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• Report: Last Year There Was A Surge In Violations Of Artists' Rights

  08-02-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  According to Freemuse, an independent international organization that researches violations of artists’ rights, that global number has more than doubled that for 2015, increasing by 119%.
  
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• Washburn Gallery Forced to Move From 57th Street as Possible Demolition Threatens Several Galleries

  08-02-2017 23:26 via artnews.com
  With talk of demolition looming, Washburn Gallery will vacate its space at 20 West 57th Street in Manhattan and suspend its exhibition schedule, the gallery told ARTnews. They had been in the location for 25 years.Limited gallery operations are currently being run out of … Read More
  
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• Seattle’s Jen Graves Resigns as Art Critic of The Stranger

  08-02-2017 23:05 via artnews.com
  Jen Graves, who has been the art critic for the Seattle alternative paper The Stranger since 2006, has resigned. “I spent months resisting the reality that The Stranger is not currently a viable place for me to do the work … Read More
  
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• How Live Nation Came To Dominate The Booming Live Concert Business

  08-02-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It used to be that you toured to help sell the record. Now the record helps support the tour.” How has this come to be? In the case of Live Nation, it’s the result of systematic growth over a decade that has seen the Beverly Hills-based company establish a presence in more than 40 countries via acquisitions or partnerships.
  
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• London's New Tall-Building Boom Is Wrecking Its Urban Heritage

  08-02-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The Paddington cube offends every principle of a conservation area. It demolishes old buildings. It pays no respect to the district’s character, brutalising it with one overpowering structure. Westminster’s own published plan for the area stipulates that “tall buildings could not be accommodated without detriment to the townscape”. As for flexible uses, the collapse of the luxury property market means that the cube is entirely for commercial use."
  
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• Artists, Curators, Writers, and a Museum Sign Letter Opposing Trump Travel Ban

  08-02-2017 22:27 via artnews.com
  Today a wide-ranging group of artists, curators, critics, and other art types signed an open letter opposing President Trump’s executive order, which places restrictions of varying timespans on non-U.S. citizens traveling from seven majority-Muslim countries. The letter’s signatories include Kara Walker, Louise Lawler, Trisha Donnelly, Gavin Brown, … Read More
  
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• What If You Could Upgrade Your Brain? There Are Complicated Moral Issues At Play

  08-02-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Confronting this tendency toward the commodification of persons, and counteracting it with effective cultural strategies for ‘re-humanisation’, will pose one of the most important moral challenges of our time.
  
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• UK government plans gallery for its off-duty art

  08-02-2017 22:00
  
  The UKs Government Art Collection (GAC) plans to set up its own gallery. This will open up a huge collection of 14,000 works, mainly by British artists, which is not easily accessible.
  A spokeswoman for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which oversees the GAC, says that the collections offices and stores will be moved to new premises in London which should include a display space that everyone will be able to enjoy. Entry will presumably be free. The location and timing have not yet
  
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• Review: David Hockney’s coupling and cha-cha light up Tate Britain

  08-02-2017 22:00
  
  David Hockney may be Britains most popular living artistTate Britain ticket sales have already gone through the roofbut, as this lucidly curated survey is at pains to point out, right from the start he has also been relentlessly experimental in his attempt to represent reality in two dimensions. And at the same time, he has also been dedicated to challenging and interrogating conventions of art making.
  This point is forcibly made in the career-spanning first room that shows Hockney mustering a
  
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• Christie’s to open new flagship location in Los Angeles

  08-02-2017 22:00
  
  Christies newly appointed chief executive Guillaume Cerutti has announced that the auction house will open a 4,500 sq. ft flagship space in Beverly Hills, California, in April. The two-story space, which has been designed by the Los Angeles- and New York-based firm wHY, will host private selling exhibitions, public exhibitions of touring auction highlights, live-streams of auctions from Christies 12 salesrooms worldwide, social events and educational programmes. The flagship does not plan to ho
  
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• Brueghel discovered in Bath museum’s storeroom

  08-02-2017 22:00
  
  The recent conservation and technical examination of a picture from the Holburne Museum in Bath has confirmed that the painting is indeed a work by Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564-1638) and not by a follower of the Flemish master as was previously thought. The revelation means that the Holburne is now the UKs largest public repository of works by the artist.
  The unsigned and undated work, Wedding Dance in the Open Air (1607-15), had been in store for several years when the UK museums director
  
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• Art Basel owner buys stake in Art Düsseldorf

  08-02-2017 22:00
  
  Art Dsseldorf is the second regional fair to become part of the Swiss-based MCH Group, which owns the Art Basel franchise, it was announced today (9 February). Marco Fazzone, the managing director of design and regional art fairs at MCH, says the aim is to make the Dsseldorf event the leading regional fair in Germanya title traditionally held by Art Cologne. MCH has acquired a 25.1% stake in art.fair International, the organiser behind Art Dsseldorf which is launching in the west German ci
  
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• Polly Apfelbaum Joins Alexander Gray Associates

  08-02-2017 21:43 via artnews.com
  In what seems like fitting news for this warm spring day in New York, Chelsea’s Alexander Gray Associates now represents the artist Polly Apfelbaum, whose previous representative in the city, Clifton Benevento, shuttered last year. “It’s been a dream of mine for many … Read More
  
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• Lessons In The Power Of Diversity From A Portland Theatre

  08-02-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "There are, unsurprisingly, literally hundreds and hundreds of contemporary writers of color whose plays will move, engage, titillate, outrage, and delight audiences."
  
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• Artists, curators and gallerists sign letter calling for repeal of Trump’s immigration order

  08-02-2017 21:19
  
  More than 80 artists, curators, dealers and critics have signed an open letter to voice their opposition to President Trump's travel ban, which targets refugees and citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries. The letter calls for the immediate and total overturning of the executive order, which the signatories say has exacerbated humanitarian crises and caused colleagues to be profiled based on race and religion.The letter continues: Should our colleagues have to leave the United States for
  
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• Was David Hockney influenced by Talking Heads? | Peter Bradshaw

  08-02-2017 21:04
  
  A Tate Britain retrospective has much to admire, but one exhibit bears an odd resemblance to the artwork for 1978 album More Songs About Buildings and FoodThis week’s cultural pleasure, amounting to euphoria, was a visit to the David Hockney retrospective at London’s Tate Britain. I bounced around in a sugar rush at the blocks of colour and light. Hockney’s A Bigger Splash, Alan Hollinghurst’s novel The Swimming Pool Library and Jacques Deray’s film La Piscine are s
  
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• Willpower - A Bad Idea That It's Time To Get Rid Of

  08-02-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cark Erik Fisher: "As a practicing addiction psychiatrist and an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry, I've become increasingly skeptical about the very concept ... More fundamentally, the common, monolithic definition of willpower distracts us from finer-grained dimensions of self-control and runs the danger of magnifying harmful myths."
  
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• Randy Dudley at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York

  08-02-2017 20:35 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• A Central Role For Dance In A New Netflix Hit

  08-02-2017 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Can dance change lives? In “The OA,” it does. “When people say, ‘I was crying when I was watching it,’ it’s like, exactly. That is exactly what dance has the power to do. Whether or not it’s true — which I think is a beautiful question in the series — I know that it can heal.”
  
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• Sotheby’s takes Mark Weiss to court over contested Frans Hals

  08-02-2017 20:23
  
  On Monday, Sothebys announced it would take the art dealer Mark Weiss, his gallery, and a company belonging to his partner to high court in England, to recoup its losses in the sale of the painting Portrait of a Gentleman purportedly by Frans Hals, which the auction house says was revealed to be a fake through technical analysis. Weiss has responded that he intends to vigorously contest the claim, and calls for further testing of the painting.
  Last summer, Sothebys reimbursed the Seattle collec
  
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• Hull’s Blade sculpture is big, bold and beautiful | Letters

  08-02-2017 20:23
  
  Adrian Searle’s dismissive review of the Blade sculpture, part of the Hull’s City of Culture events (‘Wreckers of civilisation’, G2, 6 February) rather misses the point. Blade is not just “bigging up” a propeller that might have been admired by Constantin Brâncuși: it represents the regeneration of a neglected and often despised city that has suffered economic decline for the past 40 years.As a sculpture it is neither in the genre of Richard Serra&r
  
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• How A Psychotic Little Girl In World War II Japan Made Herself Into The World's Top-Selling Living Female Artist

  08-02-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The young Yayoi Kusama was plagued with visual hallucinations, mental health problems, and a mother who violently disapproved (literally) of her interest in art. Today, at 87, she's more productive than ever, even as she continues to live in the psychiatric hospital she checked herself into 40 years ago. Darryl Wee tells us about Kusama's journey.
  
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• Kill The Corporation For Public Broadcasting? Big Stations Will Do Fine. It's The Small Rural Stations That Will Be Hit

  08-02-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “So for KPCC, our CPB grant comes to about 5 percent of our overall operating budget. For stations in Alaska, for stations in a number of rural states, it’s as high as 40 percent. So there’s a real disparity in the impact that would have between rural and urban stations, and I think from a public policy perspective, that’s a concern.”
  
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• Time Is Contagious

  08-02-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The experience of time, that is. "As we converse with and consider one another, we step in and out of one other's experience, including the other's perceptions (or what we imagine to be another's perception, based on our own experience) of time. Not only does duration bend, we are continuously sharing these small flexions among us like a currency or social glue." Alan Burdick explains how this works.
  
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• Sofitel Brussels Europe hotel presents a Guillaume Bottazzi’s installation

  08-02-2017 18:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  L’hôtel Sofitel Brussels Europe, écrin de l’art de vivre à la française, produit une installation de l’artiste Français Guillaume Bottazzi.L’artiste vient de réaliser un tableau de 16 mètres de haut place Jourdan, avec le partenariat de l’Ambassade de France et de la Commission Européenne.
  L’hôtel Sofitel Brussels Europe, situé sur la Place Jourdan, à deux pas du Parlement europé
  
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• New York Times Theatre Critic Has Left The Paper

  08-02-2017 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Three major contributors to The New York Times culture section have left the paper. The most recent is Charles Isherwood, the No. 2 theater critic since 2004, when he jumped from the top critic’s slot at Variety.
  
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• Why Public Libraries Are Finally Giving Up Fines For Overdue Books

  08-02-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Now some libraries are deciding that the money isn't worth the hassle - not only that, but that fining patrons works against everything that public libraries ought to stand for." Ruth Graham explains the reasoning and the results.
  
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• Vermeer: the artist who taught the world to see ordinary beauty

  08-02-2017 18:01
  
  Johannes Vermeer was so obscure he was barely even known when he died, let alone forgotten. But the French avant-garde rescued him – and showed us his calm, unpretentious geniusJohannes Vermeer is such a quiet and introspective artist that it took hundreds of years for anyone to notice he was a genius. Today he is so revered that it is hard to grasp how unknown he once was.A major Vermeer exhibition opens this month at the Louvre in Paris, whose permanent collection includes his great pain
  
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• Looking In On Joshua Bell At Mid-Career

  08-02-2017 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  "It’s not quite true that he’s not interested in the trappings of celebrity – his New York apartment certainly fits his profile as star musician. Indeed, the limelight may fuel him – but he defines it on his own terms. Take his relatively recent foray into conducting."
  
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• The New Yorker Picks This Year's Best And Worst Super Bowl Ads

  08-02-2017 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ian Crouch: "In other times, the [Anheuser-Busch] commercial - a cinematic, and partly fictionalized, depiction of the journey that the company's co-founder, Adolphus Busch, made from Germany to St. Louis in the mid-nineteenth century - would not have drawn much attention.But these are not other times."
  
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• Manuel de Santaren Named President of Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation

  08-02-2017 17:00 via artnews.com
  Philanthropist and collector Manuel de Santaren is now the president of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, the Miami-based organization devoted to promoting and hosting shows about Latin American art. De Santaren will oversee the foundation’s board and day-to-day operations, which … Read More
  
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• Broadway Is Finally Addressing Its Bathroom Problem

  08-02-2017 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Theater owners, confronted day after day by long lines of women (and, sometimes, men) clogging lobbies and snaking down stairwells while nervously waiting for an available bathroom, are excavating, annexing, converting and renovating their buildings to remedy the chronic inconvenience. The biggest landlords are also retraining ushers, experimenting with new methods of crowd control, and even reversing the genders on restrooms."
  
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• Montreal’s Max Stern Foundation gets its Bacchus back

  08-02-2017 16:09
  
  Today, the FBI returned the painting, Young Man as Bacchus by the Caravaggist painter Jan Franse Verzijl to representatives of the Montreal-based Max and Iris Stern Foundation, in a ceremony held at New York's Museum of Jewish Heritage. Stern was a German-Jewish art dealer who was forced to close his gallery in Dsseldorf and sell his inventory by the Nazi regime.
  The FBI found the picture at the Spring Masters Fair in May 2015, when it was offered for $60,000 by the Galera Soraya Cartategui of
  
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• How Dael Orlandersmith Built A One-Woman Show About Ferguson, Mo.

  08-02-2017 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rosalind Early reports on how the Repertory Theater of St. Louis sent the playwright-performer on a "listening tour" and how her work there is and is not like that of Anna Deavere Smith.
  
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• Ravel Museum In France Abruptly Closes After Several Months Of Weirdness

  08-02-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last year the government of the town where the museum (in the composer's former house) is located forbade France-TV to film there; last month a local official called the police on Charles Dutoit and Martha Argerich while they were visiting; last week the custodian, on the job for 30 years, was fired; there are concerns that objects and archives are missing. Sanjoy Roy looks into the situation and explains why losing the museum permanently would be a tragedy.
  
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• Habitat: Moonlighting—Artists’ Side Jobs

  08-02-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  Most artists, unless they are selling a lot of work, need a good side job. For some, it’s just a way to pay the rent; for others, it’s a parallel passion. But whether they consider it a temporary solution or … Read More
  
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• Actor Alec McCowen, 91

  08-02-2017 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  "'I have always wanted to be an entertainer rather than an actor,' McCowen once wrote, but the truth is he was both: he could immerse himself in a character but also hold an audience spellbound, as in his celebrated one-man performance of St Mark's Gospel."
  
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• Spoleto Festival Director Makes The Arts' Case Against The Travel Ban

  08-02-2017 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nigel Redden, in an op-ed in South Carolina's largest newspaper: "Whether presenting an opera by Antonio Vivaldi or a play by Samuel Beckett, the Festival depends on works created by artists from many parts of the world. ... [Their] varied outlooks come from lives and personal histories that differ from many in the audience who flock each year to the Festival. And this is why they flock: they come looking for the kind of personal connection that the performing arts provide especially well. ... T
  
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• Morning Links: Raf Simons Edition

  08-02-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
  
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• Why Art-World Resistance To Trump Probably Won't Accomplish Much

  08-02-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tom Rachman, writing from the Verbier Art Summit (a would-be Davos for artsy types), is not encouraged: "Politics in the arts often looks more like group bonding than anything that might effect change."
  
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• Here's How The Seattle Symphony Is Protesting Trump's Travel Ban

  08-02-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tonight (Wed., Feb. 8), orchestra musicians are performing music drawn from the seven countries singled out in the executive order. The concert is sold out, but it will be streamed live at 7:30 pm Pacific Time on the SSO's Facebook page.
  
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• Right-Wing Protesters Disrupt Syrian Artist's Installation In Dresden

  08-02-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  The piece by Manaf Halbouni, described as a "Monument" to Aleppo and its people, consists of three buses stood on end in front of Dresden's restored Frauenkirche. The city is the home base of the anti-immigration group Pegida.
  
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• Sting And Wayne Shorter Win 2017 Polar Music Prize

  08-02-2017 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The rock star and jazz saxophonist "are no stranger to awards: they have 26 Grammys between them."
  
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• The angry art of Raymond Pettibon – in pictures

  08-02-2017 14:00
  
  Raymond Pettibon created Black Flag’s name and logo, has designed covers for Sonic Youth and has produced thousands of drawings and installations over a 30-year period. His prolific output is the subject of a major exhibition at the New Museum in New York featuring more than 700 drawings, which will run until 9 April Continue reading...
  
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• Philadelphia Orchestra Renews Stéphane Denève As Principal Guest Conductor

  08-02-2017 13:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Among the things he'd like to do in his next three-year term is include one contemporary work on each program, as he does with his concerts in Europe. (Jennifer Higdon, who lives just down the street from the orchestra's hall, was mentioned as a possibility.)
  
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• Svend Asmussen, Beloved Jazz Violinist, Dead At 100

  08-02-2017 13:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  "If [Stéphane] Grappelli was a flashy diamond, Mr. Asmussen was a hidden gem. He found a devoted following of jazz critics and discerning listeners who admired his facility as a multi-instrumentalist (vibraphone, flute and conga), sometime crooner and occasional clown in the mold of a fellow Dane, the pianist and satirist Victor Borge."
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.07.17

  08-02-2017 11:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Universality/Particularity
  A view of the universality of an art (or any element of culture) is at odds with the reality of different cultures and different forms of cultural expression. ... read more
  AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2017-02-07From London to New Jersey
  The Richard Alston Dance Company at Montclair State University’s Peak Performances, February 2 through 5. ... read more
  AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2017-02-07
   
  
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• Right-wing protesters disrupt unveiling of Syrian artist’s installation in Dresden

  08-02-2017 11:17
  
  Three wrecked buses turned vertically in front of Dresdens Frauenkirche, an installation intended as a Monument to the people of Aleppo by the Syrian-German artist Manaf Halbouni, drew protests from supporters of right-wing populist movements at its opening yesterday (7 February). Monument refers to a photograph taken in Aleppo in 2015, showing buses turned on their heads and fastened together with wire to barricade a street and protect the residents from the fighting. It is designed to re
  
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• House of horrors: the shows putting a macabre twist on domestic bliss

  08-02-2017 08:00
  
  The booby-trapped bedroom, the mysterious mincing machine, the body under the patio … why the sudden spate of shows taking a creepy view of home life?Domestic life as a subject for art suggests a smug casserole of Cath Kidston prints and sentimentality: hints of amateurism, family portraits, tasteful still-life paintings. But a number of current exhibitions offer a more oppressive – even macabre – vision of domesticity, in which the home appears as a site of burden and confine
  
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• Gluck: the lesbian rebel of pre-war painting – in pictures

  08-02-2017 08:00
  
  Hannah Gluckstein, aka Gluck, born to a wealthy British family, become an artist with a string of high-profile lovers – and created emotive, humanistic paintings Continue reading...
  
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