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• Will Les Demoiselles d’Avignon return to Paris?

  28-12-2016 22:00
  
  The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris has its next show of Modern masterpieces in its sights. The private museum, backed by the billionaire LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault, is planning a major exhibition drawn from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York next autumn. Arnaults long-standing adviser, Jean-Paul Claverie, told Le Monde newspaper at the end of October that the Vuitton museum dreams of bringing Picassos Les Demoiselles dAvignon (1907) back to the city where it
  
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• Owner of Zoffany painting destroyed in fire could receive £4m from UK government

  28-12-2016 22:00
  
  The UK government is likely to reimburse the owner of a 4m painting by Johann Zoffany that was destroyed in a fire at Clandon Park, a country mansion in Surrey owned by the National Trust. This would be the largest payment ever made for a lost or damaged work of art in Britain under the governments indemnity scheme, which insures works on loan to public venues.A fire broke out in the basement of Clandon Park on 29 April 2015. The blaze, caused by an electrical fault, spread extremely quickly th
  
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• ‘Under Arms’ at Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt

  28-12-2016 20:17 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• The Chief: ‘A Joseph Beuys’ Examined the Artist’s Lasting Influence in Catalonia

  28-12-2016 19:41 via artnews.com
  July 9–September 11, at Galería Cadaqués, Spain Read More
  
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• The Guardian view on Brexit and the arts: a backlash against the modern | Editorial

  28-12-2016 19:35
  
  The right wants to believe that contemporary art is a liberal-elite conspiracy. Five million visitors to Tate Modern will tell you differentHaving a pop at the absurdities of contemporary art has long been a sport beloved of elements of the press, and it has often been enjoyably and wittily played. The Sun, for example, had great fun in 2001, when Martin Creed won the Turner prize, inviting readers to suggest their own ideas to add to Mr Creed’s scrunched-up paper, Blu-Tack, and lights swi
  
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• The 2016 Art Market’s Winner? Eric Clapton, the $74 M. Man

  28-12-2016 18:37 via artnews.com
  You know who made out like a bandit in the art market this year? Eric Clapton. That’s right, the guy who noodled long—long—solos over songs about stealing George Harrison’s wife had a better year than probably anyone else selling pictures. … Read More
  
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• This Celebrity Reporter 'Was This Little Island Of Sanity At Every Red Carpet' - So Why Did He Jump Off A Roof?

  28-12-2016 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Jeffrey Slonim didn't shout. While the other red carpet reporters tried to get the attention of celebrities by yelling their names, he usually waited for them to come to him. And they usually did."
  
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• Watch This Cartoon Explain The Physics Behind The 32 Fouettés In 'Swan Lake'

  28-12-2016 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Literally meaning 'whipped' or 'whisked,' the move is comprised of 32 consecutive turns on one pointed foot. If it sounds impossible, it's because it almost is. So much so, that this video has been made to explain the physics of it."
  
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• Recovering The Acoustics Of Hagia Sophia's Byzantine Glory Days

  28-12-2016 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Collaborating with choral group Cappella Romana, [scientists at Stanford] digitally recreated the former holy building's acoustics ... in the university's Bing Concert Hall." (includes video)
  
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• 'The Opening Of The Blacksonian Is *The* Museum Event Of The Year'

  28-12-2016 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Yes, 'the Blacksonian,' because no one is going say that whole name" - the Smithsonian's National Museum of African-American History and Culture - "and no one's going to say 'NMAAHC,' either, because no one wants to hear 'God bless you' every time somebody does." Wesley Morris, after throwing his bits of shade, describes the experience, both ridiculous and sublime, of his first visit."
  
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• Morning Links: Bach Edition

  28-12-2016 15:14 via artnews.com
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• García Lorca's Unfinished Final Play Now Has A Title And An Ending

  28-12-2016 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Until now, the piece had only been referred to as "Play Without a Title, and the poet/playwright had completed the first of its planned three acts when he was murdered in the Spanish Civil War. Writer Alberto Conejero has now completed those two acts - and given the work a rather loaded title.
  
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• There's Another Most-_________ Artistic Material That Only Anish Kapoor Is Forbidden To Buy

  28-12-2016 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  This one is (allegedly) the world's most glittery glitter, it's called Diamond Dust, and it's created by the same artist who created the world's pinkest pink - and barred Anish Kapoor from using it, too. (All because of that damned blacker-than-black.)
  
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• Richard Adams, 96, Author Of 'Watership Down'

  28-12-2016 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Adams famously carved out one of the greatest second-acts in literary history, establishing himself as an important talent at age 52 after a career spent in civil service."
  
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• So What Exactly Is (And Isn't) The Alexandrov Ensemble, Whose Members Died In That Plane Crash?

  28-12-2016 14:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  For a start, it's not the group that sang Pharrell's "Happy" and the theme from Skyfall on YouTube. (That group is the successor to the KGB's house choir.) The Alexandrov is altogether more prestigious. An explainer from Zachary Woolfe and Bolshoi Confidential author Simon Morrison.
  
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• 'They Come In To Dance And Leave Their Parkinson's Behind'

  28-12-2016 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  A visit to the dance classes that the popular British company Ballet Boyz offers for patients with the neurological disorder.
  
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• Here Are Five Of 2016's Best Books In Translation

  28-12-2016 13:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  "In 2016, small publishers like New Directions and Coffee House Press and lauded indie powerhouses like Melville House continue to bring many deserving international voices to the forefront. And in an election year that has many Americans wondering what in the bloody hell is going on around here, books from other parts of the globe can be a welcome treat to help counterbalance the chaos."
  
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• 'Everyone Is Scared' In Hong Kong's Book Industry Since Those Publishers And Booksellers Were Disappeared

  28-12-2016 13:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Bookshops have closed. Publishers have left. Authors have stopped writing. Books have been pulped. Printers are refusing political works. Translators have grown weary of being associated with certain topics. Readers have stopped buying. And the whole industry is wondering if hard-hitting books on Chinese politics still have a future in the former British colony."
  
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• Berlin cancels show of Tehran’s Modern art

  28-12-2016 11:38
  
  Berlin museum authorities have cancelled the exhibition of Modern art from collection of Tehrans Museum of Contemporary Art after Iranian authorities failed to meet a deadline to issue export permits for loans of paintings by Picasso, Pollock, Rothko and Francis Bacon, the majority of which have not been shown in the West for decades.Further delays to the Berlin State Museums exhibition plans couldnt be justified, says Hermann Parzinger, the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundatio
  
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• Out of the Frame (not In) at the Wallace Collection

  28-12-2016 11:27
  
  Curators at the Wallace Collection in London, a museum specialising in Old Master and Renaissance art, have come up with a tip-top idea for bringing art to the elderly and people living with dementia: if these members of the community cannot access works at the collection, then why not take the works out to them? The Out of the Frame outreach scheme brings works to older people, including those living with dementia, residing in care homes and day centres throughout London.&nb
  
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• The timeless wonder of candlelight, a glimmer of love in our dark world

  28-12-2016 11:00
  
  The evocative image of a flickering candle, celebrated by Joseph Wright and El Greco, is charged with spiritual power – we need it now more than everWhy is candlelight so beautiful? At this time of the year candles burn brightly to celebrate Hanukkah or Christmas, casting a subtle, ever changing light into the long, dark midwinter nights. We love this magic and ancient form of light – but why?Art can illuminate that – take the French 17th-century painter Georges de La Tour, ent
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.27.16

  28-12-2016 09:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  12 Plays of Xmas: 1. Owners by Caryl Churchill
  Caryl Churchill is the presiding playwright of our era. At 78, every play she writes is an event – not because of their rarity, or a forelock-tugging spirit of sentimentality, but because ... read more
  AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2016-12-27Triple Gravy
  Ray Brown wrote “Gravy Waltz,” with a lyric by comedian and talk show host Steve Allen. Allen recorded the piece on piano and got extensive airplay with it in ... read
  
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• A Different Frame For Arguing The Value Of Art?

  28-12-2016 06:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Arguments trying to make a case for the value of the arts usually come down to two ways of thinking about them: their intrinsic value as something inherently good or their ability to improve society in some way. David Ian Moss argues in the Stanford Social Innovation Review that this is an unproductive frame for the argument:
  One problem with the intrinsic vs. instrumental distinction is that it’s something of a false dichotomy: Interrogate a dedicated arts supporter about why she believes
  
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• Untitled(will thoreau gut the sun and the moon like a norse wolf?)

  28-12-2016 04:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  no one liked thoreau and he liked no one, which is why he wanted to die with someone he loved. they saw he was aging. he thought he should post images of himself so that others would have an after image. he was vain. they saw that he was getting dumber with age. he thought it was because he wasn’t taking medication. he thought he was smarter on pharmaceuticals. he wasn’t wrong. the medication made him smarter. i thought he was lucid when he was on anti-depressants. he didn’t li
  
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• Can British Publishing Become More Diverse For Good?

  28-12-2016 03:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some authors and publishers are wary. "We have seen it all before. ... A few people are championed and then people lose interest because they think the issue has been addressed. And then it all reverts back to the way it was before."
  
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• What Is The Speed Of Human Thought?

  28-12-2016 03:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Human thought takes time to form, and so the 'right now' that we're experiencing inside our skulls is always a little later than what's going on in the outside world. .l. So, in a sense, the future has already happened - we're just not aware of it yet. To make things even more complicated, the different senses operate at different speeds."
  
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• Sarasota's New Principal Cellist And Her Beloved Ricky

  28-12-2016 00:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  "You’re not going to luck into this career. ... You have to work for it, nonstop, even once you have a job. And you have to be careful not to let that change your love of music." (Ricky is the cello, y'all.)
  
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• What Movies Will We Be Watching In 2017?

  28-12-2016 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Here's what lies ahead after we all catch up with this year's Oscar nominees and winners.
  
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