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• Museum Struggle To Conserve "New" Media Art That's No Longer So New

  19-04-2017 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Conservation of art that was made with technology like old TVs, VCR tapes and floppy disks is breaking down and getting more and more difficult to conserve. How do you "restore" a cassette tape when it has started to decay? Museum conservators are resorting to buying up old technology on services like EBay to repair the materials.
  
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• Scientists: Creative People Physically See The World In A Different Way

  19-04-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  People who are open to new experiences can take in more visual information than other people and combine it in unique ways. This may explain why they tend to be particularly creative.
  
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• Peggy Guggenheim's great-grandchildren say New York exhibition violates her legacy

  19-04-2017 23:00
  
  Three great-grandchildren of Peggy Guggenheim are accusing the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York of defying the wishes of the late collector. The museums current exhibition, Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim (until 6 September), celebrates collectors who helped shape the foundation. It includes 21 works from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, from major works by Duchamp, Picasso and Brncui, to Jackson Pollocks Alchemy (1947), one of the artists greatest drip pain
  
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• First Freelands Award goes to Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery and Jacqueline Donachie

  19-04-2017 23:00
  
  It is a much lamented fact that despite more women than men graduating from the UKs art schools, the statistic does not extend to the number of female artists being represented by commercial galleries or given solo institutional shows. All credit then to the Freelands Foundation for inaugurating an annual award that enables an arts organisation to present an exhibition to a mid-career female artist who may not have yet received the acclaim or public recognition her work deserves. And even
  
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• GP McLeer: Ten Things That Should Change In The Arts RIGHT NOW

  19-04-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After being in this field for a hot second, there are just some things that I think are impeding our ability, as an industry, to become more self-sustaining, attract new and younger audiences, and make the arts experience much better for the audience and/or consumer. These are ideas, traditions, thoughts – or “institutional traditions” – that have somehow become the “norm” in our industry and create an environment where we value the tradition over the aud
  
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• Dazzling Memories: Jane Hammond Gets Her Sparkling Photos to Breathe

  19-04-2017 22:11 via artnews.com
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• The Man Who Studies Ignorance Explains How It Flourishes

  19-04-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Robert Proctor explains that ignorance can often be propagated under the guise of balanced debate. For example, the common idea that there will always be two opposing views does not always result in a rational conclusion. This was behind how tobacco firms used science to make their products look harmless, and is used today by climate change deniers to argue against the scientific evidence."
  
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• Sotheby’s, Phillips Reveal Top Lots for May Postwar and Contemporary Sales in New York

  19-04-2017 22:02 via artnews.com
  With the May auctions in New York just weeks away, it’s a little last-minute to be rolling out the biggest lots of the season. It takes time to print those catalogues. But here were are, in the waning days of April, … Read More
  
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• Is High Quality Prestige TV Preparing A New Generation To Love Stage Plays?

  19-04-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Where there's truth to the idea of a television 'golden age' (ask me over a cup of coffee or a whiskey ginger someday), it's in the fact that cable and streaming outlets have allowed shows to flourish when they appeal to more deeply invested but smaller audiences. This is what I have called in the past The Age Of Enthusiasm. It has also encouraged the proliferation of shows that are more idiosyncratic, personal, and experimental than television was before. Now, drama and comedy enthusiasts have
  
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• Projecting the Arcades: A Talk at the Jewish Museum Takes Up Walter Benjamin

  19-04-2017 21:29 via artnews.com
  “The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin,” an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, is a heady romp around the mind of Walter Benjamin, the Jewish philosopher associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. In tribute to … Read More
  
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• Art drama muscles in on documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival

  19-04-2017 21:29
  
  Films about art tend to be documentaries, yet Tribeca is screening some more cinematic alternatives.
  Tom of Finland, a dramatic biopic, promises that there is more to know about the work of Touko Tom Laaksonen (1920-91) than muscled men bulging out of their leather jackets and britches. The Finnish director Dome Karukoski gives us the life of the slight, withdrawn young man who discovered gay sex in the Finnish army (on Hitlers side) during the Second World War and eventually created a brazen t
  
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• New Design Contest for Landmark to Be Erected in New York’s Chinatown—with $900,000 Budget

  19-04-2017 21:09 via artnews.com
  A new municipal project in New York is seeking design proposals for an “iconic contemporary neighborhood marker” to be built at the intersection of Chinatown and Little Italy. Proposals for the project, under the rubric of “Gateways to Chinatown” and supported  with a … Read More
  
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• Okay, Cue The Viola Jokes - But These Instruments Are Ergonomically Superior

  19-04-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The instrument sports a number of unusual features, like a banked fingerboard that fights strain by reducing supination in a player’s left arm. But what truly draws the eye—and drops the jaw—is the viola’s off-kilter layout: It has been stretched on the diagonal to some 20 inches to maximize the vibrating surface area. Because it has also been shortened from top to bottom, it feels like a ¾-size viola to the player’s left hand."
  
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• John Baldessari at Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York

  19-04-2017 20:37 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Claim: London's Planned Garden Bridge Across The Thames Is A "Post-Truth" Project

  19-04-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The garden bridge, proposed to cross the Thames from the South Bank to Temple, is nothing if not a landmark of the post-truth era. It has wrung tens of millions out of the public purse on the basis of deceptions, distortions and facts that proved to be fake. First sold as “a gift to the people of London”, entirely paid for by private sector donations, it is now due to cost a minimum of £60m in public money. Its estimated total cost has gone from £60m to “north of &p
  
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• Cult Computer Game ‘Dwarf Fortress’ to Be Offered to MoMA after Creator’s Death

  19-04-2017 19:31 via artnews.com
  Writing this week at Eurogamer, Dan Pearson described the cult computer phenomenon Dwarf Fortress as “a game of almost pure administration. A game of such Byzantine complexity that, after ten years of incremental releases and updates, the number of people who really, … Read More
  
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• Audiences For Podcasts Are Growing Quickly

  19-04-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Many podcast trends continue to rise, from the percentage of the 12+ population that has heard the term podcasting (60 percent, up from 55 percent last year) to the percentage that has listened to a podcast (40 percent, up from 36 percent last year) to the percentage that has listened in the last month (24 percent, up from 21 percent last year) or last week (15 percent, up from 13 percent). And the term “listened to” isn’t a loose one. And overwhelming majority of listeners ge
  
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• The Cleveland Museum of Art returns bust of emperor’s ‘bloodthirsty’ son to Italy

  19-04-2017 19:20
  
  The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) will return an ancient Roman bust that was looted during the Second World War to Italy. The museum and the Italian ministry of cultural heritage, activities and tourism announced the agreement on 18 April, after the museum became aware of the facts that were inconsistent with our understanding of the provenance of the sculpture, the museums director William Grisworld said in a joint statement with the Italian ministry.  The marble bust depicts Drusus Minor,
  
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• Conductor Louis Frémaux, 95

  19-04-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Known for an extensive discography on the Erato and EMI labels and for his posts with the City of Birmingham Symphony and Sydney Symphony, Frémaux "was the only major orchestral conductor to serve two spells as an officer in the Foreign Legion."
  
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• Art collector Steven Cohen gave $1m to Trump inauguration

  19-04-2017 18:33
  
  The hedge funder and art collector Steven Cohen gave $1m toward President Donald Trumps sparsely attended inauguration. Cohen is among the many high-net-worth individuals whose names are familiar to those in the art world listed in a 510-page document disclosed by the administration to the Federal Elections Committee on Tuesday.
  Cohens art collection is estimated to be worth $1bna fraction of his $11bn fortuneand his purchases regularly make headlines. In 2008, he bought The Physical Impossibil
  
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• After Asking All The Usual Suspects (And Being Turned Down), The Tony Awards Show Finally Has A Host

  19-04-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I was their second choice for Usual Suspects, fourth choice for American Beauty and 15th choice to host this year's Tony Awards. I think my career is definitely going in the right direction,” said Kevin Spacey. “Maybe I can get shortlisted to host the Oscars if everyone else turns it down."
  
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• 'Most Writers Do Not Love Being On The Side Of Power' - Elif Batuman On The Trouble With Travel Writing In English

  19-04-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The writer in the Western literary imagination is an individual observer, an individualist, experiencing and observing the world and its structures from the outside, with some amount of skepticism and humor and empathy. If that's what you're trying to do, or to be, it can feel really uncomfortable to realize that, within the story you're trying to write about, there is an equally real sense in which you are actually also the beneficiary and representative of, an insider of, a world-dominating s
  
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• Marc Porter Stolen Back by Christie’s to Be Chairman, Americas After Three-Month Stint at Sotheby’s

  19-04-2017 17:46 via artnews.com
  Here’s some serious auction-world-revolving-door news: Just three months after starting his job as chairman of the fine art division at Sotheby’s, Marc Porter will return to Christie’s to be its chairman, Americas, a spokesperson for the house said in an email. Prior … Read More
  
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• In Poland Artists Went On Strike To Protest (Did It Do Any Good?)

  19-04-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There was a huge amount of publicity. It was a symbolic act. We could explain to journalists that the situation for artists is really poor, that we’ve not done well, that we are outside the system.” The mission of those striking was to raise awareness that “most cultural producers are poor,” and “remain outside the system of pension and health insurance.”
  
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• Turkish President Erdoğan Plans New Museum Dedicated To 2016's Failed Coup

  19-04-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Turkey's culture ministry is moving ahead with the Museum of the 15 July: Martyrs and Democracy, with work due to start on the new institution [near Ankara] in June."
  
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• Here Is the Exhibitor List for the 2017 Seattle Art Fair

  19-04-2017 17:00 via artnews.com
  The third edition of the Seattle Art Fair—founded by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, to get the world’s galleries come to the doorstep of local tech titan collectors—is once again returning to CenturyLink Field Event Center this August. This year, 80 … Read More
  
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• Where The Debate Around Black American And British Actors Is Going Wrong

  19-04-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Much of the response to Samuel L. Jackson's complaint about the wave of black British actors playing high-profile African-American roles has been along the lines of Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya's "I resent that I have to prove that I'm black." Angelica Jade Bastién argues that this is not the issue: for one thing, "the black experience throughout the diaspora isn't an interchangeable one," and for another, there's a group of black American actors as highly trained as any from Britain that
  
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• Binge-Watchers, Don't Feel Guilty - Academic Researchers Have Your Back

  19-04-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For one thing, ... our attitudes toward television have yet to catch up to the age of peak TV. In fact, ... as shows have become increasingly complex in recent years, watching TV has become a more cognitively stimulating activity."
  
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• Billionaire patron Pinault given France’s top gong

  19-04-2017 15:59
  
  The soon-to-be-departed French president, Franois Hollande, has been handing out gongs to arts and culture figures as part of the French establishments annual prize-giving pageant. Serge Lasvignes, the president of the Centre Pompidou was made a commander of the Lgion dhonneur, but Frances highest civilian distinction, the Dignity of the Great Cross (Grand-Croix), was awarded to the French luxury goods tycoon, Franois Pinault, who also owns Christies. Pinault runs two galleries in Venicethe Pala
  
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• How Michelangelo And Sebastiano's Roman Chapel Was Recreated In London

  19-04-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An exhibition at the National Gallery includes "an almost-life size reconstruction of the domed Borgherini Chapel from Rome's Church of San Pietro in Montorio, painted by Sebastiano, with the originating Michelangelo drawings displayed adjacent." The model was made by the Madrid firm Factum Arte, which has created widely-admired replicas of several Caravaggio paintings and Tutankhamun's burial chamber.
  
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• For the Silver Screen: Movies By and About Artists at the Tribeca Film Festival

  19-04-2017 15:20 via artnews.com
  New movies by and about artists make for some of the liveliest attractions at the Tribeca Film Festival, in New York for its 16th edition, which runs April 19 to 30. Whether tangling with troublemaking art-world legends or capturing the sparks … Read More
  
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• Roman Mosaic Discovered And Taken Away To Lab For Conservation - As Townspeople Flip Out

  19-04-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The ancient decorative floor, recently uncovered in the French town of Uzès, was transferred to a specialist government facility in Nîmes, and local groups had no faith that the mosaic would ever be returned. (The regional government has promised that it will be.)
  
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• Concrete History: Chicana Muralist Judith F. Baca Goes from the Great Wall to the Museum Wall

  19-04-2017 15:10 via artnews.com
  To get the best view of the painted mural known as the Great Wall of Los Angeles, you have to step through some underbrush, peek over a chain-link fence, and angle your gaze downward over the expanse of the Tujunga … Read More
  
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• NY Times Classical Editor Says LA Phil Is 'The Most Important Orchestra In America. Period.'

  19-04-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Zachary Woolfe: "As it prepares to celebrate its centennial in 2019, the Philharmonic puts more energy into new work than any other orchestra. It presents a greater sense of the diversity of today's music and its creators than any other orchestra. It ties its mission to education and social justice in its city more than any other orchestra. And, yes, more than any other orchestra, it combines a commitment to the future with a fresh eye on the past."
  
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• Morning Links: Emperor Tiberius Edition

  19-04-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Barkley L. Hendricks, 72, Pioneer Of African-American Portraiture

  19-04-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Even more astounding than Hendricks's astute color sense, and his intricate handling of his subjects' sartorial choices, was the almost-preternatural skill he had for crafting portraits that exude psychic states."
  
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• Without Warning, Music Director Of England's Opera North Is Out After Less Than One Season

  19-04-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to a statement on the company's website, Aleksandar Marković "is currently on extended leave and it has been mutually agreed that he will not return to the Company for the remainder of the season." He was to conduct a production of Turandot that opens in ten days.
  
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• Audience Brawl Breaks Out At Michael Flatley's 'Lord Of The Dance'

  19-04-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Police were called to break up an eight-person fistfight in the stalls at the Manchester theatre where the production is playing before beginning a tour of regional England.
  
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• Soprano Nadine Sierra Wins $50K Richard Tucker Award

  19-04-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 28-year-old Florida native was the youngest winner ofthe Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the Marilyn Horne Foundation Vocal Competition. Among her predecessors as Tucker Award winners are Renée Fleming, Christine Goerke, Joyce DiDonato, Matthew Polenzani, Lawrence Brownlee, Michael Fabiano, and Jamie Barton. (includes video)
  
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• Arts Philanthropist Dorrance Hill Hamilton Dead At 88

  19-04-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The billionaire Campbell Soup Co. heiress ... has given support, much of it quite substantial, to the University of the Arts, the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Main Line Health, the Morris Arboretum, WHYY, the Philadelphia Museum of Art," and numerous educational endeavors.
  
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• Three More NY City Ballet Stars Are Headed To Broadway

  19-04-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Today, principal Robert Fairchild is currently headlining the West End production of An American in Paris, [having been nominated for a Tony in the Broadway production,] while soloist Georgina Pazcoguin has been on a leave of absence this past year to play Victoria in the Broadway revival of CATS. When the just-announced revival of the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic Carousel opens on Broadway in March 2018, we'll be adding three more names to the list: ...
  
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• Storm erupts over Nitsch’s bull slaughter at Tasmanian museum

  19-04-2017 12:20
  
  Animal rights campaigners are calling for the cancellation of a performance in Australia by the Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch, one of the founding members of the Viennese Actionists.
   
  The event in question, which is scheduled to take place in Tasmania on 17 June, will involve the slaughtering of a bull before the performance begins. Actors and an orchestra will then use the animal carcass to stage a bloody, sacrificial ritual, according to the website of Dark Mofo, an annual music f
  
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• President Erdoğan plans new museum dedicated to Turkey’s failed coup

  19-04-2017 11:29
  
  The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoan not only secured victory in the constitutional referendum last weekend, giving him sweeping new powers, but also plans to build a new museum focusing on the failed coup that engulfed the country last July. Turkeys culture ministry is moving ahead with the Museum of the 15 July: Martyrs and Democracy, with work due to start on the new institution in June, according to the Anadolu news agency.The building based in Kahramankazan outside the capital Ankara
  
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• BP portrait award shortlist offers up all-female line-up

  19-04-2017 11:00
  
  Pictures in contention for £30,000 prize include a breastfeeding mother, pregnant woman and the artist’s close friendThree tender portraits of women – one pregnant, one nursing her baby, one a close friend after years of working as a model for the artist – have been selected from thousands of entries from all over the world for the 2017 BP portrait award. Benjamin Sullivan’s portrait of his wife, Virginia, shows her weary and dishevelled in a gaping dressing gown,ha
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.18.17

  19-04-2017 10:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Doin’ It: Performing Arts
  In my last three posts I have been exploring participatory experiences as being an important element in the work of arts organizations. This week I want to talk about participatory experiences in the performing arts. ... read more
  AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2017-04-18Butch Morris’s workbook for spontaneous composition published
  The deathbed wish of composer-cornetist Lawrence Douglas “Butch” Morris (1947-2013) was that his detai
  
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• Bloody Dark Mofo artwork using slaughtered bull 'crosses the line', RSPCA says

  19-04-2017 08:03
  
  Centrepiece of performance created by Austria’s Hermann Nitsch is a beast killed at a local abattoir then taken to the siteA bloody art installation involving a slaughtered bull is disrespectful to the animals involved and “tap dances across the line” of what is acceptable even for a modern art museum, the head of RSPCA Tasmania has said. The artwork by the Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch will be performed in a warehouse at Hobart’s Macquarie Point as part of the Dark Mofo
  
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• Yves Bouvier clears legal hurdle in Singapore

  19-04-2017 06:20
  
  The Swiss businessman and freeport magnate Yves Bouvier won a crucial battle in Tuesday in Singapore, where a civil court of appeal decided that the country does not have the jurisdiction to consider a lawsuit filed against him by the Russian billionaire collector Dmitry Rybolovlev. In a 59-page decision released on 18 April, the high court states that Switzerland is likely to be the appropriate forum for the case.This contradicts a March 2016 decision by a senior Singapore judge, who said Rybo
  
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• Jerry Saltz - The Critic As (Failed) Artist (Or Not)

  19-04-2017 00:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I miss art terribly. I’ve never really talked about my work to anyone. In my writing, I’ve occasionally mentioned bygone times of once being an artist, usually laughingly. Whenever I think of that time, I feel stabs of regret. But once I quit, I quit; I never made art again and never even looked at the work I had made. Until last month, when my editors suggested that I write about my life as a young artist."
  
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• Archives and books on Soviet-era art sell-offs allegedly seized from Hermitage

  19-04-2017 00:03
  
  A curator at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg has claimed that government authorities have seized archives and books at the institutions shops related to the Soviets sale of art nationalised after the Bolshevik Revolution to Western collectors, sparking fears of an attempt to rewrite the countrys history. The museum, however, has denied an official ban of the material, saying that work is being done to improve how the archives are stored.
  Last Thursday, 13 April, Alexey Larionov
  
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• Montreal Gets A Glitzy New Home For Dance

  19-04-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Les Grands Ballets Canadiens will take over its new digs next month, after 37 years in a converted garage building that had no elevators, insufficient washrooms and studios where ballerinas had to take care not to bump their heads on the ceiling during lifts. The ballet will join two contemporary-dance companies – Agora de la danse and Tangente – as well as École de danse contemporaine de Montréal. All the companies are getting better and more versatile spaces than the
  
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