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• Aneta Grzeszykowska at 11R and Lyles & King, New York

  13-09-2016 23:30 via artnews.com
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• Why Not Reading Is Something To Be Proud Of

  13-09-2016 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 2011 more than 50,000 new novels were published in the United States alone. “The problem of abundance” is a problem for every person who has an internet connection, and it is a professional problem in every corner of literary study. Nonreading, seen in this light, is not a badge of shame, but the way of the future.
  
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• Wifredo Lam’s transformative meeting with Picasso that took him back to his roots

  13-09-2016 23:00
  A survey of the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam opens today (14 September) at Tate Modern. Here, his son Eskil Lam speaks about the influence of Europe on his fathers work and describes the famous meeting with Picasso.The EY Exhibition: Wifredo Lam, 14 September-8 January 2017, Tate Modern, London
  
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• Scottish government bets big on V&A franchise in Dundee

  13-09-2016 23:00
  
  On the north bank of the River Tay, Scotlands new museum of design is taking shape. Designed by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, it resembles a beached ship. The first major project by a London museum in Scotland, the V&A Museum of Design Dundee represents an opportunity to show the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) to a new audience in the UK.The process has not been without bumps. Since planning began in 2010, costs have nearly doubled to 80m, making the building th
  
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• La Biennale des Antiquaires, the grande dame of art fairs, gets a facelift

  13-09-2016 23:00
  
  Dealers participating at the 28th Biennale des Antiquaires at Pariss Grand Palais (until 18 September) have broadly welcomed the overhaul of the prestigious art and antiques fair, which is undergoing the biggest shake-up in its 54-year history.
   
  The fair, which opened on Saturday (10 September), becomes an annual event from this year. The Syndicat National des Antiquaires (SNA)the French association of antiques dealers which runs La Biennalevoted for the move last year. There are also few
  
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• Frankie goes to Fortnum’s with a little backing from Baker, Chapman and Hambling

  13-09-2016 23:00
  
  Im game. Im always ready for something new! declares the ever-ebullient collector Frank Cohen. His latest venture is to fill every floor of Fortnum & Mason, Londons swankiest department store, with more than 60 of the choicest home-grown pickings from his extensive art collection.
  Theres an Edward Burra in the boardroom and a couple of Leon Kossoffs behind the ground floor cash desk. William Robertss large canvas of snooker players hangs in the basement wine bar and a pair of Howard Hodgkin
  
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• Collecting art begins at home for Claire Danes

  13-09-2016 23:00
  
  The Metrograph cinema, perhaps the only good thing about the gentrification of the Lower East Side, hosted the premiere of the new season of the PBS artist interview series Art21 on 14 September. Dealers and television fans of all stripes gathered for canaps and free hipster movie concessions (cacio e pepe popcorn anyone?) and to toast the programmes new host, Claire Danes. Accessibility was the buzzword. For me, its all about making art more accessible to a broader public and getting out of th
  
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• Book Critic: Why I Read Amazon Reader Reviews

  13-09-2016 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Here’s my semi-shameful secret: I like reader reviews. I often make a point of seeking them out. When reporters used to interview me on the subject, I’d feel obliged to note that you can find reviews on Amazon and (even more commonly) on Goodreads that are as considered, thorough, and well-written as anything that used to appear in your local newspaper. But actually I don’t care much about those reviews. I already know how people like me, people who read books profession
  
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• How New York City Became The Center Of The Jazz World

  13-09-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Many jazz fans assume that New York has always been the preferred destination for up-and-coming musicians, but this hasn’t always been the case. In fact, New York came late to the jazz party.”
  
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• What It Takes To Make It As An Artist In Seattle

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  “Creativity is often thought of as individualistic. In Seattle, though, with its game companies, design firms, and rapidly closing art galleries, creativity is becoming more corporate. The health of the arts in the region is increasingly tied to the health and success of artistic organizations. There are successful arts organizations, but not necessarily successful artists. In this context, the corporations often charged with pricing artists out of the area become not threatening, but
  
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• Spock, Picard, And The Lessons Of ‘Star Trek’

  13-09-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Spock’s inner struggle embodied the conflict at the heart of the series. It pitted unchecked, anarchical emotion against stoic rationality, atavism against civilization, present against future. … Picard and his crew were all human carbon copies of Spock – even-keeled, rational, and almost impossibly ethical. … That left little room for identification. You could aspire to be more like Picard, the very model of compassion and culture, but you could never truly unde
  
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• Jerry Saltz: Our Art History Is Strangling Us

  13-09-2016 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Art as we now know it has narrowed. These days our definition of it is mainly art informed by other art and art history. Especially in the last two centuries — and tenaciously of late — art has examined its own essences, ordinances, techniques, tools, materials, presentational modes, and forms. To be thought of as an artist someone must self-identify as one and make what they think of as art. This center cannot hold. Why? It is far too tight to let real art breathe.  &ldq
  
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• Helen Frankenthaler: new exhibition reveals her true colors

  13-09-2016 20:26
  
  The artist, who died in 2011, was renowned for her early work from the 1950s but a new exhibition makes the case that she continued innovating all her lifeDespite the fact that almost six decades elapsed between 1952 and her death in 2011, most of the obituaries for the artist Helen Frankenthaler dwelled on the year 1952, as if this marked the sum of her achievements. It was undeniably an important year. It is when Frankenthaler, aged 23, painted Mountains and Sea using a technique of her own in
  
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• There’s Now A Sixth Taste – And It Explains Why People Love Carbs

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  “It has long been thought that our tongues register a small number of primary tastes: salty, sweet, sour and bitter. Umami – the savoury taste often associated with monosodium glutamate – was added to this list seven years ago, but there’s been no change since then. However, this list misses a major component of our diets, says Juyun Lim at Oregon State University in Corvallis. ‘Every culture has a major source of complex carbohydrate. The idea that we can’t t
  
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• SVIT Wins First NADA x Exhibitionary International Gallery Prize

  13-09-2016 20:00 via artnews.com
  Ahead of its fair in Miami Beach, NADA has announced that SVIT, a gallery based in Prague, has won the first NADA x Exhibitionary International Gallery Prize. Awarded annually, the prize is co-sponsored by Exhibitionary, an app that offers a … Read More
  
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• Here Are the Exhibitors for the 2016 Edition of FIAC

  13-09-2016 19:52 via artnews.com
  The International Contemporary Art Fair has announced the 185 international galleries, including 42 newcomers, that will gather together at the Grand Palais in Paris for the fair’s 43rd edition, which will run October 20–23. In somewhat of a trend among fairs … Read More
  
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• The Toronto man Fighting To Get His Children Out Of Music Classes

  13-09-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the last three years, he has been trying to have his children exempted from music classes in a public elementary school. He has stated that music is against his religious views. At this point in time, he hasn’t succeeded in winning an official exemption for his kids – and he’s up against a formidable barrier.”
  
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• A Blind Theatre-Lover Explains How She Makes The Experience Work

  13-09-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ria Andriani: “I lost my sight at the age of five as the result of glaucoma. As a musician and writer, I have a particular interest in theatre and have welcomed the increase in audio-described theatre … With descriptions, people like me can engage with and sometimes get lost in the work on stage. Sometimes we’re backstage before a show begins, touching the props and costumes.”
  
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• Research Refutes Noam Chomsky’s “Universal Language” Theories

  13-09-2016 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “His universal grammar was put forward as an innate component of the human mind—and it promised to reveal the deep biological underpinnings of the world’s 6,000-plus human languages. The most powerful, not to mention the most beautiful, theories in science reveal hidden unity underneath surface diversity, and so this theory held immediate appeal. But evidence has overtaken Chomsky’s theory, which has been inching toward a slow death for years.”
  
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• Emoji Is The World’s Fastest-Growing Language – But Who Are The Keepers Of Its OED?

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  “It started with 176 icons. Now it’s grown to 1,800. But who decides what becomes an emoji? We lift the lid on the California coders who live and breathe smiling cats and banned aubergines.” (Note to Americans: aubergine is British for eggplant.)
  
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• Face Value: Paul Anthony Smith on His Many Masks

  13-09-2016 17:52 via artnews.com
  Scores of costumed children ran around me, screaming, as I made my way through the Hasidic area of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to meet the artist Paul Anthony Smith at his studio a few months ago. They were dressed as doctors, animals, and, … Read More
  
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• FTC Cracks Down On Brain-Training Site Lumosity

  13-09-2016 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The privately held company, based in San Francisco, has drawn in 70 million people over the past decade to play games that challenge users to remember sequences of brightly colored animations, or to ignore visual distractions and click only on certain objects. The FTC charged that Lumosity oversold the benefits of the games.”
  
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• This Year’s Man Booker Prize Shortlist

  13-09-2016 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Though this year’s short list is not nearly as internationally diverse as last year’s — nominees hail only from the U.S., U.K., and Canada — there’s a significant chance a person of color could follow in the footsteps of last year’s winner, Marlon James, and take home the prize.”
  
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• Oldest Surviving Manuscript From Americas, Long Questioned, Is Declared Genuine

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  “The Grolier Codex, an ancient document that is among the rarest books in the world, has been regarded with skepticism since it was reportedly unearthed by looters from a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, in the 1960s. But a new study yields a startling conclusion: The codex is both genuine and likely the most ancient of all surviving manuscripts from ancient America.”
  
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• Watching Pete Wells At Work – The New York Times Restaurant Critic Doesn’t *Always* Have His Knives Out

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  “Wells is an unassuming man who has become used to causing a stir, and this can be disorienting: it’s odd to hear him wonder, not unreasonably, if restaurants ever think of bugging his table. But a restaurant can’t openly acknowledge him. … Experienced for the first time, this covert cosseting feels slightly melancholy, like an episode of Cold War fiction involving futile charades and a likely defenestration.”
  
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• Dance Writers Need To Rethink How They Write About Tap (Says Tap Artist)

  13-09-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Brenda Bufalino: “When writers cover other forms of dance they speak about the particulars that make up a satisfying performance. They are equipped to reference past works and compare specific dances from a choreographer’s repertory. In contrast, tap dance to date has been written about as if it were a folk dance. Many critics have created a hierarchy of authenticity that keeps tap dancers competing on the street corner. Wouldn’t it be helpful to share with the public the subtl
  
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• A São Paulo Biennial in Praise of Uncertainties

  13-09-2016 15:44 via artnews.com
  To learn from uncertainties instead of dreading them is the leading message of the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, “Incerteza Viva” (Live Uncertainty), which opened on September 7 and runs until December 11, in Brazil. It is a timely sensibility since … Read More
  
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• Remember ‘Japan’s Beethoven’, Who Was Really Neither Deaf Nor A Composer? His Ghostwriter Is Making His Name On His Own

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  “On Feb. 6, 2014, Takashi Niigaki faced a crowd of reporters … in Tokyo and took a deep and apologetic bow. He had just revealed that he was ghostwriter for Mamoru Samuragochi, who was celebrated as ‘Japan’s Beethoven’ before being exposed as a fraud. In Hiroshima on Aug. 15 of this year, Niigaki found himself again bowing before a crowd, but this time it was on a stage in acceptance of a warm shower of applause.”
  
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• UK’s National Gallery Sued Over Matisse Portrait By Heirs Of The Woman In It

  13-09-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Portrait of Greta Moll (1908) depicts a fellow-artist and a pupil of Matisse. Moll’s heirs – Oliver Williams, Margarete Green, and Iris Filmer – say that Moll, who owned the painting, turned it over in 1945 to a student of her husband, Gertrud Djamarani, fearing it would be lost or destroyed during the Allied occupation of Germany. … Instead of preserving the painting, says the complaint, Djamarani sold it in Switzerland for her own gain.”
  
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• Is This Plaster Of The ‘Little Dancer’ Really By Degas? One Expert Says Yes

  13-09-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a twist to a longstanding debate that for years has riveted a corner of the art world, one of the leading experts on Degas has decided that a long-disputed plaster of that artist’s Little Dancer, which shows the ballerina in a slightly different pose, is indeed an earlier model of his famous 1881 sculpture Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans.”
  
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• What The Smithsonian’s African-American Museum Means For African-American Washington, D.C.

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  “‘All cultures need places where their things can land and be celebrated,’ [Theaster] Gates says. ‘For D.C., locals now have the bragging rights of having a home for reflection on black lives and black trauma. They get to share this amazing museum with the world.'”
  
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• Morning Links: Wolfgang Tillmans for Hood by Air Edition

  13-09-2016 14:44 via artnews.com
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• Redeveloping Chicago’s South Side With Art

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  “It roots itself in unlikely places like a once-dilapidated bank that hadn’t been active in more than 30 years, a recently shuttered currency exchange office, a retired beer warehouse, and a housing complex that had been shuttered after the city couldn’t find a way to stymie the violence that had permeated the site. This constellation of projects is the brainchild of Theaster Gates.”
  
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• Cape Town Opera, Back Home From European Triumphs, Fires 12 Choristers Who Claim They Were Cheated Of Pay

  13-09-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “South Africa’s leading opera house has been accused of financially exploiting 12 singers who performed internationally in a controversial but critically acclaimed production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte, set in colonial [Eritrea] and portraying racial abuse and rape by fascist Italian troops.”
  
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• Helsinki Guggenheim Construction Blocked By Finnish Nationalist Party

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  “A plan to build a Guggenheim museum on the Helsinki waterfront – joining the likes of those that grace New York, Bilbao and Venice – appears close to collapse because of a political row. It’s all about money and austerity. The co-ruling nationalist Finns party has blocked state aid for its construction.”
  
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• Alexis Arquette, Member Of Acting Family And Trans Activist, Dead At 47

  13-09-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[She] could have coasted by on her famous surname … Instead, this playful and likeable performer, who was born male but identified in the latter part of her adult life as transgender and ‘gender suspicious’, carved out a career of idiosyncratic and often uncommercial character work before concentrating on promoting awareness of trans issues.”
  
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• A Dance Video Advertising A Clothing Line Roils All Pakistan

  13-09-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A video advertisement for a clothing company [in Lahore] featuring women dancing in public to Beyoncé’s ‘Run The World (Girls)’ has sparked a backlash from both feminists and religious conservatives.”
  
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• Wifredo Lam review – the last of the great surrealists

  13-09-2016 10:00
  
  Tate Modern, LondonThe artist’s odyssey from Cuba to Europe and back again turned him from a disciple of Picasso into a feverish painter of gods, monsters, mystery and sexIn 1941, a group of intellectuals who believed in black magic sat in a villa near Marseille shuffling tarot cards as they waited and waited for a chance of a boat out of Nazi-occupied Europe. The tarot pack did not show their futures. Instead they drew and painted on the cards, turning the arcane symbols into portraits, t
  
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• Wifredo Lam review – Cuba's last of the true surrealists

  13-09-2016 10:00
  
  Tate Modern, LondonThe artist’s odyssey from Cuba to Europe and back again turned him from a disciple of Picasso into a feverish painter of gods, monsters, mystery and sexIn 1941, a group of intellectuals who believed in black magic sat in a villa near Marseille shuffling tarot cards as they waited and waited for a chance of a boat out of Nazi-occupied Europe. The tarot pack did not show their futures. Instead they drew and painted on the cards, turning the arcane symbols into portraits, t
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.12.16

  13-09-2016 09:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Seeing Autumn In With Cabaret
  How often do you see ten dances in under an hour-and-a-half? Had Joe’s Pub not initiated its annual Dance Now Festival eight years ago, you’d have had to think back to the 1920s … read more
  AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-09-12Monday Recommendation: Shirley Horn
  Shirley Horn Live at the 4 Queens (Resonance) The Resonance label continues its parade of previously unissued recordings with this jewel by Shirley Horn, a supremely gifted pianist and si
  
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• Beirut’s art scene: a top 10 guide

  13-09-2016 07:30
  
  As the city prepares for the Beirut Art Fair, we take a tour of new galleries, museums, shops and restaurants popping up in its bohemian neighbourhoodsThe last 12 months in Beirut have seen the reopening of the historic Sursock Museum and the inauguration of Aïshti, a cutting-edge modern art foundation, while from 15-18 September the Beirut Art Fair will showcase 40 galleries from 18 countries. Then, at the end of the month, the doors will open for Beit Beirut, a centre dedicated to the mem
  
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• Alec Baldwin sues art dealer over $190,000 'original' that wasn't

  13-09-2016 03:17
  
  Actor says he paid for Sea and Mirror by Ross Bleckner but experts determined it was not the first version painted in 1996Alec Baldwin is suing a Manhattan art dealer, saying she sold him a version of a painting for $190,000 that was not the original.In court papers filed on Monday, the Daily News reported, Baldwin claimed art gallery owner Mary Boone sold him an alternative version of artist Ross Bleckner’s Sea and Mirror in 2010. Continue reading...
  
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