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• Untited(when the wings of the paper flutter he yells obscenities at fascists and corrupt conservatives.)

  17-11-2016 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  mavis and i both don’t know if we want to see each other this evening.mavis wants to protest with black women not upper class whites.mavis texted to see if i still want to see her. she’s unsure about seeing me. i think she thinks it would be easier to go home, eat dinner, and go to bed even though she will feel insecure and lonely and bored before she goes to sleep.i didn’t have sex with mavis but i was able to sleep in her bed.i love mavis more than ever. is that because i did
  
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• Here Is the 2017 Whitney Biennial List!

  17-11-2016 23:25 via artnews.com
  The Whitney has released the list of artists who have been chosen to participate in the 2017 Whitney Biennial. It will be the first biennial to take place in the museum’s new building in the Meatpacking District. In a statement … Read More
  
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• OMG – All These Famous Actors On Broadway! So Why Are The Shows So Profoundly Lacking In Creativity?

  17-11-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Everywhere you turn there’s a stage luminary. (Look, there’s Robert Morse!) All these familiar faces provide a welcome distraction from the reality that this three-act farce (performed with two intermissions) is a big snore.”
  
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• ‘The Ulm Model’ at Raven Row, London

  17-11-2016 22:48 via artnews.com
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• Casey Fremont Takes Over Leadership of Art Production Fund

  17-11-2016 22:36 via artnews.com
  Today, the Art Production Fund announced that its executive director, Casey Fremont, will assume full management of the non-profit, effective immediately. In her new role, Fremont takes on the day-to-day management duties previously held by APF co-founders Yvonne Force Villareal and … Read More
  
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• Casey Fremont Takes Over Full Management of Art Production Fund

  17-11-2016 22:36 via artnews.com
  Today, the Art Production Fund announced that its executive director, Casey Fremont, will assume a full management role of the non-profit, effective immediately. In her new role, Fremont takes on the day-to-day management duties previously held by APF co-founders Yvonne Force … Read More
  
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• Anti-Establishment Outsiderism? Our Popular Culture Gives Us A Steady Stream Of It

  17-11-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They are dark and bleak and often end in death. Some double as articulations of the political exceptionalism of ordinariness itself. Most, though, do something more basic, and more pessimistic: They assume the fundamental dirtiness of politics, and the related idea that any hope we’ll have of purifying the system must come from outside of it. They leave very little room for optimism about the hulking beast that is “the establishment,” very little room for hope that the s
  
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• This Idea Of Progress? It’s A Fairly New One (And Shouldn’t Be Taken For Granted)

  17-11-2016 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Why might people in the past have been hesitant to embrace the idea of progress? The main argument against it was that it implies a disrespect of previous generations. As the historian Carl Becker noted in a classic work written in the early 1930s, “a Philosopher could not grasp the modern idea of progress … until he was willing to abandon ancestor worship, until he analyzed away his inferiority complex toward the past, and realized that his own generation was superior to any yet kn
  
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• How Big Was Leonard Cohen’s Impact On Popular Music? Even Bigger Than You Thought

  17-11-2016 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Scott Timberg follows the trail, from Cohen’s discovery by Judy Collins and then Fairport Convention through Gen X grunge and alt-rock up to today.
  
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• Whitney Biennial artist list announced

  17-11-2016 22:00
  
  New York's Whitney Museum, which opens its biennial exhibition next year for the first time in its new downtown building after a three-year hiatus, has released the list of artists that will be included. Among the 63 participants selected by the curators Christopher Lew (who is based at the Whitney) and Mia Locks (who works independently) are established artists like the Americans Jo Baer and Larry Bell, international collectives like the Gulf-based GCC and young New York artists like Torey Tho
  
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• New fine art and antiques fair to launch in Paris next November

  17-11-2016 22:00
  
  A new art fair is due to launch in Paris late next year at the Palais Brongniart focusing on decorative art dating from the 16th century to today. The fair, called Fine Arts Paris, is co-founded by the Paris-based dealer Louis de Bayser. It will include around 35 French and international dealers, and is scheduled to run from 7-12 November according to our sister paper Le Journal des Arts.But the move has prompted criticism from Dominique Chevalier, the president of the Syndicat National des Ant
  
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• House of Voltaire pops up for business on Cork Street

  17-11-2016 22:00
  
  Roll up, roll up! The day the Regent Street Christmas lights were switched on (18 November) also marked the return of crucible Studio Voltaires biennial fundraising, goodie-purveying, pop-up shop, House of Voltaire. This year it has come to rest in Alan Cristeas former space at 31 Cork Street (until 18 December).
  Sleeves were rolled-up and pinnies and overalls donned as some of the big names of London art worldthe patron Valeria Napoleone, the Frieze director Victoria Siddall and the artist Pab
  
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• Ballet, from the Bauhaus to New Jersey

  17-11-2016 22:00
  
  The Bauhaus artist, designer and choreographer Oskar Schlemmers Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet), a three-act avant-garde anti-dance performance which dbuted in Stuttgart in 1922, has been given a 21st-century makeover in a new performance, Virtually There, to be presented to the public at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey on 21 and 22 November. Virtually There swaps the Triadic Ballets exploration of machine culture for a look at how new media has changed contemporary society, b
  
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• Ames collection helps Sotheby’s bring strong result in contemporary art auction

  17-11-2016 22:00
  Sotheby's concluded the New York autumn auction season with a strong contemporary art sale that saw successes for stalwarts and newcomers alike. Six works by Gerhard Richter from the Steven and Ann Ames collectionwhich represented the first 25 lots, all of them guaranteedbrought in a total of $63.3m at hammer, led by the perfectly composed A.B., Still (1986), which hammered for its high estimate of $30m after a protracted battle by three phone bidders.The first lot after the Ames collection was
  
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• A uniquely powerful force: Kenneth Baker on Bruce Conner at SFMoMA

  17-11-2016 22:00
  
  Seeing Bruce Conner's career survey, It's All True, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art brought back to me the sense of urgency, relentlessness and wry confrontation that I experienced 16 years ago when I interviewed Conner, who died in 2008.
  He and I had met in passing a few times on the San Francisco art scene, but never had an occasion for sustained conversation until the approach of his earlier retrospective, 2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story, Part II, at San Francisco's De Young Museum
  
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• Monster Mash: MoMA’s Retrospective of the Shape-Shifting Provocateur Francis Picabia Is One of the Best Shows of the Year

  17-11-2016 21:48 via artnews.com
  The history books have always favored artists who are dependable, who show up on the scene at just the right moment, ready to do their thing, and then do it. It is easy to picture Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Georgia … Read More
  
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• Helen Marten Wins 2016 Hepworth Prize for Sculpture

  17-11-2016 21:34 via artnews.com
  The Hepworth Wakefield museum in England announced today that Helen Marten has won its 2016 Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. Given to a British sculptor, the biennial award, which was bestowed for the first time this year, comes with £30,000, or about … Read More
  
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• In The Time Of Trump, The Arts Might Actually Flourish

  17-11-2016 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The United States may be entering a time of great conservative reactionism, but it will be also, due to its unique traditions, a place of unfettered expression. This is a state whose extreme conservatives – unlike those anywhere else – value free speech above almost any other right. So banning expression of any kind is not going to be possible, even under the most troglodytic of Trumpian administrations. The protest art will flourish.”
  
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• At the Whitney Art Party, Revelers Experience Virtual Reality, Reality, and a Cozy Igloo

  17-11-2016 21:20 via artnews.com
  Detective Acevedo put her hand on the small of my back and led me down a dimly lit, utilitarian hallway that could have been a middle school corridor, but which is, in fact, located within the New York Police Department’s … Read More
  
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• China In The Years Before Mao, Where They Were Slingin’ The Jokes Left And Right

  17-11-2016 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “China in the early 20th century, my book’s focus,” says historian Christopher Rea (whose book, says the Times, is “hilarious”), “was, to put it mildly, a rough and tumble place. But it fostered a whole industry of mirth populated with cultural figures from hack jokesters to respectable writers slumming it as humorists.”
  
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• Pianist Lara Downes On How The Role Of The Artist Has Suddenly Changed

  17-11-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’m glad I got up and went to work on Wednesday morning. This job of mine—it’s changed now. I’m a performer, and in hard times, this job gets harder. I make music when the nation mourns, and my music can sound like hope. I can find a quiet smile even in my sadness. I can help people find their dreams and their promise. This is my job now.”
  
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• Sewell’s "beautiful and refined" gift to the National Gallery

  17-11-2016 20:24
  
  The acerbic, influential late art critic Brian Sewell loved the National Gallery in London, and often visited the hallowed institution as a child. Im leaving my body to science, and if theres anything left, they can burn it, mix the ashes with bird food and scatter them on the steps of the National Gallery, he told the Mail on Sunday in 2014. The Evening Standard writer has bequeathed a small painting by the French artist Louis-Jean-Franois Lagrene, Maternal Affection (1773), to the gallery whic
  
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• Helen Marten wins Hepworth prize for sculpture

  17-11-2016 20:23
  
  Artist applauded for recent Serpentine show receives inaugural award at Hepworth Wakefield galleryHelen Marten, considered one of the most exciting British artists of her generation, has won the inaugural Hepworth prize for sculpture.The award, presented at a ceremony in Wakefield on Thursday, comes in what is proving to be quite a year for the 31-year-old artist. Her show at the Serpentine in London has attracted much critical praise and she is one of four artists in the running for this year&r
  
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• Helen Marten wins first Hepworth sculpture prize

  17-11-2016 20:17
  Materials include carved polystyrene, masonry nails, air fresheners and mobile phones
  
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• Frank Gehry, Maya Lin among Recipients of Presidential Medal of Freedom

  17-11-2016 20:16 via artnews.com
  Yesterday President Barack Obama announced 21 new recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It is a wide-ranging list that includes not just the artist and designer Maya Lin and the architect Frank Gehry, but also Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Ellen Degeneres, … Read More
  
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• Here Is the 2017 Outsider Art Fair Exhibitor List

  17-11-2016 20:12 via artnews.com
  The 25th Outsider Art Fair returns to the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York from January 19 through January 22. Eight first-time exhibitors join this year’s list of 60 galleries from 9 countries, showing work by self-taught artists from their respective … Read More
  
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• How Two Brothers Created And Spread The First Alphabet For A Language Spoken By 40 Million People

  17-11-2016 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For several centuries, people have tried to write Fulani – which is spoken across a huge swath of West Africa, from Senegal to Cameroon – with adaptations of the Arabic and Latin alphabets, neither of which can properly represent Fulani’s sounds; neither ever fully caught on. So Fulani remained mostly a spoken language, its speakers taking their school classes in French or English. In 1990, two Guinean teenagers developed a new script, and they’ve spent a quarter-century
  
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• Winners Of This Year’s National Book Awards

  17-11-2016 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Here’s a complete list of finalists and winners.
  
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• They Took Notes For Other People That They Found Lying Around And Made Them Into A Musical

  17-11-2016 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It all started when Davy Rothbart (you may remember him from This American Life – he’s the guy who scalped Chicago Bulls tickets and took his deaf mother to a faith healer in Brazil) found a note on his windshield that said, ‘Mario, I [bleeping] hate you. You said you had to work then whys your car HERE at HER place? You’re a [bleeping] LIAR[.] I hate you I [bleeping] hate you[.] Amber. p.s. page me later.”
  
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• Critical Juncture – The Role (And Reach) Of Critics Is Changing

  17-11-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Once, critics like Trilling, Sontag, and Kael commanded the attention of a large audience and were expected to shape and challenge a still roughly homogenous public opinion. Today, many critics struggle to find a unified culture to interpret and criticize and a public to address. As A.O. Scott insists, the critic’s role is “to disagree, to refuse to look at anything simply as what it is,” and yet in an age in which critics often are forced to set their sights on films like Ave
  
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• If You Let Someone Hypnotize You, Do You Give Up Control Of Yourself? No – Rather The Opposite

  17-11-2016 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Science writer Erik Vance gives a brief history of hypnotism (back to Dr. Mesmer and before), explains the neuroscience if hypnosis and what it can and can’t do, and recounts his own attempts to hypnotize a friend.
  
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• Get your hands on me: the show that literally touches its audience

  17-11-2016 17:51
  
  Audiences at The Touching Contract have to sign a form that lets performers touch them – in the manner of a child, a sick relative, a doctor and even a predatorWe are a doughty lot when it comes to physical contact with strangers. Routine city commutes can throw up various combinations of jabbed crotches, crushed breasts and armpits in the face. So the human tangle that participants find themselves placed in at the end of The Touching Contract feels a bit like the cramped journey to the sh
  
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• Arnold Mesches, Artist’s Artist Whose Work Incisively Examines History, Politics, and Spectacle Culture, Dies at 93

  17-11-2016 17:35 via artnews.com
  Arnold Mesches, who had long been known as an activist and artist’s artist, respected among critics and curators as well as fellow artists, died on November 5, at the age of 93. He was a political artist of the highest … Read More
  
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• Where Diversity Is Integral To The Art Form: Dance

  17-11-2016 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I came away thinking, One thing we can be proud of is that dancers from all over the world want to come to the United States. This is the country where they find themselves as artists.”
  
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• Art the antidote to political poison at Shanghai Biennale

  17-11-2016 17:16
  
  The optimism within a polarised world finds expression in the latest Shanghai Biennale, Chinas oldest and most influential, which opened on 11 November at the citys Power Station of Art (PSA).
  The Delhi-based curators Raqs Media Collective welded the unwieldy theme of Why Not Ask Again? Arguments, Counter-arguments and Stories with works by 92 artists and collectives from 40 countries into an intelligent, provocative show that explores the myriad layers revealed by the questioning of realities.
  
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• Classical And Pop Music Produce Different Responses In The Brain, Say Researchers

  17-11-2016 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The way they’re putting this may not go over so well with some folks, though: “‘This study gives clear neuronal evidence supporting the view that artistic music is of intelligence, while popular music is of physiology,’ writes a team of researchers led by Ping Huang of South China Normal University in Guangzhou.”
  
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• Dallas Museum of Art Acquires Sam Gilliam Painting

  17-11-2016 17:00 via artnews.com
  The Dallas Museum of Art announced today that it has acquired Sam Gilliam’s 1970 painting Leaf. The first work by Gilliam to enter the museum’s collection, the painting was acquired under the leadership of Agustín Arteaga, who started as director … Read More
  
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• If Anish Kapoor Won’t Let Anyone Else Use The Darkest Black, Then He Can’t Use The Hottest Pink

  17-11-2016 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Plenty of artists were furious when Kapoor negotiated exclusive rights to the new pigment Vantablack. Artist Stuart Semple did more than just complain: he’s created a super-fluorescent pink, and he’ll sell it to any and every artist but one.
  
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• Bob Dylan Won’t Be Going To Accept His Nobel – And Frankly, He’s Been A Jerk About The Entire Thing

  17-11-2016 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Megan Garber: “He’s a ‘screw the establishment’ kind of guy; ironically, that political position is what helped him to win the Nobel in the first place. … Noble! Philosophical! Wonderful! There’s another way to see things, though, which is that Bob Dylan has simply been acting, if you’ll allow me to put it very poetically, like an enormous man-baby, refusing to acknowledge his being awarded one of the most prestigious prizes in the world in a way that m
  
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• Two Miami City Ballet Stars Launch Their Own Company

  17-11-2016 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Former principals Jennifer Kronenberg and Carlos Guerra, who retired from MCB in the spring, have founded Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami, which makes its debut this weekend.
  
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• Xu Zhen—the brand

  17-11-2016 15:25
  
  The Chinese artist Xu Zhen has transformed the 320 sq. m space of his MadeIn Companys gallery in Shanghais West Bund into the Xu Zhen Store. Billed as the worlds first one-of-a-kind artwork store, it offered clothing, sunglasses, toys and furniture ranging from swastika panda dolls ($50) to sofas ($900). Naturally, the retail emporium was also decorated with Xus own works (until 12 December). The artist's website says (rather cryptically): "The store will redefine the cultural needs in the glob
  
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• A First? Scottish Ballet Plans An All-Digital Season

  17-11-2016 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The project, titled “Under the Skin,” is “said to be the first time a ballet company has curated a month-long programme of projects made for the format.”
  
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• ‘A Weaker Pittsburgh Symphony Or Weaker Philadelphia Orchestra Means A Weaker America,’ Says USA Today Op-Ed

  17-11-2016 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘American exceptionalism’ during the 20th century included the standing and stature of our symphony orchestras,” writes attorney and string player Jonathan Kaledin. “Taking American orchestra ‘exceptionalism’ further into the 21st century now requires a complete rethinking of the role our federal government plays in providing financial support for these institutions. … What does it say about us that our federal government spent $245 billion baili
  
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• Morning Links: Fernando Botero Edition

  17-11-2016 14:59 via artnews.com
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• A Monet Haystack Sells For $81.4 Million

  17-11-2016 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Monet did 25 paintings for his Meules (“Grainstacks”) series, and this one’s unusual coloring makes it one of the best. (It was also one of the few in private hands.)
  
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• Diageo reaches deal over ‘The Monarch of the Glen’

  17-11-2016 14:45
  Group agrees to part-gift artwork to National Galleries of Scotland after outcry
  
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• 1,900-Year-Old Mosaics Unearthed In Turkey

  17-11-2016 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The works were found by arhcaeologists excavating a series of 80 rock-hewn tombs in the city of Şanlıurfa. They appear to date from the first or second century CE, when the area was part of the kingdom of Edessa, the seat of Syriac culture.
  
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• From Brian Sewell, with love: tender gallery gift shows critic's softer side

  17-11-2016 14:26
  
  Cutting columnist leaves Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée’s Maternal Affection to his beloved National Gallery The late Brian Sewell, renowned as an acid-penned art critic, has left a tender painting to the National Gallery in London, a place he loved so much he once said he wanted to have his ashes mixed with bird food and scattered on its front steps.Maternal Affection, a glowing painting on copper by the French artist Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, has been hung b
  
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• De Niro, DeGeneres, Springsteen, Tyson, Hanks, Ross, Michaels, Gehry, And Lin Among Winners Of Obama’s Final Presidential Medals Of Freedom

  17-11-2016 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Which Tyson? Which Ross? Which Lin? (Not Jeremy. Michael Jordan and Kareem are on the list, though.) Who else is among the 21 honorees? Click and see.
  
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• The Year Of The African-American At A Somber 2016 National Book Awards

  17-11-2016 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Of the four prizes, three – for fiction, nonfiction, and young people’s literature – went to black writers; the winning books deal with slavery, racism, and the civil rights struggle. (Why was the event somber? You know why.)
  
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