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• Listening To Artists, National Arts Strategies Pulls Out Of Cleveland Area Arts Fellows Program

  07-12-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Artists objected to the fact that the NAS Creative Community Fellows program would have emphasized community engagement–which they view as the province of outreach programs administered by nonprofit organizations. It also placed substantial emphasis on training for more community engagement–an investment of time and energy many artists view as taking them away from the focus of their work. They note that the work itself is exhibited in galleries and featured in art walks and as
  
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• Kendell Geers to Kader Attia: Call Off Your Plagiarism Lawsuit

  07-12-2016 22:47 via artnews.com
  A war of words has broken out between two well-known artists over issues of intellectual property, artistic freedom, and censorship.Brussels-based South African artist Kendell Geers fired the opening salvo on Monday, publishing an open letter on Amateur d’art, the art blog of the … Read More
  
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• Hardly A Conflict At All - Beethoven Score Expert Who Cried Fake Smelled A Bargain

  07-12-2016 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Now it has emerged that one of the two experts who refused to authenticate the score later tried to persuade the owner of the piece to part with it for just €900 (£757), less than one per cent of the value put on it by the auction house."
  
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• Wim Delvoye’s poop and potato gun works to be shown at Museum Tinguely during Art Basel

  07-12-2016 22:06
  
  The Belgian artist Wim Delvoye is bringing weapons and faeces to the Museum Tinguely to Basel next year (14 June-1 January 2018). The exhibition, due to open during Art Basel, will present works from Delvoyes Cloaca and Spud Gun series, to be shown alongside Jean Tinguelys kinetic machine sculptures.
  The two new Spud Gun (2016) sculptures take their name from childrens toy guns that use potatoes as ammunition. Each work has this bricolage and boyish aspect and they actually shoot, Delvoye says.
  
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• Wim Delvoye’s poop and potato gun works to be shown at Basel’s Museum Tinguely

  07-12-2016 22:06
  
  The Belgian artist Wim Delvoye is bringing weapons and faeces to the Museum Tinguely to Basel next year (14 June-1 January 2018). The exhibition, due to open during Art Basel, will present works from Delvoyes Cloaca and Spud Gun series, to be shown alongside Jean Tinguelys kinetic machine sculptures.
  The two new Spud Gun (2016) sculptures take their name from childrens toy guns that use potatoes as ammunition. Each work has this bricolage and boyish aspect and they actually shoot, Delvoye says.
  
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• New Museum Adds Three to Board of Trustees

  07-12-2016 22:06 via artnews.com
  The New Museum in New York announced today that Isolde Brielmaier, Victoria Mikhelson, and Michael Xufu Huang have joined its board of trustees. The additions come as the museum plans its expansion into a neighboring building on the Bowery.All three new … Read More
  
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• Zaha Hadid’s dynamic paintings go on show in London

  07-12-2016 22:00
  
  Large-scale paintings by Zaha Hadid (1950-2016) as well as drawings and notebooks go on display today (8 December) in the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, which the late architect converted into an art space. The dramatic, visionary images of cities and buildings, include a student project for a hotel on a bridge over the river Thames, completed in the late 1970s while at Londons Architecture Association (AA). Inspired by Russian Constructivist designs for daring and unrealised building, Hadid used
  
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• Sydney Opera House roof gets special soundcheck

  07-12-2016 22:00
  
  One million brilliant white tiles clad the 65m-tall precast concrete roof of the 43-year-old Sydney Opera HouseJrn Utzons Modernist tour de force overlooking the Australian citys harbour. The glazed ceramic tiles need to be hand-checked, or tapped, every five years by specialist engineers, who abseil down the roof sails looking for changes in their sound or appearance. Now, thanks to the combined efforts of the opera house, the Getty Foundation, the University of Sydney and the engineering and d
  
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• Saudi artist joins Standing Rock protesters

  07-12-2016 22:00
  The Saudi Arabian artist Ahmed Mater travelled to North Dakota to join the Standing Rock protesters, who celebrated a win against the planned Dakota Access Pipeline being built through tribal lands. This Sunday, the US Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit to allow drilling under the Missouri river.
  
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• Opera house roof gets special soundcheck

  07-12-2016 22:00
  
  One million brilliant white tiles clad the 65m-tall precast concrete roof of the 43-year-old Sydney Opera HouseJrn Utzons Modernist tour de force overlooking the Australian citys harbour. The glazed ceramic tiles need to be hand-checked, or tapped, every five years by specialist engineers, who abseil down the roof sails looking for changes in their sound or appearance. Now, thanks to the combined efforts of the opera house, the Getty Foundation, the University of Sydney and the engineering and
  
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• Newly discovered Cubist painting sheds light on friendship between Picasso and Rivera

  07-12-2016 22:00
  
  Most art historians have dismissed the friendship between Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera as terribly short-lived. According to an account of their first meeting in Riveras autobiography, the Mexican artist went to Picassos studio in 1914 all keyed up, with feelings like those of a good Christian who expects to meet Our Lord, Jesus Christ. But before long, the crisis of faith occurred, with Rivera accusing Picasso of lifting elements from his masterpiece Zapatista Landscape (1915), and no shorta
  
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• How Big Data is set to change the art market

  07-12-2016 22:00
  
  In late October, Sothebys announced it had acquired the Mei Moses Art Indices, a database of repeat auction sales that tracks value over time; shortly after, Artnet said it had brought Tutela Capital, an analytics firm headed by Fabian Bocart, into its portfolio, which also includes a sizeable database of auction prices. Each company has different aims, but one thing is clear: data will play a key role in how theyand the art marketmove forward.
  Modernising operationsIn a 7 November call for inv
  
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• Occupy Museums Is Doing A Project About Artist Debt For Its Whitney Biennial Project

  07-12-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the U.S., we’re citizens of our debt,” the collective, which grew out of the Occupy Wall Street movement, told me. “Almost everyone has some kind of debt. If artists don’t organize around it, [the debt] is going to gobble us up.”
  
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• ‘Broken Flag’ at Iceberg Projects, Chicago

  07-12-2016 21:18 via artnews.com
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• Gorvy’s Departure Shakes Up Christie’s Amid a Changing Auction Landscape

  07-12-2016 21:11 via artnews.com
  Word leaked out this morning that Brett Gorvy, chairman and international head of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s—who ushered in an era of $179-million paintings, blockbuster curated sales, and clear dominance over Sotheby’s in contemporary art—is leaving the company after 23 … Read More
  
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• When 'Bibliomania' Was (Considered) A Real Illness

  07-12-2016 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Symptoms included a frenzy for culling and hunting down first editions, rare copies, books of certain sizes or printed on specific paper."
  
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• Hatching Ideas: A Superb Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Shows Jasper Johns Looking at Edvard Munch

  07-12-2016 20:52 via artnews.com
  In an age of prequels and sequels, the art of Jasper Johns fits right in. That’s one of the takeaways from “Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch: Inspiration and Transformation,” a compelling show currently on view at the Virginia Museum of … Read More
  
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• Tyler Cowen: Maybe Government Arts Policy Under Trump Might Get Better?

  07-12-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Whatever problems you might have with the idea of a Trump administration, it opens up the prospect of a real improvement in American arts policy."
  
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• New York artist gets green light to illuminate London's bridges

  07-12-2016 20:30
  
  Leo Villareal, who lit up the Bay Bridge in San Francisco to popular acclaim, will do the same to 17 bridges along the ThamesLeo Villareal, the New York artist behind the lighting up of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, has been chosen for a £20m project illuminating London’s 17 bridges.Villareal and the British architects and urban planners Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands won from a shortlist of six for what is one of the UK’s biggest ever public art commissions. Continue reading...
  
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• When Japan Went Mad For Art Deco

  07-12-2016 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the years between the 1925 Paris Exhibition (where the stye became famous) and World War II, Art Deco became as popular in Japan as it did in any other prosperous country. "The cultural hybridity was, in a way, a reversal of the one that emerged in Western Europe in the late-19th century, when Japonism swept through the region, captivating the Impressionists in particular."
  
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• The Ghostwriter's Dark Arts

  07-12-2016 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  "She went from sort of daffy and inattentive to intimately involved with her client’s world. Her head cocked, her timbre lowered, and she understood everything. A client could have sat down and told her they were going to murder their parents and she would have said, “Well, they have been very mean to you.” With her, the clients felt heard. They’d open up their lives, reveal deeply buried trauma. She was a truly fantastic interviewer."
  
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• The American Sarah Bernhardt - Her Favorite Role Was A Barnyard Chicken

  07-12-2016 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  A century ago, Maude Adams was such a renowned actress that one critic described her as "the most popular person in the United States." Peter Pan was the role that made her a superstar, and she was also famous for her Napoleon II. Yet the play she loved most was an adaptation of the old fable of Chanticleer.
  
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• Conventional Wisdom Is That Orchestra Subscriptions Are Dead. But Are They?

  07-12-2016 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  "One positive story the classical music field has to tell is a multi-tiered membership approach developed by The Cleveland Orchestra. Instead of building a one-size fits all membership program, the Cleveland Orchestra team identified distinct audience segments that fell through the cracks of their existing loyalty programs. Then, they went about crafting a targeted membership initiative for each of those groups: college students, young professionals, and “gap audiences” that hadn&rsq
  
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• How 'Crash' Got Made Against The Odds And Won The Best Picture Oscar Against Even Bigger Odds: An Oral History

  07-12-2016 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  These folks don't think they beat Brokeback Mountain because of Academy voters' homophobia (or at least skittishness). But they made the movie, so they would say that, wouldn't they? Even so, they have quite a story to tell.
  
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• A Lot Of Knowledge Has Been Hiding In Plain Sight. Intelligent Search Engines Are Changing That

  07-12-2016 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  "With the ubiquity of the internet and the rise of machine learning, a new kind of solution is beginning to take shape. The infrastructure of the web, built to link one resource to the next, was the beginning. The next wave of information systems promises to more deeply establish links between people, ideas, and artifacts that have, so far, remained out of reach—by drawing connections between information and objects that have come unmoored from context and history."
  
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• Brett Gorvy Leaves Christie’s After Decades to Join Dominique Lévy in Gallery and Advisory Firm

  07-12-2016 17:28 via artnews.com
  After 23 years at Christie’s Brett Gorvy is leaving to join forces with dealer Dominique Lévy, who has galleries in New York in London. The new venture, Lévy Gorvy, will operate as an equal partnership between the two of them, … Read More
  
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• Publisher And Author Withdraw Children's-Book Parody After Too Many People Fail To See The Joke

  07-12-2016 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some of the reaction seems to be Poe's Law in action (though you'd think the title - Bad Little Children's Books: KidLit Parodies, Shameless Spoofs, and Offensively Tweaked Covers - would clue folks in), and some seems to be indignant virtue-signaling.
  
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• Lynn Nottage, Playwright Of 'Sweat', On Getting To Know Locked-Out Middle-Aged White Steelworkers In Reading, PA

  07-12-2016 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  "I found that the way in which they spoke was really familiar to me, as an African-American woman who has struggled with marginalization throughout my entire life. For the first time, they were saying, 'We feel unseen, unheard, frustrated.' At the end of the meeting, I said, 'You guys sound like socialists.'" A Q&A with Slate's June Thomas.
  
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• Worcester Art Museum Adds Five Board Members, Names Lisa Kirby President

  07-12-2016 16:27 via artnews.com
  Some news from Worcester, Massachusetts, to begin the day! The Worcester Art Museum—pronounced woo-ster art museum—announced that it has added five board members. They are:– Susan M. Bassick, a former docent at the museum who has been a member of … Read More
  
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• David Hallberg's Recovery Down Under Hasn't Been Easy

  07-12-2016 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "I came to Australia with a shaved head and a swollen foot. ... It's been extreme hard work, extreme dedication, and also extreme loneliness. This isn't my home. But it feels so comfortable and I've been made to feel so welcome."
  
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• Bonhams Los Angeles offers rare Quahog pearl that escaped the dinner table

  07-12-2016 16:00
  
  One lucky graduate student in New England, who wishes to remain anonymous, discovered a rare 16.64-carat Quahog pearl while shucking a $25 bag of clams that he purchased at a market in Brookline, Massachusetts. The purple-hued pearl (est $25,000-$35,000) is slated to be the leading lot at Bonhams Lapidary Works of Art, Gemstones, Minerals and Natural History sale in Los Angeles on 7 December. The gem measures 13.64 by 11.84 mm and is undrilled, making it the largest-known Quahog pearl ever offe
  
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• Sergei Polunin's Hollywood Career Begins

  07-12-2016 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The 27-year-old Ukrainian ... has been cast in two hot upcoming titles: Kenneth Branagh's all-star adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express and the spy thriller Red Sparrow from Fox, appearing alongside Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton."
  
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• Morning Links: Snowboarding Edition

  07-12-2016 15:23 via artnews.com
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• Indianapolis Symphony Posts Record Ticket Sales Income

  07-12-2016 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  The figure for last season was up 15% over 2014-15 and is the fourth increase in a row. Total attendance was down slightly, and there was a $561,000 deficit after three years of surpluses; both decreases can be blamed on (yes, really) the weather.
  
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• Show of Syrian artists to inaugurate Rem Koolhaas’s first UAE building

  07-12-2016 15:07
  
  An ambitious exhibition of works by Syrian artists will open next year in a 600-sq. m building in Dubais Alserkal Avenue, designed by Rem Koolhaass architectural practice Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). The venue, which is called Concrete, is the first project in the United Arab Emirates designed by the high-profile Dutch architect.
  Concrete, described as a "multi-purpose events venue", has movable walls and full-height transparent sliding doors. Fashioned from four former wareh
  
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• Show of Syrian artists to inaugurate Rem Koolhaas’s first Gulf building

  07-12-2016 15:07
  An ambitious exhibition of works by Syrian artists will open next year in a 600-sq. m building in Dubais Alserkal Avenue, designed by Rem Koolhaass architectural practice Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). The venue, which is called Concrete, is the first project in the United Arab Emirates designed by the high-profile Dutch architect.
  Concrete, described as a "multi-purpose events venue", has movable walls and full-height transparent sliding doors. Fashioned from four former wareh
  
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• Sotheby's Buys Forensics Lab So It Can Catch Forgeries Before It Sells Them

  07-12-2016 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The auction house has acquired Orion Analytical and is folding the firm into its newly-created scientific research department. James Martin, the firm's founder (and now a Sotheby's exec), has helped the FBI in a number of art fraud cases, not least the Knoedler Gallary debacle.
  
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• Louisville Orchestra Keeps Teddy Abrams Through 2019-20

  07-12-2016 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Executive director Andrew Kipe says that the 29-year-old music director has"really changed the conversation about the orchestra and its mission and direction. He has wanted the orchestra to do more than be in the concert hall giving concerts."
  
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• The cult of the picturesque view ignores the reality of modern Britain

  07-12-2016 14:36
  
  Campaigners from the Lake District to London are outraged at building plans that could alter cherished landscapes – but their inflexibility to change is elitistAcross Britain, views, apparently, are being spoiled. In Cumbria, the great-great-great-great grandson of William Wordsworth is supporting a campaign to stop the National Grid building pylons close to the Lake District National Park that would allegedly wreck some beautiful vistas. Meanwhile down south, Richmond is appalled by a new
  
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• Looted Antiquities From Palmyra And Yemen Seized In Geneva

  07-12-2016 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The artifacts, which range between roughly 1,800 and 2,400 years old, were stored at the Geneva Free Port in 2009-10, before the current Arab civil wars and the rise of ISIS.
  
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• Actor Peter Vaughan, 93, Who Had An Impressive Career Long Before 'Game Of Thrones'

  07-12-2016 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  He'd been acting professionally in British theatre, film, and television for seven decades when he was cast (at age 90) as Maester Aemon in HBO's juggernaut. "With his bulky figure, small eyes and prognathous jaw, he usually played the type of character you would not want to bump into on a dark night in a darker alley, even though, in real life, Vaughan was known for his conviviality,"
  
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• Nine Nations And Their Favorite Movies (And The Reasons Why)

  07-12-2016 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  These films rarely top critics' lists, but they've definitely captured their people's imaginations. Britain's The Great Escape, Russia's Irony of Fate, India's Sholay - plus titles for France, Germany, Mexico, Japan, Nigeria, and, of course, the U.S. (for which the choice may be arguable but is certainly credible, especially when you adjust its box-office figures for inflation).
  
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• Christie’s chairman Brett Gorvy leaves auction house to open gallery

  07-12-2016 14:00
  
  Brett Gorvy, the chairman and international head of postwar and contemporary art at Christieswho, during his 23-year tenure with the company, pushed totals for the category beyond $984.5m in a single season in May 2015announced he will be leaving, effective immediately, to partner with the dealer Dominique Lvy, in a new firm to be known as Lvy Gorvy.
  Gorvy moved from Christies London to lead the New York department in 2000 and has been deputy chairman of Christies Americas since 2007. Under his
  
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• Christie’s chairman Brett Gorvy leaves auction house to join forces with New York dealer Dominique Lévy

  07-12-2016 14:00
  
  Brett Gorvy, the chairman and international head of postwar and contemporary art at Christieswho, during his 23-year tenure with the company, pushed totals for the category beyond $984.5m in a single season in May 2015announced he will be leaving, effective immediately, to partner with the dealer Dominique Lvy, in a new firm to be known as Lvy Gorvy.
  Gorvy moved from Christies London to lead the New York department in 2000 and has been deputy chairman of Christies Americas since 2007. Under his
  
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• Classical Grammy Nominations For 2017 Include Plenty Of Contemporary Music

  07-12-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  And not just in the contemporary category, either. Jennifer Higdon's Cold Mountain and John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles are up for best opera recording (Higdon's up for best new composition as well). Among other nominees are the Seattle Symphony doing Dutilleux, Leila Josefowicz acing John Adams, Salonen and the LA Phil zinging Zappa, Third Coast Percussion banging out Reich, and Mason Bates performed by both MTT/San Francisco and Muti/Chicago.
  
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• Jazz Grammy Nominations Feature Familiar Faces (Yet Again)

  07-12-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  "In a year that lacked some of the breakout narratives that have marked the jazz category in recent years - see Gregory Porter, Cecile McLorin Salvant - Grammy voters once more leaned on veteran or otherwise familiar talents for the bulk of the nominations field."
  
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• Wynford Dewhurst: art of ‘Manchester's Monet’ goes on show

  07-12-2016 12:47
  
  Retrospective exhibition celebrates work of controversial but largely unknown English impressionist painter
  They called him England’s answer to Claude Monet. “Nothing could be more delightful on a cold, dreary day than Mr Wynford Dewhurst’s landscapes imbued with sunlight,” wrote the Daily Express in 1910.Yet just over a hundred years later, the Mancunian artist is unknown to all but the most enthusiastic scholars of European impressionism. A new exhibition at the Manches
  
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• Heirs of Jewish dealer sue Bavaria in US court

  07-12-2016 11:05
  
  The heirs of Alfred Flechtheim, a Jewish art dealer persecuted by the Nazis, have sued Bavaria in a US court to claim eight paintings by Max Beckmann, Paul Klee and Juan Gris that they say were sold under duress.The founder of an art magazine and one of Germanys most prominent dealers in contemporary art, Flechtheim was among the first targets of anti-Semitic victimisation, attacked in a barrage of hate articles in the Nazi press even before 1933. He fled to London via Zurich and Paris soon aft
  
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• Director of Communications and Public Relations, Chicago Symphony

  07-12-2016 07:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Responsible for creating/implementing communications strategies that help to achieve the CSOA’s overarching goal of growing awareness and support for the Orchestra and CSOA activities in Chicago and around the world. Oversee a department that leads all external and internal communications, including media relations/publicity, digital/social initiatives, content development and brand messaging.PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
  Lead a team responsible for developing and implementing a pr
  
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• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art - The Boss

  07-12-2016 07:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Start with an idea to engage with a full spectrum of contemporary performing and visual arts, creativity, and the human experience. Take a decommissioned factory and create a destination to which people flock and where amazing things happen. Demonstrate how contemporary American art and artists intersect with daily life to inspire positive change. Finish with an international destination based in social interaction, intellectual energy, and artistic vivacity. You are here, living in the moment.E
  
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