a merchant. Why? Bragging rights.”
  
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• The People Who Decide What We Listen To

  25-07-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For a while we thought we could choose our own music. Remember that? In the wake of the last century we seized the right to take our pick from all of the songs in the world (All of the songs in the world!) and told anyone who didn’t like it exactly where they could go. And when it turned out that was too many songs after all (how many lifetimes are needed for a complete survey of Memphis soul? Or Brazilian funk?), a new category of music services appeared to ease our burden.”
  
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• A New Ballet Magazine Will Only Be In Print (If We Can Remember What That Is)

  25-07-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This almost feels like a performance in print. … It’s not just like, oh, that’s a nice photograph, but you’re actually watching something unfold.”
  
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• Top AJBlogs For 07.24.16

  25-07-2016 05:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  This Week In Audience, Virtual Versus Real Edition
  This Week: Is it possible that the virtual museum experience could beat the in-person visit?… After ten years, mixed verdict on whether HD streaming builds arts audiences… We need a new definition of selling … read more
  AJBlog: AJ Arts AudiencePublished 2016-07-24
  Rugged Norwegian Art Show by War Vets
  While traveling recently in Norway, I came across “Camouflage,” a group exhibition by military veterans of wars a
  
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