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• Just What Tonight’s Debate Needed: A String Quartet Accompaniment!

  19-10-2016 23:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Late Show will have PUBLIQuartet improvising along with the debate on Facebook Live. According to the group’s website, PUBLIQuartet’s “innovative programs span arrangements from the classical canon, contemporary works, original compositions, and open-form improvisations that expand the techniques and aesthetic of the traditional string quartet.”
  
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• Has Advertising Wrecked Our Access To Quality?

  19-10-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There is a strange business model called advertising-supported media that was once restricted to a small area of our life, like newspapers, but now it is taking over every area of our life. I wanted to understand the history of advertising, because it didn’t simply always exist this way. You typically would just pay for stuff, like newspapers or movies. The idea of selling a captive audience had to be invented. And the normative question is: What are the costs of everything being fr
  
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• Peripatetic curator Hans Ulrich Obrist tops ArtReview's 2016 Power 100 list

  19-10-2016 23:01
  
  ArtReview magazine has published its 15th annual Power 100 list, ranking the art world's most important players. Hans Ulrich Obrist, the artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, takes the number-one spot this year, reclaiming his position from 2009.
  The magazines editors write: The curator is famous for ignoring traditional constraints of both time (he works nearly constantly, and famously founded the Brutally Early Club, an open-to-all discussion group that meets at 6.30am) and
  
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• Woman breaks nasty nearly-nude Hillary statue

  19-10-2016 23:00
  
  A statue depicting a bare-breasted Hillary Clinton wearing only an open blouse and white pantieswith satyr hooves instead of feet, and a Wall Street banker poised to suckle from her breastappeared at the Bowling Green Subway station near Wall Street in New York on 18 October. It was removed within two hours. According to the New York Post, an employee at the nearby National Museum of the American Indian took offence to the statue, broke it in front of a young man who claimed to be the artist and
  
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• NADA New York springs ahead, moving to March in 2017

  19-10-2016 23:00
  
  The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), a non-profit organisation founded in 2002 to promote contemporary and emerging art, will move its springtime New York fair from the first week of Maywhen it has been held to coincide with Frieze New York since launching in 2012to March in 2017. The fair is schedule for 2-5 March, to run with the Armory Show. Essentially, the change in dates was a response to the needs and requests [of] our membership base and our exhibitors, Adam Abdalla, the spokesman of NA
  
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• Nada New York moves to Armory week in March

  19-10-2016 23:00
  
  The New Art Dealers Alliance (Nada), a non-profit organisation founded in 2002 to promote contemporary and emerging art, will move its springtime New York fair from the first week of Maywhen it has been held to coincide with Frieze New York since launching in 2012to March in 2017. The fair is schedule for 2-5 March, to run with the Armory Show. Essentially, the change in dates was a response to the needs and requests [of] our membership base and our exhibitors, Adam Abdalla, the spokesman of Na
  
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• Looters exploit the political chaos in Libya

  19-10-2016 23:00
  
  Illicit antiquities are gushing out of Libya as political chaos engulfs the country. One of the hardest-hit areas is the countrys eastern coastal region, which is rich in archaeological treasures from sites such as the ancient Greek and Roman city of Cyrene. International and Libyan specialists say that random digging here is proceeding unchecked.
  On a visit to the UK in September, the senior Libyan archaeologist Ramadan Shebani, the former archaeology curator at the Red Castle museum in Tripol
  
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• Kerry James Marshall makes his picks from the Met’s collection

  19-10-2016 23:00
  
  When the retrospective on the Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall comes to New Yorks Met Breuer on 25 October, it wont just be the exhibition that is travelling. The painter, who has spent his 36-year career making a prominent place for the black figure within art history, is also selecting objects from the museums encyclopaedic collection to take a trip down the street from its home on Fifth Avenue to the Breuer building on Madison.
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• How connoisseurs left a paper trail across Europe

  19-10-2016 23:00
  A notable historical link connects three exhibitions of drawings with heterogeneous subjects and aims that each open this month.
  Fra Bartolommeo: Master of the Florentine High Renaissance at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, marks the quincentenary of the artists death with 120 of his drawings from the permanent collection, along with 20 from other museums. A Swede in Paris in the 18th Century: the Tessin Collection at the Louvre (organised with the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm) is a
  
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• Report Scotland’s Visual Art Sector Is In Peril

  19-10-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Creative Scotland’s study found that almost half of Scotland’s artists were having to take on additional jobs to make ends. Self-employed artists are said to be earning an average of less than £15,000 a year, compared to the average Scottish salary of £26,000, with even those work more than 15 years experience behind them struggling on little more than £20,000 a year on average.”
  
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• Consequentialism – The Philosophy That Guarantees You’ll Never Stop Feeling Guilty

  19-10-2016 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I didn’t do enough,” says Oskar Schindler at the end of Schindler’s List. “Is he right?,” asks Michael Mitchell. “According to consequentialism, it’s true: he didn’t do enough. Consequentialism is the moral theory that we are obligated to do whatever would have the best consequences. If that entails great sacrifice, then great sacrifice is what consequentialism demands we undertake. Since Schindler could have done more, he should have.&rdquo
  
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• Maria Abramovic: The Performance Artist At 70

  19-10-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Abramovic’s performances have always been about generating a kind of catharsis for herself, then for the rest of us, pushing people’s buttons, their limits, as she has her own. All to a particular transformative end. “I am one of the few people who don’t have secrets,” she says. “All of my secrets, I made performances out of them, or theater pieces.”
  
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• Strange And Entertaining Tales Of Bogus Folk Etymology

  19-10-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Is it really true that the American idiom ‘say uncle’ emerged from the bullying of a poor parrot – and murder most fowl? Has there been a more beknighted or benighted cut of beef than the ‘sirloin’ – at least when it comes to the word’s origin? … When it comes to the strange history of certain linguistic oddities, Jesus H. Christ (and where did the ‘H’ come from, exactly?), linguists, you got some ‘splainin’ to do!&r
  
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• Preview FIAC 2016

  19-10-2016 20:56 via artnews.com
  The 43rd edition of the Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, or FIAC, opens Thursday, October 20, with VIP previews beginning today, October 19. The 2016 edition of the fair, which runs through Sunday, October 23, will bring 186 galleries from 27 countries … Read More
  
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• A Life of My Own: Cro-Mags Founder Harley Flanagan on His New Book, Hardcore, and the Old Lower East Side

  19-10-2016 20:41 via artnews.com
  Only a few artists in any generation are able to live the kind of singular cultural life that musician and artist Harley Flanagan has.At the age of nine, in 1976, Flanagan published a book, Stories & Illustrations by Harley, that … Read More
  
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• First Look: Dramatic New Orchestra Hall For Beijing

  19-10-2016 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The concert hall was designed by MAD Architects in collaboration with acoustic expert Yasuhisa Toyota, who has worked on the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Philharmonie de Paris, and the Suntory Hall in Japan. Its main auditorium will seat 1,600 people on “vineyard style” terraces surrounding the stage area.
  
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• Very Brave Choreographer Creates Dance Starring Art Museum Staffers

  19-10-2016 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When the French choreographer Jérôme Bel unveils MoMA Dance Company next week at the Museum of Modern Art, the 25 performers will have had just three rehearsals as a group. Mr. Bel is the first to acknowledge that the experiment, as he calls it, might not work.”
  
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• Should The Smithsonian Be Running A Kickstarter Campaign To Preserve Wizard Of Oz Ruby Slippers?

  19-10-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This campaign would keep the shoes’ color from deteriorating, and the money will go toward a technologically advanced display case to preserve them for future generations. Even though the Smithsonian’s museums are federally funded, the institution still solicits private and corporate contributions for major projects if it isn’t covered by their budget. In fact, this is the Smithsonian’s second Kickstarter campaign; in 2015, the National Air and Space Museum raised
  
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• Should We Just Do Away With The Term ‘Oscar Bait’?

  19-10-2016 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Biopics! Coming-of-age tales! Socially conscious historical dramas! You might even call them ‘Oscar bait’ – but should you? Below, Vulture editors Mark Harris and Kyle Buchanan debate the utility of the term.”
  
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• Sharon Lockhart Will Represent Poland at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  19-10-2016 18:43 via artnews.com
  The Zachęta National Gallery of Art announced this week that Sharon Lockhart will represent Poland at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Her project will be overseen by Barbara Piwowarska, an independent curator based in Warsaw.Lockhart’s project already has a title: Little … Read More
  
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• Why Aren’t More Top Museums Led By Women? Asks New York Times Op-Ed

  19-10-2016 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sonnet Stanfill, curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum: “In 2015, the world’s top 12 art museums as based on attendance – what I call the ‘directors’ dozen’ – were all led by men. When Frances Morris became the director of the Tate Modern in April, she became the first woman to join the club. This gender gap extends from Europe to North America, where only five of the 33 directors of the most prominent museums (those with operating budgets of more th
  
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• Californian collective dives into the deep end with underwater art show

  19-10-2016 18:21
  
  Watch out for the boat is not a line you usually hear at art exhibitions, but Snorkel Dreams was no ordinary show. Last weekend, Machine Project, the rogue and often roving collective led by artist Mark Allen, filled a public swimming pool in Santa Monica, California with 16 more-or-less waterproof works of art, including paintings, prints and sculpture.While swimmers in goggles or snorkelling masks drifted from work to work, lifeguards at the Annenberg Community Beach Center would call out and
  
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• How The Miami Tribe Is Bringing Its Language Back From The Dead

  19-10-2016 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The last native speaker of Myaamia died in the 1960s. The language had been spoken by the Myaamia people, Native Americans who originally lived in what is now Indiana. Also known as the Miami, they were forcibly relocated twice in the 19th century, and ended up scattered throughout the Midwest and beyond … By the 1980s, linguists and tribe members alike thought the language was gone. But then Daryl Baldwin came along.”
  
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• MFA Enrollments Plummeting

  19-10-2016 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This year is the worst in memory, like perhaps in this millennium,” said one MFA program head, adding that his impression is that schools that were once getting two applications for every seat may now be getting less than one.
  
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• Strong Female Roles In TV Are Getting More Common On Both Sides Of The Pond

  19-10-2016 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The trend is evident in such acclaimed serials as Girls, Unreal, and Transparent in the U.S. Meanwhile in the U.K., period pieces Call the Midwife and Victoria, Blighty’s biggest new drama this fall, have put women to the fore in two different centuries. The fashion for female leads is just as clear in comedy.”
  
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• Sanford Biggers Is Now Represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery

  19-10-2016 17:00 via artnews.com
  New York’s Marianne Boesky Gallery announced today that it now represents Sanford Biggers. The gallery will include work by Biggers in its booth at Art Basel Miami Beach later this year, and in 2017 he will have a solo show … Read More
  
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• Michele O’Marah at Artspeak, Vancouver, British Columbia

  19-10-2016 16:59 via artnews.com
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• Russian City Cancels ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ After Protests By Orthodox Christian Group

  19-10-2016 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The show, [in a staging] by a troupe from St. Petersburg, was to have been staged Nov. 1 in Omsk, Russia’s seventh-most-populous city. But a local group called ‘Family, Love, and Fatherland’ filed a complaint that the musical mocked religious faith.”
  
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• Italian Mafia Groups Are Trading Weapons To ISIS For Looted Antiquities: Report

  19-10-2016 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to an investigation by the newspaper La Stampa, “the ‘ndrangheta and Camorra mafia groups in southern Italy … are reportedly handing over to [ISIS] weapons smuggled out of Moldova and Ukraine by Russian criminal groups in exchange for Roman and Greek artefacts illegally excavated from ancient sites including Leptis Magna, Cyrene and Sabratha in Libya – all UNESCO World Heritage Sites.”
  
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• Shrewd And Wealthy Commodities Trader Says Art Professor At Tiny College Sold Him Forgeries

  19-10-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When [Andrew J.] Hall set out last year to stage an exhibition of [Leon] Golub’s art at the private rural museum he operates in [a Vermont] village, he found out to his surprise that more than a third of the Golubs he had bought were forgeries, according to a lawsuit he filed last month. And the people he says hoodwinked him … seem to have disappeared.”
  
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• Philadelphia Orchestra Adopts *Some* Recommendations From The Michael Kaiser Report

  19-10-2016 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Philadelphia Orchestra will program musicals. It will set up new philanthropic councils made up from donors with special interests and, starting in 2018, from outside the city. The orchestra is starting a series of master classes with guest artists. And it will develop more ways to lure and keep younger donors.”
  
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• Michael Bloomberg Gives $50 Million To The Museum That Changed His Life

  19-10-2016 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Everyone around here knows Michael Bloomberg … built a multibillion-dollar company and served as a three-term mayor of New York. But what people might not know is that Bloomberg credits the Museum of Science for helping to shape who he became. ‘I went every Saturday, and it changed my life,’ recalled Bloomberg, 74, who attended classes there starting when he was about 10 and through his high school years.”
  
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• Paris Museum In Hot Water Over Exhibit On Segregation In US

  19-10-2016 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Musée du Quai Branly Jaques Chirac in Paris has come under fire for literature published for children alongside their exhibition, ‘The Color Line: African American Artists and Segregation.’ The booklet appears to play down the European role in slavery, and claim some slaves had enjoyable lives. Following public outcry, the museum destroyed the inaccurate pamphlets.”
  
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• Morning Links: White House Pastry Chef Edition

  19-10-2016 14:32 via artnews.com
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• The Double-Bass? For Weaklings. Check Out The Octobass

  19-10-2016 14:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s almost 12 feet tall, weighs 289 pounds, sounds four octaves lower than a double-bass, and the player has to use levers for fingering because there’s just no hope of reaching the fingerboard. The octobass was invented in 1849, and the Montreal Symphony is now the first orchestra in the world to have one. (includes video)
  
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• Cuba’s National Ballet School Enrolls Its First American Student

  19-10-2016 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Communist-led Cuba is renowned for its rigorous, state-subsidized ballet education and has produced an outsized share of dance stars, such as Carlos Acosta and José Manuel Carreño, for a small island of 11 million inhabitants. Cuba’s National Ballet School, which claims to be the world’s largest with 3,000 students, has long trained many foreign dancers. But no American had joined its full-time program during the half-century long conflict between Cuba and United
  
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• Ted V. Mikels, 87, Film Auteur Of ‘The Corpse Grinders’ And ‘Blood Orgy Of The She-Devils’

  19-10-2016 13:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[He] was a flamboyant figure – known for his waxed handlebar mustache and the boar tusk he wore around his neck – who often produced, wrote, directed and edited his films. He relied on outlandish plots, cheesy special effects and curvaceous actresses like Tura Satana … [as he] cranked out an endless stream of bloody shockers, sci-fi thrillers, action films and jiggle-fests.”
  
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• David Antin, 84, Known For His ‘Talk Poems’

  19-10-2016 13:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Identified by the Poetry Foundation as part of ‘a group of artists and poets who brought new definitions and ambitions to poetry in the early 1970s,’ Antin won acclaim for his signature ‘hybrid of criticism, poetry and storytelling that involved Antin discoursing freely on a subject in front of an audience,’ as the foundation described his talk poetry.”
  
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• Rodin and Dance review: soft porn takes flight in show of sensual strength

  19-10-2016 12:31
  
  Courtauld Gallery, London
  Cubists captured the madness of the early 20th century in abstracted shards; Auguste Rodin showed it in dance, with sculpted figures that are erotic, aerodynamic and hallucinatoryAuguste Rodin is one of most mysterious and elusive of all great artists. Just to look at his life dates is to see how paradoxical he is. Born in 1840, died 1917 – that’s a life that reaches from the late Romantic age into the despair of the first world war. Rodin’s art also h
  
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• Qataris take a spin on Dia Al-Azzawi’s carousel in Doha

  19-10-2016 12:00
  
  A fairground carousel designed by the Iraqi artist Dia Al-Azzawi, which can be used by local residents, has been unveiled in Dohas MIA Park. The merry-go-round, located in a childrens play area near the Museum of Islamic Art, is the latest piece commissioned by Qatar Museums as part of its ambitious public art programme.
  Al-Azzawis carousel, titled Enchanted East, features 40 animal seats inspired by works in the collection of the Museum of Islamic Art. The artist also incorporates Arabic calli
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.18.16

  19-10-2016 10:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Big Stakes For This Art Week
  Tempus fugit! I’ve been meaning to write more about The European Fine Art Fair’s arrival in New York later this week, but have not had the time. But you can bet that I will be there, … read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2016-10-18Artistic Excellence and Mutual Self-Interests
  This post is part of a series in conjunction with TRG Arts on developing relationships with both new communities and existing stakeholders through artistic programming
  
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• Pierre Huyghe’s eerie system fascinates in Tino Sehgal’s Paris show

  19-10-2016 10:00
  
  A site-specific installation about the development of cancer cells by the French artist Pierre Huyghe is becoming a major talking point of Tino Sehgals exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
  Located in the contemporary art centres basement, Living/Cancer/Variator (2016) consists of a pool of water, leaking pipes, flickering lights, a moving escalator, spiders, ants and flies. The level of activity influences the growth of in-vitro human cancer cells, and the speed of the cells growth in tu
  
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• Madame Tussauds gives Yayoi Kusama the ultimate wax accolade

  19-10-2016 10:00
  
  Madame Tussauds has announced the opening of a Yayoi Kusama artistic themed zone at its Hong Kong branch.
   
  The display, which opens on 3 November, will incorporate the Japanese artists trademark polka dot designs and invite visitors to experience the concept of self-obliteration, according to the wax museums website.
   
  The Kusama zone will be decorated with black dots on a yellow background. As visitors enter the area they will be greeted by an overhanging pumpkin, one of the artists
  
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• Raw power: why Iggy Pop posed naked for Jeremy Deller's Life Class

  19-10-2016 08:00
  
  When Jeremy Deller first asked Iggy Pop to pose nude for a life-drawing session, the rock star said he was too young. Now, at 69, rock’s most famous torso has bared allIggy Pop doesn’t play an instrument when he performs on stage. “He plays his body,” according to artist Jeremy Deller. “The way he manipulates it, damages it, bends it and flaunts it has become his way of communicating. His body interprets the music but it’s also playing its own tune.”In f
  
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• When Attention Is Always Demanded, How Do We Still Think?

  19-10-2016 00:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Where the human gaze goes, business soon follows.” When that gaze eventually shifted to the smartphone—portable, social, location-aware, always on—whatever last reserves of human attention were still left unexploited were suddenly on the table. The smartphone would become “the undisputed new frontier of attention harvesting in the twenty-first century, the attention merchants’ manifest destiny.”
  
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