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• The best shows in town during Frieze New York

  30-04-2017 23:00
  
  Anish Kapoor: Descension
  Public Art Fund, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1Until 10 September
  To celebrate the non-profit public art organisations 40th anniversary, the Indian-born British artist has brought a work from his 2015 solo show at the Palace of Versailles to New York: a 26-ft- diameter pool of spiralling dark liquid that will be installed next to the East River. The continuously swirling mass converges in a central vortex, as if being sucked endlessly into the earths depths, generating ph
  
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• The best shows in town

  30-04-2017 23:00
  Anish Kapoor: Descension
  Public Art Fund, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1Until 10 September
  To celebrate the non-profit public art organisations 40th anniversary, the Indian-born British artist has brought a work from his 2015 solo show at the Palace of Versailles to New York: a 26-ft- diameter pool of spiralling dark liquid that will be installed next to the East River. The continuously swirling mass converges in a central vortex, as if being sucked endlessly into the earths depths, generating ph
  
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• Tefaf's transplant takes root in New York

  30-04-2017 23:00
  
  The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) returns to Manhattan just eight months after the New York spinoffs launch by the Dutch stalwart in co-operation with Artvest Partners.
  This time, the focus is on Modern and contemporary art and design. The 93 participating galleries are offering everything from a luminous aluminium chain from the French design studio Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (Galerie Kreo; prices on the stand range from 2,000 to 80,000) and furniture designed by Ingrid Donat (Biblioteque 5
  
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• Tefaf transplant takes root

  30-04-2017 23:00
  
  The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) returns to Manhattan just eight months after the New York spinoffs launch by the Dutch stalwart in co-operation with Artvest Partners.
  This time, the focus is on Modern and contemporary art and design. The 93 participating galleries are offering everything from a luminous aluminium chain from the French design studio Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (Galerie Kreo; prices on the stand range from 2,000 to 80,000) and furniture designed by Ingrid Donat (Biblioteque 5
  
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• Satellite dish: what to see at fairs outside the tent

  30-04-2017 23:00
  1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
  159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, until 7 May1-54.com
  Just down the road from the fair, Red Hooks Labs (133-135 Imlay Street) is presenting an exhibition of works by the Malian photographer Malick Sidib. The show, The Eye of Modern Mali, is organised with 1:54 and the Parisian gallery MAGNIN-A and looks at the artists depictions of the people of Mali in the period just after independence in 1960. Sidib paved the way for a looser, more candid style of photography d
  
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• Satellite dish: what to see at fairs outside the Frieze New York tent

  30-04-2017 23:00
  
  1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
  159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, until 7 May1-54.com
  Just down the road from the fair, Red Hooks Labs (133-135 Imlay Street) is presenting an exhibition of works by the Malian photographer Malick Sidib. The show, The Eye of Modern Mali, is organised with 1:54 and the Parisian gallery MAGNIN-A and looks at the artists depictions of the people of Mali in the period just after independence in 1960. Sidib paved the way for a looser, more candid style of photography d
  
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• Laure de Beauvau-Craon, princess and former chair of Sotheby’s France, has died, aged 74

  30-04-2017 23:00
  
  Laure de Beauvau-Craon, who led Sothebys France for almost 15 years, died on Saturday, 29 April in Anjou, in the Loire valley, aged 74. Born Laure de Rougemont, she became a princess when she married Marc de Beauveau-Craon, the heir of a noble house tied to the duchy of Lorraine. Her royal title did not stop her from wagingand winninga war on another ancient order, Frances commissaires-priseurs.  Established by King Henry II in 1556, the organisation held a monopoly over the auction market
  
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• Bipartisan politicians rally to save US cultural funding

  30-04-2017 23:00
  
  Calls of support for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)one of 19 federal agencies targeted for the axe under US President Donald Trumps proposed budgethave come from unexpected quarters. At the end of March, a letter signed by more than 150 members of the US House of Representatives, including 11 Republicans, asked that the NEAs funding not only be spared but increased from $148m to $155m.
  The letter was spearheaded by the houses Arts Caucus co-chairs Louise Slaughter (Democrat, New York
  
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• Plenty Of Famous Composers Are Fathers, So Where Are The Mothers?

  30-04-2017 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This isn't just a problem in composition - but, as other arts start to figure out how to support primary caregivers and their creativity, new music can get it together too.
  
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• Top AJBlogs From The Weekend Of 04.30.17

  30-04-2017 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Black Eye Porn
  “Normally The Guardian publishes all of Rowson’s cartoons, but I don’t think this one. He mailed it to Heathcote who forwarded it to me. Heathcote wrote the lines when I asked him.” — Gerard ... read more
  AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2017-04-28
  On charging admission at the Met
  The New York Times reported that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is looking at options to make its “suggested” entry fee into something a little stronger than a hint,
  
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• The 'Garden Bridge' Is Dead, And Those Who Proposed It (Should) Owe The British Public Millions Of Pounds

  30-04-2017 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How did it get so far in the first place? "Varnished with a Kevlar coating of celebrity sparkle, Bullingdon Club backing and architectural fairy dust, the garden bridge has always seemed capable of surviving every missile of common sense thrown at it. For three years it has been fiercely opposed by supporters of gardens and bridges alike, of which this vanity project was clearly never either."
  
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• The Next Hot Thing In Opera?

  30-04-2017 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Why don't we know more about Giacomo Meyerbeer? "Few things could be further from the same old arias than Meyerbeer (1791-1864). Hardly a corner of the repertory has grown mustier, a puzzling development given the composer’s prominence during his lifetime. In his heyday, Meyerbeer was a uniquely powerful hitmaker, as well as an innovator who brought opera to new levels of orchestral color, dramatic scale, choral mass, historical richness and theatrical dazzle."
  
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• Canadian Theatre Needs To Go Way Beyond A Hashtag

  30-04-2017 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The deal: "I want a contemporary colour palette. I want the people of the world that I see around me to be telling those stories. That homogenous world that I see onstage [traditionally]? It's just not my world. I don't recognize that."
  
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• Vito Acconci, Architect And Performance Artist, Has Died At 77

  30-04-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  His move from performance artist (his most famous piece, "Seedbed," included him lying beneath a false floor in a gallery, masturbating and speaking to gallery visitors over a hidden mic) to architect "confused his peers and caused his profile in the art world to recede, to the point where many younger artists who were indirectly influenced by his work had little idea who had created it. In his later years, Mr. Acconci sometimes agonized over this situation, but he said he had no choice but to f
  
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• How Would A Writers' Strike Affect TV Shows?

  30-04-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Late-night would suffer first, and badly. SNL? Good luck. Daytime soaps? Probably kill them all, likely forever. The Walking Dead? Well ... maybe the strike won't last that long.
  
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• The Tate Asked Office Workers To Pitch In To Buy A Sailboat For Departing Director Nicholas Serota

  30-04-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That went over really well among the staff. "The timing was awkward. The call for contributions came as the Tate group, which operates four museums and art galleries across the country, was in pay negotiations with staff."
  
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• The Ukrainian Dancer Who Has Become An Actor And A Star On (Of Course) 'The Americans'

  30-04-2017 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Irina Dvorovenko plays a Russian woman who finds herself depressed and lonely in the U.S. It's a big difference from being a principal for American Ballet Theatre, but not so different from her youth: "Ms. Dvorovenko, born in 1973, grew up in Ukraine with dancer parents and studied gymnastics before entering ballet school at 10. For her, the show’s time period has brought back a flood of memories. Many have to do with hunting for food. (In the transcript of our interview, that word comes u
  
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• Suddenly, Composers Are Taking Over The Pop Music (Festival) World

  30-04-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The revenge of the school orchestra? No, seriously: "You can now scarcely move at big music events without bumping into a 30-piece woodwind section. If DJs are the new rock stars it’s looking suspiciously like composers might be outflanking them all."
  
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• When A Larger Power (Read, Russia) Has Erased Your Country's Cooking Heritage, What Do You Do?

  30-04-2017 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Turn to a 19th-century cookbook by a princess, of course: Princess Barbare Jorjadze's book, Georgian Cuisine and Tried Housekeeping Notes, "has long been a prized household possession. ... Georgian chefs now increasingly consult Jorjadze's book for forgotten flavors, many of them obliterated by the Soviet Union's homogenizing influence."
  
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• The French Capital Of Lacemaking Has Become The French Capital Of Far-Right Politics, But How?

  30-04-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Of course, Calais only became a lacemaking capital after some British skulduggery: "Lace-making began to flourish here in the early 19th century, after three British weavers smuggled giant looms, called Leavers machines, across the English Channel to evade English restrictions on selling lace to the French. They set up in the textile-making town of Calais. The new industry blossomed, and the metallic click of the Leavers looms vibrated in Calais’s narrow streets day and night." (Narrator v
  
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• Pittsburgh Symphony's Runout Performances At Scottish Rite Cathedral Are Ending After This Season

  30-04-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The orchestra said there were two reasons, but they both sound like an absence of dollar bills rubbing together.
  
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• Why Are Contemporary Families In Novels So Often Confined To One Or Two Children?

  30-04-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Emma Donoghue says, "My publishers initially choked when I offered them a novel about eight children, with four parents. One editor suggested I trim this down to a 'big family of five kids.' But by my standards (having grown up in an Irish Catholic clan in the 1970s), five was a puny total. Also, I needed the kids to outnumber the parents, to create enough pleasurable havoc. So we compromised: I culled the kids to seven."
  
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• What Happened At This Promised Music Festival Turned Lord Of The Flies On A Remote Island In The Bahamas?

  30-04-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A promised selfie paradise turned pretty grim (generating an immeasurable amount of schadenfreude on Twitter and Instagram): "When guests arrived on the island of Great Exuma for the inaugural weekend, they found something closer to 'Survivor': grounds that were woefully lacking in the promised amenities, replaced instead by dirt fields, soggy tents and folding chairs."
  
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• Hacker Holds Netflix Up For Ransom With Leaked Episodes Of 'Orange Is The New Black'

  30-04-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Whoops, and OITNB isn't alone (nor is Netflix). "Rumors of a massive leak of Hollywood films and TV episodes have been circulating online for months, fed by purported screenshots of the footage and a copy of a proposed deal to delete the stolen material in return for tens of thousands of dollars in electronic currency."
  
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• Time Out New York 'Restructures,' AKA Ends, The Job Of Its Longtime Theatre Critic

  30-04-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Cote: "Nobody seems able to answer the question of how you can make theatre criticism more appealing, more clickworthy. One answer is to be a goddamn flamethrower every week, be a bomb thrower, to write scorched-earth reviews. Just be completely hedonistic and ego-driven in your criticism, become a master stylist, and treat everything in front of you onstage as fodder for your most delicious and vicious language. That’s one road. And people may enjoy your writing. The thing that&rsqu
  
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• What's It Like To Play Call Of Duty As A Muslim?

  30-04-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's ... weird. "Does this game want us to consider ourselves, the soldiers, as conquerors? Or sufferers? And what of the casualties? There are minimal depictions of civilians getting killed (except a notable sequence involving a bombing raid from afar), so the game left me with the feeling that I was a hero for having killed all those brown men. I, after all, endured."
  
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• Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic; Mat Collishaw: The Centrifugal Soul – review

  30-04-2017 09:00
  
  National Gallery; Blain Southern, London
  Chris Ofili’s watercolour-tapestry is a marvel of the weaver’s craft, but the concept is ill-defined. And Mat Collishaw conjures an apparition of nature in full flutterThe scene: a fronded glade by the ocean’s edge. A mustachioed man strums a mandolin for the sultry nude lying beside him on the sand. The green leaves of a tall tree seem to double as the drops of some mysterious green liquid tumbling from on high into a cocktail glass fro
  
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