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• You Need To Suck At Something (You'll Learn So Much)

  08-05-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "No one ever tells you how much you suck at something. Unless you have a mean boss, an abusive parent or a malicious friend, most people are happy to help us maintain the delusion that our efforts are not in vain. No, we cannot count on people around us to let us know how much we suck. It is far more acceptable to compliment than to criticize. So the onus is on us as individuals to admit to ourselves how much we suck at something. And then do it anyway."
  
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• Celebrities Caught Smoking In The Met Museum Bathroom (And Museum Board Members Aren't Happy)

  08-05-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to “Page Six,” one board member was “horrified to go into the ladies’ loo” to find a “host of celebs messing around,” including Sean “Diddy” Combs, Kendall Jenner, and Kim Kardashian. On top of that, certain celebrities, such as Bella Hadid, Marc Jacobs, and Dakota Johnson, were also caught smoking in the bathroom.
  
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• Symbiotic siblings: Alberto and Diego Giacometti

  08-05-2017 23:00
  The other Giacometti. This is how the art critic Michael Brenson described Diego, the younger brother of the Swiss-born sculptor Alberto Giacometti, in the New York Times 33 years ago. Alberto needs little introduction, as a major survey at Tate Modern, opening this month, reflects. After having shown his interest in Cubism, he joined the Surrealist movement in 1931 but his major breakthrough came later; in 1944, he started work on the Woman with Chariot, borrowing from the memory of his friend
  
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• Scottish artist Rachel Maclean on Trump, Venice and Pinocchio

  08-05-2017 23:00
  Politics had a big impact on the young Scottish artist Rachel Maclean in the run-up to her Venice Biennale exhibition. Her original idea, a response to the UKs Brexit referendum, was overtaken by the shock result of the US presidential election. I was interested in how lies played into the Donald Trump campaign and the power of a narrative over a truth, she says in this behind-the-scenes introduction to the new video installation Spite Your Face, which approaches post-truth politics through
  
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• Phyllida Barlow: folly in the British pavilion

  08-05-2017 23:00
  
  Phyllida Barlow works on a monumental scale using the most unmonumental of materials. Her giant, often precarious-looking sculptures are constructed from everyday stuffcardboard and concrete, plastic sheeting and wooden offcuts, gaffer tape and polystyrenewhich is vigorously manipulated and often vividly painted to form energetic, rumbustious environments. This septuagenarian dynamo has long been respected among British artists, many of whomincluding Martin Creed and Rachel Whitereadshe taught
  
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• National anthems, national myths, national crises: pick of the Venice Biennale pavilions

  08-05-2017 23:00
  
  Nadine Hattom, Francis Als et Al
  Iraqi pavilion, Palazzo Canalli Franchetti
  In an unusual move, the founders of the Ruya Foundation, a Baghdad-based non-governmental body, are pairing ancient artefacts from the Iraq Museum in Baghdad with works by six contemporary artists. The show, with the themes of water, earth, the hunt, writing, music, conflict and exodus, is called Archaic.
  Tamara Chalabi, Ruyas co-founder, is organising the pavilion along with Paolo Colombo, who organised the 1999 Istanb
  
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• Deitch to return to West Coast with art hub

  08-05-2017 23:00
  
  Dont call it a comeback, but New York dealer Jeffrey Deitch has announced plans to open a 15,000-sq.-ft gallery in Hollywood this autumn, not far from the Highland Avenue nucleus that includes Regen Projects, Kohn Gallery, and Hannah Hoffman Gallery.
  In a keynote address at the Appraisers Association of Americas annual luncheon in April, where he was presented with the associations award for excellence in the arts, Deitch spoke of the SoHo gallery scene that drew him into the art world, now gre
  
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• Art world's tips for the Venice Biennale

  08-05-2017 23:00
  
  Tracey MoffattArtist, Australian pavilion
  What are you looking forward to seeing at this years Biennale?
  I am looking forward to finally installing my exhibition My Horizon in the wonderful new Australian Pavilion. For 15 months, I have been holed up in my studio in Sydney working on my works, and I cant wait to see them with real gallery lighting. As well, after the vernissage period has quietened down and the art world goes home, I want to explore the whole of the Venice Biennale. I just know
  
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• Richard Florida's Contrition - Tooth-Fairy Thinking?

  08-05-2017 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When the world’s most famous mayor writes off the U.S. government as a partner in the battle for clean air and the world’s most famous urbanist falls back on a set of tooth-fairy political fixes, then maybe cities’ best option really is despair.
  
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• So What Exactly Is Public Media In The Age Of The Podcast?

  08-05-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Public media is service. This is complicated, because the obvious next question is: Who is served? And that raises the really hard questions: What is the role of public media today? Is public media today serving the needs of communities outside of its audiences? What do people need and want from a public media in the United States?
  
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• Elvis Fans Are Starting To Die Off, And No One Wants Their Memorabilia

  08-05-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  So this is what happens when a cultural phenomenon fades. "There are about 32,000 Elvis records being sold on eBay at the moment – this number was closer to 20,000 items for all memorabilia five years ago. And it’s not even as if they are selling well." Ouch.
  
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• ‘Everything Is Getting Better’ at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin

  08-05-2017 21:22 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Remodeling Modernism, And Saving A City Center

  08-05-2017 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The town of Chester, UK, had a problem: An empty old Odeon movie theater, and a library that needed to move in order to save money. Then architects worked a miracle of a performance space that also incorporates a library (open from 8 am to 11 pm, just like the venue), restaurants and space that might "make connections between one use and another, such that someone coming for a show might leave with a book, or a school party visiting the library’s education rooms might also see some acting.
  
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• Stanford Live Director: How Audiences Are Changing

  08-05-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I think we’re hitting a point, particularly with the younger generations, where they feel the need to reclaim a level of informality. Of course, that means going through an interesting transition period, because there are still those brought up in the old ritualized style now clashing with those who want a very different experience.”
  
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• Association of Art Museum Curators Announces Awards for Excellence

  08-05-2017 20:26 via artnews.com
  The Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) has announced the winners of its 2017 Awards for Excellence, which recognize “groundbreaking new scholarship in the field.”The 26 curators who received awards were chosen from a group of 120 nominations. The awardees were selected … Read More
  
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• Anish Kapoor Just Installed A Giant Whirlpool In Brooklyn Bridge Park

  08-05-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Measuring 26 feet (eight metres) in diameter, the pool of water spins in a vortex that appears to collapse at its centre and descend into the ground. The artwork is surrounded by a railing, allowing viewers to peer down into the ominous whirlpool.
  
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• Phyllida Barlow's Decades-Long Road To The Venice Biennale

  08-05-2017 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For years, Barlow explains, ‘I was battling with, “When is a work finished?”. So, my awareness that there is nothing permanent in the urban environment – in a sense, the work was already reflecting that. Its political content, if you like, is about the lack of permanence, the lack of consistency, the fragility of life.’
  
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• A Disastrous Damien Hirst Show in Venice

  08-05-2017 19:25 via artnews.com
  Damien Hirst’s doubleheader in Venice is undoubtedly one of the worst exhibitions of contemporary art staged in the past decade. It is devoid of ideas, aesthetically bland, and ultimately snooze-inducing—which, one has to concede, is a kind of achievement for a show with work that has … Read More
  
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• Why Looking For Shakespeare's Lost Plays Is So Fun

  08-05-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While the idea of a lost Shakespeare play is devastating to many, it’s not the only play believed to have existed by the Bard that we no longer have access to, and the two “known” lost plays may not be the only ones out there.
  
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• Philip Guston Show at Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice Waxes Poetic

  08-05-2017 18:44 via artnews.com
  There is something immensely charming about sitting in an Italian art institution that dates to the 17th century, the Gallerie dell’Accademia, and watching a film of Philip Guston walking around Woodstock, New York, where he had his studio, praising the … Read More
  
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• ARTnews’s Complete Coverage of the 2017 Venice Biennale

  08-05-2017 18:33 via artnews.com
  With the Venice Biennale once again convened in Italy, we’ve put together a guide to ARTnews’s coverage in the run-up to the event as well as reporting from on the ground as it transpires. Continue checking this page for updated live coverage of the … Read More
  
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• Thanks For Your Support - Why Did An Anti-Fracking Group Disrupt A Boulder Chamber Orchestra Concert Friday?

  08-05-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The group’s Facebook page lists as one of its goals “to protect our community and neighbors from the dangers that oil and gas development poses to our health, the quality of our air and water, and our agricultural heritage.” They had already stated their opposition to contributions the BCO received from Extraction Oil & Gas, which describes itself as “a domestic energy company focusing on the exploration and production of oil and gas reserves in the Rocky Mountains.&r
  
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• Artists Rethink What's Possible With A Photograph

  08-05-2017 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Rather than offering viewers immediate access to information about the world or simply how some given portion of it looks, artists working in this mode see the techniques, conventions, and history of photography as an interpretive grid that makes some things harder to see and other things easier. They consider that their work can only reflect on the world by looping back on itself—by rendering visible its photographic character as a pre-interpretation of the world that it claims merely to
  
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• Ai Weiwei On The Toxicity Of Censorship

  08-05-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The harm of a censorship system is not just that it impoverishes intellectual life; it also fundamentally distorts the rational order in which the natural and spiritual worlds are understood. The censorship system relies on robbing a person of the self-perception that one needs in order to maintain an independent existence. It cuts off one’s access to independence and happiness. Censoring speech removes the freedom to choose what to take in and to express to others, and this inevitably le
  
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• Dubai By Way of SoHo: The Middle East Art Scene Makes Way for an Exhibit of New York Lore

  08-05-2017 17:03 via artnews.com
  International press loves to dismiss Dubai as a soulless place devoid of local culture and invested instead in yachts, luxury malls, camel racing, and cheap labor. Just a few miles from the touristy glitz, however, a strong and stable art … Read More
  
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• At Palazzo Cini, Vik Muniz Pieces Together Ruins

  08-05-2017 16:32 via artnews.com
  With the start of the Venice Biennale all set for Tuesday, Monday is the day to see shows that opened up around town before the art crowds arrived—like, for instance, a Vik Muniz show titled “Afterglow: Pictures of Ruins” that began its run last month … Read More
  
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• Do Reviews Of 'Family Musicals' Matter? Not To Kids, The Critical Power In The Family

  08-05-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just ask Anastasia and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (Or rather, ask their producers, who are happy that kids and their parents say things like, "It's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! How do you not come?"
  
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• The Story Of A Child Prodigy Who Found Her Perfect Violin, And Then Had It Stolen

  08-05-2017 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Min Kym: "I didn't know who I was anymore, and I didn't know what to do with myself. I felt as though I was just a sort of shell of a person. ... You know, when it's a human relationship, it's something that everybody can relate to and understand. But I think as a violinist, as a musician, as an artist, when you know the relationship that you have with your particular art, it's something that lives inside you and has a life of its own."
  
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• How To Write About Authoritarians Without Getting Arrested

  08-05-2017 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Try mysteries, especially police procedurals. "The fiction author has to do what a journalist cannot. The novel isn’t just a work of fiction; it is 'alternative facts.' Readers expect novelists to tell them the stories that aren’t printed in newspapers; the 'real' saga they’ve heard about on WhatsApp."
  
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• Pope Francis to visit Joana Vasconcelos’s giant glow-in-the-dark rosary

  08-05-2017 16:14
  
  A giant glow-in-the-dark rosary by the Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos has been erected at the pilgrimage site of Ftima in Portugal, and will be illuminated for the first time when Pope Francis visits on Friday (12 May). The work, titled Suspenso (suspension), is 26 metres tall and brings to mind the plastic glow-in-the-dark trinkets that overflow out of the many tourist shops surrounding the site. It is suspended above the entrance to the Basilica of the Holy Trinity, one of several church
  
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• Smaller Arts Groups In New York Are Hoping For A Larger Slice Of The City's Cultural Budget

  08-05-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's worrisome for large organizations like the Met Museum and all of the residents of Lincoln Center - but the boroughs are excited: "Mayor Bill de Blasio and his lieutenants are deep into a re-examination of the city’s $178 million arts budget and other cultural resources to try to give a higher profile — and perhaps more taxpayer money — to smaller institutions in disadvantaged neighborhoods."
  
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• We Can (Maybe) End Discrimination With This One Weird Trick

  08-05-2017 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a single two-hour workshop, "Devine and Cox offered ideas for substitute habits. Observe your own stereotypes and replace them, Cox said. Look for situational reasons for a person’s behavior, rather than stereotypes about that person’s group. Seek out people who belong to groups unlike your own. Devine paced among the desks, making eye contact with each student. 'I submit to you,' she said, her voice steady with conviction, 'that prejudice is a habit that can be broken.'"
  
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• The National Symphony Creates A One-Take Recording [VIDEO]

  08-05-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Conductor Deborah Wiseman: "We're recording straight onto vinyl. As we are playing, the little grooves of vinyl are being created, so really, what you play is there forever."
  
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• Giacometti review – a spectacular hymn to human survival

  08-05-2017 15:17
  
  Tate Modern, London
  In the 1930s, his dildos and violent bronzes marked him as a nightmarish surrealist. Then war transformed Alberto Giacometti, and his art, foreverMidway through this exhibition, emotion hits you like a blast of heat from a furnace. The chill of irony thaws. The intellectual and erotic games are over. There is only one thing worth making art about, Alberto Giacometti has decided, and that is our common humanity.What a slender thread humanity must have seemed in Europe in the 1
  
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• The Party In Power In The United States Determines - Sort Of, And A Little Behind - What Kinds Of Monsters We See In Movies

  08-05-2017 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Basically? "When a Republican is in power we get zombies and when a Democrat is in power we get vampires. Each monster represents the fears of the opposition power."
  
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• Morning Links: Martha Stewart’s Frieze Appearance Edition

  08-05-2017 14:59 via artnews.com
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• Will MTV's Non-Gender-Segregated Award Start An Avalanche?

  08-05-2017 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Or is it a one-time thing? "Where will all this lead? I don’t even want to predict. Maybe nowhere. Maybe somewhere. ... Wherever it leads (or doesn’t), I have to give the MTV Movie & TV Awards credit for having the audacity to shake up the cultural DNA, to show us what a new kind of post-gender consciousness feels like."
  
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• A New Banksy In England Shows A Man Chipping Away At An EU Flag

  08-05-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Banksy has some feelings about Brexit, and the artist wants everyone to understand them. "The artwork emerged overnight on the Castle Amusements building near the ferry terminal, which connects the UK with mainland Europe."
  
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• How Do Celebrities, And Studios, Get Hacked? Blame Smart Hackers, And Careless Vendors

  08-05-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Here's the issue: "While they may not be able to break into a Universal Studios or a Netflix directly, [cybercriminals] have learned that the highest-profile targets are supported by a system of soft targets — content collaborators, remixers, postproduction studios and others — that do not have the same resources, security technology or sense of paranoia. And the hackers have started capitalizing."
  
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• Touring A Large Ballet Company Means Juggling A Whole Lot Of Tutus, Pointe Shoes, And Washing Machines

  08-05-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When Birmingham Royal Ballet tours David Bintley's "Cinderella," for instance, says the company manager, they "transport the set, costume, props and lighting up and down the country, including 1,000 hair pins, 250 hair rollers, 78 wigs, 44 tutus, eight baskets of shoes, two washing machines plus [his] touring office."
  
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• Barbara Cook, Who Originated The Role Of Cunigonde In Bernstein's Candide And Reinvented Herself Decades Later, Has Retired At Age 89

  08-05-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Her son conveyed the news to The New York Times to forestall speculation. "She defied so much for so long: depression, alcoholism, age. Mr. LeGrant said, on the phone and over lunch a couple of days later, that she had decided to put out the word about retirement. 'The public hasn’t seen her in months,' he said, 'and somebody would go ‘Oh, my God,’ and it would be on Page Six.'"
  
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• Are You Ready To Pay For Things With Your Face?

  08-05-2017 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That's right: Google may be making plans for people to use Android Pay ... by triggering facial recognition.
  
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• French art world breathes sigh of relief as Macron wins presidency

  08-05-2017 12:25
  
  France's cultural sector has breathed a sigh of relief after centrist Emmanuel Macron became elected president of France on Sunday, making the 39-year-old the youngest president in French history. He won with 66.1% of the vote, over 33.9% for far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, making him the eighth president of the Fifth Republic. The decision of Macron to make his victory speech to his supporters in front of I.M. Pei's glass pyramid at the Louvre, a one-time royal palace turned museum, in
  
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• Cosa? UK artist John Smith uses translation app in Venice show

  08-05-2017 12:14
  
  Visitors to the Venice Biennale this week hoping to use translation apps to order a spot of lunch can have some extra fun if they use the methods employed by the British video artist John Smith. For his first solo show in Italy, taking place at Alma Zevi gallery, Smith will be showing a recent film that employs the services of a translation app. Steve Hates Fish (2015) shows footage from an app that automatically translates text picked up by its camera. But in this instance, Smith has set
  
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• Talking to the Night: Francesco Vezzoli Brings 1970s Media, Italo Disco to Fondazione Prada in Milan

  08-05-2017 10:35 via artnews.com
  Perhaps no venue better represents Milan’s embrace of arte, moda, and produzione than the Fondazione Prada, the campus of exhibition spaces opened in a former gin mill in 2015 by the collector and fashion world titan Miuccia Prada. And when … Read More
  
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• Judith Neilson Chair and Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Contemporary Art

  08-05-2017 09:47
  Judith Neilson Chair and Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Contemporary Art
         Unrivalled opportunities for established academics with passion for contemporary art, with a focus on 21st century China  
         Exceptional access to Judith Neilsons significant collection
         Fixed-term tenure, commencement date negotiable
         
  The Purpose
  This exciting new role will advance the gl
  
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• Russian performance artist granted political asylum in France

  08-05-2017 06:03
  
  Pyotr Pavlensky, the Russian political performance artist famous for nailing his scrotum to Moscows Red Square and setting fire to the door of Russias Federal Security Service headquarters, has secured political asylum in France.
  The artists lawyer, Dominique Beyreuther Minkov, made the announcement on her Facebook page on 4 May. A beautiful day...asylum granted, she posted along with a photograph of herself with Pavlensky and his partner Oksana Shalygina. Pavlensky confirmed that they had rece
  
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