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• ‘Lueurs noires’ at Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

  03-08-2016 23:25 via artnews.com
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• TV Pilot Production Down 13 Percent In LA This Year

  03-08-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Out of 201 pilots, 79 projects (25 dramas and 54 comedies) were filmed in the Los Angeles area — giving the region a 39% share of total pilot production, down from 45% last year. New York was the second most-active location with 28 pilots, followed by Vancouver with 25 pilots, Atlanta with 15 and Toronto with 12.”
  
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• Worth the detour: on the Andrew Lambirth collection

  03-08-2016 23:00
  
  The Andrew Lambirth Collection sounds rather grand. Perhaps it is: for Face to Face, an exhibition drawn from it of 65 portraits or self-portrait studies variously carried through as painting, drawing or print, represents but one of its many aspects. We can only wonder what else it holds. In quality, variety and discrimination alike, this selection is certainly impressive.
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• Milan museum recruits famous authors to write object labels

  03-08-2016 23:00
  
  The Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan is relabelling its collection of Italian art with a little help from famous authors. The gallerys director, James Bradburne, says that writers, including Ali Smith, Orhan Pamuk and Sarah Dunant, have agreed to write labels for works of their choosing. (The late Umberto Eco, who died in February, did not have time to complete his contribution.) Between 60 and 75 new texts are due to be installed over the next two years. Re-presenting the permanent collection in t
  
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• Art Stage Jakarta makes its debut

  03-08-2016 23:00
  
  Art Stage Jakarta, a spin-off of Art Stage Singapore, will provide a window and a bridge between Indonesias art scene and the worlds, says Lorenzo Rudolf, the president and founder of both fairs. The inaugural edition is due to open in the Indonesian capital on 5 August.The archipelago of 260 million people has the biggest art market in Southeast Asia, and the biggest Asian collector base after China, Rudolf says. Its lively artist community benefits from a loyal base of local collectors and pub
  
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• Always the same eyes: on Robert Mapplethorpe

  03-08-2016 23:00
  
  Much of the critical writing about the visual impact of Robert Mapplethorpes photographs, particularly those that show the extreme S&M practices of gay men, discusses the division between style and content. Arthur Danto opens his essay Playing with the Edge, written for the first major posthumous book of Mapplethorpes photographs (1992), with this idea: There is a tension at the heart of Mapplethorpes art, verging on paradox, between its most distinctive content and its mode of presentation
  
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• Moscow’s Garage Museum to Expand to St. Petersburg With Outpost on New Holland Island

  03-08-2016 22:34 via artnews.com
  Some news from Russia: the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, which was founded in Moscow in 2008 and moved last year into a new Rem Koolhaas-designed building, will begin to exhibit programming on New Holland Island in St. Petersburg. It will … Read More
  
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• Wholesale Makeover Of Pennsylvania Ballet Continues With Hire Of 17 New Dancers

  03-08-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “All told, since Angel Corella’s arrival, 22 dancers have left the company, with some retiring, some joining other companies and others simply not being re-engaged. With Wednesday’s appointments — of dancers from around the United States, as well as from Russia, Cuba, Japan and South Korea — Mr. Corella has now brought on 29 of the 43 dancers on the company’s roster.”
  
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• So This Is A Thing Now? 1000 Robots Break Record For Synchronized Dancing

  03-08-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “1,040 robots, each just under 44 centimeters in height, started their synchronized dance routine in Qingdao city. Of them, 1,007 finished the challenge, setting a new Guinness World Record for the largest simultaneous robot dance.”
  
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• CDC Releases Zika Travel Advisory for Miami’s Wynwood District, an Arts Hub

  03-08-2016 21:58 via artnews.com
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday released a Zika advisory for the Wynwood area of Miami, which is home to a number of prominent cultural institutions, saying that pregnant women should not visit because of a cluster … Read More
  
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• Study: Concert-Goers Are More Satisfied With Their Lives

  03-08-2016 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Total wellbeing scores were significantly higher for people who reported that they danced or attended musical events,” the researchers report. Compared to people who did not participate in these activities, members of both groups gave themselves significantly higher ratings on several important scales, including life achievements, relationships, and community.
  
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• Bob Linder of Capital Gallery Named Curator at 500 Capp Street Foundation in San Francisco [Updated]

  03-08-2016 21:24 via artnews.com
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• Bob Linder of Capital Gallery Named Curator at 500 Capp Street Foundation in San Francisco

  03-08-2016 21:24 via artnews.com
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• A Clinically Depressed Egg Yolk Is One Of Japan’s Most Popular Cartoon Mascots

  03-08-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Meet Gudetama, the anthropomorphic embodiment of severe depression. Gudetama … feels existence is almost unbearable. It shivers with sadness. It clings to a strip of bacon as a security blanket. Rather than engage in society, it jams its face into an eggshell and mutters the words, ‘Cold world. What can we do about it?'”
  
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• Albanian National Opera And Ballet Chief Quits Over Tiny Budget

  03-08-2016 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The total budget of Albania’s Ministry of Culture for 2016 has been set at just over 9 million euros – but only some of this is allocated for the country’s main cultural institutions. The National Theatre of Opera and Ballet gets about 2 million euros but the institution hosts the biggest artistic troupe in the country and also contains within it the national symphonic orchestra and the folk ensemble.”
  
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• Moscow’s Garage Museum hosts first show in St Petersburg

  03-08-2016 20:12
  
  The Moscow-based Garage Museum of Contemporary Art will organise its first exhibition in St Petersburg later this month, on a section of New Holland Island that reopens as a public park on 27 August after a major redevelopment. The show will be installed in a temporary exhibition space in the park, alongside other cultural efforts and food stalls.Experiences of the Imaginary, curated by Andrey Misiano, features work by emerging Russian artists who received supporting grants from the Garage muse
  
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• The Final Chapter In Billy Wilder’s Filmmaking Career (Did You Know It Lasted Into The 1980s?)

  03-08-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the last 20 years of his life, Wilder (who died in 2002) managed the unlikely feat of being both revered and ignored. … There came a point after his final two movies, Fedora (1978) and Buddy Buddy (1981), when Hollywood simply stopped financing his work. … He went every day to his office in Beverly Hills to work on projects that would never be made.”
  
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• When Is Cultural Appropriation Just Exploitation (And When Is It Expanding The Culture?)

  03-08-2016 19:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Of course, it’s hard for any people who are socially dispossessed not to feel extra possessive when it comes to their cultural icons and their reception by a more socially dominant audience, particularly when there’s ample evidence of those same icons being celebrated (and dismissed) by the majority in an ignorant way. It’s kind of bleak right now.”
  
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• MoMA/MoMA PS1 Records Releases ‘The Thoughts of Gilbert & George’ on Vinyl

  03-08-2016 19:17 via artnews.com
  MoMA/MoMA PS1 Records—yes, the institutions have a record label—has released a special vinyl edition of The Thoughts of Gilbert & George, a recording that revisits their landmark work The Singing Sculpture, discussing the process of its creation as they sit in the … Read More
  
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• Matthew McConaughey’s New Career: Marketing Guru For Bourbon

  03-08-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. McConaughey – Oscar winner, Texan, renowned bongo player – has signed a contract … to serve as creative director for Wild Turkey bourbon. The multiyear deal goes far beyond pitching a product, … he will write and direct the spots. He has also involved himself in recording music for the campaign.”
  
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• Restitution Advocate Ronald Lauder Says His Museum Has A Work WIth Uncertain Provenance

  03-08-2016 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. Lauder, 72, would not identify the piece or its creator during an interview, saying that negotiations on its return were being finalized. He did say he was surprised that a work with a disputed provenance had made it into the museum, which focuses on art created in Austria and Germany from 1890 to 1940.”
  
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• Intimate Impressions: ‘But a Storm Is Blowing From Paradise’ Offers a Nuanced View of Middle Eastern Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York

  03-08-2016 18:18 via artnews.com
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• Auction Houses Have Found Themselves Becoming Shadow Banks (Making Loans To Shadowy Characters)

  03-08-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As prices for art skyrocketed, Sotheby’s and other firms have become shadow banks, making millions of dollars of legal loans outside the regulated financial system and raising concerns that such financing could facilitate money laundering.”
  
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• Why Are People Piling On Dede Wilsey? She’s Been A Bay Area Arts Powerhouse

  03-08-2016 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is a woman who had donated more than $10 million to the city-owned museums over the years. Even more important, she guided the institution through a $190 million capital campaign that gave San Francisco the de Young Museum’s award-winning building in 2005, and she led numerous smaller fund drives for the Fine Arts Museums as well as for several other cultural and social service organizations in town.”
  
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• Occupational Hazards: Manifesta 11 Employs the Working Class

  03-08-2016 17:12 via artnews.com
  Bernini may have once shared a sketchbook with Pope Alexander VII in the gardens of the Vatican, but the German-born artist Christian Jankowski sought a more sensational collaboration when he alighted on the Holy See some centuries later. His 2011 … Read More
  
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• This City Lost (Yes, Lost) Three Schieles And A Klimt – Now It Must Pay The Owners $9 Million

  03-08-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Austrian Supreme Court has ordered the city of Linz to pay €8.24 million ($8.96 million) plus 4 percent interest to the heirs of a local collector for losing a Gustav Klimt drawing and three pictures by Egon Schiele.”
  
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• How art detective Arthur Brand recovered two multi-million pound pieces of stolen art

  03-08-2016 16:57
  
  'I once had to negotiate the return of a painting in Mafia'
  
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• Tate Britain revamps Turner galleries after paintings return from tour

  03-08-2016 16:44
  
  London gallery’s most famous works are now displayed on walls painted in a red believed to have been used by the artistTate Britain has marked the return of some of its most popular paintings from a tour of north America by rehanging its galleries devoted to JMW Turner.Paintings such as the dazzling Norham Castle, Sunrise and the baffling but gorgeous view of Venice, St Benedetto, Looking towards Fusina, have arrived back in London after being part of one of the most successful shows ever
  
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• The Ballet National De Marseille – Dance And Protest In The Wake Of France’s Terror Attacks

  03-08-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Co-artistic directors Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten have two themes to their work at the company: “Le Corps du Ballet” (deliberately not corps de), and “‘Le Corps en Révolte’, the body in revolt, where ‘the ballet is used almost for protest’, says Greco. The aim is to create a space for demonstration, ‘like Taksim Square’.”
  
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• Oops! Kids Destroy 5,000-Year-Old Rock Carving They Were Trying To Touch Up

  03-08-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They thought the etching had become too faded, so they decided to scratch over it to make it easier to see. … The carving on the northern island of Tro is one of the country’s most famous historic sites and an important clue as to when people began skiing.” (This may not end as well as “Beast Jesus” did.)
  
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• Is Donald Trump’s Favorite Opera Aria Maybe A Little Bit … Fascist?

  03-08-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The GOP presidential nominee used to use Pavarotti’s famous recording of “Nessun dorma” from Turandot at rallies (until the tenor’s heirs told him to stop). It’s unclear how much Trump really knows about Turandot, but there certainly are scholars convinced that the work has Fascist overtones, and Puccini himself was an admirer of Mussolini (to whom Trump is sometimes compared).
  
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• One Enlightenment Philosopher Anticipated Donald Trump 250 Years Ago

  03-08-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “No Enlightenment thinker observing our current predicament from the afterlife would be able to say ‘I told you so’ as confidently as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an awkward and prickly autodidact from Geneva, who was memorably described by Isaiah Berlin as the ‘greatest militant lowbrow in history.'”
  
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• Egypt’s Oldest Written Papyri Revealed – And They’re About Building The Pyramids

  03-08-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Roughly 4,500 years old, they describe the daily routines of workers during the Fourth Dynasty reign of King Khufu as they worked on national projects, highlighting in particular the physical labor of constructing the pharaoh’s Great Pyramid of Giza.”
  
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• Morning Links: Neue Galerie Restitution Edition

  03-08-2016 14:54 via artnews.com
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• Long-Lost Dürer Engraving Turns Up At Flea Market

  03-08-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The graphic work dating from 1520 was thought to have been lost during the Second World War … [It] shows a majestic view of the Virgin Mary with Baby Jesus, protected by an angel, and belongs to a 15-part series of [Madonna-and-Child] depictions the artist created at different stages of his career.”
  
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• Stephen Sondheim Says His New Musical Will Be Ready Next Year

  03-08-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The performance date may be news, but the subject is well known. Written with the playwright David Ives (Venus in Fur), the piece is based on two films by Luis Buñuel, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Exterminating Angel. The first, in Sondheim’s précis, is about a group of people trying to have dinner together, and the second is about people having dinner together who for some reason can’t leave.” (The hope is for the musical to run in New Yor
  
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• When Do Musicals Cross The Line And Become Operas? Anne Midgette Considers

  03-08-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What’s the difference between an opera and a musical? Theories abound. Some say opera is through-sung while musicals include spoken dialogue (although there are many operas with spoken dialogue; think Carmen). Some say opera is unamplified, while musicals are mic’d (except that there are many operas written for amplification, and many musicals that weren’t). But ask Stephen Sondheim … and you’ll hear that it has to do largely, simply, with the expectations o
  
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• Cirque Du Soleil’s Vegas Beatles Show, Ten Years And Eight Million Viewers Later

  03-08-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Later“When Love opened, in 2006, some critics raised an eyebrow at the prediction by Apple and Cirque that it would run for 10 years. How many Beatles fans, after all, were likely to travel to Las Vegas to see a site-specific acrobatic show?”
  
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• What Happened When A 17th-Century Bishop Invented A Language That Was Completely Rational, Systematic, And Taxonomically Orderly

  03-08-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Well, it was rational, systematic, and taxonomically orderly. If only that were the way humans actually think.
  
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• Why It’s Hard To Adapt Philip Roth For The Screen

  03-08-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  James Schamus, director of Indignation: “With Roth you often get it in the course of negotiating the gap between an astringent or removed voice that’s narrating on the one hand, and then the actual narrated events of the characters. There’s this weird disjunction that creates this space for him to play and work. You don’t have those tools in cinema.”
  
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• The Queen of Spades, Opera Holland Park, review: 'All the gutsiness and grace one could wish for'

  03-08-2016 11:41
  
  Those of us who heard the young Welsh soprano Natalya Romaniw sing Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at Garsington last month were hit by a musical coup de foudre: where had this wonderful singer been hiding, and what else could she do? The answer to the second question has come with her performance as Lisa in the same composer's The Queen of Spades at Opera Holland Park. This is a darker and more psychologically complex role, but she brings to it the same exquisite artistry, and the same l
  
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• Are you being served Mr Cohen?

  03-08-2016 11:11
  
  More than 60 works drawn from the holdings of the gregarious UK private collector Frank Cohen will go on show at one of Londons most luxurious food and gifts emporiums this autumn (Fortnums X Frank, 13 September-15 October). The high-end department store Fortnum & Mason, which faces the Royal Academy of Arts on Piccadilly, will be dotted with works by big-name artists such as Howard Hodgkin (first floor staircase), Paula Rego (fifth floor entrance) and Frank Auerbach (in the
  
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• Jupiter Artland: The spectacular sculpture park near Edinburgh you can't miss

  03-08-2016 11:07
  
  Recently nominated for the prestigious Art Fund Museum of the Year award, Jupiter is open to the public half the year
  
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• Edinburgh art festival review – ugly beauty in the Jekyll and Hyde city

  03-08-2016 10:45
  
  Darkness has descended on Scotland’s capital, with monstrous statues, robot babies and macabre examinations of the human soul. Go and be corruptedCalton Hill in Edinburgh is, architecturally, the sanest place in Britain. This deliberate recreation of the Acropolis of ancient Athens is graced with early 19th-century classical temples that express a belief in science, philosophy and education, embodying the spirit of the Scottish Enlightenment when thinkers such as David Hume and Adam Smith
  
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• Get Rio 2016-themed prints from leading contemporary artists early at a special discount price

  03-08-2016 10:42
  
  Eight major artists have created official limited edition prints for Team GB at the Rio 2016 Olympics, and The Independent has secured five of each print at a special price.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.02.16

  03-08-2016 09:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is Opera The Real 21st Century Art Form?
  A 2015 survey by blogger Mai Mae reported that 260 new opera companies started since 2000 in the United States. There are 80 opera companies now working in New York alone. … read more
  AJBlog: diacritical/Douglas McLennan Published 2016-08-02Nominations for Audience Development Innovation
  No Good Deed Goes UNPUBLISHED.   That’s my motto – and why I ask: Have you seen an example of an arts organization doing somet
  
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• Floral tributes: still life paintings bloom into 3D – in pictures

  03-08-2016 08:00
  
  Rebecca Louise Law’s artworks turn Dutch still life paintings into three dimensional sculptures that wither and decay over timeContinue reading...
  
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• Pressure mounts for US museums to increase diversity at the top

  03-08-2016 06:00
  
  Two recent studies paint a stark picture of the lack of ethnic and racial diversity among top museum staff in the US. While people of colour represent 38% of the countrys population, they make up only 9% of museum boards and 16% of the administrators, curators, conservators and educators who make decisions about what is exhibited and preserved as culturally important. These hard numbers show just how little the offices and boardrooms of US cultural institutions reflect rapidly shifting demograp
  
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• When Architecture Was Optimistic

  03-08-2016 00:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Looking at the saturated images of such vibrant, eccentric architecture, it’s hard not to feel a yearning for that kind of experimental optimism in our structures today. However, the era is also a reminder that architecture can’t solve our problems. In the end, it’s the people using the buildings who determine their successes, and perhaps the reason architecture took a different turn is that people don’t generally want to live in UFOs and modernist caves.”
  
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• What Is Science Doing At A Music Festival?

  03-08-2016 00:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What we do is help people bridge that gap themselves by stimulating them. The trick is communication. Music is about communicating emotion. Science is about discovering facts, but if you can’t communicate them there is little point in discovering them.”
  
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