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• Kerry James Marshall: Mastry exhibition review – a sumptuous symphony in black

  28-10-2016 23:08
  
  Met Breuer, New York
  This retrospective is a stone-cold stunner which proudly insists on the place of African Americans in the American artistic imagination, using the tropes of exclusionary imagery to new, more moral endsThe election approaches; the nation seethes; the hatred festers; the dead start to talk. Old intolerances have come roaring back as the United States finally reaches the end of the most virulent, vacuous presidential contest in living memory. For African Americans, particularly
  
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• Sure Artificially Intelligent Machines Will Learn. But How Will We Make Them Accountable?

  28-10-2016 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The opacity of machine learning isn’t just an academic problem. More and more places use the technology for everything from image recognition to medical diagnoses. All that decision­making is, by definition, unknowable—and that makes ­people uneasy. My friend Zeynep Tufekci, a sociologist, warns about “Moore’s law plus inscrutability.” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says we need “algorithmic accountability.”
  
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• Jaap van Zweden’s Global Dance

  28-10-2016 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The conductor leads two orchestras on different sides of the world, and the disconnects aren’t just geographic. “The New York and Hong Kong orchestras are not just distant geographically — they are also at very different phases of their development, requiring different types of effort from their shared music director.”
  
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• Annette Kelm at Herald St, London

  28-10-2016 21:51 via artnews.com
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• Toronto’s Debt-Free Orchestra Makes It 16 Years In A Row

  28-10-2016 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Announced yesterday at Tafelmusik’s 2016 annual general meeting, they achieved an impressive 16-year balanced budget streak with an operating surplus of $107,017 on a budget of $5.4 mil. Ticket sales rose by $5,501 from last year’s $1.7 million.”
  
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• Report Tries To Tally Cultural Industries Impact Of Brexit

  28-10-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The UK cultural sector’s ties in the EU are financial and artistic. So what are the costs for artists inBritain’s decision to leave?
  
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• Gordon Parks, photographer who chronicled African-American life, the focus of shows in Washington, DC and Berlin

  28-10-2016 20:44
  
  The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, has added 173 photographs by the American photographer Gordon Parks to its collection as part of an acquisition of 304 works from the now closed Corcoran Gallery of Art. Many of the works will be shown at the National Gallery as part of the exhibition Gordon Parks: The New Tide, 1940-50 (11 November 2018-18 February 2019), which surveys his early work.Parks (1912-2006) was the kind of photographer whose work ranged widely. He chronicled crime
  
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• Mary Boone Gallery Accuses Alec Baldwin Of Tax Avoidance In Disputed Art Case

  28-10-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mr. Baldwin’s dispute with Ms. Boone, a prominent gallerist who built her reputation in the 1980s, has lifted a curtain on a part of the New York art world outsiders don’t always see.
  
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• Britain’s ‘art lending library’ finds four new homes

  28-10-2016 20:05
  
  The Arts Council Collection, the worlds largest loan collection of Modern and contemporary British art, is partnering with four major galleries outside London to stage 24 exhibitions over the next three years.
  Founded in 1946, the collection acts as the nations art lending library, making nearly 8,000 works by more than 2,000 artists available for loan to museums, galleries, hospitals, schools and other public buildings across the UK. On 27 October, the organisation launched the National Partne
  
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• Why Did An American Couple Just Give $380 Million In Art To France?

  28-10-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It was a negotiation that involved the highest levels of the French government. “The donation, announced Saturday at a ceremony at Élysée Palace, was the culmination of formal talks between officials at the highest levels of the French government and the couple, who are 80 years old and have been married for 60 years.”
  
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• All The Reasons We Laugh *Besides* That Something Is Funny

  28-10-2016 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There are studies suggesting that as much as 80% of people’s laughter is at things they don’t really find humorous. Says one neuroscientist, “It’s a hall of mirrors of inferences and intentions every time you encounter laughter.”
  
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• Light Shows: Marco Breuer’s Photographs at Yossi Milo Gallery Charm and Confound

  28-10-2016 18:54 via artnews.com
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• Fake Old Master Has The Art World On Edge

  28-10-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  So how did this painting, purporting to be a Frans Hals, fool top level experts? It’s making the art world worry about what other fakes might be out there and about a system that doesn’t seem to have done its job vetting. Is a bigger scandal looming?
  
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• There’s A Neurological Explanation For Why I’m Always Late

  28-10-2016 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As the surprisingly simple title of the study in question says, “Familiarity expands space and contracts time.” (See, boss? It’s science!)
  
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• Luc Tuymans pays homage to James Ensor

  28-10-2016 17:51
  The Belgian painter and international superstar mounts a show in London of his forebear and fellow countryman
  
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• 700 women needed to occupy tower in the name of art

  28-10-2016 17:49
  
  Artist Sarah Filmer seeks to overturn ‘700 years of ignored female history’ at God’s House Tower in Southampton on Saturday For 700 years, God’s House Tower has stood resiliently within the walls of Southampton, acting over the centuries as a platform for firing cannons, housing the town’s prisoners and eventually as a museum. Yet for all the history of the tower, there is one noticeable absence – the record of a single women who ever passed through its gatewa
  
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• The Art Market: it’s up to you, New York

  28-10-2016 17:48
  Tefaf in Manhattan; sold to the anchor from CNN; Trump in the nude
  
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• Snapshot: ‘Sit Silently’ by Katrina Kepule

  28-10-2016 17:34
  The Latvian photographer’s series explores daily life in post-Soviet Riga
  
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• Furtwangler And Mengelberg, Dudamel And Gergiev?

  28-10-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  These four conductors all face(d) political decisions in their relationship to political power. Great musicians all. But their survival strategies differ(ed). Norman Lebrecht suggests some parallels.
  
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• In Defense Of The Publisher That Rejected ‘Pride And Prejudice’

  28-10-2016 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Fans of Jane Austen have always tut-tutted about Thomas Cadell of Cadell & Davies, who returned the P&P manuscript to Jane’s father with a curt five-word note in 1797. Yet Cadell really doesn’t deserve the ignominy that that one decision has conferred on him. (Hey, we all make mistakes.) He certainly wasn’t anti-woman – quite the opposite, in fact.
  
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• Tracey the Tory: on the YBAs

  28-10-2016 16:34
  
  For anyone who was around on the London art scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s, reading this book is a bit like being in an uncanny time warp. Artrage! is a forensically detailed recounting of the rise to fame of the artists who were part of what Elizabeth Fullerton refers to as the BritArt Revolution. On the way, we are reacquainted not just with the leading lights of the YBAs, such as Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas, but also with a host of names once uttered in the same breath
  
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• Our Matisse Is Not Nazi-Looted Art And You Can’t Have It, Says UK’s National Gallery To Plaintiffs – And Besides, You Can’t Sue Us In New York

  28-10-2016 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The heirs of Greta Moll, the subject of a portrait by Matisse now valued at more than $30 million, claim that Moll was cheated out of the painting as a result of World War II and that the National Gallery acquired it illegitimately. The museum is responding that just about everything about the lawsuit is bogus.
  
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• A Truly Living Art Form: Chicken Artist Breeds Poultry For Gallery Shows

  28-10-2016 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen has spent two decades crossing heritage breeds from different nations to create handsome, healthy, and (yes) cosmopolitan birds, which he shows in art galleries. For an upcoming show in Detroit, he’s taking things to the next level – the Planetary Community Chicken.
  
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• ‘I Want to Combine Super Know-How with Childish Innocence’: Pipilotti Rist on Her Dreamy Videos, in 1998

  28-10-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  With a Pipilotti Rist show having just opened at the New Museum in New York, we turn back to the November 1998 issue of ARTnews, in which Jonathan Turner profiled the Swiss artist. At that time, in addition to having … Read More
  
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• Boxing, torture and Horatio Nelson's lover – the week in art

  28-10-2016 15:59
  
  Queen’s Gallery exhibits self-portraits from Rembrandt, da Vinci and Hockney, while Romantic icon Emma Hamilton steals the spotlight – plus the rest of the week’s art happeningsPortrait of the Artist
  Artemisia Gentileschi, Rembrandt, Leonardo da Vinci, Rubens and David Hockney are among the icons whose images are explored in this insightful survey of artistic fame.
  • Queen’s Gallery, London, 4 November–17 April. Continue reading...
  
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• Dude, *Please* Don’t Call Me A Philanthropist, Say Millennial Donors

  28-10-2016 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Have the young’uns heard too many TED Talks? “The next generation of philanthropists at this year’s Philanthropy Australia conference made it perfectly clear that they would prefer to be known as ‘change-makers’ or ‘social entrepreneurs’, and so, are ‘consciously uncoupling’ from being known as philanthropists.”
  
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• Candid Caricatures, Candy Coffins, and Cringe-Inducing Catharsis: A Walk Through Pedro Reyes’s ‘Doomocracy’

  28-10-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  During the second presidential debate, it took a chubby-cheeked man named Kenneth Bone to break the unbearable tension in the room. Perhaps Bone succeeded because in him we saw the everyman—a Guess Who? card, as one person characterized him. Although it could … Read More
  
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• How Hollywood Eagerly Enlisted In The War On Drugs

  28-10-2016 15:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The prospect of foreign drug traffickers invading American shores gave pop-culture cops a new and more dangerous enemy to fight, one that justified fast driving, explosive shootouts and all sorts of audience-thrilling rule-breaking. In return, Hollywood promoted the idea that drugs posed a grave threat that justified new, frightening police tactics and the erosion of basic rights.”
  
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• Black-And-Blue Lives That Matter: Minority Cops In Popular Culture

  28-10-2016 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As Tom Wolfe put it in The Bonfire of the Vanities, ‘All the cops turned Irish: the Jewish cops … the Italian cops, the Latin cops, and the black cops.'” You’re only accepted if you adopt that brand of machismo.
  
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• Opera Is *Not* Too Posh And Exclusive, And If You Think It Is, It’s Your Own Damn Fault, Says Opera Boss

  28-10-2016 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I continue to argue incessantly with people who claim opera is for the rich, unattainable, impenetrable, elitist and from a parallel universe,” writes Michael Volpe, general director of London’s Opera Holland Park. “I swear and shout and stamp my feet – well, I used to, but I stopped doing that because it doesn’t work.”
  
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• Edmonton Symphony’s New Chief Conductor Is A 24-Year-Old Former Child Prodigy

  28-10-2016 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When he was 13, Alexander Prior wrote a ballet score commissioned by the Moscow State Ballet; when he was 17, he finished a conducting degree at the St. Petersburg Conservatory; he speaks six languages. Now, he’ll take over the baton in Alberta’s capital from William Eddins at the beginning of next season.
  
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• Morning Links: Mary Boone Speaks Out Against Alec Baldwin Edition

  28-10-2016 14:38 via artnews.com
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• Is It A Farmers’ Market? A Train Station? No, It’s Berlin’s Next Museum

  28-10-2016 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron has won a competition to build a new museum of 20th-century art in central Berlin with a long, low red-brick design that invited comparisons to a rail station, a barn, a temple and an indoor market.”
  
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• Here’s How To Get Boys Interested In Ballet (From A Star Dancer Who Grew Up In A Maryland Slum)

  28-10-2016 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I found the best way to engage with these kids was to see if they could jump higher than me, run faster than me – physicality is what stimulated them. … Kids are required to take PE, so they could be encouraged to consider dance, too. The way in would be through dance generally, and now would be a good time for this, as hip-hop and ballroom clearly have a following.” An essay by Royal Ballet soloist Eric Underwood.
  
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• Centre Pompidou to stage show on the celebrated 20th-century dealer Paul Rosenberg

  28-10-2016 14:15
  
  An exhibition about the influential art dealer Paul Rosenberg (1881-1959), which is currently on show in Lige in Belgium, will not travel to the Centre Pompidou in Paris next year as planned but will open at the Muse Maillol instead in the capital (March-July 2017). The current exhibition at La Boverie (until 29 January 2017), entitled 21 rue la Botie, features paintings that passed through Rosenbergs hands, with 63 works on show by artists such as Matisse, Braque and Picasso.
   
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• Susan Graham To The Rescue At Lyric Opera Of Chicago

  28-10-2016 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Talk about a casting coup … Sophie Koch was going to sing Didon in Lyric’s new production of Berlioz’s Les Troyens, which opens in a bit more than two weeks, but she just pulled out for personal reasons. And who should happen to be available but the world’s reigning singer of the role?
  
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• Chicago Symphony Had Record Ticket Sales Last Season, But Still Ran A Deficit

  28-10-2016 13:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Single-ticket sales, and overall box office were at all-time highs, contributions were up, subscription renewals were at 90% – and still the budget gap just hasn’t closed yet.
  
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• Making Dance For Dancers Over 60

  28-10-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The company manager of England’s DANCE SIX-0 writes about how the project started, the needs it’s fulfilling, and its activities from full-fledged public performance to dance for dementia patients.
  
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• Behind the facade: how James Ensor mastered the art of the macabre

  28-10-2016 13:00
  
  Opinionated yet solitary, James Ensor made use of disguises in life as he did in his pioneering paintings. A new show at the Royal Academy unmasks Belgium’s master of darknessIn 1888 the still-young James Ensor etched a self-portrait “in the year 1960”. Accompanied by an outsize spider (Ensor hated spiders), the 100-year-old artist’s skeleton lounges casually on a divan, the skull sprouting remnants of his thick, curly hair. As so often with this playful master of the mac
  
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• Carel Fabritius’s The Goldfinch: an unravelling illusion

  28-10-2016 11:59
  
  The Delft School artist’s meta bird painting from 1654 found superstardom thanks to a 19th century critic – and Donna TarttThis little bird is one of art history’s superstars, thanks to Théophile Thoré-Bürger, a 19th-century critic whose writing cemented the posthumous rep of its painter Carel Fabritius and fellow Delft School artist Vermeer. Most, however, will know it from Donna Tartt’s best-seller, though for much of the novel the painting is under w
  
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• National Gallery director says $30m Matisse portrait 'not Nazi-looted art'

  28-10-2016 11:21
  
  The National Gallery in London is vigorously contesting a legal claim in a New York court over ownership of Matisses Portrait of Greta Moll (1908). The heirs of the sitter argue that the painting was misappropriated in the aftermath of the Nazi period.Gabriele Finaldi, the gallerys director, tells The Art Newspaper that it is not a Nazi-looted art case, since the Matisse remained in Molls possession until 1947. He points out that the UKs Spoliation Advisory Panel was unable to consider the case
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.27.16

  28-10-2016 10:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Viewpoint diversity
  In a guest blog at Scientific American, social psychologist Clay Routledge asks whether American (and presumably this applies to other countries) universities allot an excessive amount of attention to racial, gender, and cultural diversity, but insufficient attention to viewpoint diversity. … read more
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• Untitled(i didn’t want to use the language i use to think. )

  28-10-2016 06:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i was looking to see if i could feel me. i was inside my new home. i saw what looked like a frame. i didn’t want to  use the language i use to think. i thought in dutch. i feel in dutch. i speak the dutch words: vader(father) moeder(mother) ik heb honger(i’m hungry) donker(darkness) nacht(night)gevaar(danger) vuur(fire) tanden(teeth) toestandt(situation)oorlog(war).i thought about the sexually questionable. i thought it better not to cross lines when i was waiting for myself to
  
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• Amid growing censorship, international culture chiefs gather in Moscow to discuss soft power

  28-10-2016 04:50
  
  Just as Russia became even more isolated on the world stage over the countrys military actions in Syria, top culture officials from two dozen cities around the world gathered in Moscow earlier this month to discuss culture development as a driver for social progress.
  The World Cities Culture Forum Summit (5-7 October) was hosted by the City of Moscows Department of Culture. Participants included Justine Simons, London's deputy mayor for culture and creative industries, who is a co-founder and c
  
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• Untitled( she finds thoughts to torture herself with sometimes because she’s angry at the unforeseen thoughts that hurt her. )

  28-10-2016 01:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  there are two obese black men, one indian man and one slender black man.they are still talking in a circle about the youth they are going to save and the money they are going to get for the program. who knows how many countless they have helped and ignored.there are young black men and women drop outs. they are collared and chased down with warrants. they don’t stand a chance. if they do one thing wrong they are placed in jail.my head is in two places. this is what is unnerving. i don&rsqu
  
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• Untitled(they all have been in marriages where they have been starved by cold and demanding husbands. )

  28-10-2016 01:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  this young skinny white dude has thin wrists and a shaved head. he’s back. he was here earlier. he’s very young and unemployed. there is something unusual andgross about him. i would like to get to know him. there’s a chance i will. i’ve seen him on occasions. he got into a sinister cheap black vehicle earlier. he smokes. he has a cigarette in his left ear. i hope amanda doesn’t sue me for writing about her. her parents shamed her when they raised her. it’s pr
  
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• Untitled(no one believes me, alexis said. no one believes that i’m psychic. i believe you, i said.)

  28-10-2016 01:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  alexis wants to meet me for coffee. she spent the two hundred dollars i gave her two days ago. she wants more. i’m thinking i can give her an errand. i have things i have to mail. she could do it.she said she was on her way twenty minutes ago.she wants money from me. she doesn’t want to do anything for it, much less to be punctual.here she is.alexis is wearing black sneakers and black panty hose. she has her hair in braids. she doesn’t look like how she looked two years ago. sh
  
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• ‘We Call It Ludwig’ at Museum Ludwig, Cologne

  28-10-2016 00:40 via artnews.com
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