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• Elmar Hess at WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin

  18-11-2016 23:16 via artnews.com
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• In Only Four Years, Tamara Rojo Has Completely Transformed The English National Ballet

  18-11-2016 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tamara Rojo “is the company’s marquee ballerina (along with a fellow Royal Ballet alum, Alina Cojocaru), somehow managing to keep up her technical form and artistry while acting as a one-woman visionary, manager, cheerleader and glamorous high-profile ad for her organization.”
  
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• What Might Donald Trump’s Attitude Toward The Arts Be? Who Knows?

  18-11-2016 22:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Though he has been front-and-center in public life for more than four decades in the country’s cultural capital, Mr. Trump has left a meager trail to suggest what positions he might take on public arts funding and arts education, along with issues like censorship and economic policies that would affect creative industries, not to mention how he and the first lady, Melania Trump, might decorate the White House.”
  
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• Francis Picabia, Art-World Jailer: Philip Pearlstein on ‘One of the Prime Movers of Modern Art,’ in 1970

  18-11-2016 22:04 via artnews.com
  With the Museum of Modern Art in New York preparing to open a much-anticipated Francis Picabia retrospective on Monday, we turn back to the September 1970 issue of ARTnews, in which Philip Pearlstein wrote an essay about the artist. The … Read More
  
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• Uh-Oh – As Cities Replace Bridge Lighting With LEDs, They’re Adding Sparkle

  18-11-2016 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As cities, counties, and states update outdated bridges, upgrading their lighting systems to LEDs is inevitable. With that move comes the opportunity to throw in some low-cost civic razzle-dazzle.”
  
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• Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Nickol Hackett Join MCA Chicago Board of Trustees

  18-11-2016 21:35 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago announced today that Dimitris Daskalopoulos and Nickol Hackett joined its board of trustees on October 31. Daskalopoulos, an ARTnews Top 200 collector, is the founder and member of the board of the Greek investments … Read More
  
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• Post-Election Is There Still An Art Market? Duh – Of Course…

  18-11-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When the election happened we didn’t know what to expect. But the week has ended on a high with the Monet and Phillips moving up a level and now this. There is still a market.”
  
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• So Maybe The Future Of Books Is Not The Printed Page?

  18-11-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The number of audiobook titles increased by nearly 400 percent between 2011 and 2015. E-books, by comparison, are down in 2016, as are adult hardcovers (i.e., printed books from commercial publishers, not including religious or university press titles). Which prompts the question: Do these statistics herald audio as the preferred reading format of the future?”
  
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• At Long Last, David Oyelowo Takes On Othello

  18-11-2016 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s the one Shakespearean lead that he resisted for years – “I don’t want to do anything that feels pedestrian or obvious,” he said. Now he’s finally playing the role – Off-Broadway, opposite Daniel Craig – and here he talks about why. (For one thing, the producer spent two years wooing him.)
  
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• China Starts Exporting Orchestras To The Rest Of The World

  18-11-2016 19:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Once, classical music generally travelled from the West to the rest. Now China is reversing the exchange, not merely performing Western classical music in China, but exporting it.”
  
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• ‘Human Energy Alone Is a Work of Art’: Nancy Spector on the Role of Artists in Society

  18-11-2016 19:18 via artnews.com
  On Tuesday night, in Manhattan, the Onassis Cultural Center hosted its second annual symposium, titled “The Role of the Artist in Society,” and given recent political events, it was no surprise that the talk quickly turned to how artists can create … Read More
  
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• The Grandfather Of The Information Age (He Died 300 Years Ago This Week)

  18-11-2016 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Before Alan Turing, before Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, there was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who developed the binary number system and the first mechanical calculators – and who envisioned artificial intelligence and even data overload.
  
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• A Cleveland-Area Funder Of Artists Changes Its Criteria And Artists Wonder Why

  18-11-2016 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Why switch from a program that emphasized the quality of the artist’s work to one that emphasizes the degree to which the artist “makes change” in his or her community?
  
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• Extra Money Really Is Not The Best Way To Motivate People

  18-11-2016 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jessica Gross talks to Dan Ariely, Mr. Behavioral Economics, who explains just what behavioral economics is (it’s the way to leave behind “Assume x“) and why bonuses just aren’t such a good idea.
  
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• The transgender body in art: finding visibility 'in difficult times like these'

  18-11-2016 17:58
  
  Amid bigotry and intimidation, transgender artists create images to empower their communities and normalize the myriad complexities of their experiencesCaptain Wright, one of the subjects in transgender artist Ria Brodell’s paintings, lived until his death in 1834 with Mrs Wright and an abundance of rabbits. They were “respectable gentlefolks”, according to Brodell’s extensive research. When Captain Wright died, his neighbors were astonished to learn that he had a body th
  
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• Was wild Mapplethorpe just another guy with a camera?

  18-11-2016 17:43
  
  Juergen Teller’s selection of Robert Mapplethorpe shots restores the shock. But some of these pairings are more Carry On than cool still lifeI like taking photographs. I am actually starting to love taking them. I like looking at photographs, too, and sharing them. But I still can’t quite take photography seriously as art. When I walk into a gallery where photographs are the only thing on the wall, my heart sinks. Normally at an exhibition, I am the person looking longest, staring ha
  
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• We’re Classical Musicians. Where Do We Fit In The Trump Era?

  18-11-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We might wish for music to be universal and transcendent on its own. But this wish can backfire, trapping us in apolitical grooves that serve the powers that be. We want to avoid using music as only a means of escapism, to go beyond catharsis and towards a way of engaging, as artists, in the discussion about where we go from here.”
  
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• Grim Presidential Pool Report References Edward Hopper, Norman Mailer

  18-11-2016 17:12 via artnews.com
  With the President-Elect’s administration filling up with Islamophobes and white nationalists, I’m looking for laughs where I can find them these days. And, bless it, the presidential pool report from Berlin, where President Barack Obama just visited with world leaders, got the … Read More
  
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• How The Sounds Of Nature – All Cleaned Up – Became Major Commodities In The Record Industry

  18-11-2016 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A man named Irv Teibel took the idea of musique concrète – which is, after all, what recordings of outdoor sounds are – and hustled it into a commercial relaxation-aid that fit perfectly with the America of the late ’60s and ’70s.
  
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• The drama of Dayanita Singh’s art

  18-11-2016 16:38
  The photographer vividly documents the world of work
  
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• The Art Market: Monet up, Hirst down, Bowie magic

  18-11-2016 16:38
  Sobering year-on-year auction totals; Bowie bonanza; mature artists to the fore; brisk business in Shanghai
  
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• Snapshot: ‘Zofia Rydet: Record, 1978-1990’

  18-11-2016 16:38
  The series captures individuals at rest among their homes, documenting their interiors in meticulous detail
  
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• The Story Of The Casio And ‘The Tinny Electronic Music Revolution It Fostered’

  18-11-2016 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the late 1970s, a man who had changed the business world by turning massive calculators into handheld devices decided that he wanted to scratch another itch. And with that itch scratched, he introduced a world of creativity to bedroom warriors around the country – a set of training wheels to the musically inclined.”
  
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• Artist turns Whitney work upside down after election

  18-11-2016 16:23
  
  The day after the US presidential election on 8 November, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York received an unorthodox request from the artist Annette Lemieux. She asked if curators might be willing to turn her installation, Left Right Left Right (1995)which had been on show there since Aprilupside down. Less than a week later, they did.
  It was an impulse, Lemieux says. I was looking at the image right side up and it felt somehow wrong, because I, like many people, felt defeated. The w
  
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• New York artist Adam Pendleton gets political in Zurich

  18-11-2016 16:19
  
  Midnight in America, an exhibition of new works by Adam Pendleton, which opens tomorrow at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich (19 November-21 January), is a direct response to the political situation in the US, the artist says.The title is a riff, Pendleton says, on former president Ronald Reagans 1984 Morning in America campaign. It also echoes what Hilary Clinton said of Donald Trump on accepting her nomination as the Democrat candidate: Hes taken the Republican Party a long way, from Morning
  
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• Why Did Maui The Demigod In ‘Moana’ Get So Enormous? Is This An Ugly Polynesian Stereotype? Not At All, Say The Creators

  18-11-2016 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Disney’s animators – who took a lot of care to consult Hawaiians, Samoans and other Polynesians while developing the film – explain how the character got to look the way he did over a five-year process.
  
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• How to Fix the Art World, Part 1

  18-11-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  Back in August my staff and I embarked on an epic project: we wanted to know what inhabitants of the art world think is wrong with it and how they would fix it. In the ensuing months we spoke with … Read More
  
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• Revered Landscape Architect Diana Balmori Dead At 84

  18-11-2016 15:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  New Yorkers will recognize her floating island of water-filtering plants in the Gowanus Canal (Brooklyn’s own Superfund site) and the palm-filled Winter Garden in the former World Financial Center (currently Brookfield Place). But among her greatest projects are the reclamation of an old industrial area in Bilbao and the landscape plans (which were integrated from the start with the built architecture) of South Korea’s new administrative capital, Sejong City.
  
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• How ‘The Christians’ Ended Up At America’s Leading Jewish Theater Company

  18-11-2016 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Washington, DC’s Theater J has gone through more than a little turmoil over what it has presented in recent years; even so, it’s not where you’d expect to see Lucas Hnath’s play about a conflicted megachurch. Adam Immerwahr, the company’s (new-ish) artistic director, explains why he’s producing The Christians and how he’s made over DC’s Jewish Community Center into a megachurch.
  
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• 2,800-Year-Old Egyptian Sarcophagus, In Excellent Condition, Unearthed At Luxor

  18-11-2016 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sarcophagi are much more than simple containers for the departed, and the pictorial script on this one records that it belonged to a man named Amenrenef, who once served as a royal court advisor.”
  
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• Oxford’s Word Of The Year For 2016 Is Way Too Apt For Comfort

  18-11-2016 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Collins Dictionaries’ choice was Brexit. Their Oxonian colleagues didn’t opt for Brexit or for any variation on Trump; what they did choose is all too relevant to both.
  
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• Morning Links: The Anselm Kiefer Show Must Go On Edition

  18-11-2016 15:02 via artnews.com
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• What Constitutes Success In The Arts In The 21st Century?

  18-11-2016 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After leading with a set of disheartening statistics – culminating is the estimate that, even for the few that make a full-time living from their work, only about 20% of their time goes into the actual making of art – writer Alexis Clements spoke with four artists about better ways to define success than money earned or not needing to have a day job.
  
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• Sensuality, apocalypse and map-making – the week in art

  18-11-2016 14:33
  
  Colossal new Anselm Kiefer works arrive in London, while Juergen Teller curates the work of Robert Mapplethorpe – plus the rest of the week’s art happeningsAnselm Kiefer
  The most powerful artist of our time unveils colossal new paintings about mortality and the end of the world.
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• Nacho Duato, After Berlin Misadventure, Says He Will Not Direct Another Dance Company

  18-11-2016 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Spanish choreographer, who earned worldwide renown at the helm of the Compañía Nacional de Danza in Madrid, has not had an easy time of it at the Staatsballett Berlin – which announced in September, three years ahead of time, that his contract would not be renewed. Back in Madrid for a gala, Duato explains what he’ll do instead. (in Spanish; Google Translate version here)
  
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• Hepworth sculpture prize winner vows to share £30,000 award

  18-11-2016 14:31
  
  Helen Marten says she will split her winnings with the three other nominees as ‘hierarchical position of art prizes is flawed’The winner of the inaugural Hepworth prize for sculpture has pledged to share the £30,000 award with her fellow nominees.Helen Marten, who is also nominated for December’s Turner prize, picked up the biennial award on Thursday at the Hepworth Wakefield gallery, where she told guests about her plan to split it with the Phyllida Barlow, Steven Claydo
  
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• NY Phil’s $200K Composer Prize Goes To Louis Andriessen

  18-11-2016 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 77-year-old Dutchman, whose influence on contemporary music in the U.S. has been great, is the third winner of the Philharmonic’s Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music, which also includes a commission for a new orchestral work.
  
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• A National Museum Reopens After 72 Years – With A Religious Kerfuffle, In One Of Europe’s Least Religious Countries

  18-11-2016 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At issue is a digital artwork showing an image of the Virgin Mary: press a button and it shatters. (The artist says the piece is about iconoclasm.)
  
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• Milt Okun, Record Producer Who Crossed Folk With Pop And Changed The Record Industry, Dead At 92

  18-11-2016 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He produced and promoted everyone from Peter, Paul and Mary through Laura Nyro and John Denver (and Plácido Domingo – Okun was the man behind their duet) to the Black-Eyed Peas and will.i.am.
  
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• Merce Cunningham Trust Names New Executive Director

  18-11-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ken Tabachnick, who began his career as a lighting designer, is currently a consultant and has previously worked as Deputy Dean at NYU’s Tisch School, dean of the School of the Arts at SUNY-Purchase and General Manager of New York City Ballet.
  
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• Turner Prize nominee Helen Marten wins inaugural Hepworth Sculpture Prize of £30,000

  18-11-2016 13:22
  
  Helen Marten has won the first Hepworth Sculpture Prize of 30,000, which was announced yesterday evening (17 November) at the Hepworth Wakefield museum in West Yorkshire. The young artist was selected for the award from a shortlist including Phyllida Barlow, Steven Claydon and David Medalla.There are so many thanks to be said for so many people. Steve [Claydon], Phyllida [Barlow], David [Medalla], its an absolute honour to be shown alongside you, said Marten as she took the stage to accept the
  
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• Turner Prize nominee Helen Marten wins inaugural £30,000 Hepworth Prize for Sculpture

  18-11-2016 13:22
  
  Helen Marten has won the first Hepworth Prize for Sculpture of 30,000, which was announced yesterday evening (17 November) at the Hepworth Wakefield museum in West Yorkshire. The young artist was selected for the award from a shortlist including Phyllida Barlow, Steven Claydon and David Medalla.There are so many thanks to be said for so many people. Steve [Claydon], Phyllida [Barlow], David [Medalla], its an absolute honour to be shown alongside you, said Marten as she took the stage to accept
  
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• Painting matching fresco that became 'Monkey Christ' resurfaces

  18-11-2016 13:05
  
  Woman whose restoration attempt went badly awry may attend unveiling of Elías García Martínez painting in ZaragozaFour years ago, 81-year-old Cecilia Giménez noticed that the fresco of a scourged Christ that adorned the wall of the Santuario de la Misericordia in the Spanish city of Borja was looking a little tired, and she decided to do something about it.
  Her decision to reach for her paintbrushes was well intentioned but spectacularly misguided. Giménez&rsqu
  
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• Beijing museum says Anselm Kiefer exhibition will go ahead despite artist’s protest

  18-11-2016 12:40
  
  Beijings Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum has issued a statement saying it will open its exhibition Anselm Kiefer in China as planned tomorrow (19 November), against the artists protests that the exhibition was organised without his consent. The statement places responsibility for communication with Kiefer upon the German organisers, the Bell Art Center and the Ludwig Museum Koblenz, and says that the Chinese institution is within its legal rights to stage the show. The dispute has meanw
  
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• Nigel offers Donald the head of Churchill

  18-11-2016 12:24
  
  A few days ago, President-elect Donald Trump enthusiastically took up the suggestion of Nigel Farage, the UK Independence Party acting leader, that Jacob Epsteins bust of Churchill (1947) should be reinstated in the Oval Office, where it had pride of place under George W. Bush. The only problem is that it does not belong to the White House, but to the UKs Government Art Collection. When The Art Newspaper asked whether it would be available for loan, a Department for Culture, Media and
  
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• Eikoh Hosoe’s Ordeal By Roses #29: morbid sexuality writ large

  18-11-2016 11:59
  
  The photographer layers times and cultures in this tribute to the dark prince of Japanese literatureThis image from the major Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe’s breakout 1962 photobook Ordeal By Roses superimposes times and cultures. The backdrop is a painting of art history’s ultimate gay pin-up, Saint Sebastian, his head and body surreally ornamented by a baroque clock. The actual subject however can be found between the saint’s legs: the dark prince of Japanese literature,
  
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• Robert Rauschenberg: in the gap between art and life

  18-11-2016 11:57
  The US artist was one of life’s great collaborators, working with music, choreography and every kind of media. Five artists share what he means to them
  
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• Sotheby’s Contemporary Sale Totals $276.6 M., Anchored by $34 M. Richter From the Ames Collection

  18-11-2016 06:32 via artnews.com
  New records were set for David Hockney, at $11.7 million, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby, at $1.09 million Read More
  
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• Tehran museum hosts exhibition of modern Arab art

  18-11-2016 05:00
  
  Paintings by Arab artists are displayed alongside works by Iranians, underlining cultural bond despite political tensionsTehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting an exhibition of modern Arab art from countries including Saudi Arabia and the UAE, underlining a regional cultural bond that has thrived despite the simmering tensions between Iran and its Arab neighbours.TMoCA, which has the finest collection of modern western art anywhere outside Europe and the US, boasting works by the l
  
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• Subsidizing Arts Tickets Hasn’t Succeeded In Broadening The Arts Audience. So Maybe Something Different?

  18-11-2016 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The uncanny similarities between this year’s Culture White Paper and its 1965 ancestor (along with the Warwick Commission and much other research) show that this hasn’t really produced an arts sector that enfranchises everyone, despite the best intentions of policymakers. Countless initiatives (and millions of pounds) have been spent trying to shift the demographic profile of arts audiences and workers in the sector. They have remained stubbornly white and well-off.”
  
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