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• Public art cancelled in Rio due to cultural budget cuts

  02-08-2016 23:42
  
  The arts programme ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics has suffered another loss due to budget cuts, the Brazilian publication O Globo reports. A public work by the Italian artist Giancarlo Neri is among the installations recently cancelled by the countrys new culture minister Marcelo Calero.
  The work Bar Paris, comprising 1,415 chairs with lights attached, was to be installed in a public square in the Glria neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro. The budget of 632,000 reals (around $200,000) would have co
  
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• Colorado art ranch celebrates 50 years

  02-08-2016 23:31
  
  To commemorate its 50th anniversary, the Anderson Ranch Arts Centre in Snowmass Village near Aspen, Colorado has been bringing artists, curators and critics together for its annual Summer Series programme of workshops, panels and lectures. The guest speakersincluding the artists Liza Lou, Carrie Mae Weems and Andrea Bowers, Thomas Houseago, Hank Willis Thomas, Catherine Opie, Charles Gaines, Theaster Gatesaddress important topics in contemporary art, said Nancy Wilhelms, the art centres directo
  
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• Rebecca Louise Law at Chandran Gallery, San Francisco

  02-08-2016 23:16 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Rebecca Louise Law: The Beauty of Decay” is on view at Chandran Gallery in San Francisco through Friday, August 5. The solo exhibition features a large-scale, site-specific … Read More
  
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• Five UK Amateur Orchestras Compete On TV Show To Play In The Proms

  02-08-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The five finalists were selected after a nationwide search for the UK’s most inspirational amateur orchestra.
  
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• Tom Sachs’s out-of-this-world show

  02-08-2016 23:00
  
  The next frontier for the New York-based artist Tom Sachs and his team: Europa, Jupiters sixth-largest moon. Sachswho has previously led missions to the moon and Mars as part of his ongoing intergalactic seriesis due to unveil Space Programme: Europa at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco on 16 September (until 15 January 2017). The show features around 185 objects, including a Japanese tea garden, a full-size Apollo-era landing module, a mission control centre and artef
  
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• Photographers Mert & Marcus get first major solo show at London auction house

  02-08-2016 23:00
  
  Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, better known as Mert & Marcus, have been collaborating on fashion shoots for 20 years, photographing everyone from Kate Moss to Kim Kardashian. For the first time this autumn, collectors will be able to acquire these works through Phillips, which is hosting the pairs first major solo show.
  Organised in collaboration with the artist management agency, Art Partner, the selling show consists of 18 works previously published in magazines including Vogue, Playboy, W
  
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• Cyborgs, ecosexuals and a bed made of bees: inside Perth's strangest art show

  02-08-2016 22:52
  
  Radical Ecologies, Perth Institute of Contemporary ArtIt’s not for the faint-hearted, but the new group show examines our relationship with nature and science – with a tendency towards the erotic“I would sneak inside the tree and jerk off, surrounded by bark; roots beneath my toes.”It’s not a confession I expected to have whispered into my ear at an art opening, but Radical Ecologies – the audacious new exhibit at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (Pica) &n
  
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• UK Report: Number Of Children Participating In The Arts Falls

  02-08-2016 22:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Overall, 98% of five to 15-year-olds engaged with the arts in 2015/16, the report claims. However, numbers for specific genres including theatre, music and dance, have decreased.”
  
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• Rockaway! A derelict army bathhouse on a New York beach becomes art

  02-08-2016 22:22
  
  Trashed by Hurricane Sandy and earmarked for demolition, the artist Katharina Grosse gave Fort Tilden a celebratory send-off as a vibrant landmarkGerman artist Katharina Grosse first saw Fort Tilden, the former US army base at Rockaway Point in Queens, in a series of smartphone images sent to her by Klaus Biesenbach, the New York MoMA chief curator and PS1 director who has a part-time home on Rockaway Beach.“He sent me photos at the beginning of this year and said ‘This could be an i
  
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• What Happens When We’ll Be Able To Edit Out Memories From Our Brains?

  02-08-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Most of the time, we’re still better at subconsciously editing our own recollections than any new technology is. But with researchers working on techniques that can chisel, reconstruct and purge life’s memories, it becomes crucial to ask: do we need our real memories? What makes us believe that memory is so sacrosanct? And do memories really make us who we are?”
  
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• Have Recent Productions Of Mid-20th Century Theatre Classics Blurred History?

  02-08-2016 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A series of recent productions that came to New York with great acclaim have implicitly questioned whether we can still see these plays for what they are, or whether they need to be made new to avoid seeming stale. These productions took plays that are deeply rooted in a particular time and place—and that deal, urgently, with the issues of their day—and ripped them up forcefully to re-pot them in fresh soil.”
  
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• Jonathan Franzen On His Battle For Ideas

  02-08-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I go to extraordinary lengths not to hear what people are saying about me. But that is itself a form of, well, it’s a form of self-protection because I know that all I have to do is hear one phrase—somebody will report to me all innocently, oh, somebody said such-and-such about me or about something I wrote, like I did this piece for the New Yorker a year-and-a-half ago where I made some, I thought, sensible points about the reality of climate change and the unavoidability of
  
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• Do The Arts Really Matter? (But Why?)

  02-08-2016 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Art opens us up to new ideas – so important always, but crucial now as the world seems to be losing its peripheral vision. We can all take refuge in our echo chambers, but the danger of cutting ourselves off from other ideas – or from ideas, period – is in vibrant display at the moment.”
  
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• McNay Art Museum Lures Rich Aste From Brooklyn Museum to Be Director

  02-08-2016 20:15 via artnews.com
  The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, has named Rich Aste as its third director, the museum announced in a press release. For the past six years, Aste has been at the Brooklyn Museum, where he has worked as … Read More
  
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• David Brooks: How Artists Reframe The World

  02-08-2016 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As usual, there were a ton of artists and musicians at the political conventions this year. And that raises some questions. How much should artists get involved in politics? How can artists best promote social change?
  
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• A New Tactile Language Helps Create Comic Books For The Blind

  02-08-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Comic books have a language,’ says comic artist Ilan Manouach. ‘They have specific devices’ to convey certain actions or emotions, like ‘a lightbulb, [or] a drop of sweat,’ that get lost when a visual story is translated into a fully language-based one. But Manouach believes he’s found a way to overcome that particular hurdle.”
  
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• Is Everything Art? Is Everyone An Artist? Some Definitions Please…

  02-08-2016 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Yes there is music and yes there is painting, but is there such a thing as art? The arts? Do we need art to make sense as something other than a phantasm, or a useful fiction, to be able to advocate for it? Does that fabrication invalidate our efforts?”
  
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• Anna Mecugni Named Curator and Coordinator of Academic Programming at Newcomb Art Museum

  02-08-2016 19:08 via artnews.com
  The Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University in New Orleans announced that it has hired Anna Mecugni as its new curator and coordinator of academic programming. Prior to her new appointment, Mecugni worked as an exhibition assistant for the Sachs Collection in Philadelphia.The Italian-born … Read More
  
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• Press [W] To Waterboard: A Video Game That Lets You Torture Iraqi Prisoners

  02-08-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What if there were a way to make sense of state-sanctioned torture in a more visceral way than by reading a news article or watching a documentary? Two years ago, that’s exactly what a team of Pittsburgh-based video-game designers set out to create: an experience that would bring people uncomfortably close to the abuses that took place in one particularly infamous prison camp.”
  
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• Regional Theatre Pioneer Zelda Fichandler, 91

  02-08-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Zelda Fichandler dedicated her early career to the establishment of America’s resident theater movement. When she co-founded Arena Stage, there were few non-commercial theaters in the United States and fewer theaters committed to providing a full range of world-class drama to its community with a resident company of professional actors.”
  
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• ICA Los Angeles Hires Jamillah James as Curator

  02-08-2016 18:17 via artnews.com
  In May, the Santa Monica Museum of Art announced that it would change its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and move to a 12,700-square-foot space in Downtown Los Angeles next spring. Now it is staffing up, … Read More
  
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• The Disintegration Of Joe McGinniss: A Son’s Memoir

  02-08-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The meteoric rise of the author of The Selling of the President 1968, the split with his family (“I get off the plane after doing Merv Griffin and the Tonight Show and have to leave for Paris and your mother tells me I need to take out the trash”), the intermittent happy visits, and the long, depressive, alcohol-fueled decline.
  
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• 'I turned the Olympic torch into an ice cream': British artists reveal their Rio 2016 posters

  02-08-2016 17:50
  
  Tracey Emin, David Shrigley, Sam Taylor-Johnson and more talk us through the posters they’ve made for Team GB – and what the Olympics mean to themTracey Emin, True Love Always Wins Continue reading...
  
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• J. Crew Is Selling Rob Pruitt Shirts

  02-08-2016 17:02 via artnews.com
  Yes, indeed: J. Crew has worked with Rob Pruitt to create limited-edition shirts that sport his trademark gradient styles. They are called Rob Pruitt™ for J. Crew Rash Guard shirts (love that trademark symbol), made of poly/elastane, priced at $125, … Read More
  
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• Big Tech Killed Bookstore Chains – And It’s Saving Indie Bookstores

  02-08-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s a bit of tech innovators being hoisted by their own petard: the massive drop in cost in back-office software and computers has benefitted small stores as much as a large ones. It costs much less now to do much more than a decade [ago], reducing overhead and improving efficiency.”
  
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• It’s Not Just Meryl Anymore: A Crop Of Older Actresses Have Become Box-Office Draws

  02-08-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Streep, at 67, is no longer an outlier defying all conventional wisdom about the box-office viability of an actress north of 50; she’s part of a trend.”
  
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• A Farewell From ‘The Man Responsible For The Spelling Mistakes In The Guardian’

  02-08-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Marsh: “The brief given me was, broadly, to stop people calling the paper ‘the Grauniad’. Or, since this professional suicide mission was always unlikely to succeed, at least give them less reason to do so.”
  
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• ‘Opera Has Broken Free Of The Stage’ – What We Learned At The First New York Opera Fest

  02-08-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over the course of the festival, we attended 14 productions out of the more than 25 presented, taking us to four out of five boroughs, from a Harlem school to a West Village townhouse to a basketball court in Brooklyn. Along the way we saw works presented in unconventional venues and on screens; discovered lesser-known and brand new works; and witnessed innovative approaches to reaching new audiences. Here is what we learned.”
  
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• I Spoke Out On YouTube About The Time I Was Sexually Harassed In An Orchestra Rehearsal – Here’s What Happened Next

  02-08-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Double bassist Lauren Pierce talks with Douglas Rosenthal about the internal conflicts she went through after the incident, her decision to go public, and the reactions from supporters and trolls alike.
  
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• Toronto’s Biggest Theatre Company Its Putting On Its Own Festival In New York

  02-08-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Soulpepper is staging the month-long event – titled ‘Soulpepper on 42nd Street: Canada Crosses the Border,’ – next summer in honor of the company’s 20th anniversary and Canada’s 150th.
  
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• Stolen Dalí And Lempicka Paintings Recovered After Criminal Gang Contacts Art Detective

  02-08-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dalí’s Adolescence (1941) and de Lempicka’s La Musicienne were stolen at gunpoint from a small private museum in the Netherlands in 2009. Art detective Arthur Brand estimates that the works changed hands about ten times before a criminal gang, realizing they were stolen and couldn’t be fenced, contacted him.
  
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• Morning Links: At-Risk Keith Haring Mural Edition

  02-08-2016 14:43 via artnews.com
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• Remember What It Was Like To Shop For Classical Records In Stores?

  02-08-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sic transit gloria disci.” Mark Obert-Thorn reminisces about the unexpected finds, the in-store appearances by musicians, the passionate sales clerks, and the discussions with other customers in what was, not so long ago, one of the best cities for classical record shopping in the country.
  
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• Vienna’s Belvedere Museum Fires Director For Financial Misconduct

  02-08-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The contract of outgoing director Agnes Husslein-Arco will not be renewed due to violations of internal codes of conduct and compliance standards. … [She] was found to have charged inadmissible expenses to the museum, as well as hiring museum employees for private services.”
  
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• Gloria DeHaven, 91, Star Of MGM Musicals And, Later. Of Soap Operas

  02-08-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  She began her film career at age 11 with a bit part in Chaplin’s Modern Times and went on to appear as a perky sweetheart alongside stars from Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra to Lucille Ball, Rosalind Russell and Nancy Reagan. After MGM’s musicals went out of fashion, she developed a career as a character actress in such series as As the World Turns, Ryan’s Hope, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
  
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• Bill Viola to unveil second work in St Paul’s Cathedral

  02-08-2016 13:56
  
  The leading US artist Bill Viola is due to install another biblical multi-screen video work in St Pauls Cathedral in London next month. Mary (2016) will be a companion piece to Violas Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water), which was unveiled in the South Quire aisle in 2014. The new installation, which shows Mary carrying the body of Jesus, is scheduled to be unveiled in the North Quire aisle on 8 September.
  Both installations have been given to the Tate by the Bill Viola studio but will be on perm
  
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• New York City Ballet Dancer Talks About Her Opening Night On Broadway (In ‘Cats’)

  02-08-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Georgina] Pazcoguin, currently on leave from City Ballet, recently spoke about opening night, Sunday, at the Neil Simon Theater – the nerves! – the differences between ballet and Broadway and what it’s like to become Victoria. What follows are edited excerpts from that interview.”
  
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• Why ‘Motown, The Musical’ Was Such A Big Lost Opportunity

  02-08-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the realm of ‘jukebox’ musicals, it is king, drawing from a plethora of baby-boomer smash hits created by such legendary groups as the Supremes, Temptations, the Jackson Five, and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. Throw in Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, and the potential is limitless.” The problem? The man behind it all.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.01.16

  02-08-2016 10:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Attention Deficit Disorder: Our Walled-Garden Problem
  As the digital world pummels us with more information and choice, many of us react by walling off the things we simply won’t pay attention to. It’s a survival strategy. … read more
  AJBlog: diacritical/Douglas McLennan Published 2016-08-01Evanescent Permanent Collections: Warhol Museum’s & Fisk University’s Stealth Deaccessions
  Recent revelations of secret disposals of artworks held in public trust by a museu
  
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• Juergen Teller to curate Robert Mapplethorpe show in London

  02-08-2016 10:05
  
  The German photographer Juergen Teller is to curate an exhibition of works by Robert Mapplethorpe in London in November, to coincide with what would have been the US artists 70th birthday.
  The exhibition at Alison Jacques gallery will be drawn from the archive of the Mapplethorpe Foundation in New York. Teller has yet to make his final selection, but the show will include silver gelatin prints, Polaroids of the beautiful and famous and a group of works that have never been exhibited before.
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• Shanghai’s Long Museum takes aim at female artists

  02-08-2016 05:45
  
  She: International Women Artists Exhibition (until October 30), showing 108 works by 100 female artists from 13 countries, opened at Long Museum Shanghais West Bund location last Friday. Curated by Wang Wei, the museums director (and who along with husband Liu Yiqian is one of Chinas top collectors), the exhibition was four years in the making and its four sections span ten centuries. The earliest work is calligraphy by the Southern Song-era artist Yang Meizi, while pre-modern China is represen
  
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• Hillary Clinton bikini mural covered with niqab after public decency complaints

  02-08-2016 03:42
  
  Council had threatened Melbourne street artist Lushsux with a fine over original mural, which depicted Clinton in a swimsuit with $100 notes tucked into it A Melbourne street artist who was threatened with a council fine over a provocative mural he painted of US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has responded by covering her image with a niqab.Maribyrnong council took issue with the original mural, which depicted Clinton wearing a revealing swimsuit with $100 notes tucked into it. The counc
  
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