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• Untitled’s gone surfing: Miami Beach satellite fair hits the waves with artist collaborations

  18-09-2016 23:00
  
  This years edition of Untitled, Miami Beach (30 November-4 December)a major satellite fair that runs concurrently with Art Basel in Miami Beachwill feature a number of special artist projects from the likes of Rirkrit Tiravanija and Tomas Vu, along with a collaboration with Miamis Institute of Contemporary Art.The biggest collaborations are surfing-based, a fitting theme for a beach town, though it should be said: Miami is not known for its waves, nor its surfing culture. Tiravanija and Vu will
  
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• Titian’s secret revealed

  18-09-2016 23:00
  
  Although their publication is separated by two years and an intervening volume dedicated to Joshua Reynolds, these two volumes on Titians Painting Technique volumesrespectively  covering his work up to and after 1540of the National Gallery Technical Bulletin form a continuous text. In line with a welcome trend towards monographic issues, they contain technical studies of all the paintings by or currently attributed to Titian owned by the National Gallery, plus four others that have been ex
  
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• Object lessons: from a pope's Mannerist cabinet to the Reagans' all-American snow scene

  18-09-2016 23:00
  
  Italian gilt-bronze mounted silver, ebony and pietre dure cabinet (around 1620)
  Robert Zellinger de Balkany collection, Rue de Varenne, Sothebys in association with Leclre, Paris, 20 SeptemberEstimate in the region of 2mThe glamorous businessman Robert Zellinger de Balkany (1931-2015) made his fortune bringing American-style shopping malls to France. A voracious collector, he spent more than 50 years accumulating Old Master paintings, furniture, works of art, clocks and pietre dure, his particul
  
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• Marc Riboud, the photographer who wanted to picture life 'as intensely as possible'

  18-09-2016 23:00
  
  In order to take the pulse of a culture or a society, it is necessary to invest time an extended period of time, to feel and photograph the ebb and flow of events. This was the pattern of Marc Riboud's existence from the mid-1950s until the end of the last decade, when illness prevented him from traversing the world in a long series of photographic "rambles". He died on 30 August.
  Such a "humanist" approach involves patient recording of the rhythms of everyday life, and is potentially more revea
  
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• Despair, pleasure and pride: on the diaries of Eva Hesse

  18-09-2016 23:00
  
  How cruel though if someone reads this book. That would be their problem. So a young artist confided to her notebook. The artist was Eva Hesse (1936-70). By the time of her death, she was an admired sculptor and a key figure in the New York art scene; there is a strong case for suggesting that Hesse is the most influential female artist of the 20th century. Her soft organic forms, most especially the strung latex-and-wire webs, offered new possibilities in our understanding of sculptural space a
  
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• Highlights From This Weekend’s AJBlogs

  18-09-2016 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Five ArtsTrending Stories From This Week’s AJ: Are The Arts Falling Into A Measurement Trap? This Week: The remarkable new National Mall museum that doesn’t look like the rest… An arts council’s risky change in standards… What scientists have learned about the accomplishments of gifted children… Will algorithms… [More] … read more
  AJBlog: diacritical/Douglas McLennan Published 2016-09-18
  Across the Water, into the Past Coll
  
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• Understanding The New Audience: Five Stories From This Week’s AJ – Attention Span Theatre

  18-09-2016 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week: How free museum admission changes audience and behavior… Legislation to battle the ticket bots… Is YouTube making it tougher for live performers?… Detroit Symphony starts an amateur orchestra to get closer to its audience… Theatre for short attention spans.
  
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• Five ArtsTrending Stories From This Week’s AJ: Are The Arts Falling Into A Measurement Trap?

  18-09-2016 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week: The remarkable new National Mall museum that doesn’t look like the rest… An arts council’s risky change in standards… What scientists have learned about the accomplishments of gifted children… Will algorithms take over the book business?… Seven things scientists have learned about creativity.
  
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• Albee's under-the-radar help for artists in need

  18-09-2016 19:53
  
  The playwright Edward Albee, who has died aged 88, was a generous supporter of fellow writers as well as visual artists, particularly those at the start of their career who needed time and space to realise their creative potential. His foundation offers just that every summer through artists' residencies in a former barn among the dunes of Montauk, Long Island. Selection is based "mostly on talent and need", it states on the foundation's website, cautioning in a deadpan way: "If you are a famou
  
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• The Color Of Liberty

  18-09-2016 18:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As might be expected, when the Statue of Liberty turned green people in positions of authority wondered what to do.”
  
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• Who Will Win – And Who Should Win – The Emmys Tonight

  18-09-2016 17:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This year’s Emmys broke new ground up and down the ballot,” but that doesn’t mean the winners will be any different.
  
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• Museum Expansions Shot Out Of The Recession With Speed And (Huge) Ambition

  18-09-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Architects are once again fully engaged in the invention — and reinvention — of cultural landscapes, for the first time since the Great Recession sent many of these projects into flat files.”
  
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• Don’t Underestimate A Famous Cast’s Understudies

  18-09-2016 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On any one night in the West End, there will be numerous understudies on stage, because actors in long-running productions quite rightly have holidays as part of their contracts, and nobody can help it if they get ill. For the understudies themselves, who are often likely to have smaller roles in the production the rest of the time – it’s a chance to step up from out of the chorus to play a main role and test themselves.”
  
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• Ava DuVernay’s New TV Show Follows Through On Commitments Inside And Outside The Story

  18-09-2016 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If we say that black lives matter, then you’ve got to see black lives mattering and having meaning, and that’s not just coming from the heightened moments. That’s coming from the everyday moments, the real life that we live. So the question is can that be narratively compelling. I think it is.”
  
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• You Want Good Women Characters? Try Books, Not Hollywood

  18-09-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “These new literary protagonists are bright spots in a Hollywood landscape where representation of women has been pretty bleak. Female leads, when they make it on-screen at all (less than 30 percent of the time), run a high risk of being over-sexualized, one-dimensional, and/or formulaic.”
  
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• A Singer Emerges From Below The Earth

  18-09-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “She was giddy on an evening in late August when she was about to shoot her first video, for ‘Try a Little Tenderness.’ In a few weeks, her record would be released (on Assouline Records). ‘Weee, buddy!’ she said, laughing in Mr. Assouline’s apartment, where she was getting ready. ‘Us country people — we get up and dance.'”
  
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• An Artist Shows What The Thames Means To London, And Beyond

  18-09-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The more she explored the river, the more she uncovered. In the countryside near Oxford, she encountered a trio of female pagan revellers who dance by the river amid swirling trails of incense smoke. At Tilbury, she befriended a group of ship-spotters, who log the vessels that pass through the docks.”
  
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• Cindy Sherman, Martin Scorsese To Receive Japan’s Highest Cultural Honor

  18-09-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The annual Praemium Imperiale recognizes career achievements in five categories: painting, sculpture, architecture, music and theater or film.”
  
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• Indianapolis Symphony Reaches A New Contract Deal A Year Early

  18-09-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After the bitter 2012 contract battle that led to a monthlong lockout for musicians, ISO cites a string of successes, including three straight years of budget surpluses and major growth in ticket sales and fundraising.”
  
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• Bringing The Kilroys Into The Theatre Classroom

  18-09-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Girl. If I could have a reading a day when I’m working on a play, I’d do it. I need workshop time like I need water and sunshine. If I just wanted to hide away and write, I would have been a novelist. Playwriting is a collaborative effort — don’t ever forget that.”
  
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• Gramophone’s Recording Of The Year Goes To …

  18-09-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Igor Levit’s recording of the Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations and Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated! for Sony Classical has taken the top prize.”
  
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• When A Working-Class Actor Won’t ‘Conform And Shut Up’

  18-09-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A revolution is happening, but in its own quiet English way, because people work fucking hard, and it’s hard to live, and everyone’s had enough of being fucked over.”
  
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• The Ballet Dancers In Berlin Seriously Do Not Like Contemporary Choreographers

  18-09-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The petition states an ‘outright rejection’ of the idea of joint directors, demanding a single candidate ‘with a clear artistic vision and relevant experience.’ It contends that these appointments, announced three years in advance, are politically rather than artistically motivated.”
  
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• Curating An Irascible Abstract Expressionist

  18-09-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It was thought that there was something weaker about them because they were more thinly painted. And it was then that there was this sort of equation between these lightly painted pictures and her being a woman (though neither Mitchell nor Hartigan painted in this way). There were some people, like [critic] Harold Rosenberg, who was a big supporter of the idea of the painting being made out of heroic gestures. And with her work there are no gestures.”
  
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• New F. Scott Fitzgerald Stories: When, What, And Why Now?

  18-09-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “All have remained out of sight for almost 80 years; tucked away in library archives and private collections. But apart from the title story, I’d Die for You, the contents remain a secret.”
  
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• What Do The Emmy Nominations Tell Us About TV Right Now?

  18-09-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Is it a coincidence that the networks most famous for giving showrunners a long leash and a plenty of creative freedom are doing so well? Hmmm. Something to think about … “
  
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• Teaching Claudia Rankine’s ‘Citizen’

  18-09-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The labor itself of ‘proving racism,’ and providing testimony is heartbreaking. Talking about it in spaces like poetry workshops, about the craft of it, breaking it down like it wasn’t about living people in that room, as though we can’t spend our entire lives with our own testimony, as though we weren’t witnessing in each poem we wrote? That just seems excruciating.”
  
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• What Happens When Arts Writers Dive Into #AskACurator Day?

  18-09-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “How did you engage with the liminal space between eggs and toast? It would seem to me like a particular challenge to explore.”
  
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• The Canadian Who Wrote The Book That Became ‘Field Of Dreams’

  18-09-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Kinsella began writing ‘Shoeless Joe’ as a student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in Iowa City near where the story was set. The story, which was published in 1982, follows a farmer who is coaxed in a dream to build a ballpark in a corn field and is visited by the ghost of “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, the White Sox star who was banned from baseball over the 1919 World Series betting scandal.”
  
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• On my radar: Alfred Molina’s cultural highlights

  18-09-2016 12:00
  
  The stage and screen actor on the secret life of Eugene O’Neill, the singer Mayer Hawthorne, All About Eve and his favourite Los Angeles eaterieBorn in London to a Spanish father and Italian mother, Molina, 63, decided to become an actor after watching Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus aged nine. He later attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and was a member of the National Youth Theatre. After a number of theatre roles he made his film debut in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) a
  
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• The Infinite Mix; Wifredo Lam – review

  18-09-2016 09:00
  
  Hayward Gallery at the Store; Tate Modern, London
  From Hitler’s Berlin to Kendrick Lamar’s Compton, the Hayward’s diverse fusion of 10 immersive installations offers a feast of sound and visionDown in the car park below the Strand is a pop-up cinema reached through a seething black tunnel. We are given 3D specs and told to stay as long as we want. Shooting out of the screen towards us are glittering explosions, fireworks blossoming like silver flowers to a mesmerising dub sound
  
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