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• New Workshop for Arts Professionals: June 8-10, 2017, in New York City

  13-02-2017 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  A workshop for leaders of arts organizations, “New Realities: The Changing Business of the Performing Arts,” will provide fresh perspectives and best practices in performing-arts management, as well as abundant networking opportunities.
  This three-day workshop will take place at Fordham University’s Midtown Manhattan campus, in the heart of America’s cultural capital. It will be led by William Baker, Ph.D., faculty member at both Fordham and The Juilliard School, and Mart
  
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• Artists Space Names Jay Sanders Executive Director and Chief Curator

  13-02-2017 23:42 via artnews.com
  After its former executive director, Stefan Kalmár, left to become the director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Artists Space will have Whitney Museum curator Jay Sanders pick up the reins. Starting in April, Sanders will be the new … Read More
  
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• The Grammys' Fear Of Progress

  13-02-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Black artists from Prince to Michael Jackson to Kanye West have been on the forefront of this sort of expansion of what pop music means. Maybe that fact has something to do with why they have mostly fared poorly in the Grammys general categories over the years even as they have served up exactly the kind of performances that make the Grammys worth watching at all. Or maybe it’s just a deeper sort of bias."
  
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• Elon Musk: Humans And Machines Will Have To Converge

  13-02-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence," Musk told an audience at the World Government Summit in Dubai, where he also launched Tesla in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). "It's mostly about the bandwidth, the speed of the connection between your brain and the digital version of yourself, particularly output."
  
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• 'A time for guerrilla DIY': how the Mexico-US border became a hub for protest art

  13-02-2017 22:50
  
  Donald Trump’s executive order to build a border wall has caused frustration and anger, but it’s also shining a light on an urgent and focused set of artistsSave the rainbow and dove paintings for kindergarten art class. The new school of protest art at the Mexican-US border shows how far we have come since the Berlin Wall. Artists are using far more than just paint: they’re slapping on glow-in-the-dark stickers, building plywood treehouses and even using cello bows as forms of
  
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• It Turns Out Peter Pan's Captain Hook Was An Afterthought

  13-02-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "When Jim Barrie took the original show to theatre he had to give stagehands more time to switch scenery. He created a scene that could be performed at the front of the stage. This scene featured a pirate ship and Captain Hook. The role soon expanded and the rest is history."
  
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• Anne Ellegood and Erin Christovale Will Curate the Hammer Museum’s 2018 Made in L.A. Biennial

  13-02-2017 22:21 via artnews.com
  The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has named Anne Ellegood, a senior curator at the museum, and Erin Christovale, an L.A.-based independent curator, as the organizers of the museum’s next Made in L.A. biennial in 2018. The fourth edition of … Read More
  
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• Here Are All Of 2017's Classical Music Grammy Winners

  13-02-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Boston Symphony, Nashville Symphony and more...
  
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• Object lessons: from photographs of Nasa missions to an explicitly sexual Roman sculpture

  13-02-2017 22:00
  
  Cibachrome prints from Nasa missions (1965-84, printed around 1985)Icons & Images: Photographs and Photobooks, Swann Auction Galleries, New York, 14 FebruaryEstimate: $15,000-$25,000This group of 30 Cibachrome prints of Nasa missions, taken between 1965 and 1984, is a slice of space-age history. First published in 1985, the prints were selected from the archives of Nasa, the US space agency, by Barbara Hitchcock, a former curator of the Polaroid Collection, and Peter Riva, a collector and a
  
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• New York hearts immigrants

  13-02-2017 22:00
  
  This Valentines Day, New York is showing love for its immigrant communities with an installation at Times Square, We Were Strangers Once Too, a reference to president Barack Obamas November 2014 speech on immigration reform. The workby the Office for Creative Research, a group that comes up with innovative ways to show and use datais made of 33 metal poles coloured in red and pink blocks that reference the shifting populations of the citys foreign-born residents, based on nationality. The colou
  
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• How to tear Robert Indiana’s LOVE apart

  13-02-2017 22:00
  The original version of Robert Indianas LOVE (1970) was removed from its home on the mall outside of Indianapolis Museum of Art in January to undergo much-need conservation work. Decades of exposure to the elements have taken their toll, with water infiltration being the main preservation issue. For more on this story, see our forthcoming March 2017 issue
  
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• Children’s footprints and painted murals preserved at site linked to Biblical exodus

  13-02-2017 22:00
  Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Pi-Ramesses, near modern Qantir in Egypts Nile Delta, have discovered childrens footprints preserved in mortar and fragments of a large painted wall, both dated to roughly the era of Pharaoh Ramesses II. The city is traditionally regarded as the site of the Biblical exodus.The team, from the Roemer- und Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim, uncovered fragments of a large painted wall that was used to fill an ancient mortar pit. Due to the size of the motifs,
  
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• Bjarne's Valentine's Day purge

  13-02-2017 22:00
  
  Fashion lovers: the artist Bjarne Melgaard has got your Valentines Day plansor your last-minute giftscovered. Head to Red Bull Arts New York today (14 February) from 5-8pm for The Purge, a giveaway of $500,000 worth of the artists own designer clothingincluding pieces by Lanvin, Issey Miyake and Comme des Garonsand items from his new unisex Melgaard streetwear collection, such as bomber jacket with a shooting range target printed on the back, framed by the words queer fear, and a tee-shirt that
  
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• Battle over Kiefer’s Beijing show escalates as curator rejects dealers’ objections

  13-02-2017 22:00
  
  The organisers of the controversial Anselm Kiefer exhibition at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum (CAFAM) in Beijing are fighting back against the Western dealers who represent the artist and who opposed the project.
  Anselm Kiefer: Coagulation, was held at CAFAM between 19 November 2016 and 8 January 2017, the first stop of a planned four-city tour. However, the artist protested that it was organised against his wishes and without his consent, and refused to attend. His three representing
  
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• Edmonton Theatre Cancels Production Of "Othello" After Outcry

  13-02-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Listen, I love it when directors and actors make bold choices with Shakespeare, or play against him – and a lot of innovation begins in university or amateur theatres. But there’s a difference between subversive takes and regressive ones."
  
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• What, Exactly, Defines A Movie As "Canadian"?

  13-02-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The issue of what, exactly, makes a film or TV show genuinely Canadian is suddenly gripping the industry, after a series of government moves to shake up long-standing regulations. Creators are worried the moves, which would allow even more American talent into our movies and shows in the name of making the content more likely to sell internationally, will water down the distinct Canadian perspective just when it is finally starting to gain real traction around the world."
  
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• The Humanities Only Survive Because Of Long, And Deep, Exploitation

  13-02-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  "We might note that the conditions ravaging our profession are also ravaging our work. The privilege of tenure used to confer academic freedom through job security. By now, decades of adjunctification have made the professoriate fearful, insular, and conformist."
  
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• Lonni Sue Johnson Has Amnesia And She's Teaching Neuroscientists About What She Knows About Art

  13-02-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins started at the most basic level they could think of – the ‘Who painted this?’ test, which she pretty much failed. Her semantic memory about art and artists, her primary area of expertise, was significantly impaired. Remarkably, though, when the scientists included some of her own artworks in the testing, she correctly flagged every one as hers. Even more surprising, when the researchers added drawings done in a style somewhat similar to Joh
  
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• Are There Plays That Should No Longer Be Produced? (And How To Decide?)

  13-02-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Just as we need to produce more women, LGBTQIA artists, and people of color (that is to say, more people who aren’t straight white men), we need to consider what plays should no longer be produced. This is not about political correctness. This is not about censorship. This is drawing a moral line that defines what is in and out of bounds in our culture."
  
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• Akos Birkas at Galerie Eigen + Art, Berlin

  13-02-2017 19:22 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Why Aphorisms Seem So Powerful To Us

  13-02-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The voices of Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker and Benjamin Franklin still feel electrically alive to us because they managed to bake their personas into their brief observations. While proverbs and adages (cousins of the aphorism, to be sure) often lose their authorship and become orphaned—think about how many times someone has mentioned “an old Irish saying” without knowing anything about its actual provenance—aphorisms stay tethered to their creators, dragging their voi
  
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• Scene Report: Elliott Radner on Gossip’s Web, His Database of New Alternative Art Spaces

  13-02-2017 19:02 via artnews.com
  The artist and curator Elliott Radner was working full-time at a gallery in San Francisco when he started the space VI Dancer, which existed in the solarium of his apartment from the fall of 2015 to the summer of 2016. … Read More
  
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• Scene Report: Elliot Radner on Gossip’s Web, His Database of New Alternative Art Spaces

  13-02-2017 19:02 via artnews.com
  The artist and curator Elliott Radner was working full-time at a gallery in San Francisco when he started the space VI Dancer, which existed in the solarium of his apartment from the fall of 2015 to the summer of 2016. … Read More
  
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• Weekly Standard: Artists Have "Weaponized" Art

  13-02-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Today's leading artists focus almost singlemindedly on issues of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and religion. Beauty and truth are not merely subservient to the "identitarian" agenda, they are excised from the conversation altogether. It's not just that the New Philistines have weaponized art in the service of an aggressive social-engineering campaign; they've pulverized it."
  
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• Gender Breakdown Of Top 40 Music - An Odd Correlation

  13-02-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2005, Billboard changed its methodology to include digital downloads, and in 2007, it included digital streaming. In 2013, they added video streaming from sites like YouTube. There’s certainly a correlation between the music industry’s digitization, and women’s drop in representation. In 2016, only 22 percent of popular songs were performed by only women. That’s a huge drop from the 41.4 percent that women performed in the decade 1997-2007.
  
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• American Gothic arrives in London for Royal Academy show

  13-02-2017 17:46
  
  Grant Wood’s 1930 masterpiece had never left North America until it went to Paris three months agoIt is arguably the most famous of all American paintings, endlessly re-imagined, satirised and parodied, but until now it has never been seen publicly in the UK.Grant Wood’s 1930 masterpiece American Gothic has arrived at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the star of a Depression-era show opening next week. Continue reading...
  
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• Andrew Goldstein Named Editor-in-Chief of Artnet News in Masthead Shakeup

  13-02-2017 17:21 via artnews.com
  And the art startup talent shuffle continues…ARTnews has learned that Andrew Goldstein will take over as editor-in-chief of artnet News, the online art market hub’s editorial wing. He succeeds Rozalia Jovanovic, who announced late last week that she would be … Read More
  
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• SNMAAHC in the Middle of the Mall: Art Is the Chapel in This Mega Church

  13-02-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  In the Jorge Luis Borges story from 1945, “The Aleph,” we are told of a sphere, secreted in a dark cellar, in which all the spatial infinitude and plenitude of the world can be seen simultaneously, from every imaginable angle. … Read More
  
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• Why the sublime violence of volcanoes will never lie dormant

  13-02-2017 15:51
  
  A new exhibition shows how scientists have tried to understand the mayhem of volcanoes, and how artists have embraced their sheer terrorArt and science merge in a colossal mushroom cloud of ash in an illustration from William Hamilton’s 1779 supplement to his book Campi Phlegraei. We see a vast plume of white and grey dust hanging high above Mount Vesuvius in broad daylight. Blue sky and sea enclose the eruption in a frozen calm. The cloud suggests the solidity and weight of thousands of t
  
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• Morning Links: Met Museum Workout Edition

  13-02-2017 15:14 via artnews.com
  The Pictures GenerationT magazine brought together 17 key artists affiliated with what’s called “The Pictures Generation” for an historic photoshoot, and has released the striking image alongside a making-of video that goes behind the scenes of the shoot. These accompany an … Read More
  
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• German contemporary art a big draw as artists come to terms with past

  13-02-2017 14:20
  
  Sotheby’s says ‘unprecedented interest’ with buyers tuning in to postwar masters’ attempts to use work to confront historyFor years, contemporary art sales at the world’s leading auction houses were dominated by the works of American and British artists. When it came to eye-watering amounts of money, paintings by anglophone figures including Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock and Francis Bacon were typically the headline-makers.But in what it has been described as a &ldqu
  
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• Garage Museum Releases Artist List for First Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art

  13-02-2017 14:00 via artnews.com
  The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow released its artist list for its upcoming inaugural Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, opening March 10. The exhibition will bring together 68 artists working within Russia, aiming to capture “the zeitgeist … Read More
  
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• Russian billionaire’s new Venice gallery to open with show of Soviet and contemporary art

  13-02-2017 12:19
  
  The leading US artist Barbara Kruger will unveil a major new work in the inaugural exhibition organised by the V-A-C Foundation at its new gallery in Venice this summer. Krugers work will be the centrepiece of the exhibition Space Force Construction (13 May-25 August) taking place in the 19th-century Palazzo delle Zattere. The installation, which will cover the floor and walls of the buildings second floor, is described in a project statement as an image of a hand holding out an iPhone with app
  
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• Love eruption: House of Chaste Lovers opens for Valentine's

  13-02-2017 11:28
  
  Visitors to Pompeii this Valentines Day are in for a treat: the so-called House of the Chaste Lovers will open to the public for one day only before its doors close again for next four years so much-needed structural work can take place. The 1,500 sq. m, two-storey building on one of the ancient Roman citys busiest shopping streetsthe Via dellAbbondanzabelonged to a baker and doubled as a commercial and residential space. It gets its name from a fresco in the triclinium (dining room) that depic
  
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• Wolfgang Tillmans: 'I was hit by a realisation – all I believed in was threatened'

  13-02-2017 08:00
  
  He upended fashion photography and embraced digital technology to creat luminously beautiful images of nature. As his new Tate show opens, Wolfgang Tillmans talks about his reinvention as an EU posterboy – and his four-hour version of the Pet Shop Boys hit It’s a Sin“For a long time in Britain,” says Wolfgang Tillmans, “there was a deep suspicion of my work. People saw me as a commercial artist trying to get into the art world, and the work was dismissed as shallow
  
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• Law and disorder: the grisly lens of Enrique Metinides – in pictures

  13-02-2017 08:00
  
  As a child, Enrique Metinides photographed the bloody crime scenes of Mexico City – leading to a lifetime of ambulance chasing and macabre images Continue reading...
  
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