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• Flocking to Frieze New York

  06-05-2017 23:00
  
  The artist Anton van Dalen has a calling beyond the visual arts: for the past 25 years, he has kept a rooftop coop at his East Village residence, nurturing 35 to 40 exquisite Tippler pigeons at a time. Van Dalens avian collection has winged its way to Frieze New York as part of his installation The Pigeon Car (1987), on show at P.P.O.W. Gallery. The installation is a metaphor for immigrant communities everywhere, the artist says. If you snap up the $125,000 work, youre also buying [Van Dalens]
  
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• It's 50 Years Since The Metropolitan Opera Moved In To Lincoln Center - Here Are The Numbers

  06-05-2017 14:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To date, 251 productions have been mounted in the Lincoln Center opera house, which has staged 164 different operas and given more than 11,000 performances.
  
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• Today's AJBlog Highlights - 05.05.17

  06-05-2017 07:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Songwriting’s Roots in Poetry and Prose GENERALLY, I’m skeptical of the glib and automatic denoting of any intelligent or articulate musician as “a poet.” But the connection between popular song and literature go back, in the Anglo-American tradition, at least ... read more
  AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2017-05-05
  Weekend Extra: Billy Hart Seen And Heard At the Portland Jazz Festival earlier this year, photographer Mark Sheldon captured a splendid image of
  
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• Tracey Emin and Lehmann Maupin no longer in bed

  06-05-2017 04:00
  
  After almost two decades together, Tracey Emin and the gallery Lehmann Maupin are moving on. In a statement, David Maupin said: [We] have mutually decided to part ways and end our working relationship. Tracey is an important part of the gallerys history and we will always cherish our friendship and collaboration.Emin first rose to prominence as part of the generation of Young British Artists (YBAs) in the 1980s, and is best known for her controversial 1998 work My Bed, in which her bed was surr
  
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• Sotheby’s launches $250,000 prize for museums to break new ground

  06-05-2017 04:00
  
  Sothebys is spreading its wings beyond the trade by launching an annual grant of up to $250,000 to help museums organise exhibitions that open up fresh pockets of art history. The award is the brainchild of Allan Schwartzman, the co-founder of Art Agency, Partners, who says that blockbuster shows devoted to single artists have become too prevalent due to a lack of funding. Museum funding is linked to audience size, which has resulted in a huge reduction in more thought-provoking exhibitions, he
  
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• Protest art pervades Frieze: works confront Aids, poverty—and, yes, Trump

  06-05-2017 04:00
  
  Isaac Julien, Pas de Deux No. 2 (Looking for Langston Vintage Series) (1989/2016)
  Victoria Miro
  When Isaac Julien made the film Looking for Langston in 1989, the Aids crisis was at its nadir. By the end of that year, 27,408 people had died from Aids-related illnesses, including several of the films actors. Juliens large-scale photograph on Victoria Miros stand is part of a series derived from the film, which is a tribute to Langston Hughes, one of the writers at the centre of the Harlem Renaiss
  
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• Japan Society celebrates 110th anniversary with major Hiroshi Sugimoto show

  06-05-2017 04:00
  
  To celebrate its 110th anniversary, the Japan Society will stage a major exhibition of works by the Japanese photographer and architect Hiroshi Sugimoto (20 October-17 January 2018). It includes a new series based on the tour of four Japanese Catholic-convert boys to Europe in 1585. Sugimoto first learned of the story while in Italy photographing theatres for an ongoing series. When I discovered a mural of four boys at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, I felt as though they discovered me, Sugimot
  
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• Frieze New York's Spotlight shines on hidden gems

  06-05-2017 04:00
  
  Toby Kamps, the organiser of Frieze New Yorks Spotlight section and a curator of Modern and contemporary art at the Menil Collection in Houston, says that his goal this year was a familiar oneto expand the story of art history. The 31 galleries presenting solo displays have focused on 20th-century artists who havent yet got their due, Kamps says. These include the California-based painter Tony DeLap, whose sleek paintings in various shapes, sometimes resembling surfboards, are at the Parrasch H
  
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• Don’t just stand there, take part

  06-05-2017 04:00
  
  In museums, visitors are often warned not to touch the art. But at Frieze New York, there are a number of works that invite viewers to activate them through participation.
  On the Athens-based Breeder gallerys stand is a mirrored installation by the artist Chrysanne Stathacos, originally presented at Andrea Rosen Gallery. Called 1-900 Mirror Mirror (1993) and priced at $45,000, the work requires viewers to sit in a metal seat to see their faces reflected infinitely by the mirrored walls. After p
  
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• Artist Andrea Fraser to reveal 2016 campaign donations

  06-05-2017 04:00
  
  The artist Andrea Fraser, who campaigned to remove the US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin from the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, is planning a project to expose US institutions links to the countrys conservative elite.
  Using publicly available information, Fraser will reveal the 2016 campaign donations made by major patrons of US museums. There is a seeming inconsistency between supporting a presidential candidate who, in his attitude and, well see, in his policies see
  
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• Economist William Baumol - Author Of Cost Disease Theory Widely Cited In Arts Economics

  06-05-2017 00:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the 1960s, Baumol was trying to understand the economics of the arts, and he noticed something surprising: Musicians weren’t getting any more productive — playing a piece written for a string quartet took four musicians the same amount of time in 1965 as it did in 1865 — yet musicians in 1965 made a lot more money than musicians in 1865.
  
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• A Strategy For Successfully Complaining

  06-05-2017 00:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Ear-openers represent the top slice of bread in the complaint sandwich. The meat of the sandwich is the complaint itself, or the request for redress, and the bottom slice of bread in the complaints sandwich is the digestive. The digestive is a positive statement much like the ear opener that comes at the close of the complaint."
  
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