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• Vladimir the monumental rises in Moscow

  16-10-2016 23:00
  
  A 16m-tall statue of prince Vladimir the Great, a tenth-century ruler of Kiev who converted his kingdom to Orthodox Christianity and is regarded as the founder of the Russian state, is to be unveiled near the Kremlin, in Moscow, on 4 November. Both critics and supporters of the Russian president Vladimir Putin, see the statue, which was originally planned to be even bigger, as a barely disguised homage to Putin too and an effort to legitimise Russias claim to Crimea.The Military-Historical Soci
  
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• Serota’s first resignation from the Tate, aged 24

  16-10-2016 23:00
  
  Nicholas Serota may have announced that he is moving on to Arts Council England, but this is not the first time that the outgoing director has resigned from the Tate. Back in 1971, Serota (then aged 24) was chairman of the Young Friends of the Tate, which found itself at loggerheads with the institutions director and trustees. The Tate Gallery was shying away from cutting-edge art, so the rebellious Young Friends decided to set up their own exhibition space and began to convert a dilapidated bu
  
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• Legendary architect Cedric Price remembered at the Architecture Association

  16-10-2016 23:00
  
  Memories and celebration of the legendary and much-lamented architect Cedric Price (1934-2003) accompanied Fridays Architecture Association launch of the two-volume A Forward Minded Retrospective, written and edited by Samantha Hardingham. This magnum opus records the projects, talks and articles of the man described by admirer Rem Koolhaas as a kind of puritanical Oscar Wilde who with lapidary epigrams, skeletal drawings and a polemical genius [] changed the terrain of architecture.There was a
  
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• Burrell’s world tour struggles to get beyond Glasgow

  16-10-2016 23:00
  
  The planned international tour of works from the Burrell Collection, which the museum hoped would generate as much as 15m, is proving more challenging than anticipated. Although the institution is scheduled to close for a major renovation on 23 October, details of the tour have yet to be announced. The delay suggests that Glasgow Life, which runs the museum, is struggling to convince foreign venues to pay substantial fees to borrow works from its 9,000-strong collection.
  Three years ago, truste
  
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• In memory of Anita

  16-10-2016 22:00
  
  The great and the good of the art world paid tribute at the Courtauld Institute in London to one of its most inspiring teachers, the late prize-winning novelist Anita Brookner who died in March, aged 87. Among the luminaries were these two cheeky chappies (Neil MacGregor, former director of the British Museum, and Tate supremo Nicholas Serota). As one visitor quipped: There is nothing like a life well lived to make us survivors cheerful. Deborah Swallow, the director of the Courtauld Institute,
  
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• A-level art history should never have been given the brush-off | Letters

  16-10-2016 21:04
  
  Noah Charney reported on the vital work of art historians and conservators in protecting and elucidating the Ghent Altarpiece, one of the most glorious paintings in Europe (The miracle of Ghent, G2, 13 October). Days before, the Duchess of Cambridge was seen admiring the equally remarkable works of Vermeer. But last week the Guardian reported the disturbing news that in future young people will be denied the possibility of studying art history at A-level: AQA, the sole exam board for this subjec
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For The Weekend Of 10.16.16

  16-10-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
   Four Trends In Understanding Audience: Measurement, Streaming and Politics This Week: Is there a correlation between value and attention in the arts?… Data’s in: the plus/minuses of live-streaming… Some ideas from a researcher on measuring aesthetic experience… How might the arts weigh in … read more
  AJBlog: AJ Arts Audience Published 2016-10-16People will talk In today’s Wall Street Journal I review an off-Broadway revival of Horton
  
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• Guillaume Bottazzi in Brussels to do 16m high permanent painting

  16-10-2016 19:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Guillaume Bottazzi’s artwork is going to begin on 2016 Oct. 15th.The artist will be realize his painting in front of the public: from 2016 Oct. 15th (2 months) The post Guillaume Bottazzi in Brussels to do 16m high permanent painting appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• The (Faint Hint Of) Scandal Surrounding Shostakovich’s Opera ‘The Nose’

  16-10-2016 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He wrote The Nose from the unguarded standpoint of a young composer using his entire box of tricks at a time when the liberated Russian intelligentsia had free rein to experiment and revel in the avant garde. The first Stalinist crackdown was still around the corner. The result is almost a catalogue of all the devices and gestures that would become standard practice for mid-to‑late 20th-century modernist iconoclasm.”
  
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• Kathleen Turner On Playing Joan Didion For 80 Long, Word-Filled Minutes

  16-10-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This isn’t about imitating Didion. This is about portraying a woman who is dealing with grief, and grasping for life. Facing unimaginable loss, she’s strong, vulnerable and fierce as she struggles to banish self-pity.”
  
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• The Scholar Of Horror Who Has Created An Entire Class On Beyonce’s Lemonade

  16-10-2016 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’ve taught kooky classes before. I’m the weird one in the department. So, I’ve taught Horror Text & Theory, Black Women in Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror, Speculative Black Women, Bad Black Mothers – so a class about Beyoncé was almost normal at this point. My department is pretty supportive about my course choices.”
  
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• A Show Where No Cellphone Can Ring Or Beep Or Do One Damn Thing Because It’s In A Locked Pouch

  16-10-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Fans are required to place their cellphones into Yondr’s form-fitting lockable pouch when entering the show, and a disk mechanism unlocks it on the way out. Fans keep the pouch with them, but it is impossible for them to snap pictures, shoot videos or send text messages during the performance while the pouch is locked.”
  
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• When This Singer Visited A Refugee Camp And Spoke Out, Britain Got Surprisingly Hostile

  16-10-2016 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 31-year-old singer, who has described herself as ‘an argumentative little shit’, has been both loved and hated by the press and public for a decade now, as is the fate of pop stars with opinions. Nothing she’s experienced has had the effect of muting her voice. She remains bracingly fearless – an incorrigible fly in the ointment.”
  
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• The Chinese Artist Who Set The Art World Aflame

  16-10-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’m also a little timid, so I needed a medium to get rid of the rigidity in myself for the art. In my hometown [Quanzhou, China], there were so many firecracker factories, so I had easy access to gunpowder. Using gunpowder as a medium became a way to liberate myself.”
  
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• Changing Up Late-Night On A New Channel

  16-10-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Desus & Mero’ is loose, cheerful and profane. ‘Late night as a structure of programming does not matter,’Mero said. ‘It shouldn’t feel like ‘Yo, here’s the news.’ It should feel like you’re looking on the internet with your friends. ‘Yo, you saw this video? That’s wild!’'”
  
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• When Librarians’ Freedom Of Speech Gets Silenced, What Do The Rest Of Us Have?

  16-10-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Parsons added, ‘This is private property.’ It is revealing that a policeman should have imagined, even in a heated moment, that a public library was private property.”
  
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• The Art Of Asking Cubans To Imagine Running For President

  16-10-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Let’s use the 2018 election to change the culture of fear,’ Ms. Bruguera said in the one-and-a-half-minute video, adding, ‘To make a Cuba that is run by us all, not by a few.'”
  
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• ‘Symphony From The New World’ Is The Best Of All Time, No Contest

  16-10-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The first movement, the Adagio — Allegro molto, is fine. It’s actually extremely good, but if a first movement is good, you’re only acknowledging it on a subconscious level. It keeps you invested. It pulls you into the rest of piece without making a show of it.”
  
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• A Play That Cuts Close To Home For One-Woman Powerhouse Anna Deavere Smith

  16-10-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The protean actress and playwright has spent her career interviewing and then embodying people of different races and divergent points of view — ‘chasing that which is not me,’ as she put it in a recent interview. But her new play, ‘Notes From the Field,’ a prolonged meditation on education and criminal justice, is different.”
  
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• Twenty Reasons That We Should All Be Reading Literary Magazines

  16-10-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “3. They have great names: Prairie Schooner, River Teeth, Barrelhouse, Hobart, Tin House, ZYZZYVA, River Styx, Pleiades, Alligator Juniper.”
  
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• Ang Lee Pleads With Critics – And The Audience – To Give High-Frame Movie A Chance

  16-10-2016 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It felt different than a movie. … It felt like a kind of virtual reality.”
  
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• Critics Are So Over High Frame Rates

  16-10-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Critics are now grappling with the particular ‘hyper real’ look of [Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk], a visual experience that apparently gives both clarity and immediacy to the film’s battlefield scenes, and an odd stiltedness to the everyday life. (And that’s not even getting into their thoughts about poor Steve Martin’s face.)”
  
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• The Great French Slapstick Actor And Director Who Faced Down Decades Of Legal Obstacles To Showing His Films

  16-10-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. Étaix (pronounced ay-TEX), an actor as well as a director, specialized in a deadpan visual comedy, animated by sight gags, funny sound effects and fantasy sequences that harked back to the silent films of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Max Linder as well as his own background as a circus performer.”
  
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• How Important Is Childhood Dreaming? Ask An Award-Winning Illustrator

  16-10-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You mustn’t be fearful of being imaginative. You might seem foolish in the eyes of many, but you mustn’t be fearful of it, because it’s the thing that’s going to get you through all the times that are not so good.”
  
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• The New York Phil Musicians Who Kept A New Music Ensemble Alive

  16-10-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Its fate took on added importance amid questions over how committed the Philharmonic would remain to new music after the departure of Mr. Gilbert, who has raised its profile during his tenure.”
  
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• What Does Margaret Atwood Think Our Obsession With Dystopias Teaches Us?

  16-10-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘All dystopian novels are telling you to do is make sure you’ve got a lot of canned goods and a gun.’ Do you have canned goods and a gun in Toronto? ‘I’m too freaking old. I’m probably not going to make it through the zombie apocalypse anyway.'”
  
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• The Triple Threat: A Ballet Dancer Who’s Also A Singer And A Drag Queen

  16-10-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘I became very aware of the hetero-normative standard in ballet very early,’ said Mr. Whiteside, who realized he would mainly play straight men onstage. ‘And that made me sad. I will never get to express myself as my true self.'”
  
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• The Black Panthers’ Art Still Resonates – And Feels Sadly Topical – Fifty Years Later

  16-10-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One of the most potent weapons in its outreach to African-Americans in cities across the country was its artwork. In posters, pamphlets and its popular newspaper, The Black Panther, the party’s imagery was guided by the vision of Emory Douglas, its minister of culture.”
  
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• The Art of Rivalry by Sebastian Smee review – from shared vision to slashed canvas

  16-10-2016 09:00
  
  Picasso and Matisse, Bacon and Freud… this study of great painters’ rivalries buzzes with gossip but little real insightSebastian Smee’s collection of long essays about artistic friendships springs from his interesting – surely not entirely original – contention that when it comes to inspiration, finding oneself in competition with a brilliant rival may be every bit as important as being, say, in possession of a beautiful muse. But while his principal characters ar
  
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• Beyond Caravaggio review – the force of revelation

  16-10-2016 09:00
  
  National Gallery, London
  Visceral drama, psychological insight, the virtuosic play of light and dark – everything his imitators hoped to emulate electrifies this show of Caravaggio and beyondMidnight in the garden of Gethsemane and they have come for the Messiah. He remains tranquil in the darkness, somehow withstanding the violence as Judas and three soldiers in jet black steel close in as if for the kill. The onslaught hurtles right to left, implying the murderous events to come but fixe
  
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• Wonderlands: the whimsical worlds of Robert Ingpen – in pictures

  16-10-2016 02:45
  
  Robert Ingpen’s career as a children’s book illustrator has spanned close to 50 years and more than 100 books, including beloved classics such as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan and Storm Boy. This month, the National Library of Australia celebrates his life’s work with a new book, Wonderlands: The Illustration Art of Robert Ingpen• Pure imagination: illustrator Robert Ingpen on the value of childhood dreaming Continue reading...
  
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• Pure imagination: illustrator Robert Ingpen on the value of childhood dreaming

  16-10-2016 02:42
  
  The only Australian to win the Hans Christian Andersen award for illustration, Ingpen reflects on Poppykettle, Dickens and his 50-year career“You are born with two brains,” says Robert Ingpen. “The main brain is the one that your parents insist upon you using for the rest of your life so you can get a life; the other one is the one you use yourself when you want to go off into the forest and do your dreaming.”Ingpen, who turns 80 this month, has spent much of his life dre
  
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