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• Jay Gorney and Lisa Cooley Join Paula Cooper Gallery

  20-01-2017 23:15 via artnews.com
  New York’s Paula Cooper Gallery has added two dealers to its staff: Jay Gorney, a veteran of the Manhattan art world who has had galleries in the East Village, SoHo, and Chelsea, and Lisa Cooley, a onetime Lower East Side … Read More
  
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• A Life’s Work: As Her Reputation Surges, Luchita Hurtado Discusses Her Long Career

  20-01-2017 22:44 via artnews.com
  Sometime in the mid-1940s, the artist Luchita Hurtado, then in her 20s, boarded a Madison Avenue bus in Manhattan to go to an opening at Pierre Matisse’s gallery on East 57th Street. “There was a man who wasn’t sitting down … Read More
  
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• Shadowboxing With the Arts: How the NEA’s Budget Nearly Got Slashed in the Early ’90s

  20-01-2017 22:33 via artnews.com
  Yesterday brought news that, under a newly proposed federal spending plan, the Trump administration has plans to potentially eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. For many, the notion has brought to mind events … Read More
  
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• ‘Barrier Island’: Michael Joo Explores Sapelo Island, a Tribute and Memorial to Its Slave Past

  20-01-2017 22:18 via artnews.com
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• Tide rises on Robert Rauschenberg's island retreat

  20-01-2017 22:00
  
  The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is addressing the issue of rising tides at the artists former compound in Captiva, Florida, where he lived from 1970 until his death in 2008. A report by the company Coastal Risk Consulting found that the entirety of the property is at high risk of storm surge flooding and a significant portion is likely to be underwater by 2045. We may move buildings off the ground, create walkwayswe have to look at what is feasible, says Ann Brady, the director of the founda
  
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• 'My America': Whitney Museum of American art explores identity on inauguration day

  20-01-2017 21:00
  
  Like many museums in New York City and all across the United US, the Whitney Museum of American art offered programming on 20 January, during the inauguration of Donald Trump as the countrys 45th president, to explore what it means to be a citizen and an American after such a divisive election cycle. This includes My America, a 45-minute tour, given six times throughout the day, in the Whitneys major permanent collection show Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitneys
  
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• ‘We need to talk…’ at Petzel, New York

  20-01-2017 19:58 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Study: Smart People Like Morbid Humor

  20-01-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "A research team led by neurologist Ulrike Willinger of the Medical University of Vienna reports appreciating black humor “seems to be a complex information-processing task,” one that is facilitated by high intelligence and inhibited by bad moods."
  
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• What Happens When You Cross Ballet With Juggling? This

  20-01-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Says one of the dancers in Sean Gandini's 4×4: Ephemeral Architectures, "The juggling props are pretty light, so it doesn't really hurt if you get hit by them, especially when compared to the pain of wearing pointe shoes."
  
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• Musicians Fret About Repeal Of The Affordable Care Act

  20-01-2017 18:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Although Republicans have ripped Obamacare as a disastrous form of taxing-the-rich socialism since it passed Congress in 2010, the act has given struggling Americans a lifeline for buying health insurance, often for the first time. Musicians have been an especially vulnerable segment of this group — just before the law took effect in 2013, the Future of Music Coalition estimated they were uninsured at a rate of almost three times more than the general population."
  
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• This Play About Roe V. Wade Is Not Opening In The Environment Everyone Involved Had Expected

  20-01-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Over a year ago, Molly Smith, artistic director of Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage Theater, scheduled a new play, Roe, to open in the nation's capital in January 2017. The stars, it seemed, would be perfectly aligned. January would mark both the 44th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision legalizing abortion, and a historic presidential inauguration. 'We thought it would be our first woman president,' Smith said, 'I expected the play to open in a celebratory feel.
  
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• Is The Non-Profit Bookstore The Answer To Bookselling?

  20-01-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The answer may lie with niche-filling shops like Pittsburgh’s new City of Asylum Books, part of a nascent multipurpose cultural center on the city’s North Side called Alphabet City Center. Alphabet City is a consolidated space recently acquired by City of Asylum, a nonprofit arts organization providing sanctuary and forums of expression for exiled writers of all genres from other countries, introducing many unsung voices to the Pittsburgh public through literary community events."
  
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• A Movie About Three Black Women - Mathematicians, No Less - Is Outselling Ben Affleck And Martin Scorsese

  20-01-2017 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The success of Hidden Figures comes as debates over racial diversity and gender pay equity dominate Hollywood. And its stars have pointed to the film as proof that movies helmed by black women are not inherent commercial risks."
  
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• Melting ice, 1920s graphics and Newcastle's finest – the week in art

  20-01-2017 16:32
  
  Richard Wilson returns with site-specific installations and Haris Epaminonda’s meditative collages go on show – plus the rest of the week’s art happeningsRichard Wilson
  The experimental sculptor who gave modern British art one of its truly great works, his tank of reflective oil 20:50, shows new site-specific installations.
  • Annely Juda, London, from 26 January-25 March Continue reading...
  
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• The Great Unbundling Marches On (The Internet Is Comin' For Ya, TV)

  20-01-2017 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  We know all too well how the Internet has upended the business models of The music business and especially the print media. Yet television has come out relatively unscathed so far, argues Ben Thompson, because the Internet hadn't yet taken over all five of the functions TV serves in people's lives. But it's about to.
  
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• Cocktails, Snacks, And 17th-Century Songs: Musica Poetica Hits The Bars

  20-01-2017 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  "We hope to create a more informal atmosphere more akin to a jazz club," says the London group's founder, Oliver-John Ruthven. "Imagine an evening at Ronnie Scott's, but instead of jazz, it is early music which you would be listening to. The fascinating thing is that much of the music we play was actually intended for just this sort of environment."
  
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• Trump Has Sparked Revival Of Protest Culture In American Arts - Especially On Inauguration Day

  20-01-2017 15:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Howard Sherman: "While there are those in the visual art community who have called for inauguration day, on January 20, to be met with an art strike, asking that institutions be closed in protest, I'm glad to say I've not seen the idea gain much traction in the performing arts community. Indeed, in addition to maintaining their performance schedules, some organizations are throwing open their doors, as places of respite and refuge."
  
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• Zhou Youguang, Who Standardized Chinese In Western Alphabet, Dead At 111

  20-01-2017 15:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pinyin, the spelling system that Zhou and a Communist Party committee developed in the 1950s, revolutionized the learning of Chinese - and not only for foreigners. The illiteracy in China was nearly 85% before pinyin was introduced; it's now in the low single digits. What's surprising, given the time and place, was that Zhou had a past as a Wall Street banker and economist.
  
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• Pushing it: artist up in court after working out in church

  20-01-2017 15:33
  
  The German artist Alexander Karle is in hot water for making a film which showed him performing 27 press ups on a church altar. The piece, entitled Pressure to Perform, was shot in the Catholic Saint John church in Saarbrcken, southwest Germany, late 2015. Karle insists that he made the film in the name of art and is fighting for freedom of expression, adding that the work was not anti-religious (the artist even screened the controversial footage on YouTube and can be seen politel
  
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• Chicago Is Neglecting Its Biggest Cultural Export: The Blues, Says Business Magazine

  20-01-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Though Chicago dwarfs New Orleans, Memphis and St. Louis in population and economic might, a weekend in any of those places drives home the missed opportunities back home. All three [of those] cities have museums dedicated to telling the music's story; tours and branded districts where people can walk in the footsteps of legends; airports, parks and streets named in their honor, life-size statues for tourist selfies; and, of course, an abundance of live music clubs that all three cities activel
  
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• Dealers Sue Getty Museum Over Antiquities Deal That Never Actually Happened

  20-01-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Geneva-based Phoenix Ancient Art "is seeking $77 million in damages, claiming that through years of 'hard work, professional judgement, and extensive knowledge regarding antiquities,' it devised a plan under which the Getty could acquire a [private] collection of antiquities." That plan was never executed.
  
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• The Hermitage, Archaeologists, And Drones Create 3D Model Of Palmyra

  20-01-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg has joined forces with a Russian archaeological institute to build an interactive virtual model of Palmyra, as reports emerged today that Islamic State militants have destroyed the ancient city's amphitheatre and four pillared gates."
  
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• Morning Links: Snow Cone Edition

  20-01-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• New York's New Second Avenue Subway Has Already Become A Culture Destination

  20-01-2017 14:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  "There are several contenders for coolest neighborhood in New York, but the Upper East Side is usually not one of them."
  
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• Watch Justin Peck And Robbie Fairchild Dance Through A Subway Station

  20-01-2017 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  As a teaser for his new ballet, The Times Are Racing, Peck has made a video with himself and Fairchild jeté-ing, sashaying, tapping (in tennis shoes), and sliding down the bannisters of the 34th Street-Javits Center station in Manhattan.
  
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• After Only Five Months, Director Of Museum Of Arts And Design Resigns

  20-01-2017 14:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Current political events compel me to turn my attention to pressing needs in the cultural sector," said Jorge Daniel Veneciano in a statement.
  
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• 25 years of the Outsider Art Fair

  20-01-2017 14:00
  
  The Outsider Art Fair, New Yorks main event for self-taught artists, turns 25 this year. Founded in 1993 by the fair organisers Sanford L. Smith, it was acquired in 2012 by the gallerists Andrew Edlin. Originally showing just 25 exhibitors, the fair, held at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York (until 22 January) now features 62 galleries from nine countries, including eight first-time exhibitors this year like the Cuban Art Centre in New York. We spoke to Edlin about how the market for Outsid
  
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• Luigi Russolo’s Music: a strange, compelling failure

  20-01-2017 13:00
  
  The Italian futurist’s 1911 painting was an attempt to define ‘the complex of musical emotion’. In fact, it revealed the artist as a pioneer of discordThe Italian futurist Luigi Russolo’s 1911 painting attempts to nail “the complex of musical emotion”, as he described it. The central shadowy figure is a spider pianist with five arms, suggesting speedy fingerwork. A backdrop of blue sky in rhythmic circles is cut by a whiplash of melody. The grinning carnival m
  
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• Canvassing opinion: what art critics make of the hit play Art

  20-01-2017 13:00
  
  What is art and how do we judge its value? As Yasmina Reza’s play is revived at the Old Vic in London, Stephen Moss asks Guardian critics Adrian Searle and Skye Sherwin if the price is rightA small play about big issues is how the producers like to portray Art, a sensation when it opened in the West End 20 years ago and now packing ’em in again in a revival at the Old Vic in London. The play is a three-hander by French writer Yasmina Reza. It opened in Paris in 1994 and, in a transla
  
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• Radical Russian artist in real-life drama over sexual assault claims

  20-01-2017 12:35
  
  Allegations put protest artist Pyotr Pavlensky and political theatre group Teatr.doc at odds despite common causeAllegations of sexual assault have pitted Russia’s boldest political artist, Pyotr Pavlensky, against its boldest political theatre group, Teatr.doc, dividing public opinion this week. “The regime wants to remove Pavlensky,” read the headline of an opinion piece on the website of Snob magazine. “Pavlensky is no martyr,” read another on the same site. Rela
  
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• Trump’s inauguration: museums lay on special events

  20-01-2017 11:46
  
  American museums, which usually receive at least some form of public funding, tend to steer clear of politics, but Donald Trumps presidency was never going to be business as usual, and early signs point to a tense four years ahead. One day before his inauguration, the incoming presidents team revealed plans to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities. Even before that news broke, spaces around the country have taken action to give the pro-arts public a place to gather on ina
  
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• Trump’s inauguration: museums lay on alternative events

  20-01-2017 11:46
  American museums, which usually receive at least some form of public funding, tend to steer clear of politics, but Donald Trumps presidency was never going to be business as usual, and early signs point to a tense four years ahead. Yesterday, the incoming presidents team revealed plans to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities. Even before that news broke, spaces around the country have taken action to give the pro-arts public a place to gather on inauguration day.
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.19.17

  20-01-2017 10:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Killing NEA, NEH And PBS Is Just Collateral Damage In The Commodification Of American Values
  So it begins. ... Zeroing out the culture budgets isn’t about money; together, the NEA, NEH and PBS account for barely 0.02 percent of the federal budget. Neither is it about art the Trumpsters think is offensive or artists they don’t like. ... read more
  AJBlog: diacritical | Douglas McLennan Published 2017-01-20What to stand for
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• Lockwood Kipling and Lubaina Himid: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  20-01-2017 10:30
  
  The life of Rudyard’s artistic father is explored, while a retrospective reveals Himid’s influence on western art historyWhere did Rudyard Kipling get the imaginative response to the Indian subcontinent that makes The Jungle Book an enduring classic? It began with his father Lockwood, the first principal of National College Of Arts in Lahore, still Pakistan’s leading art college. This exhibition explores the life of an artist, designer and educationalist whose fame has been ove
  
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• Artist creates 'guinea pig' work for researchers to experiment on

  20-01-2017 09:00
  
  It is not often that you hear of an artist who creates a sculpture specifically for scientists to experiment on, but that is precisely what the UK artist Tom Lomax did in 2013 when he created Out of the Cauldron, an open-access work that anyone with a 3D printer can produce. The sculpture is now helping researchers studying the long-term preservation of works created using rapid prototyping technologies, which todays artists are increasingly incorporating into their practice. Many of these work
  
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• Sound art: album covers by Ai Weiwei, Ed Ruscha and more – in pictures

  20-01-2017 08:00
  
  Musicians from Kanye West to Sigur Rós have employed A-list artists to design their album sleeves – flick through some of the best Continue reading...
  
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• Tech billionaire opens new Potsdam art gallery

  20-01-2017 06:00
  
  Software firm founder Hasso Plattner launches his Barberini Museum, west of Berlin, with Impressionism show A German software billionaire is opening a new art museum in the former imperial city of Potsdam on Friday, having reconstructed an 18th-century palace, destroyed in the second world war, to house the works.Hasso Plattner, a co-founder of the multinational software company SAP, described the Barberini Museum as his gift to the city and “one of the most important things” he had
  
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• Monet, Renoir and a £44.2m Munch … billionaire opens Potsdam art gallery

  20-01-2017 06:00
  
  Software firm founder Hasso Plattner launches his Barberini Museum, west of Berlin, with Impressionism show A German software billionaire is opening a new art museum in the former imperial city of Potsdam on Friday, having reconstructed an 18th-century palace, destroyed in the second world war, to house the works.Hasso Plattner, a co-founder of the multinational software company SAP, described the Barberini Museum as his gift to the city and “one of the most important things” he had
  
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• CEO, London

  20-01-2017 03:22
  CEO, London
  SML are searching for a Chief Executive Officer for our client, a company comprising several subsidiary fine art businesses with over 200 staff and premises in several locations in the UK and abroad. The CEO will be responsible for the overall running of the company and will report to the main Board of Directors. We are looking for an experienced individual to supervise and control all strategic and business aspects of the company. This person will be the first in command and respon
  
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• ‘It’s the Only Fair of Its Kind’: Outsider Art Fair Opens Its 25th Edition in New York

  20-01-2017 01:45 via artnews.com
  There are only a few more hours of the presidency of Barack Obama, so why not go by the Outsider Art Fair, now in its 25th year in New York, and take in the gathering of galleries showing work by … Read More
  
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• UK Members Of Parliament Want To Ban Arts Internships, Calling Them "Curse Of The Arts Industry"

  20-01-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The report draws on the evidence submitted from people including outgoing Arts Council England chair Peter Bazalgette, who warned that unpaid internships were “the curse of the arts industry”. He said there was an expectation that young people will work for less than the minimum wage, which he added was a “major barrier for disadvantaged young people interested in accessing jobs in the creative industries”.
  
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