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• A life in quotes: John Berger

  02-01-2017 23:48
  
  The late prize-winning author and art critic was perceptive on, among other things, the male gaze and the subjectivity of art John Berger, one of the most influential writers of his generation, has died at 90. The Booker-prize-winning author of titles including Ways of Seeing, G and A Painter of our Time helped transform the way people looked at and perceived art. Related: Artist, visionary and writer - John Berger is undimmed at 90 Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.&rdqu
  
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• Sales Downturn And Scandals - Art Market Enters 2017 On An Uncertain Note

  02-01-2017 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  "In 2016, the art market received what it had purportedly wished for – some of the speculative froth came off the top of the market, easing fears that a bubble would burst and hurt the industry. But it also received much of what it probably did not forecast or desire: a 30% drop in overall market volume, a series of high-profile disputes, court actions and authenticity issues that resulted in substantial payouts, and a fall-off in attendance at some art fairs that read to some as cultural
  
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• Critic, Writer John Berger, 77 - Questioned Relationship Between Art And Society

  02-01-2017 23:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Susan Sontag once described Berger as peerless in his ability to make “attentiveness to the sensual world” meet “imperatives of conscience”. Jarvis Cocker, to mark a recent book of essays about Berger, said: “There are a few authors that can change the way you look at the world through their writing and John Berger is one of them.”
  
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• In 2016 Movie-Goers Went For Fantasy Over Reality

  02-01-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Unlike in recent years, when films like “American Sniper” and “The Hangover” broke through, not one movie rooted in a real-life setting was among the top 10 box office performers.
  
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• John Berger obituary

  02-01-2017 22:37
  
  Critic whose TV series Ways of Seeing posed questions about art and society, and a writer whose fiction reflected his life in rural FranceThe art critic, essayist and novelist John Berger threw down his challenge early in his television series Ways of Seeing. This came in 1972, the year when Berger, who has died aged 90, broke through to real fame from his niche celebrity on the arts pages of the New Statesman. Ways of Seeing, made on the cheap for the BBC as four half-hour programmes, was the f
  
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• Demi Moore And Bruce Willis Give Idaho Theatre To Theatre Company

  02-01-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The couple bought the historic movie house at 110 N. Main St. in 1995 with the idea of transforming it into a live-performance space. The next year, the couple encouraged their friends Rusty Wilson and Denise Simone to move their theater company from Richmond, Virginia, to Idaho to perform on the Liberty’s thrust stage. It was a successful arrangement for both parties based on an informal agreement about the building’s use."
  
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• Demi Moore And Bruce Willis Give Boise Theatre To Theatre Company

  02-01-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The couple bought the historic movie house at 110 N. Main St. in 1995 with the idea of transforming it into a live-performance space. The next year, the couple encouraged their friends Rusty Wilson and Denise Simone to move their theater company from Richmond, Virginia, to Idaho to perform on the Liberty’s thrust stage. It was a successful arrangement for both parties based on an informal agreement about the building’s use."
  
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• The Top-Grossing Movie In 2016 Made $463 Million In A Record-Setting Year

  02-01-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The North American box office closed out the year with $11.4 billion in ticket sales, ComScore said Sunday. That marks a new record for the industry, bypassing the previous high-water mark of $11.1 billion that was established in 2015."
  
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• Polish government acquires masterpieces by Leonardo and Rembrandt—but at what price?

  02-01-2017 22:00
  
  The Polish government has paid more than 500 million Polish zloty ($118m) for the Czartoryski collection, which includes Leonardo da Vincis painting Lady with an Ermine (around 1489-90) and Rembrandts Landscape with the Good Samaritan (1638).
  Last week (29 December), the Polish-Spanish aristocrat Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski, signed an agreement with Piotr Glinski, Polands deputy prime minister, transferring ownership of the major private art collection. The 86,000 paintings and objects, as we
  
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• A Fascinating Debate In Ohio About How To Give Public Money For The Arts

  02-01-2017 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The idea of public support for the arts, and especially for individual artists, is a pretty progressive idea. It takes some convincing, even in a largely Democratic place. And despite the fact that just last year Cuyahoga County voters overwhelmingly renewed the cigarette tax for the arts, distrust by artists of the organization they worked to establish could erode that support pretty quickly. The tragedy of that—besides the obvious—is that the individual artist program is, at three
  
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• John Berger, art critic and author, dies aged 90

  02-01-2017 21:23
  
  Booker prize-winning author of titles including Ways of Seeing, G and A Painter of our Time had been living in ParisInterview: ‘If I’m a storyteller it’s because I listen’John Berger, the Booker prize-winning novelist and visionary writer who helped transform the way a generation looked at and perceived art, has died aged 90.Berger had a profound effect on how visual art was appreciated with his book Ways of Seeing and the 1972 BBC television series based on it.Listener,
  
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• Diversifying: Eighteen Curators To Watch In 2017

  02-01-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Over the past year, a number of African Americans have accepted prestigious appointments at important art and cultural institutions across the country. These curators and cultural leaders to watch are in positions to drive exhibition programming, acquisitions, innovations in what is considered art, influence hiring, fellowship and internship opportunities, and how institutions grow their audiences."
  
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• How Technology Has Transformed Cinematography

  02-01-2017 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  "In modern times, cinema became the tenth muse. Why? Because it’s nourishing itself from literature, from architecture, music, philosophy… What that means is that even if you don’t know it, you have to deal with those elements. New technology brought to us the consciousness of making images. Today you have any still camera, any video camera, you push a button, things happen automatically. Today film students don’t know anymore how to realize an image. At the beginning, t
  
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• A New Era For "Gay" Plays?

  02-01-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Portraits of gay life in mainstream culture are no longer rare; they have been proliferating for decades. As a result, no one play (or movie) bears the burden of either seeming to affirm, or attempting to negate, stereotype. You might argue that it’s a sign of progress that these writers felt no compunction in writing about troubled, lonely gay characters. Nobody seeing any of these plays today would come away assuming it represented the sum total of gay men’s experience."
  
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• Six Questions For The Art World As We Enter 2017

  02-01-2017 18:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Once, perhaps, the contemporary art world was composed of small, more or less local communities of struggling creatives who scraped along by helping one another and relying on the munificence of the occasional wealthy doyenne (who typically had bohemian leanings). But, for a while now, that art world has really been an art industry, vast and global in scope, epitomized by mega-galleries with dozens of employees and multiple locations, and patronized by the winners of the global economy who see
  
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• Morning Links: What’s for Lunch? Edition

  02-01-2017 15:04 via artnews.com
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