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• Museum Of Contemporary Art San Diego Turns 75 And Announces Huge Expansion

  26-10-2016 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The expansion, which will double the size of the museum to a total of 102,000 square feet — including galleries, administrative areas and other public spaces — will finally allow MCASD to show its collection in a permanent way. (Currently the museum has only 10,000 square feet of gallery space, which allows for the display of only one exhibition at a time.)”
  
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• Almine Rech Discusses Expansion of Her Gallery Empire, as Upper East Side Space Opens

  26-10-2016 23:30 via artnews.com
  It seemed like we were just doing this, previewing a new orb in French dealer Almine Rech’s constellation of galleries. Ah, right, that’s because we were! Earlier this month, we were watching Jeff Koons take over Rech’s new space in London, next to Gagosian … Read More
  
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• Almine Rech Discusses Expansion of Her Gallery Empire, as Upper East Side Gallery Opens

  26-10-2016 23:30 via artnews.com
  It seemed like we were just doing this, previewing a new orb in French dealer Almine Rech’s constellation of galleries. Ah, right, that’s because we were! Earlier this month, we were watching Jeff Koons take over Rech’s new space in London, next to Gagosian … Read More
  
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• Philip Roth Gives His Book Collection To The Newark Public Library

  26-10-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mr. Roth’s library, some 4,000 volumes, is now stored mostly at his house in northwest Connecticut, where it has more or less taken over the premises. A room at the back of the house has been given over to nonfiction. It has library shelves, library lighting — everything except a librarian, Mr. Roth said recently on the phone from his New York apartment.
  
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• Seven 'red flags' in the Knoedler trial that should give dealers and sellers sleepless nights

  26-10-2016 23:00
  
  Many art disputes involve transactions that simply did not work out as planned for the buyer, most often because they overpaid. If there is nothing in the invoice or terms of the contract to support a claim, the unhappy buyer will look for facts they claim were not disclosed, and use that missing information to claim fraud. Because sale agreements are often bare-bones and the art world tolerates a certain degree of confidentiality about sources and clients, it is usually not too difficult to fi
  
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• Claim: Superhero Stories Work Great For Comic Books But Are Terrible For Movies

  26-10-2016 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jonathan Lethem, who initially set out to become a visual artist, says that comic books are a unique storytelling medium with pleasures that don’t necessarily translate well to live action. “It seems to me there’s a disconnect at a fundamental formal level between what a comic book does when you encounter it and what a CGI superhero movie does when you encounter it,” he says.
  
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• National Theatre Of Scotland Gets A New Director

  26-10-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Jackie Wylie will be the first Scottish leader of the theatre, and follows the surprise departure of Laurie Sansom earlier this year after three years in the post. Wylie was previously artistic director and joint chief executive of the Arches in Glasgow. From 2008 until its closure in 2015 she transformed the theatre and clubbing complex into a hotbed of cultural activity.”
  
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• How Artificial Intelligence Can Connect Us (Or Not) To Art

  26-10-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In areas like health care and transportation, we spend a lot of effort characterizing the performance and having a crisp understanding of how A.I. does what it does,” Eric Horvitz said. But with art, he added, “we want A.I. to be creative and make mistakes and meander.” Something may be gleaned from that whimsy.
  
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• London Mayor Proposes Plan For Work/Housing Spaces As High Rents Push Artists Out

  26-10-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Between 2014 and 2019, 3,500 artists are predicted to lose their places of work in the UK capital—a 30% cut, according to a report by the Greater London Authority. Launched in March 2016 and led by Outset Contemporary Art Fund, Studiomakers is working with local authorities, private landowners and property developers to find alternative ways to retain existing studios, as well as create new ones.”
  
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• Boca Raton Museum of Art Appoints Lanya Snyder Assistant Curator

  26-10-2016 20:36 via artnews.com
  The Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida announced today that it has appointed Lanya Snyder as assistant curator. In her new role, Snyder will focus on the museum’s contemporary art programming and expanding its photography holdings.Snyder, who studied photography at … Read More
  
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• This Is The Science Fiction That’s Shaping How We Talk About Artificial Intelligence

  26-10-2016 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ideas generally don’t just pop out into the world and get traction. They’re set in the context of what we know and what we dream about. Science fiction has helped frame discussions about the future for a long time. So here are the stories that inform us now…
  
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• How A Young Hollywood Actor Stays Motivated Through Countless Unsuccessful Auditions

  26-10-2016 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Annie Truex, an aspiring actress in Los Angeles, notes how much she’s learned much about the business of entertainment since moving to the city. For The Atlantic‘s ongoing series of interviews with American workers, I spoke with Truex about why she pursued acting, how she stays motivated throughout the audition process, and how beauty standards for women in entertainment affect her at work.”
  
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• ‘Husbands Are Really Good for Material’: Ann Hirsch Tackles Love and Marriage in a New Performance

  26-10-2016 19:49 via artnews.com
  Last Wednesday, guests climbed down into Machine Projects’ basement Mystery Theater, an ornate pseudo-19th-century stage that was painstakingly built beneath the Los Angeles nonprofit for a performance three years ago and never disassembled. A figure crouched at center stage, wrapped … Read More
  
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• MoMA Acquires Some ‘Humble Masterpieces’: The 176 Original Emoji, From 1999

  26-10-2016 19:36 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Modern Art in New York announced today it has acquired the original set of emoji, developed in 1999 by NTT DOCOMO. As Paul Galloway, a collection specialist in MoMA’s architecture and design department, wrote in a Medium … Read More
  
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• Tired Of That Mega-Gallery Experience? Smaller Galleries Get Creative About Where/How To Show

  26-10-2016 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We live in an era when much of what you read about are mega-monster galleries that are very rich and powerful, with tons of money and satellites. But that’s really only 5 percent of the market. The vast majority of galleries are small single- or double-venue operations that are looking for creative ways to extend themselves into the community without feeling the need to engulf and devour the world.”
  
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• Is There A White Writer Who Can Tell Stories About People Of Color Without Appropriating? This One

  26-10-2016 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What of the white writer who wishes to be artistically engaged but who simultaneously does not want to re-create cultural dominance in her work? Are there complex, nuanced representations by other white people which we might turn toward? I suggest that one answer may lie in the unlikely legacy of a pale, sickly writer from the mid-twentieth century, who smoked and drank herself to death by the age of fifty, and whose own personal turmoil and self-destruction may be at the root of the enor
  
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• Christ's foreskin unveiled on Libeskind's tapestries

  26-10-2016 18:53
  
  There are only a few days left to see an exhibition of tapestries at ContiniArtUK gallery in London which is intriguingly entitled The Circumcision of Christ and Modern Oblivion (until 31 October). The works on show are by Rachel Libeskind, the youngest child of the starchitect Daniel Libeskind, who describes in an interview with the exhibition curator, Diego Giolitti, how she came across the subject of Christs penis. I discovered the topic [of the circumcision] through the relic of Christ.
  
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• Nostalgia For Cursive – It Conveyed So Much

  26-10-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The sight of my father’s or mother’s script on a small white envelope was what I anticipated right until mail call, after lunch, and what kept me going for the long afternoon hours afterward. I liked letters on which their handwriting was rushed and slightly illegible, because if I had trouble deciphering the handwriting the letter lasted longer. When my grandmother wrote, I had difficulty deciphering her elegant, Palmer Method hand, but I enjoyed the antique nature of the cha
  
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• Getty Announces 24 New Partners, $1.25 M. in Funding for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA

  26-10-2016 18:07 via artnews.com
  Today the Getty Foundation announced an increase in funding, as well as expanded programming, for the third edition of its region-wide art initiative, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, which begins next September and focuses on Latin American and Latino art in relation to Los Angeles.The Getty … Read More
  
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• The Most Widely-Read Theologian In Human History? Jack Chick, Author Of Hellfire-And-Brimstone Cartoon Tracts, Dead At 92

  26-10-2016 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A lot of people hated Jack Chick. He wrote furious screeds against Dungeons & Dragons, against Catholicism and against rock music; he waged a long and ultimately unsuccessful war on Halloween. If you were Jewish or Muslim or gay, Chick wanted you to be saved from the fires of hell and wrote a comic to tell you so.”
  
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• Row over Temple Mount in Jerusalem is reignited

  26-10-2016 17:29
  
  If there is one place above all where the 70-year-old strife between Arabs and Israelis comes to a head, it is Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This was expressed yet again in all its bitterness by the row over a Palestinian-drafted resolution passed on 12 October by 24 delegates to Unesco, opposed by six, and with 26 abstaining. It was approved by the cultural bodys World Heritage Committee today (26 October) in a secret ballot, 10 states voting in favour, two opposing, and eight abstaining.
   
  
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• Claim: Our Museums Have Been Taken Over By A Culture Of Complaining

  26-10-2016 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Since Robert Hughes wrote his book over 20 years ago, the culture of complaint has become ever more prevalent. Complaining has become an art form and a way of life. Much of contemporary art (as represented on the other floors of Tate Modern’s new extension) is a complaint about greedy corporations and the inhumanity men show to men – or, more often, to women. And it invites us to join in. Tate Exchange touts itself as ‘a space for everyone to collaborate, test ideas and
  
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• Photographer Steve McCurry speaks out against arrest of Sharbat Gula, the 'Afghan girl with green eyes'

  26-10-2016 17:06
  
  The photographer Steve McCurry has raised concerns about the arrest of Sharbat Gula in Pakistan, the green-eyed Afghan girl he photographed in 1984 for the cover of National Geographic magazine. Gula has reportedly been detained for living illegally in Pakistan using false identification documents.Gula was taken into custody by Pakistans Federal Investigation Agency. [The agency] arrested Sharbat Gula, an Afghan woman, today for obtaining a fake ID card, Shahid Ilyas, an official of the Nationa
  
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• Shipshape: Zaha Hadid’s Audacious Office Building for Antwerp’s Port Is Stunning

  26-10-2016 17:05 via artnews.com
  Hundreds of men and women who helped run Antwerp’s port, the second busiest in Europe and the fifth largest in the world, once were scattered in offices across the Flemish city. Then, eight years ago, a decision was made to … Read More
  
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• Presidential Elections And The Laws Of Comedy

  26-10-2016 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ian Frazier: “Certain timeless laws apply to comedy – ‘Put the funniest word in the sentence at the end,’ for example. But in the modern era, in the world of political comedy, strange laws never seen before seem to be kicking in. The law that the efficiency of microchips increases exponentially every few years may now apply to political comedy, which gets exponentially funnier with every election cycle.”
  
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• What Will English Sound Like In 100 Years? Here’s What Some Scholars Think

  26-10-2016 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One influence will certainly be our language’s centuries-old habit of shifting vowel sounds over time. The other will be the huge number of people – well over a quarter of the world’s population – that speaks English as a second language. Here are some educated guesses as to how those influences will take shape. (includes sound clips)
  
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• Pope’s summer residence Castel Gandolfo opens to the public

  26-10-2016 16:19
  
  Pope Francis has given permission for the private apartments of the Apostolic Palace at Castel Gandolfo, the summer residence of popes for 400 years, to open to the public as a museum for the first time. The incumbent pope, who shunned the papal apartments at the Vatican for more modest quarters when he took office in 2013, has never stayed the night at the 17th-century lakeside palace 20km southeast of Rome. Tourists and pilgrims may now enter rooms previously reserved for the pope and his inn
  
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• Small wonders: the tiny world of F Percy Smith

  26-10-2016 16:16
  
  From acrobatic flies to suckling bees, Smith’s stop-motion nature films astonished viewers a century ago. Now Tindersticks’ Stuart Staples has set them to music in a dark and dreamy movieMould spreads like a firework. A bee suckles at a sweet pea bloom like a baby on a breast. Runner bean shoots sway and twirl as gracefully as dancers. It is difficult to put into words the alien strangeness of the microscopic worlds depicted by the pioneering film-maker F Percy Smith. Self-taught and
  
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• For Centuries, European Painters Used Ground Mummies As Pigment

  26-10-2016 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “From at least the 16th century until as late as the early 1900s, a pigment made from mummified human remains appeared on the palettes of European artists … Painters prized ‘mummy brown’ for its rich, transparent shade. As a result, an unknown number of ancient Egyptians are spending their afterlife on art canvases, unwittingly admired in museum galleries around the world.”
  
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• Dubai Design Week gets under way with more than 150 events

  26-10-2016 15:47
  
  Design is big in Dubai, so much so that the city dedicates two weeks to it every year: Design Days Dubai in March and Dubai Design Week in October, which opened on Monday (until 29 October). For this years second edition of the event, more than 150 design-related exhibitions, fairs and events are taking place across the emirate. Here is our guide to the headline events at Dubai Design District (d3) and beyond.Downtown Design
  The fourth edition of the commercial design fair brings together more
  
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• Using Algae And Ground Sturgeon To Restore A Painting

  26-10-2016 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Automobile Speed + Light + Noise (around 1913), a painting by the Italian Futurist Giacomo Balla (1871-1958), is due to go back on display at the Kunsthaus Zurich in Switzerland in November following a six-month stint in the museum’s restoration studio” – whose process was, well, unorthodox.
  
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• Meet The Woman Who Got Naked, Covered Herself In Paint, And Rolled Around On Paper For Yves Klein

  26-10-2016 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As some of Klein’s Anthropometry paintings go on show at Tate Liverpool, [Elena] Palumbo-Mosca, now 81, rejects the notion that she was exploited and says she was more than just a ‘living brush’ or a traditional passive model.”
  
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• Morning Links: Man Blocking Traffic While Dressed as a Tree Edition

  26-10-2016 15:14 via artnews.com
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• Buffalo Philharmonic Was Once As Down And Out As Its City – And Both Are Coming Back

  26-10-2016 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘When I got here,’ [music director JoAnn Falletta said of the orchestra’s hall], ‘there was graffiti all over this, and the glass was broken.’ That was in the late 1990s, when many assumed that Buffalo and its orchestra were both pretty much finished. … Nearly two decades later, the orchestra has proved its viability – as has the city, slowly yet steadily improving its fortunes.”
  
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• Does Wayne McGregor’s Extreme Choreography Hurt His Dancers? (He Says No)

  26-10-2016 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “His movement style, born of his fascination with extreme physicality and hyperarticulation, has redefined the look of today’s dancers and virtually turned their bodies inside out. … Sometimes it looks as if he’s putting his dancers through a very painful wringer. No way, he counters. ‘These dancers are not stupid – they won’t do whatever I say. They are phenomenally bright individuals who are interested in changing the nature of technique, and with our
  
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• We need to remove the mask of history from female artists

  26-10-2016 14:42
  
  Madrid’s Prado gallery has finally, after 200 years, put on its first show devoted to a female painter, Clara Peeters. We need far more like it, to understand the greatness of women working under heavy patriarchiesOne of the most unsettling works of art I have seen for a long time is a small sketch in a school atlas that was identified last year as a self-portrait by the young Charlotte Brontë. Why is it so unsettling? Because of the talent it shows. Could she have been an artist as w
  
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• Fort Worth Symphony, Amidst Strike, Cancels All Remaining Concerts In 2016

  26-10-2016 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Symphony management announced Monday it has canceled concerts through Dec. 31 as a result of the ongoing musicians’ strike. Management and the musicians union met Saturday for the first time in almost two months to try to reach a new contract agreement for the musicians. They were unsuccessful.”
  
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• Philadelphia Orchestra Launches On-Demand Streaming Audio

  26-10-2016 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Orchestra on Demand “offers a sprinkling of concerts from current and past seasons, dating back to Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s inaugural2012-13 season as music director. Additional content includes concerts by former music director Wolfgang Sawallisch.”
  
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• Shakespeare’s Globe Loses First Donor Over Sacking Of Director

  26-10-2016 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A charity that made its first grants to Shakespeare’s Globe under artistic director Emma Rice’s tenure has revealed it will not give the theatre any more money, and is threatening to demand the return of money it has already pledged.”
  
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• Sacking Of Shakespeare’s Globe Director Is *Not* About Lighting And Decor She Chose

  26-10-2016 13:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Matt Trueman: “She’s clearly been pushed, but it’s the speed that’s so shocking. The decision comes at the end of her very first season … Rice has challenged a hell of a lot in a short space of time – too much, too soon it now seems.”
  
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• UK Equity Develops Special Contract For Small Dance Companies

  26-10-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Equity has revealed plans to draw up a contract especially for small-scale dance companies in a bid to improve pay and conditions in the independent sector. The union is working with the Independent Theatre Council on a contract that will be similar to the current Equity/ITC performers contract, but will be tailor-made for dancers, with their needs and requirements in mind.”
  
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• London mayor pledges to create affordable artists’ studios

  26-10-2016 12:46
  
  As sky-high rents continue to price artists out of London, the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, today announced plans to set up a trust to finance and secure affordable artists studios across the UK capital. Drawing on a combination of public and private funds, the Creative Land Trust will offer loans for studio providers looking to buy their buildings, as well as ensuring that workspaces are permanently protected.Khan is working with a group of entrepreneurs and philanthropists called Studiomakers
  
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• Gigantic $3m stained glass window charts history of knowledge

  26-10-2016 11:59
  
  Tom Holdman’s ambitious artwork features thousands of buildings and famous figures from Sir Isaac Newton to Mr BeanAmong thousands of figures, buildings and scenes jostling for space in one of the most spectacular stained glass windows made in the past century, Charles Darwin, Sir Isaac Newton, the Gherkin, Stonehenge, Alice looking up at the Cheshire Cat grinning in his tree, Queen Victoria, and Mr Bean admiring the Whistler’s Mother painting have all found a place, alongside Nelson
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.25.16

  26-10-2016 10:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  From Arts Experience to Human Experience
  by Barry C. Hughson  A few months ago, I attended the dress rehearsal for Dreamers Ever Leave You. It was a transformational artistic and human experience. … read more
  AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2016-10-25Great job. You’re fired
  Shakespeare’s Globe yesterday released a baffling public statement. It praised Emma Rice, its new artistic director, for the creative, critical and commercial success of her first season, her a
  
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• The sublime and the divine: Ashmolean exhibition explores Islamic divinatory art

  26-10-2016 10:00
  
  An exhibition exploring the overlooked field of divinatory arts opened at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, last week (until 15 January 2017). For Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural, Francesca Leoni, the museums curator of Islamic art, has gathered more than 130 objects from private and public collections throughout the British Isles, around a third of which are on view for the first time. Dating from the 12th to the 21st centuries, the exhibits represent a wide swathe of Islam,
  
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• South Africa: The Art of a Nation review – from the dawn of man to the violence of apartheid

  26-10-2016 09:00
  
  British Museum, London
  Bringing together Zulu spears, tribal cave paintings and 20th-century activist collages, this dazzling array is a brilliant tribute to one of art’s true centresCan war be beautiful? It was undoubtedly an art of sublime elegance for the Zulu nation in the 19th century, when they used some of the most precise military manoeuvres ever planned to massacre an entire British army.The Battle of Isandlwana in 1879 shocked and perplexed the Age of Empire. Warriors equipped mo
  
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• Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, an adult ball pit and nude dancers headline Sydney festival 2017

  26-10-2016 04:51
  
  Wesley Enoch, the festival’s first Indigenous artistic director, unveils program that focuses on the senses and on stories of Aboriginal AustraliaPJ Harvey, Nick Cave and a strong Indigenous program have been announced in the program for Sydney festival 2017, the first of three under the curation of Wesley Enoch, the festival’s first Indigenous artistic director. The festival, which takes place in January, will also include the first major exhibition of work by the Australian artist
  
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• Part-time cleaner Megan Seres wins $150,000 portrait prize for painting of daughter

  26-10-2016 03:21
  
  Sydney artist wins Doug Moran prize, world’s most lucrative portrait award, for painting of daughter dressed as child convict Mary Wade Sydney-based artist Megan Seres, who works as a part-time cleaner, has won this year’s $150,000 Doug Moran portrait prize for a painting of her daughter, Scarlett.The winning portrait features Scarlett Seres dressed as convict Mary Wade, in a costume she and her mother made together for a school play. Judges Greta Moran, artist Anne Wallace, and gall
  
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• Megan Seres wins $150,000 Doug Moran portrait prize for painting of daughter

  26-10-2016 03:21
  
  Sydney artist’s winning portrait features daughter dressed as child convict Mary Wade, while Perth photographer Johannes Reinart wins photo awardSydney-based artist Megan Seres has won this year’s $150,000 Doug Moran portrait prize for a painting of her daughter, Scarlett.The winning portrait features Scarlett Seres dressed as convict Mary Wade, in a costume she and her mother made together for a school play. Judges Greta Moran, artist Anne Wallace, and gallery director Doug Hall sai
  
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• Washington Ballet Returns To Using A Live Orchestra

  26-10-2016 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We won’t sell one more ticket if we have live music in the orchestra, and it’s about $100,000 a week. We have to move forward strategically and sensibly, and use the money for the orchestra where we can get the most out of it.”
  
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