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• The Time I Designed A Building And IM Pei Decided To Visit

  28-04-2017 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The madness began after I received a phone call from my brother, Christien, who worked for a luxury travel agency. “Great news," he said. "I may have a client for the villa for New Year’s week. How’s the project coming?” My heart sank. More than two years in, and we were nearly out of money. We really could have benefited from a holiday rental. But there was no way we could be ready in time, I told him. “But it’s apparently a famous person,” my brother a
  
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• Unsettling: An E-Book That Forces You To Edit It To Read It

  28-04-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One hundred separate versions have been published online by Editions at Play, a digital publisher that specialises in “books that cannot be printed”. You can read any of the 100 editions for free – but if you’re lucky enough to own one, prepare yourself for some creative destruction: each version can only be passed on to a new owner after it has been modified. Owners must add one word and remove two from each of the story’s 21 pages and are stopped from moving forwa
  
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• ‘Ewig Weibliche’ at Koppe Astner, Glasgow

  28-04-2017 22:33 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Online Dating Sites Report That What You Read (Or Whether You Read) Makes A Difference In Dating Success

  28-04-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to eHarmony, women who listed The Hunger Games among their favourite books saw the biggest boost to their popularity, while men who read Richard Branson’s business books were approached most often. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was a hit for both genders. But crucially, reading anything is a winning move; men who list reading on their dating profiles receive 19% more messages, and women 3% more.
  
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• The Archives of American Art Launches Feature-Filled Online Research Guide to Chicago

  28-04-2017 22:17 via artnews.com
  For those interested in American art history, there is arguably no site on the internet quite as juicy as the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art. Want to look through a Charles Sheeler notebook and try out his recipe for shoofly … Read More
  
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• Opera's Diversity Problem Is A Vocal Problem

  28-04-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "These days, the opera field itself is effectively sabotaging the argument that voice type comes first. Opera is increasingly trying to present itself as just another form of drama, a musical equivalent of spoken theater or film, with its cinematic broadcasts and emphasis on younger, more attractive performers. That argument is problematic: Opera isn’t, in fact, equivalent to a TV show and doesn’t hold up well in the comparison; its strengths lie elsewhere. But if you’re going
  
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• Gladstone Gallery Now Represents the Estate of Robert Mapplethorpe

  28-04-2017 21:06 via artnews.com
  Today, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation announced that the artist’s estate will be represented in New York exclusively by Gladstone Gallery, effective immediately. For nearly 15 years, the estate had been managed by Sean Kelly Gallery. “The gallery’s founder, Barbara Gladstone, had … Read More
  
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• Harvard Makes Big Changes In Its Music Studies Programs

  28-04-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We’ve always had gaps in our education, and I think it’s a little disingenuous to say, “Well, what about Schubert?” What about Tony Conrad? I teach the survey now, and I have never pretended to “cover” things. You don’t cover things when you do a survey, and I tell the students that: we’re going to talk about things that interest me – that’s one thing we’re going to do – and the other thing we’re going to do is learn s
  
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• How Big Is The Online Art Market?

  28-04-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Despite a relative slowdown in the global art market, the online art market grew by 15 percent, to $3.75 billion, last year, according to Robert Read, head of art and private clients for Hiscox. The online art market’s share of the total art market also grew last year, from 7.4 percent in 2015 to 8.4 percent. While that may seem small, it is roughly equivalent to e-commerce sales’ share of the total retail market, which reached 8.3 percent last year, according to the U.S. census
  
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• Recognising the value of visual artists | Letters

  28-04-2017 20:25
  
  Pam Foley celebrates the creation of a new union for visual, applied and socially engaged artistsI concur with Martin Jennings (Letters, 17 April) that Millicent Fawcett is the right feminist for a new statue and with Amelia Rowcroft (Letters, 19 April), when she makes the valid point about “big name artists” employing other artists to do the unacknowledged and often woefully underpaid donkey work. The world of visual art and the art workers within it often do not benefit from employ
  
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• Report Card Time: Here's How Our Children Are Doing Studying Music And Art

  28-04-2017 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The arts assessment measured students' knowledge based on their ability to understand and interpret historical pieces of art and music. One question, for example, asked eighth graders to identify the instrument at the beginning of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." (It's a clarinet.) The report also looked at their creative abilities. In one exercise, students were asked to draw a self-portrait, which was then scored for attention to detail, composition and use of materials.
  
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• Miami’s Locust Projects Names Lorie Mertes Director

  28-04-2017 19:55 via artnews.com
  Miami non-profit exhibition space Locust Projects has named Lorie Mertes as its new executive director, the organization announced today. Mertes will be replacing Chana Budgazad Sheldon, who had been at the helm of Locus Project for eight years. Mertes begins … Read More
  
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• UK Books Sold Record Numbers Of Books Last Year

  28-04-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sales of children's books rose 16% to £365m, with the increase due mainly to the purchase of printed works. Readers also flocked to fitness and self-help books, sending non-fiction sales up 9%. Revenues from fiction fell 7%, the PA's annual report said.
  
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• Hauser & Wirth Now Represents Geta Bratescu

  28-04-2017 19:11 via artnews.com
  Hauser & Wirth announced today that going forward, it will represent the work of Romanian artist Geta Brătescu internationally. The gallery will work in collaboration with the artist’s long-time dealer Marian Ivan, who runs the Bucharest-based Ivan Gallery.The 91-year-old artist, … Read More
  
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• Does Netflix Really Need Movie Theatres For Its Films?

  28-04-2017 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Since our members are funding these films, they should be the first to see them,” the company said. “But we are also open to supporting the large theater chains, such as AMC and Regal in the US, if they want to offer our films, such as our upcoming Will Smith film Bright, in theaters simultaneous to Netflix. Let consumers choose.” At first glance, this might seem like a reversal: Netflix is open to putting its movies in theaters! Theaters win! When you look at it more cl
  
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• Vito Acconci, Body Art trailblazer, poet and architect, has died, aged 77

  28-04-2017 18:41
  
  The US artist and architect Vito Acconci, known for his radical conceptual works such as Seedbed (1972), has died age 77. The Bronx-born artist turned poet and architect, who is considered a Body Art trailblazer, arguably paved the way for a later generation of artists such as Martin Kippenberger, Matthew Barney and Paul McCarthy.Acconci received his BA with a major in literature from Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1962. After publishing a magazine called 0 to 9 from 1967 to
  
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• New Theory: Hemingway Suffered From CTE, The Brain Trauma Injury That Football Players Suffer From

  28-04-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hemingway’s bizarre behavior in his latter years (he rehearsed his death by gunshot in front of dinner guests, for example) has been blamed on iron deficiency, bipolar disorder, attention-seeking and any number of other problems. After researching the writer’s letters, books and hospital visits, Farah is convinced that Hemingway had dementia — made worse by alcoholism and other maladies, but dominated by CTE, the improper treatment of which li
  
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• Director of Operations for The Cleveland Orchestra

  28-04-2017 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Are you an Operations professional? Can you plan and execute complex stage and ensemble travel? One of the world's finest, The Cleveland Orchestra, is looking for an operations leader. If you want to be part of an extraordinary ensemble, travel the world, and are actively seeking challenging and stimulating work we want to hear from you!
  The Director of Operations leads and manages The Cleveland Orchestra’s internal operations necessary to support the effective and efficient production of
  
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• A Long-Lost Stravinsky Piece Resurfaces And On First Hearing Alex Ross Is Disappointed. But Then He Listens Again...

  28-04-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Like thousands of other Stravinsky fans, I listened to a live stream of the première, my anticipation heightened by descriptions that the composer had supplied later in life. (He called it “the best of my works before ‘The Firebird,’ and the most advanced in chromatic harmony.”) Like many others, I felt mild disappointment.
  
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• Independent Curators International’s 2017 Leo Award Will Go to Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

  28-04-2017 17:39 via artnews.com
  Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, the arts patron and an ARTnews Top 200 collector, will receive the 2017 Leo Award, given annually by Independent Curators International, the arts organization founded in 1975 to support curatorial endeavors. The award will be presented … Read More
  
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• Was Robert Rauschenberg The Con Man Of Art?

  28-04-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There’s a volubility about Rauschenberg’s visual imagination that is irreconcilable with the discipline art demands. However monumental or panoramic a work of art may be, there must always be some acknowledgment of the limits of the artist’s vision. Rauschenberg didn’t know the meaning of the word “limits.” There was something of the outrageousness of a Ponzi scheme in the way he took this or that avant-garde idea and inflated it—over and over again.
  
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• Syria, sculptural surrealism and Lenin's library pass – the week in art

  28-04-2017 17:11
  
  Ed Ruscha’s urban surrealism heads to Edinburgh, while Norfolk welcomes Richard Long’s contemplative landscape art – all in your weekly dispatchEd Ruscha
  The master of cool irony and urban surrealism gets a mini-retrospective courtesy of the Artist Rooms collection.• Modern One, Edinburgh, from 29 April Continue reading...
  
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• Tony Contenders Talk About The State Of Musicals And Making Theatre Work n Broadway

  28-04-2017 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The five "key creatives" for five shows up for best musical dish about the process. "The [studio-driven musical] is just a very different world. It’s a stable of people with properties that are trying to figure out what to do with them. Many of the ideas are very possible. And some of them are idiotic. I listen to what everyone here is saying about all the ideas they could come up with from scratch and think: ‘It must be lovely.’ It’s like I’m watching a zoo."
  
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• Vito Acconci, Whose Poetic, Menacing Work Forms Bedrock of Performance, Video Art, Dies at 77

  28-04-2017 16:21 via artnews.com
  “Everything I did in art was based on a hatred of art and a hatred of museums, because it was the opposite of everyday life,” Vito Acconci said in 2008, looking back on his more than 40 years of work. … Read More
  
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• Vito Acconci Dies at 77

  28-04-2017 16:21 via artnews.com
  The artist Vito Acconci has died at the age of 77. The news was first reported by the dealer and collector Kenny Schachter, who has shown the artist and collected his work.A full obituary will follow.
  
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• Why Hollywood's Pending Writers Strike Won't Affect Animation Studios Like Pixar

  28-04-2017 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When the screen cartoonists’ guild formed in the late 1930s, animated shows weren’t scripted and instead were drawn out on storyboards. Because that was considered part of the animation process itself, the writers were placed under the jurisdiction of the cartoonists’ guild, said Tom Sito, a USC film professor and former president of the Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839. That dynamic has more or less continued to this day, even though today’s cartoons involve plenty of sc
  
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• From the Archives: Walker Evans’s Brilliant Camera Records of Modern America, in 1938

  28-04-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  With a major survey of Walker Evans’s photographs having opened this week at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, we turn back to the October 8, 1938 issue of ARTnews, in which Martha Davidson wrote about the artist’s “brilliant camera records” of … Read More
  
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• Uriel Luft, 84, Was Montreal's "Indispensable" Dance Impressario

  28-04-2017 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the mid-70s, Luft was "hired as the director of dance programming, arts and culture for the Montreal Olympics. During the Games, he organized 100 dance performances in the city, bringing in performers from all across Canada. After the Olympics, Mr. Luft worked as the director of Quebec’s nine conservatories of music and drama and in 1978, he also co-founded the artists agency Specdici. At the agency, he was instrumental in promoting emerging dance companies, including La La La Human Ste
  
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• The Luckiest Guys on the Lower East Side: A Tour of Galerie Perrotin’s New Five-Story Compound on Orchard Street

  28-04-2017 15:15 via artnews.com
  The new outpost of Galerie Perrotin, which opened last night at 130 Orchard Street in New York, has 25,000 square feet of exhibition space. To put that size in perspective, it’s not only the biggest gallery on the Lower East Side, where … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Sailing Boat Edition

  28-04-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Canada Struggles With Cultural Policy In The Age Of The Internet

  28-04-2017 14:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I think that we’re trying to have a cultural policy that is adapted to the digital age, whereby you believe in the importance of freedom of the Internet, you believe in the importance of net neutrality,” she said. It sounds nice, but an open Internet fits somewhat awkwardly alongside the existing regime of government support for Canadian culture.
  
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• The Illusion Of Knowledge - Do Individuals Know Less Than Our Ancestors?

  28-04-2017 14:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Humans rarely think for themselves. Rather, we think in groups. Just as it takes a tribe to raise a child, it also takes a tribe to invent a tool, solve a conflict or cure a disease. No individual knows everything it takes to build a cathedral, an atom bomb or an aircraft. What gave Homo sapiens an edge over all other animals and turned us into the masters of the planet was not our individual rationality, but our unparalleled ability to think together in large groups."
  
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• 'Rediscovered' Degas goes on show in London

  28-04-2017 14:25
  Is this the original version of Edgar Degass Little Dancer Aged Fourteen exhibited at the sixth Impressionist show in Paris in 1881? The London dealer Guy Stair Sainty is convinced that it is and says that a growing number of scholars are coming around to the idea. He is staging a special exhibition around the work in his Mayfair gallery (until 26 May).
  The bronze was made from a plaster cast found in the mid-1990s in the Valsuani foundry, the Paris workshop that produced bronzes of Degass scul
  
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• Gold watch? Serota just wants a dinghy

  28-04-2017 13:54
  
  A furore has erupted at Tate after a notice was posted in the museum's staff rooms asking for voluntary contributions towards a leaving present for the director, Nicholas Serota, who steps down in June after 28 years in post. We have thought long and hard about what to get, and decided to put money towards a sailing boat. Nick loves sailing, and this would be a lasting and very special reminder of the high regard which I know so many of us have for Nick and his contribution to Tat
  
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• Matisse or monkey skeletons – who should win Museum of the Year 2017?

  28-04-2017 13:00
  
  Tate Modern’s switched-on new space, a jewel of a rock museum and Charles II’s stables all feature on the 2017 Museum of the Year shortlist. Rory Bremner, Fiona Shaw and more say why their favourite deserves to winFiona ShawRelated: Tiny geology centre vies with Tate Modern to be museum of the yearRelated: Object lessons at the Hepworth Wakefield: the importance of sculptureContinue reading...
  
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• John Constable’s Rainstorm Over the Sea: the landscape of a troubled mind

  28-04-2017 13:00
  
  With black streaks of sea and rain that falls like bolts of gloom, this 1820s work is a world away from the cosy image of England usually associated with the artistDark, brooding and aggressively expressionist, this is a world away from the cosy English image of Constable, the souvenir-shop favourite. The setting is the beach at Brighton, where the artist’s wife, Maria, had been sent to take the sea air to improve her tuberculosis. However, that raging ink-black storm looks anything but a
  
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• Tate Modern, Hepworth Wakefield and John Soane's museum shortlisted for Art Fund’s Museum of the Year award

  28-04-2017 12:06
  
  The Art Funds Museum of the Year shortlist has been announced with the Lapworth Museum of Geology in Birmingham; the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing & Sporting Art, Newmarket; Sir John Soanes Museum, London; Tate Modern, London; and the Hepworth Wakefield nominated for the 100,000 prize. For the first time, the other shortlisted museums will also receive 10,000 each.
   
  The winning museum will be announced 5 July at the British Museum in London. The judging panel includes high-
  
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• In pictures: St Petersburg’s Winter Palace ransacked after the Bolshevik Revolution

  28-04-2017 12:00
  
  Dramatic images of St Petersburgs ransacked Winter Palace after the Bolshevik Revolution are going on show in London for one weekend only. Calvert 22 Foundation, which supports contemporary art from Russia and Eastern Europe, is exhibiting around 20 photographs (enlarged reproductions of the original prints) from the archives of the State Hermitage Museum, which has occupied the Baroque former residence of the Russian tsars since October 1917. The partnership underpins a year-long season of eve
  
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• Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors review – sex and death in the bullring

  28-04-2017 11:56
  
  Gagosian, London
  The macho man of Spanish painting was obsessed with bulls. For him they were symbols of mythic power, but also impotence and mortalityPicasso, stripped to the waist, wearing a wickerwork head of a bull made for the training of matadors. Here he is again, hiding behind a real bull’s skull. And once more, Picasso photographed among glamorous women, Jean Cocteau at his side, at a bullfight in Arles. Photographs and short film clips – at a corrida in 1955, the artist pai
  
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• David Hockney, Ed Ruscha and Chris Ofili: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  28-04-2017 10:30
  
  Take in etchings inspired by Greek poet CP Cavafy, eerie paintings of Los Angeles, and work by a landscape artist turned tapestry designerThere is an eerie, apocalyptic undertone to Ed Ruscha’s apparently bland vision of Los Angeles. The gas stations and strip malls he paints or photographs may burst into flames any second. Morbid, poisoned skies glow above their neatly painted signs; flat yet bizarre messages are written in the ether. Ruscha is a pop artist, a conceptual artist and a surr
  
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• Van Gogh at the NGV: 'He wasn't easy to get on with, but that doesn't make him mad'

  28-04-2017 06:16
  
  As Melbourne hosts the biggest exhibition of the artist’s work in Australia, its curator says there are myths that need clearing up“Van Gogh was really not insane,” says the art historian Sjraar van Heugten. The 19th-century artist best-known for slicing off his own ear was certainly “a really moody man; he was slightly melancholic and he was not an easy man to get along with, but that doesn’t make him mad”.Van Heugten is in Melbourne to launch Van Gogh and th
  
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• Van Gogh exhibition opens in Melbourne – video

  28-04-2017 06:12
  
  The largest Vincent van Gogh exhibition to be held in Australia, Van Gogh and the Seasons, is on display at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne until 9 July 2017. Tony Ellwood, the gallery’s director, predicts: ‘I think its going to be one of those exhibitions that people remember for decades to come’ • Van Gogh at the NGV: ‘He wasn’t easy to get on with … that doesn’t make him mad’Continue reading...
  
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