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• Object lessons: the eagle of the crusader emperor who was a friend of Arabs

  01-08-2016 23:00
  
  Hardly a day goes by without someone laying a red rose at the foot of the great porphyry tomb in Palermo cathedral of a man who died 766 years ago. Emperor Frederick the Great, Stupor Mundithe Wonder of the Worldis still a man to inspire romantic admiration, but also nostalgia for a time when Arabs and Christians lived together companionably in the West.
  Frederick II was of the German dynasty, the Hohenstaufen, born to be Holy Roman Emperor. This meant that he would be ruler of the whole of cen
  
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• Late French film director Claude Berri’s vast, eclectic collection to hit the block in Paris

  01-08-2016 23:00
  
  More than 400 works drawn from the collection of the late French collector and film director Claude Berriranging from tribal art items to major Modern piecesare scheduled to go under the hammer later this year at Christies Paris in a series of sales.
  The main sale, which includes 80 post-war and contemporary lots, is due to take place on 22 October during the 43rd edition of the Fiac fair at the Grand Palais (20-23 October). Works consigned include Wim Delvoyes tattooed pig skin Mickey et Minni
  
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• Funking up Antonio López’s legacy

  01-08-2016 23:00
  
  El Museo del Barrio in New York takes a fresh look at Antonio Lpez, the late Puerto Rico-born fashion illustrator best known for his work in publications like American Vogue, Womens Wear Daily (WWD) and the New York Times, with the survey exhibition Funk Fashion (until 26 November). The show aims to delve deeper into the all-encompassing breadth of his work and creative process, says the co-organiser, Rocio Aranda-Alvarando, who points to Lpezs importance as one of the first fashion illustrator
  
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• Funking up Antonio Lopez’s legacy

  01-08-2016 23:00
  
  El Museo del Barrio in New York takes a fresh look at Antonio Lopez, the late Puerto Rico-born fashion illustrator best known for his work in publications like American Vogue, Womens Wear Daily (WWD) and the New York Times, with the survey exhibition Future Funk Fashion (until 26 November). The show aims to delve deeper into the all-encompassing breadth of his work and creative process, says the co-organiser, Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, who points to Lopezs importance as one of the first fashion ill
  
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• RongRong & inri at Chambers Fine Art, New York

  01-08-2016 22:15 via artnews.com
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• Moving Out: John Akomfrah’s Subtle U.S. Debut at Lisson Gallery in New York Astonishes

  01-08-2016 22:07 via artnews.com
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• Tech Maestro Sree Sreenivasan, Formerly of the Met, Named Chief Digital Officer of New York City

  01-08-2016 21:47 via artnews.com
  On Monday, the Office of the Mayor of New York announced that the former chief digital officer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as Columbia University, Sree Sreenivasan, has been hired to serve as the new chief digital officer for … Read More
  
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• Massachusetts Legislature Reverses Governor’s 55 Percent Cut In Arts Budget

  01-08-2016 21:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The fiscal year 2017 budget lawmakers sent to the governor’s desk in July included $14 million for arts, humanities and sciences programs through the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. But Baker vetoed $7.7 million, bringing the total figure down to $6.5 million, a 55 percent cut the agency called “devastating.”
  
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• No Kanye, But What About Bob? Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center Throws a Gala Out East Without West

  01-08-2016 21:02 via artnews.com
  According to The New York Times, Kanye West was set to give his first live performance in nearly a year at last Saturday’s Watermill Center Benefit at the non-profit’s headquarters near Southampton. West would appear on a stage designed by Watermill’s … Read More
  
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• What Pizza Delivery Big Data Tells Us About Ourselves

  01-08-2016 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “During O.J. Simpson’s famous, slow-speed police chase in the summer of ’94, Domino’s Pizza reported record-breaking pizza sales. (According to the same company, not a single person in the entire country ordered a pizza from them during the five minutes the Simpson verdict was read out the following year.)”
  
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• ArtTable Appoints Six Board Members

  01-08-2016 19:20 via artnews.com
  Today ArtTable, the national organization that promotes professional women in the visual arts, announced the appointment of six new members to its board of directors: Jennifer Francis, Juanita Hardy, Rustin Levenson, Sheila McDaniel, Lucy O’Brien, and Whitney Rutter. Among the new members … Read More
  
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• London artist Lucy Sparrow to create a classic New York corner store – in felt

  01-08-2016 18:56
  
  Sparrow hopes to fill a shop, Eight Till Late, with 8,000 items, all hand sewn and available to buy, after a similar project in London caused a frenzyLucy Sparrow, the artist who built a corner shop in London’s East End filled entirely with 4,000 hand-sewn groceries, is to open her first installation in New York. Related: Artist's newsagent shop made entirely from felt looks sew real – in picturesContinue reading...
  
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• Remembering When ‘Melrose Place’ Became a Conceptual Art Project: Mel Chin’s GALA Committee Returns This Fall

  01-08-2016 17:00 via artnews.com
  A small confession: one very dark summer not too long ago I watched all seven seasons of Melrose Place, the Fox television show that aired from 1992 to 1999 and was created by Aaron Spelling. I did this at a … Read More
  
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• K is for Knowledge: share your artwork now

  01-08-2016 16:25
  
  For this month’s readers’ art project Amina Wright of the Holburne Museum invites you to share your artwork on the theme of knowledgeGeorge Stubbs painted animals in an age of insatiable curiosity, where the thirst for knowledge sent mariners like Captain Cook to the furthest corners of an ever-expanding world. Officers of the East India Company explored the highest mountains and deepest jungles, while in Bath, William and Caroline Herschel swept the sky for comets and in London anat
  
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• Reclaiming Public Life After A Dictatorship, Using Snacks And Architecture

  01-08-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The kiosks offer affordable and traditional drinks and snacks, conversation and community – and also employment in a country struggling with the staggering levels of unemployment and recession gripping much of western Europe.”
  
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• Creative Time Adds Seven to Board of Directors, Including Trevor Paglen

  01-08-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  Creative Time has added seven new members to its board of directors, the nonprofit announced in a press release. The shakeup reflects one of the first internal moves by Katie Hollander, who took over as the Creative Time executive director in … Read More
  
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• Hollywood Finds A New Mine For Source Material: YouTube

  01-08-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “YouTube has become a go-to place for budding filmmakers to share short movies that previously wouldn’t have had the opportunity to reach a wide audience.”
  
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• This One Simple Trick Can Make Theatres Commercially Viable

  01-08-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The best moments are when theatre defies all expectations. Such as a thrilling Brecht revival when you didn’t think you liked Brecht all that much, or a Chekhov production that makes you rethink a play you secretly thought was a wee bit dull. It’s particularly the case with material that has been flogged to death.”
  
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• Last Call: An Unsentimental End for Philip Johnson’s Four Seasons

  01-08-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  A strong sense of gloom pervaded the Four Seasons’ pool room at the press preview a week before the auction that would sell off its Mies van der Rohe and Eero Saarinen banquettes and tables, its Garth and Ada Louise … Read More
  
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• First posthumous exhibition of Gerald Laing's work to open in London

  01-08-2016 15:27
  
  The Fine Art Society in London (FAS), which celebrated its 140th anniversary in June, is presenting an exhibition of works by the British Pop artist Gerald Laing (19 September-13 October). This will be the first show of the artists work since his death in 2011. Coinciding with the show is the publication of the artist's first catalogue raisonn by Laings estate.
   
  The FAS represented Laing from the 1990s until his death and held four exhibitions of his work while the artist was still alive.
  
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• How To Thin The Herd Of Your Books (And No, Not By Moving To E-Books)

  01-08-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If you read a book from your shelves and dislike it, then this is a good day for you: now you can ditch it. If you’re lucky, you’ll end up strenuously disliking a book by an until-now untried author whose work you have in multiplicity.”
  
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• In an ideal world: artists and academics conjure up Utopia

  01-08-2016 15:04
  
  Everyone dreams about it but it will always remain beyond our grasp Utopia, Sir Thomas Mores blueprint for an ideal society, celebrates its 500th anniversary this year. Artists, performers and architects have made new works inspired by Mores impossible vision in collaboration with academics based at Kings College London (Paths to UtopiaInigo Rooms, Somerset House East Wing & King's College London, until 2 October). The artist Caitlin Shepherd has created a House of Discord, a property
  
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• Morning Links: Lutz Bacher Edition

  01-08-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
  The Beauty of Auctions The Chinese firm Taikang Life Insurance is now Sotheby’s largest shareholder, owning a cool 13.5 percent of the publicly traded auction house. Chris Buckley takes a look at the company and its chairman and chief executive, … Read More
  
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• Can The Architects Chosen For The New Museum Of London Meet The Challenge?

  01-08-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The chance is there to make a museum exceptional in Britain and the world, like none other. And yet – as the path of good architecture never runs smooth – there is still a risk the chance might not be taken.”
  
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• Prom 18 and Prom 20, review: 'Sometimes the Proms strike gold'

  01-08-2016 14:54
  
  Prom 18: Connolly/Tiffin Boys' Choir/LSO/Haitink and Prom 20: Monteverdi/NYCS/ORR/Gardiner
  
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• Hold On To Your Sorting Hats: The New Harry Potter Play May Be Bound For Broadway

  01-08-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ is unlike anything that is succeeding on Broadway now. It is a play in an era dominated by musicals, it has a running time of 5 hours 15 minutes (staged in two parts to be seen either in one day or over two consecutive nights), and it does not (thus far) rely on celebrity casting.”
  
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• A French Poet Who Wrote Not Of Philosophy But Of This Moment

  01-08-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yves Bonnefoy “never ceased insisting that happiness and fulfilment were not to be sought in some other world, but rather in the here and now of our earthly condition and in the simple realities that all people share. His poetic project was profoundly spiritual, but it was atheistic.”
  
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• The ‘Final Harry Potter’ Book Creates Excitement Like Nothing Seen Since The (Final) Harry Potter Book In 2007

  01-08-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In New York and across the country, so-called Potterheads swarmed bookstores Saturday night and into Sunday morning to celebrate the release, as if they had found the secret winged key that not only let them back into their childhoods but also opened the door to another generation.”
  
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• How Misty Copeland Became A Megabrand

  01-08-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “She’s hoping that her success will create ‘a new structure for how dancers are treated.'”
  
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• The Quantum Computer That Makes Music

  01-08-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As Juliette Pochin, the Welsh mezzo-soprano, sang inside the castle-like manor house at the Port Eliot Festival in Cornwall, an Internet connection piped her voice across the world and into the D-Wave machine installed in the University of South California’s Information Sciences Institute in Marina Del Rey, outside of Los Angeles.”
  
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• Robert Rauschenberg: the quiet minimalism of a style hero

  01-08-2016 13:19
  
  The Texan artist was an early pioneer of pop art but his wardrobe was anything but. From monochrome to denim to the way he unbuttoned his shirt, he was an alt style leader of the 1960sThe work of artists has long inspired fashion designers. As have their wardrobes. Think about it – the sartorial skills of Robert Mapplethorpe, Georgia O’Keeffe, Andy Warhol, David Hockney or Frida Kahlo have been undeniably influential on fashion styling and clothing design. Most recently, menswear des
  
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• Seriously, How Is CATS Not Only Still A Thing, But Back For Real On Broadway?

  01-08-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It might have been called Jesus Cat Superstar.”
  
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• Why Is Buying Concert (Or Hamilton) Tickets Such A Rigged System?

  01-08-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And what if the extremes are what the price actually *should* be?
  
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• Scott expedition pictures on show together over 100 years after artists' plan

  01-08-2016 10:00
  
  Paintings and photographs recording fatal British attempt to beat Amundsen to the South Pole are shown together for first timeDuring the 1910-1913 British Antarctic Expedition, two men working side by side to record one of the most famous ventures in the history of polar exploration – on glass plate negatives and watercolours that had to be finished indoors before the paint froze – discussed holding a joint exhibition of their work back in London.More than a century later, their ambi
  
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• The 100 best nonfiction books: No 27 – The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art by Kenneth Clark (1956)

  01-08-2016 06:45
  
  Kenneth Clark’s survey of the nude from the Greeks to Picasso foreshadows the critic’s towering claims for humanity in his later seminal work, CivilisationTo Private Eye, he was, immortally, “Lord Clark of Civilisation”, an accolade that probably made this patrician art historian better known to the British public than any other contemporary critic in any genre, a household name to stand alongside Fry, Gombrich and Pevsner. The epitome of the Great and the Good, equally a
  
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• Top Posts For AJBlogs From 07.31.16

  01-08-2016 06:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  This Week In Audience, When Fans Feel They Own The Art Edition
  This Week: Are artists now a weapon for developers?… When fans as creators believe they own the artists’ work… It’s getting tougher to figure out which music is popular… Bots increasingly compete with audiences for … read more
  AJBlog: AJ Arts AudiencePublished 2016-07-31
  East-West Mash-Up, Hokusai Meets Wright
  Not many people know that Richard Wright, renowned for his 1940 novelNative Son, and
  
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• Can We Talk About Composer And Critic Virgil Thompson Now?

  01-08-2016 01:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Blithely ignoring conflicts of interest, he remained a working composer throughout his tenure at The Herald Tribune. His pieces were performed by leading orchestras, sometimes with Thomson conducting! He reviewed ensembles and artists who performed his music, usually quite favorably. While at the paper, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Far from being embarrassed, his editors boasted of their critic’s accomplishment.”
  
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• The Museum Of Ice Cream Has Sold Out

  01-08-2016 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In one room dedicated to ice cream cones, the wall is covered in vague, uncredited trivia — ‘cones damaged during production are further ground down into animal feed’ — and guests can suck on a helium-filled balloon made of heated sugar.”
  
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