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• Pictures Generation artist confronts ‘alternative facts’ at MoMA

  29-04-2017 23:00
  The photographer and appropriation artist Louise Lawler presents 40 years worth of work in a survey opening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this month. The show, titled Why Pictures Now (30 April-30 July), includes her project Birdcalls (1972-81), an audio work in which she chirps the names of male artists like Vito Acconci and Lawrence Wiener. Also on show will be examples of her adjusted to fit pictures, which are edited examples of her earlier work altered for specific locations. In
  
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• Philadelphia Orchestra's Mongolia Tour Is - Well, Not Cancelled, Exactly ... (Yet)

  29-04-2017 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The country has been undergoing a financial crisis for most of the past year and had to get a $5.5 billion IMF bailout in February. So the Mongolian government can no longer afford its portion of the expense of a visit by the full Philadelphia Orchestra (which would have been the first U.S. orchestra ever to perform there). A reduced contingent of musicians might travel to Mongolia, though even that isn't certain. David Patrick Stearns has details.
  
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• The people of Harlem, as painted by Alice Neel – in pictures

  29-04-2017 19:00
  
  The great US artist Alice Neel lived and painted in uptown New York when it was almost exclusively black and Hispanic. Hilton Als, curator of a show of her portraits from this period, discusses some of his favourite images.Read Tim Adams on Alice Neel: the Harlem portraits hereAlice Neel, Uptown is at Victoria Miro, London N1 from 18 May-29 July. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition, published by David Zwirner Books and Victoria Miro. Continue reading...
  
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• Meet the neighbours: Alice Neel’s Harlem portraits

  29-04-2017 18:59
  
  As a new show opens in London, curator Hilton Als talks about the great 20th-century painter, whose portraits celebrate urban life• Click here to see a gallery of Alice Neel’s Harlem portraitsAlice Neel, born in 1900, and raised in white, middle-class Pennsylvania, moved to Harlem in New York at the age of 38. She was still recovering from the tragedy of her first marriage, which had seen her first daughter die of diphtheria as a baby, and her second daughter abducted and taken to Cub
  
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• If The BBC Is So Great, Should It Get Public Subsidy?

  29-04-2017 00:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If something is the best in the world, it ought not to depend on government subsidy or favourable regulation or legislation that discriminates against competitors. It ought to be able to stand on its own two feet, as Google has had to do since it was a start-up in September 1998 and as all surviving US media businesses have over the decades. But in the 21st century, just as in the mid-20th, the BBC seems not to understand the meaning of market forces.
  
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• Van Gogh at the National Gallery of Victoria – in pictures

  29-04-2017 00:33
  
  Van Gogh and the Seasons, a new exhibition at the NGV in Melbourne, features 49 works from throughout the artist’s career. Ranging from sketches to colourful oil paintings, the works vividly illustrate Vincent van Gogh’s passion for nature and the development of his fascination with colour. Here are a selection of the works on display • Van Gogh at the NGV: ‘He wasn’t easy to get on with … that doesn’t make him mad’ • Van Gogh exhibition opens
  
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• Why Hollywood Writers Are Striking In The Era Of Peak TV

  29-04-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "What we're fighting for is for studios and networks not to be able to hold writers for six straight months [between seasons without pay]. You're just in career limbo. The companies are making more money than ever before, and it just feels like the writers who are creating all this content are becoming less and less valuable."
  
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