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• ‘Calder in the Alps’ at Various Venues, Gstaad, Switzerland, Presented by Hauser & Wirth

  22-08-2016 23:39 via artnews.com
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• So Brexit Won’t Affect British Arts Projects With European Funding, Eh?

  22-08-2016 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Organisations that were told before the referendum that a Brexit vote would have no impact on their funding applications are now experiencing delays.”
  
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• Wanted: young artists to join the Antarctic Biennale

  22-08-2016 22:26
  
  Calling all adventurous artists under 35: the Antarctic Biennale wants you. Artist are invited apply to join an art-making journey to the worlds southernmost continent this spring. The open call for submissionswhich launched Monday, 22 Augustwas announced last Friday at the Newport Art Museum in Rhode Island at a fundraising weekend for the event, hosted by the philanthropist John Blaffer Royall, a member of the biennials organising committee. Submissions, due by 3 October, may be in any medium
  
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• ASSOCIATE CURATOR / CURATOR, The Costume Institute

  22-08-2016 22:04
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the worlds finest museums, seeks an Associate Curator/Curator. He/she will be an expert in 20th
  Century Historic Costumes, with skills in connoisseurship and the ability to propose and support curatorial initiatives in this field. He/she will participate in research, development, and active management of the Collection; the initiation of collection displays, major special exhibitions, publications and interpretation; and all activities of the Department. Re
  
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• Trump, The Hedge Fund Guy, And The Steinway Piano Connection

  22-08-2016 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As of today, it seems that Trump is doing everything he possibly can in order not to get elected, so perhaps I’m overreacting. But I do think my fellow pianists should at least be aware of this jarring dissonance at the top end of Steinway’s (pay) scale.”
  
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• Ang Lee Wants To Show His New Film Projected At Higher Speeds. But Can Theatres Handle It?

  22-08-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The New York Film Festival said on Monday that it would host the world premiere of Mr. Lee’s film on Oct. 14 in a theater — a relatively small one, with just 300 seats — rigged with projectors capable of playing the film in 3-D, 4K ultra-high-definition and at the extremely fast speed of 120 frames a second. No film has ever been shown publicly that way before, according to the festival and Sony Pictures, which will release “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” na
  
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• What Distinguishes A Sentence As A Masterpiece

  22-08-2016 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If we think of a library as a city and a book as an individual house in that city, each sentence becomes one tiny component of that house. Some are mostly functional – the load-bearing wall, the grout between the bathroom tiles – while others are the details we remember and take away, perhaps recalling their texture and colour when we assemble our own verbal dwelling-place.”
  
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• Karen Finley, Still Going Over The Top

  22-08-2016 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Her work was, and is, raw to the point of scariness, accessing such dark materials as her father’s suicide, incest, and the violation of children. But what Finley’s pieces are not, of course, is erotic.”
  
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• Jazz Harmonica Player Toots Thielemans, 94

  22-08-2016 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “That Mr. Thielemans, who performed with greats like Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman and Charlie Parker, played jazz on the harmonica was unusual enough. Even more unusual was how he first gained widespread international attention: by playing guitar and whistling in unison.”
  
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• Is Sleep Music A Real Thing?

  22-08-2016 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I give these inventors credit. They are launching their product at a moment when the market for sleep music is starting to stir. In recent months, I’ve encountered a surprising number of creative projects targeted at an unconscious audience. But this raises many questions: Is sleep music a real genre?”
  
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• Zen and the (male) art of skateboard combat

  22-08-2016 18:24
  
  At the Museum of Skateboarding, Russian artist Kirill Savchenkov turns the urban skater into a rōnin-style warrior engaged in a boys-only martial artLondon has a new Museum of Skateboarding. But before you dust off your Vans, be warned: this is not a public institution on the South Bank dedicated to outsize shorts, broken wrists and the unseasonal wearing of beanie hats. It’s in an art gallery.The work of Russian artist Kirill Savchenkov, the “museum” opened at London&rsqu
  
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• Are “Middle Class Rules” Holding Back The Arts?

  22-08-2016 18:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Forgive my generalisations and my bluntness, but there’s sometimes a deadness that comes when middle-class people run stuff. They get the content right, the ideas, the themes, the politics. But they haven’t a clue about how to embrace things.”
  
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• SculptureCenter Announces Fall Program, Featuring Debut U.S. Solo Exhibitions by Cosima Von Bonin and Aki Sasamoto

  22-08-2016 18:06 via artnews.com
  Today, Long Island City’s SculptureCenter announced a fall programming schedule that continues its commitment to an all-female roster of artists in 2016. The schedule will feature solo exhibitions by Cosima Von Bonin and Aki Sasamoto.Both Von Bonin, who is from Germany, and Japan-born, … Read More
  
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• SculptureCenter Announces Fall Program, Featuring Debut New York Solo Exhibitions by Cosima Von Bonin and Aki Sasamoto

  22-08-2016 18:06 via artnews.com
  Today, Long Island City’s SculptureCenter announced a fall programming schedule that continues its commitment to an all-female roster of artists in 2016. The schedule will feature solo exhibitions by Cosima Von Bonin and Aki Sasamoto.Both Von Bonin, who is from Germany, and Japan-born, … Read More
  
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• Prom 45: The Makropulos Affair Mattila/ BBC SO/Bělohlávek, Royal Albert Hall, review: 'Karita Mattila triumphed again'

  22-08-2016 16:32
  
  The Makropulos Affair is the last of Janáček's trilogy of operas exploring different aspects of womanhood
  
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• Tillmans gets techno on Mr Ocean’s latest visual album

  22-08-2016 16:30
  
  The German photographer Wofgang Tillmans is getting through his post-Brexit blues by collaborating with an unlikely partnerthe US rapper Frank Ocean. The New Orleans musician has just dropped his latest creation (or visual album), Endless, which features the Turner prizewinners track Device Control. But Tillmans explains on Instagram that the music project took him by surprise. Enormously proud and happy that Frank Ocean did include my (yet unreleased) track Device Control as intro and as
  
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• Tillmans gets techno on Mr Ocean’s latest disc

  22-08-2016 16:30
  
  The German photographer Wofgang Tillmans is getting through his post-Brexit blues by collaborating with an unlikely partnerthe US rapper Frank Ocean. The New Orleans musician has just dropped his second album, Endless, which features the Turner prizewinners track Device Control. But Tillmans explains on Instagram that the music project took him by surprise. Enormously proud and happy that Frank Ocean did include my (yet unreleased) track Device Control as intro and as a full length ending of hi
  
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• By The Numbers, Theatre Has A Problem With People Of Color And White Women In Leadership Positions

  22-08-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Hidden behind a gender- and race-neutral job description is an expectation, grounded in a stereotype, of what a theatre leader needs to look like: white and male, because white and male leaders have been the long-standing majority of those in top positions.”
  
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• Cheltenham MP calls for inquiry into removal of Banksy's Spy Booth

  22-08-2016 16:17
  
  Alex Chalk describes disappearance of mural from side of house during plasterwork repairs as ‘absolutely shocking’An MP has demanded an inquiry into the removal of a Banksy mural satirising government surveillance.The Spy Booth work appeared overnight in April 2014 on the wall of a house in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, about three miles (5km) from the headquarters of Britain’s surveillance agency, GCHQ. Continue reading...
  
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• Go Ahead And Take Petrodollars, UK Museums, Says Official Association

  22-08-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In response to claims by Art Not Oil that BP influenced museum programming, the committee said it is ‘common practice’ for a museum to maintain a dialogue with a sponsor about the planning and content of an exhibition.”
  
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• Prom 46: BBC SC/BBC SSO/Volkov, Royal Albert Hall, review: 'Superb Prom'

  22-08-2016 16:14
  
  Spectralism was the label give to French composers who reacted to Serialism with natural acoustic sound, and Gerard Grisey was their leader. It has taken 40 years for his key work Dérives to get its British premiere
  
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• A Broadway Dancer Has Been Charged With Murdering His Boyfriend

  22-08-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The pair reportedly had been fighting in their apartment in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx. After the fight, Bellamy reportedly contacted a neighbor, who called police. Bellamy was waiting for them and surrendered peacefully.”
  
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• Curtain up for Ron Arad (and the Proms) at the Roundhouse

  22-08-2016 15:50
  
  Fans of Ron Arad received a treat on Saturday afternoon (20 August), when the BBC Proms decamped to north London's Roundhouse from the classical music festival's usual home at the Royal Albert Hall. Arad's 360-degree installation Curtain Calla curtain comprising 5,600 silicon strands, onto which are projected videos by artists including Christian Marclay and David Shrigleyformed a cordon around the audience, most memorably in the UK premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas's 2007 work Open Spaces II (i
  
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• A Tiny Spanish Press Has Won The Right To Clone The World’s Most Mysterious Book

  22-08-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Siloe, which specialises in making facsimiles of old manuscripts, has bought the rights to make 898 exact replicas of the Voynich – so faithful that every stain, hole, sewn-up tear in the parchment will be reproduced.”
  
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• Why Do Critics Still Hate Andrew Wyeth?

  22-08-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At best, one might say that the most virulent haters are dead or are moving on, but the void is still not exactly filling up with love. Maybe there is some grudging respect, which might count as a victory for this most singular of artists.”
  
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• Destroying priceless art is vile and offensive – but it is not a war crime

  22-08-2016 15:24
  
  As Ahmad al-Mahdi goes on trial for razing Timbuktu’s mausoleums, we should remember what The Hague is for: preventing the mass murder of humansShould acts of cultural destruction that happen during conflict be classed as war crimes? That is the precedent being set by the current trial of Ahmad al-Mahdi at the international criminal court (ICC) in The Hague. Al-Mahdi has pleaded guilty to leading a group that destroyed most of the architecturally beautiful, historically precious mausoleums
  
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• When You’re Famous Enough To Get Siri To Pronounce Your Name Correctly

  22-08-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Barbra Streisand: “And so what did I do? I called the head of Apple, Tim Cook, and he delightfully agreed to have Siri change the pronunciation of my name, finally, with the next update.”
  
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• Morning Links: Frank Ocean “Endless” Edition

  22-08-2016 15:02 via artnews.com
  Frank OceanTom Sachs on Frank Ocean’s new video album Endless: “The 40-minute version is edited, but there’s something like a 140-hour version. That’s the whole thing. That exists, that’s the art piece.” [Pitchfork]The musician Wolfgang Tillman’s talks about his techno … Read More
  
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• What London’s Olympic Quarter Could Have Been

  22-08-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It could convert the giddy Olympian optimism of 2012 into wonders that will unfold over decades. It could be, to use the favourite adjective of eternally amazed sports broadcasters, incredible. But according to three venerable architects – Royal Academicians, still with fire in their bellies from their 1960s youths – it will not.”
  
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• Why You Sure Should Applaud The Ensemble Dancers In Big Shows

  22-08-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’m venturing to bet if there was a Lip Sync Battle between [Britney Spears] and a Broadway dancer, the Broadway dancer would kick her ass.”
  
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• How A Small-Town Bookstore Is Born

  22-08-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Before there can be books, there has to be work: cleaning, sanding, painting, moving.”
  
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• The Complex Debate Over A Celebrated Black Director And All He Brings With Him

  22-08-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Parker seemed like a significant new presence in both the film and activism worlds. Unfortunately, the promise of both him and his movie appears now to be too good to be true.”
  
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• Without Music, Shakespeare Might Never Have Been Shakespeare

  22-08-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The revelatory experience of candlelight and music in these indoor playhouses – the Blackfriars, the Whitefriars, the Fortune – meant that a theatre and music revolution was occurring, simultaneously with the growth of literacy.”
  
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• The Real-Life Adults Of ‘Kids’ Show Us How New York Has Changed

  22-08-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Before a bunch of yuppie goons took over the streets of Manhattan, they belonged to kids. It was the 90s. They were a bunch of broke teenagers from different boroughs who united in the East Village. High lived on St. Marks Place. Her mom was chill. Their apartment was the main base for the crew to crash, to eat. They smoked pot, drank 40s out of brown-paper bags, partied on rooftops, and skated through Washington Square Park.”
  
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• Looks Like This Banksy Work Has Been Destroyed

  22-08-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The house on which the mural is painted is a few miles from GCHQ, home of the UK government’s surveillance operations. It appeared just months after Edward Snowden’s revelations of widespread phone-tapping by western governments.”
  
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• This Jazz Pianist And Composer Took Her Mentor’s Style And Made It Her Own

  22-08-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Connie Crothers, a jazz pianist who carried the mantle of her famous mentor, Lennie Tristano, but built her own identity as an inventive composer, improviser and instructor, died on Aug. 13 in Manhattan. She was 75. … In all her work, from billowy solo piano to sharp ensemble playing, melody was her main concern.”
  
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• A Salute To Gawker, Which Is About To Die

  22-08-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A media organization that is founded on hostility to the powerful and is run with almost no internal hierarchy will naturally be irregular. It will be invasive in ways that serve the public interest and in ways that cross a shifting public line.”
  
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• Sex, death and violence: how do you explain great art to little children?

  22-08-2016 12:56
  
  A new book aims to help parents and children deal with the sometimes alarming imagery in our galleries. A mother (and her daughter) give it a test drive
  
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• Dambulla temple in Sri Lanka will not be stripped of Unesco world heritage status

  22-08-2016 12:36
  
  Officials at Unesco insist that the Golden Temple of Dambulla in central Sri Lanka will not lose its World Heritage status after a controversial visit to the country last week by the organisations director general, Irina Bokova.
  International press reports raised concerns that the first-century holy site, which was designated a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1991, could be delisted. But in a statement, Unesco says there was inaccurate representation of Bokovas comments following a press conferen
  
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• Contemporary art fair comes to Warsaw's historic Palace of Culture

  22-08-2016 12:09
  
  Warsaws thriving contemporary art scene has often faced criticism for its lack of internationalism. If you want to discover the next Miroslaw Balka or Wilhelm Sasnal, the citys numerous galleries offer ample opportunity; but beyond the countrys home-grown talent, little else is available. This is about to change with a new contemporary art fair that wants to bring foreign galleries and artists to the Polish capital.
  Not Fair, scheduled to open next month (22-25 September), will be held in one o
  
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• Banksy 'Spy Booth' artwork destroyed in Gloucestershire

  22-08-2016 12:01
  
  The artwork had been granted retrospective planning permission by the council, meaning it cannot be destroyed without the approval of councillors
  
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• Rio 2016: Team GB Olympic medal winners sketch their victories

  22-08-2016 11:50
  
  Tom Daley, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Max Whitlock and more picked up a Sharpie
  
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• Islamic extremist pleads guilty to destroying Timbuktu mausoleums in landmark trial

  22-08-2016 10:55
  
  In the first case of its kind, the Islamic extremist Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi has today (22 August), pleaded guilty to war crimes for destroying historic monuments in the ancient city of Timbuktu in northern Mali. Al-Mahdi is accused of ordering the razing of nine mausoleums and the 15th-century Sidi Yahia mosque. It is the first time the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has heard a case about the demolition of cultural heritage.
   
  Prosecutors have been working with Situ Resea
  
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• Compliments to the sheaf: food made out of paper – in pictures

  22-08-2016 08:00
  
  In between their work for corporate clients, Australian studio yelldesign has created Papermeal, a series of playful paper sculptures of food Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 08.21.16

  22-08-2016 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Who’s Telling Your Story (Storytellers Are Now Our Leaders)He who tells the story sets the agenda. Looking for artistic leadership? Look for who is telling the most compelling stories… read moreAJBlog: diacritical | Douglas McLennan
  This Week In Audience: Understanding Troll Culture
  This Week: A look at online troll culture – were these awful people always among us?… Here’s who goes to choral concerts… A look inside the brain as it watches movies… Li
  
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