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• Will he show or won’t he? Anish Kapoor debates boycotting biennial

  06-09-2016 23:05
  
  In Asia for the opening of his solo show at Seouls Kukje Gallery, Anish Kapoor showed his support for fellow artist Ai Weiwei, whose work was recently removed from the Yinchuan Biennial in northern China. Kapoor is also due to participate, but has been debating boycotting the biennial, which opens on 9 September. Its problematic, Kapoor said. To be honest, Im wondering if Im going to take part because I think censorship is not acceptable. I think we need to stand against it. At the time of publ
  
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• Why a growing number of museum veterans are crossing over to the commercial sector

  06-09-2016 23:00
  
  As the director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh for the past five years, Eric Shiner worked to expose the broadest possible public to the Pop artists work. Now, instead of showing Warhols, he is selling them.  Shiner starts his new job in September as a senior vice president of Sothebys Fine Art division, focusing on private sales of 20th- and 21st-century art. He is one of a growing cadre of museum veterans who have crossed over to the commercial sector. In April, Jason Busch left
  
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• What to see in Korea this biennial season

  06-09-2016 23:00
  
  South Koreas art scene took centre stage last week with the openings of the Gwangju, Busan and Mediacity biennales, as well as scores of other shows in the national capital of Seoul. Heres our selection of what to see:The 22nd Gwangju Biennale (until 6 November), organised around theme of The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?), explores arts social and political utility. What art does is a question you carry with you as you encounter the exhibition, it has reverberations, creates rings on the w
  
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• Sentences handed down in high-profile case over Drouot thefts

  06-09-2016 23:00
  
  On Tuesday, 6 September, the Paris Criminal Court convicted 38 of 49 defendants in a high-profile trial that opened in March over a complicated web of thefts within the lUnion des commissionnaires de l'Htel des Ventes (UCHV), the former art handlers union of the Htel Drouot in Paris. The grouppopularly called the cols rouges for the red collars on their uniformsheld a monopoly on art handling at the auction house from 1860 until 2010. The UCHV, held in equal shares by its 110 members, was disso
  
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• Black history takes its place on Washington’s Mall

  06-09-2016 23:00
  
  Art will be the first thing visitors see when they enter the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, DC. Curators at the museum, which opens to the public on 24 September, could have welcomed guests with any number of showstopping artefacts that tell the story of how African-Americans have shaped US history. The collection includes a biplane used to train the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American military aviators; a segregation-era Southern railway
  
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• ‘it wasn’t a crash, in the usual sense’ at Arcadia Missa, London

  06-09-2016 22:49 via artnews.com
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• Brown University President Writes About Universities And Safe Spaces

  06-09-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Universities are doing something difficult and important. We are grappling with how to create peaceful, just and prosperous societies, even as we live in a society that often feels more divided and rancorous than ever, fractured along lines of race, ethnicity, income and ideology. With the right of academic freedom comes the moral responsibility to think carefully about how that right is exercised in the service of society to confront these divides.”
  
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• Berkeley Breathed Talks About The Revived ‘Bloom County’

  06-09-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Early and Late Bloom County should be worth a week in some future bullshit college course on pop history. Nobody has done this before – start strip, stop strip, start family, see world, get old, watch world become digital, start strip again. So it is sorta intriguing. Remember, Bloom County became of age when I was barely out of college. I ended it at an age most college kids now graduate and finally leave the house. Read: what the hell did I know?”
  
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• Nieman Celebrates 100 Years Of Pulitzers – So Why Is Criticism Conspicuously Absent?

  06-09-2016 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I couldn’t help but notice a revelatory lacuna. There were no critics or writers on the arts among the announced participants. None of the subjects of the panels (‘Power in the Home,’ ‘Power in the Nation,’ ‘Power in the World’) appear to deal with issues raised by arts and culture coverage. Winners of awards in Investigative Journalism, History, Public Service, Poetry, Drama, Feature Writing, Editorial Writing, General Non-fiction, Photography, a
  
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• Escalation: Parent, Dance School Report Each Other To Police

  06-09-2016 20:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The email war of words between the two led to each of them making a complaint against the other to the police. A Gloucestershire Police spokesman confirmed they had received the complaints.”
  
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• Shrigley’s shopping list drops on Central Park

  06-09-2016 20:14
  
  Before his optimistic thumbs-up sculpture is unveiled in Londons Trafalgar Square on 29 September, David Shrigley brings his monumental shopping list to New Yorks Central Park this week. Memorial, a 17-foot granite slab engraved with everyday necessities such as eggs, tampons and nutella, has already been installed in the Doris C. Freedman Plaza at 60th Street and Fifth Avenue, where it is on view until 12 February 2017. While Shrigleys shopping list might appear to posture as a counter monumen
  
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• Syrian Architect Develops Plan For Rebuilding Country’s War-Ravaged Cities (In One Of Which She Is Trapped)

  06-09-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Did Syria’s urban architecture help fuel the civil war that has shattered the country and claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people? This is the provocative theory proposed by Marwa al-Sabouni, a young architect from Homs who spent two years confined to her apartment with her husband and two children as the city’s historic heart was reduced to rubble.”
  
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• Director of Advancement, USC Kaufman School of Dance

  06-09-2016 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Become a part of The New Movement! Join the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance as Director of Advancement.
  The newly established USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance is seeking a Director of Advancement to oversee and set goals for all fundraising related activities of the School. The position will report Directly to the Dean and will work in collaboration with the Vice Dean and Chief Operating Officer. The individual will be the primary officer overseeing all activities related to advancement, ma
  
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• Does The Glamor-Driven Music Business Work Anymore?

  06-09-2016 19:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Consider this fact: more people watched The Great British Bake Off the previous week. Online streams for the MTV show were up, but that offers little consolation to promoters who depend on TV advertising to fund their gala events. Those golden days when Miley Cyrus twerked her way to MTV rating success now seem a blurred, distant memory.”
  
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• Absolut Art Award Names 2017 Nominees for Art Work and Art Writing Categories

  06-09-2016 19:41 via artnews.com
  Absolut announced the nominees for its 2017 Absolut Art Award today. In total, there are 49 nominees across two categories—Art Work and Art Writing.Both awards come with a €20,000 (about $22,500) prize, along with an additional €100,000 ($112,400) toward an … Read More
  
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• The story of the Turner Prize (as seen on the BBC)

  06-09-2016 19:13
  
  The BBC announced its autumn arts programming schedule today (6 September), which features several significant visual arts strands including Christies at 250, a two-part series which will chart the drama and excitement of this crucial [anniversary] year with a compelling cast of movers and shakers in the global art market, a press statement says. A special edition of the Artsnight series focusing on Robert Rauschenberg coincides with the highly anticipated Tate Modern retrospective in December.
  
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• Yeah, Critics Hate Kevin Smith Movies – So What? He’s Made Himself Critic-Proof

  06-09-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After horrible failures such as Jersey Girl and Cop Out, Smith retreated from Hollywood – not only because he had to, but because he could. His loyal fans, willing to follow him anywhere he commands, fund his work. … What Smith knew … was that the film is less important than the intellectual property and the fanbase that will gladly hand over their money for the right to own a piece of it.”
  
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• Is August Wilson The Shakespeare Of Modern America?

  06-09-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Actor Keith David: “‘There is a rhythm in this language that if you betray, you won’t find the truth of. It’s inherent in the language. … [And his characters] are rich, full, incredible human beings – and thinking human beings, colorful not only in their use of language but the way in which they think and communicate, both with each other and out in the world.”
  
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• Why We’re Fascinated By Debut Novels

  06-09-2016 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ultimately, the most exciting part of reading a debut novelist isn’t wondering whether she deserved her seven-figure deal, or the rubbernecking pleasure of imagining how she probably won’t earn it back. It doesn’t have to do with hype or youth. It has to do with the possibility of imagining how a certain luminous talent will keep developing over the years, how this talent might expand beyond the horizon of our vision.”
  
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• Everybody Loves the Sunshine: But Can L.A. Sustain Its Booming Art Scene?

  06-09-2016 17:15 via artnews.com
  ‘Art is a revelation. It’s like an oracle,” said Juliet McIver, an art collector and consultant who currently has two Mary Corse paintings hanging in her Los Angeles home. They’re made with small glass microspheres, so they glimmer more or … Read More
  
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• Sweet artist: the Willy Wonka of lost Syria

  06-09-2016 17:04
  
  Designer turned sweet-maker Benjamin Loyauté is saving Syria’s ‘immaterial heritage’ one Proustian taste at a time. But this is more than sugary nostalgia … For me, it’s marshmallows. The moment I catch the scent of powdered sugar I remember lying with my head in my grandmother’s lap as a child. For Benjamin Loyauté, it’s apple-flavoured sticks from Rouen that exert the Proustian pull, transporting him back to his Normandy childhood and sq
  
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• ‘Trigger Warnings’ On Campus And The Psychology Of Trauma

  06-09-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Given the myths and emotions enveloping the issue of trigger warnings and safe spaces, it’s worth asking what science can tell us about the actual effects of verbal triggers on the body, brain, and psyche. Certain people experience certain words as dangerous. Should they have to listen to those words anyway?” Katy Waldman looks at the physical effects that being triggered can have on trauma survivors, the leading therapeutic approaches for overcoming the trigger effect, and th
  
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• Dreams, Visions, Hallucinations, And Neurochemistry

  06-09-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It turns out that the neurochemistry of the human brain during REM sleep (the kind when we have the most vivid dreams) is similar to what happens after taking some hallucinogens. “Dreams, in short, are transient ‘trips’ and, when they forcibly and suddenly break through into waking life, they sometimes become visions or hallucinations.”
  
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• Long and winding road to “Understanding (of language) are not enough”

  06-09-2016 16:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Understanding (of language) are not enough – is a 2016 e-book written by yours truly, translated by Ermanno Moretti and published by Diaforia. First of all, let’s get out of the way the “are” thing. Bracketed (of language) stands for the other word that presumably don’t exists but will probably expalin a certain characteristic of language. I’m talking about movement of senses beyond the words below the radar of perception.
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• The ARTnews Top 200 Collectors

  06-09-2016 16:05 via artnews.com
  Presenting the 2016 edition of the list Read More
  
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• Private Practices: A Look at 12 Private Museum Openings

  06-09-2016 16:03 via artnews.com
  It’s been projected that in the next five years, 1,200 museums will be built in China; 400 of those spaces are expected to be private. Though more museums are opening in China than anywhere else in the world, it’s a … Read More
  
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• Plantlife: Jessica Albarn's meadow art

  06-09-2016 16:02
  
  At the family farm in Devon, artist Jessica Albarn has turned a sheep field into a study plot for her electric ink drawings of spiders, crickets and bumblebeesCrickets bounce, bees wobble, hoverflies dart and Jessica Albarn stands in the middle of her steep, sunny meadow and scrunches up her hands in delight. “Quite a bit of my work is about layers,” she says, crouching down to investigate the depth of the grass with her fingers. “It’s about being able to get right in the
  
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• The 2016 Top 200 Collectors: Introduction

  06-09-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  Four years ago, J. Tomilson Hill, vice chairman of the private equity firm the Blackstone Group, got a phone call from L.A.-based artist Mark Grotjahn, whose work Hill has collected in depth. Grotjahn was coming to New York and intended … Read More
  
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• Russia’s Most Outrageous Performance (And That’s Saying Something) Gets A Burger King Menu

  06-09-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Pyotr Pavlensky – the man who literally sewed his lips shut to protest the Pussy Riot trial, nailed his scrotum to Red Square, and set fire to the headquarters of Russia’s secret service as an art project – is being honored by the St. Petersburg branch of the fast food chain with a series of special-edition hamburgers named for his most famous stunts projects.
  
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• What Happens When Small Theaters Have To Start Paying People For Overtime?

  06-09-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “How are the soon-to-be-implemented rules” – requiring that any employee earning less than $47,476 per year be paid extra for working more than 40 per week – “affecting workers and theatres on the ground?” Diep Tran talks to the people in the proverbial trenches.
  
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• Martin Klosterfelde to Join Sotheby’s in London

  06-09-2016 15:09 via artnews.com
  Martin Klosterfelde, the Berlin dealer who closed his eponymous gallery in 2013 to join Phillips as a director, will move to Sotheby’s, the auction house announced in a press release. He will join the European contemporary art team as a … Read More
  
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• Pittsburgh Symphony Musicians And Management Can’t Agree On Contract, Push Back Deadline

  06-09-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The PSO’s management and musicians have agreed to a two-week extension on the musicians’ current contract, … [which] was to expire at midnight [Sunday night]. The extension ends on Sept. 18, allowing the PSO to go forward with its fundraising gala on Sept. 17.”
  
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• San Diego Symphony Musicians Accept New Five-Year Contract

  06-09-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Annual wages for 82 full-time musicians in the 106-year-old orchestra will jump from just under $70,000 in the first year to $80,000 when the contract concludes in 2021.”
  
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• Morning Links: Brexit Disillusionment Edition

  06-09-2016 14:45 via artnews.com
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• Ballet Hispánico Suffers Major Flood Damage – For Second Time

  06-09-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Following a water main break, “water began pouring into the ballet studio at 167 W. 89th St. around 9:30 p.m. Monday and quickly filled the basement with six feet of water, drenching the company’s stock of house-made costumes and props as well as the dance floors on the first floor.”
  
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• ‘Back Off’, English National Opera’s New Chief Says To Opera Skeptics, ‘Stop Coming For Our Building’

  06-09-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Daniel Kramer: “Just because you don’t get opera, and that it does something superhuman, that doesn’t mean that it’s not a viable art form. … What we need to show is that this is such an important art form that we deserve to get back to 14 shows a year.”
  
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• Chinese Communist Party Turns ‘Core Socialist Values’ Into Songs For Nation’s Dancing Grannies

  06-09-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 12 ‘core socialist values’ are memorized by schoolchildren, featured in college entrance exams, printed on stamps and lanterns, and splashed on walls across China. Now they have made their way into 20 song-and-dance routines that the authorities in Hunan Province plan to promote to the country’s millions of ‘square dancers,’ the mostly middle-aged and older women who gather in public squares to perform in unison.”
  
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• Here’s the Exhibitor List for Art Basel Miami Beach 2016

  06-09-2016 13:50 via artnews.com
  It’s a few days into September, with Labor Day having concluded just hours ago, and yet, apparently, it’s imperative to start thinking about December. And so we give you the exhibitor list for Art Basel Miami Beach, which will once … Read More
  
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• Artists And Cultural Figures Jailed In Turkey’s Post-Coup Crackdown

  06-09-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Artists, newspaper cartoonists and cultural figures are among the 35,000 people who have been detained in Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s crackdown after the failed military coup in July.”
  
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• Behold The First-Ever Virtual Reality Ballet

  06-09-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Night Fall, a dreamy ballet inspired by the white acts of Swan Lake and La Bayadère, was choreographed specifically for virtual reality by Peter Leung” on the Dutch National Ballet. “Viewers are dropped right in the center of the action, with the dancers and a lone musician swirling around them.”
  
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• Canakkale Biennial cancelled amid Turkey's crackdown on freedom of expression

  06-09-2016 12:32
  
  Following the failed military coup in July and amid an increasing crackdown on freedom of expression in Turkey, the fifth Canakkale Biennial has been cancelled, its organisers announced yesterday (5 September). Beral Madra, the art director and the co-curator of the biennial since 2012, has also resigned."We are deeply saddened by the developments within a political agenda that does not place art as a primary point of concern," the biennial's organisers say in a statement. "In these circumstanc
  
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• Simon Fujiwara teams up with Joanne Salley who was sacked by Harrow school after topless photos scandal

  06-09-2016 12:27
  
  The British artist Simon Fujiwara is teaming up with the unlikeliest of collaborators for his latest work: a former teacher at his old school, Joanne Salley, who was once the subject of a tabloid newspaper scandal. Fujiwara is due to present a film depicting the life and trials of Salley at the Photographers Gallery in London this autumn (7 October-8 January 2017).
  Salley, former Miss Northern Ireland, artist and TV presenternow an amateur boxer and part-time modelwas, says Fujiwara, an inspira
  
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• Simon Fujiwara teams up with former Harrow teacher who became tabloid news

  06-09-2016 12:27
  
  The British artist Simon Fujiwara is teaming up with the unlikeliest of collaborators for his latest work: a former teacher at his old school, Joanne Salley, who was once the subject of a tabloid newspaper scandal. Fujiwara is due to present a film depicting the life and trials of Salley at the Photographers Gallery in London this autumn (7 October-8 January 2017).
  Salley, former Miss Northern Ireland, artist and TV presenternow an amateur boxer and part-time modelwas, says Fujiwara, an inspira
  
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• Mary Fedden and Julian Trevelyan collection to be sold in aid of historic London studios

  06-09-2016 11:32
  
  At a time when artists are being squeezed out of London due to rising rents, the collection of two British painters is being auctioned to benefit the rebuilding of their former studios in the west of the capital. The Turner-prize winning architecture collective, Assemble, is overseeing the million-pound restoration.
   
  Mary Fedden and Julian Trevelyan, who met in 1949 when she was a student at the Slade and married in 1951, shared a studio at Durham Wharf in Hammersmith. They worked in the
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.05.16

  06-09-2016 09:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Labor Day 2016
  In the United States this is Labor Day, since 1894 a national holiday that celebrates working peoples’ contributions to the nation. …  From 1962 — when the average price of a gallon of regular gas was 31 cents — here is the unofficial Rifftides Labor Day song.  … read more
  AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-09-05In chains
  At some point in my younger days, I got it in my head that a musical composition, like a chain, was only as strong a
  
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• 3-for-1 Arts Marketing Conference Registration by September 14

  06-09-2016 03:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  National Arts Marketing, Development & Ticketing Conference, Los Angeles, October 18 & 19, including Digital Marketing Track. Hear from experts on what is working now to find, retain, and upgrade audiences and donors.
  Many organizations take advantage of the 3-for-1 special offer – you can bring 2 colleagues for FREE if you register by September 14. It will have an immediate positive impact on the way you do business now and for years to come. Join your colleagues from North Americ
  
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