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• An Evolving Landscape Of Creative Re-Use Rights

  28-09-2016 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  So, what do you do if you want to use someone else’s work as a creative jumping off point? “Appropriation art” is in the news these days; just ask artist Richard Prince, who’s been sued multiple times for copyright infringement and won, based on the “fair use” principle.
  
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• New California Law Requires IMDB To Remove Actors’ Ages If Requested

  28-09-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Their ages are already very public and easy to find. The law is designed for the working performer… who wanted the opportunity to be able just to be seen for the first time or to be able to go into a room when they’re not known and be able to show their work and not have the subconscious bias of their age being the deciding factor of whether they should be able to come in that room or not for an audition.”
  
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• Why so serious? Dose of humour comes to Barbican

  28-09-2016 23:00
  Bedwyr Williams says The Gulch, his first solo show in a London institution, will be full of theatrical moments and little embarrassments. The Welsh artist has plotted an assault course of six immersive environments to lead visitors through the 90m-long, 6m-high sweep of the Barbicans Curve gallery.
  Navigating absurd set pieces including a smugglers cove, an intimidating boardroom and a rocky ravine, the audience will become performers, Williams says. Contemporary art, he adds, also has a funny
  
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• Why so serious? Bedwyr Williams brings comic theatre to the Barbican

  28-09-2016 23:00
  Bedwyr Williams says The Gulch, his first solo show in a London institution, is full of theatrical moments and little embarrassments. The Welsh artist has plotted an assault course of six immersive environments to lead visitors through the 90m-long, 6m-high sweep of the Barbicans Curve gallery, which opens to the public today (29 September). 
  Navigating absurd set pieces including a smugglers cove, an intimidating boardroom and a rocky ravine, the audience will become performers, Williams s
  
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• Thumbs up all round for David Shrigley’s sculpture in Trafalgar Square

  28-09-2016 23:00
  
  It may have been chucking it down but spirits remained resolutely high at this morning's (29 September) unveiling of David Shrigley's giant bronze thumbs-up sculpture on the Fourth Plinth in Londons Trafalgar Square. The seven metre elongated thumb has the upbeat title of Really Good. The artist informed the damp gathering that the work is about the idea that not only art, but also all of us canand should"make the world a better place".
  Shrigley then handed over to euphoric mayor of London, Sad
  
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• Poolside in Mel’s Melrose Place

  28-09-2016 23:00
  
  Total Proof: the Gala Committee 1995-97, a new exhibition at Red Bull Studios in New York (30 September-27 November), shows works and set re-creations from the unusualand unmatchedproject launched by the conceptual artist Mel Chin: creating props and art for the sets of the popular 1990s drama Melrose Place that sneakily addressed topics from safe sex to the Oklahoma City Bombing. Total Proof also features a new immersive installation: a re-creation in fabric of the Melrose Place swimming pool,
  
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• Netflix documentary looks at the career of Cai Guo-Qiang

  28-09-2016 23:00
  A documentary produced by Netflix to be released widely in October looks at the career of the Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. The film is titled Sky Ladder after a monumental 2015 work of the same name, in which Cai ignited a 1,650 ft. ladder of fireworks that reached into the sky above Huiyu Island Harbour in Quanzhou. "I want to connect the earth to the universe," Cai Guo-Qiang says partway through the film. It will become available on streaming devices on 14 October.
  
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• Jutta Koether at Galerie Buchholz, Berlin

  28-09-2016 22:45 via artnews.com
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• Continuing Woes: Metropolitan Museum Lays Off 34 Employees

  28-09-2016 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As AJBlogger Judith Dobrzynski reported yesterday, the Met is cutting staff.  “The Met has been contending with a ballooning deficit even as it aims to raise money for a $600 million new wing dedicated to Modern and contemporary art and to sustain its eight-year lease at the Met Breuer at a cost of $17 million a year.”
  
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• ‘The Emphasis of the Magazine Is Really on the Critic’: Margaret Sundell on 4Columns, Her New Publication Devoted to Arts Criticism

  28-09-2016 22:26 via artnews.com
  In an age of armchair critics and impatient readers, it takes guts to launch a publication entirely devoted to reviews, yet that’s exactly what critic Margaret Sundell has done with 4Columns, an online magazine that will run four arts-related essays a … Read More
  
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• Why Balanchine’s ‘Jewels’ Makes The Perfect Introduction To Ballet

  28-09-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alastair Macaulay: “Nobody can miss how vividly different its stage worlds are: the green romantic medieval French forest of ‘Emeralds’ (music by Fauré); the red Modernist high-energy American urban world of ‘Rubies’ (Stravinsky); the wintry white (both snowscape and palace) grand imperial Russian classicism of ‘Diamonds’ (Tchaikovsky). What other artist could conjure these three dissimilar realms with such easy mastery?”
  
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• Here’s the Exhibitor List for the 2016 Edition of Untitled in Miami Beach

  28-09-2016 22:00 via artnews.com
  Today, Untitled announced the exhibitors participating in the 2016 edition of its fair in Miami Beach, which runs November 30 to December 4, coinciding with Art Basel’s fair in the same city. It’s Untitled’s fifth time in Miami Beach, and there will … Read More
  
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• Fran and Marty talk about Trump, tourists and mistaken identities at the New Museum

  28-09-2016 22:00
  
  On Tuesday, 27 September, the New Museum hosted a discussion between director Martin Scorsese and the writer and wit Fran Lebowitz as part of its Stuart Regen Visionaries series of talks. The two are old school New Yorkers, and old friendsLebowitz was the subject of a 2010 documentary Scorsese directedand while it was natural for her, as the honouree, to do most of the talking, this also just happens to be the way things go with Lebowitz, which Scorsese seemed to understand. You dont interview
  
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• Gamers Get Re-energized By The Possibilities Of Virtual Reality

  28-09-2016 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What makes virtual reality so potent is not only how it envelops players in a 360-degree visual experience, but also how it uses 3-D lenses, immersive audio and head-tracking technology to create a profound sense of physical presence that developers are just beginning to explore.”
  
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• The Brilliant Astronomer Who Opposed Copernicus And Galilieo On The Grounds Of Science, Not Religion

  28-09-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Johann Georg Locher “argued that Copernicus was wrong about Earth circling the Sun, and that Earth was fixed in place, at the centre of the Universe, like Ptolemy said. … Indeed, Locher even proposed a mechanism to explain how Earth could orbit the Sun (a sort of perpetual falling – this decades before Isaac Newton would explain orbits by means of perpetual falling), but he said it would not help the Copernicans, on account of the other problems with their theory.”
  
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• Is The Future Of Americana Music In England?

  28-09-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While the Americana Music Festival and Conference, which wrapped on Sunday in Nashville, primarily focused on artists from the States, a good number were from Britain, where the genre is becoming better known and where artists are feeling more enabled to play music that appeals to their sensibilities for string-based music that harkens back to traditional country icons, from Hank Williams to Dolly Parton.”
  
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• ‘Kill Climate Deniers’: The Play That Infiltrated Australia’s Parliament And Became A Breitbart Target

  28-09-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over ambient sound came the disembodied voice of the Canberra musician Reuben Ingall. ‘There are plain-clothed police officers patrolling every floor. You’ll be watched on camera for the whole trip and Australian federal police officers are armed with SR16 semi-automatic assault rifles,’ he said. ‘When you head through security, act as normal as possible. How does a normal person act? Be like that.'”
  
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• The Financialization Of American Education (Let The Debate Begin)

  28-09-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Reconsidering and reforming our system of higher education should move beyond debates about whether STEM skills—those promoted by the study of science, technology, engineering, and math—trump liberal arts. We need both, not only because it’s impossible to predict exactly what the jobs of the future will be, but also because critical thinking in any field is the most important measure of economic and civic success.”
  
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• Anita Halpin among beneficiaries of Neue Galerie restitution

  28-09-2016 19:25
  
  Anita Halpin, the journalist and former chair of the Communist Party of Britain, was among the heirs who benefitted from the Neue Galeries decision to repurchase a painting seized by Nazis, a lawyer for Halpins family said.The work, Nude by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1914), was appropriated by the Nazis in the 1930s, during the flight of Halpins grandparents, Alfred and Tekla Hess, from Germany.
  Ronald S. Lauder, the co-founder of the Neue Galerie, is a vocal proponent of the return of such works.
  
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• Met lays off 34 employees

  28-09-2016 19:16
  
  The Metropolitan Museum in New York announced on Wednesday that it is laying off 34 employees as part of a larger financial restructuring that saw the departure of a number of senior executives and the voluntary buyout of 57 employees nearing retirement this summer. The recent cuts, which account for around 1.5% of the total staff, do not include the curatorial or conservation departments but come largely from administrative teams such as finance and digital media, according to the Wall Street
  
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• The Eureka, The 19th-Century Proto-Computer That Generated Latin Poetry

  28-09-2016 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In July 1845, British curiosity-seekers headed to London’s Egyptian Hall to try out the novelty of the summer. For the price of one shilling, they could stand in front of a wooden bureau, pull a lever, and look behind a panel where six drums, bristling with metal spokes, revolved. At the end of its ‘grinding,’ what it produced was not a numeric computation or a row of fruit symbols, but something quite different: a polished line of Latin poetry.”
  
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• Pepe the Frog Declared Hate Symbol by Anti-Defamation League

  28-09-2016 18:46 via artnews.com
  It’s been a long, strange trip for the cartoon character known as Pepe the Frog, widely known as the “sad frog meme” on the internet. What started as a drawing by the comics artist Matt Furie has, over the past … Read More
  
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• Women Dominate This Year’s Giller Prize Shortlist

  28-09-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Of the six finalists, five are women with Gary Barwin, author of Yiddish for Pirates, the sole male finalist for the prestigious prize.
  
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• V&A exhibition reunites masterpieces of English medieval embroidery

  28-09-2016 18:04
  
  Treasure trove includes intricate ecclesiastical items on loan from the Vatican and cathedrals in Italy and SpainThere are many more beautiful objects than two frayed and faded pieces of embroidery, in the first exhibition in a lifetime at the V&A of a medieval art form in which England once led the world.Related: All that glitters: V&A to show rare relics of England's finest embroideryContinue reading...
  
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• Where Will Chris Thile Take ‘A Prairie Home Companion’?

  28-09-2016 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Thile’s plan, as suggested by his musical-guest choices, is to invert the formula of Prairie Home. Music will take the lead; guest comics like John Hodgman will provide side banter … His challenge is to curate a musical show that’s as attractive for the Prairie Home faithful as it is for a yet-unrealized younger crowd.” Says Thile about the show’s audience, “My goal is to lose one million and add two.”
  
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• Rarely seen Dame Zaha Hadid artworks to go on display at Serpentine

  28-09-2016 17:57
  
  London exhibition, planned before architect’s death, will feature drawings that shine a light on how she thought about architectural formsRarely seen notebook drawings and early paintings by the late architect Dame Zaha Hadid are to go on display at the gallery she became most closely associated with.The Serpentine in London has announced a major show that will open in December, brought forward as a tribute after her unexpected death in March, aged 65. Related: Zaha Hadid, 1950-2016: an ap
  
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• Habitat: Obsessions—Tony Oursler’s Spiritualist Paraphernalia

  28-09-2016 17:57 via artnews.com
  Habitat: Obsessions is a ten-part series of visits to the surprising non-art collections of art-world professionals.Tony Oursler’s multimedia works often take the form of a video of a talking head or a blinking eye projected atop an inanimate object—a fabric dummy, … Read More
  
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• Habitat: Obsessions—A Look at Tony Oursler’s Spiritualist Paraphernalia

  28-09-2016 17:57 via artnews.com
  Habitat: Obsessions is a ten-part series of visits to the surprising non-art collections of art-world professionals.Tony Oursler’s multimedia works often take the form of a video of a talking head or a blinking eye projected atop an inanimate object—a fabric dummy, … Read More
  
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• What To Do With A Former Saddam Palace? A Museum Of Course

  28-09-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Basrah Museum has been planned for eight years and will join the National Museum in Baghdad as one of the most important institutions in Iraq. For the first time in a generation, the people of southern Iraq will have their own museum—a great achievement under extremely difficult circumstances.”
  
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• The Best Foreign-Language Oscar Race: Here’s Some Early Handicapping

  28-09-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Frequent competitors – such as France, Spain, Iran, South Korea and Chile – have opted to bank on festival favorites from directors with significant art-house clout. As tried-and-tested as this method of attack sounds, it’s in fact not a given occurrence.”
  
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• Suzan-Lori Parks, Pultizer-Winning Playwright, On Backlash In The Age Of Obama (And Brexit)

  28-09-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “All I can say is that after Emancipation, when the slaves were freed, there was Reconstruction, which was essentially a lot of blowback. So, after Obama’s eight years, there’s serious blowback. People in America are often encouraged not to think. The basis of politics is to heighten their fears and make them buy something. But, you know, y’all just had Brexit. We were like ‘Whaay! We’re not the only stupid ones!'”
  
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• Mac Wellman Isn’t Just An Unorthodox Playwright, He’s An Unorthodox, And Great, Playwriting Teacher

  28-09-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Says one former student, Paul Ketchum, “He knows exactly where to put pressure to release the inner playwriting beast of his students. Mac would hate this, but he’s like a fucking dramaturgical acupressure neuromancer.” Wellman talks teaching, structure (he hates it) and gossip with another former student, Eliza Bent.
  
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• The ‘Godfather Of Gore’, Filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis, Dead At 87

  28-09-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With his 1963 film Blood Feast, Lewis is widely credited with pioneering the splatter genre, despite it being considered ‘an insult even to the most puerile and salacious of audiences’ in a Variety review. A later critique described it as ‘one of the important releases in film history, ushering in a new acceptance of explicit violence that was obviously just waiting to be exploited’.”
  
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• San Francisco Museums’ Controversial Board Chair Keeps Position, Gives Up President’s Title

  28-09-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Embattled philanthropist Dede Wilsey, who waged an all-out campaign to stay on as head of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco amid probes into whether she improperly spent the institutions’ money, won approval Tuesday to extend her reign as the city’s queen of culture – although with a new title and possibly less power.”
  
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• Morning Links: 18-Foot-Tall Edition

  28-09-2016 14:51 via artnews.com
  Really Big Art Anish Kapoor told the South China Morning Post that the vandalism of his work at Versailles last year was an “inside job” and that the response of officials at the palace was “pathetic.” [The Art Newspaper] “The … Read More
  
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• Will sunshine mean Hillary, and rain bring on Trump? James Bridle’s Cloud Index aims to find out

  28-09-2016 12:30
  
  Is there any relationship between cloud computing and the clouds high above our heads? Does the weather affect our mood so much it might even influence how we vote? These are some of the questions posed by the writer and digital artist James Bridle in the third of the Serpentine Gallerys pioneering digital commissions, which goes on public release tomorrow (29 September).Cloud Index (2016) marries vast amounts of historic weather data with polling results (including the Brexit referendum and, i
  
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• Vandalism of Dirty Corner sculpture at Versailles an ‘inside job’, claims Kapoor

  28-09-2016 12:19
  
  The British artist Anish Kapoor has described the repeated vandalising of his monumental sculpture Dirty Corner when it was exhibited last summer in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles as an inside job.
   
  The trumpet-shaped steel work was installed outside the French royal palace in June 2015. It caused controversy after it was nicknamed the queens vagina, reportedly by the artist, although he later denied ever using the term himself.
   
  On 17 June vandals splashed the inside of th
  
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• Ayahuasca and anal beads: the hallucinogenic art of Donna Huanca

  28-09-2016 11:45
  
  Nomadic Bolivian-American artist Donna Huanca arrives in London with a troupe of models, ready to cover themselves in paint and turmeric. She explains what it’s like to be watched, and why trans women will destroy the patriarchyModels in bodypaint, anal beads, and smells associated with ritual hallucination: these are just some of the parts of a multisensory artwork by American artist Donna Huanca, arriving in London later this month.Huanca will unveil Scar Cymbals, an ambitious project st
  
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• Sharjah Biennial looks beyond UAE with a year-long programme across five cities

  28-09-2016 10:43
  
  The organisers of the Sharjah Biennial have unveiled plans for their most ambitious event yet, encompassing off-site projects in four other cities Beirut, Dakar, Istanbul and Ramallahas well as a year-long education programme.The 13th edition of the biennial is organised by Christine Tohm, the founding director of the Beirut-based Ashkal Alwan (the non-profit Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts). The main contemporary art exhibition in Sharjah (10 March-12 June 2017) is due to include works b
  
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