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• Trump or bust?

  04-08-2016 23:54
  
  Last year, the artists Mary Mihelic and David Gleeson came across a golden opportunity: Donald Trumps campaign tour bus, posted for sale on Craigslist for $15,000. The duo, who make up the collective t.Rutt, jumped at the chance to acquire the vehicle. We bought it within 36 hours of seeing it for sale, Mihelic recently told the news site Good.is in an interview. It was pretty quick. I didn't want the Trump people to have time to take the graphics off. But they were pretty much asleep at the sw
  
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• Theatre’s Next Big Thing Problem

  04-08-2016 23:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At its best, artist development is terrific, providing opportunities and genuine benefits for early-career artists; at it’s worst, it can be like butterfly collecting, and just as cruel. That’s because too many artist-development schemes are not designed to support ambition and scale and so they don’t help artists develop sustainable careers in the industry.”
  
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• Sotheby's to create videos about the world's leading museums and collections

  04-08-2016 23:00
  
  Sothebys is collaborating with major institutions including the Metropolitan Museum in New York and Londons Tate Modern to host their videos on its website. The auction house is also creating its own films about museums, starting with a 13-part series about Chatsworth House and the Duke Of Devonshires collection.Smaller institutions and privately run museums, such as the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, will also feature on Sothebys Museum Network, which launches online on 29 August
  
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• Jeppe Hein and Sam Durant create reflective works for historic sites in Massachusetts

  04-08-2016 23:00
  
  The two-year public art project, Art and the Landscape, launches in Massachusetts this year with two socially conscious works by the artists Jeppe Hein and Sam Durant, installed in historic locations. The initiative, helmed by the Boston-based curator Pedro Alonzo, is sponsored by The Trustees, a 125-year-old non-profit conservation group that oversees the preservation of more than 100 heritage sites in the state.
  On 5 August, a participatory work by the multimedia artist Sam Durant open in the
  
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• Brooklyn embraces a hometown hero

  04-08-2016 23:00
  
  Brooklyns Prospect Park will soon have a sculpture of another American icon to join the likes of Abraham Lincoln and Washington Irving: Steve Rogers, alias Captain America, a borough native who is celebrating his 75th anniversary this year. The Brooklyn-based action figure designer and artist Dave Cortes has teamed up with Marvel Comics to commemorate the milestone with a 13-foot bronze statue, due to be dedicated in Prospect Parks Childrens Corner on 10 August. After a two-week stint in the par
  
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• Do We Want Bots Determining Ownership Of Art?

  04-08-2016 22:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It seems outrageous to demand a photographer be asked to pay for the use of her own work, particularly when she has gifted that work to the public. It seems like another example of corporate bullying. But the suit will undoubtedly be complicated, as everything to do with posting images on the Web is. If, for example, an image is free, does it mean anyone else is free to charge for cataloguing it and giving access to it? If you put your old dresser on the curb and I pick it up, can’t
  
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• Putting Pen to Paper: Tackling the History of ‘Ballpoint Art’

  04-08-2016 22:10 via artnews.com
  You can take a note, draw a painting, obliterate a drawing, turn ink into paint, but whatever you do, consider the ballpoint.In a well-designed, elegantly produced paperback volume, published by Laurence King, Trent Morse has cleverly set his mind and … Read More
  
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• Stone-age skier irreparably damaged by well-intentioned youth

  04-08-2016 22:04
  
  As reported by the Norwegian news site The Local, a 5,000-year-old pictogram of a skier on the island of Tro off Norway in the Norwegian Sea has been severelylikely irreparablydamaged by a pair of helpful youth. Two minors etched over the linear carving, which is one of the earliest demonstrations of skiing in the Stone Age, reportedly to render the faint outlines more visible. The unnamed children had good intentions, Brd Anders Lang, the mayor of a town near the site, told The Local.Lang call
  
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• The Happiness Industry – Narcissism For The Masses?

  04-08-2016 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You can’t really be happy if you are a victim of injustice or exploitation, which is what the technologists of joy tend to overlook. This is why, when Aristotle speaks of a science of well-being, he gives it the name of politics. The point is of little interest to the neuroscientists, advertising gurus or mindfulness mongers, which is why so much of their work is spectacularly beside the point.”
  
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• Now We Have Books That Are “Born Translated”

  04-08-2016 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Many literary works today do not appear in translation, but are written for translation from the beginning. They are “born translated.” Adapted from “born digital,” the term used to designate artworks produced by and for the computer, “born-translated literature approaches translation as medium and origin rather than as afterthought. Translation is not secondary or incidental to these works. It is a condition of their production.”
  
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• New Harry Potter Book Is UK’s Fastest Seller This Decade

  04-08-2016 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It has sold more than 680,000 copies in its first three days alone, beating Fifty Shades of Grey which sold 664,478 in a single week in 2012. At its current rate, it is on track to become the second biggest single-week sales for a book since records began.”
  
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• UK’s National Theatre Opens Virtual Reality Studio

  04-08-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Anyone visiting the new National Theatre studio might experience the soul-destroying misery of the Calais jungle, take part in the 1916 Easter Rising or sit on a toilet while being serenaded by a giant psychedelic cat.”
  
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• The Olympics Promised London A Legacy. Sure, What What Did It Turn Out To Be?

  04-08-2016 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “That London has a lasting physical inheritance from its two-week £12bn jamboree is indisputable, but what kind of place is the promised Legacy-land turning out to be?”
  
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• Jim Northrup, 73, Poet, Author, Ojibwe Indian Leader

  04-08-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “An award-winning writer of books, columns, plays and poetry … Northrup was a storyteller, known for his stark and honest writing about his experience as a U.S. Marine in Vietnam and his early years at a federal boarding school. He was funny and pointed in his writings about everyday life on the reservation, politics and change in Indian Country.”
  
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• Book Publishing Has Always Been A Gut Instinct Business. Data Is Changing That

  04-08-2016 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Digital books made it possible to track the way people read and companies like Amazon and Apple could gather that data, but didn’t share it with publishers. Now a number of businesses have sprung up that specialize in reader analytics and they are sharing their findings.”
  
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• Russian Prude Complains About Replica Of Michelangelo’s ‘David’, Show Organizers Respond With Public ‘Dress David!’ Competition

  04-08-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A St. Petersburg woman complained to city officials that the statue, erected outside a local exhibition on Michelangelo, “spoils the city’s historic appearance and warps children’s souls.” In response, the public has been invited to submit sartorial suggestions, with online voting to select the best idea.
  
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• USC Roski, Embattled By Defections and Protests, Makes New Faculty Hires

  04-08-2016 17:53 via artnews.com
  A few months after the sole student at the USC Roski School of Art and Design’s MFA program dropped out, calling the entire academic enterprise “a sham” and walking away from free tuition, the Los Angeles art school announced that it has … Read More
  
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• Audio fail: why is so much sound art so bad? | Jonathan Jones

  04-08-2016 17:37
  
  Susan Philipsz and John Cage have shown that the genre has claims to greatness, but two works in Edinburgh betray the emptiness of much sound artSunlight is streaming into an Edinburgh chapel. On speakers spaced throughout this gothic building, people are talking. Sometimes they burst into song. Then the talking starts up again. We’re hearing a choir rehearsal, it seems – but it’s all a bit lackadaisical. Apart from me, the only people here are a couple of invigilators who sit
  
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• People! You Need To Dress Better In Public! Especially In The Theatre!

  04-08-2016 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When people were invited onstage at a recent performance of “Penn & Teller on Broadway,” many women looked as if they had stepped out of a jazzercise class, while men ambled around in hideous cargo shorts.”
  
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• What Does It Matter What People Wear To The Theatre?

  04-08-2016 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Theater today is ridiculously inaccessible as it is, and to tell people they have to dress a certain way to participate is unfair.”
  
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• Before HD: When The Met Brought Opera To America By Touring America

  04-08-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “From 1883, the year the Metropolitan Opera was founded, until 1986, the company went on extensive annual tours across the United States with occasional excursions abroad. … The scale of the Met tour, with orchestra, chorus, soloists, scenery and costumes, was massive. The typical mode of transportation was by train. In the first season, the company began with 13 performances in Boston from a repertory of 10 different operas as well as a concert.”
  
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• What’s Going On In Your Brain When You Get Hypnotized

  04-08-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MRIs indicate that it’s not (or not just) a placebo effect: there really are changes in certain areas of the brain – and in the connections between them.
  
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• The Clown School Where Movie Stars And Hot Young Stand-Up Comics Go To Study

  04-08-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “An exercise has gone badly wrong at École Philippe Gaulier” – whose alumni include Emma Thompson, Simon McBurney, Helena Bonham Carter, and Sacha Baron Cohen. “‘You are the definition of a bad student,’ croaks the septuagenarian teacher. ‘This is boring. It is so shit!’ Gaulier’s student gawps at him, chastened and gormless, as his classmates laugh cheerfully at his discomfort. … But for those aspiring to be funny, this is the
  
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• Big 1,900-Year-Old Mosaic Of Hercules’s Labors Uncovered In Cyprus

  04-08-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Measuring a whopping 62 by 23 feet, the mosaic’s faded tiles appear to be part of what was once a baths complex … The mosaic has suffered some damage, but you can still make out hints of the challenging tasks Hercules had to perform as a kind of penance after murdering his wife and children.”
  
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• Morning Links: Stolen Salvador Dali Edition

  04-08-2016 15:17 via artnews.com
  DaliHow “super sleuth” art detective Arthur Brand recovered stolen Salvador Dali and Tamara de Lempicka paintings, both multi-million dollar works. [Independent]For Florida folks, the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg will be screening the Michael Keaton classic, Beetlejuice, at 8:30 this evening … Read More
  
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• ‘Most Concert Halls And Opera Houses Are Just Too Big,’ Says New York Times Chief Classical Critic

  04-08-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anthony Tommasini: “Inevitably, a sense of separation, of sound traveling across distance, affects performances in spaces the size of most concert halls. Less imposing halls need to be found for the symphonic repertory.”
  
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• Rupertinum revamp puts Salzburg on the contemporary art map

  04-08-2016 15:07
  
  The 17th-century building known as the Rupertinum, which houses part of the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg, Austria, has re-opened on 29 July following a five-month refurbishment.
  The 950,000 renovation includes the addition of the new 3,800 sq. ft Generali Foundation study centre, housing a specialist library and archives linked to the art collection established in 1988 by the eponymous insurance company. The Generali Foundation comprises around 2,100 works by 200 international artists. Video
  
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• X-ray reveals mysterious face hidden beneath Degas' Portrait of a Woman

  04-08-2016 15:00
  
  Scanning technique picks out elements in pigments used for hidden composition, revealing portrait resembling French model Emma DobignyA mysterious face that lay hidden beneath Edgar Degas’s Portrait of a Woman for 140 years has been identified for the first time as one of the impressionist’s favoured French models.The features of the young woman emerged when scientists in Australia scanned the portrait with a technique called x-ray fluorescence, which picked out the subsurface elemen
  
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• Elena Doria, 90, Longtime Director Of Met Opera Children’s Chorus

  04-08-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A soprano who joined the Met in 1966 as a member of its adult chorus, Ms. Doria took the helm of the children’s group in 1986. For the next 23 years, until she stepped down in 2009, she superintended her charges – who ranged in age from about 5 to the early teens – through weekly classes at the opera house, through stage rehearsals and, like an operatic Momma Rose, from the wings at every performance.”
  
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• Is this Europe's best secret museum?

  04-08-2016 14:50
  
  In a small German town, a museum dedicated to life in the GDR – with everything from crank-handled calculators to Communist doilies – exists, virtually undiscovered, in one man’s attic. We paid a visit – and got a very warm welcomeIt is standing somewhere between the wooden washing machine, the vaginal douche and a huge portrait of Erich Honecker that I realise I am in the greatest museum the world has ever known. To reach the DDR & Nostalgie Museum in Garzin, you don
  
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• Crystal Pite Has An Interesting Theory About Why Ballet Choreography Is So Male-Dominated

  04-08-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A young boy making the choice to study ballet as a kid is strong enough to push against the ridicule of his peers so he’s probably already a bit of a maverick … It’s natural for girls to be in the ballet world so they don’t have to resist anything – and they are prized for their ability to be obedient, to conform. So all the qualities that got the boy into ballet class in the first place are the same qualities you need to be a creator.”
  
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• Public Art At Rio Olympics Cut Because There’s No Money

  04-08-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The arts programme ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics has suffered another loss due to budget cuts … A public work by the Italian artist Giancarlo Neri is among the installations recently cancelled by the country’s new culture minister Marcelo Calero.”
  
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• Miami Beach’s Bass Museum Announces Plans For Reopening Following Expansion

  04-08-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The museum’s historic Art Deco building has been under construction since 2013, when it first announced the $12 million expansion. … Without expanding the exterior of the building, Isozaki and Gauld’s redesign” – which opens December 1 – “will increase the size of the museum’s exhibition space by 50 percent, adding four new galleries.”
  
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• Conductor Myung Whun Chung Cleared Of Embezzlement Charges At Seoul Philharmonic

  04-08-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The charges, which many observers considered fabricated, arose from the stormy end of Chung’s tenure as music director and his conflicts with the orchestra’s notoriously combative former president, who was forced to resign at the end of 2014.
  
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• Why Are So Many American Authors Writing About Characters Outside America?

  04-08-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Charles McGrath suggests that it’s “a novelistic weariness with America and Americans, a sense that our native ground is not too thin, as Henry James would have it, but too played out.”Siddhartha Deb thinks perhaps they shouldn’t bother: “Can a novel set abroad be anything other than the Grand Tour novel or its successor, the imperial novel?”
  
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• Why Writers And Readers Alike Keep Getting Drawn To Nature

  04-08-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We love reading about nature for the same reason naturalists love being ankle-deep in marshes: Nature provides enough order to soothe and enough entropy to surprise. It’s also why so many involve a person in the landscape; understanding our place in the world is as important as understanding the world itself.”
  
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• Contemporary African art to take centre stage at Fondation Louis Vuitton

  04-08-2016 11:55
  
  Interest in contemporary African art keeps growing, with a series of large-scale exhibitions planned for the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris fuelling the trend.
  The Art Newspaper understands that three shows are due to open at the museum in the Bois de Boulogne park next April, including an exhibition dedicated to 15 emerging artists from South Africa and a display of works drawn from the permanent collection of the museum.The third exhibition will be of works from the collection of
  
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• Magnus app founder hits back at critics

  04-08-2016 10:20
  
  Magnus Resch, the art market entrepreneur behind the Magnus price data app, has responded to claims that his service had stolen information from other databases and galleries. The free app, which combines aggregated public information with digital recognition technology, also includes prices, the holy grail of the primary market.In July, the Magnus app was removed from the Apple Store on the back of copyright claims from three German galleries who asked for imagesas well as the price datato be
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.03.16

  04-08-2016 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Are We Building Artistic Leadership?
  Are the arts about selling tickets to shows or about art? Of course performances and exhibitions don’t happen if they don’t have money to be produced, but – as evidenced at an arts marketing conference where I recently spoke … read more
  AJBlog: diacritical/Douglas McLennan Published 2016-08-03A Big Splash for A Little Museum
  Winona, MN, is home to just 27,500 people, but it has an art museum worthy of a much bigger city. The Minnesota
  
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• JR unveils show-stopping athletes in time for Rio Olympics

  04-08-2016 10:00
  
  The French artist JR has transformed Rio de Janeiros skyline ahead of the Olympics opening ceremony on Friday (5 August). In two giant public installations the artist has depicted athletes in actionone diving into the sea in Barra da Tijuca and the second high jumping over a high-rise residential building in the Flamengo neighbourhood.
  The work on top of the Hilton Santos building is 20 metres high and has been in progress since June. It honours the high-jumper Mohamed Younes Idriss,
  
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• JR unveils enormous athletes in Rio de Janeiro in time for Olympics

  04-08-2016 10:00
  
  The French artist JR has transformed Rio de Janeiros skyline ahead of the Olympics opening ceremony on Friday (5 August). In two giant public installations the artist has depicted athletes in actionone diving into the sea in Barra da Tijuca and the second high jumping over a high-rise residential building in the Flamengo neighbourhood.
  The work on top of the Hilton Santos building is 20 metres high and has been in progress since June. It honours the high-jumper Mohamed Younes Idriss,
  
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• Jens Hoffmann Out as Deputy Director of the Jewish Museum

  04-08-2016 03:28 via artnews.com
  Jens Hoffmann, the deputy director at New York’s Jewish Museum and a key figure in the institution’s programming since joining the staff in 2012, will be leaving his post, according to an internal e-mail from Claudia Gould, the museum’s director.Hoffmann … Read More
  
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• James Houghton, 57, Founder Of Signature Theatre And Director Of Juilliard Drama Program

  04-08-2016 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I don’t think there was anyone in the theater community more beloved than Jim,” the playwright Tony Kushner, whose work was featured in Signature’s 2010-11 season, wrote in an email. “He had a great soul and a grand capacity for friendship and love. He was smart and passionate. He built his singular legacy, founded on his devotion to playwrights’ work and to playwrights themselves, with a uniquely sweet, generous spirit; with unflagging optimism; and with gra
  
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