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• The Top-Selling Pop Musician Of 2016

  10-02-2017 23:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The Canadian star achieved millions of sales and billions of streams with his fourth album, Views, which topped the charts around the world. He managed to beat Adele and Coldplay, who also achieved big sales last year."
  
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• Swann's star lots

  10-02-2017 23:46
  Space nerds and photography buffs alike will be tempted by the 14 February auction, Icons and Images: Photographs and Photobooks at Swann Auction Galleries in New York, which offers 325 lots from the 19th and 20th centuries, many by boldfaced names like Margaret Bourke-White, Lewis Hine and Imogen Cunningham. The sale features a number of images related to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), including a collection of 22 large-format prints from NASA's archives (est. $1
  
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• Misty Copeland Takes Issue With Her Commercial Sponsor's CEO

  10-02-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Copeland made history when she became the first African-American female principal dancer with the American Ballet Theater, but prior to that, she was placed in the public eye when her 2014 commercial with Under Armour went viral.
  
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• Poll: The World's LEAST Sexy Music Genre

  10-02-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Even chamber music, thrash metal and hymns ranked higher in a survey of more than 2,000 people conducted by Birmingham's Symphony Hall."
  
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• Klimt Landscape, Estimated at Over $45 M., Will Lead Sotheby’s Imp-Mod Sale in London

  10-02-2017 23:00 via artnews.com
  It’s a big week for fans of Viennese symbolist painter Gustav Klimt!On Wednesday, Bloomberg’s Katya Kazakina revealed that Oprah Winfrey had parted with Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II (1912) for $150 million, in a private deal brokered by Larry Gagosian that … Read More
  
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• How Boundaries Help You Be More Creative

  10-02-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "We tend to think of creativity as something artistic—the quality that produces masterpieces. But it’s actually an important part of just getting everyday stuff done. It’s what allows a programmer to complete her first line of original code, a product manager to identify a new market for an existing product, and an elementary-school teacher to find an entertaining way to teach subtraction. And when it comes to situations as different as these, constraints seem to improve our pe
  
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• Even As Streaming Becomes Easy And Popular, Piracy ContinuesAnd Hollywood Is Prosecuting

  10-02-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Pirate content is back in the news with a court case by the Motion Picture Association, which represents Disney, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios and Warner Bros, against nine Irish internet service providers or ISPs."
  
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• One hundred years on, museums mark the Bolshevik Revolution

  10-02-2017 22:00
  A Revolutionary Impulse: the Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde, Museum of Modern Art, New York (until 12 March)
  The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) led the way and opened the first of the big international anniversary shows devoted to the art of the Russian Revolution in December. A Revolutionary Impulse (until 12 March), focuses on the period 1912-35 and includes the big names of Suprematism and Constructivism: Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky and Aleksandr Rodchenko, among others. It also
  
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• ‘Betwixt and Between’: Raúl De Nieves and Colin Self’s Opera, ‘The Fool,’ Dazzles at the Kitchen

  10-02-2017 21:56 via artnews.com
  Bribery, persuasion, seduction—these are all methods I endorse using in order to obtain a ticket for The Fool, Raúl De Nieves and Colin Self’s jaw-droppingly impressive opera that is playing at the Kitchen in New York tonight and tomorrow. Tickets … Read More
  
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• The Artist's Job Now? Radical Empathy

  10-02-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Radical empathy, as I define it, is the act of reaching out with an open heart and mind, even if we feel the person or community we are reaching out to is undeserving of such openness. It’s the notion that, if we swallow our own hurt long enough to extend empathy to our opposition no matter what (that’s the radical part), we will establish connections capable of yielding far greater fruit than any amount of soap-boxing or condemnation ever will. Radical empathy is how the artist and
  
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• Yui Kugimiya at Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York

  10-02-2017 21:20 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Steven Spielberg - Genius From The Perfectly Ordinary

  10-02-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "From a certain angle one can see Spielberg as one of those archetypal children of the mythic suburbs, cheery on the outside and nervewracked on the inside, a myth on which his own films have worked variations time and again. So much of his early trajectory feels so generic."
  
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• In bloom: Klimt’s flower garden to lead Sotheby’s London spring sales

  10-02-2017 21:00
  
  Spring is coming early to London. Gustav Klimt's flowery Bauerngarten (Blumengarten) (1907) will lead Sothebys Impressionist and Modern art evening sale in the UK capital on 1 March, the house announced today.The news of the top lot comes on the heels of Bloombergs report that Oprah Winfrey sold Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II (1912) for $150m last year to a Chinese buyer in a private sale. Winfrey bought the work for $87.9m at Christies New York in 2006, the same year that Ronald Lauder paid
  
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• From the Archives: David Hockney Paints a Portrait, in 1969

  10-02-2017 20:38 via artnews.com
  With a David Hockney retrospective having opened this week at Tate Britain in London, we turn back to the May 1969 issue of ARTnews, in which David Shapiro profiled Hockney as part of the magazine’s “Paints a Picture” series, in … Read More
  
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• Any Connection Between Literary Quality And Money?

  10-02-2017 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  "No level of affluence will ensure that you write a worthwhile book. Consider the laws of the literary few: Having lots of money confers status but having very little confers legitimacy, which offers a different kind of status; having too much is unseemly yet so is having none. The rich and the poor collude in believing that the amount of money you inherit or make means something about your moral fiber, the quality of your art. What will we do when we find out it doesn't?"
  
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• Inhaling New York: The Always-Smoking German Modernist Max Beckmann Takes Refuge in New York

  10-02-2017 20:16 via artnews.com
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• Barbara Gelb, 91 - O'Neill Biographer, Playwright, Journalist

  10-02-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The original biography, “O’Neill,” which they started when they were in their early 30s, clocked in at 964 pages, but was energetically paced and chock-full of interviews with O’Neill’s ex-wives, friends from his boyhood and seaman days, and the real people on whom his dramatic characters were based. The book, published in 1962, became a best seller.
  
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• The City Los Angeles Might Have Been

  10-02-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are the cities we have. And then there are the cities we might have had if only they had been been built. It's probably no surprise that with all the imagination running rampant in Los Angeles, there are many fun proposed projects that never got built. Here are some of them...
  
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• Classic pop, revolution, and a fire at Tate Modern – the week in art

  10-02-2017 19:10
  
  Wolfgang Tillmans’ major Tate show opens this week, as does the Whitechapel’s Eduardo Paolozzi exhibition – all in your weekly art dispatchEduardo Paolozzi
  Science, technology and the modern world merge creatively with the traditions of sculpture in the work of one of the first pop artists.• Whitechapel Gallery, London, 16 February-14 May Continue reading...
  
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• Limited-Run Musicals On Broadway: A New Business Model?

  10-02-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Limited-run plays have become standard on Broadway these days, but musicals tend to keep their runs open-ended for as long as the tourists keep coming. So it's unusual that there are two limited-run musicals on Broadway right now (Sunset Boulevard and Sunday in the Park With George), following another (Falsettos) earlier in the season. Howard Sherman looks at why this phenomenon has developed and whether it can work financially.
  
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• Creative Time Names Nato Thompson Artistic Director, Announces New Senior Curator

  10-02-2017 18:45 via artnews.com
  Creative Time, the New York–based nonprofit focused on public art, has promoted former chief curator Nato Thompson to artistic director and appointed Elvira Dyangani Ose as a new senior curator.Thompson, who was been with Creative Time since 2007, has presented some of the organization’s … Read More
  
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• LA Cracks Down On Pay-To-Play Casting Workshops

  10-02-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The Los Angeles city attorney cracked down on Hollywood's pay-to-play casting workshop scene on Thursday, announcing cases against five prominent casting firms and 25 individuals allegedly involved in schemes that violate the Krekorian Talent Scam Prevention Act, a rarely enforced state labor law."
  
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• Shia LaBeouf's Trump art project closes after becoming 'flashpoint for violence'

  10-02-2017 18:25
  
  Museum of the Moving Image said actor’s installation, where patrons chanted ‘he will not divide us’ since Trump was inaugurated, posed ‘public safety hazard’New York City’s Museum of the Moving Image has closed a performance art project involving Shia LaBeouf, citing “serious public safety hazards”. Related: ‘What’s the LaBeouf?’ Shia takes on the NazisContinue reading...
  
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• Is There Any Such Thing As A Good Video-Game Movie?

  10-02-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hollywood keeps trying to make one, but time after time, it seems, they're critical disasters and U.S. box-office bombs (though some do wery well overseas). Top directors tend to either avoid the genre or try it once, get burned, and then avoid it. Is a truly good big-screen adaptation of a video game even possible? Yes, argues David Sims, and, arguably, it's happened already.
  
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• Hollywood Women Gather To Say Things Have To Change In The Biz

  10-02-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Frustration was in the air at the Makers conference, where hundreds of women gathered for three days in Rancho Palos Verdes to network and hear female celebrities and luminaries speak. Just weeks after the Women’s March and the inauguration of a president who has bragged on tape about sexually assaulting women, Hollywood women in particular were openly critical of the way they’d been treated in their professional lives."
  
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• So, Like, Where Did Everybody Saying 'Like' Come From?

  10-02-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yes, the usage exploded in the 1970s and '80s, but it didn't originate with Valley Girls or even hippies - it goes back at least to the 1770s. In this Lexicon Valley podcast, John McWhorter and sociolinguist Alexandra D'Arcy talk about the history and (yes) grammar of "like."
  
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• When Gerhard Richter Drew Cartoons

  10-02-2017 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  J. Hoberman writes about the newly-rediscovered "comic strip" drawings, featuring a lead character called the Biped, that Richter drew in 1962, shortly after escaping from East to West Germany.
  
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• Creative Time appoints Elvira Dyangani Ose as senior curator

  10-02-2017 16:06
  
  The New York-based non-profit public art producer Creative Time announced today that Elvira Dyangani Ose has joined as senior curator. Ose previously lectured on visual arts at Goldsmiths, University of London and was a member the curatorial group Thought Council at the Fondazione Prada in Milan. Ose will collaborate with Nato Thompsonthe artistic director of Creative Time, who joined in 2007 and has now been promoted to creative directorto further shape how the institution engages with th
  
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• Why This Man Was The Most Photographed American Of The 19th Century

  10-02-2017 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  You've heard of him (even if Donald Trump hadn't). His pose and his outfit were almost always the same, and he had specific reasons for seeking out the camera as much as he did - reasons that went well beyond self-regard.
  
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• 'Nevertheless, She Persisted' And The Age Of The Weaponized Meme

  10-02-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  "You couldn't have designed better fodder for a meme had you tried." Megan Garber writes about how and why Mitch McConnell's now-notorious mansplain about Elizabeth Warren became the feminist slogan tweeted 'round the world.
  
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• 'Recruit Rosie' - 'Saturday Night Live' Has Now Joined, Or Been Memed Into, The Resistance

  10-02-2017 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  It took one news report that Donald Trump was upset that SNL cast a woman as Sean Spicer for Twitter to erupt with calls for the show to cast Trump's number one bête noire, Rosie O'Donnell, as Steve Bannon. Megan Garber points out that this is no longer just a joke: "It operated on the premise that jokes can effect significant changes in the daily operations of the White House." (We want Steve Buscemi as Kellyanne Conway!)
  
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• Nicolai Gedda, 91, Revered Tenor Whose Career Spanned Five Decades

  10-02-2017 15:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  A scrupulous musician, Gedda was admired for his fantastic versatility: he was convincing and stylish in Mozart, bel canto, Italian, French, German, and Russian repertoire, capable in opera, art song, and even operetta.
  
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• Could A New Box Set Redeem 20th-Century Opera's Grandest Flop?

  10-02-2017 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Critics the world over flocked to New York in 1966 for the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center - and they hated the piece composed for the occasion, Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra. The work's reputation never recovered (and neither, in truth, did Barber himself). But after listening to a radio broadcast of the original production, recently released by the Met as part of a box set, David Patrick Stearns says that "Barber's fall from grace is confounding" and that,
  
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• Morning Links: The Cat Named Raymond Carver Edition

  10-02-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Rajiv Joseph Wins $25K Horton Foote Playwriting Award

  10-02-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  The author of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and Guards at the Taj will receive the prize at the end of this month. The award from the Dramatists Guild of America was launched just last year, with Stephen Karam (The Humans) the winner.
  
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• Painting Languishing In A Storeroom Turns Out To Be A Genuine Brueghel

  10-02-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The unsigned and undated work, Wedding Dance in the Open Air (1607-15), had been in store for several years when the [Holburne Museum in Bath's] director, Jennifer Scott, decided to pull it out for a closer look."
  
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• America's First Black Pop Star (She Sang Opera)

  10-02-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield was born a slave, raised by an abolitionist, and began her career before the Civil War with the nickname "the Black Swan," a counterpart to the "Swedish Nightingale," Jenny Lind.
  
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• Reconstructing The Opera That Inaugurated The Theater At Versailles Palace For Louis XVI

  10-02-2017 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the new Royal Opera House, built to celebrate the wedding of the then-Dauphin to Marie-Antoinette in 1770, three composers adapted Lully's 1682 tragedy Persée so that it would be grand enough for the couple and the venue - a cast of 15, an 80-piece orchestra, a chorus of 95, 80 ballet dancers, five sets. In this video, conductor Hervé Niquet talks about reviving and recording the piece.
  
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• UK places temporary export bar on Parmigianino painting

  10-02-2017 13:58
  
  Move is to allow time for UK-based buyer to match £24.5m price tag for work by 16th-century Italian manneristA painting by the Italian artist Parmigianino could be lost overseas unless a British buyer can match the £24.5m price tag.The government has placed a temporary export bar on the 16th-century work to allow time for a UK-based buyer to come forward. Continue reading...
  
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• Exhibition On Maidan In Kiev Destroyed By Nationalist Gang

  10-02-2017 13:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Security camera footage shows more than a dozen men in balaclavas bursting into Kiev's Visual Culture Research Center, beating a guard, and destroying artist Davyd Chychkan's show Lost Opportunity. They left behind holes in the walls and graffiti reading "Moscow's mouthpiece," "Glory to Ukraine," and the like.
  
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• Conductor Sidney Rothstein, 80

  10-02-2017 13:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  While he founded the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, a reading orchestra which he directed for a dozen years, and led orchestras in West Virginia and Florida, his longest post - 30 years - was at the Reading Symphony in Pennsylvania.
  
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• Kiki Smith’s Sky: a layer cake of art history, myth, identity and nature

  10-02-2017 13:00
  
  This 2012 work, created on a computerised Jacquard loom, shows how the artist has moved from the physical to the celestialKiki Smith’s huge, new-agey tapestry is a typically personal layer cake of art history, myth, female identity and nature. The split between the underworld, earth and heavens recalls the cosmology of the Celts, Native and Central Americans. Its floating nude might be a sprite, a spirit or a goddess. Continue reading...
  
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• Joan Eardley: the forgotten artist who captured Scotland's life and soul

  10-02-2017 13:00
  
  Children from Glasgow’s slums, bleak seascapes, village fishermen at work … the vibrant visions of Joan Eardley are finding a new followingJoan Eardley, who died aged only 42 in 1963, is barely known in England. In 2007 the National Galleries of Scotland mounted a full retrospective, which attracted a new Scottish audience to her art. Currently, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art offers a more focused exhibition, concentrating on her passion for two places: Townhead, a part
  
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• Nathan Coley sets fire to (a tiny) Tate Modern for London show

  10-02-2017 11:52
  
  I sat in shock, with tears in my eyes, at the sight of the flames ripping through the roof, and thick black smoke engulfing that so familiar building. How could this be happening? The text that accompanies the Glaswegian artist Nathan Coleys new exhibition, which opens at Parafin gallery in London today (until 18 March) could easily have evoked the shock of seeing Mackintoshs Glasgow School of Art, where Coley studied, ablaze in 2015. But in fact its a fictional response to a fire at another mu
  
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• Wolfgang Tillmans and Volcanoes: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  10-02-2017 10:30
  
  From one of art’s greatest contemporary photographers to the rich cultural history of famous eruptionsA period that shook the world is marked by this centenary show about the Russian Revolution’s impact on art. While the bourgeois art collecting that had brought Matisse’s Dance to Russia was killed by the Bolsheviks, the first 15 years of communism saw public commissions aplenty as modern art became utopian agitprop. Here is some of the greatest art of the 20th century made und
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.09.17

  10-02-2017 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  On “Artivism” – a conversation with Amy Hunter
  I met Amy Hunter in St. Louis in October 2014, less than 3 months after the shooting of Michael Brown in nearby Ferguson.  At the time, she served as Director of Racial Justice for the YWCA of Metro St. Louis. ... read more
  AJBlog: Audience Wanted Published 2017-02-09ICYMI: Matisse and American Art
  No sooner had my review of the exhibition at the Montclair Art Museum titled Matisse and American Art run in T
  
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• Urban public art: can it be more than a developer’s decoy strategy?

  10-02-2017 08:30
  
  Expensive sculptures are often funded from the same small pot of money as affordable housing, public space and highways improvements – but do we really need a physical manifestation of a developer’s guilty conscience?“Hosting of Draped Seated Woman” was an unlikely request to see advertised by a local council this winter, alongside tenders for the provision of litter bins and parking enforcement. But the London borough of Tower Hamlets is in a quandary: it needs to find a
  
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• That's so random: Jan Cieslikiewicz's search for order – in pictures

  10-02-2017 08:00
  
  Polish photographer Jan Cieslikiewicz went from maths at Harvard to a Wall Street trading job – and then left it behind to embrace uncertainty Continue reading...
  
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• A farmhouse with a valuable secret – in pictures

  10-02-2017 08:00
  
  The £500,000 price tag could end up being a steal for this characterful North Yorkshire property if you believe the tale that comes with itContinue reading...
  
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• The New Robots That Are Making Vinyl Records

  10-02-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The first new record-pressing machines built in over 30 years are finally online. The brainchild of some Canadian R&D guys with a background designing fancy MRI machines, the Warm Tone record press is everything that its vintage counterpart is not: safe, fast, fully automated, reliable, run by cloud-based software, and iOS-controlled. These $195,000 whiz-bang machines, the homegrown product of a Toronto company called Viryl Technologies, are the next-gen record presses our 21st century viny
  
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